Not All Indigenous people whose lands are occupied, react back with violence:
According to Dr. Sachi Dastidar, Buddhists became the target of Islamists and the Bangladeshi Government after the liberation war in 1971, that is, when Bangladesh became an independent nation and was no longer part of Pakistan (Bangladesh changed its national identity from East Pakistan to Bangladesh).Why did this happen? According to Dr. Ghosh Dastidar, this was because the Government consent to the forced occupation of the Chittagong Hill tracts by the Muslims of the plains, which was the traditional homeland of the indigenous Buddhists and Hindus, several of whose mother tongue were not Bengali. Under President General Zia-Ur Rahman, Muslim settlers were brought in to colonize Hill Tracts bringing the indigenous peoples from 97% of the population in 1971 to about 50% by 1991 census. Further, these occupiers were given free land, transport and rehabilitation funds. This is similar to Tibet’s colonization model of China.
Also, it is interesting to see that not all those whose lands are occupied speak back with violence:
From Tibetan poet Tenzin Tsundue, whose people were ethnically cleansed, and can never return home. Whose home is India.
Love Tibet (Tribishtak in ancient Buddhist and Hindu texts):
Tibet is just a gaze away.
They said:
from that black knoll
at Dumtse, it’s Tibet.
For the first time, I saw
my country Tibet.
In a hurried hidden trip,
I was there, at the mound.
I sniffed the soil,
scratched the ground,
listened to the dry wind
and the wild old cranes.
I didn’t see the border,
I swear there wasn’t anything
different, there.
I didn’t know,
if I was there or here.
I didn’t know,
if I was here or there.
They say the kyangs
come here every winter.
They say the kyangs
go there every summer
Reference: Ghosh Dastidar, S. (2023). Bengal’s Hindu Holocaust. Garuda Prakashan Pvt. Ltd. (April 2, 2023).
