India-Burma relations
Websites/Multiple Documents
| Title: | | Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) |
| Description/subject: | | "Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) is a non-profit organization which was formed with the aim to work for the restoration of peace, justice, democracy and human rights in Burma, India and other parts of the world.
BCD strongly believes that India, the world’s largest democracy, can influence Burma and other countries of the world in bringing about peace and democratic transition.
BCD also believes that the on-going political crisis in Burma is a clash between the oppressed and the oppressors and that only political dialogue can solve the problems that Burma has faced and continues to face.
BCD firmly adheres to non-violent political methods.
The Mission of BCD is to:
provide update information on Burma's political, social and economic issues to the different levels of Indian people so as to raise the level of consciousness and actions for democracy movement in Burma
strengthen relationship and building network between the people of India and Burma for better understanding and solidarity
serve as a resource centre providing a platform for Burmese and Indian for sharing knowledge of two countries to know about each other
observe Indo-Burma relations and take initiative role for appropriate campaign and lobby to urge the Indian Government to support the aspirations for democracy and human rights" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 March 2012 |
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| Title: | | Burma–India relations |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Wikipedia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Center for Justice and Peace in South Asia Cjesa |
| Description/subject: | | "...news and discussion forum of CJPsa strives to achieve Justice and Peace to the indigenous and minority groups including women and children in South Asia by bringing diverse interest groups together to facilitate communications, action items, and propagation of pertinent information using the mass media. Our aim is to effect public opinion and thus facilitate political actions which will lead to justice and peace in South Asia..." [this is a very active group of over 300 members. It covers mainly the Indian subcontinent, with lots of postings on the Indian North-East, but also a number of messages about the India-Burma, Bangladesh-Burma borders - DA] INACTIVE (FEB 2009) |
| Language: | | English |
| Subscribe: | | cjesa-subscribe@yahoogroups.com |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | India in the World: The International Relations of a Rising Power |
| Description/subject: | | A wealth of online primary (1947-present) and secondary documents on India's foreign relations, including a number dealing with Burma/Myanmar, India's Look East policy etc. Go to http://www.thescotties.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ for material on China and other parts of the Asia-Pacific |
| Author/creator: | | David Scott |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | David Scott |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.thescotties.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Indian Parliament |
| Description/subject: | | Contains email, street address and phone Nos. of parliamentarians |
| Language: | | English |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Indo Myanmar page |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Indo Myanmar |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Indo-burma News |
| Description/subject: | | "This website provides news and information resources related to Burma and India relations. News and information are being taken out from different sources, independent news agency and websites.
India, being a biggest democratic country in the world, has recently changed its policy to support the oppressive Burmese military regime for its national interest and energy needs. The site provides resources and archives to help activists to lobby Indian political parties, civil societiy organizations, NGOs and individuals for the support of democracy movement in Burma and political activities of Burmese exiles in India."... Very sporadic -- some months or even years have no articles, but some periods have a lot. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Indo-burma News |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 02 April 2008 |
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| Title: | | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi think tanks with an interest in Burma-Myanmar...Use the (google) search engine... Strong links with the Indian Ministry of Defence, though it (and its individual researchers) claim independence. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi-based think tanks with the greatest interest in India-Burma/Myanmar relations. A search for "Myanmar" on this site produced 168 articles and 796 news items (November 2008). |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IDSA) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Mizzima |
| Description/subject: | | A most impressive institution, much more than a news service, with an excellent website. Mizzima concentrates on India-Burma relations, events etc. Several Mizzima articles daily in English and Burmese which can be read on the site or delivered to your mailbox. The website has a browsable archive back to 98, which is an important resource. The search function does not work all that well (e.g. searching for "naga", it retrieved 5 documents, whereas there are several hundred accessible to the patient browser). Sections include: the Mizzima News; Mizzima News Archives; News in Burmese; Burma Related News (various sources); Nationalities Questions; Documents (nothing there yet); Debates; About Mizzima; About Burma;
Mizzima's Activities;
Seminars;
Photo Gallery (mainly people sitting round tables);
Media in Burma;
Network Links;
Chat Room;
Burmese calendar; Research on Indo-Burma relations; English Language School;
Art Exhibitions;
Music Album;
Mizzima Video Documentary;
Affiliated Organizations;
Mizzima Team. |
| Language: | | English, Burmese. |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
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| Title: | | Observer Research Foundation (ORF) [Delhi] |
| Description/subject: | | One of the Delhi think-tanks with a Burma/Myanmar interest (it has a Myanmar specialist, K Yhome) ... It has some Burma/Myanmar material, but since the rather eccentric website has no visible search engine this is best accessed via a google site-specific search:
myanmar site:observerindia.com ... Even with a (free) subscription, one is often limited to executive summaries.... "OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION (ORF) is an endeavour to aid and influence formulation of policies for building a strong and prosperous India. The expectations of the global community from India are immense as the country is poised to play a leading role in the knowledge age. The Foundation believes that in the next 25 years India will be one of the great economic powers in the world and contribute to a significant transformation in the quality of life of humanity." ..... |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Observer Research Foundation |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://orfonline.org |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 November 2008 |
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| Title: | | Search results for "Myanmar" in "Tehelka" |
| Description/subject: | | 58 results (November 2010)... "Tehelka" - "India's Independent Weekly News" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Tehelka" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Seven-Sisters Post - The newspaper of the Northeast |
| Description/subject: | | This online newspaper covers the northeast of India, which borders Burma/Myanmar....Search for Myanmar |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Seven-Sisters Post |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 September 2012 |
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| Title: | | Website of Renaud Egreteau |
| Description/subject: | | "Welcome to my Site !
Let me introduce myself. As a French researcher in International Relations, I have been working for the last 7 years on geopolitics in Asia, with a special focus on India and Burma (Myanmar).
In December 2006, I successfully defended my Ph.D Dissertation (Political Science, Asian Studies) at the Institute of Political Science, Paris, France : "India, China and the Burmese Issue : Sino-Indian Rivalry through Burma/Myanmar and its Limits since 1988" (with distinction).
You will find in this website a glimpse of the works I have done so far on those issues (articles, publications, fieldworks) as well as some links and contacts which could be of interest on these matters. Enjoy the visit "...
Dr. Renaud EGRETEAU |
| Language: | | Francais, French, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Renaud Egreteau |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 June 2007 |
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Individual Documents
| Title: | | Myanmar conflict threatens regional stability |
| Date of publication: | | 16 August 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "AGARTALA and IMPHAL - As a rising number of Rohingya Muslims flee sectarian conflict in Myanmar and take sanctuary in India's northeastern states, the flow of refugees is putting a new strain on bilateral relations. New Delhi has called on Naypyidaw to stem the rising human tide, a diplomatic request that Indian officials say has so far gone unheeded.
Ongoing sporadic violence between Rohingya Muslims and Buddhist Rakhines in western Myanmar has left more than 80 dead and displaced tens of thousands. The Myanmar government's inability or unwillingness to stop the persecution of Rohingyas has provoked strong international reaction, raising calls for retribution in radical corners of the Islamic world, including a threat from the Pakistani Taliban to attack Myanmar's diplomatic missions abroad.
Fears are now rising that Myanmar-borne instability is spreading
to India's northeastern frontier regions, threatening to spiral into a wider regional security dilemma. At the same time that Muslim Rohingyas and Buddhist Rakhines clashed in Myanmar, fighting erupted between Muslims and Hindus in India's northeastern Assam State. As in Myanmar, where the Rohingyas are considered illegal Bangladeshi settlers, the Muslims targeted in Assam are accused of being ethnic Bengalis who have migrated illegally from Bangladesh..." |
| Author/creator: | | Subir Bhaumik |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 September 2012 |
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| Title: | | Indian rebels on the move in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 10 August 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "NEW DELHI and TAMU - Despite India's repeated requests to act, Myanmar's government is still perceived by Indian officials as "going easy" on Indian separatists known to be operating out of Myanmar's northwestern fringes.
