Pearl ပုလဲသြယ္

29-8-09 Myanmar suggests alternative route

2009-08-30T09:20:00.002+05:30

Spl Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Aug 29

Even as the controversy rages on over reopening of the Stilwell Road, Government of Myanmar has suggested an alternative route, 40 km away from the historic route. Divulging this, Minister Development of North Eastern region (DoNER), Bijoy Krishna Handique said that the neighbouring country doesn’t seem keen on reopening of the old Stilwell Road. Instead they have suggested the alternative route called the Rangoon Road.

Pointing out that the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) is handling the issue, Handique said that it is not that India has given up the issue, adding that New Delhi has been taking up the issue of Stilwell Road with the Government of Myanmar.

The Ministry of DoNER had even made a presentation before the then President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam highlighting the need to reopen the Stilwell Road.

Reporting progress in another front, Handique said that with a view to creating awareness, India and Myanmar would exchange cultural delegations of youth. The first delegation from Myanmar would join the Hornbill Festival from December 1-10. This delegation would be taken to different States of the North-east, as well as the Kaladan river that would connect to Sittwe Port.

The Indian delegation is scheduled to visit Myanmar in January 13-14 during a festival in that country, he said.

India will invest $103 million to re-develop the Sittwe Port on the northwestern coast of Myanmar. RITES will execute the project, targeted for commissioning by 2009.

The re-development of the port would also improve navigability on the Kaladan river in Myanmar and enable the opening of another trade route between the North-east and the rest of India with southern Mizoram as the hub.

The Centre has sanctioned over Rs 4 crore to develop the land customs station at Zokhawtar to facilitate border trade with Myanmar and the project was being executed by the Border Roads Organisation.

29-8-09 Myanmar suggests alternative route

2009-08-30T09:20:00.001+05:30

29-8-09 Myanmar, the regime’s policy of "divide and conquer" against minorities

2009-08-29T22:48:00.000+05:30

By Tint Swe

The "Biblical" exodus of the minority Shan is the latest chapter in a government policy that creates divisions in the country to later guarantee - with weapons - unity. The twenty-year strategy of agreements, concessions or repression of various groups is at a crossroads, in view of the general elections of 2010.

New Delhi (AsiaNews) - In recent days, AsiaNews reported on the “biblical” exodus of thousands of Burmese civilians, at least 30 thousand according to the latest data, who have crossed the border between Myanmar and China to escape the ongoing conflict between government forces and of the ethnic Shan rebel groups. The military junta in Myanmar - the nation consists of the majority Burmese and many ethnic minorities - has launched an offensive on rebel movements, the military means to force them to surrender in view of the general elections of 2010 and to cooperate with the government in defence of the borders national.

We publish the analysis of Tint Swe, a member of the Council of Ministers of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) composed of refugees from Myanmar after the 1990 elections won by the National League for Democracy and never acknowledged by the junta . Fled to India in 1990, since 21 December 1991 he lives in New Delhi, and is a member of the NCGUB where he holds the post of information officer for South Asia and East Timor

Recent developments in the Sino-Burmese border are the result of a twenty-year agreement between the Burmese regime and the armed ethnic groups. The internal rebellion or civil war had no end, neither under democracy, nor martial law.
This regime has made a strategic choice, creating a so-called cease-fire agreement with different ethnic groups. And the first group to have signed it was also the first to experience the unfortunate consequences. This group is the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA).

The strong army of 450 thousand has neither the ability nor the desire to break the insurgency with the guns. For this reason it uses all available means, lawful or unlawful, without distinction. If you are strong, you get more concessions in return; otherwise just get the crumbs.

The China factor has played a leading role in quashing, at the end of the Cold War, the once strong Communist Party of Burma (CPB). When the Chinese government put an end to political support and material assistance, the Communist Party was no longer able to maintain its leading role among the various ethnic groups not belonging to the majority Burmese. This gave the newly installed military regime the perfect opportunity to pursue the policy of "divide and conquer”.

To MNDAA was followed by a number of other rebel movements related to various ethnic groups. In this way the regime has had the opportunity over the past decade to show the world, and the country itself, that it alone can ensure peace. As a result the SLORC - the original State Council for the Restoration of law and order - has become the State Council for Peace and Development Council (SPDC).

This gave the junta the opportunity to implement the next step in strengthening power. While it orchestrated repression after repression, the junta finalized the drafting, writing and approval of a new constitution, with all it has cost.

This is why 2010 is D-day. The time has come to address the issue related to the cease-fire and the rebel groups. The plan to turn them into border guards has not gone as smoothly as hoped. The smallest folded, but the larger groups continue their resistance.

This explains the regime’s decision to adopt the same tactic used previously for the Karen. The Karen National Union (KNU), the strongest political movement, has been infiltrated by the regime, it was bought and sold and then divided from within. The result was the birth of DKBA in 1994. The strange acronym stands for the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, consisting of a fringe group from the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the armed wing of the KNU. The result: Karens had to kill Karens.

Now MNDAA represents the last show of the pre-election campaign ahead of the 2010 vote. Kokangs must kill Kokangs. The State Council for Peace and Development has needed less than a thousand soldiers. Ten thousand civilians have fled to China. Now China has to decide whether to support the armed resistance of Kokang Chinese or Burmese army.

(With the collaboration of Nirmala Carvalho)

၂၉-၈-၀၉ အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အရာရိွမ်ား အန္အယ္လ္ဒီႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနမ်ား ေဆြးေႏြး

2009-08-29T15:52:00.000+05:30

NEJ ၂၉ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၀၀၉

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားသည္္ အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာ ေကာ္မတီမွ အရာရိွ (၃) ဦးႏွင့္ ယမန္ေန႔ ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အစည္းအေ၀းခန္းမ၌ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္။

ယင္းသို႔ေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဗဟိုအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ဦးၫြန္႔ေ၀၊ ဦးသန္းထြန္း၊ ဦးစိုးျမင့္၊ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြတို႔ႏွင့္အတူ ျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႔၀င္ ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္၊ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းနွင့္ ႐ုံးအဖြဲ႔မႉး ဦးလွမင္းတို႔လည္း ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလက္ရိွႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေန၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ လက္ရိွအေျခအေနႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ လက္ရိွ အေျခအေနမ်ားကို အဓိကထား ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အရာရိွမ်ားက ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ တိုက္တြန္းသည့္ သေဘာ၊ ေဆာင္ရြက္သင့္သည္ဆိုသည့္သေဘာမ်ဳိး ေျပာဆိုေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းမရိွၾကေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဘက္မွ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ မည္သို႔သေဘာထားရိွသည္၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲၿပီးပါက မည္သို႔ျဖစ္လာမည္ ဆိုသည့္ အေျခအေနႏွင့္ လက္ရိွအပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးအဖြဲ႔မ်ားႏွင့္ မေျပမလည္ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ အေျခအေနေပၚတြင္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ က ဆုံးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ျခင္း မရိွေသးသည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားကို ရွင္းျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ဦးစုိးျမင့္က ရွင္းျပပါတယ္။ လက္ရိွအားျဖင့္ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ရင္ ေနာက္ဆုံးျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ နယ္စပ္မတည္မၿငိမ္မႈ၊ ဒါေတြကို ထည့္သြင္းသုံးသပ္ရမယ္။ ေနာက္တခုက ရက္ပို္င္း အတြင္းမွာ ျမန္မာျပည္တခ်ဳိ႕ေသာေနရာေတြမွာ ဥပေဒမျပ႒ာန္းေသးဘဲနဲ႔ တခ်ဳိ႕ေသာပါတီေတြက ဆိုင္းဘုတ္ေထာင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ဖို႔ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္ေနတယ္။ ဒီလိုအေျခအေနေတြကို သူတို႔ကို ရွင္းျပတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီကေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ မစၥတာဘန္ကီမြန္းကေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း အားလုံးပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရးလို႔ ေျပာၿပီး ဒီလို အေျခအေန ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတယ္။ အဲလိုျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့အေျခအေနမွာ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ေရး မ၀င္ေရးဟာ ဆုံးျဖတ္ဖို႔ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသးဘူး ဆိုတာကို သူတို႔ကို ရွင္းျပခဲ့တာပါ” ဟု ဆက္လက္ေျပာၾကားသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ လက္ရိွေနထိုင္ရသည့္အေျခအေနႏွင့္ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားသည့္အေျခအေနကိုလည္း အေမရိကန္အရာရိွမ်ားက ေမးျမန္းၾကသျဖင့္ ယင္းအေျခအေနမ်ားကို ၎ကိုယ္တိုင္ရွင္းလင္းျပခဲ့သည္ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

၎က “က်ေနာ္က ေျပာျပလိုက္တယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က (၃) နွစ္ေထာင္ဒဏ္က်တယ္။ အဲဒီထဲမွာ (၁) ႏွစ္ခြဲကို ပယ္ဖ်က္လိုက္ၿပီ၊ (၁) ႏွစ္ခြဲက်န္တယ္။ က်န္တဲ့ အဲဒီ (၁) ႏွစ္ခြဲကို ဆိုင္းငံ့ထားတယ္။ ဆိုင္းငံ့တဲ့အတြက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဟာ လြတ္လပ္စြာေနထိုင္ခြင့္ရိွရမယ္၊ သို႔ေသာ္လည္းပဲ မလြတ္လပ္ဘူး၊ အက်ဥ္းက်တယ္။ အဲလို အက်ဥ္းက်တာဟာ နအဖ အစိုးရရဲ႕ အမိန္႔ေၾကာင့္။ အဲဒီအမိန္႔ကလည္း ဥပေဒမွာ ဒီလိုေဆာင္ရြက္ခြင့္မရိွဘူးဆိုတာကို က်ေနာ္ရွင္းျပတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား (၂,၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ရိွေနသည္ကို အေမရိကန္အရာရိွမ်ားက သိေနၿပီး ထိုအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ ေထာင္တြင္းေနထိုင္ရသည့္ အေျခအေနကိုေမးျမန္းေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းအေျခအေနမ်ားကို ေထာင္တြင္းအေတြ႔အႀကံဳမ်ားသည့္ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြႏွင့္ ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္တို႔က ရွင္းျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီအတြင္း generation gap ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ကိစၥကိုလည္း ေမးျမန္းခဲ့သျဖင့္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္လူႀကီးမ်ားက အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္တြင္ လူငယ္မ်ားသည္ နဂိုကတည္းက စိတ္ဓာတ္ရိွၿပီးသား လူငယ္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ new generation အင္အားမ်ားသည္ ရိွၿပီးသားျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရွင္းျပခဲ့သည္ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ဆက္လက္ေျပာၾကားသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီ၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အရာရိွမ်ားမွာ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ ပါတီမွ Lynne Weil ႏွင့္ Jessica Lee၊ ရီပတ္ဘလီကန္ပါတီမွ Dennis Halpin တုိ႔ျဖစ္ၿပီး ၎တို႔သည္ (၄) ရက္ၾကာ ခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရိွေနစဥ္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ထိုသို႔အရာရိွမ်ား လာေရာက္ေမးျမန္းမႈႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့စကားေတြအရပဲ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြ လာေရာက္စုေဆာင္းတယ္ဆိုတာ ေပၚေနတယ္။ ဘယ္အတြက္လဲဆိုတာက ကြန္ဂရက္ အတြက္လား၊ မူ၀ါဒသစ္အတြက္လား ဒါေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔လည္းမသိပါဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယခုကဲ့သို႔ အေမရိကန္ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာေကာ္မတီမွ အရာရိွ (၃) ဦး၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္သည္ ၾသဂုတ္ (၁၄) ရက္တြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ (၃) ရက္ၾကာလာေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္ အၿပီး လာေရာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔လာေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ပတ္သက္သည့္ ေဆာင္းပါး တပုဒ္ကို ၾသဂုတ္ (၂၆) ရက္ထုတ္ New York Times သတင္းစာတြင္ ေရးသားထားၿပီး အဆိုပါေဆာင္းပါးတြင္ အတိုက္အခံ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီအေနျဖင့္ လာမည့္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ပါ၀င္ဖို႔စဥ္းစားေစခ်င္ေၾကာင္း တုိက္တြန္းထားသည္။

အဆိုပါ မစၥတာ၀က္ဘ္၏ တိုက္တြန္းခ်က္နွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နွင့္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ သေဘာထား မည္သို႔ ရိွသည္ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ၾသဂုတ္ (၂၇) ရက္တြင္ အယူခံကိစၥသြားေရာက္ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့သည့္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းအား ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္က ေမးျမန္းခဲ့သည္။

၎က “ဒါနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၿခံဳငုံၿပီးေတာ့ သုံးသပ္ခ်က္ေပးပါတယ္။ တခုခ်င္း တခုခ်င္းေတာ့ သူမေျပာဘူး။ သူေျပာတာက မစၥတာ၀က္ဘ္ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆိုေရးသားေနတဲ့ဟာေတြက အိုဘားမားမူ၀ါဒေတြလို႔ သူမယုံၾကည္ဘူးတဲ့” ဟု ေျပာဆိုေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ျပန္လည္ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ၿပီး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီသေဘာထားကို ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ ရွင္းျပသည္။

“က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ေရးမ၀င္ေရး စဥ္းစားတာ အဲဒီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရဲ႕ ရလဒ္က ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ အက်ဳိးရိွလား၊ မရိွလားဆိုတာ က်ေနာ္တို႔လိုခ်င္တာျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲဒါေတြ လုံး၀မွမရႏိုင္ရင္ ဘာမွလုပ္စရာမရိွေတာ့ဘူး” ဟု အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္သို႔ ေျပာၾကားသည္။

28-8-09 Myanmar, la politica “divide et impera” del regime verso le minoranze

2009-08-29T15:23:00.000+05:30

28/08/2009 16:28
MYANMAR – CINA – INDIA
Myanmar, la politica “divide et impera” del regime verso le minoranze
di Tint Swe
Almeno trentamila profughi in fuga, un morto e decine di feriti negli scontri fra esercito e gruppi ribelli. L’esodo “biblico” della minoranza Shan è l’ultimo capitolo di una politica governativa, che crea divisioni nel Paese per farsi garante – con le armi – dell’unità. La strategia ventennale di accordi, concessioni o repressione dei vari gruppi è a un crocevia, in vista delle elezioni generali del 2010.

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – Nei giorni scorsi AsiaNews ha raccontato l’esodo “biblico” di migliaia di civili birmani, almeno 30mila secondo gli ultimi dati, che hanno varcato il confine fra Myanmar e Cina per sfuggire al conflitto in corso fra esercito governativo e gruppi ribelli della minoranza etnica Shan. La giunta militare al potere in Myanmar – nazione composta dalla maggioranza birmana e numerose minoranze etniche – ha lanciato un’offensiva verso i movimenti ribelli; i militari intendono costringerli alla resa in vista delle elezioni politiche del 2010 e a collaborare con il governo nella difesa dei confini nazionali.

Questa mattina sono ripresi gli scontri fra esercito e i ribelli; ieri una bomba scagliata in territorio cinese ha ucciso una persona, dozzine i feriti ricoverati negli ospedali lungo il confine. Nel frattempo Pechino invita il Myanmar a mantenere la stabilità nella regione al confine fra i due Paesi e chiede maggiori interventi per garantire la sicurezza dei cinesi che vivono nella zona.

Sulla vicenda riportiamo l’analisi di Tint Swe, membro del consiglio dei ministri del National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) costituito da rifugiati del Myanmar dopo le elezioni del 1990 vinte dalla Lega nazionale per la democrazia e mai riconosciute dalla giunta militare. Fuggito in India nel 1990, dal 21 dicembre del 1991 vive a New Delhi. Da allora fa parte del NCGUB dove ricopre l’incarico di responsabile dell’informazione per l’Asia del Sud e Timor Est.

I recenti sviluppi alla frontiera sino-birmana sono il risultato di un accordo ventennale tra il regime birmano e i gruppi etnici armati. La ribellione interna o la guerra civile non hanno avuto fine, sia in regime di democrazia, sia sotto la legge marziale.

Questo regime ha operato una scelta strategica, dando vita a un cosiddetto accordo per il cessate il fuoco con diverse gruppi etnici. E il primo che l’ha sottoscritto, è anche quello che ha subito per primo le conseguenze di questo sciagurato accordo. Si tratta del Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (Mndaa).

Il forte esercito composto da 450mila unità non ha né la possibilità né la voglia di spezzare l’insurrezione con i cannoni. Per questo usa tutti i mezzi a disposizione, leciti o illeciti, senza fare distinzioni. Se sei forte, ricevi maggiori concessioni in cambio; altrimenti ricevi solo le briciole.

Il fattore Cina ha ricoperto un ruolo di primo piano nell’annientare, alla fine della Guerra fredda, il forte Partito comunista birmano (Cpb). Quando il governo cinese ha messo fine al sostegno politico e all’assistenza materiale, il partito comunista non ha più saputo mantenere il suo ruolo di guida nei confronti dei diversi gruppi etnici non appartenenti alla maggioranza birmana. Ciò ha servito su un piatto d’argento la possibilità al regime militare, da poco istallato al potere, di esercitare la politica del “divide et impera”.

Al Mndaa hanno fatto seguito una serie di altri movimenti ribelli legati alle diverse etnie. In questo modo il regime ha avuto la possibilità per una decade di mostrare al mondo, e al Paese stesso, di essere il solo a poter garantire la pace. In quest’ottica lo Slorc – l’originario Consiglio di Stato per la Restaurazione della Legge e dell'Ordine – si è trasformato nel Consiglio di Stato per la Pace e lo Sviluppo (Spdc).

La giunta ha avuto così modo di attuare la fase successiva per rafforzare il potere. Mentre orchestrava repressioni su repressioni, la giunta ha ultimato la bozza, la scrittura e l’approvazione di una nuova Costituzione, costi quel che costi.

Ecco perchè il 2010 rappresenta il D-day. È giunto il tempo di occuparsi della questione legata al cessate il fuoco e dei gruppi ribelli. Il piano volto a trasformarli in guardie di frontiera non si è compiuto in modo tranquillo come auspicato. I più piccoli si sono piegati, ma quelli numerosi continuano la resistenza.

Per questo il regime ha deciso di adottare la stessa tattica utilizzata in precedenza per i Karen. Il Karen National Union (Knu), il più forte movimento a livello politico, ha subito infiltrazioni da parte del regime, è stato oggetto di azioni di corruzione e infine diviso al suo interno. Il risultato è stata la nascita del Dkba nel 1994. Il bizzarro acronimo sta per Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, costituito da una frangia di fuoriusciti del Esercito di liberazione nazionale Karen (Knla), braccio armato del Knu. Il risultato: i Karen hanno dovuto uccidere i Karen.

Adesso il Mndaa rappresenta l’ultimo spettacolo della campagna pre-elettorale in vista delle politiche del 2010. I kokangs devono uccidere i Kokangs. Il Consiglio di Stato per la pace e lo sviluppo ha avuto bisogno di meno di un migliaio di soldati. Trentamila civili hanno dovuto fuggire in Cina. Ora sta a Pechino decidere se sostenere la resistenza armata dei kokang cinesi o l’esercito birmano.

(Ha collaborato Nirmala Carvalho)
Asia Net

၂၇-၈-၀၉ ဦးခြန္ျမင့္ထြန္း ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ဖြဲ႕စည္းဖို႔ၾကိဳးစားခဲ့။

2009-08-28T20:04:00.000+05:30

ဒီႏွစ္ဆန္းပိုင္း NCGUB ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ျပန္လည္ဖြဲ႕စည္းတဲ့အခါမွာ တိုင္းရင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးခြန္ျမင့္ထြန္းက ဝန္ၾကီးတဦးအျဖစ္ ပါဝင္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရကို တိုးခ်ဲ႕ဖြဲ႔စည္းဖို႔ ၾကိဳးစားမယ္လို႔ အရင္က ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တဲ့အေပၚမွာ ဒီေန႔ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ နဲ႕ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရၾကား တင္းမာမွဳ အေျခအေနေတြ အျပင္ လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ဦးခြန္ျမင့္ထြန္းကို RFA မွ ေဒၚခင္ခင္အိက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။

26-6-09 U2 Encourage Mask-Wearing Protest

2009-08-28T19:48:00.000+05:30

June 26, 2009

Source: CHARTattack
Jason MacNeil
U2 are on the cusp of their 360 Tour, and are asking fans to remember Burmese democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi by wearing a mask featuring her face.

"U2 believe the world must not be allowed to forget Aung San Suu Kyi and every night on the 360 Tour fans are being invited to wear the mask when the band play 'Walk On,' which was written for her," the band's website said today. "Put it on with thousands of others when Larry [Mullen, Jr., drums] and Edge [guitar] strike up the opening bars of 'Walk On.'"

A downloadable mask is on the site with directions, but you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to print the file.

"Wear it to work or college," the post on the website reads. "Wear it on the bus or the train. Wear it in the pub or at the shops. And don't forget. Bring it to a U2 show."

Suu Kyi is a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and won elections in Burma in 1990, but the military junta refused to accept the results. She has spent most of the last 19 years under house arrest.

Suu Kyi was recently tried for violating the terms of her house arrest after an uninvited visitor swam across Inya Lake in Yangon, Burma to visit her house twice. The trial was widely condemned as a sham by the United Nations and western nations.

U2 start their world tour in Barcelona on Tuesday. The tour, which is in support of the recently released No Line On The Horizon, hits Toronto in mid-September.

၂၆-၈-၀၉ NLD ရဲ႕ မူဝါဒသေဘာထား အစစ္အမွန္

2009-08-28T15:42:00.000+05:30

မၾကာေသးခင္က ျပန္ၾကားေရးဌာန တာဝန္ခံျဖစ္သူ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊ က်န္းမာေရးမေကာင္း၊ ႐ုံးမလာႏုိင္တာေၾကာင့္ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အခ်ိန္မီ ထုတ္ျပန္ေရးအတြက္ ျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႕ကုိ ျပန္လည္ဖြဲ႕စည္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျပန္လည္ဖြဲ႕စည္းခဲ့တဲ့ ျပန္ၾကားေရးအဖြဲ႕မွာ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (National League for Democracy) ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးျဖစ္ေသာ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြကုိ ေခါင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမႇာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အန္န္အယ္လ္ဒီရဲ႕ လက္ရွိႏုိင္ငံေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ၊ ပါတီမူဝါဒ သေဘာထား၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ စသည္တုိ႔ကုိ သိရွိႏုိင္ဖို႔ ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာက ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြကုိ ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္း ေဆြးေႏြးတင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့ခင္ဗ်ာ။ အဲဒီေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ထုတ္ျပန္မယ့္ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ေတြ အရင္တုန္းက ဆုံးျဖတ္ၾကတဲ့အခါမွာ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕က ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေဆြးေႏြးတယ္။ အခု ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕မွာ ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ တရားဝင္ ႐ုံးတက္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြ ရွိပါသလဲ။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ဥကၠ႒နဲ႔ အတြင္းေရးမႉးကေတာ့ ႐ုံးမတက္ႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ က်န္တဲ့ ဦးဝင္းတင္လည္း ႏွလုံးခုန္စက္ တပ္ထားေတာ့ မလာႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ ဦးလြန္းတင္ကလည္း ရံဖန္ရံခါမွ လာႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ တနလၤာေန႔မွာ တခါတရံ လာႏုိင္ပါတယ္၊ တခါတရံ မလာႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ က်န္တဲ့ ႐ုံးတက္ေနတာေတာ့ ဦးသန္းထြန္း၊ ဦးစုိးျမင့္၊ ဦးလွေဖ၊ ဦးၫြန္႔ေဝနဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ၅ ေယာက္ပဲ တက္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ။ ။ ဆုိေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ကိစၥ တစုံတရာ ဆုံးျဖတ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ ေလာေလာဆယ္မွာ ဒီပုဂၢိဳလ္ ၅ ဦးက ဆုံးျဖတ္ၾကတယ္ ဆုိပါေတာ့။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ၅ ဦးက ဆုံးျဖတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊဆီကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကုိ ပုိ႔ေပးပါတယ္။ ပုိ႔ေပးၿပီးရင္ သူက အတည္ျပဳၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ထုတ္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့ခင္ဗ်ာ။ က်ေနာ္ ဒီဟာေမးရတာက အခု သတင္းေတြ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးထြက္ေနေတာ့ ဘယ္လုိအဆုံးအျဖတ္ လုပ္တယ္ဆုိတာကုိ သိေစခ်င္လုိ႔ပါ။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ဥကၠ႒နဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ဗဟုိအလုပ္မႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႕တုိ႔က စဥ္ဆက္မပ်က္ ထိေတြ႔ၿပီးေတာ့ အလုပ္ေတြ လုပ္ေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ယာယီအားျဖင့္ မလာႏုိင္တဲ့ ဦးဝင္းတင္နဲ႔ ဦးလြန္းတင္ လာႏုိင္တဲ့အခါၾကေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၂ ေယာက္ ထပ္တုိးၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ၾကပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ စစ္အစုိးရ က်င္းပမယ့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ နီးကပ္လာတယ္။ စစ္အစုိးရဘက္ကေတာ့ ဘာမွ ဥပေဒေတြ ဘာေတြ ထုတ္ျပန္တာ မရွိေသးေပမယ့္လည္း အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ လူေတြက အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး တြက္ဆေနၾကပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လုိဆုံးျဖတ္လာမလဲ၊ ဒီအဖြဲ႕ဟာ ၉၀ ျပည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာလည္း ျပည္သူကုိ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေပးခဲ့တာ၊ ဒီအဖြဲ႕က ဘာေျပာလာမလဲဆုိတာ ျပည္သူေတြ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနၾကပါတယ္။ ျပည္သူကုိ ေျပာဖို႔စကား တရားဝင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဘာေျပာမယ္ဆုိတာကုိ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္ၿပီလား။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အခုလုိ ေနအိမ္ကုိ ျပန္ၿပီးေတာ့ မေရာက္ခင္အထိေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္း ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္အတုိင္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ဆက္ၿပီး ရပ္တည္ေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔လည္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အခ်က္ ၃ ခ်က္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးကုိ မူလေတာင္းၿပီး ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရး မျဖစ္ေပၚလုိ႔ရွိရင္ေတာ့ အခ်က္ ၃ ခ်က္ကုိ ေတာင္းၿပီးေတာ့ အဲဒီအခ်က္ ၃ ခ်က္ကုိ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြဘက္ကေန ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမယ္ဆုိရင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ ဝင္ဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္လုိ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေျပာထားၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ အေျခခံမူပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမယ့္လုိ႔ အခု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အမႈၿပီးသြားတဲ့အခါမွာ ရံဖန္ရံခါမွာ သူ႔သေဘာထားေတြကုိ သူ႔ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းကတဆင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေနတာကုိ ၾကားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ အဲဒီလုိအခါမ်ဳိးမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာမယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ မွတ္သားမိတာေတာ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ကိစၥကုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျဖၾကားထားတာ၊ ေျပာထားတာ ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္း ေျပာထားတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ ဘာလဲဆုိေတာ့ တကယ္လုိ႔ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ ဆုံးျဖတ္ၾကမယ္ဆုိရင္ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြနဲ႔ တုိင္ပင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္သြားမယ္။ အခုေတာ့ မေျပာႏုိင္ေသးဘူးလုိ႔ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္ လာတုန္းက ထုတ္ျပန္ထားတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအတုိင္းပဲ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ရွိေနပါတယ္။ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား ဒီထက္ထပ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာစရာ မရွိေသးပါဘူး။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့၊ ဆုိေတာ့ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေတြ႕ဖုိ႔ အခြင့္အခါ ရႏုိင္ပါ့မလား။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ အခ်က္ ၈ ခ်က္ထဲမွာေတာ့ ဧည္သည္ေတြ႕ခြင့္ ရွိတယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိထားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုထိေတာ့ ဒီကိစၥဟာ ဘာမွ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ သတင္းတစုံတရာ မၾကားရေသးပါဘူး။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြရဲ႕ တဦးခ်င္း၊ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ သေဘာထားအေနနဲ႔ မဟုတ္ဘဲ တဦးခ်င္း ေျပာေနၾကတဲ့ေနရာမွာ တခ်ဳိ႕က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေပၚမွာ သေဘာထား ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာ့ေျပာင္းေျပာင္းရွိတဲ့ ေလသံတခ်ဳိ႕လည္း ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕ကေတာ့ တင္းတင္းမာမာ သေဘာထားေတြ ရွိၾကပါတယ္။ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြတုိ႔ အေနနဲ႔ ဘယ္ဘက္က ပုိၿပီး မ်ားတယ္လုိ႔ ေလ့လာမိပါသလဲ။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့၊ ဒီ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့အခါမယ္ အဲဒါမေျပာခင္ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းကုိ ေျပာရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းဟာ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္မူအျဖစ္နဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ တုိင္းနဲ႔ျပည္နယ္ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ေတြနဲ႔ အဆင့္ဆင့္ေသာ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ေတြအထိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ တက္ေရာက္တဲ့အခါၾကေတာ့ ဒီအေပၚမွာ တစုံတရာ ကန္႔ကြက္ျခင္း၊ ျပန္လည္ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္း မရွိတဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဒီဟာက အားလုံးခံယူထားတဲ့ အခ်က္ႀကီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ခ်င္တဲ့လူေတြက တဦးခ်င္း တေယာက္ခ်င္း ရွိေကာင္းရွိပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ထုိနည္းလည္းေကာင္းပဲ မဝင္ဘူးဆုိၿပီး ဆုံးျဖတ္တဲ့လူလည္း ရွိေကာင္းရွိပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းမွာ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ဟာ ဒီမုိကေရစီတုိက္ပြဲကုိ စြန္႔ခြာမသြားဘူး၊ ျပည္သူနဲ႔အတူ ရွိမယ္ဆုိတာ ေရးထားတာကုိ ဖတ္မိၾကမယ္ဆုိလုိ႔ရွိရင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီ တခုအေနနဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြကို မဆန္႔က်င္ဘူးဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာကုိ ေတြ႕ရမွာျဖစ္တယ္။

သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္းပဲ မဆန္႔က်င္တာနဲ႔ ဝင္တာနဲ႔ မတူပါဘူး။ မဆန္႔က်င္ဘူးဆုိတာ မူျဖစ္ၿပီး ဝင္တာ မဝင္တာက အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဒီအေပၚမွာ တဦးခ်င္း တေယာက္ခ်င္းရဲ႕ ဝင္ျခင္း၊ မဝင္ျခင္းဆုိတာ တဦးခ်င္း၊ တေယာက္ခ်င္းရဲ႕ သေဘာထားသာ ျဖစ္ၿပီးေတာ့ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ သေဘာထား မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အဲဒီေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ေသခ်ာေပါက္ စစ္တမ္းေကာက္ထားတာ မရွိေတာ့ အတိအက်ေတာ့ မေျပာႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္း အမ်ားစုက ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္း အေပၚမွာ ရပ္တည္ေနလ်က္ ရွိပါတယ္လုိ႔ က်ေနာ္ ေသခ်ာေပါက္ ေျပာႏုိင္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္း ၃ ခ်က္ကို အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း ျပန္ေျပာရင္ ေကာင္းမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဘာေတြလဲလို႔။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြး အေျဖရွာေရးဆုိတာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ မူႀကီးပါပဲ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကလည္း ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးကို ကမ္းလွမ္းၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူ႕ရဲ႕ ေနာက္ဆုံးေၾကညာခ်က္မွာလည္း တကယ္လုိ႔သာ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးကို လုိခ်င္ၾကတယ္ဆိုရင္ အခ်ိန္မေႏွာင္းေသးပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးနဲ႔ ေျဖရွင္းပါဆုိၿပီး ေျပာထားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က နံပါတ္တစ္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြး အေျဖရွာေရးနဲ႔ အားလုံးေသာ ဥပေဒေရး ျပႆနာ၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ျပႆနာေတြကို ေျဖရွင္းႏုိင္မယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အေလးအနက္ ယုံၾကည္ထားပါတယ္။

