Not to be confused with Chakma people.

The Chaks Bengali: চাক), are a community inhabiting the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh, northeastern states of India and also in Myanmar.

History

By the mid-13th century, the Saks had diverged from the Kadu people, who now reside in northwestern Myanmar's Sagaing Region.[3] The Chaks entered the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the 14th century after their kingdom was overrun by the Arakanese. Despite this, there are still Chaks living in Arakan.[4]


Thet people

The Chak people are called Thet (Burmese: သက်) in Myanmar. They are considered a subgroup of the Rakhine people under Myanmar's 1982 ethnicity law.[5][6] According to the Joshua Project and Asia Harvest evangelical groups, the population ranges from 5,000 to 29,000.[7] [8] However, community leaders claimed to Arakanese regional media that there were nearly 6,000 ethnic Thet in Myanmar with 3,000-4,000 in Rakhine State alone.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Table 1.4 Ethnic Population by Group and Sex" (PDF) (in Bengali). Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics. 2021. p. 33.
  2. ^ Ethnologue
  3. ^ Ping, He (2006). "Rise and fall of Kantu: A historical study of an ancient Tibeto-Burmese speaking group". Frontiers of History in China. 1 (4): 535–543. doi:10.1007/s11462-006-0018-9. ISSN 1673-3401.
  4. ^ Saradindu Shekhar Chakma (2006). Ethnic Cleansing in Chittagong Hill Tracts. Dhaka: Ankur Prakashani. p. 38. OCLC 762756954.
  5. ^ Composition of the Different Ethnic Groups under the 8 Major National Ethnic Races in Myanmar Embassy of Myanmar in Belgium.
  6. ^ Ethnicity without Meaning, Data without Context: The 2014 Census, Identity and Citizenship in Burma/Myanmar Transnational Institute and Burma Centrum Nederland
  7. ^ People of the Buddhist World: Thet Asia Harvest. 2020
  8. ^ Chak in Myanmar (Burma)
  9. ^ Ethnic Thet People Fear a Fading Identity Development Media Group. July 27, 2022
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thet_people
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