လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ လွဳပ္႐ွားမွဳ

လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ လွဳပ္႐ွားမွဳ

နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ၏ ၂၀၁၀ တြင္ျပဳလုပ္မည့္ အေထြေထြေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ဆန္႕က်င္တုိက္ဖ်က္ရန္ ႏွင့္ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္စနစ္ကို ဆန္႕က်င္တုိက္ဖ်က္ရန္ BURMA DEMOCRATIC CONCNERN (BDC) မွ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ လွဳပ္႐ွားမွဳ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာ ကိုေဖာ္ေဆာင္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ဆရာၾကီး ဦး၀င္းတင္ မွ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ စကား၀ိုင္း ႏွင့္ စတင္ၾကရန္ ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳသည္အလြန္ အေရးပါလွပါသည္။ ၿမိဳ႕တုိင္း၊႐ြာတိုင္း လိုလိုတြင္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ မ်ား႐ွိၾကပါသည္။ လူတိုင္းလူတိုင္း လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ထိုင္ ၍ လက္ဖက္ရည္ ေသာက္ရင္း သတင္းစကားမ်ား ဖလွယ္ရင္းအခ်င္းခ်င္း ေဆြးေႏြးၾကပါသည္။ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ ထိုင္ရင္း ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကိုဆန္႔က်င္ရန္ အခ်င္းခ်င္းတိုက္တြင္းႏွဳိးေဆာ္၍ ရပါသည္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ဆန္႔က်င္သင့္သလဲ ဟု ဆိုေသာ္ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒအရ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္မည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီးတြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည့္ အစိုးရသစ္တြင္ ၂၅% ႏွဳန္းကို စစ္အစိုးရ မွ ပါလီမန္ အမတ္ေနရာမ်ားကို အလိုလို ရယူထားမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္သည္စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္ အစိုးရ၏ လက္ေအာက္တြင္ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း (၂၀) ေက်ာ္ ၾကာတုိင္ေအာင္ ဒုကၡမ်ိဳးစုံ ကိုခါးဆီးခံခဲ့ၾကရပါသည္။

စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္ စနစ္ကို တရား၀င္ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳထားသည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွင့္ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္ စနစ္ကို မဆန္႕က်င္ခဲ့လွ်င္ဘယ္ေသာအခါ မွ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္ လက္ေအာက္မွ လြတ္ေျမာက္မည္ မဟုတ္ ။ ျမည္မာျပည္၏ ေနရာအႏွ႔ံအျပားတြင္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မ်ား ႐ွိပါသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ ထိုင္ရင္း အခ်င္းခ်င္း တိုက္တြန္းႏွိဳးေဆာ္ၾကရန္ လိုအပ္ပါသည္။ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ တနဂၤေႏြ ေန႕တိုင္းတြင္ အက်ႌအျဖဴေရာင္၀တ္၍ စစ္အစိုးရ ၏ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကိုဆန္႕က်င္သည့္စကားမ်ားကို အခ်င္းခ်င္းတိုက္တြန္း ႏွဳိးေဆာ္ၾကရန္လိုအပ္ပါသည္။

လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မ်ားသည္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးျဖစ္လာခဲ့လွ်င္ ခ်က္ျခင္းလူစုေ၀းရာ ႒ာနျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ပါသည္။ သတင္းစကား ျဖန္႕ျဖဴးရာ ေနရာလည္းျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႕ေၾကာင့္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ မ်ားသည္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး ၏ျမစ္ဖ်ားခံရာေနရာမ်ားျဖစ္လာေစရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ရပါသည္။ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ဆန္႕က်င္တုိက္ ဖ်က္ရန္ လူထု ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား ၊ လူထု အုံၾကြမွဳမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚလာရန္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းေဖာ္ေဆာင္ၾကရန္ လိုအပ္ပါသည္။

ဤေနရာတြင္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မွဳသည္ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံး ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လူထု ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား ၊ လူထု အုံႂကြမွဳမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚလာလွ်င္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားသည္ ေ႐ွ႕တန္းမွ ေန၍ ျပည္သူလူထုဘက္မွ မားမားမတ္မတ္ ရပ္တည္ေပးၾကပါရန္၊ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မွဳေပးၾကပါရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္ပါသည္။ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္စနစ္ကို ျပည္သူလူထုအားျဖင့္ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ လွဳပ္႐ွားမွဳအားျဖင့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ၀ိုင္း၀န္းတိုက္ ဖ်က္ၾကရန္ BURMA DEMOCRATIC CONCNERN (BDC) မွ တိုက္တြန္း ႏွဳိးေဆာ္ လိုက္ရပါသည္။

Ceremony of Buddha day

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to the ceremony of Buddha day.

It is the sixth time ceremony to pay homage to the Buddha and his wisdom in London.

Please get together to honour the Buddha for his achievements,to observe five precepts, to licten to Dhamma talks and chanting.


With Metta,

U Kyaw ( U Aung Kyaw Naing )

Consulting of U.S.A's foreign policy on Burma Junta Regime's foreign policy

Attn;

Mr.Barack Obama
President
USA.


Date; April,24th,09

Subject; Consulting of U.S.A's foreign policy on Burma Junta Regime's foreign policy


Excellence sir;
For it, I would like to consult your U.S.A's foreign policy which should be the opening door by door ,based on the profits of All Burma's nations-peoples with Democracy & Human rights.(For example! Democratic humanity
supports for Burma Junta Regime's decreased oppressive on all nations-peoples objectively.

The decreased tie of U.S.A for The decreased tie of Burma Junta Regime on all nations-peoples but Burma Junta Regime 's 2010-election will be long surely
for military-detectorship system for at least twenty five years and so, should not accept it and only SU-Hlut-Tawe(To release Aung Sann Su Kyi & All political prisoners/ To call national peoples' assembly with 90- elected boddy/To meet national reconcilation) will become the democratic peacefull modern developed Burma.


Best regard;

(GSC.KoThi Ha8888),Patron for Burma Democratic Concern(BDC),WA-99336,USA.Ph;(509)5823261.

Upcoming Event on London

NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY
(Liberated Area – UK)
Froyle House, 45 Silkfield Road, London NW9 6QU
Ph +447785568154, +442089302336 info@nld-la.org.uk


19th Anniversary of NLD’s Landslide Electoral Victory
& 6th Anniversary of Depayin Massacre

On the 19th anniversary of the last free and fair election in Burma, the National League for Democracy NLD’s Liberated-Area (exile) branch in UK here express our belief that the mandate given by the people’s overwhelming landslide vote for the National League for Democracy NLD in the last elections in Burma is still fully legitimate and valid now. We also denounce military regime’s unilateral plans to hold a new election without first recognizing the 1990 election results.
We also salute our comrades who were brutally beaten to death by regime’s hired thugs in 2003 in Depayin during one of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s tours around the country.

On this occasion we invite all pro-democracy and human rights activists in UK to join hands with us to do demonstrations, as follows, to show our opposition to regime’s new elections in 2010 and to denounce regime’s brutal oppression on political opposition in Burma; and also to call for the freedom of ALL political prisoners in Burma.

PLEASE COME & JOIN US

DATE: 27/05/09 (Wednesday)

TIME: 12:30 to 13:30 , 27/05/09 (Wednesday)

PLACE: MILITARY REGIME EMBASSY
19A Charles St London W1J 5DX
Nearest Tube Station: Green Park
MAP: click here
CONTACT: NLD-UK Chairman (Dr Win Naing) - Tel 07785568154 Email info@nld-la.org.uk

Junta’s Crony Profile - Saw Lulu Htaw

Junta’s Crony Profile

His name is Saw Lu Lu Htaw- an advisor of the National Security of Myanmar. His face book profile name is Micheal Corleone.

He used to work as a Chief Flight Attendant at Myanmar Airways International (MAI). You can see his face book profile picture in which he is touring for 2010 election campaign. He will do whatever it takes for his own sake and he has a lot of investment in Singapore as well. He is a businessman and also link with Tayza, a business tycoon who is closely related with Senior General Than Shwe. Rumors had that Tayza got an affair with Senior General Than Shwe’s daughter. Tayza is also a mediator for Burmese government to get the weapons. Tayza flied very frequently with Myanmar Airways International (MAI) for business trips.

Links about Saw Lu Lu Htaw’s Businesses
1. Skywings Investment Co.,Ltd
No.602,6th Floor,Panchan Tower,Corner of Dama Zayti and Bagayar Road,Sanchaung Township,
Yangon,Maynmar
2. Skywings Agri-Plantation Co.,Ltd
3. Scansia Myanmar Co Ltd
4. Yangon Wood Industries Limited
( 5 ) Minister receives President of EEM
Following are some of the links that he is on News Light of Myanmar, regime’s mouth piece newspaper.



YANGON, 30 March - Minister for Hotels and Tourism Maj-Gen Saw Lwin received President of Electricite et Eaux de Madagascar Mr Francois Gontier and party of France at his office this afternoon.
Also present at the call were Managing Director of Myanma Hotels and Tourism Services U Kyi Tun and officials, Director of Yangon Wood Industries Limited U Saw Lu Lu Htaw.



His face book profile
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=1103296611




Campaigning Tour inside Burma for 2010 Election

Toronto Karen Buddhist Family meet Penag Sayadaw

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Karen National Union Statement on 2010 Elections
Yesterday at 13:10
OFFICE OF THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
KAREN NATIONAL UNION
KAWTHOOLEI

Karen National Union Statement on 2010 Elections
April 24, 2009

1. Defying the requests of the United Nations and democratic forces in Burma, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) is pushing ahead with elections in 2010.

2. Internal repression is at an all time high.
• Burmese Army attacks against ethnic civilians continue.
• There are more political prisoners than at any time for 20 years.
• All media is censored.
• There is no right of freedom of assembly.
• There is no right of freedom of speech.
• Political parties cannot be formed without permission from the SPDC.
• Existing political parties supporting human rights and democracy are severely restricted, and members who are not in jail face regular harassment.
• Other political parties, especially ethnic political parties, such as the Karen National Union, are banned.
• Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest.
• There is no election law.

In these circumstances, it is impossible for elections to be free and fair.

3. Even if free and fair elections could be held, the elections would not bring about any change in Burma. This is because the constitution enshrines military rule into the law governing Burma.

4. The principles of the constitution were written by delegates that were not representative of the people of Burma, and were instead hand-picked by the SPDC. During the process, the SPDC drafted every word, and rejected every proposal for change.

