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Press
Release: December 1, 2004
On
the occasion of 7th anniversary of the CHT Accord
Convenor
of the United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF) Prasit Bikash
Khisha in a statement issued to the press on the occasion
of the seventh anniversary of the controversial CHT accord,
called upon the government to concede to the demand of full
autonomy for establishing enduring peace in the CHT.
In
the statement, issued on 1 December 2004, he also said grumbling
over the non-implementation of the accord and a real struggle
for establishing the rights of the people were two different
things.
Terming
the CHT accord as "a treaty on paper and ineffective"
the UPDF leader said, "after seven years of the signing
of the accord it has become clear as daylight that neither
of the parties shows respect to it. The previous Awami League
government did nothing to implement the treaty. On the other
hand, the Jana Samhati Samiti was reluctant to go for an effective
and vigorous action programme against the Awami League government.
Now the BNP-led four party alliance is in power. The BNP and
its allies opposed the accord while in the opposition and
went to the extent of organising a long march demanding that
the accord is scrapped. That the BNP government would not
go about implementing the accord is a foregone conclusion."
Mr.
Khisha held the vested interest groups for the ongoing fratricidal
conflict and the standoff in the CHT and said, "the accord
has brought fortune for these interest groups, which also
include the degenerated leadership of the Jana Samhati Samiti."
He
the common Jumma and Bengali people did not gain anything
from the accord.
[Press
Section, Publicity and Publication Department, United Peoples
Democratic Front (UPDF). Issued on December 1, 2004] |
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