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(1)Report Recommends Enhancing India-Burma border
trade (Business)
(2)The Clear Message of the Burmese Junta (Commentary)
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Report Recommends
Enhancing India-Burma border trade
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Guwahati, Mizzima
News
A recently published India-Myanmar (
made certain important
recommendations to enhance official border
trade between the two neighboring
countries.
The recommendations include the revision of India-Burma
Border Trade
Agreements to give a fresh impetus to
border trade. The report,
published by the Confederation of
Indian Industries (CII) also
suggests setting up a proper
banking system to accelerate border trade.
In its 21-point suggestion, the joint task force also
recommends that
unofficial trade be converted to
official trade by amplification of
the formalities required to
register export or import of commodities
across the border. The creation of
adequate transport-transit
infrastructure by building
expressways, bridges, roads, and railway
linkages is also emphasized.
The joint task force was formed at a recent meeting in
intended to promote bilateral trade
between
meeting in the Indian capital was
attended by representatives from
both the CII and the
Commerce and Industry.
However, the report reveals that formal Indo-Burma border
trade
through Manipur’s
Moreh-Tamu sector decreased from Rs
59.56 cores in
1997-98 to Rs 7.54 cores only in
2000-01. On the other hand, the
informal trade volume increased to
around Rs 8365 cores (US$1.7
billion) in the same financial year
(2000-01).
“Border trade between
significance, and the Northeast (
geographically with immense
potential to enhance it. However, lack of
infrastructure on both sides of the
border always remains a
limitation, and security is another
important factor hampering border
trade,” the report added.
The task force report discloses that the volume of trade
between
from Rs.
34 million in imports in 2000-01 to Rs 080.6 million
in 2003-
04. Similarly, exports increased from Rs
55.3 million to Rs 87.4
million between 2000 and 2004.
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The Clear Message of
the Burmese Junta
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Kanbawza Win, Mizzima
News
"We will release criminals but not prisoners of
conscience lest they
threaten our position" is the
clear message given to the people of
handful of lesser-known political
prisoners were among those released,
but the junta hopes it will take
some pressure off their heads and
lend a helping hand in legitimizing
itself in the international
community. But the most unmistakeable message is: "We don't want any
national reconciliation or real
genuine democracy, and that is why we
will not release Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi and U Tin Oo."
The Burmese Generals headed by their kingpin Than Shwe seems
to
say, "What kind of message do
you want from us? When we have
demonstrated that we don't recognise our own election results in 1990
and have persecuted most
pro-democracy leaders and winning party
members. So why brag about not
having released these political
prisoners? Have we not released
nearly 10,000 prisoners? So why did
you mention about a thousand
(political) prisoners in custody? You are
all ungrateful fellows. Instead of
thanking us for our magnanimity you
are now asking for more.
"Don't you think we know about the story of the 'Arab
and the Camel'
in which the camel, on a cold and
freezing night, requests the Arab to
let his head in, to warm himself.
Later his neck and the whole body
follow and finally he kicks out the
Arab. We won't be like that Camel.
We want to hold on to power indefinitely, that is the
unwritten
message to you all. You are
idiots."
"Don't you have ears to hear what my Foreign Minister Nyan Win said in
a press conference concerning the Depayin episode? It was just a
quarrel between two groups and
there was nothing to do with us. From
the beginning we told her (Daw Aung
San Suu Kyi), not to go to
Depayin, as it is a dangerous
place.
"This is because as a government we are responsible for
everybody
including Suu Kyi. But you might as
well know that she is very hard-
headed and of course the USDA
groups do not like her as they construe
Suu Kyi and the NLD to be lackeys of
Western imperialism. Besides she
is the wife of a foreigner (a
British Colonialist whose ancestors
sucked Burmese blood for nearly a
century) and the result was that
there was a scuffle between the two
groups. In this scenario we have
no choice but are compelled to
protect her by taking her into our
protective custody. This action
lays to rest the animosity between the
two groups. Even in our
custody, when she was indisposed, we sent her
to the best hospital in
residence. What more do you have to
say? This is because we have metta
(love) for her, and what more
authentic proof is wanted when we
downplay the quarrel between her
and her brother Aung San Oo, who also
inherited their parents house,
where she is now residing.
"If we allowed this case to continue, she might have no
place to
reside. And mind, nobody in
home, and she will be on the
street. Of course, we are magnanimous and
don't want to see the only daughter
of our cherished Bogyoke Aung San
on the streets. What do you expect
more from us."
