Jim Carrey Gets Serious in Video Plea

Associated Press 08.28.07, 7:12 PM ET

NEW YORK -

Jim Carrey has made a straight-to-YouTube video. And it's not funny at all.

The 45-year-old actor-comedian - in rare serious mode - appears in a new public service announcement on behalf of the Human Rights Action Center and the U.S. Campaign for Burma. The goal: To free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been confined by the Burmese government for 11 of the last 17 years.

"Even though she's compared to a modern-day Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, most people in America still don't know about Aung San," Carrey says in the filmed message, posted Tuesday on YouTube.

"And let's face it: the name's a little difficult to remember. Here's how I did it: Aung San sounds a lot like `unsung,' as in unsung hero. Aung San Suu Kyi is truly an unsung hero."

Suu Kyi, who is under long-term house arrest in the city of Yangon, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent efforts to bring down the oppressive military regime that rules over the Southeast Asian country.

The regime, led by General Than Shwe, has destroyed more than 3,000 villages in eastern Burma - forcing more than a 1.5 million people to leave their homes - and recruited more child soldiers than any other country in the world, Carrey says in his spot.

"People around the world need to come to her aid, just as they supported Mandela when he was locked up," said Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, in a statement Tuesday.

"This announcement contributes to an upsurge in activism around Aung San Suu Kyi in the United States and throughout the world."

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Jim Carrey Gets Serious in Video Plea

Associated Press 08.28.07, 7:12 PM ET

NEW YORK -Jim Carrey has made a straight-to-YouTube video. And it's not funny at all.

The 45-year-old actor-comedian - in rare serious mode - appears in a new public service announcement on behalf of the Human Rights Action Center and the U.S. Campaign for Burma. The goal: To free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been confined by the Burmese government for 11 of the last 17 years.

"Even though she's compared to a modern-day Gandhi or Nelson Mandela, most people in America still don't know about Aung San," Carrey says in the filmed message, posted Tuesday on YouTube.

"And let's face it: the name's a little difficult to remember. Here's how I did it: Aung San sounds a lot like `unsung,' as in unsung hero. Aung San Suu Kyi is truly an unsung hero."

Suu Kyi, who is under long-term house arrest in the city of Yangon, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her nonviolent efforts to bring down the oppressive military regime that rules over the Southeast Asian country.

The regime, led by General Than Shwe, has destroyed more than 3,000 villages in eastern Burma - forcing more than a 1.5 million people to leave their homes - and recruited more child soldiers than any other country in the world, Carrey says in his spot.

"People around the world need to come to her aid, just as they supported Mandela when he was locked up," said Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, in a statement Tuesday.

"This announcement contributes to an upsurge in activism around Aung San Suu Kyi in the United States and throughout the world."

U.S. Campaign for Burma:

Human Rights Action Center:

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Burmese Protests Spread, Leading Activist Flees to Safety

Burmese pro-democracy activists shout slogans during a demonstration near the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, 23 Aug. 2007, protesting the detention activists in Burma. AFP

WASHINGTON—Anti-government protests in Burma are spreading outside the former capital Rangoon, with hundreds of Buddhist monks taking to the streets in the western port city of Sittwe and a leading activist fleeing to safety after government-backed thugs attacked her demonstration.

Local sources in Sittwe, in Arakan state about 310 miles (500 kms) northwest of Rangoon, said several hundred monks protested there for the first time since demonstrations erupted last week over a rise in fuel prices in the impoverished country.

“It was about at 2 p.m. [Tuesday]. They are not regular folk. All the protesters are monks,” said one local resident who asked not to be named.

“There were more than 300 Buddhist monks present,” said another, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. Other sources in Arakan said the government was pressuring monastic authorities in Sittwe to control the monks. Several monks were detained along with people who gave them drinking water, with some released later, according to local sources.

Su Su Nway, a leading activist, was meanwhile taken to an undisclosed safe place after police and government-backed supporters attacked her demonstration. “We are peacefully asking for our rights,” she told RFA's Burmese service. “This is what we should and need to do.”

“I would like to let the authorities know, and those they hire, who have used violence to quell our protest, that we are going to continue with our protest in demanding our rights,” she said, after a demonstration in which protesters were dragged, beaten, and forced aboard government vehicles in Hledan Junction, Rangoon.

Su Su Nway collapsed

During the scuffle, Su Su Nway, who has a heart condition, fell to the ground but was helped by onlookers, she said.

They also recruit local thugs, paying 5,000 kyats each, 10 thugs from each quarter, and we have five quarters in our township. They are hired to attack people who protest.

Local resident

“From among the people standing by, watching, three elderly gentlemen got in front of me and told them not to be unjust,” she said after fleeing to safety.

Su Su Nway’s protest at Hledan Junction started off with four or five people but later swelled to 20 to 30 people. Plainclothes security officials detained them within 15 minutes.

“We had planned to march to Thamaing Junction, but about 200 to 300 USDA members arrived in two Dyna trucks and started to pull us up onto the cars,” protester Ko Pho Nyan said. “About 10 from our group were taken. Some of our backpacks were pulled and thrown into the cars, and some people even lost their watches, wallets, and purses.”

Another man who was video-recording the demonstration said he thought the police handled the protesters roughly and might have provoked a reaction from the crowd of onlookers if local Buddhists from a nearby monastery hadn’t appealed for restraint.

Su Su Nway, 34, first drew international attention when she challenged the junta for forcing her and her neighbors to repair a road without pay. In an unprecedented 2005 ruling, a judge sentenced the village chairman and a deputy to eight months in prison under an untested 1999 law banning forced labor.

Su Su Nway was later charged with defaming the village's replacement chairman, tried, and sentenced in October to 18 months in Burma's notorious Insein Prison.

She spent nine months in Insein before authorities released her on June 6, 2006 following intense international pressure.

In Zegone township, western Pegu division, about 50 miles (80 kms) from Rangoon, authorities were meanwhile stepping up security in apparent anticipation of more protests.

Tighter security

Residents said security had been tightened since Aug. 27 and authorities were standing by around the clock to deal with protesters.

Firefighters, hired government supporters, and members of the ruling State Peace and Development Commission (SPDC) were all present.

“They also recruit local thugs, paying 5,000 kyats each, 10 thugs from each quarter, and we have five quarters in our township. They are hired to attack people who protest,” a local resident said in a telephone interview.

Original reporting in Burmese by Khin Maung Soe, Tin Aung Khine, Ko Ko Aung and San San Tin. RFA Burmese service director: Nancy Shwe. Executive producer: Susan Lavery. Written for the Web in English by Luisetta Mudie. Edited by Khin May Zaw and Sarah Jackson-Han.

New Myanmar Protest Quashed in Minutes

Supporters of Myanmar Military Junta Quickly Break Up Demonstration Against Price Increases

A man is detained by men in civilian cloths during a protest in Yangon on August 28, 2007. Defiant protests in military-ruled Myanmar against soaring fuel prices spread to the oil-producing northwest on Tuesday, where 300 people, including Buddhist monks, staged a protest march in Sittwe, a local source said. In Yangon, around 30 people staged a march through the north of the city, before stopped by men in civilian clothes, witnesses said. Five people were taken away. Picture taken on August 28, 2007. (Democratic Voice of Burma/Reuters)

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YANGON, Myanmar Aug 28, 2007 (AP)

Demonstrators on Tuesday tried to mount a new protest against rising prices, but marched only 30 yards before being beaten and wrestled into waiting trucks by civilians who back Myanmar's military government, witnesses said.

The two dozen protesters shouted slogans against a big fuel price hike and implored onlookers to join them, stressing they were marching peacefully for their rights, said witnesses, who asked not to be quoted by name for fear of reprisals from the regime.

The marchers were quickly set upon by pro-government toughs, who pummeled demonstrators with fists while dragging them into trucks, the witnesses said. At least one protester was reportedly dragged by his feet.

A prominent labor activist and former political prisoner, Su Su Nway, took part in the protest, but said she managed to escape in a taxi with several colleagues.

"Peaceful protests are brutally cracked down upon and I want to tell the international community that there is no rule of law in Myanmar," she told The Associated Press.

More than a dozen of the country's leading democracy activists, members of the 88 Generation Students group, were detained Aug. 21 before a similar demonstration.

Myanmar activists in exile claimed 200-300 people, including many Buddhist monks, took part in another protest Tuesday in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State in western Myanmar.

A report on the Web site of the Democratic Voice of Burma, an opposition shortwave radio station based in Norway, said witnesses reported the protest lasted for at least an hour without interference.

Protests triggered by fuel price hikes began Aug. 19 and have continued on an almost daily basis despite a security clampdown by the military government supported by organized bands of civilian toughs serving as law enforcers.

Myanmar's ruling junta, which has received widespread international criticism for violating the human rights of its citizens, tolerates little public dissent.

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Fresh fuel protests held in Burma

Jonathan Head BBC News

Some of Burma's best known dissidents are now thought to be in custody

Further protests have been held in Burma over fuel price rises, despite the arrest of more than 60 activists by the military since last week.

The low-key demonstrations involved some 30 people in Rangoon and up to 200 monks in the western port of Sittwe.

But analysts say it is remarkable they are happening at all, given the army's crackdown on last week's protests.

The fuel price rise, in the case of cooking gas by 500%, has enraged a population already living in poverty.

In addition to deploying soldiers and armed police, the government has sent gangs of thugs, some allegedly recently released criminals, to attack the protestors and drag away their leaders.

The dozens of activists now thought to be in custody include some of Burma's best known dissidents.

The mainly novice monks in Sittwe were not stopped from protesting, according to local residents.

Their involvement must worry the government, echoing the widespread involvement of monks in the 1988 uprising that came close to overthrowing military rule.

Some Burmese are speculating that the fuel price rise was a deliberate move to provoke a crisis, perhaps reflecting disagreements within the ruling military council.

But with such a heavy security presence now on the streets of all the main towns, it will be difficult for any activists to keep their protest movement going.

Civilian thugs doing Myanmar junta's dirty work

By Ed Cropley
Tue Aug 28, 2007 10:02AM BST

BANGKOK, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Rather than stir up memories of their bloody 1988 crackdown by putting troops on the streets, Myanmar's junta is relying on gangs of paid thugs and criminals armed with brooms and spades to crush a rare outbreak of dissent.

Accurately predicting public anger at this month's shock fuel price rises, the rulers of the former Burma released hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of prisoners to clear the decks for mass arrests, diplomats and exiled dissidents said on Tuesday.

Happily for the generals, those booted out of Yangon's fetid cells also made perfect recruits for the shadowy Swan Aah Shin, or "capable strong person", organisation which has emerged as the junta's main weapon against protesters.

"It's an underground organisation and I don't know who would admit to it existing, but it exists and it exists in force, and it has been evident over the last week," said one diplomat who watched the Swan Aah Shin in action on the streets of Yangon.

A Reuters reporter at the scene of what was probably a Swan Aah Shin gang detaining 30 members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) last week was ordered not to take photographs and then chased away.

"Basically, they are junta-backed thugs. They come from anywhere, and are the unemployed underclass. And they've been really effective -- they are threatening," the diplomat said.

"Everywhere you go, there are groups and truckloads of grubby-looking men looking bored and looking for a fight."

In 1988, by contrast, the junta sent in the troops to crush a nationwide uprising of students, monks and civil servants. As many as 3,000 are thought to have been killed in a bloodbath still etched deep in people's memories.

POLITICAL PARTY

A Home (Interior) Ministry source said the Swan Aah Shin took orders from the junta's feared Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), a social network claiming official membership of 23 million -- or nearly half the population.

Whereas the Swan Aah Shin operate mainly in Yangon, a city of 5 million people, the USDA and its network of activists and informants are the generals' eyes and ears in the provinces, analysts say.

The pictures in state media of USDA officials doing daily good deeds, and its stated aim to "uplift the morale and morality of the entire nation", lead many to think it is being groomed as the army's political party should elections ever be held.

The junta allowed elections in 1990 in a bid to shore up its authority after the 1988 uprising, but the plan backfired when the NLD won a massive landslide under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of independence hero Aung San.

The generals ignored the results, and Suu Kyi -- subsequently awarded the Nobel peace prize -- has spent most of the last 17 years in jail or under house arrest.

Amid international criticism of the latest crackdown, in which about 60 people have been detained, human rights groups have singled out the use of civilian militias as evidence of a more sophisticated approach to stifling dissent.

The Democratic Voice of Burma, a dissident news service based in Norway, played dramatic secretly filmed footage of a gang dragging away social activist Htin Kyaw and a colleague after their attempt to stage a protest at a bus stop.

"Had the authorities wished, they could have sent uniformed police officers to make an arrest," the Asian Human Rights Commission said of the footage.

Instead, they chose to order an unknown gang to "grab and drag off their quarry in the manner of criminals", the Hong Kong-based group added.

Conservative Party Human Rights Commission calls for action on Burma

Stephen Crabb MP, Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, today condemned the Burmese junta’s crackdown on protestors and urged the British Government to call for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to address the crisis in Burma.

Following some of the biggest demonstrations in Burma in a decade, the Burmese military regime has arrested almost all the leading pro-democracy activists and launched violent assaults on demonstrators. Over 100 people have been detained. According to reports from sources in Burma, thousands of police and members of the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) have been deployed throughout the country, and there are reports of a significant build up of troops in Rangoon. Protestors were “brutally attacked, kicked and beaten” by members of the USDA, before being “dragged” into trucks and brought to “unknown locations for detention, interrogation and torture”. The USDA is the junta’s civilian proxy organisation which in 2003 launched an assassination attempt on democracy leader and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi at Depayin in which over 100 of her supporters were beaten to death.

The protests were sparked by the regime’s decision to raise fuel prices by 500 per cent. The organisers of the demonstrations included leaders of the “88 Generation Students” who led the pro-democracy movement in 1988 when thousands of peaceful demonstrators were massacred by the regime. Those arrested include Min Ko Naing, who has already spent 16 years in jail for his role in the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, and Ko Ko Gyi, who was imprisoned for 15 years. It is believed they will be charged with disrupting the stability of the state, a crime which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. A former political prisoner, U Ohn Than, staged a solo protest in front of the US Embassy in Rangoon on 23 August and has been arrested.

Stephen Crabb MP said: “The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission joins with Governments and international human rights organisations around the world in condemning this brutal crackdown. We urge the Burmese regime to release all those arrested immediately. We welcome the statement this week from the Foreign Office Minister Meg Munn, but we believe the British Government’s response to the crisis in Burma has so far been woefully inadequate. We know what the Burmese regime is capable of. We have the lessons of 1988, when the military turned its guns on peaceful demonstrators in their thousands. We urge the British Government to bring this crisis to the attention of the UN Security Council, other UN forums and the European Union as a matter of urgency, and to act now to prevent another mass slaughter.”

