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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is quoted as saying "President Thein Sein really wants change" - according to Bangkok Post.

But what really is President Thein Sein in Burma's military-controlled political system?
Remember President San Yu? Sure the Revolutionary Council (1962-74) and Burma Socialist Programme Party (1974-1988) all of which were Ne Win's creatures - were not the "elected" Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar (correct name?). But the Army is the backbone of this new Than Shwe creature.

This new creature with Thein Sein as its face and nominal leader may end up devouring its Creator, just as the BSPP self-destruted and brought Ne Win down from the throne, by default. 

But so what? The biological clock is ticking for Than Shwe anyway.

What about the Army's Class rule? What about the military-sponsored Bama colonalism towards non-Bama ethnic communities? 

Some say retired Burmese diplomat and economist U Myint, U Thant's grandson Thant Myint-U, the regime's hired mouth Nay Win Maung, etc. are "backing the President". But how? 

What are these new presidential gurus and mouthpieces going to do when, not if, the real generals move against the President (and all his men)? 
And what is the future of the NLD as the flagship opposition?

We now have the flagship opposition which no longer considers itself "opposing the dictatorship" (albeit in new clothing), nor pursues power sharing arrangement", according to NLD leader U Win Tin.

Is the NLD, legal or illegal, is morphing into a National Pagoda Trust (Gaw Pa Ka) or prisoners of conscience (POC)-Rescue mission?

I wouldn't worry about the military ruling the country resistance-free or reforming the State successfully. The economy is its Achilles Heel and the militarized State has neither intellectual capacity nor political will to turn itself into anything workable.

Represssion and resistance will go hand in glove. The ethnic resistance cannot be wiped out, even after some centuries. Just look at the Balkans, Southern Thailand, or Northern Ireland. For the Bama resistance against the State, it has not stopped since 1958.

Whether or not it has succeeded is irrelevant. The point is the Burmese conflicts will continue on, destroying any prospects for peace or prosperity for the little men and women on the street.

This is all familiar to the Burmese familiar with the country's past.


Dr Zarni (m.zarni@lse.ac.uk) is Visiting Fellow, Department of International Development, LSE in United Kingdom.











Viewing cable 04BRUSSELS4013, EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONCERNED ABOUT ROHINGYA


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04BRUSSELS40132004-09-21 12:022011-08-26 00:00UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEmbassy Brussels

This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

UNCLAS BRUSSELS 004013 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREF PREL BG BM EUN USEU BRUSSELS
SUBJECT: EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONCERNED ABOUT ROHINGYA 
REFUGEES 
 
1. (SBU)  Summary.  The European Commission (EC) is concerned 
about the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, 
including the lack of adequate educational opportunities for 
refugee children.  Those living outside official refugee 
camps without official status are at greater risk.  The EC 
would provide significant funding if the GoB agreed to allow 
the local integratation of the Rohingyas.  End Summary. 
 
2.  (SBU) On 9/10, PRM Assistant met with EC officers -- DG 
RELEX Administrator for Southeast Asia and Uprooted Peoples 
Thomas Gnocchi and DG RELEX Bangladesh desk officer Ana 
Beatriz Martins -- to discuss the Rohingya refugees.  Martins 
spoke at length about the living conditions in both the 
official camps and the "unofficial" Teknaf camp.  According 
to Martins, conditions in the official camps are relatively 
good.  However, he noted that the exceedingly low levels of 
education in the camps have become a focus of concern. 
Gnocchi said that the Bangladeshi government requires lessons 
to be taught in Burmese so as to keep the ties alive and 
encourage future return.  Since there are few teachers who 
speak the required language, many refugee children are not 
receiving satisfactory schooling and their future is in 
jeopardy. 
 
3.  (SBU) The "unofficial" camp in Teknaf, on the other hand, 
is facing more immediate difficulties and hardships. "The 
living conditions in Teknaf," stated Martins, "are abysmal." 
Unfortunately, the peculiarities surrounding their situation 
merely serve to complicate their eligibility for aid.  Many 
of its residents have unknowingly lost their status as 
refugees, often as a result of failed attempts to repatriate 
to Rakhine State.  Martins added that as a result the 
Bangladeshi government recognizes them not as refugees, or 
even as former refugees, but as illegal immigrants. 
 
