DHAKA, Feb 23, (Agencies): Bangladesh deployed the army at another southeastern hill town on Tuesday after 100 houses were burnt in fresh clashes between Buddhist tribals and Bengali Muslim settlers, police and witnesses said.
More than 50 people were injured in Khagrachhari town in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, 300 kms (188 miles) southeast of Dhaka, after settlers attacked tribals who were protesting against deadly clashes on Saturday between the two groups.
Thousands of landless Bengalis were settled in the 5,500-sq- miles (14,200 sq km) region, bordering India and Myanmar, under a government plan in the 1980s to ease population pressure in the plains and also to defuse a tribal insurgency.
Relations between the settlers and the tribal groups have been tense over land ownership, often leading to violence.
On Saturday at least two tribals were killed and around 100 others including settlers were injured before the army brought the situation under control in Baghaichhari, a town 80 kms (50 miles) northeast of Khagrachhari.

A tribal organisation, the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), called for the protests, including a blockade of roads in the hill towns.
The Bangladesh government signed a peace deal in 1987 with tribal Shanti Bahini guerrillas who had waged a 25-year insurgency for political autonomy in the Chittagong Hill Tracts.
The UPDF is opposed to the deal, saying it has failed to establish the rights of tribal people
Tribal activists from the United People’s Democratic Front blocked roads and waterways in the area to protest the deaths of two tribal people they say were killed last week by security officials during clashes with the settlers, local police Chief Amir Zafar said.
The government has said it will investigate the deaths as well as a series of arsons that the tribal people blame on the settlers.
Ahmed said no arrests were made in Khagrachhari on Tuesday and the situation there had calmed.

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DHAKA: More than 80 paramilitary soldiers accused of involvement in a bloody mutiny a year ago went on trial on Tuesday in the same building where they allegedly massacred dozens of army officers.
The rebellion by paramilitary border guard from the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) came less than two months after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina took office, and shook the stability of her government, raising fears of interference by the military.
More than 700 soldiers face charges of mutiny and murder for killing over 70 people — including the 57 army officers commanding them — in the revolt over pay and command structures on Feb 25-26.
The mutiny spread to a dozen other towns before being quelled by the army.
Trials of small groups of other mutineers started in two towns away from the capital a few months ago, but have yet to make much progress, officials said.