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World leaders have expressed outrage over the 18-month sentence in the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and the European Union plans tougher sanctions against the Burmese regime.
Shortly after the sentence was announced on Tuesday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicola Sarkozy quickly responded.
“I am both saddened and angry at the verdict today…following the sham trial of Aung San Suu Kyi,” Brown said in a statement, adding that the sentence was further proof that the regime is “determined to act with total disregard for accepted standards of the rule of law and in defiance of international opinion.”
“This is a purely political sentence designed to prevent her from taking part in the regime’s planned elections next year,” Brown said. He said that the 2010 elections will not have credibility or legitimacy unless Suu Kyi and other political prisoners are released, and they are allowed to participant in the poll.
Britain will assume the chair of the UN Security Council in August. Brown said, “I also believe that the UN Security Council—whose will has been flouted—must also now respond resolutely and impose a world wide ban on the sale of arms to the regime.”
The leader of another UNSC veto power, French President Sarkozy, also reacted strongly, calling for the European Union to pass tougher sanctions against the Burmese regime.
Sarkozy said that the verdict was “brutal and unjust,” and he will ask the EU to respond quickly by adopting new sanctions.
He said the EU’s new sanctions “must in particular target the resources that they [the junta] directly profit from, in the wood and ruby sector.” He said the gas industry, which supplies Thailand and other countries, should be spared from sanctions, according to the statement.
The EU, now under the presidency of Sweden, also condemned the sentence. The EU presidency statement said that the proceedings against Suu Kyi which stem from “charges which were brought twenty years after she was first wrongfully arrested, have been in breach of national and international law.”
Threatening tougher sanctions on Burma, the EU presidency said that the EU will further reinforce its restrictive measures targeting the Burmese regime, including its economic interests.
“The EU underlines its readiness to revise, amend or reinforce its measure in light of the developments in Burma/Myanmar,” said the statement.
The European Parliamentary Caucus on Burma called the military regime “the real criminal” and said the international community should wake up and take stronger action against the regime.
Among members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nation (Asean), the Philippine Foreign Minister Alberto G. Romulo said that the verdict is “incomprehensible and deplorable.”
Thailand, the current chairmanship of Asean, has not yet issued a statement. Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya said that Thailand will consult with other Asean members before deciding Asean’s next move on Burma following the sentencing, according to The Nation, an English-language newspaper.
After the sentence, several leading campaign groups, such as US Campaign for Burma and Burma Campaign UK, called for the UNSC to pass an arms embargo on the Burmese regime.
“The dictatorship is directly defying the United Nations Security Council,” said Zoya Phan, the international coordinator for the London-based Burma Campaign UK, in a press release. “It is time the generals faced consequences for their actions; a global arms embargo should be imposed immediately.”
In a statement released soon after the verdict was announced, British Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis said that the British government would urge the UN to impose further sanctions.
"Specifically we now want to see an arms embargo against the regime. We want to see Burma's neighbors, the Asean countries, China, Japan, Thailand, apply maximum pressure," he said.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Suu Kyi Sentence Stirs World Outrage
アウンサンスーチー氏に有罪判決 1年6ヶ月の自宅軟禁へ
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アウンサンスーチー氏への有罪判決を受け、ビルマ情報ネットワークとともに
出しましたプレスリリースをお送りします。
ビルマ市民フォーラム
代 表 永井 浩
事務局長 渡辺 彰悟
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アウンサンスーチー氏有罪判決は不当
日本政府は国際社会と連携して実質的な行動を
ビルマ市民フォーラム 及び ビルマ情報ネットワーク
（2009年8月11日、東京）本日、ビルマ（ミャンマー）の民主化指導者で
ノーベル平和賞受賞者のアウンサンスーチー氏に禁固3年の有罪判決が宣告
された（直後に1年半の自宅軟禁に減刑）。アウンサンスーチー氏は、過去
19年間のうち13年間を自宅軟禁下に置かれてきた。今回の有罪判決は、
この状態をさらに長引かせ、アウンサンスーチー氏の自由を奪い続けるまったく
不当なものだ。アウンサンスーチー氏はこの困難な状況に、品位を失うことなく
立ち向かっている。わたしたちはこうした氏の闘いに深い敬意を表明すると
同時に、日本政府に毅然とした対応を求める。
今回の判決は、米国人男性がアウンサンスーチー氏宅に侵入したことを口実
としてビルマの軍事政権（国家平和発展評議会＝SPDC）がアウンサンスーチー氏を
起訴したことによる。軍政は来年2010年に、一方的に起草した新憲法に基づいた
総選挙の実施を計画している。この点についてビルマ市民フォーラム代表の
永井浩は「総選挙での『勝利』を確実にするため、国民の支持を集めるアウンサン
スーチー氏の拘束を続けたいという思惑が働いたのは明らかだ。アウンサン
スーチー氏を始めとした政治囚が自由の身になり、民主化改革のプロセスに参加
できない限り、ビルマの国民和解は進まない」と述べた。
今回の訴追を通じて改めて露呈したのは、ビルマ軍政には真の民主化に向けた
歩みを進める意欲が完全に欠如しているという事実にほかならない。世界中の
支援団体が呼びかけているように、今こそ国際社会がひとつになり、実質的な
行動によってビルマ軍政に応じるべきだ。具体的には、国際的な武器禁輸措置や、
軍政が犯しているとされる人道に対する罪についての国際調査委員会の設置
などが必要だ。
日本は民主主義国家として、またビルマへの主要な支援国として、同国の現状に
重い責任を負う。しかし政府の対応は不十分だ。中曽根弘文外相はたしかに懸念を
表明しているが、その表現はきわめて穏やかだ。驚くべきことに「〔訴追は〕国内
の司法プロセスの問題ではある」「（アウンサンスーチー氏への）医師・弁護士の
提供や外交団による（裁判の）傍聴などの努力は評価する」といった発言まで
存在する。判決の一週間前には3.5億円の無償資金協力の供与も約束した。こう
した日本政府の姿勢について、根本敬・上智大学外国語学部教授は「あまりに
間接的で穏健にすぎる表明だ。これでは軍政に対する抗議とはいえず、日本の
姿勢を逆に誤解させることになりかねない」と語る。
ビルマ情報ネットワークのディレクターで米国弁護士の秋元由紀は「ビルマ
軍政は天然ガスの輸出により多額の収入を得ているのに、国民の福祉を充実
させず、予算の多くを武器の輸入や国軍の増強に充てている。その武力は
もっぱらビルマ国民、特に少数民族住民に対して使用される。日本は軍政の
こうした行動を正視し、軍政が自国民をこれ以上傷つけるのを防ぐためにも、
人道に対する罪についての調査委員会の設置や、武器禁輸措置の採択に向けて、
国連安保理内でリーダーシップを発揮してほしい」と述べる。
アウンサンスーチー氏はかつて「皆さんの自由を、私たちが自由になれるように
行使してください」と言った。わたしたちは、日本政府がビルマの人びとの側に
立つ、本当の意味での支援国になることを求める。
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■外務報道官談話 アウン・サン・スー・チー女史に対する訴追について（5月15日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/press/danwa/21/dga_0515.html
「深い懸念を持って現状を注視している、…民主化が全ての関係者が参加
する形で進められ、2010年の総選挙が国際社会から評価されるものとなる
ことを期待する」
■日ミャンマー外相電話会談（5月18日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/press/release/21/5/1191908_1097.html
「（訴追は）2010年に実施が予定されている総選挙に対する関係国の評価に
大きな影響を与えるものであり深く懸念している・・・国内の司法プロセスの
問題ではあるものの、このような国際社会の声を踏まえ適切に対応してほしい
・・・国際社会に祝福されるような形で・・・民主化プロセスが進むことを
期待する」
■日ミャンマー外相会談（概要）（5月25日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/kaidan/g_nakasone/vietnam_09/0905jm_gk.html
「深く懸念している、・・・（訴追は）司法の問題であることは理解するし、
また医師・弁護士の提供や外交団による傍聴などの努力は評価するが、判決に
よっては国際社会から厳しい批判・反応が予想される、・・・民主化が、すべての
関係者が参加し、国際社会から祝福されるような形で進むことを期待している」
■「V4＋日本」外相会合共同プレス・ステートメント（仮訳）（5月25日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/europe/v4+1/0905_gk.html
「外相は、2010年に予定される選挙が、ミャンマーのすべての当時者の間の
包括的な対話を基礎としたものであれば、国際的に歓迎されるであろうことを
指摘した。この文脈で、・・・アウン・サン・スーチー女史を含む政治犯及び
政治的収監者を釈放するよう呼びかけた。外相は、・・・ミャンマー政府に
対して、国民和解及び経済・社会開発を実現するために、全ての当事者を巻き
込んだプロセスを慫慂した。外相は、ミャンマーによる実質的な政治的進展に
対しては、前向きに反応する用意があることを確認した。」
■麻生総理大臣とブラウン英首相の電話会談（5月28日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/kaidan/s_aso/p_uk_0905.html
「（訴追に）深い懸念を持って注視している、今は重要な時期であるので適切に
行動すべきである、国際社会に祝福されるような形で同国の民主化プロセスが
進むことを期待する、と（ニャンウィン外相に）直接伝えた・・・国際社会の
一致した対応が重要であり、英国と緊密に連絡を取っていきたい。」
■日ミャンマー外相会談（概要）（7月22日）
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/kinkyu/2/20090722_211604.html
「国際社会との関係で、今は、ミャンマーにとって極めて重要な時期である。
そのようなことを踏まえ、アウン・サン・スー・チー女史の裁判については
適切に対応することを期待する。」
■無償資金協力案件 人材育成奨学計画（7月24日）http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/press/release/21/7/1194255_1102.html
若手行政官25人が日本の大学に留学する学費等として3億4,800万円を供与
する交換公文に署名。
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi still a potent force for change
Delicious Digg Facebook Fark Newsvine Reddit StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo! Bookmarks Print By DENIS D. GRAY, Associated Press Writer Denis D. Gray, Associated Press Writer – 48 mins ago
BANGKOK – Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is back where the ruling generals want her: inside a crumbling mansion, lonely and isolated from the world.
But a fleeting emergence into public view showed that Suu Kyi's steely grace and charisma, along with her popularity, are intact. She remains a potentially potent force for change in a country that has seen virtually no deviation from harsh military rule for nearly half a century.
For now, the 64-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate, arguably the world's most famous prisoner, will likely return to her daily meditation, listening to radio news broadcasts and waiting for the occasional censored mail, including letters from two sons she last saw a decade ago.
What continues to keep Suu Kyi tenacious and focused on bringing democracy to Myanmar are her deep Buddhist faith, rigorous self-discipline and the guiding influence of her parents, those close to her say. The only apparent chink in her armor is a fondness for dark chocolate.
Although set within the teeming city of Yangon, her police-ringed home might just as well be on another continent, removed from a downtrodden populace and a junta that extended her 14-year detention for another 18 months on Tuesday.
Suu Kyi was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest by harboring an American, John Yettaw, who swam across a lake to sneak uninvited into her compound. The 53-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison with hard labor.
During her 86-day trial, diplomats and supporters were impressed by Suu Kyi's grace under pressure, rebuking those who called Yettaw a fool, sharing her birthday chocolate cake with prison guards and thanking envoys for their support.
"Despite almost two decades of extraordinary pressure — more than half of it in detention — and agonizing personal sacrifices, she looked in remarkable shape," wrote British Ambassador Mark Canning. "Calm, dignified, upright, exuding quiet authority but no hint of bitterness toward the prosecution side."
Josef Silverstein, professor emeritus at Rutgers University and an expert on Myanmar, also called Burma, says that while she may never lead the country, she will always be influential.
"Don't write her off. If she is allowed to live, she has an important role to play in Burma's drama," he says.
Suu Kyi has sometimes been described as an accidental leader, having returned to her homeland in 1988 after two decades abroad to nurse her dying mother just as an uprising erupted against the military regime.
Daughter of the country's independence hero, Gen. Aung San, Suu Kyi was thrust into the forefront of the 1988 demonstrations until the military crushed them brutally and clamped her under house arrest.
But as a teenager Suu Kyi had developed an intense interest in her father who was gunned down by political rivals when she was just a toddler, seemingly absorbing his fierce sense of nationalist mission, military-like discipline and a stubborn streak.
