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By NAW NOREEN
 Muslim women in Arakan state's Sittwe hold ID cards while they wait to cast ballots during last year's elections (Reuters)


Muslims in five principal townships in western Burma have been granted permission by the immigration department to travel freely, providing they carry ID cards.
The decision comes nine months after the elections last year and campaign pledges by the eventual winner, the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), that it would increase mobility for Burma’s long-persecuted Muslim minority.
A man in Arakan state’s Sandoway said that the decision may be related to letter sent to the government by residents of the town in which they complained that the civil rights ascribed in the 2008 constitution, which was adopted when the new government came to power in March, were not being recognised.
Until recently Muslims in Arakan state were required to get permission from their local authorities before travelling outside of designated regions, regardless of whether they had ID or an alien residency permit.
But in April this year, authorities stopped granting permission, meaning that large communities were banned from moving around outside of their townships.
“We are happy about this,” the Sandoway man said of the latest development. “We have been struggling with health, money, social and education issues for about 20 years.
“We are happy that the government, who now sympathises with our woes, is recognising us as Burmese civilians and protecting our rights. It is important for us to be responsible and good citizens so we won’t lose these rights again.”
Muslims have long been persecuted by the Buddhist government in Burma; the ethnic Rohingya minority in particular is denied any sort of legal status and hundreds of thousands have fled to Bangladesh.
The government claims that four percent of Burmese are practising Muslims, but the US state department, which has labelled Burma one of the world’s most religiously intolerant states, claims the figure could be considerably higher.
Following a report in early 2010 by UN Special Rapportuer to Burma Tomas Ojea Quintana that claimed the Burmese government had been persecuting Muslims, the then-ruling junta began issuing identity cards to the Rohingya.
Various rights groups have warned that the Burmese government is attempting to rid the country of Muslims by making their lives in Burma unbearable; up to 400,000 Rohingya are living as refugees in Bangladesh, which has also been reluctant to grant them any sort of registration.
Link:  :http://www.dvb.no/news/travel-restrictions-for-muslims-loosened/16803
တိုင္းရင္းသားျပည္သူအေပါင္း​တို႔ခင္ဗ်ာ။
အမ်ိဳးသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးႏွ​င့္လြတ္လပ္ေရးဖခင္ႀကီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ့သမီး​ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္က တုိင္းရင္းသားညီအကုိမ်ားမွီ​ တင္းေနထုိင္ရာ ျပည္နယ္တခ်ိဳ႕မွာ လတ္တေလာ ေတာက္ေလာင္ေနတဲ့ စစ္မီးေတာက္မ်ား ၿငိမ္းေအးသြားေစေရးအတြက္ ကိုယ္စြမ္းရွိသမွ် ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးလိုတဲ့ေစတ​နာနဲ႔ သက္ဆိုင္သူမ်ားထံ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာတစ္ေစာင္ ဒီကေန႔ ေပးပို႔၊ ထုတ္ျပန္လုိက္ပါတယ္။
လက္နက္ကိုင္ပဋိပကၡေတြ အျမန္ဆံုးရပ္ဆုိင္းဖို႔ ၊ ျပသနာ ေတြကိုေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးအေျဖရ​ွာႀကဖို႔ အနဳးအညြတ္တိုက္တြန္းပန္ႀကား​ထားပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔ရက္စြဲနဲ႔ထုတ္ျပန္လို​က္တဲ့ ဒီအိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန​္ထံ တရား၀င္လမ္းေႀကာင္းက ေပးပို႔ၿပီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်န္ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားကေတာ့ ဆက္သြယ္ရန္လမ္းေႀကာင္းမရွိတ​ဲ့အတြက္ အဖြ႔ဲခ်ဳပ္ျပန္ႀကားေရးကပဲ ထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။ ရယူေလ့လာေဆာင္ရြက္ႀကဖို႔ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါတယ္။

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တုိင္းရင္းသား ေဒသေတြမွာ အစိုးရတပ္ေတြနဲ႔ တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖြဲ႕ေတြၾကား တုိက္ပြဲေတြ အျပင္းအထန္ ျဖစ္ပြားေနတာေၾကာင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးနဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြကို ပံ့ပုိးဖုိ႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ကုိယ္စြမ္းရွိသ၍ ပါ၀င္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေပးဖုိ႔ အဆင္သင့္ ရွိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ဆီ ေပးပုိ႔ခဲ့တဲ့ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာထဲမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အဲဒီလို ေျပာဆုိခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီေျပာဆုိခ်က္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖြဲ႕ေတြဘက္ကလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ တသေဘာတည္း အတူတူရွိတဲ့အေၾကာင္း တုံ႔ျပန္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ ေဒၚခင္မ်ဳိးသက္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
လြတ္လပ္ေရးဖခင္ႀကီးဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ႕သမီး၊လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျပည္တြင္းစစ္မီး ၿငိမ္းေအးေစဖို႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းတဲ့ အေနနဲ႔ အစုိးရသစ္ အဖြဲ႕က သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔တကြ KIO ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕၊ KNU ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအ႐ုံး၊ NMSP မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီနဲ႔ SSA ရွမ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ေတြဆီကုိ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာတေစာင္ ေပးပုိ႔ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ေျပာခြင့္ရ ဦးအုန္းႀကိဳင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။
“ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ကုိယ္တုိင္ပါ၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခ်င္တဲ့ ေစတနာနဲ႔ အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာတေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ လက္နက္ကုိင္ ပဋိပကၡေတြကုိ အျမန္ဆုံး ရပ္ဆုိင္းဖုိ႔၊ ျပႆနာကုိ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးၿပီး အေျဖရွာၾကဖို႔ အႏူးအၫြတ္ တုိက္တြန္းထားပါတယ္။”
အိတ္ဖြင့္ေပးစာထဲမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးနဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြကုိ ပံ့ပုိးဖုိ႔အတြက္ ကုိယ္စြမ္းရွိသမွ် ႀကိဳးပမ္းဖို႔ အသင့္ရွိပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုပုံစံနဲ႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းဖို႔ အစီအစဥ္ ရွိပါသလဲ။
“ပါ၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်င္တဲ့ ေစတနာ အရင္းခံနဲ႔ ထက္သန္ေနတဲ့ ေစတနာကို ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုေဆာင္ရြက္မလဲ ဆုိတာကေတာ့ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာတဲ့ အေျခအေနေပၚမွာ မူတည္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။”
လက္နက္ကုိင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႕ ၄ ဖြဲ႕အေနနဲ႔ ဆက္သြယ္ခ်င္ရင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ဘယ္လိုဆက္သြယ္လို႔ ရပါမလဲ။
“အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးကေတာ့ အဲဒီ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြက တာ၀န္ရွိတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြ၊ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြကို ေတြ႕ခ်င္တာပါပဲတဲ့။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အခုအေျခအေနကေတာ့ဗ်ာ က်ေနာ္တို႔က တရား၀င္ လက္ခံေတြ႕ဆုံဖုိ႔ဆုိတာ ဘယ္လိုလုပ္ ျဖစ္မလဲ။ အေျခအေနက အဲဒီလို ရွိပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေတာ့ အေျခအေနေတြက ေပးလာလုိ႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခြင့္ရမယ္ ဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ၀မ္းေျမာက္၀မ္းသာ ေတြ႕ခ်င္ပါတယ္လို႔ အဲဒီလို ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေဒၚစု ေစတနာအမွန္ကုိ ေဖာ္ျပတာပါ။”
ကရင္ျပည္သူေတြအတြက္ ရာစုႏွစ္ တ၀က္ေက်ာ္ လက္နက္ကုိင္ တုိက္ခုိက္ေနတဲ့ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအ႐ုံး (KNU) တာ၀န္ခံ ေဒၚေနာ္စီဖိုးရာစိန္ကေတာ့ ဒီလို လက္နက္ကိုင္ၿပီး တုိက္ခုိက္ေနၾကေပမဲ့ KNU က တုိက္ခုိက္မႈေတြဟာ ကုိယ့္ကုိယ္ကုိ ကာကြယ္တဲ့သေဘာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သလို ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ဆႏၵနဲ႔ တထပ္တည္း ရွိတယ္လို႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။
“သူ႔သေဘာထားက က်မတို႔နဲ႔ ထပ္တူထပ္မွ် ရွိေနပါတယ္။ က်မတုိ႔ ဗမာျပည္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ျပႆနာက စစ္ေရးနဲ႔ ေျဖရွင္းႏုိင္တာ မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနည္းနဲ႔ ေျဖရွင္းမွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ရႏုိင္မယ္ဆုိတဲ့ သူ႔ရဲ႕ သေဘာထားကို က်မတုိ႔ ႀကိဳဆုိတယ္။ က်မတုိ႔က လက္ခံထားမယ္၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ ဗမာျပည္ရဲ႕ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ျပႆနာကိုေတာ့ ဒီလို ၀ုိင္း၀န္းၿပီးေတာ့ တာ၀န္ယူဖို႔ အေရးႀကီးတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ျပည္သူလူထုေတြကလည္း ပါ၀င္ဖို႔အတြက္ က်မ ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။”
ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ထဲမွာတင္ မကဘဲ ၁၉၉၄ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ရယူထားတဲ့ ကခ်င္လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖြဲ႕နဲ႔လည္း မၾကာခင္ လေတြအတြင္း ပစ္ခတ္ တုိက္ခုိက္မႈေတြ ရွိလာခဲ့တာမို႔ တုိင္းရင္းသား ေဒသခံေတြ ဒုကၡမ်ဳိးစုံ ႀကဳံေနရတာပါ။ ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ (KIO) ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး တာ၀န္ခံ ဗုိလ္မွဴးႀကီး ဂ်ိမ္းစ္လြန္ေဒါင္းကေတာ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ လုပ္ႏုိင္ဖို႔အတြက္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကို စၿပီးလုပ္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္သလုိ အခုလို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကုိယ္တုိင္ ပါ၀င္လာတာဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ ေအာင္ျမင္ဖုိ႔အတြက္ လမ္းစပါလုိ႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
“ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအဆင့္ကုိေတာ့ မေျပာပါနဲ႔ဦး၊ နံပါတ္တစ္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲထားရမယ္၊ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲၿပီးမွ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ျပန္ၿပီး ေဆြးေႏြးမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲဒီ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ရမွသာလွ်င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ အစစအရာရာ တဆင့္ၿပီးတဆင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးသြားဖုိ႔ ရွိတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ျပည္တြင္းကသာ မကဘဲ ျပည္ပကနဲ႔ လူတကာက ၀ုိင္းၿပီးေတာ့ သူ႔ကုိ အားထားၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီလို ပုဂၢိဳလ္ဟာ ဒီလိုပါ၀င္တယ္ဆုိရင္ ျပည္တြင္းေရးသာမက ျပည္ပကပါ အာ႐ုံစူးစိုက္မႈကို ဆြဲယူႏုိင္လိမ့္မယ္။ အဲဒီအခါမွာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔အားလုံး သေဘာထား ႀကီးစြာနဲ႔ ၀ုိင္းလုပ္ၾကမယ္ဆုိရင္ ဒီလုပ္ငန္းက ေအာင္ျမင္ႏုိင္တယ္။”
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ လုပ္မယ္ဆုိရင္ တုိင္းရင္းသား အဖြဲ႕အစည္း တဖြဲ႕ခ်င္းစီ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံထဲက တုိင္းရင္းသားအားလုံး ပါ၀င္ၿပီး NLD နဲ႔ အစိုးရ အာဏာပုိင္ ၃ ဖြဲ႕စလုံး ပါ၀င္ၿပီး ေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ လုိအပ္တယ္လို႔လည္း KNU အဖြဲ႕ တာ၀န္ခံ ေဒၚေနာ္စီဖုိးရာစိန္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

