Thursday, 22 September 2011
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) Save Irrawaddy Campaign Music Video
People of Burma including democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are calling for to review the Ayeyarwaddy Dam project due to the averse affect it will cause on Burma's environment, on Burma's bio-diversity and on Burma's future.
Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing run Asia World Ltd which currently has contracts to build MyitSone Dam on the Ayeyarwaddy River north of Myitgyinar. Ten more companies are owned under the group in Singapore by Law's wife, Cecilia Ng.
The Myitsone Dam site is located just 2 miles below the confluence and about 24 miles away from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.
The length of the dam is about 499 ft (152 m) and the height is about 499 ft, equivalent to the height of a 50-story building. The surface area of the reservoir is about 295.8 sq mi (766 sq km), about the size of New York City (301 sq mi).
A maximum water depth of the reservoir will be about 950 ft (290 m), approximately the height of a 66-story building. The estimated cost of the Myitsone Dam construction project is about US $3.6 billion.
The total cost for construction of the seven dams and hydroelectric development projects is about US $20 billion. The major construction contractor from the Chinese side is the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC), and from the Burmese regime side is Asia World Company.
It is strongly believed that Lo Hsing Han's business empire was originally built on narcotic-drug trafficking.
Starting as a local militia leader in the northern Kokang region in 1960, Lo Hsing Han was dubbed the "King of Opium" by US drug enforcement authorities in the 1970s because of large amount of heroin his alleged networks were sending through Thailand.
By 1994, his organization was widely considered among the most heavily armed drug trafficking organizations in Southeast Asia.
Golden Aaron, an Asia World subsidiary, has been linked to China.
Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing is the managing director of Golden Aaron, which has now been linked to CNOOC.
Both Lo Hsing Han and Steven Law have been on a US visa blacklist since 1996 for suspected drug trafficking activities.
In February 2008, they were also put on the Treasury Department's sanctions list, along with Asia World Company and subsidiaries Asia World Co Ltd, Asia World Port Management, Asia World Industries Ltd and Asia World Light Ltd for their financial connections to the regime.
Asia World Ltd, Burma's biggest and most diversified conglomerate with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export and a chain of local supermarkets. It is believed that he also controls several gold mines in Kachin State.
Tun Myint Naing also owns the Magwe United Football Club playing in the Myanmar National League (MNL).
Saving River Ayeyarwaddy is saving Burma and it is duties of all the people of Burma as well as the duties of man-kind to safe-guard the future of the world we are living in.
We also call for China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC) and China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to halt the ties with accused drug kin-pin of Burma.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) again calling for Burmese and Chinese regimes to review building Myit-Sone dam in Burma.
Addition, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) call for all the people of Burma and justice loving people around the world to boycott Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing and Law's wife Cecilia Ng's Companies including Asia World Ltd, Golden Aaron, and Magwe United Football Club.
For more information:
http://www.bdcburma.org
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) Director Myo Thein Speech on 23 Anniversary of Military Coup in Burma.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) http://bdcburma.org/Statements.asp?Id=133 strongly denounced the Irresponsible USDP Regime Failing to Save River Ayeyarwaddy. Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the USDP's Electric Power Minister U Zaw Min's irresponsible comment saying there is no plan to stop building the Ayeyarwaddy Dam instead the government is pledged to finish building it in the wake of widespread objections.
People of Burma including democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are calling for to review the Ayeyarwaddy Dam project due to the averse affect it will cause on Burma's environment, on Burma's bio-diversity and on Burma's future.
Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing run Asia World Ltd which currently has contracts to build MyitSone Dam on the Ayeyarwaddy River north of Myitgyinar. Ten more companies are owned under the group in Singapore by Law's wife, Cecilia Ng.
The Myitsone Dam site is located just 2 miles below the confluence and about 24 miles away from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.
The length of the dam is about 499 ft (152 m) and the height is about 499 ft, equivalent to the height of a 50-story building. The surface area of the reservoir is about 295.8 sq mi (766 sq km), about the size of New York City (301 sq mi).
A maximum water depth of the reservoir will be about 950 ft (290 m), approximately the height of a 66-story building. The estimated cost of the Myitsone Dam construction project is about US $3.6 billion.
The total cost for construction of the seven dams and hydroelectric development projects is about US $20 billion. The major construction contractor from the Chinese side is the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC), and from the Burmese regime side is Asia World Company.
It is strongly believed that Lo Hsing Han's business empire was originally built on narcotic-drug trafficking.
Starting as a local militia leader in the northern Kokang region in 1960, Lo Hsing Han was dubbed the "King of Opium" by US drug enforcement authorities in the 1970s because of large amount of heroin his alleged networks were sending through Thailand.
By 1994, his organization was widely considered among the most heavily armed drug trafficking organizations in Southeast Asia.
Golden Aaron, an Asia World subsidiary, has been linked to China.
Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing is the managing director of Golden Aaron, which has now been linked to CNOOC.
Both Lo Hsing Han and Steven Law have been on a US visa blacklist since 1996 for suspected drug trafficking activities.
In February 2008, they were also put on the Treasury Department's sanctions list, along with Asia World Company and subsidiaries Asia World Co Ltd, Asia World Port Management, Asia World Industries Ltd and Asia World Light Ltd for their financial connections to the regime.
Asia World Ltd, Burma's biggest and most diversified conglomerate with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export and a chain of local supermarkets. It is believed that he also controls several gold mines in Kachin State.
Tun Myint Naing also owns the Magwe United Football Club playing in the Myanmar National League (MNL).
Saving River Ayeyarwaddy is saving Burma and it is duties of all the people of Burma as well as the duties of man-kind to safe-guard the future of the world we are living in.
We also call for China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC) and China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to halt the ties with accused drug kin-pin of Burma.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) again calling for Burmese and Chinese regimes to review building Myit-Sone dam in Burma.
Addition, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) call for all the people of Burma and justice loving people around the world to boycott Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing and Law's wife Cecilia Ng's Companies including Asia World Ltd, Golden Aaron, and Magwe United Football Club.
For more information please contact Burma Democratic Concern (BDC).
Monday, 19 September 2011
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်ဥ္းနဲ႔ ေ႐ွ႕အလားအလာ
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်ဥ္းနဲ႔ ေ႐ွ႕အလားအလာ၂၀၀၈ နာဂစ္အေျခခံဥပေဒႏွင့္ ၂၀၁၀ တြင္ တက္လာေသာ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီနည္းက် တက္လာပါသည္ဟု ေႂကြးေၾကာ္ရင္း ဆင္းရဲမႈ တုိက္ဖ်က္ေရး အစည္းအေဝးကို ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ စက္တင္ဘာလက ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုပါ ဖိတ္ေခၚ၍ တက္ေရာက္ေစခဲ့ပါသည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မွ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ ေျပာင္းလဲႏိုင္ေသာ အေျခအေနသုိ႔ ေရာက္ေနၿပီဟု ယုံၾကည္ေၾကာင္းကမၻာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေန႔တြင္ထုတ္ေဖၚေျပာၾကားလိုက္ျပန္ပါသည္။ ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ဆီသို႔စစ္အာဏာရွင္ခ်ေပးေသာလမ္းေၾကာင္းၿဖင့္တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ဖင္ဒ ရြတ္ဆြဲသြားေနမည္ေလာ?ဧရာဝတီေပါက္ကြဲမွဳၾကီးၿဖင့္လူမွဳေတာ္လွန္ေရးၿဖစ္မည္ေလာ?။ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရမည့္အခ်ိန္သည္မေဝးေတာ့ဟုထင္ သည္။ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အေျခအေန အခ်ိန္အခါလိုက္ၿပီး သင့္ေတာ္ေလွ်က္ပတ္တဲ့ ပုံစံကို ေျပာင္းလဲႏိင္ဘုိ႔လိုေၾကာင္း တခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း ပုံစံမေျပာင္းႏိုင္ဘဲ ဒီအေျခအေနပဲ ဒီပုံစံ၊ ဟိုအေျခအေနလဲ ဒီပုံစံဘဲ ျဖစ္ေနျခင္းသည္ ဆင္ျခင္သုံးသပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ အရည္အခ်င္း အားနဲသည္ဟု ေျပာရမွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္းသည္ အတိုက္အခံမ်ားဘက္မွ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်င္း ေျပာင္းလွ်င္ေျပာင္းသလို ေ႐ႊ႕ႏိုင္ေျပာင္းႏိုင္ရမည္ (Flexible) တိုးလြယ္ ဆုတ္လြယ္ကစားႏိုင္ရမည္ဟု ဆိုလိုဟန္႐ွိသည္။ေဒၚစု၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္မ်ားတြင္ မွတ္သားစရာမ်ား၊ သတိျပဳစရာမ်ား မ်ားစြာပါ႐ွိေနသည္ကို သတိျပဳမိဘုိ႔ လိုေပသည္။(၁) ခိုင္မာတဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေဆာက္အဦေတြ တည္ေဆာက္ဘုိ႔။(၂) စိတ္ဓာတ္ေတြကို ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္နဲ႔ ထိုက္တန္ေအာင္ လုပ္ရမည္။ မထိုက္တန္တဲ့ စိတ္ေတြကို ေတာ္လွန္ပစ္ရမည္။(၃) ဒီမိုကေရစီ၏ လကၡဏာသည္ အစိုးရအေျပာင္းအလဲလုပ္သည့္ေနရာတြင္ ညင္သာစြာေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း၊ သိကၡာ႐ွိစြာ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း ၿဖစ္သည္။(၄) လူတိုင္း မိမိကို ေလးစားတဲ့၊ တန္ဘိုးထားတဲ့၊ လူရာသြင္းတဲ့ စံနစ္ကို လိုလားမွာွျဖစ္သည္။ ဘယ္သူမွ မိမိကို တန္ဘိုးမထားတဲ့ စံနစ္ကို လိုလားမွာ မဟုတ္။(၅) တာဝန္အရလုပ္ရပါသည္ဆိုသည့္ ေနရာတြင္ ဆင္ျခင္တုံတရားႏွင့္ အမ်ားႀကီးဆိုင္ေၾကာင္း၊ အဓိပၸါယ္မွာ လူ႔ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ကို ထိခိုက္ေစေသာ လူအမ်ားစုကို နစ္နာေစေသာ တာဝန္ကို ေပးအပ္လွ်င္ ဆင္ျခင္တုံတရားၿဖင့္ စဥ္းစားၿပီး လုပ္သင့္မလုပ္သင့္ စဥ္းစားဘုိ႔လိုေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားျခင္းဟု ယူဆသည္။(၆) လူႀကီးမ်ား ခေလးမ်ားကို အတင္းအၾကပ္ပုံစံသြင္းတာသည္ မသင့္ေလွ်ာ္၊ ခေလးလူငယ္မ်ားတြင္လည္း သူ႔ဟာသူ ဆင္ျခင္ပိုင္ခြင့္႐ွိရမည္။ဆိုသည့္အခ်က္ ၆ ခ်က္ကို အဓိကထား ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့သည္ကို ေတြ႕႐ွိရေပသည္။(၁) ခိုင္မာသည့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအေဆာက္အဦမ်ား တည္ေဆက္မႈခိုင္မာသည့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေဆာက္အဦးမ်ား တည္ေဆာက္မႈ ဆိုသည္မွာ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ လူ႔ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားကို ျပဳစုပ်ဳိးေထာင္ေပးျခင္းအေပၚတြင္ မူတည္သည္။ (Civil Society) လြတ္လပ္ေသာ လူ႔ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံတခုတြင္ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ဖြဲ႕စည္းလွဳပ္ရွားခြင့္ရလွ်င္ ထိုအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားက မိမိတို႔ လူထုလူတန္းစားမ်ား အက်ဳိးကို ကာကြယ္ရင္း မတရားမႈမ်ားကို ဆန္႔က်င္ျခင္း၊ တုိင္းျပည္လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို ပခုံးထမ္း ေဆာင္႐ြက္ရင္းျဖင့္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၏ အာဏာအလြန္အကြ်ံ သုံံးစြဲမႈ မျဖစ္ရန္ ဟန္႔တားရင္း တရားဥပေဒစိုးမိုးေရကို တဖက္တလမ္း ေဆာင္႐ြက္သျဖင့္ တရားေရး မ႑ိဳင္ခိုင္မာလာၿပီး၊ ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈမ်ားကို တရားဥပေဒေဘာင္အတြင္းမွ ကာကြြယ္လာႏုိင္ၿပီး လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ျပည့္ဝေသာ ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္ ေပၚထြန္းလာမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိ႔အတူ ရ႐ွိၿပီးေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကိုလည္း မေပ်ာက္ပ်က္ေစရန္ ဝုိင္းဝန္းကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ေပလိမ့္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ (Civil Society) လြတ္လပ္ေသာ လူ႔ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတြင္ပါဝင္္သည့္ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢမ်ား၊ ေတာင္သူလယ္သမား အစည္းအ႐ုံးမ်ား၊ စာဖတ္အသင္းမ်ား၊ လူထုလူတန္းစားအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၊ သတင္းစာနယ္ဇင္းမ်ား၊ ဘာသာေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ဖြဲ႕စည္းႏိုင္ခြင့္ မိမိအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္မ်ား၏ ရပိုင္ခြင့္၊ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္မ်ားကို ကာကြယ္ႏိုင္ခြင့္သည္ လြန္စြာမွအေရးႀကီးသည္။ ထိုအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားအားေကာင္းလာေစရန္ ဒီမိုကေရစီနည္းက် အစိုးရမ်ားက အားေပးသည္။ ေထာက္ပံ့သည္။ တရားဥပေဒေဘာင္အတြင္းမွ အကာအကြယ္ေပးသည္။ ယေန႔ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံ ျဖစ္မျဖစ္ သိႏုိင္ရန္ လြတ္လပ္ေသာ လူ႔ေဘာင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ဖြဲ႕စည္းႏိုင္ခြင့္ ရွိမရွိ။ ရွိေနသာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား လႈပ္ရွားႏုိင္ခြင့္ရွိမရွိ၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေျပာဆိုေရးသားႏုိင္ခြင့္ ရွိမရွိျဖင့္ တိုင္းတာယူႏုိင္ေပသည္။(၂) ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္နဲ႔ ထိုက္တန္ေသာ စိတ္ဓာတ္ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္နဲ႔ ထိုက္တန္ေသာစိတ္ဓာတ္ဆိုသည္မွာ အမ်ားသေဘာကို လိုက္ေလ်ာျခင္း၊ လူနည္းစုသေဘာကို ေလစားျခင္းပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ မိမိ႐ႈံသည့္အခါ အသာတၾကည္ အၿပဳံးမပ်က္ လက္ခံႏိုင္သည့္ ရင့္က်က္မႈရွိၿပီး မိမိႏုိင္သည့္အခါတြင္လည္း ႐ႈံးသူကို ႏိုင္ထက္စီးနင္းမျပဳဘဲ ေမတၱာတရားျဖင့္ ဆက္ဆံႏိုင္ရမည္။ ေဒၚစုက ေမတၱာတရားကို ထားျခင္းသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက စံျပအျဖစ္ျပဳသင့္သည္ဟုျမင္သည္။ ယေန႔စစ္အာဏာရွင္ အသြင္ေျပာင္း အရပ္သားအစိုးရသည္ ျပည္သူမေထာက္ခံဘဲ အာဏာယူထားသည့္ အစိုးရျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔အတြက္ ႐ႈံးနိမ့္လွ်င္ အတိုက္အခံတို႔မွ ျပစ္ဒါဏ္ခတ္လာမည္ကို စိုးေၾကာက္ေနျခင္းကို ေဒၚစုက ေမတၱာတရားေ႐ွ႕ထားၿပီး သင္ပုန္းေျခႏိုင္ပါသည္ဟု ဆိုလိုုျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေကာက္ခ်က္ခ်မိသည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ ႐ႈံးသူကလည္း ႏုိင္သြားသူႏွင့္ တိုင္းျပည္အက်ဳိးကို ေ႐ွး႐ႈၿပီး ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ႏိုင္ရမည္ဟု ဆိုလိုေၾကာင္းသေဘာေပါက္သည္။(၃) ဒီမိုကေရစီ လကၡဏာေဒၚစုက သူမ အေနႏွင့္ အစိုးရအေျပာင္းအလဲကို ညင္သာေသာနည္း၊ သိကၡာ႐ွိ႐ွိ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျပာင္းလဲလိုသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ ထိုသုိ႔ ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ၏ ေကာင္းျမတ္ေသာလကၡဏာတရပ္ဟု မီးေမာင္းထုိးျပသည္။ ထိုအခ်က္သည္ ၁၉၉၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ အႏိုင္ရ NLD ပါတီအား အာဏာေပးအပ္ရန္ စစ္အစိုးရမွ ျငင္းပယ္ခဲ့ျခင္းသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီလကၡဏာ မေဆာင္၊ လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၅ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီလကၡဏာေဆာင္ဘုိ႔လိုသည္။ NLD သည္ ၂၀၁၅ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ ျပင္ ဆင္ႏုိင္ဘုိ႔ အားယူႏုိင္ဘုိ႔ လိုသည္ဟု ရည္႐ြယ္ၿပီး ေျပာဟန္႐ွိသည္။ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရကုိလည္း ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံ အမွန္တကယ္ေပၚေပါက္လာေစခ်င္လွ်င္ ညင္သာေစြာ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈျဖစ္သည့္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလာဒ္ကို ေလးစားလိုက္နာဘို႔ လိုေၾကာင္း ႀကိဳတင္ အသိေပးထားျခင္းလည္း ျဖစ္ႏုိင္သည္ဟု ေကာက္ခ်က္ခ်သည္။ NLD ပါတီဝင္မ်ားကိုလည္း ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်င္း ေျပာင္းလွ်င္ ေျပာင္းသလို ကစားႏုိင္ရမည္၊ ပုံစံေျပာင္းႏုိင္ရမည္ဟု အသိေပးလိုက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သုံးသပ္သည္။ ၂၀၀၈ နာဂစ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒကို NLD က လက္မခံေသာ္လည္း ေျပာင္းလဲလာေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်ဥ္းအရ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္သင့္လွ်င္ ဝင္ၿပီး အာဏာရယူေရးကို စဥ္းစားေနသည္ဟု ထင္သည္။(၄) ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို လူတိုင္းလိုလားသည္လူတိုင္းဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို လိုလားသည္ဟု ေဒၚစုေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့သည္။ လူတိုင္း မိမိကုိ ေလးစားသည့္ စံနစ္၊ လူရာသြင္းတဲ့စံနစ္ကို လိုလားမွာျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေျပာဆိုခ်က္သည္ ေယဘူယ်အေနႏွင့္ မွန္ကန္ေသာ္လည္း စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္မ်ား ဘက္မွ ၾကည့္လွ်င္ မမွန္ႏိုင္ဟုျမင္သည္။ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္မ်ားအတြက္ ၎တို႔ ျပဳစုပ်ဳိးေထာင္ထားေသာ စံနစ္သည္၊ ၎တို႔အတြက္ မွန္ေနသည့္သေဘာျဖစ္သည္။ အာဏာ႐ွင္ဘဝျဖင့္ လုပ္ခ်င္တာလုပ္ခြင့္ရသည္။ မိမိပတ္ဝန္းက်င္က မိမိကုိ လူရာထားသည္၊ ႐ိုေသသည္၊ ေလးစားၾကသည္၊ လက္ညႈိးညႊန္ရာ ေရျဖစ္သည့္ ဘဝျဖစ္သည္။သို႔ရာတြင္ ၎တို႔ဘဝသည္ လူထုႀကီး၏ ေလးစားမႈကို မရေသာဘဝ၊ လူထုႏွင့္ ကင္းကြာၿပီး အေစာင့္အထပ္ထပ္ၾကားမွေနရေသာ ဘဝ မိမိကိုယ္တိုင္အက်ဥ္းသားၿဖစ္မွန္းမသိၿဖစ္ေနေသာဘဝျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိေၾကာင့္ အာဏာ႐ွိေသာ္လည္း လူရာဝင္ေသာ္လည္း၊ လူထုၾကား မတိုးရဲသည့္ ဘဝျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုဘဝမွရုန္းထြက္ရဲသည့္အေနအထားအာဏာယူထားသူမ်ားတြင္ရိွွ ၿပီီလားအထူးေလ့လာသင့္သည္။
(၅) တာဝန္အရလုပ္ျခင္းတာဝန္အရလုပ္ရပါသည္ဟု ေျပာၿပီး အျပစ္မဲ့သူမ်ားကို ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္း၊ ေထာင္ခ်ျခင္း၊ ႏွိပ္စက္ညႈင္းပန္းျခင္း၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လိုလားသူမ်ားကို နည္းမ်ဳိးစုံႏွင့္ ေႏွာက္ယွက္ျခင္းတုိ႔သည္ မွန္မမွန္၊ လုပ္သင့္ မလုပ္သင့္ဆိုသည့္ ကိုယ္ခ်င္းစာတရား၊ တုိင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ဳိး႐ွိမ႐ွိ၊ ထိုသူမ်ားသည္ မိမိကိုယ္က်ဳိးအတြက္ လုပ္ေနျခင္းေလာ၊ မိမိအပါအဝင္အမ်ားေကာင္းစားေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ေနျခင္းေလာ စသည့္ ဆင္ျခင္တုံတရားျဖင့္ ေလ့လာၿပီး တာဝန္အရ လုပ္ရပါသည္ဆိုျခင္းထက္ ထိုတာဝန္သည္ တရားသျဖင့္ ေပးအပ္ေသာ တာဝန္ေလာ ဟူ၍ စဥ္းစားဆုံးျဖတ္ၿပီး မတရားလုပ္ရပ္မ်ားလုပ္ရန္ ေပးအပ္လာေသာ တာဝန္မ်ားကို ဆင္ျခင္တုံတရားျဖင့္ ျငင္းပယ္ႏုိင္ရမည္ဟု ဆိုလိုေပသည္။(၆) လူႀကီးမ်ားက ခေလးမ်ားကို ပုံစံသြင္းျခင္းအေ႐ွ႕တိုင္း ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအရ လူႀကီးမ်ားက ခေလးမ်ားကို အတင္းအၾကပ္ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈျဖင့္ မိမိတို႔လိုရာ ပုံစံသြင္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။ အေ႐ွ႕တိုင္း ပုံစံသည္ အာဏာ႐ွင္ဆန္သည္။ လူႀကီးမ်ားက ခေလးမ်ားထက္ ပိုသိသည္မွာ မျငင္းႏုိင္ေခ်၊ သုိ႔ရာတြင္ ခေလးမ်ား သိသမွ်ေတာ့ လူႀကီးမ်ား အားလုံးမသိႏိုင္သည့္အျပင္ ခေလး႐ႈေဒါင့္ႏွင့္ လူႀကီး႐ႈေဒါင့္ျခင္းလည္း မတူႏိုင္ေခ်။ အိမ္ေထာင္တခုတြင္ မိဘျဖစ္သူႏွင့္ သားသမီးဆက္ဆံေရး အေရွ႕ႏွင့္ အေနာက္မတူပါ။ အေရွ႕ ဆက္ဆံေရးမွာ ငါတုိ႔မင္းတို႔ထက္သိတယ္၊ တတ္တယ္၊ မင္းတုိ႔အရင္ ထမင္းစားလာတာကြဆိုသည့္ အေပၚစီးဆက္ဆံမႈမ်ဳိးျဖစ္သည္။အထူးသျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ အေဖျဖစ္သူက အိမ္ေထာင္ဦးစီးျဖစ္သျဖင့္ မေအလုပ္သူက စားဦးစားဖ်ားေကြ်းသည္။ ခေလးမ်ား အ႐ိုးအရင္းကိုက္ရသည္။ လူႀကီးေျပာတာကို လိုက္လုပ္ရသည္။ ဆင္ေျခတက္၍မရ။ ေက်ာင္းတြင္လည္းဆရာ၊ ဆရာမတို႔က စာမလိုက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္၊ လစစ္စာေမးပြဲက်လွ်င္ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ႀကီးကို ေခၚၿပီး ႀကိမ္ႏွင့္႐ိုက္သည္။ ခေလးမ်ားကို လူႀကီးမ်ားက အေၾကာက္တရားျဖင့္ ဖိႏွိပ္ၿပီး မိမိတုိ႔၏ အမိန္႔ကို နာခံရန္ ပုံစံသြင္းျခင္းခံရသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ အာ႐ွတိုက္တြင္ ခေလးမ်ားက လူႀကီးမ်ား လုပ္သမွ် မွန္မွန္မွားမွား ျပန္လွန္ေျခပ ခုခံခြင့္မရဘဲ ခံၾကရသည္။ ဤအေတြးအေခၚသည္ အာ႐ွတိုက္တြင္ အာဏာ႐ွင္စံနစ္လႊမ္းမိုးေနမႈ၏ အဓိက အေၾကာင္းတရားထဲတြင္ ပါဝင္ေနသည္။အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ ထြန္းကားသည္မွာလည္း ၎ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္း႐ွိ ခေလးသူငယ္မ်ားအေပၚ လူႀကီးမ်ား၏ ဆက္ဆံေရးမွာ အာ႐ွႏွင့္မတူသည့္ အခ်က္ကလည္း မ်ားစြာ အေထာက္အကူျပဳခဲ့ေပသည္။ ခေလးမ်ားသည္ အနာဂါတ္ကို ဦးေဆာင္မည့္သူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ ခေလးမ်ားသည္ ဦးစားေပးအဆင့္ထိပ္တြင္႐ွိသည္။ ခေလးမ်ားကို ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ဆုံးမျခင္းမျပဳရ။ မိဘက ႐ိုက္ႏွက္လွ်င္ ပုလိပ္ကို ဖုံးေဖၚ၍ တုိင္္ခြင့္႐ွိသည္။ ပုလိပ္က မိဘကို အေရးယူသည္။ ထို႔အတူ ေက်ာင္းတြင္ ဆရာမ်ားက ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားကို မ႐ိုက္ရေခ်။ ႐ိုက္ခြင့္မျပဳ။ ေက်ာင္းမ်ားတြင္ ႀကိမ္လုံး မထားရွိေခ်။ ဆိုးသြမ္းေသာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားကို အတန္းထဲမွ ထုတ္ ထား ျခင္း၊ အခ်ိန္ပိုေက်ာင္းတြင္ ေနေစျခင္းတို႔ျဖင့္ အျပစ္ဒါဏ္ ေပးသည္။မိဘျဖစ္သူက သားသမီးကို အျပစ္ဒါဏ္ေပးလွ်င္ ၎၏ ရပိုင္ခြင့္ မုန္႔ဖိုးျဖတ္ျခင္း၊ သူငယ္ခ်င္းမ်ားအိမ္သုိ႔ အလယ္သြားခြင့္ကို ပိတ္ပင္ျခင္း၊ မိမိအခန္းတြင္း၌သာ ေနအိမ္တြင္ ေနေစျခင္းတုိ႔ျဖင့္ အျပစ္ေပးသည္။ ခေလးမ်ားကို ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ဆုံးမျခင္းဆိုသည့္ နာက်င္ေအာင္ ျပဳလုပ္၍ အေၾကာက္တရားျဖင့္ လိုက္နာေစျခင္းထက္ မိမိဘာေၾကာင့္ အျပစ္ခံရျခင္းကို သိသည့္ အသိတရားျဖင့္ ဆံုးမျခင္းကို ဦးစားေပးသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံမွ ခေလးမ်ား လူႀကီးသူမမ်ားကို မေၾကာက္ၾကေခ်။ ႐ိုေတာ့႐ိုေသၾကသည္။ သူတို႔ကိုလည္း လူႀကီးသူမမ်ားက သူတို႔ေမးျမန္းခ်င္သမွ်ကို ေမးခြင့္ျပဳထားၿပီး စိတ္႐ွည္လက္႐ွည္ ႐ွင္းျပတတ္သည့္အတြက္ ခေလးမ်ားက မိမိေမးလိုရာကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း မိမိအျမင္ မတရားမမွ်တဟု ထင္သည့္အရာကို ၎ရဲရင့္စြာ ျပန္လွန္ေမးခြန္းထုတ္တတ္သလို၊ ခုခံေခ်ပပိုင္ခြင့္႐ွိသည့္အတြက္ လူႀကီးမ်ားက ၎တို႔မွားယြင္းသည့္အခါ ျပဳျပင္ႏိုင္ၾကၿပီး တရားမွ်တရန္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပးတတ္သည္။မိဘျဖစ္သူက သားသမီးအား ငါ့သားသမီးျဖစ္သည္ ငါ႐ိုက္ခ်င္ ႐ိုက္မည္။ သတ္ခ်င္သတ္မည္ လုပ္၍မရသလို ဆရာမ်ားကလည္း ငါ့ေက်ာင္းသား ငါေကာင္းေစခ်င္ လို႔ ရိုက္သည္ဟု ဆင္ေျခေပး၍ ရိုက္မရေခ်။ လူဆိုသည္မွာ အတၱရွိသည္၊ ေဒါသရွိသည္၊ ေမာဟ႐ွိသည္။ ထိုေၾကာင့္ လူႀကီးမ်ား အၿမဲမမွန္ႏိုင္သလို ခေလးမ်ားအၿမဲ မမွားႏိုင္ပါ။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ ခေလးမ်ားကို အကာအကြယ္ေပးသည့္ ဥပေဒမ်ားကို ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးထားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္မ်ားတြင္ ခေလးမ်ားသာမက တိရစၦာန္မ်ားအတြက္ပါ ဂုဏ္သေရရွိစြာ ေနထုိင္ႏိုင္ခြင့္ရွိၾကသည္။ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ေကာင္းျမတ္ေသာ အေတြးအေခၚမွာ သားသတ္ရုံသုိ႔ ပို႔ေသာ တိရိစၦာန္မ်ားကိုပင္လွ်င္ ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေသာ နည္းမ်ားျဖင့္ ညွင္းဆဲသတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္းကို တားျမတ္ထားသည္။ ထိုအေၾကာင္းကို ေနာက္ေဆာင္းပါးတြင္ ရွင္းျပပါမည္။အေၾကာက္တရားျဖင့္ လူႀကီးေျပာသမွ် နားေထာင္ၿပီး လုပ္ရေသာ အေရွ႕တိုင္းခေလးမ်ားႏွင့္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံရွိ ခေလးမ်ား အဓိက ကြာျခားခ်က္မွာ မိမိယုံၾကည္ရာ မွန္သည္ထင္ရာကို ေမးရဲေျပာရဲျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုကဲ့သုိ႔ သတၱိကို လူႀကီးမ်ားက အေမွ်ာ္အျမင္ႀကီးစြာျဖင့္ ျပဳစုပ်ဳိးေထာင္ေပးခဲ့သည္။ ငါ့တုိ႔ ေျပာသမွ် လိုက္လုပ္ရမည္ဆိုသည့္ အေတြးအေခၚသည္ အာဏာ႐ွင္စံနစ္ကို ေ႐ွး႐ႈေစသည္ဆိုလွ်င္ မမွားေခ်။ ခေလးဘဝကတည္းက မိမိလုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္၊ ေျပာဆိုပိုင္ခြင့္၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေတြးေခၚပိုင္ခြင့္ေပးထားေသာ ခေလးမ်ားသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို ယုံၾကည္ေသာ ခေလးမ်ား၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္၏ တန္ဘိုးကို ေလးစားလိုက္နာေသာ ခေလးမ်ားျဖစ္လာၾကၿပီး ႀကီးျပင္းလာေသာအခါ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို ယုံၾကည္သက္ဝင္ၿပီး ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္သူမ်ား ျဖစ္လာၾကသည္။နိဂုံးအားျဖင့္ ယေန႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအခင္းအက်င္းသည္ အမွန္တကယ္အေကာင္းဖက္သို႔ သြားေနျခင္းေလာ၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ ယခင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္သန္းေ႐ႊ၏ နည္းဗ်ဴဟာအတိုင္း အခ်ိန္ဆြဲေရး လွည့္စားမႈျဖင့္ သြားေနျခင္းေလာ ဆိုသည္ကို အတိုင္းအတာတခုအထိ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရန္လိုေပသည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနႏွင့္ ဒီေရအတက္အက်ကို ထိပ္တန္းျမန္မာေခါင္းေဆာင္တေယာက္အေနျဖင့္ ပါဝင္တုိင္းတာလ်က္႐ွိသည္။ယခင္ ထိပ္တိုက္ပုံစံမွ ယခု ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္လ်က္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရ မည္မွ် ႐ိုးသားမႈရွိသနည္း၊ မည္မွ် သတၱိရွိရွိ ေျပာင္းလဲႏိုင္သနည္းဟူ၍ အျပဳသေဘာ လုံးဝေဆာင္ၿပီး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနျခင္း၊ လက္ေတြ႕ ဝင္ကစားေနျခင္းကို နားလည္မႈ ေပးသင့္သည္ဟု ျမင္သည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ အသက္ ၆၆ ႏွစ္ရွိ ၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ သူမအသက္ ၇၀ ႏွစ္ ရွိေတာ့မည္ၿဖစ္သည္္။ သူမ၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးတက္တက္ႂကြႂကြ လုပ္ႏိုင္သည့္ သက္တမ္း သိပ္မက်န္ေတာ့ေခ်။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၁၅ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ရည္မွန္း၍ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္သင့္လွ်င္ ဝင္ဘို႔လိုေၾကာင္း စဥ္းစားထားေကာင္း စဥ္းစားထားႏိုင္ေၿခ်႐ွိသည္။ ၂၀၀၈ နာဂစ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒကို လက္မခံႏိုင္ေသာ္လည္း ၎အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ျပဳျပင္ရန္မွာ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္၍ အစိုးရဖြဲ႕ႏုိင္ရန္ ႀကိဳးစားၿပီး အတြင္းမွသာ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲႏုိင္မည္ဟု တြက္ဆအေကာင္း တြက္ဆႏိုင္သည္။ ပုံစံခြက္ေျပာင္းျခင္းဆိုသည္မွာ ဤသေဘာျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေခ်ရွိသည္။ မည္သို႔ ဆိုေစကာမူ ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရသည္ အမွန္တကယ္ ေျပာင္းလဲရန္ ဆႏၵရွိသည္၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို အမွန္တကယ္ တည္ေဆာက္လိုလွ်င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားာကို ခြ်င္းခ်က္မရွိ အျမန္ဆုံးလႊတ္ေပးၿခင္းၿဖင့္သက္ေသၿပဘို႔ လိုေပသည္။ထို႔အတူ ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ဆုံအေရးအခင္းသည္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေရးတြင္ အဓိက ေပါက္ကြဲႏိုင္သည့္ အႏုျမဴဗုံးႀကီးပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေဇာ္မင္း၏ မဆင္မခ်င္ ပညာမဲ့ေျပာၾကားခ်က္သည္ တျပည္လုံးရွိ ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား၊ စီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ား၊ သဘာဝပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိန္းေရး အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၊ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား၊ ေတာင္သူလယ္သမားမ်ား၊ ေရလုပ္သားမ်ားအားလုံးကို တိုက္ပြဲဝင္ရန္ တပ္လွန္႔ ႏႈိးေဆာ္လိုက္ျခင္းပင္ျဖစ္သည္။ ဧရာဝတီျမစ္ေရ အလ်ဥ္သည္ မထင္္မွတ္ဘဲ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ တိုးတက္ရာတိုးတက္ေၾကာင္းကို ပိတ္ဆို႔တားဆီးေနသည့္ မႈိက္သ႐ိုက္စစ္အုပ္စုကို တုိက္စား ရွင္းပစ္ႏုိင္သည့္ အင္အားႀကီး ျဖစ္ေကာင္းျဖစ္လာေပလိမ့္မည္။ သို႔မဟုတ္ပါက ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ NLD သည္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္၍ အာဏာရယူၿပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီစံနစ္ကို အတြင္းမွ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းျဖင့္သာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ေပလိမ့္မည္။ ျပည္ပႏုိင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုမ်ားသည္ ေျပာပေလာက္ေသာ အင္အားစုအျဖစ္ မတည္႐ွိေနျခင္းက ၎အေျခအေနသို႔ တြန္းပို႔ေပးလ်က္႐ွိၿပီး၊ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား၏ စစ္အုပ္စုကို ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္းျဖင့္ တေျဖးေျဖးျခင္း ေျပာင္းလဲရမည္ဆိုသည့္ အေတြးအေခၚရွိသူမ်ား အင္အားေကာင္းလာျခင္းကလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ဖိအားတရပ္အျဖစ္ ဖန္တီးလာခဲ့သည္ဟု သုံးသပ္မိေပသည္။တဖက္မွာလည္း တုိင္းရင္းသား လုက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ စစ္ပြဲမ်ား ျပန္စေနျခင္းျဖင့္ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီးျပန္လည္္ေခါင္းေထာင္လာမည့္ နိမိတ္မ်ားျပလ်က္႐ွိၿပီး၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္အင္ အားစုမ်ားသည္လည္း ယခင္၎တို႔ လုပ္ေနၾကပုံစံခြက္မ်ားမွ မထြက္ပဲ၊ ငါ့မတိုက္ေသးသမွ် ငါၿငိမ္ေနမယ္၊ တျခားအဖြဲ႕ေတြတိုက္လဲ သူဖာသာသူ ခုခံလိမ့္မယ္ ငါတို႔နဲ႔ မဆိုင္ဘူး၊ သူတို႔ လုပ္ရပ္ကိုလွမ္းအားေပး ေထာက္ခံလိုက္ရင္ ၿပီးတာပဲဆိုသည့္ ပုံစံမွ သူ႔ထိရင္ ငါ့ထိသလိုဘဲ၊ သူအလွည့္ၿပီးရင္ ငါ့အလွည့္လာလိမ့္မယ္၊ ငါတို႔ စုေပါင္းတုိက္ၾကမွ ျဖစ္မယ္ဆိုသည့္ လက္ေတြ႕က်က် ေတြးေခၚၿပီး တုိက္ပြဲတကယ္ဝင္မည့္ တပ္ေပါင္းစုဖြဲ႕ဘို႔ လိုေပမည္။ အဓိက ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္း မၾကာခင္က ဝနယ္ေျမ သြားေရာက္ေခြ်းသိပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းကို ဝအေနႏွင့္ သိသင့္ေပသည္။ ကခ်င္ကိုတုိက္ရာတြင္လည္းေကာင္း ၎႐ွမ္းကို တုိက္ရာတြင္လည္းေကာင္း ဝကို မပါေစခ်င္သည့္ သေဘာျဖစ္သည္။ အကယ္၍ တုိင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ အင္အားစုမ်ား ပူးေပါင္းထိုးစစ္ဆင္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ ၿမိဳ႕မ်ား သိမ္းႏိုင္သည္အထိ အခြင့္သာေနသည္ကို တြက္ဆၿပီး “ျပည္ေထာင္စုႀကီးကို ကာကြယ္ရန္” အတြက္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတပ္မေတာ္ႀကီးကို ဝိုင္းဝန္းအေကာင္အထည္ေဖၚၾကဘို႔ လိုသည္။ စစ္ေရးနိမ့္က်ေနေသာတပ္၊ စိတ္ဓာတ္ေရးရာ ခိုင္မာမႈမရွိေသာ ယေန႔တပ္မေတာ္ကို ေၾကးစားတပ္မွ အမ်ဳိးသားတပ္အသြင္ ေျပာင္းခ်င္ေသာ တပ္မွဴးမ်ားျဖင့္ ပူးေပါင္းႏိုင္ေသာ အေနအထားသုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာရန္ ႀကိဳးစားေဆာင္ရြက္ဘို႔ အထူးလိုအပ္ပါေပသည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ သြားရာလမ္းကို ေစာင့္စားမေနဘဲ မိမိတို႔ ဘက္မွ လုပ္သင့္သည္ကိုလည္းလုပ္ရင္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး ခ်ိန္ခြင္လွ်ာကို ျမွင့္တင္ၾကရမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ျပည္ပမွေဒၚစုလုပ္ရပ္ကို မခ်င့္မရဲျဖစ္ရင္း ေဝဘန္ေနမည့္အစား သူမလုပ္ရပ္ကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ၿပီး အားေပးဘို႔ လိုအပ္ေပသည္။ထြန္းေအာင္ေက်ာ္၁၆ရက္၊ ၉လ၊ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္
Monday, 12 September 2011
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the Irresponsible USDP Regime Failing to Save River Ayeyarwaddy
12 September 2011
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) strongly denounced the USDP’s Electric Power Minister U Zaw Min’s irresponsible comment saying there is no plan to stop building the Ayeyarwaddy Dam instead the government is pledged to finish building it in the wake of widespread objections.
