8.15.2009

Burma's News World's News

Aug 15, 10:17 AM (ET)

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.S. Sen. Jim Webb won the release Saturday of an American prisoner convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison for swimming secretly to the residence of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the senator's office said.
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Yettaw, 53, is to be officially deported Sunday, when he will fly with Webb on a military plane to Bangkok, according to a statement from Webb's office.

Before his conviction on Tuesday, Yettaw had spent a week in a prison hospital for epileptic seizures. He is also said to suffer from asthma and diabetes.

During Webb's visit to Myanmar - the first by a member of the U.S. Congress in more than a decade - the senator also secured a rare visit with Suu Kyi, who was convicted along with Yettaw and sentenced to 18 more months under house arrest. She has been detained for 14 of the last 20 years.

The junta may have approved the meeting with Suu Kyi to mitigate the torrent of international criticism against Myanmar following the trial and Tuesday's verdict. In July, authorities barred U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from meeting with Suu Kyi during a two-day visit.

Webb, the statement said, requested that Suu Kyi be released during a meeting with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe on Saturday. It was the first time the reclusive general had met with a senior U.S. official.
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"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying the foundations of goodwill and confidence building in the future," Webb was quoted as saying.

On Saturday, the 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate was driven from her residence to a nearby government guest house for a 40-minute meeting with Webb, then reporters saw her taken home by car.

Webb, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, described the meeting as "an opportunity ... to convey my deep respect to Aung San Suu Kyi for the sacrifices she has made on behalf of democracy around the world."

The senator, who arrived in Myanmar's capital of Naypyitaw on Friday, was scheduled to address reporters in Yangon on Sunday.

The visit - particularly the meetings with senior officials and Suu Kyi - was unusual because of the poor state of relations between Myanmar, also known as Burma, and the U.S. Many critics said it was bad timing for outreach - only days after the junta flouted international appeals that Suu Kyi be cleared of the latest charges. It also drew criticism from activists who say it confers legitimacy on a brutal regime.

While Washington has traditionally been Myanmar's strongest critic, applying political and economic sanctions against the junta, President Barack Obama's new ambassador for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, recently said the administration is interested in easing its policy of isolation. Webb has said that "affirmative engagement" could bring the most change to Myanmar, concerning those who think a hard line is the best approach.

Britain's ambassador to the United Nations suggested Webb's visit could help persuade the junta to free Suu Kyi.

"If the Americans can get the generals to see that their country's interest is reflected in taking interest in reconciliation, releasing Aung San Suu Kyi and holding free and fair elections, that would be very helpful." John Sawyers told BBC Radio 4 on Saturday.

But in a letter to Webb, dissident groups warned the junta would use the senator's trip for its own ends.

"We are concerned that the military regime will manipulate and exploit your visit and propagandize that you endorse their treatment on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and over 2,100 political prisoners, their human rights abuses on the people of Burma, and their systematic, widespread and ongoing attack against the ethnic minorities," the letter said. Daw is a term of respect for older women in Myanmar.

Possibly reflecting a similar wariness, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy said the party "has no interest in Jim Webb because he is not known to have any interest in Myanmar affairs." He did not elaborate.

Official media, however, appeared to herald Webb's arrival. The nightly broadcast led with the visit, reporting that the senator met with Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein on Friday, and returned to the subject several times during the night.

Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The junta called elections in 1990 but refused to honor the results when Suu Kyi's party won overwhelmingly.
Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Greg Katz in London contributed to this report from Washington.

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မေန႔က စစ္အစိုးရ သတင္းစာေတြ ထဲမွာ “ေမတၱာကို ေမတၱာႏွင့္သာ” ဆိုတဲ့ ေဆာင္းပါးတပုဒ္ ပါလာတာ ေတြ႔လိုက္ရပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို စီရင္ခ်က္ခ်တဲ့ကိစၥနဲ႔ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးက သက္ညႇာခြင့္ေပးတာကို ျပည္သူေတြက ႀကိဳဆိုၾကပါတယ္တဲ့။


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ဂြ်န္ယက္ေတာကို မနက္ျဖန္ ျပန္ပို႔မည္

ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေနအိမ္အတြင္းသို႔ ယခုႏွစ္ ေမလဆန္းတြင္ တိတ္တဆိတ္ ဝင္ေရာက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ အဂၤါေန႔က ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၇ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသူ...

အေမရိကန္ ဆီးနိတ္အမတ္ သက္ညႇာခြင့္လႊတ္ေရး ခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာျပည္ လာသေလာ

ထင္ရွားေသာ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားတဦးျဖစ္သူ အထက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္ (Jim Webb) သည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သစ္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္သို႔...


