Conflict between government and the indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh

This paper explores the struggle of indigenous people for their ethnic identity and conflict with Bangladesh government.The indigenous community was persecuted and deprived of human rights, basic needs from the British colonial periods.Internal displacement of aboriginals was started by the Pakistan government and continued till 1997.Land grabbing, Bengali settlement, internal displacements, ethnic non recognition in constitution of country, militarization of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and others issues made the indigenous people revolutionary and ultimately force them to demand autonomy of CHT.The conflicts between indigenous people and government came to end after signing Peace Accord of CHT in 1997 but non implementation of this incites the conflicts again what is being continued till now.