- Parbatya Chattagram Upajatiya Kalyan Samiti
The Parbatya Chattagram Upajatiya Kalyan Samiti ("United People's Welfare and Development Party of the Chittagong Hill Tracts") was a political organisation created in 1966 in
Bangladesh (thenEast Pakistan ) to represent the 100,000 native peoples displaced by the construction of theKaptai Dam and seeking rehabilitation and compensation. It was the precursor to theParbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti , which emerged as the main political party in theChittagong Hill Tracts and founded theShanti Bahini to carry out aninsurgency against Bangladeshi state forces to gainautonomy and rights for the tribes and people of the Hill Tracts.
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