A tribal refugee leader in Bangladesh says that the government has failed to distribute all the financial assistance it promised to former refugees who've returned to the Chittagong Hill Tracts from India.

Their leader, Upendra Lal Chakma, said that many of the sixty-four-thousand returnees were sufferingbecause they had been unable to reclaim their land.

The refugees fled to India to escape a twenty year old armed struggle for tribal autonomy in the Hill Tracts which ended when the rebels signed a peace treaty with the government in December.

Mr Chakma asked the Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, to implement fully the rehabilitation package that was promised, and carry out a survey in the area of people who may have been internally displaced.