5. The constitution was approved by a rigged referendum. Aside from any “vote no” campaign being banned, abuses included denying aid to our Karen people in the Delta after cyclone Nargis, unless they agreed to vote “yes”, forcing people to sign the forms without voting, and forcing people to vote “yes” against their will.

6. The constitution would go against all democratic norms, including:
• The Head of State must be from the military
• The Army is not answerable to the government or Parliament.
• The Army has veto power over all laws passed by the Parliament.
• No basic rights are guaranteed by the constitution.
• All existing repressive laws will remain in place. There will be no freedom of speech, no freedom of assembly, no free media, and no open democratic debate. No prisoners will be released.

7. The constitution grants no ethnic rights, no autonomy, and provides no protection or promotion of Burma’s many cultures, including Karen culture.

8. It is incorrect to state this could be a step on a path to reform. No change of the constitution can be made without 75 percent approval of parliament. As the SPDC will have a minimum of 25 percent of seats in Parliament, they can block any reform. Even if Parliament did vote for change, the army can veto the change on grounds of national security.

9. There will be no democratic space opened up by having a Parliament. The military parties and their allies will dominate the Parliament, and the military parties will decide the agenda of the Parliament. Media remains censored so there will not be any open political debate in media. Those naive enough to argue that there will be political space in the Parliament should look at the National Convention, which will no doubt be used as model by the SPDC. At the National Convention no free debate or discussion was allowed. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma described the delegates as being under virtual house arrest. Delegates were even told what to eat, and when to take a bath.

10. Regardless of the Parliament, the civil service and economy of Burma has been militarised. Military personnel, their families, or their allies, control the ministries and all key sectors of the economy. They are responsible for the day to day running of the country, and there will be no change in this sphere.

11. Attacks against ethnic people will continue. There is no reason to think that the current military attacks against ethnic people in Eastern Burma, which the United Nations has described as breaking the Geneva Conventions, will end.

12. It is clear that the elections and constitution will not bring about peace, democracy, human rights and stability to Burma. Rather, oppression will continue.

13. In fact, by not addressing demands for freedom, democracy, or granting any ethnic rights, resistance will continue, destabilising the country as long as dictatorship, in whatever guise, exists. Further, the failure to grant any ethnic rights, and pressure on some ethnic ceasefire organisations to disarm, could lead to division within them, and some may split or return to armed struggle.

14. Only true democracy, basic human rights, including equality for ethnic people, will bring peace and stability to Burma. We therefore call on the international community to work for these goals, rather than accept the fraud being perpetrated by the SPDC.

15. We are disappointed that Gambari appears to have endorsed the SPDC’s 2010 elections and constitution, even offering UN assistance with the organisation and monitoring of the elections. He is advocating a path promoted by the regime, rather than acting as an impartial facilitator for tri-partite dialogue, which is his mandate.

16. We call on SPDC to follow the demands of the United Nations General Assembly, United Nations Security Council, European Union, USA, and others and engage in genuine tripartite dialogue leading to genuine change in our country.

17. We call on governments around the world not to endorse the 2010 elections and instead redouble efforts to persuade the SPDC to enter into genuine tri-partite dialogue.

18. The Karen National Union is a democratic organisation, committed to human rights and democracy in Burma. We are working for a peaceful, stable, federal Burma. We stand ready to enter into genuine tripartite dialogue, as facilitated by the United Nations, at any time.


The Executive Committee
Karen National Union

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ေက်ာ္ဟိန္းက ရဟန္း ဝတ္ေတာ့မယ္ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ မဝတ္ခင္ကတည္းက တရားပြဲေတြ
လက္ခံပါသတဲ့။ လူမင္းက လသား သမီးကေလးကို သီလရွင္ ဝတ္ေပးပါသတဲ့။ ဒါဟာ
ျမန္မာျပည္ ဘာသာေရးမွာ အႏုတ္ လကၡဏာေတြပါ။

ရဟန္းဝတ္ၿပီးရင္ ငါးဝါတိုင္ေအာင္ ဥပဇၥ်ယ္ဆရာအနီးမွာ ေနရပါတယ္။
သကၤန္းပတ္ၿပီးတာနဲ႔ သာသနာျပဳေတာ့မယ္ဆိုၿပီး ေသာက္ရမ္း ေလၽွာက္လုပ္လို႔
မရပါဘူး။ အနီးေနဆရာရဟန္း (ဆရာရဟန္း မအားရင္ Assign လုပ္ေပး၊ အပ္ေပးတဲ့
ရဟန္းေတာ္) ထံပါးမွာ ေနၿပီး အနည္းဆုံးအားျဖင့္ ရဟန္းစည္းကမ္းျဖစ္တဲ့
ဝိနည္းကိုေလ့လာရပါတယ္။

ေခါင္းမွာ ဒက္ဗရပြေပါက္လာတဲ့ ကိုရင္ ေပါက္စနကေန ရဟန္းျဖစ္လာတဲ့
ငယ္ျဖဴေတြေတာင္ တရားပြဲ ရင္ဆိုင္ေဟာဖို႔ဆိုတာ မလြယ္လွေသးပါဘူး။
ေက်ာ္ဟိန္းဆိုတဲ့ သီခ်င္း၊ သူသ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္တဲ့ ဇာတ္ကား၊ သူဒါရိုက္တာ
လုပ္တဲ့ကားေတြ ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဘာသာေရးမွာ စတန္႔ လုပ္လို႔ မရပါဘူး။
ကုသိုလ္မရဘဲ အကုသိုလ္ပဲ ေသခ်ာေပါက္ရမွာပါ။ တကယ့္ သံဃာေလာကက ဒါမ်ိဳးေတြ
လက္ခံမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။

လူမင္းက စတန္႔လုပ္ျပန္တာက ရက္ ၁၀၀ သား ကေလးေပါက္စနကို သီလရွင္ ဝတ္ေပးတယ္။
သီလေပးတာေတာင္ လိုက္မဆိုနိုင္ေသးတာ ဘယ့္ႏွယ္လုပ္ သီလရွင္
ျဖစ္နိုင္ပါ့မလဲ။ သီလရွင္ ဝတ္စုံ ပတ္ေပးတာေလာက္ပဲ ရွိမွာပါ။ သာမေဏ
ဝတ္မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာင္ အနည္းဆုံးအားျဖင့္ ကိုယ့္ဆြမ္းကို က်ီးမထိုးေအာင္
ေျခာက္နိုင္တဲ့ အရြယ္၊ သကၤန္းကို နိုင္တဲ့ အရြယ္ ျဖစ္ရမယ္လို႔ ဘုရားက
သတ္မွတ္ထားပါတယ္။ ဝတ္ေပးတဲ့ ကိုယ္ေတာ္ကို သံဃမဟာနာယ အဖြဲ႕တို႔၊
ဝိနည္းဓိုရ္ အဖြဲ႕တို႔က ဘာမွ မေျပာဘူးလား မသိပါ။ (ႏွာေစးေတာ္မူၾကထင့္။)

ကံေဆာင္တာ၊ ဘုန္းႀကီး နိုင္ငံေရးေျပာ သာသနာ ပ်က္စီးေၾကာင္း
မဟုတ္ေသးပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေထာင္ထဲေရာက္ မဲဇာေရာက္ ျဖစ္ရပါတယ္။ ခုနလို
သာသနာမွာ ထင္ရာလုပ္တာက်ေတာ့ ဘာသံမွ မထြက္ၾကပါဘူး။ ဒီလိုလုပ္တာကမွ သာသနာ
ေသခ်ာေပါက္ က်ဆင္းေတာ့မွာပါ။

ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဗုဓ္တို႔၊ လယ္တီဆရာေတာ္တို႔၊ မဟာဂႏၶာ႐ုံဆရာေတာ္တို႔မ်ား
ဒါေတြ သိရ ၾကားရေတာ္မူရင္ေတာ့ျဖင့္ ငါတို႔ ၂ ခါျပန္ေတာင္
ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူခ်င္တယ္လို႔ ၿငီးျငဴေတာ္မူၾကမွာကေတာ့ ျမင္ေယာင္မိပါေသး။

သင္ကာ

ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ၊ ၂၀၀၉

Statement From Nay Myo Wai[1]

Statement From Nay Myo Wai[1]

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၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ ၁၀ ဦး

1. Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwe
Age: 85
In power since: 1980
Last year's rank: 6
-တီေက-

ဒီႏွစ္ ကမာၻအဆုိး၀ါးဆုံးအာဏာရွင္ ၁၀ ဦးစာရင္းကုိထုတ္ျပန္ရာ
နံပါတ္တစ္အေနျဖင့္ ဇင္ဘာေဘြ မွ မူဂါဘီက ပထမ ေနရာယူခဲ့ပါသည္။ ယမန္ႏွစ္
တြင္မူ မူဂါဘီသည္ နံပါတ္ ၆ သာ ခ်ိတ္ခဲ့ျပီး ဤႏွစ္၌ ပထမစြဲခဲ႔သည္။ မူဂါဘီ
သည္ ၁၉၈၀ မွစတင္၍ အာဏာယူခဲ႔ျပီး ေနာက္ ေငြေၾကးေဖာင္းပြႏႈံး
အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံးသုိ႔ေရာက္ခဲ႔သည္။ သန္း၅ေသာင္း တန္ ေငြစကၠဴကုိ
ပုံွႏွိပ္သုံးစြဲ သည့္အထိ ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့ျပီး အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ႏႈံးမွာလည္း
၈၅ရာခုိင္ႏႈံးထိ တုိးတက္ျမင့္မားလာခဲ႔သည္။ ၎အစိုးရ၏ ႏွိပ္ကြပ္မႈေၾကာင့္
အတုိက္အခံ ၁၆၃ေယာက္ေသဆုံးခဲ႔ျပီး လူ၅၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ဖမ္း ဆီးညွမ္းပန္း
ခံခဲ႔ရသည္။ အစုိးရ၏မ်က္ကြယ္ျပဳမႈေၾကာင့္ ၀မ္းေရာဂါျဖင့္ လူေပါင္း ၄၀၀၀
နီးပါး လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လမွ စတင္၍ ေသဆုံးခဲ႔ရသည္။ မၾကာခဏ
အတုိက္အခံမ်ား ႏွင့္ အာဏာခြဲေ၀ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ရန္ သေဘာတူညီ ဆုိင္းထုိးမႈမ်ား
ရွိိခဲ႔ေသာ္လည္း မူဂါဘီသည္ အၾကိမ္ၾကိမ္ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။

