Indigenous People's Day

The Indigenous people from all over the world celebrated the "International Day of world Indigenous people" on August 9 every year. The Day was declared as such by the UN General Assembly on December 23,1994. This year the Day has been celebrated with the theme " The Economic and Social Rights of Indigenous People". UN Secretary General Ban Ki -Moon in his special message on the occasion of the Day has mentioned, "Indeed the sufferings of indigenous peoples include some of the darkest episodes in human history". Needles to say, the indigenous people suffer oppression, grave human rights abuses, even the threat of extinction in this country. For example, this year on the night of April 20 some land grabbers attacked indigenous people in Rangamati. They set fire to Indigenous people's houses and continued to occupy their lands forcibly. But they too are citizens of this country.

So, why should they suffer? Really, such barbarian attitude towards indigenous people reminds us of those “darkest episodes of human history”.