Photo released by the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia shows a general view of the U.N.-backed tribunal court hall while Kaing Guek Eav iis being tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 23 Nov 2009
First Khmer Rouge Trial Begins Final Hearings in Cambodia 
The court has heard how Kang Guek Eav, also known as Duch, ran the S-21 death camp.
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ယခုတေလာ ျပည္တြင္းစာနယ္ဇင္းမ်ားတြင္ ‘၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒ’ ႏွင့္ ‘၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ’ ကို တဲ့တိုးတမ်ိဳး၊ သြယ္၀ိုက္၍ တဖုံ နည္းမ်ိဳးစုံျဖင့္ ၀ါဒျဖန္႔ေၾကညာေနၾကသည္။ ထိုသို႔ ေၾကညာ ေမာင္းခတ္ရာ၌ ပုဂၢလိကဂ်ာနယ္တခ်ဳိ႕အား အဓိက ၀ါဒျဖန္႔ခ်ိေရးကိရိယာအျဖစ္ အသုံးခ်လ်က္ရွိသည္။ ယင္းဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားတြင္ ပင္တိုင္ကေလာင္မ်ားအျဖစ္ ေနရာ ေပးျခင္းခံရသူမ်ားကို သတိထားအကဲခတ္မိသည္။ ကေလာင္အမ်ားစုမွာ ျပည္သူလူထု အေရးထက္၊ မိမိတကိုယ္စာအေရးကိုသာ အေလးထားသည့္ ကေလာင္မ်ား ျဖစ္ေပသည္။ ထိုထိုေသာ ကေလာင္မ်ားအနက္ ‘ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွ လြဲ၍ အျခားေရြးခ်ယ္စရာမရွိၿပီ’ ဟု တစိုက္မတ္မတ္ ၀ါဒျဖန္႔ေနသည့္ ကေလာင္ မွာ အဆိုးဆုံးဟု ဆိုရေပမည္။ သူ႔အဆိုအရ ‘ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွန္လွ်င္ ျပည့္စုံသည္ မျပည့္စုံသည္ကို မၾကည့္ဘဲ၊ ေကာင္းသည္ဟု ျမင္ႏိုင္ရမည္။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ ဆိုေသာ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ျပည္သူအမ်ား၏ ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈ (Public Choice) ကို တစုံတရာ ဖန္တီးေပးေသာ ေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္’ ဟု ထိုဆရာက ဆိုေလသည္။ ထို ‘ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အေကာင္းျမင္ဆရာ’ ဆိုလိုသည့္ (Public Choice) ဆိုသည္မွာ နာဂစ္လြန္ ျပည္သူ႔ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ (Referendum) လို ျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ိဳးကို ရည္ၫႊန္းပုံရေပသည္။ လြတ္လပ္မွ်တသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲလား၊ အတုအေယာင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲလား မဆန္းစစ္ဘဲ ‘ေကာင္းသည္ဟု ျမင္ႏိုင္ရမည္’ ဆိုေသာ ထိုကေလာင္၏အျမင္မွာ ေႏႇာင္ႀကိဳးမွ ကင္းပါရဲ႕လားဟု ထင္စရာပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ 
Voice ဂ်ာနယ္တြင္ ေ၀ဖန္လိုက္သည့္ သူ႔ေ၀ဖန္ခ်က္မွာ NLD သည္ ေစ်းမဆစ္ တတ္ဘဲ ေစ်းဆစ္ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုလိုရိပ္ရွိေပသည္။ ‘ေရႊဂုံတိုင္ေၾကညာစာတမ္း’ အား ႏိုင္ငံေရးေစ်းဆစ္မႈဟု ဆိုလိုက္ျခင္းပင္။ ဒီပလိုေမစီနည္းအရ ေစ်းဆစ္လွ်င္ တန္ဖိုး Value ႏွင့္ ပကတိသ႐ုပ္မွန္အေျခအေန Reality ခ်ိန္ဆလ်က္ ေရာင္းႏိုင္မည့္ ေစ်းကိုသာ ဆစ္သင့္သည္ဟုဆိုသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေစ်းဆစ္မႈတြင္ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာ အျမင္ Tactical Insight ကိုသာ အသုံးျပဳရန္မဟုတ္ဘဲ၊ ‘မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေျမာက္ ႐ုပ္ေျပာင္းပိြဳင့္’ Strategic Inflection Point ကိုလည္း ထည့္စဥ္းစား ရမည္ဟု ဆိုေပသည္။ သူ႔အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင့္ဆိုခ်က္အရ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီးတြင္ ေပၚလာမည့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္သည္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ‘မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေျမာက္ ႐ုပ္ေျပာင္းပိြဳင့္’ တနည္းအားျဖင့္ ‘ေခတ္အေျပာင္း အလဲပိြဳင့္’ ဟုဆိုသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေစ်းဆစ္ရာတြင္ ‘မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေျမာက္ ႐ုပ္ေျပာင္းပိြဳင့္’ ‘ေခတ္အေျပာင္းအလဲပိြဳင့္’ ကို မထိခိုက္ရဟုဆိုသည္။ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ေစ်းဆစ္ျခင္းသည္ အေျမာ္အျမင္ နည္းျခင္း၊ အင္အားကို မခ်ိန္ဆတတ္ျခင္း၊ စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ျခင္းဟု ေ၀ဖန္ထားသည္။ 
မိုင္းယန္းၿမိဳ႕ေဒသခံ သွ်မ္း႐ုိးရာကြၽဲခတ္ပြဲ အစဥ္အလာမေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ေစရန္ မိုင္းယန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဥကၠဌထံ ပိုက္ဆံသိန္းခ်ီ လာဘ္ထိုး၍က်င္းပေၾကာင္း - အမည္မေဖၚလိုသည့္ ေဒသခံတဦးက ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ သတင္းဆို႕စ္ကိုေျပာပါသည္။
“တေကာင္ဘိုးရြာ ေလွဆိပ္မွာထိုင္တဲ့ ဒီေကဘီေအက အေကာက္မႉး ဗိုလ္ဂ်ပုကို.....”
