Ref: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/bronwen_maddox/article6793984.ece
(Comment Posted in the Times Online on Aug. 13, 2009)
Both communist China and democratic India are the biggest trading partners of the Myanmar regime, providing the necessary transfusion that the hated regime requires to sustain its criminal hold on the country. So, if we want to see a difference in the attitude of the military regime, both these countries have to stop their trades with Burma and impose conditions for any future trading that mandates people's rule in a free election, allowing all the people - from marginalized Rohingyas of Arakan (denied of their citizenship rights) to the Karens to the Shans to the Burman majority and all other religious communities that live inside Burma.
But the sad fact is both these neighbors of Burma care less about such easing of civil rights in Burma and care more for trading that helps their economy. Burma is also not the Middle East and as such, we won't see much progress towards punishing the regime from our western countries either. It is a sad, sad situation in Burma and her unfortunate people.
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