NLD Members Arrested at Suu Kyi Birthday Celebration

At least four members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) were arrested in Rangoon by Burmese authorities at about 11 am on Thursday while they were releasing sparrows and doves to mark of the 63rd birthday of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
About 700 NLD members were gathered in front of their Rangoon headquarters in celebration of Suu Kyi’s birthday when the assault occurred, according to the NLD
In this photo released by the Democratic Voice of Burma, Buddhist monks and nuns along with members of the NLD and supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi gather outside the party headquarters to mark Suu Kyi's 63rd birthday, Thursday. Authorities later detained four opposition party members, NLD said. (Photo: AP/ DVB)The arrested members were Tun Myint, Hla Aye, Maung Maung Thein and one unidentified woman, Win Naing, a member of the NLD public information department, told The Irrawaddy.
Before the arrests, a violent confrontation erupted when members of Swan Ah Shin, military-backed thugs, assaulted NLD members.
Many NLD members were beaten. One NLD woman member was seriously injured, said Win Naing. After the assault, about 10 vehicles carrying more than 300 security personnel in uniforms and plainclothes blocked the roads leading to NLD headquarters.
The authorities earlier had prevented NLD members from offering food to Buddhist monks, said Ohn Kyaing, a NLD spokesperson.
Uniformed police arrive near NLD headquarters in Rangoon following a violent assault by junta-backed thugs on Suu Kyi’s birthday celebrations.Meanwhile, the All Burma Monks’ Alliance (ABMA), an underground Buddhist group heavily involved in the 2007 demonstrations, released a statement on Wednesday asking the UN Security Council and the Council of the European Union to take immediate actions to protect the Burmese people from the Burmese military government. The two groups are scheduled to meet on Thursday in New York and Brussels.
“We call on the UN Security Council to take effective action to stop the humanitarian crises in Burma, created by the Burmese military government,” the ABMA said in its statement.
The statement read: “We would like to call for leaders of the EU to continue to assist Burma’s democracy movement led by detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi. We request the EU to bring [Snr-Gen] Than Shwe, leader of the Burmese military junta, before the International Criminal Court to be tried for his crimes against humanity, as recommended by the European Parliament.” Suu Kyi completed a five-year sentence under house arrest on May 27. Under the conditions of her detention, Article 10 (b) of the State Protection Act Law 1975, a person can be detained for a maximum of five years. However, the military regime announced in late May that Suu Kyi’s house arrest had been officially extended for one year.-->

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားသုိ႔ စြမ္းအားရွင္မ်ား ၀င္ေရာက္႐ိုက္ႏွက္ဖမ္းဆီး

၁၉ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈
အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟိုဌာနခ်ဳပ္၌ ယေန႔နံနက္တြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္၏ (၆၃) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔ပြဲသို႔ စစ္အစိုးရလက္သပ္ေမြးထားသည့္ စြမ္းအားရွင္ႏွင့္ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕ မ်ားက ၀င္ေရာက္႐ိုက္ႏွက္ၿပီး လူ (၄) ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္သြားသည္ဟု အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေျပာသည္။
အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ပါတီ၀င္တဦးက “မနက္က (၁၁) နာရီေလာက္က ဒီမွာ ေဒၚစုေမြးေန႔ လုပ္တာ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ က်န္းမာပါေစဆုေတာင္းၾကတာေပါ့။ ဆုေတာင္းၿပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔႐ံုးေရွ႕ ပလက္ေဖာင္းေပၚကေန ငွက္လႊတ္တယ္ေပါ့။ စာကေလးေတြ သက္ေစ့လႊတ္ၿပီးတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕ေတြ ကားေတြနဲ႔ ေရာက္လာၿပီးေတာ့ ဆင္းလာၿပီး ေရွ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ လူေတြကို ဆြဲလႊဲ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ၿပီး ဖမ္းခ်ဳပ္ေခၚသြားတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသူမ်ားမွာ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ လူငယ္အတြင္းေရးမႉးႏွင့္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ဓာတ္ပံု ဗီဒီယို ႐ိုက္ကူးသူ ဦးထြန္းျမင့့္၊ လိႈင္သာယာမွ ဦးလွေအး၊ မဂၤလာဒံုၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ကိုေမာင္ေမာင္သိန္းႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔၀င္တဦးတို႔ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သံဃာေတာ္တပါး ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသည္ဟု သတင္းထြက္ေန ေသာ္လည္း အတည္မျပဳႏိုင္ေသးေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးငယ္တဦး အ႐ိုက္ခံရၿပီး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိ သြားေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒါက္တာ၀င္းႏိုင္က ေျပာသည္။
ယခုႏွစ္ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔၌ ျပည္သူလူထုနာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံေနရသျဖင့္ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲရႊင္ပြဲ မက်င္းပဘဲ အလႉဒါနပြဲသာ က်င္းပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္႐ံုး၌ ေမြးေန႔ဆြမ္းကပ္လႉရန္ သံဃာေတာ္ မ်ားအား ပင့္ဖိတ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အာဏာပိုင္တို႔၏ တားျမစ္ပိတ္ပင္မႈေၾကာင့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ႂကြခြင့္ မရဘဲ ဆြမ္းခ်ဳိင့္သာပို႔ခြင့္ရခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဗဟိုအမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔မွ ေဒၚလဲ့လဲ့က ေျပာသည္။
၎က “ေမြးေန႔မွာ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေတြကိုဆြမ္းကပ္ၿပီး ကုသိုလ္ေကာင္းမႈလုပ္တယ္။ အက်ဥ္းက်ေန တဲ့လူေတြ လြတ္ပါေစဆိုတဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ငွက္ကေလးေတြ လႊတ္တယ္။ ဒီလိုလုပ္တာကို အဟန္႔ အတား အေႏွာင့္ အယွက္ေတြေပးတာ။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ မလုပ္ေကာင္းပါဘူး။ အန္တီ တု႔ိက သူမ်ားကို အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ေပးတာလည္း မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ကိုယ့္႐ုံးေရွ႕မွာကိုယ္ ကုသိုလ္ ေကာင္းမႈလုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ခုလို၀င္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဖမ္းလားဆီးလား ႐ိုက္လားႏွက္လား လုပ္တာဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာနဲ႔ လံုး၀မအပ္စပ္ပါဘူး။ ဘယ္လိုမွ မေကာင္းပါဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ အက်ဥ္းက် ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ သားသမီး (၇၀) ေက်ာ္တို႔အား အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ပညာသင္ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။
အလားတူ ထိုင္း၊ မေလးရွား၊ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္၊ အိႏၵိယ၊ ဂ်ပန္၊ တိုင္၀မ္ စသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတုိ႔၌လည္း ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ ဆုေတာင္းပြဲမ်ား အသီးသီး က်င္းပခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္မွ အျမန္ဆံုးျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ ဆႏၵျပေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ၾကသည္။