ပခုကၠႃမႀာ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားကို လၿတ္ေပးလိုက္ဴပီ

မဇၩိမ သတင္းဌာနမွ အခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ တေျပးညီ ထုတ္လႊင့္ေပးေနသည္။
စက္တင္ဘာလ ၆ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္။

6:35 PM
ေနာက္ဆံုးသိရေသာ သတင္းအရ ယမန္ေန႔က အဖမ္းခံထားရေသာ သံဃာေတာ္ ၃ ပါး ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၿပီ ျဖစ္ၿပီး သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ထိန္းသိမ္းထားေသာ အာဏာပိုင္ ၁၃ ဦးကိုလည္း ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးလိုက္ၿပီဟု သိရသည္။

5:48 PM
ပခုကၠဴ အေရးအခင္းတြင္ ကား ၄ စီး မီး႐ႈိ႕ခံရၿပီး အျခား ကား ၂ စီးမွာ အရပ္သားမ်ား ပိုင္ေသာ ကားျဖစ္၍ မီးမရိႈ႕ဘဲ ပက္လက္လွန္ထားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

5:35 PM
ေနာက္ဆံုးရရွိေသာ သတင္းအရ အာဏာပိုင္ ၂ဝ ခန္႔ကို အလယ္ေက်ာင္္း ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း သိမ္ထဲတြင္ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

အလယ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း ဖုန္းလိုင္းကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ျဖတ္ေတာက္လိုက္ရာ ျပန္လည္ဖြင့္ေပးရန္ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းက ဆက္သြယ္ေရး ဌာနကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားထားသည္။

5:13 PM
ေဆး႐ံုကို သံဃာေတာ္ ေရာက္လာျခင္းမရွိဟု ေဆး႐ုံက ျငင္းဆုိ

“ဘာသံဃာေတာ္မွလည္း မလာဘူး။ ဘာ ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူတာမွလည္း မရွိဘူး။ ဟုတ္ၿပီေနာ္။” ဟု မရပ္တန္းေျပာကာ မဇၩိမက သံဃာေတာ္တပါး ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူသည္ ဆိုေသာ သတင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေဆးရံု၏ အတည္ျပဳခ်က္ ေမးရာတြင္ ဖုန္းလာကိုင္သူ တဦးက ေျဖဆိုသြားခဲ့သည္။

4:42 PM
ျပင္ဆင္ခ်က္
အလယ္ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းကို စစ္တပ္က ဝိုင္းထားသည္ ဆုိျခင္းမွာ မဟုတ္မွန္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

4:03 PM
ပခုကၠဴတြင္ တင္းမာေနေသာ အေျခအေနေၾကာင့္ မႏၱေလးဘက္မွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ပခုကၠဴဘက္သို႔ သြားေရာက္ေနၾကေၾကာင္း သတင္း ရရွိသည္။

3:50 PM
စစ္တပ္က ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းကုိ ဝို္င္းထား

“အလယ္တုိက္ႀကီး ေရွ့မွာလည္း ျပည္သူလူထုႏွင့္ စစ္တပ္ေတြ ဝန္းရံထားတယ္။ စစ္တပ္ကလည္း လာျပီး ညိွႏႈိင္းေနတယ္။ ျပည္သူ လူထုကလည္း လက္ခုက္လက္ဝါး တီးျပီးေတာ့ ေထာက္ခံေနတယ္။ တပ္ရင္း တရင္းေလာက္ ရွိတယ္။” ဟု သံဃာေတာ္တပါးက ေျပာျပသည္။

3:33 PM
ရဟန္းတပါး ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍

“ႀကံ့ခုိင္ေရးႏွင့္ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေတြက သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကုိ နံပါတ္ဒုတ္နဲ႔ နားထင္ကုိ ပစ္ရုိက္ လုိက္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ သံဃာတပါးဟာ အထိနာျပီးေတာ့ ေဆးရံု တင္လုိက္ရပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ အဲဒီ သံဃာဟာ ျပန္လြန္ေတာ္မူ သြားပါတယ္။ အဲဒီ သံဃာ ျပန္လြန္ေတာ္မူ သြားတဲ့အတြက္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ေက်ာင္းတုိက္ဌာန အသီးသီးမွာ ဒီသတင္း ပ်ံ့သြားပါတယ္။ ဘုရားရွင္၏ သားေတာ္ ေသြးနီ က်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ့ ငတ္ျပတ္မႈ ျပႆနာဒါဏ္၊ ငတ္တာကုိ ငတ္တယ္လုိ႔ ရုိးသား ေအးခ်မ္းစြာ လမ္းေပၚမွာ ဆႏၵျပျပီးေတာ့ ရုိးသားစြာ ေတာင္းဆုိတာကုိ ဒီလုိမ်ိဳး နားထင္ကုိ နံပါတ္ဒုတ္နဲ႔ ရုိက္သတ္တဲ့အတြက္ တတုိင္းျပည္လံုး ခံစားရပါတယ္။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကလည္း ခံစားရျပီး အားလံုး ဒီသေဘာတရားကုိ ဘယ္လုိ ေျဖရွင္းမလဲ ဘယ္လို လုပ္ၾကမလဲ ဒီအစုိးရကုိ ဘယ္လုိ တရားခ်မလဲ ဆုိတာ ေဆြးေႏြးရင္း သံဃာေတာ္ေတြရဲ့ ဆႏၵကို ပြက္ေလာရုိက္ ေနပါတယ္။” ဟု ပခုကၠဴက သံဃာေတာ္ တပါးက ေျပာျပသည္။

3:05 PM
ပခုကၠဴ အေရးအခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေဒသခံ ရဟန္းတပါးအျမင္

“ျပည္သူေတြကေတာ့ ဒကာႀကီး၊ မေန႔က ကိစၥမွာ သံဃာေတြက ျငိမ္းျငမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႔ ဒါျမိ့ဳကုိ ပတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ေမတၱာပို႔၊ ပရိတ္ရြတ္တာပဲ။ မေန႔တံုးက သံဃာေတြက အထူးသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္ျပီးေတာ့ ဘယ္ပါတီ ဘယ္အဖြဲ႔စည္းကိုမွ ဘယ္သူ ဘာဆိုတာမ်ိဳး၊ သံဃာေတြက ဆႏၵျပတာ တဲ့ အေနလဲ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ တကာႀကီးတို႔လဲ လက္ေတြ႔ ခံစားေနရတဲ့ စကားကုိ ျပည္သူေတြ မေျပာရဲလို႔၊ ဒါ သံဃာေတြက ျပည္သူကိုယ္စား ေျပာေပးတဲ့ အေနနဲ႔ပဲ ပုံသဏၭာန္ေလးပါတယ္။ လက္ေတြ႔ ကုန္ေစ်းႏႈန္းေတြ ခ်ေပးဖို႔ ဒါေလာက္ရယ္။ ဒီကုန္ေစ်းႏႈန္း ခ်ေရးအတြက္ ဆႏၵ ထုတ္ေဖာ္တဲ့ လူေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးထားတာကို လြတ္ေပးဖုိ႔၊ ဒါေလာက္ပဲ။ သံဃာေတြရဲ့ လက္ကမ္း ပံုသဏၭာန္ ပါတယ္ေလ။ အဲ ေျပာတာဆိုတာကလဲ ဦးပဥၨင္းတို႔ ဒို႔အေရး ဘာညာ ဒီလိုေအာ္တာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ မင္းကြန္း ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးရဲ့ ေမတၱာပို႔ကို ပို႔တာပဲေလ။ အဲဒါကုိ ဒီဦးပဥၥင္းတုိ႔ ဒီအေရွ႔တိုက္က အထြက္ ဒီပန္းျခံ မီးပိြဳင့္ဆံု လမ္းမွာ ဒါစစ္တပ္ေရာ၊ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔ေရာ၊ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေရာက မတရားကိုပဲ ဟိုအၾကမ္းဖက္ျပီးေတာ့ သံဃာေတြ ဖမ္းတယ္၊ ရိုက္တယ္။ သံဃာကို ခင္ဗ်ား စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ဗ်ာ။ ဘုန္ႀကီးတပါးကုိ ဓါတ္တိုင္ခ်ည္ျပီးေတာ့ ဟို ခ်ည္တာလဲ ရိုးရိုးခ်ည္တာလဲ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ လည္ပင္းေတြေရာ၊ အကုန္လံုးကိုပဲ ေခြးခ်ည္၊ ႏြားခ်ည္၊ ခ်ည္ျပီးေတာ့ ပါးရိုက္တယ္၊ ေသနတ္ဒင္နဲ႔ ထိုးတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ စဥ္စားၾကည့္ေပေတာ့။ အဲဒါကို ျမင္ေနတဲ့ ျပည္သူေတြက ဘယ္လို ခံစားရမလဲဗ်ာ။ သူတို႔က တကယ္တမ္းက်ေတာ့ ျပည္သူေတြက ျငိမ္းျငမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႔ ဒီလို ဟိုျပည္သူရဲ့ ဆႏၵကို သံဃာေတြက ကိုယ္စား ပို႔ေပးတဲ့ ဒီဘာမွ လက္နက္ မပါတဲ့ သံဃာေတြကို ႏိွပ္ႏိွပ္စက္စက္ လုပ္တယ္ဆိုေတာ့ သံဃာေတြက ဘယ္ခံႏိုင္မလဲ။”

2:40 PM
ပခုကၠဴျမိ့ဳနယ္မွ ဦးပဥၥင္းက မဇၩိမ သို႔ ေျပာျပခ်က္

“အလယ္တိုက္ထဲကုိ သူတုိ႔ တိုင္းအတြင္းေရးမႉးတို႔၊ ျမိ့ဳနယ္က မယက အဖြဲ႔ဝင္တို႔၊ ခရက ဥကၠဌတို႔က ကားငါးစီးေလာက္နဲ႔ သြားတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ ဟိုကဝိုင္းျပီးေတာ့ သံဃာေတြက တိုက္ထဲကုိ မဝင္ဖို႔ ေျပာတယ္တဲ့၊ တုိက္ထဲကို မဝင္ၾကပါနဲ႔။ ခင္ဗ်ာတုိ႔ မဝင္ၾကပါနဲ႔ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ဟုိကလဲ သြားမယ္ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ဇြတ္ကိုဝင္ၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အခုေတာ့ လူေတြလည္း ဖမ္းထားတယ္။”

