2010. According to a report by the CHT Commission, ethnic Bengali settlers attacked ethnic minorities in Baghaichhari Upazila, beating people and setting fire to approximately 500 minority homesteads and a Buddhist pagoda. At least three people died in the attacks, including two members of minorities. Fleeing for their lives, more than 500 families, accounting for more than 1,800 individuals, fled into the forest seeking refuge from further attack. According to the report, security forces were present during the attacks and did nothing to stop the violence.95 The government investigated these allegations and made some staffing changes to the military command in charge of security for the area; however, there were no arrests. More recently, the government questioned the very indigenous character of the people living in the CHT. Briefing foreign diplomats and UN agencies in Dhaka on July 26, 2011, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said Bangladesh is concerned over attempts from some quarters at home and abroad to identify the ethnic minority groups as indigenous people in the CHT region. In her effort to clarify some “recent misconceptions” about the identity of the people in the CHT, she claimed that people in the CHT are “ethnic minorities” and they should not be called “indigenous”. Given that neither the Bangladesh Constitution nor any international law recognises these people as indigenous, she also urged the editors and senior journalists from print and electronic media to take note of it. She argued that the tribal people 76