Jayanta Roy Chowdhury | Chittagong Hills Burning, As B'desh Frontier Crisis Builds

Last week, as much of the Indian subcontinent celebrated the victory of good over evil on Dussehra, the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in Bangladesh were burning again. Police firing on the eve of Durga Puja at Khagragachi, in the Chittagong Hills, on an unarmed crowd demonstrating against the rape of a Chakma schoolgirl set the hills on fire once again. Within days, that single case, shocking but not unprecedented, had morphed into the trigger for something far larger — violent demonstrations against decades of demographic dispossession, heavy-handed Army rule, and broken promises of autonomy in the country's most sensitive border…