06/29/12
By Guest Blog


A house in the Arakan capital of Sittwe is engulfed by flames during the recent violence.

Editor’s Note: Below the author shares her experience, observations and opinion regarding the outbreak of violence in Burma’s Arakan State (also called Rakhine State). The recent fighting has cost the lives of dozens of people and forced tens of thousands to flee.

By Sandi Aung

Recent images of fighting in Burma’s Arakan State, the home of my ancestors, has deeply saddened me. I am struck by the loss of life, the violence and the livelihoods destroyed. But, I am also disturbed by how little the social and economic conditions have changed.

I still remember the faces of people, like the Rakhine and Rohingya, that surrounded me when I was 5 years old living in the state and, later, when I returned to visit as a college student. The conditions captured in the recent images—the boats, villages, buildings and streets — sadly, look the same as when I was there more than 20 years ago.

While growing up in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, I remember going to the neighborhood market with my grandmother and buying grocery items from both Rakhine and Rohingya merchants. The Rohingya were around me in my daily life, serving as hired hands for businesses, selling fish and vegetables at the market and selling snacks and traditional medicines. I would see Rohingya women walking down the streets wearing longyi (traditional woman’s wear in Burma) with scarves around their necks and faces representing their Muslim faith.

As a child, I was always told that Muslims, the Rohingya, were immigrants from Bangladesh. Isolated incidents of violence between individuals from both sides would happen from time to time — sometimes escalating into riots. Growing up, I was indifferent to the problem.

I had a chance to visit Bangladesh back in the early 2000s, and met some Rohingya women who were living outside of camps (I wasn’t able to visit the camps themselves) in utter poverty. They could barely speak Bengali or other tribal dialects used in Bangladesh. Their stories were shared through the hard-work of translation:

left with several children because husband never came back (not knowing what had happened to him), making a living by breaking big cement pieces at the construction sites, selling vegetables or selling any creatures that can be dug out from the mud, to feed themselves.

They said they wanted to go home, pointing toward Arakan state.

I thought to myself that, if they had indeed just crossed the border to live in Arakan state, shouldn’t they be feeling comfortable because they were back at home, safe and sound in a Muslim community? Why go back to the territory dominated by Buddhists who have discriminated against them for centuries?

Differences along ethnic and racial lines are common across the world, but it is wrong and unacceptable for people to use these differences as justification for killing, looting, and other forms of abuses. Even worse, is tolerating such behaviors for years.

So what spurred the recent outbreak of violence?

To me, it was a perfect storm in the making for years — the absence of the rule of law, the lack of civic education and severely limited economic opportunities. All of this has been coupled with the strain of living under a repressive regime for decades. While I appreciate the international community’s concerns, I don’t welcome finger-pointing or blaming one group over another. Yes, individuals from both sides who committed the crimes should be brought to justice. But, labeling the crisis as “Buddhists” vs. “Muslims” or “Rakhine” vs. “Rohingya” simply exacerbates the divide. The leaders of both sides, with access to international media, have called out loudly for their own causes. They are sitting in their comfortable homes while ordinary people were out on the streets fleeing from violence, possibly triggered by their words.

It’s time for everyone to take a step back. It’s too bad that we have left this wound unhealed for this long and what a shame for a country known to have fought so hard for democracy! But, here is a chance: let’s show the international community that we belong to a democratic world by treating everyone with respect regardless of their ethnicity, color, religion or legal status. Let’s keep the debate in the peaceful forums represented by all parties through a democratic process and by keeping an open mind.

Yes, it will be a difficult emotional process for all of us, but it’s the right thing to do and necessary for the country to move forward.

Sandi is a native of Burma and a graduate of University of Yangon and University of Notre Dame. She is an educator and currently lives in Conway, Arkansas.

စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕သတင္း

၂၈.၆.၁၂စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕- ျမိဳ ့မေစ်းၾကီး ကုိ ေအာင္မဂၤလာရပ္ကြက္ကေန မိန္းကေလး ၃ ေယာက္က မနက္ ၁၀ ၃၀ မွာသြားတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီမိန္းခေလး ၃ဦးရဲ ့နာမည္မွာ ေရဟာနာ ၂၈ႏွစ္ အဘ အဘူဘကရ္၊ ဖီရုိဇာ ၃၀ႏွစ္ အဗ္ဒူလ္ ဂနီ၊ မူနီ ၃၃ႏွစ္ အဘ စပြတ္သာ------

၁. မ်က္ခြန္လန္သြားတယ္ ေခါင္းကြဲတယ္။
၂. မ်က္ခြန္လန္သြားတယ္ ခႏၶာကုိယ္မွာ ဒဏ္ရာမ်ားစြာရရွိ။
၃. ကုိယ္ဝန္ ၄လရွိတယ္။ အရမ္းအသည္းသန္း ျဖစ္ေနတယ္. မိန္းခေလး၃ဦးထဲမွာ ဒဏ္ရာအမ်ားဆုံးရထားသူျဖစ္တယ္။ ခႏၶာကုိယ္တခုလုံးမွာ ဒဏ္ရာေတြ ရစရာမရွိေအာင္ရထားတယ္။ ကုိယ္ဝန္ကုိ ေျခေထာက္နဲ ့ကန္တယ္ တက္ႏွင္းတယ္လုိ ့သိရတယ္။

အဲ့မိန္းခေလး ၃ေယာက္က ေစ်းဝယ္ပီးေတာ့ ျပန္ေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ လမ္းမွၾကီး ျမိဳ ့ေတာ္ခန္းမအေရွ ့ကေန ဆုိင္ကယ္ Taxi နဲ ့အသင့္ေစာင့္ေနတဲ့ ရခုိင္ဗမာ အမ်ဳိးသား ၇ ေလာက္ရွိတယ္လုိ ့ေျပာပါတယ္. အဲ့ဒီ၇ေယာက္က မိန္းခေလး ၃ေရာက္ကုိ ဝုိင္းဖမ္းပီးေတာ့ ေမာ္ေတာ္ Taxi ေပၚမွာ အတင္းဆြဲတင္ပီးေတာ့ ျမိဳ ့မေစ်းၾကီးရဲ ့ေဘးမွာ အသစ္ေဆာက္ထားတဲ့ ေစ်းသစ္ရဲ ့ေနာက္ဖက္တြင္ လူရွင္းတဲ့ ေနရာ၁ခုသုိ ့ေခၚေဆာင္သြားပီေနာက္ အဆင္သင့္ေစာင့္ေနတဲ့ ရခုိင္ဗမာ လူဦးေရ ၃၀ ေလာက္ရွိပါတယ္. အဲ့ဒီ၃၀ ႏွင့္ေခၚေဆာင္သြားတဲ့ ၇ ေယာက္က ေပါင္းပီးေတာ့ အလြန္မတန္မွရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ရုိက္နက္ခဲ့ပီးေတာ့ လူမဆန္ေလာက္ေအာင္ စိတ္တုိင္းက် ရုိက္နက္ခဲ့ပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ အဲ့ဒီေနရာမွာတင္ထားခဲ့တယ္... ဒဏ္ရာမ်ားစြာရတဲ့ မြစ္လင္မ္ မိန္းခေလး ၃ေရာက္ရွိက သတင္းရခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။

ဒီကိစၥျဖစ္ပီးေတာ့ မိနစ္၃၀ သုိ ့ ၄၅ မိနစ္ေလာက္ၾကာပီးတဲ့ေနာက္မွာ ေနာက္ထက္မြစ္စလင္မ္မိန္းခေလး၁ေယာက္ကုိ ဒုကၡေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲ့ဒီ၁ေယာက္ရဲ ့နာမည္မွာ ႏူးရ္ အာအီရွာ ျဖစ္ပီး အသက္ ၂၅ အဘ အမည္ ဂူးရာမီယာ.
ဒီမိန္းခေလးမွာလည္း ေစ်းဝယ္ပီးျပန္လာေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ဥဓမ ပန္းျခံရဲ ့ေဘးမွာ လမ္း၁လမ္းရွိပီး အဲ့ဒီလမ္းကေန ေမာ္ေတာ္ Taxi နဲ ့အတင္းအတမ ဆြဲေခၚသြားပါတယ္။ ေခၚသြားတဲ့ေနရာက ေတာ့ မင္းဘၾကီးလမ္း ေက်ာင္းတန္းလမ္းရပ္ကြက္ ရြာမကြဆုံ ဆုိတဲ့ေနရာကုိ ေခၚေဆာင္သြားပီးေတာ့ ရခုိင္ဗမာ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသားမ်ားက ေပါင္းပီးေတာ့ ရုိက္ႏွပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္. ဒဏ္ရာ ကေတာ့ ေခါင္းကြဲတယ္ မ်က္ႏွာလုံးဝ ပ်က္ဆီးသြားတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။