Link : http://www.voanews.com/burmese/news/dassk-open-letter-126323348.html

By WAI MOE

In this photo taken on Feb. 12, 2011, Burmese democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, right, greets members of her National League for Democracy during a cerebration to mark the 64th Union Day at its headquarters in Rangoon. (Photo: AP)  
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday that she is ready to become involved in efforts to resolve ongoing armed conflicts between Naypyidaw and ethnic armed groups.

“I am ready to get involved and try to support ceasefire and peace processes with all of my efforts,” Suu Kyi wrote in an open letter to President Thein Sein and leaders of the ethnic armed groups the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), the Karen National Union (KNU), the New Mon State Army (NMSA) and the Shan State Army (SSA).

In the letter, she called for a ceasefire and peaceful solution in the near future to the ongoing conflicts in the interest of “all ethnic people living in the Union of Burma.”

She also said that using force in conflicts only has a bad impact on both sides. She said the military way could not achieve national reconciliation, which could only be reached through  political dialogue.
“If we resolve conflict political through dialogue, we will get real national solidarity, which can guarantee the peace of the Union,” the pro-democracy leader said. “We can develop the nation only when the Union is peaceful and stable.”

Suu Kyi said in the letter that the ongoing armed conflicts in Kachin, Shan, Karen and Mon states between the government army and ethnic armed groups have caused local ethnic populations to suffer and also affected neighboring countries.

The new administration led by President Thein Sein came into office on March 30. However, since then, tensions between Naypyidaw and armed groups in ethnic areas in northern and eastern Burma have intensified, with fresh conflicts breaking out with the KIO and the SSA, two former ceasefire groups.
The ethnic groups mentioned in Suu Kyi’s open letter said they would welcome her involvement in efforts to resolve Burma's ethnic tensions as a positive step toward national reconciliation.

“Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s efforts for peace are a really good move. Not only ethnic armed groups but also all pro-democracy forces in the country want and have long called for a political dialogue to resolve ongoing conflicts,” La Nan, joint-secretary of the KIO, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday, shortly after reading the letter.

Since Suu Kyi is a key political figure in Burma and the country's most internationally recognized figure,  her involvement is ceasefire efforts would be good for all ethnic people, La Nan said, adding the KIO leadership is scheduled to discuss the letter.

Zipporah Sein, general secretary of the KNU, said the group welcomes Suu Kyi’s efforts and concern about the conflicts in ethnic areas, adding that “the KNU takes the same stand that conflicts have to be resolved politically through dialogue.”
“We need peace for the Union. But the prolonged conflicts are caused by dictatorships, not ethnic minorities,” she said.

Nai Hang Thar, the secretary of New Mon State Party, said, “We welcome anyone who wants to work for peace, because that is what we need in this country. If Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is going to work on it, so much the better.”

In responding to Suu Kyi’s readiness to help resolve conflicts in ethnic area, Col Sai Htoo, the assistant secretary general of the Shan State Army, said he would like to thank the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for her efforts.
“However, real peace and stability in the nation depends on the regime’s willingness to achieve them,” Sai Htoo added.

Possible Ceasefire?
Meanwhile, KIO sources have said that the group appears to be moving closer to a ceasefire agreement with the Burmese government.

“According to recent letters from a key government negotiator, including one received today, they [the government] seem to want a ceasefire with Kachin troops as soon as possible,” said La Nan, speaking to The Irrawaddy on Thursday.

“We do not know what kind of dilemmas they are facing, but they seem quite urgent about signing a treaty. But we want a more solid and long-term ceasefire agreement,” he said, adding that the two sides have held talks and exchanged a number of letters in recent days.

He added that Col Than Aung, Kachin State’s minister for security and border affairs, sent a draft ceasefire agreement that now includes a post-ceasefire political dialogue—something that Naypyidaw refused to agree to in the past.

“Previously the government side repeatedly rejected our calls for a nationwide ceasefire, but in the draft agreement we received, the government side acknowledged that a ceasefire in the whole country was needed to achieve a genuine peace,” he added.

He said the KIO wants the government to announce a nationwide ceasefire within 15 days of signing the agreement, and for the ceasefire to come into effect within 48 hours.
Link :   :http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21791


In this June 8, 2011 photo, Burmese refugee children attend their school class in a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Photo: AP)

BANGKOK — While a new refugee swap deal between Australia and Malaysia will offer hope to some of the tens of thousands of Burmese refugees in Malaysia, there are different views on whether the arrangement lives up to international standards.
The “Arrangement on Transfer and Resettlement” was signed in Kuala Lumpur on July 25 by Malaysia's Home Affairs Minister Hishammuddin Hussein and Australia's Immigration and Citizenship Minister Chris Bowen. It will transfer 4,000 refugees in Malaysia to Australia over the next four years, in return for Malaysia taking in 800 asylum-seekers arriving in Australia or interdicted at sea en route to Australia after July 25. Australia will pay for the deal, predicted to cost around US $325million over the current four-year implementation timetable, with Australia already saying the deal could be expanded.
As Burmese nationals make up an estimated 80-90 percent of refugees in Malaysia, the deal offers some hope to the small additional percentage that will benefit from the arrangement over the coming four years.
“We are happy that at least some of the people will get the opportunity to have a new life in Australia,” said Simon Sang Hre, who works with the Chin Refugee Committee in Malaysia, assisting what his organization estimates at 42,000 ethnic Chin refugees from Chin State in Burma, speaking to The Irrawaddy by telephone from Kuala Lumpur.
However, there are mixed feelings about the deal. Latheefa Koya, an adviser to Lawyers for Liberty, a Malaysian NGO, told The Irrawaddy that “the thousands of refugees, mostly Burmese, who have yet to be registered with the UN Refugee Agency cannot benefit.”
Of particular concern are Burmese Rohingya fleeing persecution in western Burma, where they are denied citizenship and consequently cannot register as refugees in Malaysia, adds Latheefa Koya. “This deal is unlikely to benefit the Rohingya in Malaysia,” she said.
According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Malaysia, there are some 94,400 refugees and asylum-seekers registered with the organization. Of these “86,500 are from Myanmar [Burma], comprising some 35,600 Chins, 21,400 Rohingyas, 10,100 Myanmar Muslims, 3,800 Mon, 3,400 Kachins and other ethnicities from Myanmar.” UNCHR says that there are around 10,000 unregistered asylum-seekers or refugees in Malaysia, though some NGOs believe there are tens of thousands of unregistered refugees.
Others have criticized the deal as flawed due to Malaysia's refusal to sign up to international refugee laws. In a statement issued in response to the signing of the Australia-Malaysia deal, Australia's Human Rights Commission President Catherine Branson said that “while the Commission recognized the need for regional and international cooperation on asylum seekers and supported the resettling in Australia of an increased number of refugees,” she was “concerned that Malaysia was not a signatory to the Refugee Convention.”
According to Bill Frelick, refugee program director at Human Rights Watch, the deal should not have been signed, as “the gap in the treatment of refugees and asylum seekers between Australia and Malaysia remains enormous.”
A March 2011 survey of over 1,000 refugees in Malaysia by the Health Equity and Initiatives in March of this year found that 70 percent of the interviewees showed symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress as a result of human trafficking, forced labor and unemployment. 
However, the Australian government claims the deal will not result in any abuses of the 800 to be sent to Malaysia. According to a July 25 press statement by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister Bowen, “The arrangement reaffirms Malaysia's commitment that transferees will be treated with dignity and respect in accordance with human rights standards, that it will respect the principle of non-refoulement, the key tenet of the Refugee Convention, and that asylum claims will be considered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).”
Yante Ismail, a spokesperson for UNHCR Malaysia, told The Irrawaddy on Thursday that “UNHCR assesses that the final Arrangement and its implementing guidelines contain these safeguards, and are workable.”
However, even the positive aspects of the deal are being criticized for potentially creating a two-tier system. Once the 800 arrivals are processed, they will receive benefits that the the 94,400 registered refugees in Malaysia do not get, such as work rights and access to education and health care.
Link:    http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21788

Zin Linn


Harsh conditions are being faced by the Burma Army’s ordinary soldiers and junior officers, especially after the recent decrease of supplies to their family members. The problem has caused several responsible commanding officers to tend resignations, the Shan Herald Agency for News (S.H.A.N.) said.