Suu Kyi lived with her mother in India, attended Oxford University, then worked for the United Nations in New York and Bhutan.
Despite the long absence, Aung Din, executive director of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, said Suu Kyi had planned to come back one day to "complete her father's unfinished work, building a democratic country."
"While Suu Kyi's extreme fortitude can be considered an aspect of her natural character, without question her life has been shaped by her parentage," says Justin Wintle, author of the Suu Kyi biography "Perfect Hostage."
Close friends expect this grit to persist through the next phase of her incarceration in her mother's once grand two-story mansion, now gone to seed.
According to one, Su Su Lwin, Suu Kyi adheres to a strict daily routine, rising about 5 a.m., doing meditation and exercise, reading a great deal.
"She doesn't do anything excessively. She lives a very simple life," Su Su Lwin says. "She eats very little. She does like dark chocolate but even that she eats with a limit. She loves to dress up very nicely and neatly but she doesn't like extravagance."
Before her trial, Suu Kyi wasn't allowed telephone or Internet communications, but could get newspapers and listen to the radio. With no satellite dish on her compound, she was only able to watch state-run television.
Her contact with the outside world is unlikely to increase.
She last saw sons Alexander and Kim in 2000, the year after her husband — British academic Michael Aris — died of cancer. The sons, now both in their 30s, have been stripped of their Myanmar citizenship and barred from the country.
Suu Kyi was first arrested in 1989 and barred from contesting general elections called by the junta in May 1990. But her name inspired the opposition campaign and her party scored a landslide victory that the regime never recognized.
Suu Kyi has been offered an exit from her isolation: the junta gave her permission to leave the country when her husband died. But she refused, fearing she would never be allowed to return.
Key events in the life of Aung San Suu Kyi
By The Associated Press The Associated Press – 2 hrs 49 mins ago
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Myanmar's independence hero, Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated when she was 2 years old, but she fell into politics almost by accident.
• Born in Yangon, formerly Rangoon, on June 19, 1945.
• Earned degrees in philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford University in England. Married British academic Michael Aris in 1972 and has two children who live in Britain.
• Rushed back to Burma, later renamed Myanmar, in 1988 to care for her ailing mother. Her trip coincided with mass demonstrations against military government that left thousands dead. She became rallying figure and helped found the National League for Democracy party.
• Arrested in 1989 on charges of inciting unrest and kept under house arrest for the next six years.
• Barred from running in elections called by the junta in May 1990. Her party won 392 of 495 seats in parliament, but military refused to honor the results, and she became symbol of Myanmar's suppressed democracy.
• Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
• Released from prison in 1995 but generals continued to arrest her supporters and prevent her from traveling outside the capital.
• Her husband, who had cancer, was refused permission to visit her before he died in 1999.
• Put under house arrest again in 2000, released unconditionally in 2002 and re-arrested in May 2003. Her current detention was due to expire May 27, 2009.
• Arrested on May 14 and charged with violating her house arrest after uninvited American man swam to her home and stayed two days.
• Convicted on Aug. 11 of violating her house arrest and sentenced to three years in prison, which was reduced by junta chief to 18 months under house arrest.
Myanmar sentences Suu Kyi to more house arrest
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YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar court convicted democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday of violating her house arrest by allowing an uninvited American to stay at her home. The head of the military-ruled country ordered her to serve an 18-month sentence under house arrest.
The 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate has already been in detention for 14 of the last 20 years, mostly under house arrest, and the extension will remove her from the political scene when the junta stages elections next year.
The ruling — which also convicted the American, John Yettaw, and sentenced him to seven years — drew immediate criticism from world leaders, with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown calling it "monstrous." French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged the European Union to adopt new sanctions, calling the verdict "brutal and unjust."
But the term was less severe than the maximum sentence she faced — five years in prison — and shorter than the one the court initially ordered Tuesday — three years with hard labor.
Five minutes after that sentence was read out, Home Minister Maj. Gen. Maung Oo entered the courtroom and read aloud a special order from junta chief Senior Gen. Than Shwe, cutting the sentence in half and saying it could be served at home.
Than Shwe's order, signed Monday, likewise reduced the sentences of Suu Kyi's two female house companions, Khin Khin Win and Win Ma Ma, to 18 months. Both are members of her political party.
The junta leader said he commuted the sentences to "maintain community peace and stability" and because Suu Kyi was the daughter of Aung San, a revered hero who won Myanmar's independence from Britain.
It seemed likely it was in response to intense international pressure, including a call for Suu Kyi's release from the United Nations that was backed by China, Myanmar's key ally and benefactor.
South Africa's Archbishop Desmond Tutu warned, however, that the reduced sentence was "not a concession — it is a manipulation of an illegal process. It must not be accepted by any government."
Suu Kyi looked alert but tired during the 90-minute court session. She stood as the verdict was announced and then thanked foreign diplomats for attending her trial.
"I look forward to working with you in the future for the peace and prosperity of my country and the region," Suu Kyi said in a soft voice to diplomats seated nearby. She then was led out of the courtroom.
Officials said she was driven back to her lakeside villa in a six-car convoy. They spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the high-profile case.
One of her party members tied yellow ribbons at the gate and two nearby trees as a gesture of welcome. Suu Kyi had been in prison during the trial.
Yettaw — who swam across a lake, entered Suu Kyi's home uninvited and asked to spend two nights before trying to secretly swim back — was sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor.
Suu Kyi's trial has sparked international outrage and calls for her release and that of Myanmar's more than 2,000 other political prisoners. The sentence sparked angry reaction from across the globe.
"The facade of her prosecution is made more monstrous because its real objective is to sever her bond with the people for whom she is a beacon of hope and resistance," Brown said, calling the verdict a "purely political sentence" aimed at keeping her out of the 2010 elections.
Burma Campaign UK, an activist group, called for a global arms embargo against Myanmar and said the junta was "determined to silence all pro-democracy voices in the country in the run up to rigged elections."
Suu Kyi's international lawyer, New York-based Jared Genser, said her most recent period of detention violated Myanmar's own laws.
"The real question is how the international community will react — will it do more than simply condemn this latest injustice?" he asked.
London-based Amnesty International called the sentence "shameful ... nothing more than legal and political theater."
The 53-year-old Yettaw, of Falcon, Missouri, was returned to Insein prison, the site of the trial, on Monday night after hospitalization for epileptic seizures.
The court sentenced him to three years in prison for breaching Suu Kyi's house arrest. Yettaw was also sentenced to three years in prison for an immigration violation and to another year for swimming in a restricted zone.
It was not immediately clear if the prison terms would be served concurrently, but Suu Kyi's lawyer Nyan Win said that if a court does not specify otherwise, sentences are usually served consecutively.
Yettaw, a devout Christian, earlier told his lawyer that he swam to Suu Kyi's residence to warn her of an assassination attempt that he had seen in a vision.
Yettaw was hospitalized last Monday after suffering seizures. He reportedly suffers from epilepsy, diabetes and other health problems, including post traumatic stress disorder from his service in the U.S. military.
Monday, August 10, 2009
ビルマ情報ネットワーク（BurmaInfo）からのメール(8月7日付）を転送させていただき
ビルマ市民フォーラム メールマガジン 2009/8/10
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ビルマ情報ネットワーク（BurmaInfo）からのメール(8月7日付）を転送させていただき
ます。
（重複の際は何卒ご容赦ください。）
ＰＦＢ事務局 宮澤
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「ビルマは破産などしていない 国民の貧困の原因は軍政の政策」
（ショーン・ターネル氏の寄稿、ウォールストリート・ジャーナルに掲載）を
ビルマ情報ネットワークのウェブサイトに掲載しました。
「ビルマは破産などしていない 国民の貧困の原因は軍政の政策」
ウォールストリート・ジャーナルへの寄稿（2009年8月6日）
http://www.burmainfo.org/article/article.php?mode=0&articleid=487
原文（英語）：
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574329181770155154.ht
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ビルマ情報ネットワーク（http://www.burmainfo.org）
秋元由紀
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ビルマは破産などしていない 国民の貧困の原因は軍政の政策
ショーン・ターネル（寄稿文）
ウォールストリート・ジャーナル
2009年8月6日
民主化指導者アウンサンスーチー氏の裁判が長引く中、ビルマ（ミャンマー）が再び
注目を浴び、軍事政権といかに付き合うべきかも議論された。クリントン米国務長官
は、軍政の気を引くために開発援助を与える可能性を示唆したほどだ。一般にビルマ
は貧しいと思われている。しかし実際には軍政は見かけほど貧しくはない。
ビルマはアジア太平洋地域の主要な天然ガス産出国として台頭している。現在、その
大半はタイに輸出されているが、新しく開発中のガス田からは、大量のガスがまもな
く中国に輸出される。天然ガスの価格上昇と需要拡大で、ビルマのガス輸出額は飛躍
的に伸び、今年度の貿易黒字は約25億ドルにも上る見込みだ。ビルマの外貨準備高も
年度末には50億ドル相当に達するだろう。
だがこうした歳入はビルマの国家会計にはほとんどまったく反映されない。理由は簡
単だ。ビルマ政府は、天然ガスによる米ドルベースの収入を「公定」の為替レート
（6チャット＝1米ドル）で政府会計に計上しているからだ。公定レートは実勢レート
の200倍近くであるから、公定レートを使うと天然ガスによる収入は実際の200分の1
になる。このため公式には、天然ガスによる収入は歳入全体の1％にも満たないこと
になってしまう。だが実勢レートでこの収入を換算すれば、ビルマの歳入全体の倍以
上になり、ビルマの財政赤字はほとんど解消することになる。
このような会計操作の背景には、ビルマの外貨収入を政府会計から「隔離」すること
によって、その外貨収入を軍政や政商が自由に使えるようにしたいという思惑がある
のだろう。会計操作を可能にしているのは国営の外国貿易銀行と、軍政に協力的な海
外のいくつかの銀行だ。
こうして作った財源で潤った軍政は、気の遠くなるような規模の買い物を立て続けに
行っている。たとえば新しい行政首都ネピドー（「王の座」の意）の建設や、ロシア
や（未確認だが）北朝鮮からの核技術導入費用などだ。なお核技術の使用目的はわ
かっていない。
こうした政府の振る舞いはビルマでは珍しくない。軍政は1962年にクーデターで政権
を握って以来一貫して、国内生産物がもたらす収入を独占し、基本的な市場機構を解
体していった。ビルマには実効的な物権は存在しないし、法の支配も弱い。マクロ経
済政策の立案も気まぐれで予測不可能な上、不正確な情報に基づいている。軍政の歳
出は歳入をはるかに上回り、それを糊塗するための貨幣増刷により、インフレが生じ
ている。主要な企業の大半は軍が所有しており、トランスペアレンシー・インターナ
ショナルの指標によれば、国の腐敗度は世界で下から2番目である。
ビルマの失墜は見るに耐えないほどだ。かつては東南アジアでもっとも豊かな国の一
つで、世界一の米の輸出国だった。それが今日、国民の食糧さえ事欠きかねない状況
だ。1950年のビルマの国内総生産（GDP）は、隣国タイとほぼ同じだった。両国は宗
教・文化・物理的諸条件の類似性が高いにもかかわらず、今日ではタイのGDPはビル
マの7倍である。
ビルマの国民は貧しいが、国民を弾圧する政権の側は違う。この等式を変えることこ
そが、ビルマの経済発展につながる本当のカギとなるのであり、国際社会の努力が向
けられるべきなのだ。
ターネル氏はビルマ・エコノミック・ウォッチの編集者で、オーストラリアのマッカ
リー大学の助教授（経済学）。
出典：“Burma Isn’t Broke: The junta, not a lack of resources, is to blame
for the people’s poverty,” The Wall Street Journal, August 6, 2009
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574329181770155154.ht
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日本語訳 ビルマ情報ネットワーク
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Regime Reportedly Divided Over Suu Kyi Sentence
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By MIN LWIN Monday, August 10, 2009
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The delays in the court proceeding against Aung San Suu Kyi are caused by disagreements within the military regime over how severely to punish her, according to Burmese army sources.
