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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI) , Issue October 2007: Volume IV No 10 |
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
Burma: Democracy upsurge
On September 24, over 100,000 people led by 20,000 monks peacefully took to the streets of Rangoon demanding the release of all political prisoners and for an end to the 45 year rule of the Burmese military junta. While the democracy movement gained strength and messages of support poured in from all parts of the world, guess what the world largest democracy did? India sent its Petroleum Minister Murli Deora to negotiate, with the junta, a deal for exploration of natural gas off the Rakhine coast. India was of course shamed into doing a u-turn, but it still opposes economic sanctions against the Burmese regime. No surprises there, considering India’s deep economic ties with the junta. To quote an Indian official ‘We’re not the only democracy that works with generals’. As the repression against the activists continues, this FOI carries a call for solidarity from the Burmese movements.
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PRESS RELEASE : TRIBUNAL FINDS UNDUE INFLUENCE OF BANK ON INDIA'S NATIONAL POLICIES |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
PRESS RELEASE 24 September 2007, New Delhi World Bank officials shy away from participation 'TRIBUNAL FINDS UNDUE INFLUENCE OF BANK ON INDIA'S NATIONAL POLICIES' New Delhi: The four day Independent Peoples Tribunal (IPT) on the World Bankin India concluded here today hearing numerous depositions indicting the Bank's policy and project interventions in India.
While the World Bank India office did engage with the IPT and claimed they would make a deposition to respond to some of the evidence against the Bank, they failed to show up despite provision of adequate space and time by the organisers.
In its preliminary findings, the IPT observed the Bank had an undue and disturbingly negative influence in shaping India's national policies disproportionate to its contribution, financial or otherwise.
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FOCUS ON INDIA (FOI), Issue September 2007: Volume IV No 9 |
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
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Monthly e-newsletter from Focus on the Global South, India
Content summary:
The most significant political issue currently in the country is the India-USA Nuclear Deal. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is holding the Parliament and the people of the country to ransom by refusing to wait for debate and discussion before going ahead with operationalising the deal. This is despite the majority in Parliament being opposed to the deal. The left parties have pointed out that the controversial deal is not about nuclear energy as much as it is about strategic tie up with USA, a step that is extremely dangerous, not to mention unethical. President Bush wants India as an ally in order to use its territory for its war plans in West Asia and also to checkmate China. PM Singh who signed a Joint Statement with President Bush, covering a wide range of sensitive issues, soon after assuming office treads the same flawed path on the Nuclear Deal.
This issue carries a letter from three eminent jurists questioning the claim of the executive that the deal need not be debated and passed by the Indian Parliament Added to this angle, other wider questions on the deal need to be addressed. About the viability of nuclear energy, the issue of nuclear testing and weapons on one hand and disarmament on the other.
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