11.03.2008

Pope to visit Burma

The pope indicated during a recent visit by Archbishop Bo of Burma that he is ready to make a stopover in the totalitarian country on his way to another Asian country.


Pope Benedict XVI says he is ready to make a stopover in Myanmar if he visits another Asian country, Archbishop Charles Maung Bo of Yangon told UCA News in Rome.

Archbishop Bo met the pope privately on Oct. 23.

The previous week, the Salesian prelate, general secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Myanmar, issued a surprise invitation to Pope Benedict during the archbishop's five-minute intervention at the Synod on the Word of God.

Looking at the pope on Oct. 14, he concluded with the words: "Holy Father, from the time of St. Peter till today, no Holy Father has visited Myanmar. Our warmest welcome to Myanmar!" The synod burst into spontaneous applause when he finished, participants recalled.

Nine days later, Archbishop Bo was in the pope's private library as part of the ad limina visit every bishop is expected to make once in five years to report to the pope and Vatican officials on the situation in his diocese and country.

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"The Holy Father at once pointed out that I had invited him to Myanmar during my synod intervention," Archbishop Bo said. During their private conversation, he recalled, Pope Benedict made it clear "he would be ready to make a short visit to Myanmar if he chooses to visit one of the countries in Asia."

The archbishop found the pope's calmness and "clear mind" impressive amid a busy schedule with numerous visitors. The pontiff was interested in the rehabilitation work the Church was involved in after cyclone Nargis, as well as the general situation in Myanmar.

The Yangon archbishop had not been able to join the other bishops from Myanmar when they made their ad limina visits as a group at the end of May, because he was leading the Church relief efforts in the aftermath of the cyclone that he says killed nearly 150,000 people. He estimated Nargis displaced another 2 million people.

Myanmar has a population of 53 million people, 85 percent of whom are Buddhists, 6 percent Christians and 4 percent Muslims. Of the 3 million Christians, about 700,000 are Catholics. The military has been running the country since 1962 and has suppressed pro-democracy movements.

A Vatican official told UCA News, "It should be stated clearly that there is no persecution against Christianity or Catholics in Myanmar." He also pointed out that even though the Holy See and Myanmar do not have diplomatic relations, the Bangkok-based apostolic delegate to Myanmar can freely visit the country and meet bishops, who also are allowed to travel to the Vatican.

A Church source clarified that Myanmar's Catholic Church enjoys freedom to worship but is not allowed to work freely in the fields of education and health care. "Nor can it express its position on sociopolitical questions in accord with the Church's social teaching," the source said in Rome.

Pope Benedict has made 10 foreign trips since his election in April 2005 -- six European countries and Turkey, which straddles Europe and Asia, as well as Australia, Brazil and the United States. At the close of the synod on Oct. 26, he announced a plan to visit the African countries of Angola and Cameroon in March 2009.

Asia, excepting Turkey, is thus the only continent Pope Benedict has not visited or announced plans to visit, but his remark about being ready to visit Myanmar were he to go to another Asian country suggests he is considering this possibility.

Earlier this year, Cardinal Jean Baptiste Pham Minh Man of Ho Chi Minh said he hoped Pope Benedict would visit Vietnam in 2010, for the 350th anniversary of its first two apostolic vicariates and the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the local Church hierarchy.

Like Myanmar, Vietnam does not have diplomatic relations with the Holy See. A Vatican official said this alone does not present a problem. He cited Pope John Paul II's visit to Mexico in 1979, when that country and the Holy See had no diplomatic ties.

According to Vatican diplomatic sources, a papal visit requires an invitation from the local bishops' conference and the national government's invitation or willingness to receive him, since he is a head of state.


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Juliette Terzieff | Bio | 03 Nov 2008
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BURMA LEADER MARKS 13 YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT -- The first lady of Burmese politics, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, marked 13 years under house arrest on Oct. 25, as supporters around the world continued their calls for her release.

Australia's The Age called the date a prominent illustration of the "bitter tyranny" existing in Burma, noting that "the Lady's unjust imprisonment is a powerful reminder of a brief moment of freedom realized by Burma's people and the dream that remains unfulfilled."

