Indian Army Chief reacts to military coup in Myanmar, says 'India wants stable neighbour'

Indian Army Chief MM Naravane on Wednesday, in his first comment on military coup in Myanmar, asserted that India wants a "stable" Myanmar. Ackwledging Myanmar as a bridge between India and South Asian countries, Army Chief said, "Myanmar plays a key role in India's foreign policy. I think Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has alrey stated country's position in this regard that - we support process for transition to democracy and that is what we should be looking forward to." Naravane was attending a virtual conference on role of Indian Army in dealing with contemporary national security challenges. 

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Naravane went on to highlight Myanmar Army's role in fight against insurgency along Indian borders in rth-east states, and stated, "As far as military to military level interaction is concerned, we share a good repo, especially on border where we conversate quite often. Over last two years, we h a good number of co-ordinated operations in border areas along with Nagaland and Manipur." 

"Myanmar Army has carried out operations in flushing out various Indian insurgent groups, who were taking temporary shelters across border. AS a result of that, a large number of insurgent group surrender took place", he ded. 

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military coup in Myanmar

Myanmar military overthrew democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi on February 1 and declared a year-long state of emergency hours before  newly-elected parliament was about to convene.  military accused Suu Kyi's government of rigging vember elections. Aung San Suu Kyi's party National League for Democracy (NLD) mand to win 396 of 476 parliamentary seats of ones that are t reserved for military.  

Protest against coup

On Sunday, February 21, large numbers of people stormed streets to protest against February 1 military coup. According to reports, two protestors were killed on Saturday after security forces opened fire on m. killing of protestors did t stop people from coming out on streets. Anti-coup protestors in Myanmar's two largest cities also paid tribute to a young woman who died a day earlier after being shot by police in a rally. 

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