Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent statement that a Western power is conspiring to create a Christian state similar to East Timor in this region ought to be taken seriously.

Hasina was not explicit about this conspiracy. But top leaders of the Awami League who are close to the Bangladeshi premier, as well as senior security and intelligence officers in India and Bangladesh, told Swarajya that what Hasina meant was that an independent ‘Zo’ state, comprising areas of Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Mizoram, inhabited by the Kuki-Chin-Mizo people is being incubated by a Western power…..”