Author(s): Janneke Arens
Source: Economic and Political Weekly , Jul. 19-25, 1997, Vol. 32, No. 29 (Jul. 19-25,
1997), pp. 1811-1819
Published by: Economic and Political Weekly
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4405649

Abstract

Development aid to Bangladesh has, both directly and indirectly, not only added to continuing militarization of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) and human rights violations, but also to a systematic destruction of the mode of production, way of life and culture of the Jumma people. Any political solution to the CHT conflict would require a fundamental change in the arrogant and neocolonial attitude of the donors, a willingness to completely alter the nature of aid itself based on an explicit choice for structural support to the poor, and a recognition of the right to self-determination of indigenous peoples.