Than Shwe’s India Visit Slammed
By Ashok Sharma/AP/New Delhi
Friday, October 22, 2004
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— Soe Myint, editor of the New Delhi-based Mizzima Internet news site
Than Shwe and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh also will explore expanded cooperation in industry, energy, rail transportation, communications, science, technology and health, it said.
India is one of Burma’s major trading partners and is the second-largest market for Burmese goods, after Thailand. India and Burma have set a target of US $1 billion worth of trade by 2006.
The Times of India said Friday that New Delhi wants joint military operations to flush out armed rebels that India believes operate from Burma, crossing the 830-mile border.
A series of explosions and attacks killed more than 70 people this month in India’s northeastern states of Assam and Nagaland, near the Burmese border, where dozens of tribal-based militant outfits have fought for decades for independence or autonomy.
Than Shwe’s visit come days after former Burmese Prime Minister Gen Khin Nyunt—viewed as a relative moderate—was replaced by a hard-liner, Lt-Gen Soe Win.
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