The anniversary happened to coincide this year with the seventh Asia-Europe summit meeting, a major gathering of government representatives from over 40 countries, who used the occasion to issue a united call for the release of Suu Kyi as well as hundreds of other political prisoners in Burma. "This is a significant breakthrough," said Mark Farmaner, director of the Burma Campaign U.K., in a press release. "It is the first time we have had Europe and Asia come together in this way to demand real political progress in Burma."

The international community has been increasingly vocal towards Burma in recent weeks, as frustration over a lack of progress combines with the possibility of a December visit to to the country by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Ban's envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, has made repeated trips to Burma in a bid to convince the ruling military junta to improve rights protections and to restore some measures of democracy. The release of Suu Kyi is viewed by many as the single most powerful statement the junta could make to prove its willingness to reform. Despite a few instances of lip service (see Brian McCartan's WPR briefing) and a much-maligned "system overhaul," the junta has shown little inclination to address the world community's concerns.

While Suu Kyi's long struggle to return democracy to Burma has won her admirers around the world and resulted in her selection for the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, there has been persistent grumbling among younger Burmese that non-violent engagement has achieved little -- especially after the ruling junta's brutal crackdown on monk-led protests last year. It is a dilemma the Dalai Lama has also had to contend with in recent years as younger Tibetans increasingly consider negotiating with China futile. But whereas the Dalai Lama can directly engage and encourage his supporters to follow the path of non-violence, Suu Kyi is all but cut off from the world.

EUROPE HONORS CHINESE DISSIDENT -- Imprisoned Chinese human rights and democracy activist Hu Jia won this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on Oct. 23 in an obvious rebuke by European parliamentarians of China's rights record. The Sakharov prize is awarded by the European Parliament in honor of Andrei Sakharov, a Soviet physicist, pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Past winners include former Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, former U.N. chief Kofi Annan (along with the U.N. staff) and Nigerian human rights lawyer Hauwa Igrahim.

"Hu Jia is one of the real defenders of human rights in the People's Republic of China. The European Parliament is sending out a signal of clear support to all those who support human rights in China," Hans-Gert Pottering, president of the European Parliament, said of the decision.

Virtually unknown only a couple years ago, Hu Jia has since emerged as an internationally recognized rights advocate and become a significant thorn in Beijing's side as a result. Chinese authorities had Hu in their sights for some time, placing him under house arrest (along with his wife and infant daughter) throughout 2007, before arresting him in December 2007, one month after he'd highlighted connections between China's worsening rights situation and the Beijing Olympics in a video presentation to the European Parliament.

In April 2008, Chinese courts sentenced Hu to three-and-a-half years in prison for "inciting to subvert state power," setting off persistent international calls for his release.

Hu was repeatedly named as a likely winner of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize but lost out to former Finnish president and career peacemaker, Martti Ahtisaari, disappointing many in the human rights community who were looking to the Nobel committee to send a strong message to Beijing.

ADVOCATES SEEK GREATER ATTENTION FOR MIGRANT WORKERS -- International human rights groups and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for greater attention to migrant workers' rights last week, as reports of migrant worker-related incidents multiplied around the globe.

On Oct. 29, a migrant worker died at the hands of a half dozen assailants on a train in Mumbai, the latest in a string of deadly outbreaks of violence in India's northeast in recent weeks. Tensions between urban and rural dwellers have been steadily rising in recent years, as impoverished Bangladeshis from across the border and Indian villagers leave rural areas in droves hoping to cash in on the country's growth. Urbanites accuse the newcomers of taking away jobs, and radical Hindu politicians have been widely blamed for stoking the flames of violence.

Meanwhile in Jordan, Amnesty International called on lawmakers to pass legislation that would more strictly define employment terms for domestic migrant workers, setting standards for working hours, rest time and treatment of those facing abuse. Tens of thousands of migrant women -- many from East and Southeast Asia -- work in Jordan, with the majority facing some sort of emotional or physical abuse.

East and Southeast Asian governments also found themselves facing reprimands over their failure to protect migrant workers, a group particularly vulnerable to abuse, in a report released jointly (.pdf) on Oct. 23 by 16 United Nations and aid agencies. "Governments in the region are trying to manage the supply of and demand for migrant workers in a way that meets market needs and minimizes irregular migration. While progress is being made in this regard, opportunities for regular migration remain limited, and employer and migrants react by working outside the existing legal framework," the report said.

