ျမန္မာျပည္ကလူ၊ စကားဝဲ၏

အသင္ျမန္မာျပည္က လာပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ ဗမာ(သို ့မဟုတ္)တိုင္းရင္းသား မ်ဳိးႏြယ္ ျဖစ္ပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ အေႀကာင္းအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးေႀကာင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ကိုစြန္ ့ခြာျပီး တိုင္းတပါးတြင္ အေျခစိုက္ေနထိုင္လုပ္ကိုင္စားေသာက္ ေနပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ ျမန္မာျပည္၏ အဖက္ဖက္မွ ယိုယြင္းပ်က္စီးေနေသာ နိ္ုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး၊ လူမွႈေရး အေျခအေနမ်ားကို သိရွိ၊သတိျပဳ မိပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ ထိုကဲ့သုိ ့အဖက္ဖက္မွ ယိုယြင္းပ်က္စီးေနေသာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံတြင္ သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ လူမ်ား ေန့စဥ္ထမင္းနပ္မွန္မွန္ စားရေရးနွင့္ အရွက္လံုရန္ဝတ္ဆင္ေရးတို ့အတြက္ ပင္ပမ္းဒုကၡႀကီးစြာ ရုန္းကန္လႈပ္ရွား ေနႀကရေႀကာင္း သိရိွ၊ နားလည္၊ ခံစား မိပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံတြင္ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ ရိုးသားေျဖာင့္မတ္၊ အမွန္တရားဘက္မွ ရဲဝံ့စြာရပ္တည္ သူမ်ားသည္ မတရား ညွင္းပမ္းနွိပ္စက္ ခံရ ရုံသာမက နွစ္ရွည္လမ်ား ေထာင္သြင္းအက်ဥ္းခ် ခံႀကရသည္ ကို သိရွိ နားလည္ ခံစားမိပါသလား။

အသင္သည္ ေဖၚျပပါသတင္းမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ -

နိုင္ငံေတာ္၏လွ်ိဳ ့ဝွက္္ခ်က္မ်ား

၁၀တန္းေက်ာင္းသားကိုဓားနွင့္ထိုးသတ္ေသာ မိထၳီလာေလတပ္က ဗိုလ္ႀကီးေအာင္ေတဇာ

မတရားမွႈမ်ားကို က်ဴးလြန္ေနေသာ တရားရုံး

စသည္မ်ားကို ဖတ္ရွႈေသာ အခါ စစ္ဝါဒ စနစ္ဆိုးေႀကာင့္ အစစပ်က္သုန္းေနျပီျဖစ္ေသာ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံကို၎၊ ဒုကၡဆင္းရဲျခင္းႀကီးစြာျဖင့္ မတရားဖိနိွပ္ခ်ုဳပ္ျခယ္မွႈကို ျပင္းထန္ ဆိုးရြားစြာ ခံစားေနႀကရေသာ ရိုးသားအျပစ္မဲ့သည့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားကိုေသာ္၎ တနည္းတဖံုအားျဖင့္ ကူညီလိုစိတ္ ရိွပါသလား။

အကယ္၍ ကူညီလိုစိတ္ရွိပါလ်င္ ဤဘေလာဂ့္တြင္ ေဖၚျပထားေသာ စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္း ပိုစ့္ ကို ေက်းဇူးျပဳ၍ ဖတ္ရွႈျပီး ထိုလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကို စတင္ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးပါ။

အသင္၏ အားလပ္ခ်ိန္တြင္ တေန ့ကို နာရီဝက္၊ တနာရီခန့္မ်ွ စာရင္းျပဳမွတ္တမ္းတင္ ျခင္းျဖင့္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္အစိုးရ အား ထိမိပိုင္နိုင္စြာ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္ တိုက္ခိုက္နိုင္ပါသည္။

ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္

ေနျခည္ဦး

မင္း ႏွဳတ္ဆိတ္ေလ..လူယုတ္မာမ်ား..အပါး၀ေလ..

The quieter and more subservient you are, the louder and more confident the bullies become. (Ma Thadar)

ေၾကာက္စိတ္ေလး..တစိတ္..
မေသခ်င္ တိတ္တိတ္ ..
မင္း ႏွဳတ္ဆိတ္ေလေလ..
လူယုတ္မာမ်ား..အပါး၀လာေလေလ..
ခေလးသူေတာင္းစား။ စစ္သားျဖစ္သြားေလေလ
ျပည္တန္ဆာမ်ား မ်ားလာေလေလ။။ more...

Who Is Daw Cherry ? ေဒၚ ခ်ယ္ ရီ ကို သိ ႀက ပါ သ လား ?

Do you know anyone called Daw Cherry ?

Contrary to her unusually short and simple name for a Burmese, she is quite far from being an ordinary housewife. She is married to one of the elite members of the military top officials.

According to the DVB news, her husband is the newly appointed Commander Brigadier General Aung Than Htut of Northeast Command. And she will not be staying home and unpacking her household items from boxes like most wives would be doing after moving houses. Instead, she will be blessing the local Maternal and Child Healthcare Association with her appearance.

My guess is that she is some kind of medical profession. She must be either a Pediatrician or a Gynaecologist as she felt the importance of her contribution to the local association with her skills and talents, so soon after the arrival at the new place.

Or she might be just a genuine born-to-serve kind of person, who would just like to see if there is any little help that she can contribute, for example collecting some donations from other Generals wives, who have better income so that she can make some improvement to the collapsed healthcare system of Burma , which has a record of 400 children dying a day.

Whatever her intentions are, it is generally positive news that some wife of a Commander General is showing enough interest to inspect the local healthcare association and we should all be grateful for her effort.

However, there appeared to be a slight problem with her visit. The SPDC’s local government officials U Nyunt Han and
U Kyi Win plainly told the locals that there is no state funding for the important visit of Daw Cherry. And despite lacking in funding, the local PDC officials are still determined to welcome the honourable Daw Cherry’s important visit with the stately greetings, which include 100 flying military flags, cutting the lawn and redecorating of the halls, all have to be provided by the local residents.

And what more ? U Nyunt Han and U Kyi Win want each family to contribute K 1,500 so that the spouse of their new Commander will be offered suitable luxury such as flowers and refreshments during her blessed visit.

Obviously, the residents where Daw Cherry is visiting are struggling farm labourers, who are already involved in the scheme to provide weekly voluntary labour on castor oil plantations by the local PDC.

Does Daw Cherry realise that her visit will be a huge burden to the local people and the wives and children of the families will have to go without dinner, in order to greet her so grandly ?

Will her high profile husband Commander Aung Than Htut decide to offer his own or some military funding to pay the expenses of his beloved wife’s ‘goodwill’ visit? (should he knows how the locals suffer? - he should as he is the local commander)

Would U Nyunt Han and U Kyi Win pluck up the courage and decide to just greet the socially-minded local first lady in an ordinary friendly way, and save the families’ money for their starving mothers and babies ?

This is where your part comes in. Perhaps you know this Daw Cherry or even her husband,the Commander. There aren’t many names like Daw Cherry. Just simple , plain ‘Daw Cherry’. Someone must have gone to school with her or worked with her. Her family friend, her driver, her teacher, her colleague. Someone must know her.

Or did you attend the military university, at the same time as Aung Than Htut ? Are you his friend, his neighbour, his soldiers, his relation, who can pass on information about him ?

Please do send any information you have about Daw Cheery and Commander Aung Than Htut, as it is important that the poor babies and mothers don’t go starving. Just send some messages in the comment box. As you know, you do not have to use your real name. Just soe, aung, nwe, aye will do.

Thank you for your contribution.

Goldie Shwe

အေရးေတာ္ပံု ေအာင္ရမည္

(The Determination To Succeed)

The following poem is written by famous Burmese blogger and poet Ma Thadar. A brief translation is done for English readers)

၁၉၆၂ ကစ..
အေမွာင္က်လာတဲ့ ဘဝ
ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားရဲ့ ေရႊေရာင္အိမ္မက္.
လူ ့အခြင့္အေရး ခ်ိဳးျဖဴဌက္..
သမဂၢအေဆာက္အဦးနဲ့ အတူ..
ေၾကြက် ေျမခ..
အမည္းေရာင္စ..သမိုင္းရဲ့ မွတ္တိုင္။

(1962 is the beginning of the dark era, when the students’ golden dreams for developing our beloved country had been razed to the ground, together with the Rangoon University Graduation Hall. No one realised then that we were all going to lose our basic human rights too)

ဦးသန္ ့ မွိဳင္းရာျပည့္.
က်ိဴၾကားက်ိဳၾကား..
အေရးေတာ္ပံုမီးစမ်ား..
ေျမ့ေျမ့ေလာင္ဖြဲမီး..
မ်ိဳးဆက္မ်ိဳးစဥ္ တဆက္ျပီးတဆက္
၈၈၈၈ အေရးေတာ္ပံု သို ့
ေသြး နဲ ့ရင္းႏွီးတယ္။

(Many other protests have been organized and held since, such as U Thant’s funeral and 100th Anniversary of Sir Hmine, but all were defeated too. However, these unsuccessful protests were vital and acted as cold fire, which passed on to the next generations, leading up to yet the biggest of all protests – The 8888.)