More than two months after promising tough action against separatist rebels based in its territory during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's visit to Myanmar, President Thein Sein's quasi-civilian government is yet to commence any sort of crackdown against the rebels, many of whom are known to be based in Myanmar's Sagaing Division and border towns like Tamu.
Indian officials raised the issue again during a visit to New Delhi in early August by Myanmar's chief of defense staff, General Ming Aung Hlaing. "We have got the usual assurance of action but we have to wait and see," said a senior Indian military official who requested anonymity..." |
| Author/creator: | | Subir Bhaumik |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 September 2012 |
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| Title: | | Myanmar-Indian Joint Statement released |
| Date of publication: | | 16 October 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | NAY PYI TAW, 15 Oct— President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein held talks with Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan
Singh on matters of mutual interest between the two countries, at the Conference Room of Hyderabad House in New Delhi yesterday noon.
After the meeting, the joint statement was released as follows:- |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" 16 October 2011 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (355K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 October 2011 |
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| Title: | | It Takes Two to Tango: The Delicate Dance between India and Burma |
| Date of publication: | | 24 August 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "India's decision to welcome Senior General Than Shwe, the head of the Burmese junta, in late July 2010 might have exhibited all the radiance of a reinvigorated relationship, but careful consideration of what exactly New Delhi has fostered with its eastern neighbor will reveal that Indo-Burmese relations remain uneasy. Despite enduring sympathies for Burma's pro-democracy stirrings since 1988, India is now convinced that it must engage Burma for strategic reasons. However, the engagement with Burma's praetorian leaders is simply not as constructive as often claimed. Furthermore, New Delhi seems divided over the issue of how exactly to engage Burma, and as a result has unintentionally abdicated the evolution of bilateral relations to Naypyidaw's whims. If it wants to strengthen its leverage, including its democratizing influence over Burma, India needs to reassess its current policy and emerge with a formidable but actionable vision to obtain that goal. As such, India's new Burma policy must be different from the Western sanctions-led approach, but it should also be better than the predatory arrangements imposed by Asian powers that seek to capture Burma's natural assets but leave behind few tangible benefits for the Burmese people..." |
| Author/creator: | | Renaud Egreteau |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Asia Pacific Bulletin (No. 66) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (66K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?lng=en&id=120524 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 September 2010 |
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| Title: | | Embracing Myanmar: India's Foreign Policy Realism |
| Date of publication: | | 02 August 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "India's constructive engagement with Myanmar has reached a new intensity with its hosting of Senior. General Than Shwe for five days at the end of July. Delhi's strong imperatives on counter-terror cooperation, border management, resource security, and overland transit routes mean there is no incentive at all for Delhi to elevate ideology above national interest in its policy towards Myanmar.
India's decision to embrace Myanmar's Senior General Than Shwe — recently dubbed as one of the world's worst dictators by Washington's "Foreign Policy" magazine — has drawn much criticism from the West. In hosting Gen. Than Shwe for a five-day visit at the end of July, India would seem to have drifted a bit too far even by its new standards of realpolitik..." |
| Author/creator: | | C. Raja Mohan |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies Singapore |
| Format/size: | | pdf (124K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Prostration and Diplomacy |
| Date of publication: | | August 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | Junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe made a pilgrimage to India in search of bilateral accords, development aid, legitimacy and atonement. He got at least some of what he was after...
"Burmese junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe’s five-day visit to India began with a pilgrimage to one of Buddhism’s most sacred shrines and ended with the signing of a wide range of agreements on finance, technology, arms and border issues....
As a result of these meetings, a series of bilateral treaties, memorandums of understanding and other agreements were signed..." |
| Author/creator: | | Zarni Mann |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 8 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 31 August 2010 |
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| Title: | | India’s relations with Burma fail to address human rights concerns in run up to elections |
| Date of publication: | | 19 June 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | With Burma’s first elections in two decades approaching, the three freedoms - of expression, association and peaceful assembly - essential for people to freely participate in the political process, are increasingly being denied. Aung San Suu Kyi is one of some 2,200 political prisoners in Burma. None of them will be able to participate in this year’s elections under new election laws - laws that the Indian government has failed to condemn.
The Government of India claims to follow a ‘constructive’ approach in promoting human rights improvements in Burma. However, its response to the dire state of human rights in the country has been increasingly inadequate. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International (Australia) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | India-Burma Relations Hitting a Dead End? |
| Date of publication: | | 11 March 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | Over the past two decades, India's approach to Burma has undergone a complete turnaround, from support for the country’s democracy movement following the popular uprising in 1988 to today’s cozy relationship with its military dictators. The shift was motivated by three main goals: a desire to counter China’s growing influence in Burma; a wish to use Burma as a gateway to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) for trade and investment as part of India’s “Look East” policy; and a hope for assistance from Burma in cracking down on insurgency in the Northeast. But since India began to fundamentally reorient its Burma policy in the mid-1990s, it has had little to show for its closer ties with the Burmese generals. |
| Author/creator: | | CAMILLA BUZZI and ÅSHILD KOLÅS |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The Irrawaddy |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www2.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=18006 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | India and Myanmar Looking East through a Strategic Bridge |
| Date of publication: | | March 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "How significant is Myanmar to India’s calculations?
This paper examines the feasibility of closer India-
Myanmar relations, under the larger diagram of
India’s Asia-centric Look East Policy (LEP). It delves
into the major obstacles, the headway made so far
and avenues that hold the potential for the same...India’s LEP has perhaps found its wings as far as
building bilateral and multilateral alliances with most
ASEAN member states in the commerce, cultural
and defense sectors. However, the LEP is not yet on
firm footing with its immediate neighbors (Myanmar
and China) in the northeast. In this regard it is worth
noting that neither of these countries are
conventionally liberal market economies or
democracies. Perhaps herein lays a rationalization
for their natural camaraderie and also India’s
inability to make substantial headway,
competitively. In order to have an enduring and
fruitful relationship with the Southeast Asian
countries, India should go beyond the
institutionalized avenues of ASEAN summits and
partake in shrewd realpolitik. This warrants a
competitive streak when it is open season for major
commercial and defense agreements, especially
with regards to a resource rich and strategically well
placed country like Myanmar..." |
| Author/creator: | | Harnit Kaur Kang |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (Delhi) (IPCS ISSUE BRIEF 144) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (141K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Reviving the Stilwell Road Challenges and Opportunities for India |
| Date of publication: | | March 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | There is a growing need to adapt a geostrategic
perspective to assess the mutual benefits of
linking India's northeast and Southeast Asia. It is a
fact that the Northeast India is a resource rich,
strategically positioned area which also shares an
extensive international boundary of about 5500
km with India's neighbours. The region holds great
significance in terms of India's connectivity and
infrastructural ventures with Southeast and East
Asian nations.
Reopening and developing the historical Stilwell,
originally known Ledo road, in the Northeast is of
strategic importance. This essay is an effort to
unravel the rationale, opportunities and
challenges and the future of reopening of the
Stilwell Road for being a potential gateway to
Southeast Asia and East Asia. |
| Author/creator: | | Tuli Sinha |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies - Delhi - (IPCS Issue Brief 143) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (249K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 29 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | Why is Burma hoodwinking New Delhi on security issues? |
| Date of publication: | | 06 February 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "...During the last 15 years, New Delhi has been trying to pressurize Burma to cooperate in flushing out the insurgent outfits from northeast India.
But, why did Senior-General Than Shwe’s soldiers fail to flush out the northeast insurgents? Or, will Brigadier-General Phone Swe’s recent promise to G.K. Pillai to flush out northeast insurgents be fulfilled?
