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The splashes of the Bangladesh crisis begin to spread

Saint Martin irlaren irudi bat. Myanmarretik gertu dago, baina Bangladeshen aginpekoa da, nahiz subiranotasuna eduki.

13 August 2024 - 09:30

"I've resigned so I don't have to see a procession of corpses. They wanted to reach power over the bodies of the students, but I didn't accept it, I left the post of Prime Minister. I could remain in power if I had renounced the sovereignty of the island of Saint Martin and allowed the United States to dominate the Gulf of Bengal. I ask our people not to be manipulated by the radicals.”

The statements by Sheikh Hasina Wajid, who was dismissed on 5 August and exiled, are statements of which he has long been the Prime Minister of Bangladesh in India, addressed to his compatriots, but sheltered from the Indian media.

Let us leave aside the credibility of what he says in the first sentence about his demolition. And complete those undecided syntagmas. Let's consider who were the ones who wanted to come to power. What we do know is that the high military commanders have forced him to go into exile, joining the protests of the student movement. And Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel Prize for Economics, is the one they have put at the forefront of the transitional government. At the moment.

This is the second sentence referring to the island of San Martin and the United States. It is something that no one has brought up so far and it is not easy to guess why Mrs Hasina could say that... if it was not something close to the truth.

This St. Martin is a micro-island located on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Bengal. It's the southern tip of Bangladesh, a little closer to Myanmar than the continental south of its country. A beautiful island of 3 square kilometres (a small extension similar to that of our smaller municipalities), with three or four thousand permanent inhabitants living from fishing and the provision of services to tourists.

And more strategic than strategic. That sees Myanmar and Bangladesh in plain eastern view. The entire interior of the Gulf extended north-west. Had the United States asked Mrs Hasina for that islet? Sovereignty is a big word, but your strategy can be guessed by anybody taking a look at the map.

But its value is even more remarkable when you look at what you don't see at the naked eye: that Kyaukphyu is 100 miles southeast of the island, in Myanmar. The deep-water port that China has chosen and worked to reach the Gulf of Bengal for a long time. The end of the Hangrui superhighway, which has now been completed, and which should be the continuation of it and which would be the main “economic victim” of the civil war, now increasingly aggressive in Myanmar.

The island of San Martin is too small to host a military base of pulpit. No, perhaps, for a well-stocked surveillance post. We will see if the new government in Bangladesh is more generous to that than Hasina's.

However, in India, the refuge of Hasina, the accountability of the refugees who have begun to arrive after it has begun, when some have already done so. There were pessimists.


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