As Zeigler writes, "India's indignation at the award of the Chittagong Hill Tracts to Pakistan may have been a factor in making up Mountbatten's mind to keep the reports to himself till after independence". Mountbatten was himself surprised by the ferocity of Vallabhbhai Patel's reaction to the issue. In his memoirs he wrote, "The one man I had regarded as a real statesman with both his feet firmly on the ground, and a man of honour whose word was his bond, had turned out to be as hysterical as the rest. Candidly I was amazed that such a terrific crisis should have blown up over so small a matter. However, I have been long enough in India to realise that major crises are by no means confined to big matters." Leonard Mosley in his book "The Last Days of the British Raj" puts it as "a matter for Mountbatten's conscience". The nature and extent of the current rebellion in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in the context of resource appropriation, integration and stability in Bangladesh. It argues here that the crisis stemmed primarily from the socio-economic problems since the commissioning of the Kaptai Dam in early 1961. The intensity of the problem is beginning to increase with new industrialisation and economic policies for 'resource appropriation' for the benefit of the national economy with little or no participation by the local tribesmen. The insurgencies in the Chittagong Hill Tracts are but processes of politicisation and ethnicisation of the local population. It was suggested that solutions lie in the recognition of their ethnic identity and local autonomy rather than pursuing the then governmental policies which had tended to be more toward detribalisation during the Green Revolution. The conflict in the Chittagong Hill Tracts dates back to when Bangladesh was the eastern wing of Pakistan. Widespread resentment occurred over the displacement of as many as 100,000 of the native peoples due to the construction of the Kaptai Dam in 1962. The displaced did not receive compensation from the government and many thousands fled to India. After The Liberation War, a convoy of Bangladesh army was ambushed by militants of the Hill Tracts. More than 90+ soldiers were killed and several of them were heavily injured. This was the first bloodshed in Hill Tracts. After this massacre, which was committed by the guerilla force Shanti Bahini, Bangladesh deployed an army there. After some days, the Shanti Bahini started killing civilians in the Tracts.