“The Burmese security agencies will never flush out the insurgents,” Lalngheta Sailo, a retired Director-General of Police of Mizoram said, adding that the guerillas from northeast India always pay monthly “protection fee” to a section of officials in the Burmese Army.
Sailo said that a section of the Burmese Army officials, who enjoy financial support from the insurgents lead a lavish life. Otherwise, Burmese Army personnel don’t enjoy a large pay package, “So, why will they kill the golden goose?” he said..." |
| Author/creator: | | Anirban Roy |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 February 2010 |
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| Title: | | Going Rogue in the Andaman Sea (Review of "Rogue Agent" by Nandita Haksar) |
| Date of publication: | | January 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | How international intrigue led to the deaths of six Burmese freedom fighters and nine years detention without trial for 34 others...
"Why did India, once a supporter of democracy for Burma, become a friend of the military regime? This is the question asked repeatedly in “Rogue Agent” by its author, the prominent Indian human rights lawyer Nandita Haksar.
Rogue Agent: How India’s Military Intelligence Betrayed the Burmese Resistance, by Nandita Haksar. Penguin Books India, 2009. P 242.
While telling the story of the Operation Leech debacle, in which Rakhine and Karen “sea insurgents” were fatally betrayed by an Indian intelligence officer, Haksar never loses sight of the larger context of Indian Ocean geopolitics and the crushing of Burma between two mega-states, India and China..." |
| Author/creator: | | Edith Mirante |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 18, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www2.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=17506 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 February 2010 |
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| Title: | | India-Myanmar Relations: A Strategic Perspective |
| Date of publication: | | 02 November 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Consequent to several months of back channel negotiations, Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, will lead a US delegation to Myanmar on November 3, 2009. This visit signifies the emerging consensus among Western democracies to review the failed economic sanctions and the arms embargo imposed on Myanmar and a desire to enter into a dialogue with the Generals before elections are held next year. At another level, the intention is clearly to gradually reduce China’s overpowering influence in the country. To discuss these issues, a seminar was held at the Brookings Institution and the School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Washington, D.C., on October 29-30, 2009. |
| Author/creator: | | Gurmeet Kanwal |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Opinion Asia |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | India-Myanmar Relations : A Review |
| Date of publication: | | 30 October 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Relations between India and Myanmar over nearly five decades have been governed by many complex factors. Amongst them are the strategic location of Myanmar, India’s commitment to idealism-driven support to the restoration of democracy in Myanmar, realism-driven need to deal with those actually governing the country, the implications of China’s increasing presence and role in Myanmar etc. China, fortunately for it, has been able to make its foreign policy decisions without having to bother about the nature of the regime in any country.
India and Myanmar share a complicated and delicate history, marked as much by mistrust as amity. For those who may be interested, a “Historical Background” is annexed to this paper.
POLITICAL: Pro-Democracy Protests in 2007... Aung San Suu Kyi ... Sanctions Regime ... Shifting US Position ... India-Myanmar Bilateral Relations : Realism Influencing Policy ..... ECONOMIC: Economic Cooperation ... Trade ... Border Trade ... Quest for Energy ... Infrastructure Projects ... Kaladan Project ... Cyclone Nargis ..... MILITARY: Insurgencies in Myanmar ... Insurgencies in India ... Defence Relations ... Some Conclusions ..... A N N E X U R E: Historical Background ... Military Rule ... |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | South Asia Analysis Group |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
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| Title: | | Indo-Myanmar Relations: Ideology vs Realism |
| Date of publication: | | 17 August 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | "The nature of the alliance between Myanmar and India has been criticized for giving legitimacy to the non democratic rule of the junta and its violation of human rights. The condemnation of pro democracy movement leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi to an extended term of house arrest is evidence that the junta is not willing to take chances by releasing the popular activist in the run up to the upcoming elections. General Than Shwe and his administration are apprehensive of the magnetic popularity of Suu Kyi and would rather extend her imprisonment than revert to the situation in 1990 when the Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy swept the elections. India has been largely silent on the trial and conviction of Suu Kyi. The Indian government has done little other than issue mild reminders to Yangon to expedite the democratic process. Despite claiming to be the world’s largest democracy, India has consistently given credence to the military regime in Myanmar. The Indian government although normally an advocate of democratic ideals, on the question of Myanmar, has adopted a contrary principle. .." |
| Author/creator: | | Sanjeev Pillay |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (Delhi) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 November 2010 |
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| Title: | | INDIA-MYANMAR RELATIONS (1998-2008): A DECADE OF REDEFINING BILATERAL TIES |
| Date of publication: | | February 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract
India-Myanmar rapprochement began in 1991 and gained momentum in the latter part of the decade, as evidenced in the growing political, economic and military cooperation since 1998. This paper argues that it was during the period between 1998 and 2008 that the bilateral relationship withstood the test of critical events. Furthermore, expansion and diversification of these bilateral ties tookplace during the very same period. The paper identifies some issues that could emerge as potential fissures to upset the relationship. In conclusion, the paper suggests that it is high time the leadership of the two countries initiated measures to address these issues. As the stakes increase for both countries, it is imperative for them to ensure the sustenance of the hard earned relationship.. |
| Author/creator: | | K. Yhome |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | OBSERVER RESEARCH FOUNDATION |
| Format/size: | | pdf (578K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 05 June 2009 |
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| Title: | | INDIA URGED TO PRESS BURMA ON ALLOWING AID TO REACH CYCLONE NARGIS VICTIMS |
| Date of publication: | | 06 June 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | SUMMARY: "A/PolCouns urged MEA Director
(Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Burma) I.M. Pandey on June 6 to press
Burma harder to allow international aid supplies and workers
to reach victims of Cyclone Nargis. Pandey cited India's
difficulties in getting aid into Burma, noting that direct
access to the Irrawaddy Delta had been denied and that the
GOB had not allowed India a role in the distribution of the
aid supplies it delivered to Burmese airports. Pandey
defended India's decision to honor the strict conditions the
GOB has placed on accepting aid, stating that "pressure and
sanctions on Burma have never worked" and would only
complicate relief efforts. Post expects the Indian
government will privately ask the Burmese government to
fulfill its promises to cooperate fully with international
relief efforts, but will not exert any real pressure." END
SUMMARY. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
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| Title: | | INDIA EXPECTS BURMA TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL VESSELS |
| Date of publication: | | 14 May 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | In a May 14 meeting with Foreign Secretary
Shivshankar Menon, the Ambassador thanked him for conveying
to the Burmese junta the U.S. concern about the immense
difficulty in foreign assistance reaching the cyclone
victims. Menon said that while the message seems to have had
an impact in the easing of flight landings, it was "not as
much as we wanted." He related that the Burmese Foreign
Minister had scheduled a May 13 phone call with Indian
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, which the Burmese
postponed to the afternoon of May 14. Menon expected that
the Burmese would tell Mukherjee that vessels from all
countries could deliver disaster assistance at Burma's ports.
The Ambassador requested that, if the Burmese maintained the
restrictions on port entry for the U.S., the Indian
government consider delivering U.S. aid. Menon said that he
had raised this question informally with the Burmese, and
would pursue it if the ports remained closed to American
vessels. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | MENON QUIETLY TAKING GAMBARI MESSAGE TO BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 08 February 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | SUMMARY: "Ministry of Under Secretary for Burma
Pratibha Parkar told Poloff that UN Special Envoy for Burma
Ibrahim Gambari asked the Government of India (GOI) for
support during his recent visit to India. Gambari asked the
GOI to use its influence to encourage the Burmese to allow
him to visit Burma sooner than late April 2008, adding that
he was willing to meet with them in a third country, Parkar
stated. She indicated that Foreign Secretary Menon,
currently in Rangoon, would reinforce this message to the
Burmese, and that the Indians had already asked Burma to show
more flexibility. Parkar confirmed that Menon would discuss
the Sittwe Port development deal while in Burma. Though
Indian officials indicate that the GOI will step up its
rhetoric against the Burmese junta, it has yet to do so
visibly." END SUMMARY. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | GAMBARI TELLS INDIA TO USE ITS INFLUENCE ON BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 04 February 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary. "UN Special Envoy for Burma Ibrahim Gambari's
late January visit to India delivered the message that India
should use its influence to do more to help the
democratization and reconciliation process in Burma. Gambari
told British and Canadian missions privately that India
reiterated its support for the good offices of the UN
mission, and mentioned publicly that he believed India will
facilitate his next visit to Burma. Indian media speculated
that the GOI is feeling pressure to do more than simply offer
verbal support to the UN mission." End Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | Wer lässt wen im Stich? |
| Date of publication: | | 30 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Die jüngsten Demonstrationen in Burma sind eine erneute Bewährungsprobe für demokratische Werte in einer Welt, die zumindest in politischer Hinsicht größtenteils demokratisch ist.
