Seminar on CHT held in Dhaka

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News No. 34/2008, February 26, 2008

A seminar on the "struggle for establishing rights of the national minorities of the Chittagong Hill Tracts and democratic constitution" was held at R. C. Majumder Memorial Hall, Dhaka University today. Bangladesh Lekhok Shibir and Hill Women's Federation jointly organised the seminar.

Presided over by Hasibur Rahman, General Secretary of Bangladesh Lekhok Shibir, the seminar was addressed by Badruddin Umar, noted leftist theoretician and president of Bangladesh Jatiya Mukhti Council, Ms Samari Chakma, member, central committee, United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), A. K. Fazlul Haq, professor of Bangla, Dhaka University, Ricoh Chakma, president of Hill Student's Council and Singpat Mro, a member of Mro nationality studying in Notre Dem College, Dhaka.

Ms Samari Chakma presented a keynote paper on the subject, while HWF President Ms Sonali Chakma conducted the seminar.