Shame, Shame - India rewards Burma for democracy crackdown with $100 million

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Re: Shame, Shame - India rewards Burma for democracy crackdown with $100 million

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India may claim to be the world’s largest democracy but certainly doesn’t act like it. At a time when all of the world’s other major democracies are condemning Burma for its brutal crackdown on democracy advocates and protesting peaceful monks, India is instead showering Burma with money.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | India 'close to Burma port deal'

India is close to signing an agreement with the Burmese military junta to develop the port of Sittwe, officials in Delhi have said.

India will put $103m into the project, despite international calls for sanctions against the military rulers.

Analysts say Delhi has been reluctant to criticise the generals because of its strategic interests in the area.

The two countries share a border of about 1,600km (1,000 miles) and Sittwe, in Burma’s Arakan province, is 160km from India’s Mizoram state.

“We are now in a final stages of negotiations and the agreement should be through within a month,” said an Indian foreign ministry official, who did not wish to be named.

Under the agreement, India will invest $103m to develop the port and put in place facilities to use the Kaladan river.

Goods will then be easily shipped from ports in eastern India and taken to the landlocked north-east Indian states in smaller vessels.

Whats wrong in this. The port will actually help Burmese people. It will open up Burma to the world. This will also increase the Indian influence there. The money is not going into Military rulers pocket.
If the world puts sanctions on Burma then what happens, the poor people get poorer and their famlies and kids starv. The military ruler will still get all the aisho aaram.