Opinion

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Step down, Mr. Professor: Bangladesh cannot withstand your reign of destruction

February 10, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua Bangladesh is not merely in turmoil—it is being systematically dismantled under...

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Bangladesh’s Identity at Risk: The State-Sanctioned Demonic Erasure of the Father of the Nation

February 7, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua History does not forgive, nor does it forget. The demolition of...

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Blood on their hands: 17 custodial deaths under Dr. Yunus’s interim government in Bangladesh

February 2, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The rise in custodial deaths under Dr. Yunus’s interim government represents...

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Bangladesh’s systematic denial of indigenous rights: marginalization and erasure

January 18, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The deliberate exclusion of the term “indigenous” from Bangladesh’s official discourse...

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The siege of indigenous identity: Extremism and settler aggression in the CHT

January 16, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), home to Bangladesh’s indigenous Jumma communities,...

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Bangladesh’s Indigenous Struggle: Erasing Identity, Eroding Justice

January 13, 2025 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The recent removal of the term “indigenous” from ninth- and tenth-grade...

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Bandarban arson attack: A stark reminder of Bangladesh’s failure to protect indigenous rights

December 28, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The recent arson attack that destroyed 17 homes belonging to Bandarban’s...

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Beacon Dims: Dr. Anupam Sen’s step down emerges a dark era for Bangladesh’s intellectuals

December 9, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua Within the symphony of a nation’s soul, certain voices soar above...

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Yunus’ Gambit: Between a fractured past and an uncertain dawn

December 5, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, hailed globally as a pioneer of microfinance,...

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From Hope to Haze: The CHT Peace Accord and the Silent Withering of Justice

December 1, 2024 The Chittagong Hill Tracts

Sanjoy Kumar Barua The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Peace Accord of 1997 was heralded...