4.28.2008
Oversea Burmese Boycott on Referedum
ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ား သံ႐ံုးေရွ႕ ဆႏၵျပ
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ ေရးဆြဲသည့္ အေျခခံဥပေဒကို မေက်နပ္သျဖင့္ ကမၻာအရပ္ရပ္တြင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ ျမန္မာမ်ားက သံ႐ံုး အသီးသီးတြင္ မဲဆႏၵေပးရင္း ဆႏၵျပလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား ယခင္အပတ္အတြင္း ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း ၾကားသိရသည္။
 စင္ကာပူေရာက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား မဲေပးရန္ ေစာင့္ေနၾကစဥ္ |
ထိုသို႔ ဆႏၵျပလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ားကို ကေနဒါ၊ စင္ကာပူ၊ မေလးရွား၊ ဂ်ပန္ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား၊ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ အစရွိသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ဆႏၵျပသူ ၅၀ ခန္႔သည္ NO စာလံုး ေရးသားထားသည့္ အက်ႌအနီေရာင္မ်ား ဝတ္ဆင္ကာ ျမန္မာ သံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ ဧၿပီ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က ဆႏၵျပ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္မႈမ်ား ျပဳခဲ့သည္ဟု ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာ တကၠသိုလ္ ေက်ာင္းသားတဦးျဖစ္သူ ကိုေက်ာ္လင္းဦးက ေျပာသည္။
၎ဆႏၵျပ အဖြဲ႕က “ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ အလိုမရွိ၊ အေျခခံဥပေဒ က်႐ႈံးပါေစ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လႊတ္ေပး” စသည္ျဖင့္ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္ခဲ့သည္ဟု ၎က ေျပာျပသည္။
ဧၿပီ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က စင္ကာပူသံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ လူဦးေရ ၂၅၀၀ ခန္႔တို႔ မဲထည့္ခြင့္ရရန္ တန္းစီေစာင့္ဆိုင္းေနရေၾကာင္း ထိုေန႔က ဆႏၵမဲသြားေပးသူ ဆိပ္ကမ္း ဝန္ထမ္းတဦးက ေျပာျပသည္။
၎အေနႏွင့္ တရားဝင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကာ မၾကာေသးမီကမွ အခြန္ေငြ ေဆာင္ထားသျဖင့္ မဲလာထည့္ရန္ စာရရွိထားသူ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း ထိုေန႔က မဲထည့္ခြင့္ မရခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဧရာဝတီသို႔ ေျပာသည္။
“စာရထားလို႔သြားတာ ေန႔လယ္ ၁ နာရီခြဲကေန ညေန ၆ နာရီခြဲ လူစုခြဲတဲ့ထိ ေစာင့္ေပမယ့္ မဲထည့္ခြင့္ မရခ့ဲဘူး။ က်ေနာ့္ အထင္ မဲေပးခြင့္ရတဲ့သူ ၃၀ ထက္ မေက်ာ္ဘူးဗ်” ဟု ၎ကေျပာသည္။
အျခားေသာ ကုမၸဏီဝန္ထမ္း တဦးမွာ တရားဝင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကိုင္လွ်က္ အခြန္ေဆာင္ထားသူ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း မဲေပးရန္ စာမရရွိဟုဆိုသည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ မဲေပးခြင့္ရလိုရျငား သံ႐ံုးသို႔ သြားခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ညေနတိုင္သည္အထိ အလွည့္မက်ခဲ့ဟု ေျပာျပသည္။
“စာရထားတဲ့သူေတြေတာင္ မေပးရဘဲ ျပန္သြားရတယ္။ တခါမဲေပးဖို႔ေခၚရင္ သံုးေယာက္ေလာက္ပဲ ေခၚတယ္။ ၿပီးရင္ ၂ နာရီေလာက္ ဘာမွမလုပ္ဘဲ ဒီတိုင္း သံ႐ံုးတံခါးႀကီးကို ပိတ္ထားတယ္” ဟု ၎က ေျပာျပသည္။
မဲကိုတရားဝင္ေပးရန္ စာပို႔ထားသူဦးေရမွာ စုစုေပါင္း ၁၀၀၀၀ သာရွိၿပီး အမွန္တကယ္ တရားဝင္ အလုပ္လုပ္ေနသူဦးေရမွာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမပါဘဲ ၃၀၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
စင္ကာပူရွိ ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ မဲေပးရန္ ေစာင့္ဆိုင္းေနသူမ်ားကို ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားက ၾကက္ေျခခတ္ အမွတ္တံဆိပ္ပါ အက်ႌနီမ်ား၊ ဦးထုပ္နီမ်ား ေဝငွေပးခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း မဲေပးရန္ သံ႐ံုးတြင္း ဝင္မည့္သူမ်ားက ထိုအက်ႌမ်ား၊ ဦးထုပ္မ်ားကို အျပင္တြင္ ခၽြတ္ထားခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း ၎က ဆက္ေျပာသည္။
“အျပင္မွာ စင္ကာပူရဲေတြ ေစာင့္ေနတယ္။ အစပိုင္းက ၇ ေယာက္ ၈ ေယာက္ေလာက္ပဲ။ ေနာက္ပိုင္းက်ေတာ့ ၅၀၀၊ ၆၀၀ ေလာက္ျဖစ္လာတယ္” ဟု ၎ကေျပာသည္။
ညေနလူစုခြဲခ်ိန္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သီခ်င္းကို သံၿပိဳင္သီဆိုၿပီး တန္းစီလမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားကာ လူစု ျပန္ခြဲခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံတြင္ တရားဝင္ေနထိုင္၍ ပံုမွန္ အခြန္ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနေသာ ျမန္မာမ်ားကို ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ အတြက္ ႀကိဳတင္မဲေပးရန္ ဧၿပီ ၂၆၊ ၂၇၊ ၂၈ ရက္ႏွင့္ ၂၉ ရက္ ေလးရက္ သတ္မွတ္ေပးထားသည္။ ဧၿပီ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔၊ စေနေန႔က ကုမၸဏီမ်ား၊ အလုပ္ မ်ားဖြင့္သျဖင့္ သံ႐ံုးသို႔ မဲလာေပးသူ ဦးေရ ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္ခန္႔သာရွိေၾကာင္း မဲသြားထည့္သူ တဦးက ဧရာဝတီသို႔ ေျပာျပသည္။
စင္ကာပူသံ႐ံုးက မဲလာေပးရမည့္ သူမ်ားထံ စာမ်ားေဝထားၿပီး ၎စာရွိသူႏွင့္ တအိမ္တည္းေန တရားဝင္ေနထိုင္သူမ်ားပါ မဲေပး၍ ရေၾကာင္း မၾကာေသးမီကမွ စင္ကာ ပူႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနသူ တဦးကေျပာသည္။
“က်ေနာ့္ သူငယ္ခ်င္းဆီ စာေရာက္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ပါ မဲေပးလို႔ ရတယ္ဆိုလို႔ သံ႐ံုးလိုက္သြားတာ။ သံုးေယာက္လံုး ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ ထည့္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔က စေနဆိုေတာ့ အလုပ္မအားတာနဲ႔ လူက သိပ္မရွိဘူး။ ၁ နာရီခြဲေလာက္ေတာ့ သံ႐ံုးမွာ ေစာင့္လိုက္ရတယ္” ဟု ၎ကေျပာျပသည္။
မဲေပးရာတြင္ သံ႐ံုးအတြင္းရွိ လိုက္ကာျဖင့္ကန္႔ထားေသာ အခန္းငယ္အတြင္း လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္စြာ မဲေပးခဲ့ရျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သူက ဆိုသည္။
“က်ေနာ္ဆုိ မဲေပးခြင့္မရခဲ့ဘူး။ တနလၤာ အဂၤါေတြမွာလည္း အလုပ္တဘက္နဲ႔ မဲသြားေပးႏိုင္မွာ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ က်ေနာ့္ ကိုယ္ေရးအခ်က္အလက္ေတြက သူတို႔မွာ ရွိတယ္ေလ။ အဲဒါကိုျဖည့္ၿပီး ေထာက္ခံမဲ ထည့္လိုက္ရင္ေကာ ဘာတတ္ ႏိုင္မွာလဲ” ဟု PSA အင္ဂ်င္နီယာဌာနမွ ဝန္ထမ္းတဦးက ေျပာျပသည္။
မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ပီနန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ျမန္မာမ်ားကို ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ရရန္ ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားက ကားျဖင့္ ကြာလာလမ္ပူ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သို႔ အသြားအျပန္ ႀကိဳေပးေၾကာင္း ပီနန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ မဲသြားေပးသူ ကုိစည္သူမင္းက ေျပာျပသည္။
“ပီနန္ကေန ကားသံုးစီးထြက္တယ္ တစီးကို လူ ၄၀ ေလာက္ပါပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ ထည့္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူငယ္ခ်င္း တခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ အိုဗာတိုင္ ဆင္းေနရလို႔ မလိုက္ႏိုင္ဘူး” ဟု ၎က ေျပာျပသည္။
မေလးရွားတြင္လည္း သံ႐ံုးအတြင္း အခန္းငယ္ကန္႔၍ လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္မဲ ေပးခဲ့ရသည္ဟု ၎က ေျပာျပသည္။ ပီနန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ကြာလာလမ္ပူသို႔ ကားစီးခ်ိန္ ၅ နာရီခန္႔ၾကာျမင့္ၿပီး ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔ နံနက္ ၂ နာရီခန္႔က စတင္ကားထြက္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။
