သန္းေရႊနဲ ့ သူရဲ ့သား ဘိုးေတာ္ ေမာင္ေမာင္ (ခ) သန္႔ေဇာ္ေရႊ ။

သန္းေရႊနဲ ့ သူရဲ ့သား ဘိုးေတာ္ ေမာင္ေမာင္ (ခ) သန္႔ေဇာ္ေရႊ ။
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> ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအဝိုင္းနဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္သူလူထုေတြက၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို
> ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီး သန္းေရႊ ေခါင္း ေဆာင္တဲ့၊ စစ္ေကာင္စီက
> အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနတာလို႔ သိရွိထားၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ စစ္ေကာင္စီဥကၠဌျဖစ္တဲ့
> ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ မွဴးၾကီးသန္းေရႊကို ေနာက္ကြယ္က ၾကိဳးကိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနသူတဦး
> ရွိေနတာ သိရွိသူ မရွိသေလာက္ပါ။
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> သူ႔နာမည္က “ေမာင္ေမာင္ (ခ) သန္႔ေဇာ္ေရႊ” ပါ။ ဦးသန္းေရႊ
> ေဒၚမၾကိဳင္တို႔ရဲ႕ အငယ္ဆံုးသား ျဖစ္ျပီး၊ စိတ္ေဝဒနာ အနည္းငယ္
> ခံစားေနရသူပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ သူ႔ကို တအိမ္သားလံုးက စိတ္ေရာဂါရွင္လို႔
> မသတ္မွတ္ၾကဘဲ ဘိုးေတာ္ဝင္စားသူတဦးအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ကိုးကြယ္ၾကပါတယ္။
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> ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ (ခ) သန္႔ေဇာ္ေရႊဟာ အသက္(၄၀)ခန္႔ရွိျပီး
> ဝတ္ျဖဴစင္ၾကယ္နဲ႔ ႏုတ္ခမ္းေမႊး မုတ္ဆိတ္ ေမႊးမ်ားထားရွိျပီး၊
> ဘိုးေတာ္လိုလို ေအာက္လမ္းဆရာလိုလို ေရွ႕ျဖစ္ေနာက္ျဖစ္ေတြကို ေဟာၾကားျပီး
> ေဆာင္ရန္ေရွာင္ရန္ေတြကို ညႊန္ၾကားေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။
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> မိသားစုကိစၥေတြသာ မကေတာ့ဘဲ၊ တေျဖးေျဖးနဲ႔ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕အေရးၾကီးတဲ့
> မူဝါဒေရးရာေတြပါမက်န္ ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ရဲ႕
> အခါေပးညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္ေတြအတိုင္း အေဖျဖစ္သူ ဦးသန္းေရႊက လိုက္လံေဆာင္
> ရြက္ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။
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> ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီးသန္းေရႊအိမ္ကို အလုပ္ရွိလို႔လာၾကရတဲ့
> ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးေတြအပါအဝင္ ဧည့္သည္အားလံုးဟာ ၾကမ္းျပင္ေပၚမွာဘဲ ထိုင္ၾကရတာ
> ဓေလ့တခုလို ျဖစ္ေနပါျပီ။ ဧည့္ခန္းအတြင္း အျမင့္ တေနရာမွာ
> ေရွးဘုရင္မ်ားေခတ္က သလြန္လို ျပင္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ေနရာမွာ ဦးသန္းေရႊနဲ႔
> ေဒၚမၾကိဳင္တို႔က ထိုင္ျပီး ဧည့္ သည္ေတြကို လကၡံေတြ႔ဆံုပါတယ္။
> အဲဒီအေျခအေနကို ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္က လွ်ိဳ႕ဝွက္ဗီဒီယိုမွတ္တမ္း ေတြ
> ရိုက္ကူးျပီး၊ ဧည့္သည္ေတြ ျပန္သြားတဲ့အခါ ရိုက္ကူးထားတဲ့ ဗီဒီယိုေတြကို
> ျပန္ဖြင့္ၾကည့္ၾကျပီး၊ ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္က ေဝဖန္သံုးသပ္ျပခါ
> အေဖျဖစ္သူဦးသန္းေရႊကို လိုအပ္သလို ညႊန္ၾကားမွဳေတြ ေပးေနၾကပါ။
