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Putin muestra su apoyo al programa nuclear civil iraní
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Irán ha recibido el apoyo implícito a su programa nuclear en la declaración final de la cumbre de países ribereños del mar Caspio que se ha celebrado este martes en Teherán. Especialmente relevante ha sido el del presidente ruso, Vladímir Putin, …
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Así que después de la foto de Aggggggggmi con Evo Morales, tenemos mejor foto del encuentro que es sin duda esta -y no es un Photoshop-:

Aunque el horno no está para bollos, creo que esta foto precisa de un importante examen. Cuando se lo mandé a Kate se partió de risa y hasta lo ha puesto en su blog:

It certainly seems that the two nutjobs are getting on quite well. Putin waltzes in and makes his virility abundantly clear; Ahmadinejad, not so much. He looks like an awkward, 13-year-old girl who has just hit puberty and is, for whatever reason, enamored with this meathead bully.

Bwahahahaha!! Pero aún se ve mejor en esta otra:

Atención a esa mirada de Putin a Khamenei… Para que luego digan que en Irán no hay homosexuales.. Pero ¿qué dices? Eso es un invento americano…
En cuanto a la importancia de la reunión, es mucha más de la que en principio se puede considerar: y no sólo por el programa nuclear.

El centro de Asia es uno de los lugares a los que menos se presta atención, pero que sin embargo, tienen una posición estratégica, por lo que su importancia ha aumentado exponencialmente durante los últimos años. Ya trataré sobre ello más adelante, pero es fundamental tener en cuenta que tienen una gran riqueza energética. Esto les hace ser el centro de una serie de movimientos tanto rusos como chinos para evitar un incremento de la influencia sobre todo de EEUU.
Así que esta foto tiene más importancia que la sola reunión entre Rusia y China:

¿Por qué? Pues porque de derecha a izquierda vemos al diviiiiiiiiiino Aggggggmi ( le voy a dar un bono de peluquería…), a súper-Putin, al presidente de Kazajstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, al de Turkmenistán President Kurbanguly y al de Azerbayán.

Todas las fotos las encontré en el blog de Gateway Pundit.

A los iraníes les preocupa esta visita de Putin, porque piensan que Agggggggmi con tal de asegurarse su apoyo va a renunciar a los derechos que tradicionalmente reclama Irán respecto del Mar Muerto. Todo sea por la energía pacífica nuclear…

Antes de esta reunión había tenido lugar otra entre Putin y Merkel, en la que había dos temas a tratar: el energético (cómo no) y la independencia de Kosovo. Pero Merkel, que es cuidadosa y pragmática (¡me encanta!), ya le ha hecho saber que, aunque no es anti-rusa, para ella es más importante la relación con EEUU.

Otros posts interesantes en español:
La Alianza Verde-Roja se está rompiendo todavía más:

“El comunismo ha sido lanzado en la papelera de la historia como predijo el ayatolá Jomeini”, dijo Ghasemi, y añadió que la única forma de salvar el mundo era a través de un “movimiento religioso y pro-justicia”.

Pero Aleida Guevara (la hija del Ché que, junto con su hermano, han estado de visita en irán), hablando “en nombre del pueblo de Cuba”, respondió indignada. Somos una nación socialista”, dijo, y subrayó que el pueblo cubano está agradecido con la ahora desaparecida URSS. Guevara aconsejó “acudir siempre a fuentes originales y no a traducciones”. “Mi padre nunca habló de Dios. Nunca conoció a Dios. Mi padre sabía que no había una verdad absoluta”.

Seguro que los del MSV piensan otra cosa…
Unholly Alliance @ snipfer:

un cafre que contribuye regularmente en lo que podríamos definir como la mainstream media progre angloparlante; anda por la red proponiendo que países tan libres y cuya protección de la libertad es tan deseable como Rusia, Irán, Siria, Venezuela y los demás países amenazados por los estados neocons, firmen un pacto de defensa mútua.

Lo que nos faltaba…

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Putin invites Iran’s Ahmadinejad for Moscow talks
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday to travel to Moscow for talks, Russian news agency Interfax reported.
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From CNN:

Putin, who is in Tehran to attend a summit of Caspian Sea nations, said that he and the other leaders agreed that “peaceful nuclear activities must be allowed” in the region.

