Published May 1, 2011
Speaker: Barack Obama
President Obama gave these remarks on May 1, 2011.
11:35 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.
It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history. The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory -- hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.
And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world. The empty seat at the dinner table. Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father. Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace. Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.
On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.
We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda -- an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe. And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.
Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we’ve made great strides in that effort. We’ve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense. In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support. And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists, including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.
Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan. Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.
And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.
Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden. It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground. I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan. And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.
Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties. After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.
For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies. The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.
Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort. There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us. We must –- and we will -- remain vigilant at home and abroad.
As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam. I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam. Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims. Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own. So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.
Over the years, I’ve repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was. That is what we’ve done. But it’s important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding. Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.
Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts. They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations. And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
The American people did not choose this fight. It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens. After nearly 10 years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war. These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who’s been gravely wounded.
So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror: Justice has been done.
Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome. The American people do not see their work, nor know their names. But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.
We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country. And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.
Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.
And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. I know that it has, at times, frayed. Yet today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.
The cause of securing our country is not complete. But tonight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.
Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you. May God bless you. And may God bless the United States of America.
END 11:44 P.M. EDT
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Obama's Remarks on Osama Bin Laden, May 2011
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ႏိုင္ငံေရးမွာ … နုိင္ငံေရးသတၱ၀ါတုိင္းဟာ …. မိမိရဲ႕ နုိင္ငံေရးအေတြးအေခၚ
အေပၚမူတည္ျပီး … စိတ္ကူးၾကတယ္ … လႈပ္ရွားၾကတယ္ …
ရွင္သန္ၾကတယ္လို႕ေျပာလို႕ရပါတယ္ ….
တခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း … ေလးေလးနက္နက္..ေလ႕လာၾကျပီး … နက္နက္နဲနဲေတြးျပီးမွ ….
ေခါင္းထဲက တဆင္႕ … အသဲထဲမွာ ..စြဲက်န္ေနတဲ႕ … နုိင္ငံေရး..(ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္)
ကို ခံယူခဲ႕ၾကတဲ႕သူေတြ .. ရွိသလို … တခ်ိဳ႕က … အေသးစိပ္..ေလ႕လာမႈက …
ေပါက္ဖြားလာျခင္း..မဟုတ္ … ပုဂၢိဳရ္ခင္လို႕ ..တရားမင္
..သူေတြလည္းရွိတတ္ၾကပါတယ္ …. အမ်ားႏွင္႕..လုိက္၍
..မိုးခါးေရ..လိုက္ေသာက္ၾက ျခင္းဟုဆိုႏုိင္သည္ …. ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ..
ျမန္မာ႕နုိင္ငံေရးတြင္ … ဒုတိယ ..လူမ်ိဳးက ..အမ်ားစု ..ျဖစ္ေပလိမ္႕မည္ ….
ပို၍ဆိုးသည္မွာ… နုိင္ငံေရးအေတြးအေခၚ … ႏွင္႕ ဆက္စပ္ေသာ ….
ေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္ေသာ အက်င္႕ စရိုက္မ်ား … လုပ္ကြက္ မ်ားသည္ … မသိမသာ
..စိုးမိုးလာ၍ … နုိင္ငံေရးယဥ္ေက်းမႈ ..အသြင္ေဆာင္ ကာ … အလိုတူ
နုိင္ငံေရးအေတြးအေခၚ သမားမ်ားအၾကား … လႊမ္းမိုးလာသည္..ကိုပင္..မသိလိုက္
ၾကပါ ….
ဥပမာ … အနီေဟ႕..ဆိုလိုက္သည္ႏွင္႕ .. ရန္သူႏွင္႕
ငါတုိ႕အၾကား..စည္းျပတ္..ရမည္..ဟူေသာ .. ရန္-ငါ-စည္း…စိတ္ဓါတ္ … ရန္သူဆို
..အျပဳတ္တိုက္ … သူေသကိုယ္ေသ .. ခ် ..ဟူသည္႕ … ဇီးရိုးဆမ္း ..စိတ္ဓါတ္ …
ကိုယ္႕လူဆို..ျမွင္႕တင္ၾက … တျခားလူ..ဆို … နာမ္ႏွိမ္ထား..ဆိုတဲ႕ ဖက္လိုက္
စိတ္ဓါတ္ … ဒီကမွ ..တဆင္႕ … သူရဲေကာင္း ေဖၚထုတ္လိုေသာ ..သူရဲေကာင္း
ျဖစ္..လိုေသာ စိတ္ဓါတ္ ေတြက ၾကီးစိုးလာကာ … မိမိတို႕ရဲ႕ ေတြးေခၚမႈ
…ဆံုးျဖတ္မႈ..ေတြကို လႊမ္းမိုး..သြားရတဲ႕ ..အထိ ..ျဖစ္လာတဲ႕ ..ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ
..တရပ္ျဖစ္လာေတာ႕ ..ေနာက္ဆံုး..ရလဒ္.. ကိုလာ ..ထိခိုက္..တဲ႕အထိ
..ျဖစ္လာရပါတယ္ ….
ဒါေၾကာင္႕ … ေရေသာက္ျမစ္ ..ျဖစ္တဲ႕ …
နုိင္ငံေရးအေတြးအေခၚ..ကို..ေဇာင္းေပး.. ေရး..ေနရျခင္း. ...ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
နုိင္ငံေရးမွာ …. အေခၚအေ၀ၚ..နီးစပ္ေပမဲ႕ …အဓိပၸါယ္ (လႊဲ) ေစတဲ႕
..အေတြးအေခၚအမ်ားအျပားရွိပါ တယ္… ဥပမာ … ရန္-ငါ-သိ ..တာနဲ႕ … ရန္-ငါ-စည္း
…ျပတ္တာမတူပါ ….
က်ေနာ္႕အျမင္အရ …. ရန္သူ..ဘယ္သူ..ငါ..ဘယ္သူ..ဆိုတာကိုသိတာ ကို … ရန္-ငါ-သိ
..တာ..လို႕ ..ေခၚပါတယ္ …. တခ်ိန္ထဲမွာ …. ဒီရန္သူကို ..ေအာင္နုိင္ျပီး ….
မိမိရည္မွန္းခ်က္..ကို..ေရာက္ဖို႕ မေမ႕ဖူး ….
ဥပမာ … ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းနဲ႕
ျပည္သူ႕အေရးေတာ္ပံု..ပါတီ..ေခါင္းေဆာင္..ေတြဟာ … ရန္သူဟာ အဂၤလိပ္နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ …
ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ဟာ ..လြပ္လပ္ေရး … ဒါေၾကာင္႕ … လက္နက္ကိုင္..ေတာ္လွန္မွ..