အဲ့လုိရုိက္ႏွပ္ပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ပုိင္းမွာ ထက္ပီးေတာ့ ျမိဳ ့မေစ်းသစ္ရဲ ့ေနာက္ကုိ ျပန္လဲေခၚေဆာင္သြားပီးေနာက္မွာ ထက္ပီးရုိက္ႏွပ္ခဲ့တဲ့အျပင္ ျပစ္ထားခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့သိရတယ္.
အခုလုိရုိက္နက္ခံရတဲ့ မြစ္လင္မ္ အမ်ဳးိသမီးေလးေရာက္ လုံးကုိ ၁ေနရာထဲမွာ ျပစ္ခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္. အဲ့လုိျပစ္ထားပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ စစ္ေတြျမိဳ ့ရဲ ့လုံထိန္းေတြ ႏွင့္ ရဲေတြက ျမင္သြားတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္..သူတုိ ့ေတြက ထုိ မိန္းခေလး ၄ေယာက္ကုိ ၂၈ ၆ ၁၂ ေန ့ခင္းအခ်ိန္တြင္ စစ္ေတြရုံၾကီးကုိ ေခၚေဆာင္သြားတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။

ေဆးရုံမွာ အေရးေပၚအခန္းသုိ ့ေခၚေဆာင္သြားတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ တာဝန္က်ေနတဲ့ ဆရာဝန္ ခင္ေမေထြက ဘယ္လုိဖြင့္ဆုိထားလဲဆုိရင္ ဒီမြစ္လင္မ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီး ၄ေယာက္ရဲ ့ခႏၶာကုိယ္၁ခုလုိ ့မွာ လက္ေတြ တုတ္ေတြနဲ ့ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ရုိက္နက္ထားတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။ အေရးၾကီး အဓိက ဒီအမ်ဳိးသမီးေလးေယာက္ရဲ ့ဦးေခါင္းနဲ ့မ်က္ႏွာကုိ အဓိကထားပီးေတာ့ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ရုိက္ႏွပ္ခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္. ကုိယ္ဝန္ရွိေနတဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးကုိက်ေတာ့ ဗုိက္ကုိေျခေထာက္နဲ ့ကန္ထားတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။

ဒီမြစ္လင္မ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီး ၄ေယာက္ထဲမွာ အေျခအေနအရမ္းဆုိးေနတဲ့သူကေတာ့ ကုိယ္ဝန္သယ္အမ်ဳိးသမီးျဖစ္ပီး ယခုအခ်ိန္ထိ ဆုိးရိမ္းေနကတုန္းျဖစ္တယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္. ကုိယ္ဝန္သယ္အမ်ဳိးသမီးအတြက္ေရာ ကုိယ္ဝန္တြင္းရွိေသာ ခေလး အတြက္ပါ အလြန္အင္မတန္ဆုိးရိမ္းေနရေၾကာင္းသိရပါတယ္။

ေဆးရုံမွာ ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာေဆးကုသမူ မရရွိဘူးလုိ ့ေျပာပါတယ္။ အခုလုိ ေဆးကုသမူေကာင္းမြန္စြာ မရတဲ့အျပင္ ၂၉.၆.၁၂ ညေန ၆နာရီမွာ ရဲေတြက ဒီမြစ္လင္မ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီး ၄ေယာက္ကုိ ေဆးရုံးကေန ေအာင္မဂၤလာရပ္ကြက္ကုိ ျပန္ပုိ ့ေပးတယ္လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။

အခုလုိဒီ မြစ္စလင္အမ်ဳိးသမီး ၄ေယာက္ကုိ ရုိက္ႏွပ္တဲ့သူေတြကေတာ့ အုပ္စုနဲ ့လုိက္ပီးေတာ့ လုပ္ေနတဲ့လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒီအုပ္စု ထဲမွာ ရွိတဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္၁ေယာက္ရဲ ့နာမည္ႏွင့္ အိမ္လိပ္စာကုိ အတည့္အက်ရထားတဲ့အျပင္ ထုိမိန္းခေလးေတြကလဲ ေတြ ့ခဲ့တယ္လုိ ့ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ရဲ ့နာမည္ (ေက်ာ္သန္းေမာင္ ၃၅ႏွစ္ အဘ ဦးေမာင္နီေအာင္) အိမ္လိပ္စာ - ဇြဲညီေနာင္သံမဏီဆုိင္ မင္းဘၾကီးလမ္း ရြာမခြက္ဆုံးေရွ ့လုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒီထက္တိတိက်က်ေျပာရမယ္ဆုိရင္ သိန္းမဟာအိမ္ရဲ ့ေဘးလုိ ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒီထက္ပုိပီး အတိအက်သိရတဲ့ဟာကေတာ့ ဒီေက်ာ္သန္းေမာင္ဆုိသူက ရခုိင္ တုိးတက္ေရးပါတီဝင္ တစ္ဦးျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါတယ္။

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ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ျမိဳ ့နယ္ရွိ မြစ္စလင္(မ္)ရြာမ်ား အေျခအေန......

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၁။ မြစ္စလင္ ရြာမ်ားမွ မြစ္စလင္မ်ား မိမိတို ့၏ ေစ်းဆိုင္မ်ားရွိေသာ၊ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ျမိဳ့ေပၚတြင္ ရွိေသာ ေစ်းဆိုင္မ်ားကို ဖြင့္ျပီးေရာင္းခ်ခြင့္မျပဳျခင္း ၄င္းဆိုင္ရွိပစၥည္းမ်ားကိုရခိုင္တိုးတတ္ေရးပါတီက ထုတ္မေပးရန္ ၊ ၄င္း ဆိုင္ခန္းရွိ ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ၄င္းရခိုင္တိုးတတ္ေရးပါတီက သိမ္းပိုက္မည္ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္း ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ျမိဳ ့ေပၚရွိ ၇ခိုင္ေမာခ္ မ်ားနွင့္ တိုင္ပင္ေဆြးေႏြးလိုက္ျခင္း။
ယခုမြစ္စလင္မ်ား စားေရး၊ေသာက္ေရး မ်ား အလြန္ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျခင္း။ရြာအျပင္သို ့သြားလာျခင္းကို ခြင့္ မျပဳျခင္း၊ပိတ္ပင္ထားျခင္း။ျမိဳ ့ေပၚ နွင့္ ေစ်းမ်ား ကို သြားေရာက္ ၀ယ္ယူပိုင္ခြင့္ ကို မျပဳျခင္း။ထို ့ေနာက္ ျမိဳ ့ေပၚသို ့သြားေရာက္ လ်ွင္ ရခိုင္ေမာခ္မ်ား က အႀကမ္းဖက္ျခင္း။ရိုက္နပ္ျခင္း၊ဓားနွင့္ခုတ္ျခင္း နွင့္ လုရက္ျခင္း မ်ားျပဳလုပ္ေနျခင္း တို ့ေႀကာင့္ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ ျမိဳ ့နယ္ရွိမြစ္စလင္ မ်ား စိတ္ေသာက ေရာက္လ်ွက္ရွိေနပါသည္။

၂။ ၁၅ရက္ေန ့ ၆လပိုင္း ၂၀၁၂ခုနွစ္ ျမန္မာစိေတာ္ခ်ိန္ နံနက္ ၉ နာရီ ၂၀ မိနစ္ တြင္ ျမိဳ ့ေပၚသို ့ ဆိုကၠား အငွားယာဥ္ နွင္ ့ တတ္သြားသူ လူ(၄) ေယာက္ကို ရိုက္ျခင္း၊ဓားနွင့္ခုတ္ျခင္း မ်ားျပဳလုပ္ျပီး၊ရခိုင္မ်ားနွင့္ရဲ မ်ားက ၄င္း တို ့ကို အတင္း ဓာတ္ဆီ ပုလင္း မ်ားကို ကိုင္ထားေစျပီး၊ဓာတ္ပံုရိုက္ျခင္း၊ေနာက္ျပီး မင္းတို ့ မီးရွိဳ ့ရန္ ႀကံစည္ျခင္းဆိုျပီး ကတိခံလက္မွတ္ ေရးထိုးခိုင္းပါတယ္။

ပါကစၥတန္ အဓိကျမိဳ႕ၾကီးမ်ား အားလံုးလိုလိုတြင္ ယေန႔ ဇြန္လ ၃၀ ရက္ ေသာၾကာေန႔ ၀တ္ျပဳမႈအျပီးတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ အျပစ္မဲ့ မြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ား အစုလိုက္အသတ္ခံရမႈ အေပၚ စုေပါင္းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ား ကန္႔ကြက္ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား ကို ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဆယသ္ မူနာ၀ါ ဟစန္၏ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခ်က္အရ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္းသတင္းရရွိပါသည္။



ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း မြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ားအား မ်ိဳးျဖဳတ္ သတ္ျဖတ္မူအား ၾကဴးလြန္ခြင့္ျပဳေနေသာ အၾကမ္းဖက္သမားမ်ား၏ရန္မွ အကူအညီမဲ့ေနေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အတြင္းရွိ မြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ား အား အကာအကြယ္ေပးရန္ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂၢ၊ OIC ႏွင့္ ကမၻာတ၀ွမ္းမွ..... အာရံုစိုက္ခံရေရးအတြက္ အဆိုပါ ဆႏၵျပပြဲအားျပဳလုပ္ရန္ ႏိူးေဆာ္ခဲ့ ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