People of Burma including democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi are calling for to review the Ayeyarwaddy Dam project due to the averse affect it will cause on Burma’s environment, on Burma’s bio-diversity and on Burma’s future.
Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing run Asia World Ltd which currently has contracts to build MyitSone Dam on the Ayeyarwaddy River north of Myitgyinar. Ten more companies are owned under the group in Singapore by Law's wife, Cecilia Ng.
The Myitsone Dam site is located just 2 miles below the confluence and about 24 miles away from Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State.
The length of the dam is about 499 ft (152 m) and the height is about 499 ft, equivalent to the height of a 50-story building. The surface area of the reservoir is about 295.8 sq mi (766 sq km), about the size of New York City (301 sq mi).
A maximum water depth of the reservoir will be about 950 ft (290 m), approximately the height of a 66-story building. The estimated cost of the Myitsone Dam construction project is about US $3.6 billion.
The total cost for construction of the seven dams and hydroelectric development projects is about US $20 billion. The major construction contractor from the Chinese side is the China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC), and from the Burmese regime side is Asia World Company.
It is strongly believed that Lo Hsing Han's business empire was originally built on narcotic-drug trafficking.
Starting as a local militia leader in the northern Kokang region in 1960, Lo Hsing Han was dubbed the "King of Opium" by US drug enforcement authorities in the 1970s because of large amount of heroin his alleged networks were sending through Thailand.
By 1994, his organization was widely considered among the most heavily armed drug trafficking organizations in Southeast Asia.
Golden Aaron, an Asia World subsidiary, has been linked to China.
Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing is the managing director of Golden Aaron, which has now been linked to CNOOC.
Both Lo Hsing Han and Steven Law have been on a US visa blacklist since 1996 for suspected drug trafficking activities.
In February 2008, they were also put on the Treasury Department's sanctions list, along with Asia World Company and subsidiaries Asia World Co Ltd, Asia World Port Management, Asia World Industries Ltd and Asia World Light Ltd for their financial connections to the regime.
Asia World Ltd, Burma's biggest and most diversified conglomerate with interests in industrial development, construction, transportation, import-export and a chain of local supermarkets. It is believed that he also controls several gold mines in Kachin State.
Tun Myint Naing also owns the Magwe United Football Club playing in the Myanmar National League (MNL).
Saving River Ayeyarwaddy is saving Burma and it is duties of all the people of Burma as well as the duties of man-kind to safe-guard the future of the world we are living in.
We also call for China Gezhouba Group Corporation (CCGC) and China's National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) to halt the ties with accused drug kin-pin of Burma.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) again calling for Burmese and Chinese regimes to review building Myit-Sone dam in Burma.
Addition, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) call for all the people of Burma and justice loving people around the world to boycott Lo Hsing Han and his son Steven Law (a) Tun Myint Naing and Law’s wife Cecilia Ng’s Companies including Asia World Ltd, Golden Aaron, and Magwe United Football Club.
For more information please contact Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at
U Myo Thein [United Kingdom]
Phone: 00-44-208-493-9137 , 00-44-787- 788-2386
U Khin Maung Win [United States]
Phone: 001-941-961-2622
Daw Khin Aye Aye Mar [United States]
Phone: 001 509-783-7223
U Tint Swe Thiha [United States]
Phone: 001-509-582-3261 , 001-509-591-8459
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVtmTJSeQa4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTezEZgBcU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7qBICyRc64
Reference: Irrawaddy On-Line Magazine, RFA/Burmese News
Saturday, 10 September 2011
Bayda Institute စြမ္းေဆာင္ရည္ ျမင့္မားေရးသင္တန္းဆင္းပြဲ အခမ္းအနား
၁။ အခမ္းအနား ဖြင့္လွစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာျခင္း။
၂။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုဥကၠဌ ဘဘ ဦးတင္ဦးမွ အဖြင့္အမွာစကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၃။ Bayda Institute ရဲ႕ အမႈေဆာင္ Director အဖြဲ႕၀င္ ဦးျမင့္ဦးမွ ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္ အမွာစကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၄။ သင္းတန္းဆင္းလက္မွတ္မ်ားအား ( ဦးတင္ဦး၊ ဦးအံုးႀကိဳင္၊ ဦး၀င္းထိန္၊ ဦးေစာႏုိင္းႏုိင္း၊ ဦး၀င္းထိန္၊ ေဒၚေမ၀င္းျမင့္ အစရိွေသာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားမွ) ေပးအပ္ျခင္း၊
၅။ ဂုဏ္ျပဳမွတ္တမ္းလႊာေပးအပ္ျခင္း။
၆။ အလွဴေငြမ်ားေပးအပ္ျခင္း။
၇။ သင္တန္းသား/သူမ်ား ကိုယ္စား သင္တန္းသားမ်ားမွ ေက်းဇူးတင္စကား ေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၈။ Bayda Institute ၏ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး ဦးကိုကိုျမင့္မွ ေက်းဇူးတင္စကားေျပာၾကားျခင္း။
၉။ Bayda Institute သင္တန္းသား၊သူမ်ားမွ “We shall overcome” သီခ်င္းျဖင့္ သီဆိုဧည့္ခံျခင္း။
၁၀။ အခမ္းအနား ၿပီးဆံုးေၾကာင္း ေၾကညာျခင္း။
Political Science သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၇ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၃ ေယာက္ႏွင့္ CSO Networking and Democracy သင္တန္း အပါတ္စဥ္ ၂ မွ သင္တန္းသား၊သူ ၁၈ ေယာက္ စုစုေပါင္း ၃၁ ေယာက္အား သင္တန္းဆင္း လက္မွတ္မ်ား ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=908
Friday, 9 September 2011
Course completion ceremony
There will be course completion ceremony for two courses , Political Science 45 days course and CSO , Networking and Democracy 5 day intensive course ( for Mandalay Division) at bayda institute from 9.00 am to 12.00. And You are cordially invited.
Bests
MYNT
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Course completion ceremony for CSO , Networking and Democracy Course.
We are going to hold course completion ceremony for CSO , Networking and Democracy Course.
This course is especially designed for building Democracy Network nationwide .
This is the first Batch , the participants are from Kachin Democracy Network.
Participants from all States and Divisions will join the course as planned , Second Batch is from , Sagaing Division.
If you want to know more information, pls contact U Aung Kyi Nyunt ,Director and Spoke person of the BAYDA Institiute and U Ko Ko Myint ,Head of Institute.
U Aung Kyi Nyunt : 09 731 41295U , Ko Ko Myint 09 49501030
Best
Myo Yan Naung Thein
Director
BAYDA INSTITUTE
http://www.bdcburma.org
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar Tomas Ojea Quintana
Asked by newsmen who surrounded Quintana and Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy icon said: “I am very much satisfied with my talks with Mr. Quintana. I look upon him as a dependable person with sincere goodwill for promotion of human rights in Myanmar.”
As for Mr. Quintana, he reserved his comments on his talks with Aung San Suu Kyi as well as on the results of his five-day mission for the press conference he will be giving tomorrow evening at the Yangon International Airport before departing Myanmar.
Since his appointment to the post of United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar in May 2008, Quintana has previously come here three times – the first time in August 2008, second time in February 2009 and the third time in February 2010.
In all these three previous visits, Quintana was barred from seeing Aung San Suu Kyi by the previous military government. Thus this is the first time Quintana has the chance to hold talks with Aung San Suu Kyi.
On arrival in Nay Pyi Taw on the first day of his visit on August 21 this year, Quintana was cordially received by Myanmar Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin.
The state media said Quintana and Wunna Maung Lwin held talks discussing progress of improvement of human rights in Myanmar.
The same day he was received by Minister for Home Affairs Lt-Gen Ko Ko, who happens to be the Chairman of the Myanmar Human Rights Committee.
On his second day of his visit on August 22, Quintana has met and separately held talks with Chief Justice U Tun Tun Oo, Attorney-General U Tun Shin, Minister for Labour U Aung Kyi, Minister for Defence Maj-Gen Hla Min.
The next day on August 23, Quintana separately met and held talks with Speaker of Pyithu Hluttaw Thura U Shwe Mann and Speaker of Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint. Quintana also met and held talks with chairmen of various parliamentary committees.
Political observers here commented that the way Quintana was eagerly received by the authorities of Thein Sein government contrasted with the way he was not warmly received by the previous military government.
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Friday, 19 August 2011
Former Political Prisoners & 88 Generation Students Leaders inside Burma
Burma: Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President of the Union U Thein Sein held one-to-one talks
“Following this one hour talks, Aung San Suu Kyi accompanied by U Khun Thar Myint and her personal assistant Daw Su Su Lwin met Daw Khin Khin Win, wife of the President and President’s grand daughter at the President Residence in Nay Pyi Taw,” U Khun Thar Myint told @@ adding that this fifteen minutes meeting was entirely devoted to familiarizing the democracy icon with the President family.
Khun Thar Myint described the 15-minute meeting, which he attended as “very cordial in a friendly atmosphere.”
However so Khun Thar Myint said he had no knowledge of what the President and democracy icon talked for one hour.
Khun Thar Myint added that Aung San Suu Kyi is due to stop over for the night in Nay Pyi Taw as special guest of the government.
For Aung San Suu Kyi ( 66 ), who have all along demanded for dialogue with the Head of State for several years as part of her efforts to achieve national reconciliation with the ruling government, her desire for such a dialogue has now been fulfilled though nobody knows yet what the President and Nobel Laureate talked about during one hour.
This morning Aung San Suu Kyi accompanied by her personal assistant Daw Su Su Lwin and her chief NLD security officer U Khun Thar Myint was taken to Nay Pyi Taw by government car.
In contrast to the rumours about her being taken to Nay Pyi Taw to attend the national level workshop on Reforming Economic Development, which was held in Nay Pyi Taw this afternoon, were all dashed to ground.
Yangon, August 19 -- President of Republic of the Union of Myanmar U Thein Sein received Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at his office in Nay Pyi Taw at 4 pm this afternoon, the state-owned TV announced at 8;30 pm this evening.
The TV also showed footage of the meeting between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi.
“During the meeting, President U Thein Sein and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi cordially and frankly discussed prospects for cooperation on matters that would benefit the country and the people while keeping aside different opinions,” the TV said.
The TV also announced that during the meeting with Aung San Suu Kyi, President Thein Sein took the opportunity to explain to her the endeavours being made by his government in the interests of the country and the people.