4.  (SBU) With the help of the UNHCR, the EC is pushing for 
the implementation of a self-sufficiency program that aims to 
increase accessibility to educational and vocational 
training.  Thus far, the Bangladeshi government has neither 
endorsed nor denounced this program.  This is significant 
considering the continued hard-line approach by the 
government to the plight of these refugees.  Gnocchi noted 
that the Rohingyas, numbering 19,500 persons, comprise a 
small fraction of the overall migration problem.  He added 
that Bangladesh has the capacity to absorb this rather small 
group, but refuses to for fear of igniting a mass movement of 
refugees.  Martins acknowledged the legitimacy of such fears, 
but stated that they could be avoided if a low profile was 
maintained. Gnocchi added that the EC is willing to offer 
significant development projects in the region if local 
integration were accepted as an option by Bangladesh. 
 
5. (SBU) In response to the current stagnation surrounding 
the plight of these refugees, the EC is in the process of 
redefining its vision for Bangladesh, according to Martins. 
They plan to pursue deeper discussion on the issue with 
Member States under the Dutch Presidency.  Martins added that 
the current turmoil plaguing the region both heightens this 
need and frustrates any possibility of resolving the issue. 
Martins and Gnocchi inquired about future coordination with 
the U.S. on this issue. 



ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ α€α€Š္ၿငိα€™္ေထးခ်α€™္းα€™ႈα€€ို ထေႏွာင့္α€‘α€šွα€€္ α€™ျပဳေၾကာင္း ေα€žα€်ာα€žα€Š့္ ထခ်ိα€”္α€€်α€™ွα€žာ ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ားα€€ို ျပန္α€œႊတ္ေပးα€™α€Š္α€Ÿု ထမ်ိဳးα€žားα€œႊတ္ေတာ္ α€₯α€€ၠα‚’ ဦးခင္ေထာင္ျမင့္α€€ α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ α€œူ႔ထခြင့္ထေα€›း ထရာα€›ွိ α€™α€…α₯တာ ေα€žာမတ္α€…္ ထုိေα€Ÿး ကင္တားα€”ားႏွင့္ ေα€”ျα€•α€Š္ေတာ္၌ ေတြ႕ဆုံα€…α€₯္ ေျပာဆုိα€œုိα€€္α€žα€Š္။ 


α€›α€”္α€€ုα€”္ မဂၤα€œာα€’ံု ထျα€•α€Š္ျα€•α€Š္ဆုိင္α€›ာ ေα€œα€†ိပ္တြင္ α€™α€…α₯တာ ေα€žာမတ္α€…္ ထိုေα€Ÿး ကင္တားα€”ား α€žα€α€„္းα€…ာα€›ွင္းα€œα€„္းပြဲ ျပဳα€œုပ္α€…α€₯္ (ဓာတ္ပံု - α€§α€›ာဝတီ)

α€šα€ုထစုိးα€›α€žα€Š္ α€žေα€˜ာထားေပ်ာ့ေျပာင္းေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ α€œုပ္ထားα€…ုα€™်ားα€€ုိ ထဆုံးထရႈံးခံၿပီး ထက်α€₯္းေထာင္ထဲ α€‘α€Š့္ထားျခင္းα€™်ိဳးထား α€™α€Š္α€žα€Š့္ထစုိးα€›α€€α€™ွ် ျပဳα€œုပ္α€œုိα€™α€Š္ α€™α€Ÿုတ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ α€α€Š္ၿငိα€™္ေထးခ်α€™္းα€™ႈα€€ုိ ထေႏွာင့္ α€‘α€šွα€€္ α€™ျပဳေၾကာင္း ေα€žα€်ာα€žα€Š့္ ထခ်ိα€”္တြင္ ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ားထား ျပန္α€œα€Š္α€œႊတ္ေပးα€™α€Š္ ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တားα€”ား၏ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်α€€္α€€ုိ ဦးခင္ေထာင္ျမင့္α€€ ေျဖၾကားα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€šေန႔ထုတ္ α€žα€α€„္းα€…ာα€™်ားတြင္ ေα€–ာ္ျပထားα€žα€Š္။

α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တားα€”ားα€žα€Š္ ထမ်ိဳးα€žားα€œႊတ္ေတာ္ α€₯α€€ၠα‚’ ဦးခင္ေထာင္ျမင့္ႏွင့္ α€žီးျခားေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့ျခင္းျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။

