2.22.2009

Burma News


Breaking News – for immediate release

22 February 2009


The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) can confirm that 19 political prisoners have been released from various prisons in Burma today.

Yesterday the ruling military regime announced that it would release 6,313 prisoners from 21 February.

The list of released:

Myintkyina prison

1. Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, Member of Parliament from the National
League for Democracy party, was released from Myitkyina Prison. He
has been in jail since 1991.
2. U Pe Sein, Township organizer, Mohnyin, Kachin State.
3. U Naw Naw

Insein prison

4. U Kaythara (a) U Kyaw Min Thet
5. U Ingura (a) U Aye Tun Thar
6. U Thireina (a) U Kyaw Moe
7. U Marlaina (a) U Min Zaw Aung
8. U Ardatesa (a) U Aung Ko
9. U Takekanateya (a) U Maung Zaw
10. U Damitika (a) U Tun Tun
11. U Tun Zaw Htay (a) Tun Tun
12. U Khaing Ba Myint
13. U Soe
14. U Nandathiri (a) U Htay Ye Tun
15. U Sandima (a) U Zaw Min Htet
16. Ma Hmwe (a) Ma Kyin Haw
17. Ma Khin Khin Leah
18. U Tin Hlaing
19. U Thet Wai

-ENDS-

AAPP

Photo by Shwe Nanda

Some Photos of prisoners release (in front of Insein Prision)

14

21

32

U Win Tin (NLD) was waiting in front of the Insein Prison.

43

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Photos of some Political prisoners released that day.

From ;nicknayman.worldpress.com



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ရယ္ေမာျခင္းသည္ ေဆးေကာင္းတခြက္ (laughter is the best medicin)

တတ္ရဲ႕သားနဲ႕

ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္အတြင္း ကုိဘေမာင္ ကားေမာင္းလာသည္။ ယာဥ္ထိန္းရဲက ကားကုိ တားျပီးေျပာသည္။

"ခင္ဗ်ား ကားကုိ သတ္မွတ္မုိင္ႏႈန္းထက္ ပုိေမာင္းလာတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိတာ ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာ ဘာသာစကားနဲ႕ ေျဖရွင္းခ်က္ေရးပါ။"

"က်ေနာ္ ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာ ဘာသာစကားမွ မတတ္ဘဲ၊ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ေရးရမွာလဲ"

"ဆင္ေျခမေပးနဲ႕၊ ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာ ဘာသာစကားနဲ႕ ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ ေရးပါ"

ကားဆရာ စိတ္ညစ္သြားသည္။ မည္သုိ႕မွ် ရွင္းျပ၍ လည္း မရ၊ ေနာက္ဆုံးတြင္ စာရြက္တရြက္ကုိ ထုတ္ျပီး ေငြ ၁၀၀၀ တန္တရြက္ကုိ ညွပ္ေပးလုိက္သည္။ ထုိ႕ေနာက္ ယာဥ္ထိန္းရဲကုိ ကမ္းေပးလုိက္သည္။ ယာဥ္ထိန္းရဲသည္ စာရြက္ကုိျဖန္႕လုိက္သည္။ ေငြစကၠဴကုိေတြ႕ေသာအခါ ကားဆရာကုိ ေျပာလုိက္သည္။

"ေဂ်ာ္ဂ်ီယာလုိ မတတ္ဘူးလုိ႕ ဘာလုိ႕ေျပာတာလဲ အခုေတာင္တ၀က္ေရးျပီးေနျပီးျပီပဲ။ ဆက္ေရး....။"

သက္ေသ

အတန္းထဲတြင္ ျဖစ္သည္၊ဆရာမက ေမးသည္။

"ငါးလိပ္ေက်ာက္ဟာ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႕ ျပားျပားၾကီး ျဖစ္ေနရသလဲ"

ပီတာေလး လက္ညိွဳးေထာင္ျပီး ေျဖသည္။

"ေ၀လငါးနဲ႕ တူတူ အိပ္လုိ႕ပါ"

