Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
Saturday, October 1, 2011 9:08 AM
From: "phone hlaing"
ကိုယ့္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကိုယုံတယ္ဆိုရင္ ကိုယ့္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေနာက္ကိုရဲရဲဝ့ံဝ့ံလိုက္ရပါမယ္။
သူ ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈကိုမယုံရင္ ဦးေအာင္တင္ေျပာသလိုဘဲ ကုိယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ့္လမ္း
ကိုယ္ေလွ်ာက္ႀကပါ။
ဒီမိုကေရစီကိုယုံႀကတယ္ဆိုရင္ လြတ္လပ္စြာသေဘာထားကဲြလြဲခြင့္ရိွႀကပါတယ္။
လြတ္လပ္စြာေဝဖန္ပိုင္ခြင့္ရိွပါတယ္။ လြတ္လပ္စြာေဝဖန္ႀက သေဘာထားကဲြလဲြႀကပါ။
ဒါေပမဲ ့ရန္ေတာ့မျဖစ္ႀကပါနဲ ့ ဒါကသေဘာထားေသးတာဘဲျဖစ္ပါလိမ္ ့မယ္။
ဥပမာ- တရားရုံးမွာ ေရွ ့ေနေတြ နွစ္ဖက္အျပန္အလွန္တိုက္ႀကခိုက္ႀက ေျပာႀကဆို
ႀကတယ္။ ကိုယ့္အဆိုမွန္ေႀကာင္းတင္ျပႀက ေခ်ပႀကလုပ္ႀကတယ္။ အဲ တရားရုံး
ျပင္ပေရာက္ေတာ့ တေယာက္နဲ ့တေယာက္လက္ဆဲြနႈတ္ဆက္ႀကတယ္ အျပန္အလွန္
ခ်ီးက်ဴးႀကတယ္ ဒါေတြဟာ လူႀကီးလူေကာင္းေတြရဲ့အနွစ္သာရေတြပါဘဲ။
ကိုယ့္အျမင္ကိုတင္ျပပါ ၊ ကိုယ့္အျမင္ကိုေဝဖန္တာမခံနိုင္ဖူးဆိုရင္လဲ ဒီမိုကေရစီသမား
မဟုတ္ေသးဘူးလို ့ဆိုခ်င္တယ္။ ေဝဖန္တဲ့သူကလဲ ငါ ့စကားႏြားရေဝဖန္တာမ်ိဳးမဟုတ္ဘဲ
အခ်က္နဲ ့အလက္နဲ ့ပုဂိၢဳလ္ေရးမတိုက္ခိုက္ဘဲေဝဖန္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။တေယာက္နဲ ့တေယာက္
ရန္မျဖစ္ဘဲနဲ ့အျပဳသေဘာနဲ ့မ်ားမ်ားေဆြးေႏြးမ်ားမ်ားျငင္းခုံႀကပါ ဒါမွ ဦးေနွာက္ေတြ
ထက္လာႀကမွာပါ။ ျပီးေတာ့ေနာက္ဆုံးမွာအမ်ားသေဘာတူတဲ့ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္တစ္ခု
က်လာမွာေပါ ့ win win situation(answer) လို ့ေခၚမလားဘဲ
Wishing you have peace of mind,
Phone Hlaing
PEACEFUL BURMA/
FWUBC-Federation of Workers' Union of the Burmese Citizens (in Japan)
Phone: 0(81)3-6904-2414
Mobile: 0(81)90-5318-5054
peacefulburma.blogspot.com
--- On Sat, 10/1/11, ziza war
From: ziza war
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
To: 8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 1, 2011, 4:59 AM
လူေတြေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိထိရင္မခံႏိုင္ၾကဘူး၊အေမအေမဆုိျပီး၀ုိင္းအာၾက၀ုိင္းကာၾကတယ္၊က်ေနာ္ကလည္းခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔လုိမခ်စ္တာမဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ခ်စ္လည္းခ်စ္ နားလည္းနားလည္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးမွာညီအစ္ကုိမရွိဘူး၊ အေဖအေမမရွိဘူး၊ ကုိယ္ယုံ
ၾကည္ခ်က္အေပၚကုိယ္ရပ္ၾကရတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ေ၀ဖန္တုိင္းမုန္းလုိ႔မဟုတ္ဘူး-အနည္းဆုိေတာ့ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ဆင္ခ်င္ႏိုင္တဲ့အက်ဳိးတရားကုိေတာ့ရႏိုင္ပါတယ္၊
ငါတုိ႔မွအေမေတြမ်ားစြာရွိတယ္၊ ဆင္းရဲေနၾကတယ္ မြဲေနၾကတယ္ ငတ္ေနၾကတယ္ အေမတစ္ေယာက္ထဲကုိမဟုတ္ အေမအားလုံးကုိငါတုိ႔မွ်မွ်တတခ်စ္ၾကရမယ္
အခုလုပ္တဲ့လုပ္ေနတဲ့အာဏာရွင္နဲ႔ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းဆုိတာ အရင္ကတည္းကစမ္းျပီး လုပ္ရမဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးနည္းဗ်ဴဟာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းႏွစ္ဆယ္ေက်ာ္ေႏွာင္းျပီးလုပ္မွာေတာ့ အေမေတြလည္းအုိျပီ အိမ္ေတြကလည္းျပိဳျပီးဆုိသလုိ တုိင္းျပည္တစ္ခုလုံးေျပာင္သလင္း ခါေအာင္ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြကခုိးယူျပီးသြားျပီဆုိေတာ့ သူမကုိအသုံးခ်ျပီးထြက္ေပါက္ရွာတာပဲ
ဆုိတာသိပ္ကုိရွင္းတယ္၊ ဂႏၵီတုိက္ခဲ့တာကုိလုိနီအစုိးသာလွ်င္ျဖစ္တယ္။ ၊ အာဏာရွင္မဟုတ္ဘူး-စတာလင္မဟုတ္ဘူး-ဟစ္တလာမဟုတ္ဘူး-ကင္ဂ်ဳံအီးမဟုတ္ဘူး သန္းေရႊမဟုတ္ဘူး-ဂႏၵီသာဒီေန႔ရွိခဲ့ရင္အာဏာရွင္ကုိဒီလုိလုပ္လုိ႔မရဘူးဆုိတာ သူေျပာပါလိမ့္မယ္၊ သိန္းစိန္ေနာက္မွာသန္းေရႊတုိ႔အမာလုိင္းရွိေနတယ္ဆုိတာကုိလည္း ေမ့မေနၾကနဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးေမွ်ာ္ေတာ္ေယာင္မ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
2011/9/30 aungnaingwin
အန္ကယ္ဦးေအာင္မင္း အစပိုင္းမွာေရးထားတဲ့အေရးအသားက တရားသေဘာနဲ႕ ရွင္ၿပီး ေရးသားထားေတာ့ ဖတ္ရသူမ်ားအဖို႕ေတာ့ သေဘာေခြ႕စရာပါပဲခင္ဗ်ာ။ က်ေနာ့အေနနဲ႕ ငယ္ရြယ္တုန္းအခ်ိန္ေလးမွာ တရားသေဘာတရားမ်ားကိုေလ့လာထား မွ ယၡဳပစၥဳပၸန္ ႏွင့္ ေနာင္အနာဂတ္အခ်ိန္အခါမွာ တရားသေဘာေလးနဲ႕ရွင္ၿပီးအရာရာ ကို အေကာင္းဖက္က ေ၀ဖန္ပိုင္းျခားႏိုင္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားဖို႕ ဗဟုသုတရလိုက္တဲ့အတြက္ေက်းဇူးအမ်ားႀကီးတင္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။
ေလးစားလ်က္
ANW
2011/9/30 PDP Office
ရဲရင့္ငယ္
၀မ္းေျမာက္ပါတယ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လာခဲ့တာေကာ ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေနဆဲကာလမွာေရာ ေနာက္
အနာဂါတ္ ခရီးလမ္းအတြက္ေအာင္ျမင္နဳိင္ပါေစလုိ့လည္း ဆုေတာင္းေပးပါတယ္။ က်ိဳးစားမွဳက ေအာင္ျမင္ျခင္းရဲ့ လမ္းစ ပါ။ ျပင္းယိျပီး ဘာမွ မလုပ္ဘဲ ေနတာျခင္းထက္ ၀ိရိယ အားထုတ္ျပီး
က်ဳိးစားျခင္းကေတာ့ အတုိင္းနဲ့အလြန္ေပါ့- လုပ္ရပ္တုိင္း မေအာင္ျမင္တာကေတာ့ ပဋိဘာန္ လုိ့ေခၚတဲ့
ျဖတ္ထုိးဥာဏ္ေပါ့ သည္ျဖတ္ထုိးဥာဏ္ကေတာ့ ကံ စိတ္ ဥတု အဟာရ ဆုိေသာ အေၾကာင္းေလးပါး
မျပည့္စုံ ဘဲ ျဖစ္မလာပါဘူး ။ လူငယ္ေတြ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ေျပာေနၾကတဲ့ မာန ေတြမွာ ဒါေတြကသိထား
ျပီးသားပါ ဆရာၾကီးမလုပ္ပါနဲ့ လုိဆုိတယ္။ မဟုတ္ရဘူး လူၾကီး လူငယ္ မည္သည့္ ပညာရွိ မ်ားသည္
ပင္လွ်င္။ ေနရာ ပေရာဂ သတိ ေတြေၾကာင့္ လမ္းမေရာက္ဘဲ။ လြဲေခ်ာ္သြားတတ္ၾကတယ္။ ထုိေၾကာင့္
ပညာရွိေလ သတိ လက္မလြတ္ဘုိ့လုိပါတယ္။ ဆုိခဲ့တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းတရား ေလးပါးတြင္ ကံ-ဆုိေသာ
ကမၼ-ကာမ အလုပ္တရားသည္ နယ္ေျမေဒသ ပေရာဂ ေၾကာင့္ လုပ္မွဳ အခက္အခဖဲ ျဖစ္တတ္၏
အလုပ္လုပ္တုိင္း မေအာင္ျမင္မွဳ ဘာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သလဲလုိ့ ရွာေဖြမွဳ မေတြ့ဘဲ အုိမင္းရင့္ေရာ္သူ ေတြအမ်ား
ၾကီးပါ။ တစ္ဘ၀စံ အာဏာရွင္ေတြ သတက္တာလုံး မေကာင္းမွဳ ဒုစရုိက္လုပ္ျပီး ေသသည္အထိ ခံစား
စံစားသြားရသူမ်ားလည္း မရည္မတြက္နဳိင္ပါ။ စိတ္သည္ ေတြးေတာမွဳ မ်ား၌ တရားဘုိ့ မွန္ကန္ေစဘုိ့ျဖစ္
သည္။ ဥတု ေခၚေသာ အခ်ိန္အခါ သည္ လည္းလုိအပ္သည္ ယခုလည္ ျမန္မာ့လြွတ္ေတာ္ၾကီး
အိပ္သြန္ဖါေမွာက္ တသက္လုံး ၀န္ထမ္းဘ၀ အာဏာရွင္ဘ၀ ေငြေၾကးျပည့္စုံျပီး ေထာင္ခ်ီေသာ
စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား တရား၀င္ ခုံေနရာ မွ မထဘဲ ရာဇ ပုလင္ဖင္ျမဲေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္။ တရုပ္ကအားေပး
ေအရွန္နဳိင္ငံကလည္းေထာက္ခံ(ကုိုယိ့တုိင္းျပည္ ကုိယ္က်ဳိးစီးပြါးအျမတ္ရဖုိ့အတြက္) ကမၻာ့စီးပြါးေရး“
က်ဆင္းေနေသာ အေနာက္ဥေရာပ အေမရိက နဳိင္ငံကလည္း တရုပ္ႏွင့္ေအရွ ၀င္ေနရာယူမည့္
ျမန္မာ သယံဇာတ ပစၥည္းကုိ ႏွဳိက္ယူလုိတာရယ္။ မိတ္ေဆြမ်ား စုိးရိမ္ေနတယ္ ေအရာ၀တီ၏
ေရွ့ေရးေတြကုိပါ ေတြးျပီး လုပ္လုိသူ လုပ္ ေတြးလုိသူေတြး ဆုံးျဖတ္ျခင္တုိင္း ဆုံးျဖတ္မဲ့ အေရးကုိ
ျပည္သူတဦး တုိင္းရင္းသား တခ်ဳိ့ လူမ်ဳိးစု အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း ေတြကပါ ကန့္ကြက္ျခင္း ေ၀ဖန္ျခင္းေတာ့
လုပ္သင့္တယ္လုိ့ထင္တယ္။ လူ့အခြင့္အေရးတရပ္အေနနဲ့ ျဖစ္နုိင္တာကုိ တင္ျပသူမ်ားဟာ
ဓမၼဓိ႒ာန္ က်က် အၾကဳိးႏွင့္ အေၾကာင္း ရွင္းလင္းျပသ ျပီးေ၀ဖန္ျခင္းကုိ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး ရာစုႏွစ္
တ၀က္နီးပါး မျမင္ဘူး မေတြ့ဘူးတဲ့ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံသားမ်ား ဆုိသူအဖုိ့ ေျပာခြင့္ ဆုိခြင့္ မရွိေပဘူးလားခင္ဗ်ား
အဟာရ ဆုိေသာ ေနာက္ဆုံးအခ်က္မွာ ပစၥယ ေခၚတဲ့ ရုပ္၀တၱဳပါ စိတ္ ေစတသိတ္ပုိင္းမွာ
လူသတၱ၀ါမ်ားအဖုိ့ ကံရွိလည္း ဥာဏ္မရွိက မျဖစ္နုိင္ ကံ ဥာဏ္ျ့ပည့္စုံ လည္း ၀တၱဳပစၥယ ေတြမရွိက
မည္သည္ အရာကုိမွ လုပ္လုိ့မရပါး ဥမမာ က်ဳပ္တုိ့ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံကုိ ျပန္ၾကည့္က ေတြ့နဳိင္သည္
အေနာက္နဳိင္ငံ အီဂ်စ္။ ေယမင္။ လိဗ်ား-စသည္မ်ားတြင္ ျပည္သူ့ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကုိ အခ်ိန္တုိတုိႏွင့္ ရက္ပုိင္း လပုိင္းျပီးနဳိင္သည္။ အိမ္နီးျခင္းနဳိင္ငံျဖစ္တဲ့ ထုိင္းနဳိင္ငံတြင္လည္း လူထုနည္းႏွင့္လခ်ီျပီး
ဆႏၵျပ ျခင္းျဖင့္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူ အစုိးရအား ေမာင္းထုတ္နုိင္သည္ ကန့္ကြက္နဳိင္သည္။
ကြ်ႏု္ပ္တုိ့ နုိင္ငံကား စစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားဗုိလ္ေန၀င္းက အစ ဗုိလ္သန္းေရြွတုိ့သိျပီးသည့္
အတုိင္း ျပည္သူလူထုကုိ စားစရာမရွိ သုံးစရာေငြမရွိ ေနစရာေျမမရွိတဲ့ ဘ၀ ကုိ တြန္းေပးထားေပးခဲ့တယ္
ဆုိခဲ့ျပီးေသာ နုိင္ငံမ်ားလုိ လခ်ီျပီး ဆနၵျပနဳိင္ရန္ အရင္းအႏွီးအင္အားမရွိေအာင္ ဗုိလ္ေန၀င္းသိမ္းပုိက္
ခဲ့ခ်ိန္မွာ ပု`ဂၢလိက စီးပြါးေရး မရွိ စုေစာင္းထားေသာ ေရြွေငြမ်ားအားလည္း တရားမ၀င္ ဖ်က္ဆီးသိမ္းပုိက္ ခဲ့ျပီးျဖစ္၍ ယေန့ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံသားမ်ား ခုိကုိးရာမဲ့ ထမီေရျပဳတ္မွ်ျဖင့္ အသက္ရွ၊င္ရ
လုပ္အားေပးနုိင္သည့္အရြယ္ သန္းႏွင့္ခ်ီေသာ လုပ္အားခြန္အားမ်ားသည္ ျပင္ပသုိ့ထြက္၍
သူတုိ့အားမ ေတာ္လွန္ မပုန္ကန္ နုိင္ေအာင္ ဖန္တည္းခဲ့ေပျပီး က်ဳပ္တုိ့အားလုံး ျပည္ပေရာက္ျပီး
လူမ်ဳိးစု မ်ား ျမန္မာ ဗမာမ်ား ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူ မ်ား အခုထိ တုိင္းျပည္တြင္းသုိ့ မျပန္နဳိင္ၾကပါ
ျပန္လုိသူမ်ား ျပန္က ျပန္နဳိင္သလုိ မျပန္ဘဲ မိမိ ဦးတည္ခ်က္ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ မေျပာက္ဘဲ
စစ္အာဏာရွင္စံနစ္ ျပဳတ္က်ေရး တပါတီအာဏာရွင္စံနစ္ မတည္ျမဲေရး ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျပန္လည္ထြန္းကား
ေရး။ အက်ဳိးအေၾကာင္း ခုိင္လုံစြာျဖင့္ လုပ္လုိသူ ဆႏၵရွိလုိသူမ်ား လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသည္သာျဖစ္သည္။
ေသာင္းသိန္းခ်ီေသာ ျပည္သူမ်ား သန္းမ်ားစြာရွိေနေသာ ျပည္သူမ်ားသည္ ျဖဴစဥ္ေသာ ေရၾကည္မွ်သာ
ျဖစ္သည္ နဳိင္ငံေရးသမား အုပ္ခ်ုပ္ေရးသမား ေရေပၚဆီလူတန္းစားသည္သာ ဒႆန ကုိစီျဖင့္
ရုိးသားသူမ်ားအား အေနာက္လုိက္ရန္ စည္းရုံးနည္း ခ်ိန္းေျခာက္နည္း မုိက္ေၾကးခြဲနည္း ဇိကုတ္ျပီး
နတ္ျပည္တင္နည္း ငရဲျပည္သုိ့ ဆြဲခ်နည္း သုံးၾကသည္သာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကြွ်ႏု္တုိ့သည္ မည္သည့္နည္း
သည္ မြန္ျမတ္သည္။ ေကာင္းသည္ ဆုိးသည္ ဆုံးျဖတ္နဳိင္ၾက၍ ေ၀ဖန္ပုိင္းျခားသင့္ပါေၾကာင္း။
အားလုံးကုိ ေလးစားလွ်က္။ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါသည္။
ေအာင္မင္း (ျပည္ခ်စ္)
--- On Thu, 9/29/11, Yeyint Nge
From: Yeyint Nge
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
To: "8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com" <8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 8:20 PM
http://www.yeyintnge.com/2011/09/blog-post_9080.html
လက္ရွိနိုင္ငံ့အေရးရွင္းရွင္းေလးျဖစ္ေစခ်င္ပါသည္။
၁၉၈၈ေနာက္ပိုင္း၈၈၈၈ေက်ာင္းသားေတြရဲ႕လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြကအရွိန္ျမင့္ေနဆဲကာလ၊၈၈၈၈အရွိန္ကရွိေနဆဲ။န၀တအစိုးရကို
ထိုစဥ္အခ်ိန္ကေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အပါအ၀င္ရဲရင့္ငယ္တို႕အားလံုးမတရားတဲ့အမိန္႕အာဏာဟူသမွ်ေတာ္လွန္သည့္လမ္း
ေၾကာင္းေပၚေလ်ွာက္ခဲ့သည္။ဦးေစာေမာင္၊ဦးသန္းေရႊလက္ထက္ညဖက္လမ္းေပၚအရူးထြက္လွ်င္အရူးကိုေတာင္ပစ္သတ္သည့္
ကာလမွာဆန္႕က်င ္သည့္လမ္းသည္သာအေကာင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္။
