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Chiang Mai – The Hlaing Township court came down heavily and prosecuted advocates Aung Thein and Khin Maung Shein on October 30. They were representing NLD party members facing trial. The Hlaing Township court judge Daw Aye Myaing prosecuted them for contempt of court after the two lawyers withdrew criminal power granted by their political prisoner clients to represent them in court. "We learnt that the two lawyers were prosecuted under section 3 of the 'Contempt of Court Act' by the Supreme Court in Rangoon', NLD spokesman U Nyan Win said. "The prison authorities didn't let them enter the prison where their cases are being heard. They were prosecuted by the Supreme Court and Hlaing Township Court on contempt of court charges. Summons was served to them" an advocate said on condition of anonymity. The court fixed the hearing for November 6. The judge of Sanchaung Township Court threatened U Khin Maung Shein on 30 October, while he was representing his clients at the court, by saying that he could be prosecuted and imprisoned with disruption of judicial proceedings and warned him to take care. After which he was prosecuted. Similarly young lawyer Ko Nyi Nyi Htwe was summoned to face trial on October 17 and the hearing was fixed for October 30 by the North District Court. But he was arrested on October 29 before the trial date. The North District Court Judge U Thaung Nyunt sentenced Ko Nyi Nyi Htwe to six months in prison under section 228 of the Penal Code and declared Ko Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min as an absconder, after which he issued an arrest warrant against him. Exiled based 'Myanmar Youth Lawyers Law Firm' and 'International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and 'World Organization against Torture' OMCT released a statement yesterday calling for immediate release of Ko Nyi Nyi Htwe and demanded guarantee of his physical and psychological well being by the junta. The statement also demanded an end to all acts of harassment - including at the judicial level - against Mr. Nyi Nyi Htwe and Mr. Saw Kyaw Kyaw Min as well as against all human rights defenders in Burma, in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and other related international instruments in guaranteeing the human rights and fundamental rights which are in force in Burma. The Observatory, a FIDH and OMCT venture, is dedicated to the protection of Human Rights Defenders and advocacy group for UDHR, Civil Rights and Political Rights conventions, Economic Social and Cultural Rights conventions. Furthermore this group is acting at an advisor level in the UN, UNESCO and EU and also acting as observer in Africa Human Right and Citizen Right Commission. The lawyer Pho Phyu said that sentencing lawyer Nyi Nyi Htwe and his clients -- political prisoners Yan Naing Tun, Aung Min Naing a.k.a. Meethway (charcoal) and Myo Kyaw Zin without hearing the complaint submitted by them is violation of section 482 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). "Lawyers in Burma do not enjoy freedom during judicial proceedings. Their rights to submitting the complaint arguing in court on behalf of their clients are being deprived. Section 8 of '1880 Lawyers' Act' is being violated. And also the judicial proceedings are not in accordance with the internationally accepted norm of 1990 Legal Counsels", he said.
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11.04.2008
Two more defence lawyers prosecuted ႏိုင္ငံေရးအမႈမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္သူ ေရွ႕ေနႏွစ္ဦး တရားစဲြခံရျပန္ၿပီ
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"
ကိုေတာသားစာေလးႏွစ္ပုဒ္ေလာက္ေရး
ကိုေ
သိမ္းသိ
ေျပာစရာရွိပါတယ္
စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ၾကပါစာဖတ္သူမ်ားခင္
ေ
ဒီလူေတြနဲ႔ဒီလူေတြဆိုတာက..ေထာင္
ေက်ာခ်င္းကပ္အသက္ေပးၿပီးရပ္တည္
ဘာပိုးေ
အဆင္ေျပသူကအေသြးအေမြးေတြႀကီးၾက…
နတ္ဝတ္ပု
ၾကားဘူးသူေတြရွိယင္လဲသီးခံၿပီးေ
ေရွးတုံးကတိုင္းျပည္တခုကိုလူလိ
ဘုရင္ႀ
နတ္မင္းမ်ားကနတ္ပုဆိုးဆက္သလိုက္
ခၽြ
မျ
မျမင္ရဘူးဆိုရာထူးျပဳတ္မွာေၾကာ
ပုဆိုးႀကီးဝတ္တဲ့ကိန္းေ
မေျပာရဲ….
လိုပဲေရႊပန္းတန္းလန္းနဲ႔"လို႔…
ကၽြန္ေတာ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားကိုလဲ..ဆင္
လို႔အေျပာမခံရေစခ်င္တာ.
ေျပာတဲ့မူးမတ္အမ်ိဳးအစား
ကိုေတာသားမွာကဖုန္းလဲရွိၿ
တာပါ…ဒါေၾကာင့္အခုထဲကေပၚေ
ပုဆိုးျပန္မဝတ္ခ်င္လဲကို
တကယ္ဆိုကိုေတာသားကကိုယ့္အခ်င္းခ်င္းေပါင္ကိ
ေနတာပါ………..
ကိုယ့္
ဘယ္သက္သာပါ့မဘဲ…ခု
ကလဲမပါ…ျပန္လွည့္
အဲ….တခုေတာ့ရွိသေပါ့…ကိုေတာသားေ
ေပါက္ေ
ကိုေတာသားဆီ
ဗ်ာ….ကိုေတာသားဘယ္သူလဲဟုတ္လား….
ဒီမိုကေ
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။
11.02.2008
Six months after cyclone, Burmese junta tightens grip
Despite its uncaring response to the disaster that killed 150,000, the military is stronger than ever
Sunday,2November,2008
The latest risk to the population of the Delta, the most densely populated area of the country, is a lack of drinking water. Immediately after the cyclone, most people relied on monsoon rain for safe water. But now the dry season is coming, and despite an enormous effort to clean up drinking water ponds, many are still unfit for consumption.
"The lack of clean water will directly impact the health of children," said Andrew Kirkwood, Save the Children's country director in Burma. "Scarce family resources will be further strained if they must purchase water, as will relationships among communities if they must compete for this resource."
The damage in May from Cyclone Nargis was huge. Entire villages were destroyed and thousands of people were swept out to sea. Crops and livestock were devastated in what was once Burma's breadbasket, and hundreds of thousands were left homeless – and reliant on a government that demonstrated little inclination or ability to help.
Initially suspicious of foreign offers of aid, the junta blocked entry to aid workers, supplies and helicopters. Eventually, the regime allowed aid workers access to certain parts of the Delta. That decision, it appears, saved thousands of lives.
"The situation is better than I had expected. A huge amount of support did get through," said Roger Yates of ActionAid, who visited the area last week. "The problem now is how to restore livelihoods and to build preparedness to deal with future storms."
Six months ago, the UN launched an appeal for $500m (£310m) to deal with the emergency. Little more than half of this has been committed, which means that long-term rehabilitation is suffering. "I went to villages and asked if anyone had had a good night's sleep since the storm, and they all said no," Mr Yates said. "They told me that every time there is a wind the children get scared. Everyone is on edge."
Burma, the poorest country in south-east Asia, has been ruled since 1962 by a succession of military regimes that have jailed opposition politicians such as Aung San Suu Kyi. Worldwide criticism of the junta after the cyclone led activists to believe its grip might be loosened, since the disaster came only months after massive public demonstrations in September 2007, when up to 100,000 Buddhist monks and others took to the streets in protest. But those protests were violently put down, and, six months after Nargis, the regime appears to have cemented its position.
