Hill Voice, 13 August 2024, Khagrachari: Like the rest of the country, also at Khagrachari hill district headquarters yesterday (August 12), Jumma students of various institutions took up the program of painting graffiti on the wall of Khagrachari college gate. On the same day, Jumma students of Chittagong, Rangamati and Bandarban also participated in drawing these graffiti in their respective areas.

But yesterday around 4:00 pm, when the Jumma students started painting on the walls of Khagrachari College, a group of army came there in a vehicle. As soon as they came, they threw the paint and brushes on the ground and obstructed their work. Especially they said that nothing can be written in the name of the army. It is said that the students were trying to write about the abduction of Kalpana Chakma by Lt. Ferdous, the withdrawal of military rule from Chittagong Hill Tracts.

At one stage, army personnel forcibly took Pranoy Chakma (15), a 10 grade student of Khagrachari Technical School and College. It is also known that the army personnel hit some students with sticks.

Immediately after this, the students started protesting the incident by gathering at the spot.

After about an hour of detention, the army reportedly released the detained Pranoy Chakma under the pressure of protest by the students.