“The Iranians are cooperating with Russian nuclear agencies and the main objectives are peaceful objectives,” he said.

Russia is building Iran’s first nuclear power plant and has resisted moves by the U.S. and its allies to impose stronger U.N. sanctions against Tehran.

On Monday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated the Bush administration’s stance that “all options” must be kept “on the table” in confronting the threats posed by Iran — a reference to the option of using military action against the long-time U.S. adversary.

“We should have no illusions about the nature of this regime or its leaders — about their designs for their nuclear program, their willingness to live up to their rhetoric, their intentions for Iraq, or their ambitions in the Gulf region,” Gates said in a speech to the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs.

And he says this after he agreed with Sarkozy in saying that iran has a nuclear weapons potential. He had also agreed with Bush in the same issue.

The importance of the summit is great, but not only because of the main target of this meeting, but also because of the consequences that can have for Iran. The first is the loss of the rights Iran has been claiming over the Caspian Sea, which Iranians are fearing are going to be given away by Aggggggmi and the Ayatollahs to ensure Russian support.

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A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry, Mohammad Ali Hosseini, denied any such plot had been uncovered, characterizing the news as disinformation spread by Iran’s adversaries.
“These sort of reports are completely baseless and in direction with psychological operations of enemies of relations between Iran and Russia,” Hosseini said in a statement.

Former communist bloc to bypass Russia on oil needs @ DW.
Putin, Merkel Meet in Shadow of US-Russia Chill @ DW.

“For Putin, the most important thing will be evening the scales with regard to the latest draft of the European Commission in terms of protecting their market from foreign competition,” Peskov told the German press agency DPA.
The commission is considering the introduction of a tough reciprocity clause for energy relations with third countries.
“Of course, Russia is looking for equal conditions and fair competition for Russian companies, including Gazprom,” Peskov said ahead of the summit.
[…] Russia has denounced Western support for independence for Kosovo, the ethnic Albanian-led province which has threatened to declare independence unilaterally from Serbia unless the international community comes up with a solution by December 10.
[…] “Their relationship is normal without being friendly. She is careful and pragmatic and she never misses an opportunity to say that the United States is more important to her than Russia, although she is not anti-Russian,” Rahr told AFP.

I like Merkel very much. She is diplomatic but honest at the same time for being a politician.

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Iran is not your friend: Putin and Che’s daughter get a taste of Iranian hospitality @ Fausta.

While Russia’s fearless leader (who is the first Russian leader to visit Iran since Stalin) and the Iranian spokesman want to put lipstick on that pig of a visit, it sounds to me like the intelligence services from both countries do not mutually trust each other well enough to have kept the purported threat from becoming public.

Demanding the right to respond, Aleida Guevara told the conference that Qassemi’s claim might be based on a bad translation: “My father never mentioned God,” she said as the hall sighed in chagrined disbelief. “He never met God.”

The remarks caused a commotion amid which Aleida and her brother were whisked away, led into a car and driven to their hotel under escort.

But the poop didn’t hit the fan until later in the evening, by the end of which both Aleida and her brother Camilo “had become nonpersons”, in Taheri’s words, and the Iranians had forgetten that Che was a Marxist.

The good thing is that Aleida Guevara was wearing a hijab!!! This is not good @ Infidels are Cool.
Putin shows his true colors @ Debbie.

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El ex vicepresidente de EEUU Al Gore y el responsable de la ONU contra el cambio climático, han recibido el Nobel de la Paz.Conjuntamente. También optaban al premio, pero s ehan quedado en la cuneta, el indio Rajendra Pachauri, presidente del Grupo Intergubernamental sobre el Cambio Climático (IPCC) de la ONU, y la candidatura del presidente de Bolivia, Evo Morales.
 LA JUSTICIA LO DEJA EN EVIDENCIA
Queda probado que el documental de Al Gore sobre el calentamiento global es “alarmista y exagerado”. La Justicia británica ha puesto reparos a la presentación en las escuelas de esta película. La verdad incómoda -aunque con muchos réditos- del ex vicepresidente estadounidense Al Gore. El juez Michael Burton, del Tribunal Superior de Londres, afirma haber identificado nueve errores importantes en la película y se pregunta si debería ostrarse a los escolares.
Burton reconoce que el filme, galardonado con dos Oscar, es “bastante exacto” en la presentación de las causas y probables efectos del cambio climático, pero ha agregado que algunas de las afirmaciones que se hacen en el son “alarmistas y exageradas”. El veredicto señala que la “visión apocalíptica” del filme es políticamente partidista y no un análisis imparcial de la ciencia del cambio climático. “Es de todos sabido que no es simplemente una película científica, aunque está claro que se basa en investigaciones y opiniones de científicos, sino política”.

