Mahat and Munda Communities: Deprived of land, struggling to survive in neglect and poverty
Once landowners, the Mahat and Munda communities of Bangladesh have lost their ancestral lands to cunning moneylenders who entrapped them with debts. Thousands of people from these communities now live as impoverished strangers in their homeland. Scattered across villages in Khulna’s Koyra and Dumuria upazilas and Satkhira’s Shyamnagar, Munshiganj, Debhata, and Tala upazilas, their plight reveals a tale of exploitation and deprivation.