Some generals—notably Gen Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Secretary 1 of the ruling military council—are said to want to see her imprisoned. Others are reportedly in favor of a more lenient sentence for the Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was being held in house detention until the start of her trial in May.
Among those who appear to be reluctant to commit Suu Kyi to prison is Gen Thura Shwe Mann, Coordinator of Special Operations, Army, Navy and Air Force, according to the army source—who told The Irrawaddy he wanted to see Suu Kyi sentenced “within the framework of the law.”
Htay Aung, a Burmese military researcher based in Thailand, also said that some senior military generals are divided over the trial, with one faction keen to see Suu Kyi sentenced to a term of imprisonment, isolating her from the general election planned for 2010, and others wanting to apply the due process of law.
“The trial of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was postponed because some military generals wanted to consider it from a legal point of view,” said Htay Aung. He thought international pressure on the regime also played a part in the postponements.
Tin Aung Myint Oo is close to paramount leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe, who promoted the battle-hardened hardliner to the rank of four-star general in late March.
The general is also close to Aung Thaung, minister for Industry (1), an extreme nationalist believed to be one of the masterminds of the Depayin massacre in May 2003, when Suu Kyi’s motorcade was ambushed in central Burma. He is said to harbor a deep hatred of Suu Kyi.
Military sources suggest the rise of Tin Aung Myint Oo has intimidated a faction headed by the regime’s No 3, Gen Shwe Mann, who has been groomed to succeed Than Shwe. Lately, the general has been in charge of national security and the coordination of army, navy and air force.
Shwe Mann so far is loyal to Than Shwe but rivals are closely watching his relationship with business tycoons and some Burmese scholars, army sources told The Irrawaddy. The sources also disclosed that Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan, a close ally of Shwe Mann, has been sidelined in the power struggle with the Tin Aung Myint Oo faction. But so far Shwe Mann has saved the information minister from the sack.
Observers inside Burma say Aung Thaung and Tin Aung Myint Oo are working together with the police and ministry of interior to influence the outcome of Suu Kyi’s trial.
Police Chief Gen Khin Yi and Minister of Home Affairs Maung Oo are close to the Tin Aung Myint Oo faction, and Khin Yi had been holding press briefings on Suu Kyi. It is believed that hardliners have instructed the police chief to concoct the case against Suu Kyi.
Last Friday, Gen Khin Yi claimed in comments to reporters that John William Yettaw, the American whose intrusion into Suu Kyi’s home initiated the case against her, had connections with Burmese exiled groups.
The police chief also denied media reports that the regime had plotted with Yettaw. Speculation continues to circulate in Rangoon that Yettaw had received a large sum of money from regime leaders to intrude into Suu Kyi’s home in May. It’s also speculated that Aung Thaung collaborated with Than Shwe and Tin Aung Myint Oo to concoct the case against Suu Kyi.
Copyright © 2008 Irrawaddy Publishing Group | www.irrawaddy.org
COMMENTS
A Wrote: 10/08/2009
Like under colonial rule, Than Shwe is said to be used to divide and rule.
He did the same towards Maung Aye vs Khin Nyunt, Khin Nyunt vs late Soe Win.
Now it is Shwe Mann vs Tin Aung Myint Oo.
It is quite correct that nothing is permenant. Than Shwe, Maung Aye, Shwe Mann and Tin Aung Myint Oo—the junta will never die. One will come up after another, leaving the people poorer and poorer and they themselves are also not carrying anything with them when they die. They may not be allowed to have their funerals attended by their loved ones when they die, as happened to their godfather Ne Win.
It is no wonder that things like this happen as there is no rule of law in Burma. Rule and law are made by them. Therefore, there will be no law among them.
Than Shwe is making a battle between Shwe Mann and Tin Aung Myint Oo. What is his role as a senior general?
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米国人を無断で自宅に泊めたとして、国家防御法違反の罪に問われている、
ビルマの民主化指導者アウンサンスーチーさんの裁判につき、明日、
８月１１日（火）判決が言い渡される予定です。
これを受けて、在日ビルマ人の民主化活動家の皆さんは、アウンサン
スーチーさんの不当起訴への抗議と早期釈放、そして民主化に向けた
対話を開始するよう求め、下記の通り抗議行動を行いますので、
在日ビルマ人に代わってお知らせいたします。
平日ではありますが、ご都合のつくかたは、ぜひご参加ください。
どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。
ビルマ市民フォーラム
事務局 宮澤
http://www1.jca.apc.org/pfb/
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■ビルマ（ミャンマー）：アウンサンスーチーさんの裁判・明日、判決言い渡し
■在日ビルマ人民主化活動家、ビルマ大使館前・抗議行動のお知らせ
“アウンサンスーチーさんは無罪！
軍政はスーチーさんを含むすべての政治囚の釈放し、全ての関係者を含め
民主化に向けて対話を！“
●日時：８月１１日（火） １３：００～
●場所：在日ビルマ（ミャンマー）大使館前
アクセス：東京都品川区北品川4-8-26
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●参加者：
在日ビルマ人共同行動実行委員会（JAC）ほか在日ビルマ人の
民主化活動家の皆さん
＊どなたでも参加できます。ぜひお越しください。
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သေဘာထား ကြဲလြဲမႈႏွင့္ စိတ္ရွည္ သည္းခံမႈ -ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္စိုး(ဂ်ပန္)
ဒီကေန႕မနက္က ေကာ္ဖီဆိုင္မွာ သတင္းစာဖတ္ရင္းနဲ႕ ေကာ္ဖီထိုင္ေသာက္ခဲ့တယ္၊ သတင္းစာထဲမွာ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ကြာလာလမ္ပူၿမိဳ႕မွာ လူ ၂၀၀၀၀ ေလာက္က Internal Security Act (ISA) ကို ဖီဆန္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပတဲ့သူေတြကို ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕က တုတ္ေတြနဲ႕လိုက္ရိုက္၊ အင္အားသံုးၿပီး အတင္းဖမ္းဆီး၊ မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုးေတြနဲ႕ပစ္၊ ဓာတုေဆးရည္ေတြပါတဲ့ ေရေတြနဲ႔ ပက္တယ္လို႕ဖတ္ရတယ္။
ဆႏၵျပတဲ့သူေတြက Reformasi, Reformasi လို႕ေၾကြးေၾကာ္ၾကတယ္၊ အစိုးရကို ေတာင္းဆိုၾကတယ္၊ အဲဒါကို အစိုးရက လူစုကြဲသြားေစဖို႕၊ ဆႏၵျပေတာင္းဆိုမႈေတြမလုပ္ေစဖို႕ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ကို ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ခိုင္းတယ္၊ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕က အစိုးရလက္ေအာက္ခံ ျဖစ္ေတာ့ အမိန္႕အတိုင္းလိုက္နာရတယ္၊ ညြန္ၾကားခ်က္ကို အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ လူ ၆၀ ေလာက္ အဖမ္းခံရတယ္လို႕ သတင္းထဲေဖာ္ျပထားလို႕ သိလိုက္ရတယ္။
မေလးရွားမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီထြန္းကားပါတယ္။ ျပည္သူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အရင့္အမာ ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာလို လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြ၊ ျပည္သူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြ မရွိတာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ အထူးအေထြ မေျပာလိုပါဘူး။ ဒီမိုကေရစီကို တႏိုင္ငံနဲ႕တႏိုင္ငံ က်င့္သံုးမႈပံုစံ ကြာျခားမႈွရွိတယ္ဆိုတာကို လက္ခံလို႕ပါပဲ။
ဒါေပမဲ့ အေျခခံအက်ဆံုး လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြ၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေျခခံမူေတြကိုေတာ့ ဘယ္ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံမဆို လိုက္နာက်င့္သံုး အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ဖို႕လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ မရွိမျဖစ္ အလိုအပ္ဆံုးအေျခခံကေတာ့ လြတ္လပ္စြာသေဘာဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသမႈ Freedom of Expression ပါပဲ။ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕သေဘာဆႏၵ၊ ခံယူခ်က္၊ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ကို လြတ္လပ္စြာနဲ႕ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသမႈပါ၊ စကားနဲ႕ထုတ္ ေဖာ္ျပသတဲ့နည္း၊ စာနဲ႕ေရးသားတဲ့နည္း၊ ရုပ္ပံုေတြ၊ ရုပ္ေသေတြ၊ ရုပ္ရွင္ေတြနဲ႕ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသတဲ့နည္း၊ အမူအယာနဲ႕ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသတဲ့နည္း၊ စီတန္းလွည့္လည္တဲ့နည္း၊ မတ္တပ္ရပ္တဲ့နည္း၊ ထိုင္တဲ့နည္း စတဲ့ နည္းေပါင္းစံုနဲ႕ ျပသခြင့္ျဖစ္ ပါတယ္။
ဒီလိုနည္းလမ္းေတြနဲ႕ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသခြင့္ကို ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒ၊ ျပည္သူ႕ေရးရာဥပေဒေတြ၊ နည္းဥပေဒေတြ၊ လုပ္ထံုးလုပ္နည္းေတြ၊ စည္းကမ္းေတြနဲ႕ အတိအလင္းျပဌာန္းသတ္မွတ္ေပးရပါမယ္။ အဲဒီလို ျပည္သူ႕ေရးရာအခြင့္အေရး Civil Rights ေတြကို ျပည္သူေတြကလက္ေတြ႕က်င့္သံုးအေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္တဲ့အခါ ဥပေဒေရးရာထိန္းသိမ္းေစာင့္ ေရွာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕၊ လံုျခံဳေရးဆိုင္ရာအဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြနဲ႕ တျခားအာဏာပိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြက သတ္မွတ္ျပဌာန္းထားတာေတြနဲ႕အညီ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးရပါမယ္၊ ကူညီေပးရပါမယ္။
ဒီလိုေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေပးႏိုင္မွာသာ ႏိုင္ငံမွာ တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရး Rule of Law ဆိုတာ ထြန္းကားႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ တရား ဥပေဒစိုးမိုးမႈရွိမွသာ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအတြင္းမွာ တရားမွ်တမႈေတြရွိမွာပါ၊ တရားမွ်တမႈေတြရွိတဲ့အခါမ်ဳိးမွာ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းအတြင္း တိုးတက္မႈေတြကို ရရွိဖို႕၊ တိုးတက္မႈေတြကို ႀကိဳးပမ္းရွာေဖြတဲ့အခါ၊ တိုးတက္မႈေတြကို မွ်ေ၀ခံစားတဲ့အခါ မွန္ကန္မွ်တမႈရွိမွာပါ၊ အမွန္တရားေတြ ထြန္းကားမွာပါ၊ အမွန္တရားေတြထြန္းကားတဲ့အခါ အဲဒီလူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းဟာ တည္ၿငိမ္ေအးခ်မ္းမႈရွိမွာပါ၊ တည္ၿငိမ္ေအးခ်မ္းမႈေတြရွိၿပီဆိုရင္ ျပည္သူလူထုဟာ ေခတ္မီတိုးတက္တဲ့လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းကို ထူေထာင္ႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕သေဘာဆႏၵကို လြတ္လပ္စြာထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသတယ္ဆိုတာမွာ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕၊ အာဏာပိုင္အဖြဲ႕ေတြကို ဆန္႕က်င္ကန္႕ ကြက္တာမ်ဳိးကိုပဲ ေခၚတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အစိုးရတရပ္၊ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတရပ္ရဲ႕လုပ္ရပ္ေတြကို ေထာက္ခံတာမ်ဳိး၊ သေဘာတူ တာမ်ဳိးေတြလည္း ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေလာင္စာေစ်းတက္လို႕၊ ကုန္ေစ်းႏႈန္းတက္လို႕၊ စား၀တ္ေနေရးခက္ခဲလို႕၊ လုပ္အားခေတြ အႏွိမ္ခံရလို႕ ကန္႕ကြက္တာ၊ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက မတရားအႏိုင္က်င့္တာေတြကို ကန္႕ကြက္တာ၊ ေတာင္းဆိုဆႏၵျပတာေတြဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုက သူတို႕ရဲ႕အခြင့္အေရးကို အသံုးခ်တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကို အစိုးရနဲ႕ အာဏာပိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြက ခြင့္ျပဳရပါမယ္၊ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးရပါမယ္၊ ဒီလိုပဲ နအဖလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားညီလာခံကို ေထာက္ခံတဲ့ အေနနဲ႕ ၾကံ့ဖြတ္အစည္းအေ၀းေတြ၊ လူထုစည္းေ၀းပြဲေတြလုပ္ခြင္ျပဳခဲ့တာ၊ တျခားအေၾကာင္းရင္းေတြနဲ႕ စီတန္းလွည့္ လည္တာေတြကို ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာပိုင္က ခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့တာေတြရွိပါတယ္။