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> အလားတူ ယႀတာလုပ္ရမဲ့ကိစၥေတြကိုေတာ့ မိခင္ျဖစ္သူ ေဒၚမၾကိဳင္ကို ညႊန္ၾကား
> လုပ္ေဆာင္ေစပါတယ္။ ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္အေနနဲ႔ အာရံုမွာ
> သေဘာမေတြ႕သူေတြမွန္သမွ်၊ ေနရာေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ခံရတာ၊ ရာထူးခ်ခံရတာ၊
> အလုပ္ထုတ္ခံရတာေတြ ရွိသလို၊ သူသေဘာေတြ႔သူမွန္သမွ်ကေတာ့ ေကာင္းစား
> ေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။
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> ဒါေပမဲ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြအမ်ားစုကေတာ့ ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ကို အလြန္ရြံရွာ
> ေၾကာက္လန္႔ၾကပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းက ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ဟာ လူသတ္ရန္
> ဝန္မေလးတဲ့သူတေယာက္ ျဖစ္လို႔ပါ။ လူမသိေအာင္ ဖုန္းဖိထားတဲ့ ျဖစ္စဥ္တခုကို
> တင္ျပရရင္ ကမၻာေအးဘုရားလမ္းက ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးၾကီးသန္းေရႊရဲ႕အိမ္
> (၎တို႔အဆို အိမ္ေတာ္) မွာ တပ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးဝတ္ရန္ ေန႔စဥ္
> ယူနီေဖာင္းျပင္ဆင္ဝတ္ေပးရတဲ့ တာဝန္ကို ယူရသူ “ဗိုလ္ၾကီးခင္ေမာင္လြင္”ကို
> လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့တႏွစ္ခြဲေလာက္က ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္က ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ပစ္သတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
> သူ႔အာရံုမွာ သူ႔အေဖကို လုပ္ၾကံတယ္လို႔ ေပၚလာတာေၾကာင့္
> ပစ္သတ္လိုက္တာဆိုျပီး တိုးတိုးတိတ္တိတ္ သတင္းထြက္ေပၚခဲ့ေပမဲ့ တကယ္
> သတ္လိုက္ရတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းရင္းကို ဒီကေန႔အထိ ဘယ္သူမွ မေျပာရဲေသးပါဘူး။
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> အဲဒီအခ်ိန္တံုးက ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း တိုင္းမွဴး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လွေ႒းဝင္းနဲ႔
> မဂၤလာဒံုစစ္ေဆးရံုမွ တပ္မွဴးတို႔ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ေရာက္ရွိလာျပီး
> တျခားကိစၥတခုေၾကာင့္ ေသသြားသလို ဖန္တီးေပးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ အသတ္ခံလိုက္ရတဲ့
> ဗိုလ္ၾကီးခင္ေမာင္လြင္ရဲ႕ မိသားစုေတြကိုေတာ့ ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပါတ္သက္ျပီး
> ပါးစပ္ပိတ္ထားၾကဘို႔၊ ေပါက္ၾကားခဲ့ ရင္ မင္းတို႔မိသားစုဝင္အားလံုး
> ေထာင္ထဲ ပို႔ထားလိုက္မယ္လို႔ အိမ္ေတာ္မိသားစုဝင္မ်ားက ျခိမ္းေျခာက္
> ထားခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
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> အလားတူ ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ပ်က္ၾကျပီး ေသဆံုးသြားတဲ့ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး (၂)
> ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးတင္ဦးရဲ႕သား ျဖစ္သူ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာနက
> ကိုေဇာ္ထြန္းဦးကို ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္နဲ႔အဖြဲ႔က ကမၻာေအးဘုရား လမ္းနဲ႔
> တကၠသိုလ္ရိပ္သာလမ္းဆံုအနီး ဓါတ္ဆီဆိုင္ေရွ႕မွာ ကားႏွစ္စီးနဲ႔
