9.10.2009

ျမန္မာ့သတင္း ကမာၻ႕သတင္း

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ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ရဲ႕ မူ၀ါဒ ျပန္လည္ သံုးသပ္ေနတာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး နယူးေယာက္ အေျခစိုက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာေရး အဖြဲ႔ (HRW) က အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္ဆီကို စက္တင္ဘာ ၉ ရက္ေန႔ ေန႔စြဲနဲ႔ စာတစ္ေစာင္ ေရးသားေပးပို႔ခဲ့ပါတယ္။



ေျမျမႇဳပ္မုိင္းေၾကာင့္ ေနရပ္ျပန္ရန္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ေနၾက

၀ီရ / ၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၉

“ဒီေကဘီေအတုိ႔ဘက္က မုိင္းေထာင္ေနတာက ေျမပုံနဲ႔ အတိအက် သတ္မွတ္ထားတာ မရွိဘူး။ Landmines (ေျမျမႇဳပ္မုိင္း) ေတြ ထပ္ေထာင္ေနတဲ့ကိစၥက ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေနရပ္ျပန္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ အႏၲရာယ္ မ်ားလြန္းေနတယ္။ ေကအန္အယ္လ္ေအဘက္ကေရာ ႏွစ္ဘက္စလုံးက မထင္မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ေနရာေတြမွာ.....”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

စစ္အစုိးရအတြက္ ဝင္ေငြရွာေဖြေပးေနသည့္
ဘဏ္ (၂) ခုအား ဖိအားေပးရန္ ERI က တုိက္တြန္း

၀ီရ / ၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၉ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႔ေရာင္းရေငြ ေနာက္ကြယ္မွ အခြန္ေတာ္ေငြကုိ အလြဲသုံးစားလုပ္ၿပီး ေလ်ာ္ကန္သင့္ျမတ္ျခင္းမရွိသည့္ ဝင္ေငြအျဖစ္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရအား .....အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ား ေတြ႔ခြင့္ရ

မင္းႏိုင္သူ / ၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ၂၀၀၉ “အဓိကကေတာ့ (၁၈) ရက္ေန႔မွာ ေပးရေတာ့မယ့္ အၿပီးသတ္ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္အတြက္ အယူခံအေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ (၁၁) ခ်က္အတြက္ လုိအပ္တဲ့ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈ ...”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမလိုအပ္ဟု
ဦး၀င္းတင္ေျပာ

NEJ / ၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၉ “က်မတို႔က ဘယ္သူ႔ကိုမွ အေၾကာက္တရားနဲ႔ စိုးရိမ္ေၾကာင့္ၾကစိတ္ထားၿပီး ဆက္ဆံမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး၊ တ႐ုတ္၊ အေမရိကန္၊ အိႏိၵယ ဘယ္သူ႔ကိုမဆို.....”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ကိုးကန္႔ (သို႔မဟုတ္) အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္တုိက္ခုိက္ေရးျပယုဂ္

ေက်ာ္ဗလ / ၁၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၉
ဗမာျပည္မွာ အမ်ဳိးသားျပႆနာကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ မႀကိဳးပမ္းဘဲ အခုလို အင္အားသံုး ေျဖရွင္းေနသမွ် ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ အဓြန္႔ရွည္တည္တံ့မယ့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ရမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္သံသရာသာ ဆက္လည္ေနပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အဓိကအေၾကာင္းရင္းကေတာ့ နအဖအဖြဲ႔မွာ ဗမာအမ်ဳိးသားအခ်င္းခ်င္း.....အျပည့္အစံုသုိ႔

ဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ေရာင္းရေငြ ေဒၚလာသန္း ငါးေထာင္နီးပါး ျမန္မာဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မ်ား ခုိးဖြက္ထား

စစ္အစိုးရသည္ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ေရာင္းရေငြမွ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္းေပါင္း ၄၈၀၁ သန္းကို စာရင္းေဖ်ာက္ၿပီး စကၤာပူရွိ ဘဏ္ႏွစ္ခုတြင္ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ သိမ္းဆည္းထားသည္ဟု သဘာဝပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္း......
၂ဝ၁ဝ စိန္ေခၚမွဳမ်ားနဲ႔ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္
ေမာင္ေရႊ
ေမ ၁ဝ၊ ၂ဝဝ၉