ရမယ္ .. လို႕..ဆံုးျဖတ္ၾကျပီး .. ရဲေဘာ္ (၃)က်ိပ္ကို..စုစည္းခဲ႕ၾကတယ္ ….
ရန္-ငါ သိ..ခဲ႕ ၾကတယ္ … သခင္စိုးနဲ႕ သခင္သန္းထြန္း..တို႕က … စတာလင္ကို
.ကိုးကြယ္ၾကရင္း … ရန္-ငါ-စည္း .. မျပတ္ႏိုင္ ခဲ႕ၾက …
အင္းစိန္စာတမ္းက..သက္ေသ …
ဒီ..အခ်ိန္မွာ … ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္တုိ႕ .. ဟာ … လြပ္လပ္ေရး..လိုခ်င္တာသာ
..သိ..ေသာ ..လူငယ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ..အဆင္႕သာရွိၾကေသးသည္ …
ႏိုင္ငံ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ..အဆင္႕..မေရာက္ၾကေသး …
ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ..(တာ၀န္..သိ..သူ) မ်ားသာျဖစ္ၾကေသးသည္ ..(တာ၀န္..ရွိ..သူ..)
မျဖစ္ၾကေသး ….
စစ္ၾကီးအျပီး … ဂ်ပန္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကို ..ဦးေဆာင္ခဲ႕ေသာ ..ဖဆပလ
ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား..အျဖစ္ … အဂၤလိပ္..ႏွင္႕..ရင္ဆိုင္ရျပန္ေတာ႕ …
ႏိုင္င့ံေခါင္းေဆာင္..မ်ားျဖစ္ေနျပီ … (တာ၀န္..ရွိ..သူမ်ားျဖစ္.. ေနေပျပီ)
….
ႏိုင္ငံ႕ အေျခအေန..ကလည္း..မတူၾကေတာ႕ ..စစ္ဒဏ္ခံခဲ႕..ရေသာ ..တိုင္းျပည္ဟာ …
ျပာပံု.. က်ခဲ႕ရျပီ … တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ..အေနႏွင္႕ …
တုိင္းျပည္ႏွင္႕လူမ်ိဳး..ကိုေနာက္ထပ္ .. စစ္ပြဲ..ႏွင္႕ …
ထပ္..မနင္းေျခ..ရက္ၾကေတာ႕ ….
ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ … လြပ္လပ္ေရးကို … အဂၤလိပ္ထံမွ … ေစ႕စပ္မႈ..ႏွင္႕ …
ရယူ..ရန္ဆံုးျဖတ္ၾကသည္ ….
ရန္-ငါ-သိ … ျခင္းဟု..ဆိုႏိုင္သည္ ….
ေနာက္တနည္းၾကည္႕လွ်င္ ..ဖဆပလ..၏..အဓိက..ဦးတည္ခ်က္သည္ ..လြပ္လပ္ေရး…. မိမိ
အာဏါရ ေရး..တခုထဲ..မဟုတ္ ….
ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ေတြရဲ႕ … အဓိကဥိးတည္..ခ်က္က ..မိမိတုိ႕..အာဏါရေရး ….
ဒါေၾကာင္႕..ဖဆပလ..ကို..တိုက္ရန္ ..အေယာင္ေဆာင္ ..လြပ္လပ္ေရး..ဆိုျပီး ..
စြပ္စြဲ..လာၾကတယ္ … လင္နင္က … အာဏါမရခင္ …
ဆိုရွယ္ဒီမိုကရက္ေတြနဲ႕..ယာယီမဟာမိတ္လုပ္ရမယ္ .. ျပီးမွ
..ဖယ္ထုတ္..ဆိုတဲ႕သေဘာ..မွာၾကားခဲ႕တယ္ … ဒီေဟာၾကားခ်က္ကို … သခင္စိုးနဲ႕
သခင္သန္းထြန္း တုိ႕ရဲ႕ ပင္ကိုယ္ (လူခ်) တဲ႕ .. ဥါဥ္စိုးနဲ႕
ေပါင္းစည္း..လုိက္ေတာ႕ .. မရိုးသားတဲ႕ .. dishonest ျဖစ္တဲ႕
(စိုး-သန္း) စိတ္ဓါတ္ေပါက္ဖြားခဲ႕ရတယ္။
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ႕ honest စိတ္ဓါတ္ ႏွင္႕ ကြာျခားဖိျခင္း …..
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္တို႕ရဲ႕ အဓိက..ဦးတည္ခ်က္သည္ ..လြပ္လပ္ေရး …
တုိင္းျပည္ႏွင္႕လူမ်ိဳးေကာင္းစားေရး .. ျဖစ္တာေၾကာင္႕ …
နုိင္ငံသားမွန္သမွ် .. ကို ..ကိုယ္စားျပဳေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး… ဒါေၾကာင္႕
အားလံုးကို ..ဆြဲေခၚသလို ..တာ၀န္ေပး..ခိုင္းသည္ …
ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ေတြက …. ပစၥည္းမဲ႕..ဟုေခၚေသာ ..လူတန္းစား အသစ္ ..အာဏါ..ရရွိေရး
..သည္..ပထမ .. ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ..က်န္သူေတြ .. မပါေရး …. ျပိဳင္ဖက္ေတြကို
..အနုိင္ရေရးက … အားသာလာသည္။ ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ..စိတ္ထားမမွန္ .. dishonest
ျဖစ္လာၾကသည္။
ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ … အားလံုး..ထက္ ..မိမိ …ဆိုတဲ႕ … ပစၥည္းမဲ႕ …
လူတန္းစားမ်က္စိနဲ႕ၾကည္႕ ..လူတန္း စားေပတံ..နဲ႕..တိုင္းၾကေတာ႕ …
လူတန္းစားရန္သူ..ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပိဳင္ဖက္ရန္သူ ..ေတြႏွင္႕ ..၀ိုင္း၀ိုင္းလည္
ကာ ..ေအာင္ပြဲ..မခံႏုိင္ခဲ႕ၾက …. ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ကို ..ကေလာ္ဆဲ၍ ဖဆပလထဲမွ
..အထုတ္ခံရျပီးကတည္း က … ျပည္သူ၏ေထာက္ခံမႈ..ကိုမရေတာ႕ …. ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္
…. ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ..ဖဆပလ သာ မဲ …အႏိုင္ရခဲ႕ၾကသည္ …. ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ေတြ
..မဲမရၾက … ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ..တာ၀န္ (ရွိ)သူမ်ား.. မဟုတ္ၾက …. ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ….
