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- စင္ၿပိဳင္အစိုးရ ျပဳျပင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းရန္ ေဆြးေႏြးမည့္ ညီလာခံက်င္းပေရး အမ္ပီယူႏွင့္ အန္စီဂ်ီယူဘီ သေဘာထား ကြဲ click
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Big Burmese Interest in Result of US Presidential Electionအေမရိကန္ သမၼတသစ္အေပၚ ျမန္မာတို႔အျမင္

A crowd of about 600, most of them young people, packed the US Embassy’s American Center in Rangoon on Wednesday morning to watch Barack Obama sweep to victory in the US presidential election.

The city’s teashops were also crowded with customers watching the historic event on satellite TV.

President-elect Barack Obama waves to his supporters behind bullet-proof glass as he takes the stage to deliver his victory speech at the election night party on Tuesday night. (Photo: AP)

The US Embassy’s American Center held an “Election Watch.” People gathered there from 9 a.m.—“Most of them are young people,” an American Center official told The Irrawaddy.

An American Center student, Ko Ye, said: “I support Obama. I think he will bring change to the world. As a young man, Obama can act dynamically.”

A young staffer with a UN agency in Rangoon said the election had also commanded big interest in his office.

A Rangoon journalist told The Irrawaddy that colleagues and civil servants kept each other informed on cell phones about Obama’s election to the White House.

He said the election had been followed in Burma more closely than any previous one because the Burmese people, encouraged by the removal of Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, were hoping the US would act to end the tyrannical rule of Snr-Gen Than Shwe and his junta.

Thakin Chun Tun, a veteran politician and diplomat, said: “Obama’s victory shows how leadership skill is more important than skin color and race.”

Burmese living abroad also followed the election intensely. Ko Jay, who lives in New York, said he agreed with the general view that history had been made by Barack Obama.

Moe Thee Zun, a former student leader now living in the US, said that although he had supported Republican contender John McCain because of his Burma policy, Obama’s victory showed liberalism winning over conservatism and youth over old politics. “We should appreciate Americans who fight for what they want to be,” he said.

Some of those American citizens are Burmese who have won US citizenship—Ko Shwe, for instance. Voting in New York in his first election ever, he chose Obama.

“The first vote in my life puts me on the winning side,” he said.

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မေန႔ကစတင္က်င္းပတဲ့ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီး ေအာင္ျမင္စြာၿပီးဆံုးသြားခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ဒီေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီက ၅၂ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းနဲ႔အႏိုင္ရခဲ့ၿပီး တကမာၻလံုးကေမွ်ာ္ေနၾကတဲ့အတိုင္း အာဖရိကႏြယ္ဖြား ဘရက္ခ္ အိုဘားမား (Barack Obama) ဟာ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုး လူမည္း သမၼတ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ပါၿပီ။

ေလးႏွစ္ကိုတႀကိမ္ပံုမွန္က်င္းပေနၾက အေမရိကန္ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြခ်ည္းသက္သက္ စိတ္ဝင္စားတဲ့ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ိဳးမဟုတ္ဘဲ တကမာၻလံုးက ရင္တထိတ္ထိတ္နဲ႔ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့ရွိတဲ့ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ဟာ ကမာၻ႔အင္အားႀကီးႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္သလို အေမရိကန္သမၼတေတြရဲ႕ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ဟာလည္း ကမာၻ႔လူသား ေတြအေပၚ သက္ေရာက္မႈေတြရွိေနတာေၾကာင့္ လူအမ်ားအာ႐ံုထားမႈကို ခံရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီတေခါက္ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကေတာ့ အရင္လုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြနဲ႔မတူ ထူးျခားေနလို႔ တကမာၻလံုးရဲ႕ အာ႐ံု စိုက္ျခင္းကို ခံရတာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီထူးျခားခ်က္ကေတာ့ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီကေန ဝင္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္တဲ့ သမၼတေလာင္းဟာ အာဖရိကန္ႏြယ္ဖြား လူမည္းတေယာက္ ျဖစ္ေနလို႔ပါပဲ။

အေမရိကန္ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပမွာရွိၾကတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားေတြကလည္း အထူးစိတ္ဝင္စားစြာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ရန္ကုန္မွာရွိေနတဲ့ သတင္းသမားတဦးကေတာ့ “အဲဒီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို စေလာင္းေတြကေန တိုက္႐ုိက္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ၾကတယ္။ သာမန္ျပည္သူကအစ ဘယ္သူသမၼတျဖစ္မလဲဆိုတာကို စိတ္၀င္စားၾကတယ္။ အဓိကေတာ့ လူမည္းသမၼတျဖစ္တာေၾကာင့္ေပါ့” လို႔ ဧရာဝတီကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

ကုမၸဏီ ဝန္ထမ္း တဦးကလည္း “က်ေနာ္သာ အေမရိကန္တေယာက္ဆိုရင္ သူ႔ကိုပဲ (အုိဘားမား) မဲေပးမိမွာ၊ ျပည္သူ ေတြက ေဆာ္မယ္တီးမယ္ဆုိတာကို သိပ္မလိုခ်င္ၾကေတာ့ဘူးေလ” လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