Notes to Editors:
Burma is ruled by one of the world’s worst violators of human rights, a military regime which took power in a coup in 1962. Now known as the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the regime held elections in 1990 which were overwhelmingly won by the National League for Democracy (NLD). The regime refused to accept the results, and NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest.

Over 1,200 political prisoners are in jail, subjected to some of the worst forms of torture.
The military regime is committing crimes against humanity against Burma’s people, including the widespread and systematic use of rape as a weapon of war, the forcible conscription of child soldiers, forced labour, the use of human minesweepers, and the forcible displacement of over a million people.

Since 1996, over 3,000 villages in eastern Burma have been destroyed by the Burma Army.

For more information please contact Ben Rogers, Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, on 07823 329664 or email brogers50@hotmail.com

CSW urges British government to bring Burma crisis to UN

Burmese Exiles in London protested today outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to call upon the UK government to do more to resolve the current crisis in Burma. In support of the protest, Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has released a statement urging the UK Government to bring the crisis in Burma to the UN Security Council. Representatives from CSW and Burma Campaign UK also joined the protest today.

Last week, hundreds of people joined some of the largest demonstrations held in Burma in a decade. The protests were sparked in response to the military regime’s decision to raise fuel prices by 500 per cent. In response, the regime has launched a severe crackdown on protestors. Over 100 people have been arrested in the last week, including almost all the leading pro-democracy activists, and demonstrators have been savagely attacked by police and pro-junta mobs.

On 22 August, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Meg Munn MP, condemned the detention of leading activists who were arrested the previous day, and called for their immediate release.

Commenting today, CSW’s Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said: “We welcome the remarks last week by the Foreign Office Minister. However, it is extremely disappointing that the UK government has so far only issued this one statement on the current crisis. Given our history with Burma, we have a special responsibility to provide a much more robust and proactive approach in order to prevent the situation deteriorating further.

“We urge the United Kingdom to take the lead in calling for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to address the situation. We also urge the United Kingdom to bring the issue of Burma to the agenda of the next EU Foreign Ministers meeting, and to raise Burma in other EU and UN forums as a matter of urgency. We call on the United Kingdom to put pressure on China, India and the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to use their influence with the regime to stop the crackdown on protestors and demand the release of those activists who have been arrested.”

For more information, please contact Penny Hollings, Campaigns and Media Manager at Christian Solidarity Worldwide on 020 8329 0045, email pennyhollings@csw.org.uk or visit www.csw.org.uk.

CSW is a human rights organisation which specialises in religious freedom, works on behalf of those persecuted for their Christian beliefs and promotes religious liberty for all.

China’s Burma problem

International Herald Tribune: - Jeremy Woodrum
Tue 28 Aug 2007

Regarding the article “Hundreds march in Myanmar over prices” (Aug. 23): Human rights activists and citizens marched through the streets of Rangoon in opposition to a steep rise of fuel prices. Unfortunately, policymakers around the world have not shown the same fortitude as these protesters. The UN Security Council has remained shamefully paralyzed on Burma for the past 8 months since China vetoed a multilateral resolution that would have condemned the country’s military regime.

Thankfully, opposition to China’s position on Burma seems to be growing. Last week, a group of members of parliament from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations called on China to modify its unequivocal support for the junta.

This move may represent the first time in recent history that China’s own neighbors are balking at its perceived heavy-handedness in regional diplomacy. In particular, Southeast Asian lawmakers are unhappy that China refuses to endorse Ban Ki Moon and Asean’s call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi.

China could easily reverse the growing frustration with its policy on Burma by endorsing a multilateral approach to to the country, publicly supporting Ban Ki Moon and Asean’s calls for the release of Suu Kyi, ending attacks against ethnic minority civilians, and pressing Than Shwe, the military leader, to enter negotiations with Suu Kyi and Burma’s ethnic minorities.

Such moves would not only bring greater stability to Burma, they would in no way undermine China’s investments in the country. Those marching and bleeding in Rangoon - as well as those suffering and hiding in eastern Burma - hope for such an outcome.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/26/opinion/edletmon.php

Author: Jeremy Woodrum, Washington
Co-founder of the U.S. Campaign for Burma

Politics behind Burmese protests

The Nation: - Aung Zaw
Tue 28 Aug 2007

The sudden fuel price increases that triggered street protests and a political crackdown in Burma in recent days highlighted not only the country’s economic woes and the incompetence of the ruling generals but also the country’s political problems.

The military rulers have made the same kind of blunder as occurred in 1987 when General Ne Win’s government suddenly announced the demonetisation of bank notes.

The cancellation of bank notes and Ne Win’s speech in August 1987, in which he proposed “economic reform” and admitted “mistakes” in the past, only provided ammunition to the outraged public and dissidents who were fed up with the socialist regime. A year later, Ne Win saw his own demise.

The current regime’s announcement of huge fuel price increases was greeted with shock and was followed by widespread street demonstrations in Burma’s former capital. As in 1988, the protests quickly turned into political demonstrations. A cowed public bravely took to the streets in pockets of demonstration in Rangoon and provinces as far away as central Burma. Some demonstrators even gave political speeches or held pictures of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her father, General Aung San, the late independence hero. The demonstrations are clearly not about the fuel price increases; Suu Kyi and her father have nothing in common with the price of gasoline.

The demonstrations are manifestations of a fight for freedom. The Burmese were waiting for the spark that would ignite a political uprising. It remains to be seen, however, how the fragile protest movement can resist the brutal nature of the regime.

As usual, the regime has reacted with provocation, attacks, arrests and the detention of key pro-democracy leaders including Min Ko Naing, a former leader of the 1988 uprising. Its actions can only invite more trouble and an international outcry, nothing unusual for the regime. However, the junta is determined to quell the protests with brute force.

As the protests continue, foreign and Burmese analysts are looking into the causes of the fuel price increases. Some say the regime has been considering a privatisation of the fuel distribution system in Burma and a probable sale of retail outlets to a private company. This might have caused the regime to increase fuel prices to make the chosen company initially profitable.

Some theories are more intriguing, however. One of these suggests that military leaders who wanted to postpone the final session of the National Convention, which has been drafting guidelines for a new constitution, deliberately increased the fuel prices to provoke public outrage.

The National Convention, attended by handpicked delegates, has faced some resistance from ethnic groups over issues of autonomy. Senior officials told foreign journalists - who were granted visas but then not allowed into the country - that tension has been rising. Contradictory reports also came out of Burma that National Convention closing remarks and speeches have been prepared.

The most interesting theory is that some army leaders who wanted to outdo Burma’s paramount leader, Senior General Than Shwe, calculatingly announced the fuel price increases to trigger unrest and riots.

It is impossible to know the real story behind the increases since the regime made no prior announcement, nor did it provide any proper explanation for them. Now the regime is busy hunting down the street protesters, labelling them “agitators”, prompting the question: who is the real agitator?

The regime might well have anticipated the social and political unrest, putting its hired thugs and security officials on alert to intimidate, attack and arrest pro-democracy activists. Some analysts and journalists in Rangoon say that the street protests and rapid reaction by students and former activists gave the excuse to the regime to arrest prominent pro-democracy leaders like Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi and many others. Min Ko Naing, who had spent 16 years in solitary confinement, had been telling colleagues in exile that the regime has been looking for an excuse to again detain him and his comrades.

As in 1988, a scuffle between a group of civilians and university students finally turned into an anti-government demonstration. Why? Dissidents and ordinary Burmese were looking for a political reason to confront the military regime.

The street demonstrations in Rangoon this week are a clear reminder of the 1988 uprising. Twenty years on, Burma remains a political time bomb.

Aung Zaw is the editor of the “Irrawaddy” magazine.

UK group lashes out at British government

Prominent British rights group, Burma Campaign UK has criticized British policies toward Burma as what they perceive as a lack of initiative at a time when protests, demonstrations and arrests are taking place throughout the country.

“It is shameful that the British government has not taken any concrete action in response to this new wave of repression in Burma,” reads yesterday’s statement from the organization.

The group goes on to say that there appears “no sense of urgency” and “no apparent strategy” from the British government, along with an unwillingness to follow through on past initiatives.

Specific measures Burma Campaign UK would like to see undertaken by the British government include calling for discussions among decision-making bodies at both the United Nations and European Union, as well as an increase in unilateral sanctions imposed against the junta.

While acknowledging past leadership of the British government regarding Burmese initiatives, the rights group says that British leadership in addressing Burma has comprehensively failed since January of this year.

Since the first month of the year British policy is said to have: “failed to press for the EU Common Position on Burma to be strengthened when it was renewed in April, failed to support an International Labour Organisation referral of Burma to the International Court of Justice over forced labour, and failed to take action when two British Virgin Island registered companies invested in Burma’s gas fields.”

“The regime literally gets away with murder because every time they commit atrocities we see the same limp reaction from the international community.”, said Mark Farmaner, the Acting Director of the Burma Campaign UK.

Meanwhile, United Nations Special Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, is personally accused of having “gone into hiding” at a critical juncture of the fight for rights in Burma.

“The tragedy is, despite the failure of the British government to act, it is still one of the democracy movement’s strongest supporters. That should shame governments around the world, and is one reason why the generals will sleep easy tonight,” concludes the missive.

Burma Campaign UK will be conducting a protest outside the Foreign Office today in London. It will be the first protest organized by the group in over a decade.

U.N. chided on response to Burma unrest

The New York Sun: - Benny Avni
Tue 28 Aug 2007

While several more protesters were arrested by Burma’s ruling junta yesterday, adding to the more than 100 already held and allegedly tortured since last week, and new alarms have been raised about heightened levels of unrest and human rights abuses in the country, both the U.N. Security Council and Secretary-General Ban have largely stayed on the sidelines, issuing no more than mild statements.

Although the regime in Rangoon reported that 64 protesters were arrested last week, a group of exiled Burmese, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, has issued a list naming at least 100 people it says were rounded up and tortured.

The arrests are apparently part of the ruling junta of General Than Shwe’s response to a wave of protests that followed a spike in government-controlled gasoline prices of 500%. The increase has made bus rides to work unaffordable for most Burmese.

Mr. Ban’s special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, said last week that he did not believe the recent events meant he should visit Rangoon soon. “I have a standing invitation to go. It’s just a question of when is best,” Mr. Gambari told The New York Sun.

“I am sure those arrested are now being tortured by the junta,” the secretary of the AAPP, Tate Naing, who spent more than four years in prison, said in a statement yesterday. “We know from firsthand experience that those arrested in Burma are always brutally tortured - both physically and psychologically - immediately upon arrest.”

Saying the events in Burma represent a dangerous new trend, human rights groups have called on the Security Council to convene. But U.N. diplomats say America, Britain, and France have been discouraged by a precedent set in January, when China, Russia, and South Africa resisted an American initiative to convene the council and later blocked it from issuing a mild statement on Burma.

“We need the secretary-general to help by supplying us with a technical reason to reconvene the council,” a Western diplomat who requested anonymity told the Sun yesterday. One such reason, he said, could be a trip to Burma by Mr. Gambari, who then would brief the council. But U.N. officials say it is up to the council to ask for a briefing. The Nigerian-born Mr. Gambari has traveled to several world capitals in recent months to discuss Burma-related issues but has visited the country as Mr. Ban’s envoy only once. He is not eager to confront the ruling junta now, as it struggles with a new wave of dissent, according to several U.N. diplomats.

After a day of calm, major clashes were renewed yesterday in three Burmese towns, the policy director of the Washington-based U.S. Campaign for Burma, Aung Din, said. The clashes, which were fiercest in Pegu, 50 miles north of Rangoon, pitted supporters of the imprisoned Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, members of her NLD party, unaffiliated students, and Buddhist monks against government-backed citizen groups such as the Union Solidarity and Development Association.

According to the AAPP report, the government-backed groups recently recruited members of Burma’s Muslim minority in an attempt to “stir up religious tensions with the predominantly Buddhist population.”

A leader of a dissident group known as the 88 Generation Student Group, Htay Kywe, was one of those arrested yesterday, Mr. Din of the Campaign for Burma told the Sun. The detainees are likely to end up at Rangoon’s Insein prison, known for its harsh conditions.

The Geneva-based U.N. human rights commissioner, Louise Arbour, yesterday issued a statement calling for Burma’s leadership to conduct talks with the protesters. A host of human rights organizations and Western governments have issued similar exhortations. In a statement last week, the State Department called for the immediate release of those arrested “and for an end to the regime’s blatant attempt to intimidate and silence those who are engaged in peaceful promotion of democracy.” Mr. Ban issued a more measured statement, saying he “calls on the authorities to exercise maximum restraint in responding to any demonstrations and encourages all parties to avoid any provocative action.”

Now is the time for Mr. Ban to “personally intervene and the Security Council to formulate a collective response,” Mr. Din said. But an American diplomat told the Sun that, as of yesterday, Washington had no immediate plans to convene the council to discuss Burma.

Bangkok keeps eye on trouble in Rangoon

Bangkok Post: - Achara Ashayagachat and Wassana Nanuam
Tue 28 Aug 2007

Thailand is closely monitoring the political situation in Burma, where public discontent over fuel price increases has led to demonstrations and the arrest of a number of protesters in Rangoon.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sawanit Kongsiri said yesterday that the situation was under close watch due to concerns that it could affect Burma’s roadmap to democracy.

But Mr Sawanit was optimistic that what was happening in Burma would not disrupt the ongoing National Convention to draft a constitution.

The Burmese government had announced that the process would be completed next month, as earlier pledged, he added.

Pornpimon Trichot, a Burma expert at Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of East Asian Studies, said the Burmese junta’s crackdown on protests against fuel price hikes would not disturb Thai or other leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).

‘’Asean and Thailand are concerned more about economic interests, such as energy benefits in Burma, than the plight of the Burmese people. Therefore, they have reserved their comments while the international community comes out to condemn the suppression,'’ she said.

But Ms Pornpimon also disagreed with some western analysts who said the current peaceful demonstrations could not bring down the Burmese military regime and would be eliminated swiftly.

‘’It is not a direct challenge against the junta. It is civil disobedience and an expression of daily suffering that is beyond what can be tolerated, such as the plight of Aids patients, the plight of the students and the unjust increasing cost of living, especially fuel prices,'’ Ms Pornpimon said.

Meanwhile, army chief Gen Sonthi Boonyaratkalin visited Burma yesterday in an attempt to ensure smooth cooperation between the two countries’ border forces after his retirement at the end of next month.

In what will be his last trip as army chief, and to bid farewell to Burmese military leaders, Gen Sonthi said talks between commanders along the border to solve their common problems should continue after his retirement.

He said he wanted to assure the Burmese leaders the Thai armed forces’ policy toward Burma would remain unchanged after his retirement.

Gen Sonthi met Senior General Than Shwe, leader of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and the Burmese armed forces, and Gen Maung Aye, the Burmese army chief and deputy chairman of the SPDC, during his visit yesterday to Burma’s new administrative capital, Naypyidaw.

