စာရင္းျပဳစုျခင္း နွင့္ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြစုေဆာင္း ျခင္း

အဘယ္ေႀကာင့္ စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္းသည္ ေရးႀကီးပါသနည္း။

စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္း သည္ မည္သည့္အဖြဲ ့အစည္း၊ ဌာန၊ သမဂၢ တို္င္းတြင္မဆုိ အဓိက အေရးပါ အရာေရာက္ေသာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ႀကီးတခု ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ၏ သမိုင္းကုိျပန္ႀကည့္လ်င္ ပုဂံေခာတ္ အေနာ္ရထာမင္းႀကီးလက္ထက္မွစ၍ လူစာရင္း၊ ေျမစာရင္း၊ လယ္စာရင္း စသည္မ်ားကို စနစ္တက် မွတ္တမ္းတင္ ခဲ့ျပီး ထိုလုပ္ရပ္မ်ား၏ ရလဒ္ သည္ကားသာယာဖြံ ့ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ႀကြယ္ဝေသာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံႀကီးပင္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

ထုိ ့အတြက္ေႀကာင့္ လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကို ကမာၻ ့ေနာက္ဆံုးပိတ္ အဆင္းရဲ၊ အမဲြေတဆံုး နိုင္ငံအဆင့္မွ ပုဂံ၊ တေကာင္းေခာတ္ မ်ားက ကဲ့သို့့စည္ပင္ႀကြယ္ဝ၊ဖြံ ့ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ န္ုင္ငံႀကီးတခုအဆင့္သုိ ့ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိေစရန္ႀကိဳးပမ္းရာတြင္ စနစ္တက် စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္း အလုပ္သည္ အဓိက အခ်က္အခ်ာ က်ေသာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ႀကီးတခု ပင္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

မည္သူမ်ားက စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ျခင္း နွင့္ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြစုေဆာင္းျခင္း ကိုျပဳလုပ္နိုင္ပါသနည္း။

စာေရးစာဖတ္တတ္သည့္ မည္သူမဆို ျပဳလုပ္နိုင္ပါသည္။ စာရင္းဇရားျပဳစုမွတ္တမ္းတင္သူ မ်ားေလ၊ နိုင္ငံေတာ္အတြက္ အက်ိုဳးေက်းဇူး အျမန္ရေလပင္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

မည္ကဲ့သုိ ့ျပဳလုပ္ပါမည္နည္း။

၁ ဘေလာ့ဂ္အသစ္တခုကိုဖြင့္ပါ။

၂ မိမိျပဳလုပ္လိုေသာစာရင္းနွင့္ဆီေလ်ာ္သည့္ အမည္ကိုတပ္ပါ။ ဥပမာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား၊ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား

၃ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ တဦးစီ၏ အမည္ကို ပုိစ့္ (post) တခုစီတြင္ သြင္းပါ။

၄ စာရင္းပါ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားနွင့္ သက္ဆိုင္သည့္ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို သတင္းစာ၊ အင္တာနက္ စသည့္ မီဒိီယာအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးမွ ရွာေဖြစုေဆာင္းျပီး သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ပိုစ့္မ်ားတြင္ ထဲ့သြင္းပါ။

အထက္ပါ လုပ္စဥ္မ်ား ကိုလုပ္ျပီးပါက အသင္၏ စာရင္းျပဳစုျခင္းဆိုင္ရာ ဘေလာဂ့္သည္ အႀကမ္းအားျဖင့္ ျပည့္စုုံသြားျပီ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
အနာဂါတ္တြင္ အသင္၏ ကြန္ျပဴတာနည္းပညာ ကၽြမ္းက်င္မွႈေပၚတြင္မူတည္၍ သင္၏ဘေလာဂ့္ကို စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္ ထိေရာက္ေအာင္ ျပဳျပင္သြားနိုင္ပါသည္။

(သတိျပဳရန္အခ်က္မ်ား)

စာရင္းဘေလာဂ့္တြင္ ပိုစ့္အေရအတြက္ကို ေလ်ာ့ထားပါ။ ဥပမာ ဝန္ႀကီးအေရအတြက္ ၄၀ ေက်ာ္ရိွပါက ထက္ဝက္ျဖတ္ျပီး ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား (အပိုင္း၁)၊ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ား (အပိုင္း၂) စသည္ျဖင့္ ဘေလာဂ့္ ၂ခု (သို့ ့)၃ခု ထုတ္လုပ္ပါ။ ပိုစ့္အေရအတြက္ ၁၀ခု ၁၅ခု မ်ွသာ ထားပါက ထိမ္းသိမ္းျပဳျပင္ရန္ နွင့္ ဖတ္ရွႈရန္ ပိုမို လြယ္ကူပါသည္။ ဤဘေလာဂ့္ကို ပုံစံႀကည့္နိုင္ပါသည္။

ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးရာ တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္းကို ေရွာင္ႀကဥ္ ျပီး သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ ထုတ္ေဖၚျခင္းကိုသာ ဦးစားေပးပါ။

အျခားေသာသတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားမွ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို ကူးယူ ေဖၚျပလ်င္ လင့္ခ္မ်ားကို အထင္အရွား ေဖၚျပပါ။

သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို မည္ကဲ့သုိ ့ရွာေဖြပါမည္နည္း။

