Dhaka, July 18 -- Student organisations from the Chittagong Hill Tracts held a protest rally on Friday afternoon at the Raju Memorial Sculpture at Dhaka University, condemning recent incidents of army violence and demanding justice for a rape victim and a detained youth who died in custody.

The protest was sparked by two recent incidents: the rape of a Tripura teenage girl at Bhaibon Chhari in Khagrachhari, and the death of a Bom youth in prison after being detained on suspicion of involvement with the Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF). Protesters alleged that the army had baton-charged students demonstrating peacefully and unlawfully detained several of them.

Speakers at the rally called for the immediate arrest of the rapist(s), the high...