S.E. Asian nations concerned over Myanmar unrest

Reuters: - Clarence Fernandez

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) voiced concern over unrest in Myanmar on Tuesday, its first comments after soaring fuel prices prompted rare public protests in the military-ruled nation.

But ASEAN, several of whose 10 members consider the excesses of Myanmar’s military regime to have cast all of Southeast Asia in a bad light, will stop short of sending an envoy to Yangon to express its concern, Secretary-General Ong Keng Yong said.

“What we have done is to make our views known in a certain way, maybe it is not the high-profile way where we send a special envoy to go to Yangon, or to the new capital, to make a case,” he told reporters in the Malaysian capital.

“But we have learnt through the last 10 years the way to work with Myanmar is to present a logical and good ASEAN position and they will find a way to answer our queries.”

Myanmar’s military government said on Monday it was forced to increase fuel prices this month because it could not afford the growing cost of subsidies. Diesel prices were doubled overnight and the cost of compressed natural gas surged five-fold.

Last week, Myanmar authorities arrested around 30 members of the country’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, during protests over the price hikes, as well as 13 leading dissidents.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has criticised the arrests, urging Myanmar authorities to immediately release the detainees and hold talks with demonstrators.

Ong warned against overreacting to the wave of arrests, however. “Immediately after the protests, the presumption is there is no wrong done by protesters, but there is all the evil-doing by the Myanmar government. Is that a fair assumption?” he said.

Debbie Stothard, spokeswoman of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma, a group campaigning against Myanmar’s membership, said the arrests were not legal, with detainees being denied trial, legal assistance and access to their families.

“In any ASEAN capital, increasing the price of fuel by 500 percent would invite sustained riots, whether it’s Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta or Bangkok,” Stothard told Reuters.

“ASEAN at the very least should publicly express concern over the recent developments and call for political dialogue to resolve this latest crisis,” she added.

Protests spread to the oil-producing northwest on Tuesday, where 300 people, including Buddhist monks, staged a protest march in Sittwe, a local source said.

ASEAN admitted Myanmar to its fold 10 years ago and maintains that keeping the nation engaged will lead to some change, but is getting restive to see the country move towards democracy.

The grouping’s ministers last month urged Myanmar to restore democracy and release political detainees, including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

An estimated 1,100 political prisoners are believed to be behind bars in the former Burma. Suu Kyi, 62, has now been confined for more than 11 of the past 17 years. Her latest detention began in 2003.

Civilian thugs doing Myanmar junta’s dirty work

Reuters: - Ed Cropley
Tue 28 Aug 2007

Rather than stir up memories of their bloody 1988 crackdown by putting troops on the streets, Myanmar’s junta is relying on gangs of paid thugs and criminals armed with brooms and spades to crush a rare outbreak of dissent.

Accurately predicting public anger at this month’s shock fuel price rises, the rulers of the former Burma released hundreds — maybe thousands — of prisoners to clear the decks for mass arrests, diplomats and exiled dissidents said on Tuesday.

Happily for the generals, those booted out of Yangon’s fetid cells also made perfect recruits for the shadowy Swan Aah Shin, or “capable strong person”, organisation which has emerged as the junta’s main weapon against protesters.

“It’s an underground organisation and I don’t know who would admit to it existing, but it exists and it exists in force, and it has been evident over the last week,” said one diplomat who watched the Swan Aah Shin in action on the streets of Yangon.

A Reuters reporter at the scene of what was probably a Swan Aah Shin gang detaining 30 members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) last week was ordered not to take photographs and then chased away.

“Basically, they are junta-backed thugs. They come from anywhere, and are the unemployed underclass. And they’ve been really effective — they are threatening,” the diplomat said.

“Everywhere you go, there are groups and truckloads of grubby-looking men looking bored and looking for a fight.”

In 1988, by contrast, the junta sent in the troops to crush a nationwide uprising of students, monks and civil servants. As many as 3,000 are thought to have been killed in a bloodbath still etched deep in people’s memories.

POLITICAL PARTY

A Home (Interior) Ministry source said the Swan Aah Shin took orders from the junta’s feared Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), a social network claiming official membership of 23 million — or nearly half the population.

Whereas the Swan Aah Shin operate mainly in Yangon, a city of 5 million people, the USDA and its network of activists and informants are the generals’ eyes and ears in the provinces, analysts say.

The pictures in state media of USDA officials doing daily good deeds, and its stated aim to “uplift the morale and morality of the entire nation”, lead many to think it is being groomed as the army’s political party should elections ever be held.

The junta allowed elections in 1990 in a bid to shore up its authority after the 1988 uprising, but the plan backfired when the NLD won a massive landslide under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi, daughter of independence hero Aung San.

The generals ignored the results, and Suu Kyi — subsequently awarded the Nobel peace prize — has spent most of the last 17 years in jail or under house arrest.

Amid international criticism of the latest crackdown, in which about 60 people have been detained, human rights groups have singled out the use of civilian militias as evidence of a more sophisticated approach to stifling dissent.

The Democratic Voice of Burma, a dissident news service based in Norway, played dramatic secretly filmed footage of a gang dragging away social activist Htin Kyaw and a colleague after their attempt to stage a protest at a bus stop.

“Had the authorities wished, they could have sent uniformed police officers to make an arrest,” the Asian Human Rights Commission said of the footage.

Instead, they chose to order an unknown gang to “grab and drag off their quarry in the manner of criminals”, the Hong Kong-based group added.

Su Su Nway hospitalised after demonstration

Well-known activist and National League for Democracy member Su Su Nway was hospitalised this afternoon after collapsing during a protest in Rangoon’s Hledan township.

Eyewitnesses said Su Su Nway was seen arguing with special police and government supporters as they arrested more than 10 other activists for taking part in the protest against high fuel prices. She was seen collapsing shortly afterwards.

“Su Su Nway has now been submitted to a hospital on Mahabandoola Garden street . . . One of the people who was with her at the protest took her in a car,” an eyewitnesses said.

It is unclear why the special police chose not to arrest Su Su Nway along with the other activists but bystanders said they saw the police brutally beating the arrested protestors as they were driven away in a truck.

Eyewitnesses also said that several bystanders who tried to intervene in the arrests were also taken into custody and beaten. The protestors were believed to also have been involved in the demonstrations along Shwegondine road last week.

After the activists were arrested and driven away, two trucks carrying government supporters arrived at the scene of the protest to break up the large crowds that had gathered to watch.

Myanmar fuel protests spread to northwest oil city

Reuters: - Aung Hla Tun

Rare dissent in military-ruled Myanmar against soaring fuel prices spread to the oil-producing northwest on Tuesday, where a 200-strong crowd of mostly Buddhist monks protested in Sittwe, a local source said.

The march lasted at least an hour down a road in the centre of the coastal city, where analysts say living conditions and power shortages are particularly dire even though it is the centre of the former Burma’s oil industry.

The marchers chanted slogans against this month’s shock rises of diesel and gas prices and some monks held religious flags, the source said.

Key players in a mass uprising against decades of military rule in 1988, the monasteries have so far stayed out of the week-long series of small but defiant protests in Yangon.

However, rumours have been swirling around the former capital that more radical elements within the monkhood were considering entering the fray.

In the latest act of defiance in Yangon, around 50 people staged a march through the north of the city before being stopped by men in civilian clothes, witnesses and the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) said.

Eight people were arrested, NLD spokesman Nyan Win said.

“When they first started the march there were just over 20 people, but it grew up to about 50 people when they were arrested,” he said, adding that labour rights activist Suu Suu Nway was among the marchers but not those detained.

“She fainted while running to escape arrest so her colleagues took her to hospital,” he said.

Pro-junta gangs and armed and secret police continue to stake out sensitive areas of the city in one of the most far-reaching crackdowns since 1988.

Then, up to 3,000 people are thought to have been killed when the junta sent in the troops to stamp out unrest.

Now, around 70 people have been detained so far, including Min Ko Naing, the second-most prominent opposition figure after detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

Min Ko Naing — a Burmese nom-de-guerre meaning “Conqueror of Kings” — was a key leader of the student movement in 1988 and still wields significant influence.

Htay Kywe, another prominent member of the so-called “88 Generation Student Group”, remains in hiding, having escaped a Yangon-wide manhunt in which cars and buses have been stopped and searched and trains and ferry terminals monitored.

The world’s largest rice exporter when it won independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has become one of Asia’s most ruined countries after 45 years of unbroken army rule.

Suu Kyi, whose NLD won a 1990 election by a landslide only to be denied power by the military, has spent nearly 12 of the last 18 years in prison or under house arrest.

Dozens detained over new protest in Myanmar

Agence France Presse: - Hla Hla Htay

Dozens of pro-democracy supporters were detained Tuesday after a top labour activist tried to launch a new protest in Yangon against a sharp rise in fuel prices, witnesses said.

About 50 activists had gathered near a bus stop close to the former campus of Yangon University on the north side of Myanmar’s main city, but plainclothes police and pro-junta militia broke up the group after only 10 minutes, witnesses said.

Protesters chanted “Lower fuel prices, lower commodity prices!” as they walked along a main road.

About 200 people gathered to watch the standoff between the protesters and the security forces, witnesses said.

The march was led by Su Su Nway, a labour activist sent to prison in October 2005 for more than seven months after reporting cases of forced labour to the United Nations.

Some witnesses said she was among those hauled off by security forces, but others said she had managed to slip away. Calls to her cell phone went unanswered.

Su Su Nway is a member of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), but party officials did not immediately have details on the arrests.

The protest was the latest in a series of bold demonstrations against the military, which for 45 years has ruled impoverished Myanmar with an iron fist and kept a tight lid on dissent.

But the junta sparked public anger when the government secretly hiked key fuel prices by as much as five-fold on August 15.

That immediately doubled the cost of transport, which left many people unable to even afford the bus fare to get to work.

For the last 10 days, pro-democracy supporters have defied official threats and a clampdown on dissent to stage small rallies against the fuel price increase.

State media said 56 people had been arrested over last week’s protests, but Thailand-based political dissidents on Monday said it was at least 100.

Among those held last week was Min Ko Naing, who is considered Myanmar’s most prominent pro-democracy advocate after detained opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Min Ko Naing was arrested along with 12 activists for leading about 500 protesters in a peaceful march in Yangon on August 19 — the biggest anti-government rally here in at least nine years.

Myanmar’s state media has said only that authorities were interrogating Min Ko Naing and the 12 others and that the junta would take legal action against them. Most of them have already spent more than a decade in prison.

The 13 were members of the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group, which is made up of former student leaders who led an uprising against military rule in 1988.

That uprising, which initially began as a protest over Myanmar’s harsh economic conditions, ended with soldiers firing into a crowd of students, killing hundreds if not thousands.

The uprising led to the creation of the NLD, headed by Aung San Suu Kyi. The party won a landslide victory in 1990 elections, but the junta never recognised the result.

Su Su Nway hospitalised after demonstration

Aug 28, 2007 (DVB)—Well-known activist and National League for Democracy member Su Su Nway was hospitalised this afternoon after collapsing during a protest in Rangoon’s Hledan township.

Eyewitnesses said Su Su Nway was seen arguing with special police and government supporters as they arrested more than 10 other activists for taking part in the protest against high fuel prices. She was seen collapsing shortly afterwards.

“Su Su Nway has now been submitted to a hospital on Mahabandoola Garden street . . . One of the people who was with her at the protest took her in a car,” an eyewitnesses said.

It is unclear why the special police chose not to arrest Su Su Nway along with the other activists but bystanders said they saw the police brutally beating the arrested protestors as they were driven away in a truck.

Eyewitnesses also said that several bystanders who tried to intervene in the arrests were also taken into custody and beaten. The protestors were believed to also have been involved in the demonstrations along Shwegondine road last week.

After the activists were arrested and driven away, two trucks carrying government supporters arrived at the scene of the protest to break up the large crowds that had gathered to watch.

Reporting by Naw Say Phaw

Hundreds march against fuel prices in Sittwe

Aug 28, 2007 (DVB)—More than 200 people are staging a protest march through the streets of Sittwe, calling for lower commodity and gas prices in Burma, according to eyewitnesses.

“About 200 Buddhist monks and some civilians are staging a walking protest and calling for lower commodity prices,” an eyewitness told DVB by telephone from the Arakan capital.

Reports from Sittwe since the government increased fuel prices by up to 500 percent on August 15, suggest residents in the city have been hit particularly hard by the ensuing commodity price rises.

Eyewitnesses said this afternoon that the protest had lasted for at least an hour without government interference. It is the first time since the recent wave of protests started in Burma that high numbers of monks have taken part.

The Burmese military is known to have warned a number of senior abbots around the country against letting monks participate in the demonstrations.

Reporting by Aye Naing

Protestors arrested in Hledan

Aug 28, 2007 (DVB)—About 10 National League for Democracy members were arrested by the special police this afternoon after attempting to stage a protest near a bus stop in Rangoon’s Hledan township.

Eyewitnesses told DVB that the NLD members tried to start a protest after disembarking from separate buses between 1pm and 1:30pm but that they walked for less than 100 metres before being arrested.

“The protestors arrived at the bus stop and they started walking together,” one eyewitness said on condition of anonymity.

“They managed to walk one electricity pole away before the police and special police took them away in a Dyna truck,” the eyewitness said.

The special police and several uniformed police officers were reportedly ready for the protest before it happened, stationing up to four trucks near the bus stop and waiting until the activists had gathered and started walking before arresting them.

Reporting by Naw Say Phaw

88 student leader narrowly escapes raid

Aug 28, 2007 (DVB)—Wanted 88 Generation Student leader U Htay Kywe narrowly avoided arrest last night when the Rangoon house he was hiding in was raided by government officials.

“U Htay Kywe’s safe house was raided last night but he escaped,” 88 Generation Students member Hla Myo Naung told DVB.

Despite giving interviews to a number of media groups in the past few days, U Htay Kywe has consistently refused to identify his location in Rangoon for fear he would be found by the authorities.

Several press groups ran stories yesterday claiming that U Htay Kywe had fled to the Thai-Burma border but Hla Myo Naung told DVB this morning that the reports were incorrect.

“We have heard about these reports and the information is wrong. All members of the 88 Generation Students group have made it clear they will not flee the country,” Hla Myo Naung said.

“Some of our remaining members had a phone conversation with U Htay Kywe just moments ago and he has not fled,” Hla Myo Naung said.

U Htay Kywe is the only remaining high-level leader of the 88 Generation Students group to have avoided arrest in the past week.

Reporting by Aye Naing

UN rights head calls for release of activists

Aug 28, 2007 (DVB)—The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, released a statement yesterday calling on the Burmese military to release activists detained following fuel price protests.

Arbour expressed concern over the recent spate of arrests and called on the military to “engage in consultation and dialogue” with demonstrators.