လက္ရွိသတင္းအခ်က္အလက္အမ်ားစု ကို အင္တာနက္ သတင္းမီီဒီယာ မ်ားတြင္ ရရိွနိုင္ပါသည္။ ဥပမာ

http://www.rba.gov.au/MediaReleases/2007/mr_07_19_annex.html

http://documents.treasury.gov.uk/financialsanctions/sanctionsconlist.htm

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=5010&page=2

http://burmatoday.net/news2005/2007/200709/070906_bty_bur_tun_hla_sein.swf

http://www.publicenemies.blogspot.com/

စသည့္ ဆိုက္မ်ားတြင္ ရွာေဖြစုေဆာင္းနိုင္ပါသည္။

အျခားေသာဆိုဒ္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ DVB ကဲ့သုိ ့ဆိုဒ္မ်ားတြင္ မတရား၊လဒ္လာဘ္လိုက္စားေသာ ရဲအရာရွိ၊ တရားသူႀကီး စသည္တို့၏ အေႀကာင္းမ်ားကို ဖတ္ရွႈရွာေဖြ မွတ္တမ္းတင္နိုင္ပါသည္။

စာရင္းဘေလာဂ့္မ်ား မထပ္ေစရန္ မည္ကဲ့သုုိ ့ ေဆာင္ရြက္ပါမည္နည္း။

ဤကိစၥကို စိတ္ပူရန္ မလုိပါ။ စာရင္းဘေလာဂ့္ မ်ားေလ အခ်က္အလက္ရွာေဖြ ရန္ အသုံးက်ေလ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ျမန္မာလက္ကြက္မရိုက္တတ္လ်င္မည္သို ့ျပဳလုပ္ရမည္နည္း။

မိမိရုိက္တတ္သည့္ ဘာသာ လက္ကြက္နွင့္ သာရုိက္ပါ။ အဂၤလိပ္၊ ျပင္သစ္၊ စပန္းနစ္ စသည့္ နိုင္ငံျခား ဘာသာအားလံုးသည္ အသံုးဝင္ အေရးပါ ပါသည္။ အကယ္၍ ျမန္မာလက္ကြက္ ရုိက္တတ္လိုစိတ္ ရိွလ်င္ Zawgyi စသည့္ ျမန္မာေဖာင့္ ဆိုက္မ်ားကို အလြယ္တကူ Download ရယူနိုင္ျပီး လက္ကြက္အရိုက္က်င့္လ်င္ ရက္အနည္းငယ္အတြင္း တိုးတက္ကၽြမ္းက်င္လာနိုင္ပါသည္။

သင္၏ ကူညီတတ္သည့္ စိတ္ေစတနာျဖင့္္ ႀကိဳးစားအားထုတ္မွႈေႀကာင့္ ရိုသားေျဖာင့္မတ္ေသာ္လည္း ဒုကၡဆင္းရဲျခင္း ႀကီးစြာ ရုန္းကန္လွႈပ္ရွား ေနႀကရသည့္ သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား တို ့သည္ အက်ိုဳးေက်းဇူးမ်ားစြာ ခံစားနိုင္မည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္

ေနျခည္ဦး

The Generals of Burma ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား

These Generals continue to suppress, imprison and kill many millions of their own people.
This enables them to consolidate their power, allowing them to accumulate and secure their personal wealth.
FREEDOM and JUSTICE for Burma is crucial therefore, YOUR COMMENTS to complete the information is highly appreciated.

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား

ဤဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ားသည္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ၏ ထိပ္တန္း အာဏာရွင္ႀကီး မ်ား ျဖစ္ႀကပါသည္။ ၎တို ့သည္ တိုင္းျပည္၏ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ကိစၥအဝဝ ကို ၎တုိ ့၏ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဆႏၵ အရ လံုးဝ ဥႆံုထိမ္းသိမ္း တာဝန္ယူ ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထားႀကပါသည္။ ထို ့အတြက္ေႀကာင့္ ၎တို ့သည္ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံ၏ ဆိုးရြားပ်က္ယြင္းေနေသာ စီးပြားေရး ၊ လူမွဳေရး ၊ က်န္းမာေရး ၊ ပညာေရး စသည့္ ကဏၭ မ်ားအားလံုး အတြက္ လံုးဝဥႆုံ တာဝန္ရိွ ႀကပါသည္။

ဆင္းရဲနုံခ်ာလွေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္ႀကီးတြင္ ခ်မ္းသာႀကြယ္ဝႀကေသာ အာဏာရွင္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ားနွင့္၎တို ့၏ မိသားစုမ်ားအေႀကာင္းကို ဤဘေလာ့ဂ္ တြင္မွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါသည္။

Feeling For Burma , Inspired By Lord Of The Dance

A year ago, in September 2007, I was in a suicidal state as news of protesting people, led by monks on the streets was in headlines, knowing they would be brutally crush down by the junta, military government of Burma. Sure enough, despite the international pleading to spare thousands of lives, the junta went on to arrest, torture and kill as many as they could.

The world watched in horror as tortured bodies of monks floating in the rivers were reported. Burma, an official Buddhist country has become religiously most infamous among the human societies – a country where so-called Buddhists of the ruling junta kill their own countrymen and Buddhist Monks.

The reality hit and the horror and anger become guilt and shame, that we could not save our monks : the monks, who possess nothing; the monks, who only ate the food that people donate daily ; the monks, who taught us to live a peaceful life ; the monks, who went to the streets to tell the military government that the citizens of Burma are starving. And we failed to protect them.

