The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Falconry in the Hills — edited by Khaled Belal

A 1992 compilation presenting the government and non-tribal side of the Chittagong Hill Tracts conflict. It is dedicated to “tribals and non-tribals” killed by the Shanti Bahini, and its editorial argues that the insurgency was backed from India and that the government had done everything possible for peace and development.

What the book covers

• Background, development work, political rights, and the Janasanghati Samity and refugee question as the compilers saw them
• Cluster villages, the condition of non-tribal settlers, and the deployment of security forces
• Articles, editorials of national dailies and news reports from 1991–92
• Sections titled “Human rights violation: the other side”, local government councils and foreign press coverage
• A pictorial section

Note: this is a one-sided source from the period of the conflict and is useful mainly as evidence of how the official and settler narrative was presented at the time. Read it alongside accounts from the hill peoples themselves.