အသက္၄၀ေက်ာ္အရြယ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကလည္းလိုက္ေလ်ာညီေထြစြာဦးေဆာင္ေပးခဲ့၍လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္တ ညီတညာထဲအပ္နွင္းခဲ့ၾကတာပါ။အဲ့ဒီအခ်ိန္ကမတရားတဲ့အမိန္႕အာဏာဟူသမွ်ေတာ္လွန္သည့္လမ္းေၾကာင္းသည္မွားသည္ဟု
အခုေနအက်ိဳးအေၾကာင္းေထာက္ျပလွ်င္အဲ့ဒီမွားသည့္အထဲတြင္ရဲရင့္ငယ္တို႕လည္းပါပါသည္။မွားသည္ဟုေတာ့ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ
ရဲရင့္ငယ္မခံယူခဲ့ပါ။အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ကစစ္အစိုးရဆက္ဆံေရးကလူမဆန္စြာနိုင္ထက္စီးနင္းဆက္ဆံသည့္ကာလျဖစ္သည္။
ဒီလိုနဲ႕ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဴပ္က်သည္။အနွစ္၂၀ေက်ာ္နိုင္ငံေရးေရစံုေမ်ာေတာ့သည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း
စုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဴပ္က်ခ်ိန္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကိုအသာထားျပီး ယခု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဦးသိန္း
စိန္နဲ႕ေဆြးေႏြးသလို ကိုယ့္လမ္းကိုေဖါက္ျပီး ဦးသန္းေရႊကိုမည္သူေဆြးေႏြးနိုင္ခဲ့သလဲ။လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ျဖစ္ေအာင္မည္သူ
ၾကိဳးစားခဲ့သလဲ။ရဲရင့္ငယ္လည္းေဆြးေႏြးဖို႕ေနေနသာအျပင္မွာေတာင္မျမင္ဖူးပါ။ေကာင္းပါတယ္...ေနာက္ဘ၀ေရစက္ဆံု
ေနအံုးမယ္။
မိမိကိုယ္ကိုလူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္မလုပ္နိုင္လို႕လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ျပန္အလႊတ္ကို"ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး"ဆိုတဲ့ေဆာင္ပုဒ္နဲ႕ျပည္တြင္း
ျပည္ပ၀ိုင္းေအာ္ခဲ့ၾကတာမဟုတ္ လား။အခုေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေနျပီေလ။သင့္ရဲ႕ၾကိဳးပမ္းမႈအရာထင္တာသင္ဂုဏ္ယူမယ္ဆိုဂုဏ္
ယူလို႕ေတာင္ရပါတယ္။
ဥပမာတခု...
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ရပ္ေနတယ္။ကိုယ္အေနာက္မွာ၂၀မဟုတ္ေတာင္၁၅ေယာက္ေလာက္ပါရင္ေလသံကိုတင္းတင္းေလးေျပာလို႕ရတာေပါ့။
ကိုယ္တေယာက္ထဲထီးထီးၾကီးဆိုေတာ့လည္းေလသံကိုတမ်ိဳး ေျပာင္းရတာေပါ့။ဒါေလာကရဲ႕နိယာမပဲ...
သင္အားမလိုအားမရျဖစ္ေနလား....
အဲ့ဒီ၁၅ေယာက္ထဲသင္ပါေအာင္ၾကိဳးစားပါ။
မပါခ်င္ဖူးလား။
သင္မပါလဲ၊အဲဒီတေယာက္ကဟို ၂၁ေယာက္ဖိသတ္လို႕ေသရင္သာေသသြားမယ္။သူေနာက္မပါတဲ့သင့္အေပၚဘယ္ေတာ့မွ
သစၥာေဖါက္မွာမဟုတ္ဖူး။ဘာလို႕လည္းဆိုေတာ့သူဟာ " အာဇာနည္ " မို႕လို႕ပါ ။ ။
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From: Kayinlay(dawnamyae)
To: "8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com" <8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:24:27 PM
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
ကိုယ္တိုင္ ဘာမွမလုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လူေတြဟာ ေဘးထိုင္ၿပီး ဘုေျပာေနၾကတာ မဆန္းပါဘူး။
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From: aungnaingwin
To: 8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
ဦးေအာင္မင္း ေျပာသြားတဲ့ အေပၚက အခ်က္ေတြအားလံုး က က်ေနာ္ေလ့လာလို႕ ရသေလာက္ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားသိၿပီးသားျဖစ္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါခင္ဗ်ာ။ ခုလုိ ေျပာၾကားသြားေပးတဲ့အတြက္လည္း က်ေနာ့္ထက္ ၀ါႏုတဲ့လူတစ္ေယာက္ရွိရင္ ေလ့လာလို႕ ရသြားႏိုင္တဲ့အတြက္ အက်ိဳးရွိႏိုင္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။ က်ေနာ္ကသိလြန္းေနတာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူးခင္ဗ်ာ။ က်ေနာ့ ထက္ငယ္တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေၾကာင္း မသိေသးတဲ့ ညီငယ္မ်ားလည္း သိသြားရင္လညး္ အက်ိဳးရွိပါတယ္လုိ႕ ဆိုလိုခ်င္တာပါခင္ဗ်ာ။ က်ေနာ္ေျပာခ်င္တာ က အနည္းငယ္လြဲေနတယ္ခင္ဗ်။ အခုေရးထားတဲ့ ေခါင္းစဥ္ ကိုထပ္ၿပီးေဆြးေႏြးလုိပါတယ္ ဦးဇီဇ၀ါ။ က်ေနာ္သိသေလာက္က ေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာက္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လုပ္ေနတာက (Non Violence) အၾကမး္မဖက္ အႏုနည္းနဲ႕ တြန္းလွန္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ေတာ္လွန္မယ္ဆိုရင္ၾကားထဲက ျပည္သူေတြပဲနစ္နာမွာပါ။ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ေတာ္လွန္မယ္ပဲထားပါေတာ့။ ဘယ္သူကေခါင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္စၿပီးလုပ္မလဲ။ ဘယ္မွလည္း လက္ႏွက္။ အေလာင္းမင္းတရားႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ေဇယ် လို ၀ါးရင္းတုတ္ နဲ႕ တက္ရိုက္ဖို႕ေတာ့ လုပ္လို႕မရပါဘူး။ ခုက်ေနာ္ သိသေလာက္ ျပည္ပေရာက္ လူေတြကလည္း ဖြဲ႕လုိက္ တဲ့ အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းေတြက မေရတြက္ႏိုင္ေအာင္ပဲ။ ဘာေတြ လုပ္ေနလည္း ဆိုေတာ့လည္း ဘာမွမရွိဘူး။ ေအာ္တာေတာ့ေအာ္ေနတာပဲ။ ေအာ္ရင္းေအာ္ရင္ ဗိုက္ေတြ ပူလာတာပဲ ေတြ႕ေနရတယ္။ အခုျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ပံုက ေဒၚေအာက္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လုပ္တာကို ထိုင္ၾကည့္ေနၾကတယ္။ ျဖစ္မလာေတာ့ဘူးဆိုမွ ပုတ္ခတ္ေျပာဆိုမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အေပါက္မ်ိဳးျဖစ္ေနတယ္လုိ႕ထင္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။
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ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ မင္းအႏိုင္ရတယ္။
မဟတမ ဂႏၵီ
ေလးစားလ်က္
ANW
2011/9/29 PDP Office
ေမာင္ေအာင္နဳိင္၀င္း
အခုလုိ ရဲရဲေတာက္ ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္ႏွင့္ ေရးသား ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ျခင္းသည္ပင္ အေတြးအေခၚ ေလ့လာ
မွဳကုိ ေဖၚျပျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ဒိမုိကေရစီ နုိင္ငံတုိင္းမွာ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေရးသားခြင့္ ေ၀ဖန္ခြင့္ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း အစုိးရအားျဖစ္ေစ အတုိက္အခံေတြကုိ ျဖစ္ေစ မည္သည့္ နုိင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ားကုိ
မိမိ၏ ေတြ့ျမင္ မိ ေလ့လာ မိသေလာက္ ေမးျမန္းနုိင္တယ္ စစ္ေဆးခြင့္ရွိပါတယ္။
သုိ့မွသာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူျဖစ္ေစ အတုိက္အခံ နဳိင္ငံေရးသမားျဖစ္ေစ ကုိယ္လုပ္ျခင္တာ အရမ္းလုပ္လုိ့ မရၾကဘူး။ ဒီလုိနည္းသည္ပင္။ ဒိမုိကေရစိစံနစ္၏ တရားမွ်တေသာ ခ်ိန္ခြင္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံက စစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားက ၁၉၆၂-ခုႏွစမွ ဗုိလ္ေန၀င္းအာဏာသိမ္းသည့္အခ်ိန္္မွစ၍
ယေန့ထိ-၄၉-ႏွစ္ ရွိသည္တုိင္ နဳိင္ငံတြင္းမွ ဒီမုိကေရစီ မရွိ၍ အုပ္ခ်ုပ္သူ အစုိးရအား မည္သူကမွ
ေ၀ဖန္ျခင္း။ သတင္းဌာနမ်ားကလည္း သတင္းမ်ားတြင္ ေရးသားျခင္း ကန့္ကြက္ျခင္း မတရားသတင္း
မ်ားအား ေဖၚျပျခင္း မျပဳနဳိင္ခဲ့ပါ-ေ၀ဖန္ေရးသားကန့္ကြက္သူမ်ားကုိလည္း ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္
ထားခဲ့သည္မွာ ယေန့အထိပါ။
အတုိက္အခံပါတီမ်ား နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားကုိ လည္း တရား၀င္ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳျခင္းမရွိခဲ့ပါ
၂၀၀၈-ခုႏွစ္ စစ္အာာဏာရွင္မ်ား၏ ပရိယာယ္-အတုိင္း အေရာင္ေျပာင္းထားေသာ နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီအျဖစ္
ၾကံ့ခုိင္ဖြံျဖဳိးေရးပါတီ -ေဒသဆုိင္ရာ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း မ်ားပါ၀င္ေသာ ျပည္နယ္အသီးသီးမွ နုိင္ငံေရး
ပါတီအား လုံး အိပ္၀င္သပိတ္၀င္ -စစ္သားစစ္စစ္ ၂၅-ရာခုိင္ႏွဳန္း ႏွင့္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းထားေသာ
နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီ၀င္တုိ့၌ စစ္ဗုိလ္အေဟာင္းမ်ား ရ၀-ရာခုိင္ႏွဳန္း ပါ၀င္ေစျပီး- တကယ္အမွန္ အတုိက္အခံ
အစစ္ -၅-ရာခုိင္ႏွဳန္းမွ်သာ ပါ၀င္တဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီလုိ့ေခၚတဲ့ လြွတ္ေတာ္ အတုႏွင့္ အာဏာရွင္ပါလီမန္
ၾကီးအား -ျမန္မာနဳိင္ငံေရး ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး ျပည္တြင္းျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတုကုိ -ကမၻာအား မ်က္လွည့္ျပပါဦး
မည္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တူငယ္တုိ့သည္ ျမန္မာနဳိင္ငံတြင္း အနာဂါတ္ လူငယ္ျဖစ္၍ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ ေျပာဆုိခြင့္
ေရးသားခြင့္ နဳိင္ငံေရးလွဳပ္ရွားပုိင္ခြင့္ ရွိသင့္ျပီး အစုိးရအားျဖင္ေစ အတုိက္အခံအားျဖစ္ေစ ျပည္သူအားလုံး ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားအားလုံး က ယေန့မွစျပီး လွဳပ္ရွားနဳိင္ခြင့္ရွိသင့္ျပီျဖစ္သည္။
ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၇ာစုႏွစ္ တ၀က္ ေက်ာ္ -ျပည္ပေရာက္ လူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ား ျမန္မာသမုိင္း၀င္ နုိင္ငံေရးသမား
မ်ား။ ဒီမုိကေရစီအားလုိလားေသာ ရွစ္ေလးလုံး ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူမ်ား သည္ ဘ၀တာ၀န္ေပးမွဳ
ေၾကာင့္ ျပည္ပ နဳိင္ငံအသီးသီးသုိ့ေရာက္ေနၾကသည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာရွိေသာ နုိင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားလည္း မတရားသျဖင့္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ား ဖမ္းဆိးျခင္းခံထား
ၾကရေနသည္မွာ ယေန့တုိင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္သမီးေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္လည္း ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ
ထိမ္းသိမ္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။ ျပန္လြွတ္ျခင္းသာ ျပည္သူႏွင့္ကမၻာက ျမင္ခဲ့ရေပမဲ့ မလြွတ္ခင္ အခ်ိန္အတြင္း
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ နဳိင္ငံေရးမလွဳပ္ရွားေစရန္ အင္အာယ္ဒီ ပါတီကုိပါ တရားမ၀င္ပါတိ အျဖစ္
ေၾကျငာလုိက္ၾကပါသည္.။ ယခု လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳသည္လည္း စစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ား လုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ
သည္ တရားမွ်တမွဳ မရွိပါေၾကာင္း ျပည္သုူလူထုေကာ ကမၻ်ာနဳိင္ငံအသီးသီက ေလ့လာသူမ်ားပါ
ေျပာၾက ဆုိၾကပါသည္။ ၄င္းကိစၥအား ယခု လက္ရွိေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အပါအ၀င္ နဳိင္ငံေရးသမား
မ်ား ကန့္ကြက္ခြင့္ မရွိခဲ့ပါ။ ဒီပဲရင္းအေရးအခင္း။ စက္တင္ဘာ သံဃာအေရးအခင္းမ်ားတြင္ ျပည္သူႏွင့္
ရဟန္းမ်ား မ်ားစြာ အသက္ခံရ ရွင္းလင္းခံရသည္ကုိလည္း ဒီမုိကေရစီ နုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ျပဳနဳိင္ခြင့္ရွိေသာ
တရားရုံးေတာ္တြင္ တရားစြဲနဳိင္ခြင့္မရွိျခင္း။ အထူးသျဖင့္ လြွတ္ေတာ္သည္ လူမ်ဳိးစု လြွတ္ေတာ္ျပည္သူ့
လြတ္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္ရပ္လုံး၏ အဓိကလုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္သည္ ဥပေဒ ျပန္လည္ေရးဆြဲေရးျဖစ္သည္။
မတရားသျဖင့္ ေရးဆြဲခဲ့ေသာ ၂၀၀၈-ခုႏွစ္ ဖြဲ့စည္းပုံ အေျခခံဥ့ပေဒကုိ မည္သူတဦးတေယာက္မွ လက္
ျဖင့္ တုိ့ နဳိင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရးမရွိျခင္းသည္ပင္လွ်င္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ လုိလားၾကေသာ အမတ္မ်ားမဟုတ္
ေၾကာင္းထင္ရွားနဳိင္သည္။ လြွတ္ေတာ္တြင္ အမတ္ေနရာတြင္လည္းမပါ၀င္။ တရား၀င္ဖြဲ့ခြင့္ရေသာ
နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီ မဟုတ္ေသာ အင္အယ္ဒီပါတီ၏ ယေန့လွဳပ္ရွားေနမွဳသည္ မည္သည့္ အဓိပၸာယ္ ရွိသည္
ကုိ ေတြးနဳိင္ၾကသည္ ေတြးေခၚ မိသည့္အတုိင္းလည္း ေ၀ဖန္နဳိင္သည္ ေရွ့အလားလာ ျဖစ္နဳိင္မျဖစ္နဳိင္