"The cyclone has been a blessing for the regime," said Mark Farmaner, of the Burma Campaign UK. "The UN and governments seem to have forgotten the brutal suppression of the peaceful uprising last year. Forgotten also are the 2,100 political prisoners... The small amount of humanitarian space they have opened up in the Delta region is being hailed as a major breakthrough, despite aid restrictions still existing in the rest of the country."
Next month will see a return trip to Burma by the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, who visited the Delta in May. Some hope this might persuade the regime to release some political prisoners. In May, just days after Nargis struck, the regime held a referendum for a new constitution that will purportedly open the way for multi-party elections in 2010. Most believe the referendum was a sham.
Burma cyclone survivors struggle on
AUNG HLA TUN | PAY KUNHASAY, BURMA - Nov 02 2008 07:40
Six months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into army-ruled Burma, killing more than 130 000 people, many in the worst-hit Irrawaddy Delta continue to rely on handouts to stay alive.
"We get rice and beans from a charity called Care Burma, drinking water from the sky and fish from this creek," said Maung Oo, a swarthy 51-year-old, as he stared at monsoon floodwaters lapping against his makeshift bamboo and tarpaulin hut.
Around the village, 40km south of Rangoon, the paddy fields are under water and unplanted, casting doubt on assertions from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation that 97% of storm-hit parts of the delta -- once the "rice bowl of Asia" -- is under cultivation again.
"We can't wait to grow our own paddy. We really hate living on charity -- although that is not to say we are not grateful," Maung Oo said.
"We don't want to depend on others, but to be honest, that's just wishful thinking at the moment because the situation does not allow us to be independent as yet," he said.
It may be another four weeks before he can start planting, he added.
The rough monsoon season weather in the delta in the last four months has also kept the villagers on edge, every storm stirring up fears of a repeat of the May 2 cyclone that crashed ashore with a 4m wall of water.
"We get scared to death when it's windy so we now keep a radio handy all the time so that we can know the size of the danger by listening to the weather report," his wife, Ma Nu, said, holding up a basic battery-powered wireless set.
Another farmer, 70-year-old Bo Sein, complained that rice seed handed out for replanting was a mixture of varieties that ripen at different times, making it a nightmare to harvest.
"Maybe it's because they came from different sources, but as a result while some plants are ready to harvest others are still not ripe," he said.
Homes for the favoured
Even though most of the estimated 2,4-million people affected by the cyclone have received little official assistance, a few new homes built by private donors under the aegis of the ruling military junta have sprung up from the devastation.
In some cases, however, they have gone to those with the best connections, rather than the most pressing needs.
"Not all the needy got houses and not all those who got houses were needy," said one resident of Latkhitegon, a village south of Rangoon that has received ten new wooden homes.
"Five of them had their homes really badly damaged by Nargis. The other five did not suffer that much damage, but they got the houses because they are the VIPs," the man, who did not wish to be name for fear of reprisals, said.
Thayet Thonebin, a village south of Rangoon where half the 340 residents were killed, have fared better in the rehabilitation lottery, receiving 32 new homes courtesy of the Energy Ministry and Malaysian petroleum company Petronas.
However, survivors are still haunted by a sense of shame at relying on handouts and hopelessness at a lack of jobs or prospects.
"We are really ashamed by having to live on the charity all the time. We now have to depend on them for rice," said labourer Maung Tun.
နာဂစ္ ၆ လအလြန္ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္သူေတြရဲ႕ ဘ၀ နာလန္ မထူေသး
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွာ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္း ၀င္ေရာက္ တိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့တာ ဒီေန ့ နို၀င္ဘာလ ၂ ရက္ဆို ၆ လတင္းတင္းျပည့္ခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ၆ လအတြင္း ကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရးေတြ အခက္အခဲေတြၾကား ေရာက္ရွိလာခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ခုခ်ိန္အထိ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ ျပည္သူေတြထဲမွာ ေန႔စဥ္ မွီ၀ဲဖို ့ အစားအေသာက္ကိုပင္ အလံုအေလာက္ရဖို ့ မလြယ္ကူေသးဘူး။ ေန ့စဥ္ေသာက္သံုးစရာေတြ အလံုအေလာက္ရွိမွာသာ လူေတြရဲ ့ ဘ၀ ပံုမွန္ျပန္လည္ လည္ပတ္နိုင္တဲ့ အဆင့္ေရာက္နိုင္မွာမို ့ နိုင္ငံတကာက ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့မႈေတြ ထပ္လိုေသးတယ္လို ့
မေန ့ကထုတ္ေစတဲ့ World Vision အဖြဲ ့ရဲ ့ ၆ လပတ္ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
World Vision အဖြဲ ့ရဲ ့ မၾကာခင္က ကြင္းဆင္းေကာက္ယူခဲ့တဲ့ စစ္တမ္းေတြအရ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ ျပည္သူအမ်ားဟာ မုန္တိုင္းတိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့ၿပီးလို ့ ၆ လအၾကာမွာေတာင္ ေန႔တဒူ၀ အသက္ရွင္ရာမွာ ပံုမွန္အတိုင္း ျပည္လည္ မလႈပ္ရွား နိုင္ၾကပဲ အေျခခံက်တဲ့ လိုအပ္မႈေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ရွိေသးတယ္လို ့ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ဒာဓိကကေတာ့ အစားအေသာက္ မလံုေလာက္မႈပါပဲ။ မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္သင့္ေဒသမွာရွိတဲ့ ျပည္သူထဲက သံုးပံုႏွစ္ပံုနီးပါးပဲ သန္ ့ရွင္းတဲ့ေသာက္သံုးေရကို ရနိုင္ေသးတာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို ့ဆိုပါတယ္။ က်န္တဲ့ သံုးပံုတပံုကေတာ့ ေသာက္သံုးေရ အလံုအေလာက္ မရရွိတဲ့အျပင္ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ တလတာအတြင္း ေန႔စဥ္ ထမင္းနပ္မွန္ေအာင္ မစားခဲ့ရဘူးလို ့ ေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။