> ပိတ္ရပ္ျပီး၊ ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေမာင္းတဲ့ ကားအၾကီးၾကီးနဲ႔
> တိုက္သတ္ပါတယ္။ ေသျပီလို႔ ယူဆျပီးထားခဲ့ၾကေပမဲ့ ကံေကာင္းလို႔ မေသဘဲ၊
> ေဆးရံုေပၚမွာ (၆) လခန္႔ ေဆးကုသခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ့လို တိုက္သတ္ရတဲ့
> အေၾကာင္ရင္းက ဘိုးေတာ္ေမာင္ေမာင္ရဲ႕ အစ္မျဖစ္သူ မျပံဳး (ခ)
> ျပံဳးျပံဳးေရႊနဲ႔ ေဇာ္ထြန္းဦးတို႔ဟာ အိမ္ေထာင္အသီးသီး ရွိရက္ နဲ႔
> ေဖာက္ျပန္ေနၾကတာေၾကာင့္လို႔ ေျပာဆိုေနၾကေပမဲ့၊ ထံုးစံအတိုင္း
> အေၾကာင္းရင္းအမွန္ကို ဘယ္သူမွ ခုခ်ိန္ထိ မေျပာရဲၾကေသးပါဘူး။
> ေသခ်ာတာတခုကေတာ့ အဲဒီျဖစ္စဥ္ေနာက္ပိုင္း ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးတင္ဦး
> ရဲ႕ဇနီး ေဒၚခင္သန္းႏြဲ႕တေယာက္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြရဲ႕
> ပြဲလမ္းသဘင္အခမ္းအနားေတြကေန ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ သြားခဲ့တာပါဘဲ။
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> တပ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးမိသားစုေတြထဲမွာ ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားေဖာက္ျပန္မွဳေတြေၾကာင့္
> နာမည္ဆိုးနဲ႔ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ ၾကားလွတဲ့ မျပံဳး (ခ) ျပံဳးျပံဳးေရႊဟာ
> ယခုလက္ရွိ မဂၤလာဒံုေလတပ္စခန္းဌာနခ်ဳပ္မွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္သိန္းႏိုင္
> ရဲ႕တရားဝင္ဇနီးပါ။ ကိုေဇာ္ထြန္းဦးအျပင္
> ဟစ္ေဟာ့အဆိုေတာ္လူငယ္ေလးတဦးကိုလည္း တိတ္တိတ္ပုန္း ခ်စ္သူအျဖစ္
> ေမြးစားထားေသးတယ္လို႔ သိရွိေနၾကပါတယ္။ အျခား သူအလိုရွိတဲ့အခါ
> လူငယ္ေလးေတြကို ေငြေၾကးအာဏာေတြနဲ႔ ဖိအားေပး ေခၚခိုင္းကာ ညကလပ္ေတြမွာ
> ရုပ္ဖ်က္သြားေရာက္ ေပ်ာ္ပါးေလ့ရွိပါတယ္။ သူဟာ
> ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ၾကီးဌာနမွာ ဒုတိယအတြင္းဝန္ရာထူး ရယူထားျပီး၊
> ရံုးတက္ျခင္းမရွိဘဲ လစာကိုေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေငြ (ေဒၚလာ) နဲ႔ လစဥ္
> ထုတ္ေပးရပါတယ္။
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> အဲဒီ့လို အက်င့္ပ်က္၊ ဦးေႏွာက္ပ်က္၊ ျခစားသူေတြ စုေပါင္းျပီး
> တိုင္းျပည္ဖ်က္ေနၾကတဲ့ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ၾကီး ရဲ႕ မိသားစုဟာ ျမန္မာ့သမိုင္းမွာ
> နာမည္ဆိုးေတြနဲ႔ ေက်ာ္ၾကားခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ တရုပ္ေျပးမင္း၊ သိုဟန္ဘြားမင္း၊
> သီေပါမင္းတို႔ထက္ေတာင္ ပိုမိုဆိုးဝါးပါေၾကာင္း၊ အနီးကပ္ေလ့လာေနသူတဦးက
> မွတ္ခ်က္ခ် ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ ပါတယ္။
>
> ဂမၻီရအေတြးအေခၚေတြအျပင္ ေအာက္လမ္းနည္းမ်ား အသံုးျပဳျပီး
> ထင္ရာစိုင္းေနၾကတဲ့ တပ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးမိ သားစုေတြရဲ႕အႏၱရာယ္ကို ေန႔စဥ္နဲ႔အမွ်
> ေၾကာက္ရြံေနၾကရတဲ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးမ်ား အပါအဝင္ သူတို႔နဲ႔ နီးစပ္ ေတြဟာ
> ဗိုလ္ၾကီးခင္ေမာင္လြင္လို အျဖစ္ဆိုးမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ေကြကြင္းရေအာင္၊
> ဘိုးေတာ္အမည္ခံ ဦးေႏွာက္ၾကပ္မ ျပည့္တဲ့ ဦးသန္းေရႊ
> ေဒၚမၾကိဳင္တို႔ရဲ႕သား၊ ေမာင္ေမာင္ (ခ) သန္႔ေဇာ္ေရႊကို ေန႔စဥ္မပ်က္
> ရွိခိုးဦးခ်ေနၾက ေၾကာင္း အိမ္ေတာ္အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းမွ စံုစမ္းသိရွိရပါတယ္။

ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊကို သေရာ္သူ ကဗ်ာဆရာေစာေ၀ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆု ရရွိ

Moemaka Mizzima Burma Digest: ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊကို သေရာ္သူ ကဗ်ာဆရာေစာေ၀ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆု ရရွိ

ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊကို သေရာ္သူ ကဗ်ာဆရာေစာေ၀ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆု ရရွိ

မိုးမခအေထာက္ေတာ္ ၀၀၂

ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၆၊ ၂၀၀၉
အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအဖြဲ႔ၾကီး၏ စာနယ္ဇင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္အတြက္ ရပ္တည္စိမ္ေခၚသူ စာေရးဆရာမ်ားအတြက္ ခ်ီးျမွင့္ေသာ Hellman/Hammett ဆုကို ျမန္မာျပည္က ကဗ်ာဆရာ ေစာေ၀ ရရွိသည္ဟု သတင္းမ်ားက ဆုိသည္။ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ရဲရင့္သူ စာေရးဆရာ ၃၇ ဦးကို ေရြးခ်ယ္ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာျပည္က ကဗ်ာဆရာလည္း တဦးအပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္သည္။



ကဗ်ာဆရာ ေစာေ၀သည္ ၂၀၀၈ ႏွစ္ဆန္းက ကဗ်ာတပုဒ္တြင္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊကို သေရာ္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီးေထာင္ခ်ခံထားရသည္။ ယခု ျမန္မာျပည္အထက္ပိုင္း အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တခုတြင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၂ ႏွစ္ ခ်ခံထားရသည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။ ကဗ်ာဆရာေစာေ၀သည္ ၂၀၀၇ သံဃာ့အေရးေတာ္ပုံမတိုင္ခင္ကတည္းက မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ယခုႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား - ကိုဇာဂနာ၊ ျပည္ပသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနသူ - ကဗ်ာဆရာ ေအာင္ေ၀းတို႔ႏွင့္အတူ လူမႈေရး၊ ေစတနာ၀န္ထမ္းလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား၊ အျဖဴေရာင္သက္တံ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္၊ အိပ္ခ်္အိုဗီ အေရးလႈံေဆာ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားတြင္ တက္ၾကြစြာ ေဆာင္ရြက္သူတဦးျဖစ္ခဲ့ျပီး၊ ၂၀၀၇ ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္အေရးအခင္းတြင္ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားအားလုံးႏွင့္အတူ ရဟန္းသံဃာမ်ားဖက္က တက္ၾကြစြာ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာျပည္က အဖိႏွိပ္ခံ စာေပအႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားအနက္ ၎ဆုကို ရရွိခဲ့သူမ်ားမွာ - ေမာင္ေမာင္ေက်ာ္၀င္း၊ ဇာဂနာ၊ ခိုင္မာေက်ာ္ေဇာ၊ စမ္းစမ္းႏြဲ႔၊ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေအာင္ထြန္း၊ ေအာင္ပြင့္ စသည္တို႔ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရွိရပါသည္။

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<“FEBRUARY 14″

Ar rin bek ka pyaw dair
(Aaron Beck, the psychiatrist, said)

Nar nar khan sah dat hma khan sah hma
(Only if you know how to suffer painfully)

Yoo yoo moo moo go phyit nay hma
(Only if you are crazy – crazy )

Kyi myat tet a noot pyinnya lo
(Can you appreciate a great work of Art)

Hmoo hmoan hmaing way zay det dat poan model ma lay yay
(Dear little photomodel who makes me dizzy)

Kyi daunk kyi mah kya hma a thair kwair det yawgah det
(They say it is a broken liver disease, a great and terrible one)
[translator's note: broken heart in Burmese is usually expressed as a broken liver]

Than baung myah zwa thaw chit tat thu myah
(Millions of those who know how to love)

Shwe a teet cha hta thaw let myah phyint let khoak tee yway yair bar
(Laugh and clap those gold-guilded hands)

