Thousands of Cyclone Victims in Burma Unidentified

Volunteers from a Rangoon-based social welfare association, Free Funeral Service Society, cremate decayed bodies in Kungyangon Township of Rangoon Division. (Photo: AFP)

Thousands of people killed in last month's devastating cyclone in Burma may never be formally identified, due to the slow place of body recovery since the tragedy, say aid workers.
The scale of the disaster—and its wide geographical spread—has meant survivors in many remote communities of the Irrawaddy Delta were left to deal with a large number of bodies, of both family members and strangers, with little, if any, official support.
It is clear from the information we have been given that there is no planned, concerted or consistent approach being taken," Craig Strathern, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), told IRIN from Rangoon.
"Mostly it's local communities dealing with the immediate problem in their vicinity," he said.
Some cyclone survivors told aid workers of disposing of bodies any way they could—through burial, cremation, or other methods—in the quest to restore normalcy and get on with rebuilding their lives.
"Farmers were saying they just put some bodies in the river," said John Sparrow, a spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC), who has just returned from the disaster area. "They were desperate to start their paddy season. If they found bodies they couldn't recognize, they just threw them into the river."
Cyclone Nargis, and the accompanying tidal surge that swept up to 35kms inward, left an estimated 133,000 people dead or missing on 2 and 3 May and 2.4 million destitute.
But more than six weeks on, as aid agencies struggle to distribute food, water and other essential supplies, disposing of bodies has been considered far less of a priority, especially as the World Health Organization (WHO) has said the corpses posed little health risk.
Disposal efforts
In some of the more populated areas and key towns, local authorities did make concerted efforts to collect and dispose of bodies, while extra manpower was also brought in from Rangoon to help with the task.
However, villagers in more remote or isolated areas were left to do it alone.
Reports indicate that in many waterways and remote areas without many survivors, bodies have yet to be collected, and recently more than 300 bodies were said to have washed up on a popular beach in Mon state, hundreds of kilometers from the cyclone's point of impact.
"It's been very much left to the local township commanders and leaders to decide how to deal with the problem," Sparrow said. "You are talking about a widely dispersed area, with limited transport and logistics. It's not surprising those have been prioritized for relief and emergency distribution."
Tsunami precedent
The slow pace of body disposal and lack of any large-scale victim identification effort are in stark contrast with the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami, which killed more than 200,000 people.
In Thailand—where foreigners, mainly European tourists, accounted for half the estimated 8,345 dead—authorities set up a forensic operation to identify victims, an initiative supported financially and technically by governments around the world.
The Thai operation used forensic evidence, including fingerprinting, dental records and DNA matching, to try to identify bodies.
In Indonesia, where more than 165,000 people died, efforts were more rudimentary, including visual identification in the first few days, or by personal effects and SIM cards.
But there was a big, official drive to bury bodies quickly in accordance with Islamic custom, and to create marked graves as memorial sites.
"In Indonesia, people accepted they may never find their loved ones, but at least they could go to a marked memorial even if they weren't 100 percent sure their relatives were there," Strathern said.
Identification issues
Burma's cyclone survivors appear resigned to accepting lost loved ones without definite proof, or any ceremonial resting places, while local laws mean formal verification of death is not required.
"Here there is the assumption that if we haven't seen our loved ones for two or three weeks they are probably dead," Strathern said.

Members of Parmiliament asked for Nargis Victims

Demand for the international relief teams be reached in the
Irrawaddy delta and bring the Burmese Military Junta before the
International Court of Justice
The United Nations, the foreign governments and the people of Burma have already
known that about 15,000 people life have lost and 2.5 million lives have been
remained in despair and desperate due to the deadly Cyclone Nargis which was
caused on May 2, 2008, beginning at 6.00pm that stormed in from Haing-gyi Island to
the Irrawaddy delta. Any where in the world, one could see that within 24 hours to 48
hours of such natural disaster, the relief workers, helicopters, vehicles and other
necessities supports are involved actively immediately. But, according to the updated
news media--radio broadcasting, video and photo records-- the cyclone victims in
Burma did not receive adequate aids that left the victims stay in shortage of food,
drinking water, shelter and communicable deceases are assuming the condition
worsen in Burma, and it is hoped that all have known about this.
It is witnessed that the reason that cause the condition worsen of the cyclone victims
in Burma is not because of the ignorance from international communities; but because
of the Burmese military junta's lack of responsibility for its citizens, intentional
ignorance, and concealing the facts and continue to work on to stable its power as a
priority, and thus delaying and blocking in receiving all the incoming aids.
For such intentional acts of the Burmese junta which resulted in killing a group of
people, created in a condition of genocide and is crime against humanity, therefore, it
is earnestly urged the United Nations that mandate the "responsibility to protect" by
sending the international relief forces and by bringing the junta before the
international court of justice. The following are the evidence and items that explain in
details.
Evidence (1): Although the Burmese Junta has received the news early regarding
the cyclone nargis coming-in, they informed the false news to the public and they
did not inform the people to relocate in advance.
It is learnt that regarding the cyclone nargis, since April 26, 2008 the weather
forecasting department of India sent some kind of information to the directorate of
weather forecasting of Burma. On April 28, the cyclone nigris began. On April 30,
according to B. P Yadav, the spoke person of the Indian weather forecasting
department, it is informed to the Burmese authority before 48 hours that there could
be the cyclone with the possibility of 120 miles per hour that could come across the
Irrawaddy delta.
On April 27, 2008, Dr. Bhichit Rattakul, director of Asian Disaster Preparedness
Center, which was founded after the Tsunami in 2004 in Thailand, has informed to the
Burmese authority that the cyclone nargis will be stormed in to Burma.
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According to Mr. Tun Lwin, the director of Burma' weather forecasting department,
mentioned in Burma's Today website (Burmese news website), that he has sent to the
United Nations with his own signature that the Burmese junta has already known
about the would-be cyclone nargis since May 1, 2008 at about 5:30pm. As of the
letter on May 1 at 5:30pm after, it is mentioned that after the report at 9pm within the
24 hours the cyclone will be getting in to nearby Pathein Township. The letter which
wrote before 7am on May 2 mentioned that according to the weather forecast which
made at 6am on May 2 that the cyclone was about to happen in Haing-gyi Island, with
60 miles per hour -- with central speed 120 miles and with the possibility of raising
the water up to 10-12 feet.
Although the military junta has received the news early on the weather forecasting
and its warning from the neighborhood countries and the department concerned
director Mr. Tun Lwin, in the state-run national newspaper the news with regard to
the cyclone are falsely mentioned. For example, the newspaper which was published
on May 1, on the weather forecast of "Nay-Pyi-Daw May 30" it is mentioned that
"according to the weather forecast and measure at today Myanmar standard time
5:30pm, the cyclone which is happening in the ocean of Bangladesh, is heading to the
South-West of Pathein which is 480 miles distance away to ocean. That cyclone has
not been forceful during the period of 6 hours and gradually moved to the North-East.
And, that cyclone has not been forceful during the period of 12 hours and continued to
slowly moving to the North-East…" Due to the cyclone, there will be raining
shatteringly in Arakan State, Mon State, Karen State, Kayah State, Irrawaddy
Division, Rangoon Division and Pegu Division and raining in a few particular places
of Tanninsari Divisiona and Shan State. There could be some storms, raining and
cause big wave. While raining hard, the storm speed could be 40-45 miles per hour. It
was the false news, indeed.
The residents of Rangoon witnessed that after the cyclone nargis stormed in to Hainggyi
Island they have had a chance to see the warning of the cyclone from the
television. By the time of knowing of such warning, the cyclone affected areas such as
Laputta and other places have been already wiped out by the storm and the water
wave.
Moreover, although the news on the cyclone warning was being informed before 48
hours, the military junta neither gave any protection nor provided the safety for those
people who resided in the affected areas, neither for the emergency nor the assistance
for the immediate relocation, said the local people.
It is assumed that by broadcasting the truth news of the cyclone would create people
gathering and thus disturbance to the referendum which was set to held on May 10,
which was the main plan of the junta. The military junta is always afraid of people
gathering. Therefore, the junta could have been made the false news on the cyclone.
In other words, therefore, according to the above mentioned, it is assured that the
military junta has made it in order to confirm and held their plan-constitutional
referendum by intentionally ignoring the facts and the lives of hundreds of thousands
of the cyclone victims. Due to such failed to release the truth news on cyclone and
neglect to provide the emergency relief and relocate the cyclone victims, about the
lost of about 150,000 people lives and has caused 250,000 people lives despair and
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homeless were rather because of the military junta's lack of responsibility and
international ignorance than the natural disaster was the main cause.
Evidence (2): Despite the relief works are not immediately activated, the
constitutional referendum was held by force without any postponement
When the natural disaster happened anywhere in the world, within 24 to 48 hours the
relief workers try to reach the affected areas, to discover the dead body, to save who
are in danger, provide the safety and shelter camps for those who are survived; but in
case of Burma the military authority has neither provided nor assisted anything to the
cyclone victims for someday. The scenes have been seen in the media in which the
cyclone victims narrated their sad stories and share their experiences to the reporters.
The residents of Rangoon and other cyclone survivors from different places of
Irrawaddy could see the appearance and artificial greetings of the Prime Minister Lt.
General Thein Sein, and his fade encouragement in the television on May 4 and 5.
On the next days, only the pictures of the soldiers who were cutting off the uprooted
trees, cleaning the streets and the army generals roaming around the city have been
broadcasted, and the acknowledgement or coverage of the relief works are not
mentioned. The soldiers cleaned the streets for the convenient of driving through the
military vehicles and then the rest of sanitation works are done by the local people
and monks on the basis of self reliance. The cyclone survivors were survived by the
assistance and donation from the local people at the very beginning stage.
The Burmese junta was not only providing anything to the cyclone victims, but also
did not postpone its constitutional referendum and held forcefully on May 10 as they
have planned. Only the cyclone affected areas in the towns in the Irrawaddy and some
places in Rangoon have been postponed to May 24. With regard to that tragedy event,
the U.N secretary general Mr. Ban Ki-moon expressed that "it is very a sad thing for
the people of Burma for such tragedy event. At the same time, it is recorded of the
ruling military junta's decision to hold for the referendum." The military junta has
been trying to work on the planed referendum for the stability of their power instead
of providing the emergency relief effectively that caused the victims whose lives are
lost and miserable due to the shortage of food and drinking water daily. Therefore, it
is assured that several local victims live have lost even after the cyclone because of
the ignorance and lack of responsibility by the Burmese military junta.
Evidence (3): The refusal of the international relief workers; misusing the
international aids and switching the donated materials with the bad quality
product
While 2.5 millions of the cyclone victims are terribly suffering and hungry for food,
drinking water and sheltering, those who relief workers and humanitarian assistance
have had to wait for such a long time for the approval from the military authority.
Until May 8, the cyclone victims did not receive any assistance from any foreign
governments, including the United Nations, except for the aids that donated directly
through the local people. Since the U.N has not been so satisfied with the junta'
administration over the relief fund and other aids which were donated by the foreign
countries, the U.N has asked the military authority to be delivered the aids to the
victims by the U.N itself. But the military authority has refused it.
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While there was a debate going on between the military authority and the foreign
governments over the humanitarian aids, the military authority refused to accept the
World Food Program (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of which the
relief airplane had already arrived in the airport in Rangoon on May 8 and 9,
respectively. But, interestingly, the food packages which are sealed with the WFP
logo are found in market in Rangoon on May 12. It is witnessed that the donated food
from foreign countries such as biscuits, dry noodle from Thailand are switched with
the products of the military government.
There was a meeting, of Rangoon division regiment light infantry on May 7, between
Army General Myint Swe and rice traders regarding the assistance for the cyclone
victims. After the meeting, it was found that the good qualities of rice which are
donated from the international community are switched with local rice which are bad
quality and delivered it to the victims.
On May 17, two weeks after the cyclone nargis, the military authority announced that
the list of dead toll was 77738, 55917 people were still missing and 19359 people
wounded. In the meantime, French Navy--Le Mistral (which was 13 miles distance
from seashore), the U.S's 3 Navies led by USS Essex ( 60 miles distance) and Britain
Naval--HMS Webminster (12 miles distance) were stand by to assist the victims.
But the military authority refused to those relief navies. Although the relief navies of
the U.S. and British had already returned back, the relief workers are being disturbed
and blocked by the military authority by any means.
Such acts of refusing the international humanitarian aids and misusing the donated
materials are obstacle to reach to the victims. In comparing, that an innocent person
who is shot by the AK-47 gun or an obstacle to the humanitarian aids that caused
hunger to death may be basically implied to the U.N.' "Responsibility to Protect".
Therefore, it is demanded that the international humanitarian aid forces be intervened
in Burma immediately.
Evidence (4): Pending the relief by receiving the U.N Secretary General and the
People of Burma dwindling hopes on the United Nations
Taking this tragedy event as an opportunity while people are suffering from the
cyclone nargis, and instead of providing the relief emergency as the priority, the
military authority have been attentively working on the constitutional referendum.
The military authority somewhat concerned the raising death tolls and at the same
time they were aware of the relief navies, which were approaching near the delta. It
created them the fear of the intervention made by the International Community based
on the ground of humanitarian. Therefore, the U.N Secretary General was allowed to
stop by some of the affected areas immediately.
Priority to his visit to Burma, although the U.N Secretary General Mr. Ban Ki-moon
has been trying to reach to the Snr. General Than Shwe by telephone three times there
was no response at all. And, Snr. General Than Shwe did not pay attention to the
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cyclone victims. He has been made the so-called visit to the cyclone affected areas on
May 19-20, just before Mr. Ban Ki-moon arrived in Burma. According to the
military-run national television channel, it is realized that Snr. General Than Shwe
had been greeted to the fake cyclone victims. It was a make-up show.
While Mr. Ban Ki-moon arrived in Burma, he trip was planed and brought to meet
with the fake cyclone victims. It was a deception. Snr. General Than Shwe gave a
promise to Mr. Ban Ki-moon that the international humanitarian aids will not be
restricted and will be allowed to work freely in Burma. But, since after Mr. Ban Kimoon
went back there were no freedom of movement for the international relief
workers and instead they are being disturbed by the soldier, police and members of
USDA.
In reality, the military authority neither wanted any humanitarian assistance which
would lead by the United Nations nor was the reason that they had allowed Mr. Ban
Ki-moon, but because to lessen the pressure from the international community.
Whenever the U.N intervened on whatever of the Burmese junta's inhumanly acts, for
almost 20 years now, that the Burmese people have been felt some kind of dejected.
Therefore, the cyclone victims were not so warmly feel well because they assumed
that hindered the intervention by the international humanitarian forces, realizing the
visiting schedule for the Mr. Ban Ki-moon was a trap.
There are some certain reasons why Burmese people are not happy (dwindling hopes)
with the United Nations. It was because, as of the responses from the United Nations,
that in every political movement in Burma after 1988 the Burmese people really
hoped that the positive actions from the United Nations on Burma would be reached.
But it is seemed weak and inactive.
In April 2000, former U.N Secretary General Kofi Anan appointed Mr. Razali Ismail
as U.N special envoy to Burma. Mr.Razali had been to Burma 12 times. Although he
had engaged a trust building and dialogue between Aung San Suu Kyi and the
military junta two times, later he became the puppet of the junta and his mission was
not successful. Moreover, the Burmese people distrusted on Mr. Razali as he had been
associated personally with the junta for his own business and other joint ventures.
While Mr. Paolo Sergio Pinheiro who is the representative of the U.N Commission on
Human Rights to Burma, visited the Insein prison in Burma and met with some
political prisoners, the military intelligence secretly tape recorded him. For the U.N
had failed to take action on such improper act on the U.N' mission and activities has
caused the Burmese people's hope on the U.N become less and less.
Mr. Kofi Anan appointed Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, after Mr. Razali resignation, for U.N
special envoy to Burma. Although Mr. Gambari had been visited five times to Burma,
there were no effective efforts for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and political
prisoners. He was incapable of creating the substantive dialogue between Aung San
Suu Kyi and the military junta. He rather became the puppet that sank in the traps of
the junta. Again, therefore, this is the reason that the Burmese people lack of trust on
the U.N special envoy on Burma.
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The people in Burma were so hopefully expected as they heard the news that Mr.
Gambari would come to Burma during the people demonstration against the junta in
September 2007. But nothing particular response came out of Mr. Gambari visit and
after his returned to U.N. The torture and killed by the military junta has still been
remained. The U.N action on Burma was so weak, also this time.
The U.N. should be working on as one of the main tasks in following the promise of
Snr. General Than Shwe to Mr. Ban Ki-moon which was given on May 23 that "all
international relief workers will be allowed to Burma." But that agreement does not
seem to be materialized. For Burmese people, it is meant that the visit of Mr. Ban Kimoon
to Burma supported the military authority's plan as it's blocked the international
intervention on Burma on the ground of humanitarian aid in which was the Burmese
people's hopes. Therefore, the Burmese people are not happy with his visit to Burma.
On the other side, the U.N's initiative and mediation could be considered that delayed
in receiving the emergency relief by the needy victims or supported the junta's
intentional ignorance on the cyclone victims. Therefore, it is earnestly demanded that
the U.S, Britain, France and Germany which could effectively support and provide the
relief assessment in Burma should immediately send the emergency relief forces to
Burma.
Evidence (5): In the condition of Genocide and Crime against Humanity and
other concerns
(5.1) Human rights violations
There was a report on human rights on cyclone victims which was published by
Amnesty International after a month of the event. In that report, it is mentioned that
the cyclone victims were evicted from the shelter camp by force, restriction on
traveling, in order to build the polling-booth the cyclone victims are evicted by force
from the shelter camp, also from the monestary, which mentioned such cases of 30.
Some of those cases were as following.
On May 23 in Shwe-pauk-kan Township, the cyclone victims were evicted by telling
them that the school will re-open soon and thus were given 7000 kyats to some
people. On May 19, there were 30 people fear to drown due to the boat capsize, all of
them were cyclone victims as they were forced to return back in Bo-galay Township.
Beginning from May 19, the victims were forced to relocate in Myoung-mya, Ma-Oobin,
Phra-pon, Laputta Townships. In Kawh-mu Township, some cyclone victims who
were asking for the aids were prohibited.
(5-2) Threatening to local donators and arresting the vehicles
In the early stage, the cyclone victims were mostly survived by the support of the
local community. Later, those individual and local donator's works were disturbed and
blocked by the military authority. On May 25, about twenty vehicles which were
returned back from Pathein Township, who helped the cyclone victims, were arrested
by the military authority on the ground that they had broke the laws.
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Because of such restrictions for traveling and for the voluntary relief works, the
numbers of the cyclone survivors who were died of communicable deceases were
increased and also shortage of food and nutrition. In addition, Zaganar the comedian
who has been devotedly working on the relief was recently arrested by the military
authority without any reason.
(5-3) The cyclone surviving orphanage children are forced to recruit to Army
The UNICEF built over 50 camps particularly for the cyclone surviving children.
However, according to the local relief workers in Laputta, Phra-pon and Bo-galay
Townships, those surviving children who are inaccessible to the camps were taken to
the army recruiting center. "According to the Radio Free Asia news on June 5, some
of the children, who are orphanage age between 14-15 years, are disappeared. It is
assumed that they were sent to regiment infantry no. 66."
(5-4) International Relief Workers
Snr. General Than Shwe promised that the relief experts from foreign countries will
be allowed to travel freely in Burma when meeting Mr. Ban Ki-moon. In contrast, in
preparing to travel to the Irrawaddy delta from Rangoon, the foreigner relief workers
are experiencing with different layers of red tape bureaucrat of the military authority
that created the relief workers feel uncomfortable, said Mr. Ky Luu.
Similarly, the Radio Free Asia also reported that "It has been over 35 days. There are
still bureaucrat that slows the process and preparation to travel to the delta. As we
know, about 50% the cyclone survivors do not receive yet the humanitarian aid.
(5-5) The cyclone victims are forced to labor
While the cyclone victims were terribly suffering and were in dire need of food and
drinking water, the military authority forced to labor them for making airfield for
landing the military helicopter in the villages in the Irrawady delta. Such the army
infantry regiment no.66 which is stationed at Ka-don-ka-nih village of Bo-galay
Township was not helpful but rather the cyclone victims were suffered because of the
force labor. Moreover, while the parents were searching for their missing children and
other relatives they were asked to work with a very few minimum wages, said one
witness of the relief worker.
(5-6) Starving and deceases are spreading because of lack of relief assessment
One of the local people from Maw-gyan Township from Irrawaddy mentioned that
some people are died of dysentery, diarrhea and related deceases as the results of the
people there had to eat the wet and polluted rice.
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Maung Pho Nge, 7 year and Daw Tin Yee, age over 50 years died of diarrhea who
resided at Ka-na-soh village, and in Myint-to, Shwe-zin-yaw, Paung-hin-choung
villages the people were suffering from the diarrhea widely, the Voice of America
(VOA) reported on June 9, 2008.
Right after a week ago of the cyclone nargis, Action against Hunger (Action Contre la
Faim--ACF) stated that the cyclone survivors were suffering from the shortage of
nutrition and food. Those survivors had to find out their own food and also to cook for
it. About 75% people there had to consume polluted water, 96% of their toilets were
destroyed.
(5-7) The death bodies are not buried well and the crime rate may increase
It is found that the cyclone survivors were searched for the lost one. The death bodies
were ordered to throw away, not allowing anyone to approach the death body. For
those who wanted to find out the body of their relatives or dear one had to find out
secretly at night time.
Out of many, more than fifteen cyclone victims were shot to dead by the soldier in
Bo-galay Township. The soldiers took away the jewelleries from the death bodies.
Now many death bodies are floating around Ta-Thon district of Mon State and also at
the seashore. Some of the rotten death bodies remained in the wells and canals. The
decease will spread widely soon. The victims who are most suffering are in the areas
of where the ethnic Karen nationalities are inhabitant.
In 1990s, where there were the conflicts and combats between the Karen nationalities
and the military authority in Bo-galay, the military authorities cruelly tortured and
killed several innocent Karen people. It is obvious that when this tragedy event of
cyclone nargis stormed in to Irrawaddy delta where these Karen people are living, the
military authority had intentionally ignored to provide the emergency relief for the
cyclone victims. Such ignorance could be considered in a condition of genocide. For
the military junta, it could be an unfinished combat and revenge.
Our demands
All in all as mentioned above, despite the emergency relief was in dire needed, the
military junta has been keeping and continuously working on the stability of its power
as the first priority than providing any assistance to the cyclone victims. One could
clearly see that the military junta has created, blocked and tried to control the
humanitarian aids and its workers, and hide the cyclone victims so that the
international community cannot find them.
The military authority's lack of responsibility and intentional ignorance, concealing
the facts and reality, dedicated to the stability of power, controlling and blocking the
humanitarian aids and its workers imply "crime against humanity" and set in a
condition of genocide.
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Therefore, we earnestly would like to urge that the United Nations must response to
such condition under the mandate of "responsibility to protect" for those cyclone
victims, by sending the international emergency forces to Burma and bringing the
military authorities before the international court of justice.
Sd/-
Respectfully requested,
Under the mandate of the Elected People's Representatives
Of the 1990 general elections