ကုိလည္း ေ၀ဖန္နဳိင္သည္ ပုိးသာကုန္ ေမာင္ပုံေစာင္းမတတ္ဆုိသလုိ အာဏာရွင္တုိင္းျပည္၌ အတု
အေရာင္ျဖစ္ေနေသာ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အတုတြင္ ၀င္ေရာက္လွဳပ္ရွားသူမ်ားမွာ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ မရွိေၾကာင္းသိ
လွ်က္ႏွင့္ ေရာျပီး လူေတြမုိးခါးေရေသာက္သလုိ လုိက္ေရာေနၾကဦးမည္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ အခ်ိန္ေတြ
မကုန္သင့္ဘဲ ကုန္လြန္ျပီး -စစ္အာဏာရွင္ လူလိမ္မ်ား ပုိမုိျပီး အသက္ရွည္ျခင္း။ ျဖစ္နဳိင္ေၾကာင္း
ဒီမုိကေရစီ သေဘာအရ ေ၀ဖန္ၾကေရးၾက ေနျခင္းသာျဖစ္သည္။
အြန္လုိင္းတြင္ ဂ၇ုမ်ားက လူငယ္ျဖစ္စ လူၾကီးမ်ားျဖစ္ေစ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အခြင့္အေရး
အားေပးလုိ၍ အနစ္နာခံ အပင္ပန္းခံ တာ၀န္ယူေနၾကသည္ကုိသာ တူသားမ်ား ညီငယ္မ်ား ဦးတုိ့
တေတြ အားလုံးက ေက်းဇူးတင္သင့္ပါတယ္။ ေက်းဇူးတင္ျခင္းႏွင့္အတူ အားလုံးသည္လည္း
ယဥ္ေက်းသိမ္ေမြ့စါြ မိမိတုိ့လြတ္လပ္မွဳကုိ က်င့္သုံးၾကဖုိ့သာ တုိက္တြန္းပါတယ္။
တူမ်ားေမးထားေသာ ေမးခြန္တြင္ ဗ်ဴဟာ ျဖင့္ ေဆာင္ရြက္နည္း သည္ ဒီမုိကေရစီကုိ
ၾကည့္သုံးသည့္ အစုိးရႏွင့္ တုိင္းျပည္ေတြမ်သာ ပြင့္လင္းစြာ ေဖၚျပနဳိင္ျပီး စစ္အာဏာရွင္စံနစ္ႏွင့္
တပါတီ တရားေသ ၀ါဒ ရွိေနေသာ တုိင္းျပည္မ်ားတြင္ အတုိက္အခံ နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား အစိုးရအား
ေတာ္လွန္ေနသူမ်ားအဖုိ့ ေဖၚျပခြင့္ေရးသားခြင့္ ရင္ဖြင့္နဳိင္ခြင့္ မရွိေၾကာင္း အနာဂါတ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား
ျဖစ္လာမဲ့ တူသား မ်ားအေပၚ နားလည္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံရပါတယ္။
တူေမာင္တုိ့အေပၚ ေမတၱာထားလွ်က္-
ေအာင္မင္း (ျပည္ခ်စ္)
--- On Thu, 9/29/11, aungnaingwin
From: aungnaingwin
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
To: 8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, September 29, 2011, 4:51 AM
ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးေတာ္ ၾကတဲ့ လူႀကီးေတြပါပဲ။ က်ေနာ့္လို ႏိုင္ငံေရးကို ေလ့လာခ်င္လို႕ဤ Group ထဲကို၀င္လာတဲ့ လူငယ္တစ္ေယာက္အေနနဲ႕ ဘာလိုေျပာရမွန္းကို မသိေတာ့ ဘူး။ ေျပာသံေတြၾကားရတာေတာ့ ငါ( ဦးႀကီး) တို႕ တုိက္ခဲ့တယ္ ၊ ဘယ္လိုဗ်ဴဟာေတြရွိတယ္ဆိုတာကိုပဲ သိရတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုတိုက္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဘယ္ဗ်ဴဟာေတြလည္း ဆိုတာေတြကို ခင္းက်င္းျပေပးႏိုင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ေလ့လာခ်င္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။ အန္တီ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ရဲ့ ဗ်ဴဟာေတြကေတာ့ မ်က္စိေရွ႕မွာ လုပ္ျပေနတာဆိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ့္ အေနနဲ႕ ေလ့လာလို႕ရႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဦးႀကီးတို႕ ရဲ့ ဗ်ဴဟာေတြက်ေတာ့ ႀကိတ္လုပ္ေနၾကေတာ့ ေလ့လာလို႕မရျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီေတာ့ ေလ့လာလုိ႕ရေအာင္ ခ်ျပေပးမယ္ဆိုရင္ ဘာဟာေကာင္းမလဲဆိုတာ ၾကည့္လို႕ရတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အဲ့ေတာ့လည္း ေကာင္းတဲ့ဘက္ကို လုိက္ၿပီးေလ့လာ လို႕ရသြားတာေပါ့။ အမ်ားလည္း သိသြားတာေပါ့လုိ႕ပဲ က်ေနာ္ေျပာခ်င္ပါ။ အမွားပါရင္ ဒီက ဦးႀကီးမ်ား အေနနဲ႕ ခြင့္လႊတ္ေပးေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ေလးစားလ်က္
ANW
2011/9/27 PDP Office
ဦးေအာင္တင္ေရ
ခင္ဗ်ားလည္း လူသားတေယာက္မုိ့ အားလုံး မမွန္နဳိ္င္ပါဘူး ။ ခင္ဗ်ားေရးတာေတြ
အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ေထာက္ခံမွဳ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳမိပါတယ္။. ဒီတခါေတာ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ဆုိတဲ့
လူ့အခြင့္အေရးကိုယ္ပါ ထိခုိက္လာျပီး ပုဂၢဳိလ္ေရး တဘက္သတ္ က်ဳပ္ေျပာတာမွန္တယ္
က်ဳပ္ထင္တဲ့ အတုိင္းျဖစ္ရာမယ္ ဆုိတာေတာ့ မွားပါတယ္ဗ်ား။
စိတ္မရွိပါနဲ့ -ဇီ ဇ၀ါ ဆုိသူ၏ တင္ျပခ်က္သည္ မွန္ပါသည္။ လူတေယာက္ျဖစ္ေစ
ပါတီအဖြဲ့အစည္း လူ့အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း တခုစီမွာျဖစ္။မတူတာေတြရွိၾကတာဓမၼတာပါဘဲ
အထူးသျဖင့္ နဳိင္ငံေရး၏ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာမွာ=တပါတီ၏အယူအဆ အေတြးအေခၚႏွင့္
တခ်ား နဳိင္ငံေရးပါတီတခုကုိ အတင္းအားဓမၼတူ ခုိင္းလုိ့မရပါဘူး။ အဲသလုိသာရၾက
စတမ္းဆုိလွ်င္ စစ္အုပ္စုႏွင့္ ၾကံ့ဖြတ္က လုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ လက္ရွိ သမၼတ သိန္းစိန္အစုိးရကုိ
အားလုံး ၀ုိင္း၀န္ေထာက္ခံၾက -ခင္ဗ်ားကုိးကြယ္တဲ့ ေဒၚစု ေျပာသည့္အတုိင္း ျမန္မာျပည္
ျပန္ၾက၍ တုိင္းျပည္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အားလုံးညီညြတ္ေရး ကုိ ၀ုိင္း၀န္းၾကေပါ့ ခင္ဗ်ားလည္း
က်ဳပ္တုိ့ထက္ ဦးျပီး ျပန္ေပါ့ဗ်ား။
ေဒၚစုသည္ ခင္ဗ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ားသတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ျဖစ္ေပမဲ့ ျပည္သူတရပ္
လုံးေခါင္းေဆာင္မဟုတ္ပါ။ က်ဳပ္အရမ္းေျပာေနျခင္းမဟုတ္ပါ။ အေထာက္အထားအခုိ္င္အလုံ ေျပာေန
ျခင္းပါ။ ၁၉၉၀-ခုႏွစ္မွာ ေဒၚစု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ခြင့္မရေပမဲ့ ။ေဒၚစုသည္ အင္အယ္ဒီ အေထြေထြအတြင္း
ေရးမွဴး-အင္အယ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္သာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ယခုလည္း ဒီမုိကေရစီ သေဘာအရ ျဖစ္ေစ လက္ရွိ
ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံအေျခအေနအရ ျဖစ္ေစ ေဒၚစု အားေထာက္ခံသူ ေတြ မည္မွ် ရွိေနၾကေစ။ နုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား
ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအဖြဲ့အစည္းမ်ား အားလုံး၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တေယာက္အျဖစ္ ေဒၚစုအား ေရြးေကာက္
တင္ေျမွာက္ထားေၾကာင္း အေထာက္အထားမ်ား ခင္ဗ်ားမွာ ရွိပါသလား။
သည္အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဆရာဦးေအာင္ဒင္ အဆုိအရ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ဝင္သူေကာ မဝင္သူေကာ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္ေကာ၊ လက္နက္မကုိင္ေကာေတြမွာ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာအရ မတူတာ မေတြ႕မိပါဘူး။ ဆုိေသာ စကားကုိ ေတာ့ ျပန္လည္ ယုတ္သိမ္းသင့္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္အေနနွင့္ အႏွစ္ငါးဆယ္ ျပည္ပသုိ့ေရာက္ေနျပီး စစ္အာဏာရွင္စံနစ္
အားတုိက္ခုိက္ ဆန့္က်င္လာသူ တဦးအေနနွင့္ အစမေကာင္းေသာ ဖြဲ့စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံ အေျခခံဥပေဒ
တရားမွ်တ မရွိျခင္း သိခဲ့ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၀၈-ခုႏွစ္ ဥပေဒမွ ေမြးဖါြးလာေသာ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ အေရခြန္လဲ
အစုိးရအားး သေဘာမတူပါ။ ၄င္းအစုိးရ အားေထာက္ခံေပးေနတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဆုိေသာ
အင္အယ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ တေယာက္၏ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာ ႏွင့္ က်ဳပ္တုိ့ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာလည္း မတူပါေၾကာင္း
သစၥာစကားအစစ္ႏွင့္ ေဖၚျပေပးပါေၾကာင္း။
ေအာင္မင္း (ျပည္ခ်စ္)
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, aung tin
From: aung tin
Subject: Re: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
To: 8888peoplepower@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 26, 2011, 8:00 PM
ခင္ဗ်ားေရးတာ စိတ္ဝင္စားစရာ ေကာင္းလာျပီ။ ကဲ ေျပာစမ္းပါအုန္းဗ်ာ။ ေဒၚစုႏွင့္ ခင္ဗ်ား ဘယ္ေနရာမွာ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာအရ မတူတာ ရွိေနပါသလဲ။
က်ေနာ္သိသေလာက္ေတာ့ ေဒၚစုေကာ၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ဝင္သူေကာ မဝင္သူေကာ၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္ေကာ၊ လက္နက္မကုိင္ေကာေတြမွာ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာအရ မတူတာ မေတြ႕မိပါဘူး။
Sincerely,
Aung Tin
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, ziza war
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ကုိေအာင္တင္ခင္ဗ်ား
အမွန္မတုိင္းေျပာၾကစတမ္းဆုိရင္ ဧရာ၀တီဆုိတာက်ေနာ္ႏိုင္ငံအားလုံးရဲ႔မဟာမိခင္ျဖစ္တယ္၊ေဒၚစုကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အားလုံးအေမလုိေခၚေနေပမဲ့သူမဟာျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြရဲ႔မဟာမိခင္မဟုတ္တာေသခ်ာပါတယ္၊
ႏိုင္ငံေရးမွာနည္းဗ်ဴဟာသာမတူရင္ခြဲလုပ္လုိ႔ရႏုိင္ေပမဲ့မဟာဗ်ဴဟာမတူပဲေနရင္အဓိပၸါယ္မဲ့တဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးျဖစ္
သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္၊ေဒၚစုဟာႏိုင္ငံတစ္ကာကလက္ခံထားတဲ့အမ်ဳိးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ျဖစ္တာမုိ႔သူေျပာတာေတြ
သူလုပ္တာေတြအားလုံးတစ္ႏိုင္ငံလုံးအတုိင္းအတာနဲ႔သက္ေရာ က္မွဳရွိေနတာကုိပကတိအတုိင္းျမင္ရမွာေပါ့
ေဒၚစုလုပ္တာမွန္ရင္မွန္သလုိမွားရင္မွားသလုိက်ေနာ္ႏိုင္ငံသားညီအစ္ကုိေတြအားလုံးခံစားၾကရမွာျဖစ္တယ္
ဒီအတြက္က်ေနာ္တုိ႔သူကုိေ၀ဖန္ပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိသလုိေတာင္းဆုိပုိင္ခြင့္လည္းရွိတယ္၊နားေထာင္တာနားမေထာင္တာ
သူမရဲ႔အပုိင္းပဲ။ကုန္ကုန္ေျပာရမယ္ဆုိရင္ျပည္သူတစ္ေယာက္အေနနဲ႔သူလုပ္တာအက်ဳိးထက္အျပစ္ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ ္
ဆုိရင္က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က်မတုိ႔သူမကုိပါဆန္႔က်င္ပုိင္ခြင့္ရွိပါတယ္။ဒါကုိဒီေန႔မွႏိုင္င့ေရးေလာကထဲ၀င္လာတဲ့ သူငယ္နပ္စားေလးေတြေတာင္သိပါတယ္။ၾကည္ေ့နပါမၾကာခင္ဘာျဖစ္လာမလည္းဆုိတာ။
ကုိေအာင္တင္ေဒၚစုကုိကာကြယ္တာထက္စာရင္မဧရာ၀တီမဟာမိခင္အတြက္ကာကြယ္ဖုိ႔ကသာယေန႔
အခ်ိန္မွာအဓိကအလုိအပ္ဆုံးပါ
2011/9/26 aung tin
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က သူ႔ကုိသာ ထုိင္ျပီး အားကုိးဖုိ႔ တစ္ခါမွ ေျပာသံမၾကားဖူးပါဘူး။ သူႏုိင္သေလာက္ သူလုပ္ေနတာဘဲ။ သူ႔ကုိ မၿကုိက္ရင္ ကုိယ့္ဖါသာ ခဲြလုပ္ၾကပါ။ လုပ္တဲ့သူ မ်ားေလ ေကာင္းေလပါဘဲ။
Sincerely,
Aung Tin
--- On Mon, 9/26/11, ziza war
From: ziza war
Subject: [8888peoplepower] ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊
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Received: Monday, September 26, 2011, 12:54 AM
ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာမာသာထရီဇာလုိ႔ျဖစ္သြားျပီ၊တရားေတြထုိင္တာေတြမ်ားလြန္းေတာ့
တစ္ရားေတြေပါက္ျပီးအရာရာတုိင္းကုိအေလွ်ာ့ေပးဆက္ဆံသြားမဲ့အေနအထားမွာရွိေနတယ္၊
ဒီတစ္ခါအလိမ္ခံရျပီဆုိရင္စစ္ဗုိလ္ေတြကုိသိပ္ေတာ္ျပီးေဒၚဆုိသိပ္ၿညံ့လုိ႔ခံရတယ္လုိ႔ငါတုိ႔မွာ
ေျပာဆုိပုိင့္ခြင့္ရွိကုိရွိရမယ္၊ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လည္းျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးကေနခပ္ခြါ ခြါေနဖုိ႔ေျပာရေတာ့မယ္
လူထုလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္လူထုတုိက္ပြဲေဖၚေဆာင္သြားရမဲ့အခ်ိန္ေကာင္းျဖစ္တယ္၊
ဧရာ၀တီေတာ္လွန္ေရးျဖစ္လာဖုိ႔အတြက္ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးဟာအဟန္႔အတားျဖစ္လာႏိုင္တယ္
၂၀၁၁ႏွစ္ကုန္ျပီးမွႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြလြတ္မလာဘူးဆုိရင္ ေဒါ္ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္
လမ္းစဥ္ရွုံးနိမ့္သြားျပီလုိ႔ေျပာရေတာ့မယ္
ၾကိဳက္ရင္ၾကိဳက္၊မၾကိဳက္ရင္ေန၊အားမနားတမ္းေျပာရမဲ့အခ်ိန္ျဖစ္တယ္
