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Amnesty – 1998

The government did release almost all war prisoners and declared amnesty for all those on the PCJSS troop list who turned in a weapon.

However, given the duration of the conflict, there were over one thousand criminal cases against 2,524 Jumma residents in prison or awaiting trial. In October 1998, the PCJSS turned in a list of 844 cases that should be withdrawn.¹

1. Bushra Hasina Chowdhury, “Building Lasting Peace: Issues of the Implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord.” (Unpublished manuscript for the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002).