ကြာလာလမ္ပူရွိ ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူတို႔က ကန္႔ကြက္သည့္ ၾကက္ေျခခတ္ အမွတ္အသားပါ စတစ္ကာခ်ပ္ႀကီးမ်ားကို အက်ႌမ်ားတြင္ ကပ္ကာ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ဆန္႔က်င္ ဆႏၵျပသည့္ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံမ်ား ေအာ္ဟစ္ၾကရာ ျမန္မာလူထု လိုက္ပါေအာ္ဟစ္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း ၎ကဆက္ေျပာသည္။
မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အနည္းဆံုး ျမန္မာ ၅ သိန္းခန္႔ ေနထိုင္လွ်က္ရွိၿပီး ၁၈၀၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္မွာ တရားဝင္ေနထိုင္သူမ်ား ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း တရားဝင္ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ သိရွိရသည္။
ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံ ဆိုးလ္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္လည္း တနဂၤေႏြေန႔က ျမန္မာ ၆၀ ခန္႔ ျမန္မာသံ ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ အေျခခံ ဥပေဒကို ကန္႔ကြက္ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။
အလားတူ ကေနဒါႏိုင္ငံ ေအာ့တာဝါ၌လည္း ယမန္ေန႔က တိုရန္တို ႏွင့္ ေအာ့တာဝါတြင္ ေနထိုင္သည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား ၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္တို႔က ၃ နာရီခြဲခန္႔ၾကာေအာင္ စစ္အစိုးရ ေရးဆြဲသည့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံု အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ကန္႔ကြက္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၎ေဒသတြင္ ေနထိုင္သည့္ ကိုေက်ာ္ေဇာေဝက ေျပာသည္။
 ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုးေရွ႕ ဆႏၵျပသူတဦးအား ဂ်ပန္ရဲမ်ားက ဝင္ေရာက္ ဖမ္းဆီးစဥ္ |
ဧၿပီ ၂၆ ရက္၊ စေနေန႔က ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ တိုက်ိဳၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ျမန္မာ ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္တို႔ ျမန္မာ သံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ စုစည္း ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ရာ ဂ်ပန္ ရဲမ်ားက ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းသျဖင့္ ၁၃ ဦးဒဏ္ရာ ရရွိကာ တဦးကိုမူ ဂ်ပန္ရဲမ်ားက ထိန္းသိမ္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းဌာနမ်ားက ေရးသားခဲ့သည္။
ဂ်ပန္သတင္းေအဂ်င္စီ ဂ်ပန္တိုင္းမ္စ္တြင္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား မ်ားသည္ တိုက်ိဳၿမိဳ႕ ဂ်ပန္သံ႐ံုးေရွ႕တြင္ စီတန္း၍ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဓာတ္ပံုကိုကိုင္ကာ “မဲေပးၾကစို႔၊ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အလိုမရွိ၊ စစ္အစိုးရ အလိုမရွိ” ဟု ေႂကြးေၾကာ္ၾကေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။Overseas Burmese Protest Constitution
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Thousands of exiled and expatriate Burmese people have been gathering outside Burmese embassies around the world to express dissatisfaction with the military government’s constitutional referendum.
Voting has already begun in some countries ahead of the May 10 referendum. While some were allowed into their respective embassies to cast their votes, others were turned away by officials.
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| Burmese pro-democracy activists participate in a protest in front of the Burmese embassy in Seoul April 27. (Photo: Reuters) |
The biggest demonstration was held in Singapore on Sunday where some 2,500 protesters—many wearing red t-shirts with the word “No” emblazoned on the front—gathered outside the Burmese embassy and protested against the draft constitution.
Sources in Singapore said that even some Burmese people who were invited to vote in the national referendum by the embassy were denied the right by authorities when they went into the embassy to vote.
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| Burmese nationals hold up their passports as a sign that they have the right to vote, gathered outside their country's embassy in Singapore to vote in a referendum on a draft constitution on April 27. (Photo: AP) |
The Burmese regime has stipulated that only citizens with legitimate documents, such as Burmese passports, can vote overseas, a ruling that excludes most political exiles and refugees.
Meanwhile, some 230 Burmese expatriates living in Japan staged a mock referendum on Sunday outside the Burmese embassy in Tokyo, criticizing the draft constitution as a ploy to keep the ruling junta in power.
The Burmese embassy had mailed letters earlier this month to more than 2,000 of its citizens in Japan, inviting them to vote on the proposed constitution in a two-day advance poll held over the weekend at the embassy, Japanese police and the foreign ministry said. However, fewer than 100 people had voted at the embassy as of Sunday afternoon, according to a count by the protesters.
About 100 Burmese citizens in Malaysia, including political activists, migrant workers and people from ethnic minorities, gathered in front of the Burmese embassy on Saturday wearing colorful traditional costumes displaying the word “No” and demanding the right to vote.
An estimated 500,000 Burmese people are living in Malaysia, about 180,000 of who possess legal documents. No official count for voters was available from the embassy.
About 100 protesters, including activists, migrant workers, students and ethnic minority people, gathered outside the Burmese embassy in Bangkok for about 30 minutes on Sunday.
The demonstrators, organized by the Joint Action Committee for Democracy in Burma, chanted slogans against the May 10 referendum. A statement from the umbrella committee for the dozen dissident organizations said the constitution was drawn up solely by pro-junta groups and would give the military great powers in any future government.
An estimated 360,000 registered Burmese migrants and 1.2 million unregistered migrants in Thailand were denied their voting rights.
Meanwhile, about 60 Burmese people in Seoul, the South Korean capital, gathered outside the Burmese embassy on Sunday to protest against the junta-written draft constitution, many wearing white shirts bearing the words “Vote No” and the logo of a cross. According to Yan Naing Htun, a Seoul-based Burmese activist, the protesters set up two artificial ballot boxes and urged people to vote “No” in the referendum.
In the United States, sources estimated that up to 100 people participated in the referendum in New York. It is estimated that the New York's Permanent Mission of Burma has some 500 registered voters.
The Burmese embassy in Washington, D.C.