ဆႏၵျပပြဲတြင္ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့သူမ်ားက လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ညမ်ားအတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ျမိဳ႕တစ္ခုတြင္ ရာေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာမြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ား အစုလိုက္အသတ္ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ အာရကန္ရွိမြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တစ္သားတည္းရွိေၾကာင္း ၎တို႔၏ ဆႏၵသေဘာထားကို ထုတ္ေဖၚျပသခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

ဖိႏွိပ္ခံရေသာ အာရကန္မွ မြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ား အကူအညီေပးရန္ မြတ္စလင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူမ်ားအား ႏိုးထၾကရန္ သာသနာ့ပညာရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ တရားေဟာဆရာမ်ားက တိုက္တြန္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

မန္ဆူးပလီတြင္ ေသာၾကာေန႔ ေဟာၾကားမူ အတြင္း ဆယသ္ မူနာ၀ါ ဟစန္က ဒီလို အာရကန္ကမြတ္စလင္မ္ေတြ အခုလိုေသြးထြက္ သံယိုမူေတြ ျဖစ္တာကို အကယ္၍သာ OIC အေနနဲ႕ ရွင္သန္မူရွိေနျပီး မြတ္စလင္္မ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူေတြ အေနနဲ႕ ေလးစားခံထုိက္တဲ့ ဂုဏ္ပုဒ္နဲနဲေလး က်န္ေနအံုးမယ္ဆိုယင္ သူတို႔ ရပ္တန္႔သြားေအာင္ လုပ္ႏိုင္မွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ လဲ OIC နဲ႔ မြတ္စလင္မ္ႏိုင္ငံေတြက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူေတြကို ေ၀ဖန္ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဆက္လက္ျပီး သူက ဒါကာ အစိုးရအေနနဲ႔ ေလွနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ဖက္ကို ျဖတ္ျပီး အသက္စြန္႔ေျပးလာရတဲ့ သူေတြကို ကူညီရမဲ့ အစား နယ္စပ္ကို ပိတ္ထားတဲ့ အျပင္ အဲဒီထြက္ေျပးလာတဲ့ ျမန္မာျပည္က မြတ္စလင္မ္ေတြအေပၚ လုပ္ၾကံစြပ္စြဲမႈေတြ မွားယြင္းစြာလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘဂၤလားေဒရွ္႕ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြကို ျပစ္တင္ရႈတ္ခ်ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းလည္း လာဟိုက ထုတ္ေ၀သည့္ သတင္းမ်ားအရ သိရွိရပါသည္။


Source : Myanmar Muslim .Net

စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕မေစ်းရွိ မြတ္စလင္မ္ပိုင္ ဆိုင္ခန္းမ်ားရွိ ပစၥည္းမ်ားျပန္လည္သယ္ယူႏိုင္ရန္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့ၿပီး ပစၥည္းမ်ားသယ္ယူၿပီးပါက ဆိုင္ခန္းေသာ့မ်ားကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားကသိမ္းယူထားမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေနပါတယ္။

ဒီကိစၥဟာ မြတ္စလင္ေတြ ဒီေစ်းမွာ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ျပန္ဖြင့္ခြင့္မရွိေတာ့ဘူးဆိိုတဲ့ သေဘာလားလို႔ စိုးရိမ္ေနရေၾကာင္း သက္ကယ္ျပင္ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းမွာ ေရာက္ရွိေနသူ
ရခိုင္မြတ္စလင္မ္တစ္ဦးက myanmarmuslim.net ကို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

“ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔က ဘာမွမက်န္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ျပန္ရရင္ ေကာင္းတယ္။ ကိုယ့္စီးပြားေရးကိုယ္လုပ္စားလို႔ ...
ရေသးတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ စိုးရိမ္တာက ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ဆိုင္ခန္းေတြ သိမ္းခံလိုက္ရတာလား။ အေျခအေနတည္ၿငိမ္သြားရ ျပန္ရမွာလားဆိုတာကို ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနတာ”လို႔ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္ ရခိုင္ေဒသခံတစ္ဦးက ဆက္လက္ေျပာၾကားသြားပါတယ္။

စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ႕မေစ်းမွာ မြတ္စလင္မ္ဆိုင္ခန္း အမ်ားအျပားရွိၿပီး ေစ်းကို မၾကာမီရက္ပိုင္း အတြင္း ျပန္လည္ဖြင့္လွစ္ေတာ့မွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရပါတယ္။ ရခိုင္ဗုဒၶဘာသာ-႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာပဋိပကၡအတြင္း ဆိုင္ခန္းေသာ့ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးသူျဖစ္ပါက ေသာ့ဖ်က္ခြင့္ေပးကာ ပစၥည္းမ်ားသယ္ယူခြင့္ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ၿမိဳ႕မေစ်းမွ ပစၥည္းမ်ားေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေပးေနရတဲ့ ဆိုင္ခန္းပိုင္ရွင္ေတြဟာ မြတ္စလင္မ္ေတြျဖစ္ၿပီး ရခိုင္ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ဆိုင္ခန္းပိုင္ရွင္ေတြကေတာ့ ဆိုင္ခန္းအတြင္းရွိ ပစၥည္းမ်ား သယ္ယူရန္မလိုအပ္ဘူးလို႔ ေဒသခံ တစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္အရ သိရပါတယ္။

ရခိုင္ဗုဒၶဘာသာ- ႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာပဋိပကၡအစေလာက္မွာပဲ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသားတိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ ဥကၠ႒ ေဒါက္တာ ေအးေမာင္က ရခိုင္အိမ္ေတြျပန္ရရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အစၥေရးလိုျဖစ္ေစ ရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း venus ဂ်ာနယ္ႏွင့္ အင္တာဗ်ဴးတြင္ ေျပာခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က လူမ်ိဳးေရးအစြန္းေရာက္ သံဃာအခ်ိဳ႕က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကို ရွိရင္းစြဲေနရာ မ်ားကေန ၿမိဳ႕နဲ႔ေ၀းရာေနရာကိုပို႕ၿပီး သီးျခားခြဲထားဖို႔၊ ရခိုင္နဲ႔ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို႔ၾကား တြင္ စစ္တပ္ထားရွိဖို႔ သမၼတထံေတာင္းဆိုထားတာလည္းရွိပါတယ္။

မြတ္စလင္မ္ ဆိုင္ခန္းမ်ားမွ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းခိုင္းတဲ့ ယခုျဖစ္စဥ္ဟာ အဆိုပါေတာင္း ဆိုခ်က္မ်ား အတိုင္း အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနျခင္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းသမား အခ်ိဳ႕က သံုးသပ္ေျပာဆိုေနၾကတာ ၾကားသိရပါတယ္။ 

ႏိုင္ငံ နယ္နမိတ္တစ္ခု ပီပီျပင္ျပင္ တည္ရွိ၍ ထိုနယ္နမိတ္ကို ေရးဆြဲသတ္မွတ္စဥ္ ႏိုင္ငံနယ္နမိတ္အတြက္ မ်ိဳးစဥ္ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ေသာ လူသား ထိုႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဥပေဒရိပ္ေအာက္မွ ႏိုင္ငံသား အျဖစ္သတ္မွတ္ေပးရမည္။ ႏိုင္ငံတိုင္းတြင္၊ ႏိုင္ငံနယ္နမိတ္ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွ ၀င္ေရာက္လာသူႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံ နယ္နမိတ္ သတ္မွတ္ လိုက္စဥ္ ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း၌ ရွိေနသူ ဟူ၍ ရွိသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရွိေနသူသည္- ထိုႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဥပေဒေအာက္မွ လူသား ျဖစ္၍- ႏိုင္ငံအျပင္ပသို႔ ေရာက္သြားေသာ သူမ်ားမွာ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာပိုင္သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံ၏ ဥပေဒေအာက္မွ လူသားမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ ဤေနရာတြင္ ခၽြင္းခ်က္ အေျခအေနတစ္ရပ္ရွိသည္။ ဥပမာအားျဖင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လြတ္လပ္ေရး ယူစဥ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံနယ္နမိတ္ အား သတ္မွတ္စဥ္တြင္ သီေဘာမင္း၏ မိသားစု အပါအ၀င္ အခ်ိဳ႔ေသာ မိသားစုမ်ားသည္ ႏိုင္ငံျပင္ပတြင္ ရွိေန သည္။ ထိုမိသားစုမ်ိဳးထဲမွ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား အျဖစ္ခံယူလိုသူ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္လာ၍ ႏိုင္ငံသား ခံယူ လိုလွ်င္ ခြင့္ျပဳေပးႏိုင္သည္။ အလားတူ ႏိုင္ငံျခားမွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းသို႔ လာေရာက္ေနထိုင္သူ ဥပမာ အဂၤလိပ္ေခတ္ တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္သည့္ ဥေရာပလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား၊ အိႏၵိယ လူမ်ိဳးမ်ား၊ တရုတ္ လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအား သူတို႔၏ စိတ္ဆႏၵအေလွ်ာက္ မိမိတို႔၏ ဇာတိႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္လိုက ျပန္ႏိုင္သည္၊ ဆက္ လက္ေနထိုင္လိုက ေနထိုင္ႏိုင္သည္ ဟူသည့္ အခြင့္အေရးကို ေပးရမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သူတို႔ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာတိုင္းရင္းသူ တစ္ဦးဦး ေသြးေႏွာ ကျပား ျဖစ္ေနသူမ်ားကို ႏိုင္ငံသား ေပးကို ေပးရေပမည္။

လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားနဲ႔ တိုင္းေရးျပည္ေရး မၿငိမ္မသက္မႈမ်ားကို ေတြ႔ေနရေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႔ လန္းစစ္မွာ ေနခဲ့စဥ္က အိမ္ခ်င္းကပ္ေနထိုင္တဲ့ မဇိုလီနာရဲ႔ စကားေလးကို သတိရမိပါတယ္။ သူ႔ချမာ- ကေလး ၄ ေယာက္၊ ေယာက္်ားမရွိ။ တေန႔မွာ သူက စိတ္တိုေနၿပီး သူ႔ကေလးေတြကို “နင္တို႔ေလ-- ငါ့ရဲ႔ လင္ပါသားသမီးေတြ ဆိုရင္ ႏွတ္ခမ္းဆီသုတ္ ပါးခ်ည္းရိုက္ပစ္မယ္၊”လို႔ ေအာ္ဟစ္ေနတယ္။

သူ႔စကားကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္က နားမလည္ေတာ့- အမ၊ အမက ကေလးေတြကို ဆူတာ တစ္မ်ိဳးပဲ။ “ႏွတ္ခမ္းဆီသုတ္ ပါးရိုက္မယ္ ဆိုတာ ဘာလဲ- ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေတာင္ နားမလည္ဘူး ကေလးေတြက နားလည္ပါ့မလား” လို႔ ေျပာ ေတာ့- သူ ကေလးေတြကို စိတ္တုိေနတာ ေျပသြားၿပီး- ကၽြန္ေတာ့ကို “ဆရာကလည္း-၊ ဒီကေလးေတြက ကၽြန္မစကားကို နားမေထာင္ဘူး- ရိုက္ခ်င္ေထာင္းခ်င္စိတ္ကို ျဖစ္ေစတယ္။ ကၽြန္မသားသမီး အရင္းဆိုေတာ့ ရိုက္လည္း အျပစ္ေျပာမယ့္လူက မရွိဘူးေလ။ တစ္ကယ္လို႔ သူတို႔က လင္ပါသားသမီးဆိုရင္- သူတို႔ အျပစ္ဘယ္ေလာက္လုပ္လုပ္ ရိုက္ဘို႔ လင္ရဲ႔ မ်က္ႏွာကို ေထာက္ေနရမယ္။ ဒီေတာ့ ႏွတ္ခမ္းမွာ ဆီသုတ္ထား လိုက္ ၿပီးရင္- ရွင့္ကေလးေတြက ကၽြန္မေစတနာကို နားမလည္ဘူး၊ ဒီေလာက္ ဆီျပန္ဟင္းနဲ႔ ေကၽြးတာေတာင္ မစားဘူး ခံျငင္းတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ စိတ္တိုတိုနဲ႔ ရိုက္ပစ္လိုက္တာ၊ မယံုရင္ သူတို႔ႏွတ္ခမ္းကို ၾကည့္ပါလား- ဆီေတာင္ မေျခာက္ေသးဘူး၊” ဆိုၿပီး ေျပာလို႔ ရတာေပါ့တဲ့။ (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေတာ္ေတာ္ သေဘာက်မိခဲ့သည္။)

အခုတစ္ေလာ- ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ကိစၥတြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရသာ သာမက ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ပါ- ေခါင္းကိုက္ေနရေသာ ကိစၥ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီကို ငယ္သံ ပါေအာင္ ေအာ္ဟစ္ေတာင္းဆိုေနၾကသူမ်ားပင္- မြတ္စလင္ အတြက္ ထည့္စဥ္းစားထားခဲ့ဟန္ မရွိေၾကာင္း ေပၚ လြင္ေနသည္။ မြတ္စလင္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္လာလွ်င္ တစ္ဘက္ေစာင္းနင္း ျမင္ေနသည္။ လတ္တေလာႏွစ္ေပါင္း မ်ားစြာမွ စ၍ ဒီေန႔ထိ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး ၀င္လာမစဲ တစ္သဲသဲ တရုတ္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ား ကိစၥကို ေခါင္းထဲတြင္ ေရခဲ ရိုက္ထားၿပီး-၊ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာမွ ၀င္လာခဲ့၍ ၀င္ေရာက္မႈ ျပတ္စဲခဲ့သည္မွာလည္း ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာၾကာေနၿပီ ျဖစ္ ေသာ အိႏၵိယမ်ိဳးႏြယ္၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မ်ိဳးႏြယ္တို႔အား “ကုလားေတြ ၀င္လာေနသည္” ဟု မၾကာခဏ ျပန္လည္ ေႏြးေပးေနသည္။

ထိုမွ ၾကားညပ္၍ ျမန္မာျပည္ဘြား မြတ္စလင္တို႔အား လူထုမွ အျမင္ေစာင္းေစရန္ မၾကာခဏ ၀ါဒျဖန္႔ေနသည္။ ေသြးခြဲေနသည္။ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မွ ၀င္လာခဲ့ေသာ ဘဂၤလီရခိုင္ႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလီ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို႔မွ ဘဂၤလီရခိုင္တို႔အား ဖံုးဖိထားေပးလွ်က္- ဘဂၤလီရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႔ကိုသာ လက္ညိႇဳးထိုးေနသည္။ ထိုမွ်မက ျမန္မာရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအားလံုး ကိုပါ- ဘဂၤလီမ်ား ျဖစ္သည္ဟု စြပ္စြဲေနသည္။

လက္ရွိ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသား တုိးတက္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ပါတီ၏ ဦးေဆာင္၊ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဦးေအးေမာင္သည္ပင္ ၁၉၅၃-၅၄ ခုႏွစ္ကမွ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္မွ ၀င္လာေသာ ဘဂၤလီ မိဘစစ္စစ္မွ ေမြးေသာ ဘဂၤလီရခိုင္ျဖစ္ေနသည္ကို မသိဟန္ျပဳလွ်က္- ႏွစ္ေပါင္းေထာင္ႏွင့္ခ်ီ အျမစ္တြယ္ေနသည့္ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို႔အား ေပၚလစီခ် ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ေနသည္။ ဘဂၤလီရခိုင္တို႔က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအင္အား ခ်ိနဲ႔ေစေရးကိုသာ ႀကံေဆာင္ေနၿပီး ဗမာ့အခက္ ရခိုင့္အကြက္ (ရခိုင္ႏိုင္ ငံခြဲထြက္ရန္) ဟု ခံယူထားသူမ်ားကို အားေပးေျမႇာက္ပင့္ေနခဲ့သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာႏွင့္အတူ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ အတူပူးေပါင္းေနလိုေသာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာတို႔အား အတင္းဖယ္ထုတ္ေနခဲ့သည္။ ခြဲထြက္လုိသူတို႔အား အားေကာင္းေစရန္ ျပဳစုလွ်က္၊ ပူးေပါင္းေနလိုသူတို႔အား ခ်ိနဲ႔ေစရန္ ေပၚလစီခ်မွတ္ထားျခင္းမ်ိဳးျဖင့္ မည္ကဲ့သို႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စု တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္မည္နည္းဟုပင္ ေတြးမိဟန္မရွိေခ်။

ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားကိုသာမက ျမန္မာတစ္ျပည္လံုးရွိ မြတ္စလင္တို႔အား ရသည့္နည္းျဖင့္ ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ရန္ ေပၚလစီမ်ိဳးစံု ခ်မွတ္ထားသည္။ ဗမာဗုဒၶဘာသာႏွင့္ ဗမာမြတ္စလင္ ညီၫြတ္ခ်စ္ခင္ေနမႈမ်ားအား စီမံခ်က္တက် ၿဖဳိခြဲပစ္ခဲ့ သည္။ ထိုသို႔ မြတ္စလင္မုန္း စိတ္ဓါတ္မ်ား သီးပြင့္လာေသာ အက်ိဳးဆက္ေၾကာင့္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္း ပဋိပကၡ ေပၚေပါက္လာရျခင္း ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

