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Disarmament – 1998

All JSS troops were registered within the deadline, turned in their arms, and received their reintegration payment in 1998.¹ Around 1,947 Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (English: United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts), or PCJSS, fighters handed over their arms to representatives of the Government of Bangladesh on four separate occasions.² Chowdhury also reported that all JSS men surrendered their arms within the deadline, and therefore no legal action was taken against them.³

1. “Report on the Status of Implementation of the CHT Accord,” PCJSS, 2011.
2. Eleanor P. Dictaan-Bang-oa, “In Search of Peace in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh,” in Beyond the Silencing of the Guns, 2004.
3. Bushra Hasina Chowdhury, “Building Lasting Peace: Issues of the implementation of the CHT Accord,” ACDIS (Occasional Paper, 2002), 24.