Ebenso wie der Kampf der Werte auf den blutigen Straßen in Teilen Burmas sichtbar war, beschloss die benachbarte "größte Demokratie der Welt", die gleichzeitig ein strategischer Partner des Landes ist, eben jene Werte, die es tendenziell vertritt, aufs Spiel zu setzen. Der Rest der Welt – insbesondere die USA und Europa – tat kaum mehr als diplomatische Statements abzugeben und Indien und China zu drängen, entschieden vorzugehen.
Indisch-burmesische Beziehungen, Burma-US Amerikanische Beziehungen, Burma-EU Beziehungen, Sanktionen;
Indian-burmese, US-Burmese, EU-Burmese relations; sanctions; |
| Author/creator: | | Sachin Joshi |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Südasien |
| Format/size: | | Html (41k) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 February 2008 |
|
| Title: | | Es besteht Nachholbedarf |
| Date of publication: | | 11 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Es erhob sich in letzter Zeit der Ruf nach einem energischen Auftreten Indiens gegen das Militärregime in Burma immer lauter. Die Rufer übersahen allerdings, dass die indisch-burmesischen Beziehungen, wie auch die zum Rest Südostasiens, alles andere als eng und damit die Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme ausgesprochen gering sind.
Außenpolitik Indiens; Indisch-chinesische Beziehung; Südostasien; SEATO; India`s foreign policy; Indian-Burmese Relations; Indian-Chinese Relations; Southeast Asia; Uprising 2007 |
| Author/creator: | | Amit Das Gupta |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Asienhaus |
| Format/size: | | Html (47 kb) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.asienhaus.de/public/archiv/2007-4-008.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 January 2008 |
|
| Title: | | Myanmar deal right neighborly of India |
| Date of publication: | | 11 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | India, in the face of Western criticism, continues to economically engage Myanmar’s ruling generals, providing the junta a much-needed investment lifeline at a time when the US and European Union have imposed new punitive sanctions against the rights-abusing regime.
The Indian government earlier this week committed US$120 million to rebuild Myanmar’s western Sittwe port and construct road and water links through the facility, which will connect Myanmar’s western Arakan State to India’s northeastern state of Mizoram. |
| Author/creator: | | Brian McCartan |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Asia Times Online |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India-Myanmar Relations – Geopolitics and Energy in Light of the New Balance of Power in Asia |
| Date of publication: | | 02 January 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Executive Summary of Research Findings:
"In light of India’s changing foreign policy over the last decade, Indo-Myanmar relations have also changed radically. The reasons thereof pertain principally to four factors: the economic development of India’s North East, India’s increased interest in trade with ASEAN, India’s search for energy security and increased Chinese involvement in Myanmar. This paper offers an in depth analysis of these issues, drawing on seven weeks of fieldwork during the summer of 2007 and over 50 interviews with officials and academics in both countries. The summary of the fieldwork is listed below. The paper concludes that, although today Indo-Myanmar relations have improved, India has, in essence, been too slow to develop this important relationship and is now loosing out to China." |
| Author/creator: | | Dr Marie Lall |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute of South Asian Studies ( ISAS Working Paper No. 29 ) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (203K - OBL version; 256K - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.isas.nus.edu.sg/Attachments/PublisherAttachment/ISAS_working%20paper_28_21102009202538.p... |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | MEA SILENT REGARDING PUBLIC DECLARATION OF BAN ON ARMS SALES TO BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 07 November 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | SUMMARY: "MEA Joint Secretary T.S. Tirumurti acknowledged that the Government of India (GOI) denied a Burmese request for military equipment but did not comment on PolCouns' suggestion that the GOI announce the decision publicly. Tirumurti reported that three Burmese recently arrested in Manipur for illegal entry were neither economic migrants nor asylum seekers but traveling to train at a madrassah in Uttar Pradesh. He rejected the need for UNHCR access to asylum seekers, noting that the GOI was ""quite capable of doing it ourselves."" Tirumurti confirmed that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is assiduously pursuing various development projects to open up ASEAN trade routes to the northeastern states including:
-the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transport Project, which includes the USD 103 million Sittwe project;
-a Tri-Lateral Highway in cooperation with Burma and
Thailand." END SUMMARY. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 March 2011 |
|
| Title: | | MERKEL URGES INDIAN ACTION ON BURMA, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN |
| Date of publication: | | 07 November 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | SUMMARY: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel took
advantage of her first visit to India to address recent
developments and crises in India's neighborhood and
beyond. Merkel urged India to publicly condemn Burma for
its recent anti-democratic internal crackdowns. Prime
Minister Singh sidestepped the request yet promised India
was pressuring the Burmese "behind the scenes."..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | India can afford an ethical foreign policy |
| Date of publication: | | 10 October 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "That non-argument is just simple mathematics. Civilization means the use of heart and reasoning over head and crude thoughts. Has 15-year experience of current policy on Burma brought tangible pay-back? Is the northeast stable? Has China been checked? Can India acquire a share of Gas? ... " |
| Author/creator: | | Dr. Tint Swe |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | South Asia Analysis Group |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Dangerous Liaisons: India’s Not-So-Secret Affair With The Myanmar Junta |
| Date of publication: | | 03 October 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "We have strategic and economic interests to protect in Myanmar. It is up to the Myanmarese people to struggle for democracy.”
- Pranab Mukherjee, in response to the recent pro-democracy protests in Myanmar...
"It was a remarkable statement, considering that it came from the foreign minister of a nation that was one of the earliest supporters of the Myanmarese pro-democracy movement before it decided to switch sides. It was echoed by India’s new army chief, General Deepak Kapoor, who at the function to mark his taking over, said, “We have good relations with Myanmar and we should maintain these.” However, mindful of the bad press perhaps, this week Mukherjee issued a more strongly worded statement after his meeting with his Myanmarese counterpart U Nyan Win, saying “bloodshed is “unacceptable” and a probe should be conducted into the violence..." |
| Author/creator: | | Sajai Jose |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Tehelka |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India-Myanmar Relations_ India - SEMINAR REPORT#237 |
| Date of publication: | | 01 October 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | India has neglected Myanmar for quite some time and it should reestablish its knowledge of and contacts with this neighbouring country as it was in the past during the era of Pandit Nehru and U Nu. In this context, the most pertinent question is of how to deal with the sociopolitical problems of Myanmar as it concerns India as well. There is also a need to formulate a political and strategic policy towards the country since Myanmar holds enormous importance for India's security. |
| Author/creator: | | Amb Eric Gonsalves |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India Suffering Fallout from Burma Crisis |
| Date of publication: | | 28 September 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | The ongoing political crisis in Burma is putting India in a difficult position. Delhi wants to cozy up to the junta to counter China's influence in the country. But the world's biggest democracy cannot be seen to support a crackdown on pro-democracy activists. |
| Author/creator: | | David Gordon Smith |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Special Online International |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,druck-508491,00.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India's Burma Silence Says Volumes |
| Date of publication: | | 27 September 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "We expect China to go easy on thuggish dictatorships such as Burma's because China is a dictatorship itself. But what about Asia's other rising power India, the world's biggest democracy? Surely Delhi has joined the rest of the world in condemning Burma's violent crackdown on anti-government protesters over the past few days.