"As far as ASEAN is concerned, they are just a bunch of
lame ducks.
Their grandiose rhetoric does not match their actions.
Everybody lied
there and we also lied, and so
what? They are all a group of
dictatorships with a thin cover of
democracy. Name any country you
like,
dictatorship;
Indo-Chinese countries of
we could concede is that they can
cleverly camouflage their actions
whereas we are somewhat of a brute,
as we did not know much diplomacy
and the tactics of camouflage. But
if we were to look at it from an
ethical point of view, their
hypocrisy is far advanced and more
sophisticated than ours. What more
proof is there that we are just
soldiers forced to take up power
against our will and you cannot
expect much diplomacy. We know how
to treat them as we have amply
demonstrated in
extending custody of Suu Kyi while
they were meeting. Ha ha ha.
This
is also a clear message to the
international community not to meddle
in our internal affairs and we
won't meddle in theirs.".
"We are not a neighbor of Nga
Pwa Gyi
("big nose" or
can bully Canadians into joining
them in escape to reach
from the
We have learned to live with our next-door neighbor and our
"paukpaw"
(brotherly love) relation is
excellent. As you might know that
has given us just $1.4 billion
worth of arms. What is the difference
between Americans and the people of
rulers can treat them in any way.
What more authenticated proof do you
need when they have unanimously
elected Bush again who is just an
international rogue? He does not
respect the international law or the
UN and attacked independent countries like
without the consensus of the
international community or the UN, so if
we treat our own people badly
without the consensus of the UN or
international community so what? In
fact we are a rogue in our own
state whereas Bush is an
international rogue."
"As far as ethnic cleansing is concerned, this is our
prerogative.
Call it
cleansed them, so do we. In British
history, the
William the Conqueror) annihilated the Saxons and became a
great
nation called
chauvinism. So don't accuse us of
systematic raping of ethnic women;
it is just part and parcel of the
game. See, we can easily divide and
rule the ethnic nationalities. Now
some of the ethnic groups are
solidly behind us and after our
talk with ceasefire groups you will
soon know the results."
"Our lips may say pyidaungsu
(union) but in our heart of hearts you
know what we are? Even among the
Burmese diaspora, who all loudly
profess themselves to be democracy
fighters, are
as they think the country is a
monolithic unity, and we are quite
positive they will never go along
with the ethnics. See, the
group interrelates only among
themselves while the non-Myanmar ethnic
groups also stay aloof in their own
groups. These are clear writings
on the wall. So whatever they say,
led by expatriate Sein Win, is all
bullshit. The
this kind of chauvinist thinking
that they never consider ethnics as
their equal. Look at TAN, a think
tank ivory tower group that never
comes down to reality, planning to
have its meetings in the West, not
in the vicinity of .ethnic groups,
effectively leaving out the latter.
"Of course we are worried about the ENSC and
ENSCC if they really
work, as they have all ethnic
people under their umbrella, but in name
only. We can divide and rule them
easily as they are not visionary
enough and unable to draw up a
long-term plan and will not allow
ethnic intellects among them , not
to mention aligning themselves with
the
"Of course, if there were a serious amalgamation of the
ENSC, the UNLD
and the diaspora,
cold shivers would run through our spines. But that
can never happen. They are
hopelessly divided among themselves. The
message we get is that they would
rather let us rule than patch up
among themselves to fight the mighty
me. So for the time being, no
worry.
"What! You mentioned our neighbors
how we played off one against
another? They had been rivals for
centuries and they will still be
rivals since both have billions of
people and are strong. But
with more than 2,000 kilometers of
common border but much stronger in
every aspect of military or
economics. But you must remember that
their aim is not the same.
economic and we can exploit them
both by playing their strong and weak
points.
"As far is narcotics iare
concerned, what is there to brag about? We
did not know the sophisticated
economic rules in this globalization
but at least we know how to run the
economy with narco dollars. See
the narco barons are all gentlemen
of
how the imperialists unleashed
three opium wars in
back the Imperialist West in their
own coins."
So this is our logic as everybody has his own logic. Keep
your mouth
shut and even if you yell at the
top of your voice we won't care, for
you are all just paper tigers. You
may not have heard of a broken
Anglo-Burmese proverb saying 'Good Tae Htin
Do the Do,' meaning 'what
you think is right, implement it.' Ha ha ha."
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Professor. Win, who has worked 14
years with the generals erroneously
thinking he could change them, and
who gained valuable experience, is
able to read the generals' mind
,no, and presents some aspects of the
Burmese generals' reasoning.
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