၁၉၈၈ ေနာက္..
ေက်ာင္းသား တပ္မေတာ္ေပၚေပါက္
တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အသက္ေပး
ေသလိုက္ၾကတဲ့ ျပည့္ရင္ေသြး။
လူမသိ သူမသိ..
ဒုနဲ့ေဒး။ အာဇာနည္ေသြးေတြ ..ေျမခေၾကြ။

(The Student Army was formed during the 8888 and thousands of young lives were lost in the battles for freedom and democracy. There were countless Unknown Soldiers and Warriors who willingly gave up lives for the country. It all happened behind the scenes and in secrecy but we all know about their fate because the ground is covered in our martyrs' blood. )

"ခြပ္ေဒါင္းစစ္မွန္..ေလဆန္ကိုသာ ပ်ံမဟဲ့
ခြပ္ေဒါင္းစစ္မွန္..ခြပ္ရင္းသာ ေသမဟဲ့"
ေကသရာဇာ..ဘယ္ျမက္မစားခဲ့
ေဒါင္းစစ္ေတြ က်ဆံုးေသေပ်ာက္
ေဒါင္းေသြးနီနံ..ခုထိမေျခာက္.
ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတစ္ေလ်ွာက္
ဝိညာဥ္မ်ားရယ္..ဒို ့နဲ့အတူတူေန
လြတ္လပ္မွသာ..အမွ်ေဝ
ၾကာခဲ့ျပီေလ..
အႏွစ္ (၂၀)ေျခာက္လွန္ ့အိပ္မက္ေတြ

(Pedigree fighting peacocks would fly against the wind, and would fight until they die. Lions never eat grass. Peacock soldiers died and the smell of their blood is still in the air. Their spirits have marched along with us in all of our battles. Twenty years of nightmares are still not going away. But there will be no memorial service, until we regain the freedom.)

၂၀၀ရရဲ့ ေရႊဝါေရာင္.ေတာ္လွန္ေရး
ေသြးညစ္ေထးတဲ့ သကၤန္း..
သာသနာရယ္ ညစ္ေပႏြမ္းေတာ့..
ေအာ္...ေရႊဗမာမ်ားရယ္..
က်ြန္ျဖစ္ခ်င္ၾကသလား..
က်ြန္သက္ရွည္ရေတာ့မလား။

(2007 saw the Golden Colour Revolution when golden robes got soaked in dirty blood. This time we lost our most treasured religion. Oh dear… Golden Burmese, it looks like you do enjoy being slaves ! Dear Golden Burmese, you are just doing everything to prolong your slavery !)

ကိုလိုနီ မ်က္ႏွာျဖဴကဖ်က္ေတာင္မွ..
ဒို ့ဘိုးဘြားလက္ထက္..မပ်က္ခဲ့တဲ့ သာသနာ
ဒို ့ေခတ္က် မွ သာသနာပ်က္..
ဗမာစင္စစ္က..ဗမာကိုဖ်က္
ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္စင္စစ္က..ဗုဒၶဘာသာကိုဖ်က္
ထြီ..ရွက္စရာ့
ရာဇဝင္ရယ္ ရိုင္းပါ့။
မ်က္ႏွာကို ဓါးနဲ့သာ နဳတ္နဳတ္စင္း
က်ြန္ပါး၀ ေသာက္သံုးမက်တဲ့ စာရင္း
က်မနာမည္ လည္း ပါတယ္။
သင္ေရာ..ပါေနသလား.????
သင္ေရာ..ပါခ်င္သလား.?????

We had never lost our religion, the precious gift of our ancestors. Not even during the colonial time. Now only in the junta time, we managed to destroy our priceless traditional culture. Only the Burmese who are destroying Burma ! Only the Buddhists who are destroying the Buddhism ! How shameful is that ? What disgraceful History is that ? There is only one way to save from this historical shame. Just slice your face with a knife. What loyal servants we have all become (to the junta) ? I was one too, who let the country (and the religion) down. How about you ?

ျမက္ပင္ေျခာက္ကေလးတပင္မို ့
အားငယ္မေနနဲ ့
တေတာလံုး ကိုမီးဟုန္းဟုန္းတိုက္မဲ့
ေလာင္စာျဖစ္နိူင္တယ္။

( Do not be lonely , only because you are a little dried grass. That’s all we need to start the forest fire.)

ပုဇြန္ဆိတ္ကေလး တေကာင္မို ့
အားငယ္မေနနဲ ့
သမုဒၵရာ ကိုလူးလားခတ္
ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္နိူင္တယ္။

(Do not feel weak, only because you are a little plankton. They are regularly crossing the oceans.)

အားနဲ ့သာခဲ တြန္းပါလွည့္
ဇဲြမာန္နဲ့သာ..ရုန္းပါလွည့္။
တေယာက္တလက္..စြမ္းအားထက္
မခိုကပ္ရင္..ဘယ္ေလာက္ခက္ခက္
ျပိဳင္တူတြန္းနိူင္ ေရြ ့နိုင္ပါရက္
က်ြန္သက္မရွည္ခ်င္..ၾကိဳးစားပါလွည့္။
ကဲ လာ..ညီညာတူညီ..
ျမန္ျပည္သစ္သို ့ရည္.
အေရးေတာ္ပံု ေအာင္ရမည္။

(Please grit your teeth and push. Please pick yourself up and struggle. Many hands will make one strong force. If we all take part and do our duty, we can conquer anything. If you do not want to live on as a slave , you must try with all your might. Our success only depends on our determination. Let us build Burma as we always wanted – free and democratic. )

မသဒၶါ (၈။၇။၂၀၀၈)

(Nay Chi U's translation)

Burmese ? Do Something About Your Country !!!

(Several Ways To Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 8888 Massacre)

Whispers and rumours among the grown-ups of the arrests, torture and murder of any protesters and demonstrators, had become a fairly normal thing for kids to hear about in the 60’s and 70’s in Burma.

So many protests organized by the students and workers, were repeatedly and ruthlessly suppressed and crushed by the military junta since the infamous July 7th 1962 explosion. This bomb destroyed the graduation building packed with Rangoon University students protesting over the occupation by the military junta , immediately after the coup in March 1962.

Many protesters died, some were tortured or raped, or thrown into long term imprisonment. Except for a few of the students involved, who witnessed the fate of their friends and close relatives, people now tend to have forgetten the fearful events and get on with their lives.

Then came the 8th August, 1988 demonstrations, better known as 8888. This time, millions of people joined in and filled every street of every town in Burma. Aung San Suu Kyi was emerging as the best loved and most respected leader for Burma. People just felt good and happy and convinced that right would prevail at last. The expectation of freedom and democracy, an improving economy and the proper development of the country was high and everyone was an optimistic person. We would have the opportunity to be as good, or even better, than the neighbouring countries, after all.

Suddenly, the junta struck. Our own soldiers pointed machine guns right to the crowds of Burmese people and shot every thing that moved. The military with their convoys of trucks and tanks marched into the streets of towns and cities, treating their own people as an enemy. People dispersed in panic as the junta once again used unbridled military force power as they had always done since 1962; their most successful procedure was (and still is) to run down the crowds with tanks and overwhelming numbers of soldiers and paramilitary, arrest indiscriminately, interrogate remorselessly, and throw thousands into the long term imprisonment, in some of the most inhumane prisons in human history. The usual follow-up procedures to intimidate the rest of the country’s population are then carried out at leisure – picking up suspected protesters from their own homes like butchers picking up the chickens for slaughter, sending political prisoners to labour camps or remotest possible prisons so that families and friends find visits almost impossible.

It was obvious that the people of Burma were physically defeated again at the popular 8888 protest. Mentally they were also badly scarred, but the knowledge of the true nature of the now despised military junta, made them tougher as well as more bitter. Those millions of people who marched along the streets of the cities became the eye-witnesses of the junta’s ruthless brutality. The myths, legends and gossip of military junta’s arrests, torture and murder had become such obviously true stories of personal experiences.

Many people have fled the country since 8888. Most went to the Thai- Burma border. Some middle class families began to find jobs in developed countries and were able to settle as ‘expats’. Most interestingly, some of the officials of the military junta also started sending their family members to settle abroad, mainly in Singapore and the West. No doubt those officials sensed the hatred and the burning desire for revenge, that the entire public feel towards them. The overwhelming number of people who turned up to protest in 8888 to ask for freedom and democracy had clearly shaken them.

Twenty years on and the junta still has its boot on Burma’s throat. Crime after crime continues to be committed by the junta in the most brazen, shameless and cowardly manner. The country’s economy is completely corrupt and wholly subverted to the interests of the junta's small ‘élite’, so that they and their supporters have become dollar multi-millionaires. Even now, no one is able to exert political influence to do anything about this institutionalized criminality, including the UN.

The 8888 generations have become the middle-aged. The most courageous student leaders and the brightest of the politicians have been exterminated or are still serving long prison sentences as though they were the criminals. The humanitarian agencies are struggling desperately to cope with the number of refugees arriving at the borders.

This 20th Anniversary of the 8888 protest is a good time for every Burmese people to do self assessment.

