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ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ၊ ခေလးမ်ားျဖစ္တယ္။
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ၊ ခေလးမ်ားျဖစ္တယ္။
ေၾကကြဲမႈဆိုတာ
အလ်ား အနံ ထုထည္
တိုင္းထြာလို ့ရေကာင္းစရာလား
သံုးဆယ့္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆိုတဲ့
သက္တမ္းေလးတခုအတြင္းမွာ
တာ၀န္ေက်ခဲ့ပံုမ်ား
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ။
သံုးဆယ္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ဆိုတဲ့
လူ ့ဘံုမွာ
သူယံုၾကည္တဲ့ အလုပ္
တိုင္းျပည္ကို နယ္ခ်ဲ့ ဖက္ဆစ္ လက္ထဲက
ဆြဲထုတ္ခဲ့ပံုမ်ား
ၾကားရ ဖတ္ရ မွတ္ရတဲ့အခါ
ငါတို ့မွာ ရင္သတ္ရႈ ့ေမာ
အံ့ၾသ မွင္သက္ အားက်လ်က္ပါ
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ။
ငါတို ့ဗမာျပည္မွာကြယ္
မိဘတိုင္းကကြယ္ ဗိုလ္ေအာင္ဆန္းလို
သူရဲေကာင္းေမြးရမယ္
အဲဒီလို သူရဲေကာင္းရဲ ့ေန ့ဟာ
ဗမာျပည္ရဲ့ ခေလးမ်ားေန ့တဲ့ေလ
အနာဂတ္ကိုဆုပ္ကိုင္မယ့္ လက္မ်ားရဲ ့ေန ့
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ။
သူရဲေဘာေၾကာင္တဲ့အာဏာရူးတို ့ရဲ ့ အေတြးမွာ
အနာဂတ္ဘာဆိုတာ မသိရွာဘူး
အနာဂတ္ မသိသူမ်ားရဲ ့ အၾကည့္ဟာ
မ်က္ေစ့တဆံုး မျမင္ႏိုင္ဘူး
မ်က္ေစ့တဆံုးမျမင္ႏိုင္သူေတြရဲ ့ လုပ္ရပ္ဟာ
တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ိဳးမရွိႏိုင္ဘူး
တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ိဳးမရွိမွေတာ့
အနာဂတ္ရဲ ့ဥေသွ်ာင္
တိုင္းျပည္ကို ဦးေဆာင္မယ့္
ခေလးသူငယ္တို ့ရဲ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈ ့အခန္း
ႏံြနစ္ရတဲ့လမ္းမွာ
တမလြန္တဘက္ကမ္းက
ဗိုလ္ေအာင္ဆန္းခမ်ာ ရင္၀ယ္မခ်ိရွာဘူး ။
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္ ။
မည္သို ့ပင္ျဖစ္ေစ ခ်စ္ေနေသးသည ္
စူးနစ္ရဲရဲ ဘ၀ထဲမွ
ခေလးမ်ားေန ့ ထိုတေန ့မွာ
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ ခေလးမ်ားျဖစ္တယ္
ကမၻာကုန္က်ယ္သေရြ ့သူ ့ရဲ ့ေမြးေန ့ဟာ
ေတာက္ပတဲ့ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ေတြနဲ ့
ေခတ္သစ္ဗမာႏိုင္င ံကို တည္ေဆာက္မယ့္
ခေလးမ်ားရဲ ့ေန ့ျဖစ္တယ္ ။
ခေလးမ်ားရဲ ့ေန ့ဟာ
အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို ဇီ၀ိန္ခ်ဳပ္ေစဘို ့
အားသစ္ေလာင္းတဲ့ ေန ့လည္းျဖစ္တယ္
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ သူျဖစ္တယ္
ျမန္မာျပည္ေျမပံုဟာ ခေလးမ်ားျဖစ္တယ္ ။
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Posted By Ye Yint Thet Zwe to Ye Yint Thet Zwe at 2/13/2009 02:42:00 PM
UN rights expert arrive Burma, but oppositions hopes grim
http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/1712-un-rights-expert-arrive-burma-but-oppositions-hopes-grim.html
by Solomon
Saturday, 14 February 2009 19:38
New Delhi (Mizzima) - As the United Nations Human Rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana arrives Rangoon on Saturday for a second visit, Burma's opposition party and rights activists said they do not expect significant changes from the trip.
Quintana, the UN special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Burma, is on his second visit to the country to see if there had been any developments since his last visit in August 2008, the UN said.
During his trip, February 14 – 19, Quintana will meet a number of political prisoners and travel to Kachin, Karen and Arakan states, the UN said in its press release on Friday.
The envoy, who had proposed the Burmese junta to implement four core Human Rights elements during his last trip, will also see if there had been any developments since his first trip.
During his earlier mission, Quintana had suggested to the Burmese ruling junta to implement four core human rights elements including the revision of domestic laws that limit fundamental rights of the people and to implement a progressive release of an estimated 2,000 prisoners of conscience still in detention in the country.
