{"id":146,"date":"2012-11-18T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chtnews.com\/english\/?p=146"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T11:46:56","slug":"updf-man-shot-dead-in-merung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chtnews.com\/english\/2012\/11\/18\/updf-man-shot-dead-in-merung\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDF man shot dead in Merung"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument>  <w:View>Normal<\/w:View>  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>  <w:Compatibility>   <w:BreakWrappedTables\/>   <w:SnapToGridInCell\/>   <w:ApplyBreakingRules\/>   <w:WrapTextWithPunct\/>   <w:UseAsianBreakRules\/>  <\/w:Compatibility>  <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4<\/w:BrowserLevel> <\/w:WordDocument><\/xml><![endif]--><!-- [if !mso]><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/img2.blogblog.com\/img\/video_object.png\" style=\"background-color: #b2b2b2; \" class=\"BLOGGER-object-element tr_noresize tr_placeholder\" id=\"ieooui\" data-original-id=\"ieooui\" \/>\n\n\n\n<style>st1\\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <\/style>\n\n\n\n<![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n\n<style> \/* Style Definitions *\/  table.MsoNormalTable  {mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";  mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0;  mso-tstyle-colband-size:0;  mso-style-noshow:yes;  mso-style-parent:\"\";  mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;  mso-para-margin:0in;  mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt;  mso-pagination:widow-orphan;  font-size:10.0pt;  font-family:\"Times New Roman\";} <\/style>\n\n\n\n<![endif]--><\/p>\n<div><i><a href=\"http:\/\/chtnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chtnews.com<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n<div><i>Sunday, November 18, 2012<\/i><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>SHANTI CHAKMA, 42, a UPDF member, was shot dead by armed men loyal to Santu Larma in Ranjan Moni Para village of Chongrachari area under Merung Union, Dighinala, Khagrachari district on 5 November.<\/b><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His father\u2019s name is late Bhrigudhar Chakma. The incident happened at 6pm while Shanti was walking back home from a local tea shop.<\/div>\n<div>He died instantly when bullets fired by Santu men, who lay in wait for him on the roadside, hit him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The incident comes about two weeks after a similar attack on 20 October in the same area in which two members of the Jana Samhati Samiti (M. N. Larma faction) \u2013 Jamal Chakma and Medhankor Chakma \u2013 were killed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><i>News No. 121\/2012. <\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>chtnews.com Sunday, November 18, 2012 SHANTI CHAKMA, 42, a UPDF member, was shot dead by armed men loyal to Santu Larma in Ranjan Moni Para village of Chongrachari area under Merung Union, Dighinala, Khagrachari district on 5 November. His father\u2019s name is late Bhrigudhar Chakma. 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