When the generals in Rangoon (Yangon) suppressed a popular uprising in 1988, overturned the NLD’s overwhelming electoral victory, shot students, and arrested the new democratically elected leaders, India’s government initially reacted as most Indians would have wanted.

Yangon -- All politics are local, goes the old aphorism.

And India sweetened the generals’ tea by providing military assistance and intelligence support to their own never-ending counter-insurgencies.India’s journey was complete: from standing up for democracy, India had graduated to aiding and abetting the military regime in Rangoon (now Yangon).

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