သုိ႔ေသာ္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရး မျဖစ္လို႔ရိွရင္ နံပါတ္တစ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ အက်ဥ္းသားအားလုံးကို လႊတ္ေပးရမယ္။ နံပါတ္ႏွစ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒမွာ ဒီမုိကေရစီကုိ သြားႏုိင္မယ့္ တံခါးေပါက္ ဖြင့္ထားေပးဖုိ႔၊ ျပင္ဆင္ဖုိ႔ ေတာင္းထားပါတယ္။ နံပါတ္သုံးအခ်က္ လြတ္လပ္ၿပီး တရားမွ်တတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ေစာင့္ၾကည့္တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီးကို က်င္းပေပးမယ္ဆုိရင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္ဆုိၿပီး က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေျပာထားတာ အတိအလင္း ရွိပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့၊ လူေတြက ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္း ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီးေနာက္မွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ႐ုံးတင္ တရားစြဲတယ္၊ အခု ျပစ္ဒဏ္စီရင္တယ္ဆုိတာ လုပ္လုိက္ေတာ့ ဒါဟာ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းကို လက္မခံႏုိင္ဘူးဆုိတာ စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က ျပသလုိက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ တခ်ဳိ႕က အဓိပၸာယ္ ေကာက္ယူၾကပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ကေရာ ဒီလို မေကာက္ယူဘူးလားခင္ဗ်။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကေတာ့ ျပႆနာေတြကို တြဲၿပီး မျမင္ပါဘူး၊ ခြဲၿပီး ျမင္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျဖစ္တဲ့ကိစၥက အမႈေၾကာင္းအရ ျဖစ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကိစၥက ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကိစၥပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏုိင္ငံေရးကိစၥက ႏုိင္ငံေရးကိစၥပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အေပၚမွာ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ အျပစ္ေတြရဲ႕ ကာလကိုၾကည့္ၿပီး တခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို မ၀င္ႏုိင္ေအာင္ ကန္႔သတ္တယ္ဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာေတြ ေျပာလာတာ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာေတာ့ ျဖစ္ႏုိင္ေျခေတြက အမ်ားႀကီးပါပဲ။ ဘယ္ဟာကိုမွ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က လက္ဆုပ္လက္ကုိင္ေျပာလို႔ မရေသးပါဘူး။

က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ႏုိင္ငံေရးကို ေဗဒင္ေဟာသလုိ ေဟာလုိ႔မရတဲ့ အခါၾကေတာ့ ျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြရဲ႕ လားရာေတြကို ၾကည့္ၿပီးေတာ့သာ ဆုံးျဖတ္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႀကိဳၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာလုိ႔မရတဲ့ အေနအထားမွာ ရွိပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ႏုိင္ငံေရးဟာ အင္မတန္မွလည္း ႐ႈပ္ေထြးပါတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဒီေန႔ ဒီလိုေျပာၿပီး မနက္ျဖန္ ဟိုလိုျဖစ္တာလည္း ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔က မူေပၚမွာ အေသအခ်ာ ရပ္တည္ၿပီးေတာ့ ကိုယ့္မူကုိယ္ ကုိင္စြဲၿပီးေတာ့ ရပ္တည္ေနဖို႔သာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔က ဆက္လက္ ေရွ႕ကိုလည္းပဲ မူကိုကုိင္စြဲၿပီးေတာ့ ရပ္တည္သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ အခု ေလာေလာဆယ္မွာ လူေတြက ေျပာၾကပါတယ္၊ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့တယ္ဆုိတာက သူတို႔ စကားအလွ သုံးထားတာ၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ ျပစ္မႈထင္ရွား က်ဴးလြန္ခဲ့သူ ျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ မွတ္တမ္းအရ သူ႔ကို ႏုိင္ငံေရးက ပိတ္တာတုိ႔၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ခြင့္ ပိတ္တာတို႔ လုပ္လာဖုိ႔အတြက္ လုပ္တယ္ဆုိၿပီး ယုတ္စြအဆုံး တြက္ၾကပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ဘယ္လုိျမင္ပါသလဲခင္ဗ်။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ဗ်ာ အဆုိးမျမင္သလုိ အေကာင္းလည္း မျမင္ဘူးဗ်။ က်ေနာ္ အဆုိးျမင္ဘက္က မရပ္တည္သလုိ အေကာင္းျမင္ဘက္ကလည္း မရပ္တည္ပါဘူး။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ႏုိင္ငံေရးျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြကို ၾကည့္ၿပီး လက္ေတြ႕က်တဲ့ သေဘာက သြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို အခု ဆုိင္းငံ့ျပစ္ဒဏ္ တႏွစ္ခြဲ ထားၿပီးေတာ့ ၿခံထဲမွာ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ထားတဲ့ သေဘာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ထပ္ၿပီး အယူခံ၀င္ခြင့္ ရွိမယ္ဆုိတဲ့ သေဘာလည္း ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ေအာက္႐ုံးက အမႈေတြဟာ အထက္႐ုံး အထက္႐ုံးေတြမွာ တရားရင္ဆုိင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေျဖရွင္းခြင့္လည္း ရွိေနပါေသးတယ္။ အဲဒီေျဖရွင္းခြင့္ေတြ ရမရဆုိတဲ့ အေျဖေပၚမွာ မူတည္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္ၾကရဦးမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့၊ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက အေကာင္းလည္း မျမင္ဘူး၊ အဆုိးလည္း မျမင္ဘူးဆုိေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္မယ့္ ကိစၥကိုေရာ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြရဲ႕ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရး သေဘာထား ဘယ္လုိရွိပါသလဲ။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ့္အျမင္ကို ေျပာမယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ေမးတာကိုး၊ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို ေဆာင္ႏုိင္မယ့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ျပည္သူလူထုနဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္မွာပဲ။ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို မေဆာင္ဘဲ ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မတုိင္ခင္နဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္မွာ အေျခအေနေတြ ဘာမွမထူးဘဲ၊ ဘာမွ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းမရွိတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြ ျဖစ္မွာမို႔ ႏွစ္ ၆၀ ေက်ာ္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး နာတာရွည္ ေရာဂါႀကီးကိုလည္း ေျဖရွင္းလို႔ရမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ တပြဲတည္းနဲ႔ေတာ့ ဘယ္ျပႆနာမွ ေျဖရွင္းလို႔ မရႏုိင္ပါဘူး။ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးကို တုတ္တုတ္ထိ မသြားဘဲနဲ႔ ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြဟာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ျပႆနာေတြကို ေျဖရွင္းႏုိင္မယ့္အခ်က္ မဟုတ္ဘူး ဆုိတာကိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ္ ခံယူထားပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ အခု သူတုိ႔ေရးဆြဲထားတဲ့ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံ အေျခခံဥပေဒအတုိင္း လုပ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ေျပာသလုိ ဒါဟာ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ဘူးလို႔ သတ္မွတ္တယ္လို႔ ယူဆပါတယ္။ ဆုိေတာ့ အဲဒီဥပေဒထဲမွာ ျပင္ေစခ်င္တယ္ဆုိတာ အဓိကအားျဖင့္ ဘယ္လိုအခ်က္မ်ဳိးကုိ ဘယ္လုိျပင္သင့္တယ္လို႔ အၾကမ္းဖ်င္း ေျပာႏုိင္မလားခင္ဗ်။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္ ဒီမွာ မေျပာႏုိင္ပါဘူး။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဆုိေတာ့ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံဥပေဒကိုေတာ့ ျပင္သင့္တယ္ေပါ့။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္ေျပာတာ ရွင္းပါတယ္။ အေျခခံဥပေဒမွာ ျပည္သူေတြကုိ ဒီမုိကေရစီလူ႔ေဘာင္ ေရာက္ႏုိင္မယ့္၊ သြားႏုိင္မယ့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္း၊ တံခါးတေပါက္ ဖြင့္ရင္ကိုပဲ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲထဲကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က သြားႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္က အထေျမာက္ ေအာင္ျမင္ႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ အေျခခံဥပေဒမွာ ျပည္သူေတြ ဒီမုိကေရစီကုိ သြားႏုိင္မယ့္ တံခါးေပါက္ တခ်ပ္ေတာင္မွ ဖြင့္မထားဘူးဆုိရင္ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ဟာ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးလည္း မရႏုိင္သလုိ ႏုိင္ငံေရးျပႆနာေတြလည္း ေျဖရွင္းလို႔ရမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဒီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုနဲ႔ တုိင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို တကယ္တမ္း သယ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္မယ့္ အျဖစ္မ်ဳိး၊ အေျခအေန အေျပာင္းအလဲႀကီးတခုကို သယ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္မယ့္ အျဖစ္မ်ဳိး၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းျခင္း၊ သာယာျခင္း၊ ၀ေျပာျခင္းဆုိတဲ့ အဆင့္ကုိလည္း ေရာက္မယ့္ အျဖစ္မ်ဳိးကိုေတာ့ တုတ္တုတ္ထိ မေရာက္ႏုိင္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာေနတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဆုိေတာ့ ျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တာက ျပင္ပါ၊ ဘယ္လုိျပင္ရမယ္၊ ဘယ္အခ်က္ဆုိတာေတာ့ ေျပာလို႔မျဖစ္ဘူးေပါ့။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ဒါေတြက က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ သတင္းမီဒီယာေတြကို ထုတ္ေျပာရမယ့္ အေၾကာင္းေတြ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးၿပီးတဲ့ အခါၾကမွသာလွ်င္၊ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရး ဆုိတာကလည္း ႀကိဳတင္ စည္းကမ္းသတ္မွတ္ထားခ်က္ မရွိတဲ့အခါၾကေတာ့ ေဆြးေႏြးမယ့္ အရာေတြကို ႀကိဳတင္ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာဆုိဖုိ႔ အေျခအေန မရွိပါဘူး၊ ေျပာလည္း မေျပာသင့္ပါဘူး။ အဲဒါကို ေမးမယ္ဆုိရင္ ေျဖမွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့၊ ေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့အခါမွာသာလွ်င္ ဘယ္ဟာကိုျပင္ပါ ဘာညာ ေျပာသြားမွာေပါ့၊ သေဘာက။

ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြ ။ ။ ေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့အခါမွာ ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔ကိုေျပာမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ က်ေနာ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြကို ဒီဟာဒီဟာေတြကေတာ့ျဖင့္ရင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို သယ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔ မထုိက္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဒါေတြကိုေတာ့ ျပင္ေပးမွ သင့္ေတာ္ပါမယ္။ ဒါမွသာလွ်င္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က ျပည္သူနဲ႔အတူ၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားနဲ႔အတူ ဆက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရွ႕ႏုိင္ငံေရးခရီးကို ေလွ်ာက္ႏုိင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ညိႇႏႈိင္းႏုိင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ ယူဆပါတယ္။

ဦးေက်ာ္ဇံသာ ။ ။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ သေဘာထား အစစ္အမွန္ကို သုံးသပ္တင္ျပႏုိင္ဖို႔အတြက္ ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ သတင္းျပန္ၾကားေရး တာ၀န္ခံ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြရဲ႕ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္ေတြထဲမွာ နံပါတ္တစ္အခ်က္ကေတာ့ သူတို႔ဟာ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို စြဲကုိင္ဆဲ၊ နံပါတ္ႏွစ္ စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က ဒီေၾကညာခ်က္အေပၚ တုံ႔ျပန္မႈ မရွိေသးဘူးလို႔ သူတို႔ မွတ္ယူဆဲ၊ နံပါတ္သုံးကေတာ့ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိယ္တုိင္ ေျပာလာမယ့္ စကားကိုလည္း ေစာင့္စားဆဲလို႔ နားလည္ရပါတယ္။
VOA 26-8-09

27-8-09 LSR to campaign for Suu Kyi’s release

2009-08-27T21:59:00.000+05:30

NEW DELHI: Delhi University’s Lady Shri Ram College for Women is organising a cross-country run this Friday to campaign for release of Myanmar’s pro-democracy crusader Aung San Suu Kyi, an alumna of the institution. A large number of students are expected to take part in the run.

Ms. Suu Kyi, who is the general secretary of the National League for Democracy in Myanmar, has been under house arrest for many years.

27-8-09 More Indian companies to invest in Myanmar this year

2009-08-27T21:57:00.000+05:30

YANGON, Aug. 27
(Xinhua)

More Indian companies are to invest in Myanmar's information technology (IT) and education sectors this year, a local weekly The Myanmar Post reported Thursday.

Being one of the IT power countries, India is willing to support Myanmar in the advancement of IT sector if Myanmar side propose for the assistance, the report quoting the India embassy, adding that India has also planned to grant more scholarships to Myanmar students who desire to pursue their further education in the country.

India has so far awarded scholarships to over 150 Myanmar students, it added.

During last year, Myanmar and India cooperated in implementation of setting up 11 centers for enhancement of IT skill in key cities of Yangon, Mandalay and others.

The project, implemented by the Centre for Development Advanced Computing (CDAC) of India and the state-run Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications (MPT), started at the end of last year and with regard to the project, Myanmar sent 100 government servants to India to undergo the training.

Meanwhile, Myanmar and India also cooperated in implementing cross-border optical fiber link between the two countries to boost information link which started in December 2006, according to the earlier report.

The 640-kilometer-long Myanmar-India optical fiber link project which worth 7 million U.S. dollars connects India's northeastern border town of Moreh and Myanmar's second largest city of Mandalay, passes through six cities of Tamu, Kampatwa, KyiGone, Shwebo, Monywa and Sagaing.

Along the fiber link, ADSL+2 system with 7,000 lines are being installed in 80 locations including Yangon, Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw.

Myanmar official statistics show that Myanmar-India bilateral trade reached 951.3 million U.S. dollars in 2008-09 with Myanmar's exports to India accounting for 805.1 million U.S. dollars and its imports from India 146.2 million dollars.

India stands as Myanmar's 4th largest trading partner after Thailand, China and Singapore and also Myanmar's second largest export market after Thailand, absorbing 25 percent of its total exports.

The Myanmar compiled figures also show that India's contracted investment in Myanmar reached 219.57 million U.S. dollars as of January 2008, of which 137 million were drawn into the oil and gas sector in September 2007.

26-8-09 Border liaison meeting on

2009-08-27T11:00:00.000+05:30

Border liaison meeting on
Source: The Sangai Express

Imphal, August 26 2009: The 37th Myanmar-India Border Liaison meeting will be held from August 26 to August 31 at Kalemyo, Myanmar.

37th Myanmar-India border liaison meet
The Imphal Free Press
IMPHAL, Aug 26
The 37th Myanmar-India Border Liaison Meeting has been organized by Myanmarese Army at Kalemyo from 26 Aug 09 till 31 Aug 09. A fourteen member delegation from the Indian side led by Major General S S Pawar, Chief Of Staff, HQ 3 Corps and assisted by Brigadier Balbir Singh, Commander, 26 Sector and Colonel Vijay Sahgal, Colonel GS of HQ IGAR(South) left today for Myanmar from Mantripukhri at 11 A.M.

Indo-Myanmar Border Liaison Meet is a landmark event where representatives of both the Armies interact and coordinate border management activities. The event also gives an opportunity to all the delegates to know each other on a personal level and helps in further strengthening the bonds of friendship between both the countries.The delegation is scheduled to arrive back on 31 Aug 09 at Mantripukhri after fruitful discussions.

A fourteen member Indian delegation led by Chief of Staff Hqs 3 Corps Major General SS Pawar, Commander 26 Sector Brigadier Balbir Singh and Col GS of Hqs IG AR (South) Colonel Vijay Sahgal have left Mantripukhri for Myanmar at about 11 am today, said a press release issued by the PRO of Hqs IG AR (S) .

Indo-Myanmar border liaison meet is a landmark event, where representatives of both the armies interact and coordinate border management activities, it added.

22-8-09 Chin Students & Youth Federation (CSYF) holds Workshop on ‘Burma Before 2010’

2009-08-25T11:02:00.000+05:30

August 22, 2009

The Chin Students and Youth Federation held a one day workshop, ‘Burma before 2010’ as topic on August 22, 2009 at NCGUB office in New Delhi.

The said workshop was supported by the New Delhi based Burma Center Delhi (BCD) and the Federation of Trade Unions-Burma (FTUB). Though the workshop was organized by India based Chin Students and Youth Federation (CSYF), the resource persons were Dr. Tint Swe (1990’s elected MP from NLD seat and presently Minister for Information and Public Relation of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma NCGUB) and Dr. Zaw Win Aung (Asst. Gen. Secretary, FTUB).

The workshop was attended by more than 20 youth (specially invited EC members of CYC, CSU, ZSYO, MTP, CYA, ZYO and from Shwe Gas Campaign, BCD staffs and other selected youth). In the morning program Dr. Tint Swe discussed SPDC’s 7 steps Roadmap and the Constitution, Ceasefire groups & Pro-democracy groups in exile. In the evening section, Dr. Zaw Win Aung discussed the issues on the needs of a General Elections – Monitoring, Observers, Political parties – freedom/participation/ NLD position; System of Govt. after elections - compare with the parliamentary forms of the US and India.

As for the answer of the youth questioning whether violence or non-violence will be more effective for restoring democracy and Human Rights in Burma, Dr. Tint Swe said, “Everyone has his/her own capacity. Some might know how to convince others, some of them might be having a competency of writing articles, poetry or songs, some might know how to lead while other knows only how to shout the slogans energetically while demonstrations held. But each of them has own importance and each activity takes the important role. It is not the matter of violence or non violence, leaders or followers, but what we need to keep in mind is to work hardly and faithfully on what we are doing now. And even when others gave up, we should not give up till we reach our destiny. This is unity we have”.

“My opinion is not to advice the citizens inside Burma what to do or don’t, but it is our duty to tell the fact and the truth, so that they can decide wisely on their own.”, said Dr. Zaw Win Aung, as the participant ask what to tell the people inside Burma, regarding the coming 2010 election.

After the workshop, all the participants expressed that the workshop was really beneficial. The youth also accepted that they all need to enrich their political knowledge so that they could explain all the facts especially to those youngsters and all the citizens inside Burma.

22-8-09 Workshop on Burma before 2010

2009-08-24T14:54:00.000+05:30

Burma Before 2010 Workshop organized by Chin Student & Youth Federation (CSYF)
Supported by Burma Centre Delhi (BCD) & Federation of Trade Unions – Burma (FTUB)

Speakers
1. Dr. Tint Swe (NCGUB)
- Roadmap of SLORC/SPDC
- 2008 Constitution
- 2010 election
- Burmese pro-democracy groups around the world

2. Dr. Zaw Win Aung (FTUB)
- Needs of General Elections (monitoring, Observers, Political parties, freedom/participation, NLD status)
- Type of Gov after elections (compare with US style and India Style)

List of Participants
1. Salai Thang Te (CYC)
2. Salai Richard Pa Pu (MTP)
3. Salai Pa Ling (CYA)
4. Mai Cherry Lyzo (CYC)
5. Salai Lian Kim (ZYO)
6. Salai Cin Zo (ZSYO)
7. Mai Olivia (Fresher)
8. Salai Pa Sum (Fresher)
9. Salai Kawl Thuan
10. Mai Jecelyn Tial Te
11. Salai Ngin Za Pum (CSU)
12. Salai Ci Cin (ZSYO)
13. Salai Sa Long (Shwe Gas)
14. Mai Senteii (Shwe Gas)
15. Salai Lal Nun Siam (BCD)
16. Ma Mary (BCD)
17. Ko Bay Dar (NCGUB office)
18. Salai Ro Kung (Yamuna Clinic)
19. Ma Ahkhu (WRWAB)
20. Ma Khin Mar Tin (WRWAB)
21. Salai Kui Tawn
22. May Than Yi (Observer)
23. Ko Htun Htun (BCD)
24. Ko Kim Shwe Gas/BCD
25. Ben Hur S. Lyzo (CYC)

21-8-09 Newsweek: Same Old Song and Dance

2009-08-23T10:07:00.000+05:30

Newsweek
Burma's exiled prime minister explains how Aung San Suu Kyi is dealing with her sentence—and argues that, as long as the junta is around, Burma has no hope.

The guilty verdict handed down last week came as no surprise to those following the bizarre case brought against Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi by the country's military government. The junta—in power since 1962—claimed that the Nobel Peace Prize winner broke the rules of her house arrest when she allowed American John Yettaw into her house after he swam across a lake to see her last May. Her original sentence was three years' hard labor, but in a PR play, Gen. Than Shwe, the junta leader, commuted it to 18 months' house arrest.

Suu Kyi, who was elected prime minister in 1990 when her National League for Democracy party won the elections, has been under house arrest for 14 of the past 20 years. Her first cousin Sein Win—who in January was re-elected prime minister of the exiled Burmese government—was in Indonesia last week to launch the Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities, a coalition of major Burmese ethnic and pro-democracy parties, both exiled and within Burma. Returning back to his home base in suburban Maryland this week, Win spoke by telephone with NEWSWEEK's Ginanne Brownell about the verdict, the upcoming elections, and how his cousin is handling her latest sentence.

BROWNELL: What was your reaction when you heard the verdict—were you surprised or did you expect it?
WIN: Not really surprised, no. From the very beginning we took this to be as a political plot. And of course we all are looking to whether she could be included in the 2010 elections. By this act, she is definitely excluded.
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Why do you think Gen. Than Shwe commuted her sentence?
They have to be careful about internal outrage within Burma. She is the daughter of Aung San, who was the founder of the Burmese Army; this kind of sentence, if people hear about it, it will cause outrage. And their main objective is not the sentence—their main objective is to exclude her from the political process.

John Yettaw's wife suggested that her husband's arrest actually was a positive thing, because it raised awareness of her plight. What do you think of that?
That is going too far. Suu Kyi already has international attention. It's not fair.

Are you mad at him?
If he did this a few years ago, we would have been mad at him. But the timing is so coincidental that even if he didn't do it, the military would have found an excuse to detain her further. But he should really keep away from these politics.

There were some rumors that the junta purposely let him in, egged him on to go.
As far as we know, she asked him to get out. As you know, he is a crazy guy, so she did not have the heart to push him out.

Do you wish that Sen. Jim Webb, who was able to get Yettaw released from his sentence, had tried to get Suu Kyi released as well?
We knew that Senator Webb could not negotiate for her release. Of course they will not release her because Webb made one visit. And his statement that was very vague. [It's a good thing] that Gen. Than Shwe spoke to Senator Webb, [but it would be even better] if Than Shwe were talking to Aung San Suu Kyi in order to solve our problems.

Are you in touch with your cousin? Do you know how she feels about last week's verdict?
No, we study things from her statements, from her lawyers' statements. But I do not have direct communication with her.

“အင္တာ-အက္ရွင္” လား “အင္တာရက္ရွင္” လား

2009-08-19T19:46:00.000+05:30

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုခြင့္ရခဲ့တဲ့ အေမရိကန္ (ဆီေနတာ)ဟာ မီဒီယာမ်ား အဆိုအရ ေဒၚစုက ဘာေျပာတယ္ဆိုတာကို သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ သတိထားျပီး ေျပာဆိုေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါတယ္။

ပဌမေန႔နဲ႔ ေနာက္ေန႔ သတင္းထြက္တာေတြ မတူၾကပါ။ အစဦးဆံုး စာလံုမဲၾကီးေတြနဲ႔ ထြက္လာတာကေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ (ဆန္ရွင္) တခ်ိဳ႕ ရုတ္သိမ္းမွာကို ကန္႕ကြက္မယ္ မထင္ပါဘူးတဲ့။ ဒါက (အင္တိုင္-ဆန္ရွင္) အမတ္စကား ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီသတင္းနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ျမန္မာ (မီဒီယာ)တခုကေန ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ကို (အင္တာဗ်ဴး)တံုးက (ဆန္ရွင္)ကိစၥမွာ ေဒၚစုက ဒီလို ေျပာတယ္လို႔ ဆိုတာမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ သံသယရွိပါတယ္လို႔ ေျဖခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ (မီဒီယာ)က သံုး မသံုးေတာ့ မသိပါ။ ေနာက္ေန႔မွာဘဲ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုယ္တိုင္က သူ႔ရဲ႕ တရား၀င္ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူကတဆင့္ ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ကို ၾကားရေတာ့ ကြ်န္ေတာ့္ သံသယဆိုတာ မွန္သြားပါတယ္။

ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ထဲမွာ တခုဆက္ရွိျပန္ေသးတာက ဘာသာျပန္တာေျပာေျပာ အဓိပၸါယ္ေကာက္တာဆိုဆို ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ျပန္ခ်င္တာ၊ ေကာက္တာခ်င္နဲ႕ နဲနဲလြဲေနတာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ Interaction ဆိုတာပါ။ တခ်ိဳ႕က “ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔” “ညႇိႏႈိင္းဖုိ႔” “ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တာ” “ညိွႏိႈင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း” စသျဖင့္ တာသာျပန္ ေကာက္ယူၾကျပီး၊ တခ်ိဳ႔ကေတာ့ Interaction ကို အတိုင္းသား ထည့္သြင္း ေဖၚျပၾကတာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။

Interaction ဟာ Inter-action နဲ႔မတူပါ။ Inter-action ဆိုတာက တြဲလုပ္တဲ့သေဘာ ပိုေဆာင္ပါမယ္။ Interaction က စကားေျပာၾကတဲ့ သေဘာ၊ အျပန္အလွန္သေဘာ၊ အျမင္ခ်င္းဖလွယ္တဲ့သေဘာ၊ ခ်ဳပ္လိုက္ရင္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရးပါဘဲ။ လူႏွစ္ေယာက္ေတြ႕တာနဲ႔ ဆရာနဲ႔တပည့္ျဖစ္ရင္ေတာင္ ကေန႔ေခတ္မွာ ဆရာေျပာတာခ်ည္း တပည့္က နားေထာင္ရတာ မဟုတ္လို႔ တေယာက္ေကေျပာတာကို က်န္တေယာက္က သူ႔အယူအဆ၊ ဒါမွမဟတု္ တဖက္ေျပာတာကို သေဘာတူ-မတူ ေျပာရတာပါ။ (ဆီမီနာ)တို႔ (၀ပ္ေရွာ့ပ္)တို႔မွာလဲ အဓိက ေျပာမဲ့လူ ေျပာျပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ Questions and comments က်န္တဲ့လူေတြက ေမးလိုတာေရာ၊ ေျပာလိုတာေျပာႏိုင္တဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ ထည့္ပါတယ္။ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲလို Questions and answers အေမး-အေျဖမဟုတ္ပါ။

လူ-လူခ်င္းမဟုတ္ဘဲ လူနဲ႔ ကြန္ျပဴတာအၾကားမွာေရာ၊ ကြန္ျပဴတာေတြအၾကားမွာေရာ (အင္တာရက္ရွင္)ရွိတာပါဘဲ။ လူနဲ႔ တီဗြီအၾကား အျပန္အလွန္သေဘာပါရင္ Interactive လို႔ေျပာပါတယ္။ Communicate လုပ္ၾကတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ “အျပန္အလွန္သေဘာ” က အေရးၾကီးတဲ့ အစိတ္အပိုင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အတူေနရင္း-လုပ္ကိုင္ရင္း အျပန္အလွန္ ေျပာဆိုၾကတာျဖစ္လို႔ တခုခုကို “ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တာ” “တြဲလုပ္တဲ့သေဘာ” နဲ႔ ကြာျခားပါတယ္။

ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တာ မတိုင္ခင္ ညိွႏိႈင္းတာရွိရမွာျဖစ္ျပီး၊ ညိွႏိႈင္းတာေရာက္ဖို႔ လုပ္ရမဲ့အဆင့္ကို Interaction အဆင့္လို႔ ေခၚမယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။

ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ “ျပည္ပမွာထက္အရင္ ျပည္တြင္းထဲမွာ Interaction လုပ္ဘို႔လိုတယ္” ဆိုတာကို “ကိုယ့္ျပည္ထဲမွာ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားအၾကား အျပန္အလွန္သေဘာပါတဲ့ ဆက္သြယ္ေရး၊ ဆက္ဆံမႈေတြ ရွိဘို႔ လိုတယ္” လို႔ မွတ္ယူသင့္ပါတယ္။ တဖက္ကေျပာသမွ် လိုက္လုပ္ရမယ္၊ မလိုက္ရင္ ဘယ္ဥပေဒနဲ႔ ညိလို႔၊ ဘယ္ဥပေဒကို ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္လို႔ ဘာျပစ္ဒဏ္၊ ညာျပစ္ဒဏ္ဆိုတာနဲ႔ လံုး၀မတူပါ။

အလုပ္ရံုတခုမွာ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲေရးနဲ႔ အလုပ္သမားေတြ Interaction ရွိမွ အလုပ္က တိုးတက္ပါသတဲ့။ ဓါတ္ပစၥည္းတခုနဲ႔ တခု ေတြ႕ရင္ ဓါတ္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ ျဖစ္လာကလဲ အတူတူပါ။ အႏွစ္ ၂၀အတြင္း ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမရွိေသးတာ Interaction မရွိေသးလို႔ပါ။ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဆိုတဲ့စက္ရံုၾကီး တိုးတက္မလာတာလဲ Interaction မရွိေသးလို႔ပါဘဲ။

တင့္ေဆြ (၁၉-၈-၀၉)

ဂ်ကာတာ ကြန္ဖရင့္

2009-08-19T18:48:00.000+05:30

တပါတ္ေလာက္အတြင္း (အင္တာနက္)မွာ (ဂ်ကာတာ ကြန္ဖရင့္)နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေရးေနၾကတာတခ်ိဳ႕ကို ဖတ္ရပါတယ္။ အျပဳသေဘာေတြကို ေက်းဇူးတင္ရမွာပါ။ တကယ္လို႔ “Proposal for National Reconciliation” ဆိုတာကို ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့တဲ့ Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities ရဲ႕ အစည္းအေ၀းကိစၥမွာ မရွင္းတာေလးေတြ ရွိေနပါရင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ ဒီလို ျပန္လည္ေရးသား အစီရင္ခံပါရေစ။

(ဂ်ကာတာ)ကြန္ဖရင့္ျပီးရင္ ဥေရာပကြန္ဖရင့္တခု ရွိေသးတယ္ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ ရိုးရိုးသားသားေျပာရရင္ ကြ်န္ေတာ္ အခုထိ မသိေသးပါ။ အဲဒီကြန္ဖရင့္မွာ အန္စီဂ်ီယူဘီ၊ အန္စီယူဘီ၊ အီးအန္စီ၊ အျပင္ တတိယအုပ္စုပါမယ္ဆိုတာလဲ မသိပါ။

အတိအက် သိတာကိုသာ ေရးပါမယ္။ ဂ်ကာတာမွာ လုပ္ခဲ့တာက NCGUB, NCUB, ENC, WLB, FDB, SYCB နဲ႔ NYF ဆိုတဲ့ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအဖြဲ႔ (၇)ဖြဲ႔ျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီခုနစ္ဖြဲ႔လံုးဟာ သိျပီးျဖစ္တဲ့အတိုင္း ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား တန္းတူ ညီမွ်မႈ၊ ဖက္ဒရယ္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဆိုတဲ့ ဗ်ဴဟာပိုင္းမွာ တူညီၾကပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ျပီး၊ (ဆန္ရွင္)ကိစၥမွာလဲ တူၾကသလို၊ ၂၀၀၈-၂၀၁၀ မွာလဲ တူၾကပါတယ္။ တူတယ္ဆိုတာထက္ တြဲလုပ္ေနၾကတာမို႔ နားလည္မႈေတြ အထူးရွိၾကတာကို ေျပာခ်င္တာပါ။

တတိယအုပ္စုဆိုတာ ဘယ္ဟာကို ရည္ညႊန္းလဲ တိတိက်က် မမွန္းတတ္ပါ။ တကယ္လို႔ စစ္အုပ္စုမဟုတ္ေပမဲ့ (ဆန္ရွင္)၊ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရး၊ ၂၀၁၀ ဆိုတာေတြမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔နဲ႔ မတူသူမ်ားကို တတိယလို႔ ေခၚမယ္ဆိုရင္ျဖင့္ (ဂ်ကာတာ)မွာ သူတို႔ မပါပါခင္ဗ်ား။ သိတဲ့အတိုင္း ျမန္မာေရဒီယိုေတြက မတူဘူးထင္သူေတြကို တြဲထုတ္ေပးတာ ေခတ္စားေနတာမို႔ သူတို႔တေတြနဲ႔ ေရဒီယိုေတြမွာ အတူတူ စကားေျပာခ်င္ေျပာပါမယ္။ ဘံုလုပ္ငန္းတခု ခ်ေရးမွာေတာ့ သူတို႔မပါပါ။ သူတို႔လုပ္လဲ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ကို ေခၚမွာ မဟုတ္ပါ။ အတိုက္အခံေတြ မညီညြတ္ဘူးလို႔ေျပာလဲ ခံေနရဦးမွာပါ။