Among those commanding officers, Lt-Gen Myint Soe, Chief of the Bureau of Special Operations (BSO) ‘1’ also takes part. BSO ‘1’ which composed of more than 200 brigadier-generals and colonels, oversees security in Kachin, Chin and Sagaing regions.
The indirect protest from those military officers has brought “reformist” President Thein Sein and “hardliner” Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo to meet head-on.

Thein Sein had reportedly asked “Naypyitaw”, believed to be the retired Senior General Than Shwe, to suspend all the military campaigns currently being waged in Karen, Shan and Kachin states, to relieve of the pressure before dealing with the problems of the rank and file, according to Shan Herald Agency for News.

According to President Thein Sein, Burma Army troops must be withdrawn away from the headquarters of the ethnic groups. But, Tin Aung Myint Oo thought the military operations, particularly against the Shan State Army (SSA) North, ought to continue and that the problems inside the Army could be resolved after receiving a loan from China.
“We must destroy the groups one after another,” one of the generals supporting Tin Aung Myint Oo’s view was quoted as saying. “And the total control of the SSA areas (west of the Salween) will enable us to defeat the Wa (east of the Salween).”

The United Wa State Army (UWSA) has reportedly ordered all of its frontline units on 24-hour alert along the Salween river, a shared border with its ally the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North’. The UWSA have alerted all of its troops to be ready to defend Wa State, although they do not want war. They will not fire the first shot, said a senior Wa officer.
Throughout these days, several soldiers from Burma Army troops warring with the Shan State Progress Party/ Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) in Shan State South have reportedly been deserting from the battlefields, local sources reported.

The disagreement between “reformist” President Thein Sein and “hardliner” Vice President Tin Aung Myint Oo were so bitter it seemed ‘Naypyitaw’ had become “too small for the two men to live together,” according to the source. “Both sides looked to Than Shwe to stick his oar in, which he did,” source said.  Thein Sein and Tin Aung Myint Oo have to stay in status quo helping unity of the armed forces. By doing so, Than Shwe advised, the unity of the Burma Army, should be maintained at all costs, the source said. The source said it has a document in possession to support his report, According to (S.H.A.N.).
Lt-Gen Yawdserk, leader of the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA), better known as the SSA South, said the report corresponded to the situation on the ground. “Wanhai (the SSA North HQ) was supposed to have been taken last week,” he said. “But so far Burmese troops around Wanhai have not made any significant move.”
At the same time, troops from neighboring townships are being ordered to march toward Kehsi Township in Shan State South. Kehsi is 25 miles southwest of Wanhai.
The SSA South leader said his units had been engaged in ambushes against Burma Army convoys moving to Mongnawng, some 30 miles south of Kehsi, yesterday.

However, this war upon the ethnic population launched by Burma Army generates not only deserters from Burmese military but also victims from Shan villages.
Currently, political activists in Burma have been taking historic risks with a signature-campaign to release political prisoners and to stop the aggressive wars on ethnic people what they say is discrimination by the President Thein Sein government.
Currently, the military-dominated Burmese government and the Kachin rebels are in the process of signing a ceasefire agreement. KIO, a member of the ethnic alliance United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), has offered to stop fighting as a nationwide ceasefire. But Burmese authorities said they would negotiate cease-fire in Kachin State first. Then in accordance with the example of Kachin State, they would try to achieve a cease-fire in other states, La Nang a spokesman for KIO said.

Some political analysts believe releasing over 2,000 political prisoners and stopping the aggressive wars on ethnic people are the most important topics to be addressed by the new ‘Thein Sein government’.

Releasing political prisoners and calling peace to armed ethnic groups would provide evidence to the international community that government is genuine about bringing about political change and embracing real democratic values.
ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ စစ္​ေတြ၊​ သံတြဲ၊​ ​ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ နဲ့​ ​ေက်ာက္နီ​ေမာ္ စတဲ့​ၿမို့​ေတြမွာရွိတဲ့​ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္​ေတြ အရင္က ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ ကန့္​သတ္ခံထား​ရ​ေပမယ့္​ အခု ခရီး​သြား​ခြင့္​ရၿပီလို့​ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္တဦး​က ​ေျပာပါတယ္။

မြတ္စလင္ ဘာသာဝင္​ေတြဟာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား​ စိစစ္​ေရ ကတ္ျပား​ရွိရင္ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ရွိ​ေၾကာင္း​ လူဝင္မႈႀကီး​ၾကပ္​ေရး​ကတဆင့္​ သတင္း​ရတယ္လို့​ သံတြဲၿမို့​ေန မြတ္စလင္တဦး​က ​ေျပာပါတယ္။
“စစ္​ေတြ၊​ ​ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ၊​ ရမ္း​ၿဗဲ၊​ ​ေက်ာက္နီ​ေမာ္၊​ သံတြဲ၊​ အဲဒီ​ေဒသ​ေတြမွာ ရွိတဲ့​ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္ နိုင္ငံသား​ေတြဟာ နိုင္ငံသား​ကတ္ ရွိခဲ့​ရင္ ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ကို လြတ္လပ္စြာ ခရီး​သြား​လာနိုင္တယ္ ဆိုတဲ့​ သတင္း​ကို က်​ေနာ္တို့​ လဝက ဆီက ရတာ​ေပါ့​။ သူတို့​ ဒီ ရက္ ၂၀ ​ေလာက္ကတည္း​က က်​ေနာ္တို့​ ဒီသတင္း​ ရတာပါ။ ဘာျဖစ္လို့​ သြား​လာခြင့္​ ပိတ္တာလဲဆို​ေတာ့​ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ စာတင္ထား​တာ​ေတြ ရွိတယ္ဗ် ဥပ​ေဒ​ေၾကာင္း​အရ​ေလ ဒီအစိုး​ရအ​ေပၚမွာ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ နိ္ဳင္ငံသား​ အခြင့္​အ​ေရး​ေတြ ဆံုး​ရွံဳး​ေနမႈအ​ေပၚမွာ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ ၂၀၀၈ ဖြဲ့​စည္း​ပံုအရ နိုင္ငံသား​ရဲ့​ ခံစား​ခြင့္​ေတြ ရရွိဖို့​၊​ ပညာသင္ၾကား​ခြင့္​ေတြ ရရွိဖို့​၊​ က်န္း​မာ​ေရး​ေဆး​ကုသခြင့္​ေတြ ရရွိဖို့​ ဆိုတဲ့​ ဥပ​ေဒ​ေတြ က်​ေနာ္တို့​က ​ေထာက္ျပၿပီး​ေတာ့​ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ စာတင္ခဲ့​ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ သူတို့​ စဉ္စား​တယ္လို့​လည္း​ က်​ေနာ္တို့​က သံုး​သပ္မိတယ္​ေပါ့​။”

ရခိုင္ျပည္မွာ ​ေနထိုင္တဲ့​ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္​ေတြဟာ အရင္က ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ ပိတ္ပင္ကန့္​သတ္ခံထား​ရၿပီး​ ခရီး​သြား​ရင္ ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ ပံုစံ ၄ကို သက္ဆိုင္ရာဆီမွာ သြား​ယူ​ေနၾကရတာပါ။
နိုင္ငံျခား​ သား​ေတြ၊​ ဧည့္​နိုင္ငံသား​ေတြ ပံုစံ ၄ ယူရသလို ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား​စိစစ္ ​ေရး​ကတ္ျပား​ ကိုင္​ေဆာင္ထား​သူ​ေတြပါ ပံုစံ ၄ ကို ယူၿပီး​မွ ခရီး​သြား​ခြင့္​ရပါတယ္။ အခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလအတြင္း​မွာ​ေတာ့​ ခရီး​သြား​လာခြင့္​ပံုစံ မထုတ္​ေပး​ေတာ့​ပါဘူး​။

ခရီး​သြား​ လာခြင့္​ပိတ္ပင္ခံထား​ရမႈ​ေၾကာင့္​ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္​ေတြဟာ စီး​ပြား​ေရး​က်ပ္တည္း​ၿပီး​ စား​ဝတ္​ေနရ​ေရး​အခက္အခဲနဲ့​ ၾကံု​ေတြ႕​ခဲ့​ရပါတယ္။

နိုင္ငံသား​တ​ေယာက္အ​ေနနဲ့​ လြတ္လပ္စြာသြား​လာခြင့္​ရတဲ့​အတြက္ ဝမ္း​သာ​ေၾကာင္း​ သံတြဲၿမို့​ခံ မြတ္စလင္တဦး​က ​ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ဝမ္း​သာတာ​ ေပါ့​ဗ်ာ။ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ ​ေလာက္ က်​ေနာ္တို့​မွာ က်န္း​မာ​ေရး​၊​ စီး​ပြား​ေရး​၊​ လူမႈ​ေရး​၊​ ပညာ​ေရး​ အရမ္း​ကို က်ပ္တည္း​ခဲ့​တယ္​ေလ။ ဒီအ​ေနအထား​မွာ ဒီ နိုင္ငံ​ေတာ္က က်​ေနာ္တို့​ရဲ့​ ခံစား​ခ်က္​ေတြကိ္ဳ သူတို့​ စာနာ​ေထာက္ထား​ၿပီး​ေတာ့​ ဒီလိုမ်ိဳး​ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ကို နိုင္ငံသား​အျဖစ္ အသိအမွတ္ျပုၿပီး​ေတာ့​ နိ္ဳင္ငံသား​အခြင့္​အ​ေရး​ မဆံုး​ရွံဳး​ေအာင္ အသိအမွတ္ျပုတာကို က်​ေနာ္တို့​အ​ေနနဲ့​ အမ်ား​ႀကီး​ ဝမ္း​သာတာ​ေပါ့​။ ဒီဟာ​ေတြကိုလည္း​ ​ေနာက္ထပ္ ဆံုး​ရွံဳး​မႈ​ေတြ မျဖစ္​ေအာင္ က်​ေနာ္တို့​ဘက္က နိုင္ငံသား​ေကာင္း​ ပီပီ နိ္ဳင္ငံတာဝန္ကို ​ေက်ပြန္စြာနဲ့​ ​ေနထိုင္သြား​ဖို့​လည္း​ အ​ေရး​ႀကီး​ပါတယ္။”

ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ဘက္ မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္​ေတြ အခုလို လြတ္လပ္စြာ သြား​လာခြင့္​ရ​ေန​ေပမယ့္​ မနၲ​ေလး​တိုင္း​ မိတၲိလာၿမို့​ဘက္က မြတ္စလင္ဘာသာဝင္ ​ေတြက​ေတာ့​ ၿပီး​ခဲ့​တဲ့​ ရက္ပိုင္း​ကပဲ သူတို့​ရဲ့​ ဘာသာဝင္သျဂႌုင္း​ ဖ်က္ဆီး​ခံရတဲ့​အတြက္ ရုန္း​ရင္း​ဆန္ခတ္္မႈ ျဖစ္ပြား​ခဲ့​ပါတယ္။ အခင္း​ျဖစ္ခ်ိန္ အာဏာပိုင္​ေတြ​ေရာက္လာၿပီး​ ​ေျဖရွင္​ေပး​ခဲ့​သလို အ​ေစာင့္​အၾကပ္​ေတြလည္း​ ခ်ထား​ပါတယ္။

Link: http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/13365
Karlis Salna, AAP South-East Asia Correspondent


Muhammad Rafique can't deny his hopes have been boosted by the Malaysia deal, but tears well up in his eyes as he explains that 15 years as a refugee have taught him not to be so foolish as to trust such feelings.
On the walls inside the squalid shack where he lives with his wife and young child are a map of Burma and a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The 34-year-old, an ethnic Rohingya who arrived in Malaysia from Burma when he was 19, is desperate to know whether he and his family might be among the 4000 refugees that will be resettled in Australia.
Under the deal signed in Kuala Lumpur on Monday, Australia will resettle 1000 bona-fide refugees a year over four years, in exchange for Malaysia taking the next 800 asylum seekers that arrive in Australia by boat.
But Rafique and his family are just three among more than 90,000 refugees in Malaysia.
"I want to go to Australia with my family. I hope to have a chance to go to Australia," he said.
It's obvious when he speaks that he sees their chances as bleak.
His English is poor and, having been a refugee for his entire adult life, Rafique has no skills.
He believes his chances are even poorer because the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which will have input into who makes it into the 4000, "doesn't like to send Muslim people to Australia".
"I am worried the UNHCR don't want to pick me and my family. I fear the UNHCR will not want to listen to me."
Unlike the 800 asylum seekers that will be transferred from Australia, Rafique has no rights to work or access to education.
He has little access to health care, and like many of the refugees waiting in a long queue in Malaysia, Rafique suffers from anxiety and depression brought on by the parlous life he and his family live, and their uncertain future.
A study by the non-government organisation, Health Equity and Initiatives (HEI), in March this year found that 70 per cent of asylum seekers and refugees in Malaysia suffered symptoms of anxiety, depression and stress as a result of human trafficking, forced labour and unemployment.
Xavier Pereira, the director of HEI, said the figure was three times higher than in any normal population.
"Both men and women are equally affected, especially those who are unemployed, involved in human trafficking and forced labour," he said.
The level of anxiety was much higher among those who were yet to be granted refugee status, according to the study of 1074 asylum seekers and refugees, aged between 18 to 70 years.
Rafique has been ripped off by agents that have promised to help with resettlement in another country, and he admits to having paid a people smuggler in a failed attempt to make it to Australia on a boat.
He cannot return to Burma, according to Amnesty International, because as he is from the Rohingya minority, the Burmese authorities would refuse to grant him citizenship, rendering him stateless.
In Burma, he would suffer from systematic persecution, including forced labour, forced eviction, land confiscation, and severe restrictions on freedom of movement.
He says he will now do the right thing and wait, and hope for a chance of resettlement in Australia.
But he says others will still pay people smugglers and get on the boats in a perilous crossing to Australia, despite the deal with Malaysia meaning that within 72 hours, they will be sent back.
"They will still go, whatever chance they have, they must try to go, even if it means they go to the back of the queue," Rafique said.

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ၿပီးတဲ့ရက္သတၱပတ္ၾသစေၾတးလ်အေနာက္ျခမ္းထုတ္TheWeekendWestသတင္းစာမွာ  ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္တည္ေထာင္သူမစၥတာ ေရာ့စ္ ဒန္ကေလကိုၾသစေၾတးလ်နိုင္ငံ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိေနတုန္းသတင္းေထာက္MalcolmQuekettက ေမးျမန္းေရးသားထားတဲ့ သတင္းတပုဒ္ပါ။

သူဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ေထာင္ဒဏ္တလက်ခံခဲ့ၿပီး အခု ၾသစေၾတလ်အေနာက္ျခမ္းမွာ အားလပ္ရက္အျဖစ္ အလည္ျပန္ေရာက္ေနတာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔သိရတယ္။ေထာင္ထဲမွာေနစဥ္ညဖက္အိပ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ေျခေထာက္လွိမ့္စရာ ေနရာေလာက္သာရွိၿပီး.. တေန႔ကို(၈)နာရီခန္႔(၂)ႀကိမ္သာအျပင္ဖက္လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခြင့္ရခဲ့တယ္။၄၇ရက္ၾကာ ေထာင္က်ရက္ရဲ႕တ၀က္ခန္႔မွာ ေဆး႐ံုေဆာင္ကို ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ၿပီး အဲဒီမွာ ျပင္းထန္တဲ့ ေအအိုင္ဒီအက္စ္ေ၀ဒနာရွင္တခ်ဳိ႕အပါအ၀င္လူေပါင္း၆၀ခန္႔ရွိသည္ဟု ေထာင္အေတြ႕အၾကံဳတခ်ိဳ႕ကို ေျပာဆိုထားေလသည္။




ဒန္ကေလ ရဲ႕ ေျပာဆို ခ်က္ အရ.. ျပီးခဲ့တဲ့ နွစ္ ပိုင္းမ်ား ကတည္းက.. ဗမာ ရဲ မ်ားက..သူ႕ကို ေစာင့္ ၾကည့္ ေနခဲ့ ျပီး.. သူ႕ကို ဗမာျပည္ထဲက.. ေမာင္းထုတ္ဖို႕ ၾကံစည္ တဲ့..ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ ထဲ မွာ.. မွားယြင္းျပီး..သူ က် ခဲ့ ရတယ္ လို႕ ဆို သည္။ အစိုးရ အတြင္းပိုင္း လူတခ်ိဳ႕က..က်ေနာ့္ကို.. အစိုးရ ဆန္႕က်င္သူ လို႕ ယံုၾကည္ ေနၾကတာ ေတြ ရွိတယ္..တကယ္ေတာ့..မဟုတ္ပါဘူးဟု ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။

သူ ကံဳေတြ႕ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္နဲ႔ပတ္သတ္လို႔ ေျပာျပတာေတြကေတာ့ ဇန္န၀ါရီလမွာ ကလပ္တခုကိုအသြား အမ်ိဳးသမီးတေယာက္က ခ်ည္းကပ္လာခဲ့တယ္။ သူက ျငင္းဆိုခဲ့ေပမဲ့.. အမ်ဳိးသမီးက သူ႕ေနာက္ကိုအတင္းလိုက္လာခဲ့ၿပီး ေနာက္ဆံုး သူ႔အခန္းထဲထိ ပါလာခဲ့တယ္။ ၁၅ မိနစ္ေလာက္အၾကာမွာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးရဲ႕အျပဳအမူေတြေၾကာင့္ မူးယစ္ေဆးသံုးစြဲထားတာကို သတိျပဳမိတဲ့အတြက္ တကၠစီနဲ႔ျပန္ဖို႔ လိုက္ ပို႔ခဲ့တယ္။ လမ္းမွာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးက ကားထဲကေန ခုန္ထြက္သြားတယ္။ သူလည္း အိမ္ကိုျပန္လာခဲ့ၿပီး နာရီအနည္းငယ္အၾကာမွာ အဲဒီ အမ်ိဳးသမီးနဲ႔အတူ ရဲေတြေရာက္လာေတာ့တာပါပဲလို႔ ဆိုသည္။

အမ်ဳိးသမီးက က်ေနာ္ သူ႔လည္ပင္းကို ညႇစ္တယ္လို႔ဆိုတယ္။ တရားခြင္မွာလည္း ဆရာ၀န္က ဘာသက္ေသအမွတ္အသားမွ မေတြ႕ ေၾကာင္း ထြက္ဆိုသြားတယ္။ က်ေနာ္လည္း ဘာမွမလုပ္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ တကယ္ေတာ့ နိုင္ငံေရးကစားပြဲေတြ စလာတာပါပဲ။ သူတို႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကို ကယ္ဖို႔ က်ေနာ့္ကို ထိုးေကြၽးတာပါ။ ဒါေတြအားလံုးဟာ အစိုးရအတြင္းကလူေတြရဲ႕က်ားကြက္ေတြပါပဲ။ သူတို႔ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္က က်ေနာ့္ ကို လမ္းေပၚက ေမာင္းထုတ္ဖို႔ပဲ။ သူတို႔ျဖစ္ေစခ်င္တာက ဒီသတင္းလုပ္ငန္းကိုညႇစ္ယူၿပီး သူတို႔အားလံုး ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထားလိုက္ခ်င္တာပဲ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတို႔မေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့ပါဘူးလို႔ ဒန္ကေလက သတင္းစာကို ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။ သူ႕ရဲ႕အသနားခံစာကိုလည္း လက္ခံလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ယံုၾကည္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

ခင္ဗ်ား ဘာမွ အမွားမလုပ္ခဲ့ပဲ ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ဆင္ခံခဲ့ရတယ္ဆိုရင္ ဘယ္လိုမဆို အဆံုးမေတာ့ အမွန္တရားက ေပၚလာမွာပါပဲလို႔ ေနာက္ ဆံုးမွတ္ခ်က္ေပးခဲ့ၿပီး ဗမာျပည္မွ ဒီေရျမင့္တက္လာေနတယ္လို႔ ခံစားခဲ့ရမိတယ္။ အေႏွးနဲ႔အျမန္ဆိုသလို လြတ္လပ္တဲ့သတင္းမီဒီယာ ေတြ ေပၚလာမွာပါလို႔လည္း အေကာင္းျမင္သံုးသပ္ထားေလသည္။

ျဖစ္ပ်က္ခဲ့တဲ့ အမူကိစၥအားလံုးမွာ.. ေဒၚလာ ၂ သိန္း ၅ ေသာင္းကုန္က်ခဲ့ေပမယ့္ သူနာက်ည္းမႈမျဖစ္ပါဘူး။ ဒါဟာ ကစားပြဲတခုပါပဲလို႔ ဗမာအစိုးရကို စိမ္ေခၚလိုက္သည္။

Credit - Moe Ma ka
Myanmar has become the No. 1 source of Web attack traffic worldwide as the Asian country makes its debut in a cyberthreat index covering the first quarter of 2011, according to new report.