Al Gore gana el Nobel de la Paz - Cantabria Liberal: Actualidad y análisis político de Cantabria en clave liberal

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
¿Estais preparados para el rollo propagandístico?

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The committee said they had been chosen for “their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change”.

Mr Gore, 59, was vice-president under Bill Clinton and has since devoted his efforts to environmental campaigning.

The UN’s panel of 3,000 scientists is the top authority on global warming.

PJM:

An enthusiastic advocate of awarding Al Gore a Nobel Peace Prize, PJM columnist Jules Crittenden contends that anointing the “fiery prophet of global warming” would continue the Nobel’s committee’s grand tradition of honoring “empty, fraudulent or hypocritical gestures.”

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In the UN (that @#€@#€ of organization) tx to Kate:

Myanmar’s foreign minister has accused “political opportunists” backed by foreign powers of trying to derail its move towards a “disciplined democracy”.

Nyan Win defended the crackdown on anti-government demonstrators he called an “unruly and provocative” mob, as essential to restore order.

“Normalcy has now returned in Myanmar,” he said.

He told the UN General Assembly’s ministerial meeting on Monday that “neo-colonialists” - a reference to the US and other Western nations – were spreading disinformation that Myanmar’s government was committing gross human rights violations and imposing economic sanctions.

“Recent events make clear that there are elements within and outside the country who wish to derail the ongoing process [towards democracy] so that they can take advantage of the chaos that would follow,” he said.

“They have become more and more emboldened and have stepped up their campaign to confront the government.”

At last, the Junta has agreed to receive the UN Envoy (4 days later) but with this statement I am not very optimistic…

Rob writes:

The left side of the blogosphere has jumped into action, mainly by deifying bloggers and signing petitions. Neither of these things will stop the Junta’s Holocaust against Buddhists, only action will. But the left will never call for action, they’re happy to allow the bloodshed to continue for another generation while shaking their head ruefully and wishing someone else would do something.

Yes, because then they could blame other one for their errors, while they would be at home just doing nothing for others. But, ohh, how well we feel, eh??

From Burma-Myanmar genocide:

minzaw: 1974 monks and nuns being arrested at Insein GTI are now scheduled to be sent to Bawathit Prison, Kabaw Valley, Sagaing Division. Details unknown. Activists encourage for possible reporters to keep an aye on all these detention centers. Current satellite images requested.

More from BBC:

Thousands of monks have been arrested since the weekend and many of them are now locked up in the government technical college on the outskirts of the city - a windowless hall which has three military vehicles stationed outside.

Local people are well aware that the monks have been locked away, and they are afraid that they themselves could be next.

“I’m really scared,” a woman told us quietly when she was sure no-one else could hear.

If the Burmese military wanted to silence the protesters through fear, they seem to have largely succeeded. But they know they cannot keep the monks locked up for ever, and people are waiting anxiously to see what happens next.

Don’t have words enough. But, hey, it’s too early to draw conclusions..

The Moderate Voice: Hey, General, Show us these little monks are Alive and Unharmed.