PRESS CONFERENCE OF THE MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT
APPEALING TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
TO INTERVENE FORCEFULLY AND SAVE
THE NARGIS CYCLONE VICTIMS
Date: 16th June 2008
To
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Khun Myint Tun
Member of Parliament
Thaton Constituency -1
NLD
U Hla Oo
Member of Parmiliament
Kyut Taga Constituency- 1
NLD
Naing Thoung Shein
Member of Parmiliament
Kawkareik Contituency-2
MNDF


NLD = National League for Democracy
MNDF = Mon National Democratic Front

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13 June 2008

ဇြန္ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈။ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ဆိုင္ကလံုးမုန္တိုင္းသင့္ေဒသေတြမွာ ေနာက္ပိုင္းေရာဂါဆိုးေတြ ကူးစက္ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႕လို႕ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ကပ္ဆိုး က်ေရာက္လာႏိုင္မယ့္ အႏၱရာယ္အတြက္ စိုးရိမ္စရာရိွတယ္လို႕ အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ Direct Relief International လို႕ေခၚတဲ့ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ ကပ္ေဘးကူညီေရးအဖဲြ႕က ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစံုကို ကိုသားၫြန္႕ဦးက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းၿပီး တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း ဆိုင္ကလံုးမုန္တိုင္းသင့္တဲ့ ေဒသေတြမွာ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ အေဆာက္အဦေတြ၊ က်န္းမာေရးေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈစနစ္ေတြ အေတာ္ေလးကို ပ်က္စီးကုန္ၿပီး ေနရာအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားမွာလည္း မသန္႕ရွင္းတဲ့ေရေတြ က်န္ရစ္တာေၾကာင့္ ေရာဂါပိုးေတြ ကူးစက္လာႏိုင္တယ္လို႕ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ ကူညီေရးအဖဲြ႕ေတြက စိုးရိမ္ေနၾကတာပါ။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲ အေျခခံက်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈေနရာေတြ ပ်က္စီးကုန္ၿပီး က်န္းမာေရးေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈစနစ္ ပ်က္စီးသြားတာ၊ ေဒသတြင္းမွာလည္း က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းေတြ အလံုအေလာက္မရိွတာ၊ လမ္းပန္းဆက္သြယ္ေရးေၾကာင့္ အေရးေပၚက်န္းမာေရး ကုသမႈေပးဖို႕ ခက္ခဲတာ၊ အဆိုးဆံုးကေတာ့ က်န္းမာေရးကာကြယ္မႈစနစ္ေတြ ခ်ဳိ႕တဲ့တာေတြေၾကာင့္ ေရာဂါျပန္႕ပြားမႈေတြ ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္တယ္လို႔ တြက္ဆၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီအထဲမွာ ဆိုင္ကလံုးဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာပစၥည္းေတြ၊ ေဆး၀ါးေတြ ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေနတဲ့ အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ Direct ReliefInternational အဖဲြ႕ႀကီးလည္း အပါအ၀င္ပါ။ ဒီအဖဲြ႕ရဲ႕ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ပေရာဆာ (Jim Prosser) က ဗီြအိုေအကို အခုလိုေျပာပါတယ္။
“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ကပ္ေဘးဆိုးက်ေရာက္မယ့္ အလားအလာအတြက္ က်ေနာ္တို႕ အလြန္အမင္းကို စိုးရိမ္ေနပါတယ္။ ေရာဂါေတြျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆိုတဲ့ သတင္းရတာေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔အေနနဲ႔ ေရာဂါလကၡဏာေတြကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနပါတယ္။ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲ က်ေနာ္တို႔နဲ႔တဲြလုပ္ေနတဲ့ အဖဲြ႕ေတြရဲ႕ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခ်က္အရ အေရးေပၚ လိုအပ္တဲ့ပစၥည္းေတြ၊ ေရာဂါတိုက္ဖ်က္ေရးေဆး၀ါးေတြကို ေနာက္ထပ္ပို႕ႏိုင္ေအာင္လည္း ျပင္ဆင္ေနပါတယ္။”
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရသတင္းစာမွာေတာ့ တေန႕ကပဲ မုန္တိုင္းသင့္ေဒသေတြမွာ အမ်ားက စိုးရိမ္သလို ေရာဂါကူးစက္မႈေတြ မရိွဘူးလို႕ေတာ့ ေျပာထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အခုလို စိုးရိမ္စရာေတြ ျဖစ္လာရေအာင္ ဘယ္လိုအေျခအေနေတြေၾကာင့္လဲလို႕ ေမးၾကည့္ေတာ့ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ပေရာဆာက အခုလိုေျပာပါတယ္။
“WHO ကမၻာ့က်န္းမာေရးအဖဲြ႕ရဲ႕ အစီရင္ခံခ်က္ေတြအရ အသက္႐ႉလမ္းေၾကာင္းဆိုင္ရာ ကူးစက္ေရာဂါပိုး ကူးစက္ခံရသူ ၆၉၅ ဦး၊ ေသြး၀မ္းကိုက္တဲ့ ေရာဂါသည္ ၁၁၄ ဦး၊ ေသြးလြန္တုပ္ေကြး ေရာဂါသည္ ၃ ဦး ရိွတယ္လို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ဒါက အခိုင္အမာရထားတဲ့သတင္းပါ။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲက သတင္းမွန္ေတြ၊ အေျခအေနမွန္ေတြကို သိဖို႕ကလည္း ခက္ခဲပါတယ္။ အခုအပတ္ထဲက်မွပဲ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႕ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံေတြက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြ တရြာ၀င္ တရြာထြက္ အေျခအေနေတြကို သံုးသပ္အကဲခတ္ခြင့္ ရမွာပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အေျခအေနတစံုလံုးကို သိရဖို႕ ခဲယဥ္းေနတုန္းပါ။”
Direct Relief International အဖဲြ႕အေနနဲ႕ သူတို႕ရဲ႕ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တဦး မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ရန္ကုန္ကို သြားေရာက္ခြင့္ရခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အကူအညီေတြေပးတာကိုေတာ့ သူတို႕ကိုယ္တိုင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္တာမဟုတ္ဘဲ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာ အကူအညီေပးေနတဲ့ အဖဲြ႕ေတြကို ျပန္ၿပီး ကူညီေနတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
“Direct Relief International အဖဲြ႕ႀကီးအေနနဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္း ေဒသခံ အစိုးရမဟုတ္တဲ့အဖဲြ႕ေတြ၊ လူမႈအဖဲြ႕အစည္းေတြနဲ႕ ပူးတဲြၿပီးေတာ့ အဲဒီက ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာ လိုအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကို ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေနပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲက အႀကီးဆံုး ေဆးဖက္အဖဲြ႕အစည္းတခုျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအသင္းနဲ႕ ပူးတဲြေဆာင္ရြက္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒီအဖဲြ႕မွာက ဆရာ၀န္ ၈,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ အဖဲြ႕၀င္ရိွပါတယ္။ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းက မုန္တိုင္းဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ကုသဖို႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအသင္းက အဖဲြ႕လိုက္ သြားေရာက္ကူညီေနပါတယ္။” လုိ႔ ဂ်င္မ္ ပေရာဆာက ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
သူတို႕အေနနဲ႕ လက္ရိွအားျဖင့္ ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာပစၥည္းေတြ၊ ေဆး၀ါးေတြ စုစုေပါင္းတန္ဖိုး အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၄၀၈,၀၀၀ တန္ဖိုးခန္႕ ကူညီခဲ့တယ္လို႕ သိရသလို ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာ ကူညီေရးအဖဲြ႕ေတြအတြက္ ေငြသား ၁၆၃,၀၀၀ ကိုလည္း ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားအသင္းကိုတင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ တျခား ႏိုင္ငံျခားက အကူအညီေပးေရးအဖဲြ႕ေတြကိုေပးတာလည္း ပါပါတယ္။
“Australia Aid International ကိုလည္း အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၂၅,၀၀၀ ကူညီထားပါတယ္။ ဒီအဖဲြ႕က ေဆးဖက္ဆိုင္ရာကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ ၇ ဦးဟာ ႏိုင္ငံကူးဗီဇာရၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံထဲ ေရာက္ေနပါတယ္။ သူတို႕ဟာ ဒီ စိတ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ေဆးပညာကုသမႈနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္တာ၊ ေနာက္ အေရးေပၚကပ္ေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ေဆးပညာေတြကို အခု သင္တန္းေပးေနပါတယ္။” လုိ႔ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ပေရာဆာက ဆက္ေျပာပါတယ္။
အခုလိုေၾကာင့္လည္း သူတို႕အေနနဲ႕ ဒီမုန္တိုင္းသင့္ေဒသေတြမွာ က်န္းမာေရးအရ စိုးရိမ္ရတယ္၊ ဒုတိယကပ္ဆိုး က်ေရာက္မယ့္အႏၱရာယ္ ရိွတယ္ဆိုတာကို သူတို႕ရဲ႕ ဆန္းစစ္ခ်က္တင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ အဲဒီ ကူညီေရးေဆးအဖဲြ႕ေတြကတဆင့္ ရတဲ့သတင္းေတြအေပၚမွာလည္း သံုးသပ္ထားတာလို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ေတာ့ အခု မိုးတြင္း ေရာက္လာတာနဲ႕အမွ် အဲဒီေဒသေတြမွာ သြားေရးလာေရးခက္လာတဲ့အျပင္ေရေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေရာဂါမ်ဳိးေတြ အခ်ဳိ႕ေနရာေတြမွာ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတယ္လို႕ အဲဒီမွာ သြားေရာက္ခြင့္ရတဲ့ ေဆးအဖဲြ႕ေတြကတဆင့္ သိရတယ္လို႕လည္း ေျပာျပပါတယ္။

