“Blood on the Hill: Chittagong’s non-Muslims vs Bangladeshi Army”, The Jaipur Dialogues, October 01, 2025
“Chittagong burns and bleeds as non-Muslim cotninue to suffer under the Yunus regime. When a teenage Marma girl survived a gang-rape near Khagrachhari in late September 2025, something snapped. Chittagong’s youth saw protests as the only desperate hope for justice. Road blockades, candle marches, and chants led by student group Jumma Chhatra Janata – spiraled into a night of arson, gunfire, and deaths.
Allegedly, houses of minority Buddhists and Hindus were torched while people pleaded for protection. This is not an isolated riot. It reads like the latest chapter in a half-century pattern of dispossession, settler violence, and state collusion in the Chittagong Hill Tracts – where indigenous women have repeatedly borne the worst of the region’s lawlessness.
The Injustice Spark – Why is Chittagong Bleeding?
Local student activists organized a dawn-to-dusk blockade after an attack on the schoolgirl in Khagrachhari. Videos and reports show roads cut, tyres set ablaze, and crowds demanding arrests. When arrests did not come fast enough, anger spread…..”
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