Thought the TV did not announce how long this one-to-one talks took place, NLD security officer Khun Thar Myint, who accompanied the democracy icon to Nay Pyi Taw said the meeting lasted one hour.
http://www.bdcburma.org/NewsDetails.asp?id=899
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) calls for more positive practical reform in Burma
19 August 2011 (Friday)
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes two meeting which had taken place between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and USDP Government’s Minister U Aung Kyi.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes 4 points joint statement of the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and USDP Government’s Minister U Aung Kyi.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes National League for Democracy (NLD’s) statement welcoming the meeting between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and USDA Government’s Minister U Aung Kyi.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is very glad to learn that both Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Aung Kyi will avoid conflicting views and to work on a reciprocal basis.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes allowing 23rd anniversary of 8888 mass-uprising day held inside Burma organised by 88-Generation students’ leaders attended by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and several thousands of democracy lovers.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes the successful completion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s political trip to Bago and welcomes USDA Government’s cooperation over Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s trip.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls for Peace in Burma.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls for to review building dams on the Ayeyarwaddy River near Myitgyinar which would affect Burma’s environment drastically.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes 88-Generation students’ leaders calling for National Reconciliation and to protect Ayeyarwaddy River which is the life-line of Burma
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) fully supports 88-Generation students’ leaders’ initiative taken for National Reconciliation and collecting signatures so as to petition to president U Thein Sein Government to reconsider building dam on the Ayeyarwaddy River near Myitgyinar.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes President U Thein Sein’s invitation to exile Burmese people returning Burma working for the development of the nation.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes USDP Government invitation to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to attend a national-level workshop on economic development which will be attended by President U Thein Sein.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) welcomes any positive development as positive change.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) calls for the President U Thein Sein USDP Government to take swift practical action for the betterment of the people and the nation.
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) earnestly calls for the President U Thein Sein USDP regime to, for the sake of people and the nation,
(1) to Release all Political Prisoners immediately and unconditionally
(2) to Enter Dialogue with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in order to bring about national reconciliation
(3) to Recognise NLD’s official existence as the legal political party
(4) to Review 2008 constitution to be acceptable for all the citizens of Burma
(5) to Stop Armed Conflicts
(6) to Restore Peace
(7) to Alleviate Poverty
(8) to Allow Freedom of Assembly
(9) to Allow Freedom of Expression
(10) to Allow Freedom of Association
(11) to Allow Freedom of Media
(12) to Allow Free Independent Judiciary System
(13) to Save Ayeyarwaddy River
(14) to Promote Education Standard
(15) to Promote Economics Development
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) supports Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 88-Generation students’ leaders, dialogue, peace, national reconciliation and initiatives to save the Ayeyarwaddy River in Burma.
For more information please contact Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at
U Myo Thein [United Kingdom]
Phone: 00-44-208-493-9137, 00-44-787- 788-2386
U Khin Maung Win [United States]
Phone: 001-941-961-2622
Daw Khin Aye Aye Mar [United States]
Phone: 001 509-783-7223
U Tint Swe Thiha [United States]
Phone: 001-509-582-3261, 001-509-591-8459
You can also contact via email at info@bdcburma.org
http://www.bdcburma.org
Thursday, 18 August 2011
Income Tax being Paid by Private enterprises engaged in CMP system
Income tax being paid by private enterprises engaged in CMP system
Inside Burma
18 Aug 2011
Yangon, August 18 -- Income tax being paid by private enterprises engaged in CMP system ( Cutting, Making and Packing ) has been reduced from 10 per cent to 2 per cent within six months period from August 19, 2011 to February 18, 2012, the Finance and Revenue Ministry announced over the state-owned TV at 6 pm ( MST ) this evening.
Likewise, regarding the income tax of Myanmar nationals earning foreign currencies within the country or in foreign countries, the tax on their income will be reduced from 10 per cent to 2 per cent within six months period from August 19, 2011 to February 18, 2012, the TV announced quoting the order of Ministry of Finance and Revenue.
The CMP system is mostly practised by garment factories, which receive material from foreign countries. These factories are merely engaged in the work of cutting, making and packing. After that these factories got to send these packages to such countries as Republic of Korea, Taiwan etc.
Yangon, August 18 -- The Union Government of Thein Sein this evening issued a peace overture to all ethnic armed organizations with an aim to put a stop to all armed conflicts with them so that the government would be able to build peaceful and developed nation, the state-owned TV announced at 6 pm ( MST ) this evening.
The peace overture as announced by the state-owned TV Myanmar this evening included three following points. 1. As internal peace is essentially needed, the government is determined to put a stop to all armed conflicts so that it would be able to build peaceful and developed nation without hindrance;
2. All ethnic armed organizations desiring peace are invited individually to take a preliminary step by contacting the governments of region or state concerned; After receiving such contacts individually from these ethnic armed organizations, the Union Government will be forming the negotiating teams for carrying out necessary negotiations with each of these ethnic armed organizations.
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Computer Virus
ေက်းဇူးျပဳျပီး ဒီသတင္းကိုလက္ဆင့္ကမ္းေပးၾကပါ သင္တုိ႔ဆီသို႔Power Point Presentation, Life is beautiful
ဆုိျပီးေမးလ္ တစ္ခု၀င္လာပါခဲ့လွ်င္ မဖြင့္ပါႏွင့္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းdeleteလုပ္ပစ္ပါ။ သင္ထုိေမးကိုဖြင့္ခဲ့မိလွ်င္
သင္၏computer secreen တြင္ It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful ဆုိသည့္စာေပၚလာပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ထုိအခါသင္၏PCမွအရာအားလံုးေပ်ာက္ ဆံုးသြားျပီး ဒီေမးလ္ကိုပို႔သူထံ သင္၏ အမည္၊ e-mail ႏွင့္ password အားလံုးေရာက္ရွိသြားပါလိမ့္မယ္။ သည္အရာသည္ အဂၤါေန႔ ေန႔လည္က စတင္ခဲ့ေသာ virus အသစ္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
Virus ဖန္တီးသူကေတာ့ life owner ဟု မိမိကုိယ္ကုိအမည္ေပးထားသူတစ္ဦးျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သည္ေမးလ္ကိုခ်က္ခ်င္းုလက္ဆင့္ကမ္းေပးၾကပါ။
Friday, 12 August 2011
Wednesday, 10 August 2011
ဧရာ၀တီအတြက္တုံ႔ျပန္ခ်က္ by Mg Tharmyar
ျမစ္ဆုံ၊ေမခ၊ေမလိခ၊ျမစ္ညာျမစ္၀ွမ္းေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းႏွင္႔ပတ္သက္၍ႏုိင္ငံတကာႏွင္႔ျပည္သူလူထု
အထင္မွားအျမင္မွားျဖစ္ေစရန္အခ်ဳိ႔ပုဂၢဳိလ္/အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကမဟုတ္မမွန္လုပ္ႀကံေရးသားလုပ္
ေဆာင္လွ်က္ရွိေနဟုအစိုးရပိုင္သတင္းစာပါေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ဧ။္စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ကိုတုံ႕ျပန္လိုက္ျခင္း။
9-8-2011ေန႔စြဲႏိုင္ငံပိုင္သတင္းစာျမန္မာအလင္းတြင္ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ေသာေဆာင္းပါးရွင္လွ်ပ္စစ္
၀န္ထမ္းတစ္ဦး၏ျမစ္ဆုံေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ပတ္သက္သည့္ေဆာင္းပါးကmediaေတြကဘဲ
မဟုတ္မမွန္သတင္းကိုလုပ္ႀကံၿပီးေရးသားၿပီးျပည္သူကိုAlarmistလုပ္ေနတဲ႔သေဘာေျပာဆုိေရးသား
ထားတာဟာမီဒီယာေလာကကုိေစာ္ကားလိုက္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္လိုျမင္မိပါတယ္။
အဲဒီေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ရဲ႔ေဆာင္းပါးမ်ားကိုေကာက္ႏုတ္ခ်က္ခ်ၾကည္႔ရင္ေကာင္း
က်ဳိး( advantages)မ်ားသာထုံစံအတုိင္းသတင္းစာေဆာင္းပါးပုံစံေရးသားထာတာေတြရပါတယ္
။ျမစ္ဆုံေရကာတာ(Myintson Dam) ေၾကာင္႕လတ္တေလာျပည္သူေတြခံစားရမဲ႔ဒုကၡမ်ားႏွင္႔
႔ေနာင္ခံစားရဦးမည္႔ဆုိးက်ဳိးမ်ား(Disadvantages)ကိုေရးသားေဖၚျပထားျခင္းမေတြ႔ရပါဘူး။
(၁)Impact area မွာျပည္သူေတြဘယ္ေလာက္ထိခုိက္ဆုံးရွဴံးၿပီးလူေတြစိတ္ဒုကၡေရာက္ရတယ္ဆုိတဲ႔
လူအခြင္႔အေရးကိုဥေပကၡာျပဳထားျခင္း၊ျဖစ္လာႏုိင္တဲ႔ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲဆုိးက်ဳိးေတြေၾကာင္႔လူေတြဘယ္
ေလာက္ဒုကၡေရာက္ဦးမယ္ဆုိတာကိုလစ္လွ်ူရွဳထားျခင္း
(၂)ေရကာတာစီမံကိန္းကိုတရုတ္CPIေကာ္ပုိေရးရွင္းက3.6ဘီလီယံရင္းႏွီးျမွဳပ္ႏွံတည္ေဆာက္လုပ္ကိုင္
ေနျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ပြင္႔လင္းစြာေရးသားျခင္းမရွိပါ။
(၃) ေရကာတာမွထြက္ရွိမဲ႔အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ဧ။္၇၀%ကိုတရုတ္ကရရွိမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ျပည္သူအမ်ားကိုခ်ျပ
မထားျခင္း
(၄)ထြက္ရွိမဲ႔ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္ဧ။္၉၉%ကိုတရုတ္ကယူမည္၊၁%သာျပည္တြင္းမွာသုံးစြဲသြားမည္ဆုိတာေဖာ္ျပ
ထားျခင္းမရွိပါ။
(၅)တရုတ္အစုိးရနဲ႔ျမန္မာအစုိးရႏွစ္ဖက္စလုံးကေရကာတာႀကီးေၾကာင္႔ပတ္၀န္က်င္ထိခုိက္မွုမရွိေစရဟု
အာ မခံထားျခင္းမရွိ
(၆)ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ထိခုိက္မွုဆုိင္ရာအစီရင္ခံစာတြင္၊ေရကာတာႀကီးသည္စစ္ကိုင္းျပတ္ေရြ႔ေၾကာလိုေခၚတဲ႔
ငလွ်င္ေၾကာအနီးအနားမွာရွိတယ္ဆုိတာကိုေဖာ္ျပထားျခင္းမရွိ
(၇)ပညာရွင္မ်ားသည္2009ခုႏွစ္ဇန္န၀ါရီလမွဇူလူိင္လအထိသာေလ႔လာေဆာင္ရြက္လို႔သာေဖာ္ျပထားတာ
ကိုေတြ႔ရၿပီးပတ္၀န္းက်င္ထိခုိက္မွုဆုိင္ရာအစီရင္ခံစာရဲ႔လိုက္နာရမည္အဓိကစည္းကမ္းခ်က္(၁၀)ခ်က္အနက္
(၁)ခ်က္သာေလ႔လာရေသးတယ္ဆုိတာေဖၚျပထားျခင္းမရွိပါ။
(၈)ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စီမံကိန္းေၾကာင္႔ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအလုပ္အကိုင္အခြင္႔အလမ္းမ်ားရရွိမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႕
ေဖၚျပထားတာကိုေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ေဒသခံျပည္သူေတြရဲ႔ရသင္႔ရထုိက္တဲ႔လုပ္အားခႏွင္႔တရုတ္ပညာရွင္မ်ားနဲ႔
အလုပ္သမားရရွိခံစားရမည္႔အခြင္အေရးတူႏုိင္သလားဆုိတာထည္႔မတြက္ျပဘူး၊ဘာလိုဒီလိုေျပာရသလဲဆုိ
ရင္ေက်ာက္ျဖဴေရနက္ကြင္းစီမံကိန္းမွာသြားေရာက္လက္ေတြ႔ၾကည္႔ၾကပါ။ေနရထုိင္ရတာ၊ခံစားခြင္႔မ်ားကို
အလုပ္သမားျခင္းႏူိင္းယွဥ္ၾကည္႔ပါ။
(၉)စီမံကိန္းဧရိယာႏွင္႔မလြတ္ကင္းေသာရြာမ်ားကိုသက္ဆုိင္ရာစံျပေက်းရြာအသစ္မ်ားတည္ေဆာက္၊အစားထုိးေပး
ထားတဲ႔အတြက္ေၾကာင္႔မွုလေနထုိင္ခဲပေသာအဆင္႔ထက္မ်ားစြာသာလြန္ေအာင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးထားေၾကာင္း
ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္။ကၽြန္ေတာ္အေနနဲေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ကိုေမးလိုက္ခ်င္ပါတယ္။မင္းတုိ႔မိသားစုအားလုံးကိုလူသူမရွိ၊သူ
အေနနဲ႔အလုပ္ကိုငသစ္ကို္လုပ္မစားတတ္တဲ႔ကၽြန္းေပၚမွာသုံးထပ္တုိက္ေဆာက္ေပးမယ္သြားေနမလားေမး
လိုက္ခ်င္တယ္။အဲဒီလူဟာလူသားခ်င္းစာနာနာေထာက္ထားမွု၊လူေတြရဲ႔ေနရာအစြဲ၊ေဒသအစြဲ၊ကိုနားလည္းမွုမရွိသူ
ဟုယူဆရပါတယ္။ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအေနႏွင္႔မိမိက်င္လည္က်က္စားတဲ႔ေနရာ၊မိမိလုပ္ကိုင္စားေနၾကေနရာ၊
မိမိရဲ႔ဇာတိခ်က္ေျမ၊ယဥ္ေက်းမွုမ်ားကိုဘယ္ေလာက္တန္ဘိုးထားတဲ႔ဆုိတာထည္႔သြင္းမစဥ္းစားရင္ေတာ႔လူအခြင္႔
ေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ရာေရာက္တယ္ဆုိတာေဆာင္းပါးရွင္နားမလည္းဘူးလားဆုိတာသိတာထင္ရွားပါတယ္။
(၁၀) တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံမွာအာဏာရွင္တရုတ္အစိုးရကတရုတ္ျပည္သူေတြသန္းေပါင္းဘယ္ေလာက္စေတးခဲ႔ၿပီး
Three Gorges Dam ႀကီးတည္ေဆာက္ခဲ႔သလဲ၊အခုအဲဒီ Three Gorges Dam ႀကီးအက်ဳိးနဲ႔အျပစ္