2. Omar al-Bashir
Sudan
Age: 65
In power since: 1989
Last year's rank: 2

အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ ဒုတိယဆုကုိ ဆူဒန္မွ အုိမာအယ္ဘရွား
ကုိေပးအပ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ရာဇ၀တ္တရားရုံး (International Criminal
Court) မွ အယ္ဘရွား ကုိ ဖမ္းဆီးရန္ ဒီလအတြင္း ၀ရမ္း ထုတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ၎၏
ျပစ္မႈမ်ားမွာ လူသတ္မႈ၊ မုဒိန္းမႈ၊ႏွိပ္စက္ညွင္းပန္းမႈ၊ အတင္းေရြ
႔ေျပာင္းေနရာခ်မႈ၊ ျပည္သူပစၥည္းမ်ား ကုိ အဓမၼ သိမ္းဆည္းမႈ တုိ႔ျဖင့္
၀ရမ္းထုတ္ျခင္းခံခဲ႔ရပါသည္။ ယမန္ႏွစ္ကလည္း ဒုတိယေနရာမွာသာ ခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။
အုိမာ၏ အာဏာရွင္သက္မွာ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ ရွိပါသည္။

3. Kim Jong-Il
North Korea
Age: 67
In power since: 1994
Last year's rank: 1

တတိယ အဆုိးရြားဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ မွာမူ ယမန္ႏွစ္က ပထမစြဲ ခဲ႔ေသာ
ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား အာဏာရွင္ ကင္ဂ်ဳံအီး အား ေပးအပ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ကင္ဂ်ဳံအီး မွာ
ဤႏွစ္အတြင္း က်မ္းမာေရး သိတ္မေကာင္းလွဟု ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွ
ခန္႔မွန္းၾကေသာ္လည္း ၎၏ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈမ်ားမွာ ပုံမွန္အတုိင္း ျဖစ္ေနခဲ႔ပါသည္။
ကင္၏ အာဏာရွင္သက္မွာ ၁၅ ႏွစ္ရွိပါသည္။

4. Than Shwe
Burma (Myanmar)
Age: 76
In power since: 1992
Last year's rank: 3

စတုတၳ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာကုိ ကမာၻသိေအာင္(
အဆုိးနည္းျဖင့္) လုပ္ေပးေနသူ သန္းေရႊ အား တံဆိပ္ကပ္ခဲ႔သည္။ သန္းေရႊ၏
ဤႏွစ္ ပုဒ္မ မွာ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္း ေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း တသိန္း၄ေသာင္းေက်ာ္
ေသေၾကေပ်ာက္ဆုံးမႈႏွင့္ အုိးမဲ႔အိမ္မဲ႔ ၂သန္းေက်ာ္ အား ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွ
၀ုိင္း၀န္းကူညီရန္ၾကိဳးပမ္းခဲ႔
မႈကုိ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲဖင္ေႏွးခဲ႔ျခင္း ႏွင့္
တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ ၎၏ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳေရးအတြက္
ျပည္လုံးကြ်တ္ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကုိမူ ျမန္မာသမုိင္းတြင္ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး
မွတ္တမ္း၀င္ခဲ႔ေသာ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္း ၾကီး ၾကားမွပင္ ဗႏၶဳလ မုိးတြင္းၾကီး
ရခုိင္ရုိးမကုိျဖတ္ကာ ဓႏုျဖဴဆင္းသကဲ႔သုိ႔ ျပီးေျမာက္ေအာင္
လုပ္ျပခဲ႔ျခင္းအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွ ရင္သပ္ရႈေမာ အံ႔ၾသ ေအာခ်ခဲ့ရသည္။
သန္းေရႊသည္ ယမန္ႏွစ္ လည္း ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ေသာ ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္
ကုိယ္ေတာ္မ်ားအား သုတ္သင္ေခ်မႈန္းမႈ႔ေၾကာင္႔ အဆုိးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ တတိယေနရာ
ရခဲ႔ပါသည္။

5. King Abdullah
Saudi Arabia
Age: 85
In power since: 1995
Last year's rank: 4

ပဥၥမ အာဏာရွင္ဆုိးၾကီး အျဖစ္ ေဆာ္ဒီအာေရးဗီးယားမွ ဘုရင္ အဗၺဒူလာ အား
သမုတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ေဆာ္ဒီ ဘုရင္ၾကီးသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအခြင့္အေရးမ်ား ကုိ ဆက္လက္
ပိတ္ပင္ တားျမစ္ေနျခင္း ကုိခြင့္ျပဳထားသျဖင့္ အာဏာရွင္ဆုိးတဦး
စာရင္း၀င္ခဲ႔ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေဆာ္ဒီအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားမွာ
မွတ္ပုံတင္ကုိင္ေဆာင္ခြင့္ပင္ မရၾကဘဲ ဘယ္သြားသြား၊ဘယ္လာ လာ၊ဘာလုပ္လုပ္
အမ်ိဳးသား မ်ား၏ အုပ္ထိန္းမႈေအာက္မွသာ လုပ္ခြင့္ ရၾကပါသည္။
အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အတြက္ လူအခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ တခု ကုိ ေဆာ္ဒီအစုိးရမွ
ဖြင္႔လွစ္ေပးခဲ႔ ေသာ္လည္း ထုိရုံး၌ အလုပ္လုပ္သူအားလုံးမွာ
အမ်ိဳးသားမ်ားသာလွ်င္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ေဆာ္ဒီဘုရင္ အဗၺဒူလာ သည္ ယမန္ႏွစ္ကလည္း
အာဏာရွင္ဆုိး အျဖစ္ စတုတၳခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ ပါသည္။

6. Hu Jintao
China
Age: 66
In power since: 2002
Last year's rank: 5

ဆဌမ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္အား တရုပ္မွ ဟူဂ်င္းေတာင္ အား ေပးအပ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။
ဟူဂ်င္းေတာင္ သည္ ၂၀၀၈ အုိလံပစ္ပြဲ ကံထရုိက္ ဆြဲႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္
အေျခခံလူအခြင့္အေရး မ်ား ျမွင့္တင္ သြားမည္ ဟု ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ႏွင့္
အုိလံပစ္ေကာ္မတီကုိ နားလွည့္ ပါးရုိက္ ဂတိေပးခဲ႔ေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ႔တြင္မူ
လြတ္လပ္စြာ ကုိးကြယ္ ပုိင္ခြင့္ႏွင့္ ေျပာဆုိပုိင္ခြင့္ တုိ႔အား
ပုိမုိတင္းၾကပ္ ခ်ဳတ္ခ်ယ္လာခဲ႔ပါသည္။ တိဘက္ႏွင့္ တျခား လူနည္းစု
တုိင္းရင္းသား အေပၚ ပုိမုိဖိႏွိပ္လာျပီး ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ဘာသာေရး အတုိက္အခံ
မ်ားအား တရားစီရင္ခ်က္ မခ်ဘဲ “အလုပ္ၾကမ္းမွျပန္လည္ပညာေပးျခင္
း” ရဲဘက္
စခန္းမ်ားသုိ႔ ၄ႏွစ္ထိတုိင္ပုိ႔၍ ေမာင္းျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ႔ ပါသည္။
ဟူဂ်င္းေတာင္ သည္ ယမန္ႏွစ္က အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ နံပါတ္ ၅
ခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။

7. Sayyid Ali Khamenei
Iran
Age: 69
In power since: 1989
Last year's rank: 7

သတၱမ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္အျဖစ္ အီရန္ မွ ဆာရဒ္ အာလီ ခါေမနီ မွ
ရရွိခဲ႔ပါသည္။ ယမန္ႏွစ္ က ခါေမနီသည္ သတၱမပင္ ခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။
ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ား၊ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအခြင့္အေရးတုိက္ပဲြ၀င္သူမ်ား၊
လူနည္းစုတုိင္းရင္းသား မ်ား ႏွင့္ ဘာသာေရး အစုအဖြဲ႔ေလးမ်ား၊ သတင္းဂ်ာနယ္
သမားမ်ားကို ဖိႏွိ္ပ္ညွင္းပန္းမႈ မ်ား ေၾကာင့္ ဟုစြဲခ်က္တင္ၾကပါသည္။ ၂၀၀၈
ခုႏွစ္အထိ တကမာၻလုံးတြင္ အီရန္တႏုိင္ငံတည္းသာ ကေလး မ်ား အား
ေသဒဏ္အျပစ္ေပးျခင္း ကုိ လက္ခံက်င့္သုံးေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အီရန္ဥပေဒမွ
ေယာကၤ်ားေလး ၁၅ ႏွစ္ႏွင့္အထက္၊ မိန္းခေလး ၉ႏွစ္ႏွင့္အထက္အား
ေသဒဏ္အျပစ္ေပးႏုိင္ သည္ဟု သတ္မွတ္ထားပါသည္။

8. Isayas Afewerki
Eritrea
Age: 63
In power since: 1991
Last year's rank: 10

အဌမ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္အျဖစ္ အီယစ္တရီယား (၁၉၅၂ခုႏွစ္တြင္
အီသီယုိပီးယားမွ ခြဲထြက္လာေသာ ႏုိင္ငံငယ္) မွ အုိင္စာရစ္ အဖီ၀ါကီ အား
ေပးခဲ႔ျပီး ၎သည္ မႏွစ္က အဆင့္၁၀ ခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ အဖီ၀ါကီ သည္ ၂၀၀၈ ေမလ
တြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ တုိင္းျပည္အတြင္း
ကြဲျပားျခားနားမႈမ်ား ေပၚေပါက္ လာေစႏုိင္သည္ ဟူေသာ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ျဖင့္
ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအား အနဲဆုံး အႏွစ္ ၃၀ မွ ၄၀ ေက်ာ္မွသာ၊ သုိ႔မဟုတ္
ဤထက္ပုိမုိၾကာျမင့္မွသာ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ ဟု ေက်ညာခဲ႔သည္။ သတင္းဌာနမ်ားကုိ
၎အစုိးရမွသာ တုိက္ရုိက္ခ်ဳပ္ကုိင္ခဲ႔ျပီး အနည္းဆုံး သတင္းသမား
၁၀ေယာက္ေက်ာ္အား ၂၀၀၁ ခုမွ စတင္ထိန္းသိမ္းခဲ႔ပါသည္။

9. Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov
Turkmenistan
Age: 51
In power since: 2006
Last year's rank: Unranked

န၀မ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံးအာဏာရွင္ အျဖစ္ တာခ္မန္းနိစတင္မွ ဂါဘန္ဂူလီ
ဘာဒီမူဟာမက္ေဒါ႔ ဤႏွစ္မွ စတင္ ရရွိခဲ႔ပါသည္။
ႏုိင္ငံေရးအတုိက္အခံမ်ား၊သတင္းသမားမ်ား၊ ဘာသာေရး သမား မ်ားအား
ဖိႏွိပ္ညွင္းပန္းခဲ႔ျပီး မတ္၊ဧျပီ အစရွိေသာ လ နံမည္မ်ားအား သူနံမည္ ႏွင့္
သူအေမ နံမည္ ေပး၍ ေခၚေ၀ၚေစခဲ႔ျခင္းမ်ား အစရွိသည့္ အလားတူ အာဏာရွင္ရူးမ်ား
ျပဳလုပ္ေနက် အူေၾကာင္ေၾကာင္ အျပဳအမူမ်ားကုိျပဳလုပ္ခဲဲဲ႔ပါသည္။

10. Muammar al-Qaddafi
Libya
Age: 66
In power since: 1969
Last year's rank: 11

ဒႆမ အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံးအာဏာရွင္ၾကီး အျဖစ္ အႏွစ္ ၄၀ အာဏာသက္
ျပည့္လုခါနီးျဖစ္ေသာ လစ္ဗ်ား မွ ကဒါဖီ အား ေပးအပ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။
သက္ဦးဆံပုိင္ရာဇေသြး မပါ ေသာ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူမ်ား အနက္ ဂါဘြန္ ရွိ အုိမာ
ဘြန္ဂုိ တေယာက္သာ ကဒါဖီ ၏ ေရွ႔၌ ႏွစ္အမ်ားဆုံး အာဏာရွင္သက္တမ္း
ခ်ိဳးထားႏုိင္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။ လစ္ဗ်ားအစုိးရ၏ သတင္းမ်ားကုိ ျဖန္႔ခ်ိပါက
လစ္ဗ်ားႏုိင္ငံ၏ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ ကုိ ဖ်က္ဆီးေစသည္ ဟူေသာ စြဲခ်က္မ်ား ျဖင့္
ေထာင္ဒဏ္အျပစ္ေပးႏုိင္ပါသည္။ ကဒါဖီ သည္ ယမန္ႏွစ္က အဆင့္ ၁၁ သာ
ခ်ိတ္ခဲ႔ပါသည္။

PARADE's annual World's Worst Dictators list:2009.

အဆုိး၀ါးဆုံး အာဏာရွင္ျဖစ္ေစႏုိင္သည့္ အမွတ္ေပးစည္းမ်ည္းမ်ားမွာ
လူအခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳး ေဖာက္မႈမ်ား၊ ၎တုိ႔အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈလက္ေအာက္၌
ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား ခံစား ေနရေသာ ဒုကၡအ၀၀မ်ား၊ အာဏာကုိ
တဦးတည္းလက္၀ါးၾကီးအုပ္ခ်ယ္လွယ္မႈမ်ား အစရွိသည္ တုိ႔ပါ၀င္ပါသည္။
အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကုိ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန၊ လူအခြင့္အေရးေစာင္႔ၾကည့္မႈ
ေကာ္မရွင္၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာလြတ္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာေရး အဖြဲ႔၊ နယ္နိမိတ္မဲ႔
သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား အဖြဲ႔တုိ႔ မွ ရရွိပါသည္။

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BURMA IS EIGHT YEARS TOO LATE; MALAYSIA WAS FIRST

Posted by admin
Friday, 24 April 2009 17:17



Yes, that’s right. Ustaz Dr Badrulamin was detained without trial for two years for the ‘crime’ of praying. That’s because he made the ‘mistake’ of praying for the release of all ISA detainees.

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

Arrested for praying

Two members of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's political party were arrested and charged with insulting religion after they prayed for the release of political prisoners, a party spokesman said on Friday.

National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win said authorities arrested Chit Pe, the party's deputy chairman, and party member Aung Saw Wei in Twante on Tuesday.

Both took part in a prayer service for the release of political prisoners, which was held at a pagoda in the township, about 20 miles (32 kilometres) south of Yangon.

Nyan Win said the two were charged with insulting religion, which carries a possible two-year jail sentence.

'The government is suppressing anyone who opposes or challenges them,' Nyan Win said. 'If a Buddhist is arrested and charged for praying at a pagoda, what can they do?'

Myanmar's military, which has held power since 1962, tolerates no dissent. The current junta came to power in 1988 after crushing a nationwide pro-democracy uprising and has stepped up its campaign against opposition politicians and activists ahead of elections planned for next year.

In recent months, military courts have sentenced hundreds of pro-democracy activists to prison terms of up to 104 years.

Myanmar now has more than 2,100 political prisoners, according to rights groups. The most prominent among them is Suu Kyi, who has spent more than 13 of the last 19 years under detention. She is currently under house arrest. – AP

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The above is today’s news item from AP. What you just read really makes Burma look real bad; don’t you think so? Well, many of you may not be aware that the same thing happened in Malaysia eight years ago. And, in that incident, Ustaz Dr Badrulamin Bahron, one-time lecturer with the International Islamic University (UIA), was detained without trial under Malaysia’s draconian Internal Security Act and was sent to Kamunting for two years -- for praying.

Yes, that’s right. Ustaz Dr Badrulamin was detained without trial for two years for the ‘crime’ of praying. That’s because he made the ‘mistake’ of praying for the release of all ISA detainees. So they made sure he himself became an ISA detainee (maybe they thought the closer he is to the ISA detainees he is praying for, the better chance he has for his prayers to be heard). If he had instead prayed for the long-life, health and happiness of the Sultans, like they do during every Friday prayer in all the mosques in Malaysia, then he would not have been sent to Kamunting for two years.

It is actually quite ironical is it not? You pray to God that the ISA detainees get released, then ‘God’ grants you your wish by making you an ISA detainee. If this is not a point for atheists to use in their argument that there is no God then I really don’t know what is.

Anyway, it just goes to show that sometimes man does the work of God and you really can’t blame God for your predicament. I mean, if God is really is involved in all this, then how can God take away two years of your freedom just because you prayed to Him for the welfare of fellowmen who are victims of injustice?

To digress a bit here: do you know it is mandatory for all mosques to offer prayers to the Rulers and their crown princes during the Friday congregational prayers? I remember more than ten years ago or so when about seven or nine imams from Selangor were sacked because they were alleged to have ‘boycotted’ the part where they were supposed to offer prayers for the Sultan of Selangor.

Actually, this was not true at all. These imams were known PAS sympathisers and Umno wanted to get rid of them. So the Religious Department went to meet the Sultan and played a tape-recording of the Friday prayers to ‘prove’ that these mosques did not offer prayers to the Sultan and his son.

Of course, all they had to do was to delete that part where the prayers were held and splice the tape. Then the ‘new’ tape-recording would show that no prayers were offered. The Religious Department sought permission from the Sultan to sack these seven or nine imams and the Sultan consented.

I can’t remember all the imams or mosques involved but I do remember that the Sungai Buloh, Subang Airport, and Subang Jaya mosques were amongst those that suffered the removal of their imams for the crime of not offering prayers to the Sultan and his son. Later, other mosques in the Federal Territory -- like the Bangsar Abu Bakar Siddique and Damansara Utama Mujahidin mosques -- also came under the hammer of the religious authorities. These mosques too were headed by known PAS sympathisers.

If you can remember, during the last general election, the head of PAS Johor appointed a young Indian (Hindu girl) lawyer to contest a seat in Johor. Well, this man, Ustaz Mahfoz, was the imam of the Mujahidin mosque in Damansara Utama who was sacked. And he appointed an Indian Hindu girl (read: girl, Indian and Hindu in one breath: three so-called taboos for PAS according to those who claim that PAS is a Taliban party) as a PAS candidate. Yet he was sacked by the religious authorities for being an ‘extremist’.

Okay, enough digression. Back to the story of Ustaz Dr Badrulamin who was detained for praying, just like what they do in Burma. Ustaz Dr Badrulamin was actually detained earlier that year but was released after a few months. However, it was a conditional release. He was not to meet in a group of more than four. He must remain indoors from dusk to dawn. And he may not leave his home district.

He complied with all that. But he thought that leading a prayer (baca doa) would not be regarded as an illegal gathering -- as any gathering of more than four without a police permit would be classified. And it was not a street or outdoor gathering. It was indoors. And he was not giving a ceramah or speaking in an anti-government rally. He was leading prayers for the wellbeing of all ISA detainees.

Ustaz Dr Badrulamin was wrong. The police did consider it an illegal gathering and therefore in breach of the terms and restrictions imposed on him. They summoned him to the Rawang Police Station without telling him what it was about. And as soon as he entered the police station they served him with a detention order and sent him to Kamunting.

That was Malaysia then. That is Burma now. Burma is eight years too late. And Malaysia is still like Burma today.