အစိုးရေတြဟာ ကိုယ့္ကို ေထာက္ခံတာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ကန္႕ကြက္တာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဒီလို လူထုစည္းေ၀းပြဲေတြ၊ စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ ဆႏၵျပတာေတြကို တေျပးညီခြင့္ျပဳေပးရပါမယ္၊ ဒါကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးအျမင္နဲ႕ၾကည့္လို႕မျဖစ္ပါဘူး၊ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးအျမင္နဲ႕ ၾကည့္ရမွာပါ။ စည္းေ၀းခြင့္၊ ဆႏၵျပခြင့္ဆိုတာ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး၊ ျပည္သူ႕အခြင့္အေရးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆႏၵျပရတဲ့အေၾကာင္းရင္း ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေၾကာင္းအရာျဖစ္ရင္ျဖစ္မယ္။ မျဖစ္ရင္လည္း မျဖစ္ဘူး။
ဘယ္လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွာမဆို တူညီမႈ၊ ကြဲျပားျခားနားမႈ၊ သေဘာထားမတိုက္ဆိုင္မႈေတြဟာ ရွိစျမဲပါ၊ ဒါဟာ ဆန္းတဲ့အရာ ေတာ့မဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ျဖစ္ေလ့ျဖစ္ထရွိတဲ့အရာေတြပါ၊ အဲဒီမတူညီ ကြဲျပားျခားနားမႈေတြအေပၚ စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံမႈ Tolerance ဟာ အေရးႀကီးပါတယ္။
ကြာလာလမ္ပူကအျဖစ္အပ်က္မွာ ISA ကို ဖီဆန္ၿပီး ျပည္သူ ၂၀၀၀၀ ေလာက္ကဆႏၵျပတာကို ဒီမိုကေရစီနည္းက်က် ေရြးခ်ယ္ခံထားရတဲ့အစိုးရတရပ္က ခြင့္မျပဳဘူးဆိုတာဟာ ျပည္သူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေတြနဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္စြာသေဘာဆႏၵထုတ္ ေဖာ္ျပသခြင့္ကို ဆန္႕က်င္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္အစိုးရတရပ္အေနနဲ႕ လိုက္နာေစာင့္ထိန္းရမယ့္က်င့္၀တ္ေတြ ကို ေဖာက္ဖ်က္ရာေရာက္ပါတယ္။
ISA ဟာ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံသူ ႏိုင္ငံသားေတြရဲ႕ဘ၀ကိုထိပါးေစလို႕ ဒီလူ ၂၀၀၀၀ ေလာက္က Reformasi ဆိုၿပီး ေတာင္းဆို ဆႏၵျပတာပါ၊ ဒီလိုဆႏၵျပတာကို စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္နဲ႕ သည္းခံတာမ်ဳိးမရွိပဲ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ကို ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ဖို႕ေစခိုင္းတာက မေလးရွား အစိုးရက မိမိနဲ႕သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲမႈ Dissent ကို လက္မခံဘူးဆိုတာကို ေဖာ္ျပေနပါတယ္။
ဒီလူ ၂၀၀၀၀ ဟာ ကြာလာလမ္ပူၿမိဳ႕တြင္းမွာ ဖ်က္ဆီးမႈေတြလုပ္ဖို႕၊ တုိက္ခိုက္မႈေတြလုပ္ဖို႕၊ အင္အားသံုးအၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ ေတြလုပ္ဖို႕စုေ၀းခ်ီတက္ၾကတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ဖ်က္ဆီးတိုက္ခိုက္မႈေတြလုပ္ဖို႕ တုတ္၊ ဓား၊ လက္နက္ကိရိယာေတြကို ကိုင္ ေဆာင္ခ်ီတက္ၾကတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ သူတို႕ရဲ႕အေျခခံအခြင့္အေရးျဖစ္တဲ့ လြတ္လပ္စြာသေဘာဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသခြင့္ကို စီတန္းလွည့္လည္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႕ လက္ေတြ႕က်င့္သံုးတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလူ ၂၀၀၀၀ ရဲ႕စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ဆႏၵျပမႈကို ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္း ခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႕ျဖစ္ေစဖို႕ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္ေတြက ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးမယ္ဆိုရင္ မေလးရွားအစိုးရနဲ႕ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕ဟာ ျပည္သူ႕ အခြင့္အေရးေတြကို ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးတဲ့သူေတြအျဖစ္နဲ႕ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳခံရမွာပါ။ တကယ္လို႕စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ ဆႏၵျပမႈမွာ ဖ်က္ဆီးေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈရွိလာရင္ အဲဒီဆႏၵျပပြဲကို ဦးစီးလုပ္ေဆာင္တဲ့သူေတြနဲ႕ ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႕တို႕က ဆႏၵျပတာရဲ႕ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကို မထိခိုက္ေစဖို႕ လက္တြဲလုပ္ေဆာင္ရပါမယ္။
ဒီလိုလုပ္ေဆာင္တာမ်ဳိးဟာ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအတြင္းမွာ သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲမႈေတြကို သည္းခံၿပီး ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတည္ၿငိမ္မႈေတြ ထြန္းကားေစပါတယ္။
ဒီေနရာမွာအစိုးရေတြအေနနဲ႕ လက္ခံထားဖို႕လိုအပ္တဲ့အခ်က္က ကိုယ့္ကိုဆန္႕က်င္ကန္႕ကြက္တဲ့သူ၊ ကိုယ္နဲ႕ သေဘာ ထားကြဲလြဲတဲ့သူတိုင္းဟာ ရန္သူမဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာပါပဲ။ ဒါကုိ ေကာင္းေကာင္းနားလည္ထားဖို႕လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလူေတြရဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္စြာဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသခြင့္ကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရပါမယ္၊ ေလးစားရပါမယ္၊ ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးရပါမယ္။ အဲဒီလူေတြရဲ႕ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ေတြကို လိုက္ေလ်ာတာ မလိုက္ေလ်ာတာက အစိုးရေတြရဲ႕ သေဘာထား၊ မူ၀ါဒ၊ တိုင္းျပည္ ရဲ႕အေျခအေန၊ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕သေဘာထား၊ ႏိုင္ငံတကာရဲ႕စံႏႈန္းေတြေပၚမူတည္ၿပီး ဆံုးျဖတ္မွာပါ။
ဒီလိုပဲ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသတဲ့သူေတြဘက္ကလည္း ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသမႈဟာ မိမိတို႕ရဲ႕အေျခခံအခြင့္အေရးေတြကို လက္ေတြ႕က်င့္သံုးတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ မိမိတို႕ရဲ႕အခြင့္အေရးကို ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႕ အျပည့္အ၀အသံုးခ်ႏိုင္ဖို႕ႀကိဳးပမ္းရမွာပါ၊ မိမိတို႕ရဲ႕ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကို အစိုးရက လိုက္ေလ်ာတာ မလိုက္ေလ်ာတာက ေနာက္ထပ္ကိစၥပါ။ အဲဒါကို ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ ခြဲျခားနားလည္ထားဖို႕လိုပါတယ္။
စုရံုးမႈ၊ စည္းေ၀းမႈ၊ ဆႏၵျပမႈ၊ စီတန္းလွည့္လည္မႈေတြမွာ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက လက္မခံႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ တရားလြန္ျပဳမူ သလားဆိုတာကို အထူးသတိထားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖို႕လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။
သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲမႈေတြျဖစ္ၿပီဆိုရင္ တင္းမာမႈေတြျဖစ္လာေလ့ရွိပါတယ္၊ တင္းမာမႈေတြျဖစ္လာရင္ စိတ္ခံစားမႈေတြကို ဦးစားေပးလာတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒါဆိုရင္ စိတ္ကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္မႈစြမ္းအားေတြ ေလ်ာ့က်လာပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုေလ်ာ့လာၿပီဆိုရင္ လုပ္သင့္တာေတြမလုပ္၊ မလုပ္သင့္တာေတြလုပ္တဲ့အဆင့္ကို ေရာက္လာပါတတ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါဆိုရင္ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕မူလရည္မွန္း ခ်က္၊ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကို ထိခိုက္လာႏိုင္ပါတယ္၊ ဒီလိုသေဘာသဘာ၀မ်ဳိးကို နားလည္တတ္ဖို႕လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။
ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဒီမိုကေရစီထြန္းကားတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြ၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီေဖာ္ေဆာင္ဖို႕ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြက လူေတြအေနနဲ႕ သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲမႈ Dissent ကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလက္ခံၿပီး၊ အဲဒီကြဲလြဲမႈေတြကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသတဲ့ လြတ္လပ္စြာသေဘာ
ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ျပသမႈ Freedom of Expression ကိုအာမခံခ်က္ေပးရပါမယ္။ ဒီလိုအာမခံခ်က္ေပးတာဟာ ျပည္သူ႕အခြင့္ အေရး Civil Rights ေတြကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြကို လက္ေတြ႕က်င့္သံုးတဲ့အခါ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာနဲ႕ျဖစ္ထြန္း ေစဖို႕ဆိုရင္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြေရာ၊ သေဘာထားကြဲလြဲတဲ့သူ Dissident ေတြပါ စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံမႈ Tolerance ရွိဖို႕ဟာ အေရးႀကီးပါတယ္။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႕လဲဆိုေတာ့ အမ်ားနဲ႕သက္ဆိုင္တဲ့ ကိုယ့္ရဲ႕လိုလားခ်က္ဟာ ခ်က္ခ်င္းလက္ငင္းျပည့္၀လာ မွာ မဟုတ္လို႕ပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီလိုအေနအထား၊ အျဖစ္အပ်က္၊ သေဘာသဘာ၀ေတြကို ေကာင္းေကာင္းနားလည္က်င့္သံုးတတ္မွ လူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတခု အတြင္း၊ ႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီထြန္းကားေရးနဲ႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုးတက္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီတည္တံ့ခိုင္ျမဲေရး ကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္စိုး(ဂ်ပန္)
ၾသဂုတ္ ၃ ၊ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္
Philippines mourns democracy icon Corazon Aquino
MANILA, Philippines – Thousands of Filipinos lined up for hours Sunday to see the body of former President Corazon Aquino — the beloved democracy icon who swept away a dictator and inspired nonviolent resistance to autocratic rule.
Aquino, 76, died early Saturday in a Manila hospital after a yearlong battle with colon cancer.
Thousands trooped to a suburban Manila university stadium where Aquino's coffin, teeming with yellow roses and orchids, was displayed on a platform.
Some mourners openly wept and carried yellow ribbons — the color that symbolized her democratic advocacy. One held an old poster of Ferdinand Marcos, the strongman she helped depose in 1986.
Aquino rose to prominence after the assassination in 1983 of her husband, opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr. The uprising she led in 1986 brought down Marcos' repressive 20-year regime and served as an inspiration to nonviolent resistance across the globe, including those that ended communist rule in eastern Europe.
Chinese President Hu Jintao sent condolences to Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement Sunday.
"Mrs. Aquino is an outstanding leader of the Philippines and she is also a good friend of the Chinese people," Jiang said. "The Chinese government and the Chinese people deeply lament her death."
President Barack Obama was deeply saddened by Aquino's death, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said Saturday.
Aquino's supporters had been holding daily prayers for her in churches around the country since she was rushed to intensive care after she stopped eating in late June.
Arroyo, who is on an official visit to the United States, remembered Aquino as a "national treasure" who helped lead "a revolution to restore democracy and the rule of law to our nation at a time of great peril.
Arroyo declared a 10-day national mourning period Saturday.