(ဂ်ကာတာ)ကေန ညီညြတ္မႈတခုရတာပါ။ အနိမ့္ဆံုးအားျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာင္းကုန္တခုကို တညီတညြတ္ ထုတ္လုပ္ခဲ့ၾကတာပါ။ ၀ယ္တာ၊ မ၀ယ္တာက ေနာက္ေမးခြန္းတခု ျဖစ္ပါမယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေစတနာပါပါ လုပ္ခဲ့ၾကတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ (အာစီယံ)ထဲသြားထိုင္ျပီး အသံထြက္ခဲ့ၾကတာလဲ ျဖစ္ပါေသးတယ္။ တဖြဲ႔မွာ တခုစီေလာက္ (ရုပ္မက္) တို႔ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရး အစီအစဥ္ဆိုတာေတြ ရွိေနတဲ့အထဲ၊ (အနည္းဆံုးေတာ့) ဒီအဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကျဖင့္ တခုထဲ ဒါပါလို႔ ေျပာႏိုင္တဲ့ အဆင့္တခုကို ေရာက္ခဲ့တာပါ။

“ကိုယ္မၾကိဳက္တာေတာ့ သိတယ္ ကုိယ္ၾကိဳက္တာကိုယ္ မသိဘူး”လို႔ အထင္ခံေနရာကေန “က်ဳပ္တို႔မွာ ဒီအျမင္ေတြ အတူတကြ ရွိၾကတယ္”လို႔ ေျပာႏိုင္လာတာ ျဖစ္ပါေသးတယ္။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔အတြက္ သက္သက္မဟုတ္ အုပ္စိုးသူမ်ားလဲ ပါ၀င္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အစီအစဥ္တရပ္ကို တင္ျပတာမို႔ ဒီအဆိုျပဳခ်က္ဟာ အျဖစ္ခ်င္ဆံုး (အိုင္ဒီးလ္)ေတြေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါ ခင္ဗ်ား။

ခုနစ္ဖြဲ႔ဟာ “အားလံုး” လို႔ မေျပာပါ။ ကေန႔ကာလ အခင္းအက်င္းအရ လူဘယ္ေလာက္မ်ားမ်ား တေနရာထဲ စုလို႔ရမွာလဲ။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာသာမက အျပင္မွာလဲ အေျခအေနက ေပးတာမဟုတ္ပါ။ (၇)ဖြဲ႔ကိုေတာင္ အခ်ိန္၊ အရင္းအျမစ္နဲ႔ သႏၷိ႒ာန္ေတြ အေတာ္ၾကီး စုစည္းခဲ့ရတာပါ။ ဒီလိုစုစည္းႏိုင္တာထက္ ပိုက်ယ္ျပန္႔တာမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ရင္ ဘယ္သူကမဆို ၾကိဳဆိုၾကမယ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ (၇)ဖြဲ႔ကလဲ ဒို႔ခ်ည္းဘဲကြ မဟုတ္ပါ။ ဆက္လုပ္ရာ၊ တြဲလုပ္စရာေတြ တေလွၾကီး ရွိပါေသးတယ္။

အခုထိေတာ့ ထုတ္ေျပာလို႔ရမဲ့ အဖြဲ႔ေတြထက္ပိုျပီး တိုင္ပင္ညွိႏိႈင္းတာေတြ လုပ္ထားျပီးပါျပီ။ သေဘာထားရယူတာေတြ၊ ျဖည့္စြက္ခ်က္ေတြလဲ ပါသြားျပီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၆ လက အစပ်ိဳးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းရဲ႕ မူၾကမ္းဟာ အခုေလာက္ထိ မျပည့္စံုခဲ့ပါ။

ေနာင္လဲ ပိုျပည့္စံုတဲ့တိုင္ေအာင္ မစြန္တဲ့ေရာင္းကုန္ျဖစ္ဘို႔က အမ်ားၾကီး ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ စစ္အုပ္စုအပါအ၀င္ (စတိတ္-ဟိုးလ္ဒါး) လို႔ ေခၚသူအားလံုး ပါျပီး၊ အတူတူထိုင္ဆြဲတာမ်ိဳးျဖစ္မွ စြန္မွာပါ။ အဲဒီအဆင့္ မေရာက္ႏိုင္မီ အတူတကြ ထိုင္ႏိုင္ၾကသူမ်ားကေန အက်ယ္ျပန္႔ဆံုး အစီအစဥ္တခုကို တင္ျပလိုက္ၾကတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အရင္က မရွိေသးတာတခုကို စလုပ္တာဟာ သမိုင္းတြင္တယ္လို႔ဆိုရင္ (ဂ်ကာတာ)ဟာ သမိုင္းေလးတခုပါ။ အခ်ိန္ေကာင္းေတာ့ ဟုတ္မသြားပါ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေပၚ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္မႈ လုပ္လိုက္တာနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသား ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ဟာ တခ်ိန္တည္းဆိုသလို ထြက္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ တဖက္က အာဃာတ ၾကီးမားဆဲကာလမွာ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ တင္ျပခ်က္လုပ္တာဟာ အားနည္းခ်က္လို႔ မယူဆေစလိုပါ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ ကံမေကာင္းျဖစ္ဆဲပါ။

၂၀၀၃ (ရုပ္မက္)ကလြဲရင္ ဘာမွ မရွိေတာ့ဘူးဆိုသူမ်ား စိတ္၀င္စားလာေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။ သိခ်င္-ျဖည့္ခ်င္-ပါခ်င္သူမ်ား ရွိလာရင္ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးေရးတခု ရလာတာဘဲ ျဖစ္ပါမယ္။ ၾကားကေန သြားေျပာမဲ့သူမ်ားကလည္း တဖက္က “ဒါ” ရွိတယ္လို႔ သယ္သြားေစဘို႔လဲ မွန္းပါတယ္။

ကိုယ္လုပ္ရမဲ့အလုပ္ကို စိတ္ေကာင္းေစတနာ မွန္မွန္နဲ႔ မဆုပ္မနစ္ လုပ္ေနၾကသူေတြကို ေလးစားပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား။

တင့္ေဆြ
၁၉-၈-၀၉

ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး ျပည္တြင္းတြင္ ပထမဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာဆို

2009-08-19T14:40:00.001+05:30

ဧရာ၀တီ
Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:02 ကိုေထြး

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚ ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔ အေရးယူမႈမ်ား ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ရန္ အတြက္ ျပည္ပႏိုင္ငံမ်ားႏွင့္ ညိွႏိႈင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း မျပဳမီ ျမန္မာ ျပည္တြင္းတြင္ ဦးစြာ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အေမရိကန္ အထက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္ကို ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ အျခား တိုင္းျပည္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္းေျပာရာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျပန္လည္ တု႔ံျပန္ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယမန္ေန႔ ညေနပုိင္းက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ သြားေရာက္ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့သည့္ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ျပန္ၾကားေရး တာ၀န္ရိွသူတဦး ျဖစ္သည့္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

“ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ အေနနဲ႔က ျပည္တြင္းမွာ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္တာရွိမွ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္္မႈက အက်ိဳးရွိမယ္ လို႔ ျပန္ေျပာခဲ့တယ္ လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္” ဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေရွ႕ေန လည္းျဖစ္သူ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ဧရာ၀တီသုိ႔ ရွင္းျပသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နွင့္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းတုိ႔ အခ်ိန္ ၁ နာရီ ၾကာ ေတြဆုံခဲ့ရာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက ျမန္မာျပည္ အေပၚ ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔ အေရးယူမႈ၊ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ စသည့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

စစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ခ်မွတ္ထားေသာ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈမ်ားသည္ သူ၏ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္မ်ား မဟုတ္သည့္ အတြက္ ရုတ္သိမ္းေပး၍ မရႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းပိတ္ဆို႔မႈမ်ားသည္ တိုင္းျပည္ႏွင့္ လူထု အတြက္ အက်ိဳး မရွိပါက စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္က အဆိုျပဳခဲ့ရာ အစပိုင္း တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရက သေဘာ တူသေယာင္ ရွိေသာ္လည္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ အရာမထင္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ ကို ရွင္းျပခဲ့သည္ ဟု ၎က ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

“အခု ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သတင္းေတြမွာ ပါေနတယ္ ကမာၻလွည့္ ခရီးသြားေတြကို ျမန္မာျပည္ မလာ ဖို႔ ဆိုတဲ့ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈကို ရုပ္္သိမ္း ေပးဖို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သေဘာတူတယ္၊ ေျပာတယ္ ဆိုတာ လုံး၀ မေျပာဘူး ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ သူက ျငင္းပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ ေျပာဆိုသည့္ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ေၾကာက္လန္႔စရာေကာင္းသည့္ ၾသဇာ လြမ္းမိုးမႈဟူေသာ စကားကုိ သေဘာ မတူေၾကာင္း၊ တရုတ္သည္ အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း ႏိုင္ငံတခု ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း မိတ္ေဆြေကာင္း အျဖစ္ ဆက္ဆံလိုေၾကာင္း၊ ကမာၻေပၚရွိ အင္အားႀကီး ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား အားလုံးကို မိတ္ေဆြသေဘာ ဆက္ဆံရသည္ကိုသာ လိုလားေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

“ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ၀င္မလားလို႔ ေမးတယ္ တဲ့၊ အဖြဲ႔၀င္ေတြနဲ႔ စုံစုံညီညီ ညိႇႏိႈင္းၿပီးေတာ့မွ ဆုံးျဖတ္မယ္ လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျပန္ေျပာတယ္၊ ဆုံးျဖတ္၍ ရရင္ေတာင္ အဲဒီ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကုိ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားကို ပထမဆုံး ေျပာျပရမယ္၊ ေဘးလူကို အရင္ စေျပာတာမ်ိဳးကို ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ျပဳလုပ္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျပန္ေျပာတယ္” ဟုေျပာသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ က်န္းမာေရးမွာ ေကာင္းမြန္လ်က္ရွိၿပီး အမႈကိစၥ အယူခံ ၀င္ရန္ အတြက္လည္း ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲတြင္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အျမင္ကို တလြဲ မေျပာလိုေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း ့ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ တခ်ိဳ႕ကို ျပန္ရုတ္သိမ္း ေပးဖို႔ ကိစၥကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကန္႔ကြက္မည္မဟုတ္ဟု ယူဆေၾကာင္း သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားအား ေျပာခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ အေပၚ အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ဥေရာပႏုိင္ငံမ်ားက အေရးယူ ထားသည့္ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ ႐ုတ္သိမ္းေပးရန္ တိုက္တြန္းသင့္ေၾကာင္း သူက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေျပာခဲ့သည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။

အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ ဝက္ဘ္ သည္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးရာ ေကာ္မတီ၏ အာရွ ႏွင့္ ပစိဖိတ္ ေရးရာေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠဌ လည္း ျဖစ္သည္။

၎၏ ျမန္မာျပည္ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေ႐ႊတို႔ကို သီးျခားစီ ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့သည္။

မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္သည္ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူမႈကို ဆန္႔က်င္သူတဦး အျဖစ္ လူသိမ်ားသည္။

မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား

2009-08-19T12:56:00.001+05:30

ေခတ္ျပိဳင္ - မင္းႏိုင္သူ / ၁၈ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၀၀၉

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူမႈမ်ားႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံစဥ္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့မႈမ်ားကုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီေျပာခြင့္ရ ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ားမွတဆင့္ ယမန္ေန႔က ျပန္လည္ရွင္းလင္း ေျပာၾကားလုိက္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢဳိလ္တဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “စီးပြားေရးဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆုိ႔မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ မစၥတာ၀က္ဘ္က ေျပာတယ္တဲ့။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ Interaction ႏုိင္ငံတကာနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ လုိအပ္မယ္ေပါ့။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ဟုတ္တယ္။ Interaction ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြလုပ္ဖုိ႔ လုိတာမွန္တယ္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္လည္းပဲ အဲဒီ Interaction က ျပည္တြင္းမွာ အရင္စဖုိ႔လုိတယ္။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာလုပ္ႏုိင္မွ ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွာလုပ္တဲ့ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြက ေအာင္ျမင္မႈရမယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာတယ္တဲ့” ဟု ျပန္လည္ရွင္းျပသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ဆက္ဆံေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္ႏွင့္ေတြ႔ဆုံစဥ္က ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္ မ်ားကုိလည္း မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္အား ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

“ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔ေတြ႔ဆုံတုန္းက ဒီစီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆုိ႔မႈကိစၥေတြဟာ သူလုပ္ထားတာ မဟုတ္တဲ့အတြက္ သူအေနနဲ႔ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းတယ္ ဆုိတာမ်ဳိးက မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ဘူး။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ တုိင္းျပည္အတြက္ ထိခိုက္တယ္၊ နစ္နာတယ္ဆုိရင္ ဒီစီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆုိ႔မႈေတြကိုု အာဏာပုိင္ေတြနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေျဖရွင္းမယ္။ သေဘာတူ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္မယ္။ ဒီလုိအဆုိျပဳခ်က္ကုိ ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ေစာေစာပုိင္းက သေဘာတူသေယာင္ ရွိေပမယ့္ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ ဘာမွျဖစ္မလာဘူးဆုိတာကုိ သူရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ဆက္လက္ေျပာသည္။

အေမရိကန္အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ႏွင့္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးရာေကာ္မတီ၏ အာရွႏွင့္ပစိဖိတ္ေရးရာ ဆပ္ေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠ႒လည္းျဖစ္သူ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္သည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္း၏ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္အရ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ (၃) ရက္ၾကာခရီး လာေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၾသဂုတ္ (၁၅) ရက္တြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံခြင့္ရခဲ့သည္။

မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္က ယမန္ေန႔ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ၌ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူမႈ အခ်ဳိ႕ကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းရန္အတြက္ မကန္႔ကြက္ပါဟု ၎ထင္ျမင္ယူဆေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိခဲ့သည္ဟု ႏုိင္ငံျခား မီဒီယာအခ်ဳိ႕တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည္။

ထုိကဲ့သုိ႔ မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္၏ ေျပာဆုိခ်က္ သတင္းမ်ားေပၚထြက္ေနမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အန္အယ္လ္ဒီေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢဳိလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “အဲဒါေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး က်ေနာ္တုိ႔လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေမးၾကည့္ပါတယ္။ သူေျပာတာက ေစာေစာက က်ေနာ္ ျပန္ရွင္းျပသလုိမ်ဳိး။ အဲဒါေတြပဲ ေျပာခဲ့တာ။ သူ႔ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ဆုိတာက သူ႔ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္သက္သက္ပဲျဖစ္မယ္။ သူေတာ့မေျပာဘူး။ အဲလုိပဲေျပာပါတယ္” ဟု ရွင္းျပသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံရာတြင္ မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္က ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍လည္း ေျပာဆုိေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

“ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ပထမရွင္းျပတာကေတာ့ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရး (ဒုိင္ယာေလာခ့္) အေရးႀကီးတယ္ဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ ဒုိင္ယာေလာ့ခ္ကမွ ကိစၥရပ္ေတြအားလုံးကို ေျဖရွင္းႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ တကယ္လုပ္ၾကည့္မွ ဒီဥစၥာအက်ဳိးရွိတယ္ ဆုိတာကုိ သိမယ့္အေၾကာင္း၊ အဲဒီလုိေျပာပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တခုက ဆီးနိတ္တာက ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ဖုိ႔ မ၀င္ဖုိ႔ ကိစၥကုိေမးပါတယ္။ ဒါနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ဒါဟာ ပါတီ၀င္ေတြနဲ႔ အေက်အလည္ညႇိႏႈိင္း ဆုံးျဖတ္ရမယ့္ ကိစၥ။ တကယ္လုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ရင္လည္း ပထမဆုံးအသိေပးရမွာ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြကိုပဲဆုိတာ သူေျပာျပခဲ့တယ္” ဟု ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာသည္။

အေမရိကန္အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုအခ်ဳိ႕ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့သည္။

ထုိ႔ေနာက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေနအိမ္သုိ႔ ေရကူး၀င္ေရာက္ခဲ့မႈျဖင့္ အလုပ္ၾကမ္းႏွင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ (၇) ႏွစ္က်ခံေနရေသာ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံသား မစၥတာဂၽြန္၀ီလ်ံယက္ေတာကုိ ေထာင္ဒဏ္မွကင္းလြတ္ရန္ မစၥတာဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္အေနျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၎ႏွင့္အတူ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ ေခၚေဆာင္သြားႏုိင္ခဲ့သည္။

ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ (၁၄) ႏွစ္နီးပါး က်ခဲ့ေနရသူ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွာမူ ေနအိမ္သုိ႔ ဂၽြန္ယက္ေတာ၀င္ေရာက္လာျခင္းေၾကာင့္ နအဖစစ္အစုိးရ၏ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ေဖာက္ဖ်က္မႈျဖင့္ တရားစြဲဆုိျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရၿပီးသည့္ေနာက္ ေနအိမ္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ (၁) ႏွစ္ခြဲႏွင့္ ဆုိင္းငံ့ျပစ္ဒဏ္ (၁) ႏွစ္ခြဲ ခ်ထားျခင္းခံေနရသည္။

ျပည္တြင္းအင္အားစုေတြနဲ႕ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမရိွပဲ အက်ိဳးမျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဟု ေဒၚစု ေ၀ဖန္

2009-08-19T11:52:00.000+05:30

VOA 18 August 2009

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚမွာ ခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူမႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္တာထက္ ကိုယ့္ႏုိင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ အခ်င္းခ်င္း အရင္ညႇိႏႈိင္းဖုိ႔ လိုတယ္လို႔ ေျပာလုိက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း NLD ေျပာခြင့္ရ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက မေန႔က ေျပာဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံုကို ကိုေဇာ္၀င္းလႈိင္က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။

အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုတဲ့အခါမွာ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ အေရးယူမႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ အေရးယူမႈေတြ ျပန္လည္ ရႈတ္သိမ္းေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္တာမွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဟာ အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ လုိေနတယ္လုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ တင္ျပခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဘက္က အခ်က္ ၂ခ်က္ ျပန္ေျပာခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ မေန႔က သူနဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့တဲ့ NLD ေျပာခြင့္ရ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာျပပါတယ္။

“ပထမ အခ်က္က Interaction လုပ္ဖုိ႔ ဆုိတာ အဲဒါက ျပည္တြင္းမွာ အရင္ လုပ္ရမွာ။ တျခားႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ အရင္လုပ္ရမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ interaction မဟုတ္ဘဲနဲ႔ တျခားႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ လုပ္လုိ႔ ဘာမွ အက်ိဳးမရွိဘူးဆုိတာကို သူရွင္းျပတယ္။ ေနာက္တခုက saction နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ ၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ဆက္ဆံေရး ၀န္ႀကီးနဲ႔ ေတြ႕ေနတဲ့ကာလမွာ အဲဒီတုန္းက ထုတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ အေၾကာင္းၾကားစာ ရွိတယ္ေလ။ confrontation တုိ႔ out of devastation တုိ႔ sanction တုိ႔ blockage တုိ႔ ဒါေတြကို မလုပ္ေတာ့ပါဘူး၊ ရႈတ္သိမ္းပါတယ္ ဆုိရင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊက ေတြ႕မယ္ဆုိၿပီး ဟုိတုန္းက စာထြက္တယ္။ အဲဒီကတည္းက ေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့အခါမွာ သူက ေျပာတယ္တဲ့ sanction နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ႏွစ္ဘက္ ပူးတဲြ သေဘာထား ထုတ္ျပန္လုိတယ္။ ႏွစ္ဘက္ ပူးတြဲၿပီးေတာ့ sanction ေတြ ရႈတ္သိမ္းေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လုိတယ္လုိ႔ အဆုိျပဳခဲ့တယ္တဲ့။ အဆုိျပဳတာေတြကို ပထမပိုင္းမွာ သေဘာတူသေယာင္ ရွိၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း မလုပ္ႏုိင္ဘူးလို႔ အဲဒါကို သူ ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္ ကုိ သူရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္တဲ့။”

အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္ဟာ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔အေရးယူမႈေတြကို ဆန္႔က်င္သူတဦးအျဖစ္ အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းမွာ ထင္ရွားသူတဦး ျဖစ္တဲ့အျပင္၊ အခုလို သူ႔ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆုိမႈေတြ အမ်ားအျမင္မွာ ထင္ေရာင္ထင္မွား ျဖစ္ႏုိင္စရာရွိတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြ ပါ၀င္ ေနပါတယ္။ အခုဆုိရင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ အေရးယူမႈေတြ ရႈတ္သိမ္းေပးေရးအတြက္ သေဘာတူသေယာင္ေယာင္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ သတင္းမီဒီယာေတြမွာ ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပေနတာကို ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥအေပၚ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ရဲ႕ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံက သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲ ြအပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ သတင္းမီဒီယာေတြထဲမွာ ေဖာ္ျပေနတာေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဦးဥာဏ္၀င္းက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို တုိက္ရုိက္ ေမးျမန္းခဲ့တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပပါတယ္။

“ကၽြန္ေတာ္က ဒီေနရာမွာ ေမးပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ သတင္းၾကားတာကေတာ့ ယုိးဒယားမွာ ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္က ရွင္းတာလည္း ၾကားတယ္၊ ေနာက္ လန္ဒန္က သတင္းစာ တေစာင္မွာလည္း Tourism Sanction ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ ရႈတ္သိမ္းလိုတယ္လုိ႔ ေရးတယ္လုိ႔ ၾကားတယ္။ အဲဒါကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔က ေျပာေတာ့။ သူက သူ အဲဒီလို လံုး၀ မေျပာခဲ့ဘူးတဲ့၊ သူေျပာတာက sanction နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မယ္၊ ရႈတ္သိမ္းဖုိ႔ သေဘာထားကိုလည္း ပူးေပါင္း ထုတ္ျပန္မယ္၊ ဒါ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ပါ့မယ္ ဆုိတာကို သူအဆုိျပဳခဲ့တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းကို သူရွင္းျပပါတယ္။ အဓိကက သူမေျပာဘူး၊ သူေျပာတဲ့ sanction က အစုိးရနဲ႔ အာဏာပုိင္းေတြနဲ႔ ရႈတ္သိမ္းဖုိ႔လုိရင္ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္မယ္။ ေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ အဆုိျပဳတယ္၊ သူက ဒါပဲ ေျပာျပခဲ့တာတဲ့။”

စစ္အစုိးရရဲ႕ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေတြေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ဒဏ္ခတ္ပိတ္ဆုိ႔ အေရးယူေရး မူ၀ါဒေတြကို ခ်မွတ္ က်င့္သံုးလာခဲ့တာပါ။ ဒီလုိ ပိတ္ဆုိ႔မႈေတြေၾကာင့္လည္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဟာ အထီးက်န္ ျဖစ္ေနတယ္လုိ႔ ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္က ျမင္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကေန ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံကို ေရာက္ေရာက္ခ်င္းျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေအာင္ စစ္အစုိးရအေပၚ အတုိင္းအတာတခုအထိ ၾသဇာသက္ေရာက္မႈ ရွိတဲ့ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံကို ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ၀ုိင္း၀န္း ဖိအားေပးၾကဖုိ႔ တုိက္တြန္းပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံက ၾသဇာ သက္ေရာက္မႈ ရွိတယ္၊ အင္အားႀကီး ႏုိင္ငံမို႔ ေၾကာက္ရႊံ႕ရတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ပုံစံမ်ိဳး အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္က ေျပာခဲ့တာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဒီေနရာမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္နဲ႔ အျမင္ သေဘာထားျခင္း ကြာျခားေနတာကို ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။

“အခ်က္အလက္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ တခ်ိဳ႕အခ်က္ေတြ ေျပာတယ္။ ဥပမာ သူတခုေျပာတာက ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ က ေျပာတယ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဟာ တရုတ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံႀကီးမို႔ စိုးရိမ္ထိတ္လန္႔ သေဘာမ်ိဳးကို သူက အဲဒါကို ေျပာတယ္တဲ့။ ဒီစကားလံုးကို သူ လံုး၀ လက္မခံႏုိင္ဘူး။ သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ေတာ့ တရုတ္ကို အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း ေကာင္းအျဖစ္ မိတ္ေဆြႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္၊ သူဒီလုိပဲ သေဘာထားတယ္တဲ့။ ေစာေစာကလုိ ေျပာတဲ့စကားလံုးမ်ိဳးကို သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ မႀကိဳက္ဘူး ဆုိတာကုိ သူရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က တဆက္တည္း ဒါနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေျပာတာက ကမၻာေပၚမွာ ဘယ္လုိပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ၾသဇာရွိတာက တခု၊ အေမရိကန္၊ ေနာက္ၿပီး အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္းက အိႏၵိယ၊ တရုတ္ ဒီႏုိင္ငံေတြနဲ႔အတူ အဆင္ေျပေျပ မိတ္ေဆြအျဖစ္ပဲ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ဆက္ဆံလုိတယ္လုိ႔ သူအဲဒီလုိ ေျပာျပခဲ့တယ္တဲ့။”

အေမရိကန္အမတ္၏ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျငင္းဆို

2009-08-18T22:56:00.001+05:30

RFA 2009-08-17

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုြကည္နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ Mr. Webb တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚႏႏိုင္ငံတကာက ပိတ္ဆို႔ဒဏ္ခတ္ အေရးယူေနတဲ့ ကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မႈတခ်ိဳ႕ ဖယ္ရွားေပးေရးကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က သေဘာတူလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ယူဆေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ Mr. Jim Webb ရဲ့ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။

အဲဒီ ေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္မ်ားေပၚကေန သံုးသပ္ျပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈတခ်ိဳ႕ ပယ္ဖ်က္ေရးကိစၥကို မကန္႔ကြက္ဖူးလို႔ မိမိယူဆေၾကာင္း ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႔က ဗန္ေကာက္ျမိဳ႕မွာ ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ သတင္းစာရွင္းပြဲမွာ Mr. Jim Webb ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တာပါ။

ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၇ရက္ေန႔ ညေနပိုင္းက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့တဲ့ ပါတီ ေျပာခြင့္ရွိ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းက ေမးျမန္းၾကည့္တဲ့အခါမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ခုလို ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္း။ ။ “လံုးဝ လံုးဝ အဲဒီလုိ Sanction lift လုပ္ဖို႔ ဘာညာ သူမေျပာဘူးတဲ့။ သူေျပာခဲ့တာက Sanction နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ရွိရင္ သူဟာ Sanction ေတြ lift လုပ္ဖို႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ပါ့မယ္၊ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်င္တယ္ဆုိတာ အစိုးရကုိ အဆုိျပဳဖူးတယ္တဲ့။ အစိုးရဘက္ကသာ ဘာမွမလုပ္တာတဲ့။ ပထမ သေဘာတူသေယာင္ ရွိျပီး ေနာက္က်ေတာ့ မလုပ္တာတဲ့၊ အဲဒီလုိေျပာတယ္။”

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ Mr. Jim Webb ေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ Mr. Webb က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ဒဏ္ခတ္ အေရးယူမႈေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈေတြ ျပန္လည္ ႟ုပ္သိမ္းသြားေအာင္ ေဆြးေႏြး အၾကံျပဳတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္း။ ။ “ေနာက္ Interaction နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီးေတာ့ အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ Interaction လုပ္ဖို႔ သူက အၾကံျပဳတယ္တဲ့။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က သူ႔ကို ျပန္ေျပာတယ္၊ Interaction ဆိုတာ အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ မလုပ္ခင္ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ အရင္လုပ္ရမွာတဲ့။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ Interaction မရွိဘဲနဲ႔ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ လုပ္လို႔ ဘာမွ အက်ဳိးမရွိႏိုင္ဘူးလုိ႔ သူရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္တဲ့။”

စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔တာေတြ ရပ္တန္႔သြားေအာင္ ေတြ႕ဆံုညိွႏိႈင္းဖို႔ Mr. Webbက အၾကံျပဳခဲ့တာကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အဲဒီလို ျပန္ေျပာခဲ့တာလို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္၊ Mr. Webb ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုစဥ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရးကိစၥအျပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေရး အေပၚ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ ပါဝင္ပတ္သက္မႈေတြ အလြန္အၾကြံျဖစ္ေနတာကိုလည္း ေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥအေပၚ Mr. Jim Webb ေျပာဆို အသံုးျပဳသြားတဲ့ စကားလံုးအသံုးအႏႈန္းကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မႏွစ္သက္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္း။ ။ “ေနာက္ သူကေျပာတယ္တဲ့။ သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ေတာ့ ဒီစကားလံုးလည္း မၾကိဳက္ဘူး။ China ကိုလည္း အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း၊ မိတ္ေကာင္းေဆြေကာင္း သေဘာပဲ သူသေဘာထားတဲ့အေၾကာင္း သူရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္တဲ့”

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့တာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းကို RFA မွ ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္က ဆက္သြယ္ ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။

17-8-09 Myanmar should open up

2009-08-18T13:09:00.000+05:30

Updated Monday, August 17, 2009 9:18 am TWN, The China Post news staff
Lately, the government of U.S. President Barack Obama has come under fire for opening contacts with authoritarian renegade states.

Hardly days after former U.S. President Bill Clinton completed a whirlwind 20-hour trip to North Korea, bringing home two imprisoned American journalists, a prominent American senator has arrived in Myanmar for high-level talks with officials in the isolated Southeast Asian nation.

The visit by Senator James Webb, elected from the state of Virginia and a prominent member of Obama's ruling Democratic Party, has been criticized for purportedly rewarding Myanmar's military dictators for their repressive actions.

Senator Webb, known to be a close friend of Obama, arrived in the country formerly known as Burma just days after a Myanmar court sentenced the country's main opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to an additional year and a half of house arrest, effectively barring her from taking part in national elections scheduled to be held next year.

The trial of Suu Kyi was held after U.S. citizen John Yettaw swam through a lake to reach Suu Kyi's home last May and apparently spent the night in the residence despite the presence of numerous Burmese guards and being told by Suu Kyi herself that he should leave the property.

Yettaw, who appears to suffer from some kind of mental condition, had managed to slip into Suu Kyi's compound for a second time after being apprehended there several months before and expelled from Myanmar.

Yettaw has since been sentenced to seven years of hard labor in a Burmese prison, causing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to demand his release.

While the visit by Senator Webb is surely controversial, Obama's policy of opening back-door channels of communication to rogue states is still a wise move.

By dispatching an elected senator instead of a high-ranking administration official, Obama is avoiding the appearance of rewarding the Myanmar regime for its continued unlawful arrest and detention of the country's most prominent leaders seeking democratic reforms.

Since Senator Webb has long been a critic of U.S.-led economic sanctions against Myanmar, his visit to the country poses little risk for Obama's administration if it fails to produce any significant results.

But if Webb manages to get the Burmese leaders to engage in substantial dialogue, perhaps by securing a promise to release Aung San, Obama's administration could gradually move toward more high-level talks aimed at normalizing relations.

When it comes to dealing with rogue states, some dialogue is always better than no dialogue.

The simple act of talking to a rogue regime still falls short of rewarding it, although such talks should be handled with extreme care.

The easiest thing for Myanmar to do at this point would be to pardon the deranged American intruder and simply let Senator Webb take the man home with him as a gesture to Washington.

The military regime in Myanmar, currently led by General Than Shwe, has kept Aung San in prison or house arrest ever since her political party appeared to have won elections in 1988 that were illegally canceled by the ruling military junta.

The constant refusal of Myanmar's authoritarian leaders to release democratic leaders and consent to genuine elections has led to endless tensions and the regime's continued isolation from the international community.

The Myanmar situation has long posed one of the most serious challenges for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), which urges quiet dialogue rather than confrontational sanctions and angry rhetoric.

But amid reports suggesting that Myanmar may be importing dangerous nuclear technology from other rogue states like North Korea, the patience of the international community has run out and Myanmar's leaders need to make a decision.

If they decide to go down the path of seeking gradual normalization of ties to the outside world, the prospect of heightened confrontation can be avoided.

That would be a welcome development, since there are already far too many sources of tension in the world and everyone would be better off avoiding further confrontations.

But the military regime in Myanmar may be unable to take this decision because of its inability to come to terms with internal demands for democratic elections and restoration of rule by law.

