Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts peace accord: Institutional features and strategic concerns

Asian Survey

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 653-669

  Rashiduzzaman, M ^a  

^a ROWAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; PEACE PROCESS; SOVEREIGNTY;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 0040888978     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1998.38.7.01p0370e     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. For a statement of 550 leading citizens in support of the CHT accord, see Daily Star (Dhaka), December 28, 1997.
2. Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka), January 4, 1998.
3. Independent (Dhaka), December 4, 1997.
4. Dinkal (Dhaka, Bengali daily), January 6, 1998.
5. Inquilab (Dhaka, pro-Islamic, Bengali daily), December 5, 1997.
6. Ibid., January 7, 1998. See also Dhaka Courier (political weekly). May 13, 1998.
7. Ibid., January 7, 1998. See also Dhaka Courier (political weekly). May 13, 1998.
8. Independent, February 28, 1998.
9. English translation of the CHT Peace Agreement, posted in the Amitech Internet News: News from Bangladesh (NFB), , December 8, 1997. The author had not yet been able to obtain the full text of the bills passed in May 1998 at the time of writing. See also Emajuddin Ahmed, "The Monster on the Hills," Dhaka Courier, February 6, 1998.
10. English translation of the CHT Peace Agreement, posted in the Amitech Internet News: News from Bangladesh (NFB), , December 8, 1997. The author had not yet been able to obtain the full text of the bills passed in May 1998 at the time of writing. See also Emajuddin Ahmed, "The Monster on the Hills," Dhaka Courier, February 6, 1998.
11. For the composition and powers of the Regional and District Councils, see the text of the CHT treaty.
12. Dainik Inquilab (Dhaka, Bengali daily), December 5, 1997.
13. Mizanur Rahman Shelly, The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: The Untold Story (Dhaka: Centre for Development Research, 1992), p. 143.
14. Based on the English translation of the agreement and Tarek Shamsur Rahman, "Parbattya Chattagram Shanti Chukti . . ." [CHT's Peace Accord . . .], Daily Ittefaq (Dhaka), December 10, 1997.
15. Sangbad (Dhaka, Bengali daily), January 9, 1998. See also, Independent, March 9, 1998.
16. Sangbad (Dhaka, Bengali daily), January 9, 1998. See also, Independent, March 9, 1998.
17. According to Shelly, there were about 3,000 Shantibahini freedom fighters. See The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, p. 145.
18. Ibid., p. 116.
19. Ibid.
20. Pransanta Tripura and Ishrat Ahmed, "Tribal/Non-Tribal Discourses on Ethnicity in Bangladesh," Asian Studies (June 1992).
21. Internet News, , February 8, 1998.
22. Rahman, "Parbattya Chattagram Shanti Chukti"; and author's interviews with two ex-civil servants who had been posted in the CHT, Dhaka, January 1998, and New Jersey, March 1998.
23. Amena Mohsin, The Politics of Nationalism (Dhaka: University Press, Ltd., 1997).
24. Independent, February 11, 1998.
25. Brigadier (Rtd.) Masuk Ahmed Chowdhury, "Shantu Larma: Bail Akhan Apnar Courte [Shantu Larma: The Ball Is in Your Court, Now], Bhorer Kagoz (Dhaka), January 6, 1998; and author interviews with two retired military officers who had served in the CHT, Dhaka, January 1998.
26. Amir Khasru, "Peace Outlook in the CHT Still Dreary," Holiday (political weekly) (December 12, 1997).
27. For a report on Western NGO activities in the CHT, see Bikram (pro-Islamic, political weekly) (January 6-12, 1998).
28. See Atul Kohli, "Can Democracy Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism?" Journal of Asian Studies 56:2 (May 1997), p. 344.
29. M. Rashiduzzaman, "The CHT Peace Accord in Bangladesh," NFB, January 21, 1998, and also Holiday, February 8, 1998.
30. M. Rashiduzzaman, "The CHT Peace Accord in Bangladesh," NFB, January 21, 1998, and also Holiday, February 8, 1998.
31. BBC World Service (English), March 1, 1998.