Santu Larma urges indigenous people Jyotirindra Bodhipriyo Larma, chief of Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, yesterday called upon Adivasis to wage a movement to realise their demand for the government to recognise them as indigenous people and so ensure their rights. In the 15th amendment to the constitution last year, the government identified them as
ethnic minority
Constitutional recognition of ethnic minorities demanded
Ninety-four eminent citizens of Chittagong in a joint statement on Saturday demanded cancellation of the 15th amendment to the Constitution and recognition of the ethnic minority communities in it. They came down heavily on the government for imposing Bengali nationality on the minority communities by amending the Article 6 of the Constitution, which now states ... Read more
Khagrachari violence kills 4
At least four were killed and six villages of ethnic minority people were burnt on Sunday in violence centring on land disputes in Khagrachari. Sources in the area said that the violence had spread to Ramgarh and Manikchari in the district. The administration banned gathering, rallies and carrying firearms by ordering Section 144 of the
Ethnic minority book launched, boycotted by researchers
The first ever book on the heritage, customs and languages of the country’s more than forty ethnic communities, ‘Bangladesher Adivasi: Ethnography O Gobeshona’, was launched in Dhaka on Wednesday. Most of the contributing researchers, who themselves belong to the ethnic communities included in the book, however, boycotted the launching programme complaining that the organisers