• Are you Burmese or do you belong to an ethnic minority group?
• Are you a participant or a witness to the 8888 protests?
• Do you agree that the military junta brutally crushed the protests?
• Do you agree that the military junta is a terminal cancer within Burmese society, sucking out the energy and resources from the entire nation?
• Do you agree that the junta and followers are interested only in personal wealth and have no single interest in the real development of Burmese nation ?

If your answers are ‘Yes’ then you will want starting to do something about it. Here are some suggestions :

Make a list of the junta members that you know

You may have gone to school or college with family members of the military officers, or you might have had the pleasure of having to work with/for them. Record their names and addresses and publish them in a blog, or email to existing well-known blogs.

Expose the militia members (Thugs = Soon Arr Shin)

Do the same as you do for the military officers’ families. It is reported that 50 of those Soon Arr Shin thugs will be allocated in each quarter in Rangoon. Well, what is the population of each quarter ? It must be at least tens of thousands. You will know who the thugs are; record their names and spread the news quickly and widely as possible. If you are too worried about getting caught then write their names and addresses on paper and drop them on the street corners.

If you don’t want to get involved in dangerous spying games then simply just sit down and give a full bow (sheet koo) whenever the thug in your quarter walks by. Elderly people, children and even monks are most suitable to follow this tactic as no one can arrest you if you are only giving a full holy respect to the licensed thugs.

Expose brutal and corrupt prison and police officials

Identification of these criminals may be harder to carry out, but some names of local police officials may appear often in the newspapers.

For the prison officials, you may know their wives, you may be their doctor or a nurse who treated them, you may have been their teacher, you may know the schools they send their children.

Diplomats

Diplomatic staff represent, and are paid to lie for, the military government. They put on brave faces and cheesy smiles, covered themselves with skin as thick as crocodiles’, to hold on to their positions. Their rundown offices are not only filled with cigarette smoke but also with filthy jokes as their limited minds wander only between their knees and their navel. Staff at Bangkok and Singapore are possibly a little busier as they not only have to be vigilant of attacks and abuse from exiled Burmese, but have also to spy on them so that they can confiscate these bad people’s passports in revenge. Assignments are always carefully planned. The closer you are related to the junta, the better position you are likely to get and also what they considered as the best countries from the most developed and democratic world. Most self-made officials who have no good connections will always end up in the third-world countries and their careers also end just below the rank of Ambassador. Their only ambition is to get the next foreign assignment after suffering 3 or 4 years of misery in the ghostly city of Naypyidaw.

If you are an exile Burmese, find out who the embassy staff are and broadcast the information as best you can.

Students

Most military students are sent to countries like Russia and China to learn how to kill their own unarmed compatriots with the guns, so that they can become future members of the junta. Just as for diplomats, the selections are made carefully and later when qualified, the positions will be allocated according to the connections with the junta.

Private jets are hired to carry full loads of military students to places like Moscow every year, to be taught the skills of civil suppression at the feet of authorities such as the KGB. Find out who the future military criminals are. Always remember that their salary and scholarships come from blood and sweat of the Burmese public.


These are only a few examples to start you off, and you may well be able to think of much better ideas. If so, please let others know.

No one can deny that Burma continues to crumble and millions of its people are starving. The military government who still officially rules the country, takes no responsibility or interest to save the country from being the poorest in the world. Once their bank accounts are full, the top officers and their families will go abroad and start a new and comfortable life, while poor young Burmese girls are forced into prostitution and young boys forced to join the army as slaves for the Generals.

If you consider yourself a genuine loyal Burmese and would like to play a small part to help the nation, then please take part and do what you can to save our beloved country.

There is no better time to make your resolution to help the country than this 20th Anniversary of 8888 Massacre, when thousands of courageous students and civilians bravely gave up their lives for freedom and democracy in Burma.

Goldie Shwe

Take action - Stop Insurance companies funding Burma's Generals

Please write to the companies listed here and tell them to stop supporting a regime that shoots innocent protestors and uses rape as a weapon of war.

The Burma Campaign report shows that when insurance is withdrawn the regime loses millions of dollars, money they'd normally using on the military.

Please take a moment and write, fax or email the companies listed. There is a sample letter you may wish to use to send to the companies.Please click here to Take Action.

Invitation to the 20th Anniversary of 8888

Dear Burmese Patriots and Friends of Burma,

As We are having a special commemoration of 20th Anniversary of 8888 uprising, we would like to invite
you to following events. Please show your solidarity by attending the commemoration on 08 Aug 2008.

Program Details:

(1) Special Commemoration of 20th Anniversary of 8888 Nation-wide Democracy Uprising
Date: 08.08.2008
Time: 11:00 to 12:30
Place: Jubilee garden (TO BE CONFIRMED)
Direction: Click here for Map and direction
Activities: - Activation of 8888 Monument
- 5 Miniutes Wonder for Burma


2) Demonstration in front of Murderers' Embassy
Date: 08.08.2008
Time: 13:00 to 14:00
Place: Murderers' Embassy
19 A, Charles Street
Direction: Click here for Map
Activities: Just demonstration


(3) Exhibitions on Political Prisoners in Burma
Date: 08.08.2008
Time: 18:00 to 22:00
Place: SOAS University,
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7637 2388
Direction: Click here for map
Activities: - Photo Exhibition
- Sale of Souvenir

For attending demonstration, we recommend to wear t-shirt about Burma. If you don't have it,
we can provide you one on the day. But, please be advised to make a few donation. But we
only have a few number of T-shirt. Therefore, if you want one, please send your advanced order
to bdma@bdmauk.org enclosing your name and your number.

For More Info - Tel: 07762094562, Email: bdma@bdmauk.org

Dirty Panties To Burmese Embassies

As you are sending some donations to Burma cyclone victims please also remember to send your dirty old panties to the Burmese Embassies across the world.

Far from being concerned about the millions of starving cyclone victims, the junta is trying to make profit out of the international aid they receive for the victims.

They also insulted the intelligence of whole world by announcing their resounding victory over the referendum, held at gunpoint and over the dead bodies of victims of cyclone Nargis, as they world pleaded with them to help the dying people instead.

What’s more, they carry on arresting more people from the opposition National League for Democracy, led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, which legally won their landslide victory in the 1990 election.

There are no words left to describe the inhumanity of the junta; but guess what, they are afraid of the women’s underwear as they think it will rub off and erode their ‘power’.

So please keep sending the used and dirty underpants to the Embassies across the world. If you live in the city, just make sure that you hang those smelly panties by the front door of the Embassy.

If you live in the country side, just send them by post. If you just send the used panty liners, it should not cost extra postages as they are very light and thin.

Thank you for all your help.

Nay Chi U

www.canada.com/calgaryherald/story

Burmese Junta Should Be Tried

The Press Association

The military regime in cyclone-struck Burma should be hauled before the International Criminal Court for its failure to help the country's people, a senior Tory has said.

The call came from shadow international development secretary Andrew Mitchell who said two million people in Burma were in danger because of the failure to develop a civil society in that country.

"We see a regime run by evil thieving gangsters who don't give a fig for their people, who are stealing aid, and who are deliberately blocking the international humanitarian relief which people of good will all around the world wish for Burma," he told the Scottish Tories' annual conference in Ayr. I say that such leaders should be carted off to the International Criminal Court at The Hague and face charges of crimes against humanity."

Take action - China must stop blocking UN action on aid to Burma.

Dear Friends,

The death toll from Cyclone Nargis continues to rise and over 1.5 million
people are now at risk. We know that diseases, such as cholera, dysentery
and malaria, are spreading. If the world does not intervene soon, the death
toll could rise by thousands every day.

No country could cope with a disaster of this scale alone, yet Burma¹s
Generals are shunning the world¹s offers of help; they¹d rather see their
citizens die than accept help from overseas.

If any country can make the generals change their mind, it is China. We have
witnessed the recent terrible loss of life in China following the
devastating earthquake. However, the response to the two natural disasters
could not be more different. While the Chinese government responded quickly,
dispatching 50,000 troops, and Premier Wen Jiabao immediately flying to the
disaster area, the Burmese regime continues to block aid efforts.

China has a very close relationship with Burma¹s generals, supplying them
with weapons, economic assistance and protecting them at the UN Security
Council. This weekend China blocked moves at the UN for a Security Council
resolution telling the generals to let aid in. Every hour China protects
Burma, more people will die.

Please help us break the deadlock. Please email China and demand that they
stop blocking UN action. Your email will be sent to the Chinese
representatives at the UN and in the UK.

Please send an email now here:
www.burmacampaign.org.uk/china_cycloneaction


Thank you.

Anna Roberts
The Burma Campaign UK

[BurmaCampaign] Urgent Action: UK must support Security Council action on aid to Burma

Dear friends

On day 6 since Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, most people have still not
received any aid because of restrictions by the regime. Every day of delay
is likely to cost thousands of lives. More than one million people are
believed to be homeless, and more than 100,000 could have been killed.
The United Nations has the power to authorise aid shipments to Burma even
though the regime has not given permission. The French government has tried
to secure a discussion on this at the Security Council, but other Council
members, including the UK government, have not added their support.

In 2006 the Security Council passed Resolution 1674 which stated that the
Council could intervene in circumstances similar to that in Burma.

