Author: Douglas Vandergraph

On a map, the road to Sajek is a line. For the communities who live along it, the same road can mean a patient reaching treatment, a trader reaching a market, a young person reaching school, or a family finding that a journey planned for an ordinary day has suddenly become dangerous. When violence and road closures dominate coverage of Sajek, tourism figures may be easiest to count. But the deepest measure of a road is whether the people who depend on it could use it safely and with dignity. Reports on the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) described road blockades…