Visiting areas affected by the February violence, a parliamentary body on Saturday assured the victims of the highest support and exemplary punishment to the culprits involved in killings and arson in Rangamati and Khagrachhari.
The five-member team of the parliamentary standing committee on Chittagong Hill Tracts affairs made the assurance in separate meetings with indigenous people and Bangalee settlers in Gangaram Mukh village where the deadly violence broke out last month.
Before the meetings, the House body led by its Chairman Mohammad Shah Alam MP visited the Gangaram Mukh and its adjacent areas-stunned by the violence, reports our Rangamati correspondent.
The four other members of team are ABM Fazle Karim Chowdhury MP of Chittagong, Ethin Rakhain of Cox's Bazar, Gias Uddin Ahmad of Mymensingh and Jatindra Lal Tripura of Khagrachhari.
The committee, meanwhile, left Gangaram Mukh for Khagrachhari to visit the district headquarters and adjacent areas where violence prompted the authorities to impose curfew in February.
The team that earlier in the morning travelled to Chittagong from Dhaka by a helicopter is due to hold a meeting with local civil society leaders including journalists at Khagrachhari circuit house to exchange views in the afternoon, reports our Khagrachhari correspondent.
The rest five members of the committee who were also scheduled to go with the team are Mohammad Abdur Rahman Badi of Cox's Bazar, KM Khalid of Mymensingh, Dipankar Talukder of Rangamati, Bir Bahadur of Bandarban and BNP lawmaker Barrister Moudud Ahmed.
At least two ethnic people were killed in an open fire by security personnel during February 19 Bagaihat clash in Rangamati while another Bangalee man was killed in clash between Bangalee and ethnic people on February 23. At least 550 houses were burnt to ashes in the two places of CHT during the violence.
Source: thedailystar.net
