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Dhaka, Bangladesh – On the night of May 31, Agrojyoti Bhante was brutally attacked by two machete-wielding men at a monastery in Khagrachari, 270km (168 miles) south of capital Dhaka in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT). The attackers, later identified as two Bengali construction workers who worked at the monastery, also looted about 60,000 takas ($700) from the monastery and left the 47-year-old Buddhist monk, belonging to one of Bangladesh’s Indigenous communities, for dead. While no accurate data on the number of Indigenous people in Bangladesh is available, a census conducted by the government in 2011 found they are about 1.6 million. But Indigenous and activist groups claim their population is at least 3 million, or 2 percent, of more than 160 million people in the Muslim-majority country. ....
Ecosystem Restoration: Necessary Laws and Policies in Bangladesh The Daily Star along with Association for Land Reform and Development (ALRD) and Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA) organised an online discussion titled “Ecosystem Restoration: Necessary Laws and Policies in Bangladesh” on June 13, 2021. The primary objective of the roundtable was to discuss necessary policies and the implementation of existing policies to preserve and restore our ecosystem. Khushi Kabir, Chairperson, ALRD and Coordinator, Nijera Kori Preservation of our natural ecosystems has become an issue that is now discussed regularly. This issue isn t one that only Bangladesh should be focusing on, but something that requires global attention. ....