Now let us turn the leaf of discourse towards Northeast India – yet called a ‘hinterland’ despite the promise it holds against the predomince of the so-called heartland in every socio-political and economic discourse. According to an IANS article “US, UK protecting IS in Syria datelined November 19, 2017 by Saeed qvi, quotes Stratfor, a leading US strategic think tank, as saying that “looking at recent cases of fighters returning from Iraq and Syria, they have tended to conduct attacks against soft targets instead of making more complex attacks against harder, more significant targets” and that “some examples include a Jewish museum and the soft side of the airport in Brussels; a concert in Manchester in the UK; a café, concert venue and sports stadium in Paris…”. He goes on to add: “Almost on cue appears a piece by Sara Flounders of the Intertiol Action Centre, Washington focusing on how the Rohingyas’ plight worsened in Myanmar. Hostility between the Buddhist clergy, the Myanmar military and the Rohingya Muslims has continued for years. What then was the need for the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), an armed resistance group, to carry on attacks on 30 Myanmar military posts on August 30? It was only then that the Myanmar military responded with a wave of brutal attacks on the Muslims, driving them in thousands over the border. There is an intriguing twist to the tail: ARSA is headquartered in Mecca, under Attaulah abu Ammar Jununi, a Pakistani tiol resident in Saudi Arabia. Why have the US and Saudi Arabia, who have supervised a three-year-long war in Yemen, rendering millions homeless and killing thousands, turned with so much sympathy to the one million Muslim Rohingyas in Rakhine?..”