“. . . freedom of expression and association are touchstones of human rights,” Arbour said. “Allowing greater space for citizens to express their views and discontent will be essential in fostering the way towards a democratic transition and reconciliation in the country.”

The UN rights leader’s statement followed calls by secretary general Ban Ki-moon and the US and UK governments last week for the release of all detained protestors, including the leaders of the 88 Generation Students group.

Burmese activists and lobby groups, including U Htay Kywe, US Campaign for Burma and Burma campaign UK, have called on the UN to take action against the military for what the US State Department has described as a “blatant attempt to intimidate and silence those who are engaged in the peaceful promotion of democracy.”

USCB’s policy director Aung Din said last week urged the UN not to remain complacent over the human rights situation in Burma.

“It is time for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally intervene and the Security Council to formulate a collective response,” Aung Din said.

Reporting by Jessicah Curtis

ASEAN intervention on Burma starts now (28Aug07)

1^st Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights (26 – 28 August 2007)

c/o FORUM-ASIA Secretariat

220 Baan Vichien Apartment 3B, Soi Sukhumvit 49/12,

Klongton Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 Thailand

OPEN LETTER
28 August 2007

To: ASEAN Heads of State,

H.M. Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang di Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam

H.E. Samdech Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia

H.E. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, President of Republic of Indonesia

H.E. Bounyang Vorachith, Prime Minister of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos

H.E. Dato Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia

H.E. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Republic of Philippines

H.E. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore

H.E. Surayud Chulanont, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Thailand

H.E. Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, Prime Minister of Socialist Republic of Vietnam

CC.

Mr. Ong Keng Yong, Secretary General of ASEAN

Mr. Termsak Chalermpalanupap, Special Assistant to the ASEAN Secretary-General

Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations

Ms. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Mr. Ibrahim Gambari, Special Adviser to the Secretary General on Myanmar

Mr. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar

Ms. Hina Jilani, Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights Defenders

Mr. Homayoun Alizadeh, OHCHR Regional Representative for Southeast Asia

Subject: ASEAN intervention on Burma starts now!

We, representing 23 organizations participating in the 1^st Regional Consultation on ASEAN and Human Rights from 26 – 28 August 2007 in Kuala Lumpur organised by the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) and SUARAM, its member organization in Malaysia, are joining the international community in demanding that the Burmese government release all protesters currently detained for demonstrating against the government’s sudden decision to increase fuel prices and express our deep concern over the treatment and whereabouts of those detained.

Since the first peaceful marching that took place in Rangoon on 19 August, the junta has summoned its pseudo-civilian proxy, the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA), to harass and provoke through the use of unnecessary force upon all demonstrators, including women and children. Many have been detained and taken to unknown locations, some of whom were prominent pro-democracy activists during the 1988 uprising, including Mr. Ko Ko Gyi, Ms. Phyu Phyu Thinn, Ms Aye Aye Than, Ms Sandar Minn, U Myint Aye, Mr Min Ko Naing, Mr. Ko Ko Gyi and Mr. Aung Kyaw Oo. We are concerned that further protesters will fall victim to such treatment as demonstrations against the fuel price increases spread throughout the country.

According to reliable sources, some 65 human rights defenders (HRDs), mostly coming from the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party and the 88 Generation Students, have been harassed and unlawfully arrested[i]. About thirteen of these HRDs have been sent to Insein Prison, where they could face up to 20 years imprisonment[ii]. We believe that the ASEAN is the most relevant body to address this issue. It is the responsibility of this intergovernmental organization to be more proactive in raising concerns and responding to this situation diplomatically. This is particularly pertinent at this point in time for ASEAN celebrates its 40^th anniversary and is in the process of drafting an ASEAN Charter to help realize the goal of creating a caring and sharing community.

ASEAN members should help Burma uphold the principles of democracy and the rule of law by urging the Burmese government to respect the freedom of assembly, freedom of expression and the right to information. We are urging ASEAN to exercise its duty as an intergovernmental organization to immediately respond to this situation and avoid a repetition of the 1988 massacre. Indeed, this should be seen as a litmus test of ASEAN’s sincerity in pursuing democracy and human rights in the region.

In light of the upcoming ASEAN Charter and the 13^th ASEAN Summit, ASEAN as a regional entity must make its position clear regarding Burma’s continuous human rights violations which also endanger regional peace and security. Let the gift of democracy and human rights to the people of Burma mark a new beginning for ASEAN in its 40^th anniversary.

For more information, please contact:

Anselmo Lee, Executive Director, FORUM-ASIA, +66 (0)2 391 8801, anselmo@forum-asia.org

Yap Swee Seng, Executive Director, SUARAM, + 60 (0)3 7784 3525, yapsweeseng@gmail.com

Aung Myo Min, Director, HREIB, +66 (0)8 1992 5293 (Thailand) and +60 017650 3807 (Malaysia), myomin@cscoms.com

The letter is endorsed by 23 organizations and individuals attending the 1^st Regional Consultation of ASEAN and Human Rights from 26 - 28 August 2007 in Kuala Lumpur.

1 - Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI), Indonesia

2 - Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma (ALTSEAN-Burma), Thailand

3 - Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD), Thailand

4 - Associate Professor Miriam Coronel Ferrer, University of the Philippines (UP), Philippines

5 - Cambodian Human Rights and Development Association (ADHOC), Cambodia

6 - Coordination of Action Research on AIDS and Mobility – Asia (CARAM Asia), Malaysia

7 - Empowering People for Strong Civil Society (People Empowerment), Thailand

8 - Focus on the Global South (FGS), Philippines

9 - Human Rights Education Institute of Burma (HREIB), Thailand

10 - Indonesia’s NGO Coalition for International Human Rights Advocacy (HRWG), Indonesia

11 - Informal Sector Service Centre (INSEC), Nepal

12 - Judicial System Monitoring Programme (JSMP), Timor Leste

13 - Komisi Untuk Orang Hilang dan Korban Tindak Kekerasan (KONTRAS), Indonesia

14 - Malaysia Youth & Student Democratic Movement (DEMA), Malaysia

15 - Migrant Forum in Asia (MFA), Philippines

16 - Monitoring Sustainability of GlobalisatioN (MSN), Malaysia

17 - Myanmar Ethnic Rohingya Human Rights Organization Malaysia (MERHROM), Malaysia

18 - Perhimpunan Bantuan Hukum dan Hak Asasi Manusia Indonesia (PBHI), Indonesia

19 - PILIPINA Legal Resources Centre (PLRC), Philippines

20 - Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (KOMAS), Malaysia

21 - Task-Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP), Philippines

22 - Think Centre, Singapore

23 - Yayasan Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Indonesia (YLBHI), Indonesia

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[i] “Analysts say fuel protests in Myanmar pose no immediate threat to junta.” International Herald Tribune, 26 August 2007.

[ii] Burmese Police Patrol Rangoon Following Protests. VOA News, 26 August 2007.

ဗကသ ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢမဵားအဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဴပန္လည္ဖၾဲႚစည္း

၈၈ မဵိႂးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားမဵား ဦးေဆာင္၍ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၁၉ရက္က စီတန္းလမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬထုတ္ေဖာ္ပၾဲ ဴပႂလုပ္ခဲ့ဴခင္း ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ ၈၈ မဵိႂးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းဆာင္မဵား အဖမ္းခံရ႓ပီးေနာက္ မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္ေကဵာင္းသားမဵားက သမိုင္းေပးတာဝန္ကို ပခံုးေဴပာင္းယူရန္ ဗကသ ဖၾဲႚစည္းဴခင္း ဴဖစ္ေဳကာင္း ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေကဵာ္ကိုကိုက RFAကို ေဴပာပၝသည္။ (Photo: AFP) ပံု႒ကီးဳကည့္လိုလ႖င္။

ရန္ကုန္မႀာရႀိတဲ့ တကၠသိုလ္၊ ေကာလိပ္ေကဵာင္းေပၝင္းစုံက တကၠသိုလ္ေကဵာင္းသား ေကဵာင္းသူအမဵားစုနဲႛအတူ ၊ နယ္႓မိႂႚေတၾက တကၠသိုလ္၊ ေကာလိပ္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾ ပၝဝင္တဲ့ ဗမာႎုိင္ငံလုံးဆုိင္ရာ ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢမဵားအဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ (ဗကသ)ကို ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ရက္ ေနႛစၾဲနဲႛ ဴပန္လည္စတင္ ဖၾဲႚစည္းလိုက္ပၝတယ္။

အသစ္ ဴပန္လည္ဖၾဲႚစည္းလိုက္တဲ့ (ဗကသ)ကို ဦးေဆာင္ေနသူေတၾထဲက ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေကဵာ္ကိုကိုကေတာ့ (ဗကသ)ကို ဘာေဳကာင့္ ဴပန္လည္ ဖၾဲႚစည္းလုိက္ရတယ္ဆိုတာနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး RFAကို အခုလို ရႀင္းဴပပၝတယ္။

ကိုေကဵာ္ကိုကို။ ။ဴမန္မာႎိုင္ငံ သမိုင္းစဥ္မႀာ ေကဵာင္းသားလႁပ္ရႀားမႁေတၾ အ႒ကိမ္႒ကိမ္ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ေပၞေပၝက္ခဲ့တယ္၊ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾဟာ လၾတ္လပ္႓ပီးေတာ့ တရားမ႖တလိုတဲ့ ဆႎၬနဲႛ ဖိႎႀိပ္ခံ ဴပည္သူဘက္က ဴပတ္ဴပတ္သားသား ရပ္တည္ခဲ့တာကို သက္ေသဴပခဲ့႓ပီး႓ပီ။

ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾဟာ မိမိတိုႛတိုင္းဴပည္ ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရတဲ့ အကဵပ္အတည္းေတၾ၊ ဴပည္သူေတၾရဲ့ ဆံုး႟ံႁးေနတဲ့ လူႛအခၾင့္အေရးေတၾနဲႛ လၾတ္လပ္ခၾင့္ကို ဴပန္လည္ရယူေပးဖိုႛ အစဥ္တစိုက္လည္း ႒ကိႂးပမ္းခဲ့တယ္။ ယေနႛလက္ရႀိအခဵိန္မႀာလည္း ၈၈ မဵိႂးဆက္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾကို ဖမ္းဆီးထားတယ္၊ ဴပည္သူေတၾရဲ့ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ ဆႎၬထုတ္ေဖာ္မႁကို အဳကမ္းဖက္ ႎႀိပ္ကၾပ္ေနတယ္၊ မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾရဲ့ ပညာေရးအေဴခအေနလည္း ဆိုးဝၝးသထက္ ဆိုးဝၝးေနတယ္။

ဒီလိုေဳကာင့္မိုႛလိုႛ က႗န္ေတာ္တိုႛ မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾဟာ ဖိႎႀိပ္ခံ ဴပည္သူေရႀႚက မားမားမတ္မတ္ ရပ္တည္ဖိုႛ တကယ္အမႀန္ လိုအပ္လာ႓ပီဆိုတဲ့ အခဵိန္ကို ကဵေရာက္လာတယ္၊ ဒၝေဳကာင့္မိုႛလိုႛ လက္ရႀိအေဴခအေနမႀာ ေကဵာင္းသားလႁပ္ရႀားမႁေတၾ ဴပန္လည္ေပၞေပၝက္လာေရးနဲႛ ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢမဵား ဴပန္လည္ ဖၾဲႚစည္းခၾင့္ ရေရးအတၾက္ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသား ညီအစ္ကိုေတာ္ေတၾရဲ့ သမိုင္းေပးတာဝန္ကို ပခံုးေဴပာင္း ထမ္းေဆာင္ရမဲ့ က႗န္ေတာ္တိုႛ မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾဟာ ရာဇဝင္ အစဥ္အလာ ထၾန္းေဴပာင္ခဲ့႓ပီးသား ဗမာႎိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ကို ဒီေနႛမႀစ႓ပီး ဴပန္လည္ စုစည္း တည္ေထာင္လိုက္တယ္။

ဴပန္လည္ဖၾဲႚစည္းလုိက္တဲ့ (ဗကသ)အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ကို တကၠသိုလ္ေကဵာင္းသား အေယာက္ ၂၀က စုေပၝင္း ဦးေဆာင္ေနတာဴဖစ္႓ပီး လတ္တေလာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတၾအဴဖစ္ ဴမန္မာတဴပည္လုံး အတိုင္းအတာအရ ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢေတၾ ေပၞေပၝက္လာေရး ၊ အေထၾေထၾ ကုန္ေစဵးႎႁန္းကဵဆင္းေရးနဲႛ ဒီမိုကေရစီႎိုင္ငံေတာ္သစ္ ေပၞထၾန္းလာေရးဆိုတဲ့ အခဵက္(၃)ခဵက္ကို ဦးစားေပး ႒ကိႂးပမ္းလုပ္ကုိင္သၾားဖိုႛ ဴပင္ဆင္ထားေဳကာင္း (ဗကသ)ရဲ့ ထုတ္ဴပန္ေဳကညာခဵက္ထဲမႀာ ေဖာ္ဴပထားပၝတယ္ ။

မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္(ဗကသ) ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ေတၾအေနနဲႛ ရန္ကုန္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾနဲႛ နယ္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾဳကားမႀာ အခဵိတ္အဆက္ေတၾ ရယူထား႓ပီဴဖစ္တဲ့အေဳကာင္း မဵႂိးဆက္သစ္(ဗကသ)ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေကဵာ္ကိုကိုက ဆက္လက္ေဴပာဴပပၝတယ္ ။

နယ္ခဵဲႚ ႓ဗိတိသ႖လက္ထက္ကတည္းက ရႀိခဲ့တဲ့ (ဗကသ) ေကဵာင္းသားသမဂၢမဵားအဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္္ကို ၁၉၆၂ခုႎႀစ္မႀာ ဗိုလ္ခဵႂပ္ေနဝင္း ႓ဖိႂခၾင္းခဲ့တာေဳကာင့္ တ႒ကိမ္ေပဵာက္ကၾယ္ခဲ့ပၝတယ္ ဒၝေပမဲ့ ၁၉၈၈ခု ဒီေနႛလို ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ရက္ေနႛမႀာပဲ ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုမင္းကိုႎိုင္ ဦးေဆာင္႓ပီး ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္(ပင္မ) ပရဝုဏ္အတၾင္းမႀာ တ႒ကိမ္ဴပန္လည္ဖၾဲႚစည္းခဲ့ဖူးပၝတယ္ ။ ၁၉ႎႀစ္ဳကာလာတဲ့ ဒီကေနႛမႀာေတာ့ လက္ရႀိတကၠသိုလ္ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾက (ဗကသ)ကို အခုလို အသစ္ ဴပန္လည္ဖၾဲႚစည္းလုိက္ဳကတာပဲ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။