If the opposition were ever to take power in Myanmar, the military junta that has ruled with an iron fist for decades could find its leaders behind bars for their role in suppressing democracy and waging brutal wars against the country's ethnic minority regions.

In the end, Myanmar will probably try to take its cue from other authoritarian states in the region, such as Vietnam and Laos, who have retained their one-party control while normalizing relations with the outside world amid undertaking economic reforms.

18-8-09 Arunachal urges Centre for Indo-Myanmar border sealing

2009-08-18T12:59:00.000+05:30

Itanagar, Aug 18 : Arunachal Pradesh has asked New Delhi to seal the entire stretch of 440 km long Indo-Myanmar Border along the state in order to put a check on movement of various insurgent outfits through the porous international border.

Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu, who interacted with Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh over a breakfast meeting at his official residence yesterday prior to the Chief Ministers' conference on internal security, urged him to initiate steps for effective management of the Indo-Myanmar border, official sources said here today.

Mr Khandu said it would not be possible to free troubled Tirap and Changlang districts from the spill over of ultra activities from across the adjoining states of Nagaland and Assam unless the Indo-Myanmar border, which is porous and provides safe passage to insurgents, was properly manned.

Throwing light on the policy of 'one force one border', the chief minister batted for deployment of Assam Rifles on the border points of Myanmar to seal the routes of insurgents to and from other side of the international border, rather than confining it to the towns of Tirap and Changlang districts.

''Army should be deployed separately and exclusively for area dominance in the two affected districts. The Myanmar border has to be manned properly by a separate Army/paramilitary force and better understanding needs to be established with the Government of Myanmar to ensure that the insurgents do not get refuge there. Or else, Assam Rifles should be replaced by Army,'' Mr Khandu suggested.

UNI

“TIME FOR ACTION”

2009-08-15T09:57:00.001+05:30

Burma's democracy leaders push on with proposal

From the Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities

Media Release
August 13, 2009
Jakarta, Indonesia

The long-awaited Burmese democracy transitional proposal – the “Proposal for National Reconciliation” - is on track, despite set-backs in the movement's Jakarta schedule.

The Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities – the unprecedented grouping of major opposition alliances that produced the document –successfully launched the “Proposal for National Reconciliation” in spite of unexpected difficulties posed by the police acting on pressure from the Burmese Embassy in Jakarta.

Prime Minister of the Burmese government in exile, Dr. Sein Win, who is in Jakarta said, “We have produced a detailed proposal for a democratic, federal union of Burma and we will continue to work in the interests of all the people of Burma. That is our job.”

Dr. Sein Win deplored the recent verdict that will return Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to house confinement. “Without her release and that of all other political prisoners, the process of national reconciliation cannot commence nor can the planned 2010 elections be credible.”

He thanked the Indonesian and other regional parliamentarians who have stuck by the pro-democracy movement, whose interventions enabled the convention to carry on and were prepared to hear the details of the proposal. The Burmese democracy and ethnic leaders yesterday met parliament leaders at the Indonesian parliament building.

Dr Sein Win noted “Indonesia and other Asian governments must understand that Burma's tragedy is the region's tragedy. Burma's problems are the region's problems. Indonesia, as ASEAN's largest democracy must factor in all sides in the debate surrounding Burma's plight. Anything less and they are not only failing the people of Burma, they are failing themselves.”

“Despite these and many other obstacles, we are firm in our conviction and we are sure in our resolve to overcome all barriers to democracy in Burma and to return peace, freedom and security to our people. This proposal demonstrates strength, unity and commitment of all the ethnic nationalities to a democratic, federal union of Burma,” added Joint General Secretary III of the National Council of the Union of Burma, Hkun Okker.

The proposal and Joint Communique will, as planned, be presented to other world leaders in the coming months. Dr. Sein Win is looking ahead, “This is not a time for despondency, but a time for action. There has never been a more important time for the international community to back a local, realistic and sustainable democratic process in Burma.”

Contact:
Dr Thaung Htun: +628 138-362-1287
Hkun Okker: +6681-950-2158

The Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities conference in Jakarta

2009-08-15T09:23:00.000+05:30

12-8-09 The first day of the Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities Conference in Jakarta, Indonesia
13-8-09 The delegates of the Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities Conference in front of the Parliament of Indonesia

13-8-09 The delegates of the Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities Conference at PDIP party office in the Parliament

13-8-09 13-8-09 The second day of the Movement for Democracy and Rights of Ethnic Nationalities Conference at the National Human Rights Commission of Indonesia

Canadian Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) / Parlementaires amis de la Birmanie (PAB)

2009-08-15T08:52:00.000+05:30

Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB) / Parlementaires amis de la Birmanie (PAB)
Larry Bagnell, Chair
Press Release/Communiqué:
Chair of PFOB disappointed by court’s decision in Nay Myo Hein case
Français à suivre bientôt
For Immediate Release
August 14, 2009
Media Contact: (867) 668-6565

Larry Bagnell, Chair of the Parliamentary Friends of Burma (PFOB), shares his concerns after the verdict is handed down in the Nay Myo Hein deportation case today.

Nay Myo Hein, a former child soldier in Burma who fled the brutal military dictatorship, arrived in Nova Scotia by ship in 2007. Now living in Saskatoon, he has been fighting deportation ever since.

“It is extremely disappointing to hear that Nay Myo Hein was denied refugee status today. The courts have basically sentenced this man to death by sending him back to Burma” said Mr.Bagnell.

“Child soldiering is rampant in Burma,” he continued. “Young boys and girls are kidnapped and forced into the army using fear, abuse and drugs to keep them there. Nay Myo, like many others, was brave enough to escape this regime, and obviously won’t be welcomed back warmly. I believe that the authorities will be waiting for him at the airport, where he will be immediately brought to prison, and will suffer torture and possibly death.

Hein's claim was rejected previously because the judge didn't believe his story. Another official didn't believe he faced danger. This is the first known case of a Burmese refugee claimant deported from Canada

Mr.Bagnell continued, “I have been to the borders of Burma and met with many refugees. The fear is real and the threat is a reality”.

Parliamentary Friends of Burma consists of Members and Senators from all parties of the Canadian Parliament.

14-8-09 Comment: Urge The Generals

2009-08-14T14:39:00.000+05:30

14 August 2009, 12:00am IST

The world community had hoped that Aung San Suu Kyi's trial in Myanmar would end with happy news, and that the pro-democracy leader would be set free. But that was not to be. Charged with violating the terms of her house arrest by entertaining an American, Suu Kyi was slapped with a three-year imprisonment sentence by the trial judges. However, that was subsequently reduced to 18 months of further house arrest.

For the record, Suu Kyi has spent almost a decade and a half under house arrest, following her victory in the 1990 elections. Her latest stint in detention was supposed to have ended on May 27 this year. But just as that date drew close, the junta slapped fresh charges against her. It was a move, her supporters say, to prevent her from taking part in elections scheduled to be held next year in that country. But not releasing Suu Kyi will also severely undermine the credibility of the elections.

Predictably, there has been outrage in the international community at the turn of events. Suu Kyi is a potent symbol of the democratic aspirations of the people of Myanmar, which have been ruthlessly repressed by the junta for several years now. Some world leaders have called for tougher sanctions against Yangon, which is already cut off from most of the world. It would, however, be counterproductive to tighten the screws through more sanctions, as they would add to the miseries of the civilian population there. The situation in Myanmar could only get worse if the generals were pushed further into the corner.

Over the years we have seen that taking on the generals has yielded very little result. If anything, they have only become tougher, and frankly do not care for the censure heaped on them by either the UN or influential countries such as the US and Britain. It might, therefore, be worthwhile to engage with the establishment in Yangon and prod it to loosen its grip, and eventually make way for a democratic set-up. That's the policy that the ASEAN countries seem to favour. India has trade links with Myanmar and receives assistance in countering insurgents in the north-east. New Delhi should join ASEAN in engaging the generals and persuading them to release political prisoners, in order to smooth the transition to a broad-based and popular rule.

13-8-09 Indonesia Bans Meeting of Exiled Burmese Activists

2009-08-14T10:17:00.000+05:30

By ANTHONY DEUTSCH / AP WRITER
Thursday, August 13, 2009

JAKARTA — Indonesia's government has stopped a group of exiled Burmese opposition activists from holding a conference in the country, officials said Thursday, a day after the president voiced support for "credible" elections in the military dictatorship.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said police had prevented the conference from taking place Wednesday because it was inappropriate.

"We will not allow a group claiming to be a government-in-exile from whatever country to hold their activities in Indonesia," Faizasyah said, noting that Burma is a legal state recognized by Indonesia and other members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

On Tuesday, a Burmese court found pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of breaching the terms of her house arrest. She was sentenced to 18 months of further confinement.

In response, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono issued a statement on Wednesday saying Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party should be allowed to take part in "inclusive and credible" elections in Burma.

Suu Kyi's detention will keep her from participating in the junta's planned elections next year, the first polls since 1990, when her party won overwhelmingly but was barred from taking power.

The Jakarta conference was organized by a group called The Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities, an alliance of ethnic and pro-democracy parties, both exiled and within Burma, who say on their Web site that they want to push for quicker democratic reform.

The conference delegates included exiled parliamentarians from Suu Kyi's party and six other organizations dedicated to the rights of woman, youth and ethnic minorities.

Bo Hla Tint, a member of Suu Kyi's party living in exile, accused Burma's military rulers of exerting behind-the-scenes pressure on Indonesia to scrap the conference.

"This shows the real interference of the military junta. They don't want interference from other Asean members," he said in a telephone interview Thursday, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Bo Hla Tint accused Burma's neighbors of "double standards" by supporting the international community's calls for democratic elections while at the same time turning a blind eye to human rights abuses.

Suu Kyi's conviction drew sharp criticism from world leaders and human rights groups, as well as promises of new European Union sanctions against Burma.

"There is a clear and stark contrast between the public statements of the Indonesia government with its actions," said Roshan Jason, a conference organizer and executive director of the Asean Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar (Burma) Caucus.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=16552

OTHERS:
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/stories/200908/s2654707.htm

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/281089,indonesian-authorities-put-stop-to-myanmar-democratic-conference.html

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1494949.php/Indonesian-authorities-put-stop-to-Myanmar-democratic-conference

http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/democracy-group-shut-down/323783

12-8-09 IPU President calls for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

2009-08-13T15:33:00.000+05:30

12 August 2009

IPU President, Dr. Theo-Ben Gurirab, expressed his dismay at the verdict announced today whereby Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is sentenced to a further eighteen months house arrest. Dr. Gurirab recalled numerous past statements by the global parliamentary community to the effect that the long-awaited transition to democracy in Myanmar will require an inclusive, free and transparent process. It can only be achieved if all political parties and ethnic groups can participate in the process, political prisoners are released unconditionally, and restrictions on human rights and political activity are lifted. The IPU President therefore invites the authorities of Myanmar to reconsider their decision so that Aung San Suu Kyi can participate freely in the necessary dialogue.

12-8-09 IPU President calls for release of Aung San Suu Kyi

2009-08-13T14:24:00.000+05:30

13-8-09 Statement of lndian Parliamentarians' Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB)

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lndian Parliamentarians' Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB)
13 August 2009

We, the Indian Parliamentarian Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB) are shocked and saddened that the Myanmar court has convicted Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobet Peace Laureate and Jawaharlal Nehru award for International understanding on the final day of her trial that was condemned worldwide.

The court sentenced her to 18 months house arrest on 11 August 2009. John Yettaw, the man who swam to her house, was sentenced to a total of seven years hard labor and imprisonment on three separate charges. The verdict on Aung San Suu Kyi has revealed that there is neither justice nor process of law in Burma. lt has also thwarted to the process of national reconciliation in Burma. lt is incomplete disregarded of the international opinion and shows the will of the junta and its determination to oppose Democracy.

We strongly condemn the irrational verdict given on junta in Burma.

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi by the military
We noted and appreciated the statement of the Government of India at this point in time: which mentions "lndia has emphasized to the Government of Myanmar the need to expedite their political reform and national reconciliation process noting the various steps taken so far by the Government of Myanmar in this direction.

The Government of India maintains that this process should be broad based, including the various ethnic groups and express the hope that. ln this context, the issue of release of political prisoners will receive due attention."

We, the IPFDB urge and demand to the Government of lndia
o To take strong and effective initiatives on regional stability and Democracy changes in Burma.
o To advocate for immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and to co-operate with the United Nations and international community

Sharad Joshi
Convfnor IPFDB
Ph: 981-147-7736

Indian Foreign Ministry speaks on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Case

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Official Spokesperson on sentencing of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
11/08/2009

In response to a question on sentencing of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi the Official Spokesperson said:

“We have seen reports of the sentencing of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar for a period of eighteen months.

India has emphasised to the Government of Myanmar the need to expedite their political reform and national reconciliation process and have noted the various steps taken so far by the Government of Myanmar in this direction.

We have maintained that this process should be broad based, including the various ethnic groups. In this context, the issue of release of political prisoners will no doubt receive due attention.”

We believe in engaging Myanmar Govt: India
August 13, 2009: Bangkok, India on Thursday justified its policy of engaging with the military government of Myanmar and made it clear that it will not indulge in any "prescriptive" approach towards it.

"We believe in engaging with them... It is important to remain engaged," Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma said replying to a query by a journalist here on India's approach towards Myanmar where pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been slapped with a fresh sentence for violating the terms of her house arrest.

"We have never been prescriptive as to what they should do... We are not prescriptive with anyone," he said.

On criticism by the West, Sharma said: "It is easy to look at a picture from a distance" but made it clear that India's policy on democracy cannot be questioned.

"India's stand on democracy is well known. We stand for democracy and democratic reforms," said Sharma, who was Minister of State for External Affairs in the previous UPA government.

Myanmar's military regime has come under renewed attack lately after Suu Kyi was sentenced to a three-year term that was commuted by the government to 18 months of house arrest.

India, while advocating the need for democracy in Myanmar, believes that deriding of the military government will not help achieve the aim but rather complicate matters.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200908132121.htm

12-8-09 Burmese pro-democracy activists protest against Suu Kyi's house arrest

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ANI Wednesday 12th August, 2009

New Delhi, Aug.12 : Burmese pro-democracy activists condemned a Myanmar court for sentencing Aung San Suu Kyi to 18 months house arrest and held demonstration here on Wednesday.

A Myanmar court on Tuesday (August 11) sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi three years jail term sentence with hard labour for violating terms of her house arrest when an American citizen John Yettaw swam to her lakeside home in May and stayed there uninvited for two day when she was under dentention.

However, the sentence was later reduced to 18 months under house arrest.

Myanmar courts have in the past been known to favour the ruling military junta, which has ruled Myanmar since 1962.

The verdict will keep her off the political stage through elections the military government has set for next year.

"Today we gather here in front of Burma embassy because military junta has---sentence (Aung) San Suu Kyi for one and half year.

This is illegal and it is not acceptable to the Burmese people. So it is also clear that because of this sentence military don't want to hand over the power to people. The reason we are demonstrating in front of Burma embassy, the ambassador and embassy staff they are the people so they should not support the Burma Junta," said Kim, campaign coordinator, Burma Centre, Delhi.

The demonstrators said that Aung San Suu Kyi should be released immediately.

"Our main demand is that Aung San (Suu) Kyi must be released immediately without any condition. She is innocent," said Kim, campaign coordinator, Burma Centre, Delhi.

Aung San Suu Kyi, who sacrificed her prosperous days in England to take up the crusade for democracy in her home country, Myanmar and later imprisoned by the military regime, has become the world's most famous political prisoners and an icon for the struggle of democracy.

Suu Kyi has been detained for more than 13 of the last 19 years.

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As a fellow Buddhist, I would like to once again appeal to the Burmese authorities to show magnanimity and understanding by releasing her. Doing so will not only contribute towards reconciliation but also will be a goodwill gesture. (His Holiness the Dalai Lama)
This is a moral universe. Right and wrong matter. This decision is wrong. (The Elders’ chair, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu)
The time for pacification and soft diplomatic approaches is over. All countries, particularly neighboring countries with any self-respect, must side with justice and stop posturing in a way that encourages the generals to commit such crimes. (NCGUB PM Dr. Sein Win)

11-8-09 India asks Myanmar to expedite their political reform

2009-08-11T22:57:00.000+05:30

New Delhi, Aug 11 - ANI: Following the conviction of Burma's pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Indian Government on Tuesday said that it has emphasized to the Myanmar Government to expedite their political reform.

This was said by an official spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs in response to a question on sentencing of Suu Kyi.

We have seen reports of the sentencing of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar for a period of 18 months. India has emphasised to the Government of Myanmar the need to expedite their political reform and national reconciliation process and have noted the various steps taken so far by the Government of Myanmar in this direction, the spokesperson said.

We have maintained that this process should be broad based, including the various ethnic groups. In this context, the issue of release of political prisoners will no doubt receive due attention, he added.

Earlier, a forum of Indian lawmakers had urged Myanmars military junta to release Suu Kyi, saying that her release was essential for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar.

India has always maintained that it wants Myanmar to expedite national reconciliation.

Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years jail and hard labour by a court in Rangoon (Myanmar) on Tuesday, but the head of the ruling military junta commuted the punishment to 18 months house arrest.

The court sentenced her on charges of breaching the terms of her house arrest after a bizarre incident in which an American man, John Yettaw, swam to her lakeside house in May this year. - ANI

အမ်ိဳးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ

2009-08-10T10:40:00.000+05:30

2009-08-08
RFA

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီအင္အားစု အားလံုးက စစ္အစိုးရအပါအဝင္ ျပည္သူလူထုနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းကို ခ်ျပဖို႔ စီစဥ္ထားတဲ့ အမ်ိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္သစ္ကို အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု နယူးေယာက္ျမိဳ႕က ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရံုး အေဆာက္အဦ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ခန္းမမွာ မေန႔က ြသဂုတ္လ ၇ ရက္ ေဒသစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ မနက္ ၁၁ နာရီမွာ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ဒီအစီအစဥ္ကို ဒီမုိကေရစီႏွင့္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရး လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳၾကီးလို႔ အမည္ေပးထားျပီး သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို အဖြဲ႔အားလံုးရဲ့ကိုယ္စား ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာစိန္ဝင္း၊ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဦးဘိုလွတင့္နဲ႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္တို႔က သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ရွင္းလင္း ေျပာြကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီး NCGUB ရဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဦးဘိုလွတင့္က အခုလိုေျပာပါတယ္။

ဦးဘုိလွတင့္။ ။“တုိင္းရင္းသားအင္အားစုေတြ အားလံုးနဲ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီအင္အားစုေတြ အားလံုး ဝုိင္းဝန္းျပီး ေရးဆြဲထားတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအဆုိျပဳခ်က္ကို ကုလသမဂၢ လံုျခံဳေရးေကာင္စီနဲ႔ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရံုးကို အဓိကထားျပီး တင္ျပတာ ျဖစ္သလုိ ႏႎုိင္ငံတကာ ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႔ဝင္ႏုိင္ငံေတြကုိ တင္ျပတဲ့ သေဘာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။”

အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ႏိုင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ တျခားႏႎိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအဝိုင္းကို လာမယ့္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၂ နဲ႔ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔က်ရင္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ဂ်ာကာတာျမိဳ႕မွာ စတင္ အသိေပးမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ကုလသမဂၢ လံုျခံဳေရးေကာင္စီဝင္ႏိုင္ငံေတြနဲ႔ တျခားဥေရာပႏိုင္ငံေတြကို အခုကတည္းက စတင္ အသိေပးေနျပီလို႔လည္း ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္။ ။ႏႎုိင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုေတြ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားအစုအဖြဲ႕ေတြေရာ၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီအစုအဖြဲ႕ေတြေရာ အားလံုးစုစုစည္းစည္း အလုပ္လုပ္ေနတယ္။ အမ်ိဳးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ကို စီမံခ်က္တခု ေရးဆြဲထားတယ္။ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္မလဲဆုိတာကို အားလံုးေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ြကျပီး ဒါကို လုပ္ငန္း လမ္းစဥ္တခုအျဖစ္နဲ႔ အားလုံးသေဘာတူညီထားခ်က္ တခုရွိေနျပီ။ ဒါကလည္း ျပည္တြင္း အဲန္အယ္ဒီရဲ႔ ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ေြကညာခ်က္ကို မူတည္ျပီးလုပ္တဲ့လုပ္ငန္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ေနာက္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးအဖြဲ႕ ၁၃ ဖြဲ႕က နအဖရဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံမွာ တင္သြင္းထားတဲ့ ၁၉ ခ်က္မွာ မူတည္ျပီး ေရးဆြဲထားတာျဖစ္လုိ႔ ျပည္တြင္းႏုိင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြရဲ႔ သေဘာထားနဲ႔ တထပ္တည္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါကို ကုသလမဂၢမွာ တင္ျပထားျပီးျပီ၊ ေရွ႕႔ဆက္လုပ္ဖုိ႔လည္း အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္တယ္ဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ တံခါးဖြင့္ထားတယ္ဆုိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢကေနတဆင့္ ဒီလက္ရွိ ရွိေနတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြကို တင္ျပဖုိ႔ လုပ္တဲ့ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲပါ။”

အခုစတင္အသိေပးေနတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္သစ္ကို NCGUB ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသား ညြန္႔ေပါင္း အစိုးရ၊ NCUB ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ၊ ENC တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားေကာင္စီ၊ FDB ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ အင္အားစု၊ SYCB တိုင္းရင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ားနဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားကြန္ကရက္စ္၊ WLB အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ)၊ DAB၊ NY Forum၊ NDF နဲ႔ MPU ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား သမဂၢနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) တို႔က တညီတညြတ္တည္း သေဘာတူထားၾကတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

စစ္အစုိးရရဲ ႔ လက္နက္အင္အား

2009-08-10T10:37:00.000+05:30

08 August 2009
VOA စစ္အစုိးရရဲ ႔ လက္နက္အင္အား

လက္နက္ပစၥည္း တင္ေဆာင္ထားတယ္လုိ႔ ယူဆရတဲ့ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား ကုန္သေဘၤာတစီး မၾကာမီက ျမန္မာျပည္ဖက္ကုိ ဦးတည္သြားၿပီးမွ အုတ္ေအာ္ေသာင္းနင္း ျဖစ္ကုန္တဲ့အတြက္ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားကုိ ျပန္သြားရပါတယ္။ စစ္အင္အားႀကီးမားေအာင္ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနပုံကုိ ေဖာ္ျပလုိက္တာပါပဲ။ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာ အၿမဲတမ္း တုိးတက္ႀကီးထြားေနတာ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္း ထုတ္လုပ္မႈျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္းကုိ 'ကကထုတ္' လုိ႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ကာကြယ္ေရး ပစၥည္းထုတ္လုပ္မႈ ၫႊန္ၾကားေရးမႈးရုံးက ခ်ဳပ္ကုိင္ပါတယ္။ 'ကကထုတ္' လက္ေအာက္က 'ကပစ' ေခၚ ကာကြယ္ေရး ပစၥည္းစက္ရုံေတြကုိ ပဲခူးတုိင္း-မေကြးတုိင္း နဲ႔ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ထားပါတယ္။ 'ကပစ' (၂၀) ေလာက္ရွိမယ္လုိ႔ ခန္႔မွန္းပါတယ္။ တရုတ္ (China) -ရုရွား (Russia) - စကၤာပူ (Singapore) - ေတာင္ကုိရီးယား (South Korea) နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား (North Korea) တုိ႔က 'ကပစ' ေတြကုိ အကူအညီ ေပးၾကပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ပထမဆုံး ထုတ္လုပ္တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာႏုိင္တဲ့ လက္နက္ပစၥည္းကုိ 'ေနဝင္းစတင္း' လုိ႔ လူသိမ်ားပါတယ္။ အီတလီလုပ္ TZ-45 စက္ေသနတ္အေသးစားရဲ ႔ ဒီဇုိင္းပုံစံကုိ မူပုိင္ဝယ္ယူၿပီး ရန္ကုန္အင္းယားကန္ေစာင္းမွာ စတင္ထုတ္လုပ္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ေတာ့ အေနာက္ဂ်ာမဏီ အစုိးရပုိင္ Fritz Werner ကုမၼဏီ နဲ႔ Heckler နဲ႔ Koch ကုမၼဏီတုိ႔ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး Gewehr (3) ေမာင္းျပန္ေသနတ္ကုိ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ထုတ္လုပ္ပါတယ္။ G-3 လုိ႔ လူသိမ်ားပါတယ္။ ေသနတ္ နဲ႔ က်ည္ဆံထုတ္လုပ္တဲ့ စက္ရုံေတြကုိ ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ရုိး အေနာက္ဖက္မွာ တည္ေဆာက္ထားပါတယ္။ ပဲခူးတုိင္း ပန္းေတာင္းၿမိဳ ႔နယ္က ဆင္တဲ-ထုံးဘုိ-ေညာင္ေျခေထာက္ စတဲ့ေနရာေတြမွာ 'ကပစ' ေတြ တည္ေဆာက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ မေကြးတုိင္း အထက္မင္းလွ-ဆင္ေပါင္ဝဲ-ေအာင္လံ-သရက္-ေစတုတၱရာ နဲ႔ ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးအထိ 'ကပစ' ေတြ တုိးခ်ဲ႔လာပါတယ္။

၁၉၈၈ ျပည္သူ႔အုံၾကြမႈႀကီး ျဖစ္ပြားၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ အေနာက္တုိင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံေတြက ဗမာစစ္အစုိရကုိ လက္နက္ပစၥည္း မေရာင္းေတာ့တဲ့အတြက္ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္း ရႏုိင္မယ့္ေနရာေတြကုိ အပူတျပင္းရွာေဖြရပါတယ္။ ဒီေနရာမွာ စကၤာပူ (Singapore)-တရုတ္ (China) - ေတာင္ကုိရီးယား (South Korea) နဲ႔ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား (North Korea) တုိ႔ဟာ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရရဲ ႔ ကယ္တင္ရွင္မ်ား ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ ဂ်ာမန္အတက္ပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ တရုတ္နဲ႔ကုိရီးယား ပညာရွင္ေတြက အစားထုိးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဂ်ာမန္အတတ္ပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ တရုတ္နဲ႔ ကုိရီးယားပညာရွင္ေတြက အစားထုိးလုိက္ပါေတာ့တယ္။ ေလးလံၿပီးပစ္ရခက္တဲ့ G-3 ကုိ MA အမ်ဳိးအစားရုိင္ဖယ္ (rifle) ေတြနဲ႔ အစားထုိးပါတယ္။ MA အမ်ဳိးအစား လက္နက္ငယ္ေတြထုတ္ဖုိ႔ တုိက္ႀကီးၿမိဳ ႔နယ္ လိေမၼာ္ၿခံရြာနားမွာ 'ကပစ' (၁၁) ကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ထားတယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ စစ္ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ျဖစ္လာတဲ့ ၁၉၉၂ ႏွစ္ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ ဒုံးလက္နက္အသုံးျပဳေရး စီမံကိန္းကုိ စတင္ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ တာလတ္ပစ္ဒုံး၊တာေဝးပစ္ဒုံး ေျမျပင္က ေျမျပင္ပစ္ဒုံး ေျမျပင္မွေဝဟင္ပစ္ဒုံး စတဲ့ ဒုံးလက္နက္ေတြကုိ ထုတ္လုပ္ဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္။ လုိအပ္တဲ့ပစၥည္းနဲ႔ အတတ္ပညာကုိ တရုတ္ (China)၊ ရုရွား (Russia) နဲ႔ ကုိရီးယား (Koreas) ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံက တင္သြင္းပါတယ္။ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားကုိ အားကုိးတဲ့အေၾကာင္းရင္းေတြထဲမွာ တရုတ္နဲ႔ ရုရွားပစၥည္း ကုိင္တြယ္ရာမွာ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားက ကြ်မ္းက်င္မႈ ေဒၚလာေငြအစား ဆန္နဲ႔ ေကာက္ပဲသီးႏွံကုိ လက္ခံမႈ စတာေတြ ပါဝင္တယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားကုိေတာ့ ေဒၚလာေငြ လက္ငင္းေပးရပါတယ္။

၂၀၀၂ ခုႏွစ္က ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အေျမာက္က်ည္ဆံထုတ္လုပ္ႏုိင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ ေဒဝူးကုမၼဏီ (DAEWOO International)ကုိ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရက ေဒၚလာသန္းေပါင္း (၁၃၀) ဖုိး ကန္ထရုိက္ ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေျမာက္က်ည္ (၆) မ်ဳိး ေထာင္ေသာင္းခ်ီၿပီး ႏွစ္စဥ္ထုတ္လုပ္တဲ့ စီမံကိန္းပါပဲ။ အတတ္ပညာ ကြ်မ္းက်င္ေအာင္ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ သင္တန္းေပးတာရွိသလုိ ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားကုိ သြားရတာလည္း ရွိပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ကုိ လက္နက္ပစၥည္း မတင္ပုိ႔ဖုိ႔ ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားအစုိးရ ပိတ္ပင္တားျမစ္ထားတဲ့ၾကားက ေဒဝူးကုမၼဏီက လက္နက္ခုိးေရာင္းတာျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ဒဏ္ေငြအနည္းငယ္သာ ေဆာင္ခုိင္းတာေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။

ရုရွား (Russia)-ယူခရိန္း (Ukraine)- ဆာဗီးယား (Serbia)- အစၥေရး (Israel) နဲ႔ အိႏၵိယ (India) ကလည္း ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရကုိ လက္နက္ပစၥည္းေရာင္းေပမယ့္ တရုတ္က အမ်ားဆုံးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရ ဝယ္ထားတဲ့ တရုတ္စစ္ပစၥည္းတန္ဖုိး ေဒၚလာသန္းေလးေထာင္ေလာက္ ရွိေနၿပီးလုိ သိရပါတယ္။ ျပည္သူလူထုကုိ ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရကုိ စစ္ပစၥည္းမေရာင္းဖုိ႔ ဥေရာပအဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္က ပိတ္ပင္ထားပါတယ္။ ၂၀၀၇ ဆႏၵျပပြဲကုိ ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ပစ္ႏွိမ္နင္းတဲ့ ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရကုိ လက္နက္ပစၥည္း မေရာင္းဖုိ႔ လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီက ပိတ္ပင္ဖုိ႔ ပန္ၾကားတာေတြ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တရုတ္နဲ႔ရုရွားက သေဘာမတူလုိ႔ အေရးမယူႏုိင္ပါဘူး။

ဗမာစစ္အစုိးရမွာ ျပည္ပရန္မရွိပဲ စစ္လက္နက္ပစၥည္းမ်ဳိးစုံ ဝယ္ယူထုတ္လုပ္ၿပီး စစ္အင္အားႀကီးမားေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနတာ ဘာရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္လဲလုိ႔ ေမးစရာ ျဖစ္လာပါတယ္။ နည္းမ်ဳိးစုံသုံးၿပီး တရုတ္ဆီက ရယူထားတဲ့ စစ္ပစၥည္းအညံ့စားေတြဟာ ျပည္ပရန္ကာကြယ္ႏုိင္တဲ့ အဆင့္အတန္းမရွိဘူးလုိ႔ ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူေတြက သုံးသပ္ပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ တရုတ္ဆီက ရထားတဲ့ တုိက္ေလယာဥ္ေတြဟာ ျပည္ပရန္ကုိ မကာကြယ္ႏုိင္ဘူးလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဗမာစစ္တပ္အင္အား တုိးခ်ဲ႔ေနတာဟာ ဗမာလူထုကုိ ဖိႏွိပ္ၿပီး တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြကုိႀကီးစုိးဖုိ႔ ရည္ရြယ္သလုိ ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။

8-8-09 NKorean ship had no business to be in Indian waters: Navy chief

2009-08-08T22:34:00.000+05:30

PTI 8 August 2009, 05:50pm IST
PORT BLAIR/NEW DELHI: India on Saturday said the North Korean cargo ship, which illegally entered its territorial waters, had "no business" to be there even as its captain claimed it had done so due to mechanical problems. ( Watch )

Navy chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta said in Delhi that M V San "had no business" to be in Indian waters and that the maritime security agencies had fears that it could be carrying nuclear components.

"The fact is that the ship had no business to be there," he said, adding "that (it was carrying nuclear components) was our apprehension also. At the moment, it is carrying genuine merchandise."

