Ethnic Groups Aren’t Fleeing from Bangladesh: What’s Really Happening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

Ethnic Groups Aren’t Fleeing from Bangladesh: What’s Really Happening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts

A recent piece portrays a misleading picture of the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as a region in perpetual crisis, driving ethnic communities into Myanmar. This narrative, while dramatic, fundamentally misreads the situation on the ground and ignores decades of tangible progress, active peace-building efforts, and comprehensive development planning by successive Bangladeshi governments, both past and present. The claim that people have been fleei…