Released Wednesday, the latest edition of Akamai's quarterly "State of the Internet report" noted that Myanmar's sudden appearance at the top of the chart was "certainly unusual". This was the first time the country placed in the ranking, which has a four-year history, noted the content network delivery provider. It added that the attacks from Myanmar seemed related to attack traffic in late-February and early-March which targeted port 80.

According to Akamai, Myanmar accounted for 13 percent of the observed attack traffic despite only targeting 25 unique ports, among which 45 percent of the attack were targeted at port 80. In contrast, the United States--ranked No. 2--accounted for 10 percent of attack traffic with tens of thousands of targeted ports. Attack activities from the U.S. were strongly indicative of general port scanning and not specifically-targeted attacks, said the company.
Compared to the previous quarter, Taiwan dropped one rank to No. 3, accounting for 9.1 percent of global attack traffic. Other Asia-Pacific economies in the top 10 chart were China at No.5 with 6.4 percent, India at No.7 with 3.8 percent, and Hong Kong at No. 8 with 3.3 percent.

At the continental level, the Asia-Pacific region accounted for nearly half of the observed attack traffic worldwide, said Akamai.

In the top 10 ranking for attacks from mobile networks, two Asia-Pacific markets made it to the charts with Malaysia at No. 3 with 7.7 percent of traffic, while Australia ranked in at No. 4 with 7.2 percent.

Akamai noted that the attacks from mobile networks were likely from infected PC-type clients connected to wireless networks using mobile broadband technologies, and not by infected smartphones or similar mobile-connected devices.

Aside from Web attacks, the report also ranked countries with the fastest Internet connection. Similar to last quarter, South Korea, Hong Kong and Japan remained the top 3 fastest countries, and were the only three Asian economies to make the top 10 list.







(Photo:ScreeshotfromCNNfootage)ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကရိုဟင္ဂ်ာဒုကၡသည္ေတြအေရးနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီးၾကားနာပြဲတစ္ရပ္ကိုမေန႔ကအေမရိကန္ကြန္ဂရက္စ္္လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကာ္မရွင္ေရွ႕ေမွာက္မွာက်င္းပခဲ့ရာမွာ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတဲ့ US Campaign For Burma အဖြဲ႕ရဲ႕ ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴးတစ္ဦးျဖစ္သူ Jennifer Quigley က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ အေၾကာင္း တင္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။

႐ိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဒုကၡသည္ေလွမ်ားအား ထိုင္းေရတပ္က ပင္လယ္ျပင္ထဲသို႔ ျပန္ပို႔ခဲ့ပံုအေၾကာင္း CNN ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား သတင္းဌာနက ရုိက္ကူးျပသခဲ့သည့္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ ဗီဒီယုိကို Amnesty International အဖြဲ႔က ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ အတြက္ သတင္းမီဒီယာဆု ခ်ီးျမင့္ခဲ့ပါသည္။


ၾကားနာပြဲမွာ Ms. Quigley က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ႕ လက္ရွိ အေျခအေန၊ ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရရဲ႕ ဖိႏွိပ္ခံရမႈ သမိုင္းေၾကာင္း ေတြကို တင္ျပခဲ့ျပီး ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ႕ အေျခအေန အေၾကာင္း သတင္း အခ်က္အလက္ေတြ ရယူရာမွာ ေအာက္ေျခပိုင္း အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြရဲ႕ အသံုး၀င္ပံုေတြကိုလည္း တင္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါ့အျပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ တျခား တိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးစုေတြဟာလည္း စစ္အစိုးရရဲ႕ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈက မလြတ္ကင္းၾကပါဘူး၊ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရး နဲ႔ စီးပြားေရး စီမံကိန္းေတြရွိတဲ့ ေနရာေတြမွာ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈ ပိုျပီး တိုးမ်ားတဲ့ အေျခအေနေတြ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္လို႔ သူက ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။
By acorcoran

I was interested in this story—Nashua, NH fretting about whether it would get more refugees if Manchester gets a moratorium—anyway. But, then I note that we are quietly resettling Rohingya refugees in New Hampshire.

For years I followed the story of Rohingya Muslim refugees leaving Burma and it interested me because for years the US State Department resisted the pressure from NGOs to resettle them here. (The Rohingya are also among the illegal aliens trying to get into Thailand and Australia). But, at some point in 2010 we started resettling Rohingya in American towns and cities and so I gave up posting much on them—it was kind of hopeless.

BTW, here is one of 98 posts I’ve written on Rohingya in a special category entitled Rohingya Reports. It is a post from April 2010 about how the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI) was pushing hard to add Rohingya to their collection of ethnic groups to add diversity to your town! If anyone in New Hampshire wants to know more about Rohingya, just read through those 98 posts going back to 2007.
USCRI is the federal contractor that subcontracts the International Institute of New Hampshire. operating in Manchester. Incidentally, another USCRI subcontractor was closed by the US State Department in Waterbury, CT after a real (honest to goodness) investigative reporter found the refugees living in squalor and dared to write a series of articles about it.

Lutheran Social Services is a competing contractor. If Manchester gets a moratorium, presumably Lutheran Social Services will get the job (and the per head payment!) since they must control the Nashua turf.

So that is some of the background, now here is the story from the Nashua Telegraph from last week:

As Manchester city officials attempt to put a halt on new refugees being placed in the city, it’s unknown what the impact would be on Nashua if the moratorium were granted.

Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of State requesting a two-year moratorium on new refugees being resettled in the city.

The state’s largest city has been the primary resettlement location for refugees in New Hampshire. Between 2002 and 2009, Manchester received 1,807 of the state’s 2,966 new refugees, or roughly 60 percent.

By comparison, Nashua, the state’s second-largest city, received only 70 refugees during that same period, much fewer than Concord and Laconia, which received 778 and 260, respectively.

The most recent group of refugees to come to Nashua were roughly a dozen Rohingya people, seeking refuge from the Burmese government. More are expect to be resettled in Nashua in the coming year.

Amy Marchildon, who oversees refugee resettlement in New Hampshire for Lutheran Social Services, said Nashua is in line to receive another 50 to 70 Rohingya refugees over the next year, but there’s no way to know for sure whether those numbers will pan out.

I wonder why the states cower so and don’t just tell the US State Department NO! Or, at least do what Tennessee has done and start to take more local goverment control of refugee resettlement.
 By Htun Aung Kyaw

Burmese opposition leader ASSK and the Burmese regime’s minister Aung Kyi met for the first time when the so called newly elected democratic regime took over power on July 25, 2011 at noon time in the government guest house. Both parties said the meeting was satisfactory and they are willing to cooperate together for the betterment of the Burmese people in future. After the meeting NLD party made a press conference and laid out three points that both parties agreed on.

1. Emergence of the rule of law.

2. Narrow the gap of mistrust.

3. Work for the betterment of the people.

Emergence of the rule of law

It all depends on the regime court. The regime needs to respect the law that has been written on their one sided 2008 constitution. We need to see how they respect their own law, which heavily favors the military's ability to maintain the upper hand in any interaction with civilians. Even though the constitution was one sided, it supposedly allows citizens to form independent organizations such as labor unions, peasant associations, student unions, and so forth. After the new government's 100 days in power, those organizations still cannot legally exist, nor are they allowed to form in Burma, even after some lawyers and activists tried to form them. 88 Generation leaders who demonstrated against the high consumer prices were put behind bars and are serving 65 year prison term for their believe in good governance. In addition, those people were not recognized as political prisoners, and instead were marked as criminals. Freedom of speech, freedom of organization, and freedom of publishing are still denied. Those issues need to be solved by the regime alone, and not NLD. The regime need to show it has higher tolerance level than the previous regime.

Narrow the gap of mistrust.

The first way for the regime to build trust is to release political prisoners unconditionally without delay. Then ease the ban on internet, publications, freedom of speech, and open the public forum to listen to the voice of various classes. Let them speak what they want it, and hear it without threat. The government officials need to go to the field and open up to the public as people’s servants, not as power hungry bullies. If some government officials break the law or are using his/her authority to commit a crime, put him/her in jail without hesitation and prove that rule of law exists. Allow the NLD party to organize as they wish if they did not break any laws. Recognize NLD as a political party and stop harassing its members throughout the country. NLD members whose properties were nationalized need reimbursement from the government. Allow Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD leaders to make tours throughout the country without harassment, allow the foreign aid to NGOs and political parties including USDA if the aid was for them. Start working together and helping, not only with the NLD party, but also with other political parties to help cyclone victims and patients who cannot afford to buy medicines. Stop attacking ethnic national areas and start a dialogue together with the help from NLD party to cease bloodshed. If the regime has the guts to do that, mistrust will change and see the government as a trust worthy partner not as an enemy.

Work for the betterment of the people.