α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ ထေထြေထြ ထတြင္းေα€›းα€™ႉးခ်ဳပ္ ထပါထ၀င္ α€™ိα€™ိႏွင့္ ထာဆီα€šံႏုိင္ငံα€™်ားα€€ ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ား α€œႊတ္ေပးα€›α€”္ တုိα€€္တြα€”္းေၾကာင္း၊ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္ထား ထိα€”္းα€žိα€™္းထားα€™ႈα€€ုိ α€›ုပ္α€žိα€™္းၿပီးေα€”ာα€€္ ႏုိင္ငံထတြα€€္ ထက်ဳိးα€›ွိေα€…α€™α€Š့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးα€™ႈα€™်ား ေဆာင္α€›ြα€€္ေα€”α€žα€Š့္ α€”α€Š္းတူ တျခားα€žူα€™်ားထား α€œႊတ္ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ α€‘α€œားတူ ထက်ိဳးα€žα€€္ေα€›ာα€€္α€™ႈ α€›ွိα€™α€Š္α€Ÿု α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ေၾကာင္း α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တာα€”ားေျပာဆုိα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ေα€›းα€žားထားα€žα€Š္။

ထုိ႔ထျပင္ ထင္းα€…ိα€”္ေထာင္α€žိုα‚” α€žြားေα€›ာα€€္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žား α€€ုိα€Šီα€Šီထြα€”္း၊ α€€ုိၿဖိဳးေ၀ေထာင္ ထပါထ၀င္ ထက်α€₯္းα€žားႏွင့္ ထခ်ဳပ္α€žား ၆ ဦး၊ ထက်α€₯္းα€žူ ၁ ဦးတိုα‚”α€€ုိα€œα€Š္း ေတြ႕ဆုံခဲ့α€žα€Š္။

α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တားα€”ားα€žα€Š္ α€šα€™α€”္ေα€”α‚”α€€ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံα€™ွ ျပန္α€œα€Š္ထြα€€္ခြာခဲ့ၿပီး မထြα€€္ခြာα€™ီ α€›α€”္α€€ုα€”္မဂၤα€œာα€’ုံေα€œα€†ိပ္တြင္ α€žα€α€„္း α€…ာα€›ွင္းα€œα€„္းပြဲ ျပဳα€œုပ္ခဲ့α€›ာ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံ၏ α€œူ႔ထခြင့္ထေα€›းႏွင့္ ပတ္α€žα€€္၍ ထစုိးရထား α€šα€ုထက္ပုိα€™ုိ α€œုပ္ေဆာင္α€›α€”္ တုိα€€္တြα€”္း ထားα€žα€Š့္ ေαΎα€€α€Šာခ်α€€္တေα€…ာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့α€žα€Š္။

ထုိေαΎα€€α€Šာခ်α€€္တြင္ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံ၌ ျပစ္α€™ႈα€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žံα€žα€šα€›ွိα€žူα€™်ားα€€ို α€…ုံα€…α€™္းα€…α€…္ေဆးေα€”α€…α€₯္ ထေတာထတြင္း α€›ုိα€€္ႏွα€€္ျခင္း၊ α€œိင္ထဂၤါထပါထ၀င္ ခႏၢာα€€ုိα€š္၏ တခ်ိဳα‚• ထစိတ္ထပုိင္းα€™်ားထား α€™ီးα€›ႈိα‚•α€€ာ ႏွိပ္α€…α€€္α€Šႇα€₯္းပမ္းျခင္း၊ α€”ာα€™α€€်α€”္း ျα€–α€…္ေα€”α€…α€₯္ ေဆး၀ါးα€€ုα€žα€™ႈ α€œုံေα€œာα€€္α€…ြာα€™ေပးျခင္း၊ ထစာေα€›α€…ာျဖတ္ေတာα€€္ျခင္း၊ ထိပ္α€…α€€္ျခင္းခြင့္ α€™ေပးျခင္းα€™်ားα€›ွိေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိ႔ထျပင္ ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ားα€€ုိ α€…α€…္တပ္၏ ေα€•αšα€ာထျα€–α€…္ ထဓမၼ α€œုပ္ထားေပးခုိင္းေα€…ျခင္းα€™်ားα€œα€Š္း α€›ွိေၾကာင္း α€…α€…္ေဆးေတြα‚”α€›ွိα€›α€žα€Š့္ထတြα€€္ α€…ုိးα€›ိα€™္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ေα€–ာ္ျပထားα€žα€Š္။