Yes, show them, you torturers…

West eyes China to influence Burma’s junta | csmonitor.com

[The West] hopes that China will arm-twist Burma’s generals into making concessions to defuse the crisis are probably wishful thinking and run counter to Chinese political and business interests, say analysts.Harder to gauge, say analysts, is how far the writ of such allies extends in Burma. “China has very little influence. It is stuck with an advisory role. The basis of Burma’s policy has been to shut itself off,” says William Overholt, head of RAND Corp.’s Asia-Pacific research center.A broader question, with ramifications for dealings with Sudan, Zimbabwe and other regimes, is whether China will abandon its policy of noninterference and play a role closer to that of Western powers, even if it ultimately opts for engagement over opprobrium.
China has begun to adopt a critical tone on Burma, saying it hoped the Burmese government could “properly deal with its domestic social conflicts.” Premier Wen Jiabao called Sunday on Burma to seek a peaceful solution. Breaking with protocol, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) last week roundly condemned Burma, a member state, as did Japan, which said it was suspending major aid.
But in Beijing’s eyes, propping up an unpopular regime on its borders may be preferable to seeing it collapse and risk being shut out by an unfriendly new government. “If the military government does not survive, a pro-Western regime will be established that would inevitably turn from China to the West for political and economic support,” says Du Jifeng, a Burma analyst at the China Academy for Social Sciences.
The timing is awkward for Beijing. The Communist Party is gearing up for a crucial congress and wants a united front on policy choices, not dissension over Burma. The sight of peaceful protesters confronting an authoritarian state also has uncomfortable parallels, says Russell Moses, an analyst in Beijing. “Events in Burma raise the specter of peaceful political change in China, and that makes a lot of officials in Beijing nervous,” he says

From Saffron Revolution Updates: Massacre at School:

photos taken at State High School No.2, Tamwe in Rangoon, after the killing of students by soldiers. Estimated 50-100 students and parents killed.

One is photo of brain got out from a student and one is a crowd looking dead bodies lying in the drain.

The Belmont club posts the letter they have received from a Burmese gentleman:

Matter of fact, I just learned that a Japanese life is worth more than thousands of Burmese lives. It is evident from the reaction of the Japanese government after a Japanese journalist was killed in Rangoon. The Japanese government has long been aware of the fact that Burmese people go through these abuses at junta’s hand everyday. Summary executions, forced labor, forced relocation, forced conscription of child soldiers and many other atrocities. But Japanese government has been indifferent in their policy of engaging with the military junta and supporting them.

Suddenly, even the Deputy Foreign Minister is going to Burma for an investigation for the death of the Japanese journalist. Please don’t misunderstand me, myself along with all the Burmese appreciate the efforts of Nagai San to expose the living hell that the Burmese live day in day out, to the outside world. Our condolences go to his family. It is sad that an innocent Japanese life had to be lost because the government of Japan had ignored all the facts for decades knowingly.

Of course, but as Daewoo’s spokerperson said, some days ago, to support their inversions in Burma, “Politics is politics, economy is economy”.

And hypocrisy is hypocrisy…

(By the way, Spanish leftist blogger Judas has posted about the subject -in Spain-, calling for a united action of all Spanish blogosphere against the Junta and in favour of Burmese opposition. Answer from another leftist blogger: “The denounce is good, but you could have disregarded the anti-communist ranting“. Yeah, of course…]

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Así que Nyan Win, otro repeinado, este en pijo (debe ser lo de la “vía birmana al socialismo” que si estás con el régimen eres un potentado; si no, hasta puedes ser violado por un perro, para regocijo de los guardas borrachos de la prisión) el enviado de Birmania en la ONU (¿para qué demonios sirve esta #@€#@€ de organización?) ha dicho que “han sido oportunistas políticos” apoyados por poderes extranjeros los que han intentado “descarrilar” sus movimientos hacia una “democracia disciplinada”.

Nyan Win defendió la represión de los manifestantes anti-gobierno porque eran una pandilla “sin orden y provocadora”, y era “necesario restaurar el orden.

“La normalidad ha vuelto a Myanmar,” dijo.

Asimismo añadió ante la Asamblea General de las NNUU que los “neo-colonialistas” -en referencia a EEUU y otras naciones occidentales (China, India o Tailandia que se están “llevando” sus recursos sin considerar los abusos a los DDHH, esos no son colonialistas…) - estaban expandiendo rumores que el gobierno de Birmania estaba cometiendo graves violaciones de DDHH e imponiendo sanciones económicas.

“Los recientes hechos han dejado claro que hay elementos dentro y fuera de nuestro país que quieren descarrilar el proceso que se ha puesto en marcha [hacia la democracia -¿matando monjes en los conventos? ¿torturando y quemando vivos a manifestantes pacíficos? Venga ya, no me haga reír, o llorar de la maldad absoluta de sus palabras] para tener ventajas en el caos que seguiría,” he said.

