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Than Shwe Warns Against Election Saboteurs

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NLD Will Cease to Exist: CEC

By KO HTWE

Burma's main opposition party, the NLD, will “cease to exist” after the May 6 deadline for party registration, its leaders say.

နာေရးကူညီမႈအသင္း(ရန္ကုန္) ဥကၠဌ ဦးေက်ာ္သူမွ ျပည္သူ႔ဂုဏ္ရည္ဆုရရွိျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္ျဖင့္ အမ်ားျပည္သူအား မေနာမယ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါး ေကၽြးေမြးလွဴဒါန္းျခင္း

၂၀၁၀ ေမလ၊ ၂ ရက္ေန႔ မဂၤလာရွိေသာ နံနက္ခင္းတြင္ နာေရးကူညီမႈအသင္း(ရန္ကုန္) တည္ရွိရာ အမွတ္ ၁၃/က၊ ဗိုလ္မွဴးဗထူးလမ္း၊ ေျမာက္ဒဂံု ရံုးခ်ဳပ္တြင္ အသင္း၏ ဥကၠဌ ဦးေက်ာ္သူမွ မေနာမယ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါး ေကၽြးေမြးလွဴဒါန္းရျခင္း အေၾကာင္းကို သြားေရာက္ ေမးျမန္းသတင္း ယူခဲ့ပါသည္။

အလွဴျပဳလုပ္ရျခင္း၏ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကို ဦးေက်ာ္သူမွ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ေျပာျပခဲ့ပါသည္။

“ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ျပည္သူ႔ဂုဏ္ရည္ဆုကို ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ရခဲ့လို႔ရယ္။ ေနာက္ၿပီး ဒီေန႔ကလည္း ထူးထူးျခားျခား နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္း တိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့တာလည္း ၂ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အေနနဲ႔ပါ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အမ်ားျပည္သူကို မေနာမယ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါး ေကၽြးေမြးၿပီး ကုသိုလ္ေကာင္းမႈ ျပဳတာပါ။ မနက္အာရံုတတ္မွာ ၀ဋ္ေၾကြးေတာ္ေျပ ဆရာေတာ္နဲ႔ မဟာဂႏၶာရံုဆရာေတာ္တို႔ကုိ ေက်ာင္းအေရာက္သြားၿပီး မုန္႔ဟင္းခါး အာရံုဆြမ္း ကပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔အသင္းက ကူညီၿပီး အသုဘ ခ်ေပးခဲ့တာ ၂၀၀၁ ခုႏွစ္ကေန လက္ရွိအခ်ိန္အထိ ၈၅၀၀၀ (ရွစ္ေသာင္းခြဲ) ေက်ာ္ရွိၿပီ။ အဲဒီ ေသဆံုးသြားတဲ့ လူေတြအတြက္ရယ္ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ၂ ရက္ေန႔မွာ တိုက္ခတ္သြားတဲ့ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုးသြားခဲ့တဲ့ လူေတြအတြက္ကို ရည္စူးၿပီး အခုလုပ္တဲ့ အလွဴဒါနကို ေရစက္ခ် အမွ်ေပးေ၀ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခု လုပ္တဲ့အလွဴက ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ကိုခ်ီးျမွင့္တဲ့ ျပည္သူ႔ဂုဏ္ရည္ ဆုကရတဲ့ ဆုေငြနဲ႔ ေကၽြးေမြးတာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ စုေဆာင္းထားခဲ့တဲ့ အႏုပညာေခၽြးနည္းစာေလးနဲ႔ ျပည္သူေတြအားလံုး အားလံုးကို ေက်းဇူးျပန္ဆပ္တာပါ။ ျပည္သူ႔ဂုဏ္ရည္ ဆုတံဆိပ္က ခုထိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဆီ မေရာက္ေသးပါဘူး။ မေရာက္ေသးဘူးဆုိတာက အေၾကာင္းတစ္ခုခုေၾကာင့္ ၾကန္႔ၾကာ ေနတယ္လို႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ အခုေကၽြးေမြးတဲ့ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါးကို မေနာမယ မုန္႔ဟင္းခါးဆိုၿပီး နာမည္တပ္ရတာလည္း ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးရွင္ ဆရာသခင္ အဘ ဆရာႀကီး မင္းသိခၤကုိ အမွတ္ရ ေက်းဇူးဆပ္တဲ့အေနနဲ႔ အဘရဲ႕ မေနာမယဆိုတဲ့ နာမည္ကို ေပးလိုက္တာပါ ” ဟု ဥကၠဌ ဦးေက်ာ္သူမွ ေျပာၾကားသြားပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္သူသည္ အခုမွအလွဴဒါနျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါ ၁၉၉၆ (တစ္ျပည္သူမေရႊထား) ဇာတ္ကားတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသား သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္ဆုကို ရရွိခဲ့စဥ္ကလည္း ကမာၻေအးမိုးကုတ္ဆြမ္းစားေက်ာင္းတြင္ သံဃာေတာ္အပါး ၄၅၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ဆြမ္းကပ္အလွဴ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခု ေမလ(၂)ရက္ေန႔တြင္ တိုက္ခတ္သြားေသာ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ခဲ့ရေသာ ျပည္သူမ်ားကိုလည္း ဆန္၊ ဆီ၊ ဆား၊ င႐ုပ္၊ ၾကက္သြန္ အစရွိသည့္ စားေသာက္ဖြယ္ရာမ်ားကိုလည္း ကိုယ္တိုင္ကိုယ္က် လွဴဒါန္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ အဂၤလန္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားမွ စုစည္း၍ ခ်ီးျမွင့္ေသာ ျပည္သူဘက္သား အႏုပညာသမား ဆုရစဥ္အခါကလည္း ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းမ်ားသို႔ ပစၥည္းေလးပါး လွဴဒါန္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရပါသည္။

ယေန႔တြင္ ထူးထူးျခားျခား တိုက္တိုက္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ အႏုပညာေမာင္ႏွံျဖစ္ေသာ ကိုရန္ေက်ာ္ႏွင့္မေမခလာတို႔ ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံမွ မေမခလာ၏ ေမြးေန႔အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ နာေရးကူညီမႈအသင္း(ရန္ကုန္)သို႔ အလွဴေငြ (၁၀)သိန္း က်ပ္ကို ကုသိုလ္ျပဳလာေရာက္ လွဴဒါန္းသြားေၾကာင္း သိရပါသည္။

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