“မၾကာခင္တုန္းက ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို ့ ေကာက္ယူတဲ့ စစ္တမ္းေတြအရ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ မိသားစုေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ေန ့စဥ္ စားသံုးတဲ့ အစားအစာပမာဏကို ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ၾက႔ရတယ္။ ဒီလို ထမင္းနပ္မွန္ေအာင္မစားရတာဟာ တခ်ိဳ ့ဆို ၁ လ ၂ လေလာက္ေတာင္ရွိပါၿပီ။ ဆိုေတာ့ ေကာင္းလာတဲ့အေျခအေနေတြရွိသလို ပိုဆိုးသြားတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြကိုလည္းေတြ ့ရပါတယ္။”
ဒီလို အစားအေသာက္ျပတ္လပ္မႈေတြေၾကာင့္ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္သူေတြအမ်ားစုဟာ ေန႔စဥ္အသက္ဆက္ေရးအတြက္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြက ေပးလွဴတဲ့ အစားအေသာက္ အေထာက္အပံ့ေတြကိုပဲ အားကိုးေနရတံုးပဲလို ့ဆိုပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တခါ အသက္ ၅ ႏွစ္နဲ ့ ၁၁ ႏွစ္ၾကား ကေလးေတြရဲ ့ ၃၀% နဲ ့ အသက္ ၁၂ နဲ ့ ၁၇ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ထဲက ၅၀% ဟာလည္း ခုခ်ိန္ထိ ေက်ာင္းမတက္နိုင္ေသးဘူးလို ့ဆိုပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနရတဲ့ အခက္အခဲကေတာ့ စိတ္ပိုင္းဆုိင္ရာ ထိတ္လန္႔မႈေတြပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ လူေတြသာမက လယ္ယာသံုး ကၽြဲႏြားေတြ အထိေတာင္ ဂယက္ရုိက္မႈရွိေနတယ္”
“မုန္တိုင္းကို ရင္ဆိုင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ လူႀကီးေရာ ကေလးပါ စိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ဖိစိးမႈေတြ အခက္အခဲေတြကို ႀကံဳရပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔ပဲ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ လယ္သမားေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားဆီက ၾကားခဲ့ရတာကေတာ့ မုန္တိုင္းတိုက္ၿပီးကတည္းက သူ ့ရဲ ့ သက္ရွင္က်န္ရစ္တဲ့ ကၽြဲေတြေတာင္ မုန္တိုင္းရဲ ့ ေျခာက္လွန္ ့မႈေတြေၾကာင့္ ပံုမွန္အတိုင္းအလုပ္မလုပ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ တိရိစာၦန္ေတာင္ ဒီလိုျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုရင္ လူဆိုရင္မေျပာပါေတာ့နဲ ဗ်ာ။”
လို႕ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ World Vision အဖြဲ႔က Mr. Ashley Clenments ကရွင္းျပသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။
နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း ၁ သိန္းေက်ာ္ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရံုသာမက လယ္ယာလုပ္ငန္းေတြမွာသံုးတဲ့ ကၽြဲႏြားေပါင္း ၂ သန္းဆံုးရႈံးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ဆန္စပါးစို္က္ပ်ိဳးတဲ့ လယ္ဧက ၁ သန္းဟာလည္ ဆားငံေရေအာက္ႏွစ္ျမဳပ္ခဲ့ရသလို ငါးဖမ္းေလွရာေပါင္းမ်ားစြာနဲ ့ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အေျခအခံလူမႈအေဆာက္အအံုတို ့လည္း ပ်က္စီးခဲ့ရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဗဟိုတြင္ ျပဳျပင္ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈလုပ္ေရး နယ္အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား ေဆြးေႏြး
မိတၳီလာႏွင့္ အနီးတ၀ုိက္ရွိ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၀င္မ်ားက ပါတီ ဗဟိုတြင္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးႏွင့္ အင္အားတိုးခ်ဲ႔ရန္ ယေန႔ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ လပတ္ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။
မိတၳီလာ၊ သာစည္၊ ၀မ္းတြင္း၊ ေတာင္သာျမိဳ့နယ္မ်ားမွ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၀င္မ်ားက ပါတီအေနျဖင့္ လက္ရွိ အေျခအေနတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ား အားေလ်ာ့လာေနေသာေၾကာင့္ စြမ္းေဆာင္ေရး တိုးတက္လာေစရန္ ပါတီထိပ္ပိုင္းတြင္ ျပင္ဆင္မႈမ်ား အျမန္ ျပဳလုပ္သင့္သည္ဟုဆိုကာ ဗဟိုသို႔ စာျဖင့္ ေရးသားေပးပို႔ရန္ စီစဥ္လွ်က္ ရွိသည္။
"၂၀၁၀ မွာ က်မတို႔ ရင္ဆိုင္ဖို႔ အတြက္ အရံသင့္ ျပင္ဆင္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ေနျပီ။ သိပ္ကို ေနာက္က်ေနျပီ။ အခ်ိန္ သိပ္ဆြဲလို႔ မျဖစ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ ဗဟိုကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕ ဖြဲ႔စည္းဖို႔ လိုအပ္တယ္။ အလုပ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္လို႔ ဒီလိုတိုးခ်ဲ႕ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးပါလို႔ က်မတို႔က ေတာင္းဆိုတာပါ" ဟု အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ မိတၳီလာ႐ံုး အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္ေအးက ေျပာသည္။
ေလးျမိဳ့နယ္မွ ျမိဳ႕နယ္စည္း ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ လစဥ္ပံုမွန္ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ပါတီ ဗဟို အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ စည္းေ၀း ေခၚေပးရန္၊ ဗဟုိ အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႔ကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕အားျဖည့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးရန္ လူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဗဟိုအဖြဲ႔၀င္လူၾကီးမ်ား အၾကား ညွိႏႈိင္းေဆြးေႏြး အေျဖရွာေပးရန္တို႔ တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ယခုကဲ့သို့ ျမိဳ႔နယ္စည္း ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားက ပါတီတြင္း မၾကာေသးခင္က ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ လူငယ္ႏွင့္ ထိပ္တန္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ပိုင္း ကြဲျပားမႈကို ထပ္မံ မီးေမာင္းထိုးေပးရာ ျဖစ္လာေစသည္။
တက္ေရာက္လာသူမ်ားအထဲမွ အခ်ဳိ႕က ပါတီဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊ၏ က်န္းမာေရးအေပၚ စိုးရိမ္မႈမ်ားရွိေနျပီး ဗဟို အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ားက တိုင္းႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အဆင့္အထိ ညႊန္ၾကားမႈမ်ား မလုပ္ႏိုင္ျခင္းအတြက္လည္း ေထာက္ျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။
"လူၾကီးေတြကို မေလးစားလို႔လည္း မဟုတ္ဖူး၊ မုန္းလို႔ ခ်စ္လို႔လည္း မဟုတ္ဖူး၊ အဓိကကေတာ့ ဗဟို အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ေတြက အသက္ ၇၀ ေက်ာ္၊ ၈၀ ေတြရွိေနတာ။ ဥကၠဌ ကိုယ္တိုင္က ၉၀ ေလာက္ ရွိေနျပီ။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ စြမ္းအားက နည္းသြားျပီ" ဟု ေတာင္သာျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ဦးသန္းျမင့္က ေျပာျပသည္။
အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔အေန၏ အဓိက အေရးပါသူမ်ားအနက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ဦးတင္ဦးတို႔မွာ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ခံထားရသည္။ လက္ရွိ ဦးေဆာင္ လႈပ္ရွားေနသူမ်ားတြင္ ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊမွာ အသက္ ၉၁ ႏွစ္ျဖစ္ျပီး အမ်ားစုမွာ ၈၀ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္သူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ ပါတီျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႔အတြင္း ငယ္ရြယ္သူမ်ားျဖင့္ အားသစ္ေလာင္းခဲ့ရာ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္း၊ ဦးဟံသာျမင့္ႏွင့္ ဦး၀င္းႏိုင္တို့မွာ လက္ရင္း အၾကီးတန္းေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားထက္ အသက္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္ ငယ္ရြယ္သူမ်ားပင္ ပါ၀င္သည္္။