“Han ido enroscándose cada vez más y han hecho una campaña para enfrentarse al Gobierno.”

Aquiles, tenías razón al estar preocupado por las noticias de ayer.

Y claro, con esto, es normal que hayan tardado los de la Junta Militar (socialista) CUATRO días en recibir al enviado de las NNUU:

no se aportaron más detalles de lo tratado en la cita, aunque la ONU ya ha mostrado su preocupación por el estado de las personas detenidas en los últimos días, más de 6.000, según los medios de la disidencia.

Muy preocupada está la ONU. La veo tannnnnnnnn preocupada como con la represión en tantos otros sitios del mundo: Corea del Norte (donde a los disidentes les usan para probar armamento), Arabia Saudí, Irán, Siria, China (hasta el logo de los JJOO tiene pinta siniestra), etc.

Pero claro, a nadie se le va a ocurrir pedir una intervención armada. Primero, porque EEUU ya está en Irak y Afganistán, principalmente, y China le tiene compradas la tercera parte de la renta pública USA y porque Europa no quiere ni loca pringarse no vaya a ser que a) digan que somos unos “warmongers” y además b) porque si se pringa algún otro siempre se le puede criticar. Eso sí, todos en nuestros sillones diciendo que maravillosos somos porque, ooops, hemos criticado a la Junta Militar -los que lo hemos hecho, otros ni eso: ¿dónde están los titiriteros del “no más sangre por petróleo“? Ahh, que no es Bush, entonces, hale, a buscar unas cuantas subvenciones más y ya está… -. Y sin hacer nada…

Sobre China, escribe el Christian Science Monitor:

China ha comenzado a adoptar un tono crítico con Birmania, diciendo que esperaba que el Gobierno birmano “pudiera resolver sus conflictos sociales domésticos.” El PresidenteWen Jiabao dijo el Sábado en Birmania que quería que se llevase a un solución pacífica. Rompiendo el protocolo, la Asociación de las Naciones del Sudeste Asiático (ASEAN) condenó a Birmania la semana pasada, al tiempo que un estado miembro, Japón decía que iba a suspender la ayuda más importante.
Pero a los ojos de Pekín, apoyar a un régimen impopular en su frontera puede ser preferible a verle que colapsa y con el riesgo añadido de que puede echarle un nuevo gobierno hostil. “Si la Junta Militar no sobrevive, un régimen pro-Occidental sería establecida e inevitablemente volvería la espalda a China y miraría hacía Occidente para obtener apoyo político y económico,” dice Du Jifeng, un analista birmano de la Academia China de Ciencias Sociales.El momento es muy incómodo para Pekín. El Partido Comunista está a punto de comenzar un momento crucial y quiere un frente unido en las elecciones políticas, no disensión sobre Birmania. La visión de los manifestantes pacíficos que se enfrentan a un estado totalitario también tiene paralelos incómodos, dice Russell Moses, un analista en Pekín. “Los hechos en Birmania han incrementado el espectro de cambio político pacífico en China, y eso pone a los políticos de Pekín muy nerviosos,” dice.

Las fotos que se ven arriba son el resultado de una masacre en un Colegio Superior Público, donde se cree que hubo entre 50 y 100 asesinados entre estudiantes y profesores.

The Belmont Club posteó una carta que recibió wretchard de un birmano (no la traduzco entera si no sólo un trozo):

La cuestión es, que acabo de saber que la vida de un japonés vale más que las vidas birmanas. Es evidente considerando la reacción del gobierno japonés después de que fuera asesinado en Rangún. El gobierno japonés ha conocido los abusos a los que la Junta sometía al pueblo birmano todos los días. Ejecuciones sumarias, trabajos forzados, traslados forzosos recluta forzosa de niños y muchas otras atrocidades. Pero el gobierno japonés ha sido indiferente en su política de relacionarse con la Junta militar y apoyarles.
De repente, incluso el Viceministro de Exteriores va a Birmania a investigar la muerta de un periodista japonés. Oh, por favor, no me malinterprete, yo y todos los birmanos apreciamos los esfuerzos de Nagai San para exponer el infierno en vida birmano, a la luz, al mundo exterior. Nuestras condolencias a su familia. Es triste que la vida de un japonés inocente ha tenido que acabarse violentamente porque el gobierno japonés ha ignorado los hechos por décadas, conociendo que pasaban.