α€™α€…α₯တာ ကင္တားα€”ားα€žα€Š္ ျα€•α€Š္α€žူα‚”α€œႊတ္ေတာ္α€₯α€€ၠα‚’ α€žူα€› ဦးေα€›ႊα€™α€”္း၊ ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္α€…ု တရားα€žူα‚€α€€ီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးထြα€”္းထြα€”္းဦး၊ ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္ α€…ု ေα€›ြးေα€€ာα€€္ပြဲေα€€ာ္α€™α€›ွင္ α€₯α€€ၠα‚’ ဦးတင္ေထး၊ ျα€•α€Š္ထဲေα€›း ၀န္α‚€α€€ီး α€’ုတိα€š α€—ုိα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α‚€α€€ီး α€€ုိα€€ုိ၊ α€€ာα€€ြα€š္ေα€›း ၀န္α‚€α€€ီးα€Œာα€” ၀န္α‚€α€€ီး α€—ုိα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α€œွမင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေα€›း ၀န္α‚€α€€ီး ဦး၀ဏၰေα€™ာင္α€œြင္၊ α€‘α€œုပ္α€žα€™ား၀န္α‚€α€€ီးα€Œာα€”ႏွင့္ α€œူα€™ႈ၀န္ထမ္း၊ α€€α€š္α€†α€š္ေα€›းႏွင့္ ျပန္α€œα€Š္ ေα€”α€›ာခ်ထားေα€›း ၀န္α‚€α€€ီးα€Œာα€” ၀န္α‚€α€€ီး ဦးေထာင္αΎα€€α€Š္၊ ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္α€…ု ေα€›ွα‚•ေနခ်ဳပ္ ေα€’ါα€€္တာထြα€”္းα€›ွင္၊ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံ α€›ဲတပ္α€–ြဲα‚” α€’ုα€›ဲခ်ဳပ္ ေဇာ္၀င္းတုိα‚”ႏွင့္α€œα€Š္း α€žီးျခားα€…ီ ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့ေα€žးα€žα€Š္။

ျα€•α€Š္ေထာင္α€…ု တရားα€žူα‚€α€€ီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးထြα€”္းထြα€”္းဦးႏွင့္ ေတြဆုံα€…α€₯္ α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တာα€”ားα€€ α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ခ်α€€္ေၾကာင့္ ထက်α€₯္းα€€်ခံေα€”α€›α€žူ α€™်ားα€€ိα€…α₯α€€ုိေျပာဆုိα€›ာ၌ ဦးထြα€”္းထြα€”္းဦးα€€ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ခ်α€€္ေၾကာင့္ ထက်α€₯္းα€€်ခံေα€”α€›α€žူ α€™α€›ွိα€˜ဲ ျပစ္α€™ႈα€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္၍ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ α€€်ခံα€›α€žူα€™်ားα€žာ α€›ွိေၾကာင္း ျပန္α€œα€Š္ေျပာဆုိα€žα€Š္ α€Ÿု α€žα€α€„္းα€…ာတြင္ ေα€›းα€žားထားα€žα€Š္။

ျα€•α€Š္ထဲေα€›း ၀န္α‚€α€€ီး α€’ု α€—ုိα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α‚€α€€ီး α€€ုိα€€ိုα€€α€œα€Š္း α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ခ်α€€္ေၾကာင့္ ထက်α€₯္းα€€်ခံα€›α€žα€Š့္ ထက်α€₯္းα€žား ဆုိα€žူα€™်ားတြင္ α€™ူးα€šα€…္ ေဆး၀ါးα€™ႈ၊ α€œူα€žα€္α€™ႈ၊ α€—ုံးေα€–ာα€€္ခြဲα€™ႈ၊ ေα€žာင္းα€€်α€”္းα€žူα€™်ား၊ တျခားျပစ္α€™ႈα€™်ားႏွင့္ ထက်α€₯္းα€€်α€žူα€™်ား ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း၊ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ထစုိးα€›α€žα€…္ ေα€•αšေပါα€€္ၿပီးေα€”ာα€€္ α€žα€™αΌα€ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ α€œြတ္ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€žာခြင့္ ေပးခဲ့ၿပီးျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း၊ ထခါထားေα€œ်ာ္α€…ြာ α€œြတ္ၿငိα€™္း ခ်α€™္းα€žာခြင့္α€€ုိ ဆက္α€œα€€္ေပးα€žြားα€™α€Š္ ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း α€™α€…α₯တာကင္တာα€”ားα€€ ေျပာဆုိα€žα€Š္α€Ÿုα€œα€Š္း α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ α€œူ႔ထခြင့္ထေα€›း α€…ုံα€…α€™္းα€…α€…္ေဆးα€žူ α€™α€…α₯တာ ေα€žာမတ္α€…္ ထုိေα€Ÿး ကင္တားα€”ားα€žα€Š္ ၿပီးခဲ့α€žα€Š့္ αΎα€žα€‚ုတ္α€œ ၂၁ α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚”α€€ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံα€žုိα‚” ေα€›ာα€€္α€›ွိα€œာၿပီး ထစုိးရထဖြဲ႔၀င္α€™်ား၊ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာ့α€’ီα€™ုိα€€ေα€›α€…ီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္ ထပါထ၀င္ ထမ်ိဳးα€žား α€’ီα€™ုိα€€ေα€›α€…ီ ထဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ α€—α€Ÿုိα€‘α€œုပ္ထမႈေဆာင္α€™်ား၊ တျခားေα€žာ ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း ပါတီα€™်ား၊ α€œူ႔ထခြင့္ထေα€›း α€œႈပ္α€›ွားα€žူα€™်ားႏွင့္ α€œα€Š္း ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့α€žα€Š္။ 

ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ား α€€ူα€Šီ ေα€…ာင့္ေα€›ွာα€€္ေα€›းα€‘α€žα€„္း ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံ (AAPP) ၏ တြဲα€–α€€္ထတြင္းေα€›းα€™ႉး α€€ိုα€˜ုိαΎα€€α€Š္α€€ “ႏုိင္ငံ ေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™α€›ွိα€˜ူး ဆုိတဲ့α€…α€€ားα€€ ႏုိင္ငံတကာα€€ α€œူေတြα€”ဲα‚”ေတြ႕ရင္ α€žူတုိα‚” ထၿမဲတမ္းα€žုံးတဲ့ α€…α€€ားပါ။ α€’ါα€€ α€˜ာα€€ုိ ျα€•α€žα€œဲဆုိေတာ့ α€œα€€္α€›ွိပကတိ ထေျခထေα€”α€€ုိ α€œα€€္မခံႏုိင္α€˜ူး ဆုိတာျα€•α€α€š္” α€Ÿု α€™ွတ္ခ်ေပး ေျပာဆုိα€žα€Š္။


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Myanmar's Parliament began its current session on Monday in Naypyidaw. The population is parsing a raft of initiatives by a new, nominally civilian government.

YANGON, Myanmar — Five months after a nominally civilian government took power in Myanmar, the country is awash in uncertainty about who is really in charge.


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Military members of Parliament at the opening session Monday.
Workers have taken down the once-ubiquitous portraits of Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the dictator who ran the country for nearly two decades, from the walls of government offices. But rumors circulate here that General Than Shwe, who stepped down in March, still has the final word on important decisions.

An impoverished population, downtrodden by decades of military rule, is parsing a raft of initiatives by the new government and trying to understand whether the country’s transition from military dictatorship to what the state news media describe as “discipline flourishing democracy” is real.

Like the biblical Thomas, they seem to want more proof.
“As far as I can see, there has been no change,” said U San Shwe, a retired civil servant whose comments typify the skepticism heard frequently in Myanmar. “The new government consists of former generals who have habits that they can’t break. They are accustomed to taking bribes, mistreating people and making a lot of money from their positions. They confiscate things, and no one can complain.”

Trying to guess the direction of this country has, in the past, been a fool’s errand. Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has zigzagged from paranoid isolation under military rule to flirtations with openness. It seems propelled by the competing impulses of conservatives and reformers within the military.

In recent weeks there have been signs that reformers, led by Thein Sein, a former general who was elected president in February, have the upper hand.
The government has proposed peace talks with armed rebel groups that are battling the military for control over resources and for more autonomy. Officials have met three times in the last month with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s leading dissident, who was released from house arrest in November.

Other changes have been more symbolic. The state-run newspapers are refraining from publishing slogans like “Riots beget riots, not democracy.” The government has also allowed publications that do not deal with politics or history to publish without prior censorship. (Any newspaper articles that touch on politics must still be submitted to a censorship board.)
The bar for freedom of expression is set so low here that journalists rejoiced when it was announced that they would be allowed into Parliament for its current session, which began Monday.