"ပီတာ မင္း အခုခ်က္ခ်င္း အခန္းထဲက ထြက္သြားစမ္း"

ဤသုိ႕ အမိန္႕ေပးျပီး ဆရာမက ဆက္ေမးသည္။

"ေက်ာက္ပုဇြန္ေတြရဲ႕ မ်က္လုံးေတြ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႕ ျပဴးထြက္ေနရသလဲ၊ ဘယ္သူ သိၾကသလဲကြယ္"

ပီတာေလး ေနာက္လွည့္ျပီး ေအာ္ေျပာသည္။

"ဒါေတြ အားလုံး သူျမင္လုိက္လုိ႕...။"


အေျဖမွန္

ဇီ၀ေဗဒဘာသာရပ္ကုိ သင္ၾကားေနခ်ိန္တြင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဆရာကတပည့္မ်ားကုိ ေျပာသည္။

"တပည့္တုိ႕ကုိ ဆရာ စကားထားတခု ၀ွက္မယ္။ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ နားေထာင္ၾက"

"မိေက်ာင္းနွစ္ေကာင္ ပ်ံသြားတယ္။ တေကာင္က အစိမ္းေရာင္၊ ေနာက္တေကာင္က အာဖရိက တုိက္ဘက္ကုိ ပ်ံသြားတယ္၊ ဆရာ့အသက္ ဘယ္ေလာက္လဲ"

ေက်ာင္းသား အားလုံး ျငိမ္ေနၾကသည္။ ေနာက္ဆုံးခုံတြင္ ထိုင္ေနေသာ ပီတာေလးက ေျပာသည္။

"ဆရာ႕အသက္ ၂၄ နွစ္"

"မွန္တယ္ မင္းေတာ္တယ္။ ဒါနဲ႕ မင္းက ဘယ္လုိလုပ္ ဆရာ အသက္သိတာလဲ"

"က်ေနာ္ အသက္ ၁၂ ႏွစ္ရွိပါျပီ။ ျပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္ကုိ ဦးေနွာက္တ၀က္ ေခ်ာင္တဲ့ေကာင္လုိ႕ အားလုံးက ေျပာၾကတယ္ေလ...။"

အိပ္မေပ်ာ္ေသာည

တည္းခုိခန္းပုိင္ရွင္က ဧည့္သည္ကုိေျပာသည္။

"ညက ေကာင္းေကာင္း အိပ္ေပ်ာ္ပါရဲ႕လား ခင္ဗ်ာ"

"မေမးရင္ ပုိေကာင္းမယ္၊ မေန႕ညက အိပ္ရာထဲမွာ ဂ်ပုိးအေသတေကာင္ကုိ ေတြ႕ရတယ္"

"အေသတေကာင္အတြက္နဲ႕ ဒီေလာက္ေတာင္ စိတ္အေနွာင့္အယွက္ျဖစ္သြားလားဗ်ာ"
"အသုဘကုိ လုိက္ပုိ႕တဲ့ သူ႕ေဆြမ်ိဳးသားခ်င္းေတြကုိ ခင္ဗ်ားျမင္ရင္
ဒီစကားမ်ိဳးေျပာမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး ဟင္း.........."


နုိင္ငံတကာ ျပိဳင္ပြဲ

ကမာၻ႕ တပ္မေတာ္မ်ားအၾကားမွာ ေပါင္မုန္႕စား ျပိဳင္ပြဲတခု က်င္းပသည္။ တစ္ၾကိမ္တည္းနွင့္ မည္သည့္ တပ္မေတာ္သားက အမ်ားဆုံး စားနုိင္သလဲ ဆုိသည္ကုိ ေဖာ္ထုတ္မည့္ပြဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

ပထမဆုံး ဗလေကာင္းေကာင္းႏွင့္ အေမရိကန္စစ္သား ထြက္လာသည္။ေပါင္မုန္႕နွစ္လုံးကုိ စားလုိက္သည္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ မစားနုိင္ေတာ့။