One year on, the guilt and shame have become a foreboding, especially as we approach September again. Then, by pure chance, I came across with Lord of the Dance, a hymn composed by Sydney Carter. I am perfectly aware that it was meant to be for Jesus Christ but I was awed by the striking similarity of the way in which he died, to the fate of our Buddhist monks, especially the part

"They whipped and they stripped,
And they hung me on high,
And they left me there
On a Cross to die”.

Sydney Carter wrote..."I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality. By Christ I mean not only Jesus; in other times and places, other planets, there may be other Lords of the Dance. But Jesus is the one I know of first and best. I sing of the dancing pattern in the life and words of Jesus. (From Green Print for Song, Stainer & Bell (1974) )

It is therefore not necessary to compare Jesus directly with our own Buddhist monks but I feel strength and courage by reading this hymn. The last two verses are the most evocative:

“I danced on a Friday
When the sky turned black -
It's hard to dance
With the devil on your back.
They buried my body
And they thought I'd gone,
But I am the Dance, and I still go on”

“They cut me down
And I leapt up high;
I am the life
That'll never, never die;
I'll live in you
If you'll live in me -
I am the Lord
Of the Dance, said he!”

Yes, the devil is still on our backs but we must keep on dancing, however hard it is.

Suddenly I understand the way Sydney Carter coped with the death of Jesus.

Yes, Jesus was killed in a cruellest way but he would not be crying, weak and negative on that account. Instead, he was strong, positive and optimistic. He converted all his sadness and horror into tremendous courage and strength. By composing all the courageous lyrics into a most cheerful tune, he strongly challenged the evils and devils who killed Jesus.

Being brought up as a Buddhist, I tend to seek peace and calm, which means appearing timid and avoiding confrontation, and sometimes it seems to invite others to walk all over me. Worst of all I have developed a bad habit of focussing on the suffering and grief :

Monks suffer... monks suffer.... monks suffer....

We are sad .....we are said .... we are sad ....

We failed ....we failed ....... we failed....

Life is bad ..... life is bad ..... life is bad....

But the more timid, miserable, negative, and pessimistic the Burmese people are, the happier and more confident the evil junta becomes. For this reason alone, I refuse to dwell on my misery and suffering.

Yes, the monks and many citizens of Burma were brutally killed by the evil junta but I will not be crying and feeling sorry for them and myself for the rest of my life. Just like Sydney Carter, I will no longer be crying over our losses and failures but would march on and fight on. I would march on and fight on until Burma achieves freedom and democracy. In order to do this I will continue to attack the junta, SPDC military government of Burma in the best way that I can, so that there will be no peace for them.

On this first anniversary of the Golden Colour Revolution, I remember and give respect to all the monks and heroes who gave up their lives for others, for their humanity, dignity, and courage: we will all “live in them…” and they will all “…leap up high and .. never,never die!”

Goldie Shwe

To read and listen to the hymn 'Lord of the Dance' please visit http://www.stainer.co.uk/lotd.html

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

Tolerate Or Fight ?

“သည္းခံပါ၊ေရာင္႔ရင္းတင္းတိမ္ပါ၊သစၥာရွိပါ၊နာခံပါ၊ရုိေသေလးစားပါ၊စိတ္ရွည္ပါ၊ေမတၱာေစတနာအရာတြင္စိတ္၀မ္းကြဲမႈကုိ ေရွာင္ရွားပါ။ ယင္းမွာ ၿမန္မာၿပည္သူေတြ၏ ရုိးရာထုံးတမ္းစဥ္လာ အက်င္႔ေကာင္း တခုၿဖစ္သည္။

"Tolerance, loyalty, obedience, respect, patience, love, generosity, avoidance of confrontation - all of these are known as typical attitudes exemplified by the people of Burma, which springs from their culture and traditions."

ဒီအက်င္႔ေကာင္းသည္ စစ္အဏာရွင္ေတြ၏ အႏုိင္က်င္႔မူ႔ကုိ ၾကာရွည္ ခံစားရေအာင္ အားေပးေနသည္႔ အဓိကအခ်က္ၿဖစ္သည္။ ဒီအခ်က္သည္ ပင္လွ်င္ တုိင္းၿပည္ဖြံ႔ ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေစမႈ၊ လူေနမႈအဆင္႔အတန္း ၿမင္႔မားေစမူကုိ သိပ္ၿပီး ေႏွာင္႔ေႏွး သြားေအာင္ၿပဳလုပ္ေနေပသည္။

"Sadly, these good attitudes are the ones that have been delaying the country’s progress in development and economy. All have been perceived and exploited as weaknesses by the governing military junta, and has enabled and prolonged their rule."

ကြ်န္ေတာ္သည္ အခက္အခဲဒုကၡ သုကၡ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးကုိ ရဲရဲ၀င္႔၀င္႔ ခံႏုိင္စြမ္းရွိသည္႔ ၿမန္မာလူမ်ဳိးအားလုံးကုိေလးစားပါသည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ ခံႏုိင္စြမ္းရွိသည္႔သတၱိႏွင္႔မလုံေလာက္ပါ။ မတရားမႈကုိ တုိက္ယူႏုိင္စြမ္းရွိမွသာ စံနစ္ဆုိးေအာက္မွလြတ္ေၿမာက္ႏုိင္ေပလိမ္႔မည္။ တုိင္းၿပည္ဖြံ႔ ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေစမည္။”

"I have deepest respect for all the people of Burma, who continue to show tremendous courage in facing and overcoming incredible difficulties and suffering simply to survive. However, just by standing there bravely, bending your heads down to tolerate and accept whatever the bullies are doing to you, would not stop them. Tolerance is seen as submissiveness and only encourages contempt by the government and will only cause continued abuse."

