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News No. 116/2009, September 09, 2009
There have been reports of escalating tensions between the Jumma villagers and Bengali settlers over the death of a Bengali settler under mysterious circumstances.
Sources said 4 – 5 days ago a Bengali settler was allegedly disappeared from Baghaichari in Rangamati district. Later, on 7 September, his dead body was found floating on the Kaptai lake water near Sijok Dore area.
The settlers tried to use his death as a pretext to fan communal tension and launch attacks on Jumma villages. They claimed that the Jummas were responsible for his death, but gave no evidence in their support.
The Jummas, on the other hand, denied the claim, saying a section of the settlers are engaged in a plot to launch communal attacks on them.
“These settlers might have killed him to create a pretest” one Jumma villager told chtnews.com by mobile phone from a hill top in Marishya.
However, as the telephone line was noisy, the name of deceased settler could not be heard clearly.
