The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Diminishing violence or violent peace?

Kabita Chakma; Bina D'Costa

doi:10.4324/9780203104811

The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Diminishing violence or violent peace?

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Abstract

The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord 1997, popularly known as the Peace Accord (shanti chukti), signed on 2 December 1997, formally marked an end to more than two decades of armed struggle for autonomy by the indigenous or Adivasi Jummas of the CHT in Bangladesh. The Accord was signed between the Awami League government and the Parbattya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS, popularly known only as JSS),1 an indigenous regional political party and the only such party at that time. While the JSS demobilized its military wing, the Shanti Bahini (Peace Force), as part of the signing of the Accord, the Bangladesh government continued to maintain high military presence and military rule in postAccord CHT.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don't
Editors	Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan
Place of Publication	Abingdon and New York
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Pages	137-149
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9780415670319
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203104811
Publication status	Published - 2013

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The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Diminishing violence or violent peace? / Chakma, Kabita; D'Costa, Bina.
Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don't. ed. / Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan. 1st. ed. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. p. 137-149.