No forced labor, no extra-judicial killings, no favoritism, cronyism, or monopoly in the business sector, and most importantly, creation of an independent judicial system which has full power to investigate the president, if he did wrong, are necessary for the betterment of the people. The emergence of independent newspapers, which can publish any news if the facts are correct, should be encouraged. Publishers should also be guaranteed from prosecution for publishing the truth, even if government officials are involved in the crime. Please help and support the NGOs with their social work for people in need, and more to the point, please fund them if necessary. Building schools and hospitals instead of buying tanks and jet fighters. Use 10% to 20% percent of GNP for education and health and reduce defense spending to 20-25% percent.

Htun Aung Gyaw
email :hag2cornell@yahoo.com


ဂိုးလ္ဒင္န္းမြန္းျမန္မာရုပ္/သံ​မွ ၁၉၈၈ အေရးေတာ္ပံုနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့စကားဝို​င္း အပိုင္း(၁)








ဂိုးလ္ဒင္န္းမြန္းျမန္မာရုပ္/သံ​မွ ၁၉၈၈ အေရးေတာ္ပံုနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့စကားဝို​င္း အပိုင္း(၂)






ဆလိုုင္းကိုုကိုုဦး၊ ေဒါက္တာသီဟ၊ ဦးစိုုးခ်ိန္၊ ကိုုမ်ိဳးျမင့္တုိ႕က ၁၉၈၈ (၈၈၈၈)အေရးေတာ္ပံု ၂၃ႏွစ္ေျမာက္အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့စကား၀ိုင္းပါ
Credit : Golden Moon TV (ျမန္မာ ရုုပ္သံအစီအစဥ္)
Salai Han Thar San
New Delhi (Mizzima) – A construction company in Meiktila bulldozed a 100-year-old Muslim cemetery on Monday, knocking down walls and tombstones before residents forced the company to stop, sources said.


Apparently, plans to bulldoze the cemetery have been longstanding. In 2008 and in March and May 2011, Islamic religious leaders reportedly sent letters to the authorities, urging them not to bulldoze the cemetery, but the authorities did not reply, sources said.
 
 At around 2 a.m. on Monday, three bulldozers from the Myanmar Sane Lan So Pyay Yay Company entered the old cemetery in the Aungzayyar Quarter and began bulldozing before residents could object. 

“The area of the cemetery is about 8.5 acres. Now, about four acres have been bulldozed. The bulldozers knocked down stone walls and brick tombs,” a resident said.
 
During the uproar that followed, the district and township head arrived and the company stopped bulldozing.


  
The company said in a meeting held in the Township Administrative Office on Thursday that it had bought the land and would bulldoze the land, said a source who attended the meeting.
  
Muslims in Meiktila held an emergency meeting on Monday and prepared to file a lawsuit against the company.

Since 2001, the cemetery has not been used and Muslims have been buried in Myintawkan, six miles from Meiktila.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today welcomed a meeting between Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and a Myanmar Government minister, and urged the Government to consider release of political prisoners, according to a statement issued by a spokesperson.
“The Secretary-General welcomes the meeting today in Yangon between Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Minister for Social Welfare U Aung Kyi,” it said. “He notes that the parties have expressed satisfaction at their positive talks and their intention to cooperate further on matters beneficial to the people of Myanmar.”



“In line with the international community’s expectations and Myanmar’s national interest, the Secretary-General hopes such efforts will continue with a view to building mutual understanding through genuine dialogue. He also calls upon the Government of Myanmar to consider early action on the release of political prisoners in that country,” it said.

Vijay Nambiar, the Secretary-General’s Special Adviser for Myanmar, visited the country earlier in the year, spoke with Government officials, met with Ms. Suu Kyi and reported to the security council that although he welcomed some recent releases of political prisoners, he “reiterated the UN’s call for the urgent release of all political prisoners,” a UN spokesperson said at the time.

While the initial sentence reductions and resulting release of some political prisoners is a small step in the right direction, it has been short of expectation and is insufficient, he said.
Last month Ms. Suu Kyi called on the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) to expand its activities in Myanmar and help promote social justice there.

In a video message to the International Labour Conference of the ILO in Geneva she said: “In its attempt to eliminate forced labour and the recruitment of child soldiers, the ILO has inevitably been drawn into work related to rule of law, prisoners of conscience and freedom of association.”
Ms. Suu Kyi, an opposition leader put under house arrest for almost 15 years, was released on 13 November last year.
Source : UN Center

Source : VOA Burmese
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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးအၿပီး သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားအား ရွင္းလင္း ေျပာၾကားေနစဥ္။ ဇူလုိင္ ၂၅၊ ၂၀၁၁။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးအၿပီး သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားအား ရွင္းလင္း ေျပာၾကားေနစဥ္။
အစိုးရသစ္လက္ထက္မွာ အစိုးရ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္နဲ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈကေန ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ ျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ဖို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္တယ္လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ တနလၤာေန႔က ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့တဲ့ အလုပ္သမား၊ လူမႈဖူလံုေရးနဲ႔ ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားေရး ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္ကလည္း ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြမွာ အမ်ားျပည္သူ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ေစမယ့္ ကိစၥေတြ ပါပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ တနလၤာေန႔က အစိုးရ ဧည့္ေဂဟာမွာ ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုအၿပီး အခုလို သူတို႔ ၂ ေယာက္က သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ေတြ႕ဆံု ေျပာၾကားခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အခုလို ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈကို ကုလသမဂၢက ႀကိဳဆိုလိုက္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္ေပးေရးကို ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ မစုျမတ္မြန္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။

“စစ္မွန္ေသာ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈက တဆင့္ အျပန္အလွန္ နားလည္မႈ တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ေရး အျမင္နဲ႔ အခုလို အားထုတ္မႈကို ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းရဲ႕ လိုလားခ်က္ရယ္၊ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ အက်ဳိးရယ္ကို ေရွ႕႐ႈၿပီး ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ေမွ်ာ္လင့္တယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို ေစာလွ်င္စြာ လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ကိုလည္း အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္က ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။” တနလၤာေန႔ ကုလသမဂၢ ႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္မွာလုပ္တဲ့ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္း (Ban Ki-moon) ရဲ႕ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ မာတင္ နီစာကီ (Martin Nesirky) ေျပာသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုေျခလွမ္းမ်ဳိးဟာ အေမရိကန္ အစိုးရက ျမင္လိုတဲ့ ေျခလွမ္းေတြ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္လို႔လည္း အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ ဗစ္တုိးရီးယား ႏူလန္ (Victoria Nuland) က တနလၤာေန႔ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တနလၤာေန႔က ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲအၿပီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔အတူ သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျပာခဲ့တာမွာလည္း ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈေတြကေန တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ဳိးရွိတဲ့ ရလဒ္ေတြ ရလာဖို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္တယ္လို႔ အခုလို ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “က်မတို႔ကလည္း တုိင္းျပည္အတြက္ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ေစမယ့္ ရလဒ္ကုိပဲ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။ ဘာပဲလုပ္လုပ္၊ ဘာစကားပဲေျပာေျပာ၊ ဘယ္သူနဲ႔ပဲေတြ႕ေတြ႕ က်မတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားကို အက်ဳိးျပဳဖို႔ပါပဲ။ အဲဒါကုိလည္း က်မတုိ႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါတယ္။” အရင္ စစ္အစိုးရ လက္ထက္က စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ၾကားမွာ ဆက္ဆံေရး အရာရွိအျဖစ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့ရတဲ့ ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တုိ႔ အရင္က ၉ ႀကိမ္ေလာက္ကို ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ဖူးပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ဒီေတြ႕ဆံုမႈေတြကေန စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္တဲ့ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့ အဆင့္ကို မေရာက္ခဲ့ပါဘူး။ တနလၤာေန႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုပြဲမွာေတာ့ ၂ ဘက္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္တဲ့ ကိစၥေတြကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္လို႔ ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္က ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို သတင္းေထာက္ေတြကို အခုလို ဖတ္ျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “ႏွစ္ဘက္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္မည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ထုိသို႔ ေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ တရားဥပေဒ စုိးမုိးေရးကိစၥ၊ စိတ္၀မ္းကြဲျပားမႈ ပေပ်ာက္ေရး ကိစၥႏွင့္ အမ်ားျပည္သူ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ထြန္းေစမည့္ ကိစၥတုိ႔လည္း အပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သင့္ေလ်ာ္ေသာရက္တြင္ ထပ္မံ ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ကုိလည္း သေဘာတူညီၾကပါသည္။”


 ျမန္မာအစိုးရဘက္က ဘယ္လို ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မ်ဳိးနဲ႔ပဲ အခုလို အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို ေတြ႕ေတြ႕ တကယ္ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ လုပ္ခ်င္တယ္ဆိုတာ ျပသဖို႔ လိုတယ္လို႔ NCGUB ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ဳိးသား ၫြန္႔ေပါင္းအစိုးရရဲ႕ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ တေယာက္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးဇင္လင္းက ဗီြအိုေအကို အခုလို ေျပာပါတယ္။ “အစိုးရသစ္ဟာ တကယ္ပဲ ဒီမိုကေရစီလမ္းကို သြားေနတယ္ဆိုရင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို လႊတ္ေပးရပါမယ္၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား အဖဲြ႕ေတြအေပၚ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈေတြကို ရပ္ရပါမယ္။ ဥပေဒမဲ့ တိုင္းျပည္လို ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ တရားဥပေဒ စိုးမိုးေရး စနစ္ကို ျပင္ဆင္ရပါမယ္။” NCGUB အေဝးေရာက္ အစိုးရ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ တေယာက္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ဦးဇင္လင္း ေျပာျပခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အရင္က ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ တိုးတက္မႈေတြကို ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိတဲ့အတြက္ အခုတခါ ထပ္ၿပီး ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈေတြ လုပ္လာတာကေန အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ထြန္းပါ့မလားလို႔ ေမးခြန္းေတြ ရွိေနေပမဲ့ အခုလို အစိုးရ တာဝန္ရွိသူ တေယာက္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာ့ အတိုက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တို႔ၾကား ေတြ႕ဆံုမႈကေန ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ တခုခု တိုးတက္လာေလမလားလို႔လည္း ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾကပါတယ္။

y 26, 2011  zarny win  3 comments

By IINA–

CHITTAGONG (Bangladesh), Shaaban 23/July 24 (IINA)-Rohingyas inside Burma and abroad welcome the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) resolution number 4/38-MM “On the situation of the Muslim community in Burma” from the 38th Session of Council Foreign Ministers which was held from June 28-30, 2011, in the Astana Republic of Kazakhstan, according to a politician from inside Arakan who declined to be named.


