1.   For years the fighting was limited to the remote western hill district, where foreign visitors rarely went.

2.   Bangladesh and India agreed last year to jointly act against rebels in northeastern India and the Chittagong hill district.

3.   He said that medical teams are providing emergency care to people in the eastern hill districts of Bandarban and Rangamati.

4.   Hundreds of Muslim settlers in Khagrachari, a hill district covered by the accord, stormed and damaged the office of a local administrator and the press club.

5.   Land-slides and flash flood, triggered by heavy rainfall in Rangamati hill district killed six persons recently.

6.   Maoists are also courting ethnic leaders, including the Khumbuan and Limbuan liberation fronts in the eastern hill districts.

7.   Many plots of land in the hill districts have also for long been lying abandoned.

8.   Officials said that reports of clashes between the pro and anti-accord supporters were received from other places in the hill districts Sunday.

9.   Prof. Golam Azam said the long march was organised to protest against the announcement of the three hill districts as the special area for a particular tribe.

10.   The families of the local labourerers under three hill district would be employed in the project.