Coast Guard Andaman and Nicobar Region Commander K R Nautiyal said, "We are in the process of investigation. Expert agencies, including Korean interpreters, are likely to come to facilitate better communication, because they (crew members) are not very good in English."

However, one information that the Coast Guard could extract from M V San's captain was that the ship had entered the Indian waters, about 65 nautical miles south of Port Blair due to a mechanical fault, which could not be corroborated.

"There are a few inconsistencies, which have been found about the ship, like some papers are not in order," he said.

Since the cargo vessel was brought to Port Blair around 0500 Hours on Friday, the investigating agencies have learnt and verified that the ship, which set sail from a port in Thailand on July 27, was carrying 16,000 tonnes of sugar to an Iraqi port.

The Coast Guard had noticed M V San anchored off Little Andaman on Wednesday and its joint effort with the Navy to get a response to radio signals had failed.

Consequently, the Coast Guard flew one of its aircraft to check out the cargo vessel, but yet again the ship did not respond to its radio communication.

The Coast Guard sailed its patrol vessel CGS Kanagalatha Barua and the Navy INS Brinkat to visit the cargo vessel and carry out investigation.

On seeing the military ships, M V San tried to flee and the Coast Guard fired a warning shot to force it to comply to their order to sail to Port Blair.

"Our ships reached the cargo vessel around 2100 Hours on Thursday and M V San started proceeding in a different direction. At that stage, we had to warn the ship that we need to carry out investigations for safety sake," Nautiyal said.

"So we fired a round in the air just to make the vessel obey," he added.

Nautiyal also said there were other issues that the investigating agencies had to verify from the cargo vessel's agents and other agencies involved in supporting the vessel in various countries.

"The ship was supposed to have gone to Iraq, but changed its destination, which happens while at sea. They could be asked (by their agents) to go to different location," he added.

8-8-09 Myanmar opposition unites at UN

2009-08-08T22:20:00.000+05:30

Associated Press
2009-08-08 01:31 AM

Exiled opposition leaders from Myanmar have come together at the U.N. to present a plan for a democratic future in their junta-ruled homeland.

The leaders held a news conference Friday to call for a dialogue with the regime, credible elections in 2010 and the release of Nobel Prize-winning pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.

An alliance of political parties and ethnic groups is asking the U.N. Security Council and Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to take its proposals to the military regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

Suu Kyi is on trial for violating the terms of her house arrest after an uninvited American man swam to her home in May just before her detention was to end.

No home work but blind attack

2009-08-08T08:56:00.000+05:30

Mizzima News Agency
Friday, 07 August 2009 15:51

Response on Commentary – “ NCGUB’s shopping or political tour in Indonesia?”
By Heng Khur, 4 August 2009

The commentary writer obviously lacks knowledge on matters of funds for the pro-democracy movement.

The person also merely wanted to belittle the legitimate organizations by saying ‘a gathering of handful of activists’. This writer did not do his homework to find out the process, where extensive consultations has been gone into for more than half-a year among various groups and individuals.

My 20-years experience tells me there is none in the movement who are well-to-do enough to go for shopping while participating in the conferences.

The guy also seems did not do research as to what NCGUB or others have been doing for the last two decades by accusing that it was the only one.

The statement: ‘All governments and bodies including UN have to express the policy or position in the form of statements. There are actions that follow after the expression. E.g. SPDC (the military government) issued the statement before the roadmap was in action. NLD (the National League for Democracy) issued a series of statements before it walked out of the National Conventions. The UNSC has to issue statements before it act or intervenes.

(Dr. Tint Swe is the Information and Public Relations Minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma)
Mizzima news

8-8-09 Suspicious North Korean ship detained off Andamans

2009-08-08T08:43:00.000+05:30

Times of India
Arun Ram, TNN 8 August 2009, 12:23am IST
CHENNAI: The Coast Guard on Thursday detained a "suspicious" North Korean ship, which had dropped anchor off Hut Bay in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, after more than six hours of high drama that ended with Indian sailors firing in the air. Officials of Army intelligence, Intelligence Bureau and other agencies are set to inspect the ship and interrogate its occupants.

K R Nautiyal, DIG, Coast Guard, Andaman and Nicobar Region, told TOI over phone that ``several things were amiss'' about merchant vessel MV Musen, which later declared that it was carrying 16,500 tonnes of sugar from Thailand to Umm Qasr in Iraq. "She shouldn't have dropped anchor here in the first place, she didn't respond to our signals, and her log book was found to be vague," Nautiyal said.

North Korean ships have often been found to be involved in ferrying nuclear and missile components for regimes clandestinely seeking to acquire such arsenals. Early on, it was a recipient of clandestine transfers of weapons technology and materials from China. It has since emerged as a major source of proliferation; its alleged clientele include Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and now, Myanmar.

In fact, some years ago, India had detained another North Korean ship that was carrying missile components for Pakistan. Concerns about North Korean vessels have heightened since reports of Pyongyang's help to Myanmar's nuclear bomb-making programme have appeared. Myanmar's nuclear ambitions are also reportedly helped by some Pakistani nuclear scientists.

Musen had dropped anchor off Hut Bay island on Wednesday afternoon for which it had no permission. When Coast Guard ship Kanakalatha Barua approached it, Musen tried to escape, forcing coast guard men to fire in the air. The ship finally ``obeyed'', and was brought to Port Blair early on Thursday.

"We got to know about the ship around 3pm and immediately sent our Dornier. The aircraft flew low above the ship and the port office tried to contact the ship through channel 16, the international VHF used in such cases, but Musen refused to respond. We then sent our ship, which reached the spot around 9pm. As the ship approached, Musen tried to move out. We opened fire twice in the air and only then did Musen obey our orders. The ship, with 39 people on board, has been brought to Port Blair," Nautiyal said.

Indian authorities are also investigating an unscheduled stop the vessel, which left Taem Chabang port in Thailand on July 27, made at Singapore on July 30. "The vessel started from Singapore on July 31, but no passport stamping was done in Singapore. We are probing this angle too," Nautiyal said.

Preliminary inspections found that the vessel was carrying sugar. A detailed inspection will be carried out on Saturday by high-level intelligence officials.

The ship's captain, who had no answers to why he did not respond to coast guard alerts, later told the investigators that the ship, which was bound for Iraq, had made an impromptu change in schedule to take the cargo to Kakinada. ``Merchant vessels do change course sometimes, but there is no satisfactory explanation in this case,'' a coast guard officer said.

However, Interocean, the Delhi-based agent of the ship in India, told TOI that Kakinada was not a port of call for MV Musen on this voyage. ``We came to know about the ship heading towards Kakinada only from the Coast Guard, that too after it was detained. We did not have prior information,'' an Interocean spokesperson said.

၆-၈-၀၉ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ရန္ နီေပါလ္က ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္တိုက္တြန္း

2009-08-07T15:37:00.001+05:30

DVB ခင္ေမာင္စိုးမင္း ၆ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂ဝဝ၉

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာရွိတဲ့ နီေပါလီ ေဂၚရခါးအႏြယ္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔အတူ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ၾကဖို႔ နီေပါလ္ႏိုင္ငံရွိ ျပည္သူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ဖိုရမ္ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္က တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

နီေပါလ္ျပည္သူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဖိုရမ္ပါတီဟာ နီေပါလ္ႏိုင္ငံမွာ အႀကီးဆုံးပါတီ မဟုတ္ေပမယ့္ လက္ရွိၫြန္႔ေပါင္းအစုိးရထဲမွာ အေရးပါတဲ့ ပါတီျဖစ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးအတြက္ နီေပါလ္ႏိုင္ငံကေန အတက္ၾကြဆုံး ေထာက္ခံလႈပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ ပါတီလည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ခ်န္ဒရီကာပရာဆပ္ယာဒက္ က ေျပာပါတယ္။ “က်ေနာ္တို႔က နီေပါမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ခဲ့သလို ျမန္မာျပည္ဖြား နီပါလီ ေဂၚရခါး လူမ်ဳိးေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရရွိေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာလူမ်ဳိးေတြနဲ႔ အတူတကြ တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ၾကပါ။ မၾကာခင္မွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးရမွာ အေသအခ်ာပါ။”

ခ်န္ဒရီကာ ပရာဆပ္ယာဒက္က ေတာင္အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ ဆာ့ခ်္ မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေလ့လာသူ အဆင့္ရထားတဲ့အတြက္ လာမယ္ ့ညီလာခံမွာ ျမန္မာကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ကို ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ ဖိအားေပး ေျပာဆိုမယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ “ေတာင္အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ား အစည္းအေဝး ဆာ့ခ္ မွာ နီေပါလ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြကို ေဆြးေႏြးေျပာဆိုမွာပါ။ ဆာ့ခ်္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမစမီ နီေပါလ္အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးအတြက္ ဆာခ်္ ညီလာခံမွာ ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ ေျပာဆိုမွာပါ၊၊ နီေပါလ္ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက ျမန္မာကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေတြကို တိုက္ရိုက္ ဖိအားေပးလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။”

နီေပါလ္မွာ အင္အားအႀကီးဆုံးျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ ၂ ခုစလုံးက ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးကို အတက္ၾကြဆုံး ေထာက္ခံၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာလည္း သူတို႔နဲ႔နီးစပ္တဲ့ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံေၾကာင့္ သေဘာထားေျပာင္းလဲမွာ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ခ်န္ဒရီကာပရာဆပ္ယာဒက္ က ေျပာပါတယ္။ နီေပါကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ ဟာ နီေပါလ္မွာ အင္အားအေတာင့္ဆုံးျဖစ္သလို ဒီမိုကေရစီက်င့္စဥ္မွာလည္း အင္အားအေကာင္းဆုံး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ နီေပါလ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ေတြကိုယ္တိုင္က ဒီမိုကေရစီအတြက္ တုိက္ပြဲဝင္ခဲ့ရတာေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ သေဘာထား ေျပာင္းလဲမသြားႏိုင္ပါဘူးလို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

Upcoming meeting in Jakarta reports by DVB, Burma Today and Mizzima

2009-08-06T11:40:00.000+05:30

သတင္းတမ်ိဳးတည္းအား သတင္းဌာန သံုးခုက သံုးမ်ိဳးေရးသား တင္ဆက္ၾကသည္။

၁။ DVB - ျမန္မာျပည္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး အင္ဒုိနီးရွားတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးမည္
၂။ Burma Today - ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ နဲ႔... အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ နဲ႔...
၃။ Mizzima News - NCGUB’s shopping or political tour in Indonesia?

ျမန္မာျပည္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး အင္ဒုိနီးရွားတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးမည္
DVB ေနထူး ၄ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂ဝဝ၉

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးကို ဦးတည္မယ့္ အစီအစဥ္ အတည္ျပဳေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔ တုိင္းရင္းသား အင္အားစုေတြ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားမွာ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအစီအစဥ္ ေရးဆြဲေရးအတြက္ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ဂ်ကာတာျမိဳ႕မွာ “ဒီမုိကေရစီ ႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ MDREN ဆုိတဲ့ ပူးေပါင္းမဟာမိတ္အဖြဲ႔မွာ ပါဝင္တဲ့ အဖြဲ႔ အစည္းေတြက အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အတြက္ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို အတည္ျပဳဖို႔ ဒီလ ၁၂ ရက္နဲ႔ ၁၃ ရက္မွာ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးၾကမွာပါ။ MDREN မွာ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသားၫြန္႔ေပါင္း အစိုးရ (အန္စီဂ်ီယူဘီ)၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားေကာင္စီ-ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ (အီးအန္စီ)၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္-ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ (ဒဘလ်ဴအယ္လ္ဘီ)၊ စတဲ့ အဖြဲ႔ေတြ ပါဝင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အခြင့္အေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ ရဲ႔ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ဟာ စစ္အစုိးရနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးေရးကို ဦးတည္ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းတယ္လို႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။

ဂ်ကာတာမွာလုပ္မယ့္ ဒီအစည္းအေဝးကို ႏုိင္ငံတကာ သံတမန္ေတြ၊ အစုိးရမဟုတ္တဲ့ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြလည္း တက္ေရာက္မယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ဒီအစည္းအေဝး ျဖစ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ အာဆီယံ ပါလီမန္အမတ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႔ (ေအအုိင္ပီအမ္စီ)က ပံ့ပုိး ကူညီပါတယ္။

ဒီအစည္းအေဝးကိုတက္ေရာက္မယ့္ အန္စီဂ်ီယူဘီ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာ စိန္ဝင္းကို ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းရာမွာ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အတြက္ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးကာလမွာ မလြဲမေသြ ေတြ႔ႀကံဳရမယ့္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး အတြက္ လိုအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကို ေျပာျပမယ့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ ခ်က္ပါပဲလို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ နအဖ ရဲ႕အေျခခံဥပေဒဟာ အဲ့ဒီအခ်က္ကိုေတာ့ ေျပာင္းမယ္။ ဒါကို ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရင္ေတာ့ အခက္အခဲေတြ ေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္မယ္။ ဒါ သူတို႔ဆြဲတဲ့ဟာကိုး။ အားလံုးကို ျပင္ဖို႔မလိုဘူး။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြကိုေတာ့ ျပန္လည္ သံုးသပ္သင့္တယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျပန္ေျပာထားတာပါ။ ဒီ အဆိုျပဳ ကမ္းလွမ္းခ်က္ကို ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရဆီကိုလည္း ေပးပို႔မွာျဖစ္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးသာမက စီးပြားေရး စတဲ့ က႑ေပါင္းစုံမွာ ျပဳျပင္ ေျပာင္းလဲသင့္တဲ့ ကိစၥေတြလည္း ပါဝင္မယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာၾကားပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔ဗမာျပည္မွာ က်င့္သံုးေနတာ တကယ့္ ေစ်းကြက္စီးပြားေရး မဟုတ္ဘူး။ လိုအပ္တာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးရွိတယ္။ ဥပမာ ဘဏ္တိုက္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တာ လုပ္ဖို႔ကိုင္ဖို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး လိုတယ္။ ေငြေၾကးေဖာင္းပြမႈကိစၥေတြနဲ႔ လုပ္ဖို႔ကိုင္ဖို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး လိုတယ္။ က်န္းမာေရး၊ ပညာေရး ဒါေတြလည္း အမ်ားႀကီးလိုတာပဲ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ တခုတည္း မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဗမာျပည္ရဲ႕ ဒီေန႔ အေျခအေနဟာ အမ်ားႀကီးလိုတယ္ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေျပာျပတယ္။

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သက္ဆိုင္ရာရဲ့ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္အရ ဒီမိုကေရစီနဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသား အခြင့္အေရး လွဳပ္ရွားမႈကိုယ္စား မဟာဗ်ဴဟာ ညွိႏွိဳင္းေရး ေကာ္မတီ (Strategic Consultation Committee) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြရဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား၊ ဘံုဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ားနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ့မွာ ၾသဂုတ္ ၅ ရက္ ညေန ၆ နာရီ ၃၀ မိနစ္မွ ည ၉ နာရီအထိ ျပဳလုပ္ဖို႔ စီစဥ္ထားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါတယ္။ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မယ့္ေနရာကေတာ့ Prebyterian UN Office, 777 UN Plaza (Corner of E 44th St and 1st Ave) 7th Floor, NY NY10017 မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္မယ့္ေနရာမွာ ေနရာ အကန္႔အသတ္ ရွိတဲ့အတြက္ တက္ေရာက္မယ့္သူမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ Myra 212 338 0048, 718 207 2556 (သို႔) မိုးခ်မ္း 646 643 8689 သို႔ ႀကိဳတင္ ဆက္သြယ္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ ၾသဂုတ္ ၄ ရက္ေန႔ ညေနက ရရွိတဲ့ သတင္းအရေတာ့ ေနရာတ၀က္ေလာက္ လူျပည့္သြားၿပီလို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

စာဖတ္သူမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ အခု ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တဲ့သတင္းနဲ႔ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ နဲ႔... အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ နဲ႔... ဆိုတဲ့ သတင္းေခါင္းစဥ္နဲ႔ အဆက္အစပ္မရွိသလို ျဖစ္သြားမယ္နဲ႔ တူပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ ေခါင္းစဥ္နဲ႔ သတင္းဟာ အဆက္အစပ္မရွိတာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဆက္စပ္တာမွ အတိအက်ကို ဆက္စပ္ေနတာပါ။ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ သက္ဆိုင္ရာသတင္းရပ္ကြက္ကို ကိုးကားၿပီး ေျပာရမယ္ဆိုရင္ အဲဒီ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ရွင္းလင္း ေျပာၾကားမယ့္သူမ်ားဟာ အမ်ိဳးသား ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ၀န္ႀကီးတဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးဘိုလွတင့္နဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္တို႔ ျဖစ္ၾကၿပီး လက္ရွိ ျပင္ဆင္ေနမွဳမ်ား အဆင္ေျပမယ္ဆိုရင္ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ဦးစိန္၀င္းလည္း အင္တာနက္က တဆင့္ အဲဒီ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို တက္ေရာက္ႏိုင္ဘြယ္ ရွိပါတယ္။

၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ ႏွစ္ဆန္းပိုင္းကတည္းက ပိုမို ဆိုးရြားလာခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရးဆိုင္ရာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားအၾကား ဆက္ဆံေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး နီးစပ္ခဲ့သူမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီက တာ၀န္ရွိသူႏွစ္ဦး အတူတကြ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ လုပ္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့သတင္းဟာ အနည္းငယ္ ထူးဆန္းေကာင္း ထူးဆန္းေနပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ထို႔အျပင္ သို႔ေလာသို႔ေလာ စဥ္းစားမွဳေတြ လည္း ရွိႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေပမယ့္လည္း သက္ဆိုင္ရာနဲ႔ နီးစပ္တဲ့ သတင္းမ်ားအရ အဆိုပါ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းႀကီး ႏွစ္ခုက တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြအေနနဲ႔ အခု သတင္းေရးသားခ်ိန္မတိုင္မီက စတင္ၿပီး ပိုမို နီးကပ္ ေႏြးေထြးတဲ့ ဆက္ဆံေရးနဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ဆိုင္ရာလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို အတူတကြ လက္တြဲ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားၾကမယ္လို႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္ထားၿပီးျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

ထို႔အျပင္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံၿမိဳ့ေတာ္ ဂ်ကာတာမွာ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသား ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီအပါအ၀င္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစု မဟာမိတ္အဖြဲ႔ ၇ ဖြဲ႔ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ ညီလာခံတခုကို ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၂ ရက္နဲ႔ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔မ်ားမွာ က်င္းပဖို႔ စီစဥ္ထားေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ ထို ညီလာခံကေန ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္တခု ခ်မွတ္ၿပီး ထို ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးလွဳပ္ရွားတဲ့အဖြဲ႔မ်ားရဲ့ ေရွ႔လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ား၊ သေဘာထားမ်ားကို ထင္ဟပ္ေစမွာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

ထိုသို႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရးဆိုင္ရာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းႀကီး ႏွစ္ခု အတူတကြ ပူးေပါင္း လုပ္ကိုင္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အေျခအေနတခု ျဖစ္ေပၚလာခဲ့ျခင္းနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးသက္ဆိုင္ရာအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားမွာ လုပ္ကိုင္ေနၾကသူမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ ၀မ္းေျမာက္၀မ္းသာ ရွိေနၾကၿပီး ေတာ္လွန္ေရးရဲ့ အလားအလာေကာင္းတခု အျဖစ္ ရွဳျမင္ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း နယူးေယာက္က ျမန္မာ့အေရး စိတ္၀င္စားသူတဦးကေတာ့ “ဘာမွ ျဖစ္လာမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။“ လို႔ သံုးသပ္ပါတယ္။ ထိုသို႔ မွတ္ခ်က္ေပးသူဟာ အဆိုပါ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားရဲ့ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ အခ်ိဳ႔ကို တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ျမန္မာ့အေရးကိုလည္းအားတက္သေရာ စိတ္၀င္စားသူတဦး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူက “ႏွစ္တိုင္းလိုလို ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔ေတြရဲ့ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲေတြကို နားေထာင္ဘူးပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲေတြဟာ တႏွစ္တခါဆိုသလို သူတို႔လုပ္တဲ့ စီမံခ်က္ေတြကို လာၿပီး ေျပာသြားတာပဲ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီ့ထက္ ဘာမွ မပိုပါဘူး။ တခုေတာ့ ရွိတာေပါ့။ သူတို႔ ေျပာသလိုေတြ ျဖစ္လာရင္၊ တကယ္ျဖစ္မွာေတြကို ေျပာၾကရင္ေတာ့ လူေတြက ပိုၿပီး ယံုၾကည္ စိတ္၀င္စား လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။“ လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။

မီဒီယာသမားတဦးကေတာ့ “တဖြဲ႔ မေကာင္းေၾကာင္း တဖြဲ႔က ေျပာေနၾကတာနဲ႔ စာရင္ အတူတူ အလုပ္လုပ္ၾကတယ္ဆိုတာ ေကာင္းတဲ့ အလားအလာပါ။ အခုအခ်ိန္က်မွ ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္ ေပါင္းၾကတာလဲ၊ ဘာေတြ ျဖစ္လာမွာလဲ စတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းေတြကေတာ့ ရွိမွာပါပဲ။ ဒီျဖစ္စဥ္ဟာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖို႔ ေကာင္းတဲ့ ျဖစ္စဥ္တခု ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။“ လို႔ သံုးသပ္ပါတယ္။

အဆိုပါ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားနဲ႔ နီးစပ္တဲ့ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းက ရရွိတဲ့သတင္းမ်ားအရ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေကာင္စီတို႔အေနနဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသား ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္ေရး လမ္းေၾကာင္းရဲ့ အလားအလာ၊ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခနဲ႔ စစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ ၾသဇာေၾသာင္းႏိုင္မယ့္ နည္းလမ္းမ်ား ရွာေဖြမွဳလုင္ငန္းမ်ားမွာ ပူးေပါင္း ညွိႏွိဳင္းမွဳမ်ားနဲ႔အတူ ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ကိုင္သြားၾကဘြယ္ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

http://burmatoday.net/news2005/2009/200908/090804_bty_bur_ncgub_ncub.pdf

NCGUB’s shopping or political tour in Indonesia?
Mizzima News by Heng Khur
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 16:36
by Heng Khur
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 16:36

The NCGUB, the Burmese government in exile, will hold a meeting on 12 and 13 August, with a handful of Burmese activists in Indonesia and come up with a proposal to the military junta for national reconciliation.

The trip sounds interesting for the ones who are about to attend. It is interesting because some of its members will be on tour and even do some shopping in Indonesia. And it becomes more interesting because Dr. Thaung Tun added that it is a process which would continue in US and EU.

Pathetically, in almost 20 years, NCGUB has come up with the only plan to hold a political meeting (sic) with handpicked Burmese Community Based Organizations (CBOs).

Whatever transpires at the meeting in Indonesia is not a way out of the political imbroglio in Burma but a political show in an effort to dig out more funds from donors.

Sure enough, there will be a beautiful and well-written statement after the meeting as; release Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners immediately, hold talks with the opposition groups, include concerned parties in the forthcoming 2010 elections (with the quotation from the UN General Secretary). The statement will be nothing new but old calls and boring to say the least.

Instead people want to hear what and how the NCGUB and other Burmese organizations will proceed in order to solve the problems -- Burmese Army‘s oppression on the people, armed conflicts, IDPs, refugees, migrants, drugs and political prisoners.

Releasing statements, raising awareness is just part of the activities but it will not solve the current problems unless the NCGUB and other Burmese organizations look at the ground situation. People, who used to participate in these meetings, know well that most of these organizations are not functioning but a political brand in order to ask for funds.

As Dr- Thaung Tun said, it is a process, which would entail further trips to EU and US. I wonder how much money they are going to spend on this political show trips. Instead of having such meetings, why not take that fund and give it to the needy people in the IDP camps along the Thai border.

In addition to that, the NCGUB and other CBOs rarely look at the problems that people are facing on the ground.

Therefore, to have a better say in the bargaining with the Burmese regime, why does not the NCGUB invite ceasefire and non-ceasefire groups on its side in the meeting to solve the Burmese problem. The meeting should not aim at releasing statements or a shopping trip. NCGUB must come to the point, how will it work together in order fulfill the people’s expectation.

Dr. Tint Swe;s response
1. The reporter obviously lacks the knowledge on fund matters of the pro-democracy movement.
2. The person also merely wanted to belittle the legitimate organizations by saying a handful of activists. The reporter did not do homework to know the process which has extensive consultations for the last half a year among various groups and individuals.
3. My 20-years experience tells me there is none in the movement who is well-to-do enough for shopping while participating in the conferences.
4. The guy also seems did not do research what NCGUB or others have been doing for the last two decades by accusing that it was the only one.
5. The statement: All governments and bodies including UN have to express the policy or position in the form of statements. There are actions follow after the expression. E.g. SPDC issued the statement before roadmap was in action. NLD issued a series of statements before it walked out of the National Conventions. UNSC has to issue statement before it act or intervene.
6. That report is worthy for the New Light of Myanmar!
7. The political significance of that meeting can be read at http://new.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=15972

ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြႏိုင္ငံမ်ားနဲ႔ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေတြ႔ဆံု

2009-08-06T11:30:00.000+05:30

06 August 2009

ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက Friends of Burma လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔၀င္ သံအမတ္ႀကီးေတြနဲ႔ နယူးေယာက္ၿမိဳ႕က ကုလသမဂၢ ရံုးခ်ဳပ္မွာ တနာရီေက်ာ္ၾကာ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲၿပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္မွာလည္း သူတို႔ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ၾကတဲ့အေၾကာင္းေတြကို သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ လုပ္ပါတယ္။ အဓိက သူတို႔ ဘာေတြ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသလဲ ဆိုတာကို ဒီသတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနတဲ့ ကိုသားညႊန္႔ဦး က အျပည့္စံု အစီရင္ခံထားပါတယ္။

ဒီေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ၾကည့္ရင္ေတာ့ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္း အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ သူ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတာေတြ ေျပာေနတာေတြ အေပၚမွာ ဒီအဖြဲ႔ရဲ႕ လက္ခံမႈ၊ သေဘာတူညီမႈကို ရေအာင္ လုပ္ေနတယ္လို႔ ယူဆရမွာပါ။ ဇူလိုင္လ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔တုန္းက ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ႀကီးကို ေခၚယူေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့တာကို အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ သူ ျပန္ရွင္းျပတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းကေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ အမႈကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ စိုးရိမ္မကင္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ သူ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသြားစဥ္မွာ ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့တာေတြကို အသိေပးတဲ့သေဘာ အေနနဲ႔ သံအမတ္ႀကီးကို ေျပာခဲ့တယ္ဆိုၿပီး ရွင္းျပခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီကေန တျခား အဖြဲ႔၀င္ႏိုင္ငံေတြရဲ႕ သေဘာထားေတြကို သူ ေတာင္းခံခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ အစည္းအေ၀းမွာေတာ့ မယ္မယ္ရရ ရလဒ္ရယ္လို႔ေတာ့ မရွိပါဘူး။ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ဟာ သူ႔သေဘာခ်ည္းသက္သက္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ႏုိင္ငံတကာရဲ႕ သေဘာဆႏၵ ျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို ဒီအစည္းအေ၀းကေန အတည္ျပဳေပးခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။

“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ကုလသမဂၢက ၀င္ေရာက္ညိႇႏိႈင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ေတြကို ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အေနနဲ႔ ေထာက္ခံ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳတယ္ ဆုိတာကို ဒီအစည္းအေ၀းကေန အတည္ျပဳေပးခဲ့တယ္။” - ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္း အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေျပာသြားတာပါ။

ဒါ့အျပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနရတဲ့ အက်ပ္အတည္း အေျခအေနေတြကို ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ႔ ျပည္သူေတြ ေက်ာ္လႊားေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ေရးမွာ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ အျပဳသေဘာ ၀င္ေရာက္ကူညီေပးဖို႔လည္း ရွိတယ္လို႔ ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။

G-8 အစည္းအေ၀း၊ အာဆီယံ အစည္းအေ၀း၊ ARF အစရွိတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ညီလာခံႀကီးေတြမွာကို ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ စိုးရိမ္တႀကီး ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကတာေတြကို ၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ ဘယ္ေလာက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ ထားေနတယ္ဆိုတာ သိသာတဲ့အေၾကာင္း လည္း အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ေနာက္လထဲမွာေတာ့ ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ အစည္းအေ၀းကို သံအမတ္အဆင့္ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘဲနဲ႔ အဆင့္ျမင့္ အစည္းအေ၀းတရပ္ ေခၚယူဖို႔အတြက္ သူတို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ထားတယ္လို႔လည္း ေျပာပါတယ္။

“လာမယ့္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ ညီလာခံရဲ႕ အျပင္ဘန္းမွာ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံအေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အဆင့္ျမင့္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ဒုတိယ အစည္းအေ၀း
ကို က်င္းပဖို႔ သေဘာတူညီခဲ့ၾကတယ္။” - ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေျပာသြားတာပါ။

အလားတူ အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ိဳးကိုလည္း မႏွစ္က ၀န္ႀကီးအဆင့္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တာ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ကုလသမဂၢ နဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ေတာင္းဆိုထားတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြကိုလည္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအသြင္ ကူးေျပာင္းေရးကာလမွာ ခ်န္လွပ္ထားလို႔ မရႏုိင္ဘူး၊ ဒီအတြက္ေၾကာင့္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ဖို႔ လိုမယ္ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့လည္း အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။

အဓိက သူ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသြားစဥ္မွာ ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့တဲ့အခ်က္ သံုးခ်က္ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါကေတာ့ - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔၊ အတိုက္အခံေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ ေနာက္တခ်က္ကေတာ့ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အမ်ားက လက္ခံႏိုင္တဲ့ အေျခအေန ဖန္တီးေပးဖို႔ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး သန္းေရႊကို တိုက္ရိုက္ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တာပါ။

ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားအဖြဲ႔မွာ ဘယ္ႏိုင္ငံေတြ ပါပါသလဲ။ ျမန္မာ့အေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ဘယ္ေလာက္ အတိုင္းအတာအထိ လုပ္ႏိုင္ပါသလဲ။ ဘယ္ေလာက္ အေရးပါပါသလဲ။ -

ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ကို ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ကစၿပီးေတာ့ ဖြဲ႔ခဲ့တာပါ။ အဲဒီတုန္းကေတာ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ကိုဖီအာနန္ လက္ထက္မွာ ဖြဲ႔တာပါ။ ဒီ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ရဲ႕ ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြႏိုင္ငံမ်ား အဖြဲ႔မွာ အာရွကဆိုရင္ ဂ်ပန္၊ တရုတ္၊ အိႏိၵယ၊ ထိုင္း၊ ဗီယက္နန္၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၊ စင္ကာပူ စတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ႏိုင္ငံေတြ ပါတယ္။ တျခား အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံကဆိုရင္ အေမရိကန္၊ ၿဗိတိန္၊ ျပင္သစ္ စတဲ့ စုစုေပါင္း ၁၄ ႏုိင္ငံ ပါပါတယ္။

လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီမွာ မပါတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြလည္း ပါပါတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းကေတာ့ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီထက္ပိုၿပီးေတာ့ အခုလိုမ်ိဳး အဖြဲ႔မွာ ေဆြးေႏြးမယ္၊ ေဆြးေႏြးလို႔ရွိရင္ ထိေရာက္မယ္၊ ဘံုဘေဘာတူညီခ်က္ေတြ ရႏိုင္မယ္ဆိုၿပီး တြက္ဆၿပီးေတာ့ ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ ေလ့လာသူေတြက ယူဆပါတယ္။ တကယ္တမ္းလည္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီမွာ ေဆြးေႏြးမယ္ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမတိုင္ခင္မွာ အခုလို ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြႏိုင္ငံမ်ားကို အရင္ဆံုး ေခၚေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အဓိက တံခါးပိတ္ ေဆြးေႏြးၿပီးမွပဲ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီမွာ တံခါးဖြင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးတာ မ်ားပါတယ္။ အခု အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ ဒီႏွစ္ဆန္းပိုင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို သြားေရာက္ၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္မွာလည္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေရးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီမွာ ေဆြးေႏြးေျဖရွင္းတာထက္ ျမန္မာ့မိတ္ေဆြ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔မွာ ေဆြးေႏြးေျဖရွင္း သြားမယ္လို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြဘက္က ေျပာဆုိထားတာေတြ ရွိေတာ့ ဒီအဖြဲ႔က ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အေရးပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အမႈ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး မဆံုးျဖတ္ရေသးျခင္း ျဖစ္ဖြယ္