4.21.2008
Dr Lone Swe wrote an essay about "No Vote"
Dear all readers;
We glad to present you an essay of Dr Lone Swe about referendum .He tried to point out about different between "No Vote" and "Vote No" .He showed his idea in his essay very openly.He criticized on some NLD CEC's action of inside.We choose his essay because of concern with "No Vote".We believed , he can present his idea about "No Vote" in his essay very well. He could try to present about his ideas in his essay why he disagreed on referendum.But we still open another or different ideas on this title.
We still inviting your ideas concerning with" no vote "and "vote no".Please send your idea to our blog as possible as quickly.We are hoping a lot your ideas or presentation about its because it is very important time for our country.
We glad to present you an essay of Dr Lone Swe about referendum .He tried to point out about different between "No Vote" and "Vote No" .He showed his idea in his essay very openly.He criticized on some NLD CEC's action of inside.We choose his essay because of concern with "No Vote".We believed , he can present his idea about "No Vote" in his essay very well. He could try to present about his ideas in his essay why he disagreed on referendum.But we still open another or different ideas on this title.
We still inviting your ideas concerning with" no vote "and "vote no".Please send your idea to our blog as possible as quickly.We are hoping a lot your ideas or presentation about its because it is very important time for our country.
4.16.2008
Thai Rice prize up is effective on Burma rice market
Thai rice prizes was up last a few months ago. All kinds of rice prizes raise to nearly twice for retail seal. For example ,middle class of rice 40 kilo packed prize was up 770 Baht to 1000 for hole sale .But for retail sale one kilo of rice prize up 25 to 40 Baht. It became to effective on migrants workers from Burma. They are stand on very low amount of daily income and rice is their main food. They can’t effort for that height price.
So that , they try to find cheaper way . Same quality of Burma rice is cheaper than the Thai rice .For 40 kilo packed of Burmese rice is only 750 Baht for whole sale. That why, Burmese rice started flow to Thailand from border trade way. Each and every where ,most of retail shops in border area they sell only Burma rice because it is cheap. It might be a big problem for Burma rice market. Next planning time will be start at coming raining season of July. Burmese farmer already sale their products .They are not ready for another market demand. Now, most of rice products are in the hand of hole seller merchants in Burma. We can say that they must sell their own rice who gives height prize. Border trade can give height prize than the local trade. That why, the prize of rice became up in Burma.
We’d like to compare different between Thai basic citizens and Burma citizens. The basic income of normal Thai citizen is 3500Baht (nearly 135000Kyats) and for basic income of Burmese citizen is around the 30000Kyats (some are lower than that amount).Rice prize up is bring some difficulties for Thai people but it is bring starvation for Burmese people. They are already suffering economic crisis before this .We hard some news about SPDC action .They blocked to bring rice to border area and also they started collect big amount of rice for their community . But we need to consider it will be really effective? Because they couldn’t control the illegal border trade since many years ago.
We just can pray for that poor people of Burma under control of the SPDC dictatorship. Coming Burma’s New Year may bring some thing batter change for Burma.
D-Wave
So that , they try to find cheaper way . Same quality of Burma rice is cheaper than the Thai rice .For 40 kilo packed of Burmese rice is only 750 Baht for whole sale. That why, Burmese rice started flow to Thailand from border trade way. Each and every where ,most of retail shops in border area they sell only Burma rice because it is cheap. It might be a big problem for Burma rice market. Next planning time will be start at coming raining season of July. Burmese farmer already sale their products .They are not ready for another market demand. Now, most of rice products are in the hand of hole seller merchants in Burma. We can say that they must sell their own rice who gives height prize. Border trade can give height prize than the local trade. That why, the prize of rice became up in Burma.
We’d like to compare different between Thai basic citizens and Burma citizens. The basic income of normal Thai citizen is 3500Baht (nearly 135000Kyats) and for basic income of Burmese citizen is around the 30000Kyats (some are lower than that amount).Rice prize up is bring some difficulties for Thai people but it is bring starvation for Burmese people. They are already suffering economic crisis before this .We hard some news about SPDC action .They blocked to bring rice to border area and also they started collect big amount of rice for their community . But we need to consider it will be really effective? Because they couldn’t control the illegal border trade since many years ago.
We just can pray for that poor people of Burma under control of the SPDC dictatorship. Coming Burma’s New Year may bring some thing batter change for Burma.
D-Wave
ျပည္ပဆန္တင္ပို႔သူမ်ားက ေစ်းႀကီးေပး၀ယ္ေနသျဖင့္ ျပည္တြင္း၌ ဆန္ေစ်းမ်ားဆက္တိုက္တက္
NEJ/ ၁၁ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၀၈(http://www.khitpyaing.org/)
ျပည္ပတင္ပို႔မည့္သူမ်ား ေစ်းႀကီးေပး ၀ယ္ယူေနသည့္အတြက္ (၂၅) မွတ္ ဆန္အျပင္ အျခား ဆန္အမ်ိဳးအစားမ်ားလည္း ေစ်းလိုက္ တက္ေနေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဆန္ကုန္သည္ႀကီးမ်ား အသင္းမွ ကုန္သည္ႀကီးတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