From- Malaysia Today

FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

၂ဝ၁ဝ ကိုေမ့ျပီး ကုလားဆီ အာရံုေျပာင္းေအာင္လုပ္ေနတာ
ျမန္မာ-ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နယ္စပ္အေျခအေန တင္းမာ

23 April 2009


ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဘက္က အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္စပ္မွာ ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးကာရံေနတဲ့ ကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ လုံၿခံဳေရးအာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ကန္႔ကြက္မႈေတြရွိလာလုိ႔ ႏွစ္ဖက္အၾကား တင္းမာမႈေတြ ျဖစ္ပြားေနတဲ့ သတင္းေတြ ျပန္ၿပီး ထြက္ေပၚလာေနပါတယ္။ အခုလည္းပဲ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ နယ္နိမိတ္ထဲအထိ ေက်ာ္လြန္ၿပီး ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးကာရံေနတယ္ဆုိၿပီး

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ဘက္က ကန္႔ကြက္ေနတာလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစုံကုိ ကုိေအာင္လြင္ဦးက တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံနယ္စပ္မွာ လုံၿခံဳေရးနဲ႔ ဒုစ႐ုိက္မႈေတြကုိ ကာကြယ္ဖုိ႔ဆုိၿပီး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဘက္က ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးကာရံတဲ့ အစီအစဥ္ေတြကုိ မၾကာေသးခင္လေတြကစၿပီး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတဲ့ေနရာမွာ အခုအခါ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ နယ္စပ္မ်ဥ္းနားအထိ ေရာက္လာတဲ့အတြက္ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံဘက္က ကန္႔ကြက္ေနတာလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ ဒီအတြက္ေၾကာင့္မုိ႔လုိ႔လည္း ျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံက နစက လုိ႔ ေခၚၾကတဲ့ နယ္စပ္ေဒသ စိစစ္ႀကီးၾကပ္ေရးလုံၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖဲြ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ေကာ့က္စ္ဘဇားၿမိဳ႕ အေျခစုိက္ လုံၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖဲြ႔ေတြအၾကား မေက်မလည္ျဖစ္တာေတြ ရွိခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔လည္း ေဒသခံသတင္းေတြက ေဖာ္ျပၾက ပါတယ္။

အခုေနာက္ဆုံးဆုိရင္လည္း ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ အၿပီးသတ္ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ မရႏုိင္ဘဲ ျဖစ္ေနရတယ္လုိ႔ အေျခအေန ေတြ ကုိ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနတဲ့ ေကာ့က္စ္ဘဇားၿမိဳ႕က အကဲခတ္တဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ကုိသန္းထြန္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ကိုက္ ၅၀ အတြင္း ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးခတ္ဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ေတာ့ မီဒီယာေတြကေတြ႕ၿပီး ကန္႔ကြက္တယ္။ ဧၿပီလ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔ကေပါ့။ စာနဲ႔လွမ္းကန္႔ကြက္ေတာ့ ဧၿပီ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔ မနက္ ၁၁ နာရီေလာက္မွာ ဟုိက လူ၀င္မႈ နယ္ေျမတာ၀န္ခံ ဗုိလ္ႀကီးမ်ဳိးဦးရယ္ ဒီကတာ၀န္ခံအရာရွိတေယာက္နဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲလုပ္တဲ့အခါ နစကေတြ ေျပာတာေတာ့ သူတို႔နဲ႔မဆုိင္ဘူး၊ ဒါ အင္ဂ်င္နီယာ တပ္ဖြဲ႕က လုပ္တာ၊ အဲလို ျငင္းတယ္။ သူတို႔က အထက္ကုိ တင္ျပေပးပါမယ္ဆုိၿပီး ေျပာတယ္။ ဒီကျမင္တာကေတာ့ အင္တာေနရွင္နယ္ဥပေဒမွာ ကိုက္ ၅၀ ထက္ပုိၿပီး ကိုက္ ၁၀၀ အတြင္းမွာ ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးခတ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ အင္တာေနရွင္နယ္ ဥပေဒနဲ႔ ျငိႏုိင္တယ္ဆုိၿပီး ကန္႔ကြက္တယ္။”

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဘက္က အခုလုိ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္နယ္စပ္မွာ ၂၅ မုိင္ေလာက္ရွည္တဲ့ သံဆူးႀကိဳးခတ္ ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးကာတာေတြကို လုပ္မယ္ဆုိၿပီး ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့လက ေျပာတုန္းကလည္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံက ကန္႔ကြက္ခဲ့တာပါ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဘက္ကေတာ့ ဒါဟာ လုံၿခံဳေရးနဲ႔ ရာဇ၀တ္မႈနဲ႔ ဆက္ႏြယ္တဲ့ လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြကုိ ကန္႔သတ္ဖုိ႔ဆုိၿပီး ေျပာဆုိခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ ေနာက္ပုိင္းျပႆနာေတြ ေျပလည္သြားသလုိရွိေပမယ့္ အခုအခါ တေက်ာ့ျပန္တင္းမာမႈေတြ ေပၚေပါက္လာတာပါ။ အခုဆုိရင္လည္း ႏွစ္ဖက္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္စပ္က လက္နက္ကုိင္တပ္ဖဲြ႔ေတြအၾကား လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြေတာင္ ရွိေနတယ္လုိ႔ နယ္စပ္အကဲခတ္ ကိုသန္းထြန္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ဒီေန႔သတင္းက ဟုိဘက္က နစကနဲ႔ အရပ္၀တ္နဲ႔ စစ္သားေတြက ေသနတ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေနရာယူထားတယ္။ ဒီဘက္ကလည္း ေနရာယူထားတယ္။ ဒီဘက္နယ္စပ္မွာလည္း စခန္းသုံးခုရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီစခန္းသုံးခုက ဒီေန႔မနက္ ေစာေစာကတည္းက ေခ်ာင္းပစ္ေနတယ္လို႔ သတင္းရတယ္။ နစကကလည္း အဲဒီလိုပဲ ေနရာယူထားတယ္။ ဒီေန႔မနက္ သတင္းရတာေတာ့ တင္းမာေနတဲ့သေဘာ ရွိတယ္။ ဟုိကလည္း ဆက္ၿပီးလုပ္မယ့္သေဘာရွိတယ္၊ ဒီဘက္ကလည္း ဆက္ၿပီး ကန္႔ကြက္တုန္းပဲ။”

အခုလုိ တင္းမာမႈေတြ၊ ကန္႔ကြက္မႈေတြ ရွိေနတဲ့အထိ ျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ကိစၥေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လုိ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ဒကၠားမွာရွိတဲ့ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးကုိ ေမးျမန္းတဲ့အခါမွာေတာ့ သံအမတ္ႀကီး မရွိဘူးလုိ႔သာ ေျပာပါတယ္။ မုိင္ေပါင္း ၂၀၀ ေလာက္ နယ္နိမိတ္ခ်င္း ထိစပ္ေနတဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ဒီလုိ နယ္စပ္ေဒသက ၿခံစည္း႐ုိးျပႆနာ မေပၚေပါက္ခင္ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္ကုန္ပုိင္းမွာတုန္းကလည္းပဲ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ထဲမွာ ကမ္းလြန္ေရနံ ရွာေဖြမႈေတြ လုပ္ကုိင္ရင္း တင္းမာမႈ ေတြ ျဖစ္ခဲ့လုိ႔ ၂ ႏုိင္ငံ ေရတပ္သေဘၤာေတြ အေခ်အတင္ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ေဒသထဲ ေစလႊတ္တာမ်ဳိးအထိလည္း ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကတာပါ။

Thanks to Arzarni blogspot

Arrests Continue in Burma

Than Shwe has decided to restrict the types of prayers a person can make in his latest act of tyranny. He arrested *National League for Democracy members for praying for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi to assert his authority in religion. The road map to Burma’s new future already has pot holes and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt it will dead end in more repression.

There is no future and his road map looks more like a guided tour of hell since he has decided to act like a G*D and dictate what people can pray for. Clearly democracy will not have a place within his vision of future Burma and arresting people for the content of their prayers is shear madness. As cancer spreads throughout his body it may very well be exacting a toll on his brain since this insanity at its best.

Rape and murder continues to be the rule as reports of more atrocities manage to make their way to the outside world. Than Shwe’s henchmen in the State Peace and Development Counsel raped a **13 year old girl in the Papun District and continue their rain of murder on Karen villagers. It is business as usual for the criminal regime who continues to commit crimes against humanity with impunity.

Other arrests continue in secret as people disappear from the streets and placed in distant jungle prisons. Eventually the Burmese government will have arrested all the opposition to the pending 2010 election. It is believed that the people who disappear without public knowledge are simple being killed to put an end to the opposition of his illegal elections. The brutality of his criminal regime has no boundaries and has escalated with a vengeance in an effort to thwart efforts the opposition to him and his band of criminals.

Pro junta businessmen who’ve benefited from the corrupt military junta have become spies against the people of Burma. They have also used their new status to intimidate and threaten citizens. They identify people as pro democracy advocate causing innocent people to be arrested and persecuted to satisfy vendettas. There is no question they will use their positions to eliminate competition as they lie about businessmen as well. These businessmen will undoubtedly be added to the list of criminals who will stand trial for crimes against humanity as well. Than Shwe’s legacy will convict his minions long after he dies from the cancer that is consuming his body. Destiny awaits and justice will be served.

* http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=15518

** http://www.khrg.org/khrg2009/khrg09f8.html

Your Devil’s Advocate

Buffalohair

ရန္သူလား မိတ္ေဆြလား

ရန္သူလား မိတ္ေဆြလား
ေအာင္မင္းေခါင္

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ အမိျမန္မာျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ႏွင့္ လူ႕အခြင့္အေရး ရရန္အတြက္ လူတုိင္းမွာတာ၀န္ရွိသည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕တုိင္းျပည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား အားလုံးသည္ ပိုမိုၾကိဳးစားရမည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီရရန္ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ ဟန္ခ်က္ညီညီၾကိဳးစားၾကရမည္။
ျပည္တြင္း မွ အမွန္တရား ျမတ္ႏိုးေသာ သူရဲေကာင္းမ်ားက အသက္ကို ပဓနမထား၊ ေထာင္မေၾကာက္ ၊ တန္းမေၾကာက္ ၊ ႏိုပ္စက္မႈကို ဂ႐ုမျပဳဘဲ သန္း ၅၀ ေသာ ျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္၊ တရားမွ်တမႈ အတြက္ဘ၀ေတြစေတးကာ သတၱိရွိရွိ တိုက္ပြဲ ၀င္လွ်က္ရွိသည္။

ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတရပ္ေအာင္ျမင္ဖို႕လူထုပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ၾကဖုိ႕ အလြန္အေရးၾကီးသည္။ ျမန္မာ ျပည္သူတရပ္လုံး ကသာအေၾကာက္တရား ေဘးဖယ္ထားၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ႏွင့္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ၊ ဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီးမ်ား၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈကို တညီတညြတ္တည္း အင္တိုက္အားတုိက္ ပါ၀င္လွ်င္ လူထုအားျဖင့္ ေအာင္ပြဲဆင္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ အကယ္၍ သာျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားသည္ မဟတၱမဂႏၵီႏွင့္အိႏၵိယျပည္သားမ်ား လြတ္လပ္ေရးၾကိဳးပမ္းစဥ္ က့ဲသို႕ ေထာင္ေတြအားလုံးကို ျပည္သူ ႏွင့္ ျဖည့္လုိက္လွ်င္အက်ည္းသားမည္မွ်ဆံပါမည္နည္း။ စစ္တပ္ဘာလုပ္ႏိုင္ပါမည္နည္း။ ဒါသည္ အာၾကမ္းမဖက္ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာျဖစ္သည္။

