Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts163Table 22.1 Household reported experience of armed violence and being wounded/killed inarmed conflict before CHT AccordHousehold reported Armed violence Wounded/killedAll Indigenous Bangalee All Indigenous BangaleeNo 81.0 74.6 88.8 95.2 92.9 98.1Yes 19 25.4 11.2 4.8 7.1 1.9Self 4.6 6.1 2.8 1.4 1.8 0.9Other household members 2.4 3.9 0.6 2.4 3.6 0.9Self and other household members 12.0 15.4 7.8 1.0 1.7 0.1N 3,238 1,786 1,452 3,238 1,786 1,45222.2.2 Experience of abduction and extortionOverall 0.4% of all CHThouseholds with 0.6% ofindigenous peoples and 0.4% ofBangalees have faced abductionduring last ten years i.e., aftersigning the Accord in 1997. About17% of all CHT households withslightly less than 25% of theindigenous peoples and 8% ofBox 22.2: Story of ExtortionExtortion is common in CHT but people facing extortion are tight leaped.They do not dare talking freely about this even before members of theirown community. Due to such unfavorable situation it most likely that onthis quantitative data is largely under reported in this study. The Bangaleepeople reported that after signing the peace accord, the overall situationhas improved compared to earlier. Now they go to the remote andimpassable places for business or cultivation, although in some cases theyface extortion. They do not feel confident to inform the security forcesabout this for the sake of their livelihood security. This is also true in thecase of indigenous people. (Source: FGD; Khagrachari)Bangalees have faced extortion during last three years. It again implies that the indigenouspeople have faced relatively more incidences of abduction and extortion than the Bangalees.The highest proportion of those facing extortion during last three years have faced it threetimes (8%), followed by those facing two times (3.6%), and those facing one times (3.1%).About 2% of the households have faced extortion more than three times during the last threeyears.Table 22.2: Household reported faced abduction and extortion after signing CHT Accord 1997Facing of abduction, extortion All Indigenous BangaleeFaced abduction during last ten years 0.4 0.6 0.4Faced extortion during last three years 16.8 24.1 7.6Faced one time 3.1 4.2 1.6Faced two times 3.6 4.9 2Faced three times 8.2 13.3 1.9Faced more than three times 1.9 1.7 2.1N 3,238 1,786 1,452Overall 42 percent of the CHT households with46 percent of indigenous peoples and 38 percentof Bangalees have expressed that they do notfeel confident to move anywhere outside theirown community (see Annex Table 22.3, 22.4and 22.5).Figure 22.1: Households reported of not feeling confidenceto move anywhere outside the community45.937.742.2Indigenous Bangalee All