OBAMA SILENT ON 70000 MYANMAR REFUGEES-SPILL OVE TO MANIPUR STATE

http://nsanajaoba.blogspot.com/2008/11/obama-silent-on-70000-myanmar-refugees.html

Guwahati,11 November,2008
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Heroin production,AIDS,7oooo Burmese refugees,maritime insecurity,human rights abuses and the democracy-impasse characterise Manipur's ancient neighbour- Myanmar[Burma]. Burmese refugee spill-overs reach out to small state like Manipur and the drug-trajectory passes through Manipur as the nodal point.


Barack Obama may shift his focus to China rather than giving a thought to Burma and the Asean.However, two of his senior advisors- Frank Januzzi and Robert Gelbar- have been urging upon him to sign the TAC in order to join the East Asia summit.The region with a population of 500 million souls may not be under-focused by any leader worth the salt.

His would- be- predecessor Bush had not been invited to the East Asan summit,since the USA had refused to sign the non-aggression pact- the TAC. USA need not shy away from being a dignified party to non-aggression pacts, in order to demonstrate to the world that rogue-state need not be tagged to the US.


Maritime security,environmental issues, climate change, sustainable development fall within Barack Obama's agenda for change.Burma matter need not be dragged into the UN security council agenda,as somes states wished to do so.Basically,Obama seems to welcome a 'change from within' Myanmar which could remain a wishful foreign policy speculation as long as the region is not taken care of in the Asian initiative.Manipur had been Burma's ancient neighbour which gives shelter to Burmese refugees in a small way though.Obama's change is yet to be made pragmatic in the usual American sense.
Posted by Naorem Sanajaoba,Professor of Law,Assam,India at 9:27 AM