(signed) Saw Wai, January 10, 2008

Discussion:

The poet wrote this piece in January and was shortly thereafter arrested by the secret police after they realized the significance of the beginning word of each sentence.
For the reader’s convenience these beginning words have been highlighted and they read as below:

“Ar Nar Yoo Kyi Hmoo Kyi Than Shwe”

“Ar Nar Yoo Kyi” means “a great power-crazy madman” or a big megalomaniac

“Hmoo Kyi” is a shortened form of Bo Joke Hmoo Gyi (or Kyi), i.e., Senior General

Altogether, it just means, Great Megalomaniac Senior General Than Shwe

In the West, one can write uncomplimentary remarks about their national leaders and none of them take it seriously. Many people accuse George Bush of being power-crazy, but President Bush does not pay attention for obvious reasons. No Western leader in his right mind would bother with frivolous matters.

To arrest and imprison someone for a Valentine Day’s poem just because of such a minor epithet is crazy and speaks ill for a dictator who chooses to exercise his power in such a manner.

Saw Wai wanted to prove a point that Than Shwe is power-mad. To do so, he had to press his hot buttons. What drives a power-crazy man more crazy? Why, any little challenge, the littlest challenge to the power of a power-crazy man will drive him crazy.

He who desires Ar Nar must have Ar Nar, all of it, and woe betide anyone trying to take away even just a little bit of that Ar Nar Power.

Thus, Saw Wai knew that by tweaking Than Shwe where it mattered the most, he knew that the madman would react, OVERreact, and prove his point.

By bravely writing his poem and even braver still, daring to get arrested instead of escaping, he proved beyond doubt that Than Shwe is truly an Ar Nar Yoo.

Let us honor Saw Wai for his courage and ingenuity.

Leaders of the World who speak well of Than Shwe, you have all been warned about who you are dealing with.

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နယူးေဒလီ (မဇၥ်ိမ)။ ။ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို အာဏာရူးဟူ၍ ကဗ်ာျဖင့္ သေရာ္ခဲ့သူ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တြင္းရွိ ကဗ်ာဆရာ ကိုေစာေဝကို နယူးေယာက္ အေျခစိုက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရး အဖြဲ႔ -HRW က ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္လိုက္သည္။

HRW က ဖိႏွိပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ခံ ေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ရဲဝံ့စြာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေရးသားသူမ်ားကို Hellman/Hammet ဆုခ်ီးျမင့္ေလ့ရွိျပီး ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ စာေရးဆရာ ၃၇ ဦးအား ေရြးခ်ယ္ခဲ့ရာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ကိုေစာေဝလည္း ပါဝင္သည္။

“HRW အေနနဲ႔ အကို ကိုေစာေဝအေပၚ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳတဲ့အတြက္ ဂုဏ္ယူ ဝမ္းသာပါတယ္။” ဟု မိသားစုဝင္တဦးက တယ္လီဖုန္းမွ တဆင့္ ေျပာသည္။ ကိုေစာေဝ၏ ဇနီးမွာ ေထာင္ဝင္စာ သြားေတြ႔ေနရ၍ ဆက္သြယ္၍ မရနုိင္ဘဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာသတင္းသမဂၢ- BMA က ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့သည့္အေပၚ ဝမ္းသာအားရ ႀကိဳဆိုေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

“ဆုရတယ္ ၾကားေတာ့ ဝမ္းသာပါတယ္။ ႀကိဳဆိုပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား တေယာက္အေနနဲ႔ေရာ စာနယ္ဇင္းသမား တေယာက္အေန နဲ႔ပါ ဂုဏ္ယူပါတယ္။ ကိုေစာေဝက အေျခခံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးျဖစ္တဲ့ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ေျပာဆိုေရးသား ထုတ္ေဖၚပိုင္ခြင့္ကို ရဲရဲဝင့္ဝင့္ က်င့္သံုးတဲ့ အတြက္ အက်ဥ္းခ် ခံထားရသူ တေယာက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္”ဟု ဘီအမ္ေအ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ဦးစံမိုးေဝ က ေျပာသည္။

