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Carrying her child, she defied guns: Garo family evicted from Bangladesh’s Modhupur Forest

March 11, 2026 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua With her infant tied to her back, a Garo mother stood...

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• Environment
• Land

Save Abima, save us: the indigenous fight to protect Bangladesh’s vanishing forest

March 10, 2026 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanioy Kumar Barua In the fading light of evening, Sita Nokrek sits outside her...

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• Land
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Felled Roots, Shattered Lives: Mro Plantations Ravaged by Forest Department

June 26, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Our Correspondent, Bandarban Indigenous Mro families in the remote hills of Alikadam upazila, in...

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• Land
• National

Crushed by injustice, defiant in spirit: Langkom Mro’s relentless struggle to defend ancestral land

March 3, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua For Langkom Mro, the price of defending his ancestral land has...

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• Land
• National

Indigenous Santal woman brutally attacked, ancestral home set ablaze in Bangladesh

January 4, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua In a devastating act of violence emblematic of the systemic marginalization...

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• Land
• National

Christmas celebration turns to tragedy: 17 indigenous houses torched in Bangladesh

December 25, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua In the dead of night, while the indigenous Tripura community of...

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• Land
• National

Onslaught of Quantum’s unabated grabbing on indigenous land in Bangladesh

June 18, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua Jhum cultivation is what Reng Ken Mro did for a living...

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• Land
• National

Red Crescent Society grabs land of indigenous people in Bangladesh

March 23, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua Jhum cultivation is what Mongkyai Ching Marma did for a living...

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• Land
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AL leader uproots around 5,000 exotic species plants of an indigenous family

November 13, 2023 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua A local Awami League leader allegedly felled different plants of exotic...

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• Land
• National

Cancel wildlife sanctuary declaration in Sangu mouza

June 14, 2023 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

CHT DESK Around 550 families of 13 indigenous and Bengali neighborhoods will be evicted...