“အခုေတာ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီးကလဲပဲ ၂-၃ ေထာင္ ေလာက္ရွိတဲ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီးကလဲ၊ အဲဒီေက်ာင္းဝင္း လမ္းမွာေပါ့ေလ။ သံဃာေတြကလည္းပဲ အရမ္းလာတဲ့သူ (အာဏာပိုင္ဘက္က) ေတြ ခ်မွာပဲ ဆိုတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ အဆင္သင့္ ေစာင့္ေနၾကတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ ဘယ္သူမွ မလာဘူး စစ္သားလဲ မလာဘူး။ ရဲလဲ မလာဘူး။ ဟုိလူေတြကိုလည္းပဲ ခုနက တယက အတြင္းေရးမႉးရယ္။ ခယက ဥကၠဌတို႔ကိုလည္းပဲ သံဃာေတြ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္ေလ။ ဖမ္းထားတဲ့ ကိုယ္ေတာ္ေတြ ေတြ႔ရင္ ျပန္လြတ္မယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အေနမ်ိဳး သံဃာ ေတြ ေျပာေနၾကတာေပါ့ေနာ္။”

1:45 PM
ပခုကၠဴေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေန

“သက္ဆိုက္ရာက ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ သြားတယ္။ ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ သြားတဲ့ ကားေတြက တိုင္းသာသနာေရးက ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္မႏၱေလးက ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္ ခယက က ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္တခုက ေအးလြင္ (စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူ) တို႔ဘက္က ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္ျပည္ထဲေရးက ကားတစ္စီး စုစုေပါင္း ငါးစီးသြားတယ္။ အဲဒီ သြားတဲ့အခါမွာ အလယ္တိုက္ကို ေရာက္တဲ့အခါမွာ အဲဒီဘုန္ႀကီးေတြက အဲဒီကားငါးစီးကုိ ဝင္တိုက္တဲ့ ေပးဝင္ျပီးေတာ့ ဝင္းတံခါးေတြ ပိတ္လိုက္တယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ လူေတြကုိလည္း အဲဒီထဲမွာ ထည့္ထားတယ္။ မလြတ္ေသးဘူး။” ဟု ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

အတည္မျပဳႏိုင္ေသးေသာ သတင္းအရ ယမန္ေန႔က ဖမ္းဆီးထားေသာ သံဃာႏွင့္ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးမွသာ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္အတြင္း ေရာက္ရွိေနသူမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္ ထြက္ခြင့္ ျပဳမည္ဟု သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ေတာင္းဆိုထားသည္။

ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ဝန္းက်င္တြင္လည္း လူအနည္းဆံုး ၂ဝဝဝ ခန္႔ ဝိုင္းရံ ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကသည္။

1:15 PM
ေနာက္ထပ္ရရွိေသာ သတင္းအရ ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီခန္႔က စတင္၍ အစိုးရရံုးကား ၄ စီးကို ေဒါသ ထြက္ေနေသာ လူအုပ္စုႀကီးက အလယ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ေရွ့တြင္ မီးတင္ရိႈ႕လိုက္ၾကသည္။

12:40 PM
ကားမီး႐ႈိ႕ခံရ

ပခုကၠဴၿမိ့ဳတြင္ ယမန္ေန႔က ဆႏၵျပပြဲကို စစ္တပ္က အင္အားသံုး ၿဖိဳခြင္းၿပီးေနာက္ သံဃာေတာ္တပါး ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူသြားသည္ ဆိုေသာ သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚေနၿပီးေနာက္ ကားတစီး မီးရိႈ့ခံထားရကာ အေျခအေန တင္းမာေနသည္။

အလယ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္သို႔ စစ္တပ္မ်ား ဝင္ေရာက္လာၿပီး ေက်ာင္းဝင္းတံခါးမ်ား ပိတ္လိုက္သည္။ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ေရွ့တြင္ မာဇဒါ ဂ်စ္ကားတစီး မီးရိႈ့ခံထားရကာ လံုျခံဳေရးမ်ား ေျခခ်င္းလိမ္ေနသည္။

ပခုကၠဴ ေစ်းႀကီးကို နံနက္ပိုင္းတြင္ပင္ ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။

12:30 PM
စစ္ေတြၿမိ့ဳမွာ စစ္ကားေတြ ကင္းလွည့္၊ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေတြ စုဖြဲ႔ေန

စစ္ေတြျမိ့ဳခံ ဦးေက်ာ္စိုးေအာင္၏ ေျပာျပခ်က္

“မေန႔ကေန သူတုိ႔က အင္အားေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးနဲ႔ ျမိ့ဳကို ပတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ကား ၁၆ စီးနဲ႔ အင္အားေတြ ျပျပီးေတာ့ လက္နက္ေတြ အစံုနဲ႔ လမ္းထြက္ကုန္ေတာ့၊ လမ္းမွာေတြေရာ၊ ဘုန္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းမွာေရာ သူတို႔က အင္အား ျပလိုက္တယ္။ ခန္႔မွန္ျပီး ေျပာရမယ္ဆို ၁စီးကုိ ၄-၅-၆ ဆယ္ေလာက္ ရွိမွာေပါ့။”

“မနက္ အေစာႀကီးကတည္က စစ္တပ္ ကား ၈စီးေလာက္ ရွိတယ္ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာက ကား ၁၆ စီးေလာက္ ျဖစ္သြားတယ္ ။ ေန႔လည္ပိုင္းေလာက္ ျဖစ္လိမ့္မယ္ အဲဒီမွာ သူတုိ႔က ဘုန္ႀကီးေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ လမ္းဆံုမွာေတြ အကုန္ခ်လိုက္တယ္။”

“အခု စစ္တပ္က ေနာက္ဆုတ္သြားျပီ ဆိုေတာ့ အခု ရဲအင္အားေတြ သူတုိ႔ ခ်လိုက္တယ္။ ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ ဘယ္က ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး တဦးလဲ မသိဘူး ဗိုလ္မႉး တေယာက္က ရပ္ကြက္တခု လူ ၂ဝ ေတာင္းျပီးေတာ့ စြမ္းအားရွင္ ဆုိျပီးေတာ့ ရပ္ကြက္တိုင္းမွာ ဖြဲ႔လိုက္တယ္။”

“အခု ရပ္ကြက္ေတြမွာက သူတုိ႔ အလုပ္ မရွိတဲ့လူေတြ၊ ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ စိတ္မပါပဲနဲ႔ အတင္း အဓမၼ ရယက လူေတြက ေခါက္ဆြဲေတြ လွဴတယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႔ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ ျပန္ျပီးေတာ့ ေျပးလာခဲ့တယ္ တခ်ိဳ႔ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ အခြင့္အေရးကို ေမွ်ာ္ျပီးေတာ့ အဲဒီမွာထိုင္ေနၾကတယ္။”

“အခု ေနာက္ဆံုး အေျခအေနက ဘူးသီးေတာင္၊ ေမာင္ေတာဘက္က လံုထိန္းေတြ ေရာက္လာတယ္။ ျပႆနာျဖစ္ရင္ ေျဖရွင္းေပးဖို႔ စစ္ေတြမွာရွိတဲ့ ျပည္သူ႔ ရဲေတြနဲ႔ ေပါင္းျပီးေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားတာေပါ့။”

“သူတို႔ လံုျခံဳေရး ခ်ထားတဲ့ ေနရာက တေနရာကို ၂ဝ ေလာက္ရွိမယ္။ ဘုရားႀကီးတို႔ ဒံုးတိုက္ကြင္းတို႔ (ဒံုးတိုက္ကြင္း ဆိုတာ ဘုန္ႀကီးေတြ ပ်ံေတာ္မူတဲ့အခါ သုသာန္ကြင္းကုိ ေျပာတာပါတဲ့) ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ တကၠသိုလ္ ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ အဲဒီလို ေနရာေတြေပါ့။”

11:50 AM
မႏၱေလး စည္ပင္သာယာက အိမ္ခြန္၊ ေရခြန္၊ ေျမခြန္၊ မိလႅာခြန္ စသည့္ အခြန္အခမ်ား အားလံုး စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁ ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ တိုးျမွင့္ ေကာက္ခံေနသည္။

U.N. Envoy Says Recent Crackdown By Myanmar Is 'Setback' To Democracy

Siddique Islam - AHN South Asia Correspondent

New York, NY (AHN) - The recent crackdown by Myanmar's government on demonstrators protesting fuel prices is a setback for the country and calls into question the government's commitment to democratization, the United Nations envoy to the country said on Wednesday as he detailed plans to revisit Myanmar as early as next month.

Speaking to reporters in New York, Special Adviser on Myanmar Ibrahim Gambari reiterated the call of UN officials for the government to release all of its political detainees, including those people arrested in the past few weeks as a result of the demonstrations over the surge in fuel prices.

"These incidents of recent times cannot be seen in any other way than a setback for Myanmar," Gambari said, referring to the government's response to the protests.

"They are all the more disappointing as they not only have the effect of calling into question the stated commitment to democratization and national reconciliation by the authorities, but also make it more difficult to maintain support, international support, for engagement with Myanmar at a time when we believe strongly that the country needs international assistance in addressing the many pressing challenges, from political and human rights issues to humanitarian and socio-economic problems."

Burma, officially known as Myanmar, has been widely criticized for its human rights violations including the continued house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi. The country has been under military control since 1962.

The UN envoy also described the national convention process, the first step under the road map outlined by the government for political reform, as flawed, given that it excluded opponents of the government.

Gambari, who has held extensive consultations in capitals across Asia, Europe and North America since assuming his post earlier this year, said he expects his next visit to Myanmar could took place by mid-October.

The special adviser noted that the UN is the only international actor to maintain a face-to-face dialogue with Myanmar's top leaders and with Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who remains under house arrest. For three years, there was no dialogue between the international community and Myanmar.

Gambari also said the UN is focusing its efforts on a much broader range of issues than before - not only the release of political prisoners, but also questions of humanitarian access and progress towards implementing the anti-poverty targets known as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly in health and education.

Mission of Burma: Laura Bush Edition

Kerry Howley | September 6, 2007, 1:49pm

Laura Bush is on a Myanmar awareness-raising crusade. She seems to be casting it as a woman's issue, which is an odd way to frame the decades-long oppression of 52 million people by a military regime. I'm skeptical of this sort of thing in general, but the extent of Bush's ignorance on an issue she claims to champion is kind of disturbing:

Although Myanmar’s government has withstood criticism and a decade of sanctions, Mrs. Bush argued against resignation on the issue.

“So ‘why bother,’ I guess, is the question people ask,” she said. “But I think the answer is, ‘Why not?’ I mean, why not continue to put pressure on the regime in any way we can?”

Well, I can think of lots of reasons "why not" to apply pressure for the mere sake of applying pressure, the first one being the interlocutor's: because it's not working. This we know. And it's possible that U.S. pressure is pushing the regime in the wrong direction, though in practice it's impossible to separate the regime's propaganda from its actual beliefs. Than Shwe uses the threat of U.S. invasion to justify military rule. U.N. intervention has thus far produced only a sham constitutional convention, which appropriates the language of democratic reform to continue justifying the regime's authority.

