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Verification/Monitoring Mechanism: Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord (CHT)

Implementations

Verification/Monitoring Mechanism – 1998

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord called for the formation of an internal verification committee to monitor and report on the implementation of the Accord. The Accord Implementation Committee was initiated in 1998 and comprised of a member nominated by the Prime Minister, the Chairperson of the Task Force on Refugees, and Shantu Larma, President of the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti (English: United People’s Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts), or PCJSS.¹

Operationally, the committee was barely functional: several meetings were said to have been held from March to November.² No recommendations or reports were released to the press or made publically available.

“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.
“Politics-Bangladesh: Peace Deal To End Tribal Insurgency Derails,” IPS-Inter Press Service, November 30, 1998.

Verification/Monitoring Mechanism – 1999

There were no reports indicating that the Accord Implementation Committee met this year.

Verification/Monitoring Mechanism – 2000

There were no reports indicating that the Accord Implementation Committee met this year.

Verification/Monitoring Mechanism – 2001

It was reported that the Implementation Committee met twice in 2001, with the last meeting being held on 1 July 2001. After the Bangladesh National Party, who displayed hostility to the Accord, won control of the government in a landslide election in 2001, the verification committee did not hold any further meetings.³

“An Audit on the Implementation of the CHT Accord,” Bangladesh Adivasi Resource Centre, 2011.