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By arming Burmese military India "complicit" in violence
by Nirmala Carvalho
Continuing abuses and oppression of the military junta against ethnic Kachin, Shan and Karen. Sajan K George, president of the Indian and Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC): "By helping the regime India violates all of its democratic principles."
New Delhi (AsiaNews) - "By providing weapons and ammunition to 52 military tanks of the Burmese regime, the Government of India has violated all of its democratic principles”, charges Sajan K George, president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC). He accuses his country of being an accomplice of Myanmar, because its arms trade corresponds to the violence perpetrated against the Kachin, Shan and Karen people.
The new government of General Thien Sein, supported by the army, has been in office since last March 30. However, the stability inside the country is practically nil, given the widespread armed conflict and continuing violence on minority ethnic Karen, Shan and Kachin, by the military. In July, fierce fighting resumed in various areas of Kachin State, between the Kia (Kachin Independence Army for) the Burmese army.
"The regime will use Indian weapons and ammunition against the minority - says the president of the GCIC - to attack their innocent citizens, who are fighting for decades for justice, peace and democracy."
"Several human rights violations, abuses and rapes, have already been allocated to the army, in addition to continuous suppression of other fundamental freedoms - says Sajan George - and providing weapons to the most brutal military dictatorship in the world will have serious consequences on millions of innocent lives" .