Bush also seems to think Burmese people sit around all day wishing Americans would pay more attention to them. Americans are in fact not paying attention. The Burmese, in my experience, are not at all aware of this. The massive American embassy in Yangon issues a condemnation every time the regime sneezes, and the regime responds by publishing anti-American screeds and pictures of bloody Iraqi children in the New Light of Myanmar. The Burmese read the New Light of Myanmar, which disapprovingly quotes the Americans, and get the impression that D.C. and Yangon are in constant, pissy dialogue.

Look, the junta has transformed Myanmar into one of the most isolated and reviled nations on Earth. Laura Bush's plan amounts to: "Hey I know! We'll isolate you! Big up to Suu Kyi!" Here's an interview with Time:

The Burmese I've met, they want our affection.

Are they puppies? The Burmese I've met want to not live under a thuggish dictatorship, and seem pretty unconcerned with the amount of TLC they are receiving from Americans.

EU calls rights violations in Myanmar a scandal

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STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Commission on Thursday called human rights violations in Myanmar a scandal and said its military government was a threat to the Southeast Asian region.

But the EU executive said isolating Myanmar was not the way to encourage change.

"The Commission remains very worried about this situation," EU Commissioner Viviane Reding told the European Parliament. "We are believing that the military regime is a threat to the region, most of all to the country and the people of Burma."

Reding said much of Myanmar's population lived "in anguish and poverty" and the Commission viewed the rights situation as a "scandal".

She dismissed a National Convention process which this month completed the first stage of drawing up a new constitution as a procedure to boost the power of the current government.

"It was certainly not a genuine exercise to draft a new constitution and it was certainly far from inclusive," she said, adding that the European Union backed a U.N. call for a transparent and inclusive process.

"An effective policy should aim at bringing the country back into the international community. As regards engaging the regime, there is a consensus more needs to be done, not less. Isolation will only make the population pay a greater price."

The commissioner said communication channels needed to be kept open with the government, notably to allow the EU to convey its concerns on human rights.

More than 150 people have been arrested in a crackdown on dissent in Myanmar since Aug. 19, when activists began protests against an increase in fuel prices that nearly froze transport.

The crackdown has been one of the harshest since the army crushed a nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988, when around 3,000 people are thought to have been killed.

Hundreds of monks held a group of government officials for more than four hours on Thursday and torched their cars after the officials went to a monastery in the town of Pakokku to apologise for soldiers firing over the heads of protesting monks on Wednesday.

"We do not believe that additional restrictive measures will push the government in the desired direction or will alleviate the suffering of the people," Reding said.

Bush calls for release of Myanmar activists

SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday demanded the immediate release of Myanmar activists and called on the ruling junta to stop "assaulting pro-democracy activists.

"We must press the regime in Burma to stop arresting, harassing, and assaulting pro-democracy activists for organizing or participating in peaceful demonstrations," Bush said, according to the text of a speech he was giving on Friday Morning to Asia-Pacific business executives.

"The Burmese regime must release these activists immediately, stop its intimidation of those Burmese citizens who are promoting democracy and human rights, and release all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi," Bush declared.

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Bush calls for release of Myanmar activists

Burma on The Edge

By HANNAH BEECH, WITH REPORTING BY ANUJ CHOPRA / RANGOON, ROBERT HORN / BANGKOK

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Bus passengers waiting for busses August 15, 2007 in front of the City Hall in Yangon, Myanmar.

Christian Holst / Getty

It was over in a matter of minutes, but the significance of the occasion vastly exceeded its brevity. On Aug. 28, 20 protesters gathered at a market in Burma's commercial capital, Rangoon, to demonstrate against the ruling junta's decision to raise prices of essential goods--in some cases 500%. Led by labor activist Su Su Nway, the group had just begun to chant slogans when thugs employed by the military regime swooped in and started dragging the demonstrators into waiting vehicles. The frail Su Su Nway, who emerged from prison only last year, after serving seven months for reporting cases of forced labor to the United Nations, somehow managed to escape. "The junta is trying to create a very intimidating environment," she told TIME shortly before the demonstration. But the 34-year-old refuses to bow down. "People must stand up," she says, "and choose between freedom and oppression."

Thousands of Burmese are doing just that. The short-lived rally in Rangoon was one of 20 or so demonstrations that have erupted across Burma (also known as Myanmar) in recent weeks--a rare display of civil disobedience by a people who have been ruled for 45 years by one of the world's most reclusive military regimes. The last time there were mass countrywide demonstrations, in 1988, the military cracked down hard, killing thousands of protesters and dashing hopes of democratic reform. Now daily life in this nation of 53 million has become so desperate that an impoverished populace may feel that it has little choice but to take to the streets again. Although many prominent activists either have been arrested or are on the run, demonstrations continue to break out like spores across the nation. Significantly, Buddhist monks have marched by the hundreds in several cities, adding a stamp of spiritual authority to the protest movement in this deeply devout country. Human-rights groups estimate that more than 100 people have been arrested so far, including three bystanders in the city of Sittwe whose alleged crime was to offer drinking water to a procession of protesting monks.

Emboldened, some democracy activists predict the protests could eventually expand and escalate. "If the regime doesn't resolve the underlying economic problems-- and I don't think it can quickly--then things are not going to quiet down," says Khin Ohmar, an '88 student leader who now lives in exile in Thailand. "We've all been waiting for the point when normal people overcome their fear of the regime and rise up, and this could be that moment."

And unlike in '88, when Burma's version of the Tiananmen massacre got little international attention, this time the world is taking notice. On Aug. 30, President George W. Bush condemned the junta's actions against demonstrators, and White House aides have promised that Burma will be a "major topic of discussion" at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation annual summit in Sydney. First Lady Laura Bush, who has personally followed the situation in Burma for years and has met with many Burmese activists, phoned U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to press for more action from the international body. "One thing we can do to work toward national reconciliation in Burma is for the Security Council to speak out formally," she told TIME. Hollywood has gotten in on the act, with star Jim Carrey posting a video on YouTube calling for the release from house arrest of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, whose National League for Democracy won a landslide election in 1990, only to have the junta ignore the polls. "We know the world is on our side now," says Aung Zaw, a former student activist who lives in northern Thailand and edits a Burma-focused publication called The Irrawaddy. "That moral support is very important for the people back in Burma, who are risking their lives to fight the regime."

But despite the condemnation from world leaders, no concrete action has so far been taken against the regime by the international community. When members of the Security Council tried to censure the junta in January, their effort was vetoed by Russia and China. And even though the U.S. maintains sanctions against the regime, China's economic patronage renders them largely toothless.

Burma's generals, meanwhile, have unveiled their impression of political reform, dubbing it "discipline-flourishing democracy." On Sept. 3, the regime announced it had finally agreed to basic guidelines for a new constitution. But no timetable for elections has been set, and the draft charter seems specifically designed to keep out Suu Kyi, long seen as the only leadership alternative to the junta. "It's a sham process that only legalizes the military's grip on power," says exiled dissident Khin Omar.

Although the generals have been adept at political repression, their record on economic management is abysmal. In 1987 a former regime leader demonetized Burma's currency, wiping out the savings of millions, and introduced new bank notes that were divisible by the number 9 simply because he considered the digit auspicious. Things haven't gotten much better since then--even though Burma is blessed with lucrative natural resources like natural gas and timber. Obsessed with its own survival, the junta spends 40% of the nation's annual budget on the 450,000-strong army while 90% of the population lives near or below the poverty line. Inflation is more than 30%. A fuel hike last month led to a tripling of bus fares on some routes, leaving many commuters unable to afford their ride to work. "At this rate, even a meal every day might become a luxury," says housekeeper May Oo, who now spends 60% of her salary on her daily bus ride to and from Rangoon.

The hardships are made more unbearable by a widening wealth gap. The country's military leaders are enjoying ever more ostentatious lives, their wallets fattened by gas-pipeline deals with neighbors China, India and Thailand. A samizdat video circulating in Rangoon shows junta chief Than Shwe's daughter getting married in a lavish ceremony. The couple reportedly received millions of dollars in wedding gifts--in a nation where the average annual per capita income is just $225. More appalling, the junta spent hundreds of millions of dollars in 2005 to build a brand-new capital city. Yet today Naypyidaw is an eerie landscape of broad, empty streets framed by behemoth government ministries.

No surprise then that many Burmese sympathize with the protesters. "You knock on a door late at night and whisper, 'Let me in, brother,'" says an activist who has so far escaped the police dragnet. "People willingly help us, even though they're well aware of the dire consequences." The regime is doing its best to prevent further unrest and capture any stray dissidents. Trucks full of hired enforcers patrol major street corners in Rangoon. The U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Burma has received reports that some of the arrested activists are being tortured. But the generals have to be careful with their clampdown--too much violence could fuel even more civilian anger. "It's likely that an economic spark, combined with a dramatically violent response from the regime, could set the stage for revolt," says Aung Naing Oo, a Bangkok-based Burma analyst.

It's not clear, though, what threat unarmed civilians can truly pose to a military that has already shown a willingness to use force to keep order. Without firm action from bodies like the U.N. or economic patrons like China, the country's generals may well be able to muddle through, as they did back in '88. In the meantime, Burma's underground activists are calling for continued resistance. The latest effort, scheduled for three evenings this month, requires Burmese to bang on pots, pans and other metal objects at 7:02 p.m., 8:01 p.m. and 9 p.m.--propitious times that each add up to the number 9, so beloved by Burma's military brass. Organizers hope the cover of night will embolden more people to join the noise campaign. Burma's long-suffering citizens can only hope the world will do more than just listen.

Myanmar Monks Briefly Hold Hostages

YANGON, Myanmar -

Angry Buddhist monks in northern Myanmar took about 20 officials hostage for several hours Thursday until a senior abbot intervened, but tensions remained high over the beating of monks during an anti-government protest the previous day, witnesses said.

In an escalation of recent protests against the military junta's economic policies, hundreds of monks - highly revered in Buddhist Myanmar - marched Wednesday in the town of Pakokku, political activists and town residents said.

Soldiers fired warning shots into the air and kicked and beat some of the monks to break up the march, they said.

In its first public comments on the recent protests, Myanmar's military junta acknowledged that soldiers fired warning shots, but blamed the monks.

The announcement at the end of Thursday evening's television and radio news broadcast also warned that the monks' actions could not be tolerated.

Myanmar state radio said people were unhappy with the monks' actions and warned against any attempt to disrupt tranquility.

On Thursday, local government and religion department officials went to the monastery to apologize for the confrontation and ask that no further protests be held, a senior monk said. Young monks seized the officials and held them captive because of anger over their rough treatment Wednesday, he said. Four of the officials' cars were burned, witnesses said.

"Bystanders cheered as the monks torched the cars one by one," an activist who witnessed the events said when contacted by phone. The senior monk and activists spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of official retaliation.

The senior monk said the monastery's revered head abbot pleaded with the monks to disperse before authorities took serious measures against them. The officials were freed only after an anti-government crowd of as many as 1,000 people outside the monastery was convinced to disperse, he said.

