Dhaka, April 19 -- Hill Voice, 17 April 2024, Special Correspondent: More 23 innocent villagers have been arrested and 12 harassed after detaining temporarily in the last seven days in the name of so-called joint forces operation against bank robberies and weapons looting by army-created KNF terrorist groups in Ruma and Thanchi under Bandarban district.

With this, the total number of victims with innocent indigenous men and women has risen to 77. Reportedly, none of the previously arrested 54 Bawm community men and women, most of them innocent, have been released yet.

From the beginning, in the name of joint forces operation against the KNF terrorists, there have been allegations of indiscriminate arrest and harassment of common and inn...