Bangladesh army chief's warning makes Mohammad Yunus go back on Rakhine corridor

Bangladesh's interim government, led by Muhammad Yunus, has reversed its stance on the proposed "humanitarian" corridor to Myanmar’s Rakhine State following a strong warning from Army Chief General Waker-Uz-Zaman. The general dismissed the plan as a "bloody corridor" and opposed Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain’s unilateral announcement that Bangladesh had agreed to the UN-backed project.

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