It is time to demand that the UN Security Council pass a resolution invoking
its responsibility to protect to ensure that aid gets to the Burmese people,
and fast. UK support for this proposal is essential.

Please take action now and send an email to the UK Government urging them to
support UN action to deliver aid to Burma.

Take action here:Nargis-Action


We are updating our website every day as we get more information. Please
check our site regularly for the latest news on the crisis:
Cyclone Nargis

Thank you for your support.

Anna Roberts
The Burma Campaign UK

Translators and Interpreters Needed

Please contact these addresses if you can help.


wefightwewin@gmail.com
radiomin@gmail.com
mindfulness07@gmail.com

Golden Colour Revolution

[BurmaCampaign] Cyclone disaster in Burma

Dear friends

Cyclone Nargis has caused massive destruction across Burma. Over 22,000 people have died, over a million people are homeless and tens of thousands of people are missing. We fear the death-toll in Burma will escalate dramatically unless aid is delivered to victims in the next few days. Most people already live in poverty, and have no resources to cope with a disaster on this scale.

We are very concerned about the Irrawaddy division, which bore the brunt of the storms. The region produces much of Burma’s rice and its inhabitants live in bamboo huts held together by grass. We fear that these houses simply did not survive the storm's 190 km/h winds and 3.5 metre storm surge.

We are working hard to help the affected people. We have successfully lobbied the UK government to take action and today they pledged to give £5 million to the relief effort.

No country would be able to cope with this event alone, but instead of warning the population that the storm was coming and making disaster relief plans, the regime did nothing. And now instead of allowing in disaster relief agencies to do their work, the regime is refusing to allow free access to humanitarian organisations. The regime ruling Burma places severe restrictions on the delivery of aid, and this has largely gone unchallenged by the international community. Although the regime has said it will accept aid, there is no information on what aid it will allow and where it can be delivered. It is essential that aid is delivered through independent agencies, such as the UN and aid agencies, rather than the regime, which is likely to misuse or steal aid.

Please check our website for the latest news, http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk/cyclonenargis.php

Thank you.

Johnny Chatterton
The Burma Campaign UK

Information for those who would like to donate for victims of Cyclone Nargis

1) UK

Account name: Burmese Student Organisation UK
Bank name: HSBC
Sort Code: 40-01-13
Account No: 41546694
Burmese Student Organisation
Cyclone Disaster Appeal
For more Information pls see following web.
www.bsouk.org

Collected by Myanmar Sanga Association UK and Unity to Victory Group.

u2v@u2v.org.uk
tzhtike2004@gmail.com

Ko Kyaw Swar (+44) 7828 890 224
Ko Thant Zin (+44) 7727 248 755
Ko Moe Swe (+44) 7773 325 635
Ko Myat Soe Khine (+44) 7939 222 932

Ko Htike (+44) 7974 817 387
(http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/)
Sayadaw U Candobhasa
Bank Name : Barclays
Account Holder Name Mr A Candobhasa
A/C 90 00 28 36
S/C 20 80 71
Ph 078 77 297 205
email: ashinucandobhasa@yahoo.co.uk

2) Singapore

Peninsula Plaza.

1. Lin Let (Second Floor)
2. Sin Myanmar ( Third Floor)
3. Daw Than Than Nu (5th Floor)
4. Lan Pya Kyal Library (5 th Floor) – Collection on everyday 6:30 pm to 9pm

Additional info pls see (http://linletkyalsin.blogspot.com/)

Collection of clothes, shoes, caps, pencils and so on.
If u want to participate in this activity please
contact as follow ~

Daw Soe Soe Aung @ Catherine - 92986743
Si Thu Aung @ Chris - 81681121
Ye Thway @ Danny - 91084611


3) US

Myanmar America Burma Buddhist Association (ABBA)
Sayadaw Ashin Indaka and ABBA EC members
619 Bergen Street Brooklyn NY
Tel: 718-622-8019
eMail: info@mahasiusa.org
http://www.mahasiusa.org/cyclone.html


4) Other Information:
You can also donate in these web site.Please see these links for more information.

Save the Children

http://www.savethechildren.org/newsroom/2008/cyclone-nargis-myanmar.html

World Vision South East Asia cyclone relief web site

http://www.worldvision.org/Worldvision/eappeal.nsf/egift-disaster-response-southern-asia-cyclone-relief?OpenForm&campaign=11365555&cmp=KNC-11365555
International Rescue Committee

http://www.theirc.org/news/irc-sends-team-myanmar0505.html?gclid=CN6HiLmnkZMCFQ81eg


Original source : Niknaman's blog

Advanced Referendum Voting Dates at Burmese Embassy, London

Saturday 26 April 2008

Sunday 27 April 2008

Monday 28 April 2008

Time

9 am to 5 pm

Place

Burmese Embassy
19 A , Charles Street
London W1J 5DX

ကံၾကမၼာကို ကန္႔ကြက္မဲက ေမြးဖြားေပးမည္ဟု ယုံၾကည္မိပါသည္။

အရင္ ဒိုင္, အခု ထိုးသား
၀င္းေပၚေမာင္
ဧျပီ ၁၄၊ ၂၀၀၈

ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳေရး ျပည္လုံးကၽြတ္ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲသည္ အႏွစ္သာရအားျဖင့္ စစ္အစိုးရ ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေရး ျပည္လုံးကၽြတ္ ဆႏၵေပးပြဲ အျဖစ္သို႔ တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ အသြင္ေျပာင္းလာေနၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး ျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားကို ၾကည့္လွ်င္ စစ္တပ္မွ လႊမ္းမိုးခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ လုပ္ေဆာင္သည့္ ကိစၥရပ္တိုင္း၌ ျပင္ပအသြင္သဏၭာန္ႏွင့္ အတြင္းအႏွစ္သာရတို႔ အျမဲတေစ ကြဲျပားေနေလ့ ရွိသည္ကို ေတြ႔ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ အေရးပါသည့္ ကိစၥရပ္မ်ား ျဖစ္သည့္ ၁၉၅၈, ၁၉၆၂, ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္ စစ္တပ္အာဏာသိမ္းမႈမ်ား၊ ၁၉၆၀, ၁၉၉၀ ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ၁၉၇၃ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲတို႔တြင္ အသြင္ ႏွင့္ အႏွစ္ ကြဲျပားေနသည္ကို အထင္အရွား ေတြ႔ျမင္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

စစ္တပ္က အာဏာသိမ္းမႈတိုင္းတြင္ `ယိုယြင္းေနေသာ တိုင္းျပည္အေျခအေနအရ မလႊဲမေရွာင္သာ အာဏာယူရျခင္း´ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း မြဲျပာပုဆုိး အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ကို ထပ္တလဲလဲ ေပးခဲ့ျမဲ ျဖစ္သည္။ အမွန္မွာ `အာဏာ´ကို လိုခ်င္၍ `သိမ္း´ျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

စစ္တပ္က လုပ္ေပးေသာ ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ားတြင္ လြတ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တစြာ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ႏိုင္ရန္ ႀကီးၾကပ္ေပးသည္ဟု အသံေကာင္းဟစ္ေသာ္လည္း၊ လက္ေတြ႔တြင္ စစ္တပ္က ၄င္းတို႔ လိုလားသည့္ဘက္မွ ပင္းခဲ့ျမဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

တပါတီစနစ္က်င့္သုံးမည့္ အေျခခံဥပေဒ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲမွာ ၿပိဳင္ဘက္မရွိဘဲ တေယာက္တည္း ဟန္ေရးျပသည့္ `လုပ္ပြဲ´တခုသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

သို႔ရာတြင္ စစ္တပ္က ဘယ္လုိပင္ အေၾကာင္းျပျပ၊ ဘယ္ေလာက္ပင္ အသံေကာင္းဟစ္ဟစ္ ျမန္မာလူထုက အသြင္ႏွင့္ အႏွစ္ကို ေကာင္းစြာ ခြဲျခား နားလည္ၿပီးသား ျဖစ္သည္။ ခ်က္ဆို နားခြက္က မီးေတာက္ၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ စကားလုံး အႀကီးအက်ယ္ အလွအပမ်ားႏွင့္ ဘယ္လိုပင္ တန္ဆာဆင္ ေျပာေနေစကာမူ အတြင္းအႏွစ္သာရကို ဇတ္ခနဲ ဆြဲထုတ္ ေကာက္ယူၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။

ေမလတြင္ က်င္းပမည္ဟု ေၾကညာထားသည့္ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳေရး ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ၏ အႏွစ္သာရကိုလည္း ျမန္မာလူထုက အေတာ္ေစာေစာကပင္ ေကာက္ယူၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ စစ္တပ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္အေပၚ ျမန္မာလူထု၏ ဘာသာျပန္ခ်က္က ႏိုင္ငံေရး ဆန္ခ်င္မွ ဆန္မည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ရွင္းလင္းသည္။ စကားလုံး လွခ်င္မွ လွမည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ တိက်သည္။

ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကို လူထု အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင့္ပုံက "ဒါ သူတုိ႔ ဆင္းမေပးဖို႔ လုပ္တာ" ဟူ၍ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

