Kalpana Chakma, missing since June 12, 1996, is often considered the first of many recent victims of enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. Twenty-three years ago, Kalpana and her two brothers ...

Chakma was among more than 700 persons, including top opposition figures and activists, who were forcibly disappeared by Bangladeshi authorities during the 15-year “autocratic” regime of Prime ...

The Chakma community representatives in of India have written a letter to the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi requesting to downgrade diplomatic relations with Bangladesh until the lives and ...

According to Amnesty International, the oldest recorded case of enforced disappearance in Bangladesh is of Kalpana Chakma, a human rights activist in the CHT who went missing in 1996.

Agartala, Sep 21 (IANS) Thousands of tribals, mostly Buddhist Chakmas, on Saturday organised massive demonstrations and rallies in the Tripura capita ...

NEW DELHI: Representatives of Chakma organisations in India have written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to downgrade diplomatic ties with Bangladesh following the organised killing of ...

In the two months since Bangladesh’s prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, fled amid mass protests, the country’s 170 million people have had the chance, for the first time in 15 years, to chart a ...

Thirteen Chakma organisations in Mizoram have appealed to PM Narendra Modi to intervene against attacks on indigenous ethnic minorities in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Almost 300,000 people speak Chakma language in Bangladesh. But the language is dying because it is not being used. In this context, Chakma king Debashish Roy praised the making of the first Chakma ...