ကြန္ပ်ဴတာပညာရွင္တဦးကမူ “အိုဘားမားကိုႀကိဳက္တဲ့သူမ်ားတာကေတာ့ သူကအသက္ငယ္လို႔ တက္တက္ႂကြႂကြလုပ္ႏိုင္ မယ္လို႔ေမွ်ာ္လင့္လို႔၊ ေနာက္ၿပီး အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြက ခုခ်ိန္မွာ အေျပာင္းအလဲကို အရမ္းလိုခ်င္ေနၾကတယ္။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ အိုဘားမားကို ေထာက္ခံၾကတာ” လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း ကမာၻ႔ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်င္းေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး အေမရိကန္ သမၼတသစ္ကို စိတ္ဝင္စားၾကတာပါ။ မစၥတာ အိုဘားမား ကေကာ အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြအျပင္ ကမာၻ႔ျပည္သူေတြအႀကိဳက္ ဘာေတြမ်ားလုပ္ျပဦးမလဲဆိုတာကို စိတ္ဝင္စားသူက ထုနဲ႔ေဒးပါ။

“လူေတြက အီရတ္စစ္ပြဲအေျခအေနကိုသိခ်င္ၾကတယ္၊ သမၼတ ဘုရွ္က အီရတ္ကုိတိုက္ၿပီး ဆဒမ္ဟူစိန္ကို ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေပးခဲ့ တာကို သေဘာေတြ႔ၾကတယ္။ အာဏာရွင္ကိုဒီလိုျဖဳတ္ခ်ခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတာကို ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက လက္ခံၾကတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဆီမွာေကာ အဲလိုျဖစ္မလာႏုိင္ဘူးလားဆိုၿပီး ေမွ်ာ္ၾကတယ္။ ဆိုလိုတာက ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးကို အေမရိကန္က ကယ္ႏုိင္တယ္ဆိုၿပီးေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾကတယ္” လို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြၾကားက ေျပာဆိုမႈေတြကို အထက္ပါ သတင္းသမားက ျပန္လည္ရွင္းျပပါတယ္။

တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြက မစၥတာ အိုဘားမားကို သမၼတ အျဖစ္ ေ႐ြးလိုက္ျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ကမာၻေပၚက အသားအေရာင္ခြဲျခားမႈေတြဟာ ၂၁ ရာစုမွာ အဆံုးသတ္သြားၿပီလို႔ သံုးသပ္ၾကပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာ စာေရးဆရာအမ်ားစုကလည္း အိုဘားမား ႏုိင္မယ္ဆိုၿပီးခန္႔မွန္းခဲ့ၾကလို႔ အခုေတာ့သူတို႔ရဲ႕ အေတြးေတြ တကယ္ျဖစ္ လာခဲ့ၿပီဆိုၿပီး ဝမ္းသာေနၾကပါတယ္။

မစၥတာ အိုဘားမား အႏိုင္ရခဲ့လို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သားအမ်ားစုက ဝမ္းသာၾကည္ႏူးေနခ်ိန္မွာ တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း မတူညီတဲ့ စိတ္ခံစား မႈေတြ ျဖစ္ေနၾကပါတယ္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္ခ်က္ ေရးသားေနသည့္ ျပည္တြင္းက စာေရးဆရာတဦးက “က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ မက္ကိန္းရႈံးသြား လို႔ စိတ္မေကာင္းဘူး။ သူကေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔လည္း ေတြ႔ဖူးတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို ပိုလုပ္ႏိုင္မယ္ထင္တယ္။ ေနာက္ သူက အသက္ႀကီးေတာ့ အေတြ႔အႀကံဳပိုရွိတယ္။ စစ္ေရးေကာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွာေကာ ပုိၿပီးလုပ္ႏိုင္မယ္ ထင္တယ္” လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

အခုအခ်ိန္မွာက ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြဟာ တျခားေသာ ကမာၻ႔ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာလိုပဲ အေမရိကန္ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲအေၾကာင္းကိုသာ ေျပာဆိုေနၾကတာ မ်ားပါတယ္။

နိဂုံးခ်ဴပ္ရရင္ေတာ့ အေမရိကန္သမၼတေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အထူးစိတ္၀င္စားၾကတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ပညာတတ္ အသိုင္းအ၀န္းမွာ အိုဘားမား ႏုိင္တာကို ႀကဳိဆိုၾကတယ္။ ႏုိင္ငံတုိင္းမွာ ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္ပင္ျဖစ္လင့္ကစား အေျပာင္းအလဲကို ျမင္ခ်င္ၾကတယ္၊ လိုခ်င္ၾကတယ္ဆိုတာ ပိုထင္ရွားလာတယ္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလိုု စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေအာက္မွာေနၾကတဲ့ ျပည္သူေတြအားလုံးလည္း အေျပာင္းအလဲကို အရမ္းလိုခ်င္ေနၾကတယ္။ ကိုယ့္ဆီမွာ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္လို႔မရတာကို သူမ်ားတုိင္းျပည္က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကိုၾကည့္ၿပီး

အေမရိကန္ျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔အတူ အေျပာင္းအလဲကိုေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနၾကတယ္ဆိုတာ ေသခ်ာလြန္းလွပါတယ္။

RAW DATA: Barack Obama's Victory Speech

The president-elect delivers his victory speech from Chicago.

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Wednesday, November 05, 2008

BARACK OBAMA: Hello, Chicago.

(APPLAUSE)

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.

(APPLAUSE)

It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen, by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voices could be that difference.

It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.

We are, and always will be, the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.

It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America.

(APPLAUSE)

A little bit earlier this evening, I received an extraordinarily gracious call from Senator McCain.

(APPLAUSE)

Senator McCain fought long and hard in this campaign. And he's fought even longer and harder for the country that he loves. He has endured sacrifices for America that most of us cannot begin to imagine. We are better off for the service rendered by this brave and selfless leader.

I congratulate him; I congratulate Governor Palin for all that they've achieved. And I look forward to working with them to renew this nation's promise in the months ahead.

