RESOLUTION B3-1169 AND 1252/92

Resolution on human rights in Bangladesh

The European Parliament,

-having regard to its previous resolutions on Bangladesh,

A.alarmed at the reported massacre on 10 April 1992 of hundreds of unarmed Jumma civilians in Logang, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh,

B.whereas earlier inquiry committees into massacres in Kaukhali (1980) and Longadu (1989) did not make their reports public,

C.whereas the Jumma people are subject to forcible relocation in large numbers into 'cluster villages' to make way for Bengali occupants of Jumma lands,

1.Vigorously condemns the massacres in Logang;

2.Calls on the Government of Bangladesh to publish the full outcome of the inquiry to be undertaken by Justice Sultan Hussein Khan;

3.Calls on the Government of Bangladesh to terminate military involvement in the CHT area;

4.Calls on the Government of Bangladesh to respect human rights in the CHT and to end its policy of forcible relocation of indigenous people;

5.Calls on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights which has heard this case to appoint a special rapporteur to monitor the situation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts;

6.Instructs its Subcommittee on Human Rights to investigate the matter including if possible a mission to the Chittagong Hill Tracts;

7.Calls on its President, EPC and the Commission to bring the matter to the attention of the Government of Bangladesh;

8.Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission, EPC, the UN Secretary-General and the Government of Bangladesh.