စိတ္ထင္ရာ ..ေျပာနုိင္သည္ …
သို႕ေသာ္ … ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္တို႕ချမာ … လက္လြပ္စပယ္..မေျပာ..နုိင္ရွာၾက ….
တိုင္းျပည္..လြပ္လပ္ေရး.. ရဖို႕ … က ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္..ႏွင္႕ ..ဖဆပလ ၏
.ပုခံုးေပၚတြင္ ..က်ေရာက္လ်က္..ရွိသည္ ….
ထို႕နည္းတူစြာ ..ဒီဖက္ေခတ္..ကိုၾကည္႕လွ်င္ ….
၈၈၈၈ လူထု.. အေရးအခင္းၾကီး..ကို ေဖၚထုတ္..ဦးေဆာင္ခဲ႕ၾကသည္မွာ …. ဗကသ
အမႉးျပဳသည္႕ ..ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္မ်ား ….
သို႕ေသာ္ …. မဆလျပိဳက်ျပီး … ဖရိုဖရဲကာလမွာ … မည္သူမွ ..အာဏါကို ..(လု)
မယူ… ႏုိင္ခဲ႕ၾက…
စစ္အာဏါ..သိမ္းျပီးကာလ.. ..နုိင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်င္းသစ္တြင္ …. NLD မွာ
အင္အားသစ္..ျဖစ္လာ ရသည္ …. ၁၉၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ … NLD သည္ … တရား၀င္ ..
ျပည္သူမ်ား၏ ..အေရြးခံ ..ပါတီ .. ျဖစ္လာရသည္ … (ေဒၚစု) ႏွင္႕ … NLD
တို႕သည္ … (တာ၀န္ရွိသူ) မ်ားျဖစ္လာရသည္ ….
အကယ္၍ …. ေက်ာင္းသားကိုယ္စားျပဳ ပါတီ ကို တည္ေထာင္နုိင္၍ … ၁၉၉၀
ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ..ကို ၀င္ျပိဳင္.ခဲ႕ၾက၍ … NLD ႏွင္႕
..ေက်ာင္းသား…ကိုယ္စလွယ္အမ်ားစု ..သာေရြးခ်ယ္ခံရခဲ႕ေသာ္ … ဖဆပလ..ကဲ႕သို႕ …
ပါတီခ်င္း..ရင္ခ်င္းကပ္၍ … ႏိုင္ငံေရးကစားႏုိင္သည္… good cop…bad cop..
ကစားကြက္ကို … လွလွေလး..ကစားႏိုင္..လိမ္႕မည္ …. တရား၀င္
..မဟာမိတ္..ဖြဲ႕စရာပင္ ..မလို …
ေဒၚစု..ကိုဖမ္းဦးေတာ႕ … မင္းကိုႏုိင္..နဲ႕..ကိုကိုၾကီး..တုိ႕ က ..တဖက္က
.. တရား၀င္..ေတာင္းဆို ႏုိင္မည္ .. လွည္႕ ကစားနုိင္မည္ …. NLD
အန္ကယ္ၾကီးေတြ ..မလႈပ္လည္း… ေက်ာင္းသားပါတီ ကလႈပ္ရွားနုိင္မည္ …..
ေက်ာင္းသားေတြသာ …. ႏိုင္ငံေရး..အီေကြးရွင္း..ထဲ ..ပါခဲ႕လွ်င္ …
(တာ၀န္ရွိသူ) မ်ားျဖစ္ခဲ႕လွ်င္
..ႏိုင္ငံေရး..က်ားကြက္..ေျပာင္းသြားႏိုင္..စရာရွိသည္ ….
သို႕ေသာ္ ..ဤသို႕..မျဖစ္လာခဲ႕ …
နုိင္ငံေရးတြင္သာမက … သဘာ၀..တြင္လည္း …. Mass မရွိလွ်င္ လုိအပ္ေသာ Energy
ကိုမရနုိင္ … ထို႕ေၾကာင္႕ ..(အင္အား) မျပည္႕ႏိုင္ေတာ႕ …. ကြ်န္ပ္ တုိ႕၏
စၾက္ာ၀ဠာ..ၾကီးတြင္ ..လိုအပ္ေသာ Mass မစုစည္း နုိင္၍ Fission
မျဖစ္နုိင္သျဖင္႕ ေန - Sun ဘ၀မေရာက္ရပဲ … Brown Dwarf ဟုေခၚေသာ .. ေနနဲ႕
ျဂိဳဟ္ အၾကီးစား ..ၾကားဘ၀..ႏွင္႕ေက်နပ္ေနရေသာ … အရာမ်ားရွိပါသည္။
စာေရးသူ၏..ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္အရ …. ေက်ာင္းသား (ၾကယ္) ..မေပၚခဲ႕..ရသည္မွာ …
ရန္-ငါ-စည္း ..ျပႆနာ..ဟု …သံုးသပ္မိသည္ …. ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ..၀င္လွ်င္ …
ရန္-ငါ-စည္း … မျပတ္ … စစ္တပ္ေအာက္ ..ကို၀င္ရာေရာက္မည္ ….
လက္၀ဲ..အယူအဆေအာက္က…မထြက္ႏုိင္ၾကသည္ ..ကိုေတာ႕ ..သတိမရွိၾက … ရန္-ငါ-စည္း
… တိမ္ ဖံုး..ေနေသာေၾကာင္႕ ..ဗ်ဴဟာနွင္႕ ..မၾကည္႕ျဖစ္..ခဲ႕ ၾကဟု
..သံုးသပ္မိသည္ ….
ျပႆနာက… ႏိုင္ငံေရးမွာ .. အခြင္႕အေရး..ဆိုတာ ..ႏွစ္ခါ..လာခဲသား …..
ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္… ေထာင္နုိင္ခဲ႕ သည္မွာ … လြန္စြာ..တန္ဖိုးရွိသည္ ….
သို႕ေသာ္ … က်ေနာ္ အျမင္ေျပာရလွ်င္ … နုိင္ငံေရးႏွင္႕ စစ္ေရး..
စည္း..မကြဲလွ …. ထုိ႕ေၾကာင္႕ … (လူ) ကြဲၾကေတာ႕ …
အဖြဲ႕အစည္း..တခုလံုး..လိုက္.. ကြဲ..ၾကရသည္ …. အမွန္က … ႏိုင္ငံေရး..ႏွင္႕
..စစ္ေရး ..လံုး၀ခြဲထား .. ရမည္ …. Factional politics အုပ္စုနုိင္ငံေရးဟာ
…. နုိင္ငံေရး..နယ္ပယ္မွာ..သာယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ရမည္ … စစ္ဖက္ထဲ ..အ၀င္မခံသင္႕ …
ေက်ာင္းသားပါတီ ..မရွိခဲ႕သည္႕..အတြက္ … ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္ ..