ေလေဘး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္သူ အယ္ဒီတာ ေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ဖမ္းဆီးခံရ
14 June 2008

ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ ေစတနာ့၀န္ထမ္း တပုိင္တႏုိင္ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသူ တဦးျဖစ္တဲ့၊ အားကစား ဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာ ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက မၾကာေသးခင္ကပဲ ထိန္းသိမ္းလုိက္တယ္လုိ႔ နီးစပ္သူမိတ္ေဆြေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြဖက္က ကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရး အလုပ္ေတြလုပ္ေနသူေတြကုိ အဖမ္းအဆီးေတြ လုပ္ေနတဲ့အထဲမွာ ဒါဟာ ေနာက္ဆုံးထြက္ေပၚလာတဲ့ သတင္းလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစုံကုိ စုံစမ္းထားတဲ့ ကုိေအာင္လြင္ဦးက တင္ျပေပးပါမယ္။
ေလမုန္တုိင္း ေဘးဒဏ္သင့္သူေတြအတြက္ တပုိင္တႏုိင္အကူအညီေပးေနတဲ့ အားကစားဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာ ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ဒီတပတ္ထဲမွာပဲ ဖမ္းဆီးလုိက္တာလုိ႔ သူနဲ႔ရင္းႏွီးသူ စာေပမိတ္ေဆြ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းက ေျပာျပၾကတာပါ။ မေကြးၿမိဳ႕က မိခင္ျဖစ္သူေနအိမ္မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံခဲ့ရၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ အခုဆုိရင္ ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ကုိ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕က စစ္ေၾကာေရး စခန္းတခုမွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္လုိ႔ သူ႔ရဲ႕ မိတ္ေဆြတေယာက္က ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
"ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြးနဲ႔ ကိုငွက္ေပ်ာေၾကာ္တို႔ ေလေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္ၾကတယ္။ လုပ္ရင္းနဲ႔ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔က မေကြးက သူ႔အေမအိမ္ကို သြားရင္းနဲ႔ မေကြးမွာ ဖမ္းၿပီးေတာ့ သူ႔ကို ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔က ေအာင္သေျပကို ပို႔လုိက္တယ္။ ဖမ္းတယ္ဆိုတာပဲ သိရတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ဖမ္းတယ္ဆိုတာ ေမးလို႔မရဘူး။ ဖမ္းတဲ့အဖြဲ႔ကိုယ္တိုင္ကလည္း ဘာေၾကာင့္ဖမ္းျမန္း မသိဘူး။ ဖမ္းဆိုလို႔ ဖမ္းလိုက္တာပဲ။ မေကြးက သူ႔အေမအိမ္မွာ အဖမ္းခံရတယ္။"
ဒီလုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြဖက္က ဘာအေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းလုိက္တယ္ ဆုိတာ ရွင္းလင္းေျပာဆုိတာမ်ဳိး မရွိေပမဲ့ ကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတဲ့ ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ရဲ႕ လုပ္ရပ္ေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္စပ္ ပတ္သက္လိမ့္မယ္လုိ႔ ယူဆေနၾကတာပါ။
"ဒီ လူမႈေရးေပါ့ေနာ္။ ကိုယ္က်ိဳးမဟုတ္ဘူးေလ။ ဒါဟာ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနတဲ့လူေတြကို ကူညီတာပဲ။ ကိုယ့္ပိုက္ဆံနဲ႔ကိုယ္ ကူညီတာ။ ကုိယ့္မွာ ရွိသမွ် ခြန္အားေရာ၊ ေငြအားေရာ၊ လူအားေရာ အကုန္ စိုက္ထုတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဒါကို အမ်ားအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္တာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဒီဟာ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြနဲ႔လည္း သူ လုပ္တယ္။ ေနာက္တခ်က္က သူက ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ ဆိုေတာ့ သူတို႔ ဒီလိုလုပ္တာ မႀကိဳက္လို႔လား။ ထင္ေပၚသြားလို႔လား။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဖက္က ေတြးစရာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးပဲေလ။ သူတို႔ ဒီလုိ လႈပ္ရွားမႈက သူတို႔အတြက္ သိကၡာက်တယ္လို႔ ယူဆၿပီး သူတို႔ ဖမ္းတာလို႔ပဲ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ထင္တယ္ဗ်ာ။"
ဒါဟာဆုိရင္ ေလေဘးကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြ လုပ္ကုိင္ေနတဲ့သူေတြ အဖမ္းအဆီးခံေနရတဲ့ အထဲက ေနာက္ဆုံးၾကားရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ္ထဲတုန္းကလည္း မုန္တုိင္းေဘးသင့္သူေတြကုိ ေစတနာ့၀န္ထမ္း အကူအညီေတြ ေပးေနတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေက်ာ္ လူရႊင္ေတာ္ စြယ္စုံအႏုပညာရွင္ ဇာဂနာ ေခၚ ကုိသူရ ကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတာပါ။ အခုဆုိရင္ သူ႔ကုိလည္းပဲ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕က ဒီ ေအာင္သေျပ စစ္ေၾကာေရး စခန္းမွာပဲ ထိန္းသိမ္း စစ္ေဆးေနတယ္လုိ႔လည္း မိသားစုနဲ႔ နီးစပ္သူေတြက ေျပာပါတယ္။ အခုလုိ လူမႈေရး အကူအညီေတြကုိ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး တုိ႔လုိ လူေတြကုိ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရတာဟာ ဒီလုပ္ငန္းေတြအတြက္ ထိခုိက္နစ္နာေစတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ႐ႈျမင္ၾကတာပါ။
"ကိုေဇာ္သက္ေထြးကေတာ့ သူ စၿပီးေတာ့ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး လူေတြ ဒုကၡေရာက္ၿပီ ဆိုကတည္းက သူ အားက်ိဳးမာန္တက္ တေနရာၿပီး တေနရာ အဲဒီလို ပစၥည္းေတြ စုေဆာင္းၿပီး လုိက္ပို႔၊ အဲဒီလိုေတြေတာ့ သူ အားသြန္ခြန္စိုက္ လုပ္ေနတယ္ဗ်ာ။ သူ ရက္နားတာေတာင္ သိပ္မေတြ႔ရဘူး။ ဒီလို လူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ဒီလို လူမႈေရးကို အက်ိတ္အနယ္ လုိက္လုပ္ေနတဲ့သူေတြက ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းနဲ႔တြက္ရင္ အရမ္းနည္းတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ လူနည္းတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဒီလို စိတ္ပါလိုက္ပါနဲ႔ ခြန္တိုက္အားတိုက္နဲ႔ ကုိယ္က်ိဳးမဖက္ဘဲ လုပ္ေနတဲ့သူတေယာက္ ဆံုးရႈံးသြားတာဟာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ လုပ္ေနတဲ့သူေတြအတြက္ကေတာ့ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ဆံုးရံႈးမႈလို႔ ယူဆရပါတယ္။"
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ စာေပအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းက ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး နဲ႔ နီးစပ္သူ မိတ္ေဆြတဦး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကုိေဇာ္သက္ေထြး ဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက အဓမၼလုပ္အားေပး ခုိင္းေစမႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ကမာၻ႔အလုပ္သမားအဖဲြ႔ (ILO) ကုိ တုိင္ၾကားမႈအတြက္ ၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္တုန္းကလည္း တသက္တကၽြန္း ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရဘူးသူ တေယာက္ပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့လည္း ေနာက္ပုိင္း ILO ရဲ႕ ဖိအားေပး ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ေတြ ရွိလာတဲ့ေနာက္ ၂ ႏွစ္ေလာက္အၾကာမွ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက သူ႔ကုိ ဖမ္းဆီးရာက ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးလုိ္က္တာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

Food Theft by Homeless Children Increases ေကာ႔မႉးတြင္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား မျပင္ႏိုင္၍ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအခက္ေတြ႔

VIOLET CHO
Monday, June 16, 2008,
Increasing numbers of Burmese children, some as young as 10 years old, are stealing food to offset starvation, say Rangoon residents.
Rangoon residents say the theft of food and other goods has increased in the former capital and elsewhere in cyclone-damaged areas.
Children are seen in a village that was hit by Cyclone Nargis in the town of Dedaye in the Irrawaddy delta. An estimated 1 million of the survivors are children, according to UNICEF. (Photo: AFP)Food products at one large department store in downtown Rangoon are being stolen by children in broad daylight, said the store’s owner who said he chased after one 13-year-old boy, but was then touched by the boy’s plight.
“I ended up providing food for him when he told me that he was from a village in Hlaing Tharyar Township,” he said. “The boy came to find a job in the city for his family, and he stole food from the shop because he was hungry.”
He said more children are begging for handouts around the city while others sneak inside people’s homes to steal anything they can sell.
Meanwhile UNICEF and other aid groups working in Burma say there is cause to worry about the fate of children in the cyclone-affected area.
“We have deep concern over the future of children who have lost their parents and family members,” said a Burmese staffer with UNICEF.
A recent decision by the Burmese junta that ordered storm refugees to return to the location of their homes, many totally destroyed, was a decision that threatens the physical and mental health of many children, aid workers said. Children who have lost their parents and relatives are especially vulnerable and need extra care at this time in their lives.
Children who have no adults to care for them usually end up following people who they have met during the relief operations, they say.
According to Rangoon residents, many children from the cyclone-affected area end up working at teashops and restaurants where they receive food and very small salaries.
“I felt bad when I saw people take parentless children to work,” said a Rangoon woman, who said she saw two boys from the Irrawaddy delta as young as eight years old working in a teashop.
One 9-year-old boy who lost his parents and was begging near Rangoon’s main train station, told The Irrawaddy, “I can’t go back to my village anymore. There are no people who will give me food, and I do not know where my parents and brothers and sisters are.”
The boy said he befriended a 14-year-old boy who had also lost his parents during the storm.
“I decided to come to Rangoon after I realized that I lost my family,” the 14-year-old boy said. “I didn’t know what I should do or where to go. I came here with another friend who also lost his family.”
The older boy said, “I felt pity on him [the 9-year-old boy] when I saw him crying near the train station. I asked him to come with me. I promised myself that I would try to help him, but I can only give him one meal a day, so he has to beg for more food if he is hungry.”
The UN children’s fund has established more than 30 children support centers and about 60 dormitories for orphans, according to a UNICEF statement.
However, the number is not sufficient to meet the needs of homeless children who need assistance and shelter.
The Burmese government’s effort to care for homeless children has been haphazard and disorganized, say observers. The government is still rejecting offers to provide humanitarian assistance from many international aid groups.
“I can not imagine the future of these homeless children,” said the editor of a Rangoon journal.
Tropical Cyclone Nargis affected about 2.4 million people. An estimated 1 million of those are children, according to UNICEF.
Irrawaddy correspondents Kyi Wai and Aung Thet Wine contributed to this story. -->