As I wrote these last days, one deeds which have arisen general condemnation has been the killing -totally deliberate- of video journalist Kenji Nagai.

Well, the Mutant Frog Travellogue writes about the Japanese position on the subject and how the public has made the Government change its initial position:

The Japanese government has gone from a basically hands-off approach to demanding full explanations at the highest level. Still, new prime minister Yasuo Fukuda has not gone ahead with sanctions and has decided only to demand an explanation and lodge an official protest over the incident. However, most significant is that major commentators have begun calling for Japan to initiate sanctions against the junta, which has so far not been a popular position as Japan has had a policy of so-called dual engagement, giving aid to the country while trying to maintain relations with democracy leaders as well.

Fueling the change in the government’s stance is the fact that Nagai’s death has put a face on the ugliness of tyranny for the Japanese public and the blunt shove and rapid-fire of bullets that felled him symbolize the almost casual brutality that Burma has faced for decades.

The protests’ coverage in the media was transformed overnight at the news of his death and intensified when it was learned that he was killed so brutally, going from the usual “instability in a foreign country that doesn’t affect us” sort of coverage to much more involved reports of the protests that more closely resembled the BBC’s intense up-to-the-minute reporting.

Just read it all. It’s very interesting the whole post.

Another news which shows the nature of this “Burmese way to Socialism”:

The Church’s low profile probably has something to due with this story from the beginning of the year?Burma ‘orders Christians to be wiped out’.

Talking about peaceful guys, hein???

Some videos from Burma. From that link: Burmese blogs around the globe.

Kate was asking yesterday why India was silent:

Delhi’s unease over the protests was clearly illustrated when Petroleum Minister Murli Deora left for the troubled south-east Asian country at the weekend.

Before leaving, he ran into a protest by Burmese pro-democracy activists in Delhi.

The protesters carried placards reading “Deora, don’t go for gas, go for democracy” and “India stop supporting Burmese military rule”.

As Mr Deora reached Burma, the huge street protests against Burma’s military rulers were beginning to peak.

‘Watching developments’

India’s reticence over developments in Burma dates back as least as far as 1988, when the military brutally crushed student protests.

We cannot have democracy at home and support military tyrants in the neighbourhood. India must do all it can for the restoration of democracy in Burma Nandita Haksar, Human rights lawyer

A senior Indian external ministry official said on Wednesday that India was “closely watching the developments in Burma”.

But he was quick to add: “We have no desire to interfere in the internal affairs of Burma.”

An official statement on Mr Deora’s visit said: “He had wide-ranging discussions to explore the possibilities of enhancing bilateral co-operation in the hydrocarbon sector with Burma’s Energy Minister, Brig Gen Lun Thi.”

Mr Deora was also present on Monday at the signing of Production Sharing Contracts (PSC) for three deep-water exploration blocks between India’s ONGC Videsh Limited (OVL) and Burma’s Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) .

“These contracts are a happy development and augur well for expanding the co-operation between the two neighbours,” Mr Deora said on his return to India.

When it comes to Burma, the priority for the world’s largest democracy under economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now quite clear.

With a fast-growing economy, India is desperate to access any major source of energy in the neighbourhood from Iran to Burma and beyond.

And more:

The reason for India’s tardy reaction is clear: The crisis in Burma puts its neighbour to the west in a very difficult position. “India is proud of being the biggest democracy in the world,” says Gerhard Will, Southeast Asia expert at the Berlin-based German Institute for International and Security Affairs. “But at the same time they have an international partner who is repressing democratic movements.”

India’s interest in Burma is largely motivated by the country’s importance to its main economic and political rival. “India is afraid of China’s influence in Burma,” says Will.

And more h/t Global Voices:

India wants Burma’s help fighting rebels on their shared border. In return for this help, they are helping Burma bypass the EU arms embargo, and even helping train the Burmese military. This is pretty heavy support.