အတြင္းမွာလည္း …. ႏုိင္ငံေရး..ေတြ၀င္ေရာကုန္သည္ ….
တခ်ိဳ႕က .. လူ႕ေဘာင္သစ္ဟာဘာလဲ? ဟုေစာတက တက္ခ်င္သူေတြရွိမည္ …..
လူ႕ေဘာင္သစ္ဟာ … proxy ပါတီဟုသာျမင္သည္ …. ေက်ာင္းသားအားလံုးကို …
စုစည္းေပးဖို႕ ..ဟုမျမင္နုိင္ … က်ေနာ္အျမင္အရ ..ေျပာရလွ်င္
..မင္းကိုနုိင္..ကိုကိုၾကီး..မိုးသီးဇြန္ … မင္းေဇယ်ာ … ဂ်င္မီ
..အားလံုး..ပါ၀င္ …ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ..ေက်ာင္းသားထုု..ကိုဦးေဆာင္ႏုိင္ ေသာ
..ပါတီျဖစ္သင္႕သည္။
ဗကသ..မကသ..ရကသ..အကသ..ရွိသမွ်ေက်ာင္းသားထု..ပါႏိုင္ေသာ … ပါတီျဖစ္သင္႕သည္။
အတြင္းမွာ အင္န္အာလ္ဒီႏွင္႕ ..ေက်ာင္းသားပါတီ … အျပင္မွာ …
ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္ ႏွင္႕.. အေ၀းေရာက္ ..အစိုးရ … အားလံုး … အကြက္ညီညီ ..
ေျခလွမ္းညီညီ … ႏွင္႕..ေတာ္လွန္ေရး.. ယိမ္း ..က..ႏုိင္ခဲ႕..လွ်င္ …
အလြန္ၾကည္႕လို႕..ေကာင္းပါလိမ္႕မည္။
(မွတ္ခ်က္။ အေ၀းေရာက္ ..အစိုးရ ဆိုရာတြင္ .. အားလံုးကို ..ပါ၀င္ေစမည္႕
အစိုးရ … Mandate မာနတက္၍ ..မဆလ စိတ္ဓါတ္..အျပည္႕ႏွင္႕ …
ငါတို႕သာ..ဦးေဆာင္မည္ … ၀ိုင္းစားမည္ … ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကို … ၅
ေယာက္တပိုင္းႏွင္႕ ..လုပ္ခ်င္သည္႕ …. ပုဇြန္ေခါင္းအစိုးရ..မဟုတ္ ….
အေ၀းေရာက္ ဗမာႏုုိင္ငံသား တုိင္း ကိုဆြဲစိ၍ … ေနရာေပး..ခိုင္းစားနုိင္သည္႕
..အစိုးရ ..ကို ရည္ညႊန္း..လိုျခင္း.ျဖစ္သည္။)
စၾက္ာ၀ဠါၾကီးမွာေတာင္ …. ေန (၂) စင္းႏွင္႕ ..binary star system
ေတြက..အမ်ားသား … ေက်ာင္းသား ပါတီ … ေက်ာင္းသား..(ေန) ..ေပၚခဲ႕ရေသာ္ ….
NLD ႏွင္႕ … ေက်ာင္းသား … ႏွစ္ပါးသြား..က.. လို႕ရသည္… ယၡဳေတာ႕ …. ပါတီ
(သို႕) အဖြဲ႕အစည္း..မရွိေသာ … ေက်ာင္း သားမ်ား… န၀တ-နအဖ ..ေခတ္မွာ .. role
ေပ်ာက္ခဲ႕ၾကရသည္။ တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူမ်ား အျဖစ္..ရပ္ၾကရမည္႕…အစား … တာ၀န္ (သိ)
သူမ်ားအျဖစ္ သာ … က်န္ခဲ႕ၾကရသည္ ….
တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူ ႏွင္႕ တာ၀န္ (သိ) သူ တုိ႕ ..လြန္စြာ (ကြာ) ပါတယ္
တာ၀န္ (သိ) သူ တုိ႕က ေတြးခ်င္ရာ..ေတြး..ေရးခ်င္ရာေရး… ေျပာခ်င္တာေျပာ …
အရွက္မရွိက (ဆဲ)လို႕ပင္ရေသးသည္ …
တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူ အဖို႕ ..လုပ္ခ်င္တိုင္း..မလုပ္..နုိင္ပါ … တာ၀န္
..ဆိုတာကို ပုခုံး..အေပၚ ..ထမ္းထားရ..ရွာာတာကိုး …..
တာ၀န္ (သိ) သူ အဖို႕ … သူတပါးနုိင္ငံက ..အျဖစ္ေတြကို ၾကည္႕ျပီး..
စိတ္ၾကြကာ … လမ္းေပၚထြက္.. ပါေတာ႕လား? ဘာလုပ္ေနတာတုန္းဟု
..ေလွ်ာက္..ေအာ္..လို႕ရသည္ ….
တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူ အဖို႕ က.. ေအာ္..ရံုႏွင္႕..မရ … စစ္တပ္က
..ဘယ္လိုတုန္႕ျပန္မွာလည္း … ပစ္ရင္ဘာလုပ္မွာလည္း ..အစုလိုက္
..ဖမ္းရင္..ဘာလုပ္မွာလည္း? … အရွိန္ (က်)ရင္ဘာလုပ္ မွာလည္း? အရွိန္ (တက္)
ရင္ဘာလုပ္ မွာလည္း? Agitators လႈံ႕ေဆာ္သူေတြ … စည္းရံုးေရးမႉးေတြ..
လူထုကုိ..ထိမ္းမဲ႕..ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ..ရွိရဲ႕လား … ရန္ကုန္ (က်)
သြားရင္ေတာင္ … ေနျပည္ေတာ္..မွာ .. အထိုင္မပ်က္ .. command and control
မပ်က္ … လႈိုင္ေခါင္းေတြ..အက် ..ေဆာက္ျပီးသား … စစ္တပ္ကို ဘယ္လုိ …
အႏိုင္ယူမွာလည္း ….ေဆြးေႏြးမွာလါး? မရ..ရင္..ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ..
အၾကီးစားျဖစ္ရင္.. ဘယ္လို.. ကိုင္တြယ္မွာလည္း?