ျပင္သစ္စစ္သားထြက္လာသည္။ ေပါင္မုန္႕ သုံးလုံး စားနုိင္သည္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ထပ္မစားနုိင္ေတာ့။

ဂ်ာမန္စစ္သား အလွည့္ေရာက္လာသည္။ ေပါင္မုန္႕ေလးလုံးခြဲ ကုန္ေအာင္ စားနုိင္သည္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ မစားနုိင္ ေတာ့…။

ျမန္မာစစ္သား ထြက္လာသည္။ တလုံးကုန္ေအာင္မေျပာႏွင့္ ေလးပုံတပုံေတာင္ မနဲကုန္ေအာင္ စားေနရသည္။ ၄င္း စစ္သားကုိ ျပိဳင္ပြဲ၀င္ရန္ ေစလႊတ္သည့္ တာ၀န္ခံအရာရွိအား ကာကြယ္ေရး၀န္ၾကီးက ေခၚျပီး ၾကိမ္းေမာင္း သည္။

"ဘယ္လုိေကာင္မ်ိဳးကုိ မင္းလႊတ္လုိက္သလဲကြ။ ငါလုိ အသက္ၾကီးတဲ့ လူေတာင္ ၾကိဳးစားစားရင္ တလုံးေတာ့ ကုန္နုိင္ပါတယ္ကြ"

တာ၀န္ခံဗိုလ္မွဴးက ျပန္ေျပာသည္။

"ဒီတပ္သားဟာ အခုလုိျဖစ္သြားတာနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ျပီး က်ေနာ္လဲ မစဥ္းစားတတ္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္ရပါတယ္။ ျပိဳင္ပြဲ မစတင္မီ ၁၀ မိနစ္အလုိမွာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႕ သူ႕ကုိ ၾကိဳတင္ေလ့က်င့္ခုိင္းတုန္းကေတာင္ တခါတည္းနဲ႕ ၁၂လုံးကုန္ေအာင္ စားျပလုိက္ေသးတယ္ ခင္ဗ်....။

ရယ္ေမာျခင္းျဖင့္ ဘဝအေမာမ်ားေျပေပ်ာက္ႏိုင္ပါေစ။
အီးေမးမွေပးပို႕လာျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

သတင္းပေဒသာ

ကဗ်ာဆရာ ေလးေမာင္

ေမာင္စြမ္းရည္

ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂၀၊ ၂၀၀၉

ေလးေမာင္ (ျမင္းျခံ) ဆိုတဲ့ ကဗ်ာဆရာဟာ “ဖူးေၾကြ” ဆိုေတာ့ ကဗ်ာဆရာအေနနဲ႔ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားခြင့္ မရခဲ့ရွာပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ စစ္အစုိးရလက္ထက္ ကိုကိုးကၽြန္း အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အစာငတ္ခံတိုက္ပြဲမွာ ရက္ေပါင္း ၅၀ ေက်ာ္ အစာငတ္ခံ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ရင္း က်ဆုံးသြားခဲ့လို႔ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္သမိုင္းမွာ သူရဲေကာင္း အာဇာနည္တဦးအျဖစ္ ေက်ာ္ၾကားသူပါ။
အျပည့္အစုံသိုႛ ...
Students Movement in Burma (06)
ပင္တိုင္ကၸ - ေအာင္ေ၀း
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‘ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢ၊ ရဲေဘာ္သုံးက်ိပ္ႏွင့္ ဖက္ဆစ္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး’
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၁၃ဝဝ ျပည့္ အေရးေတာ္ပံုႀကီးၿပီးတဲ့အခါ ကမၻာမွာ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ စစ္မီးႀကီး ထေတာက္လာပါတယ္။ ၁၉၃၉ခုႏွစ္ခုမွာ ဥေရာပနဲ႔ အာရွတုိက္မွာပါ ဒုတိယကမၻာစစ္ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ အေရွ႔ဖ်ားမွာ ဂ်ပန္က အဂၤလိပ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ကိုလိုနီအင္ပါယာကုိ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္လာပါတယ္။

