Vulnerability of indigenous people rights in Bangladesh

Abstract

On the above analysis, it has been briefly discussed about the dimension of deception of the indigenous people of Bangladesh. These dimensions of deprivations were created not only for the scare resources and failure of the governance. Rather mostly it has been generated by bad political intention or personal interest related matters. Most of the governments have tried to serve their own purpose and use the indigenous people. But it has not revealed the government through sensitization towards them has taken mentionable step. The indigenous peoples have not adequate recognition in Bangladesh either in the constitution or any other official documents of the Government. That is creating frustration to them as well as they are not considered in the development planning by the government. For this reason administration also got a negative message about them and its bad impact suffered tot the communities. In any development planning, decision-making stages or policy level there is no meaningful participation of the Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh. That is why mostly every planning have taken by excluded the their participation. In the last BNP regime there was a deputy' minister recruited from the indigenous community for the ministry of CHT. But as he was deputy minister so he has not entitle to seat in the cabinet meting that is the highest policy level forum of the government. Apparently it is seen there is a minister from the indigenous community but he has no scope to influence or sensitize the policy at all. The indigenous leader s are frequently claim that, the peace treaty is not been implemented by any government. Awami league government was the initiator of the treaty, they had taken some major step to implement the treaty but not implement completely. The BNP government does not recognize the treaty, as Awami league was the initiator of the treaty. Some unsettle and uncompleted issues are there. In light of the constitution, Government has to allocate all resources without discrimination to each other but we have seen the discriminator)'’ allocation in the annual development programme. Education status also below of the indigenous communities than the vii © Daffodil International University national average. And government has not been taken any mentionable step as affirmative action to minimize the gap. Only the tribal quota in higher education has some role to enroll of the indigenous student but the drop out rate is high in the primary and secondary level. Harassment by the government officials such as forest department, land department, law enforcing agencies and military also accused much by the news paper reports as well as claim by the indigenous leaders. The materialistic and vested interest of the said officials also causes of it but no clear policy, recognition and positive message from the government side also active reasons behind these