(APPLAUSE)

I want to thank my partner in this journey, a man who campaigned from his heart, and spoke for the men and women he grew up with on the streets of Scranton...

(APPLAUSE)

... and rode with on the train home to Delaware, the vice president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden.

(APPLAUSE)

And I would not be standing here tonight without the unyielding support of my best friend for the last 16 years...

(APPLAUSE)

... the rock of our family, the love of my life, the nation's next first lady...

(APPLAUSE)

... Michelle Obama.

(APPLAUSE)

Sasha and Malia...

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... I love you both more than you can imagine. And you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us...

(LAUGHTER)

... to the new White House.

(APPLAUSE)

And while she's no longer with us, I know my grandmother's watching, along with the family that made me who I am. I miss them tonight. I know that my debt to them is beyond measure.

To my sister Maya, my sister Alma, all my other brothers and sisters, thank you so much for all the support that you've given me. I am grateful to them.

(APPLAUSE)

And to my campaign manager, David Plouffe...

(APPLAUSE)

... the unsung hero of this campaign, who built the best -- the best political campaign, I think, in the history of the United States of America.

(APPLAUSE)

To my chief strategist David Axelrod...

(APPLAUSE)

... who's been a partner with me every step of the way. To the best campaign team ever assembled in the history of politics...

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... you made this happen, and I am forever grateful for what you've sacrificed to get it done. But above all, I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.

It grew strength from the young people who rejected the myth of their generation's apathy...

(APPLAUSE)

... who left their homes and their families for jobs that offered little pay and less sleep.

It drew strength from the not-so-young people who braved the bitter cold and scorching heat to knock on doors of perfect strangers, and from the millions of Americans who volunteered and organized and proved that more than two centuries later a government of the people, by the people, and for the people has not perished from the Earth.

This is your victory.

(APPLAUSE)

And I know you didn't do this just to win an election. And I know you didn't do it for me.

You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead. For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime -- two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.

Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us.

There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after the children fall asleep and wonder how they'll make the mortgage or pay their doctors' bills or save enough for their child's college education.

There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair.

The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there.

I promise you, we as a people will get there.

(APPLAUSE)

AUDIENCE: Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!

OBAMA: There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem.

But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.

What began 21 months ago in the depths of winter cannot end on this autumn night.

This victory alone is not the change we seek. It is only the chance for us to make that change. And that cannot happen if we go back to the way things were.

It can't happen without you, without a new spirit of service, a new spirit of sacrifice.

So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.

Let us remember that, if this financial crisis taught us anything, it's that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers.

In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.

Let's remember that it was a man from this state who first carried the banner of the Republican Party to the White House, a party founded on the values of self-reliance and individual liberty and national unity.

Those are values that we all share. And while the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.

(APPLAUSE)

As Lincoln said to a nation far more divided than ours, we are not enemies but friends. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.

And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

(APPLAUSE)

And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand.

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To those -- to those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.

(APPLAUSE)

That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow.

This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that's on my mind tonight's about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She's a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.

(APPLAUSE)

She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.

And tonight, I think about all that she's seen throughout her century in America -- the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can't, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can.

At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can.

When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs, a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the hoses in Birmingham, a bridge in Selma, and a preacher from Atlanta who told a people that "We Shall Overcome." Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: A man touched down on the moon, a wall came down in Berlin, a world was connected by our own science and imagination.

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.

Yes we can.

AUDIENCE: Yes we can.

OBAMA: America, we have come so far. We have seen so much. But there is so much more to do. So tonight, let us ask ourselves -- if our children should live to see the next century; if my daughters should be so lucky to live as long as Ann Nixon Cooper, what change will they see?

What progress will we have made?

This is our chance to answer that call. This is our moment.

This is our time, to put our people back to work and open doors of opportunity for our kids; to restore prosperity and promote the cause of peace; to reclaim the American dream and reaffirm that fundamental truth, that, out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can.

(APPLAUSE)

Thank you. God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.

Obama Elected First African-American US President

Democrat Barack Obama has become the first African-American elected president of the United States. The Illinois senator defeated Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona. VOA's Kent Klein reports from Washington.

Supporters cheer as they gather in Grant Park for the election night party for President-elect Barack Obama in Chicago, 4 Nov. 2008

In cities across America, large crowds gathered to celebrate the election of the first African-American U.S. president.

VOA reporter Kane Farabaugh was in President-elect Obama's home city of Chicago, Illinois, where tens-of-thousands of jubilant supporters celebrated in Grant Park.

"Everybody here has the largest smiles," he said. "There's a lot of laughing, there's a lot of hugging, there's a lot of embracing. Certainly, I don't think this moment is lost on anyone here. I think the precedent is set, the sort of historic moment that it is going to become certainly is not lost on anyone here. There's a few tears, but certainly many more smiles. I would say that the atmosphere here is jubilant."

Sen. John McCain with wife, Cindy, delivers remarks during an election night rally in Phoenix, 4 Nov. 2008

A short time later, Senator McCain delivered his concession speech. In his home city of Phoenix, Arizona, the Republican candidate encouraged his supporters to get behind Mr. Obama.

"I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our good will and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises to bridge our differences, and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited," he said.

Senator Obama captured almost all of the so-called "swing" states, where the election is most competitive.

President-elect Barack Obama smiles as he gives his acceptance speech at Grant Park in Chicago, Nov. 4, 2008

Each of the 50 U.S. states is allotted electoral votes, depending on the size of its population and congressional representation. In most states, the candidate who wins the largest part of the popular vote wins all of that state's electoral votes. The winning candidate must get at least 270 electoral votes out of the total of 538.

Voter turnout in this year's election is expected to be among the largest on record, and there were long lines at many polling stations across the country. Voter registration has increased by seven percent since the last presidential election in 2004.

