Hill Voice, 17 October 2025, Dhaka: The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) Accord Implementation Movement has expressed deep concern over the postponement of the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission meeting called in Rangamati on 19 October 2025 due to the threat of a strike by the Parbatya Chattogram Chhatra Parishad (PCCP), a student organization of Bengali settlers in the CHT.

In a statement sent to the media today (17 October) signed by Murshida Akhter Daisy, a member of the CHT Accord Implementation Movement’s Publicity Department, the organization’s two joint conveners, human rights activist Zakir Hossain and Dhaka University professor Dr. Khairul Islam Chowdhury, expressed this concern.

The leaders of the Movement said in a statement that after the July 2024 coup, the interim government has not taken any visible steps to implement the CHT Accord. In view of the strong demands of various parties, including the CHT Accord Implementation Movement, the government formed the CHT Accord Implementation and Monitoring Committee on January 12, 2025, with Foreign Affairs Advisor Mohammad Touhid Hossain as the convener. Then, on July 19, 2025, a meeting of this committee was held in Rangamati and it was announced in the meeting that effective steps would be taken to implement the CHT Accord – which has given us hope.

The leaders also said that activating the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission formed to resolve land issues as an effective step in implementing the CHT Accord is one of the most important issues. Immediately after calling a meeting of this commission on October 19, 2025, we noticed that a group was playing an active role in sabotaging this meeting and interrupting the agreement implementation process. The meeting was postponed yesterday (October 16) in a notification signed by the Secretary of the CHT Land Dispute Resolution Commission (Joint District and Sessions Judge) Mohammad Sahab Uddin, following the threat of a strike called by the Bengali settler student organization Parbatya Chattagram Chhatra Parishad. The meeting was scheduled to be held at the Land Commission office set up at the Rangamati Hill District Council office. We are deeply concerned and angry over the postponement of the Land Commission meeting.

The leaders said, if the meeting is called and postponed repeatedly due to such unwanted warnings, the implementation process of the CHT Accord will be threatened. We once again call for all the state forces to mobilize and take effective steps to implement this agreement for a political and peaceful solution to the CHT problem. At the same time, we strongly demand that the Land Commission meeting be held as soon as possible, ignoring all the warnings.