Well, no. Despite pressure from Europe and the U.S. for India to use its influence with Burma to help end the bloodshed, Delhi has taken a softly, softly approach to the current crisis for the same reasons China has: potential trade with and influence over the energy-rich Southeast Asian nation..." |
| Author/creator: | | Simon Robinson |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Time" - CNN |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | U.N. ADVISOR ON BURMA ENCOURAGES INDIA TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY |
| Date of publication: | | 20 July 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | SUMMARY: "The UN Secretary General's Special Advisor
on Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, met with Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon during a
July 10-12 visit to New Delhi. According to the MEA, Gambari
recognized India's ability to influence Burma, and expressed
modest optimism for future collaboration, telling Menon that
India could "do something" to promote democracy in Burma.
Meanwhile, a report issued by European NGOs warned of India's
impending sale of attack helicopters to Burma that include
components and technology originating from the European Union
(EU). NGOs claim such a sale would be a violation in sprit,
if not in letter, of end-use agreements for military hardware
between India and the EU, given the EU's arms embargo against
Burma. India is unlikely to reduce its engagement with Burma
due to its realpolitik calculus that such ties reduce the
junta's dependence on Beijing, and induce the regime to
provide essential support to India's counter-insurgency
operations in the North East." END SUMMARY |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | htmlk, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | INDIAN OFFICIAL SEES BANGLADESH AT CROSSROADS, SRI LANKA DETERIORATING, BURMA RELATIONS BECOMING UNIDIMENSIONAL |
| Date of publication: | | 27 April 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "...-- stated Indian influence in Burma is waning, suggesting that U.S. pressure to bring Burma before the UN Security Council was counterproductive; -- denied reports that India had provided Rangoon with T-55 tanks; -- offered to verify whether India will fulfill a request by a Burmese general to provide infantry weapons and ammunition..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html, |
| Date of entry/update: | | 26 December 2010 |
|
| Title: | | Burma. Ein Mosaikstein indischer Ost-Politik. Pragmatismus gegenüber der Militärjunta |
| Date of publication: | | 25 April 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | Seit Beginn der 1990er Jahre arrangierten sich alle indischen Regierungen mit dem östlichen Nachbarn. Die größte Demokratie der Welt zeigte sich sehr zurückhaltend gegenüber der kürzlichen Protestbewegung in Burma. Energieinteressen, die burmesische Hilfe bei der Bekämpfung von Rebellen im indischen Nordosten und die angestrebte Neutralisierung des mächtigen chinesischen Einflusses führten zu einem sichtbaren Appeasement gegenüber der ebident die Menschenrechte verletzenden burmesischen Junta. Es mangelt an einer überzeugenden Initiative der indischen Regionalmacht, das Thema Burma offensiv anzugehen; chinesischer Einfluss in Burma; Geo-Politik Burmas; indische Wirtschaftsinteressen in Burma; indisch-burmesische Militärkooperationen; chinese Influence in Burma; geo-politics of Burma; indian economic interests in Burma; indian-burmese military cooperation |
| Author/creator: | | Klaus Julian Voll |
| Language: | | German, Deutsch |
| Source/publisher: | | Asienhaus |
| Format/size: | | PDF |
| Date of entry/update: | | 22 January 2008 |
|
| Title: | | Burma-India relations: A betrayal of democracy and human rights |
| Date of publication: | | March 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | A summary of the key issues relating to Burma and India
Published by the Burma Campaign UK – March 2007 |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Burma Campaign UK |
| Format/size: | | pdf (174.08 K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India’s Myanmar Policy A Dilemma between Realism and Idealism |
| Date of publication: | | March 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar is often perceived to be a buffer state between the two Asian giants of India and China. Its strategic location provides Myanmar with an opportunity to play a significant role in the geopolitics of South and Southeast Asia. In addition, the availability of natural gas in Myanmar gives an economic dimension to its strategic significance. Myanmar shares a 1640 km-long land and maritime boundary with India, making it a crucial element of India’s security calculus and ensuring that amicable relations with Myanmar are vital...Be it traditional, non-traditional, or even energy security, Myanmar is definitely an important component of India’s security management system. Engagement with Myanmar is, therefore, logical for India. The problem before India is what should be the nature of engagement with one of the most brutal regimes in the world..."
Contents:
AN OVERVIEW OF THE INDIA-MYANMAR RELATIONSHIP ...
INDIA’S SECURITY CONCERNS VIS-À-VIS MYANMAR ...
THE CHINA FACTOR ...
INDO-MYANMAR TRADE RELATIONS ...
MYANMAR’S ROLE IN INDIA’S ENERGY SECURITY ... MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ...
CONCLUSION ... |
| Author/creator: | | Yogendra Singh |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | INSTITUTE OF PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES |
| Format/size: | | pdf (600 KB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | GOI EXPOUNDS UPON ITS BURMA POLICY AFTER RECEIVING DEMARCHE |
| Date of publication: | | 20 February 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | "... PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) Joint Secretary (Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka and the Maldives) Mohan Kumar. Kumar made the following points regarding the GOI's current Burma policy:..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 March 2011 |
|
| Title: | | India gains little from courting Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | 20 January 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | India's decision to woo Myanmar's military rulers to get them to cooperate with its efforts in fighting insurgency in its northeastern states appears not to be working. Outfits such as the United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA), which recently carried out a series of deadly attacks on migrants in the state of Assam, continue to thrive thanks to support and sanctuary from Myanmar.
Getting Myanmar's generals to cooperate with its efforts to fight insurgency in its strife-torn northeast was among the reasons India decided in the early 1990s to move away from its policy of
refusing to engage with the junta to courting it..." |
| Author/creator: | | Sudha Ramachandran |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Asia Times Online |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 30 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India Woos Burma with Weapons for Gas |
| Date of publication: | | January 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | New Delhi's eagerness to supply Burma with weapons highlights new quid pro quo policies...
"Increased contacts between senior military chiefs oÂn both sides of the Burma-India border, involving Indian weapons sales, are believed by analysts to have two primary objectives: to help flush out Burma-based Indian insurgents and to counter growing Chinese influence in Naypyidaw.
But the sale of arms and related technical equipment is also likely to be linked to New Delhi"Look East" economic policy, including ambitions to buy huge quantities of Burma's offshore gas in the Bay of Bengal. If the gas bidâ”against rivals China and Thailandâ”is successful, it will also involve building a costly pipeline through rebel-infested areas of northwest Burma and northeast India..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aung Lwin Oo |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 15, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 26 July 2008 |
|
| Title: | | INDO-MYANMAR RELATIONS – A Review |
| Date of publication: | | 30 November 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | The Indo-Myanmar relations since 1948 (when Myanmar became independent) can be considered as cordial and friendly (from 1948 to 1962), frozen or strained (from 1962 to 1988) and flourishing from 1988 till date. The reasons for these radical changes in the ties can be attributed to both Myanmar for its isolationist policy adopted by the military regime and to India for its shift from an idealist or moralistic to realistic or pragmatic policy adopted. India’s Look-East policy has been the main driving force for improvement in the bilateral relations. |
| Author/creator: | | C. S. Kuppuswamy |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | South Asia Analysis Group |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INDIA STRONGLY DENIES HOWITZER SALES TO BURMA, BUT OTHERS CONFIRM |
| Date of publication: | | 02 November 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary. "Embassy contacts have confirmed press
reports that India has supplied Burma 105 mm Howitzers and
associated equipment. However, the Ministry of External
Affairs (MEA) denied that any such deals had transpired.
