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Roots of Resistance: How Gen Z Indigenous Women Are Defending Their Heritage in Southeast Asia

“Just this June, an 11-year-old Indigenous girl from the community was brutally raped.”

The words come from Ushing, a 26-year-old Indigenous activist from Bandarban, a district in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts near the Myanmar border.

The child’s family had already been displaced after their ancestral land was claimed through formal state processes. Without formal land titles—since land in the hills is traditionally held collectively—they moved to a more isolated area. That is where the assault occurred.

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