သံဃာ၃၀၀ခန္ႛ စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚတၾင္ ဆႎၬဴပ

ခရီးသည္ႎႀင့္ ကုန္အဴပည့္အသိပ္ တင္ေဆာင္ထားေသာ အေဝးေဴပးကားတစီး ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ ေလာင္စာဆီေဈးႎႁန္း တက္လာဴခင္းေဳကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္မႀာသာမက နယ္႓မိႂႚမဵားတၾင္လည္း ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမဵား ဴဖစ္ပၾားေန႓ပီး စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚတၾင္ သံဃာ အပၝး ၃၀၀ခန္ႛ လႀည့္လည္ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ႒ကီးမႀာ ရဟန္း သံဃာအမဵားဆံုး ပၝဝင္ဴခင္းပင္ ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ (Photo: AFP)

ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵးႎႁန္းတက္တာကုိ မေကဵနပ္တဲ့ ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲေတၾဟာ ရခုိင္ဴပည္နယ္ထိ ကူးစက္သၾား႓ပီး သံဃာေတာ္အပၝး သုံးရာဝန္းကဵင္ ပၝဝင္တဲ့ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ႒ကီးတရပ္ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၃ရက္ ဒီကေနႛ စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚမႀာ ဴဖစ္ပၾားခဲ့တဲ့အေဳကာင္း စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚခံေတၾက RFAကုိ အတည္ဴပႂေဴပာပၝတယ္။

သုံးရာဝန္းကဵင္ရႀိတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾဟာ ဒီကေနႛ ေနႛလည္ပုိင္း စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚ မင္းဘာ႒ကီးလမ္းကစ႓ပီး ႓မိႂႚတၾင္း လႀည့္လည္ ဆႎၬဴပခဲ့တယ္လုိႛ ႓မိႂႚခံတဦးက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။ အရပ္သားေတၾမပၝပဲ သံဃာမဵားခဵည္း ဴဖစ္တဲ့အေဳကာင္း သူကေဴပာပၝတယ္။

စစ္ေတၾ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့သတင္းနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး စစ္ေတၾ မယက႟ုံးနဲႛ ႓မိႂႚနယ္ သံဃာ့နာယက ဆရာေတာ္႟ုံးေတၾကုိ ဆက္သၾယ္ခဲ့ေပမဲ့ ဆက္သၾယ္လိုႛ မရခဲ့ပၝဘူး၊ ရန္ကုန္႓မို လႀည္းတန္းမႀာ ဆႎၬဴုပပၾဲတရပ္ ဴဖစ္ေပၞေနခဵိန္မႀာ ခုလို သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾ စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚမႀာ စီတန္း ဆႎၬဴပခဲ့တာ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။

႓ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ရက္ပုိင္းအတၾင္း ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံ နယ္႓မိႂႚေတၾက ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲေတၾအနက္ စစ္ေတၾ႓မိႂႚက ဒီကေနႛ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲဟာ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾ အမဵားဆုံးပၝဝင္တဲ့ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကုိ ထိန္းခဵႂပ္ႎုိင္ဖိုႛအတၾက္ အာဏာပုိင္ေတၾက သက္ဆုိင္ရာ ႓မိႂႚနယ္ သံဃာ့ မဟာနာယက ဆရာေတာ္႒ကီးေတၾနဲႛ ညၟိႎိႁင္းေနဆဲ ဴဖစ္တယ္လုိႛ စုံစမ္းသိရပၝတယ္။ ဒီသတင္းေရးတဲ့အခဵိန္ထိ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကုိ အဖမ္းအဆီးရႀိမရႀိ ရႀင္းရႀင္းလင္းလင္း မသိရေသးပၝဘူး။

မဳကာခင္ကလည္း သံလဵင္႓မိႂႚက သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾ ဆႎၬဴပခဲ့ေပမဲ့ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းက သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾ ထိန္းခဵႂပ္ဖိုႛအတၾက္ ဒီေနႛထိ အမိန္ႛေဳကညာစာ ထုတ္ဴပန္တာမဵိႂး မရႀိေသးဘူးလိုႛ ရန္ကုန္ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾက အမိန္ႛရႀိပၝတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းက သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကိ္ု ည ၇နာရီက မနက္ ၄နာရီထိ ညမထၾက္ရအမိန္ႛကုိ လၾန္ခဲ့တဲ့ သုံးႎႀစ္ ၂၀၀၃ခု ေအာက္တုိဘာ ၂၇ ရက္ကတည္းက ထုတ္ဴပန္ထားတာ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ ဒၝေပမဲ့ ၂၀၀၆ ခု ေအာက္တုိဘာလ ရႀစ္ေလးလုံး မဵိႂးဆက္သစ္ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾ ဘာသာေရးဆုေတာင္းပၾဲေတၾ လုပ္ခဵိန္မႀာ သံဃာေတာ္မဵား ညမထၾက္ရအမိန္ႛကုိ ၂နာရီေလ႖ာ့႓ပီး ည ၉ နာရီကေန မနက္ ၄နာရီဳကား အဴပင္မထၾက္ဖိုႛ ထပ္မံထုတ္ဴပန္ခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ ဒီအမိန္ႛဟာ ခုထိ တည္ဆဲအမိန္ႛဴဖစ္တာမိုႛ ေနာက္ထပ္ ႌၿန္ဳကားခဵက္ မထၾက္တာ ဴဖစ္ႎုိင္တယ္လုိႛ ရန္ကုန္ တုိ္က္အုပ္ဆရာေတာ္႒ကီးတပၝးက အမိန္ႛရႀိပၝတယ္။

ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚ လႀည္းတန္းႎႀင့္ တာေမၾေဈးတၾင္ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမဵား ေပၞေပၝက္

ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚတၾင္ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၃ရက္ေနႛက ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵး ကဵဆင္းေရး ဆႎၬဴပ စီတန္းလမ္းေလ႖ာက္ပၾဲကို လမ္းေဘးမႀ ရပ္ဳကည့္ေနသူမဵား ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ ၈၈ မဵိႂးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုထၾန္းဴမင့္ေအာင္က လူထုအေနဴဖင့္ ယခုထက္ ပိုမိုပၝဝင္လာႎိုင္ဖိုႛ လိုအပ္ေဳကာင္း ေဴပာဳကားခဲ့ပၝသည္။ (Photo: RFA) ပံု႒ကီးဳကည့္လိုလ႖င္။

ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ရက္ ဒီကေနႛ မၾန္းလၾဲပုိင္းမႀာ ရန္ကုန္ လႀည္းတန္းမႀာ လူႛအခၾင့္အေရးလႁပ္ရႀားသူ မစုစုေႎၾး ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲတခု ဴဖစ္ပၾားခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့သူေတၾဟာ မၾန္းလၾဲ တနာရီခၾဲေလာက္မႀာ စတင္ဆႎၬဴပဳကပၝတယ္။ စတင္ခဵိန္မႀာ လူ ၄-၅ဦးဴဖစ္ေပမဲ့ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမႀာ လူ၂၀ေကဵာ္ ၃၀ထိ ဴဖစ္သၾားတယ္လုိႛ မဵက္ဴမင္သက္ေသေတၾက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။ ၁၅မိနစ္ေလာက္အတၾင္းမႀာ အရပ္ဝတ္နဲႛလူေတၾက ဝင္ေရာက္ ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမႀာ အဖမ္းမခံရပဲလၾတ္လာတဲ့ ကုိဖုိးဥာဏ္က အခုလုိ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ကုိဖုိးဥာဏ္။ ။ ကဵေနာ္တုိႛသမုိင္းလမ္းဆံုကုိ ခဵီတက္ဖိုႛ ရည္႟ၾယ္ထားတာ မစၤတာ ဘေရာင္းဆုိင္္ေရႀႚနားမႀာ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္အဖၾဲႚက ဒိုင္နာကား ႎႀစ္စီးနဲႛ လူ ၂၀၀-၃၀၀ ေလာက္ဆင္းလာ႓ပီး ကဵေနာ္တုိႛကုိ ဝုိင္းဆၾဲ႓ပီး ကားေပၞကုိ တင္တယ္။ ကဵေနာ္တုိႛဆီက လူ ၁၀ေယာက္ေလာက္ ပၝသၾားတယ္။ ကဵေနာ္တုိႛ ေကဵာပုိးအိတ္ေတၾ ဆၾဲ႓ပီး ကားေပၞပစ္တင္တယ္။ တခဵႂိႚဆုိရင္ နာရီေတၾပၝသၾား၊ တခဵႂိႚဆုိရင္ ပုိက္ဆံအိတ္ေတၾ ပၝသၾားတယ္>

ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲအနားမႀာရႀိေနခဲ့တဲ့ မဵက္ဴမင္သက္ေသတဦးကလည္း အခုလုိေဴပာပၝတယ္။

မဵက္ဴမင္ေတၾႚသူ။ ။ထူးဆန္းတဲ့ ဴမင္ကၾင္းတခုက လႀည္းတန္းလမ္းဆံု ေရာက္ခၝနီးမႀာ ကုန္တုိက္ေအာက္က စစ္ယူနီေဖာင္းအဴပည့္၊ ေကဵာမႀာ ေသနတ္လၾယ္ထားတဲ့ စစ္သား ၃ေယာက္က လက္ခုပ္တီး အားေပးတာကုိ ေတၾႚရတယ္။

ဆႎၬဴပသူေတၾ လႀည္းတန္းလမ္းဆံုက ဒီဘက္ကို ထၾက္တဲ့အခၝ ေနႛလည္ ၁နာရီနဲႛ ၃၅မိနစ္မႀာ ဒိုင္နာကား သံုးစီးနဲႛ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္လား ဳကံႛဖၾံႚလား မသိတဲ့သူေတၾက သူတုိႛကုိဖမ္းဖုိႛ ႒ကိႂးစားတာကုိ သူတုိႛက ကဵေနာ္တုိႛ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ ဆႎၬဴပေနတာ အဳကမ္းဖက္သမားေတၾမဟုတ္ဖူးေဴပာေတာ့ လၾယ္အိတ္ေတၾကုိ ဆၾဲတယ္။ အဲဒၝကုိဆႎၬဴပသူေတၾက ခင္ဗဵားတုိႛကဵေနာ္တုိႛ ပစၤည္းေတၾကုိလုတာလား ဆိုေတာ့ လၾယ္အိတ္ေတၾကုိ ဴပန္ပစ္ေပးတယ္ခင္ဗဵ။ ပစ္ေပး႓ပီးေတာ့ လူေတၾကုိ စ႓ပီးထုိးႎႀက္ဳကတယ္။ ေဘးကရပ္ဳကည့္ေနတဲ့ လူတေထာင္ေလာက္က ခင္ဗဵားတုိႛအဳကမ္းမဖက္နဲႛ အဳကမ္းဖက္ရင္ ကဵေနာ္တုိႛ ဝင္႟ုိက္မယ္လုိႛေဴပာေတာ့ မစုစုေႎၾးတုိႛက ဴပည္သူလူထု႒ကီးရႀင့္ ကဵမတုိႛ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ ေတာင္းဆုိ ဆႎၬဴပေနတာပၝ။ ကဵမတုိႛကုိ ေထာက္ခံအားေပးခဵင္ရင္ လက္ခုပ္တီး႓ပီး အားေပးဳကပၝလုိႛ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဗီဒီယုိ ႟ုိက္ကူးထားသူတေယာက္က ေနာက္ထပ္ ၅မိနစ္ ၁၀မိနစ္ေလာက္ဆုိရင္ ဴပည္သူေတၾ ပၝလာႎိုင္တယ္လုိႛ ထင္ေဳကာင္း ေဴပာပၝတယ္။ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့လူေတၾက ဴပန္လည္အဳကမ္းမဖက္ဖိုႛ တားဴမစ္လုိႛသာ အဳကမ္းဖက္မႁ မဴဖစ္တာပၝလုိႛေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဗီဒီယို႟ိုက္ကူးသူ။ ။အဲဒီမႀာ ကဵေနာ္ဴမင္လုိက္တာက ကဵေနာ္တုိႛဴမန္မာ အမဵႂိးသမီးေတၾရဲ့ သတၨိရႀိမႁကုိေပၝ့။ ဘုန္း႒ကီးေကဵာင္းထဲကထၾက္လာတဲ့ ေယာဂီနဲႛအမဵႂိးသမီး ႎႀစ္ေယာက္က ရႀင္တုိႛ ဗုဒၭဘာသာေတၾ မဟုတ္ဘူးလား။ သူတုိႛမႀာ အဴပစ္ရႀိရင္ ႓ငိမ္း႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းခဵမ္းနဲႛ ဖမ္းပၝလားလုိႛ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဒီဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမစတင္ခင္ မစုစုေႎၾးကုိ RFA က ေမးဴမန္းခဲ့ေတာ့ မစုစုေႎၾးက အခုလုိေဴပာပၝတယ္။

မစုစုေႎၾး။ ။ကဵမတုိႛ လႀည္းတန္းလမ္းဆံုမႀာ ၁နာရီတိတိမႀာ စတင္မႀာဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ လံုဴခံႂေရးက နည္းတာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ကဵမ ILO ႟ံုးကေနဴပန္လာတာ အဲဒီေရႀႚမႀာေတာင္မႀ နည္းတာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ လႀည္းတန္းနဲႛ ILO က သိပ္ေဝးတာ မဟုတ္ဘူးေလ။ စစ္ယူနီေဖာင္း အဴပည္အစံုနဲႛ စစ္သားေတၾကုိလည္း ေတၾႚရတယ္။ လမ္းဆံုတုိင္းမႀလည္း အရပ္ဝတ္နဲႛလူေတၾ ေတၾႚရ႓ပီး ရဲတခဵႂိႚလည္း ေတၾႚရတယ္။ ဒီေနႛက သူတုိႛက အဳကမ္းဖက္မဲႛအစီအစဥ္ေတၾႚရတယ္။ ကဵမတုိႛကေတာ့ တုိးရမႀာပဲ။

ဖမ္းဆီးထားတဲ့သူေတၾ တင္ေဆာင္ထားတဲ့ ကားကုိေတာ့ ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚတၾင္းဖက္ ေမာင္းႎႀင္သၾားတာ ဴမင္လုိက္ရတယ္လုိႛ မဵက္ဴမင္သက္ေသေတၾက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

မစုစုေႎၾးရဲ့ ေနာက္ဆံုးအေဴခအေနနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး NLD ေဴပာခၾင့္ရ ပုဂၢႂိလ္က အခုလုိ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

