CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chakma and Hajong residents of Arunachal Pradesh’s Changlang district – many of them refugees – ended 2022 with an eight-day “non-cooperation movement”. The stir capped off a year of protest for the two communities.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mizoram and Tripura have a sizeable population of the Buddhist Chakmas while the Hindu Hajongs mostly inhabit the Garo Hills of Meghalaya and adjoining areas of Assam. The Chakmas and Hajongs of Arunachal Pradesh are migrants from the Chittagong Hill Tracts of erstwhile East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Chakmas and Hajongs rehabilitated in Arunachal Pradesh in the 1960s on Saturday protested the denial of residential proof certificates (RPCs) to them, allegedly carried out as part of the State policy to throw them out of Arunachal Pradesh.

Detailed explanation-4: -The majority (approximately 300, 000 people) are located in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. There are also about 80, 000 Chakmas in Mizoram State in India, and 20, 000 in Burma (Myanmar). The Chakmas are a Mongoloid people related to people of southwestern Burma.