The slumping U.S. economy was the top issue on voters' minds, and Mr. Obama was able to link McCain to the policies of his fellow Republican, President George Bush. An Associated Press exit poll showed that six of every 10 voters named the economy as the most important issue facing the country.

Obama says "change has come to America"

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama told cheering supporters on Tuesday "change has come to America" and called on Americans to back a spirit of unity to attack the country's pressing challenges.

Obama congratulated defeated Republican John McCain for the long, hard campaign that he fought. He called on Americans to support a "new spirit of sacrifice."

"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," he said.

Analysis: Next up after Obama win, governing

By LIZ SIDOTI
Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/M. Spencer Green

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Now the hard part. Barack Obama essentially came out of nowhere, beat the Democratic establishment, conquered doubts about his experience and overcame questions about his race to be elected the first black president after a grueling campaign that lasted nearly two years.

As president-elect, he faces three immediate challenges: confronting the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, determining the next steps in two lingering wars, and leading his Democrats, including liberals expecting that the change he promises will come instantly. It won't.

On the heels of a campaign in which cash wasn't a concern, Obama must tackle all of those tasks with no room in the budget as the nation heads for a painful, perhaps long-lasting, recession.

No new president has faced so much since Franklin Delano Roosevelt - and even he didn't have two wars on his plate.

Roosevelt had four months to come up with programs to address the Great Depression before he took office on March 4, 1933.

Obama gets just 2 1/2 to put together his government; inauguration is Jan. 20.

He will chart the country's course against this dreary backdrop: Unemployment is at 6.1 percent and predicted to rise as high as 7.5 percent next year; pessimistic consumers have curtailed borrowing and spending; home foreclosures are rampant; Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security face huge financial problems; and, 152,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq more than five years after the initial invasion, while 32,000 are in Afghanistan in the sixth year of the war against terrorism.

With Democrats expanding their majorities in both the House and Senate, Obama will have to figure out how to lead a country that's more conservative than liberal while trying to satisfy the left wing of his party. He will face demands for a quick withdrawal from Iraq. He's promised withdrawal, but carefully.

From the outset, how Obama acts to deal with these conditions will set the tone for his presidency.

Voters got an early glimpse of his style last month when Wall Street collapsed, stocks fluctuated and the government intervened. He struck a cautious stance and deferred to lawmakers dealing directly with the problems. He was deliberative and careful in his response - perhaps just the approach voters were seeking after eight years of what critics call President Bush's cowboy approach.

Yet, Obama may be blamed for recession woes despite the fact that he inherited the mess from Bush. The troubles are on Obama's watch now even if there's little he can do about them. The president in power always suffers when the economy tanks. Just ask the first President Bush in 1992.

Indeed, coming in with a big victory doesn't guarantee success.

Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson won with 61 percent of the vote in 1964. He won his Great Society programs in his first two years but his administration essentially collapsed in the final two with the escalation of the Vietnam War.

In choosing Obama as the 44th president, the nation took a historic leap beyond its legacy of slavery and toward healing racial tensions just four decades after the tumultuous Civil Rights movement.

Politically, Obama's election amounted to a wholesale rejection of the status quo after eight years of Bush and Republican rule.

Voters were willing to take a chance on a relative newcomer to the national stage. Obama is a 47-year-old black man from Chicago with a liberal voting record who is in just his first Senate term and has offered few specifics on how he would govern.

Culturally, Obama's victory was so much more for a nation on the verge of becoming a true melting pot; government estimates say white people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042.

The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, Obama's call for change created a movement at a time of great upheaval in the country. And, that proved to be a large enough force to overcome lingering prejudices.

To be sure, the economy proved a powerful motivator.

Preliminary exit poll results showed that six in 10 voters named it as their top issue, far more than other problems named including Iraq and terrorism. Obama was leading among this group. And, nearly all voters - nine in 10 - said the economy was in bad shape and said they were worried about the economy's direction. Obama had the advantage among these voters, too.

Four in 10 said their family financial status was worse than four years ago - the highest number to report that in a presidential race since at least 1992. Nearly three quarters of this group voted for Obama.

Race didn't appear to be much of a hurdle.

Nearly one in 10 whites said race was an important factor in selecting a candidate, though only a tiny fraction said it was the most important factor. In both groups, about six in 10 were voting for McCain.

Obama won nearly half of the white vote while nearly all blacks and two in three Hispanics supported him.

Although Obama played down his skin color, it played a part in his general election strategy. Minorities, as well as youth, were identified early on as a key demographic to register and court.

It appeared to work.

Obama was the overwhelming choice of the one in 10 voters who went to the polls for their first time Tuesday. One in five of the new voters was black, almost twice the proportion of blacks among voters overall. Another one in five of the new voters was Hispanic. About two-thirds of them were under 30 years old.

All - whites, blacks, women, Hispanics, young people, Democrats, Republicans and independents - will have high expectations for Obama's presidency.

US Voters Come Out in Big Numbers for Historic Election

Polls are open across the United States as voters line up to choose a new president and members of Congress. High turnout is reported at many polling stations. The last major preference polls showed Democrat Barack Obama with a significant advantage over Republican John McCain. VOA's Brian Wagner reports from Florida, one of several key states the candidates are hoping to win.

Line of voters waiting to cast ballots in New Orleans, 04 Nov 2008

Voters streamed into libraries, government buildings and schools to cast ballots in an election many voters are saying is the most significant in the nation's history.

Some polling stations in eastern states like New York, Virginia and Pennsylvania reported long lines of voters who gathered before dawn to cast ballots.

