Chakma and Hajong Communities
Recently, Chakma and Hajong groups have rejected a move by the Arunachal Pradesh government to relocate them to another state.
- The Chakmas and Hajongs living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts fled erstwhile East Pakistan in 1964-65, since they lost their land to the development of the Kaptai Dam on the Karnaphuli River.
About Chamkas
- Chakmas are the largest ethnic groups in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of southeastern Bangladesh, and the second-largest in Mizoram, India (Chakma Autonomous District).
- They are predominantly Buddhists (mainly Theravada Buddhism).
- In Myanmar, Chakma people are known as Daingnet people.
- Their ethnicity is closely linked with the peoples of ....
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