တရုတ္..မ၀င္ေအာင္..ဘယ္လိုတားမလဲ? အကယ္၍ ..regime change ျဖစ္သြား ရင္ေတာင္
.. စစ္တပ္ကိုဘယ္..ပံုစံ..ကိုင္မွာလည္း … အီရတ္လိုလား? အီရန္လိုလား?
အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး.. နားလည္သူေတြ..လံုလံုေလာက္ေလာက္..ရွိရဲ႕လား ….
ဆိုတဲ႕..လာမဲ႕ …. ျပႆနာေပါင္း…ေသာင္းေျခာက္ေထာင္ကို .ရင္ဆိုင္ႏုိင္ဖို႕ …
အေျခအေန..ရွိရမယ္
မရွိရင္ ..ယေန႕ ..လစ္ဗ်ားမွာျဖစ္သလို ….
ဟိုမေရာက္..ဒီမေရာက္..ျဖစ္ေနလိမ္႕မယ္ …
က်ေနာ္တို႕ ဗမာႏိုင္ငံသားေတြက … စစ္အာဏါရွင္…ပေပ်ာက္ေရး.. ..regime change
ကိုသာအာရံု.. စိုက္..ေနၾကသည္။ အေမရိကန္.. တရုတ္..ႏွင္႕ အာဆီရန္..တို႕က …
စစ္အစိုးရျပဳတ္က်..သြားလွ်င္ … ဘယ္သူက..ေနရာ၀င္ျဖည္႕မွာလဲ? … NLD မွာ
…အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး..ႏုိင္သူေတြရွိရဲ႕လား? ..စသည္ျဖင္႕ ..
ေဒသတည္ျငိမ္ေရး..ဖက္ကၾကည္႕ၾကတာ …. အီရတ္မွာ ..ဆဒန္ၾကီးျပဳတ္သြားျပီး…
တိုင္းျပည္ဗရိုဗရဲ ..ျဖစ္တာကို..သခၤန္းစာ..ရခဲ႕ၾကတယ္ ….
ဒါ..တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) ..သူေတြရဲ႕..ေနာက္တဆင္႕ ..ေပ ၄၀၀၀၀ အျမင္နဲ႕ၾကည္႕ၾကတာ …..
တာ၀န္ (သိ) သူေတြက ..စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ ..လို႕ရသည္ … တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူေတြ က
လက္ေတြ႕ဘ၀ က ေသြဖီလို႕..မရ…
ဒါကို..မသိပဲ… ရွိရွိသမွ်..အရာ..အားလံုးကို …
ရန္-ငါ-စည္း…မ်က္စိနဲ႕ၾကည္႕ၾကေတာ႕ ..အာလံုးကို ..ႏိုးႏိုးနုိး…ဆိုျပီး
..ဗူးခံ..ေျဗာင္ျငင္း..ၾကေတာ႕ ..မိမိတို႕လည္း ..အထီးက်န္..ေ၀းကြာ..isolate
ျဖစ္လာရတယ္ … မနက္ဖန္..အစိုးရ …ျဖစ္ရင္ ..အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး..နားလည္းသူ …
အစိုးရ..လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ႕ ..သူ..ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ရွိသလဲ? ေဒၚစု..တေယာက္ထဲ …
တိုင္းျပည္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္လို႕..မရပါ ….
တခါ ..တာ၀န္ (သိ) သူေတြက .. တာ၀န္ (ရွိ) သူ..ေတြကို ..ကူဖို႕..ဘာေတြ …
ျပင္ဆင္ ထားၾကသလဲ? ျပည္တြင္းမွာ … မျငိမ္မသက္ျဖစ္ရင္ … Agitators ေတြ …
စည္းရံုးေရးမႉးေတြ.. လူထုကုိ..ထိမ္းမဲ႕.. ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ … ျဖစ္နိင္ဖို႕
..မိမိကိုယ္မိမိ..ျပင္ဆင္ထားျပီးျပိလား? logistic
အတြက္..စဥ္းစားထားၾကပါသလား? logistic အတြက္ဘာေတြ..ျပင္ထားၾကပါသလဲ?
Saffron တုန္းကလို … ျဖစ္မွ … ေရဒီယို..တယ္လီေဖးရွင္းဖြင္႕ …
အင္တာနက္ေပၚတက္ျပီးဆဲ… လက္ခုပ္ ၀ိုင္းတီးၾကျပီး …
ေ၀ေလးေလး..လုပ္ၾကဦးမွာလား? ….
ဘာမွ..ၾကိဳတင္မျပင္ဆင္..ထားၾကေတာ႕ …
ဘာမွ..မလုပ္ႏုိင္..ဘာမွ..မကူ.နုိင္ၾကတာ..အဆန္းလား?
မိမိတို႕ဖက္ ..ကေတာ႕..ဘာမွမလုပ္ ..မလႈပ္ၾကပဲ …တဖက္သတ္ … အျပစ္တင္ရင္ေတာ႕
..မတရားဖူး..လို႕..ေျပာရမွာပဲ …..
အားလံုးကို ..မေမ႕ေစခ်င္တာက … ေဒၚစု..ေနာက္မွာ ..ေထာက္ခံမႈ. support
..အျပည္႕ရွိတယ္ ….
ေဒၚစုရဲ႕..သတၱိကို ဘယ္သူမွ ..မယွဥ္..နုိင္ပါ …. လက္နက္မပါပဲ ….
ရင္ေကာ႕ျပီး … အာခံရဲ..လို႕..လူတိုင္း..ေလးစား..ခ်စ္ခင္ရတာပါ ….
ေဒၚစု ..ဟာ ..လူတိုင္းရဲ႕ …ေမွ်ာ္လင္႕ခ်က္ပဲ …
ဒါေပမဲ႕ …ေဒၚစု..ဟာ..ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမားမဟုတ္ …. ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးသမား ….
မိခင္စိတ္..ျပင္းတယ္ …
သူ႕သားငယ္ ကို …ၾကည္႕တာကိုျမင္ျပီး ..စာေရးသူ..စိတ္ေျပာင္းသြားတယ္ ..
နားလည္သြားတယ္
သူတပါး..သားငယ္..သမိီးငယ္ေတြကို … စြန္႕လႊတ္..ခုိင္းမည္..မထင္ …..
ဗိုလ္က်င္ေမာင္..ကို ၈၀..ေက်ာ္မွ … ကြန္ျမဴနစ္..စံနစ္ဟာ.. ေခတ္နဲ႕
မေလွ်ာ္ေတာ႕ဖူး … ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ ၀ါဒ..ကိုစြန္႕..လႊတ္လိုက္ပါေတာ႕
..ဟုေျပာလွ်င္ … လက္ခံမည္ထင္ပါသလား?
