A human chain was formed in New Court Building area of the district town yesterday, protesting the killing of an indigenous woman in the town last month.
Stop Violence against Women (SVAW), Rangamati unit of an NGO, organised the programme in the morning.
The participants said, the government is failing to ensure security of life to the ethnic women in hill areas. Women of the area often fall victim to sexual assault, harassment and killing as the perpetrators most of the time go unpunished.
Over a month into the incident, police were yet to arrest the killers of Bishakha Chakma, 26, a mother of a baby girl, they said.
They demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers of the woman.
Tuku Talukder, chairperson of SVAW, Prakriti Ranjan Chakma, president of Adivasi Forum, CHT unit, Nai E Prue Merry and Chuai Thui Marma, president of Marma Student's Council, spoke.
On August 13, Bishakha went out of her house and went missing. Later her body, wrapped in a sack, was found floating in the Kaptai Lake in Parjatan area on August 20.