"There is only one way to escape from under the systematic military terrorists occupation and to regain and develop our nation - We must all fight. "

(The above is a quotation by famous Burmese author U Mya Than Tint, which was posted in Golden Colour Revolution. Please note that it is my own personal interpretation and not the accurate translation. Golddie Shwe)

Original Source : Golden Colour Revolution

Can You See It ?

If they are not willing to change, then I have something to tell them to wake up…

100% is Burma population. Out of that

10% are SPDC = junta
50% are USDA
40% between civilians and soldiers around (15-20% civilians)

Then…

SPDC=junta = criminals
USDA = thieves, criminals, deceivers, etc
+/- 20% SOLDIERS = criminals by force/orders from SPDC
+/-20% civilians = beggars those include the monks which is an army in themselves, what is left? A very small number of decent people we can count with our fingers, few of those are in jail or detention.

Shall I tell them that in majority what Burma really is? Waste of time but this is reality as the junta has turned a beautiful majestic population into racists, greedy criminals with a good percentage of beggars as many of those are forced into hard labour.

This is reality, but their pride does not allow them to see it. It is not only in Burma, it’s the same story in many countries around the globe. We have similar histories. History cannot be erased, only by the junta in Burma.


(My good friend's comment about the current situation in Burma in the email. I thought every Burmese should see it)

MP Of The Helping Town Arrested By Junta

U Aung Kyin, Member of Parliament , Myaung Mya was arrested last night. He is the member of the opposition party National League for Democracy.

The town of Myaung Mya, provided shelter and food to tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring towns and villages which were destroyed by the recent cyclone.

[The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reported that thousands of cyclone victims who have lost homes and families in Cyclone Nargis have come to Myaung Mya township, Irrawaddy division, where locals have given them shelter. Ten emergency relief centres have been set up so far to accommodate those seeking refuge.

A Myaung Mya resident said Cyclone Nargis battered the town from around 5pm on 2 April until 3am on 3 April.

"About 20 to 30 percent of the town was destroyed and all the big trees uprooted. We thought what happened in our town was really bad," the resident said.

"But after we listened to our radios, we realised what happened to us was nothing at all compared to other places."
The town is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees, and food and medicine are desperately needed.

"Now we have over 10,000 refugees from Labutta in our town and there are more and more coming,” the resident said.

“Just a while ago, at around 5pm, another cargo boat arrived from Labutta carrying about 2000 more refugees," he said.

"Myaung Mya authorities are doing what they can but the amount of refugees arriving here is more than we can handle."

Locals are doing whatever they can to help people arriving in the town and the villages along the river.

Myaung Mya residents are also looking after the many children orphaned by the cyclone who have come to the township.]

No one knows why the military junta arrested U Aung Kyin but it is not so difficult to guess that the humanitarian supports and the help his town has been providing for the desperate refugees has clearly annoyed the junta.

Their success at helping fellow villagers without Army intervention has been punished by the Junta just like every other remotely successful activities in Burma.

The NLD representative responsible for organizing this humanitarian success has upset the Junta. Anybody who has upset the junta has to be prepared to spend the rest of their lives in prison, even if that was to help saving other people’s lives.

God helps those to help Burma.

Military Dogs Will Use Foreign Aid To Force The Dying People To Vote 'Yes'

No doubt Burma’s hyena military junta only wants the foreign aid without foreign workers so that

1 They can use those life saving aids in exchange of ‘Yes’ votes for their ‘Long Live Military Junta Referendum’ from the dying millions of cyclone victims.

2 They can promote their public relations status and images

3 They can increase their swelling bank accounts by selling 90% of the aid.

Should the international communities support the junta’s political, psychological and financial gain by sending ‘Aid Only’ to Burma?

OR

Send the ‘Aid workers with the Aid’ protected by UN security troops to save millions of dying human beings ?

The Junta Tries To Stick Their Backsides To The Throne

The Junta of Burma, known as SPDC or Na Aa Pa is trying their best to hang on to the power by refusing to issue visa to the international aid agencies.

The death toll is rapidly rising to 100,000 and millions have been left in desperate need of shelter, clean water and food.

The international community is ready but are struggling to deliver emergency supplies.

All that the government of Burma has to do is to issue ‘Visa On Arrival’ as most disaster- struck countries could have done.

However, Than Shwe and his follower thugs, in the name of government, can not just easily do things like that.

For them, foreigners, especially from the west, are just a threat to their power. They come with news and reports that reflect the true situation of everything and anything. And that ‘truth’ is something that the junta cannot face as they have too much to cover up – the murders, the tortures, the rapes, the robberies, the theft – endless crimes they have committed during their seemingy endless rule.

Giving permission to foreigners to come in, even though it is to save the lives of millions of people, means a threat to the junta’s own safety and security.

So now, thousands of dying and injured people, hungry children , cold and miserable mothers and weakening older people will have to wait patiently for international aid to arrive, while Than Shwe and his thugs continue to enjoy luxury and hold meetings on how to continue to cover their own backsides.

(Inspired by the comment in Golden Colour Revolution)

Trying To Get The Brownie Points ?

How Low they are? Junta take political gain out of Nargis

You must be already familiar with the regular news about how Junta not allow international Humanitarian Aids workerd come inot Burma or the Junta initially reject the offered from UN. Some of you will wonder how come? the country was badly hit by the cyclone and the country rular rejected the Humanitarian Aids offer from other countries.