အညမည ကိုေရးခဲ႕တဲ႕ ..ဦးခ်စ္လႈိင္ေတာင္ … ကြန္ျမဴနစ္..စံနစ္.. ကို
..ယံုဆဲတဲ႕ သူလည္း ၈၀ ေက်ာ္ .. ၉၀ ၀န္းက်င္ ပဲ… ဒီလူၾကီး ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ..
ကြန္ျမဴနစ္..၀ါဒ..ကိုမစြန္႕လႊတ္နုိင္ၾက ….
ထို႕နည္းတူ..ေဒၚစု..ကို … လမ္းေပၚထြက္ပါေတာ႕
..လက္နက္ကိုင္ေတာ္လွန္ပါေတာ႕လား ဟု .. အျပစ္တင္ေနလွ်င္..လည္း …
သဘာ၀က်မည္..မထင္…
လြပ္လပ္ခြင္႕ …ကို ..ယံုၾကည္ရင္ .. လြပ္လပ္စြာယံုၾကည္ခြင္႕ .. ကိုလည္း…
လက္ခံ..ရေပလိမ္႕မည္ ..
လက္ရွိ..ျပႆနာ..မွာ ..ေဒၚစု..ေနာက္က ..ေထာက္ခံမႈ..ကုိ ..CAPITALIZED
လုပ္နုိင္ဖို႕လုိသည္ ….
၀ိုင္း..ေ၀ဖန္မည္႕အစား … ၀ိုင္းစဥ္းစားေပးေစခ်င္သည္ ….
အစိုးရက …. Development လုပ္ရင္ ..အတိုက္ခံက …. လူမႈေရး..ႏွင္႕..လူထု..ကို
… အက်ိဳးျပဳ..လို႕ ရပါသည္… ပညာေရးနိမ္႕က်ေနတာျမင္ရင္ ..၀ိုင္း
…စာသင္ေပးမယ္ … ေဆးကုဖို႕.. မတတ္နိင္ရင္.. ေဆးကု..ေပးမယ္ ..
ဆင္းရဲသားေတြအတြက္..ေငြေခ်းမယ္ … ေရမရွိရင္ ..ေရတြင္းတူးေပးမယ္ …
အခုလည္း..ဒါေတြ ..စ … လုပ္ေနပါျပီ …
လူထု..ကို..ကူတာ… လူမႈေရး..တခုထည္္း..မဟုတ္ပါ … နုိင္ငံေရး..လည္းဟုတ္ပါသည္။
ေမွ်ာ္လင္႕ခ်က္..ကေန … လက္ေတြ႕..ကူညီတာျဖစ္ခဲ႕..ရင္ ..ျပည္သူေတြ
..ဟတ္ထိ..ကုန္မယ္ဗ်ိဳ႕ ….
ျပည္သူနဲ႕ ..မထိေတြ႕ပဲ … ေလေပၚက ..ေအာ္..ေနၾကရံုနဲ႕
..ေထာက္ခံမႈ..ကိုမတည္ေဆာက္..နုိင္ ..ဆိုတာကို..မေမ႕..ၾကပါနဲ႕…
ေဒၚစု..ေနာက္မွာ..ေထာက္ခံမႈ..ၾကီးတယ္..ဆိုတာကိုလည္း…မေမ႕ၾကပါနဲ႕ ….
နုိင္ငံေရး..ဆိုတာ..အားလုံ..ပါေလ..အားၾကီးေလပဲ ….
အားလံုး..အတြက္..ေနရာရွိပါတယ္ …. ေရ၀ိုင္းျဖည္႕ေပးၾကရေအာင္ပါ ….
ဒို႕..ကေတာ႕..လက္ႏွက္ကိုင္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးက..နဲနဲမွ..မေလ်ာ႕ဖူးဆိုရင္လည္း ….
ေမာ္လျမိဳင္ေလာက္ …သိမ္းႏုိင္ရင္ … လူေတြ..ေနာက္က..လိုက္မွာပါ ….
News & Articles on Burma-Monday, 02 May, 2011
News & Articles on Burma
Monday, 02 May, 2011
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Official says Burma to grant amnesty to prisoners
Burma ‘preparing prisoner amnesty’
Govt pushed on labour rights
Myanmar three years on since Cyclone Nargis
Indonesia hosts 1st EU-ASEAN Business Summit
Freedom of Press will remain unchanged under Burma’s sham civilian government
Nargis seen as ‘humanitarian watershed’
Cautious hope for change in Burma
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Official says Burma to grant amnesty to prisoners
RANGOON, BURMA - May 02 2011 12:47
Burma's new military-backed government is preparing to grant an amnesty to some prisoners, an official said on Monday, but it was unclear whether they would include political dissidents.
The move is expected to coincide with President Thein Sein's visit to Indonesia from Thursday to attend a summit of south-east Asian leaders, his first overseas trip since he was sworn in as head of state on March 30.
"Some prisoners will be released around the time of the president's first state visit," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide further details.
According to the London-based human rights group Amnesty International there are more than 2 200 political prisoners in Burma being held under vague laws frequently used to criminalise peaceful political activists.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November shortly after an election that led to the handover of power from the military to a nominally civilian government.
Her release was welcomed worldwide, but Western governments who impose sanctions on Burma have urged the new government to do more to demonstrate its commitment to improving its much criticised human rights record.
Thein Sein, who was prime minister under the now-disbanded junta headed by former leader General Than Shwe, is one of a group of generals who shed their army uniforms to successfully stand in the November poll.
The election, Burma's first in 20 years, was criticised by the opposition and the West as anything but free and fair, and the military still wields considerable power in the impoverished south-east Asian nation. -- AFP http://mg.co.za/article/2011-05-02-official-says-burma-to-grant-amnesty-prisoners/
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Burma ‘preparing prisoner amnesty’
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE and DVB
Published: 2 May 2011
Burma’s new military-backed government is preparing to grant an amnesty to some prisoners, an official said Monday, but it was unclear whether they would include political dissidents.
The move is expected to coincide with President Thein Sein’s visit to Indonesia from Thursday to attend a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, his first overseas trip since he was sworn in as head of state on 30 March.
“Some prisoners will be released around the time of the president’s first state visit,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide further details.
According to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners-Burma (AAPPB) there are currently 2,073 political prisoners in Burma being held under vague laws frequently used to criminalise peaceful political activists.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November shortly after an election that led to the handover of power from the military to a nominally civilian government.