၎က “ ခုရက္ပိုင္း ဆန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခား တင္ခြင့္ရထားတဲ့ ကုမၸဏီေတြ သိမ္းက်ဳံး၀ယ္ေနလို႔ မိုးဇီယာ ဆန္ေတြ တပတ္ေက်ာ္အတြင္း တအိတ္ က်ပ္ (၂,၀၀၀) နီးပါး တက္သြားတယ္။ တေန႔ကို က်ပ္ (၂၀၀-၃၀၀- ၅၀၀) တက္ေနရင္းနဲ႔ ၿပီးခဲဲ့တဲ့ (၁၀) ရက္ေက်ာ္က တအိတ္ က်ပ္ (၁၅,၀၀၀) ေလာက္ ရွိေနရာကေန အခုဆို တအိတ္ က်ပ္ (၁၇,၀၀၀) အထိ ေရာက္ေနတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ဘုရင့္ေနာင္ ပဲြ႐ံုတန္းမွ ဆန္ကုန္သည္တဦးကလည္း ယခင္က (၂၅) မွတ္ အဆင့္အတန္း အိပ္စ္ပို႔ဆန္ တတန္လွ်င္ ေဒၚလာ (၃၀၀) ေအာက္သာ ရေသာ္လည္း ယခုေနာက္ပိုင္း ကမၻာ့ဆန္ေစ်းတက္လာ၍ ေဒၚလာ (၄၀၀) ေက်ာ္ ရလာေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ဆန္တအိတ္ကို ျမန္မာေငြ က်ပ္ (၂၀,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ ေစ်းႏႈန္းရွိေနေၾကာင္း၊ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားက ေစ်းကြက္ထဲ၌ ဆန္တအိတ္ က်ပ္ (၁၃,၅၀၀) မွ (၁၄,၀၀၀) က်ပ္အထိ ေပး၀ယ္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံျခား တင္ပို႔ရန္ ႀကိဳးစားေနၾကေၾကာင္း ေျပာသည္။
နအဖစစ္အစိုးရက ဆန္ပိုလွ်ံ ေဒသမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း၊ ပဲခူးတိုင္းႏွင့္ စစ္ကိုင္းတိုင္းတုိ႔မွ ဆန္တန္ခ်ိန္ (၄) သိန္းကို ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာ (၂၆) ရက္မွစ၍ ၎တို႔ႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သည့္ ကုမၸဏီ (၂၄) ခုကို ျပည္ပတင္ပို႔ခြင့္ ပါမစ္မ်ား ထုတ္ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ ဆန္ကုန္သည္က ေျပာသည္။
ထိုအခ်ိန္၌ ကမၻာ့ဆန္ေစ်းကြက္တြင္ ဗီယက္နမ္ (၂၅) မွတ္ဆန္ တတန္ ေဒၚလာ (၅၀၀) ခန္႔ ရွိေသာ္လည္း ျမန္မာဆန္က ေဒၚလာ (၃၀၀) ေအာက္သာ ရရွိျခင္း၊ ေငြလဲႊစနစ္ အဆင္မေျပျခင္း၊ ျပည္တြင္း၌ ေဒၚလာေငြ တန္ဖိုး က်ဆင္းေနျခင္း စသည့္အခ်က္မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ မတ္လ (၄) ရက္ထိ ဆန္တန္ခ်ိန္ (၁) သိန္းခဲြခန္႔သာ တင္ပို႔ေရာင္းခ်ႏိုင္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ၎က ဆက္လက္ ရွင္းျပသည္။
ဧၿပီလဆန္းပိုင္းတြင္မူ ကမၻာ့ဆန္ေစ်းကြက္၌ ဆန္တင္ပို႔သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားက တင္ပို႔မႈ ေလ်ာ့ခ်လာ ေသာေၾကာင့္ ဆန္ေစ်း ျပန္လည္ျမင့္တက္လာသည့္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ဆန္တင္ပို႔ခြင့္ ပါမစ္ ရထားသည့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားက ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ အလုအယက္ ၀ယ္ယူတင္ပို႔ လာၾကျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ စီးပြားေရး ပညာရွင္တဦးက “ဆန္ေစ်းေတြ ေစ်းထိုးတက္မွာ၊ ဆန္ျပတ္လတ္မွာ သိပ္မစိုးရိမ္ရဘူး။ စစ္အစိုးရက ဆန္စပါးကိစၥကို အေရးႀကီးကိစၥလို႔ သတ္မွတ္ထားၿပီး အၿမဲမျပတ္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနတာ၊ ဆန္ေစ်းတက္မယ္၊ ဆန္ျပတ္လတ္မယ္လို႔ ယူဆတာနဲ႔ ဆန္တင္ပို႔မႈကို ခ်က္ခ်င္းပိတ္ပစ္မွာ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ယခုေလာေလာဆယ္တြင္ ဆန္ေစ်းမ်ားမွာ ယခင္လကထက္ (၂၄) ျပည္ပါ ဆန္တအိတ္ကို (၁,၅၀၀) က်ပ္မွ (၂,၀၀၀) က်ပ္ခန္႔အထိ ျမင့္တက္ေနၿပီး လက္လီတျပည္ခ်င္းေစ်းမွာ(၅၀) က်ပ္မွ (၁၀၀) က်ပ္ခန္႔အထိ ျမင့္တက္ေနသည္။
ယေန႔ဆန္ေစ်းႏႈန္း
ေတာင္ပ်ံ (၁) အိတ္ ယခင္ ၂၀,၀၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု ၂၂,၀၀၀ က်ပ္
ဖ်ာပံုရွယ္ (၁)အိတ ္ ယခင္ ၂၄,၅၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု၂၆,၀၀၀ က်ပ္
ဖ်ာပံုထူးထူးရွယ္ (၁)အိတ္ ယခင္ ၂၆,၀၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု၂၇,၀၀၀ က်ပ္
ေပၚဆန္းေမြး (၁) အိတ္ ယခင္ ၂၂,၀၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု၂၃,၀၀၀ က်ပ္
ဇီယာ (၁) အိတ္ ယခင္ ၁၅,၅၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု၁၇,၀၀၀ က်ပ္
ငစိန္ (၁) အိတ္ ယခင္ ၁၃,၀၀၀ က်ပ္ ယခု၁၃,၅၀၀ က်ပ္
4.12.2008
Memory of Luhtu Daw Ah Mar
ျပည္သူခ်စ္ေသာ စာေရးဆရာ လူထုေဒၚအမာ၏ စ်ာပန ေအးခ်မ္းစြာၿပီးဆုံး
ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ တနလၤာေန႔၌ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ သတင္းစာဆရာ၊ စာေရးဆရာမႀကီး လူထုေဒၚအမာ အသက္ (၉၃) ႏွစ္၏ စ်ာပနကို ယေန႔နံနက္တြင္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕၌ က်င္းပၿပီး ၎၏ ႐ုပ္ကလာပ္ကို ၾကာနီကန္သုႆာန္၌ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာ၏ စ်ာပနသို႔ ေမာင္သာႏိုး၊ ေမာင္မိုးသူ၊ ေမာင္၀ံသ၊ ၾကည္ေအာင္၊ ထက္ျမက္၊ သန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ စသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအႏွံ႔အျပားမွ စာေပအႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား လာေရာက္ၾကၿပီး ၿမိဳ႕ခံလူထုကလည္း ေသာင္းေသာင္းျဖျဖ လုိက္ပါပို႔ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု စ်ာပနသို႔ သြားေရာက္ သူတုိ႔က ေျပာသည္။
စာေရးဆရာ ေမာင္မိုးသူက “အားလံုး ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္း အဆင္ေျပေျပ ၿပီးဆံုးသြားပါတယ္။ အေမ့ကို ေနာက္ဆံုး လြမ္းတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ျပည္သူခ်စ္တဲ့ စာေရးဆရာႀကီးကို မႏၲေလးတင္မကဘူး တျပည္လံုးမွာရွိတဲ့ စာေပအႏုပညာနယ္ပယ္က လူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ စည္စည္ ကားကားႀကီး ပို႔လိုက္ရပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာသည္ ၿမိဳ႕မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး မိခင္ႀကီးတဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး အမွန္တရားဘက္မွ အၿမဲတမ္းရပ္တည္ သြားသည့္ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ႀကီးျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ၿမိဳ႕ခံလူထုက ႐ုပ္အေလာင္းသယ္ေဆာင္သြားရာ လမ္း တေလွ်ာက္ လမ္းေဘး၀ဲယာမွ ထြက္၍ ဂါရ၀ျပဳၾကသည္ဟု မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
ကဗ်ာဆရာ ကိုေလး (အင္း၀) ကလည္း “သိပ္စည္တယ္ဗ်ာ၊ ခန္႔မွန္းေခ် ေသာင္းဂဏန္းမကဘူး။ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားတယ္ဗ်ာ။ ၾကာနီကန္ထဲမွာဆို လူေတြအျပည့္ပဲ။ ေဒၚေဒၚကေတာ့ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္ စက္ထဲေရာက္ေနၿပီ။ ေခါင္းတိုင္ထဲက မီးခိုးေလးေတြ ေပ်ာက္ခနဲ ေပ်ာက္ခနဲ မည္းခနဲ မည္းခနဲ ထြက္လာၿပီဗ်ာ။ အဲဒါကို ဦးေလး (လူထုဦးလွ) ဆံုးတုန္းကေတာ့ ကဗ်ာေလးတပုဒ္ ေရးတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္စက္ မည္းနက္မီးခိုး မိုးထဲလြင့္ပ်ံ ျပန္မလာေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့ေနာ္၊ ခုလည္း ဒါပဲ ေရးရ မွာပဲဗ်ာ” ေျပာသည္။
စ်ာပနကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ေစာင့္ၾကည့္မႈမ်ား ရွိေသာ္လည္း အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ တစံုတရာ ေပး ျခင္းမရွိေၾကာင္း၊ စ်ာပနတြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔၏ အမည္မ်ားျဖင့္ လြမ္းသူ႔ပန္းျခင္းမ်ားေတြ႕ရေၾကာင္း စ်ာပနသို႔ သြားေရာက္သူတို႔က ေျပာသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာသည္ ကိုလိုနီေခတ္ကတည္းက တကၠသုိလ္ေက်ာင္းသူဘ၀ျဖင့္ တုိင္းျပည္ႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ရဲရဲ၀့ံ၀ံ့တုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး ဘ၀တေလွ်ာက္လံုး ျပည္သူဘက္မွ အစဥ္ရပ္တည္ကာ လူထုအက်ဳိးျပဳ စာေပမ်ားကို အဆက္မျပတ္ေရးသားခဲ့သည္။ လူထုေဒၚအမာ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္သည့္ စာေပအေမြအႏွစ္မ်ားကို ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ ခ်န္ရစ္ထားခဲ့သည္။
