Lecture: Crises Faced by the Hill Peoples of Bangladesh
From Melissa Caflisch
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From Melissa Caflisch
Lorenz Löffler documented land alienation, economic
impoverishment, and ethnic domination affecting the Mru and other Hill peoples,
as well as the chain reaction of agroecological degradation destroying the very
productive capacity of their lands and traditional avenues of survival. He
highlighted the devastating impacts of misconceived development projects,
counter-insurgency operations, and state-sponsored transmigration of settlers.
Löffler foresaw the catastrophic implications of these trends for the Hill
peoples.
In this lecture, Shapan Adnan
draws on his own field research conducted from 1998–2018 that provides tragic
confirmation of Löffler’s prescient apprehensions and updates the continuing
crises faced by the Hill peoples despite their persistent but increasingly
divided resistance.
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