"ဒီ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ စနစ္ကို ဖယ္ခ်ျပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီ ႏိုင္ငံသစ္ တည္ေထာင္မယ့္ ေနရာမွာ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးၾကန္႔ၾကာရင္ ျပည္သူေတြ နာတယ္။ လူထုနာတယ္။ တိုင္းျပည္နာတယ္။" ဟု ဦးသန္းျမင့္က ေျပာသည္။
ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ပါတီတြင္း လူငယ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ခန္႔အပ္ထားျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ အၾကီးတန္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ သေဘာကြဲျပီး ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းအတြင္းမွ လူငယ္ ၁၀၉ ေယာက္ ႏႈတ္ထြက္ခဲ့သည္။
သို႔ရာတြင္ယခုအခါပါတီ၏သမာသမတ္က်ေသာလူႀကီးမ်ား၏ညိွႏိုင္းေပးမႈေၾကာင့္ယခုအခါ
လူငယ္အခ်ိဳ႕မွလြဲ၍က်န္လူငယ္မ်ား၄င္းတို႕၏ႏႈတ္ထြက္စာမ်ားကိုျပန္ရုတ္သိမ္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း
သိရပါသည္။
မိတၳီလာ၊ သာစည္၊ ၀မ္းတြင္း၊ ေတာင္သာျမိဳ့နယ္မ်ားမွ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၀င္မ်ားက ပါတီအေနျဖင့္ လက္ရွိ အေျခအေနတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ား အားေလ်ာ့လာေနေသာေၾကာင့္ စြမ္းေဆာင္ေရး တိုးတက္လာေစရန္ ပါတီထိပ္ပိုင္းတြင္ ျပင္ဆင္မႈမ်ား အျမန္ ျပဳလုပ္သင့္သည္ဟုဆိုကာ ဗဟိုသို႔ စာျဖင့္ ေရးသားေပးပို႔ရန္ စီစဥ္လွ်က္ ရွိသည္။
"၂၀၁၀ မွာ က်မတို႔ ရင္ဆိုင္ဖို႔ အတြက္ အရံသင့္ ျပင္ဆင္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ေနျပီ။ သိပ္ကို ေနာက္က်ေနျပီ။ အခ်ိန္ သိပ္ဆြဲလို႔ မျဖစ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ ဗဟိုကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕ ဖြဲ႔စည္းဖို႔ လိုအပ္တယ္။ အလုပ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္လို႔ ဒီလိုတိုးခ်ဲ႕ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးပါလို႔ က်မတို႔က ေတာင္းဆိုတာပါ" ဟု အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ မိတၳီလာ႐ံုး အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္ေအးက ေျပာသည္။
ေလးျမိဳ့နယ္မွ ျမိဳ႕နယ္စည္း ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ လစဥ္ပံုမွန္ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ပါတီ ဗဟို အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ စည္းေ၀း ေခၚေပးရန္၊ ဗဟုိ အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႔ကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕အားျဖည့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးရန္ လူငယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဗဟိုအဖြဲ႔၀င္လူၾကီးမ်ား အၾကား ညွိႏႈိင္းေဆြးေႏြး အေျဖရွာေပးရန္တို႔ တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ယခုကဲ့သို့ ျမိဳ႔နယ္စည္း ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားက ပါတီတြင္း မၾကာေသးခင္က ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည့္ လူငယ္ႏွင့္ ထိပ္တန္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ပိုင္း ကြဲျပားမႈကို ထပ္မံ မီးေမာင္းထိုးေပးရာ ျဖစ္လာေစသည္။
တက္ေရာက္လာသူမ်ားအထဲမွ အခ်ဳိ႕က ပါတီဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊ၏ က်န္းမာေရးအေပၚ စိုးရိမ္မႈမ်ားရွိေနျပီး ဗဟို အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ားက တိုင္းႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အဆင့္အထိ ညႊန္ၾကားမႈမ်ား မလုပ္ႏိုင္ျခင္းအတြက္လည္း ေထာက္ျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။
"လူၾကီးေတြကို မေလးစားလို႔လည္း မဟုတ္ဖူး၊ မုန္းလို႔ ခ်စ္လို႔လည္း မဟုတ္ဖူး၊ အဓိကကေတာ့ ဗဟို အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ေတြက အသက္ ၇၀ ေက်ာ္၊ ၈၀ ေတြရွိေနတာ။ ဥကၠဌ ကိုယ္တိုင္က ၉၀ ေလာက္ ရွိေနျပီ။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ စြမ္းအားက နည္းသြားျပီ" ဟု ေတာင္သာျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ဦးသန္းျမင့္က ေျပာျပသည္။
အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔အေန၏ အဓိက အေရးပါသူမ်ားအနက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ဦးတင္ဦးတို႔မွာ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ခံထားရသည္။ လက္ရွိ ဦးေဆာင္ လႈပ္ရွားေနသူမ်ားတြင္ ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊမွာ အသက္ ၉၁ ႏွစ္ျဖစ္ျပီး အမ်ားစုမွာ ၈၀ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္သူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ ပါတီျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႔အတြင္း ငယ္ရြယ္သူမ်ားျဖင့္ အားသစ္ေလာင္းခဲ့ရာ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္း၊ ဦးဟံသာျမင့္ႏွင့္ ဦး၀င္းႏိုင္တို့မွာ လက္ရင္း အၾကီးတန္းေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားထက္ အသက္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္ ငယ္ရြယ္သူမ်ားပင္ ပါ၀င္သည္္။
"ဒီ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ စနစ္ကို ဖယ္ခ်ျပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီ ႏိုင္ငံသစ္ တည္ေထာင္မယ့္ ေနရာမွာ ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးၾကန္႔ၾကာရင္ ျပည္သူေတြ နာတယ္။ လူထုနာတယ္။ တိုင္းျပည္နာတယ္။" ဟု ဦးသန္းျမင့္က ေျပာသည္။
ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁၆ ရက္ေန႔က ပါတီတြင္း လူငယ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ခန္႔အပ္ထားျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ အၾကီးတန္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ သေဘာကြဲျပီး ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းအတြင္းမွ လူငယ္ ၁၀၉ ေယာက္ ႏႈတ္ထြက္ခဲ့သည္။
သို႔ရာတြင္ယခုအခါပါတီ၏သမာသမတ္က်ေသာလူႀကီးမ်ား၏ညိွႏိုင္းေပးမႈေၾကာင့္ယခုအခါ
လူငယ္အခ်ိဳ႕မွလြဲ၍က်န္လူငယ္မ်ား၄င္းတို႕၏ႏႈတ္ထြက္စာမ်ားကိုျပန္ရုတ္သိမ္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း
သိရပါသည္။
အဖြဲ႔ခ်ုဳပ္လူငယ္မ်ား၏ႏႈတ္ထြက္မႈအေပၚRFA၏ သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးႏွင့္Saffrontoward၏အျမင္
ဒီသတင္းေဆာင္းပါးဟာRFAရဲ႕သတင္းေ
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ထိုင္ၾကမယ့္ျပည္ေထာင္စုႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ႀကီးဟာေရႊျ
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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဘာသာျပန္ဆိုထားေသာ RUDWARD KIPLING ၏ "IF"
'IF. . . .'
'အကယ္၍'
If you can keep your heard when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
အကယ္၍
မင္းအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းက
တုန္လႈပ္ေျခာက္ျခားၿပီး
ဒါေတြဟာ
မင္းေၾကာင့္လုိ႔
၀ုိင္း၀န္းျပစ္တင္ၾကတဲ့အခါ
မင္းဟာ
ေခါင္းေအးေအးနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . . . . .. . .။
If you can trust yourself when all doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too,
အကယ္၍
အားလံုးက မင္းကုိ
မယံုသကၤာျဖစ္လာတဲ့အခါ
သူတုိ႔ကုိ နားလည္စြာခြင့္လႊတ္ရင္းနဲ႔
မင္းကုိယ္မင္း ယံုၾကည္မႈအျပည့္ရွိမယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . . . . . .။
IF you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoker
Twisted by knaves to make atrap for fools,
On watch the things you gave your life to broken.