၁၉၉၀ ဒိုင္

ဗိုလ္ေန၀င္း ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ အိမ္ေစာင့္အစိုးရက ၁၉၆၀ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလတြင္ `တတိယအႀကိမ္ ဥပေဒျပဳလႊတ္ေတာ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ´ ကို ၄၇ အေျခခံဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ က်င္းပေပးခဲ့သည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ဒိုင္ျဖစ္သည့္ အိမ္ေစာင့္အစိုးရ (စစ္တပ္) က တည္ျမဲဖဆပလ ဘက္မွ ပင္းခဲ့သည္။ ယင္းသို႔ ပင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သက္ေသထူသည့္အခ်က္မွာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြင္း မသမာမႈမ်ားတြင္ တာ၀န္ရွိသည္ဟုဆိုကာ တပ္မွဴးႀကီး ၁၃ ေယာက္ကို ဗိုလ္ေန၀င္းက ျဖဳတ္ပစ္လိုက္ျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။

၁၉၉၀ တြင္ ဗိုလ္ေစာေမာင္ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ န၀တ စစ္အစိုးရက ပါတီစုံ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေထြေထြ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို က်င္းပေပးခဲ့သည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ အေျခခံဥပေဒ တခုမွ် မရွိသည့္ အေျခအေနတြင္ က်င္းပျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ၁၉၄၇ ကကဲ့သို႔ `တုိင္းျပည္ျပဳလႊတ္ေတာ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ´ ဟုလည္း အတိအလင္း မဆိုထား။ အာဏာလႊဲေျပာင္းေရးကိုလည္း တိတိက်က် မျပ႒ာန္းထား။ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒတြင္ "လႊတ္ေတာ္ကို မဲဆႏၵနယ္မ်ားမွ ဤဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီ ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမာက္လိုက္ေသာ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းရမည္။" ဟူ၍ ျပ႒ာန္းထားေသာ္လည္း လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေခၚယူေရးအတြက္ အခ်ိန္ကာလ တိတိက်က် မသတ္မွတ္ထား။

ထိုသို႔ ေပ်ာ့ကြက္မ်ား ရွိေနေသာ္ျငား န၀တ ဥကၠ႒ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး ေစာေမာင္က "ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ၿပီးရင္ ဘာလုပ္ၾကမလဲ၊ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ ေရးဖို႔ပဲ ျဖစ္တယ္္။ … အေျခခံ ဥပေဒကို အေရြးခံရတဲ့ ပါတီအဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြက လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြ ညိႇႏိႈင္းၿပီး လုပ္ၾကရမယ့္ ကိစၥ" ဟူ၍ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မတိုင္မီကေရာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အၿပီးတြင္ပါ ကမၻာသိ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီး ႏွစ္လအၾကာတြင္ ထုတ္ျပန္သည့္ ၁/၉၀ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရက လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူေပးေရးကို တာ၀န္ခံၿပီး၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားက အေျခခံဥပေဒ ေရးဆြဲေရးကို တာ၀န္ယူရန္ ထပ္မံ အတည္ျပဳခဲ့သည္။

ထိုအခ်က္မ်ားအရ စစ္အစိုးရက မိမိကိုယ္ကိုယ္ အိမ္ေစာင့္အစိုးရကဲ့သို႔ သေဘာထားကာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို က်င္းပေပးခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သုံးသပ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ ျပည္သူလူထု အမ်ားစုကလည္း ဤသို႔ပင္ ႐ႈျမင္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ စစ္အစိုးရက ဒိုင္ ျဖစ္သည္။

စစ္အစိုးရက ဒိုင္ေနရာကို ယူခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ကစားပြဲကို အဆုံးသတ္ေအာင္ မေဆာင္ရြက္ပါ။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ ထြက္ေပၚလာသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလဒ္က မိမိလိုလားသည့္အတိုင္း မဟုတ္ေတာ့၍ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ စစ္အစိုးရအေနႏွင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ဘယ္ပါတီမွ ျပတ္ျပတ္သားသား အႏိုင္ရလိမ့္မည္ မဟုတ္ဟု တထစ္ခ် တြက္ဆထားခဲ့ပုံ ရပါသည္။ ပါတီမ်ားအခ်င္းခ်င္း အားၿပိဳင္ေနလွ်င္ စစ္တပ္က အဆုံးအျဖတ္ေပးႏိုင္သည့္ အုပ္စု ျဖစ္လာမည္ဟု ထင္ျမင္ထားပုံ ရပါသည္။ သို႔မဟုတ္ စစ္တပ္ ေထာက္ခံသည့္ ပါတီက အသာစီးရလာမည္ဟု ယူဆထားပုံ ရပါသည္။ ထိုယူဆခ်က္မွာ ဗုိလ္ေန၀င္း၏ အိမ္ေစာင့္အစိုးရေခတ္ ယူဆခ်က္ႏွင့္ ထပ္တူနီးပါး ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ဗိုလ္ေန၀င္းေခတ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ သိသိသာသာ ဘက္လိုက္ခဲ့သည့္တိုင္ စစ္တပ္အားေပးသည့္ ဘက္က ခြက္ခြက္လန္ေအာင္ ႐ႈံးခဲ့သည္။ ဗို္လ္ေစာေမာင္ေခတ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္လည္း စစ္တပ္ လိုလားသည့္ဘက္က ခြက္ခြက္လန္ေအာင္ ႐ႈံးခဲ့ျပန္သည္။

ဘက္လိုက္၍ မႏိုင္ေသာအခါ ဗိုလ္ေန၀င္းသည္ ေနာင္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္အၾကာတြင္ အာဏာသိမ္းခဲ့သည္။ လိုလားသည့္ဘက္က မႏိုင္ေသာအခါ ဗိုလ္ေစာေမာင္သည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚေပးရန္ ျငင္းဆန္လိုက္ေတာ့သည္။

ထိုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏွစ္ခုစလုံးတြင္ ျပည္သူလူထုက စစ္တပ္လႊမ္းမိုးမႈကို မလိုလားေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီကိုသာ လိုလားေၾကာင္း ထင္ထင္ရွားရွား ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ ျပည္သူလူထု ဆႏၵႏွစ္ခုစလုံးကို စစ္တပ္က ဆန္႔က်င္ ပစ္ပယ္ထားဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။

စစ္အစိုးရသည္ ျမတ္မလားလို႔ ဒိုင္ကိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ သူဘက္လိုက္ထားသည့္ ထိုးသားႏွင့္ ေ၀စားမွ်စား လုပ္ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ထားသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ရလဒ္က သူလိုခ်င္သည့္အတိုင္း မဟုတ္ေတာ့ေသာအခါ ယခု သူကိုယ္တိုင္ ထိုးသား အျဖစ္ ၀င္ေရာက္လာေတာ့သည္။

၂၀၀၈ ထိုးသား

၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ျမန္္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သည့္ ပါတီစုံ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမ်ားအနက္ မဲလိမ္ မဲခိုးမႈ အကင္းရွင္းဆုံး ျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္။ ပါတီခ်င္း အုပ္စုခ်င္း ဥပေဒမဲ့ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈမ်ား ကင္းစင္ခဲ့သည္။ စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား၏ အလြန္အက်ဴး ဖိအားေပးမႈမ်ား ေလ်ာ့နည္းသြားသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ လုံး၀ လြတ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တသည္ဟုေတာ့ မဆိုႏိုင္ပါ။ တင္းက်ပ္ေသာ အကန္႔အသတ္မ်ားၾကားမွ စည္း႐ုံးလႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ရျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အားလုံးက `လြတ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တ´ သည္ဟု အသိအမွတ္ ျပဳခဲ့ၾကၿပီး၊ ရလဒ္ကိုလည္း တရား၀င္ အတည္ျပဳခဲ့သည္။

ထိုအခ်ိန္က စစ္တပ္ပိုင္ပါတီ မရွိပါ။ စစ္တပ္ပိုင္ပါတီ အျဖစ္မွ စ်ာန္ေလ်ာလာေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားစည္းလုံးညီၫြတ္ေရးပါတီသာ ရွိပါသည္။ အာဏာကို လက္လႊတ္ခဲ့ရသည့္ မဆလ တျဖစ္လဲ တစညပါတီသည္ ေငြအင္အား လူအင္အား အေတာင့္တင္းဆုံး ျဖစ္သည္။ အင္အားႀကီးပါတီ ျဖစ္၍ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ အႏိုင္ရမည္၊ သို႔မဟုတ္ အဓိက အတိုက္အခံ ျဖစ္လာမည္ဟု စစ္တပ္က တြက္ဆထားပုံရပါသည္။ ထိုသုိ႔ ျဖစ္လာလွ်င္ တစညႏွင့္ စစ္တပ္ လက္ခ်င္းခ်ိတ္ထားႏိုင္မည္။ စစ္တပ္အေနႏွင့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ပါတီ မရွိေသာ္လည္း မဟာမိတ္ပါတီ ရွိေနမည့္ သေဘာျဖစ္သည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ သမိုင္းက ထိုသို႔ မျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါ။ ဒိုင္ကိုင္သူ စစ္တပ္သေဘာကို ေနာေက်ေအာင္ သိေနေသာ လူထုက လႊတ္ေတာ္အတြင္း ပါတီခ်င္းအားၿပိဳင္မႈ မေပၚေပါက္လာေစရန္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ တခုတည္းကို ပုံေအာ၍ မဲေပးခဲ့သည္။ တစညမွာ သူရသည့္မဲမ်ားကို စုေပါင္းလိုက္လွ်င္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ေနာက္မွ ဒုတိယလိုက္သည္ မွန္ေသာ္လည္း အမတ္ေနရာ ၁၀ ခုသာရ၍ လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္း၌ အတိုက္အခံေနရာကိုပင္ မရႏိုင္ေတာ့ပါ။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအၿပီးတြင္ စစ္အစိုးရသည္ တစညႏွင့္ အိုးစားခြဲကာ၊ ထာ၀ရ အာဏာဆြဲကိုင္ေရး လမ္းစဥ္ကို သူ႔နည္းသူ႔ဟန္ျဖင့္ စတင္ခဲ့ေတာ့သည္။ ပါတီတခုခုႏွင့္ မဟာမိတ္လုပ္ကာ အာဏာခြဲစားမည့္ လမ္းစဥ္မွ စစ္တပ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနယ္တြင္ လႊမ္းမိုးခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္္ေရး လမ္းစဥ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲခဲ့သည္။

"ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ အမ်ိဳးသားႏိုင္ငံေရး ဦးေဆာင္မႈအခန္းက႑တြင္ တပ္မေတာ္က ပါ၀င္ထမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေရး" ဆိုသည့္အခ်က္ကို ေျပာင္ေျပာင္တင္းတင္း ေတာင္းဆိုလာသည္။ ဤအခ်က္ကို ေတာင္းဆိုႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ `အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံ´ကို ဇြတ္တရြတ္ ဖန္တီးခဲ့သည္။ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာပင္ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကို ေထာက္ခံေပးမည့္ `ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔´ကို စစ္တပ္ပိုင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္း အျဖစ္ မဟားဒရား တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ့သည္။

နအဖသည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူေရးကို ျငင္းဆန္၍ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံကို က်င္းပႏိုင္ရန္ သုံးႏွစ္မွ် အခ်ိန္ယူခဲ့ရသည္။ ညီလာခံကို အတြင္းအျပင္ ဖိအားေပးျခင္းႏွင့္ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲဆန္႔ျခင္း ဗ်ဴဟာမ်ားျဖင့္ ကိုင္တြယ္ခဲ့သည္။ စင္စစ္ ၉၆ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ႏုတ္ထြက္လိုက္ခ်ိန္မွ စ၍ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံမွာ အသက္မရွိေသာ အဆာသြပ္႐ုပ္လုံးသက္သက္ ျဖစ္သြားၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

ညီလာခံက ေလွ်ာေမြးေလး ျဖစ္သြားခ်ိန္တြင္ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔က ဘီလူး ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။ သို႔ႏွင့္ ၁၄ ႏွစ္အၾကာတြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္သည္ ညီလာခံ၏ အေျခခံမူအျဖစ္ ေမြးဖြားလာျပန္သည္။

ယခု အဆိုပါေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကို လူထုဆႏၵခံယူျခင္းသည္ စစ္အစိုးရကိုယ္တိုင္ `ထိုးသား´ ျဖစ္လာျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ စစ္အစိုးရ ဒိုင္ကိုင္စဥ္က ပါတီမ်ားကို လႊတ္ေတာ္သက္တမ္း `တႀကိမ္စာ´ အတြက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခိုင္းခဲ့သည္။ စစ္အစိုးရကုိယ္တိုင္ ထိုးသား၀င္လုပ္သည့္ ယခုအခါတြင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္သက္တမ္း `တသက္စာ´ အတြက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ေနျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ျပင္ဆင္ေနသည့္ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲသည္ ျပင္ပအသြင္သဏၭာန္အားျဖင့္ "ဖြဲ႔စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳေရး" ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ အတြင္းအႏွစ္သာရအားျဖင့္ "စစ္တပ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳေရး" ျဖစ္ေနပါသည္။

ထိုးသားျဖစ္လာသည့္ နအဖသည္ အႏိုင္ရေရးအတြက္ နည္းလမ္းမ်ိဳးစုံကို အိတ္သြန္ဖာေမွာက္ ထုတ္သုံးမည္ အေသအခ်ာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဘယ္နည္းနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ႏိုင္, ႏိုင္ရင္ၿပီးေရာ ဆိုသည့္ စိ္တ္ႏွင့္ မတရားမႈအေပါင္း သရဖူေဆာင္းၾကမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုကိစၥအားလုံးကို ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔အမည္ခံ၍ လုပ္ကိုင္ေနၾကၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

ကန္႔ကြက္မဲအလြန္

ယခုပြဲတြင္ `ဒိုင္´ မရွိေတာ့ပါ။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ နအဖသည္ `သူပဲ ဒိုင္, သူပဲ ထိုးသား´ အျဖစ္ ရယူထားေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲအတြင္း တစုံတရာ ျပႆနာေပၚေပါက္ပါက တိုင္ၾကားေျဖရွင္းရန္ `တရား႐ုံး´ လည္း မရွိေတာ့ပါ။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္တရားသူႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ကိုယ္တုိင္ က်င္းပေရးေကာ္မရွင္ ဥကၠ႒ ေနရာယူထားေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲသည္ တဖက္ႏွင့္တဖက္ `ပြဲျပတ္´ ျဖစ္ကိုျဖစ္မွရမည့္ အေျခအေနသို႔ ဆုိက္ေရာက္ေနပါသည္။ ပြဲမျပတ္လွ်င္ အေျခအေနက ပိုမို႐ႈပ္ေထြးႏိုင္ၿပီး `ကင္ညာ ၿပီးေတာ့ ျမန္မာ´ ျဖစ္သြားႏိုင္ပါသည္။

ထိုအခ်က္ကို နအဖကလည္း လက္ခံထားပုံရသည္။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ တာ၀န္ယူထားသူ ကိုယ္တိုင္ ေထာက္ခံမဲထည့္ေရး စည္း႐ုံးေနသည္ကို ေထာက္လွ်င္ သူတို႔ဘက္က ေထာက္ခံမဲ အျပတ္ရေရးအတြက္ မေသခ်ာေသးဟု တြက္ဆႏိုင္ပါသည္။ သို႔မဟုတ္ စိတ္ခ်ေသခ်ာေအာင္ ၀ါယမစိုက္ထုတ္ေနသည္ဟုလည္း ဆုိႏိုင္ပါသည္။ သို႔မဟုတ္ ဒီတႀကိမ္ ႐ႈံးလွ်င္ ငါတုိ႔ ဇီ၀ိန္ခ်ဳပ္လိမ့္မည္ဟု စစ္အစိုးရ လိပ္ျပာလန္႔ေနတာလည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

ညီလာခံက ခ်မွတ္လိုက္ေသာ အေျခခံမူ၏ အဓိကက်ေသာ အခ်က္ႏွစ္ခ်က္ကို အေျခခံဥပေဒ မူၾကမ္းတြင္ ျပင္ထားလိုက္ျခင္းက နအဖသည္ အလြန္အမင္း ေၾကာက္စိတ္၀င္ေနေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပေနသည္။ ပုဒ္မ ၄၄၁ တြင္ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အတည္ျပဳဖို႔ ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ရွိသူအားလုံး၏ ၂၆ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းလိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း ျပ႒ာန္းထားၿပီး၊ ပုဒ္မ ၄၃၆ (က) တြင္ အေျခခံဥပေဒ ျပင္ဆင္ဖို႔ ဆႏၵမဲေပးပိုင္ခြင့္ရွိသူအားလုံး၏ ဆႏၵမဲ (ရာႏႈန္း ၁၀၀) လိုအပ္ေၾကာင္း ျပ႒ာန္းထားပါသည္။ ထိုအခ်က္မ်ားမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ႏွင့္ ညီၫြတ္ဖို႔ ေနေနသာသာ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံက ခ်မွတ္ေပးလိုက္ေသာ အေျခခံမူႏွင့္ပင္ မညီၫြတ္ေတာ့ပါ။ ထိုအခ်က္က နဂိုက ေထာက္ခံခ်င္သူမ်ားကိုပင္ ကန္႔ကြက္ေအာင္ တြန္းပို႔ေပးလိုက္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။

ျမန္မာလူထု အမ်ားစုက စစ္အစိုးရကို မလိုလားတာ အေသအခ်ာ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေထာက္ခံရမွာလား ကန္႔ကြက္ရမွာလား မသဲမကြဲ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ လူထုအေနျဖင့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်ရန္ အခ်က္အလက္ ျပည့္ျပည့္စုံစုံ မရေသးပါ။ ရသည့္တိုင္ေအာင္ အခ်ိန္ မလုံေလာက္ပါ။ လုံေလာက္သည့္တိုင္ေအာင္ ရွင္းလင္းေဆြးေႏြးခြင့္ ရႏိုင္မည္ မဟုတ္ပါ။ ယခု ဧၿပီ ၂ ရက္ေန႔က အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ျပည္သူလူထုကို ကန္႔ကြက္မဲထည့္ရန္ အတိအလင္း ႏိႈးေဆာ္လိုက္ၿပီ ျဖစ္၍ သဲသဲကြဲကြဲ ျဖစ္သြားၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ေမွာက္ေရး မည္းေရး ကိစၥလည္း အဆုံးသတ္ၿပီဟု ဆိုႏိုင္ပါသည္။ သပိတ္ေမွာက္စရာ ရွိခဲ့လွ်င္ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲထည့္ၿပီးမွ ေမွာက္ၾကရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ထားဖို႔ ျဖစ္သြားပါသည္။

