[4] Over 100 thousand tribal people were made refugees by the construction of the Kaptai Dam, which also flooded 40 percent of agricultural land, and many were not compensated.

[4] Manabendra Narayan Larma, member of the East Pakistan Provincial Assembly in 1970,[5] formed the Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti in March 1973 after Sheikh Mujibur Rahman did not listen to his plea to provide autonomy to the hill tracts in the constitution of Bangladesh.

[6] In 1977, the Shanti Bahini attacked a convoy of Bangladesh Army which started the Chittagong Hill Tracts Conflict.

On 8 September 1989, he led a 17-member team of Bangladesh Army soldiers and attacked a Shanti Bahini militant camp.

[6] General Ziaur Rahman, later president, launched Operation Dabanal as part of that militarization of the region.

[11] In 1979, the government of Bangladesh began a policy of settling ethnic Bengalis in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and thereby changing the demographic of the region.

[6] The Awami League government, under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina came to power in 1996 with an election manifesto promising to end the conflict.

[15] Under Operation Uttaran, Bangladesh Army received 10 thousand tons of rice which they used to develop settler villages in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.