Wednesday's march was apparently the first time the military has used guns to suppress protests triggered by last month's fuel price increases of as much as 500 percent.

The government has detained scores of activists and used gangs of hired thugs to block the demonstrations, and the monks' dramatic protest indicates the depth of discontent with the military regime.

Pakokku, about 390 miles northwest of Yangon, is a center for Buddhist learning with more than 80 monasteries, including at least 15 used for teaching.

Historically, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of protests of British colonialism and military dictatorship. The military fears the participation of monks in protests, because using force to disperse them draws great popular ire.

Monks played a prominent part in a 1988 pro-democracy uprising against military rule that has been in place since 1962. The uprising was violently crushed by the junta.

Residents of Pakokku said 200 Buddhist monks took part in Wednesday's march, although reports by overseas Myanmar exile groups put the numbers as high as 600.

Monks chanted prayers along the way until they were stopped by authorities, including pro-government senior monks, and warning shots were fired, they said. At least three monks were arrested and several injured. The activist said the three monks were released Thursday, they said.

No public protests have been reported in Myanmar's main city, Yangon, for more than a week, although they have been continuing sporadically in other towns, reportedly involving as many as 1,000 people.

President Bush said he would raise the issue of human rights violations in Myanmar, also known as Burma, at a weekend summit of the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney, Australia.

"It's inexcusable that we have this kind of tyrannical behavior in Asia," Bush said Wednesday at a joint news conference with Australian Prime Minister John Howard.

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A setback to democracy in Myanmar: UN

United Nations, Sept. 6 (PTI): Expressing serious concern over recent crackdown in Myanmar following "peaceful" protests over surge in fuel prices, a top United Nations official has questioned the military government's commitment to democratization.

The action cannot be "seen in any other way than a setback for Myanmar," Secretary-General's special adviser Ibrahim Gambari asserted and called for release of all political detainees including those arrested over hike in fuel prices.

"They are all the more disappointing as they not only have the effect of calling into question the stated commitment to democratisation and national reconciliation by the authorities, but also make it more difficult to maintain international support, for engagement with Myanmar at a time when we believe strongly that the country needs international assistance in addressing the many pressing challenges, from political and human rights issues to humanitarian and socio-economic problems," he told reporters yesterday.

"We strongly believe that there should be opportunities in the period ahead to improve on the outcome of the document of this National Convention [which concluded yesterday] in ways that are more inclusive, more participatory and more transparent," he said, adding that some provisions adopted at the Convention "would seemingly run counter to the objectives of national reconciliation and democratization."

Gambari said he expects his next visit to Myanmar, for which he has a standing invitation from the Government, could took take place by mid-October.

"The expectations of the UN and of the international community are very clear and they require concrete results from Myanmar. I will continue to carry that message," he said.

Myanmar monks seize govt officials, burn cars

By Aung Hla Tun

YANGON (Reuters) - Several hundred young monks in military-ruled Myanmar took a group of government officials hostage inside their provincial monastery on Thursday and burned four of their cars, a witness said.

The officials had gone to the monastery in the town of Pakokku, 600 km northwest of Yangon, to apologise for soldiers firing shots over the heads of protesting monks on Wednesday, the witness said.

They had also wanted to ask the abbot of the Mahawithutayama monastery, the town's biggest, to stop monks taking part in the sporadic marches that have broken out in the former Burma in the last two weeks against soaring fuel prices, she added.

A crowd of up to 1,000 people gathered outside the gates. There was no immediate sign of military or police.

Soldiers fired the warning shots to halt a protest march of up to 500 monks reciting Buddhist scriptures and waving banners condemning huge fuel price increases last month.

It was the first time troops had been called in during two weeks of rare dissent. Hitherto, the military had responded by arresting leading dissidents and sending pro-junta gangs onto the streets of Yangon to break up protests.

More than 100 people have been arrested in the crackdown, one of the harshest since the army crushed a nationwide uprising of monks, students and government workers in 1988, when around 3,000 people are thought to have been killed.

The military has been loathe to put soldiers on the streets, perhaps mindful of the 1988 bloodshed, a watershed moment in Myanmar's post-independence history.

Intervening against monks in Pakokku is particularly risky for the junta as the town is only 80 miles from the second city of Mandalay, the religious heart of a devoutly Buddhist nation and home to 300,000 monks.

Historically, monasteries have played a major role in political uprisings, both in 1988 and in revolts against colonial master Britain.

A resident of Mandalay said the atmosphere in the town was very tense. News reports from dissident organisations suggest the generals who first seized power in 1962 have been pressing the heads of Mandalay's monasteries not to become involved.

"They seem to be more nervous. Once the monks in Mandalay start to rise, they won't be able to control it," a Yangon-based politician said this week.

Myanmar monks end standoff, release local officials

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YANGON (AFP) — Hundreds of Buddhist monks in Myanmar held a group of local and security officials hostage for several hours Thursday, after troops violently broke up an anti-junta protest, residents said.

The showdown in Pakokku, about 500 kilometres (310 miles) north of the commercial capital Yangon, marked the most serious confrontation with the military government since protests erupted nationwide more than two weeks ago.

Tensions have soared in Pakokku, a major centre of Buddhist learning, since at least 300 monks marched through the streets on Wednesday, chanting prayers in a protest against a massive hike in fuel prices.

Troops fired warning shots above the crowd and then beat the monks with bamboo sticks to break up the protest, according to residents.

Local and security officials had come to the Aletaik monastery early Thursday to apologise for the violence, but the monks set four of their cars on fire and took about 20 people hostage, residents said.

Five of the hostages were released after about five hours, and the others were freed 45 minutes later, residents told AFP by telephone.

Outside the gates to the monastery, which is home to about 700 monks, hundreds of people had gathered to applaud their anti-government action, residents said.

Young monks finally decided to end the standoff, opening the gates out of concern for the health of a senior abbot, who needed to receive food and medicine, one resident said.

The monks flipped over the last two cars belonging to the officials and forced their captives to exit by foot through a back door, he added.

"I fully support the monks. They were just peacefully praying for the people. The monks are absolutely right," another resident said. "I'm surprised that these security people would dare to harm Buddhist monks in this country."

Pakokku is home to an estimated 10,000 young monks studying in more than 80 monasteries, according to Win Min, a Thailand-based analyst.

"Once the monks get involved, it is very bad for the security forces," he said.

"If you beat up the monks, this is making a religious crime. It could send you to hell in Buddhism," he said.

"Young monks are very militant and will fight back. Once the monks are beaten, people could also join."

The military and the Buddhist clergy are the two most important institutions in Myanmar, and the only groups which maintain networks stretching across the entire country formerly known as Burma.

The monks were credited with helping to rally popular support for a pro-democracy uprising in 1988.

Those protests were brutally crushed by the military, when soldiers opened fire on crowds in the streets of Yangon, killing hundreds, if not thousands.

Wednesday's protest in Pakokku marked the first time that uniformed soldiers are believed to have been deployed to break up one of the near-daily protests that have taken place around the country since August 19.

Until now, plainclothed police and militia had been used to disperse crowds that have been protesting against skyrocketing fuel prices that have doubled transport costs, leaving some unable to afford even the bus fare to work.

According to Amnesty International, more than 150 people have been detained over the protests including Min Ko Naing, considered Myanmar's most important democracy leader after detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi.

One leading activist who orgainsed the August 19 rally with Min Ko Naing sent a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, urging the world body to take action to end the crackdown.

"We urgently need your practical support this time to prevent the real possibility of further violence," Htay Kywe wrote.

Hollywood urges UN chief to act for Myanmar's Suu Kyi

This picture taken in July 1995, shows Burmese democratic opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaking to supporters in Yangon. Twenty-eight Hollywood celebrities have written asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to personally intervene to secure the release of military-ruled Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — Twenty-eight Hollywood celebrities have written asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to personally intervene to secure the release of military-ruled Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.

"We urge you to take action to secure her immediate release," said the celebrities, including movie stars Jennifer Aniston, Dustin Hoffman, Owen Wilson, Robin Williams, and Anjelica Huston, in their letter sent Wednesday.

The world's only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Aung San Suu Kyi, 62, has been held under house arrest in Myanmar for 11 of the past 17 years.

Her National League for Democracy won elections in 1990, but the military rulers of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, never recognized the result.

Although she was an elected leader with her party winning 82 percent of the seats in parliament, "the military regime cruelly locked her up along with many members of her party," the celebrities told Ban.

They also noted that according to the UN, the military junta had burned down or destroyed over 3,000 villages in eastern Myanmar, forcing over one million people to flee their homes.

"This courageous, brave woman whom many call 'Burma's Nelson Mandela' should be released and the military regime should end its attacks on civilians," they said.

Their effort, organized by Oscar-winning actress Huston along with two groups, the Human Rights Action Center and US Campaign for Burma, came as pro-democracy supporters staged rare street protests against the junta in Myanmar.

Defying a clampdown on dissent that had drawn sharp condemnation from US President George W. Bush, the protestors have been staging a series of demonstrations against a staggering increase in fuel prices.

The almost daily protests mark the most sustained demonstrations against the military regime in at least nine years.

"The situation inside Burma is grave, similar to that in Darfur. The silence of the world on Aung San Suu Kyi is unconscionable," said Jeremy Woodrum, co-founder of the US Campaign for Burma.

Aung San Suu Kyi, among about 1,200 political prisoners in Myanmar, "is a woman that is taking on a brutal military dictatorship with nothing more than the truth in her heart and the support of her people," said Jack Healey, founder of the Human Rights Action Center.

Two of the signatories, Hollywood stars Eric Szmanda from the television show "Crime Scene Investigation" and Walter Koenig from "Star Trek," recently traveled to refugee camps on the Thailand-Myanmar border to press for more UN help.

Huston became interested in Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar after learning about the situation from Healey.

Her father, the director John Huston, led efforts against McCarthyism -- a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War -- in 1950s Hollywood.

ပခုကၠႃမႀာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားကို ထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္ဴပီ၊ ယမန္ေနႚက ဖမ္းဆီးထားသူမ်ား ျပန္လႀၾတ္ေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆို

မဇၩိမ သတင္းဌာနမွ အခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ တေျပးညီ ထုတ္လႊင့္ေပးေနသည္။
စက္တင္ဘာလ ၆ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္။

3:05 PM

ပခုကၠဴ အေရးအခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေဒသခံ ရဟန္းတပါးအျမင္

“ျပည္သူေတြကေတာ့ ဒကာႀကီး၊ မေန႔က ကိစၥမွာ သံဃာေတြက ျငိမ္းျငမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႔ ဒါျမိ့ဳကုိ ပတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ေမတၱာပို႔၊ ပရိတ္ရြတ္တာပဲ။ မေန႔တံုးက သံဃာေတြက အထူးသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနဲ႔ ပါတ္သက္ျပီးေတာ့ ဘယ္ပါတီ ဘယ္အဖြဲ႔စည္းကိုမွ ဘယ္သူ ဘာဆိုတာမ်ိဳး၊ သံဃာေတြက ဆႏၵျပတာ တဲ့ အေနလဲ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ တကာႀကီးတို႔လဲ လက္ေတြ႔ ခံစားေနရတဲ့ စကားကုိ ျပည္သူေတြ မေျပာရဲလို႔၊ ဒါ သံဃာေတြက ျပည္သူကိုယ္စား ေျပာေပးတဲ့ အေနနဲ႔ပဲ ပုံသဏၭာန္ေလးပါတယ္။ လက္ေတြ႔ ကုန္ေစ်းႏႈန္းေတြ ခ်ေပးဖို႔ ဒါေလာက္ရယ္။ ဒီကုန္ေစ်းႏႈန္း ခ်ေရးအတြက္ ဆႏၵ ထုတ္ေဖာ္တဲ့ လူေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးထားတာကို လြတ္ေပးဖုိ႔၊ ဒါေလာက္ပဲ။ သံဃာေတြရဲ့ လက္ကမ္း ပံုသဏၭာန္ ပါတယ္ေလ။ အဲ ေျပာတာဆိုတာကလဲ ဦးပဥၨင္းတို႔ ဒို႔အေရး ဘာညာ ဒီလိုေအာ္တာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ မင္းကြန္း ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးရဲ့ ေမတၱာပို႔ကို ပို႔တာပဲေလ။ အဲဒါကုိ ဒီဦးပဥၥင္းတုိ႔ ဒီအေရွ႔တိုက္က အထြက္ ဒီပန္းျခံ မီးပိြဳင့္ဆံု လမ္းမွာ ဒါစစ္တပ္ေရာ၊ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔ေရာ၊ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေရာက မတရားကိုပဲ ဟိုအၾကမ္းဖက္ျပီးေတာ့ သံဃာေတြ ဖမ္းတယ္၊ ရိုက္တယ္။ သံဃာကို ခင္ဗ်ား စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ဗ်ာ။ ဘုန္ႀကီးတပါးကုိ ဓါတ္တိုင္ခ်ည္ျပီးေတာ့ ဟို ခ်ည္တာလဲ ရိုးရိုးခ်ည္တာလဲ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ လည္ပင္းေတြေရာ၊ အကုန္လံုးကိုပဲ ေခြးခ်ည္၊ ႏြားခ်ည္၊ ခ်ည္ျပီးေတာ့ ပါးရိုက္တယ္၊ ေသနတ္ဒင္နဲ႔ ထိုးတယ္ ခင္ဗ်ာ စဥ္စားၾကည့္ေပေတာ့။ အဲဒါကို ျမင္ေနတဲ့ ျပည္သူေတြက ဘယ္လို ခံစားရမလဲဗ်ာ။ သူတို႔က တကယ္တမ္းက်ေတာ့ ျပည္သူေတြက ျငိမ္းျငမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႔ ဒီလို ဟိုျပည္သူရဲ့ ဆႏၵကို သံဃာေတြက ကိုယ္စား ပို႔ေပးတဲ့ ဒီဘာမွ လက္နက္ မပါတဲ့ သံဃာေတြကို ႏိွပ္ႏိွပ္စက္စက္ လုပ္တယ္ဆိုေတာ့ သံဃာေတြက ဘယ္ခံႏိုင္မလဲ။”

2:40 PM
ပခုကၠဴျမိ့ဳနယ္မွ ဦးပဥၥင္းက မဇၩိမ သို႔ ေျပာျပခ်က္

“အလယ္တိုက္ထဲကုိ သူတုိ႔ တိုင္းအတြင္းေရးမႉးတို႔၊ ျမိ့ဳနယ္က မယက အဖြဲ႔ဝင္တို႔၊ ခရက ဥကၠဌတို႔က ကားငါးစီးေလာက္နဲ႔ သြားတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ ဟိုကဝိုင္းျပီးေတာ့ သံဃာေတြက တိုက္ထဲကုိ မဝင္ဖို႔ ေျပာတယ္တဲ့၊ တုိက္ထဲကို မဝင္ၾကပါနဲ႔။ ခင္ဗ်ာတုိ႔ မဝင္ၾကပါနဲ႔ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ဟုိကလဲ သြားမယ္ ဆိုျပီးေတာ့ ဇြတ္ကိုဝင္ၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အခုေတာ့ လူေတြလည္း ဖမ္းထားတယ္။”

“အခုေတာ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီးကလဲပဲ ၂-၃ ေထာင္ ေလာက္ရွိတဲ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီးကလဲ၊ အဲဒီေက်ာင္းဝင္း လမ္းမွာေပါ့ေလ။ သံဃာေတြကလည္းပဲ အရမ္းလာတဲ့သူ (အာဏာပိုင္ဘက္က) ေတြ ခ်မွာပဲ ဆိုတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ အဆင္သင့္ ေစာင့္ေနၾကတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ ဘယ္သူမွ မလာဘူး စစ္သားလဲ မလာဘူး။ ရဲလဲ မလာဘူး။ ဟုိလူေတြကိုလည္းပဲ ခုနက တယက အတြင္းေရးမႉးရယ္။ ခယက ဥကၠဌတို႔ကိုလည္းပဲ သံဃာေတြ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတယ္ေလ။ ဖမ္းထားတဲ့ ကိုယ္ေတာ္ေတြ ေတြ႔ရင္ ျပန္လြတ္မယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အေနမ်ိဳး သံဃာ ေတြ ေျပာေနၾကတာေပါ့ေနာ္။”

1:45 PM
ပခုကၠဴေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေန

“သက္ဆိုက္ရာက ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ သြားတယ္။ ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ သြားတဲ့ ကားေတြက တိုင္းသာသနာေရးက ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္မႏၱေလးက ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္ ခယက က ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္တခုက ေအးလြင္ (စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူ) တို႔ဘက္က ကားတစီး၊ ေနာက္ျပည္ထဲေရးက ကားတစ္စီး စုစုေပါင္း ငါးစီးသြားတယ္။ အဲဒီ သြားတဲ့အခါမွာ အလယ္တိုက္ကို ေရာက္တဲ့အခါမွာ အဲဒီဘုန္ႀကီးေတြက အဲဒီကားငါးစီးကုိ ဝင္တိုက္တဲ့ ေပးဝင္ျပီးေတာ့ ဝင္းတံခါးေတြ ပိတ္လိုက္တယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ကားငါးစီးနဲ႔ လူေတြကုိလည္း အဲဒီထဲမွာ ထည့္ထားတယ္။ မလြတ္ေသးဘူး။” ဟု ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

အတည္မျပဳႏိုင္ေသးေသာ သတင္းအရ ယမန္ေန႔က ဖမ္းဆီးထားေသာ သံဃာႏွင့္ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးမွသာ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္အတြင္း ေရာက္ရွိေနသူမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္ ထြက္ခြင့္ ျပဳမည္ဟု သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ေတာင္းဆိုထားသည္။

ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ဝန္းက်င္တြင္လည္း လူအနည္းဆံုး ၂ဝဝဝ ခန္႔ ဝိုင္းရံ ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကသည္။

1:15 PM
ေနာက္ထပ္ရရွိေသာ သတင္းအရ ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီခန္႔က စတင္၍ အစိုးရရံုးကား ၄ စီးကို ေဒါသ ထြက္ေနေသာ လူအုပ္စုႀကီးက အလယ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ေရွ့တြင္ မီးတင္ရိႈ႕လိုက္ၾကသည္။

12:40 PM
ကားမီး႐ႈိ႕ခံရ

ပခုကၠဴၿမိ့ဳတြင္ ယမန္ေန႔က ဆႏၵျပပြဲကို စစ္တပ္က အင္အားသံုး ၿဖိဳခြင္းၿပီးေနာက္ သံဃာေတာ္တပါး ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူသြားသည္ ဆိုေသာ သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚေနၿပီးေနာက္ ကားတစီး မီးရိႈ့ခံထားရကာ အေျခအေန တင္းမာေနသည္။

အလယ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္သို႔ စစ္တပ္မ်ား ဝင္ေရာက္လာၿပီး ေက်ာင္းဝင္းတံခါးမ်ား ပိတ္လိုက္သည္။ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ေရွ့တြင္ မာဇဒါ ဂ်စ္ကားတစီး မီးရိႈ့ခံထားရကာ လံုျခံဳေရးမ်ား ေျခခ်င္းလိမ္ေနသည္။

ပခုကၠဴ ေစ်းႀကီးကို နံနက္ပိုင္းတြင္ပင္ ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။

12:30 PM
စစ္ေတြၿမိ့ဳမွာ စစ္ကားေတြ ကင္းလွည့္၊ စြမ္းအားရွင္ေတြ စုဖြဲ႔ေန

စစ္ေတြျမိ့ဳခံ ဦးေက်ာ္စိုးေအာင္၏ ေျပာျပခ်က္

“မေန႔ကေန သူတုိ႔က အင္အားေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးနဲ႔ ျမိ့ဳကို ပတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ကား ၁၆ စီးနဲ႔ အင္အားေတြ ျပျပီးေတာ့ လက္နက္ေတြ အစံုနဲ႔ လမ္းထြက္ကုန္ေတာ့၊ လမ္းမွာေတြေရာ၊ ဘုန္ႀကီးေက်ာင္းမွာေရာ သူတို႔က အင္အား ျပလိုက္တယ္။ ခန္႔မွန္ျပီး ေျပာရမယ္ဆို ၁စီးကုိ ၄-၅-၆ ဆယ္ေလာက္ ရွိမွာေပါ့။”

“မနက္ အေစာႀကီးကတည္က စစ္တပ္ ကား ၈စီးေလာက္ ရွိတယ္ ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာက ကား ၁၆ စီးေလာက္ ျဖစ္သြားတယ္ ။ ေန႔လည္ပိုင္းေလာက္ ျဖစ္လိမ့္မယ္ အဲဒီမွာ သူတုိ႔က ဘုန္ႀကီးေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ လမ္းဆံုမွာေတြ အကုန္ခ်လိုက္တယ္။”

“အခု စစ္တပ္က ေနာက္ဆုတ္သြားျပီ ဆိုေတာ့ အခု ရဲအင္အားေတြ သူတုိ႔ ခ်လိုက္တယ္။ ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ ဘယ္က ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး တဦးလဲ မသိဘူး ဗိုလ္မႉး တေယာက္က ရပ္ကြက္တခု လူ ၂ဝ ေတာင္းျပီးေတာ့ စြမ္းအားရွင္ ဆုိျပီးေတာ့ ရပ္ကြက္တိုင္းမွာ ဖြဲ႔လိုက္တယ္။”

