Genocide in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh

The Chittagong Hill Tracts are a "tribal area" in Bangla­desh where 12 different ethnic groups live. They number about 600 000 people and make up 0.7% of the total population of Bangladesh. After independence the tribal people accounted for 98% of the district's inhabitants. Today they are out­numbered by Bengali settlers who were brought into the hills in recent years by a three-phase government initiative: 25 000 families rehabilitated by mid 1980 (first phase), 100 000 families bv 1981 (second phase) and 250 000 more Muslim Bengalis estimated by 1983 ( third phase).