6.10.2008

Foreign Media ‘More Destructive than Nargis’: Junta

By SAW YAN NAING

Writing for the Burmese regime’s two most popular daily newspapers The New Light of Myanmar and Myanma Alin on Sunday, pro-junta writer Ngar Min Swe claimed foreign news organizations and radio stations—including Burmese media abroad—are “more destructive than Nargis.”

The article continued: “Some foreign broadcasting stations are making attempts to undermine national unity under the pretext of Nargis. Such groundless news stories are designed to undermine the trust of donor countries and organizations in Burma and the Burmese people.”

The writer said that reports by foreign news agencies regarding corruption over international aid were wrong and that the foreign media intended to break the trust and create misunderstanding between international donors and the government.

“They have come to destroy the generosity of the donors and the organizations,” he said.

The article also accused a particular citizen of Burma of giving interviews to foreign radio stations saying that the interviewee was a “contributor” for the radio stations and had told lies about the military government.

The article went on to criticize one of the anonymous interviewee’s comments—that cyclone victims would have to eat dead bodies if they didn’t receive chocolate and biscuits from international donors.

However, the reporter applauded another writer, Hlaing Aung, who had suggested in an earlier article in state-run media that cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy delta and Rangoon Division could survive without international aid, such as chocolate bars, by consuming natural resources like vegetables, fish and frogs.

Ngar Min Swe said, “I’m a fish and prawn breeder, so I have some knowledge of fish and prawns. In Burma, the month of May is a period when female fish find suitable places for laying their eggs. This year, no one was in a position to catch pregnant fish. Even a spawning fish, prawn or crab can give birth to millions of [offspring]. Food is more plentiful for them in their pastures this year than previous years.”

The author is believed to be referring to human corpses and animal carcasses as “food” for the fish.

Ngar Min Swe also said Burmese people had achieved their constitutional referendum despite being attacked by foreign radio stations.

However, a local resident in Rangoon who was working with monks to help cyclone survivors dismissed the article. “We are the ones who are helping people and collecting information from them,” he said. “Therefore, we are more credible. As for the government—they usually write those kinds of reports.”

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ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ နာဂစ္ေလေဘးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ေပးသည့္ အကူအညီပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ၎တို႔ ေပးသကဲ့သုိ႔ ျပည္သူမ်ား ထင္ေယာင္ထင္မွားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ကုမၸဏီအခ်ိဳ႕က အျမတ္ထုတ္ေနေၾကာင္း ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းဘက္သုိ႔ သြားေရာက္အကူအညီေပးေနသည့္ ပုဂၢလိက အလႉရွင္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။
ပုဂၢလိက အကူအညီေပးသူတဦးက “က်ေနာ္တို႔အဖဲြ႕ေတြ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕ကေန စက္ေလွေတြနဲ႔ တဆင့္ ထပ္သြားရတဲ့ ကဒံုကနိ၊ ကြင္းပုန္းေက်းရြာ စတဲ့ ရြာေတြကို ေရာက္တယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အဂၤလန္ႏိုင္ငံ Rotary Club က လႉထားတဲ့ Shelter Box နဲ႔ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲေတြ ေတြ႕ရတယ္။ အဲဒီ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲ အားလံုးအေပၚမွာ H ဆိုတဲ့ ထူးထေရးဒင္း ကုမၸဏီအမွတ္တံဆိပ္ေတြ ကပ္ထားတယ္။ မသိရင္ ဒါေတြဟာ ထူးကုမၸဏီက လႉတာေတြလို႔ ျပည္သူေတြ ထင္သြားမယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
အလားတူ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့သူတဦးက German Federal Agency မွ လႉဒါန္း ထားသည့္ Mobile Purify ေရသန္႔စက္ကို ျမင္ေတြ႕ခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း၊ အဆုိပါ ေရသန္႔စက္မ်ား၊ ေရစစ္ ကန္မ်ား အေပၚ၌လည္း H လိုဂိုႏွင့္ ထူးထေရးဒင္းကုမၸဏီ အမွတ္အသားကို ျမင္ေတြ႕ရေၾကာင္း၊ ေရသန္႔စက္ ကိုင္တြယ္သူသည္လည္း ထူးထေရးဒင္းက ၀န္ထမ္းျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အဆုိပါေရသန္႔စက္ လႉဒါန္းသူသည္ ထူးထေရးဒင္းကဟု ထင္ျမင္ယူဆ သြားႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာသည္။
ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ေပးအပ္သည့္ အကူအညီမ်ားတြင္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသသုိ႔ သြားေရာက္ကူညီမည့္ ကၽြမ္းက်င္၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ပါ၀င္ေသာ္လည္း စစ္အစိုးရက ပစၥည္းကိုသာ လက္ခံၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား ကၽြမ္းက်င္သူမ်ားကို ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသသုိ႔ သြားခြင့္မျပဳသည့္အတြက္ ရန္ကုန္၌ပင္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရသည္။
ထုိသုိ႔လႊဲေျပာင္း ေပးသည္ကုိ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သည့္ ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး ကန္ထ႐ိုက္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ခြင့္ရထားေသာ ဧရာေရႊ၀ါ၊ ထူးထေရးဒင္း၊ ေရႊသံလြင္၊ တက္လမ္း၊ အာ႐ံုဦး စသည့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားက လဲႊေျပာင္းရယူခဲ့ၾကသည့္အတြက္ ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ၎တို႔ လႉဒါန္းသကဲ့သုိ႔ အျမတ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ပုဂၢလိက ေလေဘး ကယ္ဆယ္ကူညီေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ၏ ေမ (၁၈) ရက္ထုတ္ ေၾကးမံုသတင္းစာ စာမ်က္ႏွာ (၂) တြင္ အဂၤလန္ႏိုင္ငံ Rotary Club က လႉဒါန္းထားသည့္ Shelter Box မ်ား ရန္ကုန္ေလဆိပ္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာသည္ကို “ဧရာေရႊ၀ါ၊ ထူး၊ ေရႊသံလြင္ႏွင့္ အက္စ္ပီေအ ကုမၸဏီတို႔၏ ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံမွ ၀ယ္ယူထားေသာ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား ေရာက္ရွိ” ဆိုသည့္ ေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္ၿပီး Shelter Box အလံုး (၁,၀၅၀)၊ စုစုေပါင္း (၅၅) တန္ ေရာက္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ ေလေဘးကူညီ ေဆာင္ရြက္သူက ေျပာသည္။
ယင္းမတိုင္ခင္ကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ အလႉပစၥည္းမ်ားကုိ နအဖ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား နာမည္စာတန္း ေရးထိုးခဲ့သျဖင့္ မီဒီယာမ်ားက ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေရးသားခဲ့သည္။

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