Socio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts - chtdf

HDRCSocio-economic Baseline Survey of Chittagong Hill Tracts16422.2.3 Relationship among different indigenous communitiesRegarding the present state of relationship amongdifferent indigenous communities, 30% of therespondents have reported that there is a “friendlyrelationship” while slight more than three-fifthshave reported that that it is “almost friendly”.About 8% of the respondents have reported thatthe relationship is “not friendly” while about 1%has reported that there is “hostile relationship”(see Annex Table 22.7).22.2.4 Relationship between Bangalee and Indigenous CommunitiesRegarding the relationshipbetween Bangalees anddifferent indigenouscommunities, these two groupshave given contradictorystatements. While about onefifthof the Bangalees havereported that there is a“friendly relationship betweenthe Bangalee and theindigenous”, only 5% of theindigenous communitiesreported the same. Householdsreporting the relationship being“almost friendly” constitute 53% of Bangalee and 39% of indigenous while those reporting“not friendly” constitute 25% of Bangalee and 34% of indigenous. Those reporting therelationship being “hostile” are only 2% of Bangalee and 21% of indigenous. It implies thatthe Bangalee views the relationship being “friendly” and “almost friendly” while theindigenous people views it “not friendly” and “hostile” (see Annex Table 22.8).22.3 Constraints to PeaceRespondents have mentioned a total ofeleven factors acting as constraints to peacein the CHT. These are: communal threat(reported by 81%), extortion (80%),abduction (78%), armed conflict (78%),ransom (77%), restricted movement (75%),lack of trust among communities (74%),insecurity of women (73%), fear of evictionfrom own land (73%), and fear of insecurityof children (67%) (see Annex Table 22.9).Almostfriendly39.1%Friendly5.2%HostileNot21.2%friendly34.4%Reported by Indigenous People N=1,786Figure 22.2: Household reported relationship amongdifferent indigenous communitiesAlmost friendly62.4%Friendly 29.5%Figure 22.3: Household reported relationship between Bangalee and differentindigenous communitiesHostile0.6%Not friendly7.5%Almostfriendly53.3 Friendly19.9%Hostile1.5%Notfriendly25.3%Reported by Bangalee N=1,452Figure 22.4: Constraints to peace in CHT amongindigenous communitiesAbductionRansomExtortionArmed conflictCommunal threatRestricted movementInsecurity of womenInsecurity of childrenLack of trust among communitiesLack of interaction among communitiesFear of eviction from own land66.765.578.276.679.578.274.872.773.872.680.7