And stoop and build’em up with won-out tools:
အကယ္၍
မင္းရဲ႕အမွန္စကားေတြကုိ
လူလိမ္လူညစ္ေတြက
လွည့္စားေျပာင္းလဲၿပီး
မုသားအျဖစ္ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ဆင္ညစ္တဲ့အခါ
မင္းဟာ
တည္ၿငိမ္စြာနဲ႔ နာၾကားႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္
ဒါမွမဟုတ္
မင္းဘ၀တစ္ခုလံုးေပးၿပီး
အရိပ္တၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ျဖည့္ဆီးခဲ့ရတဲ့ အရာရာကုိ
ဖ်က္ဆီးခံလုိက္ရၿပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္မွာ
အင္မတန္ေသးငယ္တဲ့ တန္ဆာပလာ အရာရာနဲ႔
ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . . . . . .။
If you can make one heap of all your winnings,
And risk it on turn of pitch-and-toss.
And lose? And start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a ward about your loss:
အကယ္၍
မင္းႏုိင္ခဲ့သမွ်ေတြအားလုံးဟာ
ေၾကြတစ္လွည့္ ၾကက္တစ္ခုန္ပမာ
တစ္လွည့္တစ္ခါတည္းနဲ႔ ဆုံးရႈံးသြားခဲ့ရင္….
ၿပီးေတာ့
အစကေန ျပန္စႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္….
ၿပီးေတာ့တစ္ခါ
ဆုိးလွတဲ့ကံၾကမၼာရယ္လုိ႔
ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွ ညည္းညဴးမေနဘူးဆုိရင္. . . . . .။
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew,
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the will which says to them: ‘ Hold on:!’
အကယ္၍
သူမ်ားတကာ လုပ္ၿပီးသြားၾကလုိ႔ အခ်ိန္အေတာ္ၾကာမွ
မင္းအလွည့္ေရာက္လာတဲ့အခါ
မင္းတစ္ေယာက္တည္းနဲ႔ပဲ
အားနဲ႔မာန္နဲ႔ ဇဲြသတၱိရွိရွိ ဆက္ႀကိဳးစားမယ္ဆုိရင္…..
အဲဒီလုိပဲ
မင္းမွာ စိတ္အင္အားကလဲြလုိ႔
ဘာဆုိဘာမွ မရွိေတာ့တဲ့အခါ
အဲဒီစိတ္ဓာတ္အင္အားကုိ
ခုိင္မာစြာနဲ႔ပဲ ဆက္လက္ဆုပ္ကုိင္ထားႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . . .။
If you can wait and be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor take too wise,
အကယ္၍
ေစာင့္သင့္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ကုိ ေစာင့္ႏုိင္ၿပီး
အဲဒီအတြက္လည္း မေမာမပန္းေနႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္…
ဒါမွမဟုတ္
မင္းရဲ႕အေၾကာင္း
မဟုတ္တရား မုသားစကား ၾကားရတဲ့အခါ
မင္းကလည္း အလိမ္အညာေတြနဲ႔
မတုန္႔ျပန္ဘူးဆုိရင္….
ဒါမွမဟုတ္
မင္းကုိ လူတကာက ၀ုိင္း၀န္းမုန္းတီးတဲ့အခါ
မင္းဟာ အမုန္းေတြျပန္မပြားဘူးဆုိရင္….
ၿပီးေတာ့
မင္းကုိမင္း လူေတာ္တစ္ေယာက္ရယ္လုိ႔ မျမင္ဘဲ
ပညာရွိစကားေတြလည္း မေျပာဘူးဆုိရင္ . . . . . . . ။
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
အကယ္၍
စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ အိပ္မက္ေတြဟာ
မင္းအေပၚ မလႊမ္းမုိးေစဘဲ စိတ္ကူးႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္…
အေတြးအေခၚ စိတ္ကူးေတြဟာ
ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခ်က္သက္သက္သာ မျဖစ္ေစဘဲ ေတြးေခၚႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . . . ။
If you meet with triumph and Dister,
And tread those two imposters just the same;
အကယ္၍
ေအာင္ျမင္မႈသုခနဲ႔ ဆုံးရႈံးမႈဒုကၡေတြကုိ ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရတဲ့အခါ
တူညီေသာ ေလာကဓံ တရားေတြပါလား ရယ္လုိ႔
ခံယူထားႏုိင္မယ္ဆိုရင္. . . . . .။
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch,
အကယ္၍
လူေတြနဲ႔ထိေတြ႕ေျပာဆုိဆက္ဆံရတဲ့အခါ
ကုိယ္က်င့္သိကၡာကုိ ေစာင့္ထိန္းႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္…..
ဒါမွမဟုတ္
မင္းဧရာဇ္ေတြနဲ႔ အတူလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ေနရေပမယ့္
မာန္မာန ေသြးမၾကြဘူးဆုိရင္….
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
အကယ္၍
ရန္သူကျဖစ္ေစ၊မိတ္ေဆြကျဖစ္ေစ
မင္းကုိသိပ္ၿပီး နာက်ည္းေအာင္ မလုပ္ႏုိင္ေစရင္. . . . . . ။
If all men count with you, but none too much;
အကယ္၍
လူတုိင္းကုိ တန္ဖုိးထားေလးစားရေပမယ့္
စြဲလမ္းမႈ သံေယာဇဥ္ေတြ ထားမေနဘူးဆုိရင္….
If you can fill the unforgiving minute,
With sixth seconds’ worth of distance run.
အကယ္၍
တုိေတာင္းလွတဲ့ မပစ္ပယ္ႏုိင္တဲ့ တစ္မိနစ္အတြင္းမွာ
အဓိပၸါယ္ရွိလွတဲ့ စကၠန္႔ေျခာက္ဆယ္ အျဖစ္
အသံုးခ်ႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိရင္. . . . .။
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And-which is more – you’ll be a man, my son !
