Watch Dhaka protest videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AZqy5ksTqA&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gic53m-Epd4&feature=player_embedded
Protests in London, UK, 24th February 2010
Another protest held on 28th February 2010. Watch London Demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKEWIrhyKEk
Protest in Seoul, South Korea, 24th February 2010
Protest in New Delhi, 25th February 2010
Protest in Tokyo, Japan, 25th February 2010
Watch protest demonstration video in Tokyo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRl_q3zz3K8Watch another video of Tokyo protest: http://www.youtube.com/user/jummanet
Protest in Sydney, Australia, 26th February 2010
Watch the Sydney protest video: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFYIis6knn8
Protest in Adelaide, Australia
Protest in New York, before the UN Headquarters, 1 March 2010
Protests in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2 March 2010
Protest against attacks on Chittagong Buddhists, Daily Times, 3 March 2010, http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/03/03/news37.asp
UN & West ‘ignoring plight of Buddhists in Bangladesh’, The Island, 3 March 2010, http://www.island.lk/2010/03/03/news9.html
Protest Meeting in Kolkata, India, 3 March 2010
Chittagong Hill Tracts group alleges atrocities by Bangladesh Army, Indian Express, 4 March 2010, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Chittagong-Hill-Tracts-group-alleges-atrocities-by-Bangladesh-Army/586609/
Chakmas in CHT being subjected to ethnic cleansing, PTI, 3 March 2010, http://www.ptinews.com/news/546462_Chakmas-in-CHT-being-subjected-to-ethnic-cleansing
Protest at Chawngte, CADC, Mizoram, India, 4 March 2010
Protest in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 March 2010
Buddhist Monks protest against violence in CHT, outside the United Nations building in Bangkok. Picture courtesy: http://www.thaiphotoblogs.com/index.php?blog=5&title=jumma-monks-protest-in-bangkok&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
The Campaign:
22 Feb: CHT Commission demands investigation into the attacks,
23 Feb: Asian Centre for Human Rights, New Delhi releases its report "Bangladesh: IPs Massacred for Land Grab", http://www.achrweb.org/reports/bangla/CHT012010.pdf
24 Feb: Renowned international tribal rights organization Survival International and Jumma Peoples Network UK held a protest in front of the Bangladesh Embassy in London, and submitted a Memorandum to the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina. Read the Memorandum:
24 Feb: Jumma People`s Network-Korea and several other organizations and individual activists sent a protest letter to Bangladesh PM
25 Feb: Jumma Peoples Network in Japan, World Jumma Voice and Jumma Net submit memorandum to Bangladesh PM through Bangladesh Embassy, Japan
25 Feb: Indian Chakmas submit a Memorandum to PM Dr Manmohan Singh seeking the immediate intervention of Govt of India
26 Feb: CHT American Jumma Peoples seek the intervention of United States Ambassador to Bangladesh
26 Feb: Amnesty International's Public Statement: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA13/006/2010/en/413527c8-6e9d-42be-acaf-3e17524a8f08/asa130062010en.html
European Union condemns attacks, demands independent investigation:
Read the Statement by the spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the acts of violence in Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh: http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/113070.pdf
"EU condemns deadly Bangladesh attacks", AFP, http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100226/wl_sthasia_afp/bangladeshunresthillseu
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