Hill Voice, 30 September 2025, International Desk: Joint Memorandum of Chakma Students Unions of India was sunmitted to the Prime Minister, seeking strong and urgent intervention by the Government of India to save lives and proterpties of Indigenous Jumma peoples in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT, Bangladesh on 29 September 2025.
The memorandum was submitted by Drishya Muni Chakma, President of All India Chakma Students Union (AICSU); Bipul Chakma, Senior Vice President of AICSU; Biren Chakma, General Secretary of Tripura Chakma Students Association; Perbesh Chakma, President of Central Mizoram Chakma Students Union; and Atul Chakma, President of Arunachal Pradesh Chakma Students Union.
The student bodies strongly condemned the massacre in Guimara, Khagrachari, Bangladesh, where the Bangladesh Army, in collusion with illegal settlers, killed at least four indigenous people, critically injured more than fifty, and burned entire Jumma villages.
On 29 September Chakma Students Unions of India formally submitted a memorandum to the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, urging urgent diplomatic intervention, humanitarian support, and international accountability for these atrocities.
On the morning of 28 September 2025, the Bangladesh Army opened indiscriminate fire on peaceful indigenous protestors in Guimara, Khagrachari. Survivors report that after the shooting, settlers were unleashed to loot and torch homes and shops in Ramsu Bazaar, leaving hundreds of Jumma families displaced.
The protest was triggered by the gang rape of a 12-year-old Marma schoolgirl on 23 September 2025 in Singhinala village, Khagrachari. Rather than arresting the perpetrators, the Army detained student leaders, tortured demonstrators, and facilitated communal attacks.
“This is not law enforcement — it is state-backed ethnic persecution. The killings, rapes, and arson are part of a systematic campaign of genocide against the Jumma peoples of the CHT,” said Drishyamuni Chakma, President, AICSU.
Through its memorandum to the Prime Minister of India, the Chakma Students Unions of India call upon:
- The Government of India to immediately summon the Bangladeshi envoy, downgrade diplomatic ties, and send a fact-finding mission.
- The United Nations and global human rights organizations to urgently intervene and investigate Bangladesh’s crimes against humanity.
- Democratic governments worldwide to impose diplomatic and economic pressure on Bangladesh until perpetrators are prosecuted and indigenous lives protected.