ငါ့သားေရ
မင္းဟာ
အရာရာရွိတဲ့၊အရာရာျဖစ္တဲ့
ကမၻာႀကီးကုိ ဆုပ္ကုိင္လုိ႔
အရာရာ ဘာမဆုိ မင္းစြမ္းႏုိင္ၿပီေပါ့….။
အဲဒီေတာ့ မင္းဟာလည္း
ေယာက္်ားေကာင္းတစ္ေယာက္ပဲေပါ့။
ဘာသာျပန္ဆိုသူ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္
(Translated by Aung San Su Kyi)
11.01.2008
Christians Face Growing Persecution in Burma
| CFI News | |
| Written by CFI Field Staff | |
| Friday, 31 October 2008 12:15 | |
| MAE SOT, THAILAND --- Saw Stephen, 34, an ethnic Karen, has been trying to serve as a pastor in the Karenni State of Burma since 1996. But like many Christians in Burma, Pastor Stephen faces persecution from the Burmese military junta, known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). “My first church, Shadow Baptist Church, which I pastured, had over 250 people, but the military government [of Burma] came and destroyed it. This happened in April 1999. The military burned down the houses of the people and came with axes and sticks and destroyed the church,” Pastor Stephen told Christian Freedom International. “They captured me and took me to their military office. They put me under house arrest for four months in a small room. I could not contact my family,” said Pastor Stephen. “After release from there I was reassigned to another church, Law Da Lay Baptist Church in Karenni State,” said Stephen. “We had over 120 families; more than 600 villagers attended the church. Most villagers were Christians.” “On November 5, 2003, the military government came in to the village and ordered us to move. They said ‘if you do not move within one week you are our enemies.’ They didn’t explain why we have to move,” said Stephen. “The soldiers destroyed our church.” Stephen told Christian Freedom International, “So now nobody stay in the village, everyone moved away. Most moved into the jungle. Then we came to the refugee camps in Thailand.” According to Stephen, “The government [of Burma] will not allow us to rebuild the churches. They will not allow us to build any church in Burma.” Stephen now lives life on the run: “So now I cannot stay very long in one area. So I go from place to place. It is not safe for me.” “The Burmese government is anti-Christian,” said Stephen. “They are afraid that Christianity will bring in the Western ways to Burma. It will ruin the Burmese culture they say. They see Christianity as a Western religion. It is the main religion of the West, they say, which is why they hate it and are afraid of it. We have been told by the junta leaders that the people of Burma have to be careful about Christians; the Western policies can come in and overtake us, they say.” Stephen told Christian Freedom International that starvation is rampant in Burma: “The people are starving in Burma. I see so many children starving to death. There are so many children dying; they have nothing to eat. They have no food. No one can change Burma. It must be God that changes Burma. Please pray for Burma.” | |
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) - The largest island off Burma’s west coast is emerging as another frontier for China’s expanding plans to extract the rich oil and gas reserves of military-ruled Burma.
Initial explorations by a consortium, led by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has left a deep scar on Ramree Island, which is twice the size of Singapore and home to about 400,000 people. ‘’They have destroyed rice fields and plantations when conducting the seismic surveys and mining the island in search of oil,’’ says Jockai Khaing, director of Arakan Oil Watch (AOW), an environmental group made up of Burmese living in exile.
‘’The local communities have been directly and indirectly affected,’’ he Said during an IPS interview. ‘’Hundreds of people have been forced to relocate as a result of the drilling conducted near their communities. The locals hate the Chinese; their world has become crazy after the Chinese arrived.’’
CNOOC has been pushing ahead with its work since early 2005, with no attempt to consult the local residents and showing little regard to such notions as corporate social responsibility, adds Jockai. The Chinese company, which is listed on the New York and the Hong Kong stock exchanges, has ‘’not conducted the required environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments that are recognised internationally as a must before exploration work begins.’’
To dispose the waste from its drilling sites, ‘’CNOOC workers dug shallow canals designed to carry the (toxic) ‘drilling mud,’ or wastewater containing oil, away from the drilling sites and into Chaing Wa Creek, which curves past several local farms before flowing into the Bay of Bengal,’’ states a report by AOW, released in mid-October. ‘’This arbitrary disposal can make soil in surrounding areas unsuitable for plant growth by reducing the availability of nutrients or by increasing toxic contents in the soil.’’
Concerns about the cost of letting China tighten its grip on the natural resources in Burma (or Myanmar) has also been expressed by other groups, like EarthRights International (EI), a U.S.-based group championing human rights. There are 69 Chinese companies involved in 90 ‘’completed, current and planned projects’’ in the oil, gas and hydropower sectors in Burma, EI revealed in groundbreaking report released in late September.
That number marks an over 200 percent increase in the number of Chinese energy developers thought to have had existed a year before. ‘’Given what we know about development projects in Burma and the current situation, we’re concerned about this marked increase in the number of the projects,’’ the rights lobby stated in the report, ‘China in Burma: The Increasing Involvement of Chinese Multinational Corporations in Burma’s Hydropower, Oil and Natural Gas, and Mining Sectors.
‘’China is using Burma’s military dictatorship to its advantage as it goes in search of oil and gas. There are no rules and regulations for Chinese companies to follow in Burma,’’ Ka Hsaw Wa, executive director of EI, said in an IPS interview. ‘’This will hurt the future of Burma.’’
Such criticisms come at a time when China has begun to show signs that the environment cost of its projects abroad cannot be ignored. ‘’The country lacked comprehensive environmental protection policies in its overseas projects, although investment had been expanding,’’ states a report released in mid-September by the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP), according to the ‘China Daily’ newspaper.
‘’China’s overseas investment and aid mainly focuses on exploring oil and other resources, processing and manufacturing, and construction in African and Southeast Asian countries,’’ the English-language daily added. ‘’Without proper management, such projects are likely to cause environmental problems, the (CAEP) report said.’’
Burma, in fact, will prove to be an ideal testing ground, given that China emerged as the military-ruled country’s biggest investor in the country’s power sector. The money flowing in from such foreign direct investments and the sale of gas has helped to prop up a junta notorious for suppressing its people through many forms of abuse.
In 2006, the junta earned an estimated 2.16 billion U.S. dollars from sales of natural gas to Thailand, which accounts for close to half of Burma’s export earnings and is the single largest source of foreign earnings. In 2008, Burma is expected to earn 3.5 billion US dollars from export of gas, according to one estimate.
But little of these benefits trickled down to the country’s beleaguered people. Consequently, Burma ranks as one of the world’s least developed countries. And having an abundance of natural resources has not improved the power supply in the country for the people either. Regular blackouts are frequent in Rangoon, the former capital, and elsewhere.
The junta has profited in other ways, too, from China’s energy interest in Burma. ‘’Beijing has come to the junta’s rescue and protects it from criticism at international forums like the U.N. Security Council,’’ says Win Min, a Burmese national security expert teaching at a university in northern Thailand. ‘’A strong relationship of mutual benefit has developed since 1988.’’
In exchange for letting Chinese companies exploit its natural resources, the Burmese dictatorship has got military hardware from Beijing. They range from fighter jets and armoured carriers to small weapons, Win Min told IPS. ‘’The junta will open the country to China because the military regime needs Beijing more than the other way around.’’
BANGKOK, Oct 31 (IPS) - The largest island off Burma’s west coast is emerging as another frontier for China’s expanding plans to extract the rich oil and gas reserves of military-ruled Burma.
Initial explorations by a consortium, led by China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC), has left a deep scar on Ramree Island, which is twice the size of Singapore and home to about 400,000 people. ‘’They have destroyed rice fields and plantations when conducting the seismic surveys and mining the island in search of oil,’’ says Jockai Khaing, director of Arakan Oil Watch (AOW), an environmental group made up of Burmese living in exile.
‘’The local communities have been directly and indirectly affected,’’ he Said during an IPS interview. ‘’Hundreds of people have been forced to relocate as a result of the drilling conducted near their communities. The locals hate the Chinese; their world has become crazy after the Chinese arrived.’’
CNOOC has been pushing ahead with its work since early 2005, with no attempt to consult the local residents and showing little regard to such notions as corporate social responsibility, adds Jockai. The Chinese company, which is listed on the New York and the Hong Kong stock exchanges, has ‘’not conducted the required environmental impact assessments and social impact assessments that are recognised internationally as a must before exploration work begins.’’
To dispose the waste from its drilling sites, ‘’CNOOC workers dug shallow canals designed to carry the (toxic) ‘drilling mud,’ or wastewater containing oil, away from the drilling sites and into Chaing Wa Creek, which curves past several local farms before flowing into the Bay of Bengal,’’ states a report by AOW, released in mid-October. ‘’This arbitrary disposal can make soil in surrounding areas unsuitable for plant growth by reducing the availability of nutrients or by increasing toxic contents in the soil.’’