ထိုျပသနာမွာ ဖံုးမရ၊ ဖိမရ တစ္ကမၻာလံုးက သိျမင္လာ၍ ပြက္ေလာရိုက္လာသည္။ ထိုအခါ- ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္တြင္ လူ၀င္မႈႈဥပေဒ တစ္ရပ္ ေပၚေပါက္ရန္ အပူတစ္ျပင္းလိုအပ္လာသည္ဟု ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားတိုင္း ဆင္ျခင္လာေတာ့ သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သူတို႔၏ ဆင္ျခင္မႈတိုင္းတြင္ ထိုႏိုင္ငံသား စီစစ္ေရး ဥပေဒ ဆိုသည္မွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာႏွင့္ မြတ္စလင္ တို႔အတြက္သာ ရည္ရြယ္ေနၿပီး- ႏိုင္ငံျခားမွ ၀င္လာသူ ရခိုင္၊ တရုတ္တို႔အား ရည္ရြယ္ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မဟုတ္ ေၾကာင္း သိသာ ထင္ဟပ္ေနျပန္သည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို တစ္ကယ္ခ်စ္လွ်င္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၌ ျပဌာန္းေသာ ဥပေဒသည္ ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းရွိ လူအားလံုးအတြက္ သက္ေရာက္ေစရမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ တရုတ္ႏွင့္ ရခိုင္ဗုဒၶဘာသာတို႔အား ခ်န္လွပ္ထားလွ်က္ မြတ္စလင္အတြက္ သာ ရည္ရြယ္ခဲ့လွ်င္- ထိုအမႈသည္ ကမၻာက အျမင္ေကာင္းေအာင္- “ႏွတ္ခမ္းဆီသုတ္လွ်က္ ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္ တို႔ အားပါးရိုက္ျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္ေတာ့သည္။”

ျမန္မာမြတ္စလင္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ တစ္ေျပးညီသက္ေရာက္ေသာ ဥပေဒႏွင့္ ေပၚလစီမ်ားကိုသာ လိုလားပါသည္။ မိမိအေနျဖင့္ ဥပေဒက သတ္မွတ္သည့္ အတိုင္း ကျပား ျဖစ္သည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ကျပား ဟု ခံယူရဲသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ထိုသို႔ ကျပားဟု သတ္မွတ္ေသာ ဥပေဒသည္ တရုတ္ကိုေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း၊ ၀င္လာေသာ ရခိုင္ဘဂၤလီကို ေသာ္လည္းေကာင္း တစ္ေျပးညီ သက္ေရာက္မႈ ရွိေစရမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၎တို႔ အေပၚတြင္လည္း မေတာ္မ တရား ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ မလိုပါ။

ထိုသို႔မဟုတ္- တစ္ဘက္ေစာင္းနင္း မတရား ျပဳမူလွ်င္ မည္သည့္ မတရားသည့္ ဥပေဒ၊ ေပၚလစီ၊ အမိန္႔၊ ခြဲျခား ဆက္ဆံမႈကိုမဆုိ- တရားမွ်တမႈအားေရွ႔ရႈသူတို႔က လက္ခံမည္ မဟုတ္ပါ။ ထိုအခါ ျမန္မာျပည္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအာ ဏာတို႔သည္ ကမၻာ့အလယ္၌ ဆက္လက္ အရွက္သိကၡာမဲ့ေနရမည္ပင္ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္
ေဌးလြင္ဦး
ေက်ာင္းသားတပ္မေတာ္ (ABSDF) ၏ ရဲေဘာ္ေဟာင္းတစ္ဦး

"UN's intervention is seemingly not effective" 

June 26, 2012

'Peace activist' mum on persecution
Aung San Suu Kyi was a world hero but does she command the same respect? This is now a question being asked repeatedly due to her apathy towards the plight of Rohingya minority and her controversial statements about their citizenship status.


The world had stood by Suu Kyi and openly supported the pro-democracy woman who had been under house arrest by the military government in Myanmar but after her release and victory, her stand on the Rohingya issue has been shocking to say the least.


Worse, Rohingyas were getting killed in the rioting when she was on a tour to Europe. She didn't speak about the violence back home, issued no direct appeal to her people to stop violence and while newspapers said she was treated like 'Rockstar' and awarded doctorate, Suu Kyi made THE controversial statement.


The 'iron' woman, who was supposed to have spoken for the rights of the community, has gone to the extent of questioning that if the minority indeed belongs to Burma. What can be the biggest irony? She was a hero for everyone but no more for me and perhaps many others.

The Rohingyas, a stateless people, have been living in Myanmar for centuries until the military government in 1982 [through a citizenship law] decided to strip the off their nationality. The community that is termed by Amnesty and other agencies as one of the most persecuted in the world, is now termed 'outsider'.


Rohingyas population estimates range from 8,00,000 to 1 million though it is suspected that the government figures are markedly less than the actual population. The community has faced hostility, prejudices and massacres for the last 60 years.

World Wakes up to the plight of Rohingyas

But the woman who suffered most at the hands of the military, seems to be in sync with the junta's [army] views about the Rohingyas who have been discriminated, oppressed and systematically forced out of Burma for decades.


Now pandering to popular sentiments, Suu Kyi has refrained from making any statement. No wonder, the Rohingyas are dejected and have lost hope from the woman they had supported and even vote for in election, aiming for change. Does she feel the Bamars would get upset if she speaks for Rohingyas!


That't what politicians do. But this is not expected from a leader of her stature. The ethnic riots between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims left nearly 90 dead while 90,000 were displaced. But she ket mum. Bangladesh didn't let fleeing Rohingyas, who wanted an asylum, and forced them to go back to their country.


It was in this scenario that reporters during her tour to England, France, Ireland and other countries, asked her repeatedly on this humanitarian crisis. She kept mum and avoided a comment on this issue, even as the extent of violence had shaken her country.
Rohingya woman cries after her husband got killed
When she was not left with any alternative, she shrewdly said, "The rule of the law is needed".


Is this you expect from a statesman, a Nobel prize winner or a world leader or a fighter?


Newspapers were finally getting critical about the fact that her tour appeared more a celebration and PR exercise.


She seemed to echo the hardline sentiment that Rohingyas are illegal immigrants [refugees] in Myanmar.


She finally said that Myanmar must clarify citizenship rules and that she was unsure whether Rohingyas could be regarded as Maynamar nationals. WHAT A SHAME!


The world is changing Ma'am. The fascist rule had somewhat managed to keep the country insulated but news about the clashes and genocides can't be suppressed any more.


That day I saw the group on Facebook group 'I have no respect left for you Aung San Suu Kyi...'.A leading newspaper questions, 'Has Suu Kyi lost that moral voice?'


It is no bravery to get aligned to right-wing forces for minor gains. Nationalism becomes Jingoism easily. It takes a GANDHI to counter populist mood and use the leader's moral authority to say things that may not appear nice [and to go against the tide].


So those who compared you to the great Nelson Mandela, may have to do a rethink now. As an activist you struggled, spent a lifetime fighting oppressive forces. People put faith in you but you let us down.


Your tour is over and soon you will be back to Yangon [formerly Rangoon]. If you don't speak for the victims, just because they look like Bengalis, you will be considered an accomplice in letting this persecution go on.


We urge you to make amends and take steps for reconciliation between Rohingya and the rest. Isn't it time for you to live up to your own reputation and redeem yourself?

Source: Indian Muslim

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ကပဋိပကၡေတြ ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔ဆိုရင္ တင္းၾကပ္ၿပီး မွ်တမႈရိွတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံသားစိစစ္ေရးဆိုင္ရာ ဥပေဒ လိုအပ္ပါတယ္လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ ပါတယ္။

Press Releases

Jun 29 2012
McConnell Applauds Confirmation of Derek Mitchell as Ambassador to Burma

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell issued the following statement Friday after the Senate confirmed the nomination of Derek Mitchell as ambassador to Burma:

“I congratulate Derek Mitchell on his confirmation as our ambassador to Burma. He has done an excellent job in his current role as Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Burma; his experience will serve us well in the region as he builds on the strong foundation established by Michael Thurston and our embassy team in Rangoon."

Background: Senator McConnell traveled to Burma from January 15-17 of this year. During the visit, he met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese government officials, recently released political prisoners and U.S. Embassy personnel. The Senator discussed political reform, bilateral relations and regional security issues with Suu Kyi and the Burmese leaders. For nearly 20 years, Sen. McConnell has been a strong advocate for political reform, reconciliation and democracy in Burma. Every year since 2003, Senator McConnell, along with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, has introduced and helped enact legislation placing sanctions on the Burmese government. He also consistently called for the release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.

Malaysia’s Rohingyas protest violence in Myanmar.

KUALA LUMPUR: Adding anger to an already tense situation in Myanmar, a group of 8 ethnic parties currently allied have said the country’s Rohingya Muslim minority are not considered an ethnic minority.

The statement by the group’s reiterated their position adopted in 2005.

It comes as the Rohingya minority in the country face waves of attacks and reported massacres in the Western Arakan area of the country.

“‘Rohingya’ is not to be recognized as a nationality,” said a statement by the National Democratic Front (NDF), saying it wanted its views to be known to “the people at home and in foreign lands” because of the sectarian violence that has erupted in Rakhine State, claiming nearly 80 lives since May 28.

Some 800,000 Rohingyas live in Burma, where the government considers them illegal immigrants and denies them citizenship. Most Burmese call Rohingya “Bengali.”