ေသခ်ာတာကေတာ့ သစၥာ႐ွိရမည္။ သတိၱ ႐ွိရမည္။ အနစ္နာခံ ရဲရမည္။ပိုမိုျပီး အေရးအ ႀကီးတာက လူညီရမည္။ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး သတိ ႐ွိရမည္။ သစၥာေဖာက္ေလာက္ေကာင္မ်ားကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ ၿပီး ၀ိုင္းၾကဥ္ၾကရမည္။ လူ႕ေဘာင္ေလာကထဲမွ သူတို႕အားပယ္ပစ္ ၾကရမည္။ အကယ္၍ သူတို႕ကအမွားကို ျမင္၍ အမွန္ကိုျပင္လာၾက လွ်င္လႈိက္လဲွစြာ ႀကိဳဆို ၾကရမည္။ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္မ်ား၏ အသက္ေသြးေၾကာ မွာစစ္သားမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ အကယ္၍ သာ စစ္သားမ်ားသည္ ျပည္သူဘက္မွမားမားမတ္မတ္ ရပ္တည္ၿပီး ေသနတ္ေျပာင္းကို အာဏာ႐ွင္မ်ားဘက္သုိ႕လွည့္ၾကမည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး ပိုမိုျမန္ဆန္စြာ ေအာင္ျမင္ႏိုင္သည္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတြင္ မိတ္ေဆြႏွင့္ရန္သူ ႏွစ္မ်ဳိးသာ႐ွိသည္ ။ ၾကားေနသည္ ဟုဆိုလွ်င္ရန္သူအားေပးျဖစ္ေသာ ေၾကာင့္ရန္သူပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ သည္လက္႐ွိ အာဏာ႐ွင္ စနစ္ေအာက္တြင္၂၁ ႏွစ္ၾကာ ဆင္းရဲမႈ ၊ ရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္မႈ ႏွင့္ ၫႇင္းပန္းႏွိပ္စက္မႈ အေပါင္းကို ခါးသီးစြာ ခံစားရလွ်က္႐ွိသည္။ ျပည္သူ ႏွင့္ တန္ေသာ အစိုးရကိုရသည္ ဟူေသာဆိုစကား႐ွိသည္။ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား သည္ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္ အစိုးရႏွင့္သာ တန္ပါသလား။

ကမာၻအရပ္ရပ္၌ ၊ အေ႐ွ႕အေနာက္ေတာင္ေျမာက္ အရပ္ေလးမ်က္ႏွာ ၌ ထို ၂၁ ႏွစ္တာ ကာလ အတြင္း ( ကခ်င္၊ ကယား၊ ကရင္၊ ခ်င္း၊ မြန္၊ ဗမာ၊ ရခိုင္၊ ႐ွမ္း၊) စေသာ ျမန္မာတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားသည္ ေနရာ အႏွံ႔၌ ေရာက္႐ွိလွ်က္႐ွိသည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕က ပညာသင္ရန္ ပညာ႐ွာ ၊ အခ်ိဳ႕က အလုပ္လုပ္ ရန္ ေငြ႐ွာ ၊ အခ်ိဳ႕ကေတာ့ ခိုလႈံရန္ (asylum) ။

ျမန္မာျပည္လူဦးေရသည္ ကမာၻအရပ္ရပ္၌ သန္းခ်ီ႐ွိေလသည္။ ဒီေနရာမွာ ျမန္မာျပည္ေကာင္းစား ရန္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပ ႏွစ္ဌာန ျပိဳင္တူပူးေပါင္း လုပ္ၾကရန္အလြန္အေရးၾကီသည္။ အကယ္၍ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား အားလုံးကသာ ၊အထူးသျဖင့္ ခုိလႈံေရးသမား မ်ားအားလုံး ကသာတက္ညီလက္ညီ၀ိုင္၀န္း ၾကိဳးစား ၾကပါလွ်င္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ေတာ္လွန္ေရး ေအာင္ပြဲ ကို အၿမန္ဆုံး အေရာက္လွမ္းႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္သည္။

အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ခိုလႈံေနၾကေသာ သူမ်ားသည္ အမိျမန္မာျပည္ေကာင္းစားေရးအတြက္ ပိုမိုအလုပ္လုပ္သင့္သည္။ သစၥာပို႐ွိသင့္သည့္ ။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ၊ လူမ်ိဳး ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူအေပၚ အျမဲ သစၥာ႐ွိရမည္။
သို႕ေသာ္ ကမာၻအရပ္ရပ္ ေရာက္ျမန္မာမ်ားသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေကာင္းစားေရး အတြက္ လွဳပ္႐ွားသူ ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ႐ွိပါသနည္း။ လက္ခ်ိဳးေရ၍ရပါသည္။

ဘာေၾကာင္ပါလဲ။ ခိုလႈံခြင့္ ယူၿပီး အေခ်ာင္ခုိ သြားၾကသူက ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားေနေသာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္။ မိမိ ကိုယ္က်ိဳးအတြက္ ဦးစားေပး ေ႐ွ႕တန္းတင္ေန ေသာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သည္။

ကမာၻအရပ္ရပ္တြင္ ခိုလႈံေနၾကသူမ်ားသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေကာင္းစားေရး အတြက္အမွန္တကယ္သာစိတ္ဆႏၵ ႐ွိလွ်င္ လုပ္ႏိုင္တာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး႐ွိပါသည္။ လူအင္အား၊စိတ္ဓါတ္အင္အား၊ေငြအင္အား တတ္ႏိုင္သမွ် ၀ိုင္းပါ၍ရပါသည္။ သို႕ေသာ္ အမ်ားစုေသာ ခိုလႈံခြင့္ယူထားသူမ်ားသည္ခိုလႈံခြင့္ ရၿပီးပါက မိမိဘ၀အတြက္ ဖူလုံၿပီဟု မွတ္ယူကာ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အေပၚသစၥာေဖာက္ သြားၾကသည္။

တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း ေဘးထိုင္၊ဘုေျပာ၊၀င္မလုပ္ ျဖစ္သြားၾကသည္။ ျပန္လာခဲ့ၾကပါ ရဲေဘာ္တို႕ တို႕တေတြအျပီးသတ္ တိုက္ပြဲကို ၀ိုင္း၀န္းတုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ၾကပါစို႕လို႕ဖိတ္ေခၚခ်င္ပါသည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕ခိုလႈံ သူမ်ားမွာ တကယ္ပင္စိတ္ဓါတ္႐ွိပါသည္။ တကယ္ကို၀ိုင္းလုပ္ခ်င္ၾကပါသည္။ သို႕ေသာ္ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာ မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးထဲတြင္ ကပ္ခုိေနလွ်က္႐ွိေသာ စစ္တပ္သူလွ်ိဳ မ်ား၏ စိတ္ဓါတ္စစ္ဆင္ေရး ျဖစ္ေသာ ေျခာက္လုံးမ်ား ေၾကာင့္ ၎၊ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကို လုပ္စားသူမ်ား ၏ လူသစ္ကုိ ႐ိုက္ခ်ျခင္း၊ မ်က္ႏွာသစ္ကို ဘ၀သတ္ျခင္းတို႕ ေၾကာင့္၎၊ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာအက်င့္ပ်က္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမား အမည္ခံမ်ားေၾကာင့္ လည္းေကာင္း ေ႐ွ႕မထြက္ရဲ တထိတ္လန္႕လန္႕ ျဖင့္ စိတ္ဓါတ္ကို ၿမိဳသိပ္ေနရသူမ်ား လည္း႐ွိသည္။

ထိုသို႕ေသာရဲေဘာ္မ်ားကို လိႈက္လႈိက္လဲွလွ ဲ BURMA DEMOCRATIC CONCNERN(BDC) မွ ဖိတ္ေခၚလိုက္ပါသည္။ ၀င္လာခဲ့ၾကပါ ။ ရဲရဲသာ လာခဲ့ၾကပါ။ (BDC) သည္သင္တုိ႕ကို Judgement မလုပ္ပါ။ Privacy ကိုတန္ဖိုးထားပါသည္။ Confidentiality ကိုေလးစားပါသည္။ စစ္အာဏာ ႐ွင္ အလိုေတာ္ရိ မ်ားေမးေနၾက ျဖစ္ေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ဘာလုပ္ဖူးသလဲ၊ဘယ္တုန္းက ပါခဲ့ဘူးသလဲ၊ ဘာျဖစ္ဖူသလဲ စေသာ ေမးခြန္းမ်ား ကိုမေမးပါ။ သင္ယခုစလုပ္လွ်င္ ယခုပင္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေကာင္းစားေရး အတြက္ အက်ိဳး႐ွိပါသည္။ သင့္ကို(BDC) မွအလို႐ွိပါသည္။(BDC)သည္လူတုိင္းပါ၀င္မႈ၊ (BDC) သည္လူတုိင္းေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈ ၊ (BDC) သည္လူတုိင္း လွဴဒါန္းကူညီမႈ ကို ေလးစားတန္ဘိုးထားပါသည္။

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သၾကၤန္ပဲြေတာ္ရက္အတြင္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ေခါင္းစည္းပု၀ါ ေပးကမ္းလႈပ္ရွားမႈတစ္ရပ္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့
Mon 20 Apr 2009, မိမြန္စြန္း
သၾကၤန္အတြင္း ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္တစ္စု ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါ ေပးကမ္းျဖန္႕ေဝသည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈတစ္ရပ္ကို မြန္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ ေခါင္စည္းပုဝါမွာ “No Free No Happy” (မလြတ္လပ္ဘူးဆုိရင္ မေပ်ာ္ႏုိင္ဘူး) ဟု ဆိုထားပါသည္။