Concerns about the cost of letting China tighten its grip on the natural resources in Burma (or Myanmar) has also been expressed by other groups, like EarthRights International (EI), a U.S.-based group championing human rights. There are 69 Chinese companies involved in 90 ‘’completed, current and planned projects’’ in the oil, gas and hydropower sectors in Burma, EI revealed in groundbreaking report released in late September.
That number marks an over 200 percent increase in the number of Chinese energy developers thought to have had existed a year before. ‘’Given what we know about development projects in Burma and the current situation, we’re concerned about this marked increase in the number of the projects,’’ the rights lobby stated in the report, ‘China in Burma: The Increasing Involvement of Chinese Multinational Corporations in Burma’s Hydropower, Oil and Natural Gas, and Mining Sectors.
‘’China is using Burma’s military dictatorship to its advantage as it goes in search of oil and gas. There are no rules and regulations for Chinese companies to follow in Burma,’’ Ka Hsaw Wa, executive director of EI, said in an IPS interview. ‘’This will hurt the future of Burma.’’
Such criticisms come at a time when China has begun to show signs that the environment cost of its projects abroad cannot be ignored. ‘’The country lacked comprehensive environmental protection policies in its overseas projects, although investment had been expanding,’’ states a report released in mid-September by the Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning (CAEP), according to the ‘China Daily’ newspaper.
‘’China’s overseas investment and aid mainly focuses on exploring oil and other resources, processing and manufacturing, and construction in African and Southeast Asian countries,’’ the English-language daily added. ‘’Without proper management, such projects are likely to cause environmental problems, the (CAEP) report said.’’
Burma, in fact, will prove to be an ideal testing ground, given that China emerged as the military-ruled country’s biggest investor in the country’s power sector. The money flowing in from such foreign direct investments and the sale of gas has helped to prop up a junta notorious for suppressing its people through many forms of abuse.
In 2006, the junta earned an estimated 2.16 billion U.S. dollars from sales of natural gas to Thailand, which accounts for close to half of Burma’s export earnings and is the single largest source of foreign earnings. In 2008, Burma is expected to earn 3.5 billion US dollars from export of gas, according to one estimate.
But little of these benefits trickled down to the country’s beleaguered people. Consequently, Burma ranks as one of the world’s least developed countries. And having an abundance of natural resources has not improved the power supply in the country for the people either. Regular blackouts are frequent in Rangoon, the former capital, and elsewhere.
The junta has profited in other ways, too, from China’s energy interest in Burma. ‘’Beijing has come to the junta’s rescue and protects it from criticism at international forums like the U.N. Security Council,’’ says Win Min, a Burmese national security expert teaching at a university in northern Thailand. ‘’A strong relationship of mutual benefit has developed since 1988.’’
In exchange for letting Chinese companies exploit its natural resources, the Burmese dictatorship has got military hardware from Beijing. They range from fighter jets and armoured carriers to small weapons, Win Min told IPS. ‘’The junta will open the country to China because the military regime needs Beijing more than the other way around.’’
မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႔မွာမိုးသည္းထန္မႈေၾကာင့္ေရႀကီး
Photos about Maesot's flooded (1.11.08)
ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာေသာၾကာေန႔ညကစ၍မိုးသည္းထန္စြာရြာသြန္းခဲ့မႈေၾကာင့္
မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕ေနရာအႏွံ႔အျပားတြင္ေရႀကီးခဲ့ပါသည္။
အခ်ိဳ႔အနိမ့္ပိုင္းေနရာမ်ားတြင္ခါးေလာက္အထိေရတက္လာခဲ့ၿပီးလမ္း
အခ်ိဳ႕ကိုေခတၱပိတ္ထားခဲ့ရပါသည္။ေျမအေနအထားအရမဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕
သည္အနိမ္႕ပိုင္းတြင္ေရာက္ေနၿပီးတၿမိဳ႕လံုးေရသံုးစြဲမႈအတြက္အေရး
ႀကီးေသာမဲေဆာက္ေရကာတာႀကီးမွာမဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕အထက္အျမင့္ပိုင္း
တြင္တည္ရွိသည္။
ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္းမိုးသည္းထန္သျဖင့္ေရကာတာမွေရတံခါးမ်ားဖြင့္ခ်ေပးရ
သည့္အခါတိုင္းမဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းတြင္ေရႀကီးေလ့ရွိရာ။ယခုႏွစ္တြင္မႈေရ
စြန္႔ထုတ္မႈစနစ္လွ်င္ျမန္ေစေရးအတြက္မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းမွမယ္ေတာ္
ေဆးခန္းအနားရွိေရႏႈတ္ေျမာင္းႀကီးအထိႀကီးမားေသာေရထုတ္
ေျမာင္းႀကီးမ်ားတူးေဖၚခဲ့ရာထိုေရထုတ္ေျမာင္းႀကီးမ်ားတူးေဖၚရာတြင္
ပါဝင္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ပ်က္စီးခဲ့ရေသာကားလမ္းဧရိယာမ်ားကိုပင္မျပင္ဆင္ရ
ေသးပါ။
ေသာၾကာေန႕ညကတည္းကစရြာသြန္းခဲ့ေသာမိုးေၾကာင့္ေတာင္က်ေရမ်ား
မ်ားျပားစြာစီးဆင္းလာခဲ့သျဖင့္ေရကာတာကိုဖြင့္ေပးလိုက္ရသျဖင့္ထိုကဲ့
သို႕လမ္းမ်ားပိတ္ဆို႔ရသည္အထိေရႀကီးခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟုသိရပါသည္။
ထို႔အတူဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕သည္လည္းဒယ္အိုးပံုအနိမ့္ပိုင္းတြင္တည္ရိွၿပီး
ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္ေအာက္နိမ့္ေသာတည္ေနရာရွိသည္ဟုသိရပါ
သည္။ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္လည္းေရတြန္းစက္မ်ားျဖင့္အဆင့္ဆင့္တြန္း
တင္ေရဆိုးထုတ္စနစ္ကိုေဆာင္ရြက္ထားရၿပီးမိုးသည္းထန္သည့္အခါ
ေရႀကီးေလ့ရွိေၾကာင္းသိရပါသည္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ၿဗိတိသွ်ေခတ္ကတည္း
ကေဆာင္ရြက္ထားခဲ့ေသာေရဆိုးထုတ္ေျမာင္းမ်ားသည္ေႏြအခါတြင္
အမိႈက္မ်ားစည္းကမ္းမဲ့စြန္႔ပစ္မႈေၾကာင့္ပိတ္ဆို႔ေနေလ့ရွိၿပီးမိုးတြင္း
ေရမ်ားစြာစီးဆင္းသည့္အခါမွေရစီးဆင္းႏိုင္ပါသည္။
သို႕ရာတြင္အက်ိဳးေပးေကာင္းလွေသာသဘာဝတည္ေနရာအေန
အထားေၾကာင့္ထိုသို႕ေရႀကီးမႈမ်ိဳးသည္အင္မတန္ႀကံဳေတာင့္ႀကံဳ
ခဲျဖစ္ပါသည္။ကံေကာင္းလွေသာသဘာဝတရား၏မ်က္ႏွာသာေပး
မႈဟုဆိုရမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
အကယ္၍မ်ားလက္ရွိစစ္အစိုးရလိုကိုယ္က်ိဳးမွတပါးဘာမွမစဥ္းစား
သူမ်ားႏွင့္ဘန္ေကာက္လို၊မဲေဆာက္လိုၿမိဳ႕အေနအထားမ်ိဳးသာဆို
လွ်င္.............
