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Burmese Military Chief in India for Week-long Visit
Vice-Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, center, shakes hands with India’s Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Nirmal Verma, left, during his ceremonial reception in New Delhi on Aug. 3. (Photo: Reuters)
Vice Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of Burma’s armed forces, is in India for a week-long visit to meet with Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony and the heads of India’s army, air force and navy.
During his stay, he will be hosted at the Eastern Army Command in Kolkata and the Eastern Naval Command at Visakhapatnam and will later visit Bangalore to inspect the facilities of India’s Defense Research and Development Organization.
He began his first visit to India yesterday with a trip to the Buddhist holy site of Bodhgaya, where he paid homage at the Mahabodhi Temple. He also laid a wreath to pay his respects to the Indian Martyrs at India Gate in New Delhi today.
His arrival coincided with a report in the Hindustan Times, a leading Indian newspaper, on Thursday that India has decided to train more Burmese army personnel and give more non-weapon equipment to boost military ties between the two countries.
“The decision to train more Myanmar army personnel will have a crucial role to play in this plan,” the newspaper reported, referring to India’s efforts to get Burma to clamp down on insurgents in India’s remote northeastern region.
Despite its early support for Burma’s pro-democracy movement following the nationwide uprising against military rule in 1988, India later shifted to a policy of cultivating closer ties with the country’s former junta, in part because of the insurgencies in the northeast, but also to offset China’s growing influence in the Southeast Asian nation.
Besides engaging in joint military exercises and anti-insurgent operations together with Burmese forces, India has also provided its impoverished neighbor with valuable military hardware, including Islander maritime patrol aircraft, 105mm light artillery guns and navel patrol boats.
9 Responses to Burmese Military Chief in India for Week-long Visit
India should not help these blood suckers who kill & rape it`s own ethnic minority people.Look at Kachin,shan & Arakan states.Being a place of largest democracy in the world India should not help & support Burma in any sector.
Shouldn’t they start with rebuilding education, and health for the people- and maybe dividing the massive overseas wealth from the top – so those poor souls trapped in this ghastly army can leave?
The general is just a member of an organized gang of criminals.
These trips are a waste of tax payers’ money
A government, which is known for seeking peace deals with ethnic armed groups, gets on terms with India to terminate any insurgent forces. I think the problem with these insurgent forces should be better solved internally. I doubt the peace deals between the government peace making team and all other ethnic armed groups, since the Burmese Army is developing its military strategy with India. What kind of peace will it be if both governments crushed down all insurgent groups?
These myanmar military terrorists stop killing own people.
Why these bloody indian militants are shaking with these the most bloody and rapist militants of Burma. Are they not aware of present condition of burma?? To hell with this system
India is one of the largest democrtic govt. of the world.Everybody knows that the military junta an illegal goovtThe army general are sucking the blood of all people,irrespective of religion and races.
The govt. of India should think twice before giving any kind of help to the military govt.of Burma.
listen buma army gen leave innocent muslims otherwise just pakistan only finishes you this is a last chance given you last only.