ျပည္တြင္း အပတ္စဥ္ထုတ္ အခ်စ္ဂ်ာနယ္တခုတြင္ ‘ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီဆယ့္ေလး’ ေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္ နအဖ အႀကီးအကဲကို အာ-ဏာ-ရူး-ႀကီး-မႉး-ႀကီး-သန္း-ေရႊ ဟု လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ပေဟ႒ိျဖင့္ သေရာ္ကဗ်ာ ေရးဖြဲ႔ခဲ့ရာ ေဝဖန္မႈကို သည္းခံေလ့ မရွိေသာ အာဏာပို္င္မ်ားကို ေဒါကန္သြားေစျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အၾကည္ညိဳပ်က္ေစမႈျဖင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၂ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသည္။

ယခုအခါတြင္ မႏၲေလးတိုင္း ရမည္းသင္း အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တြင္ ကဗ်ာဆရာမွာ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ခံေနဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

HRW သည္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ မွစတင္ကာ ႏုိင္ငံေပါင္း ၉၁ ႏိုင္ငံက စာေရးဆရာ စုစုေပါင္း ၇၀၀ တုိ႔ကို Hellman / Hammett အေနျဖင့္ ကူညီ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမ်ား ေပးေနသည့္အျပင္ စာေရးဆရာမ်ားအား အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေနအရ တုိင္းျပည္အတြင္းမွ ထြက္ခြာရန္ လိုအပ္ပါက ခရီးစရိတ္ ေထာက္ပံ့ေၾကးမ်ား ေပးျခင္း၊ ေထာင္တြင္း ညႇင္းပန္း ႏွိပ္စက္ မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေဆးဝါးကုသမႈ လုိအပ္ေနသူမ်ားကုိလည္း ေထာက္ပံ့ ကူညီေနေၾကာင္း အဖြဲ႔၏ ဝက္ဘ္ဆိုဒ္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထား သည္။

ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ Hellman /Hammett မွ ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့ေငြ ရရွိသူမ်ားအနက္ ၆ ဦးသည္ တ႐ုတ္၊ အီရန္ ႏွင့္ ဗီယက္နမ္ ႏိုင္ငံတို႔မွ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၃၇ ဦးတြင္ ၁၈ ဦးမွာ ၎ႏွင့္ ၎၏ မိသားစုအတြက္ ဆက္လက္ အႏၲရာယ္က်ေရာက္ ႏုိင္သည့္အတြက္ အမည္မေဖာ္ဘဲ အဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္ လွ်ဳိ႕ဝွက္ ေပးထားသည္။

၎တုိ႔ထဲမွ အမ်ားစုမွာ ျမန္မာ၊ တ႐ုတ္၊ အီဂ်စ္၊ အီရန္၊ အီရတ္၊ ႐ုရွ၊ ရဝမ္ဒါ။ သီရိလကၤာ၊ ဆီးရီးယား၊ တူနီးရွား၊ ဗီယက္နမ္ ႏွင့္ ဇင္ဘာေဘြ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား ျဖစ္သည္။

အေမရိကန္ ျပဇတ္ေရး ဆရာမ Lillian Hellman ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ Hellman/ Hammett ဆုကို ၁၉၈၉မွ စတင္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း ျမန္မာ့ ေက်ာင္းသားလႈပ္ရွားမႈ သမိုင္းကို ေထာင္က်ခံ ေရးသားခဲ့သူ ကိုေအာင္ထြန္းကို ၁၉၉၉ ခုႏွစ္ တြင္ အလားတူ ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့ဘူးသည္။

In Myanmar, expectations were low for U.N. visit

Reporting from Bangkok — Aging former political prisoner Win Tin says he wasn’t surprised that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Myanmar to plead for the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ended in failure.

Ban said Saturday he was “deeply disappointed” that Senior Gen. Than Shwe refused to allow him to see Suu Kyi, adding that she should be released “without delay.” He said Myanmar’s human rights record was a matter of serious concern.
But Win Tin, 80, a former journalist and founding member of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, said he didn’t expect a breakthrough.

“I am not being cynical, but I expected nothing much from the visit. Even though he came at the invitation of the regime, it can be seen as the regime’s response to worldwide pressure due to Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial,” he said by telephone Saturday from Myanmar, also known as Burma. “If there is no real political progress, we will see Burma under a military dictatorship for many years.”

Since Win Tin was released in September after 19 years in Yangon’s Insein Prison, he has worn his prison uniform as a sign of defiance. Last month, he was barred from testifying on Suu Kyi’s behalf.

Suu Kyi has been detained for nearly 14 of the last 20 years. She was charged with violating her house arrest after an American swam uninvited to her home and stayed there for two days. The American, John Yettaw of Falcon, Mo., is also being held.