အီဂ်စ္ႏုိင္ငံ ျမန္မာသံရံုးေရွ႕တြင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ရွိ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမြတ္စလင္မ္မ်ား အစုလိုက္အျပံဳလုိက္ အသတ္ခံရမူအေပၚ  အီဂ်စ္ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားက ဆႏၵျပ


Credit : Zaid- MMM ( Myanmarmuslim.net)

In my point of view, it’s yes and it’s going down very fast. Moreover, many people ignore to prevent and protect those who are pushing Burma down the drain and it’s likely being seen in the arena of Burma politics, many more are consciously or unconscious, directly or indirectly supporting it. Those pundits of politics who always like to point out whether things are politically correct or not are also surprisingly silent. This is not a good omen.

We all know the notorious system of apartheid, a racism in South Africa, segregating people based on their ethnicity. Who can’t go to which place, can’t take which transport, can’t go to which school, and can’t go into which career and so on. For the good of the country or any society, there’s no doubt and no brainer that different society must work together. Apartheid is a very disgusting and inhumane ideology and it has no place in today’s world; let’s forget about asking for it and propagating it, even accepting that system is extremely horrible.

However, in our country Burma, there now exists a political party that openly demands this system of apartheid and segregation. For 2 days waiting for any voice from any political leader or any ethnic leader, or any religious leader or any human right activist or any governmental or non-governmental organization, but in vain, there’s none. Nobody voice up this is a disgusting, horrible and sicken, atrocious and terrible thing. So the question comes is Burma going down in the drain. (Not to those who do not know the press release of RNDP yet.)

On RNDP’s press release 04/2012 dated 2012 May 25, sending back the illegal immigrants to their original country is not wrong and it’s acceptable. But regarding 6(b), instead of “taking legal actions against those criminals and lawbreakers, and working out to reconciliation and peaceful co-existence of all citizens”,

RNDP demands to segregate the Arakanese Buddhist and other Muslims (mostly Bengali descents) by separating the Muslims away from their places.

Those Burmese political, ethnic, social, religious and business leaders should answer what is this if not apartheid. Though they know this sicken and awful press release demand, being silent, and not condemning openly is certainly concerting to it and it’s a historical liability on all Burmese leaders. If in future, if there’re any similar occurrences, conquering the houses and businesses of different ethnic and religious minorities, how are the Burmese political leaders going to handle this issue?

It shows that those who demanding this kind not only understands the value of democracy and human rights, but also no intention of practicing any of it.

Leaders should learn from the lessons of Bosnia, Rwanda and alike. Prevent before it get worse. Get the country on the right path. The democratic forces urgently need to reorganize and reinforce in truth manner to ward off the hardliners of old guard who have been openly trying to set up the democracy-skinned quasi-civilian government permanently controlled by generals.

Daw Suu said today in France that this is a rare opportunity in 50 years and need to make use of it correctly. If not, Burma again will go down in the drain. Just another 50 years.

Aung Tin
June 28, 2012
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If Myanmar Military and U Thein Sein’s government failed to stop the following APERTHEID Master-Plan on Muslims in Rakhine state, which is already started, the world leaders should request for the urgent UNSC meeting to discuss and rescue the oppressed people.

OIC member Muslim countries should WARN the Chinese and Russian governments not to use VETO in the coming urgent UNSC.

(NOTE: The Apartheid Rakhine party had also requested for the discussion with UN and other countries as stated in the last line, i.e. No 6 d.)


The following is the direct translation of the The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party RNDP’s Party Policy announcement of APERTHOID STYLE Post-Riots relocations.


The Official letter-head of
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party
RNDP Head Quarters
(Complete with the flag, emblem, seal and Coat of arms)
The Rakhine Nationalities Development Party RNDP
Party Policy announcement of Post-Riots relocations
Announcement No. 04/2012

26 June 2012
Rakhine State and Rakhine people are suffering a lot of national difficulties because of the communal riots that started on 8 June 2012.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor MichaelPosner discusses the 2011 Human Rights Report on LiveAtState

Syed Zain Al-Mahmood in Teknaf
29 June 2012

Sectarian violence in Burma has sent Muslim Rohingya refugees fleeing across the border, but they find themselves unwelcome in neighbouring Bangladesh.


Nozir Hossain shows the scar he received while trying to protect himself on the day his sons were killed. Photograph: Syed Zain Al-Mahmood for the Guardian


Some sobbed quietly while others pleaded and raised their arms to heaven. Their children looked on with glassy stares, utterly exhausted after days at sea in an open boat. Soon they would be on the water again, escorted by a Bangladeshi coast guard vessel and pushed back into the waters of Burma where they knew violence still raged.

"The Mogh slaughtered my brothers. They will kill us all … please help us!" screamed a woman carrying a baby only a few months old, before she was hustled away by border guards.

The sectarian violence in Burma that has sent boatloads of refugeesfleeing to Bangladesh in recent weeks – and being firmly pushed back – has once again turned the spotlight on the plight of Burma's Rohingya minority.

There is no place the Rohingya people can call home. Burma passed a law in 1982 – criticised as discriminatory by human rights groups – that effectively rendered them stateless. Waves of ethnic violence since 1991, some of it state-sponsored, have pushed more than 250,000 Rohingyas into Bangladesh, where they live in squalid, makeshift camps with little or no access to healthcare or education.

Nozir Hossain, 70, knows well what it means to live in limbo. Hossain, who used to be a farmer in the Maung Daw area of Burma's Arakan state, has been living in an unauthorised camp in Teknaf, on Bangladesh's southern tip, since 2001.

Sitting in the tiny shack he shares with four others, Hossain described the day his family was forcibly uprooted. "The Mogh [ethnic Rakhine] surrounded our village at dawn," he recalled. "The Nasaka [Burmese border troops] were behind them. They set fire to the houses and chopped, hacked and shot at anyone who got in their way. Two of my sons were slaughtered in front of my eyes. When I flung up my arm to protect my head, a machete nearly took my hand off. I fell and lay in a pool of my sons' blood. The killers moved on, leaving me for dead."

Despite the horrors he has witnessed, Hossain hopes to go back to Burma one day. "There is nothing for us here," he said. "We would like to go back home … back to farming our land. I hope the government will be fair and give us our rights."



Hossain was repatriated to Burma in 2005, but he came back after finding his land occupied by Rakhine. He said both the Burmese and Bangladeshi governments are falsely characterising the position of the Rohingya.

"The Burmese government says we're Bangladeshi, but the Arakan is the only home we know. My father was born in Arakan and so was my grandfather. The Bangladesh government says we're illegal migrants. But we didn't enter Bangladesh secretly to work. We came to save ourselves and our families."

According to Bangladeshi historian Abdul Aziz, there have been Muslims in Arakan since Arab traders came to the region in the eighth century. "The poetry of 17th-century poets like Alaol clearly mentions Muslims in positions of power in the court of the Arakan king," Aziz said. "The writing of travellers like Ibn Batuta in the 14th century proves that Bengal was one of the wealthiest nations in the world while Arakan was infested with pirates. There was migration from Arakan to Bengal and not the other way round."

Despite centuries-old roots in the Arakan region, discriminatory policies have been imposed on the Rohingya since Arakan was annexed by Burma in 1784. According to the Arakan Project, an NGO, the Rohingya are subjected to severe restrictions on their movement and marriages, and to arrests, extortion, forced labour and confiscation of land.

"The Nasaka used to come and take away the men and boys," said Hossain. "They forced us to work as labourers without pay. This was only done to us, not to Rakhine or anybody else."

The Rohingya have not fared much better on the Bangladesh side of the border. The government in Dhaka has refused to allow the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to register Rohingya arrivals since 1992. This means all but 30,000 of the Rohingyas are denied refugee status. The unregistered Rohingyas – more than 200,000 by some estimates – are officially considered illegal migrants and cannot get food rations provided by the World Food Programme. They are also denied access to basic healthcare and education provided by the UNHCR and its partner organisations.

The Bangladesh government is determined to keep services to a bare minimum to avoid creating a "pull factor" – conditions that will attract more refugees – an official of the ministry of food and disaster management said, on condition of anonymity.

As part of government policy, the NGO Affairs Bureau in Dhaka has not approved project proposals in health, education and other sectors in Cox's Bazar district, even if it benefits the local Bangladeshi community. Last year, Dhaka rejected a $33m UN joint initiative to develop Cox's Bazar with special focus on education and health.



The government has also put a stop to the UNHCR's resettlement programme, under which 900 Rohingyas were resettled in third countries to restart their lives. Most went to Australia, the UK and Canada. In November 2010, the Bangladesh government suspended the programme, pending a review.

Life is grim even for those in the authorised refugee camp. Rohingya children in the camp are permitted to study up to primary level – fifth grade – but not beyond. "Keeping them motivated is the main challenge," said Shahin Islam, director of the Education for Refugee Children project run by Save the Children. "It's very easy for them to lose hope … they don't see a future ahead."

Many experts have questioned the view that registering more Rohingya nationals in Bangladesh will bring more refugees across the border. "People do not leave their homes and go to a foreign country just because there's a basic health clinic or primary schools," said Jing Song, the UNHCR spokesperson in Dhaka. "Knowing who the refugees are and where they are is the first step to a solution to this protracted refugee situation. It's not only to the benefit of refugees, but also to the benefit of the host country."

