The Bangladesh hills hover on the brink of ethnic war after Bengali hill settlers attacked ten villages occupied by indigenous communities in the Chittagong Hill Tracts last week, sparking a local agitation and endangering the tenuous peace treaty. Violence erupted here August 26 after a mob of Bengali settlers attacked ten villages belonging to the indigenous Chakmas tribe. The 100-odd mob killed one person, gang-raped nine women, set ablaze hundreds of houses and two Buddhist temples and injured at least 13 persons. The attackers claimed this was a reprisal for the abduction of a Bengali businessman by separatists from the Khagrachhari district. Full Story
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