“အခု ရပ္ကြက္ေတြမွာက သူတုိ႔ အလုပ္ မရွိတဲ့လူေတြ၊ ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ စိတ္မပါပဲနဲ႔ အတင္း အဓမၼ ရယက လူေတြက ေခါက္ဆြဲေတြ လွဴတယ္။ တခ်ိဳ႔ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ ျပန္ျပီးေတာ့ ေျပးလာခဲ့တယ္ တခ်ိဳ႔ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ အခြင့္အေရးကို ေမွ်ာ္ျပီးေတာ့ အဲဒီမွာထိုင္ေနၾကတယ္။”

“အခု ေနာက္ဆံုး အေျခအေနက ဘူးသီးေတာင္၊ ေမာင္ေတာဘက္က လံုထိန္းေတြ ေရာက္လာတယ္။ ျပႆနာျဖစ္ရင္ ေျဖရွင္းေပးဖို႔ စစ္ေတြမွာရွိတဲ့ ျပည္သူ႔ ရဲေတြနဲ႔ ေပါင္းျပီးေတာ့ သူတုိ႔ကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားတာေပါ့။”

“သူတို႔ လံုျခံဳေရး ခ်ထားတဲ့ ေနရာက တေနရာကို ၂ဝ ေလာက္ရွိမယ္။ ဘုရားႀကီးတို႔ ဒံုးတိုက္ကြင္းတို႔ (ဒံုးတိုက္ကြင္း ဆိုတာ ဘုန္ႀကီးေတြ ပ်ံေတာ္မူတဲ့အခါ သုသာန္ကြင္းကုိ ေျပာတာပါတဲ့) ေနာက္ျပီးေတာ့ စာသင္ေက်ာင္း ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ တကၠသိုလ္ ရွိတဲ့ေနရာေတြ အဲဒီလို ေနရာေတြေပါ့။”

11:50 AM
မႏၱေလး စည္ပင္သာယာက အိမ္ခြန္၊ ေရခြန္၊ ေျမခြန္၊ မိလႅာခြန္ စသည့္ အခြန္အခမ်ား အားလံုး စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁ ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ တိုးျမွင့္ ေကာက္ခံေနသည္။

Monks set fire to government cars

Sep 06, 2007 (DVB)—A group of monks from Pakokku’s central Mahavithutarama monastery have set fire to four government vehicles after locking a group of officials inside their compound.

The officials, who reportedly travelled to the monastery to apologise for the bashing, arrest and disrobing of three monks yesterday, include Magwe division’s religious affairs representative and the chairman of the Magwe Peace and Development Council.

Soldiers in Pakokku fired warning shots at a group of about 600 monks who staged a protest over high fuel and commodity prices yesterday, before bashing bystanders and making several arrests.

Many of the monks involved in the protest were from the central Mahavithutarama monastery. When the officials arrived at the monastery at about 10:30 this morning, they were locked inside the compound by the monks in an apparent act of revenge. The monks then set fire to four of the vehicles the officials arrived in, eyewitnesses told DVB.

“Four vehicles have already been completely burnt and there are two left. There is a crowd of more than 1000 people standing around the monastery and cheering on the monks,” one eyewitness said.

“So far no fire department vehicles or soldiers have been deployed yet,” the eyewitness said.

Attempts to contact the monks inside the monastery have so far been unsuccessful and it is unclear how long they plan to hold the officials.

Reporting by Aye Naing

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေရဒီယိုနားေထာင္တာ ေခာတ္စားေန

မဇၩိမသတင္းဌာန
စက္တင္ဘာလ ၆ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္။

အေထြေထြ အၾကပ္အတည္း ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚလာၿပီးေနာက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတဝွမ္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး သတင္းမ်ား စိတ္ဝင္စားမႈ အရွိန္ တဟုန္ထုိး ျမင့္တက္ေနေၾကာင္း မဇၩိမက လိုက္လံ ေမးျမန္းေသာ အင္တာဗ်ဴးမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။

မေကြးၿမ့ဳိ၊ မေကြးတိုင္း (ဦးျမင့္ဦး)

တေန႔ကို တြက္ၾကည့္ရင္ နာရီ ၂ဝ ေလာက္ နားေထာင္ရတယ္။ ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ ျမန္မာ့အသံကေန အခုဆိုရင္ ပခုက� ဴမွာ ျဖစ္ေပၚတဲ့ ျပႆနာကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ သိရတယ္။ သတင္းေတြကို နားေထာင္ လိုက္ရတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျပည္သူေတြဟာ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ျဖစ္ေပၚတာကို သိလိုက္ရတယ္။ နီးနီးစပ္စပ္ကို သိရတယ္။ တေယာက္နဲ႔ တေယာက္လည္း သတင္း ဖလွယ္ၾကတယ္။ အင္မတန္မွပဲ အားရစရာ ေကာင္းတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ။

ဒီအစိုးရ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနတာက စနစ္လည္း မက်ဘူး။ အင္မတန္မွပဲလည္း အႏိုင္က်င့္တယ္။ သူတို႔ ထင္ရာျမင္ရာေတြ လုပ္တယ္။ အဲဒီခါမွာ လူေတြဟာ သူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ၊ လ႔ူဂုဏ္သိကၡာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ အင္မတန္ ညိႇဳးႏြမ္းေနတယ္။ ပိုက္ဆံ ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲ ရွိရွိ၊ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေနရာတကာ လူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကို ညိႇဳႏြမ္းေစတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ သူတို႔ မခံစားႏိုင္ေတာ့ဘူး။ အဲဒီေတာ့ သတင္းေတြလည္း နားေထာင္တယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေရးကိုလည္း စိတ္ဝင္စားလာတယ္၊ အားေပးလာတယ္။ အဲဒါေလးေတြ ျဖစ္လာတယ္။ အင္မတန္ ေကာက္က်စ္ စဥ္းလဲတာေတြ ျပည္သူေတြက သိလာတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ေရဒီယို နားေထာင္မွ သူတို႔ ဗဟုသုတလည္း ရွိမယ္။ ေနာက္ အနည္းဆံုး ဘာမွ လုပ္မေပးႏိုင္ရင္ေတာင္မွ ေရဒီယိုေတြ နားေထာင္ေပးမယ္၊ သတင္းေတြ နားေထာင္ေပးမယ္၊ ျပန္လည္ ျဖန္႔ေဝေပးမယ္ ဆိုရင္ သူတို႔ တာဝန္ေက်သလို ခံစားႏိုင္မယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ထင္တယ္ဗ်ာ။

ေက်ာက္ပန္းေတာင္း (မေကြးတုိင္း) ဦးျမင့္လြင္

ေရဒီယိုကို ပိုၿပီး နားေထာင္ လာၾကတယ္။ အခုဆိုရင္ အိမ္တိုင္းလိုလို ေရဒီယို ရွိၾကၿပီေလ။ မရွိတဲ့လူလည္း ရိွတဲ့အိမ္ကို သြားနားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ လူဦးေရကို ေျပာမယ္ဆိုလို႔ ရွိရင္ ၈ဝ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းကေတာ့ စိတ္ဝင္တစား နားေထာင္ေနၾကတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ့ဆိုရင္ စုၿပီးမွကို နားေထာင္ ေနၾကတယ္။ လက္ရွိ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြကို သိခ်င္လို႔ေပါ့၊ ေနာက္ ဘာေတြမ်ား ဆက္ျဖစ္လာမလဲ၊ အားလံုး သိခ်င္ၾကတာကိုး။ ေရဒီယို ကိုင္ၿပီးမွ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ရင္း နားေထာင္ေနၾကတယ္။ အားလံုးက စိတ္ဝင္စားတယ္၊ နားေထာင္ေနၾကတယ္”

ပဲခူးၿမ့ဳိ၊ ပဲခူးတိုင္း (ဦးျမတ္လွ)

၈၈ အေရးအခင္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ျပည္သူေတြက ႏိုင္ငံေရးထဲမွာ စိတ္ဝင္စားလာတယ္။ အာအက္ဖ္ေအတို႔၊ ေနာ္ေဝးတို႔ေတြက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေၾကာင္းပဲ သီးသန္႔ ထုတ္လႊင့္တာ ဆိုေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ျမန္မာျပည္ အေၾကာင္း ကိုယ္သိခ်င္ရင္ ကိုယ့္ဗမာျပည္ထဲမွာ မၾကားရဘူး။ အဲဒီေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံျခား မီဒီယာေတြကို နားေထာင္ ၾကရေတာ့တာေပါ့။

ဒီလိုစိတ္ဝင္တစား နားေထာင္လာတာကေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးကို စိတ္ဝင္စားလာလို႔ေပါ့။ အစတုန္းကလို႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဟာ ဒို႔နဲ႔ မဆိုင္ေတာ့ဘူးရယ္လို႔ လူေတြက သိပ္မရွိၾကေတာ့ဘူးေလ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဟာ ဒို႔အေရးပဲလို႔ သိလာတဲ့ အခါက်ေတာ့ ပိုနားေထာင္ခ်င္လာတာေပါ့။

ေတာင္ႀကီး၊ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ (ေဒါတ္တာသိန္းေငြ)

ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ၁ဝ အိမ္မွာ ၈ အိမ္ေလာက္က ေရဒီယို နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ တျခား နယ္ေတြမွာလည္း က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ နားေထာင္လာၾကတယ္။ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လည္း ေရဒီယို တလံုးနဲ႔ပဲ အျပင္သြားတယ္။ ေရဒီယုိနဲ႔ပဲ ေတာ္ေတာ္ မ်ားမ်ားေတာ့၊ မနက္ပိုင္းေပါ့။ ၆ နာရီ၊ ၇ နာရီ ေနာက္ပိုင္း အလုပ္သြားၾကတယ္။ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားေတာ့ ေရဒီယို ယူသြားၾကတယ္။ က်ေနာ္လလည္း ေန႔တိုင္း နားေထာင္တယ္။ အခုဆို ပိုနားေထာင္လာတာေပါ့။

မံုုရြာ၊ စစ္ကိုင္းတုိင္း (ေဒါတ္တာျမင့္ေဝ)

ေရဒီယိုနားေထာင္တာ အခုဆို ပိုမ်ားလာတယ္။ က်ေနာ္လည္း နားေထာင္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လိုင္းေတြ အားလံုးကို နားေထာင္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ့္ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္လည္း မနက္ပိုင္းဆို ေရဒီယို ေလးေတြနဲ႔ နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားရင္လည္း ေရဒီယိုေလးေတြနဲ႔။ လၻက္ရည္ဆိုင္ ထိုင္လည္း ေရဒီယိုေလးေတြနဲ႔။ မံုရြာ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာ ပိုနားေထာင္လာပါတယ္။

ဖါးကန္႔၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ (ေဒသခံတဦး)