ကိုႏူိင္းယွဥ္ၾကည္႔ပါ၊အဲဒီDamႀကီးေၾကာင္႔တရုတ္အစိုးရရဲ႔စုိးရိမ္ေရမွတ္ဘယ္ေလာက္ျမင္႔တက္ေနသလားဆုိတာကို
ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ေသေသခ်ာေလ႔လာလိုက္ပါဦး။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္အထင္ေတာ႔သတင္းစာေဆာင္းပါးရွင္သည္ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမျဖစ္ႏုိင္၊တရုတ္နဲ႔ေဆြမ်ုိး
တနည္းနည္းနဲ႔ေတာ္စပ္မည္ထင္ပါသည္။တရုတ္အစုိးရဲ႕ (Political Game)ဆုိတာထည္စဥ္းစားရင္
မေတြး၀ံ႔စရာပါ၊ဒါအျပင္တရုတ္အစိုးရရဲ႕မဟာဗ်ဴဟာ၊အဂၢဗ်ဴဟာကသူ႔ႏုိင္ငံသည္ကမာၻေပၚမွာ
စစ္အင္အား(mega power)ျဖစ္ဖုိ႔အတြက္က်ဳပ္တုိ႕ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားေတြရဲ႔အက်ဳိးစီးပြားကို
စေတးေပးရေတာ႔မွာလား?၊ျမန္မာလူမ်ဳိးေတြရဲ႔NationalIdentityျဖစ္တဲ႔က်ဳပ္တုိ႔အားလုံးရဲ
႔မိခင္ဧရာ၀တီကိုအဆုံးရွဳံးခံရေတာ႔မွာလား?ဒါငါတုိ႔ဘာဆုိင္လိုလဲလို႔ထင္ေနတဲ႔
Who cares?သမားေတြေလးေလးနက္နက္စဥ္းစားၾကပါ၊ခင္ဗ်ားတုိရဲ႔အနာဂါတ္မ်ဳိးဆက္ေတြရဲ႔
အေရးကိုထည္႕သြင္းစဥ္းစားၾကည္႔ၾကပါ။ဒီအေရးဟာဒီႏုိင္ငံအတြင္းေနထုိင္မယ္လုိ႔စိတ္ကူးရွိၾကတဲ႔
လူမ်ဳိးတုိင္းနဲ႔သက္ဆုိင္တဲ႔ကိစၥျဖစ္တယ္။က်ဳပ္တုိ႔အားလုံးဟာတုိင္းျပည္အာဏာလုေနတာမဟုတ္ဘူး၊
တုိင္းျပည္ကိုပ်က္လိုပ်က္စီးလုပ္ေနတာမဟုတ္ဘူး၊မပ်က္ေအာင္စီးေအာင္ကာကြယ္ေပးေနတာ။
တုိင္းျပည္ဟာမီးခုိးမထြက္ဘဲနယ္ခ်ဲ႔ခံေနရတယ္ဆုိတာကိုသိေနလို႔ခံစားေနရတာ
။ႏုိင္ငံေရးနဲ႕လုံ၀မသက္ဆုိင္ပါ။အမ်ဳိးသားေရးျဖစ္ေနလို႔မီဒီယာေတြနဲ႔အသိပညာရွင္ေတြ
အားလံုးပါ၀ုိင္း၀န္းကန္႕ကြက္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း။
သစၥာေတာ္ခံloyalist ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္အား သိေစအပ္ပါသည္။ (ေမာင္သာျမား)
ႏိုးထျခင္း
အိုျမန္မာျပည္ဖြား
တိုင္းရင္းသားတို႔.....
အတူတကြ၊ ဘယ္သူပါမွ
အသာထား၍
အျမင္ခ်င္းတူ
အားခ်င္းျပဳေလာ့
ျမန္မာ့ႏွလံုး(အသက္တည္ရာ)
ျမစ္ႀကီးမဆံုးခင္
အားလံုး႐ုန္းထ
ကန္႔ကြက္ၾကေတာ႔.....
(ေမာင္သာျမား)
ျမစ္ေကာ
ျမစ္မေကာေအာင္လို႔
သစ္ေတာတို႔စိမ္းရေပမည္
ေရေဝေတာေတြစိမ္းစို႔စို႔
မႈိုင္းညိဳ႔ညိဳ႔မႈန္ရီ၊
ခ်င္းတြင္းနဲ႔ဧရာဝတီ
ေရျပင္ၾကည္သမွ်၊ ျမန္မာေသြးရွိ။
တေတာလံုးေျပာင္
တေတာင္လံုးလင္း
ျမစ္က်ဥ္းကာေသာင္ေတြေပၚေတာ႔
ေနာင္အရွည္မေမွ်ာ္ျမန္မာေပ်ာက္ေအာင္လို႔
ကိုယ္႔ေသြးကိုကိုယ္ျပန္ေသာက္ျပီလား
စိုးေၾကာက္ဖြယ္ အျပစ္သေဘာနဲ႔
ျမစ္ေကာမယ္႔ေန႔။ ေမာင္စိန္ဝင္း (ပုတီးကုန္း)
'88 Generation Students' Leaders Welcome Suu Kyi, Aung Kyi Talks
Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and Htay Kywe, all of whom are serving 65-year priosn sentences, managed to get their comments to the public one week after the first meeting between Suu Kyi and a member of Burma's new government took office in late March.
Min Ko Naing, who is being held in Keng Tung Prison in eastern Shan State, said through an information channel that he thinks the meeting between Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi was “a good step.”
A message from Ko Ko Gyi, who is in Mong Set Prison in Shan State, said he supports the meeting and calls for more meaningful dialogue. Ko Ko Kyi, who is described by colleagues as a “strategist,” said that the pro-democracy leader should take a wider leading role in the development of democracy and peace in Burma.
Htay Kywe’s brother-in-law, Pyo Min Thein, who is also member of the 88 Generation Students group, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that Htay Kywe said the meeting between Suu Kyi and Aung Kyi was a positive step. Htay Kywe is serving his sentence in Buthitaung Prison, Arakan State.
“Even though the 88 Generation Students leaders have sacrificed a lot for the country, they are always optimistic. Therefore our party take their concerns seriously,” said Win Htain, one of Suu Kyi’s close aides at the National League for Democracy(NLD), in response to the 88 Generation Students leaders’ messages.
The 88 Generation Students group was formed by former student leaders who led the mass uprising against dictator Ne Win’s Burmese Socialist Programme Party in the summer of 1988, during which at least 3,000 people were killed by government security forces.
Throughout 1988-1991, most of the student leaders were arrested and given long prison sentences. Min Ko Naing was arrested in 1989 and spent 15 years in prison. Ko Ko Gyi was arrested in 1991 and imprisoned and released in 2005.
After their release, the former student leaders formed the 88 Generation Students group, which became a prominent dissident movement while Suu Kyi was under house arrest. The group undertook various political activities until its leaders were once again arrested on August 21, 2007 for their involvement in a protest march against fuel price hikes and given matching 65-year sentences.
The former student leaders reportedly take the same position—that they will not make an appeal to get individual sympathy from the government.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/
Monday, 8 August 2011
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေရွး႐ႈဖို႔ ရွစ္ေလးလုံး အထိမ္းအမွတ္ေန႔ ေဒၚစုေျပာၾကား
ရွစ္ေလးလုံး အထိမ္းအမွတ္ေန႔ကို ၾကည့္ျမင္တုိင္ နတ္စင္လမ္းမွာရွိတဲ့ သာဓု ပရိယတၱိ စာသင္တုိက္မွာ က်င္းပ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအခမ္းအနားကို ၁၉၈၈ အေရးအခင္းမွာ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြထဲက အက်ဥ္းက်ခံမေနရဘဲ အျပင္မွာ က်န္ေနတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြအျပင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြ ဦးစီးၿပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သလုိ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ေရွး႐ႈတဲ့ အခမ္းအနားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားၿပီး က်င္းပႏုိင္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အခမ္းအနား ျဖစ္ေျမာက္ေရး တာ၀န္ခံတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကုိမ်ဳိးရန္ေနာင္သိန္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။
“က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကလည္း မွာၾကားထားတာ ရွိတယ္၊ ဒီ ရွစ္ေလးလုံး ၂၃ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေအာက္ေမ့ဘြယ္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားကုိ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကုိ ေရွး႐ႈတဲ့၊ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္တဲ့ ပုံစံနဲ႔ သြားပါဆုိၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာၾကားတဲ့ ပုံစံနဲ႔ပဲ သြားခဲ့တယ္။ တကယ္တမ္းက်ေတာ့ ၈ ရက္ ၈ လ ၈၈ ေန႔ ဆုိတာက တႏုိင္ငံလုံးနဲ႔ သက္ဆုိင္တဲ့ ေန႔ပါ။ တႏုိင္ငံလုံးကုိ သက္ေရာက္မႈရွိတဲ့ ေန႔ပါ။ အဲဒီေန႔ကို တည္ဆဲအစိုးရ အေနနဲ႔လည္း အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္တဲ့ ပုံစံမ်ဳိးနဲ႔ စုေပါင္းၿပီး လုပ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ အားလုံးအတြက္ ေကာင္းမြန္သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အဲဒီလိုမ်ဳိး လုပ္လာလိမ့္မယ္လို႔လည္း က်ေနာ္က ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။”
အခုလို ၂၃ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားကို ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္း က်င္းပေပးဖုိ႔ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ေတြထဲမွာ အခုထိ ေနေနရတဲ့ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္၊ ကုိကိုႀကီး အပါအ၀င္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြက မွာၾကားခဲ့တယ္လို႔လည္း ေျပာပါတယ္။
ဒီအခမ္းအနားကို လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တက္ေရာက္လာသလုိ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ ပါတီက ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြ၊ အႏုပညာရွင္ေတြ၊ မ်ဳိးဆက္သစ္ လူငယ္ေတြ၊ အက်ဥ္းသား မိသားစု၀င္ေတြနဲ႔ ၈၈ အေရးအခင္းကာလမွာ လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့သူ ေထာင္နဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး တက္ေရာက္လာတာ ေတြ႕ရတယ္လို႔ အခမ္းအနားကို တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့တဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ လုံၿခဳံေရး တာ၀န္ခံ ဦး၀င္းထိန္က ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ဒီမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အခမ္းအနား လာတက္တယ္။ ေနာက္ NLD က ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးတင္ဦး၊ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦး၀င္းတင္တို႔ အျပင္ကို တျခားပါတီက ပုဂၢဳိလ္ေတြလည္း ပါတယ္။ အသက္အရြယ္ မ်ဳိးစုံက လူေတြက ဒီအခမ္းအနားကုိ တေလးတစားနဲ႔ အထူးဂုဏ္ျပဳၿပီး တက္ေရာက္ၾကတယ္လို႔ သေဘာေပါက္ပါတယ္။ စည္းစည္းလုံးလုံးပဲ ပါတီက လူေတြေရာ၊ ပါတီမဟုတ္ဘဲနဲ႔ လူေတြေရာ ဒီေန႔ အမွတ္တရ ေျပာရမယ္ ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ၾကက္ပ်ံမက် စည္ကားတယ္ေပါ့။ လူေတြ ေထာင္နဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး တက္ေရာက္ၾကတယ္။”
အခမ္းအနားမွာ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသား ကိုတုိးေက်ာ္လႈိင္က ဒီမုိကေရစီ လူထုလႈပ္ရွားမႈမွာ အသက္ေပးသြားသူေတြကုိ ရည္စူးၿပီး တမိနစ္ ၿငိမ္သက္ျခင္း အစီအစဥ္ကို ဦးေဆာင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သာဓု ပရိယတၱိ စာသင္တိုက္ရဲ႕ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးအဂၢံသက အေတြးရဲၾကဖို႔၊ ေျခာက္တုိင္းမေၾကာက္ ေျမႇာက္တုိင္း မေျမာက္တဲ့ စိတ္ထားနဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း တရားကို ေဟာၾကားခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးက အေတြးရဲဖုိ႔ ေတြးတတ္ရမယ္၊ ေတြးတဲ့အခါမွာလည္း ေပါက္ေျမာက္ေအာင္ ေတြးရမယ္၊ ေပါက္ေျမာက္ေအာင္ ေတြးတဲ့အခါမွာ ေျပာတာကိုယုံၿပီး ေျခာက္ရင္လည္း မေၾကာက္ဘူးေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ကုိယ့္ေၾကာင့္ ကိုယ့္လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အျမင္မ်ဳိး ရွိတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ပုံစံမ်ဳိး။ ဒါကိုလည္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ႏွစ္ၿခိဳက္ပါတယ္ ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ကုိလည္းပဲ ေျပာျပပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးကိုလည္း ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
“တရားက ေကာင္းပါတယ္တဲ့၊ တရားက ဟုိဘက္ေရာ ဒီဘက္ေရာ မွ်ၿပီး ေဟာပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ လူငယ္ေတြကုိလည္း အေတြးရဲဖို႔ေပါ့။ အေတြးရဲတဲ့အခါမွာ ေၾကာက္လည္း မေၾကာက္ဘူးဆုိတဲ့ အေၾကာင္း တရားေလး ေဟာသြားပါတယ္။ တရားေလးက အေတာ့္ကို ထိမိပါတယ္။”
၂၃ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ၈၈ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနား မွတ္တမ္းစာအုပ္ထဲမွာေတာ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျဖစ္ပ်က္ခဲ့တဲ့ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ေတြကို ဘယ္သူမွ ေမ့မသြားေစခ်င္ဘူးလို႔ မွတ္တမ္း ေရးသားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီအခမ္းအနားကို ရန္ကုန္မွာရွိတဲ့ ၿဗိတိန္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံျခား သံ႐ုံးက ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြပါ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
အခုလို ပရိသတ္ အမ်ားအျပား တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့တဲ့ ရွစ္ေလးလုံး ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားကို ၂၃ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္ က်င္းပႏုိင္ခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္ေတြဘက္က တားဆီး ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ဳိးေတာ့ မေတြ႕ရဘူးလို႔ ဦး၀င္းထိန္က ေျပာပါတယ္။
“က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ သတိထားမိတာကေတာ့ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြက ဓာတ္ပုံ႐ုိက္တာတုိ႔၊ ကားနံပါတ္ မွတ္တာတို႔၊ မလွမ္းမကမ္းမွာ အဓိက႐ုဏ္း ႏွိမ္နင္းေရးကား တစီး ႏွစ္စီးေလာက္ ေရာက္လာတယ္။ အဲဒါေတြေတာ့ သတိထားမိပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း အခမ္းအနားလာတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြက ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးနဲ႔ အခမ္းအနား တက္ေရာက္ၾကတဲ့ အေနအထားပါ။
“ဒီအခမ္းအနားနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အခမ္းအနား ကာလမွာလည္း လုံၿခဳံေရး ဘယ္လုိလုပ္မယ္၊ ေနာက္တခုက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တက္ေရာက္ရင္ ထုံးစံအတုိင္း လူေတြက ၀ုိင္းအုံတဲ့ အတြက္ေၾကာင့္မို႔ ဘယ္လုိလုပ္မယ္ ဆုိတဲ့ဟာက မေန႔ကတည္းက ေဆြးေႏြးၿပီးသားပါ။ ဒီေန႔မနက္မွာလည္း ေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဟာင္းေတြ အျပင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ NLD က လူငယ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေပါင္းၿပီးေတာ့ လုံၿခဳံေရး လုပ္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ေအးေအးေဆးေဆး၊ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ ကင္းကင္းနဲ႔ ၿပီးသြားတာပါ။”
ဦး၀င္းထိန္ ေျပာျပသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/news/8888-anniversary-dassk-127226113.html
Monday, 1 August 2011
Famous Quotations
Action expresses priorities. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
If no one answers your call, walk alone. - Rabindranath Tagore
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. - James Baldwin
What happens in Egypt doesn't stay in Egypt. - Tom Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power. – Wael Ghonim, Egyptian activist/leader
