I sincerely believe that India is being dubed by the Burma Junta about its nuclear ambitions (and others). India appears, from their seeming naivity, to be too ignorant of myriad evident lies and breaches of trust, both nationally and inteernationally. I have never thought that India would be so blind to realities in Burma, ultimately detriomental to the neighbours. Pragmatism without a touch of huminity is horrible.
To say that India must believe the junta because you and the junta, not the Burmese people, have such good bilateral relationship is not a good enough reason to turn a blind eye to the monstrous character of a rogue governmant.
May be it is just that India believes the junta’s ambition is in its early, initial stages and cannot be realised in such a short time.
I, a Burma citizen living in Burma, for one, do not believe the junta is capable of building or engineering any nucclear facility either for war or for peace, even with a bought technology. It just simply is of no calibrfe in technology or socio-econimic vision that is proper and well-tailored for needs of the Burmese people.
That is beside the point, but dangerous if left untended. India will regret to have a Burma as a neighbour, militant and war-mongering, with absolutely no thought of social progresss and general wellfare in Burma. The money, on gas or wharever, you bestow on it will be wasted for military purposes (to oppress the minorities and the dissidents and every body else in Burma), stowing the rest away in Singapore banks on person accounts.
Mr Nehru and Gandhiji, to me, hadn’t meant India to assist any militatism or rogue-ism if I may call it that.
May I call on India to come in aid of the Burmese people in their struggle for political, economic and social betterment.
If you do that the people of Burma will forever count on you as good friends. You are the largest democracy in the world, hopefully, willing and able to give a hand in our fight for freedom and democracy.