ကြယ္လြန္သူ လူထုေဒၚအမာတြင္ ရဲေဘာ္ ဖိုးသံေခ်ာင္း၊ ဦးၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း (ညီပုေလး)၊ ေဒါက္တာ သန္းရင္မာႏွင့္ ေဒၚတင္၀င္းတို႔ သားသမီး (၄) ဦး က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ။
ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ တနလၤာေန႔၌ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ သတင္းစာဆရာ၊ စာေရးဆရာမႀကီး လူထုေဒၚအမာ အသက္ (၉၃) ႏွစ္၏ စ်ာပနကို ယေန႔နံနက္တြင္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕၌ က်င္းပၿပီး ၎၏ ႐ုပ္ကလာပ္ကို ၾကာနီကန္သုႆာန္၌ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာ၏ စ်ာပနသို႔ ေမာင္သာႏိုး၊ ေမာင္မိုးသူ၊ ေမာင္၀ံသ၊ ၾကည္ေအာင္၊ ထက္ျမက္၊ သန္းျမင့္ေအာင္ စသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအႏွံ႔အျပားမွ စာေပအႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား လာေရာက္ၾကၿပီး ၿမိဳ႕ခံလူထုကလည္း ေသာင္းေသာင္းျဖျဖ လုိက္ပါပို႔ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု စ်ာပနသို႔ သြားေရာက္ သူတုိ႔က ေျပာသည္။
စာေရးဆရာ ေမာင္မိုးသူက “အားလံုး ေအးေအးခ်မ္းခ်မ္း အဆင္ေျပေျပ ၿပီးဆံုးသြားပါတယ္။ အေမ့ကို ေနာက္ဆံုး လြမ္းတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ျပည္သူခ်စ္တဲ့ စာေရးဆရာႀကီးကို မႏၲေလးတင္မကဘူး တျပည္လံုးမွာရွိတဲ့ စာေပအႏုပညာနယ္ပယ္က လူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ထိုက္ထိုက္တန္တန္ စည္စည္ ကားကားႀကီး ပို႔လိုက္ရပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာသည္ ၿမိဳ႕မ်က္ႏွာဖံုး မိခင္ႀကီးတဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး အမွန္တရားဘက္မွ အၿမဲတမ္းရပ္တည္ သြားသည့္ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ႀကီးျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ၿမိဳ႕ခံလူထုက ႐ုပ္အေလာင္းသယ္ေဆာင္သြားရာ လမ္း တေလွ်ာက္ လမ္းေဘး၀ဲယာမွ ထြက္၍ ဂါရ၀ျပဳၾကသည္ဟု မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
ကဗ်ာဆရာ ကိုေလး (အင္း၀) ကလည္း “သိပ္စည္တယ္ဗ်ာ၊ ခန္႔မွန္းေခ် ေသာင္းဂဏန္းမကဘူး။ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားတယ္ဗ်ာ။ ၾကာနီကန္ထဲမွာဆို လူေတြအျပည့္ပဲ။ ေဒၚေဒၚကေတာ့ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္ စက္ထဲေရာက္ေနၿပီ။ ေခါင္းတိုင္ထဲက မီးခိုးေလးေတြ ေပ်ာက္ခနဲ ေပ်ာက္ခနဲ မည္းခနဲ မည္းခနဲ ထြက္လာၿပီဗ်ာ။ အဲဒါကို ဦးေလး (လူထုဦးလွ) ဆံုးတုန္းကေတာ့ ကဗ်ာေလးတပုဒ္ ေရးတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ မီးသၿဂႋဳဟ္စက္ မည္းနက္မီးခိုး မိုးထဲလြင့္ပ်ံ ျပန္မလာေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့ေနာ္၊ ခုလည္း ဒါပဲ ေရးရ မွာပဲဗ်ာ” ေျပာသည္။
စ်ာပနကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ေစာင့္ၾကည့္မႈမ်ား ရွိေသာ္လည္း အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ တစံုတရာ ေပး ျခင္းမရွိေၾကာင္း၊ စ်ာပနတြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔၏ အမည္မ်ားျဖင့္ လြမ္းသူ႔ပန္းျခင္းမ်ားေတြ႕ရေၾကာင္း စ်ာပနသို႔ သြားေရာက္သူတို႔က ေျပာသည္။
လူထုေဒၚအမာသည္ ကိုလိုနီေခတ္ကတည္းက တကၠသုိလ္ေက်ာင္းသူဘ၀ျဖင့္ တုိင္းျပည္ႏွင့္ လူမ်ဳိးလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ရဲရဲ၀့ံ၀ံ့တုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး ဘ၀တေလွ်ာက္လံုး ျပည္သူဘက္မွ အစဥ္ရပ္တည္ကာ လူထုအက်ဳိးျပဳ စာေပမ်ားကို အဆက္မျပတ္ေရးသားခဲ့သည္။ လူထုေဒၚအမာ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္ႏိုင္သည့္ စာေပအေမြအႏွစ္မ်ားကို ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ ခ်န္ရစ္ထားခဲ့သည္။
ကြယ္လြန္သူ လူထုေဒၚအမာတြင္ ရဲေဘာ္ ဖိုးသံေခ်ာင္း၊ ဦးၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း (ညီပုေလး)၊ ေဒါက္တာ သန္းရင္မာႏွင့္ ေဒၚတင္၀င္းတို႔ သားသမီး (၄) ဦး က်န္ရစ္သည္။ ။
4.10.2008
Fifty-four Burmese Migrants Die from Suffocation
(Thailand volunteer rescue workers remove the bodies of dead Burmese migrant workers Thursday, April 10, from the back of a seafood van in Ranong, Thailand. (Photo:AP)
Fifty-four Burmese migrants suffocated to death in a container truck on Wednesday in Ranong Province on the west coast of Thailand while they were attempting to enter the country illegally.
The deaths occurred in Suksamran District near Koh Thong, Burma. Among the victims, 37 were women and 17 were men. Sixty-seven migrants survived the ordeal.Twenty-one migrants were hospitalized while the rest were detained for questioning, according to a report from the The Prevention of HIV/AIDs Among Migrant Workers in Thailand Project (PHAMIT) on Thursday.
The truck was enroute to Phang Nga and Phuket in Southern Thailand, two locations where many illegal migrants seek work.
Police blamed the driver of the container truck for failing to turn on the air conditioning in the back of the truck. The surviving workers told police they sneaked into Ranong Province from Koh Thong in a fishing boat on Wednesday night and were then packed into a small container truck for the trip.
The workers told police that after about two hours many of them began falling sick because of poor ventilation in the container. The Burmese knocked loudly to signal the driver, and he eventually stopped the truck and discovered the bodies. He fled from the scene. A local villager alerted police.
Dr Pornpong Jitprathum, the director Suksamran Hospital, said forensic tests attributed the deaths to suffocation.
Pol Maj Gen Apirak Hongthong, the Ranong Provincial police commander, said police interrogated the owner of the truck, who is suspected of being involved in a smugPolice said the driver of the truck, who was identified as Suchon Bunplong, 38, of Ranong is missing.
The truck's owner, who was detained for questioning Thursday, claimed he was unaware the vehicle was being used to transport migrants from Burma, police said. He was not under arrest.
“The bodies were buried on Thursday morning in Hindad Graveyard in Ranong, but some relatives came to identify the bodies and take them back for a funeral,” a staff member of the Ranong Songkraoh Foundation told The Irrawaddy on Thursday.
Television reports showed police lifting bodies out of the truck and images of the cargo-like container empty except for a few pieces of clothing. The dead migrants—many wearing little more than T-shirts, shorts and flip-flops—were seen laid out on the floor at a storage facility of a local charity.