Amid the tumult of transition, some economic changes have been very substantive. But their benefits to ordinary citizens remain unclear. A major privatization program initiated last year is transforming an economy that was so heavily controlled by the state that it could have been designed by Lenin himself.
Scores of state-owned factories, government buildings and companies have been sold off. The local currency, the kyat, has soared in value against the dollar — in part, analysts believe, because money has poured in to pay for assets in the government’s fire sale. The transactions were done without public tender, and most assets were sold to a handful of government favorites.

“There are great opportunities — but only for the cronies. It’s like Russia,” said U Soe Than, the owner of a shop for cellphones and digital music players imported from China. Mr. Soe Than has firsthand experience dealing with the new government.

When the government sold a department store in Yangon, the wealthy Myanmar businessman who purchased the building ordered all of its tenants, including Mr. Soe Than, to leave within weeks. Mr. Soe Than helped write 18 letters to officials to petition for redress. All of them went unanswered. But when the story got into Myanmar’s exile media based in Thailand and India, it caught the ear of officials in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital.
Mr. Soe Than says he is now slightly more hopeful that shop owners will be compensated. “Things have improved a little bit,” he said.        


 Whether an economy controlled by cronies is better than the state-run system is a point of debate among analysts of the country. Similarly tainted privatization campaigns in the Middle East created deep resentments that a decade or so later helped fuel revolts this year in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria. Yet poor economic prospects have been as debilitating for the Burmese as political repression — if not more.
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State-run newspapers are taking a softer stance on propaganda.

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Thein Sein, the president.

There have been some signs of economic revival: the number of tourists was up 23 percent in the first half of 2011, and hotels in Yangon brim with business travelers, many of them from China, Japan and South Korea.

Last week, The New Light of Myanmar, a state-owned newspaper, highlighted a meeting between government officials and executives from Caterpillar, the giant producer of construction and mining equipment that is based in the United States.

United States and European sanctions have made it difficult for many multinational companies to operate in Myanmar, but the government appears to be working vigorously to get the measures lifted. Officials from the International Monetary Fund have been invited for meetings in October to discuss further economic liberalization.

And the government has started a charm offensive with Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, who has great leverage on the issue of sanctions. Last week, the government invited her for the first time to the capital, where she met with Mr. Thein Sein, the president.

As an Oxford-educated 1991 Nobel Peace laureate and the daughter of Myanmar’s independence hero, Aung San, Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi is perhaps the premier interlocutor between Myanmar and the outside world.

She has not fully enunciated her goals since her release from house arrest, but those who have watched her closely believe that she has aspirations well beyond being a mere symbol of national unity. “I always thought that her ambitions were higher than a ‘mother’ figure,” said Josef Silverstein, a Myanmar specialist and professor emeritus at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

Whether reconciliation between Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and the former generals is possible remains a question mark hanging over the future.

Yet the political situation is only one part of the enormous challenge facing Myanmar’s 55 million people.
The decades of military rule and the generals’ single-minded obsession with political survival have left the country’s health and education systems a shambles.

A generation of students has been forgotten, said U Thiha, who runs a computer programming school in Yangon. He has been frustrated in his search for the best young minds for courses.

“My students were not well trained at university,” he said. “They don’t have enough knowledge. They are not eager. And over the past 20 years, there have been no activities to test and challenge them.”        

Credit : Nwe York Times

ကမၻာေα€•αšα€›ွိ ထစိုးα€›ေတြထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” α€œူα€™α€žိα€žူα€™α€žိ ခိုα€”ားα€›ာ တိုင္းျα€•α€Š္α€™α€›ွိ ျα€–α€…္ေနတဲα‚” α€œူα€žားေတြα€€ို α€€ူα€Šီα€–ိုα‚” ပိုα€™ို ထားα€…ိုα€€္ထုတ္α€–ိုα‚” α€œိုေနပါၿပီ။ ကမၻာထႏွံα‚”α€™ွ α€œူ၁၂ α€žα€”္းေα€œာα€€္α€Ÿာ α€žူတိုα‚” α€˜α€š္ႏိုင္ငံα€žားဆိုတာ ေျပာα€–ို႔ထတြα€€္ α€€ိုα€š္ပိုင္ႏိုင္ငံ α€™α€›ွိၾကပါα€˜ူး။


