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..."