Another JSS Reformist leader shot and wounded in Balukhali, Rangamati

chtnews.com
News No. 68/2009, June 22, 2009
Yet another leader of the Jana Samhati Samiti’s Reformist faction have been shot and wounded in Rangamati.

Mr. Aungshuman Chakma (40), who was shot at his home in Balukhali yesterday, is now undergoing treatment in Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

Mr. Chakma received bullet injuries in his left elbow and has got his bone fractured. Doctors said he needed to be operated on.

His father Dhirendra Kishore Chakma, also a former JSS member, blamed Santu Larma for the attack on his son and said he would file a criminal case in connection with the incident.

Eyewitnesses said at about 7pm Aungshuman Chakma and his friend Ashin Chakma were taking rest in the courtyard of his house when a group of five JSS (Santu) men appeared and shot at them.

Ashin Chakma, a former leader of Santu Larma backed student front, told chtnews.com “we were sitting in the courtyard after taking a stroll. Suddenly five people armed with sophisticated weapons appeared before us, with one of them saying ‘oh, I see, you are here!’.”

“At first they tried to catch us alive. But we knew who they were, and immediately began running away. Then they shot at us.”

Both of them escaped – Ashim Chakma unhurt.

Mr. Ashin said the armed men came in a boat from Manikchari Dore via the edge of Assam Bosti in Rangamati town.

“Each of them had a gun” he said.

Mr. Aungshuman Chakma was a staff member of the central committee of the JSS. He is one of those highly critical of Santu Larma’s corruption and questionable policies.