ဧရာ၀တီဆုိတဲ့ငါ့တုိ႔အားလုံးရဲ႔အဟာမိခင္အတြက္အားလုံးတက္ညီလက္ညီထၾကြတုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ၾကရမဲ့အခ်ိန္ကုိေရာက္ေနျပီသူငယ္ခ်င္းတို႔ေရ
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News & Articles on Burma-Tuesday, 22 March, 2011
News & Articles on Burma
Tuesday, 22 March, 2011
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Wa Leader Vows to Fight On
Thailand Accused of Creating Instability in Burma
Wa Leader Vows to Fight On
1,000 Burmese Fisherman in Need of Rescue
Burmese Army warned to stop movement in KIA areas
The brunt of the fighting comes to the people – as usual
Monks condemn Germany’s sanctions line
Funeral charity marks 100,000 cremations
Thailand could help curb Karen insurgents: Myanmar
Can Indonesia become the central leader of Asean?
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Wa Leader Vows to Fight On
By WAI MOE Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA)—Burma's largest ethnic armed group—said on Sunday that they will not give up “an inch” of their land and called on Wa people to fight against their common enemies. The statement comes amid strained tensions between the Burmese junta and minority groups near the Sino-Burmese border.
“We will not give up any bullet or any weapon which is protecting as many as 500,000 multi-ethnic people’s lives and properties in Wa territory. Holding arms is quite necessary for our security and development of our land,” said UWSA leader Bao Youxiang, according to sources in group headquarters Panghsang.
His address came on Sunday before more than 200 attendees at the closure of the five-day year-end conference in the Wa town near the Sino-Burmese border.
“The Wa regions have been being built for more than 20 years [since the 1989 ceasefire and split from communists] by Wa people through their good will and hard work. Therefore we will not give up an inch of our people’s land freely and easily,” he added.
At the meeting, Bao Youxiang repeatedly mentioned the togetherness of the Wa region saying “successful development projects” were due to the unity of people living in the area. He added that “unity could vanquish any enemy and any threat.”
Bao Youxiang—who is believed to be in his 60s—did not appear throughout the first four days of the event, but gave a rousing speech at the end of the conference. UWSA’s other senior members— including Zhao Zhongdang, who is expected to succeed Bao Youxiang—led the meeting. Discussions centered on handling fresh military threats on the UWSA from government troops, and alliances with other ethnic groups in the region.
However, despite Bao Youxiang’s defiant speech, the UWSA seems to be edging towards negotiations with the junta over the Border Guard Force (BGF).
After the Wa meeting, officials of the Military Affairs Security (MAS) reportedly came to Panghsang on Monday to pick up their Chinese counterparts for a regular border committee. While MAS officials were in the Wa headquarters, the UWSA leadership handed over a letter for Naypyidaw.
Although Wa officials declined to talk about details of the letter, observers said it was from Bao Youxiang to ex-Gen Thein Sein who is President-in-waiting for the new government in Naypyidaw.
Sources close to the UWSA said Thein Sein has a close personal relationship with the Wa leader ever since the pair crossed paths when the Burmese general was posted as the commander of Triangle Regional Military Command in eastern Shan State.
Shortly after Thein Sein was named president of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in early February, Bao Youxiang was the only person among ethnic armed groups which dispute the BGF who sent a letter of congratulations to Naypyidaw.
While key UWSA members gathered in Panghsang for the meeting, junta troops launched a series of attacks on the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North) in an attempt to seize the group’s headquarters in Wimhing, Shan State. The SSA-North also rejected the BGF plan.
Ethnic minority sources claim junta troops used large caliber shells during operations against the SSA-North. “Our intelligence reports said that the government army sent more reinforcements—including at least eight trucks and extra 120 mm-artillery weapons—to northern Shan State,” said an SSA officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The SSA had an alliance with the UWSA and other ethnic armed groups—such as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Mongla group of the National Democratic Alliance Army—following continuous pressure from Naypyidaw over the BGF issue and the fall of the Kokang army in 2009.
But UWSA leaders reportedly told their SSA-North counterparts recently that the agreement did not extend past last year. However, with non-military aid apparently still offered to the SSA-North, it is uncertain what the exact scope of the alliance remains.
Apart from the UWSA and its former communist comrades in the Mongla armed group, the SSA-North and the KIA formed a new alliance in 2010 alongside other armed ethnic groups based along the Thai-Burmese border. These include the Karen National Union, the Karenni People Progressive Party and the New Mon State Party.
Ethnic minority sources said the UWSA and the Mongla group’s decision to abstain from the new alliance is due to China’s opposition, even though Wa and Mongla leaders support the alliance informally.
“Chinese officials do not want the UWSA and Mongla group to have a close relationship with other ethnic groups based on the Thai-Burmese border. The Chinese think these groups are pro-West,” an ethnic minority source revealed on condition of anonymity.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20985
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Thailand Accused of Creating Instability in Burma
By HTET AUNG Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Burma's information minister has accused Thailand of not being a friendly neighbor by promoting instability in Karen State, according to the state-run New Light of Myanmar.
“If the neighbor [Thailand] would stand as a friendly nation, [the] problems of Kayin [Karen] State would soon be solved,” said Information Minister Kyaw San at a parliamentary session in Naypyidaw.
“There are base camps which they call refugee camps in the territory of the neighbor near Myanmar [Burma] border. Those camps are founded with contribution[s] of some certain super powers, INGOs and the neighbor. Insurgents use those camps as their base and launch guerrilla attacks on the army, which is the reason that [exchanges of fire] are still occurring in Kayin State.”
The remark was reportedly made in response to a question by Saw Thein Aung, a leader of Phalon Sawaw Democratic Party, who is an elected MP in the Lower House representing Hlaingbwe constituency.
Saw Thain Aung asked the government about its plan to restore peace and stability in Karen State and the role of Karen nationals in the process. He also said that the people in Karen State want a cease-fire and peace, and are “sympathetic toward war refugees.”
Although the state media didn't mention Thailand by name, the information minister blamed the “neighbor” as a source of prolonging instability in Karen State. Thailand has given sanctuary along the border to refugees fleeing from Karen State, although the Burmese regime does not recognize the shelters as refugee camps.
The junta has previously made this accusation, but on this occasion it went a step further in attacking the international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) based in Thailand that provide humanitarian assistance to the refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border.
The junta's attack on the INGOs coincides with the decision of the European Union (EU) to reduce aid to the Burmese refugees in Thailand, which came soon after the EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva led an EU delegation to Mae La refugee camp, the biggest camp with about 50,000 refugees.
According to camp sources, the EU commissioner told the camp management body that the EU will reduce their aid in the coming years, but will provide assistance to promote livelihoods for the refugees with the goal of allowing them to stand on their own feet by getting access to paid jobs inside and outside the camps.
Thailand currently hosts about 150,000 Burmese refugees in nine refugee camps along its western border opposite Shan, Karenni and Karen states and Tenasserim Division.
Currently, there are 78,682 refugees from Karen State living in three refugee camps—Mae La, Nu Po and Umpiem Mai, located in Tak Province—according to 2011 data issued by the Thailand Burma Border Consortium, an umbrella organization comprised of INGOs that provides food, materials for building shelters, and other assistance to the refugees.
For more than a quarter of a century, Thailand has hosted and received Burmese refugees due to continuing armed conflict between various ethnic armed groups and the Burmese army.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20982
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Wa Leader Vows to Fight On
By WAI MOE Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Leaders of the United Wa State Army (UWSA)—Burma's largest ethnic armed group—said on Sunday that they will not give up “an inch” of their land and called on Wa people to fight against their common enemies. The statement comes amid strained tensions between the Burmese junta and minority groups near the Sino-Burmese border.
