http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/01/09/d4010901022.htm
The Daily Star, Fri. January 09, 2004
Our Correspondent, Rangamati
At least 10 villagers were abducted in an incident blamed on a pro-CHT
peace accord indigenous outfit and the body of a student killed in
captivity was recovered in Rangamati yesterday in the latest in a string
of kidnaps in the restive highlands.
Witnesses said up to 25 armed cadres of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana
Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) launched attacks on their rival members of the
United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) in Shapmara village in
Naniarchar upazila and abducted the villagers apparently for sheltering
UPDF men.
Police also blamed the attack and abduction on the PCJSS that got bogged
down in clashes with the UPDF after the 1997 peace deal that ended two
decades of bush war in the CHT (Chittagong Hill Tracts).
The PCJSS men drove their rivals out of the village in the fierce
firefight that came at about 9:00am before the abduction prompting the
army to launch sweeps in the district in search of the abductors.
Those kidnapped at gunpoint are Horomoni Chakma, 36, Uzzal Chakma, 17,
Doelmoni Chakma (age unknown), Shutichandra Chakma, 28, Tunga Chakma
(age unknown), Probhat Ranjan Chakma, 28, Parashmoni Chakma, 16, Roy
Mitra Chakma, 46, Jagatjyoti Chakma, 33 and Bodhitra Chakma, 40.
Police recovered the body of Shushil Bindu Chakma, Ukkhyonchhari unit
general secretary of the CHT Hill Students Council, who was killed after
abduction in Borkol upazila Monday night.
The local gangster, Ainul Islam, is believed to have led the gang that
killed the 25-year-old in deep forest on his way home, says a press
release of PCJSS's student chapter.
Police found the body floating on the Karnaphuli river.
The student organisation yesterday brought out a procession in town and
staged a rally, chaired by its district unit president, Asheen Chakma,
on the local Shilpakala Academy premises.
ABDUCTION IN THE CHT
Armed men believed to be supporters of the PCJSS abducted 20 family
members and relatives of some leaders of UPDF on December 23 in a fresh
flare of political violence in the CHT.
Four people, two of them truckers, were abducted in Khagrachhari on
January 1.
Clashes between the two outfits have left more than 300 indigenous
people dead and several hundred have been abducted since 1997.