ကန္႔ကြက္မဲလႈပ္ရွားမႈ က်ယ္ျပန္႔လာသည္ႏွင့္အမွ် လူထုယုံၾကည္မႈႏွင့္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ပီျပင္ခိုင္မာလာမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ လူထုအေနႏွင့္ ပြဲျပတ္မွ ျဖစ္မည္ကို သိလာေလေလ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲေတြ မ်ားလာေလေလ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲသည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီကို အၿပီးသတ္ ဆြတ္ခ်ဴေပးမည္ မဟုတ္သည့္တိုင္ ပန္းတိုင္ဆီသို႔ တိုး၍ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းလိုက္သည့္ ေျခတလွမ္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိအခ်က္ကို လူထုအေနႏွင့္ ေကာင္းစြာ နားလည္လာေလေလ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲေတြ မ်ားလာေလေလ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အေရးႀကီးဆုံး အခ်က္မွာ ဆႏၵမဲလက္မွတ္ကို လုံျခံဳလြတ္လပ္စြာ ေရးျခစ္ႏုိင္ခြင့္ ရဖို႔ပင္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ကန္႔ကြက္မဲေတြ အမ်ားစု ျဖစ္ၿပီဆိုလွ်င္…

အခ်ိဳ႕က ကန္႔ကြက္မဲထည့္လုိက္လွ်င္ နအဖက ဒီအတိုင္း ဆက္လက္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သြားလိမ့္မည္ဟု ေျပာၾကပါသည္။ ထိုစကားမွာ ေထာက္ခံမဲထည့္ရန္ မလွိမ့္တပတ္ စည္း႐ုံးေသာ စကားသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕က ဒီဥပေဒကို ကန္႔ကြက္လွ်င္ ေနာက္ ဥပေဒတခုကို ထပ္ေရးလိမ့္ဦးမည္၊ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲထားလိမ့္ဦးမည္ဟု ေျပာၾကပါသည္။ ထိုစကားမွာလည္း ေထာက္ခံမဲရရန္ ဆင္ေျခေပးျခင္း တမ်ိဳးသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထိုစကားမ်ိဳး ေျပာသူတုိ႔မွာ ေရွ႕ဘာျဖစ္မည္ အေသအခ်ာ မသိဘဲ ကိုယ္ထင္ရာ ဗရမ္းဗတာ ေလွ်ာက္ေျပာျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ကန္႔ကြက္မဲအလြန္တြင္ ဘာေတြျဖစ္မည္ကို မည္သူမွ် တပ္အပ္ မေျပာႏိုင္ပါ။ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ ျဖစ္ခဲ့လွ်င္ ဘာလုပ္မည္ဟု ေရးသားထားေသာ ဥပေဒလည္း မရွိ။ ယုံၾကည္ရေလာက္သည့္ အေျခအေနမ်ိဳးလည္း မရွိ။ နအဖကလည္း ဘာမွ် မေျပာ။

သို႔ေသာ္ ေျပာႏိုင္တာတခုေတာ့ အေသအခ်ာ ရွိပါသည္။ ယင္းမွာ "ျမန္မာျပည္သူလူထုက စစ္အစိုးရေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကို အႂကြင္းမဲ့ ပယ္ခ်လိုက္သည္" ဟု ကမၺည္း ေမာ္ကြန္း စိုက္ထူႏိုင္မည္။ လက္နက္ကိုင္ စစ္အစိုးရကို လက္နက္မဲ့ ျပည္သူမ်ားက ႏွလုံးရည္ျဖင့္ ေအာင္ႏိုင္မည္။ နအဖသည္ လူထုမလိုလား လက္မခံေသာ တရားမ၀င္ အစိုးရျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ေၾကညာႏိုင္မည္။

ဒါ ေနာက္ဆုံးလား

လူထု ထည့္မည့္ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲသည္ `အေျခခံဥပေဒကို ကန္႔ကြက္ျခင္း´ ဆိုသည္ထက္ ပိုလြန္စြာ "စစ္အစိုးရ ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေရး ဆႏၵမဲ" အျဖစ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိသြားေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ဆိုေသာ္ လူထုကန္႔ကြက္မဲ အမ်ားစုရခဲ့လွ်င္ နအဖ၏ ဖ၀ါးခုနစ္လွမ္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး အစီအစဥ္ႀကီးသည္ တုံ႔ခနဲ ရပ္တန္႔သြားမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ လူထုက `ရပ္´ ဟု တားျမစ္လိုက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ျပင္ စစ္အစိုးရ ေတာင္းဆိုထားသည့္ "ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ အမ်ိဳးသားႏိုင္ငံေရး ဦးေဆာင္မႈအခန္းက႑တြင္ တပ္မေတာ္က ပါ၀င္ထမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေရး" ကို ျမန္မာလူထုက `ခြင့္မျပဳ´ ဟု အဓိပၸာယ္ထြက္ပါသည္။

ဤတြင္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၏ ျပည္သူသို႔ ပန္ၾကားခ်က္ပါ အပိုဒ္ ၄ ကို အထူးသတိျပဳသင့္သည္ဟု ထင္ပါသည္။

၄။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနေသာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုသည္ ျပည္သူလူထု ေထာက္ခံမႈ မရရွိလွ်င္ တည္တံ့ခိုင္ျမဲျခင္း မရွိႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းကို မိမိႏိုင္ငံသမိုင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာသမိုင္းမ်ားက သက္ေသထူလ်က္ ရွိသည္။

ထိုအခ်က္က ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲသည္ ဥပေဒကိစၥမွ်သာ မဟုတ္၊ စစ္အစိုးရ ဆက္လက္ တည္ရွိေရး မရွိေရးႏွင့္ တိုက္႐ိုက္ဆက္စပ္ေနသည္ဟု ေဖာ္ျပေနပါသည္။ ဥပေဒထဲတြင္ပါသည့္ အနာဂတ္၌ စစ္တပ္ ဦးေဆာင္မႈကို လူထုက မေထာက္ခံဘူး ဆိုသည္မွာ၊ ယခု အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနသည္ကိုလည္း လက္မခံဟု ဆိုလိုက္ျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ လူထုအေနျဖင့္ ဥပေဒကို ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ ေပးျခင္းသည္ `နအဖ အလိုမရွိ´ဟု ေႂကြးေၾကာ္လိုက္ျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ မဲစာရြက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ေသာ ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံက စစ္အစိုးရ ဆက္လက္တည္ျမဲမႈကို အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ကိုင္လႈပ္ႏိုင္မည္ဟု အဓိပၸာယ္ ေကာက္ယူႏိုင္ပါသည္။

အကယ္၍ စစ္အစိုးရကို စိမ္ေခၚႏိုင္ေလာက္သည့္ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ မရလွ်င္ `အဆိုးဆုံး´ အေျခအေနႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ရဖြယ္ ရွိပါသည္။ အလုံးစုံ ပ်က္သုဥ္းေရးလား၊ အလုံးစုံ ေျပာင္းလဲေရးလား ေ၀ခြဲရန္ မလြယ္ေသးပါ။ ဒီတပြဲမွာ လူထုဘက္က စြန္႔စားရမွာေတြ အမ်ားအျပား ရွိသလို၊ နအဖဘက္မွာလည္း စြန္႔စားစရာေတြ ဒုႏွင့္ေဒး ရွိေနပါသည္။

ေလာေလာဆယ္တြင္ နအဖက ဖ၀ါးခုနစ္လွမ္း လမ္းစဥ္အတိုင္း အျပင္းအထန္ ခ်ီတက္ေနၿပီး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ စကားေျပာဆိုပြဲကို အရန္လမ္းစဥ္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ေခၽြးသိပ္သည့္လမ္းစဥ္ အျဖစ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည္။ အကယ္၍ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲေၾကာင့္ သူ႔အစီအစဥ္ကို ဖ၀ါးေလးလွမ္းေျမာက္တြင္ ရပ္ေပးရလွ်င္ အရန္လမ္းစဥ္ကို ပိုမိုခ်ဲ႕ထြင္၍ အေျခအေနကို ထိန္းထားႏိုင္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားမည္ဟု ယူဆရပါသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့သမိုင္းတြင္ ျဖစ္ေလ့ျဖစ္ထ ရွိခဲ့သည္မွာ အစိုးရတရပ္သည္ အလြန္အမင္း အၾကပ္အတည္းႏွင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္ရလွ်င္ အေျပာင္းအလဲ တခုကိုေတာ့ လုပ္ၾကရစျမဲ ျဖစ္သည္။ ေမွာက္ထားေသာ ေရခြက္ကို ဆြဲလွန္လိုက္သလို အားလုံး ေျပာင္းသြားမည္ဟု မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါ။ သို႔ေသာ္ အလြန္ေခါင္းမာေသာ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ားသည္ သူတုိ႔ အေဖႀကီး ဗုိလ္ေန၀င္း၏ လမ္းစဥ္မ်ိဳးေလာက္ေတာ့ ေျပာင္းႏိုင္ေကာင္းသည္ဟု မရဲတရဲ ယူဆမိပါသည္။