“We will not give up any bullet or any weapon which is protecting as many as 500,000 multi-ethnic people’s lives and properties in Wa territory. Holding arms is quite necessary for our security and development of our land,” said UWSA leader Bao Youxiang, according to sources in group headquarters Panghsang.
His address came on Sunday before more than 200 attendees at the closure of the five-day year-end conference in the Wa town near the Sino-Burmese border.
“The Wa regions have been being built for more than 20 years [since the 1989 ceasefire and split from communists] by Wa people through their good will and hard work. Therefore we will not give up an inch of our people’s land freely and easily,” he added.
At the meeting, Bao Youxiang repeatedly mentioned the togetherness of the Wa region saying “successful development projects” were due to the unity of people living in the area. He added that “unity could vanquish any enemy and any threat.”
Bao Youxiang—who is believed to be in his 60s—did not appear throughout the first four days of the event, but gave a rousing speech at the end of the conference. UWSA’s other senior members— including Zhao Zhongdang, who is expected to succeed Bao Youxiang—led the meeting. Discussions centered on handling fresh military threats on the UWSA from government troops, and alliances with other ethnic groups in the region.
However, despite Bao Youxiang’s defiant speech, the UWSA seems to be edging towards negotiations with the junta over the Border Guard Force (BGF).
After the Wa meeting, officials of the Military Affairs Security (MAS) reportedly came to Panghsang on Monday to pick up their Chinese counterparts for a regular border committee. While MAS officials were in the Wa headquarters, the UWSA leadership handed over a letter for Naypyidaw.
Although Wa officials declined to talk about details of the letter, observers said it was from Bao Youxiang to ex-Gen Thein Sein who is President-in-waiting for the new government in Naypyidaw.
Sources close to the UWSA said Thein Sein has a close personal relationship with the Wa leader ever since the pair crossed paths when the Burmese general was posted as the commander of Triangle Regional Military Command in eastern Shan State.
Shortly after Thein Sein was named president of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar in early February, Bao Youxiang was the only person among ethnic armed groups which dispute the BGF who sent a letter of congratulations to Naypyidaw.
While key UWSA members gathered in Panghsang for the meeting, junta troops launched a series of attacks on the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North) in an attempt to seize the group’s headquarters in Wimhing, Shan State. The SSA-North also rejected the BGF plan.
Ethnic minority sources claim junta troops used large caliber shells during operations against the SSA-North. “Our intelligence reports said that the government army sent more reinforcements—including at least eight trucks and extra 120 mm-artillery weapons—to northern Shan State,” said an SSA officer who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The SSA had an alliance with the UWSA and other ethnic armed groups—such as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Mongla group of the National Democratic Alliance Army—following continuous pressure from Naypyidaw over the BGF issue and the fall of the Kokang army in 2009.
But UWSA leaders reportedly told their SSA-North counterparts recently that the agreement did not extend past last year. However, with non-military aid apparently still offered to the SSA-North, it is uncertain what the exact scope of the alliance remains.
Apart from the UWSA and its former communist comrades in the Mongla armed group, the SSA-North and the KIA formed a new alliance in 2010 alongside other armed ethnic groups based along the Thai-Burmese border. These include the Karen National Union, the Karenni People Progressive Party and the New Mon State Party.
Ethnic minority sources said the UWSA and the Mongla group’s decision to abstain from the new alliance is due to China’s opposition, even though Wa and Mongla leaders support the alliance informally.
“Chinese officials do not want the UWSA and Mongla group to have a close relationship with other ethnic groups based on the Thai-Burmese border. The Chinese think these groups are pro-West,” an ethnic minority source revealed on condition of anonymity.
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http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20977
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1,000 Burmese Fisherman in Need of Rescue
By KO HTWE Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Nearly 1,000 fishermen whose boats were swept out to sea by a storm are in need of urgent rescue assistance, according to Tun Lwin, the retired director-general of Burma's Department of Meteorology and Hydrology.
The stranded fisherman had been among nearly 2,000 from the Cyclone Nargis hit areas of Pyapon, Dedaye, Labutta and Myaungmya townships in the Irrawaddy Division who gather at the mouth of the Pyapon River between October and April of every year in search of fish and prawns. Most of these fishermen lost their boat in Cyclone Nargis and since have used a bamboo raft for fishing.
On and around March 13, three continuous days of winds of up to 70 miles per hour sent nearly 125 fishing boats out to open sea, Tun Lwin wrote on his website. Some were stranded on Heingyi Island and some drifted to shores of Kyaikkami and Ye townships in Mon State.
Fishing vessels and the Burmese Navy rescued nearly 800 fishermen, of whom 200 are now in Tavoy Township in Tanitharyi Division and 600 are in Rangoon.
“Authorities are collecting meals for the refugees who are being housed in the Tavoy High School. The security is strict around the camp,” said a resident of Tavoy, also known as Dawei.
Authorities said they will send the rescued fisherman to their homes within four or five days.
“There are also a lot of causalities and the need to rescue more fisherman who have drifted out to sea,” said another Tavoy resident.
However, the Burmese state-run newspaper Myanmar A Lin said on Tuesday that the Burmese Navy rescued 3,374 fisherman and 3,152 of those fishermen have been sent home.
The Myanmar [Burma] Climate Change Watch website mentions the danger of the downburst on its web page but does not mention details of the meso scale phenomena. In Burma, weather forecasting is made with limitations because of the lack of equipment to measure localized phenomena, according to Tun Lwin's website.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20983
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Burmese Army warned to stop movement in KIA areas
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 19:29 KNG
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) warned the Burmese Army to stop any movement in areas controlled by the KIA in Northern Shan State, after a recent offensive against the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) was launched by Burmese troops, said local military sources close to the KIA.
The warning was released by Dai Lawn Rung, the central military command of the KIA, based in Laiza, in Kachin State. It means Burmese troops will face armed resistance if they enter the KIA areas, according to KIA officials in N. Shan State.
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The entrance of KIA's 4th brigade based in Loikang, near Kutkai in Nothern Shan State.
Local military observers in Munggu (Mongkoe) told the Thailand-based Kachin News Group, “At the moment, Burmese troops have stopped any movement in the KIA areas. Fighting will break out if they neglect the KIA’s warning.”
The KIA’s 4th brigade, which has five battalions, is based in N. Shan State. Battalions No. 17 and No. 29 are nearest to the current military conflict between Burmese troops and the SSA-N.
The KIA is closely watching the latest fighting between the SSA-N and Burmese troops, according to the KIA officials.
Both the KIA and SSA-N are members of the recently formed United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), the political and military alliance organized by 12 ethnic groups.
The United Wa State Army (UWSA), the KIA’s ally outside the UNFC and the strongest armed ethnic group said it also will fight the Burmese Army if they enter its territories.
The SSA-N wants the stronger armed groups, like the KIA and the UWSA, to join the military response against Burmese troops, according to local military analysts.
The two groups are preparing for inevitable civil war with the Burmese junta. However, both are reluctant to respond to the junta’s military action against the SSA-N so far.
Military analysts near the China border said the current fighting between the Burmese Army and SSA-N will test the UNFC, which formed in last month.
The KIA is the second strongest armed ethnic group in military-ruled Burma. It has five brigades. Four of them are based in Kachin State. There are about 30 battalions, with over 30,000 fighters- including regular and reserved forces, said KIA.
There is no official ceasefire agreement between the KIA and Burmese regime. However, the KIA will not start the war according to KIA officials. http://www.kachinnews.com/news/1874-burmese-army-warned-to-stop-movement-in-kia-areas.html
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The brunt of the fighting comes to the people – as usual
Tuesday, 22 March 2011 13:04 S.H.A.N.
Since 22 February, travel between the Monghsu gemland and the rest of Shan State has been restricted. But since 13 March, when the Burma Army launched the offensive with at least 19 battalions on the Shan State Army (SSA) North that had turned down its “One country one military” program, the situation has turned from bad to worse in Monghsu and its neighboring townships: Kehsi. Tangyan and Mongyai.
The following are the first reports that have reached SHAN from the conflict zone:
Nampook village, Phak Narm village tract, Kehsi township
On 9 March 2011, a cow worth 500,000 kyat ($500) was taken by the Langkher-based battalion (number of unit unidentified) for food. Later on 14 March 2011, another cow worth 600,000 kyat ($600) was taken from the main village, Phak Narm. There was no compensation.
On 15 March, Capt Min Min Hlaing, commander of the unit, summoned Loong Sai, 50, headman of Wanwarp to Nampook. On his arrival, the major accused him of being late and punched his face and kicked him several times. His soldiers later visited Loong Sai and asked him to stay calm as the major was a habitually short tempered person.
Namlao, Mongkao tract, Tangyan township
On 16 March 2011, after the SSA had retreated from Namlao, more than 100 villagers, most of them women, children and the elderly people, were detained at the military camp. The occupying force was made up of Infantry Battalion 33 (Mongkao-based) and Infantry Battalion 291 (Lashio-based).
On the next day, young people in Mongkao were summoned and detained at a villager’s house in Namlao. They were accused of assisting the rebels by not giving information to the Army.
As a result, more than 500 people had fled and taken refuge in the jungle. Their left behind possessions were ransacked and looted by the soldiers. At least 50 motor vehicles were taken each for his own
Markman village, Kehsi township
On 18 March 2011, Maj Aye Aung of Light Infantry Battalion 578 (Langkher-based), 67 strong, took the following items without paying:
Liquor 50 bottles Price K 50,000 ($50)
Chicken 150 Price K 400,000 ($400)
Cooking oil 5 pails Price K 170,000 ($170)
Ajinomoto 10 bags Price K 20,000 ($20)
Rice 1 tang Price K 20,000 ($20)
On the next day, he and his men arrived at Pa Tep village and commandeered a bullock cart for use. The owner Sai Pi, 45, and another youth Sai Aung, 25, were beaten as they had no information about the rebels.
Sai Pi was punched, kicked and beaten with a piece of wood used as a fence stake, until he was drenched in blood. As for Sai Aung, he was hit on his forehead with a rifle stock.
They also took 50 liquor bottles, 20 bottles of cooking oil, 5 cooking pots, 10 Ajinomoto bags and 3 Buddha images from the village. http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3518:the-brunt-of-the-fighting-comes-to-the-people-as-usual&catid=87:human-rights&Itemid=285
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Monks condemn Germany’s sanctions line
By JOSEPH ALLCHIN
Published: 21 March 2011
Two monks representing the All Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA) will present an open letter to the German foreign ministry today and lead a silent protest outside its Berlin headquarters.
Ashin Sopaka, who will present the letter alongside Ashin Kovida, told DVB that he was calling on the German people to oppose their government’s alleged lobbying of other EU nations to remove sanctions on the country. “They are more interested in business with this regime; they said this is a new government so they want to work together – this is their interest. That’s why they want to lobby and work with the junta, and they don’t want to hear criticisms from other countries.”
Activist group Burma Campaign UK corroborates that the German government as well as Italy and Spain have been lobbying other EU nations to support the removal of the EU’s weak sanctions on Burma. This allegation also appeared in a leaked Wikileak cable, where a British diplomat told his US counterpart that the Germans had “‘heard what they wanted to hear’ about the situation in Burma and therefore ‘have subsequently started discussions within the EU about relaxing the current measures’.”
Since the junta held an election in November last year there have been renewed calls for an end to sanctions. Sopaka however told DVB of the protest: “We want to tell the story that is going on behind – how they organised the election and formed the new government. We want to tell them that they changed only their clothes, their uniforms, from soldiers to normal; they didn’t change their policies. We want to tell them that there are more political prisoners now, and the monks are still in jail.
“We wish that they stay with the EU common position; that is our hope. I hope they understand and hear our voice.”
Germany has a long history of business dealings with the Burmese junta, and following the September 2007 monk-led protests German campaigners noted that slain Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai was in all probability murdered by a German-made G3 assault rifle, which has been the primary battle assault rifle of the Burmese army since the 1960s. Moreover, in a major investigation by DVB a Burmese defector alleges that the German machine parts company Deckel Maho Gildemeister (DMG) had supplied parts for Burma’s nuclear program.
Reflecting what activists allege to be an attitude of appeasement by the German government, a large EU delegation of some 30 diplomats met with Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon to discuss sanctions. This was also joined by a plea from parties, including the National Democratic Force (NDF), which split from the National League for Democracy (NLD) in order to take part in last year’s elections, to remove sanctions.
Sopaka will lead the silent protest today outside the foreign ministry in central Berlin from 2pm to 6pm.
The junta meanwhile responded to the NLD’s continued support of sanctions with the threat that the party, including Aung San Suu Kyi, could meet a “tragic end”.
http://www.dvb.no/news/monks-condemn-germanys-sanctions-line/14864
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Funeral charity marks 100,000 cremations
By BARANI
Published: 22 March 2011
A charity set up by a prominent Burmese film star to provide free funerals for hard-up families yesterday held its 100,000th ceremony in Rangoon.
A regular target of attacks from the Burmese junta, the Free Funeral Service Society (FFSS) was founded a decade ago to relieve families of the onerous cost of funerals, which often cost several hundred dollars in country where average annual salaries are little more than $US400.
The founder, Kyaw Thu, a two-time Myanmar Academy Award winner and once one of Burma’s leading film icons, told DVB that the group was also able to provide the family of Chit Han, who was cremated yesterday, with 350,000 kyat ($US400).
Since Kyaw Thu’s retirement from the big screen and switch to social work he has become an increasingly vocal critic of the ruling junta, and was arrested after publicly supporting the September 2007 monk-led uprising.
His relief work and raising of some $US400,000 following 2008’s cyclone Nargis also drew the ire of the generals, who eye with distaste anyone filling the void left by the decrepit public services.
The rising popularity and influence of the FFSS, which relies on private donations, among the Burmese public has worried the junta, so much so that in February 2008 it ordered several Rangoon journals not to publish information about the group’s activities, while the year before, its registration renewal was refused by the government until an appeal met with success.
http://www.dvb.no/news/funeral-charity-marks-100000-cremations/14871
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Mar 22, 2011
Thailand could help curb Karen insurgents: Myanmar
YANGON - A TOP official in Myanmar says a decades-old insurgency in the country could be curbed with the help of neighboring Thailand.
Information Minister Kyaw Hsan did not mention Thailand by name, but referred to the country neighbouring Kayin State. Karen ethnic rebels in that eastern region have been fighting for autonomy.
The government-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that Kyaw Hsan made the comments Monday in response to a question in parliament.
Aside from Thailand, he was also quoted as saying 'the modest cooperation' of certain powers and non-governmental organisations would lead to an effective solution to Kayin's unrest.
Myanmar is ruled by a military junta. Human rights groups have long accused the army of abuses in insurgent areas. -- AP http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/SEAsia/Story/STIStory_647892.html
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Can Indonesia become the central leader of Asean?