The OIC adopted the following resolutions regarding the situation of the Muslim community in Burma: Calls on Member States to extend all possible forms of support and assistance to Burmese Muslims, and particularly to those among them living as refugees outside their homeland; Calls upon on the government of Burma to put an end to operations of displacement, expulsion, and exile of Rohingya Muslims, and to the continued attempt to eradicate their Islamic Culture and Identity, and urges government authorities to respect the text on international legitimacy of human rights; Expresses deep concern over the continued monumental violations of the rights of Rohingya Muslims in the Arakan region of Burma, and requests the Secretary General to continue his efforts to end these practices in coordination with the international community together with international and regional organizations, and continue those efforts in the context of dialogue, reconciliation and coordination among Islamic organizations in Burma.
The Rohingya community is pleased by the news, and would like to give heartfelt thanks to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation members of the Council Foreign Ministers for these significant resolutions on Burmese Muslims, particularly highlighting Rohingya ethnic issues, said a Rohingya leader on condition of anonymity.
The OIC Secretary General, H.E. Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, gave a remarkable speech about Rohingya to the 38th session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, as ‘the plight of Muslims in Myanmar figures high on our Muslim minorities agenda’. Indeed, a convention was held at the OIC General Secretariat last May with the participation of senior leaders representing many Rohingya Associations. The convention reached a consensual and milestone agreement to set up the Arakan Rohingya Union (ARU), which pools together 25 associations that will collaboratively seek a political solution to the problems faced by the Rohingya people.
At present, the Rohingya community is faced with many kinds of persecution by the authorities of the present government, such as arbitrary arrest and torture, and extortion of money which puts the Rohingya community in extreme poverty, said an ex-village chairman from Buthidaung Township who prefers not to be named.
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By ASN,
Credit : The Sail
Ruler of Burma is expressible as 100 times worse than what the Kadafi of Libya. Yet, no mechanism can force the dictator to abide by domestic or intl norms and the system routed a threat to intl peace and security. UN has to truly act to bring democratic changes in Burma. At least UN must achieve to halt military regime’s brutalities. As well as failure occurred in taking action. It shows the UN’s system is not acted according its roles.

However, the world has well escalated its counter terrorisms against civilians from year;
In 1962, Ne Win over throw the U Nu government, dismissed parliament and arrested members of government and ethnic leaders.

  • On 7th July 1962, military broke-up students demonstration by bombing at Rangon university and killings 15 students.
  • In Dec 1974, killing 100 students in relating to UN former secretary U Thant funeral uprising.
  • In 1975, 1976, 1977, killings in student protests.
  • In 1967, killings 400 activists in the rice agitation protest for starvation in Akyab, Arakan state.
  • In 1970, adoption of new law restricted tourist, journalist and travelling of its citizen.
  • In 8888, crack-down on pro-democracy movement and killings 3000 people.
  • In 1990 election period, detention of 2000 people nation wide including ethnic leaders and elected member of parliaments.
  • Detention of NLD members and the other human right activists, some in 1994, about hundred in 1996, about 300 students by cracked down the student demonstration in 1996, again about 100 of NLD members in 1998.
  • On 30 May 2003-Depayin massacre, attacking by truck load resulted about 70 people killed and arrested more than hundred people.
  • In 2004, detained some activists and ethnic leaders including NDPHR’s MP.
  • On Sept 2007-Saffron Revolution, at least 31 people shot dead involving foreign reporters and arrests of about 200 monks in all over the country and activists.
  • On Nov 2008, 113 activists including 88-generations were sentenced 6 months to 65 years.
Exercising phenomenon arrests, imprisonments and tortures of activists including foreign activists, have been increased
Further responsibility for bringing the nation into shortage, hoarding, inflation, corruption, restriction of international AID supply and attribution of ongoing conflicts in the circumstances of natural disasters particularly in Cyclone Nargis
Introduction of brutality military constitution : torture in investigation, imprisonment without trial, extension of sentence, killings in custody, depriving rights and legitimacy.

Mobilising child soldier estimated about 70,000 and convincing to join in counter violations, force labour, human rights violations, instigation and creation of ethnic tensions.

  • Waging war with ethnic minorities particularly Karen and slow genocide towards Rohingya are considered as ethnic cleansing pogrom. In Chan, Karen, Mon and Chin states, thousands of civilians had been killed for waging wars and hundreds of villages destroyed by firing, rape-war against women, forms of brutality persecutions, extra judicial execution by branding the state terror and displacing thousands people. The attacks reached along the border and inside refugee camps of Thailand in 1995 and 1996.
  • Repression and forceful eviction operations in 1967, 1978, 1991 and continuous persecution against Rohingyas are; 1967/68 Ngazinka Operation in Kyauktaw, about hundred Rohingyas were slaughtered, women were raped, properties and lands confiscated, destructed villages and ancient religious buildings.
  • 1978-Nagamin Operation, displaced hundreds of thousand of Rohingyas including destruction of villages, imprisonment, arbitrary tortures and killings and looting cash, properties and lands. On Feb 6, the operation introduced firstly in the biggest Rohingya village Sakkipara of Akyab and started mass arrests and killings. On 11 Feb 1978, hundreds of Rohingyas from Akyab were loaded by ships and sank in Akyab-bay. On March, it reached at Buthidaung and Maungdaw and started rapes, killings, imprisonments. Within 3 months, about 300,000 Rohingyas took shelter in makeshift camp erected by Bangladesh government. In Kyauktaw, several ships led by department of immigration landed to load Rohingyas. Authorities and some de-factor Rakhines collaboration caused about 100 Rohingyas killed.
  • 1991-Pyitaya Operation, displaced again hundreds of thousand of Rohingyas including destruction of villages, imprisonment, arbitrary tortures and killings and seized cash, properties and lands. As a pro-operation, the biggest Rohingya village Sakkipara in Sittwe, was demolished. In the middle of 1992, 268,000 Rohingyas from Maungdaw, Buthidaung, Rathidaung and Akyab were uploaded as refugees. Along the operation, hundreds of model village settlement had been located at the lands of Rohingyas in all over Arakan state.
  • Killings and arbitrary punishment of Rohingyas who found in travelling are escalated as the following; 18 Rohingyas from Kyauktaw were arrested in Taungkup-Ann township and beaten to death in 1992. One of the victim’s was Husein and his brother Hassan now living in Norway.
  • Rohingyas from Maungdaw were arrested in Pann-Mraung of Mrauk Oo by military regime-377 and executed in 1993
  • 12 Rohingyas of Kyauktaw township and 2 Chins, were arrested by military in frontier area of Namada village and brought to Paletwa township of Chin state in 1994. After an interrogation was made by senior Military Intelligence (MI-10) of Kyauktaw, U Myo Khin, 7 persons were shot dead by Colonel Aung Kyaw Thein in Nonbu village and the rest 7 persons were also shot dead by Sub-Commander in Roukchaung village. The report provided- ‘suspects found in black area were shot to death’.
  • More than thousand Rohingyas youth in Maungdaw were arrested by military and shot death in 1994/95.
  • In 1994/95, 11 Muslims of Kyauk-ni-maw were captured in Taungup and sank into the river after tied up and packed by gunny.
  • In the end of 1997, a group of Rohingyas 7 people from Akyab were arrested in Tandwe township and sentenced 7 years imprisonment under section 5/nya. Some of them were now living in China border after released from prison.
  • In 2000 June,One of the group was 7 persons including a family with 12yo child and mother were convicted 7 to 22 years jail.
  • In 2003,15 Rohingyas of Akyab arrested in Yangon were sent back to Akyab then sentenced 7 years imprisonment. Some of them were from the above-stated the first group of 7 people sentenced in end of 1997.
  • On 19 Sept 2008, 136 Rohingyas of Akyab who prepared for travelling were captured in Rechanbyin village of Akyab and sent to prison. 5 men of them lifted to Yangon and 7 of their relatives living in Yangon were also detained. The rest who left in Akyab prison were detained about 6 months according to the state military command commander’s instruction and released by Kyat 1 to 3 lakh payment.
  • On 07 October 2009in Kyauktaw, the immigration authority detained 30 Rohingya activists for their refusing TRC (Temporary Registration Card) identity.
  • A group of about 54 Muslims from Kyauknimaw have been detained in Kyaukfru Prison since the end of 2009 after a confrontation was occurred between a man who travel to Kyaukfru and Immigration. He was beaten brutally by military for the result of failing to report on time and expired the 3 days Temporary Travelling Permit (TTP). The victim and his family have been escaped after the event but innocent traders and active headmen were arrested under the order of the state’s command commander. Finally, they all have been sentenced up to 20 years imprisonment by the court of Kyaukfru at the end of year 2010.
Unfortunately, investigation of ICJ is not able to launch for lack of various supports. It is also question for the intl court’s weakness despite we have resourceful evidences to support it.

It is regrettable for continuously allowing of the military junta’s brutalities towards civilians. It is time that UN must take action by militarily, instead of the unworkable economic sanctions. There is nothing to depend on Burma’s neighbours or its counter part countries or its societies because they can’t bring peace and security of the people.