“- - သူနဲ႔ ေဒၚစုတုိ႔ သက္ရိွ ထင္ရွား ရိွေနတုန္း ယခုအခ်ိန္မွာ သူတုိ႔ႏွစ္ဦး ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္လိုက္ၾကရင္ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ဘယ္ေခတ္ ဘယ္အခါနဲ႔မွ မတူတဲ့ ညီညြတ္မွဳတစ္ခုကို အရယူႏိုင္တယ္ - - ”

၂ဝဝ၉ခုႏွစ္ရဲ႕ ရက္ေတြလေတြ တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ တိုက္စားလုိ႔ ခရစ္ႏွစ္ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ဆိုတာကို ခ်ဥ္းကပ္လုိ႔ေနပါၿပီ၊ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး ၂ဝ၁ဝ ပန္းခ်ီကားလည္း တျဖည္းျဖည္း ပီပီျပင္ျပင္ ျဖစ္လုိ႔ လာေနပါၿပီ၊ အခ်ဳိ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အကဲခပ္သမားမ်ားကေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံအေရး ေဆြးေႏြးစရာ အခင္းအက်င္း အသစ္ေတြ ေပၚထြက္လာေတာ့မယ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီမ်ား အတြက္ ေျပာေရး ဆိုခြင့္ေတြ ပိုမို ရရိွလာေတာ့မယ္ စသည္ျဖင့္ အေကာင္းျမင္ အေတြးမ်ားလည္း ရိွေနသလို အခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း ေပၚထြက္လာမယ့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး စနစ္သစ္ဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္အတြက္ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးကို တရားဝင္ အသက္သြင္းတဲ့ စနစ္ပါ လုိ႔ ဆိုၾက ျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရး အခင္းအက်င္းအသစ္က ယူေဆာင္လာႏိုင္တဲ့ စိန္ေခၚမွဳ အသစ္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ Scenario ေလးတစ္ခု ဖန္တီးၿပီး ေတြးၾကည့္ၾကရေအာင္။

Xxx - - - - xxX

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရေသာ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသားအတြက္ သံ႐ံုးက စံုစမ္း

မဂၤလာဒံုေလဆိပ္တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္း ခံလိုက္ရေသာ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသားျဖစ္သူ ကိုေက်ာ္ေဇာလြင္အတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ရွိ အေမရိကန္သံ႐ံုးက ျမန္မာအစိုးရႏွင့္ ေျပာဆိုေဆြးေႏြးလ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း......

စစ္ပြဲသစ္မ်ား မၾကာမီ ျဖစ္ပြားလာႏိုင္ဟု အကဲခတ္မ်ား ေျပာဆို

MNDAA ကိုးကန္႔တပ္ကို တိုက္ခိုက္ၿပီးေနာက္ ေဒသတြင္းသို႔ စစ္အစိုးရ တပ္ဖဲြ႔မ်ား ပိုမို ျဖည့္တင္းထားသျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္တြင္ ေနာက္ထပ္စစ္ပြဲမ်ား...

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ေလာက္ကုိင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ စစ္အစုိးရ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲလုပ္

ေလာက္ကုိင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ စစ္အစုိးရ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲလုပ္

စစ္အစုိးရ ျပည္ထဲေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ဒုတိယ၀န္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္မႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘုန္းေဆြ ႏွင့္ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္တုိင္း စစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ တုိင္းမႉး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ ေအာင္သန္းထြဋ္ တုိ႔က ႏုိင္ငံျခားသံရုံးမ်ားမွ သံအမတ္မ်ား

ကုလသမဂၢ ညီလာခံသုိ႔ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သိန္းစိန္ တက္ေရာက္မည္

အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ လာမည့္္ စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔ က်င္းပမည္ျဖစ္ေသာ ၆၄ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံသုိ႔ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး

ဓာတ္ေငြ႔ေရာင္းရေငြမ်ားကုိ စစ္အစိုးရက စကၤာပူတြင္ သိမ္းထားဟုဆို

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက သဘာ၀ဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ေရာင္းခ်မႈမွ ရရွိသည့္ ၀င္ေငြမ်ားကုိ စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံရိွ ဘဏ္ႀကီး ႏွစ္ခုတြင္ လွ်ိဳ႕၀ွက္ သိမ္းဆည္းထားသည္ဟု စုံစမ္းသိရိွရေၾကာင္း လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးႏွင့္

၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမ်ားတြင္ အင္တာနက္သုံးစဲြမႈ ကန္႔သတ္

ျပည္ပသတင္း ဌာနမ်ားသုိ႔ အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား စီးဆင္းေနမႈအား တားဆီး ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ရန္ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမ်ားတြင္ အင္တာနက္ အသုံးျပဳျခင္းကို စတင္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလ့ုးဆိုင္ရာ သံဃာ့တပ္ေပါင္းစု အဖြဲ႕ႀကီး၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္

ေၾကညာခ်က္ႏွင့္ သစၥာဓိ႒ာန္ ( ၁၀-၉-၀၉ )




9.09.2009

သံဃာ့အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္




သံဃာအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံ၏ ဦးေဆာင္မွဳျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း တြင္ တည္ရွိေသာ နိဳင္ငံေရးအင္အားစု(၁၄) ဖြဲ႕မွ လက္ရွိတည္ဆဲ စစ္အစိုးရအား ထိပ္တိုက္ ရင္ဆိုင္ၿပီး ျမန္မာတစ္ျပည္လံုး အတိုင္းအတာျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳႀကီး ျဖစ္ေပၚ လာေစေရး အတြက္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း ထားေသာ အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳႀကီး အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ ေရးေကာ္မတီ မွ တပ္မေတာ္ထဲက အရာရွိ ၊ အရာခံ ၊ အၾကပ္ ၊ တပ္သားအားလံုးႏွင္႔ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ယႏၱရားအတြင္း ပါဝင္အမႈထမ္းေနၾကသည္႔ အမ်ဳိးေကာင္းသား ၊ အမ်ဳိး ေကာင္းသားသမီး အားလံုးထံသို႔ အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးလွဳပ္ရွားမွဳႀကီးတြင္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသား / ေက်ာင္းသူမ်ား ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ/ျပည္သားမ်ား ဘက္မွ ရပ္တည္ေပးရန္ အိတ္ဖြင္႔ ေပးစာအား ျပည္တြင္းမွ တည္ရွိေသာ သံဃာအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဴပ္ - ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံ ႏွင့္ နိဳင္ငံေရး အင္အားစု (၁၄) ဖြဲ႕မွ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဥတၱမေန႔ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔အား ဂုဏ္ျပဳေသာ အေနျဖင့္ တိုင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ (၁၃) ခု ႏွင့္ လက္ေအာက္ ခံ တပ္ရင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႕(၆၅) ခု၊ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန(၃၁) ခု ႏွင့္ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ရံုးဌာန (၉၃) ခု ၊ျပည္နယ္ ၊ တိုင္း ၊ ခရိုင္ ျပည္ခိုင္းၿဖိဳးရံုး (၄၀၅) ရံုး ထံသို႔ စာတိုက္မွ တဆင့္ ယေန႔ ( ၉ . ၉ . ၀၉ ) ရက္စြဲျဖင့္ ေပးပို႔ၿပီး မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ ရန္ကင္းေတာင္ေတာ္တြင္ သံဃာအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ - ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သံဃာ ( ၁၅ ) ပါးႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစု (၁၄) ဖြဲ႕မွ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္ (၃၀) ဦးမွ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဥတၱမ အတြက္ ေမတၱာပို႔အမွ်ေ၀ျခင္း၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အတြက္ ေမာရသုတ္ေတာ္ ရြတ္ဖတ္ ျခင္းမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ၾကသည္ ။ ထို႔အျပင္ သံဃာအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ - ျမန္မာနိဳင္ငံမွ ဆြမ္းခံ သံဃာ (၉) ပါးမွ မႏၱေလးေတာင္ေတာ္ ေပၚတြင္ မိမိတို႔ ဆြမ္းခံၿပီး ရရွိလာေသာ သပိတ္ (၉) လံုးမွ ဆြမ္းေတာ္မ်ားအား ဘုရားရွင္အား ရည္စူးကပ္လွဴၿပီး ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဥတၱမ အတြက္ ေမတၱာပို႔ အမွ်ေ၀ျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ၾကေၾကာင္း GAB အဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားအား သိေစ အပ္ပါသည္။

http://www.khitpyaing.org/news/Sep09/90909d.php ယခု လင့္သည္ ယေန႔ သံဃာအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ - ျမန္မာႏိ္ုင္ငံ ၏ လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳအား ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ သတင္း စာမ်က္ႏွာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားေသာ လင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။