ဧၿပီလ (၁၄) ရက္ေန႕ သၾကၤန္အၾကတ္ေန႕တြင္ ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါ ၁၅၀၀ ခန္႕ကို မြန္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္၊ မုဒံုႏွင့္ သံျဖဳဳဇရပ္ၿမိဳ႕မ်ားတြင္ သၾကၤန္ေရကစားသူမ်ားအား ျဖန္႕ေဝခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ၌ လမ္းမေပၚတြင္ သၾကၤန္ေရကစားသူမ်ားကို ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါမ်ား ေပးကမ္းျဖန္႕ေဝခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ အဖဲြ႕ဝင္တစ္ဦးက “ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႕ ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါေတြကို ဘာ့ေၾကာင့္ ေပးကမ္းျဖန္႕ေဝတာလဲဆိုေတာ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တုိ႕ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ လက္ေအာက္မွာ ေနခဲ့ရတာၾကာၿပီ၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႕မွာ လြတ္လပ္မႈမရွိဘူး၊ လြတ္လြတ္လပ္လပ္ ေျပာဆိုပိုင္ခြင့္ေတြ မရွိဘူး ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႕မွာလြတ္လပ္မႈ မရွိဘူးဆိုရင္ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္မႈမရွိဘူးဆိုတာကို ျပည္သူလူထုကို ေပးသိေစခ်င္တယ္” ဟုေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတြက အခုခ်ိန္ထိ ေခါင္းစည္းေပးကမ္း ျဖန္႕ေဝျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေရးယူတာ၊ ဖမ္းဆီးတာတို႕ မရွိေသးဘူးဟု ၄င္းက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါ၏ အေရာင္မွာ အမဲေရာင္ျဖစ္ၿပီး “No Free No Happy” စာသားကို အျဖဳဳေရာင္ႏွင့္ ေရးထားၿပီး ဂ်ဳိးျဖဳဳငွက္ပံုလည္း ပါဝင္သည္။

ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕ခံမ်ား၏ အဆုိအရ သၾကၤန္အၾကတ္ေန႕တြင္ လူငယ္ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါေတြ ပတ္ထားတာကို ေတြ႕ရၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္ေတြဘက္က ဖမ္းဆီးတာကို မေတြ႕ရဘူးဟု ေျပာသည္။

အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက သၾကၤန္ရက္အတြင္းတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ အဖဲြ႕အစည္းအဝတ္အစားႏွင့္ အလံမ်ားကိုု အသံုးျပဳဝတ္ဆင္ပါက အေရးယူမည္ဟု ျမန္မာအစိုးရပိုင္ မီဒီယာမ်ားက ေၾကျငာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။

မုဒံုၿမိဳ႕ေပၚရွိ လူငယ္တစ္ဦးက “ သၾကၤန္အၾကတ္ေန႕မွာ လူငယ္ေတြက ေခါင္းစည္းပုဝါကို ပတ္ထားတာေတြ႕ရတယ္၊ က်ေနာ့္သူငယ္ခ်င္း အခ်ဳိ႕က ပုဝါထဲမွာ ဘာေရးထားတာကိုလည္း ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ နားမလည္ဘူး၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတို႕က အလကားရလို႕ ပတ္ၾကတယ္၊ တခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း ေရးထားတာကိုသိတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတို႕ကမေၾကာက္ၾကဘူး” ဟုေျပာသည္။

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ခုႏွစ္မိုင္၊ ေျခာက္မိုင္ခြဲ

ၿပီးေတာ့၊ ရန္ကုန္နဲ႔ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ေခါင္နဲ႔

၆ မိုင္ပဲ ေဝးတယ္

ငါးလမ္းဆံုတဲ့ ေနရာ။

ေစ်းတန္း၊ သစ္ပင္တန္း

ေရကန္အင္းလ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသား

ဒါထက္ သူ႔ရဲ႕ႏွလံုးသား

ရန္ကုန္ရဲ႕ ႏွလံုးသား

ၿပီးေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ႏွလံုးသား

တကၠသိုလ္ၾကီး ရွိတယ္

အဲဒါ လွည္းတန္း။

နယ္ကလာတဲ့သူ အားလံုးအတြက္

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ရန္ကုန္အဝင္

လွည္းတန္းဆို လူတိုင္းသိ

နယ္ကလူ လွည္းတန္းမွာခ်

လိုရာေနရာ သူ သြားႏိုင္တယ္

အဲဒီလို ယဥ္ပါးတဲ့ လွည္းတန္း။

နယ္ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက ဆိုတယ္

“လွည္းတန္းဟာ ငါတို႔ အိမ္ယာ

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ငါတို႔ လယ္ယာ

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ငါတို႔ ဘာသာ

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ငါတို႔ အိမ္

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ငါတို႔ မိုးတိမ္

ငါတို႔ အနာဂတ္အားလံုးဟာ

လွည္းတန္းက စ, ခဲ့ၾကရတယ္”

အဲဒီလို ထဲထဲဝင္ဝင္ လွည္းတန္း။

တခါကဆို

လွည္းတန္း ညေနေစ်းခင္းမွာလည္း

ေမ်ာဝင္သက္ဆင္းဖူးမွ

အင္းလ်ားညေန ျမက္ခင္းမွာလည္း

ေျခဆင္းဖူးမွ

အဓိပတိလမ္းမွာလည္း

ေလွ်ာက္ဖူးအံုးမွ

Library ေရွ႕မွာလည္း ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္ဖူးအံုးမွ

သစ္ပုတ္ပင္ၾကီးေပၚမွာလည္း

စာေရးဖူးအံုးမွ

ဖူးမွ …. ဖူးမွ … တခါက။

၁၉၂ဝ မွာ သမိုင္းလွခဲ့ေပမယ့္

၁၉၆၂ မွာ ေသနတ္သံညံခဲ့တဲ့

၁၉၇၄ မွာ မီးေလာင္တိုက္ အသြင္းခံခဲ့ရတဲ့

၁၉၈၈ မွာ အဓိပတိလမ္းေပၚ လဲက်ခဲ့ရတဲ့

သူ႔အသည္းႏွလံုးကို

လွည္းတန္းဟာ ရင္ခြင္ထဲ ေထြးထားခဲ့တယ္

က်ားကန္ေပးခဲ့တယ္

စင္ျမင့္လုပ္ေပးခဲ့တယ္။

ဒါ တရား

လွည္းတန္းဟာ

အမွားမလုပ္ဘူး။

ဒါေပမဲ့

အမွန္တရားကို တန္ဖိုးမထား

အသစ္ကို မႏွစ္သက္

လူငယ္ကို နားမလည္တဲ့

လက္သည္ တရားခံ တစုက

လွည္းတန္းကို operation လုပ္

သူ႔ႏွလံုးသားကို ဆြဲထုတ္ၿပီး

အစိမ္းေတာင္ ျပန္ခ်ဳပ္ မေပးခဲ့ဘူး

ပါသြားၿပီ ပါသြားၿပီ။

ခုဆို

အသားဟင္းေသးေသးနဲ႔ ထမင္းတပြဲ

ေလးက်ပ္ခြဲနဲ႔ ေပးစားခဲ့ရတဲ့

လွည္းတန္းရဲ႕ ဦးဖ်ားမွာလည္း

ရဲကင္းတဲ တတဲ။

ခုဆို

အဓိပတိလမ္းကိုပိတ္

တကၠသီလာ ဦးကင္းထိပ္မွာလည္း

မင္းအဆိပ္ေတြနဲ႔

စစ္ဟယ္, ေဆးဟယ္။

ခုဆို

ကိုၾကီးႏုတို႔ ကိုေအာင္ဆန္းတို႔

ေနခဲ့တဲ့ အိပ္ေဆာင္ေတြ

သင္ခဲ့တဲ့ စာသင္ေဆာင္ေတြလည္း

တိတ္ေန ဆိတ္ေန။

ဒါေပမဲ့

အမွန္တရားအတြက္

ေပးဆက္ၾကမယ့္ ပင္ပ်ဳိမ်ားကို

လွည္းတန္းဟာ

ဘယ္ေသာအခါမ်ားကမွ လက္ပိုက္မၾကည့္ဖူးဘူး။

ပစ္စလက္ခတ္ အလုပ္ခံရတဲ့

အသည္းႏွလံုးမဲ့ လွည္းတန္းကို

ဘယ္ေသာအခါမွလည္း တားဆီးမရဘူး။

ကမ္းၿပိဳရင္ ေသာင္ထြန္းတယ္

ရန္ကုန္မိသားစုမွာ

လွည္းတန္းဟာ အပ်ဳိမ

လတ္ဆတ္တဲ့ အသစ္ေတြနဲ႔

အၿမဲျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ကညာ … ။။
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Rohingyas trained in different Al-Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan

Rohingyas trained in different Al-Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan
Wed, 2009-04-01 00:46
By William Gomes - Bangladesh

Bangladesh is terrorized by Islamic terrorism. Islamic terrorism has created a culture of fear in Bangladesh. Our main objective is to bring out the nation from this culture of fear. Afghanistan is noted with the notion that "a nation at war and some time a nation engulfed by the "Taliban".

In 1990s, 70,000 to 120,000 Muslim youth trained to fight in Asia, Africa, and in Middle East in different Al-Qaeda and Taliban camps in Afghanistan. Al-Qaeda highly trained a notable number of Islamic groups and indoctrinated them with the mission of "Jihad" that influx all over the world the message of fear and violence.

Arakan Rohingya Nationalist Organization (ARNO) and Rohingya Solidarity Organisation (RSO) were among the groups who were trained in Afghanistan camps and were and are active in Myanmar and Bangladesh.

Every single Islamic terrorist attack from 9/11 to Bangladesh or else where in world is direct or indirect curse of the mushroom growth of Islamic terrorism. Harkat-ul-Jehad Islami-Bangladesh (HuJI-B) and Jamaat-ul-Mujaihdeen Bangladesh (JMB) have had a strong relation with the Afghanistan based Islamic terrorist networks. Bangladesh witnessed a mass bloodshed in the name of bloody Islam. Roads of Bangladesh were shacked with the slogan “We are Taliban and Bangla Will be Afghan”.

Bangladesh is experiencing the highest challenge in controlling political Islam and Islamic terrorism. The scenario has changed now Bangladesh becomes the highest threat before world peace and security.

As a multifaceted phenomenon, terrorism is a reason to fight regionally and jointly. The experience of Afghanistan in fighting the Islamic terrorism has been pivotal. Afghanistan can lead the south Asia in fighting the Islamic terrorism with their all experience.

Present Afghanistan Government and the people of Afghanistan is major ally of the International community in fighting the Islamic terrorist. The articulation and pursuit of Afghan foreign policy had made it clear the intention and ability to defend the Islamic Terrorism in or by Afghanistan. However, in a world of diversity, the solution we are looking forward to bring an end to the culture of fear and violence does demand a regional united effort.