ကိုးကန္႔တပ္ဖဲြ႔အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ ေထာင္ခါ ေဒသအတြင္း စစ္ေရးျပင္ဆင္မႈမ်ား ရိွေန
ခိုင္လင္း / ၁၄ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၀၀၉
“ေလာက္ကိုင္ၿမိဳ႕မွာက နအဖစစ္သားေတြလည္း ရိွတယ္၊ ကိုးကန္႔စစ္သားေတြလည္း ရိွေနတယ္။ ဆိုေတာ့ ႏွစ္ဖက္ ျပန္တိုက္ၾကၿပီဆိုရင္ ဒီၿမိဳ႕ထဲမွာကို တိုက္ပဲြျဖစ္ႏိုင္တယ္။ တ႐ုတ္ဘက္က အလုပ္လာလုပ္တဲ့သူေတြ အခ်ိဳ႕ျပန္ေနၾကၿပီ။ ဟိုတေန႔ ပစ္မယ္၊ ခတ္မယ္ ျဖစ္တဲ့ေန႔ကတည္းက ......”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးကို မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ဝက္ဘ္ သီးျခားေတြ႕ဆုံ

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးကို မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ဝက္ဘ္ သီးျခားေတြ႕ဆုံ

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ဝက္ဘ္သည္ ယေန႔တြင္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေ႐ႊတို႔ကို သီးျခားစီ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ေလွ်ာ့ေရး ဗီယက္နမ္ႏွင့္လာအို ကန္႔ကြက္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေပၚ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့ေသာ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ စီရင္ခ်က္ကို ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးေရးႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အာဆီယံ အလွည့္က် ဥကၠ႒ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံက အဖြဲ႔၀င္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားကို စာေရးအဆိုျပဳခဲ့ရာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အေရးကို

သံဃာ ဆႏၵျပမႈ ထပ္မံျဖစ္ပြားမည္ကို စစ္အစိုးရ စိုးရိမ္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေပၚ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်တရားစီရင္မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပအုံၾကြမည္ကို စိုးရိမ္သည့္ အတြက္ ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ားအပါအ၀င္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ တင္းက်ပ္ မႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

စစ္အစုိးရ မီဒီယာမ်ားကုိ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ အေရးယူၿပီ

စစ္အစိုးရက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁ ႏွစ္ခဲြ ခ်မွတ္လုိက္ျခင္းကုိ တုံ႔ျပန္သည့္ အေနျဖင့္ ဥေရာပသမဂၢက ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရကို ယမန္ေန႔က ပိတ္ဆို႔ ဒဏ္ခတ္မႈ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ခ်မွတ္

အေမရိကန္ အမတ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ေတြ႔၊ ယက္ေတာ ျပန္လြတ္ဖြယ္ရိွ

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(ၾကားျဖတ္သတင္း)
အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ဝဘ္ သည္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ယေန႔နံနက္ပိုင္းကေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ ဗိုလ္မႈးခ်ဳပ္မႈးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၿပီး ၁၂း၄၅ တြင္ရန္ကုန္သို႔ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိလာၿပီး ေနာက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ စိမ္းလဲ့ကန္သာ ခမ္းမတြင္ ေန႕လည္၃း၅၀ မွ ၄း၃၅ အထိ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါသည္။ ထိုသို႔ေတြ႔ဆံုရာတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္မ်ားကို အတိအက် မသိရေသးေသာ္လည္း ထိုအခ်က္အမ်ားအရ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝဘ္သည္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈးႀကီးသန္းေရႊထံမွ တစံုတရာ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္တခုကို ယူေဆာင္လာသျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ရခဲ့သည္ဟု ယူဆရပါသည္။
ထိုေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္၍ သတင္းရရင္ရခ်င္း ဆက္လက္ တင္ျပေပး သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
(ေရႊဝါေရာင္သတင္းလႊာ ၏ ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းေထာက္တဦး)

ၾကားျဖတ္သတင္း

အေမရိကန္ ဆီနိတ္တာမစၥတာဂ်င္မ္္ဝဘ္ဟာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ ႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္သို႔ သြားေရာက္ရာမွ ယေန႔ေန႔လည္ ၁၂း၄၅နာရီတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ယေန႔ေန႔လည္ ၂း၃၀ နာရီတြင္ စိမ္းလဲ့ကန္သာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမည္ ဟု သိရပါသည္။