ေကာ႔မႉးတြင္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား မျပင္ႏိုင္၍ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအခက္ေတြ႔NEJ/ ၁၆ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈

နအဖစစ္အစိုးရက ေလေဘးသင့္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အလုိက္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည္ဟု ေျပာၾကားေနေသာ္လည္း ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ေက်ာင္း အမ်ားအျပား မျပင္ဆင္ႏိုင္ေသးသျဖင့္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အခက္အခဲ ေတြ႔ေနသည္။
ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ေက်ာင္းအေရအတြက္ (၁၂၆) ေက်ာင္း ပ်က္စီးသြားၿပီး ယခုအခါ အထကႏွင့္ အလကေက်ာင္းမ်ား ျပန္လည္ျပင္ဆင္ၿပီးစီးၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမႉးက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံစာေပနွင့္ စာနယ္ဇင္း ေလေဘးအလႉတြင္ ယခုလ (၉) ရက္၌ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
လက္ရိွတြင္ ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေက်းရြာအုပ္စု (၅၅) ခုတြင္ ရိွေသာ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း မ်ား၏ ျပင္ဆင္မႈအေျခအေနမွန္မွာ ယင္းသို႔မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္အေျခစိုက္ သတင္းဂ်ာနယ္ တခုမွ သတင္းသမားတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
၎က “တကယ္ေတာ့ ဘာမွမလုပ္ရေသးတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းေတြ မ်ားတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕တေလပဲ ျပဳျပင္ၿပီး ေသးတာကို အားလုံးျပဳျပင္ၿပီးေနၿပီလို႔ ၿခံဳေျပာလို႔မရဘူး” ဟုေျပာသည္။
ထုိ႔အျပင္ ေက်ာင္းေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၏ စာသင္ၾကားမႈအေျခအေနမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္ သက္၍လည္း အေျခအေနမွန္မ်ားကို တင္ျပေရးသားသည့္ ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားကို စာေပစိစစ္ေရးက ထည့္ခြင့္မေပးေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ ျပည္တြင္းမွ သတင္းသမားတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕ေပၚရိွ အမက (ၿမိဳ႕မ) စာသင္ေက်ာင္း လုံး၀ၿပိဳပ်က္သြားသည့္ သတင္းေရးသည့္ ျပည္တြင္းဂ်ာနယ္မ်ား ပယ္ခ်ခံရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
အဆိုပါေက်ာင္းအား ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းအတြက္ စီမံခ်က္ခ်ရာထားမႈမ်ားအရ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႕မ်ားက လာေရာက္ၾကည့္႐ႈ႐ုံမွ်သာ ရိွေသးသည္ဟု ေကာ့မႉးမွ မူလတန္း ေက်ာင္းဆရာတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
“အမွန္ေတာ့ သူတို႔ေျပာတာနဲ႔ လုပ္တာနဲ႔က တျခားစီပဲ၊ အခုခ်က္ခ်င္းျပန္လည္တည္ ေဆာက္ေတာ့ မလိုနဲ႔ ေနာက္ေတာ့ ေပၚမလာေတာ့ဘူး။ ကေလးေတြကို စာသင္ရတာ အခက္အခဲရိွတယ္၊ အဓိက ေနရာေပါ့။ အခု ရပ္ကြက္ဓမၼာ႐ုံေတြမွာ သင္ေနရတယ္။ ဘုန္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ သင္မယ္ဆိုလည္း သူတို႔က မႀကိဳက္ဘူး” ဟု ၎က ေျပာသည္။
ၿမိဳ႕မေက်ာင္းကဲ့သို႔ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းအမ်ားအျပား ပ်က္စီးၿပိဳက်မႈေၾကာင့္ စာသင္ၾကားေရး အခက္ အခဲရိွေနေၾကာင္း ေကာ့မႉးေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။
ေကာ့မႉးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ဇြန္(၂) ရက္တြင္ ေက်ာင္းမ်ားျပန္လည္ဖြင္လွစ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ေလေဘးဒဏ္ အျပင္းထန္ဆုံးခံရသည့္ ဘိုကေလး၊ လပြတၱာ၊ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ကၽြန္းႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အခ်ဳိ႕တြင္ ေက်ာင္းဖြင့္ ရက္ကို တလေနာက္ဆုတ္ထားသည္။ ။

Back to School in the Deltaေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အခက္အခဲၾကားမွ စာသင္ေနရ

Back to School in the Delta
By MIN LWIN
Thursday, June 12, 2008, -->

The new academic year started in Burma on June 2. In the Irrawaddy delta and the western suburbs of Rangoon, schoolchildren are returning to schools that still bare the scars of Cyclone Nargis.
In Kungyangone Township, 50 kilometers (31 miles) southwest of Rangoon, a primary school in the village of Manka Lane still had a gaping hole in the roof. Children arrived on the morning of June 2 for lessons; however, several students had to be taught in a plastic tent, according to residents in Kungyangone.
Schoolchildren have to study in their teacher's home at Ma Wun village of the Irrawaddy Delta because their classroom was damaged. (Photo: Reuters)“There is so much suffering at school and so much sadness and loss,” said a private secondary school teacher in Kungyangone Township. “Two of our students died in the cyclone.”
Aid agencies said that the May 2-3 cyclone destroyed and damaged an estimated 4,106 schools while 100 schoolteachers were killed. Most of the 1,255 schools completely destroyed by Cyclone Nargis were in the Irrawaddy delta. The education of an estimated 500,000 children has been disrupted.
An unknown number of schoolchildren were killed in the storm. However, aid agencies have said that 40 percent of the population are children and it is more likely that youngsters were killed in the tidal wave due to lack of strength. Therefore, if 134,000 are officially dead or missing, it would appear that between 50 and 60,000 children were killed by Cyclone Nargis, mainly in the delta region.
"Reopening schools before they are repaired can cause the children more misery and psychological harm," said a former headmaster in Rangoon.
Schoolchildren in Manka Lane village had to study in a tent because their classroom was damaged. (Photo: Moe Aung Tin/ The Irrawaddy)He said that reopening schools before they were adequately prepared and possibly unsafe would only exacerbate problems, leading to greater anxiety, trauma and a sense of isolation among children.
A Rangoon resident who returned from the delta said that text books and teaching materials for schools were lost in the tropical storm.
He told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that students were being taught in damaged buildings in Taw Kyaung village, five kilometers (three miles) from Kungyangone. “If it is raining, the students have to hold an umbrella in the classroom while they are reading or studying,” he said.
Residents in Kungyangone Township complained that the Asia World Company, a private contractor responsible for reconstruction in Kungyangone Township, has begun rebuilding in and around the town, but that schools in outlying areas have still not been repaired.
An official from the Burmese Department of Education No.1, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the military government had ordered the reopening of schools as quickly as possible, but that many of the schools were still in an unsafe condition for students.
She said, “The schools should be safe and secure environments, so that the students can attend and return to normal, and that the learning process can restart.
“The first task is not reopening schools and teaching—the first task we face is creating a safe and secure environment for our students,” she added.-->

ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အခက္အခဲၾကားမွ စာသင္ေနရမိုးေအာင္တင္/ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္း

ဇြန္၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ဆိုး၀ါးစြာ ခံစားရသည့္ေဒသမ်ားရွိ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို တျခားေဒသမ်ားနည္းတူ ဇြန္လ ၂ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျပန္လည္ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့ရာ ေနရာ မလံုေလာက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမွာ ခက္ခဲစြာ စာသင္ၾကားေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ မန္းကလိပ္ ေက်း႐ြာ မူလတန္းလြန္ေက်ာင္း (ဓာတ္ပံု - မိုးေအာင္တင္)
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မန္းကလိပ္ေက်းရြာ အုပ္စု ရွိ မူလတန္းလြန္ေက်ာင္းတြင္ ၁၂ေပx၂၀ေပႏွင့္ အျမင့္ ၅ေပ ခန္႔ရွိသည့္ အျဖဴေရာင္ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲအတြင္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား စာသင္ၾကား ေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရသည္။
အဆိုပါရြက္ဖ်င္တဲမွာ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရဗ်ႏိုင္ငံမွ လွဴဒါန္းထား ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး တဲ အလံုး ၃၀၀ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အန္ဂ်ီအို အဖြဲ႕ တဖြဲ႕၏ တာ၀န္ခံတဦးက ေျပာဆိုသည္။ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲကို ေျမႀကီးေပၚတြင္ ထိုးထားျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး မိုးရြာ သည့္အခါ ေရ မျမဳပ္ေစရန္ အုတ္နီခဲမ်ား ခင္းထားသည္ ကိုလည္းေတြ႕ရသည္။
ေကာ့မွဴးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္း-ရန္ကုန္ ကားလမ္းေဘး ရွိေက်းရြာ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းတြင္လည္း ၿပိဳပ်က္သြား သည့္ ေက်ာင္းအေဆာက္အဦမွ သြပ္မိုးကို၀ါးညွပ္ကာ ယာယီမိုး ထားသည့္ တဲထဲတြင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အကာမဲ့စြာ စာသင္ ၾကားေနၾကရသည္ကို ေတြ႕ျမင္ရသည္။
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ မူလတန္း ေက်ာင္းမ်ားတြင္ မူလတန္းပညာေရးမွာ အခမဲ့ပညာေရး ျဖစ္သည္ ဆိုသည့္ စာတန္းကိုခ်ိတ္ဆြဲကာ ေက်ာင္းအပ္ လက္ခံေသာ္လည္း ဖတ္စာစာအုပ္မ်ားမွာ တစံုလ်င္ က်ပ္ တေထာင္၊ တေထာင့္ငါးရာ စသျဖင့္ အတန္းေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး ၀ယ္ယူရျခင္းျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းသာမိဘတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ယခုလိုကာလ တြင္ ၀ယ္ယူရန္မတတ္ႏိုင္ၾကဟုလည္း အဆိုပါ ရြာမ်ားတြင္ သြားေရာက္ ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦး ကေျပာဆိုသည္။
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕မွ ၃မိုင္ေက်ာ္ေ၀းသည့္ ရြာအထက္တန္းေက်ာင္း တေက်ာင္းတြင္ တပိုင္းၿပိဳက်သြားသည့္ ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္ႏွင့္ ေခါင္မိုးလြင့္သြားသည့္ အပိုင္းတို႔ကို ျပန္လည္မျပဳျပင္ရေသးဘဲ အပ်က္အစီးၾကားထဲတြင္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား စာသင္ၾကားေနၾကရသည္။
သြပ္ျပန္မမိုးရေသးသည့္ ေနာက္ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္တေဆာင္အား ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ကူညီသည့္ စစ္စိမ္းေရာင္ တာလပတ္ဖ်င္ကို ၀ါးျဖင့္ ယာယီညွပ္မိုးထားသည္ဟု အဆိုပါရြာမွ ရြာခံတဦးကေျပာျပသည္။
မိုးရြာလ်င္ အမိုးမွေရစိမ့္ယိုသည့္အတြက္ စာသင္ခန္းထဲတြင္ ထီးေဆာင္းေနၾကရၿပီး စာသင္ၾကားႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိဟုလည္း ၎က ေျပာသည္။
ေက်ာင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္အသုံးျပဳ စာသင္ေနရေသာ ႐ြက္ဖ်င္တဲတခု (ဓာတ္ပံု - မိုးေအာင္တင္)
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းၿမိ႕ရွိ အထက္တန္းေက်ာင္းအေဆာက္အဦမ်ား ကိုသာ အဆိုပါနယ္ေျမတြင္ တာ၀န္ယူထားသည့္ ေအးရွား ေ၀ါလ္ကုမၸဏီမွ ဦးစားေပးျပင္ဆင္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ကားလမ္းေဘးရွိ မူလတန္းေက်ာင္းတခ်ိဳ႕မွာ ယခုတိုင္ မျပင္ဆင္ႏိုင္ ေသးသည္ကို ေတြ႕ရွိရသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ ခံရေသာ ဟိုင္းႀကီးကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းရွိ ေက်ာက္ေခ်ာင္းေက်းရြာတြင္မူ အေဆာက္အဦ မလံုေလာက္ျခင္း ေၾကာင့္ တေန႔လ်င္ ႏွစ္ခ်ိန္တက္ေသာေက်ာင္းအျဖစ္ ေျပာင္းလဲကာ ယခုလ ၆ ရက္ေန႔မွ စတင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့သည္ဟု အဆိုပါ ရြာမွ ျပန္လာသူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းတို႔မွ ဆိုး႐ြားစြာ ပ်က္စီးသြားခဲ့သည့္ စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား အားလုံးကို နဂုိအေနအထားျဖစ္ေစရန္ ျပန္လည္ ျပင္ဆင္ႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိေသးေသာ္လည္း အစိုးရက အေျခခံပညာ ဦးစီးဌာန (ေအာက္ ျမန္မာျပည္) မွ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ပညာေရးမႉးမ်ားသို႔ တတ္ႏိုင္သမွ် ေစာလ်င္စြာ ေက်ာင္းျပန္ဖြင့္ရန္ ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္မ်ားကို ေပးပို႔ထား သည္ဟု ပညာေရး၀န္ထမ္းတဦး က ေျပာဆိုသည္။နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရကမူ မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံရသည့္ ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ၿပီးစီး၍ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံပိုင္သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ မၾကာခဏ ေဖၚျပေလ့ရွိသည္။

WFP Forbidden to Buy Rice from Local Dealers မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ စပါးစုိက္ဧကပ်က္စီးမႈ

WFP Forbidden to Buy Rice from Local Dealers
By VIOLET CHO
Wednesday, June 11, 2008, -->
An official from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has confirmed that the Burma

Local donators prepare bags of rice for cyclone survivors at a

monastery on the outskirts of Rangoon. (Photo: AP)

government has told the food relief

agency that it will no longer be permitted to buy rice from local dealers to feed survivors of

Cyclone Nargis.
“This is an issue that has come up, so we are preparing to import rice,” said WFP spokesman Paul Risley. He added, however, that the agency would “need to receive notification and approval from the government” before it could begin to import rice.
According to Risley, the WFP’s operations in Burma currently have only enough rice left to last another six weeks. The UN recently said that cyclone survivors in the hard-hit Irrawaddy delta could need food assistance for as long as a year.
Due to severe damage to rice fields and lack of farming supplies, many farmers will not be able to plant rice in time for this year’s monsoon season.
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, about 200,000 hectares, or 16 percent, of the delta’s total 1.3 million hectares of agricultural land were severely damaged in the cyclone and would “not be available for planting this season.”As UN aid agencies express concern over possible food shortages in the coming year, the Burmese military government continues to deny that the country is facing a serious problem.On Wednesday, Soe Tha, the minister for national planning and economic development, described rumors that the country’s rice supplies were inadequate as “groundless.” “Some organizations were spreading groundless information such as there was or would be a shortage of rice in Myanmar [Burma],” he was quoted in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper as saying.“The rice output in the storm-affected areas in Ayeyawady [Irrawaddy] and Yangon [Rangoon] Divisions made up only 2.3 percent of the nation’s total rice output. The uncultivable acreage is barely 1 percent of that of the whole nation,” he added.Despite such reassurances, however, the regime has cancelled planned exports this year of up to 600,000 metric tons of rice to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.The WFP has provided more than 11,000 metric tons of rice to storm-affected communities and all of this rice was bought from local rice dealers.Business sources in Rangoon suggested that the government’s decision to ban the WFP from purchasing rice from local dealers was unjustified.
“The government has a huge reserve of rice as they cancelled rice exports to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. If the government allowed it, it could be sold,” said a Rangoon businessman.
Cyclone Nargis hit Burma in early May, killing up to 134,000 people and leaving 2.4 million destitute.

မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ စပါးစုိက္ဧကပ်က္စီးမႈ တျပည္လုံး၏ (၆၀) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိဟု အေမရိကန္အစိုးရမွန္း

NEJ/ ၁၂ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္စီးခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီး မႈသည္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ဧရာ၀တီ၊ ရန္ကုန္၊ ပဲခူး၊ မြန္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တုိင္း (၄) ခု၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈသည္ ဧက (၁၀) သန္းရွိသည့္အတြက္ တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၆၀) ရာႏႈန္းနီးပါးရွိသည္ဟု ဇြန္လ (၁၀) ရက္ေန႔စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္စုိက္ပ်ိဳးေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈ ခန္႔မွန္းခ်က္သည္ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား တြက္ခ်က္မႈႏွင့္ ကုိက္ညီေနသည္။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစ္ိုးရဘက္ကမူ စပါးစိုက္ဧက ပ်က္စီးမႈကုိ မုန္တုိင္း က်ၿပီး (၁) လေက်ာ္သည္ထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ႏုိင္ျခင္း မရွိေခ်။
ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ ေရတုိ ေရရွည္ စပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ ပ်က္စီးမႈႏႈန္း အမ်ားဆုံးျဖစ္ၿပီး တျပည္လုံး စပါးစုိက္ဧက၏ (၃၇) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္းရွိသည္ဟု အစီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းရွိ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၆.၄) သန္းအနက္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၃) သန္း မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ပင္လယ္ေရ အလႊမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။
ေမလ (၃၀) ရက္ထိ ေလ့လာခ်က္အရ ပင္လယ္ေရ ျပန္က်သြားသည့္တုိင္ စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၂.၇) သန္းမွာ အတုိင္းအတာတရပ္ထိ ေရက်န္ေနေသးသည္ဟုပါ အေမရိကန္ လယ္ယာႏွင့္ စုိက္ပ်ိဳး ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အစီရင္ခံစာက ေထာက္ျပထားသည္။ တနည္းဆုိရလွ်င္ မုန္တုိင္းအၿပီး တလၾကာ သည့္တိုင္ မူလက ပင္လယ္ေရလႊမ္းခဲ့သည့္ စပါးစိုက္ဧက၏ (၈၀) ရာႏႈန္း ေရက်န္ေသးသည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ။

Burma Frees 15 Opposition Supporters

Burma Frees 15 Opposition Supporters
10 June 2008

Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party says the military government has released 15 party members detained last month for marching to the Nobel Peace laureate's home.

The National League for Democracy members were detained on May 27, after they marched from the party's headquarters to Aung San Suu Kyi's home in Rangoon to demand her release from house arrest.

Party spokesman Nyan Win said Tuesday that all 15 were released Monday night.

The NLD won a general election by a landslide 18 years ago, but the military never recognized the result and did not let the party take power.

The party has rejected the results of a recent constitutional referendum, which the government says will clear the way for new elections in 2010.

Aung San Suu Kyi is legally barred from running in the 2010 election because she was married to a foreign (British) national.

She has been kept under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years. Her detention was extended last month for another six months. Her British husband died in 1999.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဒန္ဒီ လြတ္လပ္ေရးဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခံရ
11 June 2008

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္။

ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္မွာ စုစုေပါင္း ၁၂ ႏွစ္နီးပါး က်ခံေန
ရတဲ့ ၁၉၉၁ ခုႏွစ္ ႏုိဘယ္လ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆုရွင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမုိကေရစီရရွိ
ေရး မဆုတ္မနစ္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈေတြအတြက္ စေကာ့တလန္
ႏုိင္ငံ ဒန္ဒီၿမိဳ႕ကေန Freedom of the Cities ဆုိတဲ့ ၿမိဳ႕႕ရဲ႕
အျမင့္ဆုံးဆုကို ခ်ီးျမႇင့္လုိက္တယ္လို႔ မေန႔က ေၾကညာ ခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစုံကုိ ေဒၚလွလွသန္း
က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။

ကမၻာေပၚမွာ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ က်ခံေနရတဲ့ တဦး
တည္းေသာ ႏုိဘယ္လ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆုရွင္လုိ႔ဆုိရမယ့္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ စေကာ့တလန္ႏုိင္ငံ ဒန္ဒီ
ၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အျမင့္ဆုံးဂုဏ္ျပဳမႈတရပ္လို႔ဆိုရမယ့္ Freedom of the Cities ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ဖုိ႔ အဆုိ
ျပဳခ်က္ကို တနလၤာေန႔ညကပဲ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေကာင္စီကေန ကန္႔ကြက္မဲမရွိ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၾက
တယ္လုိ႔ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေကာင္စီရဲ႕ ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

၁၉၉၁ ခုႏွစ္က ႏုိဘယ္လ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ႐ုန္းကန္မႈကုိ ဂုဏ္ျပဳရာေရာက္တဲ့အျပင္ သူမကို ျမန္မာ
စစ္အစုိးရအေနနဲ႔ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ကေန ခ်က္ခ်င္းျပန္လႊတ္ေပးဖုိ႔နဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ
ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးအတြက္ ဒန္ဒီၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေကာင္စီရဲ႕ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်က္ကိုလည္း
ပိုၿပီး ဒီဆုက ခုိင္မာေစတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ေၾကညာခ်က္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

ဒန္ဒီၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္မႈဆုကုိ ေတာင္အာဖရိက အသားအေရာင္ ခြဲျခားေရးအတြက္ နယ္လ္ဆင္မင္ဒဲလားကိုလည္း လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္က ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ၿဗိတိန္ေရာက္ အန္န္အယ္လ္ဒီ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ေဒါက္တာ၀င္းႏုိင္က
ဒီအခ်က္ကို ေထာက္ျပၿပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးကို အၿမဲေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနတဲ့ စေကာ့တလန္ကေပးတဲ့ဆုကုိလည္း ႀကိဳဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။

“စေကာ့တလန္အစိုးရနဲ႔ စေကာ့တလန္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားဟာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ
အင္မတန္ ေလးစားယုံၾကည္ၾကပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာျပည္
လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီရရွိေရးအတြက္ စြန္႔လႊတ္တာကိုလည္း သူတို႔က အမ်ား
ႀကီး ေလးစားတယ္၊ ႐ုိေသတယ္၊ ဒီအတြက္လည္း သူတို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး တန္ဖုိးထားပါ
တယ္။ အဲဒီလိုပဲ ကမၻာသူ၊ ကမၻာသား အင္တာေနရွင္နယ္ ကြန္ျမဴနတီက တန္ဖုိးထား
လာေအာင္ သူတုိ႔က အခုလုိလုပ္တယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ထင္ပါတယ္။

“ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ နယ္လ္ဆင္မင္ဒဲလားကုိ ၁၉၈၅ ခုႏွစ္က ဒီဆုကို ခ်ီးျမႇင့္လုိက္
တယ္။ အခု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကလည္း ျမန္မာျပည္သူ ျပည္သားေတြရဲ႕
လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီရရွိေရးအတြက္ သူ႔ရဲ႕ မိသားစု၊ သူ႕ရဲ႕ အခ်ိန္ေတြ၊
လုပ္အားေတြ အားလုံးကုိေပးၿပီးေတာ့ ၁၂ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ ေနအိမ္မွာ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံၿပီး
ဇြဲရွိရွိနဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္နဲ႔လူမ်ဳိးအတြက္ ေပးဆပ္ေနတာကို ကမၻာသူ၊ ကမၻာသားေတြအားလုံး ပိုၿပီးသိသြားေအာင္၊ ပိုၿပီးေလးစားလာေအာင္၊ ကမၻာတ၀န္းမွာရွိတဲ့ အစိုးရေတြအားလုံး
က ျမန္မာျပည္သူလူထုေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ပုိၿပီးလုပ္လာေအာင္ သူတို႔က လုပ္ေပးတယ္လုိ႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။

“အထူးသျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ ဒီလိုစြန္႔လႊတ္မႈေတြ၊ အနစ္နာခံမႈေတြ
အတြက္ Nelson Mandella of Asia ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ သူ႕ကို အားလုံးက ေလးစားထားခဲ့တာ
ကိုလည္း ပိုၿပီးေတာ့ ပီျပင္သြားေအာင္ လုပ္ေပးလုိက္တယ္လုိ႔ က်ေနာ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
ဒါ အင္မတန္ တန္ဖုိးရွိတဲ့ ဆုတခုပါ။”
ေဒါက္တာ၀င္းႏုိင္ ေျပာသြားတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ေၾကာင္းေၾကညာတဲ့ တနလၤာေန႔ကပဲ တုိက္တုိက္ဆုိင္ဆုိင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း
စုၾကည္ရဲ႕ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ကလည္း ေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္
လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ေမလ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ထပ္တုိးျခင္းခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို ပုဒ္မ ၁၀(ခ)၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ကာကြယ္ေရးဥပေဒအရ ျမန္မာ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ထားတာဟာ တည္ဆဲဥပေဒအရ မွားယြင္းေန
ေၾကာင္း ခုိင္လုံတဲ့ ဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာ ကိုးကားခ်က္ေတြေဖာ္ျပၿပီး အန္န္အယ္လ္ဒီအေနနဲ႔
အယူခံ၀င္ဖုိ႔ရွိတယ္ဆုိၿပီး ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္အေနနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာကခ်ီးျမႇင့္တဲ့ဆုေတြကို ႏွစ္စဥ္ရရွိခဲ့
ရာမွာ ဒီႏွစ္အတြင္း အေမရိကန္လႊတ္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ အရပ္သားေတြအတြက္ အျမင့္ဆုံးဆု
ျဖစ္တဲ့ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေရႊတံဆိပ္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခံရဖို႔ အဆုိျပဳခ်က္ကုိ အထက္နဲ႔
ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္ရပ္စလုံးက အၿပီးသတ္ သေဘာတူခဲ့ၾကတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒန္ဒီၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္ေရးဆုကုိေတာ့ စက္တင္ဘာလမွာ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မွာျဖစ္ၿပီး Burma
Campaign (UK) ျမန္မာ့အေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႕က ၫႊန္ၾကားေရးမႉး အန္နာေရာဘတ္စ္
က ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ က်ခံေနရတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ကိုယ္စား ဆုတက္ယူမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

Multilateral Team Heads for Cyclone Zone; 18 Survivors Arrested and lasted news about Nargis in Burmese

