Jumma (term)

They include the Chakma, Arakanese (Rakhine), Marma, Tripuri, Tanchangya, Chak, Pankho, Mru, Bawm, Lushai, Khyang, and Khumi.

Ethnic minorities in Bangladesh (2022)[6] During the construction of the Kaptai Dam, more than 18,000 families and 100,000 tribal people were evicted by then Pakistani president Ayub Khan without appropriate resettlement facilities or compensation.

[citation needed] Between 1978 and 1990, the ruling military junta government saw the Jummas (including Chakmas) as traitors and a potential risk for an independent Bangladesh.

Allegedly, 400,000 Bengali homeless people were relocated in the Chittagong Hill Tracts with homes, arable land, and food rationing.

[11] Due to the outbreaks of violence, communal and social unrest, many Jummas fled to the Indian states of Mizoram and Tripura, or to Myanmar.

Members of Jumma militia during the first phase of Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict in Khagrachari, 1994