Election officials say they expect massive turnout on Election Day, and they are asking voters to be patient and brace for possible delays.

Virginia resident Renu Ahluwalia got in line early Tuesday, and said she would arrive late to her job at the Department of Homeland Security "I just started my wait, but I was told it was up to an hour. I think no matter what time you came the lines were going to be long, but it is exciting. I am making up the hours later in order to come out here this morning," she said.

Officials in New Jersey said they were giving paper ballots to some voters because of problems with electronic voting machines. Other areas encountered minor problems, but officials voiced no major concerns.

Voters cast their ballots at Centreville High School in Clifton, Virginia, 04 Nov. 2008

Near Washington, American University law student, Angela Edmond, was part of a volunteer team working to make sure all people qualified to vote are able to do so. "There was only one problem with a man whose wife had applied for an absentee ballot, and she didn't receive it and she was given a hard time inside. She should be able to vote provisionally, but we're not sure, so we are waiting to see when she comes out," she said.

In Miami, college student Paul Torres, said he voted for Obama because of his economic policy, even though he considers himself a Republican. "It was not really a hard decision in this election, because I see people on television saying McCain is going to fix this. But he has the same strategies as George Bush," he said.

Fellow student Andres Suarez said he raced to the polls to vote for John McCain before his morning classes. "I voted today, very early in the morning. It was about an hour and a half [wait], but compared to other friends who waited five hours, it was not that bad," he said.

Voters use benches to fill their ballots in Calais, Vermont, 04 Nov 2008

Long delays were common in Florida and some of the 29 other states that held early voting in recent weeks. Officials say early turnout was unprecedented with more than 40 million Americans casting their ballots before Election Day.

On the final day of campaigning, Barack Obama spoke to thousands of supporters in Virginia - a state no Democrat has won since 1964. "I've just got one question for you, Virginia. Are you fired up? Are you ready to go? Fired up? Ready to go? Fired up? Ready to go? Fired up? Ready to go? Virginia, let's go change the world. Thank you and God Bless the United States of America," he said.

Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and his wife Michelle, cast their votes at a polling place in Chicago, 4 Nov. 2008

Senator Obama is spending Election Day with his family in Illinois, before a major rally in Chicago later in the day.

Senator McCain is in his home state of Arizona after making a whirlwind tour of several crucial states on Monday.

At a rally in Indiana, he pointed to some polls showing that he held a narrow lead over his opponent. "We've got the momentum. We've the momentum my friends. We've got it!"

Final national polls showed the presidential contest was narrowing, but Obama held a comfortable lead of between five and 11 points.

Democrats also are expected to make gains in Congressional voting, which includes all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 in the 100 member Senate.

Most projections have Democrats expanding their current 36 seat House advantage by at least 20. Potential losses could give Democrats their strongest majority in 18 years, putting Republicans far below their current 199 seat minority.

Democrats would like to widen their current narrow 51-49 margin of control in the Senate to or near a 60-seat majority that could make it easier to win votes on legislation.

Burma Accuses Bangladesh of Intruding in Burmese Waters

11/4/2008

Sittwe: Burmese authorities in Sittwe have accused to Bangladesh navy ships of entering Burmese waters on Monday morning for an hour before returning to Bangladesh territory, said an official from Number 18 Navy based in Sittwe on the condition of anonymity.

He said, "There are three Bangladesh navy ships near Burma's water and of those, two entered Burmese waters at 8 am on Monday, while one ship waited in Bangladesh waters to see out the situation."

However, Burma's ships did not respond to the Bangladesh ships' actions, even though they intruded into Burmese territory, he added.

A source close to the Burmese navy in Sittwe said that one Bangladesh navy ship traveled about eight miles into Burmese waters, while another traveled about four miles into Burmese waters.

According to local sources, navy ships from both countries are still deployed to the site of the territorial dispute, and they are closely watching each other at sea.

Bangladesh accused Burma of sending three ships into Bangladesh waters - one is a hydrocarbon exploration vessel and two are warships that escorted the exploration vessel into Bangladesh territory on Saturday.

The Bangladesh government summoned Burma's ambassador, U Pe Than U, to the foreign ministry office yesterday to convey Bangladesh's protest over the intrusion to Burmese authorities.

Bangladesh will send a high-powered delegation to Burma on Wednesday to attempt to solve the problem.

An analyst said that the Burma's intrusion into Bangladesh waters angered Bangladesh authorities because they had recently proposed to Burma that the two countries resolve their maritime boundaries peacefully. During this same proposition, Burma's navy ships entered Bangladesh waters to explore for oil and gas.

The disputed area between Burma and Bangladesh is located 60 miles southwest of St. Martin Island, which is located at the mouth of the Naff River. Both Bangladesh and Burma have proclaimed that the waters in question fall within their own territory.

Bangladesh and Burma send warships into Bay of Bengal

Tensions escalate over gas resources lying beneath the bay's sea floor

• Randeep Ramesh
• guardian.co.uk,
• Tuesday November 04 2008 12.47 GMT
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Bangladesh and Burma, two of the world's poorest nations, have sent warships into the Bay of Bengal amid escalating tensions over a vast disputed gas find.

Bangladesh said today it had sent a British-made frigate, the BNS Kopothakka, to join three other warships some 30 miles south of Saint Martin Island, a palm fringed smudge of sand. The Burmese authorities estimate that 14 trillion cubic feet of gas lies beneath the sea floor.

The military-backed government in Dhaka, which is preparing to transfer power through elections, has said it will take "all possible measures" to protect its nation's assets. The country is also sending its top foreign civil servant to meet with the military junta in Burma.

The row was sparked by the appearance of a Burmese exploration ship escorted by a flotilla of naval boats that skirted the edge of the island last week.