The other is that India wants Burmese natural gas, and is afraid that China will take advantage of it if they do not. So both to feed their own economy, and to block China’s, they are willing to make deals with the junta and leave the Burmese people to … fend for themselves against the military that they have helped to arm and train. Given that the Burmese military is a almost a half a million strong (just a smidge smaller than the American active duty Army), it’s hardly a fair fight.

(La India escoge el gas birmano frente a la democracia birmana)

She also asked why the people are not protesting about India. My personal idea is that India is a democracy -something which China isn’t-, has some internal basic problems -such as Kashmir and the lineages’ conflicts- and, lastly, has a normal relationship with Western countries. I suspect that the situation India has -side by side with a nuclear bomb in all aspects as Pakistan is- also something to do with it.

Related news: Two British Parlamentarians witness HR atrocities on Indian-Burmese border:

“In particular, India should re-examine its conscience and stop providing arms and military training to the regime,” [Baroness Cox] said. “India should also reconsider its economic investments in Burma, until a meaningful transition to democracy is underway. The suffering of the people of Burma has gone on too long with too little action.”

ATTENTION: Burmese military is hiding the bodies of the killed. And the Army is currently entering almost all the monastries in Yangon now and shooting the people.

Last news:

Bloggers with sources inside Burma are reporting that there was a military coup by General Maung Aye, second in command of the dictatorship, against Than Shwe, and that his troops are now guarding Aung San Suu Kyi’s home.

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Japón como ya sabeis va a investigar la muerte del video-periodista Kenji Nagai. Al principio, se trató el tema en Japón como si no fuera con ellos, hasta que han visto que sí iba con ellos y de qué manera. Incluso la cobertura mediática pasó de “inestabilidad en un país que no nos importa nada” a informar sobre las protestas minuto a minuto. Lo que da idea del egoísmo humano: si me afecta, hmm, qué interesante, si no, que les dén. Y confirma que en un mundo globalizado TODO nos afecta.

En cuanto a India -ya que me he metido tanto con China, creo que va siendo hora de escribir sobre “la más grande democracia del mundo”, en número de personas-, su silencio en esta materia ha hecho que bastantes indios protesten por la pasividad demostrada.

Existen básicamente dos causes por las cuales India no ha dicho nada.

La primera es el mercado energético. India ha firmado estos días un nuevo acuerdo con Birmania para tres exploraciones en aguas profundas entre la empresa india Videsh Limited y la birmana Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise. Así que queda clara cuál es la prioridad de la India, país que está desesperado por acceder a cualquier precio a cuantas más fuentes de energía mejor desde Irán (hmmm) hasta Birmania y más allá…

Eso sí, eso no les impide auto-denominarse “la más importante democracia del mundo”, pero como dice la abogada de DDHH Nandita Haksar, ” no podemos apoyar la democracia en casa y apoyar a tiranos militares en el extranjero”.

Pero existe otra causa: India está preocupada de la influencia china en el área y teme que si deja Birmania por causa de los DDHH, China la ocupe. De tal modo que está ayudando a Birmania a infringir el embargo decretado por la UE y ayudando a entrenar al ejército birmano. Considerando que éste último tiene un número aproximado de medio millón de hombres, se entiende que la ayuda prestada es muy importante. A cambio, Birmania no sólo le cede gas y petróleo, si no que le ayuda a capturar a los rebeldes que hay en su frontera.

Las últimas noticias son que los militares están escondiendo los cadáveres y que están entrando en los conventos y matando a los monjes.

Mientras Zapatero dice que “es todavía muy pronto para sacar conclusiones“. ¿A qué? ¿A que maten a todos los monjes y a todos los que se oponen a la Socialista Junta Militar?

ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS: Al parecer, bloggers con información desde Birmania han publicado que General Maung Aye, el segundo en la dictadura, ha dado un golpe de Estado y que sus tropas están guardando la casa del General Than Shwe. Francamente, me parece que esto no variará nada el sentido de la dictadura, aunque puede ser que la debilite por la división entre los partidarios de unos y de otros.

Más concentraciones (me las manda Kate) ( debería haberlo publicado antes….) :

For more cities check: http://www.es.amnesty.org/paises/myanmar/pagina/actos-publicos/

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