By Sarinna Areethamsirikul
Bangkok
Published on March 22, 2011
Indonesia is now not only the largest economy in Southeast Asia, but also the only Asean member ranked as a free country by the Freedom House Index (FHI). No one can deny the current force of economic and political development or development of civil society organisations (CSOs) in Indonesia. This situation has revitalised the new phase of Indonesian leadership in Asean. The Philippines has risen from the political ashes under the government of President Beningo Aquino III. By contrast, Thailand has demoted its democratic paradigm since the 2006 coup.
What is so significant about Indonesia's rising star of democracy while other Asean members continue with the ideologies of socialism and authoritarian democracy?
Indonesian leadership does not stop within Asean, as it is now recognised by the international community as the regional representative at the G-20. The largest Muslim country in the world also plays a bigger role at the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) and is a vital US partner against terrorism in Southeast Asia.
Indonesia is the current Asean chair, which provides an opportunity for the country to officially demonstrate its intention and responsibility to lead Asean in 2011 and beyond. Some say one year is too short to make a change in the direction of Asean. It is partly true. But with hundreds of Asean meetings each year, Indonesia should be able to create a new regional atmosphere either through public announcements or actions. Indonesia can influence the new direction of Asean by supporting Asean's new credos - democracy and human rights under the Asean Charter - bringing these ideals a little closer to reality.
Challenges for Indonesia and Asean are climate change, regional infrastructure building (under "Asean Connectivity"), human and drug trafficking, migration, and the protection of low skilled workers, women, children and the disabled.
In addition, Asean now has its own human rights commission, the Asean Inter-governmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR). But the AICHR apparently has only the mandate of promotion, not protection of human rights. The terms of reference (TOR) shamefully make the commission look like a lame duck. The commission does not have the power to hear or investigate cases, to make country visits or even produce fact-finding reports. Indonesia should try to expand the AICHR's connection with Asean in order to build a pro-human rights atmosphere and shape the draft of the Asean Human Rights Declaration.
Another issue that sooner or later will get regional attention again is democratic development in Burma. The assessment of the future political situation in Burma and how Asean can improve its relationship with the recalcitrant member are big tests.
The question is whether Indonesia has the will to take a lead. If yes, what are the complications of becoming the regional leader?
Jakarta is the centre of Asean diplomacy, where the Asean Secretariat is located and the Asean permanent representatives and ambassadors to Asean reside. This gives Indonesia leverage to raise attention, discuss issues, call for meetings and create regional direction.
If Indonesia is willing to lead, the principles of the "Asean Way" such as consensus, consultation and non-intervention should be eased in order to shift the regional environment from passive to proactive and more effective. This will irritate Asean members that prefer domestic politics to remain within borders even when they infringe on the regional values of democracy and human rights.
Indonesia will start increasing its military spending this year from around 1 per cent of GDP to 1.5 per cent by 2014. Some Asean members have showed support for this increase and even complimented it as a way to enhance the capacity of Asean defence, particularly in the Malacca Strait.
Building up armed forces and modernising the defence sector always raises a red flag to neighbours. Indonesia does not want to send the wrong signal or set off an arms race in the region. Closer defence cooperation among members will possibly assuage this concern.
The expansion of Indonesian leadership together with the increase in its military budget may shake the balance of power in Asean and ignite fears of a self-proclaimed regional leader, because Asean has never endorsed the creation of a responsible de facto regional leader like Germany in the EU or the United States in Nato. When a country has obvious newfound power, people certainly expect something out of that privilege. It is hard for Indonesia to create a new regional atmosphere while maintaining complementary, not competing, cooperation, but so far the signs have been good.
Sarinna Areethamsirikul is a lecturer at Naresuan University's Bangkok campus.
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Home News Burmese troops forced out by Kachin army in north
FIFA President holds press conference in Yangon
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Can aid bring the west's influence to bear on Burma?
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Karens Flee Fighting in Burma, But Live in Limbo in Thailand
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Home News Burmese troops forced out by Kachin army in north
Burmese troops forced out by Kachin army in north
Tuesday, 15 March 2011 00:00 KNG
Burmese troops were forced out of the territory of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Waingmaw Township in Kachin State on Saturday, March 12, said sources from both sides.
Eighteen Burmese soldiers, who entered the area of the KIA’s Ngwa Lay post, in Lahpai Village, on the Stilwell Road, also Ledo Road between Sadung-Kambaiti, finally withdrew from the area after they were repeatedly warned that the KIA troops would open fire, said a local resident.
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More KIA troops are deploying in Sadung, Waingmaw township in eastern Kachin State, where the Burmese troops are increasingly operating.
KIA sources said the KIA refused the Burmese military’s request for permission to go to Kambaiti through Ngwa Lay post, after being asked many times.
The Burmese troops were from the battalion under command of the Burmese Army’s Regional Operation Command (ROC) based in Danai (Tanai) in Hukawng Valley, western Kachin State, according to residents of Lahpai.
The KIA official said it has informed the Burmese junta that it will stop Burmese troops when they enter KIA territories in Kachin State and Northern Shan State.
James Lum Dau, of KIO foreign affairs in Bangkok, Thailand, told the Kachin News Group, “We are still keeping the policy that we will not start war with the Burmese junta. We are seeking ways to establish a genuine political dialogue with the Burmese military leaders.”
Since December last year, several separate Burmese troops, with around 100 soldiers or over 10 soldiers, have operated near other controlled areas of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the political-wing of KIA, in Sadung area, in Waingmaw Township, according to the KIA officials.
Some parts of Sadung, where over 20,000 acres of opium are currently grown, are jointly controlled by the Burmese junta and it’s Border Guard Force, formerly known as the New Democratic Army-Kachin (NDA-K), according to the KIA Drug Eradication Committee.
Villagers and the KIA Drug Eradication Committee said the Burmese Opium Eradication Campaign in the area not only demands money from opium field owners but also interferes with the current KIA drug eradication campaign.
Two-days of fighting took place between Burmese troops and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) at Mong Awd village tract, in Monghsu, Shan State on March 13 and 14.
Both the KIO and SSA-N are members of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), an alliance of 11 ethnic organizations, which formed last month.
The UNFC aims to restore a genuine federal union in Burma by pressuring the ruling Burmese military junta politically and militarily. However, the alliance is now in “wait and see” mode, while observing the new military-backed civilian government being formed by the Burmese junta.
James Lum Dau said the junta’s recent attempts to intimidate the KIO and other ethnic armed groups are typical and are nothing to worry about. http://www.kachinnews.com/news/1870-burmese-troops-forced-out-by-kachin-army-in-north.html
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FIFA President holds press conference in Yangon
08:48, March 16, 2011
The International Federation of Association Football(FIFA) president Joseph Sepp Blatter held a press conference in Myanmar's Yangon Tuesday.
Blatter, who headed a 7-member delegation, arrived in Yangon Tuesday at the invitation of the President of Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) U Zaw Zaw who is a famous business tycoon of Myanmar during the World Cup in South Africa last June.
"This is my first visit to Myanmar. I will meet with Myanmar's Prime Minister U Thein Sein in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw tomorrow. I am very glad to meet with him," Blatter said. "I have a very good impression on Myanmar and people in the country are very nice".
He visited Yangon and Mandalay, observing facilities constructed under the arrangement of FIFA Goal Project during his 2-day visit in Myanmar.
The facilities include Goal Hotel where MFF office is located in Yangon, Youth Football Academy in Mandalay and International Standard audience-stand at Thuwunna Sport Ground in Yangon.
He attended the opening ceremony of Youth Football Academy in Mandalay Tuesday afternoon.
He will visit Nay Pyi Taw on Wednesday and observe new sports grounds and stadium which is an construction for coming South East Asian Games to be hosted in Myanmar in 2013 .
While in Myanmar he will seek ways for the Myanmar Football Federation(MFF) to strengthen the local professional leagues.
Blatter, a Swiss citizen, was elected as the 8th FIFA President in June, 1998.
The 75-year-old is one of the most talented and experienced persons of international sports diplomacy and is totally committed to serving football, FIFA and the youth of the world.
Source: Xinhua http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90779/90871/7321134.html
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UN in Myanmar identifies strategic priorities for the future
Source: United Nations Country Team in Myanmar
Date: 15 Mar 2011
Yangon, 15 March 2011 ---- Four strategic priorities and key elements of the new Strategic Framework for the United Nations in Myanmar were presented today at the monthly Humanitarian Partnership Group meeting, attended by over 80 experts, heads of missions and UN agencies, diplomats and aid workers.
The priorities, which are the result of extensive analysis of humanitarian and development challenges in the country, will guide UN engagement and programming and form the basis of a new Strategic Framework for the period 2012-2015. "The UN Strategic Framework aims to be a collective, coherent and integrated programming and monitoring framework for UN contributions in Myanmar, based on the UN's comparative advantages.
The UN Strategic Framework is based on the analyses of the country's situation, development challenges that it faces and opportunities ahead of it," said Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator, who chaired the meeting.
The UN Resident/Humanitarian Coordinator explained that consultations had been held with focal points from all relevant government ministries, the latest in February. Based on these consultations it had been agreed that UN engagement would focus on four Strategic Priorities, namely:
1. Encourage inclusive growth (both rural and urban), including agricultural development and enhancement of employment opportunities
2. Increase equitable access to quality social services
3. Reduce vulnerability to natural disasters and climate change
4. Promote good governance and strengthen democratic institutions and rights.
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Can aid bring the west's influence to bear on Burma?
The UK is to become Burma's biggest foreign aid donor, but the country's oppressive regime and its opaque political arena mean bringing change won't be easy
MDG : Myanmar : A girl fetches water from a pond on the outskirts of Yangon A girl fetches water from a pond on the outskirts of Rangoon. Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
"We do not have a normal aid relationship here," says Paul Whittingham, head of the Burma section of the Department for International Development (DfID). And it isn't, not only does Burma receive some of the lowest levels of development assistance in the world but aid giving is also extremely politicised.
So it was a brave move for Britain's coalition government to increase aid to the country in its aid reviews last week: the UK is to become Burma's largest foreign donor. The government has pledged to spend £185m over the next four years. This reflects a "strong commitment" by the development secretary, Andrew Mitchell.
The world came to know most about Burma's donor situation in the wake of perhaps its darkest hour, when it was hit by Cyclone Nargis, the country's worst cyclone on record.
The surprising aspect of this disaster was how the military were prepared to make a dark situation that much darker. In the days and weeks after the tragedy aid was blocked by the government, which ignored the massive loss of life and the suffering.
DfID's new funding will be more per year than the Burmese government spends on health. The government of Burma is "not committed to poverty reduction", says Whittingham. Such a record leads to the abnormal situation Whittingham refers to, asserting that: "It is not an easy country in which to do business."
Perhaps the most controversial area is the funding of civil society organisations (CSOs), the most opaque and political area of aid giving. Mark Farmaner, director of the Burma Campaign UK, notes that there are around 300 such groups in the country and only 10% are registered – registration for some equates to approval from the regime.
But these registered groups nonetheless receive foreign money. Farmaner believes there is a "preference" among donors to work with groups that have an understanding with the country's repressive regime. However, even those registered are keen not to reveal foreign funding links, and ask donors and the press not to reveal the connections.
Donor preference reflects a cultural difference between many in Rangoon and elected representatives in donor nations and exiled Burmese. The latter would seemingly prefer much of the funding to be channelled to exiled groups linked to the largest democratic entity, Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD). Both camps allege that the other is out of touch.
This cultural difference was evidenced by the US mission to Burma in a leaked cable from 2008, sent by the chargé d'affaires, Shari Villarosa. While lambasting the NLD, describing its leadership as "sclerotic", she suggested: "We should seek every opportunity to support and increase the capacity of Burma's nascent civil society", in order, "to reform their political and economic systems in a manner that best promotes US economic and strategic interests".
Civil society then, should be funded as a way of effecting political change. We cannot know which organisations are being funded because they face repression from the military. The military may well argue its case for blocking foreign money, saying it is likely to create imbalances in a poor country. The danger is that western representatives will be free to act with as little scrutiny as the government.
Dr Maung Zarni, a fellow at the London School of Economics, says: "The words 'civil society' include only organisations and individuals on the ground which are free-market-friendly and amenable to dominant western views."
Whittingham, however asserts: "I have absolute confidence that we can support a range of civil society groups inside the country, and I don't want to comment on individual examples."
What appeared in last year's election was the National Democratic Force (NDF), an NLD splinter. It participated in the fraudulent "poll", seeing co-operation with the military as pragmatic – and preferable to principled objection – and was the toast of diplomatic Rangoon.
CSO's made in the west's image are seemingly favoured by diplomats and made up of an elite who will subsequently favour Washington over Beijing. They hope to slowly seduce the military to create an investment friendly Burma without the "idealist" Suu Kyi and her NLD.
A prime example is Myanmar Egress, a CSO tolerated by the military and connected to the NDF. It is uniquely capable of lobbying, and boasts about that fact to journalists.
The NLD's vice-chair, Tin Oo, asked in a letter to the top European commission diplomat to Burma, Andreas List: "Is 'Myanmar Egress', the organisation founded by Mr Nay Win Maung, independent from the junta's influence or is it a broker between the government's cronies and the NDF, which it is touting as a substitute for NLD?"
Meanwhile, the NLD is under severe pressure, with its members jailed, exiled or swamped by military intelligence. It is not allowed to act as a political party.
For many, the west has "lost" Burma – its soft-power washed away by its principled sanctions and relegated by China's permanence in the region. This renewed commitment by DfID suggests a need to wrestle it back, using one of the most important soft-power tools: development aid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/mar/16/burma-uk-international-aid-dfid
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Clamp tightened on MPs questions
By DVB
Published: 16 March 2011
MPs in Burma have been given what appears to be a veiled warning about the submission of questions to parliament, in a move that could further stifle political debate in the military-ruled country.
Parliament began accepting questions for the first time on 10 March, six weeks after it first opened following the November elections last year.
Shwe Mann, speaker of the People’s Parliament and former top-ranking junta chief, told representatives yesterday that only questions with direct relevance to current affairs could be asked in the chamber, although little clarification was given to define the boundaries of discussion.
According to National Democratic Force (NDF) representative Kyi Myint, the powerful speaker was making reference to queries submitted by MPs regarding the controversial allocation of national budgets, some of which Shwe Mann claimed had “no relevance with the country’s situation”.
The announcement of a new government budget has drawn sharp rebukes from opposition parties in Burma, with nearly a quarter allocated to the military and the creation of a Special Funds Law that gives the commander-in-chief, currently Than Shwe, supreme authority to allocate unlimited additional money to the army without any notice, and without parliamentary consent.
The healthcare sector is meanwhile set to receive only 9.5 billion kyat ($US110 million), or 1.3 percent of the total budget. This equates to around $US2 per person per year.