Police did not immediately know what jobs they were heading for, but illegal migrants from Burma generally come to the country to work in the fishing and construction industries or as maids.
Survivors told police that they each paid 10,000 baht (US $314) to be smuggled into Thailand and they sneaked into Ranong province from Burma's Victoria Point by fishing boat on Wednesday night.
Ranong province is about 460 kilometers south of Bangkok just across from Burma's Victoria Point, and is regarding as a major point of trade between the two countries.
About 1 million workers are registered to work in Thailand, and an additional 1 million are estimated to be in the country illegally to work mostly as laborers, joining hundreds of thousands from Cambodia and Laos.
The illegal workers lack legal protection and are often ruthlessly exploited.
The London-based human rights group Amnesty International found in a 2005 report that workers from Burma take jobs that Thais consider too dirty, dangerous or demeaning, "are routinely paid well below the Thai minimum wage, work long hours in unhealthy conditions and are at risk of arbitrary arrest and deportation."
Many also face great risk in reaching Thailand.In December, authorities recovered the bodies of 22 Burmese migrants found floating off the west coast of Thailand in the Andaman Sea. They were believed to be trying to enter Thailand illegally.
The incident was reminiscent of the deaths in 2001 of 58 illegal Chinese migrants in a sweltering tomato truck in Britain, which exposed the murky underworld of people-smuggling gangs profiting from migrants who hope to earn a living in more developed countries.
A group of 19 Latin American migrants died from overheating and suffocation in a tractor-trailer truck in the US state of Texas in 2003.
Statement of Sanana Moli International Burmese Monks Organization ,INC
Sanana Moli International Burmese Monks Organization ,INC announced special issue statement dated at 4-4-2008.
They requested to all monks and people of Burma living all over the world.Start peacefully boycott action at 26Th April of this year.They requested to people of Burma to give NO VOTE to referendum.Also they requested to UN secretary Mr Bankimoon ,go to Burma and negotiate with Military Regime and UN scurity council action to Burma Issue.
4.08.2008
We can do campaign in Thinggyan
Dear All Readers;
Every body know that Thinggyan is our traditional water festival and welcome ceremony of Burma’s new year. We play with water for the propose of to clean the dirty things of old year and welcome to new year.Every body play water ,donate foods ,escape animals such as fishes ,cows and birds. Worship to Buddha ,monks and older persons.This is meaningful festival for Burmese people.
We can collect each other and can celebrate many things concern with water festival.So we can clean unacceptable things of our society .
What we mean are that we can do many campaigns in Thinggyan festival by our unity .We can pray for the people of Burma to escape under control of the SPDC.Making donation to monks and we can wish freedom for political prisoners and Burmese people freedom when we make escape animals.At the first day of our new year, Batten on iron metals and iron tanks to make a loud noise song and drive out ghosts ,evils and person from SPDC who are we do not want .
We attached an essay of Min Thwe Khaing the title of “Atta Thinggyan (or) The boycott action of Burmese people”.
We wish you may have better new year.
4.07.2008
Ludu Daw Amar (Ludu Da Ah Mar) passed away
Ludu Daw Amar (Ludu Da Ah Mar) passed away
April 7, 2007 - Ludu Daw Amar (Ludu Da Ah Mar), the most respected female dissident writer and journalist passed away at Mondalay General Hospital on Monday 8: 37 a.m .
4.04.2008
4.03.2008
Burma’s NLD Calls for a Referendum “No” Vote
Burma’s NLD Calls for a Referendum “No” Vote
| By WAI MOE | Wednesday, April 2, 2008 |
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Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), called on the electorate for the first time on Wednesday to cast a “No” vote in the constitutional referendum in May.
The party, headed by pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, said a “No” vote was necessary because the proposed constitution had not been written by elected representatives of the people but by “hand-picked puppets” of the regime.
The draft constitution, drawn up by the regime-constituted National Convention, and a general election to be held in May are the fourth and fifth steps of the junta’s seven-step “road map to a disciplined democracy”.
The NLD’s announcement on Wednesday said the proposed constitution broke a basic principle of democracy, under which authority had to come from the people. It also failed to guarantee democratic values and human rights.
By voting against the draft constitution, the people would be practicing their rights, said NLD spokesman Thein Nyunt. The state powers being exercised by the regime had not originated with the people, he told The Irrawaddy —“Therefore it is the responsibility of all citizens to take back people-power.”
The NLD had been criticized for failing to take an early stand on the referendum. Aung Naing Oo, a Burmese political commentator based in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, welcomed the NLD’s call now for a “No” vote and said it increased the party’s credibility.
Another Burmese political analyst, Htay Aung, said that dissidents inside Burma had called for a “No” vote, and predicted a “confrontation” ahead of the referendum.
Several activists had been attacked in Rangoon because of their views, he said—“These violent acts by the security forces and thugs backed by the junta don’t seem to stop,” he said.
Fourteen members of the Committee Representing the Peoples’ Parliament (CRPP), which was formed by successful candidates in the 1990 election, have also called for rejection of the proposed constitution by the Burmese people as well as internationally.
The document had been written without the participation of the NLD or ethnic party representatives and without meeting the expectations of ethnic nationalities, the CRPP members said.
They described the draft constitution as “a sham,” and said they expected the junta to claim a referendum victory “by cheating and fraud.”
3.28.2008
6th month memorial day of September 2007 Saffron revolution
6th month memorial day of September 2007 Saffron revolution
Dear all readers ;
As you all know, today is 6th month Memorial Day of saffron revolution.
The September ’07 demonstrations lead by the Buddhist clergy and fully supported by the overwhelming majority of the citizens, was brutally crushed by the military. This fact was well established through print and television media around the world.
Although monks in the past, during the colonial period of the British, and the Japanese occupation in 1942-45, were killed because of their involvement in political matters, never in the history of the Burmese people, have so many Buddhist monks been brutally killed, beaten, and shown absolute disregard by those in power who are, and call themselves Buddhist. It is a sad and dark chapter of
Images of the saffron’s peaceful revolution will never disappear, not only in our minds but also in the minds of people from all over the world.
We believed, everybody could not forget 2007 September. Some monks and people died in that action. Some are still in prison .Most of people in
Although, the top generals and their concerns are unbelievably rich ,there are nearly 2 millions people living around the border area and refugee camps. Some ethnic people were forced to migrate from their homes and some people migrate in such of batter life. At least 70% of children lost their right to an education . How ever, SPDC says situation in
But now, SPDC moved toward referendum under the steps of their road map. Burmese people and world society realize the referendum can’t solve the problems in
“ Well we and the generations to follow us be in a state of servitude under the military regime or will we stand up against it ? ”
It is time to show people what we desire . We want people to realize their future is in their hands. We can do many campaigns to dismantle SPDC dictatorship. It is time to realize that only the people power can force out the dictatorship.
D-Wave
3.25.2008
3.23.2008
Will Burmese migrants be able to vote?
Most countries provide some form of absentee voting for nationals who live abroad or facilitate voting for internal migrants who have returned home to vote.
Migrants represent a constituency that can be a powerful lobby in referendums and elections, and can, sometimes, determine an election’s outcome.
In Zimbabwe, The Congress of Trade Unions has called on 3 million Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa to return home to vote in the March 29th election.
In a recent election in Kelantan, Malaysia, the Barisan Nasional Party blamed its defeat on the failure of a large number of Kelantanese living outside the state to return home to vote.
In Thailand, Section 99 of the 2007 Constitution enshrines the right of Thai nationals who reside outside their constituency or outside the country to vote. In the December national election, polling booths for absentee voters were set up a week before the vote. For Thai migrants, who returned home to vote, a public holiday was declared to allow more time to travel.
In Burma, with a referendum on the constitution scheduled in May, Burmese migrants are wondering will they be able to exercise their right to vote?
Burmese migrants have never had the opportunity to vote, although many have grown up hearing stories from their parents about voting in the 1990 election, only to have the vote ignored by the junta.