Bangladesh insists the disputed waters fall within its territory and has demanded the Burmese ships withdraw until a maritime boundary can be established through talks.

This is the same argument used by the junta in Rangoon to defend its ships. The senior official from Burma's foreign ministry told Reuters: "We have no reason to stop the exploration activities since these blocks are located in our exclusive economic zone. We will go ahead with it."

Analysts say the two impoverished nations both want to control as much of the energy rich Bay of Bengal as possible. However, Burma's regime has come to view hydrocarbon wealth as essential for its survival – making a looming clash with Bangladesh a potentially dangerous flashpoint.

In the last year, Burma earned $2.6bn from selling gas. Not only can the military generals buy off bigger neighbours such as China and India, the exports insulate the country from western sanctions.

A report by the Asian Development Bank earlier this year, warned sales of natural gas were creating growing trade surpluses and a valuable buffer for Burma's ruling generals.

REGIME IN BURMA STILL RESTRICTING ACCESS AFTER CYCLONE NARGIS

03 Nov 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Source: Christian Aid - UK

Judith Melby

Website: http://www.christianaid.org.uk

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Six months after Cyclone Nargis caused massive devastation in Burma Christian Aid says the country will require assistance for the foreseeable future. There is still a need for more permanent housing and disaster preparedness training; access to clean drinking water in the upcoming dry season is also a major concern. 'Cyclone Nargis made it easier for humanitarian agencies such as Christian Aid which has a longstanding partnership with local organisations to work in Burma. We have been able to deliver assistance in an effective and accountable way,' says Ray Hasan, Christian Aid's head of programme policy for the region. 'But despite concessions made in the Irrawaddy Delta after the cyclone, the junta's restrictions on humanitarian access continue to obstruct aid workers in Burma,' continues Mr Hasan. Christian Aid partners say that the majority of the people affected are still unable to start the process of rebuilding their lives. Resources remain limited and restrictions on freedom of movement are still in place. To date Christian Aid has spent more than one million pounds in Burma on emergency aid and improved conditions for a quarter of a million people. Immediately following the cyclone partner organisations provided water containers and purifiers, food rations, emergency shelter, household items and clothing, and basic medicines. Work is now proceeding with recovery work. A Christian Aid partner is providing 12 villages with goats and pigs and support to the fishing industry. Boats and nets are being distributed and 50 permanent shelters are being constructed. 'The progress is surprising, everyone seems to be employed in constructing houses,' says an engineers working with one partner organisation. 'We don't need to motivate the people here. They like to work together and they are looking after each other.' Christian Aid has made disaster reduction training a priority; learning how to respond to disasters is essential to avoid the massive damages suffered by Burma from the cyclone in May. 'In June we sent two engineers to visit our partner organisation in Orissa, India to learn about disaster response training,' says Mr Hasan. 'Our work in Orissa in training communities and building cyclone -resistant shelters has saved thousands of lives there.' An engineer who travelled to India said: 'We have brought back blueprints of designs which we have adapted for our local situation. 'We need to modify these designs further. The priority right now is to meet the urgent needs for rebuilding peoples' lives, both in terms of providing shelter but more importantly the spirit of community in the face of disaster.' Christian Aid says pressure must be maintained on the regime to ensure unrestricted access to the affected areas and that the needs of the most vulnerable communities affected by Nargis are prioritised. 'But it is also imperative that the donor community recognises the role of civil society in Burma and ensures local organisations are adequately funded. Thus far they have been most effective in responding to the crisis and they are crucial to the future development of Burma,' says Mr Hasan.

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အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းအေ၀းျပဳလုပ္

အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္(အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ)၏ ယမန္ေန႔က က်င္းပသည့္ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႔ စံုညီအစည္းအေဝး တြင္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီတြင္း ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနသည့္အခက္အခဲမ်ားကို သံုးသပ္ေဆြးေႏြး ၾကေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။

အဆိုပါ အစည္းအေဝးပြဲတြင္ မၾကာေသးခင္က စစ္အစိုးရ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာ သည့္ သတင္းစာ ဆရာႀကီး ဦးဝင္းတင္ႏွင့္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ႏွင့္ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္ တဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြတို႔လည္း တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက“ အခ်ိန္က ၃နာရီေက်ာ္ပဲၾကာတယ္၊ အန္ကယ္တို႔မရွိခင္ ပါတီကိုဘယ္လိုသယ္ေဆာင္ လာခဲ့တယ္ ဆိုတာရယ္၊ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းျပန္ေျပာတယ္၊ လူငယ္ကိစၥလည္း အနည္းနည္း ေဆြးေႏြးျဖစ္ပါ တယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္္ ဒီပဲယင္းအေရးအခင္းျဖစ္ပြားၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက အယ္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ နယ္ရုံးဖြင့္ခြင့္ ပိတ္ပင္ထား ျခင္း၊ တရားဝင္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဆိုင္းဘုတ္ တင္ခြင့္မရျခင္း၊ ရန္ကုန္ရွိ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ရုံးအပိတ္ခံရျခင္း၊ ျပည္သူမ်ားကလည္း အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ဆက္ဆံရမွာကို ထိတ္လန္႔ၾကျခင္း၊ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားရွိ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား သည္လည္း သက္ဆိုင္ရာအာဏာပိုင္ မ်ား၏ တင္းက်ပ္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လြတ္လပ္စြာလႈပ္ရွားလုပ္ကိုင္ခြင့္မရျခင္း စသည့္ စစ္အစိုးရဖိႏွိပ္မႈမ်ားၾကားမွ လႈပ္ရွား လုပ္ကိုင္ေနရျခင္းမ်ားကို ယခုအစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ေျပာဆို ေဆြးေႏြးသည္ဟု လည္း ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြကေျပာသည္။