One of the greatest sources of potential abuse lies in the system of commercial trade in migrant workers, in which job hunters pay agencies to secure employment and provide transit. In many cases, workers are transported illegally or trapped into debt bondage with little recourse for help. The report also noted a rise in the number of female migrants in the area and urged countries to take additional steps to increase gender-sensitive protections.

NIGER CONVICTED IN SLAVERY CASE -- Anti-slavery activists the world round cheered last week's verdict by the Economic Community of West African States' (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice finding Niger guilty of failing to protect a young girl from being sold into slavery.

Hadijatou Mani was sold into slavery at age 12 in 1996, after which she regularly suffered emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Her main tasks were related to housework, but Mani was also used as a "wahiya" (sex slave), producing three children for her master.

Mani, the child of a slave, faced the threat of stigma and discrimination for publicly challenging the system but considered it a risk worth taking to secure her family's future. "It was very difficult to challenge my former master and to speak out when people see you as nothing more than a slave. But I knew that this was the only way to protect my child from suffering the same fate as myself," she said.

Slavery remains a serious problem in many parts of Africa -- including Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali, Mauritania and the Sudan -- despite legislation prohibiting the practice, with tens of thousands of people languishing in circumstances beyond their control, doomed to watch their children's lives follow the same path. In Niger alone, rights activists believe that as many as 45,000 people are currently living as slaves with no rights and little protection, despite a 2003 law aimed at dismantling the tradition.

Activists hailed last week's ruling as a major victory for anti-slavery efforts, and expressed hope that the court's decision will set a precedent adopted by other judicial institutions.

Juliette Terzieff is a journalist who specializes in human rights. Her regular WPR column, Rights & Wrongs, appears every other Monday.

Junta Invites Gambari to Visit Burma Again

By LALIT K JHA Monday, November 3, 2008

UNITED NATIONS — Burma’s military junta has invited United Nations Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari to visit the country either in the last week of November or early next month, according to UN sources.

The sources told The Irrawaddy that decision makers at the UN’s headquarters in New York have yet to make a call on whether to accept the invitation, as they want to make sure that Gambari’s next visit doesn’t end as abysmally as the last one in August.

During his August visit, Gambari met neither the country’s military ruler, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, nor the popular leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, Aung San Suu Kyi, whose refusal to appear for talks with the envoy was seen as a sign that his efforts have lost the confidence of the opposition.

Critics also pointed to the regime’s refusal to make any concessions on the UN’s demands for political reform and the protection of human rights as evidence of Gambari’s faltering performance.

The invitation was extended to Gambari during a recent luncheon meeting with Kyaw Tint Swe, the Burmese regime’s ambassador to the UN. No fixed dates were set for the proposed visit.

Reliable sources said that Gambari’s trip, if it goes ahead, will be used by the UN to prepare for a visit to Burma by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who was initially scheduled to travel to the country in December.

A December visit by the UN chief looks unlikely, however, as the regime has given no indication that it will meet the world body’s demands for democratic change and the release of political prisoners.

Ban lasted visited Burma in May, several weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy delta, to break a deadlock over the regime’s refusal to allow foreign aid workers into the country.

It is believed that Gambari and top UN decision makers are demanding that the junta make a firm commitment to achieving substantive progress before deciding on exact dates for his next visit.

UN officials believe that a repeat of the August debacle would be a major setback to the world body’s efforts in this Southeast Asian nation, which has been ruled by the military for nearly half a century.

Officials said that the Burmese junta and the UN are currently engaged in negotiations over various aspects of Gambari’s visit. Prominent among these are the list of leaders and officials Gambari would have access to during his trip, and assurances from the regime that it is willing to take new steps in the right direction.

ၾကားသမွ်ုျမင္သမွ်အခ်ိဳးမက်တာေလးေတြ

"နတ္ဝတ္ပုဆိုးတိမ္မီးခိုး"

ကိုေတာသားစာေလးႏွစ္ပုဒ္ေလာက္ေရးလိုက္တာအခ်ိဳ႕ကေျပာၾကတယ္…….