While migrants fear the same thing may happen this time, they will never know unless they are able to vote.
There are many hurdles for Burmese migrants to overcome, if they are to be allowed to vote. The deck, as usual, seems stacked against them.
The first hurdle entails knowing how to register to vote. Embassies are usually the best source of information for overseas nationals on such issues, but it is no easy task to get any information from the Burmese embassy in Bangkok.
Families in Burma are being instructed to tell their migrant relatives to return home quickly to be included on the voting registrar and obtain an ID card to be eligible to vote.
If successful, that could entail making two trips home: one to register and one to cast a “No” or “Yes” vote. Such trips would not only cost migrants precious money and time, but could also cost them their legal status in Thailand.
When migrant workers in Thailand register for a temporary work permit they are legally confined to the province where they register. Crossing a provincial border could lead to the loss of their legal status and crossing the border into Burma would automatically render the migrant illegal under current laws.
Some 367,834 Burmese migrants in Thailand hold a work permit that will expire on June 30th. Registration to extend the permit for another year begins on June 1. If these migrants choose to return home to vote, would they be able to return to Thailand to register for a work permit again?
Even if the Thai government decided to support the migrants’ right to vote and facilitated their return, migrants would have another hurdle to overcome: their employers.
Employers of migrant workers are usually reluctant to give migrants time off from work; would they support a week off to return home to vote? Would their jobs be there when they returned?
According to a recent article in The Bangkok Post, Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said: “If Myanmar [Burma] wants assistance from Thailand (on the referendum), we are ready to offer help as a friendly country.” Thailand’s help is badly needed by the 360,000 registered Burmese migrants and 1.2 million unregistered migrants.
If the Burmese embassy in Bangkok becomes a polling station, Thailand’s help would be needed to issue migrants temporary travel passes to go to Bangkok to vote.
The Burmese regime could also set up polling stations located close to the Thai border specifically for migrants as they do on the American-Mexican border. In this scenario Thailand would need to provide some sort of document or amnesty on travel restrictions to allow migrants to travel safely to and from the border.
If the regime demands that migrants return home first to register and then to vote, Thailand’s assistance would be needed to provide travel documents or border passes and to ensure that employers grant workers time off to perform their civil duty and guarantee their jobs upon their return.
The Burmese regime has provided almost no information about the referendum process, the actual voting or the contents of the constitution.
If Thailand is open hearted and willing to aid Burmese migrants who want to vote in the referendum, it will be necessary to act quickly. And if Asean is truly a caring community, it will actively support systems for Burmese migrants in Malaysia and Singapore to also be able to vote.
Migrants represent a constituency that can be a powerful lobby in referendums and elections, and can, sometimes, determine an election’s outcome.
In Zimbabwe, The Congress of Trade Unions has called on 3 million Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa to return home to vote in the March 29th election.
In a recent election in Kelantan, Malaysia, the Barisan Nasional Party blamed its defeat on the failure of a large number of Kelantanese living outside the state to return home to vote.
In Thailand, Section 99 of the 2007 Constitution enshrines the right of Thai nationals who reside outside their constituency or outside the country to vote. In the December national election, polling booths for absentee voters were set up a week before the vote. For Thai migrants, who returned home to vote, a public holiday was declared to allow more time to travel.
In Burma, with a referendum on the constitution scheduled in May, Burmese migrants are wondering will they be able to exercise their right to vote?
Burmese migrants have never had the opportunity to vote, although many have grown up hearing stories from their parents about voting in the 1990 election, only to have the vote ignored by the junta.
While migrants fear the same thing may happen this time, they will never know unless they are able to vote.
There are many hurdles for Burmese migrants to overcome, if they are to be allowed to vote. The deck, as usual, seems stacked against them.
The first hurdle entails knowing how to register to vote. Embassies are usually the best source of information for overseas nationals on such issues, but it is no easy task to get any information from the Burmese embassy in Bangkok.
Families in Burma are being instructed to tell their migrant relatives to return home quickly to be included on the voting registrar and obtain an ID card to be eligible to vote.
If successful, that could entail making two trips home: one to register and one to cast a “No” or “Yes” vote. Such trips would not only cost migrants precious money and time, but could also cost them their legal status in Thailand.
When migrant workers in Thailand register for a temporary work permit they are legally confined to the province where they register. Crossing a provincial border could lead to the loss of their legal status and crossing the border into Burma would automatically render the migrant illegal under current laws.
Some 367,834 Burmese migrants in Thailand hold a work permit that will expire on June 30th. Registration to extend the permit for another year begins on June 1. If these migrants choose to return home to vote, would they be able to return to Thailand to register for a work permit again?
Even if the Thai government decided to support the migrants’ right to vote and facilitated their return, migrants would have another hurdle to overcome: their employers.
Employers of migrant workers are usually reluctant to give migrants time off from work; would they support a week off to return home to vote? Would their jobs be there when they returned?
According to a recent article in The Bangkok Post, Thai Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said: “If Myanmar [Burma] wants assistance from Thailand (on the referendum), we are ready to offer help as a friendly country.” Thailand’s help is badly needed by the 360,000 registered Burmese migrants and 1.2 million unregistered migrants.
If the Burmese embassy in Bangkok becomes a polling station, Thailand’s help would be needed to issue migrants temporary travel passes to go to Bangkok to vote.
The Burmese regime could also set up polling stations located close to the Thai border specifically for migrants as they do on the American-Mexican border. In this scenario Thailand would need to provide some sort of document or amnesty on travel restrictions to allow migrants to travel safely to and from the border.
If the regime demands that migrants return home first to register and then to vote, Thailand’s assistance would be needed to provide travel documents or border passes and to ensure that employers grant workers time off to perform their civil duty and guarantee their jobs upon their return.
The Burmese regime has provided almost no information about the referendum process, the actual voting or the contents of the constitution.
If Thailand is open hearted and willing to aid Burmese migrants who want to vote in the referendum, it will be necessary to act quickly. And if Asean is truly a caring community, it will actively support systems for Burmese migrants in Malaysia and Singapore to also be able to vote.
3.20.2008
Referendum:"NO"Vote Gaining Momentum
By SAW YAN NAING
Thursday, March 20, 2008, -->
A vote “No” movement is gaining momentum throughout Burma as the May referendum date—still yet to be announced—draws near.
Various activists and citizens in Rangoon, Mandalay and Kachin and Arakan states are urging the public to take a stand against the military-crafted draft constitution, which has still not been made public.
The military regime announced on February 9 it would hold a national referendum on the draft constitution in May and a multi-party election in 2010.
Public reaction to the referendum has been colored by the 2007 uprising, in which the UN said at least 31 protesters including monks were killed by security forces.
Nyi Nyi, a businessman in Sittwe in Arakan State, said, “There is no reason to support the junta. I will not vote “Yes” in the referendum because there is no justice.”
A resident in Mandalay, the second largest city, predicted that almost all Mandalay citizens would vote “No” in the referendum.
“It’s not because they don’t understand the constitution,” he said, “but because they dislike the military regime.”Even government staffers are saying they will vote ‘No,’” he said.
An elderly housewife in Sittwe was coy when asked by The Irrawaddy how she would vote. “I’ve decided to vote, but it is early to tell,” she said. “Let’s see when we vote. You will realize what I mean.”
In Myitkyina, many residents told The Irrawaddy that they would vote “No,” while others said they would boycott the referendum.
Ma Brang said, “I will vote ‘No.’ Many people—almost all—in Myitkyina think like me.”
Another Myitkyina resident said, “I will not vote in the referendum. If authorities try to talk to me, I’m ready to complain to them.”
He said the constitution process was a “fake” and it failed to guarantee the rights of ethnic groups in Burma. The constitution will only guarantee that the junta is able to hold on to power, he said.
A Rangoon resident told The Irrawaddy that most of his friends are prepared to vote “No” while others they will boycott the referendum.
“For me, I will not support the referendum for sure. I’m deciding whether to vote “No” or not to vote.”
