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Daily Star, Vol. 4 Num 251
Tue. February 10, 2004

Last day of CHT road blockade ends peacefully

Our Correspondent, Bandarban

The last day of the two-day road blockade in the three hill districts enforced by the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) passed off without violence yesterday.
A large number of security forces were deployed in the districts to avert untoward incident like on the first day.
Our Bandarban correspondent reports that although fewer number of rickshaws and other non-motorised vehicles plied in the district, long route buses stayed off the road.
The road blockade did not succeed in the district's Lama, Ali Kadam and Naikkhangchari area.
Examinees who came to sit for the test for the primary teachers' appointment suffered greatly due to the lack of public transports.
The PCJSS yesterday afternoon held a meeting in the Bandarban District Press Club and declared a protest rally in Rangamati on February 23.
It also threatened that if their demands were not met by February 23, it will declare the next course of action from the Rangamati rally.
The PCJSS called the 48-hour road blockade in the three hill districts to press for their four-point demand including full implementation of the CHT peace accord.
Its other demands include withdrawal of all army camps, police and armed police battalion from the hill districts, handover of charge of the CHT affairs ministry to a fully-fledged minister of ethnic origin and appointment of an indigenous leader as chairman of CHT Development Board.