As for Burmese, these things are nothing news, this the Junta STANDARD PROCEDURE. They want the Grass root people of Burma seen them as Saviors of them.

Please visit Pan Bay Dah's for full article.

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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Junta’s Way Of Persuading Yes Voters

Original Source : Arzarni Blog
Comments by Goldie Shwe

It is not often that a minister of junta’s government is bothered to meet some people who are not going to be crucial in his promotion or prolonging of his dear post.

So when the owners and responsible personnel from the timber industry, Hlaing Tharyar, Rangoon were summoned to meet the Minister of Forestry on 1st April 2008, it is not so difficult to imagine the anxiety and curiosity they must be feeling. “Did we do something wrong?” “No, it can’t be. Any wrong doing with junta wouldn’t have the honour of meeting the local authority, let alone the minister.” “But then, why did he want to see us? Are we important to him ?

Yes, guys, you are quite important to him. Why ? Because he wants you, all your employees and staff from your factories to vote ‘yes’ in the forthcoming referendum.

The minister, most kindly, even explained why they should vote ‘yes’ :

-If you vote ‘yes’, then the ruling power will be handed over to the civilian government (what he meant was that the generals will remove their stiff military uniforms and put on the civilian outfits instead)

-If you vote ‘No’, then the present military junta will still rule the country (they will not discard their military uniforms)

-There is absolutely no intention of handing over the power to any other organization (now you are talking, minister!)

-The junta will be rewriting another brand new constitution again, no matter how long it takes (it took 18 years for the current one )

-If the public is unhappy and try to protest, the junta will use all possible methods to crush them (at last, the junta is telling the truth. Ban Ki Moon may want to have a look into this, before he sends Gambari to Burma again)

Finally, the minister concluded the meeting with this message, “By the way, I was ordered to tell you all this by my superiors” !

Beating And Arresting Won't Stop The Protesting - Happy New Year Burma!

By Goldie Shwe

One of the courageous members of the National League for Democracy Party, who gathered to protest on the 63rd Anniversary of the Anti-Fascist Revolution Day on 27th March had said, “They (the junta) may beat us or they may arrest us but we will keep on protesting.”

And the protests will go on.

The bad news for the junta is that instead of being intimidated, the NLD and other protesters are getting tougher and more resilient to the usual beatings and arrests. The timing also seems to be all wrong for the junta, who couldn’t have chosen the worst time for their much publicised referendum in May, too soon after “Thingyun”, the famous water festival.

Traditionally, Thingyun is the time when people expose and deliver their suppressed feelings, by performing topical antiphonal chants, in public. The Burmese, who are usually non-confrontational, get involved enthusiastically in the amusing satirical responses to the witty lead lines.

The mocking and ironically taunting chants are usually aimed at strict school headmasters, flamboyant movie stars, strangely behaved monks, greedy shop owners and mean mother-in laws. This year, every chant that has emerged is aimed at one target – the hated military junta.

It seems as though the people of Burma are unable to think of anything else but the torture and bullying they have suffered at the hands of the junta for the last 50 years. While the horrifying memories of last Septembers’ protests are still vivid in the minds of the people, the lies, the threats and the force used by the junta in preparation for their referendum in May, have made it all the more revolting and outrageous.

And what can you do when you feel revolted and outraged in Burma ? You protest, even though everyone knows that “protest” in Burma means violent beatings and arrests, certainly followed by long-term imprisonment. Fortunately for the protesters, the timing is just right for them.

Thingyan Festival , equivalent to the West’s Christmas and New Year rolled into one, is just around the corner. And during this important festival, people normally do what they like and jokes, humour and less inhibited behaviour are all-pervading. No one will be too surprised to see a normally restrained and reserved person, getting drunk and dancing all around the town, for example.

Everyone, alone, in pairs, or in small and bigger groups, walking, dancing, riding a trishaw or in a decorated cars, buses and coaches will be singing or chanting. The wittiest of the writers would have composed and prepared the antiphonal chants, which would be led by the most exuberant and spirited person, and echoed by a chorus of passionate and zealous followers.

Passers-by will stop to listen, admire and encourage the chanters. The Householders will open their doors and balconies to look at the performers before offering them drinks and snacks. More wealthy people will donate generously to the chanters.

The best thing about the antiphonal chants for the Water Festival is that the anti-government slogans could be all hidden amongst the traditional ones and could be passed off as mishearing, or a slip of a tongue. The clever writers would write ambiguously and or slightly obliquely so the chanters and the listeners will be giggling and laughing helplessly about the vitriolic and critical language but the junta will just have to watch impotently and take the ridicule. It is a protest, an outward and open protest, yet no one can arrest them because it is Thingyun and people are supposed to be chanting.

More importantly the chants will not only refresh the memories of the long-suffering people over the abuse to which they have been subjected by the ruthless and malicious junta, but also to remind them of their cunning and deviousness and their efforts to trick people into voting for the sham referendum in May.

Happy New Year Burma !

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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

Who Can Save The Three Boatwomen, And How?

On February 4th, Dr Aung Moe Nyo, an MP for Pwint Phyu and 5 of his National League for Democracy Party members travelled to attend a Buddhist ordination ceremony in Ye Nan Chaung where they encountered intimidation and harassment from the juntas local representatives and police. The NLD group had to stay overnight in Ywa Dan Shay village as no boatmen would agree to take them across the river to the ceremony. It was learned that Kone Saung police chief Sein Win, and assistants Myint Thu and San Wai had been to the jetty earlier to force every boatman to sign an agreement promising not to take NLD members across the river.