Neighbouring Thailand meanwhile spends more than 10 percent of its annual budget on healthcare; among Shwe Mann’s instructions, Kyi Myint said, was that MPs in Burma shouldn’t make comparisons with neighbouring countries.
Five queries were raised by MPs in the People’s Parliament session yesterday, including the one directed to the education minister regarding the maintenance of basic education schools in Arakan state.
Hpone Myint Aung, the NDF’s representative in the National Parliament, said meanwhile that many queries submitted by MPs were turned down by the government under the ‘no relevancy’ pretext.
He said that MPs were stonewalled on topics related to finance, particularly when mooting the prospect of infrastructural projects such as roads and bridges which would require significant amounts of money.
Burma’s three parliaments are dominated by the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), of which Shwe Mann is a member and which swept 80 percent of the vote in the elections.
http://www.dvb.no/news/clamp-tightened-on-mps-questions/14784
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Karens Flee Fighting in Burma, But Live in Limbo in Thailand
Danielle Bernstein | Mae Sot March 16, 2011
The European Commission visited Burmese refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border this week to evaluate a shift in priorities from basic relief services to longer-term sustainable assistance. But as aid workers on the border scramble to cope with the newest wave of ethnic Karen refugees fleeing war at home, questions remain about whether sustainable assistance is possible in such an unstable region.
More than 10,000 refugees from eastern Burma have crossed into Thailand since fighting erupted between government troops and the opposition Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in November after the country’s first national elections in two decades.
Thailand considers them to be illegal migrants, so they are not allowed in the refugee camps, and have little access to humanitarian aid. Instead, they seek shelter in the jungle or in squatter camps.
Four months of continuous fighting in border areas of Burma’s Karen State shows no signs of letting up. Sally Thompson, of the Thai/Burma Border Consortium says the election has made Thai authorities more reluctant to offer aid to refugees.
"The fact that the elections have been held is seen as the start of a new phase which is not more refugees,” Thompson said. “The hope from the Thai government and others is that the new phase is that the refugees will be able to gradually return back to Burma so there is not a willingness at this stage to put new mechanisms in place that are likely to attract more refugees to Thailand it would be seen from the Thai government’s perspective if they were to establish more official sites they consider that would be a pull factor."
Thompson’s organization estimates more than 140,000 people from Burma live in 10 refugee camps along the border. Thousands more reside in nine camps inside Burma that the consortium monitors.
The lack of health care at home or in Thailand remains a critical issue for the refugees.
"Basically there’s no effective health system in eastern Burma and so people are coming to places like Mae Tao clinic because it’s the only place they can get any health care,” Thompson added. “There’s no health system that’s been put in place from the government’s side what people have access to is what the ethnic groups themselves have established."
The Mae Tao clinic, founded by Dr. Cynthia Maung in Mae Sot, provides free health services to refugees. Lok Gwa, a trainee surgeon at the clinic, says since the border was closed in September, they have been seeing fewer patients. Hospital records confirm patient numbers have held at around 10,500 a month, about 2,000 less than usual.
The clinic’s staff says this indicates not that fewer people are sick, but that fewer can reach the clinic and either go without, or must have health care come to them.
Naw Paw Hser Mu Lar has spent the past 10 years as a member of the Backpack Health Worker Team, a network of more than 300 mobile health care providers who care for those living in conflict areas in Burma.
She says the fighting has led to a rise in malaria, diarrhea, maternal and child illnesses, and land mine injuries since November.
"Policy has not changed,” said Mu Lar. “I think more fighting than last year. More patients. More fighting means more patients, more serious cases."
Mahn Mahn, the president of the Backpack Health Worker Team, has similar fears.
"In terms of before the election in Burma we expected there would be more conflict but nobody in the international community believed us,” Mahn Mahn said. “But anyway, before the election in Burma we started to prepare for after the election, and fighting started in Myawady and then we started to form the seven emergency backpack teams."
Human rights activists and refugees say the conflict escalated after the election, as the Burmese army tries to gain control over more Karen territory.
Burma’s military government has signed peace agreements with several of the country’s ethnic militias, including the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. But none of the ethnic groups agreed with a government demand that they become part of a national border guard, and as a result, fighting has flared in many parts of the country.
A European Union delegation plans to visit the border refugee camps this week. The team aims to evaluate new sustainable options for helping the Burmese, even as Thai officials look to repatriate them. Thompson sees the resolution to Burma’s refugee crisis as primarily a political one.
"Until the ethnic issue is resolved in Burma the conflict will be ongoing,” Thompson said. “It’s very unlikely in the short-term that the ethnic issue will be resolved so it’s very likely that we will see low intensity ongoing conflict in the ethnic areas which will continue to generate more arrivals into Thailand."
Karen refugees began fleeing into Thailand 26 years ago, and aid workers say what originally was seen as temporary situation has become permanent. The EU says its delegation hopes to come up with ways to help the refugees rebuild their lives, and bring them health care, education and livelihoods. http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/southeast/Karens-Flee-Fighting-in-Burma-But-Live-in-Limbo-in-Thailand-118072334.html
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News & Articles on Burma-Monday, 14 March, 2011
News & Articles on Burma
Monday, 14 March, 2011
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Junta, Shan army exchange fire again
Burma expects PR boost from Blatter visit
Jealousies Divide 'United' Junta
EU Wants Burmese Refugees to Stand on Own Feet
Gem fair sees jade prices soar 10-fold
Parties lobby EU for end to sanctions
The EU continues humanitarian projects in Myanmar and Thailand
‘Buildings cracked; everything shook’
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Junta, Shan army exchange fire again
Monday, 14 March 2011 17:38 Hseng Khio Fah
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Clashes between Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’ and Burma Army troops were reported yesterday twice in the area of Shan State South’s Monghsu township, according to local sources.
The first attack took place at around 18:30 (local time) yesterday and the second one around 08:00 this morning, lasting about half an hour each. Both attacks took place in Mong Awd village tract, Monghsu, where the SSA troops are active. But no details of the attacks have been known so far.
The SSA side had about 60 men and while the Burma Army had 200, who were dispatched from proper Burma to Monghsu. They came in over 20 military trucks which were also carrying military supplies.
According to local villagers, it was the SSA that opened fire first. “The SSA knew that the junta authorities were sending more troops to its areas,” said a source.
During these days, the military junta is reported to have been busy deploying more troops to areas along the Salween, where the Shan State Army (SSA) is active in the west and the United Wa State Army is in the east, according to local sources.
The total number of troops sent yesterday to the two groups’ controlled territories was about 10 battalions, estimated around 1,000 soldiers, according to an officer from the SSA’s First Brigade.
They were dispatched from different parts. Some were deployed from Shan State North’s Lashio to Tangyan and Mongyai townships, northern part of SSA’s First Brigade Headquarters Wanhai, while others were sent from Shan State South’s Mongnawng sub-township to Monghsu township, east of Wanhai.
“The deployment coming from Mongnawng to Monghsu was about 200 soldiers. They came in about 40 military trucks also carrying military supplies. They arrived at around 3 or 4 pm,” said an eye witness from Monghsu.
Likewise, a source from Nampawng village located between Lashio and Tangyan said, “They [the military trucks] did not come together, only 10 to 15 trucks per convoy. All were filled with soldiers.”
The SSA said the Burma Army is planning to make another ‘Four Cuts campaign: cutting food, funds, information and recruits and an additional: communication routes.
The relationship between SSA and the Burma Army turned sour since the SSA refused to accept Naypyitaw’s militia force program in 2009.
The SSA First Brigade, now officially known as Shan State Progress Party/ Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA), is also allied with the United Wa State Army, the National Democratic Alliance Army and the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). The United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) confirmed that the SSPP/SSA had decided to “wait and see instead of joining it.” The alliance, which was formed last month, has 11 member organizations. http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3505:junta-shan-army-exchange-fire-again&catid=86:war&Itemid=284
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Burma expects PR boost from Blatter visit
* Published: 14/03/2011 at 12:00 AM
* Newspaper section: News
Football crazy Burma is hosting the head of world football this week _ a visit which the regime's top generals hope to milk for all its worth.
Sepp Blatter, the president of the international football's governing body Fifa, is making a two-day official visit to Burma beginning tomorrow in what may be a diplomatic coup for the military junta.
In the first-ever visit by a senior Fifa official to the country, Mr Blatter will open the new Myanmar Football Academy, built with funds from Fifa and inspect some of the "Football for Hope" projects also initiated by the organisation.
These are part of Fifa's programmes all over the world that combine football and social development.
Mr Blatter was invited by the president of the Myanmar Football Federation, the wealthy businessman Zaw Zaw during the World Cup in South Africa last June.
While in Burma he will seek ways for the Myanmar Football Federation to strengthen the local professional leagues, said sources in Rangoon.
However, Western diplomats in the region fear that Mr Blatter, a controversial and outspoken 74-year-old Swiss, will be exploited by the regime for its own ends.
Mr Blatter is also scheduled to visit the secretive, new capital Naypyidaw, where he will meet the president-elect Thein Sein as well as the football-mad military supremo, Than Shwe.
"Such a high-profile visitor will undoubtedly be used to try to give credibility to the newly formed civilian government," said a western diplomat based in Rangoon.
For a regime struggling against international condemnation and isolation over its human rights record, especially by the West, this would be a welcome recognition.
Sources close to the Fifa delegation say Mr Blatter was reluctant to go to Naypyidaw _ where he will stay overnight tomorrow _ but had no choice for football's sake.
"The trip is purely to promote sport," said a football official in Rangoon on condition of anonymity.
The charismatic opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi _ recently released after more than seven years under house arrest _ is also a football fanatic, according to sources in her party.
Some western government officials tried to encourage the football boss to include a meeting with her on this visit, but this was turned down as the trip was confined to sport, and was not meant to be political.
But the Fifa head's visit is something of a diplomatic coup for the top general Than Shwe _ who is a keen follower of the English Premier League and watches it regularly on satellite television. He is reported to be an avid Manchester United fan, as is his eldest grandson _ Nay Shwethway Aung, nicknamed Pho La Pyit. Two years ago, he encouraged his grandfather to establish a professional football league in Burma.
Football is Burma's most popular sport. Each weekend the country comes to a virtual stop to watch the English league on pirated television transmissions illegally siphoned from Thailand.
Millions of kyat, the local currency, are wagered on each game.
Now that Burma has its own league, interest has peaked further. There are some 100 players on monthly salaries ranging from 300,000 kyat (9,000 baht) to one million kyat, including foreign players, mostly from Africa.
In January 2009, Than Shwe ordered the regime's cronies and businessmen to set up professional football teams, offering incentives including gem and jade mines.
Eight wealthy businessmen _ probably the richest businessmen in Burma _ with close ties to the top generals, established teams which took part in the first competition last year. Each team was encouraged to have foreign coaches and were allowed to have a maximum of five foreign players.
The eight new soccer clubs represented eight different regions of the country. The top general's grandson himself happens to be a player for the Delta United team owned by businessman Zaw Zaw, the key promoter of the Burmese football league.
Than Shwe, according to sources in Naypyidaw, immediately saw the political value of setting up a football league in a bid to capture credibility and support ahead of last year's elections.
If nothing else, it would be a distraction, one senior government official said.
Than Shwe apparently had grandiose ideas, including wanting to see former Manchester United star David Beckham play. That certainly would have been a coup as Becks is one of the best known and admired international superstars. Although the level of foreign players did not match the expected icons of the sport, the league proved popular.
Zaw Zaw, for his efforts in establishing the league, has now become the senior patron of the league and the titular head of the country's football body. He is renowned to be close to Than Shwe and his grandson.
His Max Myanmar group is notorious, and now one of the biggest companies in the country. He and his companies are subject to US sanctions.
The regime's top generals are quite convinced that they have the money and power to buy their way into the international sport.
Than Shwe briefly considered a take-over bid for the top English club, Manchester United, according to a secret document leaked by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks.
A cable sent from the US embassy in Rangoon to Washington, revealed that military commander-in-chief Than Shwe was advised by his grandson before January 2009 to look into the possibility of buying the Barclays Premier League giants.
A bid of $1 billion was considered, before being dropped in favour of creating a new Burmese football league.
The US diplomatic cable said: "One source reports that the grandson wanted Than Shwe to offer $1 billion for Manchester United. He thought that sort of expenditure could look bad, so he opted to create for Burma a league of its own."
What this reveals though is Than Shwe clearly wants to use sport to bolster the popularity of his political puppets, and sees football as a major means to do that.
So Mr Blatter's visit to Burma this week fits neatly into the senior general's game plan _ even if FIFA try to avoid being used for propaganda purposes. http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/226522/burma-expects-pr-boost-from-blatter-visit
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Jealousies Divide 'United' Junta
By WAI MOE Monday, March 14, 2011
One of the Burmese junta’s best known mottos is: “We will remain united whoever tries to break us up.” The military authorities ensure that plaques and signs are put up bearing this slogan in military schools, bases and public places across the country.
However, much as the slogan clearly prescribes an undivided approach to external threats, it does not appear to have generated the same team spirit when it comes to internal conflicts, in particular, splits and jealousies within the military hierarchy based on business interests.
Even some of Burma's top generals have fallen prey to the “dog eat dog” syndrome that plays out continually in Naypyidaw.
Most recently, over the weekend of March 5-6, several cabinet members and military cronies were left miffed when they were not included in a thinly veiled scheme by the Trade Policy Council to sell off cheaply into private hands a list of state-owned buildings and properties in Rangoon.
Many of the properties included colonial buildings that were former ministries, and other edifices located in the city's commercial hub. They were offered to many military officers and their friends and families, but certain potential investors missed out on the opportunity to take advantage on the discounted properties.
“The division in privileges has led to jealousies and rivalries between several military generals and cabinet ministers, as well as among the community of influential family members,” said a Rangoon businessman, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Now, some of them don't talk to each other. They compete fiercely to win contracts on any state property that is put up for sale.”
As an example, he said that ex-Brig-Gen Thein Zaw, the minister of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs, and Soe Tha, the minister of National Planning and Economic Development, are no longer on speaking terms following a dispute that arose when they both tried recently to buy out the same state firm in Rangoon.
Since the beginning of this year, the junta has announced the sell-off of five large state-owned corporations and buildings, including the former Offices of the Ministers, a British colonial edifice where Burma’s independence hero Aung San and eight of his colleagues were assassinated in 1947.
Observers have said that the property sellouts have no benefit to the people of Burma; instead, the public buildings—several of which feature unique Victorian architecture that is considered characteristic of Rangoon, and are popular with tourists—are being transferred into the hands of Burma's military and business elite.
Family members of many of the military's top generals, such as Snr-Gen Than Shwe, Vice Snr-Gen Maung Aye, Gen “Thura” Shwe Mann, Secretary-1 ex-Gen Tin Aung Myint Oo and ex-Lt-Gen Tin Aye, all own former state properties and/or have taken over formerly state-run business enterprises, such as hydropower and mining contracts.