Ban said his two-day visit, which ended Saturday, would be used to call for the release of Myanmar’s estimated 2,100 political prisoners, promote dialogue between the regime and the opposition, and assure a credible vote in general elections scheduled for next year.

Historian Thant Myint-U, grandson of U Thant, secretary-general of the U.N. from 1961-1971, said it was unfair to blame Ban for the trip’s failure.

“Many governments were pushing him to go, the same governments that can’t agree among themselves on what to do about Burma,” he said. “As long as the big powers are deadlocked, it’s easy to push the U.N. secretary-general into the limelight, and then blame him for not producing results.”

Pro-democracy opposition and exile groups were left with the largely ineffectual tools they started with: international outcry and economic sanctions.

“The trouble with sanctions is that they are easy to put into effect and very difficult to get rid of. If you want to achieve an objective, sometimes you have to give people a way out,” said David Steinberg, a Myanmar expert at Georgetown University.

Meanwhile, Win Tin says he is practically homeless. His property was seized by the government when he went to jail on July 4, 1989, and his friends have been denied the government approval needed to house him.

Born into a poor family in north Yangon, also known as Rangoon, Win Tin dreamed of joining Myanmar’s struggle for independence from the British. When he was a teenager, he met Aung San, the nation’s independence hero and father of Aung San Suu Kyi. Win Tin asked if he could join the resistance and was rebuffed.

“Aung San plainly said ‘Stick with your studies. There are many people to fight. The time will come for you,’ ” Win Tin said.

When an uprising broke out in 1988, he became a founding member of NLD and a close aide to Suu Kyi. He was arrested a year later and jailed, and his sentence was extended when he managed to smuggle out a report to a United Nations official about torture and other human-rights violations rampant in Myanmar’s jails.

According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Win Tin had repeatedly refused to sign a letter promising to give up his political activities as a condition of his release. Local media have reported that Win Tin could be jailed for refusing to return his prison-issue dungarees. He says he will continue to wear the prison blues until Myanmar is free.

“I remember Daw Suu Kyi’s response to this kind of warning about her security. She said, ‘If a quack shoots me with a pistol, then the whole world will know where this bullet comes from,’ ” he said.

McDermid is a special correspondent. Special correspondent Swe Win contributed to this report.

Junta seeks regional support: Win Tin

New Delhi (Mizzima) – Veteran journalist Win Tin said on Monday Burma’s military rulers are going the whole hog to garner diplomatic support from regional countries in the face of growing international condemnation over the trial of Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Win Tin, who is also a central executive committee member of the Aung San Suu Kyi led National League for Democracy said, the visit of Sri Lankan President Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa and Singapore’s Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong are all part of the junta’s effort to cosy up to regional countries.

“Clearly, the junta is in a tight spot as the international community has reacted more sharply than it had anticipated. And since it might be difficult for the regime to try and influence the West, they at least want the support of regional countries,” Win Tin added.

On Sunday, the junta’s mouthpiece newspaper reported the visit of Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa to Burma. Rajapaksa was received in Naypyitaw by the Burmese Army Chief Snr. Gen Than Shwe — a rare gesture by the junta supremo.

Similarly, Singapore’s former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong on a four-day visit to Burma last week had meetings with Than Shwe and other junta brass.

Win Tin said, such visits are indications that the junta is seeking support from regional countries. He said the junta had not anticipated that there would be such a loud outcry from the international community by putting on trial Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

“It [junta] seems to have miscalculated on the strong support for Aung San Suu Kyi by the international community,” Win Tin said.

The junta wants to gauge China’s reaction over the mounting pressure and is likely to go ahead and sentence the Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate, if China gives the green signal, he said.

According to Win Tin, the junta is determined to sentence Aung San Suu Kyi to a prison term and put her away before their proposed 2010 general elections. But it had not anticipated such an outburst from the international community.

Sources said Thura Shwe Mann, the third leader in the Burmese military hierarchy, last week visited China without making any official announcement. On Monday, the Chinese News Agency Xinhua reported that Vice-Senior General Maung Aye, number two in the military hierarchy, is visiting China.

Observers believe these visits are aimed at explaining and trying to convince China about the junta’s stand regarding the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi and the regime’s plans ahead.

Win Tin said, “Whatever the circumstances, the junta is likely go ahead with its plan if China approves.”