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. - W. E. B. DuBois
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. - Christopher Columbus
A ship is safe in harbour, but that's not what ships are for. - William Shedd
The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
– Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), author of the Declaration of Independence and 3rd president of the United States
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but there is no resistance to an invasion of ideas. – Victor Hugo (Comment: Let truth be the invader … let facts be the bullets that slay every fallacy … because all that is false, and all that rests on what is false - including governments – is a house of cards that cannot stand.)
It is 30 years since we started this work. Activities that devastate the environment and societies continue unabated. Today we are faced with a challenge that calls for a shift in our thinking, so that humanity stops threatening its life-support system. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own – indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process. In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. - Wangari Matthai, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
… the old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. So he kept his youth close to its softening influence. – Luther Standing Bear
My religion is kindness. – the Dalai Lama
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - Mohandas K. Gandhi
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. - Goethe
… a lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is. – J. Krishnamurti
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. - Lao Tzu
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him ... the highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation. And the nation which disdains the mission of art invites the fate of Robert Frost's hired man, the fate of having "nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope". - President John F. Kennedy, Remarks at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. - Leonardo da Vinci
If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. - Vincent Van Gogh
The future isn’t in the future – we’re creating it now!
Monday, 25 July 2011
Burma Insight: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met with Aung kyi
This announcement, which has all the characteristics of the beginning of the breakthrough between democratic opposition and the new government, was emphatically made by Minister Aung Kyi to the awaiting newsmen, who had been awaiting within the compound of the State guest house since the start of the talks.
Speaking on her behalf to the newsmen, Aung San Suu Kyi said: “As for me, I always look forward to the interests of the country and the equality of the people. I do hope that this talks will benefit the country.”
Aung Kyi is not a stranger to Aung San Suu Kyi. While serving as Minister for Labour under SPDC government, Aung Kyi was concurrently assigned as Minister for Relations between the military junta and Aung San Suu Kyi.
In this capacity Aung Kyi had held talks with Aung San Suu Kyi for nine times during the time of the military junta. His last talks with Aung San Suu Kyi was late in 2009.
This afternoon after the talks, Minister Aung Kyi himself read out the official news statement on the talks with Aung San Suu Kyi as follows:-
“At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has come to Green Bank State Guest House this afternoon and held official talks with Union Minister U Aung Kyi from 1 pm to 2:10 pm this afternoon.
“Both sides looked upon this meeting as positive one and as such both sides were satisfied with the results.
“Both sides discussed possible areas where they could cooperate for the good of the people.
“In discussing as such, matters concerning rule of law, eradication of misunderstanding and other matters for the good of the people were included.
“Both side agreed to meet again at an appropriate time.”
The above is the full-text of the news statement read out by Aung Kyi.
Aung San Suu Kyi met with U Aung Kyi
by Kyaw Aye on Monday, 25 July 2011 at 13:38
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြး ျပည္သူလူထု ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏႇစ္ပါး ခ်မ္းသာေစေရး အတြက္ ႏႇစ္ဖက္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္မည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ Monday, 25 July 2011 16:17
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ အစုိးရအဖြဲ႕သစ္မႇ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ဇူလုိင္လ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႔ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းတြင္ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္။
ျပည္သူလူထု ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏႇစ္ပါး ခ်မ္းသာေစေရး အတြက္ ႏႇစ္ဖက္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္မည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေၾကာင္းႏႇင့္ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာရက္တြင္ ထပ္မံ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးရန္ကိုလည္း သေဘာတူခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးမႈ အၿပီး ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ အရ သိရသည္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္ တို႔သည္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရႇိ စိမ္းလဲ့ကန္သာ ဧည့္ေဂဟာတြင္ မြန္းလြဲ ၁ နာရီ မႇ မြန္းလြဲ ၂ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ္အထိ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းကဲ့သို႔
ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ မီဒီယာမ်ားႏႇင့္ ဆက္လက္ ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့သည္။
မီဒီယာမ်ားႏႇင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံရာတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈႏႇင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္က ဖတ္ၾကားခဲ့သည္။
အဆိုပါ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္အျပည့္အစုံမႇာ ''ျပည္ေထာင္စုသမၼတ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အစိုးရ၏ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္ အရ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္သည္ စိမ္းလဲ့ကန္သာ အစုိးရ ဧည့္ေဂဟာတြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္အား ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏႇစ္ ဇူလိုင္လ ၂၅ ရက္ မြန္းလြဲ ၁ နာရီမႇ ၂ နာရီ ၁၀ မိနစ္ အထိ လာေရာက္ ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့ပါသည္။
ဤသို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံမႈအတြက္ ႏႇစ္ဖက္စလုံးက အျပဳသေဘာ ႐ႈျမင္ၾကၿပီး ေက်နပ္အားရမႈ ရႇိခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ျပည္သူလူထု ကိုယ္စိတ္ႏႇစ္ပါး ခ်မ္းသာေစေရး အတြက္ ႏႇစ္ဖက္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္မည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားကို
ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။
ထိုသို႔ ေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ တရားဥပေဒ စိုးမိုးေရးကိစၥ၊ စိတ္၀မ္းကြဲျပားမႈ ပေပ်ာက္ေရးကိစၥႏႇင့္ အမ်ားျပည္သူ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ထြန္းေစမည့္ ကိစၥတို႔လည္း အပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာရက္တြင္ ထပ္မံ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ကိုလည္း သေဘာတူခဲ့ၾကပါသည္''ဟူ၍ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ထို႔ေနာက္ မီဒီယာမ်ားအား ေမးခြန္းသုံးခု ေမးျမန္းမႈ ျပဳခဲ့ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသတင္းေထာက္ တစ္ဦး၏ ေမးခြန္းအေပၚ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္က ''tangible (result) မထြက္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာလို႔မရပါဘူး။ယခင္ ကိုးႀကိမ္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့ၿပီးၾကပါၿပီ။ အခု ေတြ႕ဆုံမႈကေတာ့ အဲဒီရလဒ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ ရလဒ္ ထြက္လိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္''ဟု ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ထို႔ျပင္ ''ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ဒီေတြ႕ဆုံမႈေတြကိုေတာ့ ဆက္လက္ၿပီးေတာ့ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားဖို႔ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ သေဘာတူထားၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီဥစၥာက ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ ကိစၥေတြ၊ ေရႇ႕ေလွ်ာက္ လုပ္သြားစရာရႇိတဲ့ ကိစၥေတြရဲ႕ အမ်ားႀကီးရဲ႕ အစ ေျခလႇမ္းတစ္ခုလို႔ ေျပာမယ္ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ေျပာႏိုင္ပါတယ္''ဟု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသတင္းေထာက္ တစ္ဦး၏ ေမးခြန္းအေပၚ ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္က ျပန္လည္ ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ထို့ေနာက္ ျပည္တြင္းမီဒီယာမ်ား ကိုယ္စား ေမးခြန္းတစ္ခု ေမးျမန္းခြင့္ ျပဳခဲ့ရာတြင္ ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းေထာက္ တစ္ဦးက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္မႇ ေျဖၾကားေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ၿပီး ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ရာ အဆိုပါ ေမးျမန္းမႈအေပၚ
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ''တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ေစမယ့္ ရလဒ္ေတြကို ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။ ဘာပဲလုပ္လုပ္၊ ဘာစကားပဲေျပာေျပာ၊ ဘယ္သူနဲ႔ပဲ ေတြ႕ေတြ႕ ကြၽန္မတို႔ရဲ႕ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ တိုင္းျပည္၊
ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားကို အက်ဳိးျပဳဖို႔ပါ။ ဒါပဲ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္''ဟု ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။
ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္သည္ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ အစိုးရသစ္တြင္ အလုပ္သမား၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏႇင့္ လူမႈ၀န္ထမ္း၊ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏႇင့္ ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ျဖစ္သည္။
၎တို႔ ႏႇစ္ဦးၾကား ယခု ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမႇာ (၁၀)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ယခင္ အစိုးရ လက္ထက္တြင္ အလုပ္သမား၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္သည္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ဆက္သြယ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အတြက္ ဆက္ဆံေရး ၀န္ႀကီး အျဖစ္ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏႇစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ခန္႔အပ္ခံခဲ့ရသည္။
ယင္းကဲ့သို႔ ဆက္ဆံေရး၀န္ႀကီး အျဖစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ခံခဲ့ရၿပီးေနာက္ ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္သည္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏႇစ္မႇ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏႇစ္ အတြင္း ကိုးႀကိမ္ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏႇင့္ ဆက္ဆံေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့မႈမ်ား
၁။ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏႇစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၂၅ ရက္
၂။ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏႇစ္ နို၀င္ဘာလ ၉ ရက္
၃။ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏႇစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလ ၁၉ ရက္
၄။ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏႇစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၁ ရက္
၅။ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏႇစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၃၀ ရက္
၆။ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏႇစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၃ ရက္
၇။ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏႇစ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၇ ရက္
၈။ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏႇစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၉ ရက္
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Friday, 8 July 2011
The welfare of all people of Burma is my life's mission (Bo Gyoke Aung San)
I have come here at your bidding and I am to do so. The welfare of all people of this country irrespective of race or religion has always been the one purpose that I have set out to fulfil. In fact it is my life's mission.
(Bo Gyoke Aung San)
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.