Although junta chief Than Shwe’s favorite grandson Nay Shwe Thway Aung is only 21 years of age, his buying power in Rangoon is second to none.
Sources have said that Nay Shwe Thway Aung has recently purchased huge estates on Rangoon’s Parami Road and Kabar Aye Pagoda Road where he intends to construct shopping complexes and business centers.
“These are large plots of land he [Than Shwe's grandson] bought,” said a government official in Rangoon who wished to remain anonymous. “No other businessman has dared to even dream about acquiring these properties.
“But this is Nay Shwe Thway Aung’s era. He can do anything he wants,” he said.
Reports from Naypyidaw suggest that several military officers dislike Nay Shwe Thway Aung because he has assumed a high rank within military circles despite the fact he has never served in the army, and is reputed to be pretentious. Displeasure was also expressed by the military elite that Than Shwe's grandson was permitted to sit in the front row beside his grandfather at official photo shoots.
“Nay Shwe Thway Aung has been involved in several business disputes with the sons of other top generals, including Aung Thet Mann, Toe Naing Mann and Shwe Mann. But, in the end, they always have to concede to Nay Shwe Thway Aung,” he added.
The family of junta No.2 Maung Aye is thought to be the richest in the country. His daughter, Nandar Aye, and her husband, Pyi Aung, who is son of Industry-1 Minister Aung Thaung, own and run the largest multinational in Burma—the IGE Group. Their other partner is Nay Aung, the other son of Aung Thaung.
The company is involved in the oil and gas industries, the timber trade, mining, tourism, banking and construction, either directly or through its sister companies: UNOG Co. Ltd; the Amara Co. Ltd; MRT Co. Ltd; FCEC Co. Ltd; and various others.
Another contentious issue among the generals is Than Shwe’s “divide and rule” tactic of reshuffling his closest allies in the post-election political arena. Junta No.3 Shwe Mann became the Lower House speaker while his fellow generals former Prime Minister Thein Sein and Tin Aung Myint Oo were selected as president and vice-president respectively.
Even though no one dares complain to Than Shwehis orders are considered absoluteseveral high-ranking officers are reportedly very unhappy with the new lineup. Only one, Lt-Gen Myint Aung, dared to refuse Than Shwe’s appointment of him as defense minister. He was quickly dismissed and confined to virtual house arrest.
But the ill feeling does appear to have had some effect on Than Shwe. His four daughters who held symbolic positions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reportedly resigned earlier this year in what Burma observers see as a face-saving maneuver.
“Although Than Shwe's son-in-law Zaw Phyo Win is still with the ministry, the daughters’ resignations are good news for all other staff members,” said a former Burmese diplomat in Rangoon. “They [the daughters] just claimed fake salaries. They never actually went to work or did anything.”
http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20929
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EU Wants Burmese Refugees to Stand on Own Feet
By THE IRRAWADDY Monday, March 14, 2011
A visiting European Union (EU) delegation said it will provide career training to Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burmese border to empower them to support themselves, but that it must reduce annual aid and supplies to the displaced.
A representative for the EU delegation spoke during a visit to Mae La refugee camp, the biggest of its kind, which houses around 50,000 mostly ethnic Karen people who fled from their homes due to attacks by the Burmese Government Army. There are currently 150,000 Burmese refugees living on the Thai-Burmese border.
The project will aim to help Mae La refugees make enough income to support themselves, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva told camp committees on Sunday evening while leading the delegation. The EU project will include agriculture, livestock and handicraft training.
Karen students walk in Mae La camp, near the Thai-Burmese border in Mae Sot district, Tak province, 600 km (373 miles) north of Bangkok. (Photo: Reuters)
Saw Htun Htun, the chairman of Mae La refugee camp, told The Irrawaddy: “The EU officials said they will reduce its current aid year by year. However, they said they will help the refugees until they can stand on their own feet. They will also provide career training to the refugees.”
Saw K’nyaw Poe, a Karen refugee in Mae La camp, said, “Many people here are interested in having a paid job inside or outside the camp to making their living. They are bored staying in the camp for years and are unable to travel freely outside. Those who illegally travel outside the camp can be arrested and tortured at any time.”
Htun Htun said the refugee camp committees also welcomed the project by the EU and believe that it will improve the life of residents by allowing them to support themselves.
Refugees in the nine camps on the Thai-Burmese border are not officially allowed to travel and work outside the camp, but the EU delegation said it will also urge Thai authorities to stop these restrictions.
The EU has been supporting Burmese refugees on the Thai-Burmese border since 1995. Food and supplies for refugees have been reduced as humanitarian relief funding for the West has decreased, according to a camp committee member.
The Thailand Burma Border Consortium (TBBC), which has been caring for Burmese refugees for the past 25 years, said that livelihood programs will likely operate inside the camp as the Thai authorities do not allow Burmese refugees to travel outside and seek employment.
Sally Thompson, the deputy director of the TBBC, said, “We all like to see the refugees becoming self-reliant. But there are limits that can be achieved within the current refugee policy here in Thailand.”
While non-governmental organizations have started to support self-reliance programs towards refugees, Thompson said she believes it is too early to reduce aid supplies as most still remain heavily dependent on humanitarian assistance for even their basic needs.
http://irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=20928
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Gem fair sees jade prices soar 10-fold
By AHUNT PHONE MYAT
Published: 14 March 2011
Sale prices for Burma’s iconic jade stone have jumped as much as ten times in the past year, according to gem merchants whom last week attended the 48th Gems Emporium in Naypyidaw.
Despite the price hike, as many as 17,000 sets of jade were bought, one gem business owner at the emporium told DVB.
“Jade prices are going very high – about 10 times more than last year’s price,” he said. “A piece of jade that was worth 200,000 kyat ($US230) to 300,000 kyat ($US340) about three years ago is now worth about 1.5 million kyat ($US1,705) to two million kyat ($US2,272).”
He added that the dramatic increase was largely down to growing demand from Chinese buyers, who are also hungrily snapping up Burmese pearl which was second bestselling gem at the emporium. Another gem businessman said that Chinese traders made up three-quarters of the buyers in Naypyidaw last week.
With bans on imports of Burmese jade to the US, China has quickly become the world’s top market for the coveted stone, which is mined heavily in Burma’s northern Kachin and Sagaing states, often in operations backed by Chinese businessmen.
“China has high buyer demand for jade as the country’s economy is growing,” said another man. “And the Burmese government, which is sanctioned by western countries, was looking to sell the gems, so it’s a win-win situation.”
He added that the Burmese government “doesn’t care about the international sanctions and they wanted to show off how much money they can still make from selling the gems”.
Burmese government figures claim that profits made from selling jade has climbed from $US198 million in 2005 to $US1,700 million in 2010, despite seeing falls in profit from other precious stones.
The last gems emporium in Naypyidaw in November last year made record sales of $US1.4 billion, suggesting that the sanctioned industry is buoyant.
Burma is thought to produce around 90 percent of the world’s jade and gems, much of which goes to China and other regional nations, such as Singapore.
Most of the produce comes from Burma’s ethnic regions, particularly the Hpakant mines in Kachin state where the conditions for workers are notoriously poor. Around 30 government-licensed companies mine precious stones in Kachin state, where they have had to vie for territory with the opposition Kachin Independence Army.
http://www.dvb.no/news/gem-fair-sees-jade-prices-soar-10-fold/14716
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Parties lobby EU for end to sanctions
By DVB
Published: 14 March 2011
Ten opposition parties have joined together to call on the EU to terminate sanctions on Burma, claiming that the post-election “evolution” underway in the country warranted a rethink of European policy.
An open letter sent to Brussels last week and signed by the ‘Myanmar Fraternal Democratic Parties’ – a loose alliance that includes the National Democratic Force (NDF) and Democratic Party Myanmar (DPM), as well as a number of ethnic parties – criticised the current embargo as responsible for “[denying Burmese] the benefits of increased foreign investment that brings technology, better working conditions and modern global ideas”.
“Though sanctions are not the prime cause for poverty in our country, they have hit labor-intensive sectors like garments, seafood and wood processing, and prevent new jobs from being created”, it continued, adding that the EU should also lift its opposition to tourists travelling to Burma.
Khin Maung Swe, leader of the NDF, said that the group had also called on EU ministers to aid dialogue between the opposition and the Burmese junta.
The debate over whether sanctions should remain on the pariah has split the opposition: some say that measures such as the visa ban are making life uncomfortable for the ruling generals, while others see the approach as ineffective in the face of continued regional, particularly Chinese, investment in Burma. Some even claim the protracted debate is itself an obstacle to progress in the military-ruled country.
The letter’s signatories are all part of the body of democratic parties that competed and won seats in the November 2010 elections. The National League for Democracy (NLD), which despite its boycott of the polls is still considered to be the leading opposition force in Burma, continues to be the strongest proponent of sanctions but has acknowledged the need for a review.
In a statement released last month, the party led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi said it would look to engage with Western nations in a bid to modify sanctions following a study in which it found that Burmese citizens were not affected by the embargo.
Suu Kyi herself has said however that greater foreign investment, provided it is done carefully, could improve conditions for Burmese who have been “left behind”.
Some analysts claim that the poor targeting of sanctions effectively amounts to a humanitarian boycott, with the quantity of overseas development assistance (ODA) going into Burma now lower than Cambodia, despite having a population three times the size.
The remaining signatories to the EU letter are the Chin National Party, Democracy and Peace Party, Nationla Political Alliance, Phalon-Sawaw Democratic Party, Rakhine Nationalities Democratic Party, Shan Nationalities Democratic Party, Union Democratic Partyand Wunthanu National League for Democracy.
http://www.dvb.no/news/parties-lobby-eu-for-end-to-sanctions/14721
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The European Union continues its steady support for humanitarian projects in Myanmar and Thailand in 2011
Reference: IP/11/300 Date: 14/03/2011
IP/11/300
Brussels, 14 March 2011
The European Union continues its steady support for humanitarian projects in Myanmar and Thailand in 2011
The European Union's humanitarian assistance for Myanmar and Thailand will reach €22.25 million this year. The size of the contribution was announced in Bangkok by Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, International Cooperation and Crisis Response. From the European humanitarian aid budget, €8 million will be allocated to refugees from Myanmar living in border camps in Thailand, and €14.25 million will provide help to vulnerable communities in Myanmar, including those affected by cyclone Giri.
"The European Union has long been a leading supporter to the people in need of humanitarian aid in Thailand and Myanmar; in 2011, our assistance will remain generous as we continue to work for sustainable solutions for the refugees and disaster-stricken communities in the region," Commissioner Georgieva said. She gave details of the Commission's 2011 humanitarian support in Myanmar and Thailand after visiting the Mae Sot - Mae La refugee camp in Western Thailand and after meeting Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya.
The €8 million funding for the refugees in six of the nine camps along the border will mainly provide food assistance, health care, clean water and sanitation. Over 100,000 refugees will benefit from European aid.
The €14.25 million allocation for Myanmar includes €5m for the remaining humanitarian needs in the aftermath of cyclone Giri which hit Rakhine State in October 2010. Immediately after the disaster, the European Commission provided €3 million in aid, but four months on, the affected communities are still facing considerable challenges and need humanitarian support.
Background
Today, over 140,000 refugees from Myanmar live in nine camps in Thailand. The European Commission is among the largest donors to the camps and since 1995 has provided, including 2011 funding, €149 million: €103m for humanitarian aid and €46m through other longer-term assistance budgets.
Including Member States' donors (DFID, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom), the European Union has been providing € 25 million per year since 2007 in humanitarian aid to the refugee camps in Thailand. This is more than half of the overall humanitarian support to the refugees and displaced along the border.
The European humanitarian assistance covers food support, basic healthcare, water and sanitation. Essential food aid is provided to over 65,000 refugees, and 100,000 benefit from basic medical services. The projects that receive financing from the European Union are implemented primarily through international non-governmental organisations and UNHCR.
To ensure that refugees get not only immediate support, but also a chance for a better future and greater self-reliance, the European Commission plans to gradually refocus its aid to camp residents – from humanitarian relief toward more sustainable support.
The European Commission provided €110,000 to the Thai Red Cross to provide urgent humanitarian assistance to people affected by the floods which inundated the north-eastern and central provinces of Thailand in August and September 2010.
For more info
For information on the European Commission’s humanitarian support for refugees in Thailand:
http://ec.europa.eu/echo/aid/asia/thailand_en.htm
Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva’s website:
http://ec.europa.eu/commission_2010-2014/georgieva/index_en.htm
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‘Buildings cracked; everything shook’
By KHIN MIN ZAW
Published: 14 March 2011
First-hand accounts from Burmese nationals of the recent earthquake in Japan have described how communication is down across many parts of the country and thousands remain trapped in relief camps with little food.
Estimates of the number of those killed by Japan’s strongest earthquake on record vary, but the US Geological Survey says it is likely more than 10,000. Local reports say that two thousand bodies were found this morning in the worst-hit Miyagi Prefecture in the country’s northeastern region, which was submerged by the resulting tsunami, while 10,000 were reported missing in Minamisanriku alone.
Than Than Aye, 55, told DVB that she had been at her home in Tokyo, 230 miles from the epicentre, on Friday last week when the 9.0-magnitude quake struck.
“I was at home watching parliamentary news [on television] and an announcement about the earthquake appeared [on the screen],” she said. “Then the earthquake came; everything was shaking, and I hastily put on a helmet and ran out to the street.
“Electric wires were making banging sounds. A building nearby cracked and the water came along very strong. I didn’t know where to run. Someone shouted ‘duck! duck!’ so we ducked and then ran into [a nearby] school.
“My body was shaking so much when I made my way to the school I couldn’t even walk properly. There were kids in the school. No one dared to stay inside the school building – everyone was out in the compound. It was very cold too.”
Fears of further disaster are growing after an explosion occurred at a second nuclear reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi atomic power plant this morning, although a government spokesperson told The Guardian that there was a “low possibility” of a dangerous radiation leak
Than Than Aye, who has now been moved to a relief camp, said telephone lines were down and there was no gas in Tokyo, which is home to nearly 13 million people, although electricity remained on in some parts of the city.
She said that people, including children, in the relief camp she was in had been given blankets but were struggling to find food.
According to Japan’s foreign ministry, nearly 6000 Burmese are registered in the country, although the figure for unregistered migrants is likely to be a lot higher. It is not clear whether Burmese are among the quake victims.
Taiwanese media said today that of the 5,450 Taiwanese in Japan, more than 1,700 had not been accounted for.
The UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) quoted the Japanese government as saying that 2.6 million households are without electricity and nearly 3.2 million people are running out of gas supplies, while 1.4 million people have no access to water. Nearly 600,000 have been evacuated from the country.
http://www.dvb.no/news/%E2%80%98buildings-cracked-everything-shook%E2%80%99/14710
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