People in the
Commonwealth only think of Bangladesh as being 'that country next to
India with a sometimes good cricket team', and Cricket fans may recall
the happy dancing Indigenous Christian & Buddhist Jumma women the
Bangladesh government paraded for the cameras during the Cricket World
Cup - in order to fool the world that Bangladesh is a happy country with
no indigenous
problems worth mentioning....in fact - if you listen to the idiot who
is the First Secretary of the Bangladesh Government's Mission in New
York, he actually said "There are no indigenous People in
Bangladesh".
YET,
you can see from an OFFICIAL Bangladesh government poster I have
attached which reads "Indigenous women in Bangladesh" (which was
re-edited after this ignorance was uttered by the First
Secretary to delete the word 'Indigenous' from the posters - also
attached here for photographic proof) that the Neo-Colonial government
of Bangladesh is not to be trusted on this issue...let's not play those
silly diplomatic games and politely refrain from calling a spade a
spade, when it comes to their violations of Indigenous peoples within
their over-extended borders - the Government of Bangladesh is led by a
very low calibre of persons that we in the Caribbean prefer to describe
as 'Bold-faced Liars'.
And
just for the record - I enthusiastically invite the Government of
Bangladesh to sue me - I would welcome the chance to keep highlighting
their gross human rights violations in the worlds media and will be very
grateful for their help in doing so by taking me to Court. Any
publicity is good publicity they say!
Ladies
and gentlemen, what I am about to tell you AND show you may very likely
make you sick to your stomach - especially with the photographic
evidence attached.
I
cannot tell you the real name of the hero who smuggled this information
out of the Chittagong Hills and supplied it to me, for he would be
assassinated by the Bangladesh military like so many other indigenous
heros who tried to get the TRUTH out to the wider world before him.
We
shall just call him 'Runu Jumma' - in honor of the late great war hero
of the Jumma Tribes of the Chittagong Hills, who successfully fought the
British...who were themselves the first outsiders in recent history to
invade and attempt to conquer this beautiful and remote area.
The
British eventually had
to sue for peace - as they could not win the
Guerrilla war of liberation waged by these valiant tribesmen in their
mountain stronghold. In the face of the tyranny they endure to this day -
why did they stop the armed struggle you may ask?
Well,
they gave peace a chance because in 1997 the Danish Government brokered
in good faith - a Peace Accord between the Bangladesh Government and
the Indigenous Jumma Freedom Fighters, the Jumma handed over all of
their weapons (their biggest mistake) and upheld their end of the
agreement, but the Bangladesh Government is YET to uphold their end of
the agreement some 15 year later - and to the contrary have continued
their murderous rampage leaving the Government of Denmark to shoulder
the guilt of disarming a violently oppressed people who are now
completely defenseless - like lambs to the slaughter....did I not
describe the Bangladesh Government as being led by bold faced liars? I
rest my
case!
It
should be clear to everyone by now that the only option the Jumma have
left is to re-arm and continue to fight the just war of self defense
that they had been fighting before 1997.
It
is very easy for someone far out of harms way to mouth empty
wishful-thinking words such as 'violence solves nothing', for these
types do not have to endure the daily horrors that the Jumma of
Bangladesh do; even the preamble of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights says that the use of violence in defense against tyranny IS
JUSTIFIED UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW.
The
Chittagong Hills is an area under the illegal military occupation by
the government of Bangladesh...a thoroughly criminal political entity
that encouraged AND
still protects the
400,000 non-indigenous Muslim Bengali settlers (from 1979 to 1985
alone) who invaded and annexed Christian & Buddhist indigenous
Jumma tribal lands; because the Bangladeshi government promised them
military protection and food if they took the land that belonged to
someone else! You can even see the Bangladesh Military in one of the
photos in the backround as illegal Bengali settlers rampage in the
foreground!
To
further help the Bengali illegal settlers to STAY on the indigenous
Jumma lands that they have stolen - the government of Bangladesh started
giving their settler proxies a monthly ration of 85 kg of food per
family in 1979 - an 'ethnic cleansing insurance policy' if you will -
which continues to the present day. These are all violations of Article 8
of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Today,
there are an estimated 500,000 illegal Bengali in the Chittagong Hills
area of Bangladesh, in 1947 before the
Bengali illegal occupation the non-Indigenous population in the
Chittagong Hills was only 2%, with 98% being Indigenous Jumma tribes.
Today 50% of residents in the Chittagong Hills are non-indigenous. This
is a clear example of state sanctioned
ethnic cleansing, and my indigenous brothers and sisters need to be
alert to the ulterior motives of the Neo-Colonial states of the world
who are fond of changing the indigenous demographics in order to force
assimilation policies onto indigenous peoples in violation of their
Internationally recognized human rights. When Indigenous Peoples begin
to see non-indigenous people flooding into their territories, they
should start making preparations for the inevitable war that will
follow! History repeats itself in this regard.
The
vast majority of indigenous Jumma children in the Chittagong Hills
cannot attend school due to the precarious lives they have been forced
to lead since the Bengali invasion began (see report here), schools are
on average over 6 miles away from indigenous villages and often these
frightened children have to
pass military checkpoints and settler homesteads - and the
raping of Jumma schoolgirls by both Bangladesh Soldiers and Bengali
settlers is rampant.
Little wonder then that only 8% of Jumma children complete Primary School, with only 2% completing Secondary School.
For
those who make it to the classrooms - they face racist treatment by
Bengali teachers who enforce a Bengali language curriculum on indigenous
children who speak their OWN languages and do not understand the
difficult Bengali alphabet. This too is a violation of the rights of
Indigenous Peoples to be educated in their OWN languages and in their
OWN communities - according to the United Nations Declaration on the
Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 14, and numerous other
International Laws and Conventions).
Just
when you think that things could not get any worse - the Government of
Bangladesh has recently passed a new law that forbids ANY financial
assistance being given to the Jumma Indigenous Peoples, here is a direct
quote: "No financial endowments can be given to any student or their
guardians or any other individual". Do you know why these demented
criminals that run the Bangladesh government passed this law? It was not
for the ouright lies and convenient excuses they listed about 'national
security' (sound familiar?) etc, the REAL reason was because more
indigenous children were getting an education (albeit briefly - before
the draconian law was enforced) with the humanitarian aid they were
receiving from sympathetic donors outside of the country; but all of
that is gone now.
Ladies
and
Gentlemen of the Jury (of the Court of Public Opinion), I ask
you this...is it not a GROSS insult to the conscience of all who
believe in Justice, Equity, and the rule of Civilized Laws...for
Bangladesh to be THE biggest contributor of Soldiers to United Nations
Peacekeeping operations around the world; whilst at the same time being
guilty of the most heinous human rights abuses in Asia in their OWN
country!
Were we
not collectively shocked (due to the 'poor innocent Bangldesh'
propaganda public image that we were used to) at the time when the news
aired reporting on Bangladesh UN peacekeepers stationed in Sudan who
committed rapes of young African girls? (see news article here).
However, now that we have learned where this criminal modus operandi was
rehearsed - and upon whom - such news shall not surprise us any longer -
for these uniformed criminals have been thoroughly exposed for the
GENOCIDAL VILLAINS that they are!
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