I hope the title got your attention! I’m not using the term “massacre” glibly. You can get an idea of the situation from a few of the news headlines I was able to pull from Google News:
- Chittagong Hill Tracts: Massive Communal Attack on Jumma Villages (UNPO)
- 15 hurt as ethnic violence continues in Bangladesh (Thaindian News)
- Fresh violence erupts in Bangladesh tribal region (Reuters India)
- New clashes in Bangladesh tribal area (AFP)
- Army deployed in tense Bangladesh tribal region (BBC News)
- Bangladesh Deploys Troops to Stop Ethnic Clashes (VOANews)
- Bangladesh Reimposes Night-Time Curfew In Southeast Town (RTTNews)
- Ethnic violence continues in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill tracts (The Times of India)
- Beyond the fires in the hills (The Daily Star)
- Human Rights Abuse against Indigenous People in Bangladesh (The Buddhist Channel)
The single post that I could find from the Buddhist blogosphere was on Ajahn Sujato’s blog, Bangladesh Buddhists under attack.
Recent events in the Chittagong Hill Tracts deal with Bangladeshi Buddhists who by and large are not ethnically Bengali—although there are many Bengali Buddhists in Bangladesh too. Collectively called Jumma, these tribes are culturally and linguistically different, the plurality (if not majority) of whom are Buddhist. You can learn more about this situation at the links below.
- Survival International
- Indigenous Jumma People’s Movement in North America
- Musings of a Chakma
- A Chakma in Pakistan (The Hindu)