Maria Corazon Cojuangco was born on Jan. 25, 1933, into a wealthy, politically powerful family in Paniqui, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of Manila.
Her unlikely rise began in 1983 after her husband was gunned down at Manila's international airport moments after soldiers escorted him from a plane on his arrival from exile in the United States to challenge Marcos, his longtime adversary. Investigations showed one of his military escorts was the assassin.
After the murder, Aquino returned to the Philippines and led the largest funeral procession Manila had ever seen, with crowd estimates as high as 2 million.
The killing enraged many Filipinos and unleashed a broad-based opposition movement that thrust Aquino into the role of national leader.
"I don't know anything about the presidency," she declared in 1985, a year before she agreed to run against Marcos, uniting the fractious opposition, the business community, and later the armed forces to drive the dictator out.
In the wake of that election, the Marcos regime — which declared martial law in 1972 and had jailed Aquino's husband — started to unravel.
But Marcos claimed victory in those polls — widely seen as fraudulent — leading a group of military officers to mutiny against him on Feb. 22 and holed up with a small force in a military camp in Manila, leading to three days of protests by hundreds of thousands that finally toppled him.
On Feb. 25, Aquino was sworn in as the Philippines' first female leader and Marcos flew to exile in Hawaii, where he died three years later.
She stepped down in 1992 after serving for six years.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_obit_corazon_aquino
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ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း ပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈကိစၥ ေဒၚစုနဲ႔ ေရွ႕ေနေတြ ေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ေတာင္း
ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း ပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈကိစၥ ေဒၚစုနဲ႔ ေရွ႕ေနေတြ ေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ေတာင္း
04 August 2009
ဖမ္းဆီးခံေနရတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ အင္းလ်ားကန္ နံေဘးမွာရွိတဲ့ ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း တစိတ္တပုိင္းကုိ ေဆြမ်ဳိးသားခ်င္းတဦးက ေရာင္းခ်လုိက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း မၾကာေသးခင္ကပဲ ေၾကညာခဲ့တဲ့ကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ဖုိ႔ ေရွ႕ေနေတြက အာဏာပုိင္ေတြထံ ေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ ေတာင္းခံထားပါတယ္။ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ တားျမစ္မိန္႔ကုိ ေဖာက္ဖ်က္တယ္လုိ႔ စြပ္စဲြခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနရခ်ိန္ ေနာက္ထပ္ တရားတေဘာင္ ေျဖရွင္းရမယ့္ အေျခအေနေတြနဲ႔ ထပ္ႀကံဳေနရတာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဆက္သြယ္စုံစမ္းထားတဲ့ ကုိေအာင္လြင္ဦးက အေၾကာင္းစုံကုိ တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ တကၠသုိလ္ရိပ္သာလမ္းေပၚက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း တစိတ္တပုိင္းကုိ သူ႔ရဲ႕ ေဆြမ်ဳိးသားခ်င္းတဦးက ပုိင္ဆုိင္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ဒါကုိလည္း ေရာင္းခ်လုိက္ၿပီဆုိၿပီး ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့လ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔တုန္းကပဲ အစုိးရထုတ္ ေၾကးမုံသတင္းစာမွာ ေၾကညာခဲ့တာမုိ႔ ဒါနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဥပေဒေၾကာင္းအရ ကန္႔ကြက္မႈေတြ ဆက္ၿပီး လုပ္သြားႏုိင္ဖုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေရွ႕ေနေတြက ေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ ေတာင္းထားတာပါ။
သတင္းစာပါ ေၾကညာခ်က္အရ တဖက္ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ ေရွ႕ေနေတြနဲ႔ ၀ယ္ယူလုိက္သူထံကုိ တရား၀င္ ကန္႔ကြက္တာေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့အၿပီး ဒါနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ အသိေပး ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ရဖုိ႔ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြထံ ေတာင္းခံထားေပမယ့္ ေတြ႕ခြင့္ရမရ မသိရေသးဘူးလုိ႔ ဥပေဒအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ ေရွ႕ေနတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ဒါ ေရာင္း၀ယ္ခြင့္ မရွိဘူး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လက္၀ယ္မွာ ရွိတယ္။ ေရာင္းတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေအးလည္း ေရာင္းခြင့္မရွိဘူး။ အဲေတာ့ ေရာင္းခြင့္မရွိတဲ့ လူဆီက ၀ယ္ရင္ ကိုယ့္ေငြပဲ ဆုံး႐ႈံးမယ္လုိ႔ ဒီလို အသိေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥအတြက္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဖုိ႔ စာတင္ထားပါတယ္။ ဘယ္ေန႔ ေတြ႕ျဖစ္မလဲေတာ့ မသိေသးဘူး။”
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း တစိတ္တပုိင္းကုိ ပုိင္ဆုိင္ေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ ေရာင္းခ်လုိက္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာခ်က္ကုိ ကန္႔ကြက္သူေတြထဲမွာ အခု ပုိင္ဆုိင္တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာဆုိထားတဲ့ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေအးရဲ႕ ဇနီးေဟာင္းလည္း တဦးအပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ သူ႔အေနနဲ႔လည္း ဒီၿခံ၀န္း တစိတ္တပုိင္းကုိ ပုိင္ဆုိင္တာမုိ႔ ေရာင္းခ်မႈကုိ ကန္႔ကြက္ထားတာလုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။
“၂၇ ရက္ေန႔ ေၾကးမုံသတင္းစာမွာပဲ သူ႕အမ်ဳိးသမီးကလည္း သူ႕ကုိ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေအး ေရာင္းခြင့္မရွိဘူး၊ သူလည္း ပူးတြဲ ပုိင္တယ္ေပါ့၊ အဲဒီလုိ ကန္႔ကြက္တာကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ပါတယ္။”
ဒီလုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း တစိတ္တပုိင္းကုိ ပုိင္ဆုိင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိမႈေတြ ရွိေနေပမယ့္လည္း အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ေရွ႕ေနေတြ အေနနဲ႔ကေတာ့ ဒါေတြကုိ လက္ခံမွာ မဟုတ္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္းနဲ႔ အခုေနာက္ဆုံး အေခ်အတင္ ျဖစ္ေနရတဲ့ ပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈ ကိစၥမွာလည္း ၀ယ္ယူသူအေနနဲ႔ နစ္နာဆုံး႐ႈံးမႈနဲ႔သာ ႀကံဳရႏုိင္တဲ့အေၾကာင္း သတိေပးထားတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။
“အခုေၾကညာတာက ၀ယ္တယ္ဆုိတဲ့လူ၊ နာမည္လည္းမသိဘူး၊ ေမးလို႔လည္း မရဘူး။ ဒါႀကီးက လွ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္လည္း လုပ္ထားတယ္။ အဲေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ကေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ကုိပဲ ေျပာလုိက္တယ္၊ ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔ ၀ယ္ရင္ေတာ့ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ မွားမွာပဲ၊ ေငြဆုံး႐ႈံးမွာ။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ကေတာ့ ပစၥည္း Position ကလည္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔လက္ထဲမွာ။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ကလည္း တကယ္လို႔ အေရာင္းအ၀ယ္လုပ္လည္း က်ဳပ္တုိ႔က ဒါေပးမွာမဟုတ္ဘူးဆုိတာ ေျပာလုိက္တယ္။”
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေနအိမ္ပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ေပးေနတဲ့ ေရွ႕ေနတဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္း ေျပာျပသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တကယ္ေတာ့ အခုေနာက္ဆုံး ေနအိမ္ၿခံ၀န္း ပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈကိစၥလုိ အေခ်အတင္ ျဖစ္စရာေတြ ထြက္ေပၚလာတာ ဒါဟာ ပထမဆုံးေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အရင့္အရင္တုန္းကလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ အစ္ကုိျဖစ္သူ ဦးေအာင္ဆန္းဦးဟာလည္း ေနအိမ္ကုိ အေမြဆုိင္အျဖစ္ ေလွ်ာက္လဲလုိ႔ တရားတေဘာင္ ရင္ဆုိင္ရတာေတြလည္း ရွိခဲ့တာပါ။ ဒီအမႈဟာဆုိရင္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံထားရတဲ့ အခ်ိန္ကာလတေလွ်ာက္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းေတြ ေရႊ႕ဆုိင္းလာခဲ့တာ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိလည္း မၿပီးျပတ္ေသးပဲ ရွိေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/2009-08-04-voa6.cfm?rss=topstories
NCGUB’s shopping or political tour in Indonesia?
by Heng Khur
Tuesday, 04 August 2009 16:36
Mizzima News - The NCGUB, the Burmese government in exile, will hold a meeting on 12 and 13 August, with a handful of Burmese activists in Indonesia and come up with a proposal to the military junta for national reconciliation.
The trip sounds interesting for the ones who are about to attend. It is interesting because some of its members will be on tour and even do some shopping in Indonesia. And it becomes more interesting because Dr. Thaung Tun added that it is a process which would continue in US and EU.
Pathetically, in almost 20 years, NCGUB has come up with the only plan to hold a political meeting (sic) with handpicked Burmese Community Based Organizations (CBOs).
Whatever transpires at the meeting in Indonesia is not a way out of the political imbroglio in Burma but a political show in an effort to dig out more funds from donors.
Sure enough, there will be a beautiful and well-written statement after the meeting as; release Aung San Suu Kyi and political prisoners immediately, hold talks with the opposition groups, include concerned parties in the forthcoming 2010 elections (with the quotation from the UN General Secretary). The statement will be nothing new but old calls and boring to say the least.
Instead people want to hear what and how the NCGUB and other Burmese organizations will proceed in order to solve the problems -- Burmese Army‘s oppression on the people, armed conflicts, IDPs, refugees, migrants, drugs and political prisoners.
Releasing statements, raising awareness is just part of the activities but it will not solve the current problems unless the NCGUB and other Burmese organizations look at the ground situation. People, who used to participate in these meetings, know well that most of these organizations are not functioning but a political brand in order to ask for funds.
As Dr- Thaung Tun said, it is a process, which would entail further trips to EU and US. I wonder how much money they are going to spend on this political show trips. Instead of having such meetings, why not take that fund and give it to the needy people in the IDP camps along the Thai border.
In addition to that, the NCGUB and other CBOs rarely look at the problems that people are facing on the ground.
Therefore, to have a better say in the bargaining with the Burmese regime, why does not the NCGUB invite ceasefire and non-ceasefire groups on its side in the meeting to solve the Burmese problem. The meeting should not aim at releasing statements or a shopping trip. NCGUB must come to the point, how will it work together in order fulfill the people’s expectation.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
‘Historic’ meeting of Burmese opposition in Indonesia
Aug 3, 2009 (DVB)–Burmese ethnic groups and pro-democracy parties are set to meet in Jakarta this month to draw up a national reconciliation programme for Burma, billed as “history being made”.
The alliance, the Movement for Democracy and Rights for Ethnic Nationalities (MDREN), will meet in the Indonesian capital on 12 and 13 August to formalize the ‘Proposal for National Reconciliation’.
A statement released today by MDREN said that “delegates from all groups aligned in opposition to the military regime” would be present at the meeting.
“The proposal envisages opening a process of dialogue with the junta, effectively offering a sustainable exit-strategy for the military rulers,” it said.
“Civil sector support, electoral and constitutional reforms, military demobilisation, ethnic relations and social infrastructure are among the central areas addressed in the [proposal].”
The Prime Minister of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), Sein Win, said that the convention was “history being made”.
“The last time all major ethnic and pro-democracy organizations have forged a common position was in 1947 when all forces agreed to seek independence from the British,” he said.
“As such, this is the first time an indigenous coalition has agreed to work together against a home-grown power.”
The MDREN is made up of opposition groups both within Burma and in exile, and includes the Ethnic Nationalities Council, the Women’s League of Burma and the Forum for Democracy in Burma.
International diplomats and non-governmental organizations will also attend the meeting.
Indonesia is hailed as a Southeast Asian success story after successful democratic transition from military rule in 1998, and is often cited as a potential model for Burma’s transition.
