Background
Kalpana Chakma was known as an active human rights activist in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (hereafter CHT). She had been vehemently criticising Bangladesh Army repressions and harassments on the indigenous men and women. She had specially been working for the emancipation of the indigenous women from becoming victims of the Bangladesh Army's lustful flame by organising conferences, seminar's and meetings in various parts of the CHT. She had also been lending her strong support to the autonomy oriented movement in the CHT spearheaded by the Jana Samhati Samiti (hereafter JSS), an underground political platform of the CHT's indigenous people. In the last general parliamentary elections of Bangladesh held on 12 June 1996 she took active part in electioneering in favour of the independent candidate, who is considered to be the reflection of the JSS on the open ground of the CHT. All these activities turned her into the direct target of the Bangladesh Army.
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