For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/
Thursday, 7 July 2011
7th July Memorial in Burma
Burma army Chief of Staff General Ne Win and cohorts threaten the U Nu’s elected democratic government to hand over power and formed a Caretaker government from 1958 to 1960 for eighteen months. General Ne Win and cohorts had a good taste of power after 18 months of the Caretaker Government, and they regarded U Nu as a week leader and was not strong enough to govern the country. They openly told the Pyidaungsu Governments that the army had to fight vigorously and they are not happy to even protect and give security service to those corrupt political leaders.
General Ne Win took over the power second time in March of 1962. Military coups were quite popular in those days of early sixties in Asia, Africa and in Latin America. Now it is out of fashion and most of them reverted back to the civilian rule. Just after the Military coup of General Ne Win, he quelled the dissents and demonstrations with his army brutally. He even dynamited the Students Union in the Rangoon University while some student leaders were still inside.
General Ne Win’s first speech challenged or threatened the unarmed Burmese Citizens that he would respond knife with knife, spear with spear if any one dare to challenge him and his lap-dog army, in Burmese,” Dhar dhar chin_Lhan lhan chin shin mae”.
In his last farewell speech he warned the Burmese citizens that next time if HIS Army had to be called to calm the uprising there is no vocabulary in the BURMA ARMY’s guiding manuals to shoot up into the air for warning. Burma Army would shoot straight to the target, in other words Tatmadaw declared its “SHOOT TO KILL” policy even on unarmed civilians.General Ne Win took over in the early morning of March 2nd, 1962. There was an important announcement over the radio from the Burma Broadcasting Service. We heard marching songs being played and then the announcement came regarding the taking over of the country by the military and about the formation of the Revolutionary Council. There were 17 names mentioned as members of the Revolutionary Council.
Rangoon university student protests started against the Military coup on 6 July 1962. On the 7th of July 1962 there were demonstrations against the Ne Win’s military government and the government retaliated with severe measures. Aung Gyi and Tin Pe were the most senior officers and Sein Lwin was the field commanding officer in the university region. No on exactly know who gave the orders to open fire.
On July 7, over 130 stubborn or diehard or brave would be martyr students who were demonstrating in the student’s union building in the campus of Rangoon University were dynamited and brutally killed by the army.
The historic student’s union building was destroyed into pieces. The 7 July student’s massacre was merely a blood-stained on the Tatmadaw but they could not suppress the students’ spirit of going on fighting against the militarism. The arrest, torture and imprisonment could not crush the spirit of the fighting peacock or the revolutionary student protests.
When the Students’ Union building was dynamited with some of the students inside our heart sank and nearly broke. All the students, parents and the whole population felt very hurt up to the present time especially on this auspicious or rather a notorious day. The 7th July is the 9-11 for all the Burmese.
Ne Win blamed Aung Gyi and Aung Gyi pointed back to Ne Win as a responsible leader. But the real butcher who pulled the trigger was SEIN LWIN. (During the 1967 Student Festival in Mandalay, there was a small fight between the students. One of the son of Butcher Sein Lwin boasted amongst his friends that to quell that student unrest was a minor thing for his father who had shoot and killed a lot of students and dynamited the student’s union building on 7th July. And the whole Mandalay knew that the Anglo-Burmese Primary School teacher from St. Peters School was teaching English daily to that illiterate North-West Division Commander.)
No wonder there was a popular rallying slogan during 8888 because Ne Win put Sein Lwin as his successor Prime Minister after his resignation:
“Sein Lwin Chauk Tan_Tasauk Kan.”,
“Sein Lwin Chauk Tan_sauk yan loke myi”.
“San ta pyi sae nga kyat_Sein Lwin khaung ko pyat”.
“Sein Lwin Phar Kyo_Hto’ Kyo” e.t.c.
Ne Win was a drop out at Inter class for Bio and could not pursue his dreams to become a Medical Doctor. But he managed to snatch the wife of Dr Toke Gyi , Daw Khin May Than who was the daughter of famous Professor Dr Ba Than. Curiously both Ne Win and Dr Ba Than were notorious for womenisation.
Ne Win was notorious for never finishing any book except Adolph Hitler’s book, MEIN KAMPS. (Note this is not a satire or just tried to run down on Ne Win but the truth!)
And he was the one to demolish the very famous “Burmese Research Association” just because one of the professors got drunk and touch his wife Daw Khin May Than during the association’s dinner. He was shot and killed on the spot and the precious Burma Research Association was disbanded since then.
According to the General Ne Win, educated class or intellectuals are undecided, ignorant and corrupted class not to be trusted in their ‘Socialist’ revolution. Actually as a military dictator, he knew that he could not fool the educated class easily. The intelligent class always uses their heads (brains) and use to question and analyze each and every order. The dictators and especially Tatmadaw leaders never like that attitude. Subordinates must always obey the command given to them. They have no right to think whether it is right or wrong, just or not.
Intellectuals have no place under Military rulers. If do not want to keep their mouth shut, they must be put into detention or must leave the country to avoid the dangerous consequences.
In civilized countries the scholar is always placed above the ‘man of war’ believing that
“ Nations which trusted the gun perished by it earlier”.
But in Myanmar under the Military rulers the opposite of the above rule is always correct.
For Myanmar Military, power comes out from the barrel of the gun only. The might is always right for them.
“The evil that men do lives after them…”
Julius Caesar III ii.75,.by William Shakespeare
Yes, all the perpetrators of 7th July Ne Win, Sein Lwin and ? Aung Gyi ? are no more on earth. But their evil of Massacring Students on this day would be remembered forever. Since that day students became the RESISTENCE SYMBOL and used to spearhead the successive uprisings against the illegal Military Rulers.
The 7th July is the 9-11 for all the Burmese.
The spirit of 7 July will last forever.
MAHA BANDULA
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums
BDC
06 July 2011
In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums from today until 19 July 2011.
So then, these are the tasks before all of us. I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history? We are out for ordered progress and we will, with your hearty co-operation, win our freedom peacefully and speedily.
(Bo Gyoke Aung San)
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.
For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums BDC
BDC
06 July 2011
In honour of the Bo Gyoke Aung San and Martyrs of Burma, Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) will be posting Bo Gyoke Aung San's dictums from today until 19 July 2011.
So then, these are the tasks before all of us. I say then to you: come and let us do them and achieve them, for it is in our power to make or mar our destiny. Above all, have no doubt about your creative power which can move mountains and even Heaven. And what Heaven on this earth can stand before the united will and wisdom of our people conscious of their strength and power and harnessing it firmly to the chariot wheels of history? We are out for ordered progress and we will, with your hearty co-operation, win our freedom peacefully and speedily.
(Bo Gyoke Aung San)
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) is the global campaigning and lobbying organisation to restore democracy, human rights and rule of law in Burma where everyone can enjoy the freedom of speech, press, beliefs, assembly and rule of law that emphasizes the protection of individual rights.
For more information please visit Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) at http://www.bdcburma.org/
Friday, 10 June 2011
Govt. Pressure Wrecks NLD Study Program
In this photo taken on November 19, 2010, members of National League for Democracy (NLD) sell posters of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her father general Aung San in front of their main office in Rangoon. (Photo: Reuters)
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Foreign scholars withdrew from a planned study meeting at the National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters after pressure from the Burmese government, according to sources.
Win Htein, of the NLD, told The Irrawaddy that many scholars were very keen to come and meet the opposition party's leader Aung San Suu Kyi and train its members, but their planned visit had to be been canceled.
The group were due to lecture students at the Bayda Institute from June 6 to 25 before addressing NLD members from June 20 to 28, but now even the first session has been moved to pro-government NGO Myanmar Egress instead.
“I think Kyaw Yin Hlaing, who currently works in Hong Kong, is afraid the government will revoke his passport if he speaks to NLD members. If Kyaw Yin Hlaing came to visit the NLD he could get into trouble, but he should still take the risk to find out what the result would be,” said Win Htein.
Dr. Kyaw Yin Hlaing is director of Myanmar Egress and also assistant professor of the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.
Myanmar Egress is controversial for being closely associated with individuals connected to the Burmese Chamber of Commerce, and Kyaw Yin Hlaing also supported last year's sham election in Burma.
Htike Zaw Oo, from Tavoy Township, Tenasserim Division, is studying at the Bayda Institute and says he feels cheated by the renowned foreign-based professors who have shunned the seat of learning.
“At first we were very happy that professors from foreign countries would be teaching us. We have been preparing for the training for nearly three months. But when the fixed date arrived they [professors] canceled these plans very easily,” said Htike Zaw Oo.
The NLD study course on “the principles of political science” was the first offered by the party for two decades and was scheduled to be taught by almost a dozen foreign scholars. Young NLD members from across Burma have already arrived in Rangoon to attended the session.
“The teachers did not arrive at the opening ceremony of the Badya Institute and it is hard for them to come to the NLD. Although they did not come to the opening of the Bayda Institute, they are still teaching at Myanmar Egress. It is like a balloon which has been pierced with a needle,” said Win Htein.
“We have been planning this tuition since March but Kyaw Yin Hlaing said on the phone that he cannot give the lecture because the government put pressure on him. The professors would be teaching at Myanmar Egress and Bayda at the same time,” said Myo Yan Naung Thein of Bayda Institute.
The Irrawaddy contacted Kyaw Yin Hlaing but he refused to comment.
Burmese scholars Kyaw Yin Hlaing, Tin Maung Maung Than and US attorney Thi Han Myo Nyun will all contribute to the training program.
They will be joined by foreign scholars Robert Taylor, Robert Gregory, Martin Painter, Mark Thompson, Federico Ferrara and Brad Williams from City University of Hong Kong; Michael Montesano from Singapore's Institute of South East Asia Study; Eric Thompson from the National University of Singapore; and N. Ganesan from the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Japan.
http://irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21454v
Monday, 6 June 2011
Burma Democratic Bekymring (BDC): Ikke bruk kjemiske våpen
6 juni 2011
Burma Democratic Bekymring (BDC) kaller for U Thein Sein er den autoritære regimet ikke å bruke kjemiske våpen kjemper mot ethnics opposisjonsgrupper og til slutt Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) iherdig oppfordrer til alle de berørte parter til å arbeide gjenopprette fred i Burma.
U Myo Thein, direktør for Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) sa at "det første ønsker vi ikke krig i Burma. Vi ønsker ikke slag eller vi vil ikke slåss og drepe hverandre. Siden alle ethnics folket i Burma lever på samme jord under den samme himmelen, bør vi finne ut fredelige løsninger gjennom dialog ".
Burma Democratic Bekymring (BDC) uttrykker svært alvorlig bekymring over rapporter om at burmesiske hæren bruker kjemiske våpen i kampen mot Shan State Army.
U Khin Maung Win, direktør for Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) sa at "Vi er svært bekymret over rapportene om bruk av kjemiske våpen av den burmesiske hæren. Kjemiske våpen bør ikke brukes ikke bare i Burma, men også i den store verden ".
Den SSA strategiske base som ligger syv miles sør for Mong Gao i Tangyan Township er angrepet av Burma Army som er beskyldt for å bruke kjemiske våpen på grunn av som på eksplosjon forårsaket svimmelhet og kvalme, ifølge Col Perng Fa av RS liaison team.
U Tint Swe Thiha, Patron i Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) sa at "Hvis rapporten for å bruke kjemiske våpen av Burma Army viser seg å være sant så FNs sikkerhetsråd bør gå i mellomliggende Burma krise".
Den nylige bryte av en 15-års våpenhvile mellom burmesiske myndigheter og SSA-Nord har utløst kampene i Shan staten.
SSA-North gang oppnådd våpenhvile med burmesiske myndigheter som mål å løse problemene ved politiske midler.
21. mai 2011, erklærte SSA-Sør og SSA-North at de har re-united å kjempe mot den burmesiske militæret.
Shan State Army viden kjent som SSA har slåss mot sentrale myndigheter for å ha autonomi i mer enn fem tiår.
Titusener av sivile er blitt tvunget til å flykte fra sine hjem ender opp i flyktningeleire, mens andre er tvunget i skjul i jungelen som de internt fordrevne, internt fordrevne.
Daw Khin Aye Aye Mar, Patron i Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) sa at "Burma krisen har skjedd for mer enn halvparten av århundret. International Community har vært med utsikt over Burma krisen altfor lenge, og jeg ønsker å si at "Denne gangen er for Burma" å iverksette tiltak på Burma. Selv om vi er godt klar over at Burma ikke er lokalisert i Midtøsten rikt på oljer, ressurser, men som ligger rett ved siden av Kina, bør det ikke være det skammelige unnskyldning over-sighting iverksette tiltak mot Burma ".
For mer informasjon kontakt
U Myo Thein [Storbritannia]
Telefon: 00-44-78 7788 2386
Telefon: 00-44-208 4939 137
U Khin Maung Win [USA]
Telefon: 001-415 559 3982
U Tint Swe Thiha [USA]
Telefon: 001-509-582-3261
Telefon: 001-509-591-84
Daw Khin Aye Aye Mar [USA]
Telefon: 001-509 586 8309
http://www.bdcburma.org/Press.asp