ယင္း အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ က်င္းပမည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈ မရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

“လက္ရွိစစ္အစုိးရ က ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အတင္းဆြဲေခၚေနတဲ့ကာလမွာ၂၀၁၀ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္အေနျဖင့္ စဥ္းစားႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေသးပါဘူး။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ သက္ဆိုင္ရာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာေတြကို ႏွစ္ဦး ႏွစ္ဘက္တိုက္ရုိက္ေဆြးေႏြးခြင့္ရမယ္ဆိုရင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအပါအဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ျပႆနာ အားလံုးကို ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္လိမ့္မယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တဦးတည္းအေနနဲ႔ယူဆပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက ၎၏သေဘာထားကိုေျပာသည္။

မိထၳိလာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရွိ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားကလည္း ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁ ရက္ေန႔က မိထိၳလာခရုိင္ အစည္းအေဝး ဆံုးျဖတ္အရ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ ၃ခ်က္ကို ဗဟိုအလုပ္အလုပ္အမႈ ေဆာင္အဖြဲ႔သို႔ စာျဖင့္ေပးပို႔မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း မိထၳိလာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္ေအး ကေျပာသည္။

ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားမွာ“ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕အားျဖည့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးပါရန္၊ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးရွိ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဴပ္မွ အေရြးခ်ယ္ခံ ျပည္သူ႔လြတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအားလံုးကို အစည္းအေဝး တရပ္ေခၚယူ က်င္းပေပးရန္၊ ဗဟိုလူငယ္အဖြဲ႔ျပန္လည္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးရန္”တို႔ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္ေအး ကေျပာသည္။

ေဒၚျမင့္ျမင့္ေအးက ဆက္လက္ၿပီး “ေလာေလာဆယ္အေနအထားအရ တဘက္အာဏာရွင္နဲ႔ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ က က်မတို႔ ပါတီမွာ အင္အားရွိဖို႔လိုတယ္။ ဗဟိုကအားရွိမွ က်မတို႔ေအာက္ေျခကအားရွိမယ္။ ဗဟိုက အစည္းအေဝးေခၚမယ္။ ဗဟိုကို အင္အားျဖည့္ဆည္းမယ္၊ အားမာန္ပါမယ့္ညြန္ၾကားခ်က္ေတြလုပ္ႏိုင္မွ က်မတို႔ေအာက္ေျခကလုပ္ႏိုင္မယ္။ က်မတို႔ပါတီက အားရွိမွ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရးလမ္း ေၾကာင္းေပၚ
ေရာက္မယ္” ဟုလည္း ေျပာသည္။

၎အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္စံုညီအစည္းအေဝးကို ေန႔လယ္၁နာရီမွ၄နာရီခြဲအထိ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ ၿပီး အပတ္စဥ္ တနလၤာေန႔တြင္ က်င္းပမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းလည္းသိရသည္။

ေမြးရာပါႏုတ္ခမ္းကြဲေနသူ ကေလးမဵားကို ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္တြင္ ခြဲစိတ္ကုသေပး

2008

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နာမႈကူညီေရးအသင္း အေဆာက္အအံုကို တိုင္းေကာင္စီအမိန္ႛျဖင့္ ဖ်က္သိမ္းခိုင္း

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Two more defence lawyers prosecuted ႏိုင္ငံေရးအမႈမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္သူ ေရွ႕ေနႏွစ္ဦး တရားစဲြခံရျပန္ၿပီ

