The recently aggravated ethnic tensions in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) between the Bengalis and ethnic minorities have presented the country with a set of new political, social, and security challenges. Since the country is already in turmoil as a result of the recent political upheaval, the conflict in the CHT adds a threat to the country’s socio-political stability, and so it requires prompt, just, and equitable solutions.