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An 'Election' Burma's People Don't Need

By U Win Tin
(www.washingtonpost.com)
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Much attention has been focused on Sen. James Webb's recent visit to my country and his meetings with Senior Gen. Than Shwe and incarcerated Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi. I understand Webb's desire to seek a meaningful dialogue with the Burmese ruling authorities. Unfortunately, his efforts have been damaging to our democracy movement and focus on the wrong issue -- the potential for an "election" that Webb wants us to consider participating in next year as part of a long-term political strategy. But the showcase election planned by the military regime makes a mockery of the freedom sought by our people and would make military dictatorship permanent.

In our last free election, the Burmese people rejected military rule in a landslide, awarding our National League for Democracy party more than 80 percent of the seats in parliament. Yet the military has refused to allow the NLD to form a government. In the 19 years since that election, Burmese democracy activists have faced imprisonment, intimidation, torture and death as they have peacefully voiced demands for justice, individual and ethnic rights, and a democratic form of government that is representative of all Burma's people.

While never ending our struggle for democracy, the NLD has continually sought to engage the regime and open a dialogue -- based on peace and mutual respect -- that could address Burma's critical political as well as social problems. Make no mistake -- these two issues are linked. Burma was once the rice bowl of Asia. Today, because of the regime's destructive economic policies and its use of oppression to maintain military rule, Burma is a shattered, poverty-stricken country.

The regime is seeking to place a veneer of legitimacy on itself through showcase "elections" and claiming that "disciplined democracy" will be instituted next year. Yet in May 2008, just days after a massive cyclone devastated Burma and killed more than 100,000 people, the regime used a farcical process to claim that 93 percent of voters chose to adopt a constitution that permanently enshrines military rule and prevents those with undefined "foreign ties" from holding public office -- catch-all provisions that would bar Suu Kyi and democracy activists from seeking office.

Some international observers view next year's planned elections as an opportunity. But under the circumstances imposed by the military's constitution, the election will be a sham. We will not sacrifice the democratic principles for which many millions of Burmese have marched, been arrested, been tortured and died to participate in a process that holds no hope whatsoever for bringing freedom to our country.

The demands of the NLD are reasonable. In April we issued another declaration to encourage engagement with the military that called for the release of all political prisoners, a full review of the constitution, reopening of all NLD offices and the right to freely organize. The regime's answer is the continued jailing of Suu Kyi and 2,000 other activists, massive military offensives against ethnic groups and the enforcement of rules to gag democracy.

How can the international community play a meaningful role? First, officials such as Webb should stop fear-mongering about China. His language about containing China, and working with Burma's regime to do so, is based on an outdated and unrealistic thesis. Suu Kyi rejected such notions by informing Webb that "we will not deal with anyone with fear and insecurity. We will deal with anyone, China, America, India, equally and friendly. As we can't choose our neighbors, we understand that we need to have a good relationship with China." Second, the NLD encourages other countries and international organizations to engage with Burma's military leaders to persuade them to engage with us and Burma's ethnic groups. The United States and many other nations have imposed sanctions on Burma. That is their decision and in keeping with their justified solidarity with the democratic values that we all hold so dear. If the regime genuinely engages with the NLD and ethnic representatives, releases political prisoners, ceases attacks against ethnic minorities and takes additional steps to build a true democratic state, these sanctions will be repealed at the right time.

In the meantime, let no one doubt our resolve. The NLD is a reflection of Burmese society. We will not be cowed or coerced into participating in a fatally flawed political process that robs the Burmese people of the freedom for which we struggle. We stand ready to engage, but we are more than willing to continue our struggle for the democratic values that so many have given their lives and their freedom to achieve.

U Win Tin is a member of the Central Executive Committee and a founder of Burma's National League for Democracy party. He was a political prisoner from 1989 to 2008.

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“Some international observers view next year's planned elections as an opportunity. But under the circumstances imposed by the military's constitution, the election will be a sham.”
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