Multilateral Team Heads for Cyclone Zone; 18 Survivors Arrested By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS / RANGOON Wednesday, June 11, 2008 A major multilateral operation has been launched to assess the needs of Burma's cyclone survivors in a sign the military regime is finally cooperating in international aid efforts five weeks after the disastrous storm buffeted the country. However, Tuesday's positive development contrasted with reports that 18 cyclone victims—women and children—were arrested while on their way to the United Nations office in Rangoon to plead for help. A helicopters used by international aid organizations is landing to be put to good use for the cyclone relief effort on the outskirts of Rangoon. (Photo: AP) Some 250 experts from the UN, the Burmese government and Southeast Asian nations headed into the Irrawaddy delta on Tuesday by truck, boat and helicopter for a village-by-village survey, the UN said. Over the next 10 days, they will determine how much food, clean water and temporary shelter the 2.4 million survivors require, along with the cost of rebuilding houses and schools and reviving the farm-based economy. "It has taken quite a long time but this shows the government is on board by its commitment to facilitate the relief operation and the scaling up that people are asking for," said Amanda Pitt, a UN spokeswoman in Bangkok, Thailand. The UN estimated Cyclone Nargis affected 2.4 million people and warned more than 1 million of them, mostly in the delta, still need help. The cyclone killed more than 78,000 people. The ruling junta has been sharply criticized by foreign governments and aid agencies for its ineptness in handling the disaster. It also has come under fire for forcing survivors from camps and allegedly dumping them in their destroyed villages. Authorities detained 18 women and children on Tuesday as they walked to the UN offices in Rangoon to complain about not receiving any government assistance, according to a government official who refused to be identified for fear of retaliation. The group, from Dagon township on the outskirts of Rangoon, were bundled into a waiting police car and remain in detention, witnesses said. UN spokeswoman Pitt said she was hopeful the start of the international assessment signaled a greater willingness on the part of the government to work alongside aid workers to reach survivors and allow them to better understand their needs. "This should give us a comprehensive, across-the-board understanding of who has been reached, which responding agency reached them and what they received," Pitt said. The information will be collected in a report to be released next month by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and should motivate more countries to donate to the cyclone relief operation, she said. ICRC ရုံးသြားသည့္ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္ တခ်ဳိ႕ အဖမ္းခံရ 10 June 2008 ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အကူညီ အေထာက္ပံ့ရဖုိ႔ တန္းစီ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္း ေနၾကစဥ္ ဒီေန႔ ရန္ကုန္ ဒဂုံအေရွ႕ျခမ္းက ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္ သုံးဆယ္ေလာက္ဟာ ICRC ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းႀကီးရဲ႕ရုံးနဲ႔ UNDP ကုလသမဂၢ ရုံးေတြကုိ သြားေရာက္ၿပီးေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနရတဲ့ အခက္ အခဲေတြကုိ တင္ျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိ ေလေဘး ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ သြားတဲ့လမ္းမွာ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြဖက္က လုံၿခံဳေရးေတြကုိလည္း တင္းတင္း ၾကပ္ၾကပ္ ခ်ထားသလုိပဲ အခုဆုိရင္ ဒီ အုိင္စီအာရ္စီနဲ႔ ယူအဲန္ဒီပီ ရုံးကုိ သြားခဲ့တဲ့ သူေတြထဲက တခ်ဳိ႕ အဖမ္းခံခဲ့ရၿပီလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ဒီအေၾကာင္း မေအးေအးမာက တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။ ေျမာက္ဒဂုံက မုန္တုိင္း ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကုိ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးစခန္း လုပ္ထားတဲ့ေနရာကေန အတင္းအၾကပ္ ေရြ႕ေျပာင္း ခုိင္းေနတာေၾကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္ အုိင္စီအာရ္စီ ရုံးနဲ႔ ယူအဲန္ဒီပီ ရုံးကုိသြားၿပီး သူတုိ႔ကုိ အကူအညီေပးဖုိ႔အတြက္ ဒုကၡသည္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္က ေတာင္းဆုိရာမွာ ဒုကၡသည္ ၆ ဦးထက္မနည္း အဖမ္းခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအေရးကုိ ေျပာၾကားဖုိ႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ၾကက္ေျခနီအသင္းက အမ်ဳိးသမီး ႏွစ္ဦး ဦးေဆာင္ သြားခဲ့ၾကတာလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ယူအဲန္ဒီပီ ရုံးေရွ႕ကုိ ေရာက္တဲ့အခါမွာ အဖမ္းခံရတဲ့ ျမင္ကြင္းကုိေတာ့ ဒုကၡ သည္ေတြကုိ ကူညီဖုိ႔ လုိက္ပါသြားတဲ့ မ်က္ျမင္ ေတြ႔ရွိသူက အခုလုိ ေျပာျပပါတယ္။ “အဲဒီ ယူအဲန္ဒီပီရုံး ေရာက္ေတာ့ ရုံးက တံခါးမဖြင့္ေပးဘူး။ တံခါး မဖြင့္ေပးေတာ့ အဲဒီ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြနဲ႔ ေရွ႕က ဦးေဆာင္လာတဲ့ ၾကက္ေျခနီ ႏွစ္ေယာက္က ဘယ္သြားရမွန္း မသိဘူးေပါ့ေနာ္။ ပထမ အဲဒီနားမွာ ထုိင္ဖုိ႔လုပ္ၾကတယ္ဗ်ာ။ ေနာက္ မထုိင္ျဖစ္ပဲနဲ႔ ေနာက္ဖက္ေပါက္ကေန ၀င္ဖုိ႔မယ္ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ လုပ္ေနၾကတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာပဲ စြမ္းအားရွင္ ေတြနဲ႔ အဲဒီနားမ်ာ ေစာင့္ေနတဲ့သူေတြက ေရာက္လာ ၾကတယ္ဗ်ာ။ ေနာက္ ဟုိဖက္ ေရွ႕ကေနၿပီးေတာ့ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ ၾကက္ေျခနီ ေကာင္မေလးကုိ သူတုိ႔က ေခၚသြားတာ။ ေခၚသြားေတာ့ ေနာက္က ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ကလည္း သူ႔ေနာက္ကလုိက္လုိ႔ မွာထားေတာ့ အဲဒီ ေနာက္ကုိပဲ လုိက္သြားၾကတာ။ လုိက္သြားၾကၿပီးေတာ့ ေရွ႕ေကြ႔ ပန္းၿခံထဲမွာက ရဲကား ရွိေနတယ္။ ရဲကားရွိေနေတာ့ ပါလာတဲ့ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက မလုိက္ဘူးဆုိၿပီး အဲဒီနားမွာ ထုိင္ခ် လုိက္ၾကတယ္။ ရဲကားက ရွိေနတာကုိ။ ရဲကားရွိေနေတာ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက သူတုိ႔ကုိ ဖမ္းမွန္းသိၿပီးေတာ့ ထုိင္ခ်လုိက္ၾကတာ။ ေကာင္မေလးကုိေတာ့ ဆြဲတင္သြားတယ္။ ေနာက္ အဲဒီေရွ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ ဦးေဆာင္တယ္လုိ႔ ယူဆတဲ့သူေတြကုိ သူတုိ႔ ဆြဲတင္သြားတာေပါ့။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေတြ႔ခဲ့သေလာက္ ကေတာ့ ေလး၊ ငါး၊ ေျခာက္ေယာက္ပဲဗ်။” ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဘာေၾကာင့္ အုိင္စီအာရ္စီနဲ႔ ယူအဲန္ဒီပီရုံးကုိ သြားခဲ့ၾကပါသလဲလုိ႔ ေမးေတာ့ - “ဒီဒုကၡသည္ေတြဟာ ဒုကၡသည္ အခြင့္အေရးေတြ မရဘူးေပါ့ေနာ္၊ သူတုိ႔ေတြ ရသင့္ရထုိက္တာေတြ မရတဲ့ အတြက္ ရေအာင္လုပ္ေပးဖုိ႔ ေတာင္းဆုိၾကတာပါ။ ေနာက္ၿပီးေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ကုိ ေျမာက္ဒဂုံ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းကေန ေျပာင္းခုိင္းေနၿပီ။” ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢကုိ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ဒုကၡေတြ ေျဖရွင္းေပးမယ့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအျဖစ္ အားကုိးခဲ့ပုံကုိလည္း အခုလုိ ေျပာပါတယ္။ “သူတုိ႔ကေတာ့ အားကုိးၾကတယ္ဗ်ာ၊ အဲဒီမွာမွ ဒီ ကုလသမဂၢကုိ တုိင္တည္ရာ တခုအေနနဲ႔ ၾကားကေနၿပီးေတာ့ ေသေသ ခ်ာခ်ာ မွ်မွ်တတ ၀င္ရပ္တဲ့ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအေနနဲ႔ သူတုိ႔က အားကုိးတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ သူတုိ႔ မတရားလုပ္ေနတာေတြကုိ ၾကားကေန မားမား မတ္မတ္ရပ္ေပးမယ့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ သူတုိ႔က အားကုိးတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတုိ႔ ဒီေန႔လုပ္လုိက္တဲ့ ပုံစံအရဆုိရင္ ေတာ္ေတာ္ႀကီးလည္း စိတ္ပ်က္စရာ ေကာင္းတယ္၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမင္ထားတဲ့ အားကုိစရာ ေရႊေတာင္ႀကီး ကလည္း အလကား ျခေတာင္ႀကီး ျဖစ္ေနၿပီ။ တကယ္တမ္း ေျပာရရင္ေတာ့ ကုလသမဂၢကုိ အမ်ားႀကီး ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားတာေပါ့။ အခု ဒီေန႔လုိ အေျခအေနမ်ဳိး ေတြ႔ရျခင္းအားျဖင့္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ သားေတြရဲ႕ အေရးကုိ ဘယ္လုိမွ ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရွ႕မွာ ကာကြယ္ ေပးႏုိင္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အဲဒီလုိ ျမင္တာေပါ့ေနာ္။” ယူအဲန္ဒီပီရုံးက ျပန္အထြက္မွာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ၆ ဦးထက္မနည္း အဖမ္းခံရၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ အားလုံး လူစုခြဲခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အေနနဲ႔ အုိင္စီအာရ္စီ ရုံးကုိ သြားတဲ့အခါမွလည္း သူတုိ႔ကုိ အကူအညီ မေပးႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ မ်က္ျမင္ေတြ႔ရွိသူက ေျပာျပပါတယ္။ မုန္တိုင္းဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ အေထာက္အကူပစၥည္းေတြ ျပတ္လပ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရွိ

11 June 2008

အစားအစာရရွိရန္ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္းေနၾကေသာ မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္သင့္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား။ ဇြန္ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက နာဂစ္ဆုိင္ကလုံးမုန္တုိင္း ဒဏ္သင့္ခံရသူေတြအတြက္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရး ပစၥည္းေတြေပးပို႔ဖုိ႔ ယာဥ္ေတြရၿပီး ပစၥည္း ေတြေပးပို႔ႏုိင္ေတာ့မွာ ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္လည္း လာမယ့္သီတင္းပတ္ေတြအတြင္းမွာပဲ ေပးပို႔စရာပစၥည္းေတြ ထပ္ၿပီးလုိလာေတာ့
မယ္လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္႐ုံး
က ဒီေန႔ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။
အျပည့္အစုံကုိ ေဒၚခင္မ်ဳိးသက္က တင္ျပ ေပးထားပါတယ္။

ေလေဘးဒဏ္ခံရသူေတြ တကယ္တမ္းလုိအပ္ေနတဲ့ အမုိးအကာေတြ၊ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ
ေတြနဲ႔ တျခားကယ္ဆယ္ေရးပစၥည္းေတြဟာ လာမယ့္သီတင္းပတ္ေတြအတြင္းမွာပဲ
ထပ္ၿပီး ဒီ့ထက္ပုိလုိလာေတာ့မယ္လို႔ အုိခ်ာလုိ႔ေခၚတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈ
ဆုိင္ရာ ညိႇႏႈိင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး႐ုံးရဲ႕ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ေတြကို အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ကုလသမဂၢ
႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္က သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ပါတယ္။

ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္႐ုံး လက္ေထာက္ေျပာခြင့္ရ မစၥ မာရီ အုိကာဘဲ
(Marie Okabe) က …

“ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့မႈေတြ အဆက္မျပတ္ လုပ္လာႏုိင္ေပမယ့္ ကုလသမဂၢက ေပးအပ္တဲ့ စားနပ္ရိကၡာအတြက္ ရန္ပုံေငြဟာ ၂၁% သာရွိတာမုိ႔ တကယ္လို႔ ဇူလုိင္လလယ္
ေလာက္မွ ေနာက္ထပ္ရန္ပုံေငြ ထပ္မရရင္ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ အလ်င္မျပတ္ ဆက္ၿပီး
ေပးႏုိင္ဖို႔ အခက္အခဲေတြ ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ္” လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ညႇိႏႈိင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး႐ုံး
(UNOCHA) ရဲ႕ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ေတြကုိ မစၥ အုိကာဘဲက တင္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ႏုိင္ငံတကာက အလႉရွင္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ အေရးေပၚအကူအညီ ေတာင္းခံဖုိ႔အတြက္ တုိးၿပီး
လႉၾကဖို႔လည္း မစၥ အုိကာဘဲက တုိက္တြန္းလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အကူအညီေတြ အလ်င္မျပတ္
ေပးေ၀ႏုိင္ဖို႔အတြက္ အထူးလုိအပ္ေနတဲ့ စားနပ္ရိကၡာနဲ႔ ေထာက္ပံ့ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရးေတြ မျပတ္လပ္ဖို႔အတြက္ ေငြေၾကးေတြ လုိအပ္ေနသလုိပဲ ကၽြမ္းက်င္ပညာရွင္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့
ဇလဘူမိေဗဒ ပညာရွင္ေတြ၊ ေရဆုိးႏုတ္ပယ္ေရးဆုိင္ရာ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာေတြ အေျမာက္
အျမားလည္း ဒီေဒသအတြက္ ေရရွည္မွာ စနစ္တက်နဲ႔ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ေရး
အတြက္ အေရးတႀကီး လိုအပ္ေနပါတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ အျပင္းအထန္ခံရတဲ့ ေဒသေတြအတြက္ ကုလသမဂၢ စားနပ္ရိကၡာအဖြဲ႕
(WFP) က ေလယာဥ္ေတြ အကူအညီေပးႏုိင္တဲ့ ေနာက္ဆုံးအေျခအေနနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး
ေတာ့လည္း …

“မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ အျပင္းအထန္ခံရတဲ့ေနရာေတြကုိ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးပစၥည္းေတြ ေပးႏုိင္ဖို႔ ကမၻာ့စားနပ္ရိကၡာအဖြဲ႕ (WFP) မွာ အခု ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ ၆ စီး ရထားပါၿပီ။ ေနာက္ထပ္
ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ ၄ စီးဟာလည္း အခု ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံထဲမွာ ရွိေနပါၿပီ။ ဒီသီတင္းပတ္အကုန္ေလာက္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ သြားႏုိင္မယ္လုိ႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားတာမို႔
အခုဆုိရင္ WFP က ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ ၁၀ စီးနဲ႔ အကူအညီေတြ ေပးႏုိင္ေတာ့မွာပါ” လုိ႔
မစၥ အုိကာဘဲက ေျပာၾကားပါတယ္။

အဂၤါေန႔အထိ WFP အဖြဲ႕ကေန စားနပ္ရိကၡာတန္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ေပးပုိ႔ႏုိင္ခဲ့တဲ့
အျပင္ အစားအေသာက္နဲ႔ ကူညီေရးပစၥည္းေတြဟာ ဒုကၡသည္ ၅၀၀,၀၀၀ ေလာက္
အတြက္ ေပးပို႔ႏုိင္ခဲ့တာပါလုိ႔လည္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ မုန္တုိင္းသင့္ ျမစ္၀ကၽြန္းေပၚေဒသကို ကုလသမဂၢ၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာနဲ႔ ေဒသခံ ကူညီေရးအဖြဲ႕ ၈၆ ဖြဲ႕က ကူညီသူ
ေတြ သြားေရာက္ႏုိင္ၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့အျပင္ ကုလသမဂၢ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ကူညီေရး၀န္ထမ္းေပါင္း
၁၈၀ အတြက္ ျပည္၀င္ခြင့္ဗီဇာ ထုတ္ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ဆုိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္
ဒီကူညီသူေတြကုိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံထဲမွာ ေနထုိင္ခြင့္ ၂ ရက္ေန ၃ ရက္အထိသာ ေပးခဲ့
တယ္လို႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက သန္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြထဲမွာ အခု တလေက်ာ္ၾကာလာတဲ့အထိ
အကူအညီေတြ မရေသးတဲ့သူ ဒုနဲ႔ေဒးရွိေနၿပီး သြားေရာက္ကူညီတဲ့ ျပည္ပကလူေတြ လက္လွမ္းမမီၾကတဲ့အျပင္ ျပည္တြင္းကလူေတြလည္း အဖမ္းခံရတဲ့လူေတြ၊ အတား
အဆီး အေႏွာင့္အယွက္မ်ဳိးစုံ ႀကဳံေတြ႕ေနရတဲ့အျဖစ္ကို ကုလသမဂၢက ဘယ္အတုိင္း
အတာအထိ သိပါသလဲလုိ႔ ေမးခြန္းေမးတဲ့အခါမွာေတာ့ …

“ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းက လူေတြအေနနဲ႔ အခ်ိန္နဲ႔အမွ် ဒုကၡ
သည္ေတြကို ကူညီႏုိင္ဖို႔ပဲ ႀကိဳးစားေနရတာမုိ႔ ဒုကၡသည္ ဘယ္အတုိင္းအတာကရၿပီး
ဘယ္လိုပုံ အဆင္ေျပမႈေတြရွိလာၿပီဆုိတဲ့ပုံေတာ့ မေပၚေသးပါဘူး။ အခုအထိ အကူ
အညီေတြ ေပးေနရဆဲ ႐ႈပ္႐ႈပ္ေထြးေထြး အေျခအေနမွာပဲ ရွိေသးတယ္” လုိ႔ မစၥ
အုိကာဘဲက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမယ့္ ေသျခာတာတခုကေတာ့ ကယ္ဆယ္ကူညီေရးေတြ အခုထက္ထိ လုံလုံ
ေလာက္ေလာက္ မေပးႏုိင္ေသးပါဘူးလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ
ဘက္ကေတာ့ ကယ္ဆယ္ကူညီေရးအတြက္ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၁ ဘီလီယံ လုိအပ္
မယ္လုိ႔ တြက္ခ်က္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ ညိႇႏႈိင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး႐ုံး အႀကီးအကဲ
ဂၽြန္ဟုမ္းစ္ (John Holmes) ကေတာ့ ေမလကုန္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ျမန္မာ့ မုန္တုိင္းဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ အကူအညီအလႉေငြ ေဒၚလာ ၁၃၃ သန္းနဲ႔ ေနာက္ထပ္
လႉမယ့္ေငြ သန္း ၁၀၀ ရွိပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္း
က မုန္တုိင္းဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ တကယ္တမ္းရရွိတဲ့ အကူအညီေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး
မစၥတာဟုမ္းစ္ ေနာက္တခါ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲလုပ္မွပဲ သိရမွာပါလုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္႐ုံးရဲ႕ ေျပာခြင့္ရက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းအေရး မၾကာခင္ တျပည္လံုးအေရး ျဖစ္ေတာ့မည္

ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း လယ္ယာေတြ မုန္တုိင္းထိထားသည့္အတြက္ ယခုႏွစ္ မုိးစပါးစုိက္ဖုိ႔ မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေတာ့ဟု ကုလသမဂၢမွ သတိေပးလုိက္သျဖင့္ မၾကာခင္ ျမန္မာတျပည္လံုး ဆန္ျပႆနာႀကံဳၿပီး သေရာႀကီး ခိုင္းေတာ့မည္ဟု မွန္းလို႔ရသည္။ လူမႈေရး အံုႂကြမႈေတြ ျပည္လံုးကၽြတ္ ျဖစ္ေတာ့မည္။ မုိးစပါးသည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ ရိကၡာျဖစ္၏။ မုိးစပါး မစုိက္ႏုိင္ျခင္းသည္ ႏုိင္ငံ၏ ထမင္းအုိးကဲြသည္ႏွင့္ တူ၏။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရ၏ ၂၀၀၃-၂၀၀၄ စာရင္းအရ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းမွာ မုိးစပါးစုိက္ဧက (၃.၅) သန္းရွိၿပီး ေႏြစပါးစုိက္ဧက (၁.၇) သန္းရွိ၏။ တျပည္လံုး စပါးစုိက္ဧက (၁၆) သန္းရွိသည့္အတြက္ ဧရာ၀တီ တုိင္း စပါးစုိက္ဧကသည္ တျပည္လံုး စပါးစုိက္ဧက စုစုေပါင္း၏ (၃၃) ရာႏႈန္းရွိ၏။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း စပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဆန္ျပႆနာ၏ ေသာ့ခ်က္ျဖစ္လာႏုိင္၏။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း စပါးအပ်က္အစီးကုိ တန္ခ်ိန္ (၇) သိန္းေက်ာ္ရွိၿပီး ဆန္အပ်က္အစီးမွာ ၂၀၀၇-၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္အထြက္ႏႈန္း၏ (၂.၃) ရာႏႈန္းသာရွိသည္ဟုသာ စစ္အစုိးရဘက္က ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ မုန္တုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ေႏြစပါးအပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ တုိင္း (၅) ခုတြင္ စုစုေပါင္း ထုတ္လုပ္မႈ၏ (၆၆) ရာႏႈန္းရွိၿပီး မုိးစပါး အပ်က္ႏႈန္းမွာ စုစုေပါင္း ထုတ္လုပ္မႈ၏ (၆၂) ရာႏႈန္းရွိႏုိင္သည္ဟု ျမန္မာ စီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ားက တြက္ခ်က္ခန္႔မွန္း၏။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း လယ္ယာေျမက႑ နာလန္ထူေရးအတြက္ ေဒၚလာ သန္း (၂၀၀) ေက်ာ္ လုိသည္ဟု စစ္အစုိးရက ေလာဘတႀကီးျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာကုိ တြက္ျပ၏။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ မွန္းခ်က္ႏွင့္ ႏွမ္းထြက္မကုိက္။ မည္သည့္ ႏုိင္ငံကမွ် စစ္အစုိးရ ေတာင္းသည့္ေငြကုိ အာမမခံ။ အတိတ္ကုိ ျပန္ၾကည့္လွ်င္ ဆန္ျပႆနာစျဖစ္တုိင္း ရန္ကုန္သည္ လူမႈေရးအံုႂကြမႈ၏ အခရာျဖစ္၏။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ စစ္အစုိးရသည္ ရန္ကုန္ကုိသာ ဦးစားေပးၿပီး တပဲြတုိးနည္းမ်ားျဖင့္ ေျဖရွင္းေလ့ရွိ၏။ တနည္းဆုိရလ်င္ ရန္ကုန္လူထုသည္ အံုႂကြမႈတုိင္းအတြက္ အခရာျဖစ္၏။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ဆန္လံုေလာက္ပါ့မလားဆုိသည္ကုိ တြက္ၾကည့္ရန္လုိ၏။ ဆန္စပါး လက္ကားေရာင္း၀ယ္ေရးအသင္း ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအာင္သန္းဦး၏ အေျပာအရ ရန္ကုန္ကုိ ေန႔စဥ္ ဆန္အိတ္ (၅,၀၀၀) ၀န္းက်င္ ဧရာ၀တီက ၀င္ေနမွ ရန္ကုန္ဆန္ေစ်း ၿငိမ္သည္ဆုိ၏။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၌ လူတဦး တလကုိ ဆန္ (၈) ျပည္ႏႈန္းစားသံုးသည္ဟု ကၽြမ္းက်င္သည့္ ပုဂၢလိက ဆန္ကုန္သည္ႀကီးေတြက ေျပာ၏။ ထုိအခ်က္ကုိ အေျခခံ၍ ရန္ကုန္လူဦးေရ (၆) သန္းႏွင့္ တြက္လွ်င္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ တေန႔ စားသံုးဖုိ႔အတြက္ပင္ ေန႔စဥ္ ဆန္အိတ္ (၆၀,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ လုိ၏။ လက္ရွိအေနအထားကုိၾကည့္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရဘက္က စပါးပ်က္ေဒသမ်ား ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ ေရးအတြက္ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ အကူအညီမေပးႏုိင္ခ်ိန္တြင္ ဆန္ေစ်းက တေန႔တျခား ခုန္တက္ ေန၏။ ထိုအခ်က္သည္ ရန္ကုန္ကုိ ေန႔စဥ္ ဆန္အိတ္ (၅,၀၀၀) ၀န္းက်င္ ဧရာ၀တီက မ၀င္ႏုိင္ ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ သေဘာျဖစ္၏။ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းမွာပင္ သုိေလွာင္ဆန္ စပါးမရွိေတာ့သည့္အတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ ဆန္ကုန္သည္ေတြ ဆန္ေလွာင္၍ ေစ်းတက္သည္ဟု စစ္အစုိးရဘက္က ခါတုိင္းလုိ စြပ္စဲြ လာလွ်င္ ယုတၱိရွိမည္မဟုတ္။ မုန္တိုင္းမျဖစ္ခင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အေျခအေနကုိ ၾကည့္လွ်င္ ၾသဂုတ္ စက္တင္ဘာသည္ ေစ်းကြက္မွာ ေႏြစပါးျပတ္ၿပီး မုိးစပါးေပၚဖုိ႔ သံုးေလးလ လုိေသးသည့္ကာလျဖစ္၏။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ၾသဂုတ္၊ စက္တင္ဘာသည္ ပံုမွန္အားျဖင့္ပင္ တျပည္လံုးမွာ ႏွစ္စဥ္လုိ ဆန္ျပႆနာ အနည္းႏွင့္အမ်ား ျဖစ္ေလ့ရွိသည့္ လေတြျဖစ္၏။ ဆန္ေစ်း အဆမတန္ ေျမာက္ေလ့ရွိသည့္ လေတြျဖစ္၏။ ထုိကာလ မ်ားတြင္ စစ္အစုိးရ ဆန္ျပႆနာ အက်ပ္အတည္းႏွင့္ ႀကံဳခဲ့သည့္ သာဓကေတြ ရွိ၏။ လက္ရွိ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း စပါးႏွင့္ ဆန္အပ်က္အစီး၊ တုိင္းႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္ (၅) ခုမွ စပါးႏွင့္ ဆန္အပ်က္ အစီးႏႈန္းေတြအရ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတ၀ွမ္း ဆန္ျပႆနာသည္ ၂၀၀၈ ခု ၾသဂုတ္ စက္တင္ဘာမွာ မုခ်ႀကံဳႏုိင္သည္ဟု ရန္ကုန္ ဆန္ကုန္သည္ႀကီးေတြက မွန္း၏။ ထုိအခ်က္ကုိ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရး ပညာရွင္အခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း လက္ခံ၏။ မုိးစပါးေပၚမည့္ ဒီဇင္ဘာမွာလည္း စုိက္ဧက ဟုတ္တိ ပတ္တိ မရွိသည့္အတြက္ ရိတ္သိမ္းစရာပင္ စပါးရွိမည္မဟုတ္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္လည္း ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းမွာ မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္ကုန္သည့္ လယ္ေတြ ယခုႏွစ္ မုိးစပါး စုိက္ပ်ဳိးရန္ မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေတာ့သည့္အတြက္ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းမွာ ေနာက္တႏွစ္ထိ စားနပ္ရိကၡာ အကူအညီ လုိမည္ဟု ကုလသမဂၢအဖဲြ႕က သတိေပးျခင္းျဖစ္၏။ ျမန္္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ျဖစ္လာမည့္ ဆန္ျပႆနာသည္ ၂၀၀၈ ကုန္အထိသာမက ေနာင္ႏွစ္ ေႏြစပါး ေပၚသည္ထိ ျပႆနာႀကီးမားႏုိင္၏။ တတုိင္းျပည္လံုး ႐ုန္းရင္းဆန္ခတ္မႈေတြႏွင့္ႀကံဳရႏုိင္၏။ စားစရာမရွိလ်င္ ျမန္မာလူထုသည္ ဘာကုိမွ် မေၾကာက္။ နီးရာ ဓားဆဲြၿပီး ေတာ္လွန္ေတာ့မည္။ ထုိအေျခအေနမ်ဳိး ေရာက္လွ်င္ စစ္အစုိးရ မည္သုိ႔ႏွိမ္နင္းမည္နည္း။ တျပည္လံုးကုိ စစ္တပ္က ပစ္သတ္ႏုိင္မလားဆုိသည္မွာ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ဖုိ႔လုိ၏။ တုိင္းျပည္တြင္ အမွန္တကယ္ ဆန္သုိေလွာင္ထားႏုိင္သူမွာ ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္အျပင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ စက္မႈ (၁) ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္းသား၊ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေရႊမန္းသား စသည့္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္သားေတြ ပုိင္သည့္ ကုမၸဏီေတြျဖစ္၏။ အဆုိပါ သုိေလွာင္ဆန္ေတြကုိ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအတြက္ စစ္အစုိးရက ယခုထိ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ျခင္းမရွိ။ မသိသလုိလုပ္ေန၏။ တျပည္လံုး ဆန္ျပႆနာျဖစ္လာခ်ိန္တြင္ ထုိသုိေလွာင္ဆန္ကုိ ျပည္သူလက္ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ ေပး မေပး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖုိ႔ လုိ၏။ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ေပးလွ်င္ စစ္တပ္မွာ ရိကၡာျပတ္ၿပီး ေသနတ္ေျပာင္းက စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေတြဘက္ လွည့္ေတာ့မည္။ မျဖန္႔ေ၀ဘဲထားလွ်င္လည္း လူထုတရပ္လံုး ဆူပူအံုႂကြမည္။ ႏုိင္ငံျခားက ဆန္သြင္း ရေအာင္လည္း ကမာၻ႕ဆန္ေစ်းက ေခါင္ခုိက္ေန၏။ စစ္အစုိးရသာမက ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အဖဲြ႕ေတြပါ တတ္ႏုိင္မည္မဟုတ္။ က်ားႏွင့္ဆင္ လယ္ျပင္မွာ ေတြ႕ေတာ့မည္။

Foreign Media ‘More Destructive than Nargis’: Junta

By SAW YAN NAING

Writing for the Burmese regime’s two most popular daily newspapers The New Light of Myanmar and Myanma Alin on Sunday, pro-junta writer Ngar Min Swe claimed foreign news organizations and radio stations—including Burmese media abroad—are “more destructive than Nargis.”