ကိုေတာသားကမွန္တာေတြသိပ္ေရးတယ္……..ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ထိမ္းထိမ္း

သိမ္းသိမ္းေလးေရးသင့္တယ္လို႕ဆိုပါတယ္…..ကိုေတာသားမွာလဲ

ေျပာစရာရွိပါတယ္……အဲလိုထိမ္းသိမ္းခဲ့လို႕ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္ၾကာေနတာလို႔ပါ။

စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ၾကပါစာဖတ္သူမ်ားခင္ဗ်ာ…မေရးေတာ့မသိၾက……မေျပာေတာ့မထိမ္းသိမ္းၾက……မေဝဖန္ေတာ့မျပဳျပင္ၾက…….ဒီလိုသာဆိုရင္ေတာ့ဇတ္

မ်ာႀကီးျဖစ္ေနေတာ့မေပါ့။

ဒီလူေတြနဲ႔ဒီလူေတြဆိုတာက..ေထာင္ထဲမွာရတာေလးမွ်စားၾက…ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံၾကားထဲတူတူတိုက္ပြဲဝင္ခဲ့ၾက……ဖမ္းဆီးႏွိပ္ကြပ္မူေတြၾကားထဲမွာ

ေက်ာခ်င္းကပ္အသက္ေပးၿပီးရပ္တည္ခဲ့ၾကတာ………………..ဒီက်မွသာ

ဘာပိုးေတြကူးတယ္မသိ။

အဆင္ေျပသူကအေသြးအေမြးေတြႀကီးၾက……အဆင္မေျပသူေတြကလမ္းေဘးေရာက္ၾက…..ေကာင္းၾကေတာ့ပါ့မလားခင္ဗ်ာ…….ကိုေတာသားၾကားဘူးခဲ့တဲ့

နတ္ဝတ္ပုဆိုးတိမ္မီးခိုးပံုျပင္ထဲကလိုေတာ့မျဖစ္ၾကေစလိုပါဘူး…….

ၾကားဘူးသူေတြရွိယင္လဲသီးခံၿပီးေက်ာ္ဖတ္ေပးပါ။

ေရွးတုံးကတိုင္းျပည္တခုကိုလူလိမ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ေရာက္လာၿပီး..

ဘုရင္ႀကီးရဲ႕ဘုန္းတံခိုးေၾကာင့္

နတ္မင္းမ်ားကနတ္ပုဆိုးဆက္သလိုက္ပါတယ္လို႔တင္ေလွ်ာက္ပါသတဲ့……

ခၽြင္းခ်က္ကဘုန္းရွိသူမ်ားသာျမင္ရဆိုသကိုခင္ဗ်………ဘုရင္ကလဲသူ

မျမင္ရေတာ့ဘုန္းမရွိဘူးဆိုထီးနန္းခ်ခံရမွာေၾကာက္..မူးမတ္မ်ားကလဲ..

မျမင္ရဘူးဆိုရာထူးျပဳတ္မွာေၾကာက္…ဒီေတာ့..ဘုရင္ႀကီးမွာအဲဒီ…မရွိတဲ့…

ပုဆိုးႀကီးဝတ္တဲ့ကိန္းေရာက္ပါေပါ့…မူးမတ္မ်ားကလဲေပၚေတာ္မူေနပါၿပီဘုရားလို႕

မေျပာရဲ….ဆင္စီးၿပီး……တုိင္းခန္းလွည့္လယ္တဲ့အခါ..တိုင္းသူျပည္သားမ်ားကလဲမေျပာရဲ……ဘုန္းမရွိသူလို႕အထင္ခံရမွာေၾကာက္ၾကသကိုး……ဒီဇတ္လမ္းက….ေရႊပန္းတန္းလန္းနဲ႕ငါးႏွစ္သားေလးဆီေရာက္မွ.."ဟာဘုရင္ႀကီးကအေနာ့္

လိုပဲေရႊပန္းတန္းလန္းနဲ႔"လို႔……..ဆိုေတာ့မွပဲဇာတ္သိမ္းခန္းေရာက္ပါေတာ့တယ္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားကိုလဲ..ဆင္ေပၚမေရာက္ခင္အဲဒီလိုေရႊပန္းတန္းလန္းႀကီး

လို႔အေျပာမခံရေစခ်င္တာ..ကိုေတာသားရဲ႕ေစတနာပါ…ေဖၚလံဖားအႀကိဳက္

ေျပာတဲ့မူးမတ္အမ်ိဳးအစားထဲလဲကိုေတာသားမပါပါရေစနဲ႔…..ၿပီးေတာ့

ကိုေတာသားမွာကဖုန္းလဲရွိၿပီးသားပါ…ေသာၾကာေစ်းကငါးရာနဲ႔ဝယ္ထား

တာပါ…ဒါေၾကာင့္အခုထဲကေပၚေတာ္မူေနပါၿပီဘုရားလို႕ေလွ်ာက္ေနတာပါ…

ပုဆိုးျပန္မဝတ္ခ်င္လဲကိုယ့္သေဘာေပါ႔ခင္ဗ်ာ…..။

တကယ္ဆိုကိုေတာသားကကိုယ့္အခ်င္းခ်င္းေပါင္ကိုယ္လွန္ေထာင္း

ေနတာပါ………..