Reporting by Francis Wade
Ready for this? Nukes in Burma report
This article appears in the print edition of the Irish Times
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Ready for this? Nukes in Burma report
03 Aug 2009 11:26 pm
A friend I've known and trusted for years in the national security world sent me this report from the Bangkok Post yesterday. Obviously that means it's not "secret" material, and the report itself the result of reasoning and guess work rather than anything more definite. But the authors include Desmond Ball of the Australian National University, who is a well-established authority in nuclear weapons and strategic studies. (Nothing against the other author; I just don't know of him.) They begin their findings this way:
"Our own starting position was one of deep skepticism, but the testimonies from two defectors forced us to consider the uncomfortable possibilities of a Burma with nuclear capability." (Photo Bangkok Post)
The reason this would matter is that Burma has arguably the worst government in the world -- and if not the very worst, then right up there with North Korea in having its own concept of "rationality." (This was the government that would not allow outsiders to help the victims of the devastating typhoon/cyclone last year.) And the gist of this report is that North Korea has been working with the Burmese regime on nukes. To this point, the Burmese rulers' destructiveness has been visited exclusively on its own people rather than against its neighbors. Of course, nuclear weapons can change things.
We have seen in recent world history the danger of leaping to conclusions about which dangerous regimes have what new weaponry. But to me this was news worth putting on the worry-scope.
Extra items from the Bangkok Post here and here. The Interpreter, from the Lowy Institute in Sydney, today has a thorough rundown of the rumors and counter-arguments here. After the jump, my friend's informed gloss on the affair.
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From my friend, who has worked in various public and private roles in defense-related efforts. After he sent the report I wrote back saying, is there any reason to think this is true? His reply is below. He says Myanmar; I say Burma, as explained here:
"Unfortunately, I do believe that the story should not be dismissed. What is most concerning to me is the fact that it follows by just 10 days or so, Secretary Clinton's 21 July statements in which she expressed concern over the possibility that North Korea is sharing nuclear weapons-related technology with Myanmar. NYT story here:
http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 07/22/world/ asia/22diplo. html
"At the time of that story, I thought how bizarre, how out of nowhere the Clinton accusation seemed to come. Now, given the Ball story, I can't help but think that the Obama Administration has some intelligence indicating that the North is engaging in such activity and that they were aware that it was about to leak via the Ball story or perhaps other avenues, and that they wanted to get a jump on it, so as not to be accused of having been caught unaware. Further underscoring my tendency to believe that there is in fact a there there is that I cannot believe that Secretary Clinton would have made such an accusation -- now echoed in the Ball account -- unless the Administration had something substantial. They are painfully aware -- certainly the intel community -- is painfully aware of the fact that the U.S. cannot afford to be revealed as peddling false accusations.
"As far as the content of the Ball story goes, the first and main question that I would bring to any such story in which a state is accused of laying the groundwork for a nuclear weapons materials program would be: what have they done to escape notice (the notice of eyes in the sky; the notice of foreign travelers through the country) and, unfortunately, the contention that Myanmar now has a reactor constructed in 8 different locations and an underground secret facility buried deep within a mountain -- the Naung Laing facility -- supplies a credible response to my question. The second question would be how can a country so desperately poor, so bereft of well, just about everything. . . but then I stop and think: North Korea, Pakistan...
"It's way too early for anyone to be talking in terms of "slam dunk" evidence; certainly Clinton's remarks didn't go that far and neither does Ball's. But the bottom line is that Ball's story is technically credible in its own right and it supplies a follow-up piece to Clinton's earlier remarks that fits a little too neatly (too uncomfortably neatly) with those remarks."
http://jamesfallows .theatlantic. com/archives/ 2009/08/ready_ for_this_ nukes_in. php
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Burma's ruler: brutal, reclusive – and a skilled manipulator
The man behind Burma's secret nuclear plans, Senior General Than Shwe,is one of the world's most brutal and reclusive dictators. Hidden in his bunker in the newly built capital, Naypyidaw (which means "seat of kings"), his appearances in public are rare and his interactions with the international community unusual.
Aged 76, the former postal clerk became Burma's ruler in 1992, 30 years after the military under Ne Win first seized power. Colourless, uncharismatic and relatively uneducated Than Shwe rose through the ranks by simply obeying orders and showing loyalty. Indeed, his apparent lack of flair, initiative and intellect were precisely the qualities the army rewarded. He was not perceived by his superiors as a threat – and was rewarded accordingly. Far from showing courage or prowess on the battlefield, he led his troops into numerous defeats at the hands of the Communists – but that did not appear to have been a barrier to promotion.
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Defectors tell of Burma's secret nuclear reactor
A skilled manipulator, Than Shwe consolidated his power using classic divide-and-rule tactics against his rivals within the regime and his opponents among the democratic and ethnic groups. Trained in psychological warfare in the 1960s, he lectured for a time at Ne Win's Central Party School, so he is steeped in the use of propaganda. Billboards across the country display the regime's message in Orwellian tones.
His regime has relentlessly suppressed pro-democracy activists, while in its long war againt the ethnic minorities it has used forced labour, rape, extra-judicial killings and torture as weapons of war and has overseen the destruction of 3,000 villages. The Burmese junta ranks alongside its new partners North Korea as among the worst abusers of human rights in the world.
Than Shwe is heavily influenced by astrology. In 2005, he announced that he was moving the capital from bustling Rangoon to the middle of the jungle 600 kilometres away. It is believed that he made this decision on the advice of astrologers, although it was also a result of his fear of a US invasion and to protect him against another uprising. He reportedly has at least seven personal astrologers, including several dedicated solely to monitoring the fortunes of imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
A new constitution will enshrine military rule, and elections scheduled for next year are expected to be a sham.
8月8日はビルマの日! 8888ビルマ民主化運動記念デモ行進のお知らせ(8/8 14時～、東京・五反田）
★転送・転載 大歓迎★
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ビルマ市民フォーラム メールマガジン 2009/8/4
People's Forum on Burma
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～8月8日はビルマの日！
アウンサンスーチーさんのマスクを持って、デモ行進に参加を！～
http://pfbkatsudo.blogspot.com/2009/08/2188.html
アジア・太平洋地域の民主化支援団体の連合体であるビルマ・
パートナーシップは、ビルマの民主化運動の象徴的な日である
8月8日に、『アウンサンスーチーさんのマスクを手に、ビルマ民主化への
支援をアピールしよう！』というグローバル・アクションを呼びかけています。
東京では、ビルマの皆さんがデモ行進を行います。
＜＜----8月8日（土）14時～＠東京・五反田南公園＞＞
▼アウンサンスーチーさんのマスクはこちらからダウンロードできます。
http://media.u2.com/ASSK/ASSK_mask.pdf
＊このマスクはビルマの民主化を長年応援しているロックバンドのＵ２が
作成したもので、現在行われているヨーロッパツアーでアウンサン
スーチーさんに捧げた曲"Walk On"演奏の際にも使われています。
→U2はウェブサイトでマスクをつけてビルマの民主化を応援
しようと呼びかけています。（映像あり）
http://u2.com/stream/article/display/id/4770
→アウンサンスーチーさんのマスクを持った世界各国からの
“民主化サポート写真“はこちらからご覧いただけます。
http://u2.com/static/index/index/content/assk
★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆★☆
8月8日はビルマの民主化運動にとって、最も大切な一日です。
今から21年前の8月8日、ビルマの民主化要求運動は首都ヤンゴン
のほかビルマ全国各地で最大規模の盛り上がりを見せました。しかし
ながら、9月、軍はクーデターと無差別発砲により3,000人以上の市民を
殺害。今日もなお、国民が心から願う「民主化」は実現していません。
今この瞬間も、民主化を求め立ち上がった僧侶、活動家、サイクロン被災者
の支援を行った人気コメディアンなど、計2,100人以上が政治囚として刑務所
に収容されており、多くは激しい拷問を受けています。
また、過去15年間で少数民族が多く住むビルマ東部では3,300以上の
村々がビルマ軍により破壊されました。
その結果、100万以上の人々が国内避難民となり、約15万人がタイ・ビルマ
国境の難民キャンプでの生活を強いられています。今年の5～6月にはビル
マ軍はさらにビルマ東部カレン民族への攻撃を強め、新たに4,000人以上の
人々が家を失いました。現在もその状況は悪化するばかりです。
国際社会はこうしたビルマの状況を黙って見ていて良いのでしょうか。
今すぐアウンサンスーチーさんを含む全ての政治囚が釈放され、民主化
勢力と少数民族代表者ら全ての関係者を含めた対話の実現が何よりも必要です。
1988年からの21年間、ビルマの民主化運動に命を捧げた多くの人々、現在も
国内で闘い続ける人々を称え、また強くビルマの民主化を求めて、東京では、
在日ビルマ人の皆さんが例年通り、デモ行進を行います。
ぜひ皆さんもアウンサンスーチーさんのマスクを持って、デモに参加してください！
私たちが、ビルマの民主化を応援していること。
アウンサンスーチーさんを応援していること。
日本政府は軍政を支援するのではなく、ビルマの人々の側に立ち、人々が
本当に望んでいる『民主化』をもっと支援するべきだということを・・・。
私たちの声はきっとビルマにも届きます。
８月８日、アウンサンスーチーさんのマスクを手に、一緒に声をあげましょう！
（在日ビルマ人の皆さんも、もちろんスーチーさんのマスクを準備中です！）
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民主化運動では、ビルマ社会主義計画党の軍事独裁者らによる虐殺行為にも
かかわらず、私たちは一党独裁制を打倒しました。
しかしながら国民全員が待ち望んでいる真の民主主義はまだ実現しておりませ
ん。８８８８民主化運動のなかで命を落とされた勇敢な人々、運動の代価となっ
た数々の負傷や流血、軍靴の下からの解放、国民の願い・・・これらのための闘
争はまだ終わっていません。
私たちの闘争を支援してくれた、支援してくれている、各国際機関・団体や個
々人の皆さんに改めてここに感謝の意を表するものです。今後ともビルマの民主
主義獲得のために、皆さんが輪になって支援してくださいますよう、お願い申し
上げます。
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この大切な一日を通じてビルマ民主化への応援、グリーバル・
アクションへの参加を、ぜひお願いします！
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みなさんの撮った写真をＰＦＢまで送ってください！
アウンサンスーチーさんやビルマ民主化への応援メッセージを一言
添えてくれたら嬉しいです♪
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●「勝って平和な国に帰ろう」
民主化蜂起２０周年、ビルマ人活動家が団結と日本の支援を訴える
2008年8月8日 日刊ベリタ
http://www.nikkanberita.com/read.cgi?id=200808101519130
ビルマ（ミャンマー）の民主化蜂起から２０周年の８月８日、在日ビルマ人と
支援者ら約千人が東京・品川区でミャンマー大使館への抗議デモをおこなった。
翌９日には、同国の民主化を支援する諸団体の連合体、ビルマ・パートナーシップ
（本部、タイ・チェンマイ）のコーディネーター、キンオーンマーさんが都内の集会
（主催・ビルマ市民フォーラム）で講演、自らの体験を振り返りながら祖国の
現状と民主化へのおもいを語った。彼女は、「この２０年間に民主化が実現
できなかったことに失望・落胆する必要はない」と述べ、「正義の闘い」の
勝利をめざして在日ビルマ人が結束するとともに日本の人々が粘り強い
支援をしてほしいと訴えた。（永井浩）
つづく＞＞
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Suu Kyi Says Trial Tests Legal System
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tuesday, August 4, 2009
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RANGOON — Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has told the court trying her that her trial on charges she violated her house arrest is a test of the military-run country's legal system.
Suu Kyi's full testimony in the closed-door trial was released for the first time by her opposition political party, the National League for Democracy. The court is due to reach a verdict next week.
Two prison guards stand at the entrance to Insein prison where the trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is taking place on July 31. (Photo: AP)
The 64-year old Nobel Peace laureate—who is facing five years in prison for giving temporary shelter to an American man who swam to her house uninvited in early May—declared that the court's decision is already "painfully obvious."
Critics say the ruling military has seized upon the bizarre intrusion as an excuse to keep Suu Kyi jailed through next year's scheduled elections—the country's first in nearly two decades.
The charges against Suu Kyi, who has been detained for 14 of the last 20 years and was under house arrest at the time of the incident, have refocused international outrage on Burma.