The article continued: “Some foreign broadcasting stations are making attempts to undermine national unity under the pretext of Nargis. Such groundless news stories are designed to undermine the trust of donor countries and organizations in Burma and the Burmese people.”

The writer said that reports by foreign news agencies regarding corruption over international aid were wrong and that the foreign media intended to break the trust and create misunderstanding between international donors and the government.

“They have come to destroy the generosity of the donors and the organizations,” he said.

The article also accused a particular citizen of Burma of giving interviews to foreign radio stations saying that the interviewee was a “contributor” for the radio stations and had told lies about the military government.

The article went on to criticize one of the anonymous interviewee’s comments—that cyclone victims would have to eat dead bodies if they didn’t receive chocolate and biscuits from international donors.

However, the reporter applauded another writer, Hlaing Aung, who had suggested in an earlier article in state-run media that cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy delta and Rangoon Division could survive without international aid, such as chocolate bars, by consuming natural resources like vegetables, fish and frogs.

Ngar Min Swe said, “I’m a fish and prawn breeder, so I have some knowledge of fish and prawns. In Burma, the month of May is a period when female fish find suitable places for laying their eggs. This year, no one was in a position to catch pregnant fish. Even a spawning fish, prawn or crab can give birth to millions of [offspring]. Food is more plentiful for them in their pastures this year than previous years.”

The author is believed to be referring to human corpses and animal carcasses as “food” for the fish.

Ngar Min Swe also said Burmese people had achieved their constitutional referendum despite being attacked by foreign radio stations.

However, a local resident in Rangoon who was working with monks to help cyclone survivors dismissed the article. “We are the ones who are helping people and collecting information from them,” he said. “Therefore, we are more credible. As for the government—they usually write those kinds of reports.”

ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား အျမတ္ထုတ္ NEJ/ ၉ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ နာဂစ္ေလေဘးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ေပးသည့္ အကူအညီပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ၎တို႔ ေပးသကဲ့သုိ႔ ျပည္သူမ်ား ထင္ေယာင္ထင္မွားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ကုမၸဏီအခ်ိဳ႕က အျမတ္ထုတ္ေနေၾကာင္း ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းဘက္သုိ႔ သြားေရာက္အကူအညီေပးေနသည့္ ပုဂၢလိက အလႉရွင္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။ ပုဂၢလိက အကူအညီေပးသူတဦးက “က်ေနာ္တို႔အဖဲြ႕ေတြ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕ကေန စက္ေလွေတြနဲ႔ တဆင့္ ထပ္သြားရတဲ့ ကဒံုကနိ၊ ကြင္းပုန္းေက်းရြာ စတဲ့ ရြာေတြကို ေရာက္တယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အဂၤလန္ႏိုင္ငံ Rotary Club က လႉထားတဲ့ Shelter Box နဲ႔ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲေတြ ေတြ႕ရတယ္။ အဲဒီ ရြက္ဖ်င္တဲ အားလံုးအေပၚမွာ H ဆိုတဲ့ ထူးထေရးဒင္း ကုမၸဏီအမွတ္တံဆိပ္ေတြ ကပ္ထားတယ္။ မသိရင္ ဒါေတြဟာ ထူးကုမၸဏီက လႉတာေတြလို႔ ျပည္သူေတြ ထင္သြားမယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။ အလားတူ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့သူတဦးက German Federal Agency မွ လႉဒါန္း ထားသည့္ Mobile Purify ေရသန္႔စက္ကို ျမင္ေတြ႕ခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း၊ အဆုိပါ ေရသန္႔စက္မ်ား၊ ေရစစ္ ကန္မ်ား အေပၚ၌လည္း H လိုဂိုႏွင့္ ထူးထေရးဒင္းကုမၸဏီ အမွတ္အသားကို ျမင္ေတြ႕ရေၾကာင္း၊ ေရသန္႔စက္ ကိုင္တြယ္သူသည္လည္း ထူးထေရးဒင္းက ၀န္ထမ္းျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အဆုိပါေရသန္႔စက္ လႉဒါန္းသူသည္ ထူးထေရးဒင္းကဟု ထင္ျမင္ယူဆ သြားႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ေပးအပ္သည့္ အကူအညီမ်ားတြင္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသသုိ႔ သြားေရာက္ကူညီမည့္ ကၽြမ္းက်င္၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ပါ၀င္ေသာ္လည္း စစ္အစိုးရက ပစၥည္းကိုသာ လက္ခံၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား ကၽြမ္းက်င္သူမ်ားကို ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသသုိ႔ သြားခြင့္မျပဳသည့္အတြက္ ရန္ကုန္၌ပင္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရသည္။ ထုိသုိ႔လႊဲေျပာင္း ေပးသည္ကုိ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သည့္ ေလေဘးသင့္ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ျပန္လည္တည္ေဆာက္ေရး ကန္ထ႐ိုက္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ခြင့္ရထားေသာ ဧရာေရႊ၀ါ၊ ထူးထေရးဒင္း၊ ေရႊသံလြင္၊ တက္လမ္း၊ အာ႐ံုဦး စသည့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားက လဲႊေျပာင္းရယူခဲ့ၾကသည့္အတြက္ ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ၎တို႔ လႉဒါန္းသကဲ့သုိ႔ အျမတ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ပုဂၢလိက ေလေဘး ကယ္ဆယ္ကူညီေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ၏ ေမ (၁၈) ရက္ထုတ္ ေၾကးမံုသတင္းစာ စာမ်က္ႏွာ (၂) တြင္ အဂၤလန္ႏိုင္ငံ Rotary Club က လႉဒါန္းထားသည့္ Shelter Box မ်ား ရန္ကုန္ေလဆိပ္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာသည္ကို “ဧရာေရႊ၀ါ၊ ထူး၊ ေရႊသံလြင္ႏွင့္ အက္စ္ပီေအ ကုမၸဏီတို႔၏ ၿဗိတိန္ႏိုင္ငံမွ ၀ယ္ယူထားေသာ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား ေရာက္ရွိ” ဆိုသည့္ ေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္ၿပီး Shelter Box အလံုး (၁,၀၅၀)၊ စုစုေပါင္း (၅၅) တန္ ေရာက္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ ေလေဘးကူညီ ေဆာင္ရြက္သူက ေျပာသည္။ ယင္းမတိုင္ခင္ကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ အလႉပစၥည္းမ်ားကုိ နအဖ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား နာမည္စာတန္း ေရးထိုးခဲ့သျဖင့္ မီဒီယာမ်ားက ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေရးသားခဲ့သည္။

Cyclone Victims Migrating to Thailand

“I came to Thailand because the situation back in the Irrawaddy delta was becoming critical,” said cyclone survivor Ma Win. “We had received no aid. My child was seriously sick and suffering from diarrhea. I was ill too; we only had boiled rice to eat for three days.”
As soon as he heard about the disaster, Ma Win’s husband left Thailand where he was working and headed home to Laputta to look for his wife and six-month-old son. They had survived the cyclone, but their house was destroyed. He immediately decided to take them back with him to Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese border.
They traveled for nearly two days by bus, truck and foot and had to pay soldiers 500 kyat (US $0.43) at each army checkpoint along the road to Mae Sot. They arrived on May 7. Ma Win and her baby are now receiving care and are regaining their strength.
Ma Win is among some 100 Burmese cyclone victims who have arrived recently in Mae Sot, which borders the Burmese town of Myawaddy.
Mahn Mahn, a team leader for the Backpack Health Worker Team, a medical relief group that has been assisting the new arrivals, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday: “The cyclone victims are arriving separately—nearly 100 people so far. Some are from the Irrawaddy delta and some are from Rangoon. If they didn’t lose their parents, they lost their sons or daughters.”
Among the cyclone victims who have arrived recently are orphans. Some are currently sheltering at the Mae La refugee camp, at Dr Cynthia’s Mae Tao clinic or in the Backpack office. Others are staying with relatives and friends in Mae Sot town, said sources. “Some came here in the hope they would receive aid, said Mahn Mahn. “Most people have no plan. Some will stay here wherever they can. Others say they will look for jobs here in Mae Sot.”
The newcomers mostly came from disaster hard-hit regions such as Kungyangone and Hlaing Tharyar in Rangoon division and Laputta, Myaung Mya and Ngapudaw in the Irrawaddy delta, according to sources in Mae Sot.
Tin Shwe, who works at the Mae Tao clinic in Mae Sot, said that 49 new arrivals are now staying in the clinic and more refugees are expected.
Burmese social workers, such as Mar Mar Aye, are counseling the newcomers and providing some financial support.
Meanwhile, Thailand-based labor rights groups, Action Network for Migrants (Thailand) and the Mekong Migration Network, released a joint letter of appeal to the Thai government on June 4 saying requesting help for the cyclone victims while stressing: “The people of Burma will only migrate to Thailand if there is no other means of survival.”
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Friday, Adisorn Kerdmongkol, from the Action Network for Migrants, said, “If the survivors and the farmers cannot cultivate their land, I think most of them will migrate to Thailand.”
The labor rights groups sent the joint letter of appeal to the Thai ministries of the interior, labor and social development and human security, calling for Thai authorities to allow Burmese migrants to return home to visit families who were affected by the cyclone, but then be allowed to return to Thailand.
The groups also urged the Thai government to ensure that the Burmese military authorities provide full protection to the cyclone victims in terms of shelter, food, medical care, reconstruction and restoration of livelihoods.

ကုလၿဂိဳဟ္တုဓာတ္ပံုအရ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္း (၁၈) ရြာ (၉၄) ရာႏႈန္းပ်က္

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အမည္မသိရြာတို႔ျဖစ္သည္။ ။

ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား အျပည့္အ၀ မေရာက္ NEJ/ ၆ ဇြန္ ၂၀၀၈

ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား ပုသိမ္ဆိပ္ကမ္းတြင္ ေသာင္တင္ေနစဥ္ ေလေဘးေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္သူ အေရအတြက္ မ်ားျခင္း၊ ဧရိယာ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျခင္း၊ အစိုးရ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမွ ပို႔သည့္ပစၥည္းမ်ား မျဖန္႔ေ၀ႏိုင္ေသးျခင္း စသည့္အေျခအေန မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား အမွန္တကယ္ လိုအပ္သူမ်ားလက္သို႔ ေရာက္သင့္ သေလာက္ မေရာက္ေၾကာင္း ပုဂၢလိကကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္း လုပ္ကိုင္ေနသူ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။ ၎က “ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီေရး ပစၥည္းေတြဟာ လမ္းေၾကာင္း (၃) ခုနဲ႔ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြဆီ သြားေန တယ္။ တခုက ကုလသမဂၢ အိုင္အန္ဂ်ီအိုေတြက ျဖန္႔ေ၀တဲ့လမ္းေၾကာင္း၊ ေနာက္တခုက အစိုးရက တာ၀န္ယူ ျဖန္႔ေ၀တဲ့လမ္းေၾကာင္း၊ ေနာက္တခုကေတာ့ ပုဂၢလိကေတြ ကိုယ့္အစီအစဥ္နဲ႔ ကိုယ့္ဖာ သာကိုယ္ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ေနၾကတာ။ ဒီအထဲမွာ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ အိုင္အန္ဂ်ီအိုေတြက ျဖန္႔ေ၀ေနတာေတြဟာ ေရာက္ေတာ့ ေရာက္တယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေႏွးတယ္၊ ေနာက္ မႏွံ႔စပ္ဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ေထာက္ပံ့ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားလက္သုိ႔ အေရာက္ေႏွးရျခင္းသည္ အာဏာပုိင္ မ်ားထံ လုပ္ထံုးလုပ္နည္းအရ အဆင့္ဆင့္ တင္ျပအစီရင္ခံမွတ္တမ္းယူရျခင္း၊ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ရမွ လုပ္ကုိင္ရျခင္းတုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ေအာက္ေျခမွ ျမန္မာ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ကလည္း သက္ဆိုင္ရာ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား၏ ၿငိဳျငင္မႈကိုခံၿပီး ဘာမွ မလုပ္ရဲသည့္အတြက္ ေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စုံစမ္းသိရွိ ရသည္။ အဆုိပါကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ကိုင္ေနသူက “အစိုးရလမ္းေၾကာင္းက သြားတာေတြ ကေတာ့ ဘယ္သူေတြကို ဘယ္လို ျဖန္႔ေ၀ေနသလဲ မသိႏိုင္ဘူး။ က်ေနာ္ ေရာက္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၿမိဳ႕ေတြမွာ ေတာ့ အစိုးရ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားတဲ့ ဂိုေဒါင္ေတြထဲမွာပဲ ေတြ႕ရတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို ေမးေတာ့လည္း အစိုးရဆီက ဘာမွမရဘူးဘဲေျပာေနတယ္။ တကယ္ ေရာက္ေနတာကေတာ့ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေတြ၊ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြက ကိုယ့္အစီအစဥ္နဲ႔ကိုယ္ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္ေတြဆီ အေရာက္ပို႔တာေတြပဲ ျဖစ္ တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တခုလံုး အတိုင္းအတာနဲ႔က်ေတာ့ ဒီေလာက္ အင္နဲ႔အားနဲ႔ မတတ္ႏိုင္ဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ဘိုကေလးၿမိဳ႕သုိ႔ သြားေရာက္ကူညီေရးလုပ္ခဲ့သူတဦးကလည္း ၎တို႔ ေရာက္ရွိ သြားသည့္ ဘုရားႀကီး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးစခန္းႏွင့္ ကပ္လ်က္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းမွ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ ထားသည့္ ဂိုေဒါင္၌ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ကူညီကယ္ဆယ္ေရးပစၥည္း မ်ားကုိ ေတြ႕ရေသာ္လည္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားမွာ မရရွိဘဲ ပုဂၢလိက အလႉရွင္မ်ား လာေရာက္လႉဒါန္းသည့္ပစၥည္းမ်ားသာ ရရွိေၾကာင္း ေျပာသည္။ ျမန္မာအစိုးရ သတင္းစာ၊ ေရဒီယိုႏွင့္ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားတုိ႔တြင္ ရန္ကုန္ေလဆိပ္သို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အကူအညီမ်ား မည္မွ်ေရာက္ေနၿပီး အျမန္ဆံုး ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားထံ ပို႔ေပးေနသည္ဟု ေၾကညာေန ေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ႕တြင္ လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားစြာ ရွိေနေသးေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ အဖဲြ႕အစည္းက ထုတ္ျပန္ထားသည္။ ။