The other two are - to reform and train the military so that it conforms to human rights, and make changes in the judiciary so that it is fully independent.
Quintana, following his first trip to Burma told Mizzima in November that, "One of my goals for the next mission is to establish with the government for implementation of this four core human rights elements."
He proposed four core human rights elements to junta on his first mission a review of national legislation in accordance with the new constitution and international obligations, the release of political prisoners, and a review of the authority and power of the armed forces and judicial system review.
"Human rights situation [in Burma] is a challenging task for me and for other human rights agencies," said Quintana.
Meanwhile, Nyan Win spokesperson of Burma's main opposition party – National League for Democracy - said, they are ready to meet the visiting UN rights envoy and are willing to talk about the Burmese judiciary system and the situation of Human Rights.
But Nyan Win said they have no much expectation on the visiting envoy saying, "Because we have been suffering for 20 years and there is no sign of any reformation, but we welcome his [Quintana] visit."
The Rapporteur, according to the UN, will also seek meetings with various organizations, and political parties but the NLD said it is so far unaware of any meeting scheduled with them.
"We are frustrated with his first visit because he gave us only a short time to talk and we did not have enough time to tell him everything that we know," Nyan Win said.
"And after his trip, we see that there are no changes. Everything remains same," he added.
Quintana, during his earlier visit, August 3-7 2008, he met with the NLD, pro-junta group National Unity Party and also with several religious leaders, and traveled to the Irrawaddy Division to see the devastations caused by Cyclone Nargis.
Meanwhile, a Burmese human rights activist Aung Myo Min said, with Burma's ruling junta refusing to follow his recommendations, the mission could be termed unsuccessful but would be watching the present trip's effectiveness.
"The Military junta have not implement any of the points he [Quintana] had recommended and are continuing with their random repressions by arresting and sentencing unlawfully," said Aung Myo Min, the director of Thailand based Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB).
Following his visit in August, the Burmese junta released a few political prisoners including veteran journalist and NLD leader Win Tin along with four other NLD leaders in September.
But the junta on the other hand arrested several activists and sentenced at least 250 activists to long prison terms.
"With the given political scenario there is nothing much to hope on his trip," he added.
But Aung Myo Min said it is crucial that the junta do not control the UN rights expert's schedules but allow him full access to places and people whom he considers he should met during his visit.
"If he is allowed to meet with who ever he wants to meet including political prisoners and other various organizations then we can only hope for some positive result," Aung Myo Min said.
The Burmese rights activist stressed that Quintana should keep the meeting with political prisoners as his priority during his trip, as several of the political prisoners are reportedly suffering from ill-health with lack of proper support.
"He should meet with political prisoners including 88 generation student leaders, Gambira [monk], and with female political prisoners who are facing extreme difficulties under the lack of proper health care," he added.
But he said, Quintana should not look for reasons to prove if there had been any rights abuses but rather think of how best to approach for a solution.
"There is no need for investigation on whether human rights have been abused, since it is already known to everyone. Rather, he should focus on finding a solution to the abuses," Aung Myo Min said.
Suu Kyi's party calls on UN to take action
http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=0e12841e-f52c-406b-87aa-64c8e79c7a0d&&Headline=Suu+Kyi's+party+calls+on+UN+to+take+action
Associated Press
Yangon, February 14, 2009
Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party urged the United Nations on Saturday to take action against human rights abuses in military-ruled Myanmar, voicing hope and frustration over the visit of another UN envoy.
UN human rights investigator Tomas Ojea Quintana was scheduled to arrive late on Saturday for a six-day stay that comes less than two weeks after a visit by UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari and in the wake of a judicial crackdown on pro-democracy activists. There have been no signs of progress since Gambari's visit, which was aimed at promoting democracy and political reconciliation and trying to secure Suu Kyi's freedom. The Nobel laureate has been under house arrest for more than 13 years.
"There are numerous human rights abuses in Myanmar but human rights missions ought to be followed by action to address such violations," Nyan Win, spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy, said when asked to comment on Quintana's visit. In recent months the junta has locked away pro-democracy activists in an apparent attempt to clear away dissent prior to general elections promised for 2010. Military courts sentenced hundreds of pro-democracy activists to harsh prison terms of up to 104 years behind bars.
The UN said in a statement that Quintana will evaluate progress on human rights issues since his visit last summer. It said Quintana has asked to meet government officials and privately with prisoners of conscience and leaders of political parties, a clear reference to Suu Kyi, whom he was not allowed to see on his last trip.
On Friday, the government extended the house arrest of 82-year-old Tin Oo, the deputy leader of Suu Kyi's party, for another year. Tin Oo was arrested with Suu Kyi in May 2003. The timing was a blatant snub to the United Nations, which has persistently called for the release of political prisoners. Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The current junta came to power in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy movement and killing as many as 3,000 people. It called elections in 1990 but refused to honor the results when Suu Kyi's party won overwhelmingly.
Clinton reaches out to North Korea
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/02/2009213201226576871.html
The US government would normalise diplomatic relations with North Korea if the isolated nation were to "completely and verifiably eliminate" their nuclear weapons programme, the US secretary of state has said.