2009-08-06T07:10:00.001+05:30

2009-08-05

RFA Larry Jagan 5-8-09.mp3
RFA 5-8-09 ညပိုင္း၊ အသံဖိုင္။
ျမန္မာ့အေရးေလ့လာသူ သတင္းစာဆရာ Larry Jagan က RFA ျမန္မာပုိင္း အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ သီးသန္႔ ေရးသားေပးပုိ႔ခဲ့တဲ့ သတင္းေဆာင္းပါး။

၅-၈-၀၉ ျမန္မာ၏ ႏ်ဴကလီယား ရည္မွန္းခ်က္အတြက္ တ႐ုတ္က တုန္လႈပ္ေခ်ာက္ခ်ား

2009-08-05T22:13:00.000+05:30

ဘ႐ိုင္ယန္ မက္ကာတန္
ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ 05 ရက္ 2009 ခုႏွစ္ 12 နာရီ 42 မိနစ္
ဘန္ေကာက္ (မဇၩိမ)။

ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏွင့္ ဆက္သြယ္မႈ၊ ႏ်ဴကလီယားရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား စသည္တို႔ကို ေပၚထြက္လာၿပီးေနာက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ အသစ္တဖန္ စိတ္ဝင္စားလာၾကျပန္သည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ အေမရိကန္က တ႐ုတ္၏ အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံျဖစ္သည့္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအၾကား တိုးပြားလာေနေသာ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ားအေပၚ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုလာျခင္းေၾကာင့္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ အေနႏွင့္လည္း ပို၍ပင္ စိတ္မသက္သာစရာမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚလာရသည္။

ဤသို႔ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ဖြင့္ခ်လိုက္မႈမ်ားသည္ စေနေန႔ထုတ္ ဆစ္ဒနီေမာနင္း ဟယ္ရယ္ (Sydney Morning Herald) သတင္းစာၾကီးတြင္ ပါရွိခဲ့သည္။ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ားတကၠသိုလ္ ျမန္မာ့အေရးေစာင့္ၾကည့္သူႏွင့္ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာေလ့လာေရး ကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ ဒက္စမြန္ေဘာလ္ (Desmond Ball) ႏွင့္ အလြတ္သတင္းေထာက္ ဖီလ္ေသာန္တန္ (Phil Thornton) တို႔ ႏွစ္ဦး ၂ ႏွစ္ၾကာ သုေတသနျပဳ၍ အဆိုပါေဆာင္းပါးကို ေရးသားထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ထိုေဆာင္းပါးပါ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို ျမန္မာ့အႏုျမဴအစီအစဥ္ႏွင့္ ဆက္ႏြယ္မႈရွိသည္ဟုဆိုေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ကူးေျပာင္းလာသူမ်ား၏ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေရဒီယိုဆက္သြယ္မႈ ၾကားျဖတ္ဖမ္းယူမႈမ်ားကို အေျခခံေရးသားထားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

အတိုက္အခံမီဒီယာမ်ားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားအၾကားတြင္ ျမန္မာ့အႏုျမဴ စီမံကိန္းအေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုေနၾကသည္မွာ အခ်ိန္အတန္ၾကာၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း သူတို႔၏ သုေတသနက ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရသည္ အႏုျမဴဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖို ၂ လံုးကို အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္ေနေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္ ထုတ္လုပ္ႏိုင္ေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေသခ်ာေပါက္ ညႊန္ျပေျပာဆိုေနသည္ဟု ဒက္စမြန္ေဘာလ္ႏွင့္ ဖီလ္ေသာန္တန္တို႔က ေျပာသည္။

သူတို႔၏ သုေတသနအရ ႐ုရွအကူအညီျဖင့္ မေကြးတိုင္း ၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ၁ဝ မီဂါဝပ္ အင္အားရွိ အႏုျမဴဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖိုတလံုးကို တည္ေဆာက္ေနၿပီး ေနာက္ထပ္ `လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္´ ၁၀ မီဂါဝပ္ အင္အားရွိ ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖိုတလံုးကို ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံ အကူအညီျဖင့္ မႏၲေလးတိုင္း ေနာင္လိုင္တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ ယူေရနီယံ သန္႔စင္ေရးႏွင့္ အဆင့္ျမႇင့္တင္ေရး စက္႐ံုတ႐ံုကိုလည္း ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား အကူအညီျဖင့္ သပိတ္က်င္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ အဆိုပါ ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖို ႏွစ္ခုလံုးမွာ အရြယ္အစားအားျဖင့္ ေသးငယ္ေသာ္လည္း လံုၿခံဳေရးဆိုင္ရာ ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္သူမ်ားက ေထာက္ျပသည္မွာ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားသည္လည္း ယံုျဗြန္းရွိ အလားတူ ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖိုမ်ဳိးျဖင့္ပင္ သူတို႔၏ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား အစီအစဥ္ကို ျပဳလုပ္သြားၾကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေထာက္ျပၾကသည္။

ပို၍အႏၲရာယ္ရွိေသာ အေနအထားတရပ္မွာ ထြက္ေျပးလာသူ ႏွစ္ဦး၏ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္မ်ားအရ အလားအလာ ေကာင္းေသာ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္ ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္တရပ္ကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက စတင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ အကယ္၍ အဆိုပါ ထြက္ေျပးလာသူ ႏွစ္ဦး၏ ထြက္ဆိုခ်က္မ်ား မွန္ကန္ပါက အဆိုပါ `လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္´ ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖိုသည္ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္မွစ၍ တႏွစ္လွ်င္ အႏုျမဴဗံုး တလံုးက် ထုတ္လုပ္သြားႏိုင္ေတာ့မည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

အႏုျမဴဗံုး ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ ယခုထက္ပိုၿပီး ျပင္ပအကူအညီမ်ား လိုအပ္ေသးသည္မွာ မွန္ေသာ္လည္း တကိုယ္ေတာ္ အထီးက်န္ေန၍ အေနာက္ဆန္႔က်င္ေရး စိတ္ဓာတ္ရွိသူ အာဏာရွင္အစိုးရမ်ားကို အႏုျမဴနည္းပညာႏွင့္ အတတ္ပညာ တင္ပို႔ေပးရန္ လိုလားေၾကာင္း ၿပံဳယမ္းက ျပသခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ဆိုလွ်င္ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားအေနျဖင့္လည္း ဤသို႔ အႏုျမဴနည္းပညာမ်ား ေပးအပ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ သူတို႔ႏိုင္ငံ အႏုျမဴဗံုး ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး စီမံကိန္းအတြက္ လုိအပ္ေနေသာ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ဓာတ္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ကုန္ၾကမ္းအျဖစ္ ရရွိႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ဦးတည္ခုတ္ေမာင္းသြားေနခဲ့သည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္ရေသာ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား ကုန္သေဘၤာ ကန္နမ္ (၁) (Kang Nam 1) ေၾကာင့္ ၿပံဳယမ္းႏွင့္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တို႔အၾကား ဒံုးက်ည္ထုတ္လုပ္ေရးအတြက္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ား ရွိေနၿပီလားဟူေသာ သံသယမ်ားကိုလည္း ေပၚထြက္လာေစခဲ့သည္။

အတိုက္အခံ သတင္းရပ္ကြက္မ်ားကမူ စစ္အစုိးရသည္ စကဒ္ (Scud) ပံုစံ ဒံုးက်ည္မ်ားကို ရရွိထားၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ သူတို႔ကိုယ္တိုင္ ပံုစံထုတ္တည္ေဆာက္ထားေသာ စကဒ္ ဒံုးက်ည္မ်ားကို ယခုအခါ စမ္းသပ္ပစ္လႊတ္ေနၿပီဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယင္းတို႔ကို ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား အၾကံေပးမ်ား၏ အကူအညီျဖင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ထုတ္လုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

ဤသို႔ေသာ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္မ်ားကို လြတ္လပ္စြာ အတည္ျပဳႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေသးပါ။ သို႔ေသာ္ နအဖ အဖြဲ႔တြင္ နံပါတ္ ၃ အဆင့္ရွိေသာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးသူရေရႊမန္းႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔ ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံသို႔ သြားေရာက္လည္ပတ္၍ စကဒ္ဒံုးက်ည္ ထုတ္လုပ္ေရးစက္႐ံုကို သြားေရာက္စစ္ေဆးၾကည့္ရႈခဲ့သည္ဟူေသာ သတင္းက အဆိုပါေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို တစိတ္တပိုင္း အတည္ျပဳေပးေနသည္။

ဒံုးက်ည္ထုတ္လုပ္ရာတြင္ အသံုးျပဳႏိုင္သည့္ စက္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေရာင္းခ်ရန္ၾကိဳးပမ္းခဲ့သည္ ဟူေသာ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ ဂ်ပန္အမႈေဆာင္အရာရွိ ၃ ဦးကို တိုက်ဳိရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔က ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့သည္ဟူေသာ သတင္းမ်ားလည္း ဇူလိုင္လ အေစာပိုင္းက ေပၚထြက္ခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက အႏုျမဴလက္နက္မ်ား ရရွိထားၿပီး ထိုလက္နက္မ်ားကို ပစ္လႊတ္ရန္ ဒံုးက်ည္စနစ္တခု တည္ေဆာက္ေနသည္ဟူေသာ သတင္းေၾကာင့္ ေဒသတြင္း လံုၿခံဳေရး အေျခအေနမွာ စိုးရိမ္ဖြယ္ျဖစ္လာၿပိး အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွတြင္ လက္နက္ၿပိဳင္ဆိုင္မႈတရပ္ကိုလည္း ေပၚေပါက္လာေစႏိုင္သည္။

စေနေန႔က အဆိုပါ သတင္းထြက္ေပၚလာၿပီးေနာက္ ထိုင္းအမ်ဳိးသား လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ အၾကီးအကဲ Thawil Pliensri က အဆိုပါ သတင္းကို ေလ့လာစံုစမ္းရန္ သူ႔အရာရွိမ်ားကို အမိန္႔ေပးညႊန္ၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ဤသို႔ေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ဳိးကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာစင္ျမင့္တြင္ အဓိက အကာအကြယ္ေပးေနသူကလည္း လိုလားႏွစ္သက္မည္ မဟုတ္သည္မွာ ေသခ်ာသည္။ သူ႔ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ၾကီးထြားတိုးတက္လာေနေသာ စက္မႈလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအတြက္ သဘာဝသယံဇာတမ်ား ေစ်းေခ်ာင္ေခ်ာင္ျဖင့္ ရရာေနရာအျဖစ္၎၊ ေဝးလံ၍ ကုန္းတြင္းပိတ္ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ အေနာက္ေတာင္ေဒသအတြက္ ကုန္သြယ္ေရး ထြက္ေပါက္အျဖစ္၎၊ အေရွ႕အလယ္ပိုင္းမွ ေရနံႏွင့္ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႔မ်ား တင္သြင္းရာတြင္ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာက်ေသာ လမ္းေၾကာင္းအျဖစ္၎ အသံုးခ်ႏိုင္ရန္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံက အေတာ္အတန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းအားထုတ္ခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။

အဆိုပါ ေရနံႏွင့္ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႔ပိုက္လိုင္း တည္ေဆာက္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ေနာက္လတြင္ စတင္ရန္ စီစဥ္ထားသည္။ အဆိုပါ ပိုက္လိုင္းမွ တႏွစ္လွ်င္ ေရနံစိမ္းတန္ခ်ိန္ သန္း ၂၀ ႏွင့္ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႔ ကုဗမီတာေပါင္း ၁၂ ဘီလ်ံမွ်ကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကိုျဖတ္၍ တ႐ုတ္ျပည္ အေနာက္ေတာင္ပိုင္း ကူမင္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သို႔ သယ္ပို႔ေပးႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။

ဤအဆိုျပဳထားေသာ ေရနံပိုက္လိုင္းျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္ ေရနံတူးစင္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ မာလက္ကာေရလက္ၾကားကို ေရွာင္ကြင္း၍ သယ္ယူႏိုင္ေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ေလာေလာဆယ္တြင္ စုစုေပါင္း ေလာင္စာသြင္းကုန္ ၈ဝ % ကို အဆိုပါ ေရလက္ၾကားကိုျဖတ္၍ တင္သြင္းေနရၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ပဋိပကၡ ျဖစ္ပြားလာလွ်င္ အဆိုပါ ေရလက္ၾကားကို ပိတ္မိႏိုင္ေသာ ေနရာအျဖစ္ တ႐ုတ္က ရႈျမင္ထားသည္။

ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္သူမ်ား၏ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္အရ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံက မျမင္လိုဆံုးအခ်က္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္မႈေၾကာင့္ သူတို႔၏ ကူးသန္းေရာင္းဝယ္ေရး ေသြးလႊတ္ေၾကာအသစ္မ်ား အႏၲရာယ္ရွိမည့္ အေရးပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၁၉၈ဝ စုႏွစ္မ်ား ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းတြင္ ဗမာျပည္ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီကို ေထာက္ခံေနမႈမ်ား ႐ုပ္သိမ္းလိုက္ၿပီးကတည္းက တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသည္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရကို အတိုင္းအတာအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးျဖင့္ ေထာက္ပံ့ကူညီေပးေနခဲ့သည္။

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးမ်ား သူတို႔စစ္တပ္ကို ခန္႔မွန္းေျခအင္အား ၅ သိန္းထိ အလ်င္အျမန္ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ႏိုင္ခဲ့ျခင္းမွာ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံက စစ္လက္နက္ပစၥည္းမ်ား ထိုသို႔ အၾကီးအက်ယ္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ကုလသမဂၢ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီအပါအဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအဝိုင္း၏ ျပစ္တင္ေဝဖန္မႈမ်ားကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေရွာင္လႊဲႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္မွာ အဓိကအားျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ၾသဇာေၾကာင့္ပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ တ႐ုတ္ကုမၸဏီမ်ားအတြက္ အက်ဳိးမ်ားလွေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ၾကြယ္ဝလွေသာ သဘာဝသယံဇာတ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ထုတ္ယူခြင့္ ရရွိေရး၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ စီးပြားေရးအရ လမ္းေပါက္ေရးတို႔အတြက္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံက ေငြႏွင့္ၾကိဳးပမ္းမႈမ်ား အေတာ္အတန္ သံုးစြဲလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆံရာတြင္ အႏၲရာယ္မ်ားလွေသာလမ္းကို ေရြးခ်ယ္လုပ္ေဆာင္ေလ့ရွိသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ တ႐ုတ္က တေန႔တျခား စိတ္ပ်က္လာေနသည္ကို ေတြ႔ျမင္ေနရၿပီျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက အႏုျမဴလက္နက္အဆင့္ရွိ လက္နက္ပိုင္ဆုိင္လာလွ်င္ေသာ္၎၊ ဒံုးက်ည္ ပိုင္ဆိုင္လာလွ်င္ေသာ္၎၊ စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္္မႈမ်ား တိုးပြားလာမည္မွာ သံသယျဖစ္စရာ မရွိပါ။ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္က ထုတ္ေဝခဲ့ေသာ သူ၏ သုေတသန စာတမ္းတြင္ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ားလူမ်ဳိး ျမန္မာ့အေရးကြ်မ္းက်င္သူ အင္ဒရူးဆက္သ္ (Andrew Seth) က `ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက တ႐ုတ္ျပည္ႏွင့္ နီးကပ္စြာ တည္ရွိေနျခင္းေၾကာင့္၎၊ ျမန္မာ့ျပည္တြင္းေရး မတည္ၿငိမ္ေသာေၾကာင့္၎၊ ျမန္မာစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၏ အမူအက်င့္မွာ ခန္႔မွန္းရခက္ေသာေၾကာင့္၎၊ နအဖ ကသာ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္ ပို္င္ဆိုင္လာဖြယ္ရွိသည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ပီကင္းအေနျဖင့္ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ဝမ္းသာ ရွိဖြယ္မျမင္ပါ´ ဟု ေရးသားထားသည္။

ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏိုင္ငံက အျခား မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕စရာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအစိုးရမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ဆီးရီးယားႏွင့္ အီရန္တို႔ကဲ့သို႔ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားကို သမ႐ိုးက်လက္နက္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဒံုးက်ည္လက္နက္မ်ား ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးေနျခင္းအား တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံက ယခုအထိ ခြင့္ျပဳထားခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း သူႏွင့္ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံမ်ားသို႔ အလားတူ လက္နက္မ်ား ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးပို႔ခဲ့လွ်င္ကား အဆိုပါ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရးစိတ္ဓာတ္မွာ အာဏာကုန္ဆြဲဆန္႔မွသာ ထိုသို႔လိုက္ေလ်ာႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ သူ၏ ေခၚဆိုေလ့ရွိေသာ `ပါဝါအေပ်ာ့´ ကင္ပိန္းျဖင့္ ရယူထားရေသာ သံတမန္ေရးႏွင့္ ကူးသန္းေရာင္းဝယ္ေရး ၾကိဳးပမ္းမႈမ်ား အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွေဒသၾကီးတြင္ ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးလာမည္ကိုမူ လိုလားမည္ မဟုတ္ပါ။

ေဒသတြင္း တည္ၿငိမ္မႈကို ထိန္းသိမ္းထားေရးမွာ တ႐ုတ္ျပည္အတြက္ အဓိကအခ်က္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ဒံုးက်ည္ေသာ္၎၊ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္ေသာ္၎ ပိုင္ဆိုင္လာျခင္းျဖင့္ အဆိုပါ လက္နက္မ်ဳိး ပိုင္ဆိုင္ျခင္းမရွိသည့္ ေဒသတြင္းတြင္ လူအေျမာက္အျမားကို ေသေၾကပ်က္စီးေစႏိုင္သည့္ လက္နက္နည္းပညာ ျပန္႔ပြားလာမည့္ အႏၲရာယ္လည္း ရွိေနသည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းမ်ားက ကာကြယ္ဟန္႔တားႏိုင္ေသာ ေရြးလမ္းအျဖစ္ အေၾကာင္းျပကာ ေဒသတြင္း လက္နက္ၿပိဳင္ဆိုင္မႈတရပ္ ေပၚေပါက္လာမည္ျဖစ္သည္။

`ဤသို႔ေသာ ထိတ္လန္႔သံသယ ျဖစ္မႈမ်ားေအာက္တြင္ ေဒသတြင္းလံုၿခံဳေရး အႏၲရာယ္မွာလည္း တိုးပြားလာမည္သာ ျဖစ္သည္။ အျခားႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအေနႏွင့္လည္း သူတို႔၏ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာလက္နက္မ်ား တိုးခ်ဲ႕ခ်ထား ထုတ္လုပ္ရန္ လိုအပ္ေနၿပီဟူေသာ အျမင္မ်ဳိးမ်ားလည္း ေပၚေပါက္လာမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ပိုမိုနီးကပ္လာေနေသာ ျမန္မာ-ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယား ဆက္ဆံေရးအေပၚ အေမရိကန္က တံု႔ျပန္အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္လာႏိုင္ဖြယ္ ရွိသည့္အေပၚလည္း ပီကင္းက စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္လိမ့္မည္ျဖစ္သည္´ ဟု အင္ဒရူးဆက္သ္က သူ႔စာတမ္းတြင္ ေရးသားထားသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္အစီအစဥ္ႏွင့္ ဒံုးက်ည္ရရွိေရး ၾကိဳးပမ္းမႈမ်ားအတြက္ သက္ေသအေထာက္အထား အခိုင္အမာ ရရွိၿပီဆိုပါက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ တိုက္႐ိုက္ဆက္ဆံမည့္ သူ၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ မူဝါဒကို ဝါရွင္တန္က ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ရေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္သည္။

တနလၤာေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ပံုမွန္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲတြင္ ျပည္သူ႔ဆက္ဆံေရးဆိုင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ ဒုတိယ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီး ဖိလစ္ ေဂ် ခ႐ုိလီ (Philip J. Crowley) က `ေျမာက္ကိုရီးယားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအၾကား ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ သေဘာသဘာဝႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍´ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံက စိုးရိမ္ပူပန္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။

သူက မည္သို႔ေသာ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ဳိး ဆိုသည္ကို ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားျခင္း မျပဳေသာ္လည္း ေျမေအာက္ အႏုျမဴစက္႐ံုမ်ား တည္ေဆာက္ေနမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ေမးခြန္းမ်ားကိုမူ တစံုတရာ မွတ္ခ်က္ေပးရန္ ျငင္းဆန္ခဲ့သည္။ အကဲခတ္အမ်ားအျပားကမူ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္ကိစၥအေပၚ အေမရိကန္က အသစ္တဖန္ စိတ္ဝင္စားေနသည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္ၾကသည္။
လိုးဝီးႏိုင္ငံတကာ မူဝါဒ အင္စတီက်ဳ (Lowy Institute for International Policy) ၏ ဘေလာ့ျဖစ္ေသာ The Interpreter တြင္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ေရးသားရာ၌ အင္ဒ႐ူးဆက္သ္က `အိုဘားမားအစိုးရသည္ သူတို႔၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ မူဝါဒကို ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္သည့္လုပ္ငန္း တစိတ္တပိုင္းအေနႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား အစီအစဥ္ကို ေသခ်ာစြာ ေလ့လာစံုစမ္းေနသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ ယခုအထိ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရက ဤကိစၥႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ရာတြင္ အထူးသတိထားေနသည္။ ေၾကညာခ်က္ မထုတ္ျပန္မီ ျမန္မာ့အႏုျမဴ အစီအစဥ္ႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍ ခိုင္မာေသာ သက္ေသခံခ်က္မ်ားရေအာင္ ေစာင့္ဆိုင္း ေနဖြယ္ရွိသည္ဟု သူကေျပာသည္။

သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား ဆက္လက္ေပါက္ၾကားေနျခင္း၊ ယင္းေၾကာင့္ စစ္ေရးအဆက္အဆံမ်ားအေပၚ မီဒီယာက အာ႐ံုစိုက္ စိတ္ဝင္စားလာေနျခင္း၊ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ ၿပံဳယမ္းအၾကား ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရွိေသာ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ားတို႔ေၾကာင့္ အေမရိကန္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ စိတ္ဝင္တစား ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနမႈမွာ နဂိုအတိုင္းပင္ ဆက္လက္ရွိေနဦးမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပို၍ပင္ အရွိန္ျမင့္လာႏိုင္သည္။

အိုဘားမားအစိုးရက အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွေဒသကို အသစ္တဖန္ စိတ္ဝင္စားလာေနျပန္ေၾကာင္း ျပသခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ ဤသို႔ျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္လည္း သူ၏ ေတာင္ပိုင္းအိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံ၏ ၾကီးမားလွေသာ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ားကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ ဇက္သတ္ထားႏိုင္သည့္ အေကာင္းဆံုး အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို ရရွိသြားေစခဲ့သည္။

5-8-09 Atomic agency urged to examine Burma nuclear claims

2009-08-05T21:52:00.000+05:30

Anne Davies, Washington
August 5, 2009

US NON-proliferation experts have called on the International Atomic Energy Agency to seek clarification from the Burmese Government over its nuclear program following a report in The Age that quoted defectors claiming there was a secret military nuclear program.

The Age report, based on interviews by Professor Desmond Ball of the Australian National University and journalist Phil Thornton with defectors from Burma, revealed that it was building a secret nuclear reactor, with North Korea’s assistance, at Nuang Laing, close to Mandalay.

The report has prompted intense interest among US security experts, particularly in the light of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s comments in Thailand, in which she said there had been ‘‘co-operation between North Korea and Burma in the past’’ and that North Korea had provided Burma with high technology materials now barred by the UN Security Council.

Mrs Clinton made the remarks in the context of praising Burma for having co-operated in the enforcement of UN Resolution 1874, which is designed to prevent North Korea shipping nuclear materials to other nations. A North Korean ship bound for Burma turned back after being shadowed by the US Navy last month.

Daryl Kimball, of the Arms Control Association, told an online security report that, although there had been no evidence of a Burmese nuclear weapons quest, whatever it was the North Koreans were doing must be a priority for the IAEA, of which Burma is a member. ‘‘The report is probably enough cause for the IAEA director-general [and Russia] to seek clarification from Myanmar [Burma] and request a special inspection,’’ Mr Kimball said.

Russia is said to have agreed in 2007 to give the Burmese a small civilian light-water reactor, which would be subject to IAEA inspections, although the status of the project is disputed.

David Albright, the head of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, which monitors nuclear proliferation, pointed to visits to Burma by executives from the North Korean company Namchongang Trading Corporation, which is under sanctions for its role in trading nuclear technology.

Mr Albright also pointed to sales of high-precision technology from North Korea to Burma used in ballistic missile manufacture.

On Monday, the institute posted links to photos on the YaleGlobal website that show extensive tunnel construction in Burma overseen by North Korean engineers. They are understood to be separate to tunnelling related to the nuclear program at Nuang Laing referred to by the defectors.

There was some scepticism about the defectors’ claim that Burma hoped to have a nuclear weapon within five years, with that time frame considered too short, unless Burma was more advanced than suspected.

Only a shared constitution can guarantee peace in the country, Burmese exile says

2009-08-05T20:46:00.000+05:30

INDIA – MYANMAR
Only a shared constitution can guarantee peace in the country, Burmese exile says
by Tint Swe
Myanmar is going through a deep crisis that can only be overcome on the basis of a unifying political project. It must include opposition parties and the country’s various ethnic groups in dialogue with the military junta. This initiative is a response to the dictatorship’s “democracy” plan, described as “unacceptable.”

New Delhi (AsiaNews) – A summit will be held from 11 to13 August in Jakarta, Indonesia, to prepare a national reconciliation plan. It will be the first attempt to set up a unified movement since the post-Second World War period and the struggle for independence against British colonialists and Japanese invaders.

The initiative is the brainchild of the Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities, which includes Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and the country’s ethnic minorities.

For this reason we are publishing an analysis by Tint Swe, a member of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) set up by refugees from Myanmar after the 1990 elections won by the NLD but never recognised by the ruling military junta.

After fled to India in 1990 and has lived in New Delhi since 21 December 1991. Since then he has been a member of the NCGUB responsible for Information and specia responsibility for South Asia and East Timor.
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Burma is in crisis. The State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), which has ruled the country for the past 21 years ago, has created a political system that seeks to perpetuate its rule over Burma.

The government in exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), has been working at the international level. Essentially it does what the inside leadership cannot do. Accordingly it has to deal with friendly governments, diplomats as well as international civil society groups and campaigners all over the world. The key area in which the NCGUB has a special interest is working with the United Nations.

There have been scores of UN envoys to Burma. They include UN human rights representatives and special envoys representing the UN secretary general. Prof Ibrahim Gambari is the current special envoy of Mr Ban Ki-moon. Gambari’s second last visit to Burma in 2008 was highly criticized by the Burmese opposition because he expressed support for the military regime’s unacceptable 2010 election plan.

When Gambari met the NCGUB prime minister, he said that the UN had to talk about the regime’s roadmap because the opposition lacked a shared and better proposal. So the NCGUB decided to come up with an all-agreed, all-inclusive sustainable plan.

When all Burmese parliamentarians in exile gathered in Ireland in January 2009, the NCGUB laid out a new proposal which was agreed in principle. The draft proposal was accepted at a consultative meeting of the main opposition groups held on 26 January 2009.

The NCGUB consulted experienced diplomats, ethnic groups and pro-democracy organizations to make the draft proposal more acceptable. Meanwhile political developments inside Burma become critical since Ban Ki-moon’s two-day visit did not lead to any meaningful change; instead Aung San Suu Kyi was put on trial.

The constitution adopted by the SPDC in 2008 excludes many important political groups in Burma, including ethnic groups who are stake-holders in the Union of Burma. It permits neither full democratic election, nor does it protect the human rights of the Burmese people.

The country’s current legal and political framework does not allow economic activity to flourish. Despite Burma’s wealth in natural resources, millions of its people languish in poverty and hardships. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of the regime’s cronies; economic development and a decent standard of living are denied to the majority of Burma’s population. Foreign and domestic investments face obstacles and they do take place they are largely limited to the unsustainable exploitation of Burma’s non-renewable natural resources, including its virgin forests and minerals. The agricultural sector, which is vital to the country’s economy, is largely ignored.

Only democracy, based upon a fully inclusive constitution, will enable the people of Burma to achieve long term peace and stability in a society in which all its peoples, through representative institutions, can participate in political decision-making.

The draft proposal submitted by the NCGUB for the development of an inclusive political process before 2010 was widely discussed in opposition circles. An ‘Action Plan on transition towards Democracy and Development in Burma’ is about to be launched, not only by the NCGUB but also by six other coalition groups (ethnic, women, students, pro-democracy) next week.

This Action Plan is the means by which Burma can achieve a peaceful and lawful transition to democracy and economic development. It can be achieved through consultation and dialogue between, on the one hand, the pro-democracy and ethnic movement of Burma and, on the other, the military regime currently in power.

Working together, we can bring Burma back to a path of international legitimacy, regional stability and national peace, security, freedom and prosperity for all.

(Nirmala Carvalho contributed to the report)
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Dear Nirmala Carvalho

Again I am grateful to you for two articles.

If you don’t mind, I like to point out something. In the articles there are three misquotations as follow.

1. Gambari’s second visit to Burma in 2008 was highly criticized by the Burmese opposition because he expressed support for the military regime’s unacceptable 2010 election plan.
Gambari’s second last visit to Burma in 2008 was highly criticized by the Burmese opposition because he expressed support for the military regime’s unacceptable 2010 election plan. (It is because Gambari has visited 7-8 times.)

2. The roadmap was unilaterally withdrawn and abandoned by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time.
The roadmap was drawn unilaterally and top-down by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time. (Roadmap is the one we want to abandon.)

3. At the same time western sanctions were eased for humanitarian reason.
At the same time western sanctions were blamed for humanitarian reason by those who failed to do so the regime which deliberately blocked international aid during Nargis cyclone. (Sanctions are not eased but tightened.)

Sincerely

Tint Swe
6-8-09

Foreign Policy: Nuclear Reactor Or Swimming Pool?

2009-08-05T18:55:00.000+05:30

by Joshua Keating
August 5, 2009
Nuclear watchdog urged to seek answers from Burma
Anne Davies Herald Correspondent in Washington
August 5, 2009

This Google Earth image of a mysterious building in Northern Burma posted by the New America Foundation's Jeffrey Lewis on the Arms Control Wonk blog has been making the Internet rounds.

It may look like an Olympic-sized swimming pool, but the thing is huge — 80 meters long on each side and seems to roughly match up with the Sydney Morning Herald's report of a Burmese nuclear reaction construction project. The Institute for Science and International Security has more.

No one seems to have a conclusive idea about what the thing is yet, but it does seem worth keeping an eye on. Via James Fallows, the Lowy Interpreter has a useful roundup of the latest Burma nuke speculation.

Nuclear watchdog urged to seek answers from Burma

AMERICAN non-proliferation experts have called on the international nuclear watchdog to seek clarification from the Burmese Government over its nuclear program after a Herald report that quoted defectors claiming there was a secret military nuclear program.

The report, based on interviews by Professor Desmond Ball of the Australian National University and a journalist, Phil Thornton, said the country had been developing a secret nuclear program. It revealed Burma was building a secret reactor, with North Korea’s assistance, at Nuang Laing, close to Mandalay.

The report has prompted intense interest among US security experts, particularly in the light of comments by the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in Thailand.

She said there had been ‘‘co-operation between North Korea and Burma in the past’’ and that North Korea had provided Burma with high-technology materials barred by the United Nations Security Council.

She made the remarks while praising Burma for having co-operated in the enforcement of UN resolution 1874, which is designed to prevent North Korea from shipping nuclear materials to other nations.

A North Korean ship turned back after being shadowed by the US Navy en route to Burma last month.

Daryl Kimball, of the Arms Control Association, told the Nelson Report, an influential online security report, that although there had been no evidence of a Burmese nuclear-weapons quest, whatever the North Koreans were doing must be made a priority by the International Atomic Energy Agency, of which Burma is a member.

‘‘The report is probably enough cause for the IAEA director-general [and Russia] to seek clarification from Myanmar [Burma] and request a special inspection,’’ Mr Kimball said.