India's rationale for supplying weapons to the junta is
ostensibly to support joint counter-insurgency operations
aimed at Indian separatist groups based within Burmese
borders." End Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | India's Balancing Act |
| Date of publication: | | April 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Business interests compete with human rights concerns in forging Burma policies...
Burma has shot back to the top of India's foreign policy agenda following Indian President APJ Abdul Kalama's visit last month, and battle lines are now being drawn in New Delhi over the contentious question of how to deal with the military junta.
The military establishment in India and its business community have started fresh lobbying in New Delhi to keep the country's Burma policy of dealing with the generals on course. But human rights groups in the country and many smaller political parties want the government to come out in direct support of Burma's pro-democracy movement..." |
| Author/creator: | | Subir Bhaumik |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol 14, No. 4 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.indoburmanews.net/documents/act |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 December 2006 |
|
| Title: | | A Naga Ultimatum - An Interview with Thuingaleng Muivah |
| Date of publication: | | 17 January 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Separatist leader sets terms for peace with India...
"Thuingaleng Muivah, head of the separatist group National Socialist Council of Nagaland, has given New Delhi an ultimatum. Eight years of negotiations with the Indian government have yielded no results. If no acceptable settlement is reached by January 31, 2006—the date that existing ceasefire agreements will expire—he will suspend all negotiations and return to the jungles of northeastern India, along the border with Burma, to resume an armed opposition movement that began nearly 50 years ago. The ranks of the NSCN have swelled to some 6,000 soldiers since the group signed a ceasefire agreement in 1997. A fellow opposition group, the United Liberation Front of Assam, has now promised to back the NSCN in the event of a final breakdown in peace talks, making the Naga contingent an even more potent threat. In an interview with The Irrawaddy’s correspondent Subir Bhaumik, Muivah explains the conditions for a lasting peace between India and Nagaland..." |
| Author/creator: | | Thuingaleng Muivah |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 14, No. 1 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=5373 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INSTABILITY AT THE GATE: India’s Troubled Northeast and its External Connections |
| Date of publication: | | January 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "India’s Northeast has long been described as a remote and sensitive area, racially and culturally disconnected to mainland India but strategically attached to it. Expressions of ethnic identities since India’s independence have been very blunt in the whole region and many sub-nationalists developed a strong separatist stream from the late 1940s. Rapidly, the ethnic struggle became a well-organised and multidimensional militancy which took up arms and launched various enduring insurgencies against India’s central government. Facing a harsher repression orchestrated by New Delhi, the few separatist groups that had burgeoned in the region turned rapidly radical. Moreover, most of them had found in the local population their main back-up : the “Robin Hood syndrome” they had created enabled them to benefit from a wide popular support.
This paper intends first to give a brief overview of the rise and growth of some of those separatist groups, with a special focus on the Nagas, the Mizos and the Assam movement. Insurgency took different forms in the Northeast as ethnic leaders chose different paths, means and patrons to pursue their struggle for recognition and/or separatism. Indeed, most of the armed ultras soon criminalised their activities in order to sustain their struggle. An analysis of the degeneration of these sub-nationalist movements into mere criminal groups has been proposed in this paper. With the Indian Armed Forces having more and more capacities and discretionary power of action, insurgency has radicalised its forms and activities. The criminalisation process will be broached by focusing the study on few separatist groups that have dropped their original revolutionary and lofty ideals to concentrate their struggle on easy money and underground activities, in spite of the fact that individualised interests, internecine rivalries and indiscriminate violence have often turned the population against those outfits.
Finally, how has the externality of the insurgency influenced this phenomenon? The third part of the paper will propose an overview of the rapid externalisation of all the insurgent groups. The linkages they have established across borders enabled them to obtain friendly support (Pakistan), funding (China, LTTE) and strategic shelter (Burma, Bangladesh). We will attempt to demonstrate how these external connections fuelled the instability in the Northeast and conceptualised their struggle and survival. However, in the meantime, the external factor could also be the solution to the problem: by opening up the Northeast and developing it as a result of a more globalised local economy, the stalemate could possibly be overcome." |
| Author/creator: | | Renaud Egreteau |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | French Research Institutes in India (CSH Occasional Paper No. 16, 2006) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (587K) 167 pages |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 June 2007 |
|
| Title: | | Indo-Myanmar Relations in the Era of Pipeline Diplomacy |
| Date of publication: | | 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | Over decades India and Myanmar had hardly any relations. To a large
degree this was due to India’s outdated model of Nehruvian ideals in its
foreign policy formulation. Recent research, however, has pointed towards
a shift in Indo-Burmese relations. This article analysse the reasons for
such a shift, placing them in the larger context of the reframing of
India’s foreign policy objectives under the BJP-led NDA government in
the late 1990s. These new priorities have been upheld by the Congress
led government since the elections in 2004.
The article argues that the primary aim for such a shift was
economic, as India reassessed its position globally and regionally,
putting economic relations at the centre of its foreign policy formulation
and engendering India’s “pipeline diplomacy”. It looks in detail at the
geo-politics of energy and how energy security is now playing a major
role in international relations in South Asia. It then describes India’s
energy needs, focusing in particular on gas, which is at the origin of
the pipeline diplomacy and its increasing interest in relations with
nations rich in gas and oil. It ends by assessing what impact India’s
pipeline diplomacy could have on the wider Southeast Asian region,
with special regard to ASEAN.
_Keywords: India, Myanmar, India’s new foreign policy, pipeline diplomacy, geopolitics
of energy, Myanmar gas reserves, India’s Northeast. |
| Author/creator: | | Marie Lall |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Contemporary Southeast Asia Vol. 28, No. 3 (2006) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (581.17 K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INDIA JOINS ASEAN'S TOUGHER LINE ON BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 15 December 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: "After many months of wishy-washy Indian posturing on Burma, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called publicly for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and encouraged the GOB to move towards democracy on his return from the East Asia Summit. Speaking after a meeting with Burmese PM Soe Win in Kuala Lumpur on December 14, PM Singh also stated that the GOI ""favors national reconciliation and the movement towards democracy, respect for fundamental human rights and allowing political activities to flourish."" This is a strong departure from New Delhi's recent tactic of downplaying democracy concerns with the GOB in return for greater cooperation in energy and counter-insurgency operations near the shared border, and signals a greater Indian willingness to put public pressure on Burma's military junta. India's increased willingness to advocate for democracy even at the risk of its own security and energy interests in Burma is a welcome development." End Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 March 2011 |
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| Title: | | GOI "CONSTRUCTIVELY ENGAGED" IN BURMA, UPBEAT ON BANGLADESH |
| Date of publication: | | 01 December 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: "MEA J/S (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Myanmar)
Mohan Kumar was candid about India's need to continue
engaging in Burma and optimistic that PM Singh had begun to
"clear the air" during his bilateral meeting with President
Zia in Bangladesh. Acknowledging Indian competition with the
Chinese presence in Burma, Kumar characterized the evolving
relationship as "constructive engagement." Kumar was equally
puzzled about the recent relocation of Burma's capital, but
offered Indian theories on the move, including fears of
intelligence penetration in Rangoon or a power battle between
State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) Chairman Than Shwe
and Vice-Chairman Maung Aye. Regarding the November 12
bilateral meeting between PM Singh and President Zia on the
sidelines of the South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) Summit, Kumar told us that most important
result of the meeting was to "clear the air" between the
heads of state. The two leaders did not cover much
substantive ground, he reported, but the Indian PM had
stressed that he and Zia should "cut through the red tape"
together when problems between Delhi and Dhaka arise." End
Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | Strategic Memory Lane |
| Date of publication: | | November 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | It is known as the “Road to Nowhere” or “Ghost Road,” but there are hopes that political and strategic problems can be sidetracked to resurrect the World War II-era Ledo Road, running between India and China through Burma..."...India and China have sometimes made calls to reopen the Ledo Road. They have come from a visiting delegation from the Yunnan Provincial Chamber of Commerce at an international trade fair in Guwahati, the capital of Assam; from the Federation of Indian Export Organizations in Calcutta; and increasingly from a number of individual politicians and members of state governments in India’s northeast, especially from Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. Academics have also raised the issue. A handful of people are upbeat about the tourism prospects—of driving air-con jeeps across the mountains and through jungles and exotic places from India to China.