စုစုေႎၾးက ဒီကေနႛ ဆႎၬဴပမႁဴဖစ္တဲ့ ကမာ႟ၾတ္မႀာရႀိေန႓ပီး အဳကမ္းဖက္မႁေတၾကုိ ေတၾႚရႀိ႓ပီး ဒီလုိမလုပ္သင့္ေဳကာင္း ဝင္ေဴပာတယ္လုိႛ သိရတယ္။ အဲဒီအတၾက္ သူႛကုိ ဆၾဲလားရမ္းလား လုပ္တယ္။ မူလကတည္းက ႎႀလံုးေရာဂၝရႀိတဲ့သူ ဴဖစ္ေတာ့ လဲကဵသၾားတယ္။ လဲကဵသၾားေတာ့ မေနႎုိင္တဲ့ ဴပည္သူတဦးက ဘားလမ္း ေဆး႟ံုကုိ ပုိႛေပးခဲ့တယ္လုိႛ ကဵေနာ္တုိႛ သိရတယ္။ အခု စုစုေႎၾးဟာ သူမရဲ့ေနအိမ္ကုိ ဴပန္လည္ေရာက္ရႀိသၾား႓ပီး ကဵန္းမာေရးအရ အနားယူေနတယ္လုိႛ သိရတဲ့အေဳကာင္း NLD ေဴပာခၾင့္ရ ပုဂၢႂိလ္က ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ရက္ ဒီကေနႛ ေနႛလည္ ၂ နာရီေလာက္ကလည္း ရန္ကုန္၊ တာေမၾ႓မိႂႚနယ္ တာေမၾေစဵးအနီးမႀာ လူ ၅ ေယာက္ေလာက္က ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵးႎႁန္း ကဵဆင္းေရး ေ႔ကးေဳကာ္႓ပီး ဆႎၬဴပခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ သူတုိႛကုိ အာဏာပုိင္ေတၾက လုိက္ခံဖမ္းဆီးေပမဲ့ ဆႎၬဴပသူလူငယ္ေတၾဟာ တာေမၾေစဵးထဲ ဝင္ေရာက္႓ပီး ထၾက္ေဴပး လၾတ္ေဴမာက္သၾားတယ္လုိႛ မဵက္ဴမင္သက္ေသတခဵႂိႚက ေဴပာဴပပၝတယ္။

အလားတူပဲ လႁိင္သာယာ႓မိႂႚသစ္ GTC စက္မႁလက္မႁေကဵာင္းက ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾကလည္း ႓မိႂႚဴပင္ရႀိ ေကဵာင္းကေန႓ပီးေတာ့ ႓မိႂႚထဲကုိ ခဵီတက္ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ဳကတယ္လုိႛ သိရပၝတယ္။ လက္ရႀိ ေနရာ အေတာ္မဵားမဵားမႀာ ဴဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲေတၾနဲႛ ပတ္သက္လုိႛ ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္တဦးဴဖစ္တဲ့ ကုိထၾန္းဴမင့္ေအာင္က လူထုအေနနဲႛ အခုထက္ပို႓ပီး ပၝဝင္လာႎိုင္ဖိုႛ လိုေဳကာင္း ေနႛတိုင္းဆႎၬဴပမႁေတၾမႀာ ၁၀ဦး ပတ္ဝန္းကဵင္ေလာက္ ေပးဆပ္ေနရေဳကာင္း အကယ္၍ လူထုကသာ နီးနီးကပ္ကပ္ ပၝဝင္လာမယ္ဆိုရင္ အခုလို ဖမ္းတာဆီးတာေတၾ ကဵိန္းေသေပၝက္ ေလဵာ့သၾားမႀာဴဖစ္တယ္လိုႛ ေဴပာဆိုပၝတယ္။ လူထုအေနနဲႛ ရပ္ဳကည့္တဲ့ အဆင့္ကေန ကိုယ္ရဲ့ ရပိုင္ခၾင့္ေတၾကို ရေအာင္ယူဖိုႛ လိုတယ္လိုႛ ေဴပာသၾားပၝတယ္။

ဒီကေနႛ လႀည္းတန္းဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမႀာ ဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသူ အနည္းဆုံး ၆ ဦး ရႀိတယ္လုိႛ စုံစမ္းသိရႀိရပၝတယ္။ အဲဒီအထဲမႀာ NLD ပၝတီဝင္ ၃ ဦးပၝဝင္တယ္လုိႛ NLD အသုိင္းအဝန္းက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။ ႓ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ သီတင္းပတ္ကစလုိႛ ခုခဵိန္ထိ ဖမ္းဆီးခံထားရသူ ၁၀၀ ေကဵာ္သၾား႓ပီလုိႛ ဴပည္တၾင္း ဆႎၬဴပ လႁပ္ရႀားသူေတၾက ေဴပာဆုိပၝတယ္။

ေကဵာင္းသားေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုမင္းကုိႎုိင္ကုိေတာ့ မဂႆလာဒုံ၊ ေလတပ္ ဴပႂဴပင္ထိန္းသိမ္းစခန္းနဲႛ တပ္မေတာ္ေဂၝက္ကၾင္းအနီး အသစ္ဖၾင့္ထားတဲ့ စစ္ေဳကာေရး႟ုံးမႀာ ဖမ္းဆီးထားတယ္လုိႛ ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ေကဵာင္းသား အသိုင္းအဝုိင္းက RFA ကုိ ေဴပာဆုိပၝတယ္။

ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵး ဴပန္ခဵေပးေရး ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ဒိုင္ယာရီ (၂၀၀၇ ခုႎႀစ္၊ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ အဂႆၝေနႚ)

၂၀၀၇ ခုႎႀစ္၊ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ေနႚ ရန္ကုန္မႀာ ဴဖစ္ပၾားခဲ့တဲ့ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ သတင္း ဴဖစ္စဥ္ အကဵဥ္းနဲႚ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ဓာတ္ပံု ေတၾကို စုေဆာင္း တင္ဴပ ေပးလိုက္တာ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။

ဓာတ္ပံု - ဒီဗီၾဘီ။

ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵး ဴပန္ခဵေပးေရး ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ဒိုင္ယာရီ (၂၀၀၇ ခုႎႀစ္၊ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ အဂႆၝေနႚ)

လူ ၁၅ ဦးေလာက္က မၾန္းလၾဲ ၁ နာရီ ၁၅ မိနစ္ ခန္ႛမႀာ ကမာ႟ၾတ္ ႓မိႂႚနယ္ လႀည္းတန္းေစဵး ေရႀႚကစ႓ပီး လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ပၾဲ ဴပႂလုပ္ ဳကတယ္။ အဲဒီေနာက္ လႀည္းတန္း မီးပၾိႂင့္၊ လႀည္းတန္း မီးပၾိႂင့္ ကေန အင္းစိန္ လမ္းမ ဘက္ကို ဆက္လက္ ခဵီတက္ လာရာ၊ အင္းစိန္ လမ္းမ ေပၞမႀာ မစုစုေႎၾး ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ လူအခဵႂိႚ လာေရာက္ ပူးေပၝင္း႓ပီး ဆက္လက္ ခဵီတက္ လာဳကတယ္။ရန္ကုန္ - အင္းစိန္ လမ္းမ လႀည္းတန္း ကားမႀတ္တုိင္ အလၾန္ ေရာက္တဲ့ အခၝ မႀာေတာ့ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပ သူေတၾကို ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚနဲႚ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ ေတၾက ႟ိုင္းစိုင္းစၾာ အဳကမ္းဖက္႓ပီး ကားေတၾ ေပၞကို အဓမၳ ဆၾဲတင္ရန္ ႒ကိႂးစား ဳကတဲ့ အခၝ၊ မခံမရပ္ ႎိုင္တဲ့ ေဘးအနီးနားရႀိ ဴပည္သူလူထုက ဝင္ေရာက္ စၾက္ဖက္ ကယ္တင္ ခဲ့လိုႚ ဆႎၬ ေဖာ္ထုတ္သူ အခဵႂိႚ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ သၾားခဲ့ရ႓ပီး၊ ရဲသိန္းေနာင္ (ေခဵာက္)၊ ေကဵာ္စိုးဝင္း (လႀိႂင္သာယာ)၊ ဘိုဘိုဝင္းလိႁင္ (ေဒၝပံု)၊ သန္ႛဇင္ဦး (လိႁင္သာယာ)၊ ေအးႎိုင္ (အင္းစိန္) တိုႚ ၅ ဦး ဖမ္းဆီး ေခၞေဆာင္ သၾားဴခင္း ခံခဲ့ရတယ္။

လႀည္းတန္း လမ္းဆံုမႀာ ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚ အသင္းဝင္ေတၾ၊ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ေတၾ စတဲ့ တားဆီး သူေတၾနဲႛ ေနာက္ထပ္ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပမယ့္ လူေတၾ ႟ုန္းရင္း ဆန္ခတ္ ဴဖစ္ေန႓ပီး ကားမႀတ္တိုင္က ခရီးသၾား ဴပည္သူေတၾက ဆႎၬဴပ သူေတၾကို အားေပး ေနတယ္လိုႚ မဵက္ဴမင္ တဦးက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚနဲႚ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ အမည္ခံ လူမိုက္ ရမ္းကား ေတၾရဲႚ လူမဆန္စၾာ အဳကမ္းဖက္ တိုက္ခိုက္မႁ ကေန လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ရန္ ထၾက္ေဴပး လာသူ မစုစုေႎၾးနဲႚ အဖၾဲႚ။

ဆႎၬ ဴပသူ ေတၾကို ထပ္မံ ဖမ္းဆီးမယ့္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ဒုိင္နာကား ၃ စီး အသင့္ ရႀိေန႓ပီး၊ ဆႎၬဴပ သူေတၾကို ဖမ္းဆီးဖိုႚ အသင့္ ေစာင့္ေနတဲ့ အရပ္ဝတ္ ေတၾက လႀည္းတန္း လမ္းဆံု ဴပည္ဴမန္မာ ကုန္တုိက္၊ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆုိင္ တခဵႂိႚနဲႚ ကားမႀတ္တုိင္ ေတၾမႀာ ရႀိေနတဲ့ အဴပင္ ေမာ္ေတာ္ဆိုင္ကယ္ အစီး ၂၀ ေလာက္လည္း အဲဒီ အနီးတဝိုက္ ရႀိေနပၝတယ္။

လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပ သူေတၾကို အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ေနစဥ္ မူးေမ့ လဲကဵ သၾားတဲ့ မစုစုေႎၾးကုိ အနီးနားက လူတေယာက္က ကားငႀား႓ပီး ဘားလမ္္း (မဟာ ဗႎၭႂလ ပန္းဴခံလမ္း) က ေဆး႟ုံကို လုိက္ပိုႚ ေပးေဳကာင္း မဵက္ဴမင္ ေတၾႚသူ တဦးက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဆႎၬဴပသူ ေတၾကို အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး႓ပီး ကားေပၞ တင္ေနတဲ့ အတၾက္ "မတရားတာ မလုပ္နဲႚ" လိုႚ အနားကေန ဝိုင္းေဴပာတဲ့ ဴပည္သူ ၂ ဦး ကိုလည္း အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက ဝိုင္းဝန္း ထိုး႒ကိတ္႓ပီး ကားေပၞ ဆၾဲတင္ သၾားတယ္ လုိႚလည္း အဲဒီ မဵက္ဴမင္ သက္ေသက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ဒၝ့အဴပင္ မစၤတာ ဘေရာင္း ေကာ္ဖီဆိုင္ အေပၞထပ္ ကဵႃရႀင္ ေကဵာင္းထဲက လူသုံးဦး ကုိလဲ ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚ ေတၾက ဖမ္းဆီး သၾားတယ္လိုႛ စုံစမ္း သိရႀိ ရပၝတယ္။

၁၁ နာရီ ခန္ႚမႀာ အမဵႂိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ အဖၾဲႚဝင္ အမဵႂိးသမီး ေတၾဟာ အပတ္စဥ္ ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ ေနကဵ အတုိင္း သံဃာေတာ္ အပၝး (၂၀၀) ကို ဆၾမ္းေလာင္း လႀႃ႓ပီးေနာက္ ရန္ကုန္ ေ႟ၿတိဂံု ေစတီ အနီးက မဟာဝိဇယ ေစတီ နားရႀိ ေဘးမဲ့ကန္ကို သၾားေရာက္႓ပီး ငၝးစာ ေက႗းဳက ပၝတယ္။

ကုသုိလ္ ဴပႂဖုိႚ သၾားေရာက္ သူေတၾ အနက္ ကန္ဴခံဝင္း ထဲကို ၅ ဦး ဝင္အ႓ပီးမႀာ ကန္တံခၝးေစာင့္က တံခၝးကုိ ပိတ္လိုက္႓ပီး ကဵန္ ၅ ဦးကို ဴခံစည္း႟ုိးထဲ ဝင္ခၾင့္ မဴပႂဘဲ တားဴမစ္ တာေဳကာင့္ ေရာက္ရာ ေနရာ အသီးသီး ကပဲ ေကာင္းမႁ ကုသိုလ္ဴပႂ အမ႖ ေဝဳက ရပၝတယ္။

ကုသိုလ္ဴပႂ႓ပီး အဴပန္မႀာ မႀတ္တမ္းတင္ ဓာတ္ပုံ ႟ုိက္တဲ့ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ အဖၾဲႚဝင္ ကိုဝင္းခိုင္နဲႚ ကိုေအာင္ထူး တိုႚကို ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚ အသင္းသား ေတၾနဲႚ ေထာက္လႀမ္းေရးလိုႚ ယူဆ ရသူ ေတၾက ကားေပၞ တင္႓ပီး ဖမ္းဆီး ေခၞေဆာင္ သၾားတယ္လိုႚ ဗဟို အမဵႂိးသမီး လုပ္ငန္း အဖၾဲႚ တာဝန္ခံ ေဒၞေအးေအးမာက ေဴပာဴပ ပၝတယ္။ (ဒီဗီၾဘီ)

ေဒၞေအာင္ဆန္းစုဳကည္နဲႛ ႎိုင္ငံေရး အကဵဥ္းသား အားလုံး လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ေရး ဝတ္ဴပႂ ဆုေတာင္းပၾဲကုိ မႎၩေလး ႓မိႂႚမႀာ ဒီကေနႛ မနက္က လုပ္ေဆာင္ ခဲ့တယ္လိုႛ ကုိယ္တိုုင္ ပၝဝင္ခဲ့သူ ကုိဖိုးေဇာ္က အခုလို ေဴပာဴပ ပၝတယ္။

"အမဵႂိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ အေထၾေထၾ အတၾင္းေရးမႀႃး ေဒၞေအာင္ဆန္းစုဳကည္ နဲႛတကၾ ဦးတင္ဦး အပၝအဝင္၊ (၈၈) မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသား ကုိမင္းကုိႎိုင္တိုႛ အပၝအဝင္ ႎိုင္ငံေရး အကဵဥ္းသား အားလုံး လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ဖိုႚ အတၾက္ ကဵေနာ္တိုႛ ဒီေနႛ ေငၾေတာင္တိုက္၊ ရန္ကုန္ ေကဵာင္းမႀာ ဴပႂလုပ္ ပၝတယ္။ အဲဒီကမႀ တဆင့္ ေပၝင္းလဲ တိုက္မႀာ ကဵေနာ္တိုႚ ဝတ္ဴပႂဆု ေတာင္းပၝတယ္။"