ဟိုတုန္းကထက္စာရင္ ပုိမ်ားပါတယ္။ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး မ်ားလာတယ္။ မနက္၊ ည နားေထာင္ေနၾကတယ္။ အာလံုးဟာ အခုျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ သတင္းေတြ၊ ကိုယ္ေဒသ သတင္းေတြ သိခ်င္လို႔။ ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္လာမယ္၊ ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္ေနၿပီ သိခ်င္ၾကတာေပါ့။ အဆက္မျပတ္ နားေထာင္ပါတယ္။ က်င္းသားေတြလည္း ဝယ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လူေတြက ဝယ္ၿပီး နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္၊ တခ်ဳိ့က နားေထာင္ခ်င္ရင္ေလ မဝယ္ႏိုင္ေတာ့ နားမေထာင္ႏိုင္ၾကဘူး။ ဒါေပမဲ့ နားေထာင္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လူေတြကို ဘယ္လို ျဖစ္ေနၿပီလည္း သတင္းေတြ ေမးၾကတယ္။ တေယာက္နဲ႔ တေယာက္ေပါ့ေနာ္။ ပိုၿပီး စိတ္ဝင္စားလာၾကတယ္။

ေကအိုင္အို ဗိုလ္မႉးတဦး (ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္)

က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဘက္မွာေတာ့ အားလံုးလိုလို နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ အိမ္သာ တက္ရင္ေတာင္ နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ ဘယ္သူေတြ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ မနက္ေရာ၊ ညပါ ကိုယ္အားတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ အခု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတဲ့ ျပႆနာ၊ ဘယ္လို ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ။ ဒါေတြ သိခ်င္လို႔ နားေထာင္တာပါ။ ကမၻာ့သတင္း ေတြလည္းေပါ့။ စစ္တပ္မွာလည္း ေရဒီယိုေတာ့ အားလံုး နားေထာင္ၾကတယ္။ တီဗီ (ရုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား) မရွိဘူးဆိုေတာ့။ အခုေတာ့ ပိုၿပီး နားေထာင္လာတာကို ေတြ႔ရတယ္။

Burmese Monks Clash with Government Forces as Protests Continue

Luis Ramirez Bangkok 06 September 2007

Burma's prominent labor activist Su Su Nway (C) along with others march in a protest rally against soaring fuel prices in Rangoon 28 Aug 2007

Buddhist monks have clashed with government forces in the central Burmese town of Pakokku, and witnesses have been quoted as saying the monks have been holding government officials captive. The incident is the latest in a series of protests against the country's military government during the past two weeks.

Buddhist monks have been among those taking to the streets in the protests of the past two weeks. The demonstrations were sparked by the military government's decision to raise fuel prices, triggering anger among many people already suffering in one of the region's poorest economies.

Security forces have put down demonstrations, but protests continue to erupt. One clash occurred Thursday in the town of Pakokku, about 600-kilometers northwest of Rangoon. Town officials went to a monastery there and ordered the Buddhist monks to stop participating in anti-government marches, resulting in a confrontation.

Telephone communications between Thailand and Burma were down for much of the day, but a reporter with the VOA Burmese service was able to reach several of the monks, who said they had set fire to government vehicles.

One monk says the vehicles were burned because they are angry over the arrest and beatings of monks during a protest rally the day before.

Witnesses said soldiers fired warning shots over the heads of protesting monks on Wednesday.

One eyewitness told VOA the town officials arrived at the monastery with at least five vehicles. He says monks threw stones at the vehicles and torched them.

Hours into the confrontation, witnesses said at least some of the officials were still in the monastery. The monks refused to confirm or deny to VOA whether the officials were being held against their will. They said officials had begun to leave the monastery Thursday afternoon.

The authorities have repeatedly tried to halt the demonstrations, and have arrested scores of pro-democracy activists. International human-rights organizations have condemned the government response, saying detainees in many cases have been severely beaten and tortured by security forces and government supporters.

Observers say the military junta is especially eager to quell the unrest in Pakokku. The town lies near Mandalay, a religious center in the devoutly Buddhist country.

Buddhist monks have in the past had a major role in political uprisings, including in 1988, when massive protests led to a crackdown that left three-thousand people dead.

Members of the international community have condemned the latest crackdowns, and called on Burma's military - in control of the country since 1962 - to undertake democratic changes.

The military leadership last week wrapped up preparations for writing a new constitution, a process that took 14 years of on-again, off-again work. U.S. officials have called the constitutional talks a sham, since all of the delegates were handpicked by the government, and the major opposition figures either were not allowed or refused to participate.

သံဃာမဵား ေမတၨာပိုႛ စီတန္းလမ္းေလ႖ာက္မႁ စစ္တပ္မႀ ေသနတ္ပစ္ေဖာက္လူစုခၾဲ

စက္တင္ဘာ ၅ရက္ေနႛက ဆႎၬဴပရာမႀာပၝဝင္တဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကို ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚခံ ခမရ (၂၃၅)လက္ေအာက္ခံ တပ္ခၾဲတခၾဲက ေသနတ္ပစ္ေဖာက္ လူစုခၾဲခဲ့တဲ့အတၾက္ ေနာက္တေနႛမႀာ သံဃာေတၾက အာဏာပိုင္ေတၾကို ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္းထား႓ပီး သူတိုႛ စီးလာတဲ့ကား ေလးစီးကို မီး႟ိႁႚဖဵက္ဆီးခဲ့ပၝတယ္။

ခုလို သံဃာမဵား မေကဵနပ္မႁ ေပၝက္ကၾဲခဲ့ရတဲ့အထိ ဴဖစ္ပၾားေစခဲ့တဲ့ အဳကမ္းဖက္ ႎႀိမ္နင္းမႁနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး အေသးစိတ္ အခဵက္အလက္မဵားကို RFAမႀ ထပ္မံ စံုစမ္းသိရႀိခဲ့ရပၝတယ္။

မေကၾးတိုင္း ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚတၾင္း ပရိယတၨိစာသင္တိုက္ သံုးတိုက္က သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾစုေပၝင္း႓ပီး ဴပည္သူမဵားအတၾက္ သံဃာမဵားလိုႛ ေခၝင္းစဥ္နဲႛအတူ ကုန္ေစဵးႎႁန္းကဵဆင္းေရး၊ ဴပည္သူလူထု တရားမ႖တမႁထၾန္းကားေရး၊ ဖမ္းဆီး ထာေသာ ကုန္ေစဵးႎႁန္းကဵဆင္းေရး လႁပ္ရႀားသူမဵားအား လၿတ္ေပးေရးလိုႛ ေရးသားထားတဲ့ ပိုစတာေတၾကို ကိုင္ေဆာင္႓ပီး ႓ငိမ္းခဵမ္းစၾာ လမ္းေလ႖ာက္ဆႎၬဴပပၾဲသတင္းကို RFAက စက္တင္ဘာ ၅ရက္ ဗုဒၭဟူးေနႛ ညပိုင္းအစီအစဥ္မႀာ ထုတ္လၿင့္ခဲ့႓ပီး ဴဖစ္ပၝတယ္။

ဒီလိုဆႎၬဴပရာမႀာပၝဝင္တဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတၾကို ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚခံ ခမရ (၂၃၅)လက္ေအာက္ခံ တပ္ခၾဲတခၾဲက ေသနတ္ပစ္ေဖာက္ လူစုခၾဲကာ ဆႎၬဴပတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ ၆ပၝးကို ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့႓ပီး ညပိုင္းမႀာ ဴပန္လည္လၿတ္ေပးခဲ့တယ္လိုႛ RFAက စံုစမ္းသိရႀိရပၝတယ္။

ဒီသတင္းအေသးစိတ္ကို RFAသတင္းေထာက္ ကိုမိုးေကဵာ္က သတင္းေပးပိုႛထားပၝတယ္။

• သတင္းေပးပိုႛခဵက္။
• အသံဖိုင္ရယူရန္

သံဃာ့မဟာနာယကအဖၾဲႚအေပၞ သံဃာမဵား မေကဵနပ္

လမ္းေဘးဆိုင္တခုတၾင္ ပစၤည္းဝယ္ရန္ ဳကည့္႟ႁေနေသာ သံဃာမဵား ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ ေလာင္စာဆီႎႀင့္ ကုန္ေဈးႎႁန္းမဵား ႒ကီးဴမင့္လာမႁေဳကာင့္ ဴပည္သူမဵား ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡ ကင္းေဝးေစဖိုႛ ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚတၾင္ သံဃာ အပၝး ၅၀၀ခန္ႛ ဆုေတာင္း ေမတၨာပိုႛ စီတန္းလႀည့္လည္သည္ကို အာဏာပိုင္မဵားက ေသနတ္ပစ္ေဖာက္ အဳကမ္းဖက္ ႎႀိမ္နင္းရာမႀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၆ရက္ေနႛတၾင္ သံဃာမဵား ဆန္ႛကဵင္လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ေပၞေပၝက္ခဲ့ပၝသည္။ (Photo: AFP)

ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚမႀာ သံဃာမဵား မေကဵမနပ္ ဆန္ႛကဵင္လႁပ္ရႀားမႁ ဴဖစ္ပဵက္ေနတာနဲႛ ပတ္သက္လိုႛ သာသနာေရးဥိီးစီးဌာနနဲႛ သံဃာ့ မဟာနာယက အဖၾဲႚအေနနဲႛကေရာ ဘာေတၾ လုပ္ကိုင္ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ေနသလဲဆိုတာ ေရေရရာရာ မသိရပဲ သံဃာထုအတၾင္း သံဃာ့နာယကအဖၾဲႚကို မေကဵမနပ္ဴဖစ္ေနတဲ့အသံေတၾ ဳကားေနရပၝတယ္၊

သာသနာေရးဦးစီးဌာနကို ဆက္သၾယ္ ေမးဴမန္းဳကည့္တဲ့အခၝမႀာေတာ့ အဆက္အသၾယ္လုပ္လိုႛ မရခဲ့ပၝဘူး။ ရန္ကုန္ ကမႝာေအးက သံဃာ့ မဟာနာယကအဖၾဲႚကိုေတာ့ အဆက္အသၾယ္ ရခဲ့ပၝတယ္။ ပခုကၠႃကဴဖစ္စဥ္နဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး ဘယ္လိုမဵား စီိစဥ္ေဆာင္႟ၾက္ေနပၝသလဲလိုႛ ေလ႖ာက္ထားတဲ့အခၝမႀာ တယ္လီဖုန္းကိုင္တဲ့ ရဟန္းတပၝးက မသိဘူးလုိႛ တံုးတိ႒ကီးေဴပာ႓ပီး ဖုန္းခဵသၾားပၝတယ္။