Russia is said to have agreed in 2007 to provide the Burmese with a small, civilian light-water reactor, which would be subject to agency inspections, although the project’s exact status is disputed.

David Albright, the head of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington, which monitors nuclear proliferation said: ‘‘There’s no hard evidence, just suspicions right now. We are watching it.’’

He pointed out visits to Burma by executives from the North Korean firm, Namchongang Trading Corporation, which is under sanctions for its role in trading nuclear technology. Western officials say it channelled equipment and material for the nuclear reactor in Syria, which was destroyed in an Israeli air strike in September 2007.

Mr Albright also pointed to sales of technology used in ballistic missile manufacture from North Korea to Burma.

On Monday the Institute for Science and International Security posted links to photos on the YaleGlobal site, which show extensive tunnel construction in Burma overseen by North Korean engineers. They are understood to be separate to tunnelling related to the nuclear program referred to by the defectors.

5-8-09 EDITORIAL: Burma's bomb

2009-08-05T18:45:00.001+05:30

A murderous junta wants nukes
By | Wednesday, August 5, 2009
While its people struggle with poverty, Burma's military government, or junta, spends about 40 percent of its budget on the army and defense.

The Soviet Union used to be described jokingly as a "Third World country with atomic bombs." But the spread of nuclear weapons in the developing world is no joke.

Burma is the latest case. In 2007, the military junta that runs the country confirmed that it was developing a 10-megawatt nuclear reactor with Russian help, claiming the program was for peaceful uses only. But according to reports last week in the Australian press based on defector testimony, the military government maintains a secret underground weapons complex at Naung Laing in the mountainous northern part of the country. Burma, which its leaders call Myanmar, could be ready to build a bomb in less than five years.

The junta's reported accomplice in this venture is North Korea. Last month, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton expressed official concern about deepening military cooperation between the two countries. In June 2009, the U.S. Navy shadowed the Burma-bound North Korean freighter Kang Nam I, which was suspected of carrying illegal weapons components. The ship ultimately turned back. The same month, Bangkok-based Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner published photos of North Koreans excavating secret tunnels in the new Burmese capital of Naypyidaw and elsewhere. Burma purportedly is trading yellowcake uranium to North Korea and Iran in exchange for nuclear expertise, though the details are sketchy at this point.

The strategic rationale for a Burmese bomb is questionable -- defense against Thailand, apparently -- but the political rationale is ironclad. Nuclear capability would solidify the junta's rule against any countries upset over its dismal human rights record, black-market activities and narcotics dealing. And given the reluctance of the international community to take effective action against nuclear proliferators, prospects for a nuclear Burma look good. Since the failure to find an operational program to develop weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, no country other than Israel has demonstrated the resolve to engage in active nuclear counterproliferation. The message to the world, as North Korea has demonstrated, is that even the poorest and most backward countries can become nuclear powers if they want to.

The spread of nuclear weapons into the developing world is cause for alarm. The more of them there are, the less control will be possible. Security would be questionable, and the likelihood would increase that non-state groups would be able to obtain weapons to conduct terror attacks or engage in nuclear blackmail. Those who believe that deterrence alone can keep a lid on nuclear weapons should look into the beliefs of superstitious junta leader Gen. Than Shwe. Astrology reportedly plays a key role in his decision-making. For example, he moved the capital from Rangoon to Naypyidaw on Nov. 11, 2005, at 11 a.m. in 1,100 trucks carrying 11 government ministries. This is not someone who should have his finger on the nuclear trigger.

So Burma is in the nuclear game. Iran could soon have a weapon. Will Venezuela be next? Or Cuba? Syria? We wonder how many small, potentially unstable and habitually unfriendly states will have to achieve nuclear capability before the United States gets serious about countering nuclear proliferation.

George Fernandes elected to Rajya Sabha

2009-08-05T12:08:00.000+05:30

Patna, Aug 3 (PTI) Rebel JD(U) leader George Fernandes was today declared elected unopposed in the bye-election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar. "Since nobody other than Fernandes was left in the fray, he was declared elected in the bye-election to the Rajya Sabha seat in Bihar," state assembly secretary and returning officer, S P Sharma said on the last date of scrutiny of papers.

The bye-election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat was necessitated after JD(U) national president Sharad Yadav resigned following his election to Lok Sabha from Madhepura in Bihar. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar had mollified Fernandes who filed the nomination for the bye-poll on July 30 after remaining aloof for a period of three months.

He defied the party and threw his hat into the ring as an Independent candidate in Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency following denial of a JD(U) nomination. Fernandes finished third in the LS poll in Muzaffarpur seat.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20090804/1416/tnl-george-fernandes-elected-to-rajya-sa_1.html

၄-၈-၀၉ ျပည္ပေရာက္ အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔မ်ားက ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မႈအသစ္ကို တြန္းအားေပး တင္ျပမည္

2009-08-04T21:42:00.000+05:30

အဂၤါေန႔၊ ၾသဂုတ္လ 04 ရက္ 2009 ခုႏွစ္ 18 နာရီ 58 မိနစ္
မံုပီး - နယူးေဒလီ (မဇၩိမ)။

ျပည္သူကို ဆင္းရဲတြင္းထဲ က်ေစၿပီး၊ တိုင္းျပည္ကို လံုးဝ ပ်က္စီးေစခဲ့သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အရႈပ္အေထြးမွ လြတ္ေျမာက္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ အသစ္တရပ္ ရွိေနၿပီဟု ျမန္မာအတိုက္အခံ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားက ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ၾကသည္။

အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ဂ်ကာတာတြင္ ယခုလ ၁၂-၁၃ ရက္ေန႔မ်ားတြင္ က်င္းပရန္ စီစဥ္ထားသည့္ အစည္းအေဝးသို႔ တက္ေရာက္မည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔မ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသား အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား စံုညီစြာ ပါဝင္မည့္ မဟာမိတ္ ၇ ဖြဲ႔က သူတို႔သည္ `အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အဆိုျပဳခ်က္´ ဟု အမည္ေပးထားသည့္ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို ေဆြးေႏြး၍ အေခ်ာသတ္ အတည္ျပဳၾကမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ဤစာတမ္းကို ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရထံသို႔ ေပးပို႔မည္ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေျပာဆိုသည္။

ဤအစည္းအေဝး (ကြန္ဗင္းရွင္း) သည္ ပထမဆံုးအၾကိမ္အျဖစ္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၊ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အပါအဝင္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔စံုလင္လွေသာ အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို စုစည္းေပးႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္ကာ ျပည္ပေရာက္အစိုးရ၏ ကုလသမဂၢဆိုင္ရာ အၿမဲတမ္းကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ေဒါက္တာေသာင္းထြန္းက ယေန႔ ေျပာသည္။

''လက္ရွိ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ေရွ႕မတိုးေနာက္မဆုတ္ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အေျခအေနအရ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးဟာ အေရးတၾကီး လိုအပ္ေနပါတယ္။ ဒီအတြက္ ဒီအဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို တင္ျပတာပါ'' ဟု ေဒါက္တာေသာင္းထြန္းက ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ၿပီး ဂ်ကာတာတြင္ က်င္းပမည့္ ကြန္ဗင္းရွင္းက ဤ ''အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး အဆိုျပဳခ်က္'' ကို ေနာက္ဆံုး အတည္ျပဳ ေပးမည္ဟုလည္း တဆက္တည္း ေျပာဆိုလုိက္သည္။

ဤထူးျခားသည့္ ကြန္ဖရင့္သို႔ မဟာမိတ္အဖြဲ႔ ၇ ဖြဲ႔ျဖစ္ၾကေသာ ထီးရိပ္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသား ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ (NCGUB)၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသားေကာင္စီ (NCUB)၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားေကာင္စီ (ENC)၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (WLB)၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ား ကြန္ဂရက္ (SYCB)၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူငယ္္မ်ား ဆံုရပ္ (NYF)၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီဖိုရမ္ (FDB) တို႔ တက္ေရာက္ၾကမည္။

အဆိုပါ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္စာတမ္းတြင္ အရပ္သားက႑ေထာက္ခံမႈ၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု အေျခခံဥပေဒ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား၊ စစ္တပ္မွ ထြက္ခြင့္ျပဳျခင္း၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားဆက္ဆံေရး၊ လူမႈအေဆာက္အအံု စသည့္ အဓိကက်ေသာ ျပႆနာ အေျမာက္အျမားကို တင္ျပထားသည္။

ျမန္မာအတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔မ်ားအျပင္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ (အာဆီယံ) မွ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ားလည္း ဤအစည္းအေဝးသို႔ တက္ေရာက္ၾကမည္ဟု ေဒါက္တာေသာင္းထြန္းက ေျပာသည္။

''ဒီအဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို စစ္အစိုးရကိုေရာ၊ ကုလသမဂၢအပါအဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအဝိုင္းကိုပါ တင္ျပသြားျပမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကြန္ဖရင့္ဟာ တၾကိမ္ထဲ က်င္းပမယ့္ အစည္းအေဝး မဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ဒါဟာ ျဖစ္စဥ္တရပ္အေနနဲ႔ အလားတူ အစည္းအေဝးေတြကို အေမရိကန္နဲ႔ ဥေရာပမွာလည္း ဆက္လက္ေခၚယူက်င္းပသြားမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္'' ဟု သူက ေျပာသည္။

ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရ (NCGUB) ၏ ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာစိန္ဝင္းကလည္း အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔ေပါင္းစံု ပါဝင္တက္ေရာက္ၾကမည့္ ဤအစည္းအေဝးၾကီးသည္ ''သမိုင္းကိုဖန္တီးေနသည့္ အစည္းအေဝး'' ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာျဖင့္ ေရးသားထားသည့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ကာ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။

''အဓိကက်တဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီလိုလားတဲ့ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ အခုလို ဘံုသေဘာထားတရပ္ ေနာက္ဆံုး ခ်မွတ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့တာဟာ ၁၉၄၇ ခုႏွစ္က ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ ၿဗိတိသွ်ဆီက လြတ္လပ္ေရးယူဘို႔ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအားလံုး သေဘာတူခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္'' ဟု ေဒါက္တာစိန္ဝင္းက ေျပာသည္။

''အခုလည္း တိုင္းရင္းျဖစ္ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအဖြဲ႔တရပ္က ျပည္တြင္းျဖစ္ အာဏာလက္ကိုင္ရွိသူကို ဆန္႔က်င္တဲ့ေနရာမွာ အတူတကြ လက္တြဲေဆာင္ရြက္ဘို႔ ပထမဆံုးအၾကိမ္အျဖစ္ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ရတာျဖစ္မွာပါ'' ဟု သူက ဆက္လက္ေျပာဆိုသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ မည္သို႔ပင္ ဤညြန္႔ေပါင္းအဖြဲ႔၌ အတိုက္အခံအဖြဲ႔မ်ား စံုလင္သည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ မည္မွ် အရြယ္အစား ၾကီးမားသည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္က မည္မွ်လက္ေတြ႔က်သည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ စစ္အစိုးရက ဤအဆိုျပဳခ်က္ကို လက္ခံပါ့မလားဆိုသည့္ ေမးခြန္းတရပ္မွာမူ က်န္ရွိေနေသးသည္။

အတိုက္အခံေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွာ အမႈရင္ဆိုင္ေနရၿပီး ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အမိန္႔ခ်မွတ္ေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ႏွစ္ ၂ဝ လံုးလံုးလည္း သူတို႔၏ ေခါင္းမာမႈကို ျပသခဲ့ေသာ စစ္အစိုးရသည္ အတိုက္အခံမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးလိုေၾကာင္း နည္းနည္းေလးမွ်ပင္ အရိပ္အေယာင္မျပခဲ့ပါ။

''စစ္အစုိးရ ဘယ္လိုတံု႔ျပန္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ ရွိတယ္ဆိုတာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ စဥ္းစားထားၿပီးပါၿပီ။ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ခ်မယ့္ စီရင္ခ်က္ အတြက္လည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ အနီးကပ္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနပါတယ္။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ စစ္အစိုးရကို အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးဆီ ေရာက္လာေစမယ့္ လမ္းတခုခုကိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ စတင္ရွာေဖြသင့္ပါၿပီ'' ဟု ေဒါက္တာေသာင္းထြန္းက ေျပာသည္။

တိုင္းျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေရး သူတို႔၏ အဆင့္ ၇ ဆင့္ပါ လမ္းျပေျမပံု၏ အစိတ္အပိုင္းတရပ္ျဖစ္ေသာ အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ၂ဝ၁ဝ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ က်င္းပမည္ဟု စစ္အစိုးရက ေၾကညာထားၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ အတိုက္အခံမ်ားကမူ စစ္အစိုးရက ၂ဝဝ၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္းမျပဳလွ်င္၊ အားလံုး ပါဝင္ႏိုင္ျခင္းလည္း မရွိ၊ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမႈလည္း မရွိသည့္အတြက္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ဤျဖစ္စဥ္တရပ္လံုးသည္ တရားဝင္မႈ ရွိလိမ့္မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ေဝဖန္ေျပာဆိုထားၾကသည္။

3-8-09 ‘Historic’ meeting of Burmese opposition in Indonesia

2009-08-04T21:19:00.000+05:30

Democratic Voice of Burma: ‘Historic’ meeting of Burmese opposition in Indonesia – Francis Wade
Mon 3 Aug 2009
Filed under: News, Regional

Burmese ethnic groups and pro-democracy parties are set to meet in Jakarta this month to draw up a national reconciliation programme for Burma, billed as “history being made”.

The alliance, the Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities (MDREN), will meet in the Indonesian capital on 12 and 13 August to formalize the ‘Proposal for National Reconciliation’.

A statement released today by MDREN said that “delegates from all groups aligned in opposition to the military regime” would be present at the meeting.

“The proposal envisages opening a process of dialogue with the junta, effectively offering a sustainable exit-strategy for the military rulers,” it said.

“Civil sector support, electoral and constitutional reforms, military demobilisation, ethnic relations and social infrastructure are among the central areas addressed in the [proposal].”

The Prime Minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Sein Win, said that the convention was “history being made”.

“The last time all major ethnic and pro-democracy organizations have forged a common position was in 1947 when all forces agreed to seek independence from the British,” he said.

“As such, this is the first time an indigenous coalition has agreed to work together against a home-grown power.”

The MDREN is made up of opposition groups both within Burma and in exile, and includes the Ethnic Nationalities Council, the Women’s League of Burma and the Forum for Democracy in Burma.

International diplomats and non-governmental organizations will also attend the meeting.

Indonesia is hailed as a Southeast Asian success story after successful democratic transition from military rule in 1998, and is often cited as a potential model for Burma’s transition.

4-8-09 Release Aung San Suu Kyi by GP Koirala, former PM of Nepal

2009-08-04T15:11:00.000+05:30

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး နီေပါ ကူညီမည္
Monday, 03 August 2009 17:18
ဧရာ၀တီ။ ဇာနည္မာန္
နီေပါႏိုင္ငံ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ အတိုက္အခံ ပါတီမ်ား၊ လူမႈေရး အသင္းအဖြဲ႔ ေပါင္းစံုတို႔က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး အတြက္ အားျဖည့္ကူညီမည္ဟု အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံမ်ား ျမန္မာ့အေရးတြင္ ပါ၀င္လာရန္ လွည့္လည္စည္း႐ံုးေနသည့္ ညႊန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြႏွင့္အဖြဲ႔ကို ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

ေတာင္အာရွ လူမႈစြမ္းအား ဖိုရမ္ (SAFPI) ႏွင့္ မဟိျဒာ နာရယန္ နီဒီဟ္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း တို႔ ပူးေပါင္း၍ နီေပါႏိုင္ငံၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ခတၱမႏၵဴတြင္ ၾသဂုတ္ ၁ ရက္ႏွင့္ ၂ရက္ေန႔ က ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

“နီေပါဟာ အိႏိၵယလိုပဲ ပါတီေပါင္းစံုရွိတယ္ ပါတီတခုနဲ႔တခုကလည္း တခါတေလ သိပ္အေစးမကပ္ၾကဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဗမာျပည္အေရးနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိစၥကိုေတာ့ ပါတီေပါင္းစံုက တက္လာၾကတယ္။ အသံေတြကလည္းအတူတူပဲ တိုက္တြန္းေျပာဆိုတာေတြေကာ၊ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြပါ ရွိလာတယ္” ဟု ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြက ဧရာ၀တီကို ေျပာသည္။

လက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီး မစၥ သုဇာတာ ကိုအီရာလာက ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ျခင္း မရွိေသာ္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေပၚ ေလးစားၾကည္ညိဳခ်စ္ခင္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပ၍ ေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္ မ်ားကို စိတ္၀င္တစားရွိသည္ဟု ၾကားသိရသည္။

ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲအၿပီး ပါလီမန္တြင္ က်င္းပေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ား အစည္းအေ၀းကို ေဒါက္တာ တင့္ေဆြႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔ တက္ေရာက္နားေထာင္ခြင့္ရခဲ့ရာ အဆိုပါ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို မည္သို႔မည္ပံု ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္ ဆိုသည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြက ဆိုသည္။

ဆက္လက္၍ ၎က “သူတို႔အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ ဘာလုပ္ေပးပါ့မယ္ ဆိုၿပီး တရား၀င္ေျပာဆိုတာ မရွိပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ က်ေနာ္နားလည္တာက ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးအေနနဲ႔ အတတ္ႏိုင္ဆံုးၾကိဳးစားမယ္လို႔ ယူဆပါတယ္” ဟုေျပာသည္။

အဆိုပါ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျမန္မာအင္အားစုမ်ား ကိုယ္စား ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရ ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြ၊ ေရႊ သဘာဝဓာတ္ေငြ႕ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႔မွ ကိုကင္မ္ အပါအ၀င္ အိႏိၵယ ႏိုင္ငံမွ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ၂ ဦး၊ အိႏိၵယ လူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ နီေပါႏိုင္ငံ အာဏာရပါတီမွ အမတ္မ်ား၊ အတိုက္အခံပါတီမ်ားအျပင္ လူမႈအသင္းအဖြဲ႔ေပါင္းစံု တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

မဟိျဒာ နာရယန္ နီဒီဟ္ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း၏ ဥကၠဌ မစၥတာ ဘာႏူး ဘာသား ဒါကားလ္ ကလည္း “ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမွာ လက္ရွိအာဏာရပါတီေတြ၊ အတိုက္အခံပါတီေတြနဲ႔ အမတ္ေတြက ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရး၊ အထူးသျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ကူညီမယ္ဆိုတာ ေျပာေတာ့ အေတာ္ကို အားရေက်နပ္မိပါတယ္။ နီေပါအစိုးရဘက္ကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးမွာ သူတို႔ ေပၚလစီက အကန္႔အသတ္ေတြ ရွိေကာင္းရွိေနမွာ ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ အခုကေတာ့ ျမန္မာ့အေရးအတြက္ အေပါင္းလကၡဏာ ေဆာင္တဲ့ အရိပ္အေယာင္ေတြ ေတြ႔ျမင္ရပါတယ္” ဟု ဧရာ၀တီကို ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာ့အေရးကိစၥတြင္ နီေပါႏိုင္ငံ အပါအ၀င္ ေတာင္အာရွ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အတိုင္းအတာတခုအထိ အေရးပါေသာေနရာတြင္ ရွိသည္ျဖစ္၍ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ ဖိအားေပးမႈမ်ား၊ ကုလသမဂၢအဖြဲ႔သို႔ တိုက္တြန္းႏႈိးေဆာ္ျခင္းမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ရန္ နီေပါႏွင့္ အိႏၵိယအစိုးရတို႔ကို တိုက္တြန္းမည္ဟု သူက ဆိုသည္။

ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေမလက နီေပါ အတိုက္အခံပါတီမ်ားႏွင့္ လူမႈေရးအသင္းအဖြဲ႔ ၂၀၀ ေက်ာ္တို႔က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ကို ခၽြင္းခ်က္မရွိ အျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ေပးရန္ တိုက္တြန္းစာကို နီေပါႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးရံုးႏွင့္ ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုး မ်ားသို႔ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးေပးပို႔ခဲဖူးသည္။

ထို႔အတူ အိႏၵိယ အထက္ႏွင့္ ေအာက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ၁၂၀ နီးပါးတို႔ကလည္း ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို အိႏၵိယ ပါလီမန္တြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ အိႏၵိယ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ မာမိုဟန္ဆင္းထံသို႔ တိုက္တြန္း တင္ျပခဲ့ေသးသည္။

1-8-09 Solidarity Meeting for the Freedom of Burma in Kathmandu

2009-08-04T12:33:00.000+05:30

Solidarity Meeting for the Freedom of Burma
1st August, 2009
Hotel Shangri ~ La
Kathmandu
Organized By: Solidarity Group for Freedom of Burma-Nepal

Organized By: Solidarity Group for Freedom of Burma-Nepal (Taranath Dahal, Bhanubhakta Dhakal, Bin Kumar Bishwakarma, Sudip Pathak, Arjun Thapa)
Co-organizers:
• Mahendara Narayan Nidhi Memorial Foundation (MNNMF), Nepal
• South Asian Forum for Peoples Initiatives (SAFPL), India

Program:
1. Mr. Bin Kumar Bishwakarma, General Secretary, FEDEN – Master of Ceremony
2. Mr. Taranath Dahal, Chairperson, Freedom Forum - Program Chair
3. Mr. Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, Chairperson, MNNMF - Welcome Note
4. Dr. Tint Swe, Infor Minister in Exile, Burma - Guest Speaker
5. Mr. Chandrika Yadav, Chief Whip, MJF - Solidarity Speech
6. Mr. Kim Hungup, Leader Liberal Forward Party, South Korea - Solidarity Speech
7. Mr. Sudhindra Bhadauriya, General Secretary, SAFPI - Solidarity Speech
8. Mr. Arhun Thggapa, Madeshi Jonaadhikar Forum - Solidarity Speech
9. Prof. Mr., Ananda Kumar, President SAFPI & Jawarlal Nehru University India - Solidarity Speech
10. Mr. Anil Jha, Member CA. Nepal Sadbhawana Party - Solidarity Speech
11. Mr. Laxman Ghimire, Chief Whip, Nepali - Solidarity Speech
12. Mr. Padmalal Biswokarma, President, CA International Affairs Committee United Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) - Solidarity Speech
13. Mr. Damannath Dhungana, Former Speaker - Solidarity Speech
14. Mr. Pradeep Girl, Nepali Congress - Solidarity Speech
15. Mr. Brij Bhusan Tiwari, Member MP (RS) Samajwadi Party - Solidarity Speech
16. Mr. Pradip Ganwali, Nepal Communist Party (UML) - Solidarity Speech
17. Mr. KC Tyagi, General Secretary, Janata Dal United, India - Solidarity Speech
18. Mr. Bimalendra Nidhi, General Secretary, Nepali Congress - Solidarity Speech
19. Mr. Sudip Pathak, President, HURON - Vote of Thanks - Solidarity Speech

2-8-09 Parliamentarians speak on Burma in Nepal Assembly

2009-08-04T12:12:00.000+05:30

Date – 2 August 2009, Sunday
Constituent Assembly – Legislature Parliament
Kathmandu, Nepal
Solidarity speeches demanding unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all Political prisoners with restoration of Democracy & Peace in Burma

During special time in Parliament
1. Bimalendra Nidhi - Nepali Congress
2. Pradeep Gyawali - CPN (UML)
3. Chandrika Yadav - MJF
4. Jeetendra Sonal - TMDP
5. Chandradeo Joshi - CPN (United)
6. Miss Leela Nyaichai - Nepal workers and Peasant Party
7. Mrs. Sarita Giri - Nepal Sadbhawana Party (Anandi devi)
8. Malbar Singh Thapa -
9. Laxman Ghimire - Nepali Congress

During Zero hour in Parliament
10. Anay Chaurasiya - Nepali Congress
11. Mrs. Uma Regwi - Nepali Congress
12. Amril Lal Rajbansi - Nepali Congress
13. Keshav Mairali - Charbhawar Party

1-2 August 2009 Nepal Trip

2009-08-04T09:34:00.000+05:30

Solidarity Meeting for the Freedom of Burma organized by Mahendra Narayan Nidhi Memorial Foundation (Nepal) and SAFPI (India), Kathmandu, Nepal 2-8-09

Indo-Burma delegation in front of Nepali Parliament
Mr. Padmalal Biswokarma, President CA International Affairs Committee United Nepal Communist Party (Maoist)
Shri Brij Bhushan Tiwari, Members of Parliament (Rajya Sabha), member of Indian Parliamentarian Forum for Democracy in Burma (IPFDB)
Meeting with (former) Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala
Meeting with TMDP party president
Dr. Annand Kumar, President SAFPI and professor of JNU
Shri Sudhindra Bhadorea, General Secretary SAFPI

ျမန္မာျပည္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖုိအတြက္ ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက ကူညီေန

2009-08-02T15:39:00.000+05:30

AFP သတင္းဌာန
ၾသဂုတ္ ၁၊ ၂၀၀၉
ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖုိ ႏွင့္ ငါးႏွစ္အတြင္း အဏုျမဴ ဗုံး တလုံး တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းႏုိင္သည့္ ပလူတုိနီယမ္ စက္ရုံ တုိ႔ကုိ လွ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္ အကူအညီ ေပးေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္မွ ထြက္ေျပးလာသူမ်ားကုိ ကုိးကားၿပီး ယေန႔ ထြက္ေပၚလာေသာ သတင္းတပုဒ္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

အဆုိပါ ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖုိသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေျမာက္ပုိင္း Naung Laing အရပ္ရိွ ေတာင္တန္းမ်ားအတြင္း လွ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ရုရွႏုိင္ငံ၏ အကူအညီျဖင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားသည့္ အရပ္ဘက္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ဓာတ္ေပါင္းဖုိအနီးတြင္ ရိွေနေၾကာင္း Sydney Morning Herald သတင္းစာတြင္ ေရးထားသည္။

ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား နည္းပညာ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးမည္ကုိ စုိးရိမ္ရေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဟီလာရီ ကလင္တန္က ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာၾကားၿပီး မၾကာမီမွာပင္ ဤသတင္း ေပါက္ၾကားမႈ ထြက္ေပၚလာျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာအစုိးရတြင္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ႀကီး ရိွေနေၾကာင္း မုိးႀကိဳး ႏွင့္ တင္မင္း ဟု အမည္ခံထားၾကသည့္ ျမန္မာျပည္မွ ထြက္ေျပးလာသူမ်ားက ၾသစေတးလ် သုေတသီ မစၥတာ ဒက္စမြန္ေဘာ ဆုိသူကုိ ေျပာျပၾကသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။

“သူတုိ႔ေျပာတာကေတာ့ က်န္းမာေရးအတြက္ရည္ရြယ္တယ္၊ ေဆးရုံေတြမွာ သုံးဖုိ႔ ေဆးပစၥည္းေတြ ထုတ္လုပ္မယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာတာပဲ” ဟု တင္မင္း ဆုိသူကုိ ကုိးကားၿပီး ေျပာျပသည္။

“ႏ်ဴကလီးယားသိပၸံ နည္းပညာကုိ သုံးတ့ဲေဆးရုံ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ဘယ္ႏွစ္ခု ရိွလုိ႔လဲ” ဟု တင္မင္းက ေျပာသည္။ “ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးေတာင္ ပုံမွန္ ရတာမဟုတ္ဘူး” ဟု ဆုိသည္။ တပ္မေတာ္ အရာရိွအျဖစ္ တာ၀န္ယူခ့ဲသူ မုိးႀကိဳးကလည္း တပ္သား တေထာင္ ပါ၀င္သည့္ “ႏ်ဴကလီးယား ေရးရာ တပ္ဖဲြ႔”ကုိ ကုိင္တြယ္ရန္အတြက္ သင္တန္းတက္ခ့ဲဖူးသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္က ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား ႏွင့္ အီရန္ႏုိင္ငံတုိ႔ကုိ ယူေရနီယံ သတၱဳမ်ား တင္ပုိ႔ခ့ဲသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။

Myanmar building nuke reactor, says media report

2009-08-02T14:44:00.000+05:30

TNN 2 August 2009, 01:57pm IST

NEW DELHI: After Iran and North Korea, the next international pariah to be accused of having nuclear ambitions is Myanmar.

A report in the `Sydney Morning Herald' on Saturday quotes two Myanmarese defectors as saying that the Myanmar junta was secretly building a nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facility with North Korea's help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years.

According to the report, "The secret complex, much of it in caves tunnelled into a mountain at Naung Laing in northern Burma, runs parallel to a civilian reactor being built at another site by Russia that both the Russians and Burmese say will be put under international safeguards."

One of the defectors was described as an "officer with a secret nuclear battalion in the Burmese army who was sent to Moscow for two years' training". The other, it said, "was a former executive of the leading regime business partner, Htoo Trading, who handled nuclear contracts with Russia and North Korea".

If true, the full weight of international pressure will be brought against Myanmar, said officials familiar with developments. But equally, the information that has been peddled by the defectors is also "preliminary" and could be used by the west to turn the screws on Myanmar -- on democracy and human rights issues -- in the run-up to the elections in the country in 2010.

In 2002, Myanmar had notified IAEA of its intention to pursue a civilian nuclear programme. Later, Russia announced that it would build a nuclear reactor in Myanmar. There have also been reports that two Pakistani scientists, from the AQ Khan stable, had been dispatched to Myanmar where they had settled down, to help Myanmar's project.

Recently, the David Albright-led ISIS rang alarm bells about Myanmar attempting a nuclear project with North Korean help.

During an ASEAN meeting in Thailand last week, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton highlighted concerns of the North Korean link. "We know there are also growing concerns about military cooperation between North Korea and Burma which we take very seriously," Clinton said.

None of the information supplied is indepth, said sources, but it can be used to raise the temperature and awareness of Myanmar's alleged intentions.

The Australian media report said, "China and other Asian nations recently helped persuade Rangoon to turn back a North Korean freighter, the Nam Kam 1, that was being shadowed by US warships on its way to Burma with an unknown cargo. A month ago, Japanese police arrested a North Korean and two Japanese for allegedly trying to export illegally to Burma a magnetic measuring device that could be used to develop missiles."

According to the report, "A South Korean intelligence expert, quoted anonymously, claimed satellite imagery showed the ship was part of clandestine nuclear transfer and also carried long-range missiles. Shadowed by the US Navy, the vessel eventually turned around and returned home."

The Russian assistance to Myanmar's nuclear programme would be under IAEA safeguards, but not, if Myanmar is pursuing it with North Korea.

Myanmar has proven reserves of uranium, and the technology acquired from North Korea might be used to extract plutonium.

According to reports, the Russian reactor hasn't taken off because Myanmar just has no money. But reportedly over the past 6 years, many Myanmar scientists, technicians and military personnel have received nuclear training in Russia.

1-8-09 Burma ‘building secret N-plant’

2009-08-02T10:02:00.000+05:30

The Age newspaper
Hamish McDonald
August 1, 2009

BURMA’s isolated military junta is building a secret nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facilities with North Korean help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years, according to evidence from key defectors.

The secret complex, much of it in caves tunnelled into a mountain at Naung Laing in northern Burma, runs parallel to a civilian reactor being built at another site by Russia that both the Russians and Burmese say will be put under international safeguards.

Two defectors were extensively interviewed separately over the past two years in Thailand by Australian National University strategic expert Desmond Ball and Thailand-based Irish journalist Phil Thornton.

One was an officer with a secret nuclear battalion in the Burmese army who was sent to Moscow for two years’ training; the other was a former executive of leading regime business partner Htoo Trading, who handled nuclear contracts with Russia and North Korea.

Their detailed testimony brings into sharp focus the hints emerging recently from other defector accounts and sightings of North Korean delegations that the Burmese junta, under growing pressure to democratise, is seeking a deterrent to any foreign regime change. Their story will ring alarm bells across Asia.

‘‘The evidence is preliminary and needs to be verified, but this is something that would completely change the regional security status quo,’’ said Thitinan Pongsudhirak, head of Thailand’s Institute of Security and International Studies.

‘‘It would move Myanmar [Burma] from not just being a pariah state, but a rogue state, that is, one that jeopardises the security and wellbeing of its immediate neighbours.’’

Washington is increasingly concerned that Burma is the main nuclear proliferation threat from North Korea, after Israel, in September 2007, destroyed a reactor the North Koreans were apparently building in Syria.

Professor Ball said another Moscow-trained Burmese army defector was picked up by US intelligence agencies early last year.

