Amnesty: Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHT)
Implementations
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 In October 1998, the PCJSS turned in a list of 844 cases that should be withdrawn.1
- 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 (Unpublished manuscript for the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002).
Amnesty – 1999
The government continued to review cases against Jumma residents in 1999 but no specific information was found on the number of withdrawn cases.
Amnesty – 2000
The government continued to review cases against Jumma residents in 2000 on a case by case basis. No specific information was found on the number of cases withdrawn this year.
Amnesty – 2001
No specific information was found on the number of cases withdrawn this year.
Amnesty – 2002
Chowdhury reports that, as of 2002, of the roughly one thousand cases involving JSS members in the courts, the government had withdrawn or dismissed 461 cases or 45 percent.1
Amnesty – 2003
On 2 December 2003, the Chairman of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, gave a press conference calling on the government withdraw cases remaining in military courts against members of the PCJSS and their relatives.”1
- “Tribal leader demands withdrawal of Bangladeshi camps from Chittagong,” BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, December 3, 2003.
Amnesty – 2004
No further developments observed.
Amnesty – 2005
No further developments observed.
Amnesty – 2006
No further developments observed.
Amnesty – 2007
No further developments observed.