အျမင့္ဆုံး အေျပာင္းအလဲမွာ ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ထိပ္ပိုင္းလူအခ်ိဳ႕ ကန္႔လန္႔ကာေနာက္သို႔ ၀င္သြားျခင္းမ်ိဳး ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါသည္။ အနိမ့္ဆုံး အေျပာင္းအလဲမွာ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကို တာ၀န္ခံရသူတို႔ ဓားစာခံအျဖစ္ ထိုးေကၽြးခံရဖြယ္ ရွိပါသည္။ ျပယုဂ္ျဖစ္သည့္ လူအေျပာင္းအလဲမ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အစီအစဥ္သစ္တရပ္ရပ္ ေပၚထြက္လာႏိုင္ပါသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေရွ႕သို႔လမ္းစဥ္လား၊ ေနာက္သို႔လမ္းစဥ္လား ဆိုသည္ကေတာ့ တိုင္းျပည္၏ ကံၾကမၼာေပၚတြင္ မူတည္ေနပါသည္။

ကံၾကမၼာကို ကန္႔ကြက္မဲက ေမြးဖြားေပးမည္ဟု ယုံၾကည္မိပါသည္။ ။




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Keep Demanding Peace From China: Campaign Steps Up

Don't Watch the Olympics: Spread the Word

Yesterday in San Francisco, as the Olympic Torch went through the city, ten thousand protestors gathered demanding change from China. Furthermore a thousand Burma supporters were lead by Buddhist monks in a peaceful march across the Golden Gate Bridge.

More people around the world are realizing that the China's human rights record should not shame the Olympics. John McCain today came out stating that President Bush should strongly consider not going to the Bejijng Olympics. Also recently, Hillary Clinton has also came out in support of boycotting the opening ceremonies. Read more here.

During the San Francisco marches, Archbishop Desmond Tutu also released a statement concerning China's involvement with Burma, saying "I urge the government of China to end their arms trade with Burma's generals. It is still possible for China to realize the Olympic principles of 'respect for universal fundamental ethical principles' by 'promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.' The world is watching and expects no less."

Now is the time to take the Olympics campaign to another level.

Here are some more things you can do:

Watch and share the 8.8.08 video: A new video which gives an overview of Burma and China's involvement with the country. Watch it and share it with your friends.

Email Corporate Sponsors : Now you can in just a few minutes send an email to the Olympic corporate sponsors urging them to use their leverage to bring peace to Burma.

Be a part of the Street Team: Be a part of the team that is taking to the streets and getting the word out. Win prizes as well as the knowledge that your chapter is the strongest. The month of April we are having a competition to see who can collect the most amount of names of people who are pledging to not watch the Olympic Games. There will be updates on our website and the winners at the end of the month will be given prizes (t-shirts, bumper stickers, etc). Join the movement.
Keep the momentum going! Don't let people forget about Burma!

Support 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma.

Join us for the Olympic Torch's only US stop: Stand up for Burma!

Peace Walk Across Golden Gate Bridge

The Olympic torch in its journey has been met with thousands of challenging voices from people who resoundly disapprove of the ceremonies being held in a country with such a dark human rights record, including propping up Burma's military junta. In London and Paris thousands of people gathered in the streets creating many blockages to the torch's path.

Read news coverage of the protests here

On April 9th, this Wednesday, the Olympic torch will be making its only stop in the U.S., in San Francisco and we are strongly prepared for it. It is a crucial time, the world's focus will be there that day, as well as the Chinese government's attention. It is our turn to match the huge turnouts in London and Paris.

Burmese and Buddhist supporters will gather for a large march across the Golden Gate Bridge to declare that China must support peace in Burma. Led by Burmese monks and Buddhist clergy, including Jack Kornfield and other senior teacher, we will walk in peace to support the people of Burma. We call on China to reflect the peaceful values of the Olympics by: immediately halting arms supplies to Burma and demonstrating support for a comprehensive UN Security Council arms embargo on Burma.

The August 2008 Beijing Olympics are a key opportunity to draw attention to China's role in the suffering of the Burmese people. China is a major trading partner of the Burma's military regime, not only buying Burma's natural gas but as the largest single supplier of military goods to the junta. Furthermore, China has paralyzed any constructive UN Security Council action on Burma.

Even if you can't attend, you can still do something:

- Sign our online petition to pledge to not watch the Beijing Olympics and boycott Olympic sponsors, then get your friends to sign this as well. The more people who sign, the stronger the call to the Chinese government.

- Tell others about this event. Forward this email to friends in the area or if you use Facebook, you can easily tell your friends about it through our event page.

March Details:

This is a permitted walk. Parking is limited in bridge areas and we will have shuttles running from the SF side to Vista Point so that people will only have to walk one way. Wear red! The Bridge has strict rules. All signs must be hand held by one person. No sticks. Signs must be 3 feet by 2 feet at most. No musical instruments, banners, or flags. We can have these things before and after just not while on the bridge.

Schedule:


8:30 Park at Battery Park gravel (free) parking lot on the southeast side of the bridge at Lincoln St. Shuttles will be running across the bridge until 9:15am.

9:30 We will gather at North Vista Point on the Marin County side of the bridge in front of the flagpole. Parking here is free up to four hours, and there are public restrooms. This lot is accessible only from northbound US 101.

9:50 Move towards the Bridge.

10am Begin walking.

If you are eager to do more you can join fellow march participants who will go on to protest along the torch route - Click here to see the schedule.

Sponsored by the US Campaign for Burma (USCB), Buddhist Peace Fellowship (BPF), Burmese American Democratic Alliance (BADA), International Burmese Monks Organization Inc. (Sasana Moli), Burmese Youth Association (BYA), 8-8-08 for Burma, BFUU Social Justice Committee and Global Exchange (GX).

Support 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma.

Olympic Torch Protest London 6th April

Dear friend

This Sunday protest against China’s support for the Burmese regime as the Olympic Torch comes to London:

Date: This Sunday - 6th April
Time: 12:30-1:30
Location: Opposite Downing Street, at junction of Whitehall and Richmond Terrace, Map: http://tinyurl.com/yv54pt
Nearest Tube: Westminster
See the location here
On Sunday the Burma Campaign UK and the Burmese community will be highlighting China’s continued support for Burma’s brutal regime by holding
a peaceful protest as the Olympic Torch comes to London.

Why China?
China arms the regime, supplying weapons, bullets and military vehicles to the brutal army.
China finances the regime , by signing deals in the oil, gas, hydro-electric and mining sectors china provides the regime with an economic lifeline.
China protects the regime by blocking UN Security Council action on Burma

By providing economic, political and logistical support China is helping to keep the brutal generals in power in Burma.

Join us this Sunday at 12:30. The torch only passes once so make sure you get there on time!
See the location here.

All the best and thanks for your support.

Anna Roberts
The Burma Campaign UK

Some Antiphonal Chants For The Water Festival

(Amusing and satirical – sung to the accompaniment of drums on festive occasions

The lead recites, lead lines to which a group respond , in chorus)


Lead : Is there any rain ..boys ?

Chorus: Is there any storm ..girls?

Lead: The Sun and the Moon are competing …

Chorus: Lord Sakka himself will be saving Daw Su (Aung San Su Kyi) .

Lead: The blood of the fighting peacock is so vividly red…

Chorus: Standing tall right in front of the public. (to protect or lead)

Lead : The military we inherit from our General (Aung San) …

Chorus: Is not to kill the people of Burma.

Lead: Aren’t you a tiny bit embarrassed …

Chorus : To bully the defenceless public ?

Lead: While Than Shwe’s daughter is covered in diamonds …

Chorus: The rest of the country is dying of starvation.

Lead: President of China Hu Jintao....

Chorus: Is the leader of the colonization.

Lead: Someone's sucking Burma’s blood …

Chorus: It is the Hu Jintao of China.

Lead: The PM of Thailand has shameless face…

Chorus: Who doesn’t flinch when telling fibs.

Lead : All the generals support the Olympics

Chorus: Which is certain to get bad reputation.

Lead: China’s got them by the balls…..

Chorus: Generals will do anything to please them all.

Lead: The UN and the Security Council …

Chorus: A million visits but nothing happens.

Lead: If we are afraid of the machine guns…

Chorus: There wouldn’t have been any protest.

Lead: Beating with the police batons…

Chorus: Make us laugh, make us laugh.

Lead: Su Su Nwe possesses tremendous courage…

Chorus: Who never stops smiling , even in prison.

Lead: Phu Phu Thin is the queen of hearts ….

Chorus: Who missed the funeral of her father.

Lead: Nilar Thein , the iron lady ..

Chorus: Who simply ignores the husband and the baby.

Interpretation by Nay Chi U
Original source : Democratic Voice of Burma