Bangladesh Calling For Referendum In Arakan to Secede

(Zafar Sobhan's editorial direct from the Dhaka Tribune on March 20, 2014.)




Bengali-Muslim plague on Burma-Bangladesh border.

A referendum in Rakhine state? A
solution can be sought in a referendum to separate Sittwe and Muangdaw from
Rakhine state and join them to Chittagong division.


A full 42% of Myanmar’s Rakhine state,
bordering Bangladesh, is ethnically South Asian and speaks a