THERE
have been allegations of land grabbing in Faitong Mouza under Lama
Upazila in Bangdarban against the organizing secretary of Awami League’s
Aziz Nagar Union unit, Samakal, a Bengali national daily reported on Friday.
The
members of Tripura community from two villages on Thursday formed human
chain at the occupied land to protest the land grabbing.
The
villagers alleged that the hired goons of this AL leader had destroyed
2,000 banana trees, 200 mango and jackfruit trees, 1,500 teak trees and
about 5,000 saplings of various kinds of trees belonging to an
indigenous villager in the captured land.
They cut the trees first and then burnt them to ashes so that no trace of physical possession of the owner remained.
At
the human chain villagers from Rangchung Para and Bongo Para alleged
that Selim Rahman, organizing secretary of Aziz Nagor AL, and his elder
brother Saidur Rahman had been attempting to capture that piece of land
for a long time.
On Saturday, Selim Rahman brought in 30-40 terrorists and began cutting down the fruit trees belonging to Probhat Tripura.
They cut about 5,000 trees in three days from Saturday to Monday.
When the owner of the land and his fellow villagers protested, the terrorists chased them away brandishing home-made guns.
Probhat
Tripura and his wife Hassati Tripura said they had planted teak and
various kinds of fruit trees including banana, mango, wood-apple,
litchi, guava and orange on 10 acres of land in the last 10 years.
This fruit garden was their only source of income, they added.
Saja
Chandra Tripura, the village chief of Rangchung Para, and Naziram
Tripura, the village chief of Bongo Para, said ‘The land grabbers are
influential people because they are Awami League leaders. The residents
of Tripura villages are helpless victims to the power of their
families.’
When
contacted, AL leader Selim Rahman said that the land in question
belonged to his father Motiar Rahman; and that it was not captured by
force or by using influence.
On the question of tree-cutting, he said the fruit trees had been cut down to make way for rubber plantation.
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source: chtnews.com
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