China appears to be the most prepared. It has already greatly upgraded its section of the Burma Road, built in 1937-38, into a modern, partly six-lane mountain highway..." |
| Author/creator: | | Karin Dean |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 11 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
|
| Title: | | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BRINGING BURMA BEFORE THE UNSC |
| Date of publication: | | 13 October 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | "Deputy PolCouns and Poloff delivered reftel demarche
to MEA Director (UN Political) Sangeeta Mann on October 13,
who said she would provide a response after consulting with
her regional office. Post will continue to follow up with
GOI officials..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | GATEWAY TO THE EAST |
| Date of publication: | | June 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | a symposium on Northeast India
and the look east policy...
The Problem:
Posed by Sanjib Baruah, Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi...
NORTHEAST INDIA IN A NEW ASIA:
Jairam Ramesh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha)...
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES OR CONTINUING STAGNATION:
Sushil Khanna, Professor of Economics and Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata...
WATERS OF DESPAIR, WATERS OF HOPE:
Sanjoy Hazarika, Managing Trustee, Centre for Northeast Studies and Policy Research, New Delhi and Guwahati...
PROSPECTS FOR TOURISM:
M.P. Bezbaruah, Former Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Government of India...
OPERATION HORNBILL FESTIVAL 2004:
Dolly Kikon, Member, Working Group, Northeast Peoples' Initiative, Guwahati...
GUNS, DRUGS AND REBELS:
Subir Bhaumik, East India Correspondent, BBC, Kolkata...
A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA...
TERRITORIALITIES YET UNACCOUNTED:
Karin Dean, Asia Correspondent, 'Postimees', Bangkok...
COMMUNITY, CULTURE, NATION:
Mrinal Miri, Vice Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong...
THE TAI-AHOM CONNECTION:
Yasmin Saikia, Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA...
THE ETHNIC DIMENSION:
Samir Kumar Das, Reader, Department of Political Science, Calcutta University...
BOOKS:
Reviewed by Nandana Datta, Dulali Nag, Bodhisattva Kar, Nimmi Kurian and M.S. Prabhakara...
FURTHER READING:
Compiled by Sukanya Sharma, Fellow, Centre for Northeast India, South and Southeast Asia Studies, Guwahati...
COMMUNICATION:
Received from C.P. Bhambhri and B.K. Banerji. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Seminar magazine |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 01 May 2006 |
|
| Title: | | India Wants More from Burma |
| Date of publication: | | April 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Curb the anti-India militants, Rangoon is told...
"New Delhi isn't satisfied. It wants more out of Rangoon. The March visit by India's External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, to Burma was a clear signal that not enough is being done by Rangoon to satisfy its concern about anti-India militants operating from Burmese territory.
The official assessment in the corridors of power is that "something" is being done by Rangoon, but it's not enough to deal with the anti-India militant groups, who are active in several provinces in India's Northeast.
Natwar Singh is received in Rangoon by Foreign Minister Nyan Win
Placing New Delhi"It was agreed that dialogue and concrete cooperation to counter terrorist activities in the border region would be further strengthened."
From the context of these lines, it's apparent that more dialogue and concrete cooperation between India and Burma are essential as far as New Delhi is concerned..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 13, No. 4 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 April 2006 |
|
| Title: | | ALL SMILES: INDIAN FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 30 March 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: "The latest in a string of high-profile regional visitors to Rangoon (ref C), Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh conducted a bilateral trip to Burma March 24-27. Although the visit was characterized as ""not substantive,"" Singh achieved dual objectives of maintaining dialogue with Burma at the political level and pushing for certain development projects. His meetings with top GOB officials, including SPDC Chairman Than Shwe, were perfunctory and consisted of standard SPDC lectures on regime achievements and progress. FM Singh knows Aung San Suu Kyi personally and, according to the Indian Embassy, ""holds her in high esteem."" However, Singh made no reference to her or the democratic opposition during his four-day visit, an Indian pattern of engagement with the regime that sticks to platitudes and doesn't rock the boat." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, Rangoon, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 March 2011 |
|
| Title: | | MEA DEFENDS RECORD ON BURMA AHEAD OF FM SINGH TRIP |
| Date of publication: | | 22 March 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: "Joint Secretary (SE Asia I) Mitra Vashishta
defended India's policies in Burma in a March 17 meeting with
PolCouns and Poloff, suggesting that progress on democratic
reforms was dependent on engagement with the Burmese body
politic, and warning that the USG focus on Aung San Suu Kyi
(ASSK) could backfire. Foreign Minister Natwar Singh leaves
for a four-day visit to Burma on March 24, but MEA contacts
tell us not to expect significant new developments, despite
press reports speculating about the reopening of the
"Stilwell Road." Vashishta did not believe Bangladesh would
cooperate on a potential gas pipeline from Burma to India,
suggesting that the project will remain hypothetical." End
Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 September 2011 |
|
| Title: | | INDIA ENCOURAGES DEMOCRACY IN BURMA |
| Date of publication: | | 02 November 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: "India underlined its concerns about the lack of democracy in Burma during the recent visit of Rangoon’s military leader Than Shwe, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself delivering the message, MEA Joint Secretary (South East Asia - I) Mitra Vashishta told us on
SIPDIS November 1. The decision to encourage democracy in Rangoon reflects the GOI belief that India is best placed to help Burma reform, that Aung San Sui ’s “time has come and gone,” and that democracy will take root in Burma only through greater engagement and people-to-people ties. Vashishta cited the October 29-31 visit to New Delhi of UN Special Envoy for Burma Razali Ismail as evidence of India’s resolve to stay engaged on democracy in Burma. The GOI would welcome US suggestions on how to best to promote democracy there, and has agreed to provide grants and limited military equipment to Rangoon in an attempt to encourage cooperation against anti-India insurgents located along the Indo-Burma border. However, there are no Indian plans to conduct joint military operations with the junta. PolCouns stressed our concerns about the safety and treatment of ASSK and the democratic opposition under Burma’s new Prime Minister (ref A), and urged India to continue to press for democratic reform in Rangoon." End Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, New Delhi, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 December 2010 |
|
| Title: | | TAKING A RE-LOOK AT INDIA-MYANMAR RELATIONS |
| Date of publication: | | 11 October 2004 |
| Description/subject: | | The recent upsurge in violent insurgent activities in the Northeast has made it urgent for India to take action to clear Indian insurgent groups camps across the borders of Bangladesh and Burma. Bangladesh had been denying their existence and refuted such information in every forum. Myanmar's attitude has been more positive. It is in this context the visit of Myanmar’s head of state Gen. Than Shwe’s visit to Delhi on October 25, 2004 assumes significance. Than Shwe also heads the ruling military junta’s State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). No doubt discussions on joint or coordinated military operation between the two countries to eliminate Indian insurgents’ hideouts in Northern Myanmar will figure high on the agenda of Myanmar’s head of state. According to media reports this issue had already figured in the discussions of Home Secretary Dhirendra Singh and the visiting Myanmar Deputy Home Minister Brigadier General Bhon Swe on October 5, 2004. |
| Author/creator: | | Col R Hariharan |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | South Asia Analysis Group |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INDIAN VP VISIT TO BURMA: DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS TAKE A BACK SEAT |
| Date of publication: | | 14 November 2003 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary: Indian Vice President Shekhawat's November 2-5 visit to Burma was the most senior mission by an Indian leader in 16 years and the latest in a string of high-profile visits from India and other neighboring countries. The Burmese regime pulled out all the stops for the visit, though concrete results were limited. However, from a public relations perspective, the SPDC scored a major victory and demonstrated its ability to draw in regional leaders who are keen to pursue bilateral objectives, but willing to overlook Burma's deplorable political situation. Notably absent from Shekhawat's proceedings was a human rights agenda and anything more than a passing reference to democratization. End Summary. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Embassy, Rangoon, via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 March 2011 |
|
| Title: | | Burma and superpower rivalries in the Asia-Pacific |
| Date of publication: | | April 2002 |
| Description/subject: | | "The Western democracies have declared that their strong stances against the current military regime in Burma reflect principled stands against the 1988 massacres of pro-democracy demonstrators, the failure of the regime to recognize the results of the 1990 general elections (which resulted in a landslide victory for the main opposition parties), and the regime?s continuing human rights abuses. Yet it can be argued that such a strong and sustained position would have been less likely had the Cold War not ended and Burma?s importance in the global competition between the superpowers not significantly waned. Lacking any pressing strategic or military reason to cultivate Burma, and with few direct political or economic interests at stake, countries like the United States and the United Kingdom can afford to isolate the Rangoon regime and impose upon it pariah status. If this was indeed the calculation made in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it is possible that the changes that have occurred in the strategic environment since then may prompt a reconsideration of these policies.
