Qualla: Logang Massacre

Logang Massacre: Introduction

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The official report says twelve people died. Survivors and independent observers say the number was closer to four hundred. That gap -- between what a government was willing to acknowledge and what a community endured -- defines the Logang massacre, an attack on the indigenous Jumma people of Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts that took place on 10 April 1992. In a single day, Bengali settlers and Bangladeshi security forces destroyed a village, scattered its inhabitants across an international border, and produced an investigation whose conclusions the government never released to its own public.

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Logang Massacre: The Hill Tracts Before the Fire

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Chittagong Hill Tracts occupy the southeastern corner of Bangladesh, a mountainous region bordering India and Myanmar that has been home to the Jumma people -- a collective term for the region's indigenous communities including the Chakma, Marma, and Tripuri -- for centuries....

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Logang Massacre: 10 April 1992

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The government's account begins with a provocation: Shanti Bahini guerrillas attacked five Bangladeshis with dao knives in Logang village, injuring all of them and killing Kabir Ahmed Hossein, who died from a throat wound. What followed was not a proportional response. Bengali se...

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Logang Massacre: Scattered Across the Border

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

More than 2,000 Jumma villagers fled east into Tripura state in northeastern India, joining a growing population of refugees from the Hill Tracts conflict. Over 545 houses were destroyed according to survivor interviews; the official report acknowledged 550 Jumma dwellings burned...

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Logang Massacre: The Report That Wasn't Released

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Bangladeshi government launched an official investigation led by retired Justice Sultan Hossain Khan. A report was submitted to the Home Ministry on 20 August 1992, four months after the massacre. It was never published in Bengali for the Bangladeshi public. Instead, a 20-pag...

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Logang Massacre: An Unfinished Reckoning

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord of 1997 brought a formal end to the insurgency and created a regional council with elected indigenous members who must be consulted by the central government on matters concerning the hill tracts. The accord has drawn criticism from all sid...

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