The district court was scheduled to deliver the verdict last Friday but postponed its decision to August 11, saying it needed more time to consider relevant legal issues.
"The Court will pronounce on the innocence or guilt of a few individuals. The verdict will constitute a judgment on the whole of legal, justice and constitutional system in our country," Suu Kyi said in her statement during final court arguments on July 24. Her party released the full statement Monday.
Suu Kyi said that she had allowed the American to stay in her home "without malice, simply with intent to ensure that no one concerned should suffer any adverse consequences."
She also said that charges against her cannot be adequately assessed without determining the legality of her latest, five-year house arrest and how Burma's constitution applies in the case.
Her lawyers have argued that the repeated extensions of her house arrest were illegal and that she is being tried under a provision of a constitution that has been superseded.
"Throughout, my lawyers have been scrupulous in their efforts to procure due process, which is critical to the rule of law. Equally critical is the principle that justice must be done and seen to be done, clearly and unequivocally," Suu Kyi's statement said.
Verdicts were also postponed in the cases against the 53-year-old American, John Yettaw, and two women who lived with Suu Kyi—Khin Khin Win and her daughter Win Ma Ma. The women face similar charges to Suu Kyi, and Yettaw is accused of abetting the violation of Suu Kyi's house arrest. He faces up to five years in prison.
Pleading for the Cause of the Rule of Law
By THE IRRAWADDY
The following paragraphs are the excerpt from the 30 pages final argument declared by Aung San Suu Kyi to the court on July 24.
The Court will pronounce on the innocence or guilt of a few individuals. The verdict itself will constitute a judgment on the whole of the law, justice and constitutionalism in our country.
On both occasion of trespass into the grounds of my house, the one on which this present case is constructed as well as the one which took place on 30 November 2008, I acted without malice simply with intent to ensure that one concern should suffer any adverse consequences. An approach that placed a premium on discernment and a sense of responsibility, rather than on imputation, would have accorded with a concept of law as the guardian of security and harmony in civilized societies.
The charges move against me can not be accessed correctly or adequately without enquiry into the legality of the process by which I was confined to house arrest for more than five years. Throughout my lawyers have been scrupulous in their efforts to procure due-process which is critical to the rule of law. Equally critical is the principle that justice must not only be done but seen to be done, clearly and unequivocally.
This lawsuit brought to light anomalies in the interpretation and application of constitutional provisions and further, raised questions about the constitution itself. Thus it is germane to the very conception and character of government and the right of citizen.
As I plead "not guilty" to the charges before this court, I would also plead the cause of the rule of law, flawless in its impartiality, of justice, irreproachable in wisdom and benevolence, and of constitutionalism as a bulwark of lawsuit and just governance.
Copyright © 2008 Irrawaddy Publishing Group | www.irrawaddy.org
Monday, August 3, 2009
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဘာဝနာ
သမီးေရ
ေရာက္ခဲ့ျပန္ေပါ ့ႀသဂက္စ္သို ့တစ္ေခါက္
နွွစ္ဆက္တစ္ရဲ ့ရွစ္ရက္ေျမာက္မွာ
မိုးေတြအုံးဆိုင္း အဲ့ဒီေန ့ေပါ ့
ေနကမပူ မိုးလဲမရြာ
ဗမာျပည္နိမိတ္ မေသခ်ာတဲ့ပုံရိပ္ေတြ
သမိးေရ
မွတ္မိျပန္ေပါ့ရွစ္ေလးလုံးဆိုတာ
သမိုင္းစာမ်က္နွွာ
အေသညစ္တဲ့ ေနဝင္းရဲ့ဆိုရွယ္လစ္
ေျမမွာျပားျပားဝပ္
ဒါ--------ဒုတိယေတာ္လွန္ေရး
ေသြးေတြနဲ ့စေတးခဲ့
ဘဝေတြနဲ ့ရင္းခဲ့
သမီးေရ
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးေသြးေတြညွီစို ့ေနတုန္း
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးေႀကြးေတြ ေပးဆပ္ေနတုန္း
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးမာန္ ဝင့္ထန္ေနတုန္း
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးနတ္ပူးကပ္ေနတုန္း
သမီးေရ
ေစာင့္ႀကည့္ဦးေပါ့
မိုးမလင္းခင္ေတာ့ညည့္ဆိုတာနက္စျမဲ
ဝဋ္ဆိုတာလဲ လည္ႀကစျမဲ
အမွန္တရားဟာ ျမက္နွာမလိုက္သလို
ရွည္လ်ားတဲ့ မိစၦာညလည္း
အာရုဏ္က်င္းေတာ့ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ျမဲပါကြယ္
သမီးေရ
ရွစ္ေလးလုံးသံစဥ္မခ်ိဳခဲ့သမွ်
အာဏာရွင္ဇာတ္သိမ္းေသြးနဲ ့လိမ္းဖို ့
တုန္းျပန္ဂလဲ့စား ျပဳမိမွားနဲ ့
စစ္ေခြးနိဂုံး အၿငင္သာဆုံးျဖစ္ေအာင္
ဆုေတာင္းေပးေနာ္
သမီးေရ
ေနမင္းထိန္ထိန္(ကိုေနေအာင္)
Burma hesitant over Suu Kyi: analysts နွင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အျမင္
ဗမာစစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကသူတို ့ကိုယ္ကိုသူတို ့သိပ္ခိုင္ေနျပီဆိုျပီးျပင္ပဖိအားေပးတာေတြကိုသိပ္ဂရုမစိုက္
ေတာ့ပါဘူး အခု အမိန္ ့ခ်မဲ့ရက္ေနာက္ေရႊ ့လိုက္တာကေတာ့ ၈၈၈၈ ေန ့နဲ ့တိုက္ေနလို ့ေနာက္ထပ္ ၈၈၈၈
ေန ့လိုမ်ိုုုဳးလူထုအုံႀကမႈမျဖစ္ေအာင္လို ့ယူဆပါတယ္။ႀကိဳကန္ထားတာေပါ ့ဗ်ာ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့အေကာင္း
မျမင္ပါဘူး။ အခ်ိန္ရိွတုံးအားလုံးအားနဲ ့ဝိုင္းတြန္းႀကရင္ေတာ့တခုခုေတာ့ျဖစ္လာမွာပါ္ ျပည္တြင္းမွာအုံႀကြလာေအာင္
ေတာ့မေျပာခ်င္ေတာ့ပါဘူး ကိုယ္က ျပည္ပေရာက္ေနေတာ့ ျပည္တြင္းကရဲေဘာ္ေတြခ်ည္းဘဲေသြးေျမက်ေနတာ့
ကုိယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ္ေတာင္ျပန္ရွက္မိပါတယ္။
ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္-
ဘုန္းလိႈင္
Burma hesitant over Suu Kyi: analysts
Claire Truscott
August 2, 2009 - 12:24PM
Burma's junta showed rare concern for foreign opinion by delaying the Aung San Suu Kyi verdict, but only because it wants to minimise the fallout while pursuing its hard line against her, analysts say.
The postponement of the judgment until August 11 is a sign that normally intransigent military ruler Than Shwe is at least partly considering the domestic and international uproar a long jail term would provoke, they said.
But the regime's apparent indecision over the trial is about balancing its determination to have Suu Kyi locked up during elections next year with its desire to give the trial a veneer of legitimacy abroad, analysts added.
"It's international pressure and they're worried about domestic anger," Thailand-based Burma analyst and academic Win Min told AFP.
Since Suu Kyi was charged in mid-May with breaching the terms of her house arrest after an American man swam uninvited to her house, a trial that was expected to last a few days has become a two-and-a-half- month farrago.
The court has repeatedly put off hearings - helped by frequent appeals by Suu Kyi's defence team - and on Friday said it would not hand down a verdict as expected but would pass judgment later this month instead.
Suu Kyi's lawyers hailed the delay as a sign that the judges have "serious legal problems."
Win Min said domestic anger over the case was worrying the authorities, as evidenced by recent editorials in Burma's state media, which warned people against demonstrating in case of a guilty verdict.
With critics accusing the junta of using the charges against her as an excuse to keep her behind bars during the 2010 elections promised by the ruling generals, the international community has meanwhile kept up the pressure.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called, during a regional meeting in Thailand last month, for Suu Kyi's release and also held out to Burma the carrot of possible US investment.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited Burma last month, when Than Shwe refused to let him see Suu Kyi, and in a meeting with Burma's UN ambassador on Thursday Ban pressed for the Nobel Laureate's release, a spokesman said.
The last time Burma bowed to international pressure was in 2008, when it allowed in foreign aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis following another trip by Ban.
But it is close ally China that is likely to have the most sway in the Suu Kyi case - and analysts said Beijing has so far avoided giving overt support with its usual statements that the country's internal affairs are its own business.
"There could be pressure from China. If China said this was an internal matter they (Burma's leadership) would make the (verdict) as they like," Win Min said.
But while the junta was keen to dampen the international outrage, its intentions towards the woman it has kept in detention for nearly 14 of the last 20 years remained the same, said Benjamin Zawacki of Amnesty International.
"They put forward an appearance of fairness by saying 'We just can't reach a decision, this is really hard,' when all along the verdict was scripted months ago," said Zawacki, echoing widespread expectations Suu Kyi will be convicted.
"Also, it's really not in their interests to issue a verdict any time soon ... As soon as they issue a verdict the clock is ticking, but this is just extra time that she's out of the way," he added.
Zawacki, the group's Burma researcher, acknowledged, however, that the international reaction was a factor in the delay if not the likely verdict.
"They're hesitant to send the verdict so close to the criticism they received last month. It would be a little bit strident," he said.
Suu Kyi's international legal counsel, Jared Genser, said the timing of the latest postponement was a clear strategy to bounce the final decision to the quietest time of the year.
"It is in some ways a smart move - push off the verdict until the middle of August when numerous government and United Nations officials around the world will be on vacation," Genser said in a statement.
"But it remains to be seen whether this ploy will work or if anticipation will be heightened in the run-up to the issuance of the verdict."
© 2009 AFP http://news. theage.com. au/breaking- news-world/ burma-hesitant- over-suu- kyi-analysts- 20090802- e5l3.html
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Lawyers still hope Suu Kyi will be 'freed unconditionally'
Yangon, AFP:
Lawyers for Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday said they still hoped she would be "freed unconditionally", despite widespread fears of a guilty verdict in her prolonged prison trial.
The Nobel peace laureate faces up to five years in jail if convicted on charges of breaching the terms of her house arrest following an incident in which an American man swam across a lake to her heavily-secured villa in May.
The two-and-a-half month trial has provoked international outrage and critics have accused Myanmar's junta of using the intrusion as an excuse to keep her locked up during elections scheduled for 2010.
A verdict had been expected on Friday but judges postponed their pronouncement until August 11, saying they needed time to review the case.
"We hope that she will be freed unconditionally," said Nyan Win, one of Suu Kyi's lawyers and a spokesman for her National League for Democracy (NLD).
"We have nothing much to do. We are just waiting for the next trial date. Tomorrow we will submit an application to the authorities to meet Aung San Suu Kyi and we hope to meet her on Wednesday or Thursday," he said.
He said Suu Kyi, currently detained at Yangon's notorious Insein prison, had instructed her defence team to visit her before August 11.
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NEW DELHI: After Iran and North Korea, the next international pariah to be accused of having nuclear ambitions is
Myanmar.
A report in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' on Saturday quotes two Myanmarese defectors as saying that the Myanmar junta was secretly building a nuclear reactor and plutonium extraction facility with North Korea's help, with the aim of acquiring its first nuclear bomb in five years.
According to the report, "The secret complex, much of it in caves tunnelled into a mountain at Naung Laing in northern Burma, runs parallel to a civilian reactor being built at another site by Russia that both the Russians and Burmese say will be put under international safeguards."
One of the defectors was described as an "officer with a secret nuclear battalion in the Burmese army who was sent to Moscow for two years' training". The other, it said, "was a former executive of the leading regime business partner, Htoo Trading, who handled nuclear contracts with Russia and North Korea".
If true, the full weight of international pressure will be brought against Myanmar, said officials familiar with developments. But equally, the information that has been peddled by the defectors is also "preliminary" and could be used by the west to turn the screws on Myanmar- on democracy and human rights issues- in the run-up to the elections in the country in 2010.