Burma lies where South, Southeast, and East Asia meet; there the dominant cultures of these three subregions compete for influence. It lies also across the ?fault lines? between three major civilisations?Hindu, Buddhist, and Confucian.1 At critical times in the past, Burma has been a cockpit for rivalry between superpowers. Today, in the fluid strategic environment of the early twenty-first century, its important position is once again attracting attention from analysts, officials, and military planners. Already, Burma?s close relationship with China and the development of the Burmese armed forces have reminded South and Southeast Asian countries, at least, of Burma?s geostrategic importance and prompted a markedly different approach from that of the West..." The PDF version (222K) has a map and a 4-page presentation of Burma's geostrategic position not contained in the html version. |
| Author/creator: | | Andrew Selth |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Naval War College Review, Spring 2002, Vol. LV, No. 2 |
| Format/size: | | html (Google cache), pdf (226K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JIW/is_2_55/ai_88174228 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Challenges to democratization in Burma: Perspectives on multilateral and bilateral responses. Chapter 4 - India–Burma relations |
| Date of publication: | | 14 December 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | I Introduction;
II Historical background;
III India’s policies towards Burma;
IV Major factors contributing to the relationship between India and Burma;
V Indo-Burmese trade relationship;
VI Indo-Burmese military cooperation;
VII India’s support to the Burma democracy movement;
VIII Suggestions for Burma pro-democracy activists;
IX Conclusions.
"India and Burma have a historical connection that goes back to the fifth century and since then have
enjoyed mutual contact in the realm of trade, commerce, religion, law, political philosophy and
culture. Both countries came under British colonial rule, and Burmese leaders associated with Indian
leaders during the struggle for national independence. Nehru and U Nu built up a personal friendship
that formed the basis of good Indo-Burmese relations, which with ups and downs have lasted 50 years
The two countries have not once reached a point of diplomatic stand-off or conflict since
independence.
The lowest point came after the 1988 people’s uprising when India was the first neighbouring country
to criticize the Burmese military government. The Indian Embassy in Rangoon actively supported the
pro-democracy student activists and many entered India for shelter after the military coup in 1988.143
From 1988 to 1990, India followed a policy committed to open support of the forces of democracy and
“complete disengagement” with the ruling military junta in Burma.
However, in the 1990s, relations between India and Burma thawed again. Now India and Burma are
cooperating in many fields, including countering insurgency on the border, checking narcotics
smuggling across the border, sharing intelligence on a real-time basis, promoting trade and investment.
India has also extended economic aid to India.
In this research paper, an attempt is made to map out the policies of India towards Burma from the
post-independence era to the present time and to analyse the major factors behind these policies. The
authors also look at the implications of these policies with regard to democraticization in Burma; and
they put forward some suggestions for Burmese pro-democracy groups on how to get political support
from India..." |
| Author/creator: | | Thin Thin Aung, Soe Myint |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International IDEA |
| Format/size: | | pdf (316K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.mizzima.com/mizzima-works/researchs/2001/index.htm
http://www.idea.int/asia_pacific/burma/upload/challenges_to_democratization_in_burma.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 27 September 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India's confrontation with Chinese interests in Myanmar |
| Date of publication: | | March 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | "That India has never been immune to political developments in Myanmar (Burma
before 1989) rests, first of all, on the hard facts of geographical continuity: the frontier
between the two countries extends over 1,643 km and borders four strategically sensitive
Indian states: Arunachal Pradesh (520 km), Nagaland (215 km), Manipur (398 km),
Mizoram (510 km). Furthermore, India?s maritime south-eastern trade routes border
Myanmar?s territorial waters, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where India has
naval and air facilities - are much closer to the Burmese shore than to the coastal states of
eastern India 1. Myanmar is a land bridge between South and South-East Asia and can
only be marginalised at India?s own peril. These considerations would ensure the
necessity for India to maintain at the very least cordial relations with the government in
power in Yangon (formerly Rangoon), lest a potential enemy stand at the gates of eastern
India...". The paper appears as a chapter in "India's Confrontation with Chinese Interests in Myanmar" in India and ASEAN: The Politics of India's Look East Policy, Fr�deric Grare & Amitabh Mattoo (eds), Manohar/CSH, New Delhi, 2001, pp. 161.189. |
| Author/creator: | | Gilles Boquerat |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi |
| Format/size: | | PDF (80K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.csh-delhi.com/ |
| Date of entry/update: | | 03 June 2003 |
|
| Title: | | Myanmar shows India the road to Southeast Asia |
| Date of publication: | | 21 February 2001 |
| Description/subject: | | # 1. Overview
# 2. China's influence
# 3. India looks east
# 4. Drug trafficking
# 5. The Ganga-Mekong initiative |
| Author/creator: | | Tony Allison |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Asia Times Online |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 November 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INDO-MYANMAR RELATIONS - a volte face |
| Date of publication: | | 24 November 2000 |
| Description/subject: | | The recent visit of the Vice Chairman of Myanmars ruling State Peace and Development Council, Gen Maung Aye to India from Nov 14, 2000 as head of a high level delegation had evoked a mixture of responses. The Government of India had virtually rolled out a red carpet and the General had met the President, Vice President and the PM. He had visited Bangalore, Agra. Udaipur and Bodh Gaya. In this connection a columnist in Asian Age had posed the following questions: Why this disturbing shift in even the basic principles on which our foreign policy is based? Are the long term interests of India protected? Is the sovereignty and integrity of India being protected ? Will this shift strengthen the standing of India in the world? |
| Author/creator: | | C.S.Kuppuswamy |
| Language: | | English |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | India and Burma: Working on Their Relationship |
| Date of publication: | | March 1999 |
| Description/subject: | | Soe Myint examines the evolution of Indo-Burmese relations since the pro-democracy uprisings of 1988, and considers what the push for a "working relationship" may mean for activists in exile. |
| Author/creator: | | Soe Myint |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 7. No. 3 |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www2.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=1170 |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
|
| Title: | | INDIA-MYANMAR RELATIONS |
| Description/subject: | | “Although the shift in India’s policy towards Myanmar is often justified in the name of “non-intervention” in the internal affairs of other nations, it was not principal but realpolitik that guided New Delhi’s changing attitudes towards Yangon since the mid 1990’s”.
Professor C. Rajan Mohan
Contents:
Introduction ... Relations: Three Phases ... Factors Influencing Change in Indian Policy ... Proactive Engagement ... Conclusion |
| Author/creator: | | Fahmida Ashraf |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 04 October 2010 |
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