Her release was welcomed worldwide, but Western governments who impose sanctions on Burma have urged the new government to do more to demonstrate its commitment to improving its much criticised human rights record.
http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-preparing-prisoner-amnesty/15479
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Govt pushed on labour rights
By PETER AUNG
Published: 2 May 2011
Burmese opposition groups have called on the government kick start the formation of a trade union congress as workers’ rights took centre stage yesterday on Labour Day.
A statement released by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party on 1 May mooted the idea of a congress in a bid to protect manual labour and white-collar workers in factories and workshops around the country.
The opposition group’s spokesperson, Nyan Win, said that the 2008 constitution, which came into force following elections last November, included a clause opening the door for a congress.
“According to international laws and standards, a labour congress should be in existence… that protects the workers,” he said. “So we are just reminding [the government] to start the procedures to form such an organisation.”
The statement also criticised the UN’s International Labour Organisation (ILO), claiming that despite the fact it had conducted investigations into some labour abuses in Burma, it had not taken any effective action.
Trade unions have been legally allowed in Burma, although a clause in the 2008 constitution states that their formation is conditioned on not being “contrary to the laws enacted for [Burma’s] security, prevalence of law and order, community peace and tranquillity, or public order and morality”. The subsequent definitions for these criteria are vague.
More than 30 labour activists, including eight female members of the Federation of Trade Unions Burma (FTUB), are imprisoned in Burma out of a total of nearly 2,073 political prisoners. Perceived dissent in Burma is often punished by lengthy jail terms.
The opposition National Democratic Force (NDF) party also released a statement on May Day calling for full labour rights and adequate wages in line with inflation in Burma, which currently stands at around nine percent.
“Our party’s parliamentary representatives will work to propose bills for wages in relevance with today’s [living expenses], for overtime payment and to narrow down the inflation gap,” said NDF member Dr Mya Nyarna Soe. He added that the government would also need to stabilise commodity prices and the budget allocated to the health and education sectors.
http://www.dvb.no/news/govt-pushed-on-labour-rights/15470
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Myanmar three years on since Cyclone Nargis
By Sabrina Chua | Posted: 02 May 2011 1927 hrs
MYANMAR: It has been three years since Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar, leaving more than 140,000 people dead in its wake. Survivors are rebuilding their lives, but aid groups said their recovery does not mean they should be forgotten.
"Psychologically you could say they are better than three years ago but they are still very sad. A lot of the students that i've met, they still wake up in the middle of the night, crying for their parents," said Plan Asia regional communications specialist Ms Warisara Sornpet.
Plan is one of the few international aid agencies working in Myanmar.
It is focused on child-centred community development, and has built 51 schools for the devastated communities.
Ms Warisara said: "The aim is not just to build back but to build back better.
"The new schools are stronger and disaster resilient than the old schools and will save a lot more lives. And also, Plan, along with our local partner has trained the children to protect themselves from natural disasters.
"Now if you go into a classroom and bang on the table and shout 'earthquake', the children will run to an open field or hide under the table. Before they wouldn't know what to do."
Ms Warisara added: "The people of Myanmar who've been affected by Nargis have shown incredible resilience, by rebuilding their homes, replanting farmland, going back to schools and carrying on with their routine.
"The difference here is that they're carrying on despite poverty and scarce resources."
Plan hopes the world won't forget the Nargis victims.
It is planning to upgrade its long-term presence in the country.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/southeastasia/view/1126310/1/.html
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Indonesia hosts 1st EU-ASEAN Business Summit
Economics 5/2/2011 1:42:00 PM
BRUSSELS, May 2 (KUNA) -- EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht leaves Monday for Jakarta to meet with ASEAN economic and trade ministers from the South-East Asian block of ten countries and open the first ever ASEAN-EU Business Summit on Thursday.
"The first ASEAN-EU Business Summit in Jakarta is an important signal that shows both regions mean business when it comes to building stronger economic ties," said De Gucht in statements before his departure.
The Summit will help intensify business-to-business relations but also promote dialogue between governments and the private sector. ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), including Brunei Darussalam, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, as a whole represents the EU's 7th largest trading partner with 175 billion euro of trade in goods and services.
The EU is ASEAN's second largest trading partner after China, accounting for around 10.9% of ASEAN trade. The EU is the largest investor in ASEAN countries. EU companies have invested around 10.4 billion euro annually on average.
Indonesia, the host country of the first EU-ASEAN Business Summit, is a major partner for the EU: EU-Indonesia trade stood at 20 billion euro in 2010. (end) nk.rk KUNA 021342 May 11NNNN http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2163694&Language=en
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Freedom of Press will remain unchanged under Burma’s sham civilian government
By Zin Linn May 02, 2011 7:45PM UTC
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Burma presently is at a crossroads. The incumbent nominal civilian government led by former general Thein Sein as president wants to maintain the country under limited democracy while the majority population desires a new stage of change. Especially, citizens are demanding freedom of expression and association while the Union Government is inflexibly vetoing basic rights of the citizens.
If the junta is honest concerning democratic reforms, the media must be free at the outset since access to information is fundamental to a healthy democracy. But in Burma, the political opposition as well as journalists and media personnel are under the strictest rules by the successive military regimes.
For instance, Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was killed while covering the 2007 Saffron Revolution, and some citizen journalists are still in prison. Some received long prison sentences, including the film director, writer and comic Zarganar and blogger Nay Phone Latt, while print journalists have been jailed for at least seven years.
According to the Burma Media Association and Reporters Sans Frontieres, at least 12 journalists and dozens of media workers including poets and writers are still in custody since the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis and the constitutional referendum in May 2008.
Burma is one of the most high-handed and covered up countries in the world, due to both its restrictive press laws and its practice of punishing journalists. In recent elections, the junta did not allow press freedom for both Burmese and international news media. It was a significant impediment to the free and fair elections.
Reporters Without Borders released its annual press freedom report in October 2010, ranking Burma 174th out of 178 countries. On 18 October the regime, announced that foreign journalists would not be granted access to Burma to cover the news on elections.
Journalists should have offered boundless access to information, polling stations, all the participating parties and candidates and the Union Election Commission. However, Burma’s junta denied journalists to observe the situation of elections in a strictest manner. The censorship, threats, and detention of foreign or local journalists were common during last election in Burma.
The arrest of Japanese journalist, Toru Yamaji in Myawaddy in Karen State on the morning of the elections is a practice of such a cover-up policy. He was afterward deported on 9 November. Similarly, two Australian documentary makers, Hugh Piper and Helen Barrow, filming a documentary for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), in Burma, were arrested and deported on 11 November. The journalists were making a film about independent media in Southeast Asian countries.
