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Withdrawal of Troops – 2007

Concluding its final report on the CHT Accord, the UN’s Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues stated that, “with its pervasive power and influence over Bangladesh society in general and the Chittagong Hill Tracts in particular, the army continues to oppose any substantive progress on the implementation of the Accord.” The same report went on to conclude that “[R]ather than a diminishing of the powers of the military in the region in accordance with the AccordÉ there has been a further strengthening of the control of the military.”¹

1. “Study on the Status of Implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord of 1997,” U.N. Economic and Social Council, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, 10th Session (E/C.19/2011/6), February 18, 2011, 16.