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Bangladesh's interior main said Monday (September 29, 2025) that weapons from "outside the country" were fuelling unit successful a southeastern borderline portion with India that has near 3 radical dead.
Clashes erupted successful the Chittagong Hill Tracts connected Sunday (September 28, 2025), erstwhile information forces stopped protesters aggravated astatine the caller alleged rape of a woman, and 3 radical were killed.
The Army blamed rebels, portion demonstrators accused troops of opening fire.
Bangladesh has been successful governmental turmoil since student-led protests forced erstwhile premier curate Sheikh Hasina to fly to aged state India past year, turning relations betwixt Dhaka and New Delhi icy.
Interior ministry main Jahangir Alam Chowdhury alleged "arms are coming from extracurricular the country", supplying weapons to "miscreants firing from the hilltops", without giving further details.
The portion has agelong been a flashpoint betwixt Indigenous communities and Bengali-speakers, with clashes breaking retired implicit onshore and resources.
Protesters said they were aggravated implicit the alleged pack rape of an Indigenous pistillate connected September 23.
"We had been demonstrating peacefully, restricted to rallies and roadworthy blockades," a pupil protester told AFP, describing Sunday's rally successful Khagrachari district.
"The subject fired shots, sidesplitting astatine slightest 3 of america and leaving a twelve injured," they said, who asked not to beryllium named for fearfulness of reprisals.
The Army, however, denied responsibility.
Its publicity wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), accused the United People's Democratic Front (UPDF), a holdout rebel faction, of instigating the unit and firing hundreds of shots.
Rebels fought a decades-long insurgency for a tribal homeland earlier signing a 1997 bid accord, but the UPDF rejected the woody and continues to request autonomy and a afloat withdrawal of subject bases.
The resurgence of unrest poses a situation for interim person Muhammad Yunus, who is tasked with steering the federation of 170 cardinal to elections successful February -- the archetypal since a wide uprising toppled the authorities successful 2024.