by Phanida

Monday, 03 November 2008 23:01

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. ႏိုင္ငံေရးအမႈမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္သူ ေရွ႕ေနႏွစ္ဦး တရားစဲြခံရျပန္ၿပီ ဖနိဒါ တနလၤာေန႔၊ ႏုိဝင္ဘာလ 03 2008 22:08 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ခ်င္းမုိင္။ ။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၀င္မ်ား၏ အမႈမ်ားကုိ ကူညီေပးေနသည့္ ဗဟုိတရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ ေရွ႕ေန ဦးေအာင္သိန္းႏွင့္ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ရွိန္တုိ႔အား လႈိင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ တရား႐ုံးက ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ တရားစြဲဆုိလုိက္သည္။ အက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနရသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား အမႈသည္မ်ားက တရား႐ုံးေတာ္ကုိ အယံုအၾကည္ မရွိေတာ့သျဖင့္ သူတို႔၏ ေရွ႕ေနပါ၀ါမ်ား ႐ုပ္သိမ္းလုိက္ေၾကာင္း တရားသူၾကီးထံ တင္ျပရာ လႈိင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ တရားသူၾကီး ေဒၚေအးျမိဳင္က တရား႐ုံးကုိ မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳမႈျဖင့္ တရားစြဲဆုိလိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ "သူတုိ႔ႏွစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ရန္ကုန္ ဗဟုိတရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ကေန တရား႐ုံးအား မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳမႈ - ဥပေဒပုဒ္မ ၃ အရ တရားစြဲဆုိထားတယ္လုိ႔ သိရတယ္" ဟု အန္အယ္ဒီ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။ အမည္မေဖာ္လုိသူ ဗဟုိတရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ေရွ႕ေနတဦးကလည္း "ေထာင္အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ေထာင္၀င္ခြင့္ မေပးဘူး။ တရား႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္က စြဲထားတာ။ လႈိင္ျမိဳ႕နယ္ တရားသူၾကီးကေန တရား႐ုံးကုိ မထီေလးစား လုပ္တယ္ဆုိျပီး တရားစြဲလိုက္တယ္။ သမၼာန္စာလည္း ပုိ႔ထားျပီ" ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ႏွစ္ဦးစလံုးအား တရား႐ုံးမွ ယခုလ ၆ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းရက္ ေပးထားသည္။ ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔က စမ္းေခ်ာင္းျမိဳ႕နယ္ တရား႐ုံး၌ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအမႈတခု လုိက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ေနစဥ္ တရားသူၾကီးက သတိထားေနရန္ႏွင့္ ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈျဖင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ခ်ခံရႏုိင္သည္ဟု ေရွ႕ေန ဦးခင္ေမာင္ရွိန္အား ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ယခုလို တရားစဲြဆိုမႈ ေပၚေပါက္လာျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ အလားတူပင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အမႈမ်ားကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသူ လူငယ္ေရွ႕ေန ကုိညီညီေထြးကိုလည္း ျပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႔က ေျမာက္ပိုင္းခရိုင္တရား႐ုံးက သမၼာန္စာ ေပးပုိ႔ကာ ၃၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းေပးခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းရက္ မတုိင္ခင္ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့သည္။ ေျမာက္ပုိင္းခ႐ုိင္ တရားသူၾကီး ဦးေသာင္းညြန္႔က တရား႐ုံးေတာ္ကို မထီေလးစားျပဳမႈ - ပုဒ္မ ၂၂၈ ျဖင့္ ကုိညီညီေထြးကို ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၆ လ ခ်မွတ္ျပီး၊ တၿပိဳင္တည္း တရားစဲြခံရကာ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္ေနသည့္ ေရွ႕ေန ကိုေစာေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္မင္းကိုမူ ဖမ္း၀ရန္းထုတ္ထားသည္။ ျပည္ပအေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာလူငယ္ေရွ႕ေနမ်ား ဥပေဒ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္း - Myanmar Youth Lawyers Law Firm က ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဖက္ဒေရးရွင္း - International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) ႏွင့္ ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းမ်ားကုိ ဆန္႔က်င္သည့္ ကမၻာ့အဖြဲ႔ၾကီး - OMCT ထံ ေရွ႕ေန ကိုညီညီေထြးအား ကိုယ္ကာယ၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္ေရးရာ တစံုတရာ ထိခိုက္ျခင္းမ်ဳိး စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက မျပဳလုပ္ေရးအတြက္ အာမခံရန္ႏွင့္ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုေပးေစလိုေၾကာင္း ယမန္ေန႔က ေၾကညာခ်က္တရပ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။ ကိုညီညီေထြးႏွင့္ ကိုေစာေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္မင္းတို႔ အပါအ၀င္ ျမန္မာျပည္အတြင္းရွိ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကာကြယ္ျမႇင့္တင္သူမ်ားကုိ တရားဥပေဒအဆင့္ အပါအ၀င္ မတရားျပဳခ်က္မ်ားကို ရပ္တန္႔ရန္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေၾကညာစာတမ္းႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အတည္ျပဳျပဌန္းထားသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ စာတမ္းမ်ား၏ စံခ်ိန္မ်ားႏွင့္အညီ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးႏွင့္ အေျခခံလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္မ်ားကို အာမခံေပးရန္လည္း ေျပာဆုိခဲ့သည္။ FIDH သည္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေၾကညာစာတမ္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံသားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခြင့္အေရး သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရး၊ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ အခြင့္အေရးဆိုင္ရာ သေဘာတူစာခ်ဳပ္ပါ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကို ေလးစားလိုက္နာရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသည့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႕ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔အျပင္ ကုလသမဂၢ၊ ယူနက္စ္ကို၊ ဥေရာပေကာင္စီတို႔တြင္ အၾကံေပးအဆင့္ျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ရွိၿပီး၊ အာဖရိက လူသားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံသားအခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္တြင္ ေလ့လာသူအျဖစ္လည္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသည္။ ေရွ႕ေန ကုိညီညီေထြးႏွင့္ သူ လိုက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ကိုရန္ႏိုင္ထြန္း၊ ကိုေအာင္မင္းႏိုင္ (ခ) မီးေသြးႏွင့္ ကိုမ်ဳိးေက်ာ္ဇင္တို႔၏ ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္မ်ားအား စစ္ေဆးျခင္းမျပဳဘဲ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္လုိက္ျခင္းသည္ ဥပေဒအရ မွားယြင္းျပီး ျပစ္မႈက်င့္ထံုးဥပေဒပုဒ္မ ၄၈၂ ပါ ျပဌာန္းခ်က္ကို ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ရာေရာက္သည္ဟု ေရွ႕ေန ကိုဖုိးျဖဴက ယခုလို ေျပာသည္။ "ျမန္မာျပည္က ေရွ႕ေနေရွ႕ရပ္ေတြဟာ တရားစီရင္ေရးမွာ လြတ္လပ္စြာ အမႈလိုက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ခြင့္ ဆံုး႐ႈံးေနပါတယ္။ အမႈသည္ကိုယ္စား တင္ျပခြင့္၊ ေလွ်ာက္ထားခြင့္၊ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခြင့္ကို ပိတ္ပင္ခံေနရပါတယ္။ ၁၈၈၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေရွ႕ေနလိုက္သူမ်ား အက္ဥပေဒ ပုဒ္မ - ၈ ကို ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ခံေနရပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ဥပေဒႏႈန္းစံတရပ္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ၁၉၉၀ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားအတြက္ အေျခခံမူေတြအရလည္း ညီၫြတ္မႈ မရွိပါဘူး" ဟု သူက ေျပာဆိုလုိက္သည္။