Terrorist Organization Profile: United People's Democratic Front (UPDF)..
লিখেছেন লিখেছেন বাংলার মানব ০৪ জুন, ২০১৩, ১০:৫১:৫২ রাত
the United
People's Democratic Front (UPDF) is a
nationalist terrorist group fighting for the full
autonomy of the Chittagong Hill Tracts of
Bangladesh. The UPDF fights on behalf of
several indigenous tribes collectively known as
the Jumma. Considered a faction of the
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity
(PCJSS), the UPDF comprises three activist
groups: the Hill Student Council, Hill People's
Council and Hill Women Federation.
Disgruntled members of the PCJSS (another
Bangladeshi militant outfit) formed the UPDF
due to their former group's acceptance of the
Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord. The accord was
signed on December 2, 1997 by the
Bangladesh government and the PCJSS and
sought to end more than two decades of
fighting between indigenous tribes, ethnic
Bengali settlers, and the Bangladeshi
government presence in the region. Shortly
after Bangladesh gained independence from
Pakistan in the early 1970s, fighting erupted
when the Bangladesh government supported
the resettlement of Muslim Bengalis into the
largely Buddhist Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Indigenous tribes felt threaten by the forced
imposition of the Bengalese language and
culture on their daily lives and began attacking
settlers. Government troops, brought into the
region to quell sectarian violence, exacerbated
the problem. According to the provisions of
the Accord, the Chittagong Hill Tracts became
a semi-autonomous region within Bangladesh.
The UPDF asserts that the agreement failed to
address the fundamental demands of the
indigenous Jumma people (full autonomy) and
feels the PCJSS betrayed their cause.
In order to demonstrate their opposition to the
Accord and their desire for full autonomy, the
UPDF conducts the majority of its attacks
against the PCJSS and other supporters of the
Accord. The UPDF and PCJSS have engaged in
retributive kidnappings, extortions, and
murders since 1997. In addition, the UPDF is
suspected of having conducted the kidnapping
of three international workers in an attempt to
halt the development seen as necessary to the
Bangladesh government's quest for regional
legitimacy. Two Danish and British engineers
working in the area were held for over a
month before being freed in a Bangladeshi
army raid in 2001.
বিষয়: বিবিধ
১১৩৪ বার পঠিত, ০ টি মন্তব্য
পাঠকের মন্তব্য:
মন্তব্য করতে লগইন করুন