Borendra Lal Tripura Lecturer, AIUB ADS & ALA Scholar 1. Prelude Since the declaration of World Indigenous Decade by United Nations in 1993, the ethnic minority peoples of Bangladesh have been appealing to the government of Bangladesh and the majority Bengali community to recognize their identity as indigenous people. Though the progressive section of the majority Bengali community has positively responded to the appeal, the majority conservative section of the society is still hesitating to recognize it. In some cases, this section is rather fiercely opposing to the appeal of the disadvantaged ethnic minority peoples, which is evident from the reactions of some writers and actors such as Mohammed Zainal Abedin (2006), Mohammad Humayun Kabir (2006) and the television interviews of some government ministers in different times. They have used many irrational logics and information to reject the struggle and appeal of the minority peoples. Thus they have demonstrated their failure to
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