The next day a boatwoman and 2 female family members from Ywa Dan Shay, decided to take Dr Aung Moe Nyo and group to Ye Nan Chaung, knowing the authorities could punish them for doing so. On February 6 the three ladies fears were realised when they were detained overnight for interrogation at Salin police station. The ladies were released on the following day only to find that their licence to take passengers across the River Irrawaddy, and their only source of income, had been withdrawn.

By February 10 the local residents and NLD members learnt about the situation of the boatwomen and started public collections to help support the 3 ladies with food and other assistance. However, as soon as the juntas’ representatives found out about the depth of public support for the ladies, they mounted guards outside their house to prevent any delivery of food or any other support.

Ten days later,(February 20th) DVB, the Democratic Voice of Burma reported the situation of the 3 ladies of Ywa Dan Shay, Salin, Magwe. Dr Aung Moe Nyo announced that material help for the ladies is all ready to deliver as early as possible.

These tactics are new, even in the junta’s despicable record. Since the military took over power by force in 1962 they have committed so many crimes – murders, rapes, imprisonment and torture, mostly behind the scenes. Sometimes, such is their absolute contempt for the Burmese people, that these beatings and even shootings, were carried out in broad daylight, in front of witnesses and cameras.

However, deliberately banning the three women from work, then also stopping them receiving any donations from the sympathetic public is one of the boldest non-covert actions the junta has perpetrated, as bold and brazen as the appalling public murder of a foreign journalist in the streets of Rangoon.

It has now been about 20 days since the ladies’ work permit was revoked and they were imprisoned in their own home, with their house under 24 hour surveillance. It is difficult to understand what the so called authorities are trying to achieve by their action.

• Do they think they can endear themselves with the Burmese public by forcing the three boatwomen to slowly starve to death, as a punishment for treating NLD members as normal citizens?

• Do they also think the members of the NLD party will show regret, change their minds and pervert themselves to join the junta instead? Or

• Do they simply want the general public to learn yet another harsh lesson that if they don’t listen solely to the junta and instead try to support the opposition party, NLD , they will also have to suffer?

What ever the reason, it is more important for the general public to think and plan how to support these three poor, honest and courageous ladies who earned their living ferrying passengers across the vast Irrawaddy river, in competition with their male colleagues.

The authorities who are camping outside the ladies’ house must be shamed. If the local residents are in unity and solidarity, in the belief that this is one of the most shameful and embarrassing event that could happen to Burma, they must unite in facing down the local followers of the junta. According to the report, the local NLD party members have collected food and other supporting items for the ladies and are waiting for a chance to deliver them. The public and the monks and nuns, must now support the NLD’s action because this is a very clear ‘make or break’ opportunity for everyone, who wants to test and examine their own humanitarian and moral beliefs. If all of the public do not unite and support the NLD in this most ugly event, and check the junta’s shameless bullying, then they must know that they have just determined their own fate too at the hands of all of the military juntas bullies and murderers.

The public must gather around the home of the ladies to see what the juntas followers are doing, making sure that all their cowardly actions are observed and recorded, in the eyes, ears and in the memories of all the people. They must find out the individual names of the police criminals and junta representatives and persons involved, and spread this information across the Division, to all the Districts, towns and villages. The families of the all the junta and followers across the land must be made to known that their men’s actions are noted as cowardly, shameful and repugnant to all normal human society.

The NLD and general public must also report the way the 3 imprisoned ladies are being treated, to ILO officials in Rangoon, while the exiled Burmese groups must report the event to Human Rights organizations and ILO offices, and anything else they can do to help the event gains increased local and international public awareness.

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Time to Start Radio Campaign for Free Burma

BURMA SITMONE Weblog

This blogger has posted variety and numerous posts in this web-log. Almost all were telling readers how bad was the Military Junta of Burma, how Burmese people suffers under the Dictatorial regime, and statements of the pro democracy movements and news of ongoing campaign against the Military Junta.

However, this blogger feels that it would be very lucky if these posts are read by one percent of Burmese people staying inside the country. This blogger who is a Burmese, however unable to type in Burmese language fast enough to create a post.So, What are the numbers of my own countrymen received this blogger’s message? It will be very insignificant.

There are wonderful young and energetic Burmese bloggers who have been posting very relevant and interesting opinion in Burmese language .

Military Junta has effectively blocked the work of most famous Burmese bloggers (blogger.com). Arrest of Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt, Burmese poet Ko Saw Way and recent arrest of Myanmar Nation’s journalists were systematic attack to Free Press and Internet Blogs by terror and fear.

At the same time Junta has declared referendum to be started by May,2008. This is also well planned and calculated attack to pro democracy movement. All of us out here understand that “this referendum” is going to be a sham. However Burmese people are at gun point, and it will be very difficult for them not to follow Junta’s orders as their utmost priority will be to survive the every single harsh day.

For them, Rambo is easy to understand than referendum. Constitution of Burma, which is so vital for future Burma may be something difficult to understand. ( I am well aware of existence of awakened Burmese in rural area) Majority of Burmese are farmers and from rural areas with so much difficulty for day to day survival.

Only way this blogger could think of is that the information relating referendum and constitution to be spread among the Burmese people through radios. The recent news of Burmese from Korea donated radios to Burmese people at border is a very significant move for freedom of Burma.

