The InternationalCovenant on Civil and Political Rights: A Study on Bangladesh Compliance ban ought to be put on the purchase of land in the CHT by ‘outsiders’. Deeds made to lease out land to Bengalis for rubber plantation and forestry shall be cancelled and the lands shall be placed under the Council’s jurisdiction. The Constitution must ban Bengali settlements in the region. All ‘outsiders’ who have settled in the area since August 17, 1947 shall be withdrawn from the region; iv) service rules shall be relaxed for the hill people. Special quotas shall be reserved in government civil services for the hill people; v) parliament seats of this constituency shall be reserved for the hill people only; vi) an autonomous indigenous Police Force constituting solely of the hill people shall be formed. Quotas should be reserved in the defence services for the hill people. The region shall be demilitarised; vii) a constitutional recognition shall be given to all the small nationalities of the area; and finally, viii) all international and internal Jumma refugees should be properly rehabilitated. Members of the SB and all individuals who have been implicated for association with the former should be properly rehabilitated.91 This power-sharing demand of the PCJSS as a whole was perceived as a threat to national security by military and conservative political elites. The political government in 1993 rejected the power-sharing demand by holding that 92 Special Affairs Division, A Report on the Problems of Chittagong Hill Tracts and Bangladesh: Responses for their Solution (Dhaka: Government of Bangladesh, 1993), cited in Mohsin, Politics of Nationalism, 201. 71