Six innocent Jummas arrested in Naniachar

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News No. 90/2008, May 27, 2008

The army arrested six Jummas from Morachengey village in Naniachar under Rangamati district yesterday, 26 May.

Details of the arrest are yet to come. However, apparently they were arrested from the house of Mrinal Kanti Chakma where villagers were attending the "Satdinnya" feast prepared in honour of his deceased father who died a week earlier, on 20 May.

Mrinal Kanti Chakma's son Joyesh Chakma (27) was among those arrested. He studies homeopathic medicine in a college in Dhaka.

Others arrestees include Morachengey Government Primary School teacher Propon Chakma alias Maya Baran, aged 27 s/o late Bimalendu Chakma; Nitu Chakma aged 22 s/o Tarun Kanti Chakma, a first year student of Naniachar College; Adhiratan Chakma aged 23 s/o Subolal Chakma; Purno Bikash Chakma aged 26 s/o Battya Chakma and Mitu Chakma aged 25 s/o Shushil Kumar Chakma.

They are residents of Morachengey village, which lies 7 miles north of Naniachar Upazilla (sub district) headquarter.

They have neither been produced before any court of law, nor been handed over to the police till the writing of this report at 5 pm. "They are being interrogated in Naniachar zone", one of the sources said adding that the army subjected them to inhuman torture.