Homo Sapiens
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China shielded them because we didn't play any diplomatic game then.We needed to hammer the fact to China and Russia that, any such move will harm Bangladesh's interest and will negatively impact our bilateral relation.Than they would have acted much more neutrally.Both China and Russia have as much interest in Bangladesh as in burma, if not more. If any situation arises where taking one side harm the other, when both side are useful than most country usually seek the middle path to deal with that situation, more so true for business minded countries like China and Russia.Times have changed. You can see last time China shielded them from UN. Back in the days they were sanctioned by the west and our actions wouldn't be called provocation. China maybe were behind them back then but even China wasn't that strong then. During Ayub Khans time China wasn't even a part of UN. Harsh and impulsive actions won't do any good. We can't do anything where we risk losing more than gaining because of sentiment.
And for India, they need a friendly Bangladesh much more than a friendly burma.I bet, India will never support burma in anything which Bangladesh consider detrimental to it's interest as long as relation between India and Bangladesh doesn't seriously deteriorate in some other reason like that of India-Pakistan.
Our appeasement and knee jerk reaction only emboldening the burmese to double down their crime against Rohingya people and acting bellicose against Bangladesh.This uncivilized nation will not back down to anything unless it deal with force with force.I am not advocating a direct warfare against them.But our Army and BGB need to return fire with twice strength and start arming and training Rohingya fighters.Our goal should be to create a rebel hold territory in northern Arakan where we can settle the Rohingya refugee and if good fortune arises than an Independent Arakan state with friendly Rohingya as our neighbor instead of vicious burmese.Not to sharing a border with burma itself is a big incentive for BD to help the Rohingya resistance.Even with our current firepower, I am confident that burmese will not dare to escalate it to full clash even if we arm the Rohingyas.They are coward like Hyenas, we have seen that in 2008 and 1992.
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