မႎၩေလးတုိင္း မိတီၪလာ ႓မိႂႚနယ္ အမဵႂိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ကလဲ ဒီကေနႛ ဆၾမ္းေလာင္း လႀႃပၾဲနဲႛ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ ဴပႂလုပ္ ခဲ့တယ္လုိႚ သိရပၝတယ္။ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ လၿတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလႀယ္ ေဒၝက္တာ သိန္းလၾင္နဲႛ အတၾင္းေရးမႀႃး ေဒၞဴမင့္ဴမင့္ေအးတုိႛ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ဝင္ (၂၀) ေလာက္ ႓မိႂႚတၾင္း လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬ ဴပခဲ့တာ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။

ဒီအဳကာင္း အပၝအဝင္ မိတီၪလာ ခ႟ုိင္ အတၾင္းက အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဝင္ေတၾ ဒီကေနႛ ဴပႂလုပ္တဲ့ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ေတၾနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး ေဒၞဴမင့္ဴမင့္ေအးက အခုလုိ ေဴပာဴပပၝတယ္။

"ဒီေနႛ ကေတာ့ ကဵမတုိႛ အဂႆၝေနႛ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ေပၝ့ေလ။ ေဒၞေအာင္ဆန္းစုဳကည္ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ေရး ဆၾမ္းေလာင္းလႀႃပၾဲ လုပ္တယ္။ လုပ္႓ပီးေတာ့ ကဵမတုိႛ လူစု မိတာနဲႛ ဆၾမ္းေလာင္းပၾဲဟာ ဆၾမ္းေလာင္းပၾဲပဲ၊ တကယ့္ တကယ္ေတာ့ ဟုိဟာေပၝ့ ဆႎၬဴပ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္မႁကုိ လုပ္ခဵင္တဲ့ ဆႎၬနဲႛ လုပ္ခဲ့တာပၝ။ အမႀန္ကေတာ့ အဲဒီတာ့ ပထမ လမ္းမေတာ္ ကေန ႓ပီးေတာ့ မီးပၾိင့္ ေထာင့္ကို ေရာက္တယ္။ မီးပၾိင့္ ကေန ႓ပီးေတာ့ နာရီစင္ ဘက္ကို ဆက္ေလ႖ာက္ ခဲ့႓ပီးေတာ့ ရန္ကုန္ - မႎၩေလး လမ္းမ႒ကီး ေပၞကေန ဆက္ေလ႖ာက္တယ္ ေပၝ့ေလ။ ကားဝင္း႒ကီး ဘက္ကေန ႓ပီးေတာ့ ေစဵး အေရႀႚက ပတ္လမ္း ဘက္ကို ကဵမတုိႚ ခဵႂိး႓ပီးေတာ့ ဆက္ေလ႖ာက္ လာတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ဆုိင္ကယ္ ေတၾနဲႚ လုိက္႓ပီးေတာ့ သတင္း ေထာက္တာေတၾ၊ သိရတာေတာ့ ဳကံ့ဖၾတ္ အဓိက ေပၝ့ေလ။ ဳကံ့ဖၾတ္ရယ္ ေနာက္ထပ္က ဆုိင္ကယ္ ပၾဲစားေတၾ ေနာက္ထပ္ ပၝတယ္လုိႛ သိရတယ္။ ဓာတ္ပုံ႟ုိက္ ယူတာေတၾ၊ သတင္း ယူတာေတၾ ရႀိတယ္။ ေႎႀာက္ယႀက္မႁေတၾ ကေတာ့ မရႀိပၝဘူး။ ကဵမတုိႛ ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးပဲ။ အားလုံး (၂) မုိင္ နီးပၝးေလာက္ ေလ႖ာက္သေလာက္ ဴဖစ္သၾား တာေပၝ့ေလ။

အဲဒီေတာ့ မိတီၪလာ အေနနဲႛ ကေတာ့ ေဒၞေအာင္ဆန္းစုဳကည္ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ေရးကုိ ဆက္လုပ္တယ္။ အဲလုိပဲ ေတာင္သာ မႀာလဲ လုပ္တယ္။ ဝမ္းတၾင္း မႀာလဲ ဆက္လုပ္တယ္။ သာစည္မႀာ ဆုိလုိႛ ရႀိရင္လဲ ကုကၠိႂမႀာ လုပ္တယ္ ဆုိတာေလး ကဵမတုိႛ သတင္း ရရႀိပၝတယ္။ ေပဵာ္ဘၾယ္ ဘက္မႀာ လဲပဲ အစည္းအေဝး လုပ္တယ္။ အဲဒၝကုိ ေႎႀာက္ယႀက္တာ ေပၝ့ေလ။ လူေတၾ အမဵား႒ကီးနဲႛ။ အဲဒၝ ကုိလဲ ကဵမတုိႛ သတင္း ရရႀိ ပၝတယ္။"

ယေနႚ ေနႚလည္ပိုင္းက စစ္ေတၾ ႓မိႂႚမႀာ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾနဲႚ ကိုရင္ အပၝး ၂၀၀ ေကဵာ္ဟာ စီတန္း လႀည့္လည္႓ပီး ေလာင္စာဆီ ေစဵးႎႁန္းနဲႚ ကုန္ေစဵးႎႁန္း တိုင္းဴမၟင့္မႁ ေတၾကို ဆန္ႚကဵင္ ကန္ႚကၾက္တဲ့ အေနနဲႚ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ခဲ့ဳကပၝတယ္။

သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾနဲႚ ကိုရင္ေတၾ အမဵားစု ပၝဝင္႓ပီး၊ လူ တေယာက္ ႎႀစ္ေယာက္သာ ပၝဝင္တဲ့ ဒီဆႎၬ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ပၾဲကို အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက ေစာင့္ဳကည့္မႁ ေတၾသာ လုပ္ခဲ့႓ပီး တစံုတရာ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ဴခင္း မရႀိဘူးလုိႚ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမႀာ ပၝဝင္တဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ တပၝးက မိန္ႚဳကား ခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ (အဲန္အမ္ဂဵီ)

၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသား ေခၝင္းေဆာင္ တဦး ဴဖစ္သူ ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ ေခတၨ တိမ္းေရႀာင္ ေနတဲ့ ေနရာကို စစ္အစိုးရ အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက မေနႚညမႀာ စီးနင္း ရႀာေဖၾ ခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ သၾားပၝတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚ တေနရာမႀာ ပုန္းေအာင္း ေနတဲ့ ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ အခဵိန္မီ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ သၾားေဳကာင္း ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသား ေခၝင္းေဆာင္ ကိုလႀမဵႂိးေနာင္က ဒီဗၾီဘီကို အခု မနက္ ၁၀ နာရီမႀာ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ ထိုင္း - ဴမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ဘက္ကို ထၾက္ေဴပး တိမ္းေရႀာင္ သၾား႓ပီ ဴဖစ္ေဳကာင္း ထၾက္ေပၞ ေနတဲ့ သတင္း ေတၾဟာ မႀားယၾင္းေဳကာင္း ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္နဲႚ ဒီေနႚ မနက္ အဆက္အသၾယ္ ရရႀိတဲ့ ကိုလႀမဵႂိးေနာင္က ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

သူက "အဲဒၝ သတင္းမႀားပၝ။ ကဵေနာ္တိုႚ တုိင္ပင္ ဆံုးဴဖတ္ခဵက္ ခဵထား ႓ပီးသားပၝ။ ဒီလိုမဵႂိး နယ္စပ္ ေဒသဘက္ ထၾက္ေဴပး သၾားဖိုႚ ဆိုတဲ့ အစီအစဥ္မဵႂိး မရႀိပၝဘူး။ ဴပည္တၾင္းမႀာ ရႀိတဲ့ လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ေတၾကိုပဲ ဘယ္လို ဦးေဆာင္မႁ ေပးရ မလဲ ဆိုတာ ကဵေနာ္တုိႚ တုိင္ပင္ ထား႓ပီးသား၊ ဆံုးဴဖတ္ခဵက္ ခဵ႓ပီးသား" လိုႚ ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

ေလာင္စာဆီ ေစဵးႎႁန္း ဴပန္ေလ႖ာ့ခဵေရး လူထု ေတာင္းဆို ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲ ေတၾကို ဦးေဆာင္ ခဲ့သူေတၾ အနက္ တဦး အပၝအဝင္ ဴဖစ္တဲ့ ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ကို ဴမန္မာ စစ္အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက လုိက္လံ ရႀာေဖၾ ေန႓ပီး ကိုေဌး႔ကယ္ရဲႚ ဓာတ္ပံု ေတၾကို ဴဖန္ႚေဝ ထားပၝတယ္။

၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾ အပၝအဝင္ ေလာင္စာဆီ ေစဵးႎႁန္း ကဵဆင္းေရး ဆႎၬဴပ လႁပ္ရႀား ေနသူ ေတၾကို အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက ဖမ္းဆီး ရႀာေဖၾ ေနတဲ့ အဴပင္ သူတိုႚ တေတၾ ေရာက္ႎိုင္မယ္ ထင္တဲ့ ဘုန္းေတာ္႒ကီး ေကဵာင္းေတၾ မႀာလည္း အာဏာပိုင္ ေတၾက လုံဴခႂံေရး တင္းတင္းဳကပ္ဳကပ္ ခဵထားတယ္လုိႛ သံဃာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။ အိတ္ခဵ္အုိင္ဗၾီ ေအအုိင္ဒီအက္စ္ ေဝဒနာရႀင္ ေတၾကို ေနထုိင္ခၾင့္ ေပးထားတဲ့ သဃႆန္းက႗န္း ႓မိႂႚနယ္က မဂၢင္ ေကဵာင္းတိုက္ အနီးတဝုိက္မႀာ အရပ္ဝတ္ ရဲေတၾ၊ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ အဖၾဲႚ ေတၾနဲႚ လံုဴခံႂေရး အထူး တင္းဳကပ္ ထားတာ ေတၾႚရ တယ္လိုႚ အဲဒီ ေကဵာင္းတုိက္က သံဃာေတာ္ တပၝးက ေဴပာပၝတယ္။

၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားေတၾ အပၝအဝင္ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္္းစၾာ ဆႎၬဴပ ေနသူေတၾ အေပၞ စစ္အစိုးရရဲႚ ဖမ္းဆီးမႁ၊ အဳကမ္းဖက္မႁ ေတၾကို လက္တုံႚဴပန္ သၾားမယ္လိုႚ ဴမန္မာႎိုင္ငံ တၾင္းမႀာ ဖၾဲႚစည္း လႁပ္ရႀား ေနတဲ့ မဵႂိးခဵစ္ လူငယ္ တပ္ဦး အဖၾဲႚက ဒီေနႚ ေဳကညာခဵက္ ထုတ္ဴပန္ ပၝတယ္။

ဴပည္သူေတၾ ခံစား ေနရတဲ့ အေထၾေထၾ ဆင္းရဲ ဳကပ္တည္းမႁ ေဘးဆိုး႒ကီး ကေန လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ဖိုႚ နည္းလမ္း မဵႂိးစံု ကဵင့္သံုး အေဴဖရႀာ သၾားမယ္လိုႚ ေဳကညာခဵက္မႀာ ပၝရႀိ ပၝတယ္။ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ ဆႎၬဴပ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ ေနတာေတၾ အေပၞ မတရား ဖိႎႀိပ္ ညၟဥ္းပမ္း ဖမ္းဆီးတဲ့ အဖၾဲႚအစည္း အားလံုးကုိ ေခၝင္းငံုႚ မခံဘဲ ဴပင္းဴပင္းထန္ထန္ တံုႚဴပန္မယ္ လိုႚလည္း ပၝရႀိ ပၝတယ္။ (ဒီဗီၾဘီ)

ဒီကေနႛ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ေနႛဟာ ဆုိရင္ လၾန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၉ ႎႀစ္၊ ၁၉၈၈ ခုႎႀစ္ တုန္းက လူထု လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ အတၾင္း ဗကသမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဴဖစ္တဲ့ ဗမာႎုိင္ငံလုံး ဆုိင္ရာ ေကဵာင္းသား သမဂၢမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဆုိတာကုိ မင္းကုိႎုိင္၊ ကုိကုိ႒ကီး၊ မုိးသီးဇၾန္တုိႚ ဦးေဆာင္ ႓ပီးေတာ့ ဖၾဲႚစည္း ခဲ့တဲ့ေနႚ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ ဒၝနဲႛ တုိက္တုိက္ဆုိင္ဆုိင္ ဆုိသလုိပဲ ဗကသမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ကုိ ဴပန္႓ပီး ဖၾဲႚစည္းတယ္ ဆုိတဲ့ ေဳကညာခဵက္ တေစာင္လည္း ဒီကေနႛ ရန္ကုန္ကေန ထၾက္လာပၝတယ္။

"ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသား ညီအကုိေတာ္ မဵား၏ သမုိင္းေပး တာဝန္ကုိ ပခုံးေဴပာင္း ထမ္းေဆာင္ ရမည့္ မိမိတုိႛ မဵႂိးဆက္သစ္ ေကဵာင္းသား မဵားသည္ ရာဇဝင္ အစဥ္အလာ ထၾန္းေဴပာင္ ခဲ့သည့္ ဗမာႎုိင္ငံလုံး ဆုိင္ရာ ေကဵာင္းသား သမဂၢမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ကုိ ယေနႛမႀ စ၍ ဴပန္လည္ စုစည္း လုိက္သည္။ ေကဵာင္းသား ရႀိရင္ ေကဵာင္းသား သမဂၢ ရႀိရမည္။"

ဒီကေနႛ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၈ ရက္ေနႛ ရက္စၾဲနဲႛ ထုတ္ဴပန္ ခဲ့တဲ့ ဗကသမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဗဟုိ စည္း႟ုံးေရး ေကာ္မီတီရဲႚ ထုတ္ဴပန္ခဵက္ကုိ ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚက ေကဵာင္းသား တဦး ဖတ္ဴပ ခဲ့တာပၝ။

"ကဵေနာ္တုိႛ ဗမာ တႎုိင္ငံလုံးက ေကဵာင္းေတၾ အားလုံး၊ တကၠသုိလ္ေတၾ အားလုံး၊ ေကာလိပ္နဲႛ သိပၯံေတၾ အားလုံး ရႀိသမ႖ ေကဵာင္းေတၾ အားလုံးကုိ ကဵေနာ္ တုိႚဟာ အေဴခခံ ႓ပီးေတာ့ ဖၾဲႚစည္းဖုိႚ ရည္႟ၾယ္ခဵက္လည္း ရႀိပၝတယ္။ ႒ကိႂးလည္း ႒ကိႂးစား ေနပၝတယ္။" လိုႚ ဗကသမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဗဟုိ စည္း႟ုံးေရး ေကာ္မီတီရဲႚ ေဴပာခၾင့္ရသူ ကုိေကဵာ္ကုိကုိက ေဴပာဳကား ခဲ့ပၝတယ္။

ဗကသမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္ ဴပန္လည္ ဖၾဲႚစည္းတယ္ ဆုိေတာ့ တခဵိန္တုန္းက ၈၈ တုန္းက ရႀိတဲ့ ေကဵာင္းသား သမဂၢေတၾ၊ ေကဵာင္းသား ေခၝင္းေဆာင္ေတၾ အားလုံး ပၝဝင္ ဖၾဲႚစည္း ထားတဲ့ ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားမဵား အဖၾဲႚနဲႚေရာ ဘာကၾာဴခားလဲ၊ ေနာက္ သူတုိႛနဲႛ ပတ္သက္လုိႚေရာ ဘယ္လုိ သေဘာ ထားရႀိလဲ ဆုိတဲ့ အေမး ကိုေတာ့ "၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားမဵား အဖၾဲႚ ကုိေတာ့ ကဵေနာ္တုိႚက ေလးစားတယ္။ ရည္႟ၾယ္ခဵက္ေတၾ၊ သူတုိႚရဲႚ ခံယူခဵက္ေတၾ အကုန္လုံးကုိ ကဵေနာ္တိုႚ ႎႀစ္သက္ သေဘာ ကဵတယ္။ ကဵေနာ္တုိႚက သူတုိႚရဲႚ အစဥ္အလာကုိ ပခံုးေဴပာင္း တာဝန္ ယူထားတဲ့ ေကဵာင္းသား သမဂၢ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ သူတုိႚနဲႚ မပတ္သက္ ေသာ္ဴငားလည္း သူတုိႚရဲႚ ခၾပ္ေဒၝင္း စိတ္ဓာတ္ကုိ အ႓မဲတမ္း ေလးစား ေနမႀာ ဴဖစ္တယ္။" လိုႚ ကိုေကဵာ္ကိုကိုက ဴပန္လည္ ေဴဖဳကား ခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ (ဗီၾအုိေအ)

ရဟန္းရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္းသုိႛ ပန္ဳကားခဵက္

(၂၀၀၇ ခုႎႀစ္ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၆ ရက္)

၁။ ယေနႛ ခဵိန္ခၝတၾင္ စစ္အစုိးရ အာဏာပုိင္မဵား ဘက္မႀ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း၏ စားဝတ္ ေနေရး ဆုိင္ရာ အခက္အခဲ အဳကပ္အတည္း မဵားကုိ ငဲ့ကၾက္ စဥ္းစား ေထာက္ထား စာနာဴခင္း မရႀိဘဲ ေလာင္စာဆီ ေစဵးႎႁန္းမဵား အဆမတန္ တုိးဴမၟင့္ လုိက္မႁေဳကာင့္ ေနာက္ဆက္တၾဲ ေပၞေပၝက္ လာသည့္ အေထၾေထၾ ကုန္ေစဵးႎႁန္း ဴမင့္တက္မႁႎႀင့္ နိစၤဓူဝ သၾားလာ လႁပ္ရႀား ေနရေသာ ခရီး စရိတ္မဵား ႒ကီးဴမင့္မႁ ဒဏ္ကုိ စစ္အစုိးရ အဆင့္ဴမင့္ အရာရႀိ႒ကီး မဵားႎႀင့္ ၎တုိႛ လက္ေဝခံ ခၝးပုိက္ေဆာင္ ေရေပၞဆီ လူတန္းစား မဵားမႀ အပ ကဵန္ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း အေနဴဖင့္ ခၝးသီးစၾာ ဳကႂံေတၾႚ ခံစားရလဵက္ ရႀိေန ေပသည္။

၂။ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း ဳကႂံေတၾႚ ခံစား ေနရေသာ စားဝတ္ ေနေရး ဆုိင္ရာ အေထၾေထၾ အခက္အခဲ အကဵပ္အတည္း မဵားကုိ အာဏာပုိင္မဵား ဘက္က လုိအပ္သလုိ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ ေပးရန္ အတၾက္ ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားမဵား၊ လႁပ္ရႀား တက္႔က သူမဵားက ဴပည္သူႚ အခၾင့္အေရးႎႀင့္ အညီ ဆႎၬ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ဴပသမႁ အဴဖစ္ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲမဵား ဴပႂလုပ္ခဲ့မႁ အေပၞ အာဏာပုိင္မဵား ဘက္က စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ အမည္ခံ တနပ္စား လူရမ္းကားမဵား အသုံးဴပႂ၍ အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ႎႀိပ္ကၾပ္မႁမဵား ဴပႂလုပ္ လာခဲ့ သည္ကုိ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း မဵက္ဴမင္ ကုိယ္ေတၾႚပင္ ဴဖစ္သည္။

၃။ ထုိႛေဳကာင့္ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း အေနဴဖင့္ မိမိတုိႛ ရင္ဆုိင္ ဳကႂံေတၾႚ ခံစား ေနရေသာ စားဝတ္ ေနေရး ဆုိင္ရာ အေထၾေထၾ အခက္အခဲ အဳကပ္အတည္း မဵားကုိ အာဏာပုိင္မဵား ဘက္က လုိအပ္ သလုိ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ ေဴဖရႀင္း ေပးရန္ အတၾက္ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ရဟန္း ရႀင္လူ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း အငတ္ေဘးမႀ လၾတ္ေဴမာက္ ေစေရး အတၾက္ တုိက္ပၾဲ ဝင္ခဲ့ေသာ အဖမ္းဆီးခံ ၈၈ မဵႂိးဆက္ ေကဵာင္းသားမဵားႎႀင့္ လႁပ္ရႀား တက္႔ကသူမဵား ခဵက္ခဵင္း လၿတ္ေပးရန္ အတၾက္ လည္းေကာင္း အဳကမ္းမဖက္ လူထု တုိက္ပၾဲကုိ အရႀိန္ဴမၟင့္၍ ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ သၾားရမည္ ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။

၄။ အဳကမ္းမဖက္ လူထု တုိက္ပၾဲ ေကာ္မတီ၏ အစီအစဥ္ဴဖင့္ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႎႀစ္၊ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ ရက္ ညေန ၅ နာရီတၾင္ ရန္ကုန္႓မိႂႚ ဴပည္လမ္း ဴပည္သူႚ လၿတ္ေတာ္ အေဆာက္အအုံေရႀႚ ဴပည္သူ ရင္ဴပင္ ကၾက္လပ္ ေနရာတၾင္ မင္းဆုိး မင္းညစ္ (ရာဇေတာဝၝ) တုိႛ၏ ေဘး၊ လူမဆန္ေသာ သူ (အမႎုႍ) တုိႛ၏ ေဘး၊ အငတ္ေဘး တုိႛမႀ ကင္းလၾတ္ ႎုိင္ေစဴခင္း အလုိႛငႀာ ဴပည္သူတုိႚ၏ ဆင္းရဲ ဒုကၡကုိ ကယ္တင္ ေစာင့္ေရႀာက္မည့္ ရဟန္း သံဃာေတာ္ မဵားက ပရိတ္ တရားေတာ္မဵား ႟ၾတ္ဖတ္မည့္ အဴပင္ မင္းကဵင့္ တရား ဆယ္ပၝးႎႀင့္ အညီ တုိင္းသူ ဴပည္သားမဵား အေပၞ အုပ္ခဵႂပ္ မင္းလုပ္ဴခင္း မဴပႂႎုိင္ ပၝက တုိင္းဴပည္ ပဵက္တတ္ေဳကာင္း ဴမတ္စၾာ ဘုရားရႀင္က ပေသနဒီ ေကာသလ မင္း႒ကီးကုိ ဆုံးမ ေဟာဳကားေတာ္ မူသည့္ ရာေဇာ ဝၝဒသုတ္ တရားေတာ္ ကုိလည္း ေဟာဳကားမည္ ဴဖစ္ပၝ၍ ထုိေဘးရန္ အေပၝင္းမႀ ကင္းေဝး လုိသည့္ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း အေနဴဖင့္ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္႓ပီး ပရိတ္ တရားေတာ္မဵား လာေရာက္ နာယူ ဳကပၝရန္ ေလးစားစၾာဴဖင့္ ပန္ဳကား အပ္ပၝသည္။

၅။ ဴမန္မာဴပည္ တနံတလဵားရႀိ ဴပည္သူ အေပၝင္း အေနဴဖင့္လည္း ထုိေနႛ ထုိရက္ ထုိအခဵိန္ (၂၀၀၇ခုႎႀစ္၊ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၃၁ ရက္ေနႛ ညေန ၅ နာရီ) တၾင္ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ မိမိတုိႛ ႓မိႂႚနယ္မဵား အလုိက္ ဆရာေတာ္ သံဃာေတာ္ မဵားကုိ ပင့္ဖိတ္႓ပီး အလားတူ ပရိတ္ တရားေတာ္ နာယူ ပၾဲမဵား ကဵင္းပ ဴပႂလုပ္ သၾားဳကပၝရန္ တုိက္တၾန္း ႎုိးေဆာ္ အပ္ပၝသည္။

အဳကမ္းမဖက္ လူထု တုိက္ပၾဲ ေကာ္မတီ (မဇ႙ိမ)

မေလးရႀားတၾင္ ကဵင္းပေနတဲ့ မာေဒးကား ေဘာ္လံုး ႓ပိႂင္ပၾဲ အတၾင္း ဴမန္မာက ဇင္ဘာေဘၾကို ၃ ဂိုး ၁ ဂိုးနဲႚ ႎိုင္တဲ့ ဆီမီးဖိုင္နယ္ ပၾဲတၾင္ ပိုစတာ တုိက္ပၾဲ ဆင္ႎၾဲေနသူ ဴမန္မာ မဵႂိးခဵစ္မဵား။

ဆႎၬဴပသူ ေတၾကို မတရား ဖမ္းဆီးေနမႁ အေပၞ ဴပင္းထန္စၾာ ႟ႁတ္ခဵတဲ့ ေဳကညာခဵက္ကို အမဵႂိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္က မေနႚ ညေနဘက္က ထုတ္ဴပန္ခဲ့႓ပီး၊ ဒီေဳကညာခဵက္ ထဲမႀာ ဒီလို အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ေနမႁဟာ ဗုဒၭဘာသာ ယဥ္ေကဵးမႁ နဲႛလဲ ဆန္ႛကဵင္ ေနတယ္၊ ဥပေဒနဲႛ မညီတဲ့ ဥပေဒမဲ့ ဖမ္းေနတာ ဴဖစ္လုိႛ ဒၝေတၾကို ႟ႁတ္ခဵေဳကာင္း ေဖာ္ဴပ ထားပၝတယ္။ (ဒီဗီၾဘီ)

ဴမန္မာ ႎိုင္ငံမႀာ မဳကာ ေသးခင္က ဴဖစ္ခ့ဲ့တဲ့ ဖမ္းဆီးမႁ ေတၾဟာ လူမႁ အခၾင့္အေရး ေတၾကို ဴမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရက ေလးစား လိုက္နာမႁ မရႀိ တာကို ဴပသတဲ့ ေနာက္ထပ္ နမူနာ တခု ဴဖစ္တယ္ ဆို႓ပီး ဒိန္းမတ္ ႎိုင္ငံဴခားေရး ဝန္႒ကီးက ဴပစ္တင္ ႟ႁံႚခဵ လိုက္ပၝတယ္။ ဴမန္မာ ႎိုင္ငံမႀာ မဳကာ ေသးခင္က ဴဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ ဆႎၬဴပ သူေတၾကို ဴမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရက အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ႎႀိပ္ကၾပ္ ခဲ့တာေတၾ အေပၞ ဒိန္းမတ္ အစိုးရက ဴပစ္တင္ ႟ႁံႚခဵေဳကာင္း မေနႚက ေနႚစၾဲနဲႚ ထုတ္ဴပန္တဲ့ ေဳကညာခဵက္ ထဲမႀာ ဒိန္းမတ္ ႎိုင္ငံဴခားေရး ဝန္႒ကီးက အခုလို ေဴပာထားတာ ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။ (ဗီၾအုိေအ)

ဆႎၬဴပသူ တဦးကို ဳကံ့ဖၾံႚနဲႚ စၾမ္းအားရႀင္ အမည္ခံ လူမိုက္ ရမ္းကား ေတၾက လူမဆန္စၾာ အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ေခၞေဆာင္ သၾားစဥ္။

ဴမန္မာ ႎုိင္ငံမႀာ အာဏာပုိင္ ေတၾက ေလာင္စာဆီ ေစဵးႎႁန္းေတၾ ႟ုတ္တရက္ အဆမတန္ တုိးဴမၟင့္လုိက္ ႓ပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ႓ငိမ္း႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းခဵမ္း ဆႎၬ ဴပခဲ့ဳက သူေတၾကုိ ဥပေဒမဲ့ အဳကမ္းဖက္ ဖမ္းဆီး ႎႀိမ္နင္း ေနတဲ့ အတၾက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖၾဲႚ႒ကီးက ဳကားဝင္ ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ ေပးဖုိႛ ITUC လုိႛ ေခၞတဲ့ အဴပည္ဴပည္ ဆုိင္ရာ အလုပ္သမား သမဂၢမဵား အဖၾဲႚခဵႂပ္က ကုလ သမဂၢ အတၾင္းေရးမႀႃးခဵႂပ္ မစၤတာ ဘန္ကီမၾန္းထံ ဳသဂုတ္လ ၂၇ ရက္ မေနႛက စာေရးသား ေတာင္းဆုိ လုိက္ပၝတယ္၊၊ (အာရ္ဖက္ေအ)

အတိုေကာက္ အမည္အႌၿန္း။
၁။ ဒီဗီၾဘီ - Democratic Voice of Burma (ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ ဴမန္မာ့ အသံ)။
၂။ ဗီၾအုိေအ - Voice of America, Burmese Section (အေမရိကန္ အသံ၊ ဴမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္)။
၃။ မဇ႙ိမ - မဇ႙ိမ အင္တာနက္ သတင္းဌာန၊ ဴမန္မာ ကၾန္ရက္ စာမဵက္ႎႀာမဵား။
၄။ အာရ္ဖက္ေအ - Radio Free Asia, Burmese Section (လၾတ္လပ္ေသာ အာရႀ အသံ၊ ဴမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္)။
၅။ အဲန္အမ္ဂဵီ - Network Media Group (သတင္းႎႀင့္ မီဒီယာ ကၾန္ရက္)။