ဘုရား.....ဘုရားဟု............................တရံုမွတပါး...........................။
Saffron Reporter
ဒီမိုကေရစီေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး အရွိန္ျမႇင့္ဖို႔ စစ္အစိုးရကို ဘန္ကီမြန္း တိုက္တြန္း
ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို အခါအခြင့္ သင့္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ သြားေရာက္ဖို႔ စီစဥ္ေနတယ္လို႔ ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နဲ႔တကြ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ အားလံုး လႊတ္ေပးၿပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးျဖစ္စဥ္ ေစာလ်င္စြာ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ဖို႔ကိုလည္း ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရကို တုိက္တြန္းသြားပါတယ္။
မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္းဟာ အိႏိၵယႏိုင္ငံကို အလည္အပတ္ ေရာက္ရွိေနုတုန္း သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ အခုလို ေျပာၾကားသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္းရဲ႕ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ထဲမွာေတာ့ -
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“ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး မေက်မနပ္မႈ တိုင္တန္းမႈ တစံုတရာ က်ေနာ္ မရရွိခဲ့ပါဘူး။ ဒီအေထာက္အပံ့ေတြဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းရဲ႕ ခိုင္မာတဲ့ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈနဲ႔ ဆက္လက္ ေရာက္ရွိေနအံုးမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ပိုၿပီး အေရးႀကီးတာ ေျပာရရင္ အခုတခါ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအ၀ုိင္းက ပို စိတ္၀င္စားေနတာဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးကိစၥ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး ကိစၥ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတြ အထူးသျဖင့္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြဟာ သူတို႔ ျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ အနာဂတ္အေရးကို စဥ္းစားၾကလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ ဒါဟာ သိပ္ကို လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ အားလံုးကို လႊတ္ေရးကိစၥ အပါအ၀င္ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးကိစၥကို ေစာလ်င္စြာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကသင့္ပါတယ္။
“ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံရဲ႕ တာ၀န္ေပးခ်က္နဲ႔အညီ က်ေနာ့္အဆင့္ကေရာ အထူးအၾကံေပးပုဂၢိဳလ္က တဆင့္ပါ ဒီကိစၥကို ဆက္လက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားဖို႔ ရည္ရြယ္ထားပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ျပန္သြားဖို႔လည္း က်ေနာ္ စဥ္းစားေနပါတယ္။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္မယ့္အခ်ိန္ကို က်ေနာ္ ေစာင့္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး အရွိန္ျမင့္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရး အေျခအေန သင့္တင့္ေလ်ာက္ပတ္ခ်ိန္မွာ သြားေရာက္ဖို႔ အစီအစဥ္ ရွိပါတယ္။ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပဲ အိႏိၵယႏိုင္ငံ အစိုးရဟာ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး လြယ္ကူေျပလည္ေအာင္ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးဖို႔ က်ေနာ္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။ ၀န္ႀကီခ်ဳပ္ မန္မိုဟန္ဆင္း ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတႀကီးနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးတို႔ကပါ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးမွာ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ ပူေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ က်ေနာ့္ကို အခုိင္အမာ ေျပာခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။”
ၾကားသမွ်ျမင္သမွ်အခ်ိဳးမက်တာေလးေတြ
အတိတ္ေမ့တတ္သူမ်ားအေၾကာင္း
ယေန႕ေခတ္လူငယ္ေတြသံုးေလ့ရွိတဲ့
မလည္လိုက္ပြဲခါးၾကားထိုး”ဆိုၿပီ
သေဘာတူထားတဲ့ကိစၥေတြကိုရစရာရွိ
အခါ
ေနာက္ထပ္ရႏိုင္တဲ့အခြင့္အေရး
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့လအနည္းငယ္ကမိတ္ေဆြတေ
လုပ္ေပးတာေ
သပ္ခ်က္ထဲကျမန္မာရုပ္ရွင္
ေမ့ေလ့ရွိၾကတယ္လို႕ဆိုပါ
တဲ့ေရာဂါဟာရုပ္ရွင္ထဲမွာမၾကာခဏဆိုသလိုအလြယ္တကူ
ရိွတယ္လို႔ေျပာတာပါ.....
......................ၿပိဳင္ဘက္မရွိေပါ့ခင္ဗ်ာ။
ဒါေပမယ့္အခုအခါမွာေတာ့ျမန္မာ့ရု
ႀကီးေ
လူတခ်ိဳ႔လို႔ပဲညႊန္းပါရေစေတာ့။
ၿပီးျပန္ကူညီေစာင့္ေ
ေမ့သြားတာပါ။ချမာမ်ား
“ဘာဘာ….ဘာမွသိဝူး”..ဆို…..ဆီးလု
ေကာက္ရမလိ
ကာယကံရွင္ေ
အဆင္မေျပအလုပ္မရွိတဲ
ေကာင္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္း….ေတြကိုအာေ
မ်က္ရည္တဂါ
ေတြေျပာလိုက္လုပ္တဲ့
ချမာမ်ားလဲ..ေယာင္ေတာင္ေပါင္ေတာင္နဲ႔ေခါင္းညိတ္မိ
ဟုတ္တာေပါ့..ခင္ဗ်ာ…
မွန္မွန္လဲမစီးႏိုင္ပါဘူး
အဲဒီမွာေယာင္မွားေခါင္းညိတ္မိတဲ
သြားမယ့္သူကိုကူညီမယ့္ေပၚလစီမရွိလို႕ဆင္းပါေတာ့လို႕ေ
အခါေသာင္ျပင္လႊတ္တဲ့ေ
ရၿပီးမွ...အိမ္သြ
ႀကီးမ်ားယူထားၿပီးမွကမ့္ထဲ့မွာ
ဟိုတေန႔ကအဲဒီလိုထြက္လာသူအမ်ိဳး
မွ
တသိန္း
သူ႔ချမာ...ဗ်ာ......အႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆယ္နီး
အတိတ္ေမ့ေ
ကိုေတာသာ
ကိုေတာသား
ကိုမကူႏိုင္တဲ့ဘဝမို႔….
ရုပ္ရွင္ထဲမွာေတာင္ဒီေရာဂါျဖစ္
ေ
ဆိုရမယ္ခင္ဗ်။လံုးဝျပန္သတိရေလ့
ကိုေတာသားဖတ္ဘူးတဲ့ဆရာမင္းလူရဲ႕
ေျပးသတိ
အဲဒီထဲမွာဇာတ္လိုက္ကခရီ
ေခါင္းထိၿပီးအတိတ္ေမ့……….ရြာေလး
ခ်
ျပန္ေတြ
သတိ
ခ်
ျပန္သတိ
ေဆာ္လိုက္တာေ
အထဲကလာမယ့္လူမ်ားအတြက္ေဆာင္ရန္ေ
မယံုၾကဖို႕နဲ႕…….အတိတ္ေမ့သူမ်ား
တု
လိုက္ပါရေစခင္ဗ်ာ။
ကိုေတာသား(မဲေဆာက္)
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