Some weeks later, Burma protested to Thailand about overflights by unmanned surveillance drones.

1-8-09 Burma and the bomb

2009-08-02T09:57:00.000+05:30

The Age newspaper
Daniel Flitton
August 1, 2009

A FEW years back, Burma’s paranoid military regime decided to pack up the capital of the country and shift a few hundred kilometres north. Rangoon, it seems, simply wasn’t safe enough any more. The generals, in their wisdom, decided to build a new home for their Government, to be known as the Abode of Kings, or more commonly, Naypyidaw. A city rose from the tropical plains with shiny buildings and freshly paved roadways — a strange priority in a country suffering chronic poverty and with a health system at the bottom of world rankings.

Now, a fresh question has emerged regarding the goals of Burma’s rulers. Could this junta, daft enough to lift up an entire capital city and dump it in the middle of the country, be so skewed in its priorities as to be trying to build a nuclear weapon? And might it have reached out to another paranoid regime, North Korea, for help?

Desmond Ball and Phil Thornton are convinced this is a genuine threat. The men have spent two years on the Burmese border, interviewing defectors who claim to know what the regime is planning. The testimony of two Burmese men in particular has caused Ball and Thornton to confront their own deep scepticism about the claims.

Theirs might seem an unlikely collaboration — Ball, a professor of strategic studies at ANU with a deep interest in nuclear technology, and Thornton, a freelance journalist based in Thailand. But the report they have compiled detailing the two defectors’ claims adds to mounting, if admittedly sketchy, evidence that Burma may be chasing the bomb.

The world knows that Burma aspires to a nuclear program. What is uncertain is the extent and intent. Rumours have swirled around refugee circles outside Burma about secret military installations, tunnels dug into the mountains to hide nuclear facilities, the establishment of a ‘‘nuclear battalion’’ in the army and work done by foreign scientists. But one of the defectors, a man known as ‘‘Moe Jo’’ to protect his identity, gives the claims added weight. He warned of the regime having a handful of bombs ready by 2020.

Moe Jo had escaped service in the Burmese army and fled to Thailand. Ball and Thornton met him in dingy rooms and safe-houses.

‘‘His hands shook and he worried about what price his family would have to pay for his actions,’’ they write. ‘‘Before rejecting his country’s nuclear plans, Moe Jo was an officer with 10 years’ exemplary army service, a former graduate of Burma’s prestigious Defence Services Academy, he specialised in computer science.’’

Moe Jo said the regime sent him to Moscow in 2003 to study engineering. He was in a second batch of trainees to be sent to Russia as part of an effort to eventually train 1000 personnel to run Burma’s nuclear program. Before leaving, he was told he would be assigned to a special nuclear battalion.

‘‘You don’t need 1000 people in the fuel cycle or to run a nuclear reactor,’’ said Moe Jo. ‘‘It’s obvious there is much more going on.’’

What is known is that Russia has agreed in principle to sell Burma a small nuclear plant — known as a light water reactor — and to train about 300 Burmese scientists to run the site. The stated reason is for research purposes, specifically to produce medical isotopes.

But what is disputed is whether the Russian reactor would also be large enough to be diverted to produce enriched uranium or plutonium to fuel a nuclear weapon. Usually, a heavy water reactor is needed to achieve this. But that is where the North Korean experience comes in.

‘‘As North Korea has shown with their [light water] reactor, it may be slow and more complex, but it is capable,’’ write Ball and Thornton.

Moe Jo alleged that a second, secret reactor of about the same size as the Russian plant had been built at a complex called Naung Laing. He said the army ‘‘planned’’ to build a plutonium reprocessing system and that Russian experts were already on site to show how it was done. One of the Burmese army’s nuclear battalions had been stationed in a local village to work on creating a weapon. He said an operations area was buried in the nearby Setkhaya Mountains, a set-up including engineers, artillery and communications to act as a command and control centre for the nuclear weapons program.

‘‘In the event that the testimonies of the defectors are proved, the alleged ‘secret’ reactor could be capable of being operational and producing a bomb a year, every year, after 2014,’’ write Ball and Thornton.

Claims of this type have stirred serious official concerns. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton journeyed to Thailand for a regional security meeting last month and directly raised the issue.

‘‘We know that there are also growing concerns about military co-operation between North Korea and Burma, which we take very seriously,’’ she said.

THE unease had escalated when a North Korean freighter, the Kang Nam I, steamed towards Burma last month carrying undisclosed cargo. One South Korean intelligence expert, quoted anonymously, claimed that satellite imagery showed the ship was part of clandestine nuclear transfer and also carried long-range missiles. Shadowed by the US Navy, the vessel eventually turned around and set course for home.

Japanese police had also recently caught a North Korean and two Japanese nationals allegedly trying to export a magnetic measuring device to Burma that could be used to develop missiles.

But it was what Clinton said during a television interview in Bangkok the next day that raised most eyebrows. For the first time, a senior White House official openly speculated on the prospect of closer ties leading to nuclear co-operation between Burma and North Korea.

Clinton: ‘‘We worry about the transfer of nuclear technology and other dangerous weapons.’’

Question: ‘‘From North Korea, you mean?’’

Clinton: ‘‘We do, from North Korea, yes.’’

Question: ‘‘To Burma?’’

Clinton: ‘‘To Burma, yes.’’

Question: ‘‘So you’re concerned about the tie — the closer ties between North Korea and Burma?’’

Clinton: ‘‘Yes, yes.’’

But there are many doubts about how far Burma’s military regime has advanced its nuclear aspirations. Ball and Thornton say a regional security officer told them the Naung Laing operation was a decoy to distract people from the true site of the reactor. ‘‘Before it was a heavily guarded no-go zone. Now you can drive right up to the buildings. Villagers are allowed to grow crops again.’’

The security officer said the Russian reactor supplied was in another part of the country.

And then to add to the confusion, there are doubts over the existence of the Russian reactor at all.

‘‘I’m sure the Russian reactor has not been built already,’’ says Mark Fitzpatrick. A senior fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Fitzpatrick has been closely watching Burma for most of the past decade and has edited a book, soon to be released, on nuclear plans throughout South-East Asia.

He sees ‘‘nothing alarming’’ in the prospective Russian deal — Russia is a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty that governs the export of civilian nuclear technology — and doubts Moscow would hide the establishment of a new reactor. Nor has the International Atomic Energy Agency sought to raise questions about Burma’s nuclear ambitions.

But Fitzpatrick is sceptical about the stated reasons offered by Burma’s rulers to explain their interest in nuclear technology, whether for research or eventually for power generation.

‘‘The most logical explanation for this interest in research is a prestige factor,’’ he says. Burma wants to demonstrate a level of technological expertise and perhaps also raise uncertainty about its nuclear capability. Having the bomb, after all, is a powerful military deterrent against foreign attack.

But he warns that the defectors’ claims about secret nuclear facilities must be treated carefully. ‘‘I’ve heard these reports and I pay attention to them, and they shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand.’’ North Korea is willing to sell anything to anyone, he says, and points to recent evidence that Pyongyang secretly sold a nuclear reactor to Syria.

‘‘It’s conceivable that this could have happened but I don’t think the evidence is very strong yet.’’

Ball and Thornton add to the mystery by reporting the testimony of another defector, a man they call ‘‘Tin Min’’. He claimed to have worked as a bookkeeper for a business tycoon closely linked to the Burmese military regime, whose company had supposedly organised nuclear contracts with Russia and North Korea. The purported deal with Pyongyang on nuclear co-operation dates as far back as nine years, signed with North Korean General Kim Chan Su and covering the construction, supply and maintenance of nuclear facilities.

‘‘Tin Min spoke excellent English and presented his reports to us with a touch of self-importance,’’ write Ball and Thornton. ‘‘Tin Min had good reason to know what it was like to feel important; before defecting, he had scaled the heights of his country’s high-society and had reaped the benefits of that position.’’

TIN Min dismissed the regime’s claim for requiring nuclear technology. ‘‘They say it’s to produce medical isotopes for health purposes in hospitals. How many hospitals in Burma have nuclear science? Burma can barely get electricity up and running. It’s a nonsense.’’

He claimed his boss once told him of the regime’s nuclear dreams. ‘‘They’re aware they cannot compete with Thailand with conventional weapons. They want to play power like North Korea. They hope to combine the nuclear and air defence missiles.’’

He said the initial phase of the nuclear program is known as ‘‘UF6 Project’’ and run by General Maung Aye, the junta’s leading general. Ball and Thornton conclude that the illicit nuclear co-operation is based on a trade of locally refined uranium from mines dotted across Burma back to North Korea in return for technological expertise.

Tin Min claimed that his boss controlled much of the shipping in and out of Burma and could organise the transport of equipment to nuclear sites from the port at Rangoon.

‘‘He arranges for army trucks to pick up the containers of equipment from the North Korean boats that arrive in Rangoon and transport them at night by highway to the river or direct to the sites.’’

He also claimed to have paid a construction company in about 2004 to build a tunnel through a mountain at Naung Laing wide enough for two large trucks to pass each other.

But his story cannot be further tested. Tin Min died late last year.

There are obvious dangers in relying on the testimony of defectors. The people giving evidence may have ulterior motives, as Ball and Thornton recognise: ‘‘Defectors may inflate their own importance in the hope of getting themselves resettled to a third country and exiled Burmese political activists need to keep the international spotlight on the regime’s negative activities.’’

For this reason, Griffith University’s Andrew Selth, a former senior intelligence analyst and one of Australia’s more experienced Burma watchers, remains suspicious about the claims.

‘Understandably,’’ he recently wrote for the Lowy Institute, ‘‘foreign officials looking at these matters are being very cautious. No one wants a repetition of the mistakes which preceded the last Iraq war, either in underestimating a country’s capabilities, or by giving too much credibility to a few untested intelligence sources …

‘‘There has always been a lot of smoke surrounding Burma’s nuclear ambitions. Over the past year or so, the amount of smoke has increased, but still no one seems to know whether or not it hides a real fire.’’

But the concern is not going away. The most recent edition of the US Foreign Policy magazine compared claims surrounding Burma’s nuclear program to the early leaks and dubious claims in the late 1950s that Israel had developed a secret nuclear site in the desert. Similar doubts were held about claims about India and Pakistan. All three countries have since tested the bomb.

And for this reason, Ball and Thornton are convinced that the world must face up to some uncomfortable possibilities: ‘‘According to all the milestones identified by the defectors, Burma’s nuclear program is on schedule. It is feasible and achievable. Unfortunately, it is not as bizarre or ridiculous as many people would like to think. Burma’s regional neighbours need to watch carefully.’’

Daniel Flitton is diplomatic editor.

6-10-07 UNSC members ask India, China to use influence on Myanmar

2009-08-01T14:46:00.000+05:30

PTI 6 October 2007, 11:10am IST

UNITED NATIONS: The US and several other key members of the UN Security Council have urged India, China and ASEAN nations to use their influence
on the neighbouring Myanmar to start an all-inclusive reconciliation process which could lead to a democratic set up replacing the 45-year old military regime.

But the 15-member Council itself was deadlocked when it met on Friday, with the US and Britain pressing for sending a strong message to back the efforts of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and China asserting that the pro-democracy protests and strong government action to deal with them were an internal matter of Myanmar.

China clashed with the US and Britain when it rejected the suggestion that the Council consider imposing sanction to back up the efforts being made by the Secretary General and his envoy Ibrahim Gambari.

The situation in Myanmar posed no threat to the international peace and security, Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya told the US and Britain during a debate that followed a briefing by Gambari who has just returned after meeting head of military junta General Than Shwe and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Pressure, Wang warned, would not help resolve the problem and might lead to mistrust and confrontation.

The debate in the Council was held in the backdrop of Than offering talks with Suu Kyi with several conditions attached which her party has virtually rejected.

Talking to reporters, Gambari said Suu Kyi is interested in a dialogue and stressed that both sides have strong misgivings about each other.

BBC ဒီမုိက‌ေရစီနဲ႔ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေရး လြတ္လပ္အ‌ေတြး ‌ေဆြး‌ေႏြးဖလွယ္အစီအစဥ္

2009-07-31T13:05:00.000+05:30

ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာ ဒီမုိက‌ေရစီ မရွိတဲ့အတြက္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ‌ေတြ မျဖစ္နုိင္တာလုိ႔ ေျပာၾကသူ‌ေတြရွိပါတယ္။ တဖက္မွာလည္‌း ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ မရွိတဲ့အတြက္ လူလတ္တန္‌းစား‌ေတြ ‌ေပၚ‌‌ေပါက္မလာနုိင္ဘဲ ဒီမုိက‌ေရစီ
စံနစ္ကုိ အသြင္မကူး‌ေျပာင္‌းနုိင္တာလုိ႔ ယူဆၾကသူ‌ေတြ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒီမုိက‌ေရစီနဲ႔ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေရး ဘာကုိအရင္ ဦးစား‌ေပးသင္‌့ပါသလဲ။ BBC ၂၉-၇-၀၉ ဗုဒၶဟူး‌ေန႔ည လြတ္လပ္အ‌ေတြး ‌ေဆြး‌ေႏြးဖလွယ္ အစီအစဥ္မွာ ‌ေသာတရွင္‌‌ေတြ ခုလုိ ပါဝင္‌‌ေဆြး‌ေႏြးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
BBC 29-7-09 Discussion on Demcracy and Development.asx

30-7-09 Desmond Tutu: My tribute to Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi

2009-07-31T11:43:00.000+05:30

July 30, 2009: I think of my sister Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi every day. Her picture hangs on the wall of my office, reminding me that, thousands of miles away in Asia, a nation is oppressed. Every day I ask myself: have I done everything I can try to end the atrocities being committed in Burma? And I pray that world leaders will ask themselves the same question. For if they did, the answer would be "no", and perhaps their conscience will finally force them to act.

Humankind has the ability to live in freedom and in peace. We have seen that goodness has triumphed over evil; we have witnessed political transitions in South Africa, and elsewhere, evidencing that we live in a moral universe. Our world is sometimes lacking wise and good leadership or, as in the case of Burma, the leadership is forbidden to lead.

Aung San Suu Kyi has now been detained for more than 13 years. She recently passed her 5,000th day in detention. Every one of those days is a tragedy and a lost opportunity. The whole world, not just the people of Burma, suffers from this loss. We desperately need the kind of moral and principled leadership that Aung San Suu Kyi would provide. And when you add the more than 2,100 political prisoners who are also in Burma's jails, and the thousands more jailed in recent decades, the true scale of injustice, but also of lost potential, becomes heartbreakingly clear.

Like many leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi has had to make great personal sacrifices. It is cruel enough to deprive an innocent person of her freedom. Burma's generals are crueller still. They try to use her as leverage to make her submit to their will. They refused to allow her husband to visit one last time when he was dying of cancer. She has grandchildren she has never even met. Yet her will and determination have stayed strong despite her being kept in detention for so many years.

More than anything, the new trial and detention of Aung San Suu Kyi speaks volumes about her effectiveness as a leader. The only reason the generals need to silence her clarion call for freedom is because they fear her and the principles she stands for. She is the greatest threat to their continuing rule.

The universal demand for human freedom cannot be suppressed forever. This is a universal truth that Than Shwe, the dictator of Burma, has failed to understand. How frustrated must he be that no matter how long he keeps Aung San Suu Kyi in detention, no matter how many guns he buys, and no matter how many people he imprisons, Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma will not submit. The demands for the freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners of Burma grow louder and echo around the world, reaching even his new capital hidden in central Burma. Words, however, are not enough. Freedom is never given freely by those who have power; it has to be fought for.

The continuing detention of Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's other political prisoners is a crime and an indictment of an international community that often substitutes the issuance of repeated statements of concern for effective diplomacy. The UN treats the situation in Burma as if it is just a dispute between two sides, and they must mediate to find a middle ground. The reality is that a brutal, criminal and illegal dictatorship is trying, and failing, to crush those who want freedom and justice. The international community cannot be neutral in the face of evil. That evil must be called what it is, and confronted.

Change is overdue to the framework within which the international community approaches Burma. Twenty years of trying to persuade Burma's generals to reform has not secured any improvement. Forty visits by UN envoys have failed to elicit any change. The warm embrace of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) did not improve the behaviour of the regime towards Burma's citizens whether Christian, Buddhist or Muslim. The regime rules with an iron fist and those under its rule have suffered long enough.

Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters have time and again offered to dialogue with the regime. They offered a path of reconciliation and non-violent transition. Even as Aung San Suu Kyi stood before the regime's sham court, facing five years' imprisonment, we heard her voice loud and strong. She said: "There could be many opportunities for national reconciliation if all parties so wished."

Burma's generals must now face the consequences of their actions. The detention of Aung San Suu Kyi is as clear a signal as we could get that there will be no chance of reform and that the regime's "road map to democracy", including the call for elections, in 2010, is an obstacle to justice.

A new report from Harvard Law School, Crimes in Burma, commissioned by some of the most respected jurists in international law, has used the UN's own reports to highlight how Burma's generals have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Burma's generals are criminals, and must be treated as such. Than Shwe should be held accountable for abominable atrocities: his soldiers rape ethnic women and children, they torture, mutilate and murder at will. In eastern Burma, more than 3,300 ethnic villages have been destroyed, more than in Darfur. Civilians are deliberately targeted and shot on sight.

Than Shwe spurned the compassion of those willing to provide assistance following Cyclone Nargis. Instead, he conducted a referendum and he declared his undemocratic constitution the victor while victims perished from the cyclone's devastation. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity. Than Shwe and the rest of the generals cannot be allowed to go unpunished. The UN must establish a commission of inquiry, with a view to compiling evidence for prosecution. Failure to do so amounts to complicity with these crimes.

An international arms embargo must also be imposed immediately. Those countries supplying arms to Burma are facilitating these atrocities. Countries across the world must declare their support for a global arms embargo, making it impossible for China to resist such a move at the Security Council.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma deserve nothing less than our most strenuous efforts to help them secure their freedom. Every day we must ask ourselves: have we done everything that we can? I pledge that I will not rest until Aung San Suu Kyi, and all the people of Burma, are free. Please join me.

Desmond M Tutu is the former Archbishop of Cape Town and recipient of the Nobel peace prize

Burmese exile: Myanmar's military junta survives thanks to world’s hypocrisy

2009-07-30T19:39:00.000+05:30

» 07/30/2009 11:36
MYANMAR - INDIA
by Tint Swe
The ambiguous and conniving policies of India and the West. The extreme poverty of the population and the overwhelming power of the military junta. Tint Swe, a member of the government in exile formed by refugees from Myanmar after the elections of 1990, describes the situation of his country on the eve of the verdict in the trial against Aung San Suu Kyi, with an eye on the elections in 2010.

New Delhi (AsiaNews) - We publish an analysis on the situation in Myanmar by Tint Swe (see photo), a member of the Council of Ministers of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) composed of refugees from Myanmar, in exile since the 1990 elections, won by the National League for Democracy but never recognized by the military junta. Tint Swe campaigns in the party of Aung San Suu Kyi and participated with her during the last election campaign, that took place 19 years ago. On the eve of the verdict in the trial against the "Lady", due Friday 31, and in view of forthcoming elections set for 2010, he speaks of the situation in Myanmar, which he calls Burma "in a symbolic sign of protest against the regime that changed the name of the country". Tint Swe fled to India in 1990, and since December 21 1991he lives in New Delhi. He is a member of the NCGUB covering the post of information Officer for South Asia and East Timor

The situation in Burma goes from bad to worse. The free market economy, foreign investment and trade with China, India and the countries of South Asia cannot bring Burma out of the least developed country (LDC) status even after over 20 years. The military is prepared for the next phases, which is to legalize their grip on power by holding a new election in 2010. Ethnic groups are subjected to tremendous pressure to be transformed into border guards. This process is being done by hook or by crook. UN Secretary General’s two-day visit to Burma last month could bring only a lip-service that said the regime would grant so-called amnesty before the election i.e. more criminal and less political prisoners will be released.

We then need to add a few more important facts about my country. Burma has become a nuclear power while the population's living conditions are extremely poor. The country is selling natural gas to Thailand and China while people have to cut wood from trees to cook. According to 2005 UNDP survey one third of the population live below the poverty line. Inflation is adding to the economic burden, with the price of rice, for example, up by 30 percent over the past year alone. But the regime is rich enough to construct a series of secret underground tunnels reportedly built with North Korean help.

There are clear differences between the positions of the Indian government and the movement for democracy in Burma. One of them is the controversial roadmap of the regime. The roadmap was unilaterally withdrawn and abandoned by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time. The National Assembly was reduced to a façade. The constitution was entirely flawed. Neither a civilian nor a woman can become the president. The referendum was a huge scam and as will be the elections of 2010.

I want all countries to stop selling arms to Burmese regime because arms are meant for killing pro-democracy activists and ethnic peoples. I want India to refrain from defending the regime at the international forums; at the United Nations, at the International Labor Organization, and at the UN Commission on Human Rights.

In 2007 while thousands of monks were protesting, India was only country which sent a cabinet minister to sign a memorandum with the regime. And earlier, India fully supported that roadmap as expressed by Indian President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on March 9, 2006 during his visit to Burma. Moreover, India sent a cabinet minister to the funeral of Burmese Prime Minister who was known for his bloody hand in crackdowns on pro-democracy activists

The constructive engagement approach championed by the Southeast Asian bloc (ASEAN) proved ineffective. At the same time western sanctions were eased for humanitarian reason. But those same people did not criticize the military regime which deliberately blocked international aid during devastating cyclone Nargis when 140,000 died. The blame game does not help poor people of Burma. Now the new American administration is reviewing its Burma policy. My question why not India!

(with the collaboration of Nirmala Carvalho)
AsiaNews.it

Dear Nirmala Carvalho

Again I am grateful to you for two articles.

If you don’t mind, I like to point out something. In the articles there are three misquotations as follow.

1. Gambari’s second visit to Burma in 2008 was highly criticized by the Burmese opposition because he expressed support for the military regime’s unacceptable 2010 election plan.
Gambari’s second last visit to Burma in 2008 was highly criticized by the Burmese opposition because he expressed support for the military regime’s unacceptable 2010 election plan. (It is because Gambari has visited 7-8 times.)

2. The roadmap was unilaterally withdrawn and abandoned by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time.
The roadmap was drawn unilaterally and top-down by the military in 2003 just after Suu Kyi was ambushed and put under house arrest for the third time. (Roadmap is the one we want to abandon.)

3. At the same time western sanctions were eased for humanitarian reason.
At the same time western sanctions were blamed for humanitarian reason by those who failed to do so the regime which deliberately blocked international aid during Nargis cyclone. (Sanctions are not eased but tightened.)

Sincerely

Tint Swe
6-8-09

Myanmar democracy leader wins top Amnesty honor

2009-07-27T17:23:00.000+05:30

Myanmar democracy leader wins top Amnesty honor
Myanmar democracy leader wins top Amnesty honor
Aung San Suu Kyi wins top Amnesty International award Times of India news only on online not in printed paper အင္တာနက္ စာမ်က္ႏွာ၌သာပါရွိျပီး ပံုႏွိပ္သတင္းစာမွာ မပါသည့္ သတင္းျဖစ္သည္။
Bono hails award for Myanmar's Suu Kyi

BBC ၂၇-၇-၀၉ ေဒၚ‌‌ေအာင္ဆန္‌းစုၾကည္ အမႈနဲ ့ပတ္သက္လုိ ့ မတရား အမႈဆင္ပုံမ်ားကုိ အမ်ိဳးသားညြန္႔ေပါင္‌း အစုိးရက ကုလသမဂၢကုိ စာ‌ေရး အသိ‌ေပးထား

2009-07-27T17:19:00.000+05:30

ျပည္‌‌ေထာင္စုျမန္မာနုိင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသား ညြန္႔ေပါင္‌း အစုိးရ လႈတ္ရွားမႈ

23-7-09 Ethnic Kukis of Burma protest against Continued Racial Discrimination in Burma

2009-07-26T12:20:00.000+05:30

New Delhi July 23, 2009: Combined Democratic Organisations of the Exiled Kukis in New Delhi rallied today at Jantar Mantar over the military junta of Burma ’s continued racial discrimination against the Kukis.

24-7-09 Timor leader urges Australia to push harder on Myanmar

2009-07-24T20:42:00.000+05:30

Agence France-Presse - 7/24/2009 4:25 AM GMT
East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta on Friday urged Australia to learn from the past and push harder for reform in military-ruled Myanmar.

The Nobel Peace laureate said Australia had turned a "blind eye to blatant human rights abuses" during Indonesia's 24-year occupation of East Timor and should not repeat the mistake.
"Australia can, working together with Indonesia for instance... help bring an end to that ugly situation in Myanmar," he told reporters.
Australia has imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions on members of the regime in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, and banned all defence exports to the country.
It also called last month for the release of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy icon who has spent most of the past 19 years in detention.
But Ramos-Horta said "occasional statements" were not enough and urged Australia to apply consistent pressure for reform in the country.
"It's been going on for over two decades with the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi and there is no light at the end of the tunnel," he said.
"Here is where Australia can be more proactive and not only be happy with occasional statements."
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League of Democracy won a landslide election victory in 1990 that the junta, in power since 1962, refused to recognise.
http://news.id.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3478066

23-7-09 ျမန္မာ့အေရး အိႏၵိယအမတ္မ်ားေဆြးေႏြး

2009-07-24T13:07:00.000+05:30

RFA 2009-07-22

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေရးကို စိတ္ဝင္စားတဲ့ အိႏၵိယ ျပည္သူ႕လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြက အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး လႈပ္ရွား ေဆာင္ရြက္သူေတြနဲ႔ ဇူလိုင္လ ၂၁ ရက္ မေန႔က ညေနပိုင္း နယူးေဒလီျမဳိ႕မွာ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့ၾကျပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ အိႏၵိယ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ရွရတ္ ဂ်ိဳရွီး က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ျပန္လည္ရရွိေရးနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးကိစၥေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး အခုလို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ပါလီမန္က အျခားအမတ္ေတြနဲ႔ အိႏၵိယတႏိုင္ငံလံုးကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ ရိုးရိုးေလး ေျပာခ်င္တာကေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ျပန္လည္ရရွိေရးအတြက္ ဝိုင္းဝန္းပံ႔ပိုးၾကဖို႔နဲ႔ ပထမဆံုးအဆင့္အေနနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ဝိုင္းဝန္းၾကိဳးပမ္းၾကဖို႕ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႔ သူက ေျပာပါတယ္။
တဆက္တည္း သူက အခုအခ်ိန္ဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္အတြက္ အေရးၾကီးတဲ့ အခ်ိန္ေရာက္ေနျပီး အတည္မျပဳႏိုင္ေသးတဲ့ သတင္းတခုအရ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ မထားေတာ့ပဲ ေထာင္ထဲမွာ ထည့္ထားေတာ့မယ္ဆိုတာ မွန္ကန္ခဲ့မယ္ဆိုရင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေရွ႕ေရး အလားအလာ မေကာင္းပါဘူး။ ႏိုဘယ္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆုရွင္လည္းျဖစ္၊ အိႏၵိယက ခ်ီးျမင့္တဲ့ ဆူဘတ္ခ်န္ဒရာဘုိ႕စ္ ဆုရွင္လည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ဒီလိုလုပ္ေနတာကို အိႏၵိယအစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ႏုတ္ဆိတ္မေနပဲ တစံုတခု ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ် လုပ္ေဆာင္လာတဲ့အထိ သူတို႔အေနနဲ႔ တိုက္တြန္းသြားမယ္လို႔ ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။
အဲဒီေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲကို အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ အထက္နဲ႔ေအာက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၂ ခုစလံုးက လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီရရွိေရး အိႏၵိယ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႔ ကေန ကမကထ ျပဳလုပ္ က်င္းပခဲ့တာျဖစ္ျပီး အမတ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္နဲ႔ တျခား ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး စိတ္ဝင္စားသူ ၅၀ ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲအစမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေဝးေရာက္ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရဝန္ၾကီး ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြ၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ တြဲဖက္ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ေဒါက္တာ ေဇာ္ဝင္းေအာင္နဲ႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ သဘာပတိ ေဒၚသင္းသင္းေအာင္ တို႔ကေန ၁၉၈၈ ေနာက္ပိုင္းကေန ဒီကေန႔ထိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အေျခအေနေတြ၊ မွတ္တမ္းေတြ၊ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြနဲ႔ ရွင္းျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
ညြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရဝန္ၾကီး ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြက ဒီေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲကေန ေပၚထြက္လာတဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ေျပာစကားေတြကို ေထာက္ျပျပီး သူ႕ရဲ့အျမင္ကို ခုလိုေျပာျပပါတယ္။
ေဒါက္တာတင့္ေဆြ။ ။ “ဒီေန႔အစည္းအေဝးကေန ဆံုးျဖတ္္ခ်က္တခု ထြက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီထဲမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ကို သူတို႔ အဓိက ေတာင္းဆိုတဲ့အထဲမွာ ပါသလို ဗမာျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးမွာ အိႏၵိယက တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြေဆာင္ရြက္ဖို႔ ကိုလည္း ဒီဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ထဲမွာ ပါပါတယ္။ ဒီဖိုရမ္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းကိုလည္း ဒီထက္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔ဖို႔ကိုလည္း လက္ရွိ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ ကြန္ဗီနာျဖစ္တဲ့ ရွရတ္ဂ်ိဳရွီးက ၁၀ ရက္အတြင္းမွာ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမယ္။ ပါလီမန္အမတ္ေတြလည္း ဒီထက္တိုးမယ္လို႔ သူေၾကာ္ညာသြားတာလည္း ရွိတဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ အိႏၵိယပါလီမန္ထဲမွာ ဗမာျပည္အေရးဟာ ဒီထက္ပိုျပီးေတာ့ ၾကားရႏိုင္စရာ ရွိတယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား။”
အိႏၵိယပါလီမန္ အမတ္ေတြကို စည္းရံုးသူတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအဖြ႔ဲခ်ဳပ္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ သဘာပတိတဦးျဖစ္သူ ေဒၚသင္းသင္းေအာင္ကလည္း ယခုလက္ရွိ အိႏၵိယပါလီမန္ မွာ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ အသစ္ေတြဟာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြ လူငယ္ေတြ ပိုမ်ားလာတဲ့အတြက္ အားတက္မိတဲ့အေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ေရွ႕ဆက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ခုလိုရွင္းျပပါတယ္။
ေဒၚသင္းသင္းေအာင္။ ။ “အခု ပါလီမန္ ဆက္ရွင္၊ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ဆက္ရွင္မွာ က်မတို႔ စျပီးၾကိဳးစားတာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ရတဲ့အမတ္ေတြကို က်မတို႔ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္တယ္။ တဦးခ်င္း တေယာက္ခ်င္းဆီကို သြားေတြ႕ျပီး ဒီအစီအစဥ္ကို စီစဥ္တယ္။ ဒီေန႔က ပါလီမန္ဖိုရမ္မွာ ဘယ္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြက ပါမယ္ဆိုတာ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ျပန္လုပ္မယ္။ အဲဒီကေနတဆင့္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေအာက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၂ခုလံုးမွာ က်မတို႔ကို ေထာက္ခံတဲ့ အမတ္ဦးေရ မ်ားမ်ားရျပီဆိုရင္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ပါလီမန္ ဆက္ရွင္းမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ အစ္ရွဴးကိုတင္မယ္ ပါလီမန္ဆိုတာ ျပည္သူ႕ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြ တက္တဲ့ အစည္းအေဝးျဖစ္တယ္။ ျပည္သူ႔ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြကေနတဆင့္ အစိုးရဆီကို ေျပာပါမ်ားလို႔ရွိရင္ ဘာပဲေျပာေျပာ အိႏၵိယအစိုးရဟာ သူတို႔ရဲ့ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ထားတဲ့ ေပၚလစီဟာ တစံုတရာ သံုးသပ္ရမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္။”

အမ်ိဳးသမီးအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ သဘာပတိတဦးျဖစ္သူ ေဒၚသင္းသင္းေအာင္ ေျပာသြားတာပါ။ ျပီခဲ့တဲ့လတုန္းကလည္း အိႏၵိယပါလီမန္ အမတ္ ၁၁၈ ေယာက္ကေန ျမန္မာ့အေရး ပါလီမန္မွာ ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ လက္မွတ္ထိုးျပီး ဝန္ၾကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာ မန္မိုဟန္ဆင္းဆီထိ တင္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။