Myanmar President Thein Sein Thursday announced amnesty for 452 prisoners, including foreigners, the New Light of Myanmar reported.
The amnesty was granted on humanitarian ground and for "prolonging friendship with neighbouring countries", Xinhua quoted the newspaper as saying. The government will extradite the foreign prisoners.
The amnesty was granted on humanitarian ground and for "prolonging friendship with neighbouring countries", Xinhua quoted the newspaper as saying. The government will extradite the foreign prisoners.
BURMA'S SUU KYI MEETS INDIAN PM
ABC
Updated November 15, 2012, 1:25 pm
ABC
Updated November 15, 2012, 1:25 pm
Burmese Opposition Leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has met the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on her landmark trip to the country.
Ms Suu Kyi says she's hopeful her visit will lead to closer ties between the two countries.
She visited the memorial site of India's first elected leader Jawaharlal Nehru, a personal friend of her father General Aung San.
Ms Suu Kyi says she still remembers well her time in India as a student.
"There are things that are different but things like this (memorial) Never changes and i am very happy at that," she said.
India: Aung San Suu Kyi's lesson in Realpolitik
If the Nobel winner is "disappointed" in India, human rights campaigners are losing faith in her, too.
Jason OverdorfNovember 14, 2012 20:38
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi had some backpedaling to do this week during her first visit to India in 40 years. But the world's most famous dissident failed to extricate foot from mouth in recasting her "disappointment" in India for its soft stance on Myanmar's military dictatorship as sadness.
As FirstPost.in's Venky Vembu reports Thursday, both India and Suu Kyi have tumbled off their pedestals. India has discovered Realpolitik as its rising status in world affairs made it so other people actually care what New Delhi thinks and does. And Suu Kyi has discovered the merits of dealing with the devil, rather than simply railing against it, after Myanmar's junta let her out of house arrest to become an opposition politician.
"Suu Kyi has in the past given voice to her sense of 'sadness' that India had in recent years fallen off the pedestal on which she herself – and a lot of other freedom-loving people around the world – had placed it," Vembu writes. "India had, she felt, silenced its moral voice, and begun to strike dirty deals with dictators and military rulers."
"In particular, the fact that the Indian government had openly embraced Myanmar’s military junta, which had robbed her of her election victory in 1990 and jailed her, rankled with her. India, she observe d last year, 'is not as concerned' about the fate of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar 'as we would like them to be.'"
If the Nobel winner is "disappointed" in India, human rights campaigners are losing faith in her, too.
Jason OverdorfNovember 14, 2012 20:38
Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi had some backpedaling to do this week during her first visit to India in 40 years. But the world's most famous dissident failed to extricate foot from mouth in recasting her "disappointment" in India for its soft stance on Myanmar's military dictatorship as sadness.
As FirstPost.in's Venky Vembu reports Thursday, both India and Suu Kyi have tumbled off their pedestals. India has discovered Realpolitik as its rising status in world affairs made it so other people actually care what New Delhi thinks and does. And Suu Kyi has discovered the merits of dealing with the devil, rather than simply railing against it, after Myanmar's junta let her out of house arrest to become an opposition politician.
"Suu Kyi has in the past given voice to her sense of 'sadness' that India had in recent years fallen off the pedestal on which she herself – and a lot of other freedom-loving people around the world – had placed it," Vembu writes. "India had, she felt, silenced its moral voice, and begun to strike dirty deals with dictators and military rulers."
"In particular, the fact that the Indian government had openly embraced Myanmar’s military junta, which had robbed her of her election victory in 1990 and jailed her, rankled with her. India, she observe d last year, 'is not as concerned' about the fate of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar 'as we would like them to be.'"
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