ေနာက္တခုကေတာ့ ပခုကၠႃကဴဖစ္စဥ္နဲႛပတ္သက္႓ပီး အနယ္နယ္မႀာ ရႀိတဲ့ စာသင္တိုက္ေတၾကို ဆက္သၾယ္ ေမးဴမန္းဳကည့္တဲ့အခၝမႀာ ပခုကၠႃ႓မိႂႚက အေဴခအေနကို ေစာင့္ဳကည့္ေနတယ္လိုႛ မိန္ႛဳကားပၝတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္မႀာ ရႀိတဲ့ စာသင္တိုက္ေတၾမႀာေတာ့ ေကဵာင္းထိုင္တခဵိႂႚနဲႛ တိုက္အုပ္တခဵိႂႚက စာသင္သားေတၾကို ဆႎၬဴပမႁေတၾမႀာ ဝင္မပၝဳကဖိုႛ ဆံုးမတယ္လိုႛ သိရပၝတယ္။ ဒၝဟာလည္း ႓မိႂႚနယ္သံဃာ့နာယကအဖၾဲႚေတၾက ညၾန္ဳကားခဵက္ေဳကာင့္လိုႛ ဆိုပၝတယ္။

တခဵိႂႚ ေကဵာင္းေတၾမႀာ ဆိုရင္ ေရဒီယို နားမေထာင္ရလိုႛေတာင္ အမိန္ႛထုတ္ထားတယ္လိုႛ ဳကားရပၝတယ္။ ဒၝေပမဲ့ ဒီလိုအမိန္ႛထုတ္လိိုက္တာေဳကာင့္ အရင္က ေရဒီယိုနားေထာင္ေလ့မရႀိတဲ့ သံဃာေတၾေတာင္ ေရဒီယိုေဴပးဝယ္တာမဵိႂး ရႀိတယ္လိုႛ စံုစမ္းသိရႀိပၝတယ္။

အခုဴဖစ္ပဵက္ေနတာေတၾနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး သံဃာထုအတၾင္းမႀာ သံဃာ့ မဟာနာယကအဖၾဲႚအေပၞမႀာ မေကဵနပ္ဖူးဆိုတဲ့ အသံေတၾလည္း ဳကားေနရပၝေသးတယ္၊

ရန္ကုန္က ေသာတုဇန ဘိကၡႃဆိုတဲ့ စာသင္သားေတၾနဲႛ ဖၾဲႚစည္းထားတဲ့ အဖၾဲႚကေတာ့ ဒီကေနႛ ေနႛစၾဲနဲႛ ေဳကညာခဵက္တေစာင္ ထုတ္လိုက္ပၝတယ္။ ေဳကညာခဵက္ပၝ ေကာက္ႎုတ္ခဵက္တခဵိႂႚကို အဖၾဲႚရဲ့ ဴပန္ဳကားေရးအဖၾဲႚဝင္ ရႀင္အဓိပတိက ဖတ္ဳကားဴပပၝတယ္။

သံဃာ့မဟာနာယကအဖၾဲႚဟာ အာဏာပိုင္မဵားႎႀင့္ ပူးေပၝင္း႓ပီး သံဃာ့စၾမ္းအားရႀင္အဖၾဲႚအသၾင္ ကူးေဴပာင္းသၾား႓ပီ ဴဖစ္လိုႛ ဆက္လက္ အသိအမႀတ္မဴပႂေတာ့ဘူးလိုႛ ေဳကညာခဵက္မႀာ ေဖာ္ဴပထား႓ပီး သံဃာ့နာယကဆိုင္းဘုတ္အားလံုးကို ဴဖႂတ္ခဵဳကဖိုႛ တိုက္တၾန္းထားပၝတယ္။

ဆက္လက္႓ပီးေတာ့၊ မိမိတိုႛ သံဃာထုအား တိရိစၽာန္ပမာ ဆက္ဆံ႟ံုမက အသက္အႎၩရာယ္ေတာင္ ရႀာေနတဲ့ အာဏာပိုင္မဵားကို ဒကာဒကာမ ဴပည္သူမဵားနဲႛအတူ ဆက္လက္တိုက္ပၾဲဝင္သၾားဳကဖိုႛလည္း ေသာတုဇနဘိကၡႃအဖၾဲႚက အေလးအနက္ တိုက္တၾန္းထားပၝတယ္။

ေသာတုဇနဘိကၡႃအဖၾဲႚဟာ ဴမန္မာဴပည္အရပ္ရပ္က စာသင္သားသံဃာေတၾကို ကိုယ္စားဴပႂတဲ့ အဖၾဲႚလိုႛ ဆိုပၝတယ္။ ဒီအဖၾဲႚနဲႛ ပတ္သက္႓ပီး ပို႓ပီးသိရဖိုႛ RFAမႀ ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္က ရႀင္အဓိပတိကို ဆက္႓ပီး ေလ႖ာက္ထား ေမးဴမန္းထားပၝတယ္၊

• ေသာတုဇန ဘိကၡႃအဖၾဲႚႎႀင့္ ဆက္သၾယ္ေမးဴမန္းခဵက္။
• အသံဖိုင္ရယူရန္

ဴမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရအား ကုလသမဂၢအထူးကိုယ္စားလႀယ္ ေဝဖန္ဴပစ္တင္

ယမန္ႎႀစ္ ႎိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၁ရက္ေနႛက ေနဴပည္ေတာ္တၾင္ ဗိုလ္ခဵႂပ္မႀႃး႒ကီး သန္းေ႟ၿ(ယာ)ႎႀင့္ ထိုစဥ္က ကုလသမဂၢ လက္ေထာက္ အတၾင္းေရးမႀႃးခဵႂပ္ မစၤတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီ(ဝဲ)တိုႛ ေတၾႚဆံုေနပံု ဴဖစ္ပၝသည္။ (Photo: AFP) ပံု႒ကီးဳကည့္လိုလ႖င္။

ကုလမသဂၢ အတၾင္းေရးမႀႃးခဵႂပ္ရဲ့ ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးကိုယ္စားလႀယ္ မစၤတာ အီဘရာဟင္ ဂမ္ဘာရီက လတ္တေလာ ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံမႀာ ဴဖစ္ေပၞေနတဲ့ အေဴခအေနေတၾအေပၞ ေဝဖန္ဴပစ္တင္လိုက္ပၝတယ္။

ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံထဲ က အကဵဥ္းကဵေနတဲ့ ႎုိင္ငံေရးအကဵဥ္းသားေတၾလၿတ္ေပးဖိုႛနဲႛ လက္တေလာ ေလာင္စာဆီေစဵးဴမင့္မားမႁေဳကာင့္ ဆႎၬဴပသူေတၾ ဖမ္းဆီးထားတာကို လဲလၿတ္ေပးဖိုႛ မစၤတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီက ေတာင္းဆိုထားပၝတယ္။

ဴမန္မာႎုိင္ငံထဲ လက္တေလာ ဴဖစ္ေပၞေနတဲ့ အေဴခအေနေတၾဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေပၞထၾန္းေရးနဲႛ အမဵိႂးသားဴပန္လည္သင့္ဴမတ္ေရးအတၾက္ ဴမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတၾနဲႛ ဘယ္ေလာက္အထိ ကတိတည္သလဲဆိုတဲ့အေပၞ ေမးခၾန္းထုတ္စရာဴဖစ္ေနတယ္လိုႛ သူက ေဝဖန္ထားပၝတယ္။ ႎုိင္ငံေရး၊ လူႛအခၾင့္အေရး၊ လူသားခဵင္းစာနာေထာက္ထားတဲ့ အကူအညီ၊ လူမႁေရးနဲႛ စီးပၾားေရး ကိစၤေတၾအတၾက္ ႎုိင္ငံတကာရဲ့ အကူအညီလိုအပ္ေနခဵိန္မႀာ အခုလက္ရႀိ ဆႎၬဴပသူေတၾအေပၞ ဖိႎႀိပ္မႁေတၾေဳကာင့္ ႎုိင္ငံတကာ ရဲ့ ေထာက္ခံအားေပးမႁရေအာင္ ဆက္ထိန္းတားဖိုႛ ပို႓ပီးခက္ခဲလာတယ္လိုႛလည္း ေဴပာဆိုပၝတယ္။ လတ္တေလာ ႓ပီးစီးသၾားတဲ့ အမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံအေပၞမႀာလည္း မစၤတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီက ေဝဖန္ထားပၝတယ္။ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရက ႎုိင္ငံေရးလမ္းႌၿန္ အစီအစဥ္ထဲက ပထမဆံုးအဆင့္ဴဖစ္တဲ့ အမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံကေန ထၾက္ေပၞလာတဲ့ ရလဒ္ေတၾအေပၞ အဴပစ္တင္ထားပၝတယ္။

မစၤတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီက ကုလသမဂၢ သတင္းစာရႀင္းလင္းပၾဲမႀာ ေဴပာဳကားထားတာကေတာ့ ဒီအမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံ ႓ပီးဆံုးသၾား႓ပီဆိုတာမႀန္ေပမဲ့ ဒီေနႛထက္ထိ ဒီညီလာခံမႀာ ႎုိင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုအားလံုး မပၝဝင္ေသးတဲ့အေပၞ စိတ္ပူမိတဲ့အေဳကာင္းနဲႛ ဒီအမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံမႀာ သတ္မႀတ္ဴပဌာန္းခဵက္ေတၾဟာ အမဵိႂးသား ဴပန္လည္သင့္ဴမတ္ေရးနဲႛ ဒီမိုကေရစီေပၞထၾန္းေရး ရည္႟ၾယ္ခဵက္ေတၾနဲႛ မကိုက္ညီဴဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ကိစၤေတၾကိုလည္း ပူပန္မိတယ္လိုႛ ေဴပာဆိုထားပၝတယ္။

အေဴခခံဥပေဒဆိုတာ ႎုိင္ငံတခုအတၾက္ ႎႀစ္ေပၝင္း ရာနဲႛခဵီ႓ပီး ေရႀႚေဆာင္လမ္းဴပ အထိန္းအကၾပ္ေပးသင့္တဲ့ ဴပဌာန္းခဵက္ေတၾ ဴဖစ္တာေဳကာင့္ ဒီလုိဴပဌာန္းခဵက္ေတၾ ဴပႂစုေရးသားတဲ့ ေနရာမႀာ ဴပည္သူေတၾအေနနဲႛ မိမိရဲ့ ဆႎၬေတၾကို ထည့္သၾင္းေဖာ္ဴပႎုိင္ဖိုႛ အခၾင့္အေရး ရႀိသင့္တယ္လိုႛလည္း ေဴပာဳကားထားပၝတယ္။ ႓ပီးခဲ့တဲ့ တနလႆာေနႛက ႓ပီးဆံုးသၾားခဲ့တဲ့ စစ္အစိုးရရဲ့ အမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံဟာ အတုအေယာင္အမဵိႂးသားညီလာခံပဲလိုႛ အေမရိကန္ ဴပည္ေထာင္စုကေတာ့ ေဝဖန္ထားပၝတယ္။