On 24 September, 2011 at around 11:00 am victim was staying at their Jum Ghar (a temporarily
built house for Jum cultivation, which is one and half km away from their main residence) with her
one and half year old infant Sakid Tripura. Her husband, Pushpa Ranjan Tripura, went to Panchari
upozila (sub-district) headquarters with his old mother to take the latter‟s allowance for the aged. In
the meantime, the perpetrator Mohammad Karim appeared at the Jum Ghar and asked for a glass of
drinking water from the victim. When victim came out of her room to give the glass of water,
Mohammad Karim grabbed her neck and immediately raped her. The victim kept shouting during
the incident and Karim left the spot quickly. After the incident, the culprit Mohammad Karim has
absconded from the village. The victim didn‟t know the name of the perpetrator. But she assured
that, would be able to identify the perpetrator if she faces him again. When the perpetrator was
running away from the spot, Mr. Raidhan Tripura (31 years old),a local people of the Karko Karbari
Para of Ultachari Union under Panchari upazila saw the perpetrator escaping from the area.
Following the incident, the villagers led by Mr. Badsha Kumar Tripura (48 years old), village head
of the Korko para village went to the perpetrator‟s house and collected information about the
perpetrator. After that incident the culprit Mohammad Karim allegedly absconded from village. On
26 September 2011, a case was filed with Panchari police station by the victim‟s husband in
connection with this rape incident under section 3(1) of Women and Child Repression Act. As per
the relatives‟ apprehension, the case was not effective. On 27 September 2011 a medical test of the
victim occurred by Dr. Sanjib Tripura at Khagrachari District Hospital after three days of the
incident. Consequently, the result of the test became negative. Earlier, the relatives of the victim
also blamed that the medical test of the victim was done very overdue. Till the time of the reporting,
the police could not arrest the culprit. (Source: Unity. Issue 52 Nov 12, 2011. www.bhbcucusa.org<unitycouncilusa@gmail.com)
Among
a
seris
of
rape
and
other
tourters,
10
cases
are
detailed
in
link:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/63171131/Mayhem-at-Mahalchari-Internet-Edition.
However, the Jumma Peoples Network UK shows a detailed seris of violation against Jumma
Women and Children in their webside. (Link: Violation against Jumma Women and children,
Jumma Peoples Network UK).
3) Linguistic: who are also basically indiginous people. There are several identically different
dialogues such as Sylhety, Chitagong language, which may occassionally create severe problems in
pracical human rights implementation matters; however, this is not a motivated problem.
Communication
concerns
a
major
issue
to
establish
the
women‟s
rights.
Children from four to six years old soon lose interest in the classroom and drop out when they
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