BDR raids a Jumma house in Sajek

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News No. 41/2008, March 03, 2008

On 20 February 2008 Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) personnel from Ruilui camp surrounded and then searched the house of Bengua Chakma (40) s/o Jelaram Chakma in the village of Dari Adam under Sajek Union in Baghaichari Upazilla (sub-district) of Rangamati.

Mr. Chakma was not available at home at the time and the BDR personnel took away his 7-year old son to the camp after asking his wife to produce her husband before the camp commander to secure the release of her son.

Later, the village elders went to the camp and got the son released.

After that, on 21 February, at dawn the BDR personnel opened brushfire on his house in a trigger happy manner without any reason whatsoever. Luckily, no one was hurt in the shooting spree.

After the incident, the BDR commander (name unknown) boasting to the villagers said: "It is me who shot at the house of Bengua Chakma in the morning, and I am pretty sure he's got hurt. We saw blood on the ground. He may die."