Now, DVB, RFA, which are run by exile Burmese groups should increase the radio campaign, with simple and straight forward news and programs about importance of referendum and constitution. These program should be started as soon as possible.

We should seek help from VOA,BBC, Aljazeera and CNN to get more news coverage of Burma and more slot of live discussions about freedom of Burma. These program should be able to download from Internet locally and must be able to distribute with Burmese subtitle in pirated VCDs. ( If Burmese can put Korean Movie with Burmese sub title there is no reason that we are unable to add subtitle to these useful discussions which is for urban population)

This blogger feels that this is the high time to start radio campaign for free Burma, as radios are cheap, easily available for majority of Burmese staying in rural area of Burma.

Let us start the Radio campaign for Free Burma.

Sit Mone

The Junta's What-Fruit Tree

14 February 2008

Once upon a time when Brahmadatta was reigning in Benares, the Bodhisatta came to life as the leader of a caravan. Once when journeying with five hundred carts from East to West, he came to the outskirts of a forest. Assembling his men, he said to them:--"In this forest grow trees that bear poisonous fruit. Let no man eat any unfamiliar fruit without first asking me." When they had traversed the forest, they came at the other border on a What-fruit tree with its boughs bending low with their burthen of fruit. In form, smell and taste, its trunk, boughs, leaves and fruit resembled a mango. Taking the tree, from its misleading appearance and so forth, to be a mango, some plucked the fruit and ate; but others said, "Let us speak to our leader before we eat." And these latter, plucking the fruit, waited for him to come up. When he came, he ordered them to fling away the fruit they had plucked, and had an emetic administered to those who had already eaten. Of these latter, some recovered; but such as had been the first to eat, died. The Bodhisatta reached his destination in safety, and sold his wares at a profit, after which he travelled home again. After a life spent in charity and other good works, he passed away to fare according to his deserts.

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It was when he had told this story, that the Master, as Buddha, uttered this stanza:--

As they who ate the What-fruit died, so Lusts,
When ripe, slay him who knowing not the woe
They breed hereafter, stoops to lustful deeds.

Having thus shewn that the Lusts, which are so sweet in the hour of fruition, end by slaying their votaries, the Master preached the Four Truths, at the close whereof the concupiscent Brother was converted and won the Fruit of the First Path. Of the rest of the Buddha's following some won the First, some the Second, and some the Third Path, whilst others again became Arahats.

His lesson ended, the Master identified the Birth by saying, "My disciples were the people of the caravan in those days, and I their leader."

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(To the fifty million people in Burma, who will be forced to vote in a constitutional referendum in May and general elections in 2010. The sadistic junta who shamelessly refused to hand over the power to the National League for Democracy Party, which won the landslide victory in the election in 1990, has been drafting a new constitution in closed meetings without any input from opposition leaders or ethnic groups. I personally see the proposed referendum as poisonous fruits of a What-fruit tree and hope that the citizens of Burma do exactly the same.

Yours faithfully

Goldie Shwe)

To read the full story please click here.

Elation Over A Murder?

10 February 2008
By Goldie Shwe

I was just skimming through the DVB (Democratic Voice of Burma) for Burma’s daily news when I saw that report of the murder of a member of USDA (Union Solidarity and Development Association) - junta's paramilitary wing of 'social welfare' organization. I had hardly finished reading the summary before I started smacking my own arms; the Burmese style war dance and challenge, similar to Maori Haka. My own reaction surprised me and made me think why I naturally reacted with elation and triumph.

Not only was I brought up as a Buddhist, it was also my choice of religion and I have great and fundamental respect for Buddha's teaching. I learnt the 'Five Precepts', the most important basic rules of Buddhism, at an early age. The first of those was not to kill, and have respect for all life. The Buddha said, "Life is precious to all beings. They have the right to live the same as we do." We should respect all life and not kill anything. Killing ants and mosquitoes is also breaking this precept. We should have an attitude of loving-kindness towards all beings, wishing them to be happy and free from harm.

Although I cannot boast that I am one of the most religious and decent of people, I try my best to follow the Five Precepts, most of all not to kill. So why then was I so jubilant, why did I jump up and down in celebration over a horrible murder case?

I have been angry. I have been extremely angry since September 2007. When all the protests and the crackdown of them happening I was unhappy, sad, frightened for people who would be tortured and killed. Eventually my feelings have changed. Everywhere I turned I saw reports of bullies, torturing and killings that junta is doing to innocent and vulnerable civilians in Burma.

I was angry that 400 children die everyday in Burma, either through hunger or diseases related to malnourishment.

I was angry that a monk was tortured, killed and his body thrown into a river.

I was angry that monasteries were raided at night, monks killed, or locked up in prisons.

I was angry that so many elected politicians are locked up in prisons long-term, and denied access to basic medical treatment.

I was angry that many poor unknown people were locked up in prisons and tortured while their families made to travel many miles to visit them.

I was angry that Nilar Thein is on the run, while her husband is in jail and their baby separated from her.

I was angry that United Nations could do nothing to protect innocent people of Burma.

I was angry that the junta's thugs bully and blackmail local people so that they cannot support the members of National League for Democracy Party, which won the landslide election victory in 1990.

I was angry that Aids (HIV) sufferers are denied treatment in hospitals, the monastery which provided their free accommodation was stripped and sealed off, the monks chased away from the place, and their care manager Phyu Phyu Thin is also on the run, and was unable to be with her dying father or at his funeral.

