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  The current geopolitical instability in the CHT and the separatist situation have ample evidence of the influence and involvement of obvious foreign powers (Shelley, 1992, Hossain Zin, 1991). The region's mixed population and enormous geopolitical importance have prompted various regional and remote hegemonic forces to keep an eye on the region. India, China, the United States and the ECG are being encouraged to sniff out this delicate regional interior of Bangladesh in order to create or retain their sphere of influence in the Indian Ocean and adjacent geographical areas. Most recently, various news outlets have reported on the interest of seemingly innocent countries like Japan in the Far East and Australia in the Far East. Japan is also reported to be providing financial support to separatists in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the current economic superpower. According to political observers, in the wake of the recent rise of nationalist consciousness in the world, the Indian Oce...