*Rape and Abduction of Jumma Women
BANGLADESH: Indigenous Jumma women raped in PanchariRape is used systematically as a weapon against Jumma women in the CHT. Rape is a recurring characteristics of attacks by the Bangladesh military and by the BD settlers on Jumma villages. Many women were gang raped by the soldiers of the Bangladesh Army, often in front of their children. Women live in continuous fear of rape. Women who have been raped may be rejected by their husbands or their families, or may not be able to get married. If they become pregnant they have to conceal this fact and must try to have an abortion. If a child is born it is impossible for the woman to stay in her community as the situation is not accepted and she is ostracized. For these reasons women who have been raped hesitate to talk about it at all because they are scared or worried about the social stigma. This makes it difficult to collect information on such sensitive issue. The trauma of rape remains with these women form years, and many of them are still suffering from its repercussions years later.
Bangladesh: Widespread Arson Attack on Indigenous Jumma VillagesA JUMMA woman was raped by a Bengali settler in Panchari under Khagrachari district. The Hill Women's Federation has condemned the incident and expressed outrage at the rising incident of sexual attacks on both Jumma and Bengali women in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
On April 17 2011, an unknown number of Bengali Settlers went on a rampage in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, burning down at least 95 houses in six Jumma Villages. More than fifty people were injured during the attack, four were killed, and at least twenty more are still missing.
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