Source : Guardian Co.UK

က်ေနာ့အျမင္မွာေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ဟာ ေျမာင္းထဲကုိ အရွိန္နွင့္ ဒလေဟာ ထုိးက်ေနျပီလုိ႔ ထင္တယ္။ ပုိဆုိးတာက မုိက္မုိက္မဲမဲ ေျမာင္းထဲတြန္းခ်သူေတြကုိ မတားဆီး၊ မကန္႔ကြက္တဲ့အျပင္ မသိက်ိဳးက်င္ျပဳေနတဲ့သူေတြက ထုႏွင့္ ထည္ႏွင့္ ရွိေနရုံတင္မက မသိမသာျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ သိသိသာသာျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ တုိက္ရုိက္ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ သြယ္ဝုိက္၍ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ အားေပးအားေျမွာက္ေနသူေတြႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးေလာက တစ္ခုလုံးမွာ ျပန္႔ႏွံ႔ေနတယ္လုိ႔ေတာင္ ထင္မွတ္စရာျဖစ္ေနပါျပီ။ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ မွန္ မမွန္(Political Correctness)ကုိ အျမဲေထာက္ျပေနတတ္တဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ပ႑ိတ္ေတြကလည္း အ့ံၾသစရာေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္ ဆြ႔ံအႏႈတ္ပိတ္ေနၾကတယ္။ ဒါက ေကာင္းတဲ့ အလားအလာ၊ ေကာင္းတဲ့ နိမိတ္(omen)ေတြ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆုိတာ ေသခ်ာလြန္းပါတယ္။


ေတာင္အာဖရိကမွာ နာမည္ဆုိးႏွင့္ ေက်ာ္ၾကားခဲ့တဲ့ Apartheid ဆုိတာကုိ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အားလုံး သိၾကပါတယ္။ လူေတြကုိ မ်ိဳးႏြယ္အရ သီးျခားစီ ခဲြျခားထားျခင္း(Segregation)ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လူမိ်ဳးေတြ ဘယ္ေနရာကုိ မလာရ၊ ဘယ္ေနရာမွာ မေနရ၊ ဘယ္ကားကုိ မစီးရ၊ ဘယ္စားေသာက္ဆုိင္မွာ မစားရ၊ ဘယ္ေက်ာင္းကုိ မတက္ရ၊ ဘယ္ေနရာမွာ ဘယ္အလုပ္ကုိ မလုပ္ရဆုိတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးခ်င္း ခဲြျခားဆက္ဆံမႈ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လူ႕အဖဲြ႕အစည္း၊ ျမိဳ႕ရြာ၊ ျပည္နယ္၊ ႏုိင္ငံအက်ိဳးအတြက္ အဖဲြ႕အစည္းေတြမွာ မတူညီေသာ လူအုပ္စုႏွစ္စုက အက်ိဳးတူ ပူးေပါင္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔ဆုိတာကေတာ့ စဥ္းစားစရာပင္ မလုိေတာ့ပါ။ အင္မတန္ ရြံရွာစရာေကာင္း၊ ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းတဲ့ အယူအဆဆုိးျဖစ္တာမုိ႔ ယဥ္ေက်းတဲ့ ယေန႔လူ႔ကမၻာမွာ ဘယ္လုိလူသားဆန္တဲ့ လူသားမ်ိဳးကမွ က်င့္သံုးဖုိ႔ ေတာင္းဆုိတာ၊ လႈံ႔ေဆာ္တာ မေျပာႏွင့္ ဒီအယူအျမင္ကုိ လက္ခံပါတယ္လို႔ေတာင္ မေျပာရဲတဲ့ အင္မတန္ ဆုိးယုတ္သိမ္ဖ်ဥ္းတဲ့ အယူဝါဒျဖစ္ပါတယ္။



သုိ႔ေသာ္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ အမိျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ဒီဝါဒဆုိး segregationကို အတိအလင္း ေၾကျငာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ ေတာင္းဆုိရဲတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီ ရွိေနပါျပီ။ ဘယ္ႏုိင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္၊ ဘယ္တုိင္းရင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္၊ ဘယ္ဘာသာေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္၊ ဘယ္လူ႕အခြင့္အေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္၊ ဘယ္အစုိးရဝန္ႀကီး၊ ဘယ္ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရးစတဲ့ အဖဲြ႕အစည္းကမ်ား ကန္႔ကြက္သံ ၾကားရေလမလားလို႔ ႏွစ္ရက္ၾကာေအာင္ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ရွက္စရာ ေၾကာက္စရာကုိ မရွက္မေၾကာက္ လုပ္သူက လုပ္တယ္။ ဘယ္သူကမွ မလုပ္သင့္ဘူးလုိ႔ တစ္ခြန္းဆုိသံ မၾကားရသျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ သြားျပီလားလုိ႔ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ (RNDP၏ ဤေၾကျငာခ်က္ကုိ မသိရွိေသးသူမ်ားအား မဆုိလုိပါ။)

RNDP (ရခုိင္တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တုိးတက္ေရးပါတီ)က ၂၀၁၂ခု ေမလ (၂၆)ရက္ေန႔စြဲႏွင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ ေၾကျငာခ်က္အမွတ္ ၀၄/၂၀၁၂မွာပါတဲ့ တရားမဝင္ ခုိးဝင္လာသူမ်ားကုိ အေရးယူတာ၊ မူရင္းႏိုင္ငံကုိ ျပန္ေစတာေတြကုိေတာ့ လုံးဝ သေဘာတူပါတယ္။ အျငင္းပြါးစရာ မရွိပါ။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ရဲ့ အမွတ္စဥ္ ၆(ခ)မွာ၊ တရားဥပေဒခ်ိဳးေဖါက္သူေတြ၊ ရာဇဝတ္မႈက်ဴးလြန္သူေတြကုိ ထိေရာက္စြာ အေရးယူေစျပီး ႏုိင္ငံသားအခ်င္းခ်င္း သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ ေအးခ်မ္းစြာ အတူယွဥ္တဲြ ေနထုိင္ႏုိင္ေရးကုိ မျဖစ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ဦးေဆာင္ေပးရမည့္အစား

ရခုိင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္းရွိ ျမိဳ႕ရြာမ်ား၌ ရခုိင္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလီလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား နီးကပ္စြာေရာေႏွာေနထုိင္မႈ မရွိရေအာင္ ဘဂၤလီလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအား သင့္ေတာ္ရာ၌ ယာယီသီးျခားေနရာခ်ထားရန္

လုိ႔ေတာင္းဆုိထားပါတယ္။ ဒါကုိ Apartheid (Segregation) မေခၚရင္ ဘာလို႔ေခၚမလဲဆုိတကုိ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားေရး၊ လူမႈေရး၊ ဘာသာေရး၊ စီးပြါးေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား ေျဖၾကပါ။ ဒီေလာက္ ဆုိးသြမ္းေဖါက္ျပန္တဲ့ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ကုိ ၾကားသိလွ်က္ႏွင့္ ႏႈတ္ဆိတ္ေနျခင္း၊ လူသိရွင္ၾကား မကန္႔ကြက္ မရႈံ႕ခ်ျခင္းသည္ သေဘာတူ(Consent)သည္ဟု ဆုိႏုိင္သျဖင့္ ယေန႔ ျမန္မာ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ားေပၚတြင္ သမုိင္းေၾကြးတင္သြားပါျပီ။ ေနာင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ့ အျခားေနရာေတြမွာ အလားတူျဖစ္ရပ္ေတြ ျဖစ္လာရင္၊ ျဖစ္လာေအာင္ လႈံ႕ေဆာ္ျပီး ဘာသာမတူ၊ လူမ်ိဳးမတူသူေတြရဲ့ အုိးအိမ္ေတြကုိ မတရားသိမ္းပုိက္လုိလွ်င္ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား ဘယ္လုိကုိင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းၾကမလဲ။