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နအဖအက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူမ်ား (ဓါတ္ပုံ)။

February 22, 2009

နအဖအက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွ ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူမ်ားအား ေထာင္ေရွ ့တြင္ ဦး၀င္းတင္ အပါအ၀င္ ေစာင့္ဆိုင္း ႀကဳိဆိုေနခဲ့သူ မ်ားႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူမ်ား၏ ဓါတ္ပုံမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

နအဖအက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူမ်ားထဲတြင္ ရဟန္းသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဦးတင္လွဳိင္ ပါ၀င္ေသာ ဓါတ္ပုံမ်ားအား ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ႀကည့္ျမင္ႏို္င္ပါသည္။

(ဓါတ္ပုံမ်ား ေပးပို ့လာေသာ ကိုေရႊနႏၵအား အထူး ေက်းဇူးတင္ရွိပါသည္)။

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နစ္ေနမန္းဘေလာ့မွကူးယူေဖၚျပပါသည္။
- အက်ဥ္းသား ၆၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ယေန႔ညေနတြင္ စတင္လႊတ္ click
- အင္းစိန္ေထာင္မွ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအခ်ဳိ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာ click
- အန္အယ္ဒီအမတ္၊ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ဥကၠ႒ႏွင့္ အဖဲြ႔ဝင္တဦး လြတ္ေျမာက္လာ click
- လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္နဲႛ လြတ္လာတာျဖစ္လိုႛ Mr. Quintina ခရီးစဥ္နဲႛ မသက္ဆိုင္ click
- အက်ဥ္းသား ၆၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက စလႊတ္ေပးေန click
- ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအခ်ဳိ႕ လြတ္ေျမာက္ click
- ျမန္မာ့သတင္းသမဂၢ ညီလာခံက်င္းပ click
- မစုစုေႏြးကို ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ေလွ်ာ့ခ် click
- ဗကသေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဒီၿငိမ္းလင္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္မွ ခႏၲီးေထာင္သို႔ ေျပာင္းေ႐ႊ႕ခံရ click
- ဒီၿငိမ္းလင္းကို ခႏၱီးေထာင္ ေျပာင္းေ႐ႊ႕ click
- ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဒီၿငိမ္းလင္းကို ေထာင္ေျပာင္းေ႐ႊ႕ click
- ဘေလာ့ဂါ ကိုေနဘုန္းလတ္ကို စစ္အစိုးရက ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၈ ႏွစ္ခြဲ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပး click
- ျမန္မာျပည္သို႔သြားေရး မသြားေရး ကုလသမဂၢအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ရမည္ click
- စစ္အစုိးရနဲ႔ မႈယစ္ေဆးဝါးျပႆနာ (မ်က္ေမွာက္ေရးရာ) click
- ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢ၊ ရဲေဘာ္သုံးက်ိပ္ႏွင့္ ဖက္ဆစ္ေတာ္လွန္ေရး (အသံလႊင့္ေဆာင္းပါး) click
- တ႐ုတ္-အေမရိကန္ ဆက္ဆံေရးပိုခုိင္မာဖို႔ ၀န္ႀကီးကလင္တန္ လိုလား click
- ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ခိုင္မာတဲ့ရလဒ္ ဘာမွမေတြ႔ရေသးဘူးလို႔ ဂမ္ဘာရီ အစီအရင္ခံ click
- ဂမ္ဘာရီရဲ႕ ျမန္မာခရီးစဥ္ ကုလဆိုင္ရာ ျပင္သစ္သံအမတ္ႀကီး စိတ္ပ်က္ click
- ျမန္မာသတင္းညီလာခံ၌ နာဂါ့အိအထိမ္းအမွတ္ဆု စတင္ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ click