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Tourism And State Violence In The Chittagong Hill Tracts Of Bangladesh, Hana S. Ahmed
Tourism And State Violence In The Chittagong Hill Tracts Of Bangladesh, Hana S. Ahmed
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The three districts of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh have the highest military presence in Bangladesh. Following its emergence as an independent country in 1971, the military carried out a campaign of systematic repression of the Jumma indigenous people of the region. In this thesis, I focus on tourism and argue it is one of the ways by which ruling elites expropriate Jumma lands and circumvent indigenous land and cultural rights. The process is riddled with contradictions. On the one hand, violence against the Jumma has not ceased, and instead, the presence of the military has become normalized. …