I was angry that street children have been abducted by the junta's thugs and sold to serve in the military and for the girls become prostitutes.

I was angry that the junta's generals and their sycophants are robbing all the country's natural resources, to stuff their own over-full bank accounts.

I was angry that so many ethnic groups have been wiped out by the junta.

I was angry that human rights abuse and forced labour records and reports are so long and depressing that I was too upset to continue reading.

Every item of news and report that I find about Burma has been nothing but intimidation, bullying, torture and the killing of the people by cowardly junta. I have become unable to feel anything other than cold anger, indignation, outrage at the appalling record of the junta.

The feeling of revenge and some satisfaction therefore seemed quite natural when I read about the killing of one of the junta's thugs.The DVB reported that the man, a member of the USDA of Hlaing Tharyar, one of the poorest and most repressed areas of the capital Rangoon, was notorious for his arrogant and threatening behaviour towards the residents. His head was left on public display by unknown assailants in a primitive display for the losers of the fighting or a war. His headless body found nearby was lacerated all over, each cut reflecting the people’s long pent-up hatred for the junta and its minions.

The fact that neither head nor the mutilated body were hidden but left on public display has sent a very clear and loud message to junta and their thug followers that the people will not, and cannot, forget or forgive their treatment for so many long decades. The chilling nature of the murder must have sent shockwaves across the country - the first clear response indicating that the breaking point of the people may be near.

The repugnant Than Shwe and his shameless group of cowardly generals and their families might be residing in huge heavily-guarded estates in Pyin Manar Nay Pyi Daw, enjoying the wealth they have robbed from the country and giving orders to their thugs on how to repress the public and still keeping the most revolting grins on their faces but even they must have seen the first batch of dark clouds that is now beginning to loom over their heads.

For junta's thugs, who were given a share of power and equipped with weapons to control the public, life has been very easy and pleasant. Apart from intimidating and threatening people with their junta-backed power, and occasional arrests and tortures, life has been easy. On top of the benefits of delegated power and weapons, these men have been well paid, with performance bonuses and rewards, and exclusive access to gadgets like mobile phones and video cameras not available to the public. This has all been icing on a very nourishing cake for those official members of junta's many paramilitary organizations.

The report also stated that, following the chilling murder of one of their number, the teams of junta thugs seem to have been rather quiet. More interestingly, the public found that gone is the hitherto haughty and pompous behaviour, to be replaced by a slightly more considerate attitude. The most obvious outcome, immediately after the murder, has been that the thugs have abruptly abandoned their habit of intimidating and harrassing the general public.

The rewards and bribes they receive from the junta for carrying out the practicalities of repressing the public have been good, especially when they can have real power over the lives of many poor and struggling people. Suddenly they are under threat themselves and have to think about the possible price of their activities to themselves and possibly their relatives? At least locally, their demeanour has changed dramatically in the face of these life- threatening issue of a popular fight-back spreading more widely.

Every action provokes its own reaction. The people of Burma have been suffering for too long. Their suffering and distress have been too great that they have been left with no option but to take the law into their own hands.

Yes, we are Buddhist. And yes, the Lord Buddha told us not to kill. And yet, I applauded the cruel murder. My own reaction has shocked me so I had to decide to give myself some time to reflect. After a sleepless night, thinking through every aspect, I still feel exactly the same. I still strongly believe that the murdered junta thug thoroughly deserved his fate. It seems to be the only way that people of Burma can get some form of justice. The ordinary people of Burma are at war with the cruel bullies, torturers and killers of the junta, and this murder somehow seems a fair response to the decades of abuse and robbery. The fight-back may have begun.

And for my own peace of mind, I decided to record my satisfaction and triumph over this horrible murder to be very honest with myself and others, because if I don't, I will only be breaking another of Buddha's Five Precepts - No Lying.

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Preparing For The Worst : To Understand How Bad It Is

7 February 2008
By Goldie Shwe

Burma's opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a message, "Prepare for the worst!", after her meeting with senior members of the National League for Democracy Party on 30 January.

First, the people of Burma need to understand how terrible their common enemy really is. How the Army has become over many decades, a putrifying cancer, draining the life out of the nation it was set up to defend, by intimidation, endemic corruption, and a determination to exclude the people of Burma from any role in governing their country.

Military power has become an addictive drug, the use of which allows them to drain the nation and its people of their resources, and to bank the proceeds. One half of the nations’ income is spent on the military junta; the people of Burma are increasingly seen by the junta as a slave nation, born to work for them. If you understand this, you are already able to understand how difficult making any change is going to be. Our weakest point in the past was not being able to see how bad the enemy was.

We didn't see junta as so bad because they were Burmese. Under the British and Japanese, it was much easier as they were foreigners who looked much different from us. We did not want them to rule our country because we could not believe that they would have our best interests at heart.

Against this background, we were unwilling to believe that the Burmese military, drawn from our very own people, could be that bad, just as a child cannot believe its own parents could hurt him, let alone intimidate, violate and even kill him. We always had naïve belief and hoped that the junta could change and be good and kind to us, because they are just like us - Burmese and Buddhists - after all. How can they possibly be so evil?

The sad truth which has taken too long to believe is that the junta is a group of the most ruthless terrorists, who breed and train thugs to rule the country and they will do anything to protect their ruling power, including killing of the monks.

If you still believe, after the September 2007, that the junta's killing, torturing, bullying and raping of the people of Burma and robbing of the natural resources of the country is still nothing to do with you, then the country will be under the heel of the military junta for another 100 years, with your complicity.

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