In addition, two Burmese journalists were randomly apprehended on Election Day. The two female journalists from the ‘True News’ journal were apparently arrested by the personnel of the Election Commission, in South Okklappa, Rangoon, even though they were released the next day. Four journalists informed that their news reportage films were smashed in front of the Union Election Commission authorities in Rangoon, on Election Day. Intimidation of journalists and the confiscation and destruction of their belongings were reported right through the country, including in Arakan State and Magwe Division where journalists had been threatened with arrest during the elections.
Harsh censorship rules also set toward political parties as well as the media. Political parties had to submit an application to the military regime’s Censorship Board within 90 days of their registration if they wanted to circulate their brochures or bulletins.
Extraordinary case was that photojournalist Sithu Zeya has been sentenced to eight years in jail last December. Zeya was sentenced by the military controlled court in Insein prison for his photos of the scene of an explosion at a traditional water festival pavilion in Rangoon in April 2010 according to his lawyers.
Burma also recommences the arrest of journalists from time to time. Journalists based in Rangoon say the detentions were part of a continued crackdown by the military authorities on those involved in covering news in the exile media, such as The Irrawaddy and Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB).
Sithu Zeya was sentenced three years for violating the Immigration Act and five years for violating the 1957 Unlawful Associations Act for links he made with unlawful organizations, according to his lawyer Aung Thein. Sithu Zeya apparently confessed the police about his former connection with an executive from the exile media organization Democratic Voice of Burma.
According to some analysts, there has been no progress concerning media freedom since the new president has come into office. There have been usual restrictions on media and journalists and also extra restrictions on Internet users as the information minister is the same man from former junta.
Although the optimistic politicians and media personnel hope for better free-press environment after the election, the scenario seems gloomy. Free speech or free press would not be allowed under the new disguised civilian government which sworn in January 2011.
Freedom of Press will remain unchanged under the military dominated parliaments and cabinet.
http://asiancorrespondent.com/53605/freedom-of-press-will-remain-unchanged-under-burma%E2%80%99s-sham-civilian-government/
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Nargis seen as ‘humanitarian watershed’
By AFP
Published: 2 May 2011
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People displaced by Cyclone Nargis at a refugee camp in Kyondah village, Burma, 22 May 2008 (Reuters)
A tattered UN tarpaulin makes a shady awning for one of the huts dotting the emerald rice paddies of Burma’s Irrawaddy delta, a reminder of the devastation wrought by cyclone Nargis three years ago.
“We rebuilt everything ourselves – the government did nothing,” said Myo Tun, who came to the area with an international aid agency after the disaster struck and whose name has been changed to protect his identity.
Bodies were still floating in the area’s network of waterways weeks after the cyclone hit, he said, as the ruling junta failed to act to help the region.
Now there are signs that the new, nominally civilian government, which took power earlier this year after controversial November elections that excluded democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, is striving to show a changed attitude.
President Thein Sein, a retired general who was prime minister during Nargis, has pledged to work more closely with humanitarian groups and responses to recent disasters suggest the approach has changed.
“They are more ready to give timely public information on details of these events, and to give access to international agencies,” said Burma analyst Richard Horsey.
But privately, many remain cautious.
“I would not say that any organisation operates with 100 percent confidence in this country,” said one senior international aid agency figure, asking not to be named.
Nargis smashed through the southern delta region on 2 May 2008 leaving an estimated 138,000 people dead or missing.
Burma’s rulers refused foreign assistance for weeks while 2.4 million people struggled desperately for survival.
“Nargis was a real humanitarian watershed,” said Chris Herink of World Vision, which took part in relief work after an earthquake hit eastern Burma in March.
Thousands are still sleeping in temporary shelters after the quake but, unlike when Nargis struck, those affected were helped quickly and by the army itself.
The United Nations said the earthquake, as well as cyclone Giri, which affected an estimated 260,000 people in Burma’s western Rakhine state last October, represented “increased cooperation” between agencies and government.
“It’s an open question in terms of the new leadership and how they will regard humanitarian assistance and in particular international assistance,” said Herink, who added that the signs at the moment were “positive.”
Foreign aid has become crucial in filling the gaps left by a government that spent just 0.9 percent of its budget on health in 2007, according to the World Health Organisation – substantially lower than any other country that year.
http://www.dvb.no/news/nargis-seen-as-humanitarian-watershed/15466
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Cautious hope for change in Burma
By Tim Johnston in Bangkok
Published: May 1 2011 17:55 | Last updated: May 1 2011 17:55
Eight weeks after the nominally civilian government of President Thein Sein took power in Burma, there are indications that one of the world’s most repressive and poorest states might be finally heading towards reform.
Mr Thein Sein last week appointed U Myint, an economist who commands respect on both sides of the country’s deep political divide, to his presidential advisory board, a decision that followed public statements that spoke of economic and social reform and a new era of the rule of law.
The appointment of Mr Myint to such a high-profile position is particularly startling because he has personal ties to Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader. That would previously have been sufficient to bar him from the corridors of power.
Burma analysts are cautiously optimistic but point out that all the changes so far have been symbolic rather than concrete, and say the country is no stranger to false dawns when it comes to reform.
In his inaugural speech, Mr Thein Sein laid out plans for an open market economy and citizens’ rights and asked his supporters to show goodwill towards those who did not agree with them; radical statements in the context of Burma’s history of military autocracy.
Diplomats said Ms Suu Kyi had indicated privately that she was encouraged by his words. But most analysts said that if there were going to be change, it would be a long, slow process.
The appointment of Mr Myint, 73, has been hailed as indicating that a significant shift in both government policy and professionalism could be under way.
“The fact that Thein Sein has appointed U Myint to the advisory board is a substantial effort rather than a superficial effort,” said one European diplomat.
“[U Myint] has been quite open about economic mismanagement being the root cause of many of the country’s problems and he has sensible ideas about fixing them,” said the diplomat. His appointment “indicates that Mr Thein Sein might be a genuine progressive, at least in the limited context of Burmese reform”.
But some observers voiced doubts on how far Mr Myint would be able to influence policy in an environment where much of the power remains concentra-ted in the hands of reactionary former generals. “The big question is whether anyone is going to listen to him,” said Sean Turnell, an academic at Australia’s Macquarie University.
Diplomats and other international observers have been encouraged by the limited steps Mr Thein Sein has taken but caution that his achievements so far are little more than expressions of good intentions.
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