Meanwhile, Burmese activists in Rangoon have launched new anti-government campaigns against the national referendum, urging people to boycott the referendum.
Activists have also distributed VCDs filled with jokes aimed at the junta’s referendum by the well-known a-nyeint comedy troupe, Thee Lay Thee & Say Young Sone.
Meanwhile, the Burmese regime has launched its own publicity campaigns in support of a “Yes” vote on the referendum.
In early March, local authorities in Rangoon, including the Township Peace and Development Council and the Ward Peace and Development Council, were ordered to lobby residents to vote “Yes” by the chairman of the Rangoon division of the Peace and Development Council, Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, and Home Minister Maung Oo, according to sources in the former capital.
Local authorities in Rangoon and other regions, especially in ethnic states, have also offered temporary citizen identification cards to adults while urging them to vote “Yes,” sources said.
Some residents who have openly spoken out against the referendum have been threatened by authorities, sources told The Irrawaddy.
The regime recently enacted a new law that calls for up to three years imprisonment and a 100,000 kyat (US $91) fine for anyone convicted of making anti-government statements or distributing posters opposing the referendum. The law also bans monks and nuns from voting.
Despite the restrictions, a Burmese migrant worker in Singapore, who asked for anonymity, said, “I will vote in the referendum because if I don’t vote, I will loose my vote. But I will vote “No.”
Meanwhile, the All Burma Monks Alliance released a statement this week calling on all citizens and Buddhist monks to remember the September 2007 crackdown and to boycott the May referendum and the state-run religious examinations to be held this month.
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A vote “No” movement is gaining momentum throughout Burma as the May referendum date—still yet to be announced—draws near.
Various activists and citizens in Rangoon, Mandalay and Kachin and Arakan states are urging the public to take a stand against the military-crafted draft constitution, which has still not been made public.
The military regime announced on February 9 it would hold a national referendum on the draft constitution in May and a multi-party election in 2010.
Public reaction to the referendum has been colored by the 2007 uprising, in which the UN said at least 31 protesters including monks were killed by security forces.
Nyi Nyi, a businessman in Sittwe in Arakan State, said, “There is no reason to support the junta. I will not vote “Yes” in the referendum because there is no justice.”
A resident in Mandalay, the second largest city, predicted that almost all Mandalay citizens would vote “No” in the referendum.
“It’s not because they don’t understand the constitution,” he said, “but because they dislike the military regime.”Even government staffers are saying they will vote ‘No,’” he said.
An elderly housewife in Sittwe was coy when asked by The Irrawaddy how she would vote. “I’ve decided to vote, but it is early to tell,” she said. “Let’s see when we vote. You will realize what I mean.”
In Myitkyina, many residents told The Irrawaddy that they would vote “No,” while others said they would boycott the referendum.
Ma Brang said, “I will vote ‘No.’ Many people—almost all—in Myitkyina think like me.”
Another Myitkyina resident said, “I will not vote in the referendum. If authorities try to talk to me, I’m ready to complain to them.”
He said the constitution process was a “fake” and it failed to guarantee the rights of ethnic groups in Burma. The constitution will only guarantee that the junta is able to hold on to power, he said.
A Rangoon resident told The Irrawaddy that most of his friends are prepared to vote “No” while others they will boycott the referendum.
“For me, I will not support the referendum for sure. I’m deciding whether to vote “No” or not to vote.”
Meanwhile, Burmese activists in Rangoon have launched new anti-government campaigns against the national referendum, urging people to boycott the referendum.
Activists have also distributed VCDs filled with jokes aimed at the junta’s referendum by the well-known a-nyeint comedy troupe, Thee Lay Thee & Say Young Sone.
Meanwhile, the Burmese regime has launched its own publicity campaigns in support of a “Yes” vote on the referendum.
In early March, local authorities in Rangoon, including the Township Peace and Development Council and the Ward Peace and Development Council, were ordered to lobby residents to vote “Yes” by the chairman of the Rangoon division of the Peace and Development Council, Brig-Gen Hla Htay Win, and Home Minister Maung Oo, according to sources in the former capital.
Local authorities in Rangoon and other regions, especially in ethnic states, have also offered temporary citizen identification cards to adults while urging them to vote “Yes,” sources said.
Some residents who have openly spoken out against the referendum have been threatened by authorities, sources told The Irrawaddy.
The regime recently enacted a new law that calls for up to three years imprisonment and a 100,000 kyat (US $91) fine for anyone convicted of making anti-government statements or distributing posters opposing the referendum. The law also bans monks and nuns from voting.
Despite the restrictions, a Burmese migrant worker in Singapore, who asked for anonymity, said, “I will vote in the referendum because if I don’t vote, I will loose my vote. But I will vote “No.”
Meanwhile, the All Burma Monks Alliance released a statement this week calling on all citizens and Buddhist monks to remember the September 2007 crackdown and to boycott the May referendum and the state-run religious examinations to be held this month.
3.19.2008
People's Opinion on Referendum
Dear all
I want to share my opinon.As for me ,I don't trust that dictatorship.They never keep their promises .You can think back their past action.My idea is that,boycott referendum and I do accept all camping against dictatorship.
TA
I want to share my opinon.As for me ,I don't trust that dictatorship.They never keep their promises .You can think back their past action.My idea is that,boycott referendum and I do accept all camping against dictatorship.
TA
3.17.2008
NO Vote or Vote No !
No Vote or Vote no?
Dear All Readers
As you all know, this is important time for our country. Most of the people not clear for the action of No vote or vote no. What we mean are that will we be boycott the referendum or give against vote. We hard various reasons from both side .From political groups, from old politicians and many people. We really eager to hear your idea .What is the effective and ineffective of no vote and vote no.
Please send your opinion about that title.We are sure ,we will post all of your ideas on our web blog the title of the people opinion on referendum .We’d like to invite not only Burmese people but also a person who love democracy and human rights.
Thank you in advance.
Dear All Readers
As you all know, this is important time for our country. Most of the people not clear for the action of No vote or vote no. What we mean are that will we be boycott the referendum or give against vote. We hard various reasons from both side .From political groups, from old politicians and many people. We really eager to hear your idea .What is the effective and ineffective of no vote and vote no.
Please send your opinion about that title.We are sure ,we will post all of your ideas on our web blog the title of the people opinion on referendum .We’d like to invite not only Burmese people but also a person who love democracy and human rights.
Thank you in advance.
3.14.2008
One month Memorial Ceremony of Pado Man Sha
Date-March ,14 ,2008
One month memorial ceremony of Pado Man Sha (KNU and NCUB leader) celebrated at the office of NCGUB.There were nearly 150 people attented .Donated to 5 monks with lunch and some goods .General Tarmalarbol (KNU and NCGUB chairman) gave opening speech and Major Saw Hla Ngwe (KNU) gave speech about memorial of Man Sha's action for the Karen revolution and Burma's democracy movement.
Burma's Human Rights Day
Date 13March 13, 2008
Old RIT (Rangoon Institute Technology) students celebrated Burma’s Human rights day in Thai border. Nearly 60 people who are( 74 generation students, 88 generation students and 2007 saffron generation students ) some medias and some guests came there and shared their past experiences about student movement in Burma.After the discussion, they all agreed for the action of
-Try for to free all political prisoners
- Try for Dialogue
- Boycott Referendum
Some political groups such as NCGUB, BPPU sent their statements for Burma’s Human Rights day .
Old RIT (Rangoon Institute Technology) students celebrated Burma’s Human rights day in Thai border. Nearly 60 people who are( 74 generation students, 88 generation students and 2007 saffron generation students ) some medias and some guests came there and shared their past experiences about student movement in Burma.After the discussion, they all agreed for the action of
-Try for to free all political prisoners
- Try for Dialogue
- Boycott Referendum
Some political groups such as NCGUB, BPPU sent their statements for Burma’s Human Rights day .
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