International community should guide to bridge the gap between inadequate aspirations of Afghanistan’s foreign policy in fighting the Islamic Terrorist with People and government of Bangladesh based on the spirit of friendship and co operation.

International community should inspire the politicians and policy makers to mobilize the people of the south Asian region to make an open platform that the normal people can lead the movement against the culture of violence and fear that the movements become people’s movement against Islamic Terrorism and a vibrant campaign for Justice and peace. This initiative will play a central role in helping the people and government of Afghanistan and Bangladesh in their mission towards insuring stability of the south Asian region and the world.

William Gomes is an independent human rights activist, a Catholic ecumenical activist, and a political analyst. He is also the Executive Director of the Christian Development Alternative (CDA), a national organization against torture and human rights violations.

- Asian Tribune -


http://www.asiantribune.com/?q=node/16449

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Friday, April 17, 2009
STORM WARNING FOR:
CHITTAGONG
COX's BAZAR
BARISA
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MAX SUSTAINED WINDS - 030 KT, GUSTS 040 KT
WIND RADII VALID OVER OPEN WATER ONLY
DISSIPATED AS A SIGNIFICANT TROPICAL CYCLONE OVER LAND
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REMARKS:
170900Z POSITION NEAR 20.7N 89.5E.
TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 01B (BIJLI) LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 130 NM SOUTH-
SOUTHEAST OF KOLKATA, INDIA, HAS TRACKED EAST-NORTHEASTWARD AT 12
KNOTS OVER THE PAST 06 HOURS. THE INITIAL POSITION IS BASED ON
ANIMATED INFRARED AND MICROWAVE SATELLITE IMAGERY INCLUDING A
17/0130Z SSMIS PASS. THE INITIAL INTENSITY ESTIMATE OF 50 KNOTS IS
CONSISTENT WITH DVORAK T-NUMBERS FROM PGTW, KNES, AND DEMS. TC 01B
HAS TURNED MORE EASTWARD ALONG NORTHWESTERN PERIPHERY OF A SUBTRO-
PICAL STEERING RIDGE TO THE SOUTHEAST. THE CYCLONE HAS MAINTAINED
INTENSITY OVER THE PAST 06 HOURS AS SUPPRESSED OUTFLOW BALANCES THE
FAVORABLE INFLUENCES OF LOW VERTICAL WIND SHEAR AND PASSAGE OVER WARM
WATER. THE CYCLONE WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK EASTWARD OVER THE NEXT 12
TO 24 HOURS AND SLIGHTLY INTENSIFY PRIOR TO MAKING LANDFALL IN
SOUTHEASTERN BANGLADESH AROUND TAU 18. THE SYSTEM WILL THEN DISSIPATE
RAPIDLY AS IT ENCOUNTERS HIGHER INLAND TERRAIN. THE CURRENT FORECAST
IS IN GOOD AGREEMENT WITH THE AVAILABLE NUMERICAL MODEL GUIDANCE.
MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT AT 170600Z IS 17 FEET. NEXT WARNINGS
AT 171500Z AND 172100Z.//
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Cyclone may hit Bengal in 48 hours, 6 districts on alert
Kolkata: Six districts in West Bengal were put on alert on Thursday in view of cyclone Bijli, which lay centred 680 kms to the south and south-west of Kolkata.

“The cyclone is likely to move in a north-westerly direction,” a regional meteorological department official said. The cyclone is likely to hit West Bengal in the next 48 hours.

State Relief Minister Mortaza Hossain said six cyclone-prone districts — Midnapore West, Midnapore East, South 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, and parts of Hooghy and Howrah — have been alerted to tackle any eventuality.

“The cyclone may hit the Orissa coast. Later, it may affect either West Bengal or Bangladesh. We have alerted the district magistrates of these districts,” Hossain said. An emergency control room has been set up in the state relief department. he added.

The Met department has said that strong gale at 60-70 km/per hour to 80 km/per hour is likely to prevail along and off the Orissa coast during the next 48 hours, accompanied by rain or thunder showers.

“Heavy rainfall and isolated thunder squall is likely in the coastal regions of Andhra Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal. The sea will be very rough and fishermen are advised not to venture into sea,” said an official of the Alipore Met department.

Accordingly, the cyclone centre is transmitting local cautionary signal at Gopalpur, Puri, Paradip and Chandbali. “We have received a warning that the storm is moving towards Paradip and Visakhapatnam and from Paradip it is likely to move towards Sagar Islands in West Bengal. It is likely to be diverted to Bangladesh. We have informed all the port users and ship owners to take adequate measures,” said an official of the Kolkata Port Trust.


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Cyclone alert for coastal areas
KOLKATA, April 16: The National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi, and the Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, today issued a caution stating that a cyclonic storm could hit coastal parts of the state in the next 48 hours.
The cyclonic trough, named Bijli, formed over the west central part of the Bay of Bengal, was centred at about 380 km away from Paradeep at 8.30 a.m. today. The warning issued also stated that the cyclone is likely to get more intense and move towards the north and north-west before taking a curved route.

Heavy rainfall or thundershowers were predicted for some coastal districts as well as a few places along the Gangetic West Bengal.

The state has been asked to ask the fishermen in these areas not to venture out into the sea for the next 48 hours, as a strong gale with a speed of upto 80 km per hour might blow over the coastal areas and the sea would be very rough.

The state government has put the coastal districts on full alert following the advisory.

A senior official at Writers’ Buildings said that all the district magistrates have been asked to put the disaster management cell on alert so that losses could be minimised if the cyclone hits the state.

The state government has taken initiatives to keep the disaster management cell ready to handle a crisis of this sort. A meeting was held at Writers’ Buildings in this regard a few days ago.

“As per the warning, the cyclone could hit the adjoining coastal districts of Orissa in the next 48 hours. We have asked the officials of coastal districts to be ready to handle the situation in an efficient manner if the storm hits. We have already taken all possible steps," an official said.

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ဆိုင္ကလံုး မုန္တိုင္းတခု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ဦးတည္ေန

ခ်င္းမုိင္ (မဇၩိမ) ။ ။ ဘီဂ်လီ Bijli ဟု အမည္ေပးထားေသာ ဆိုင္ကလံုး မုန္တိုင္းတခုသည္ ဘဂၤလား ပင္လယ္ေအာ္အတြင္း ျဖစ္တည္လ်က္ရွိျပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ နယ္စပ္ေဒသကုိ ဦးတည္ေရြ႔လ်ားေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ပင္လယ္ေအာ္အတြင္း အိႏၵိယႏိုင္ငံ ၾသရသ်ွ ျပည္နယ္ကမ္းလြန္တြင္ ဗဟိုျပဳေနေသာ မုန္တိုင္းသည္ ၾသရသ်ွ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းအတိုင္း အေရွ႔ေျမာက္ဘက္ အရပ္သို႔ ေရြ႔လ်ားေနကာ စေနေန႔တြင္ ျမန္မာႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလားနယ္စပ္သုိ႔ က်ေရာက္ဖြယ္ ရွိသည္ဟု ခန္႔မွန္းထားၾကသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္ အထက္ပိုင္းႏွင့္ ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္ ေအာက္ပိုင္းမ်ားကို စေနေန႔ ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းတြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္သည့္အခါ တနာရီ ၇၅ မိုင္ႏႈန္းအထိ အားေကာင္းလာဖြယ္ရွိျပီး မိုးသည္ထန္စြာ ရြာသြန္းကာ ေရၾကီးႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္ ေရတပ္စခန္း မိုးေလဝသ ပညာရွင္မ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းထားၾကသည္။

နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္း ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္အခ်ိန္နီး က်ေရာက္လာသည့္ မုန္တုိင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ယခုလင့္ခ္တြင္ သြားေရာက္ ၾကည့္ရႈ႔ႏိုင္သည္။

ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လျခမ္းနီအဖြဲ႔က လုပ္အားေပး ၄၃ဝဝဝ ကို လိုအပ္လ်င္ အေရးေပၚ ကယ္ဆယ္မႈမ်ားလုပ္ရန္ အသင့္ အေနအထား ျပင္ထားေစသည္။

ဆိုင္ကလံုး မုန္တုိင္း 1B သည္ ဘဂၤလား ပင္လယ္ေအာ္အတြင္း အပူပိုင္း မုန္တိုင္းအျဖစ္ အားေကာင္းလာခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ ဘီဂ်လီဟု အမည္မွဲ႔ေခၚထားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

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LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY

LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY
(www.lessonsindemocracy.org)

Contact: Roland Watson, roland@lessonsindemocracy.org

ANNOUNCING THE BURMESE TRANSLATION OF LESSONS IN DEMOCRACY

April 15, 2009


We are very pleased to announce the first translation of our Lessons in Democracy, into the Burmese language, by Ko Lwin Aung Soe. More translations are on the way.

http://www.lessonsindemocracy.org/LessonsinDemocracyBurmese.pdf

Please forward this link, if possible right now, to all your Burmese friends - wherever they might be. Please also post the link on as many Burma lists, blogs and websites as possible.


The basic idea for the translation is that if the people of Burma want democracy, they should be interested to learn about it. Conversely, if they learn about it, and understand how their lives would be changed, practically, with freedom and human rights, they should be willing to fight for it.

This means that the lessons are not solely an educational initiative. They will have a political impact as well.

The lessons are "A" democracy guide, not "The" democracy guide. There are many approaches to teaching democracy - ours is only one of them. Our approach begins with an emphasis on the underlying principles. When people who live in dictatorships ask about democracy, they don't start with questions about the system's formal mechanisms, like elections and political parties, or its presidential and parliamentary alternatives. Instead, they want to know about the ideas: What is democracy, really? What would it mean to me? How would my life in a democratic nation be different, and better?

Again, for Burma, this implies that the initiative will have a political impact as well as educational. For a start, it will counter SPDC propaganda. The people will understand exactly why the SPDC constitution, the 2010 election, and "disciplined democracy" are not democracy at all. Further, they will realize that human rights are not limited to freedom from repression. They have a right not to be poor; to have good health care; to have good schools for their children; to preserve Burma's beautiful natural environment; and many other rights as well.

Lessons in Democracy is a long-term initiative. It takes years to devise ways to expose a national population to the ideas of democracy, certainly in a dictatorship like Burma. If you can help us distribute the translation, we will be off to a good start.
(Thanks!)