Thankfully,
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ အာရွအင္အားႀကီးႏိုင္ငံႀကီးေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ တရုတ္နဲ႔ အိႏၵိယ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံအၾကားမွာ တည္ရွိေနတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံအၾကား စစ္အင္အားအသံုးျပဳ (The use of force) ရတဲ့ ပ႗ိပကၡေတြ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ရင္ အိႏၵိယသမုဒၵရာ စစ္မ်က္ႏွာမွာ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာတန္ဖိုး (strategic value) အျမင့္ဆံုးႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ သတ္မွတ္ထားျခင္းခံရတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတ ႏိုင္ငံလဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ဆန္႔က်င္ေရး၊ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး၊ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ရပ္စဲေရး၊ တိုင္း ရင္းသား စည္းလံုးညီညြတ္ေရး စတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြေပၚမွာပဲ မူတည္ၿပီး တြက္ခ်က္စဥ္းစားမႈ လုပ္လို႔ မရႏိုင္ပါ။ ပထ၀ီ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး (Geopolitical factors) နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကိုလဲ ဆက္စပ္စဥ္းစားမႈ လုပ္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ သို႔မွသာ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ အနာဂတ္အတြက္ အက်ိဳးရွိမယ့္ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မႈသ႑ာန္သစ္ေတြ၊ မဟာဗ်ဴဟာအခင္းအက်င္းေတြ ကို ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ခ်မွတ္ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး

၂၈.၆.၂၀၁၁ ရက္ေန႔ ၀၉ ၀၀ နာရီတြင္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ေသာ ဘီဘီစီ၏ ပထမဆုံးေသာ ေရဒီယို အသံလႊင့္ခ်က္

Sue Lawley ။ လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕အသံလႊင့္ဌာနမွာရွိတဲ့ အသံလႊင့္ခန္းမကေန ႀကိဳဆို ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္သအပ္ပါတယ္။ ေအာင္ ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဟာ လြတ္လပ္မႈကို လိုလားေတာင့္တတဲ့ လူသားေတြကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳသူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူမဟာ ျမန္မာ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ လြတ္လပ္မႈကို ကာကြယ္ေပးဖို႔ႀကိဳးပမ္းရာမွာ ဘဝကို ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံ ထားျခင္းျဖင့္ ကမၻာတဝွမ္းလုံးရဲ႕ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ (အျပည့္အစံုသို႔)အထိမ္းအမွတ္လကၡဏာတရပ္ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္္။


ဓာတုေဗဒပါေမာကၡ ဦးေအာင္ခင္
DIC,ALRC

တကၠသိုလ္ မြတ္စလင္မ္လူငယ္မ်ားအသင္း ဥကၠဌ ပါေမာကၡ ဦးေအာင္ခင္

ဆရာၾကီးသည္ ၁၉၁၈-ခုနွစ္ ဧျပီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန့တြင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ သံတဲြျမိဳ႕၌ ေမြးဖြားသည္။ ၁၆ နွစ္သားအရြယ္တြင္ ၁၀ တန္းကို ဂုဏ္ထူး ငါးဘာသာျဖင့္ေအာင္ျမင္ျပီး ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္၌ ပညာဆည္းပူးသည္။ တကၠသိုလ္တြင္ ဥပစာသိပၸံအပိုင္း (က)နွင့္(ခ)ကို တစ္နွစ္တည္းျဖင့္ ေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့သည္။ ၁၉၃၈-ခုတြင္ ဓာတုေဗဒဂုဏ္ထူးတန္းကို ့Upper Division 2nd Class  ျဖင့္ ေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့သည္။ ဓာတုေဗဒထူးခြ်န္သူမ်ား အတြက္ ေပးအပ္ခီ်းျမွင့္ေသာ ဦးေရႊေလးေရႊတံဆိပ္ဆု ရရိွခဲ့သည္။

By Zin Linn
The ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC) released a press statement yesterday on Current Military Offensive and Rights Abuse by the Myanmar or Burma Army in Ethnic Areas -Monitor recent rape cases, reject Myanmar’s bid to chair ASEAN and cut financial lifelines for despots, AIPMC urges ASEAN.

The AIPMC highlighted about atrocities against civilians during Burma Army offensives against ethnic armed groups in Shan State and Kachin State. It also denounced Burmese soldiers’ sexual violence against women and girls, including gang-rape by order of high level officials.

The statement continues revealing warfare in North and Eastern Burma which has been worsening since last year’s election. Almost two-decade long ceasefire with the Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have already been broken by the Burma Army.

According to Shan community based organizations, the statement says, 65 battles have taken place in Shan State over the last three weeks and now thousands people are displaced inside northern Shan State.

The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Canada has begun a strategic engagement with Myanmar that includes an exchange of ambassadors, but Ottawa has no plans to lift the economic sanctions imposed against the country anytime soon, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said Saturday.
 
Baird, speaking from Bali, Indonesia, where he attended a regional security forum this week, said the "limited engagement" was focused exclusively on human rights.

The catalog of documented war crimes in Burma is growing. Last week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) released a damning 70-page report documenting how ordinary Burmese convicts are brutally forced by the state to carry heavy munitions and supplies for the Burma Army, acting as human shields and enduring other ruthless abuses in the country's eastern war zones.

According to the report, "Dead Men Walking: Convict Porters on the Front Lines in Eastern Burmas," some of these "human pack mules" were convicted of only minor offenses, such as selling illegal lottery tickets. For their infractions, they are forced to perform the most arduous and dangerous tasks for the Burma Army, effectively being pushed into the furnace of the 63-year long civil war between the ethnic Karen opposition and the Burma Army.

By The Nation

Can the regional grouping afford to let pariah member lead it on the world stage in 2014? 


How long will Asean continue to stand up for its pariah member? At the latest Asean meeting, in Bali this week, Burma's proposed chairmanship in 2014 was not on the official agenda. Indonesia's Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa has yet to visit Burma to assess first-hand its readiness to head Asean. He does not have to go now, because reports coming out of the country are far from pleasant.

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A Burmese government artillery unit fired more than 20 shells on Thursday at the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) headquarters in Laiza, said party secretary La Nan.


A bunker at KIO headquarters in Laiza. Photo: MizzimaThe firing took place from 9 to 11 p.m. The artillery unit was based in Dawphoneyan sub-township, 25 miles from Laiza, he said.“I think they were 81 mm and 76 mm mortars,” he told Mizzima. There was no report on causalities.

ရဲေဘာ္ကိုေထြး (ခ) အလီ အတ္ဆ္္ဂရ္ မဇင္ဒါရာနီမွာ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ေဗာဓိကုန္း ေတာင္ျပင္သိပၸံရပ္ ပင္စင္စား လယ္ယာစိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရး ဝန္ေထာက္ ဆြဖ္ဒရ္အလီ ေခၚ ဦးကိုကိုေလးႏွင့္ အမိ ေဒၚမင္းရီတို႔မွ ထြန္းကားခဲ့သည့္ သားသမီးရတနာ ေျခာက္ဦးအနက္ အေထြးဆံုးသားေလးျဖစ္သည္။
ရဲေဘာ္ေထြးကို ၁၉၂၉ – ခုႏွစ္၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာလတြင္ ဖြားျမင္ခဲ့သည္။ ရဲေဘာ္ေထြးသည္ နဝမတန္းအထိ ပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ့သည္။ အသက္ ၁၈ ႏွစ္အရြယ္တြင္ ပညာေရးဝန္ႀကီး ဦးရာဇတ္၏ သက္ေတာ္ေစာင့္အျဖစ္ ခန္႔အပ္ျခင္းခံရသည္။
ရဲေဘာ္ေထြး၏ ဖခင္ႀကီး ဦးကိုကိုေလးက သားေတာ္ေမာင္၏အေၾကာင္းကို အာဇာနည္ေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အခမ္းအနားတစ္ရပ္တြင္ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း မခ်ိတင္ကဲ ေျပာျပခဲ့ဖူးသည္ကို ျပန္လည္ တင္ျပရေသာ္…
“ရဲေထြးကို (၇) လနဲ႔ေမြးတာပါ။ ဒီေတာ့ လူက အေတာ့္ကိုညႇက္လြန္းပါတယ္။ အေထြးဆံုးသားလည္းျဖစ္ျပန္၊ ကိုယ္ဟန္က ေယာက္်ားေလးျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းေပ်ာင္း ကႏြဲ႕ကလ်ေလးျဖစ္ေနေလေတာ့ တစ္အိမ္လံုးက ဖူးဖူးမႈတ္မတတ္ ျဖစ္ေနၾကတာေပါ့။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေယာက်္ားပီသေစလိုတဲ့ဆႏၵေၾကာင့္ ငယ္ငယ္ကတည္းက သူ႔ကို ဆက္ဆံရာမွာ သိပ္ၿပီး တယုတယမထားဘဲ ၾကမ္းၾကမ္းတမ္းတမ္းေလး ဆက္ဆံဖို႔ တစ္အိမ္လံုးကို က်ဳပ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ မွာၾကားခဲ့ရတယ္။”
“သားေလးရဲေထြးဟာ က်ဆံုးခ်ိန္မွာေတာင္ အသက္ ၁၉ ႏွစ္ပဲရွိပါေသးတယ္။ အသက္အားျဖင့္ၾကည့္ရင္ တကယ့္ကို ငယ္႐ြယ္လြန္းပါတယ္။ က်ဳပ္တို႔ မိဘေတြအဖို႔ေတာ့ ႏို႔နံ႔ေတာင္ မပ်ယ္ေသးတဲ့ အ႐ြယ္ေပါ့။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အ႐ြယ္နဲ႔မလိုက္ေအာင္ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္တကယ့္ကိုထက္သန္တဲ့ သူငယ္ေလးပဲ။ အဂၤလိပ္မ်ားကို မျမင္လိုက္နဲ႔ “တို႔ကို ကၽြန္လုပ္တဲ့ ေကာင္ေတြ” ဆိုၿပီးခဲနဲ႔ေပါက္မယ္တကဲကဲ လုပ္ေနတာမို႔ တစ္အိမ္သားလံုးက အေတာ့္ကို ေျပာဆိုထိန္းသိမ္းထားရပါတယ္။”

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on Burma Friday to free political prisoners, address non-proliferation concerns and start a dialogue with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Clinton told delegates at a regional security forum in Bali that Burma is a major challenge facing the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations and would have to be addressed.


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