Hillary Clinton expressed hope that North Korea would not take any "provocative action" that could further hamper relations with the US.
"The Obama administration will be willing to normalise bilateral relations, replace the peninsula's long-standing armistice agreements with a permanent peace treaty, and assist in meeting the energy and other economic needs of the North Korean people," Clinton said.
She also said she would meet the families of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s, cases which sparked global controversy.
Six party talks between North and South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the US aimed at restricting North Korea's atomic programmes in exchange for economic and diplomatic incentives began in August 2003 but stalled in December 2008.
Rights concerns
Clinton, who will visit Japan, Indonesia, South Korea and China on her visit to Asia, also said that she wished to work with China despite US concerns about its human rights record.
"It is in our interest to work harder to build on areas of common concern and shared opportunities," she said.
Later this month, she added, the United States and China would resume military talks that Beijing suspended last year following US arms sales to Taiwan.
Clinton said she would be using her Asia trip to press improved human rights in China, Tibet, North Korea and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
"We will hold ourselves and others accountable as we work to expand human rights
and create a world that respects those rights," she said.
"[This includes a world] where Nobel Prize-winner Aung San Suu Kyi can live freely in her own country, Where the people of North Korea can freely choose their own leaders, and where Tibetans and all Chinese people can enjoy religious freedom without fear of prosecution," she said.
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader has been held under house arrest for more than a decade by the nation's military government despite her party winning national elections in 1990.
Clinton also vowed to help combat the global economic crisis and push for more human rights in Asia on the eve of her first trip to the continent as secretary of state.
Clinton warned that the economic crisis "threatens the Pacific as much as any other region".
Source: Agencies
UN human rights expert to visit Myanmar
13 February 2009 – The independent United Nations expert on the situation of human rights in Myanmar will begin a six-day visit beginning tomorrow to assess developments in the South-East Asian nation since his previous mission last year.
Special Rapporteur Tomás Ojea Quintana, who was appointed to his post in May 2008 by the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council, made his first visit to Myanmar last August.
In a report issued following that visit, Mr. Quintana proposed that four core human rights elements be implemented: the revision of domestic laws that limit fundamental rights, the progressive release of the estimated 2,000 prisoners of conscience still in detention, the reform and training of the military so that it conforms with human rights, and changes to the judiciary so that it is fully independent.
These four elements must be completed before national elections are held in 2010, he added.
The Special Rapporteur will discuss the implementation of these four elements with relevant officials during his 14-19 February mission.
He has requested to meet in private with a number of prisoners of conscience as well as leaders of political parties, and also intends to travel to Rakhine, Kayin and Kachin states.
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Full democracy in Myanmar will take generations to achieve – UN expert
Military Operation Planning Bureau Expands to Indo-Burma Border
http://www.narinjara.com/details.asp?id=2071
2/13/2009
Pelatwa: A new Military Operation Planning Bureau has been opened near the Indo-Burma border and will oversee several army battalions being based in Arakan State, said a source close to the army.
The Military Operation Planning Bureau will be called Sabaka 1 in Burmese and it has been set up at Tha Raw Ai Village on the upper Kaladan River in Paletwa Township of southern Chin State.
According to the army source, three battalions - Sittwe-based LB 20, Rathidaung-based LIB 538, and Buthidaung-based 263 - are now arriving in the area to establish the bureau.
Major Thin Lin is now sector commander at the bureau and is staying at Tha Raw Ai Village. There are no details regarding why the new Military Operation Planning Bureau is being stationed on the frontlines of the western Burmese border, but Burmese military authorities have been reinforcing troops along the western border recently.
Previously, there were four battalions deployed along the western border, but that number has been increased to seven. The original four battalions based in the area are LIB 289 based in Paletwa, LB 55 based in Thandwe, LIB 344 based in Sittwe, and LIB 234 based in Buthidaung.
It was learned that the new bureau is controlled by the western command commander based in Ann Town.
Burma extends detention of oppn leader
February 13, 2009 - 10:54PM
Burma's military government has extended the house arrest of the deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party, despite recent calls from the United Nations for the release of political prisoners.
Several policemen were seen visiting Tin Oo's house to inform him that the restrictions had been extended, according to a neighbour who asked not to be named for fear of government reprisal.
The extension was for one year, said a government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorised to release such information. Burma's junta tightly controls the release of all news.
Tin Oo, 82, the vice chairman of the National League for Democracy, was arrested with Suu Kyi in May 2003, when a pro-government mob attacked their motorcade as they were making a political tour of northern Burma. Both party leaders have been in either prison or under house arrest since then.
The extension came less than two weeks after an official visit by the UN's visiting envoy earlier this month in an effort to promote political reform in the military-ruled country.
Special envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who met with Prime Minister General Thein Sein, reportedly asked Burma's junta to release more political prisoners, to consider a dialogue with Suu Kyi and to make the military-guided political process inclusive for all. But since the visit, there have been no signs of progress on promoting democracy and political reconciliation.
© 2009 AP
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