ကိုယ့္အခ်င္းခ်င္းေထာင္းေတာ့သာသာေလးေပါ့ဗ်ာ…သူမ်ားလာေထာင္းယင္

ဘယ္သက္သာပါ့မဘဲ…ခုနပံုထဲကလို…ဆင္ေပၚေရာက္မွဆိုေတာ့…လဲစရာပုဆိုး

ကလဲမပါ…ျပန္လွည့္ရတဲ့ခရီးကလဲအေဝးႀကီး…။

အဲ….တခုေတာ့ရွိသေပါ့…ကိုေတာသားေထာင္းမယ့္ေနရာမွာအနာစိမ္း

ေပါက္ေနတယ္ဆိုယင္ေတာ့..ႀကိဳေျပာထားလို႕ရပါတယ္ဗ်ာ..အခ်င္းခ်င္းေတြပဲ…

ကိုေတာသားဆီကိုဒီSaffrontowardကတဆင့္ေမးလွမ္းပို႔လိုက္ေပါ့။

ဗ်ာ….ကိုေတာသားဘယ္သူလဲဟုတ္လား….ဟုတ္ကဲ့…ေျပာျပမယ္ေနာ္…

ဒီမိုကေရစီရရင္ေပါ့..

ဟုတ္ကဲ့....ခဏေလးေတာ့ေစာင့္ပါေနာ္............................။


ကိုေတာသား(မဲေဆာက္)

မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ ျမန္မာျပည္လာရန္ စစ္အစိုးရဖိတ္ၾကား

ကမာၻ႔ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးအႀကံေပးအရာရွိ မစၥတာ အီဗရာဟင္ ဂန္ဘာရီကို ယခုလေနာက္ဆံုးအပတ္ (သို႔မဟုတ္) ဒီဇင္ဘာလဆန္းပိုင္းတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္ရန္ စစ္အစိုးရက ဖိတ္ၾကားလိုက္သည္။


မစၥတာ အီဗရာဟင္ ဂန္ဘာရီ (ဓာတ္ပံု - ေအပီ)

မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ ခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ၊ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕ ကုလသမဂၢ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ရွိ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားက လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၾသဂုတ္လခရီးစဥ္ကဲ့သို႔ ထပ္မံႀကံဳေတြ႔မည္ကိုလည္း စိုးရိမ္လ်က္ ရွိသည္။

လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၾသဂုတ္လက မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနစဥ္ ကာလအတြင္း နအဖ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေ႐ႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံု ခြင့္မရသကဲ့သို႔ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကလည္း ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ျငင္းပယ္ခဲ့သည္။

မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီႏွင့္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ ကုလသမဂၢကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးေက်ာ္တင့္ေဆြ တို႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့အၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္ရန္ ဖိတ္ၾကားခံရျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ သြားေရာက္မည့္ ေန႔ရက္ အတိအက်ကိုမူ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မရွိေသးေပ။

မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ၏ ယခုအႀကိမ္ခရီးစဥ္သည္လည္း ၾသဂုတ္လခရီးစဥ္ကဲ့သို႔ မေအာင္ျမင္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ထပ္မံႀကံဳေတြ႔ရဦးမည္ဟု ကုလသမဂၢ အရာရွိမ်ားက ယံုၾကည္ေနၾကသည္။

လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၾသဂုတ္လ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွျပန္သြားအၿပီး အတိုက္အခံပါတီျဖစ္သည့္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အပါအဝင္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ားက ၎အား ေဝဖန္မႈမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီ၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈမ်ားသည္ အလုပ္မျဖစ္၊ လက္ဆုပ္လက္ကိုင္ျပႏိုင္သည့္ တိုးတက္မႈတစံုတရာမရွိဟု အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ပါတီက ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ကာ ေဝဖန္ခဲ့သည္။

မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီသည္ ကုလသမဂၢ လက္ေထာက္အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္တာ၀န္ယူထားစဥ္ ၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ႏွင့္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ မ်ားမွစတင္၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ၂ ႀကိမ္သြားေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာအထူးအႀကံေပး ပုဂၢိဳလ္တာ၀န္ျဖင့္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလမွ ယခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္အထိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ၄ ႀကိမ္ သြားေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ၿခံထဲက အမႈိက္ကုိ စည္ပင္သာယာလာသိမ္း ရန္ကုန္မွာႏုိင္ငံေရးေကာလာဟလထြက္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀င္းထဲမွ အမႈိက္မ်ားကုိ ႏုိ္၀င္ဘာ (၁) ရက္ ေန႔လယ္ပုိင္း၌ စည္ပင္သာယာ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား လာေရာက္ရွင္းလင္းေနသျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ တစုံတရာ အေၾကာင္းရွိမည္ထင္ၿပီး ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေ၀ဖန္ခန္႔မွန္းေနၾကသည္။

မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသမ်ား၏ ေျပာဆုိခ်က္အရ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာ (၁) ရက္ ေန႔လယ္ပုိင္း၌ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၿခံတခါးပြင့္ေနသည့္အျပင္ စည္ပင္သာယာ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ၿခံထဲမွထြက္လာသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသတဦးက “က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ တကၠသုိလ္ထဲမွာ ဘြဲ ့ႏွင္းသဘင္အခမ္းအနားကုိတက္ဖုိ႔ အဲဒီတကၠသုိလ္ရိပ္သာလမ္းကေန ျဖတ္သြားတာပါ။ အဲဒီမွာ ျမင္ခဲ့ရတာက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ၿခံတံခါးကပြင့္ေနၿပီး စည္ပင္ အမႈိက္သိမ္းကားက ၿခံေရွ႕မွာ ရပ္ထားတယ္။ ေနာက္စည္ပင္၀န္ထမ္းေတြက ၿခံထဲကေနထြက္လာတာကုိ ေတြ႕ရတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ထုိျမင္ကြင္းေၾကာင့္ ကုလအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းလာႏုိင္သည့္အတြက္ အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အိမ္ၿခံကုိ ေဆးသုတ္ ရွင္းလင္းေပေနသလား စသျဖင့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ခန္႔မွန္းေ၀ဖန္ေျပာဆုိေနၾကသည္။

အဆုိပါကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းကုိ ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္မွ ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းရာ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက “(ေဆးသုတ္ အမႈိက္ရွင္းတာ) ဟုတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒါ စည္ပင္ကမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သူကိုယ္တိုင္ အစီအစဥ္နဲ႔ လုပ္တာပါ။ တံခါးေဆးသုတ္တာ ကိုယ့္အစီအစဥ္နဲ႔ ကိုယ္သုတ္တာ။ က်ေနာ္သိတာကေတာ့ ၿခံထဲကျမက္ပံုႀကီးကို စည္ပင္က လာယူတာျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ေဒၚစုရဲ႕ အစီအစဥ္နဲ႔ ျမက္ေတြကိုရွင္းတယ္။ ၿခံထဲမွာ ရွင္းလိုက္ေတာ့ ျမက္ပံုႀကီးျဖစ္ေနတာေပါ့။ အဲဒါကို စည္ပင္က လာယူတာျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ က်ေနာ္ အဲဒီလိုပဲ နားလည္ထားပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယခင္ကလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ၿခံထဲမွ အမႈိက္မ်ားကုိ စည္ပင္သာယာမွ လာေရာက္ သိမ္းဖူးသည့္ သာဓကရွိေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ ၎၏ၿခံကုိရွင္းလင္းရာ၌ အျခားသူမ်ား လာေရာက္လုပ္ကုိင္ျခင္းကုိ လက္ခံေလ့မရွိေၾကာင္းလည္း ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနအိမ္ေရွ႕ လမ္းပုိင္းကုိ မၾကာခင္က ျပန္လည္ဖြင့္ေပးလုိက္ေသာ္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနအိမ္ေဘးတခ်က္ရွိ ယာဥ္တား ေမာင္းတန္မ်ားကုိမူ ျဖဳတ္သိမ္းျခင္းမရွိေသးေၾကာင္း မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။