Ohn Kyaing, a veteran Burmese journalist and elected MP who has already spent almost 15 years in prison for political activity, was arrested by the Special Intelligence Police Unit at 10 p.m. On Wednesday night at his home in Rangoon, according to a National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman.
Ohn Kyaing, 64, is also the chairman of the NLD Cyclone Relief Committee and a member of the party’s organizing committee in Mandalay.
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According to the NLD spokesman, Ohn Kyaing became actively involved in relief efforts for survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which swept the Irrawaddy delta on May 2-3, destroying homes and villages, and killing at least 134,000 people.
Ohn Kyaing graduated in journalism in 1972 and worked as the assistant editor then editor of Kyehmom (“The Mirror”), followed by positions at national newspapers Hanthawaddy and Botathang. He wrote under different pen names, such as Maung Chit Phwe, Aung Wint and Aung Tint.
Standing for the NLD in Mandalay in the 1990 election, Ohn Kyaing won a parliamentary seat in the party’s landslide victory. However, the Burmese military regime refused to recognize the result of the election.
Ohn Kyaing was imprisoned in September 1990 and sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for “writing and distributing seditious pamphlets and threatening state security.”
He was released on January 3, 2005, from Toungoo prison.
The Burmese military authorities have recently arrested several well-known social activists who were involved in relief efforts after Cyclone Nargis, including comedian Zarganar, journalist Zaw Thet Htwe and the chief editor of the Myanmar Tribune weekly journal, Aung Kyaw San.
အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ ေလေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရးေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠဌ ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္ကို ယေန႔နံနက္ ၂ နာရီခန္႔တြင္ ရဲအထူးသတင္း တပ္ဖြဲ႔က ေနအိမ္မွဖမ္းဆီးသြားေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက အတည္ျပဳ ေျပာဆိုသည္။
ရဲအထူးသတင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔က ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္၏ေနအိမ္ကို ယမန္ေန႔ည ၁၀ နာရီခန္႔မွ စတင္ရွာေဖြကာ နံနက္ ၂ နာရီခန္႔တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီး သြားသည္ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။
“ဘာေၾကာင့္ဖမ္းသြားတယ္ဆိုတာ မသိေသးဘူး … လက္ကိုင္ဖုန္းကိုလည္း သိမ္းသြားတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔မ်က္စိထဲမွာေတာ့ ထူးထူးျခားျခားလုပ္တာ မေတြ႔ဘူး။ သူက (ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္) ေရေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရး ဥကၠဌ လုပ္တယ္။ ဒါလဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ေအာင္ေအာင္ျမင္ျမင္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တယ္” ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။
ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္သည္ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္၀ကၽြန္းေပၚ ေဒသႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းအတြင္း လွည့္လည္၍ ကူညီေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို လုပ္ကိုင္ခဲ့သည္။
ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္သည္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီ၏ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တဦးလည္းျဖစ္ၿပီး မႏၱေလး အေရွ႕ေတာင္ အမွတ္ (၂) ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ အႏိုင္ရရွိခဲ့သည္။
စစ္အစိုးရက ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္ကို ၁၉၉၀ ခုႏွစ္မွစ၍ ၂၀၀၅ ခုႏွစ္အထိ ၁၅ ႏွစ္ၾကာ ဖမ္းဆီးအက်ဥ္းခ်ခဲ့ဖူးသည္။
အသက္ ၆၄ ႏွစ္ ရွိၿပီျဖစ္သည့္ ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္သည္ ထင္ရွားသည့္ သတင္းစာဆရာတဦးလည္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ေၾကးမံု၊ ဟံသာ၀တီႏွင့္ ဗိုလ္တေထာင္သတင္းစာတို႔တြင္ အယ္ဒီတာႏွင့္ လက္ေထာက္အယ္ဒီတာ တာ၀န္မ်ားကို ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့သည္။
ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္သည္ ေမာင္ခ်စ္ဖြယ္၊ ေအာင္၀င့္၊ ေမာင္တင့္ စသည့္ ကေလာင္အမည္မ်ားျဖင့္လည္း စာေပမ်ား ေရးသား ခဲ့သည္။
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