Demands of the Jumma People

After the independence of Bangladesh, on the 16th February 1972

Jumma leadership leaded by Manabendra Narayan Larma submitted

a memorandum with four point’s charter of demands. Those are

 

   1. Autonomy for Chittagong Hill Tracts(CHT) with its own

       legislature.

   2. Retention of Act 1 of the Chittagong Hill tracts regulation

      1900.

   3. Continuation of the offices of three traditional Chiefs of the

       Jumma people.

   4. Ban on influx of non tribal people from the other parts of

       Bangladesh in to the CHT.

 

Political demands of the Jumma People took another shape as

political and human rights situation take changes in course of time.

 

   1. Autonomy for the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

   2. Withdrawal of the Bangladeshi settlers.

   3. Demilitarization of the Chittagong Hill Tracts.

 

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) peace accord was signed on the

2nd December, 1997 between the PCJSS on behalf of Jumma people

and a parliamentary committee on behalf of the government of the

people’s republic of Bangladesh. However the accord failed to fulfill

the demands of the Jumma people and to establish human rights in

the CHT. Thus, Full Autonomy is the final and only demand of

present Jumma people and their generation to come.