In 2002, Myanmar had notified IAEA of its intention to pursue a civilian nuclear programme. Later, Russia announced that it would build a nuclear reactor in Myanmar. There have also been reports that two Pakistani scientists, from the AQ Khan stable, had been dispatched to Myanmar where they had settled down, to help Myanmar's project.
Recently, the David Albright-led ISIS rang alarm bells about Myanmar attempting a nuclear project with North Korean help.
During an ASEAN meeting in Thailand last week, US secretary of state Hillary Clinton highlighted concerns of the North Korean link. "We know there are also growing concerns about military cooperation between North Korea and Burma which we take very seriously," Clinton said.
None of the information supplied is indepth, said sources, but it can be used to raise the temperature and awareness of Myanmar's alleged intentions.
The Australian media report said, "China and other Asian nations recently helped persuade Rangoon to turn back a North Korean freighter, the Nam Kam 1, that was being shadowed by US warships on its way to Burma with an unknown cargo. A month ago, Japanese police arrested a North Korean and two Japanese for allegedly trying to export illegally to Burma a magnetic measuring device that could be used to develop missiles."
According to the report, "A South Korean intelligence expert, quoted anonymously, claimed satellite imagery showed the ship was part of clandestine nuclear transfer and also carried long-range missiles. Shadowed by the US Navy, the vessel eventually turned around and returned home."
The Russian assistance to Myanmar's nuclear programme would be under IAEA safeguards, but not, if Myanmar is pursuing it with North Korea.
Myanmar has proven reserves of uranium, and the technology acquired from North Korea might be used to extract plutonium.
According to reports, the Russian reactor hasn't taken off because Myanmar just has no money. But reportedly over the past 6 years, many Myanmar scientists, technicians and military personnel have received nuclear training in Russia.
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【背景】軍政は5月、突然訪れた米国人男性を家に入れたこと
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【スーチー氏の自宅が売られた？】
・アウンサンスーチー氏のいとこで退役軍人の男性が24日、
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・スーチー氏の自宅をめぐっては、氏の兄で米国籍を持つ
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訴訟にも軍政が関与していたとする筋もある
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【米、ビルマからの輸入禁止措置を延長】
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【タイ首相のビルマ訪問が延期】
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【ビルマでASEAN＋3エネルギー閣僚会議】
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エネルギー閣僚会議と東アジア首脳会議のエネルギー
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【ビルマへの政府開発援助（ODA）約束状況など】
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「アウンサンスーチーの「非暴力主義」とタイ国境で戦う
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＜裁判件・関連報道一部＞
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2009年7月22日
スー・チーさん裁判、31日に判決へ ミャンマー
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▼共同通信
2009年7月28日
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▼日経ネット
2009年7月28日
ミャンマー、スー・チー氏裁判が結審 31日に判決言い渡し
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World Wants Suu Kyi Free: Ban
World Wants Suu Kyi Free: Ban
By LALIT K JHA Thursday, July 30, 2009
WASHINGTON—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday said the world wants Aung San Suu Kyi free and that by sentencing her to another five-year prison term, the Burmese junta would miss another opportunity to engage the international community.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
“They will have missed a very important opportunity, first of all, to engage with the international community, and they will be betraying the expectations and wishes of all the international community who really want to see Myanmar fully integrated as a member of the international community,” Ban said at a news conference held at the UN headquarters in New York.
The international community, Ban said, wants to see Suu Kyi freed to enjoy freedom and liberty like anybody else in the world.
Responding to questions, Ban said he has been closely following the developments in Burma since his recent return from the country.
“I hope they will keep their pledges which were conveyed to the [UN] Security Council a few days ago, officially—that at the request of the secretary-general of the United Nations—they would be taking necessary procedures to grant amnesty to political prisoners,” Ban said.
“Detailed information has not been given, and I am concerned that they are continuing this judicial process on Aung San Suu Kyi,” he said.
“When I was there, I made it quite clear repeatedly that all the charges should be dropped and she should be freed. We will continue to press on this issue,” Ban said.
Meanwhile, a US State Department official said he hoped that US mission officials in Rangoon would be able to attend the final court hearing related to Suu Kyi. “You know there’s an American citizen who is also on trial. We expect the final verdict Friday,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
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Is China Playing Safe with its Burma Pipeline Plan?
By WILLIAM BOOT Thursday, July 30, 2009
BANGKOK—China appears to be making alternative plans in case its Middle East oil transshipment port and pipeline project in Burma fails because of regime change.
The Chinese state-owned oil and gas conglomerate China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is spending at least US $1.5 billion to use Burma as a conduit for oil shipments from the Middle East and Africa. But as a backup in case this scheme has to be abandoned it is now also investing in a multibillion dollar oil project in northern Malaysia.
The CNPC is to play a central role in a regional oil processing and transshipment hub link between the Middle East and China on the northwest coast of Malaysia facing the Indian Ocean just like the port development at Kyaukpyu on Ramree Island on the central Burma coast.
Crude oil from Saudi Arabia and probably also Iran will be shipped to a $10 billion refinery on reclaimed land at Yan in Malaysia’s Kedah state close to the border with southern Thailand.
The refinery will have a capacity of 350,000 barrels a day and CNPC will take at least 200,000 bpd.
The chief Malaysian developer, Merapoh Resources Corporation, says the Chinese are likely to become major shareholders. Industry reports suggest that one of the chief financiers of the Yan project, Hong Kong-based equity procurers Beijing Star, is in fact acting as a proxy for CNPC.
This new plan involving Chinese investment revives a Malaysian idea that rose briefly two years ago and then sank without trace, Bangkok-based oil industry consultant-analyst Sar Watana told The Irrawaddy.
In 2007, Malaysia was looking for financial backing for a west coast transshipment port and cross-country pipeline. The main beneficiary would have been China, but the Chinese seemed to lose interest as the Burma pipeline possibility grew.
The re-emergence of this project with China closely involved implies that the Chinese are not going to rely solely on the Burma transshipment scheme.
Both projects short-cut the long sea journey tankers heading for China’s south and east coasts from north Africa and the Middle East currently have to make via the Malacca Strait and Singapore at the bottom of the Malaysian peninsula. More than 60 percent of China’s oil imports pass through the strait.
China has not disclosed how much crude oil it plans to transship through Burma, but the deep-draught port on Ramree Island will be able to handle the biggest bulk tankers. Oil will be pumped 1,200 kilometers in unprocessed form to a refinery in Kunming, capital of neighboring Yunnan province.
There has been speculation that further pipelines inside China will move some of the oil deeper into China to other provinces.
Work on the Burma oil pipeline is supposed to begin before the end of this year, according to Chinese media reports, and be operational by 2012.
The Malaysian refinery at Yan is scheduled to be completed in 2014.
Another Chinese state company, China National Overseas Oil Corporation, had reportedly been involved in Malaysia’s 2007 oil transshipment plans.
According to Malaysia’s Merapoh Resources Corporation, 40 percent of the Yan project will be owned by Beijing Star of Hong Kong.
Beijing Star chairman Li Feng Yi was quoted by The Star newspaper in Malaysia as saying his firm will sell its share in the finished Yan refinery to CNPC.
From a commercial point of view it doesn’t seem to make sense for China to be involved in two major oil transshipment schemes in fairly close proximity of Southeast Asia, says Collin Reynolds, another industry analyst in Bangkok.
But these Chinese state oil-gas giants have very, very deep pockets, and their primary purpose is supply, not cost, Reynolds told The Irrawaddy.
It begins to look as though China is hedging its bets. Burma is very much a client state right now, with Beijing able to manipulate the military junta for its own ends.
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Suu Kyi Unsatisfied with Trial Delay: Lawyer
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By SAW YAN NAING Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unhappy with the repeated delays in the current trial against her, according one of her lawyers.
Nyan Win, a member of Suu Kyi’s legal team, told The Irrawaddy on Friday that she complained about the court’s decision to adjourn her trial until Monday because it gave the prosecution extra time to prepare its final arguments. Suu Kyi’s defense team made its closing arguments on Friday.
“I’m not satisfied with the delay,” Suu Kyi told her lawyer.
Kyi Win, Suu Kyi’s chief defense counsel, told the court on Friday that his client maintains that she is not guilty of the charges against her. He argued that under the 1974 law that she is accused of violating, it is not a crime to speak to a stranger or offer him food.
He also said that his client did not break the terms of her house arrest because she did not contact any outsiders by phone or letter.
Suu Kyi, 64, has been on trial at Rangoon’s notorious Insein Prison court since May 18. She is accused of illegally allowing an intruder, US national John William Yettaw, to stay at her home for two days.
The trial has provoked international outrage and is widely regarded as a ploy to allow the Burmese junta to keep Suu Kyi in detention ahead of elections slated for next year.
Critics say the trial has been highly biased. They note that the court approved 23 witnesses for the prosecution, of whom 14 appeared on the stand, while only two of the four witnesses requested by the defense were permitted to appear in court.
Burma does not have an independent judiciary.
Suu Kyi has spent nearly 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest. Her latest detention began in May 2003, when she and her supporters came under attack by junta-backed thugs while traveling in central Burma.
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Weekly Business Roundup (July 24, 2009)
By WILLIAM BOOT Saturday, July 25, 2009
US Lawmakers Renew Import Ban on Burma for one More Year
A ban on imports from Burma has been renewed for one year by the US House of Representatives.
The ban affects a range of products but especially Burmese gemstones via third countries, said the Voice of America radio station.
The house action seeks to renew the import bans contained in the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act, which was due to expire on July 26.
It comes as US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton suggested that the United States would consider resuming investment and other economic links if the Burmese regime freed Aung San Suu Kyi.
The sponsor of the renewed import ban, New York Democrat Joseph Crowley, said it was justified because the “junta has also rejected recent diplomatic outreach” on the Suu Kyi issue.
Republican Kevin Brady of Texas was quoted by VOA as saying that although he regarded sanctions with “great skepticism,” they are “crafted to maximize their ability to effect change.”
The renewal was backed by the American Apparel & Footwear Association.
Under the act, however, President Barack Obama has the power to lift the trade sanctions if he considers that steps have been taken by the Burmese junta to improve human rights.
Aid for Burmese Nuclear Reactor Complies with Rules, says Moscow
Russia’s state-controlled Novosti news agency has declared that Moscow’s cooperation with Burma on commercial nuclear development does not contravene international treaties on preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
The agency this week quoted a Russian foreign ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, on the issue at the same time the US expressed concerns about a possible liaison between the Burmese and North Korean regimes.
Rosatom, Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy corporation, signed an agreement in 2007 to help construct a nuclear research center in Burma, and Moscow will stand by this agreement, Nesterenko said.
The deal, which is supposed to cost tens of millions of dollars, envisages developing a reactor with an energy capacity of 10 megawatts.
However, Novosti also noted that there had been virtually no practical development of the agreement since it was signed.
Burma Says it Wants More Trade with India and Bangladesh
Burma, Bangladesh and India have met to discuss trade expansion between the three countries.
Kyaw Nyunt Lwin, the first secretary of the Burmese mission in New Delhi, represented Burma at the talks this week in the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram, according to the Indian newspaper The Telegraph.
The Burmese envoy called for increased trade with India to include more Burmese imports of machinery, cement, fertilizer and consumer goods. In return, he said, Burma wanted to export more teak, fish and pulses to India.
Little was reported on the details of any improvement in Burma-Bangladesh trade.
India is one of Burma’s biggest customers for pulse crops.
New Delhi state funding is financing a US $120 million transport and port improvement inside Burma, connecting Mizoram with the Burmese port of Sittwe via the River Kaladan.
India is Burma’s fourth biggest trading partner, but still lags far behind Thailand and China. However, it is catching up with Singapore in third place.
Nepal Seeks to Improve Ties with Burma
Nepal is planning to reestablish direct air links with Burma after a 20-year break.
The plan comes as a result of the two countries’ membership in BIMSTEC—the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation.
Nepal and Burma are among seven member countries of the organization, which also includes India and Thailand.
Landlocked Nepal severed previous air links with Burma in 1988 and there have been virtually no economic ties between the two countries since.
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