ဒီလုိေတာင္းဆုိသူေတြဟာ မိမိကုိယ္တုိင္က လုိလားပါတယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆုိတာကုိ နားမလည္ တန္ဖုိးမထားရုံတင္မက က်င့္သုံးလုိဟန္ပင္ မရွိေၾကာင္းကုိ အတိအလင္း ျပဆုိျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ၁၉၄၈ခုႏွစ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ျဖစ္တည္လာပုံ၊ ႏုိင္ငံ စတင္တည္ေထာင္စ ကတည္းက ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ နယ္စပ္ေတြမွာ လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံေတြ ျပန္႔ႏွံ႔ေနထုိင္ပုံ၊ တုိင္းျပည္နယ္နိမိတ္ ခဲြျခားသတ္မွတ္မႈႏွင့္အတူ ပါဝင္လာတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးေတြကုိ တရုပ္၊ ထုိင္း၊ အိႏၵိယ၊ ျမန္မာစသျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံသစ္ေတြက လက္ခံေပးရပုံ (ခုိးဝင္သူေတြကို လကၡံေပးဖုိ႔ မေျပာပါ။) စသည့္ သမုိင္းျဖစ္ရပ္ေတြကုိ အေျခခံေလာက္မွ နားမလည္ျခင္းကုိ ျပပါတယ္။ ပုိဆုိးတာက (၂၁)ရာစုမွာ လူသားအေျခခံျပီး လူသားခ်စ္စိတ္ႏွင့္ တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လက္ေတြ႕က်က် တည္ေဆာက္ရမည့္အစား စိတ္ဝမ္းကဲြျပားမႈေတြႏွင့္ မညီမညြတ္ျဖစ္ေစကာ တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ ေခ်ာက္ထဲထုိးခ်မည့္ အျမင္က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းေသာ ငါ့ဘာသာ၊ ငါ့သာသနာ၊ ငါ့လူမ်ိဳးဆုိတဲ့ မ်က္ကန္းမ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ကုိ တာဝန္မဲ့ လႈံ႕ေဆာ္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ကိုယ့္ျပည္သူေတြကုိ အက်ိဳးျဖစ္ေအာင္ အသိညာဏ္ဖြင့္ေပးရမည့္အစား အက်ိဳးယုတ္ အသိကန္းေအာင္ အဆိပ္ခပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ (ေရွးေခတ္က ဟစ္ေအာ္လာၾကခဲ့တဲ့ အမ်ိဳး၊ ဘာသာ၊ သာသနာဆုိတဲ့ စကားမ်ိဳးကုိ လက္သုံးျပဳလုိ႔ မလုံေလာက္ေတာ့ဘူး။ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ခရစ္ယာန္၊ အစၥလာမ္၊ ဟိႏၵဴ၊ နတ္ကုိးမႈစသည္ကုိ စဲြျပီး လူမ်ိဳးေရးတရားလုပ္လုိ႔မရဘူး။ ကုိယ္ယုံၾကည္ရာ ကုိယ္ကုိးကြယ္ျပီး တုိင္းေရးျပည္ေရးမွာ ညီညီညြတ္ညြတ္ စုေပါင္းလုပ္ၾကဖုိ႔ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ(၁၁)ရက္ ပင္လုံညီလာခံမွာ လက္မွတ္မေရးထုိးမီ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ကတိျပဳ ေျပာၾကားခ့ဲပါတယ္။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက အမ်ိဳး၊ ဘာသာ၊ သာသနာဟု ဆုိျခင္းကုိ နားလည္ေပးႏုိင္ေသာ္လည္း လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစုံ၊ သာသနာ ေပါင္းစုံကုိ ကုိယ္စားျပဳရမည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက အမ်ိဳး၊ ဘာသာ၊ သာသနာဟု ေျပာလာမည္ဆုိလွ်င္ မိမိစီးေသာျမင္းကုိ အထီးမွန္း အမမွန္း မသိသူမ်ား ျဖစ္ရာ၏။ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ (၆၆)ႏွစ္ကပင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ျပည္ေထာင္စုႏုိင္ငံ တည္ေထာင္ေရးအတြက္ လက္ေတြ႕မက်ဟုဆုိကာ ပယ္ခ်ခဲ့ေသာ အယူမွား၊ အျမင္မွားျဖစ္သည္ကုိ သတိခ်ပ္သင့္လွ၏။)

ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ားအေနႏွင့္ ေဘာ့စနီးယား၊ ရဝမ္ဒါစတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြက လူမ်ိဳးေရး အထိကရုဏ္းေတြကုိ ျပန္စဥ္းစားျပီး သခၤန္းစာယူၾကပါ။ အေျခအေနေတြ ပုိမဆုိးလာေအာင္ အခ်ိန္မီ တားဆီးၾကပါ။ တုိင္းျပည္ကုိ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမွန္ကုိ ျပန္တင္ေပးၾကပါ။ ျပန္လည္ေခါင္းေထာင္ဖုိ႔ အထင္အရွား ၿကုိးစားေနတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရျခံဳ စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ကုိ တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလုံးက တုိင္းရင္းသားေပါင္းစုံ ျပည္သူလူထု၏ နည္းမွန္လမ္းမွန္ျဖစ္ေသာ စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္မႈျဖင့္ အႏုိင္တုိက္ယူပါ။

အႏွစ္ငါးဆယ္မွာ ရေတာင့္ရခဲျဖစ္တဲ့ အခုလုိအခြင့္အခါမ်ိဳးကုိ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ အသုံးခ်ႏုိင္ဖုိ႔လုိတယ္လုိ႔ ေဒၚစုက ယေန႔တင္ဘဲ ျပင္သစ္မွာ ေျပာလုိက္ပါျပီ။ မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ အသုံးမခ်ႏုိင္ရင္ေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေနာက္တစ္ခ်ီ သြားျပီ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ေနာက္ထပ္ အႏွစ္ ငါးဆယ္ေလးေလာက္ပါ။
ေအာင္တင္
ဇြန္လ(၂၈) ၂၀၁၂


*************************************************************************Burma to go down the drain

Apparently, Bangladesh's pushback of helpless Rohingyas from its territorial waters into those of Myanmar seems to have worked. Or has it? Given that 30,000 were afflicted in the latest eruption of ethnic violence in Rakhine state capital Sittwe, this may have been just a stalling operation.

Since no media is allowed in the troubled zone, there's no way knowing whether those sent back by us are safe. Perhaps, Bangladesh's stern approach has gone down well with the Myanmar authorities. For once, we could bite the bullet and let them float into the elements of nature, or shove them into the tunnel of uncertainty.

Clearly, all this is a palliative, and not a cure of the disease. Because the fundamental issue of statelessness of the Muslim minority in the Rakhaine state of Myanmar remains intact. Persecution and ethnic cleansing of varying intensity follow from this non-existent status of not even second class citizens.

So long as this seminal question of nationality is not resolved, Rohingyas in boatloads or trickles would keep coming in through the 200km long porous border between Bangladesh and Myanmar.

Thus, we find in the UNHCR's version, eight unregistered Rohingya refugees to every registered one. In contrast, government's ratio between listed and unlisted refugees stands at 15 to 1. This demographic pressure on an already densely populated part of Bangladesh is headed for snowballing with severe repercussions in the horizon.

One reputed international observer Derek Tonkin's position on this fallacy is unassailable: "The statelessness of the Rohingya is a breach of Article 15(1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which provides that: 'Everyone has the right to a nationality'."

When a country is at the receiving end of fallout from either a willful persecution of the Rohingyas by the military as in 1978 and 1991 and internal ethnic violence as erupted lately, it has to defend its national interest. Bangladesh has every right to address the problem bilaterally, and if necessary, internationally. But a hands-on role is missing.

What is difficult to understand is Bangladesh government treating the latest dimension to the Rohingya question in a way that it can make all the difference between good and bad bilateral relations. Why must this be so; an issue has arisen and it must be dealt with, first compassionately and then by taking it up at the government-to-government level in a no nonsense manner.

Now, why have a short memory? In both times that the spates in Rohingya exodus were triggered by military operations in Myanmar, we arranged repatriation of the refugees by engaging the military authorities, post-1978 and 1991. We could work out a solution, incomplete that it might have been, albeit under the auspices of the UNHCR. Why then the latest upshot of ethnic raw nerves centering around a criminal act but allowed to proliferate as a religious-ethnic reprisal by the majority community under military watch should be handled like "glass with care" approach? By accident, if you like, the core issue has come to the fore, through a haemorrhage though. And if the wound is 'band-aided' now, it would bleed again.

In a sense, the international community is also playing kid glove with Myanmar authorities. The West is supersensitive to the cause of consolidating the pro-democracy and open economy gains and advancing the freedom and leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi to complete the process of Myanmar's opening to the world. So, why rock the boat?

Suu Kyi's appeal to reason, her sagacity, and persistent theme of reconciliation have inspired analogies with Nelson Mandela. This is something to draw on. One of the first Suu Kyi statements on her release from house arrest had been to call for speedy resolution of ethnic minority issues. We are looking to her to take a conscientious role in resolving the "nationality" issue of the Rohingyas. We are heartened by her expression of concern over "the handling of the situation by local Rakhaine authorities, in particular their failure to dampen anti-Muslim sentiment. Suu also calls on Buddhists to 'have sympathy for minorities'." (Xinhua)

Suu Kyi's growing international image is of value to the military who still retain the levers of power but understands the efficacy of withdrawal of sanctions on and investment in Myanmar. Pragmatism suggests they should swim with the current.

The two foregoing factors taken together, condition in Myanmar couldn't have been potentially more conducive than it is today towards settling all the ethnic minority issues that bristle the Myanmar body-politic.

There is a third element that the Myanmar government needs to consider to reshape its policy towards the Rohingyas. Ethnic groups like the Karen and Kachin are "insurrectionist" espousing the aspirations of small nations. While attempts are made to assimilate them into the Myanmar society, why should the innocent, armless Rohingyas be left behind?

The writer is Associate Editor, The Daily Star.

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