Some more good news from #Bangladesh: disappeared activist Michael Chakma has been found alive. He had been missing since 2019, and many presumed he might have been dead. Michael is an Indigenous rights activist who had been staunchly vocal against abuses committed by the military in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and has campaigned for an end to military rule in the region. The previous government repeatedly ignored desperate appeals from his family, as well as inquiries from the Supreme Court, the @UN Committee against Torture and INGOs like @amnesty and @hrw.   In January 2020, the police finally stated they “could not find anybody named Michael Chakma in any prisons in Bangladesh.” Michael was found in Aynaghor - the state’s secret detention facility. When @NetraNews first exposed the existence of Aynaghor in 2022, the state vehemently denied it and filed cases against them for “spreading disinformation”. The fruits of the student liberation movement is only beginning to be felt. A decade of oppression is slowly coming undone. We must seize this moment and undo state repression in all its forms: at the top of that list is demilitarising the Chittagong Hill Tracts and implement the CHT Accord. We are not free until CHT is free.