[2] The Government of Bangladesh was engaged in a low intensity conflict with the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti, who represented the non-Bengali tribal communities in the Hill Tracts.
On 2 December 1997 the Government of Bangladesh signed a peace treaty with the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti bring an end to the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict.
[1][3] In 2010 Bangladesh High Court in a ruling declared the Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council illegal and unconstitutional.
The ruling was passed on two cases filed by a Bengali settler, M Badiuzzaman in 2000, and Pro Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami lawyer, Tajul Islam in 2007.
The government of Bangladesh and Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, President of Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council, filed an appeal against the verdict.