The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Diminishing violence or violent peace?

Kabita Chakma, Bina D'Costa

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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 languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationDiminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why some subside and others don't
    Editors Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J Regan
    Place of PublicationAbingdon and New York
    PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group
    Pages137-149
    Edition1st
    ISBN (Print)9780415670319
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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