Two Karen villagers raped and killed by soldiers from Burma’s army (LIB (205)

A Karen relief team based on the Thai-Burma border reported on Wednesday, June 17, that two teenaged Karen women were raped and murdered by Burmese soldiers in Kwee Law Plo village, Lu Pleh Township, Pa-an district on June 12.

Joint troops of the Burmese Army and the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) were passing through the village, which is 15 kilometers from Ler Per Her IDP (independent displaced persons) camp.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Wednesday, June 17, the Free Burma Ranger (FBR)’s communications and information coordinator said that the two women were raped and murdered in the village after their husbands had fled into the jungle to avoid being forced to work as porters for the Burmese Army.

The source said that the first victim, who was 18 years old, was eight-months pregnant, and the second victim, a 17-year-old, had a six-months-old baby.

The coordinator said the relief team members who are working underground in the area reported that Burmese soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 205 , which is taking part in the ongoing fighting, were involved in the crime.

The Irrawaddy has not been able to obtain independent confirmation of this incident.

The attack by a joint force of the Burmese Army and the DKBA on the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), which started in the first week of June, has forced about 4,000 refugees to flee to Thailand. Most of the refugees are from Ler Per Her IDP camp, which came under attack.

The FBR is actively involved in helping Karen displaced people inside Karen areas who ran away from the civil war.

On 27 December, 2008, a seven-year-old Karen girl was also raped and murdered by a Burmese soldier from LIB 350 in Nyaunglebin District, Pegu Division.

Different ethnic-rights groups based on the Thai-Burma have written reports about Burmese soldiers raping female victims of the civil war in Burma in previous years.

Karen organizations have previously accused the Burmese military of using systematic rape as a weapon to terrorize ethnic people living along the borders.

In 2004, the Karen Women Organization (KWO) published a report titled “Shattering Silences,” which claimed that Burmese troops systematically raped Karen women. The report documented 125 cases of sexual violence committed between 1988 and 2004.

The report said that half of the rapes were committed by military officers, 40 percent were gang-rapes, and in 28 percent of the cases the women were killed after being raped.

Women’s organizations in other ethnic areas have reported similar incidents. In June 2002, the Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) released a report titled “Licence to Rape,” which detailed testimonies from 173 ethnic Shan women who had been raped or encountered sexual violence at the hands of Burmese soldiers.

Open Letter to the Burmese Government

Published on April 8, 2009

Should the State Peace and Development Council respect human rights and move towards changes in the interest of the country and all its people, the sanctions in protest against the SPDC’s violations of human rights, would be removed.

1. Burma is facing severe political, social and economic crises. Due to the global economic recession, the people of Burma will soon confront even more severe crises.

2. To overcome these crises is a task for all the people. Thus, the National League for Democracy has proposed to the SPDC to tackle these issues through dialogue.

3. The NLD and the Committee Representing the People’s Parliament (CRPP) has called for the SPDC to take the following actions: the unconditional release of all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi; to convene parliament; to commence political dialogue; and to review the constitution. The 88 Generation Students Group believes these actions are urgently needed in order to overcome the crises in the country. These calls are reiterated by stakeholders inside and outside the country as well as the international community.

4. The SPDC has failed to realise these calls, and continues to implement repressive measures including placing restrictions on movements of, and arresting, activists struggling for democracy and human rights. Countries that respect democracy and human rights have taken political, social and economic sanctions against the SPDC.

5. Regarding the sanctions, when meeting UN Special Envoy Gambari, Prime Minister Theing Sein asked that “the UN should first make efforts for lifting economic sanctions” and accused Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD of causing the sanctions. Making such accusations against Aung San Suu Kyi, the NLD, activists and Western nations will not get the sanctions lifted.

6. These countries have put in place sanctions against the SPDC in protest against the severe violations of democratic and human rights the SPDC exercises.

7. No other individual and/or organisation than the SPDC military government can do what is necessary to end these sanctions. The 88 Generation Students Group firmly believes that should the SPDC immediately respect the above calls made by the NLD and the CRPP, the sanctions would be removed one after another.

8. In the current situation, it is time for the military government to move towards changes in the interest of the country and the people.

9. The 88 Generation Students urge the military government to respect the calls made by all forces inside and outside the country as well as members of the international community.

If the SPDC does not respect these calls, the responsibility for the negative consequences the country will suffer will rest solely with the SPDC.

THE 88 GENERATION STUDENTS