α€’ီထတြα€€္ေၾကာင္α‚”α€œα€Š္း α€žူတိုα‚”α€Ÿာ ထေျခခံα€œူထခြင္႔ထေα€›းေတြα€€ို ျငင္းα€•α€š္ျခင္းခံေနရပါα€α€š္α€œိုα‚” α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢၾကီးα€€ ေျပာၾကားα€œိုα€€္ပါα€α€š္။ တၿပိဳင္α€”α€€္α€α€Š္း ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ခြင္α‚”α€”ဲ႔ပတ္α€žα€€္တဲα‚” α€žေα€˜ာတူα€Šီခ်α€€္ႏွα€…္ခုα€€ို ကမၻာα‚”ႏိုင္ငံα€™်ားထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” α€œα€€္α€™ွတ္ေα€›းထိုးၾကဖိုα‚”α€œα€Š္း ေတာင္းဆိုα€œိုα€€္ပါα€α€š္။
ႏိုင္ငံα€™ဲα‚”α€™ိα€˜ေတြα€€ ေα€™ြးတဲα‚”α€€ေα€œးေတြα€Ÿာα€œα€Š္း ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခုခုα€›ဲα‚• ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ခြင္α‚” α€™α€›ွိတာေၾကာင္α‚” ထေျခထေα€”ေတြα€€ို ပိုα€™ိုဆိုး၀ါးα€œာေနပါα€α€š္α€œိုα‚” ဆိုပါα€α€š္ ။ α€’ီျပႆα€”ာα€Ÿာ ထေα€›ွα‚•ေတာင္ထာα€›ွ၊ ထာα€›ွα€‘α€œα€š္ပိုင္း၊ ထေα€›ွα‚•α€₯ေα€›ာပ၊ ထေα€›ွα‚•α€‘α€œα€š္ပိုင္းα€”ဲα‚” ထာα€–α€›ိကတိုα‚”α€™ွာ ထမ်ားဆံုး ျα€–α€…္ေα€”α€α€š္α€œိုα‚” ဆိုပါα€α€š္။


"α€’ီα€œူေတြထတြα€€္ ထကူα€‘α€Šီ ထမ်ားα‚€α€€ီး α€œိုထပ္ေနပါα€α€š္။ α€’ီα€œို α€˜α€ေတြα€Ÿာ α€žူတိုα‚”α€›ဲα‚•α€…ိတ္α€€ို ထႀကီးထက်α€š္ ထိခိုα€€္α€”ာα€€်င္ေစပါα€α€š္။ ေα€˜းα€–α€š္α€œ်α€…္α€œ်ဴα€›ႈျခင္းခံခဲα‚”α€›α€α€€α€œα€Š္း α€žူတိုα‚”ေနထိုင္တဲα‚” α€œူ႔ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းထတြင္းα€™ွာ α€–ိထားေတြ ပိုျα€–α€…္α€œာေထာင္ α€–α€”္တီးေပးေနပါα€α€š္။ α€’ါေတြα€Ÿာ တစ္ခါတစ္α€›ံα€™ွာ ပဋိပကၑေတြα€€ို ဦးα€α€Š္ေα€…α€α€š္" α€œိုα‚” UNHCR α€™ွ Antonio Guterres ကဆိုပါα€α€š္။
Assistant High Commissioner for Protection α€™ွ Erika Feller α€€ "α€˜α€›ာဇီးα€€ေα€œးေပါင္း ႏွα€…္α€žိα€”္းေα€œာα€€္α€€ို α€žူတိုα‚”α€›ဲα‚• α€™ိα€˜ေတြα€€ ျα€•α€Š္ပေα€›ာα€€္ေနခိုα€€္ ေα€™ြးα€–ြားၾကတာ ျα€–α€…္ပါα€α€š္။ ျα€•α€Š္ပမွာေα€™ြးတဲα‚” α€€ေα€œးေတြα€Ÿာ α€™ိα€˜ေတြα€€ α€˜α€›ာဇီးႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ေα€•α€™α€š္α‚” α€₯ပေဒထရ α€’ီα€€ေα€œးေတြα€Ÿာ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွα€…္ထထိ α€˜α€›ာဇီးႏိုင္ငံα€žား ျα€–α€…္ခြင္႔မရၾကပါα€˜ူး"။ α€’ါေၾကာင္α‚” α€žူမထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” ႏိုင္ငံေတြα€€ို ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ခြင္α‚”α€₯ပေα€’α€”ဲα‚” ပတ္α€žα€€္ၿပီး ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€›ာα€™ွာ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြပါ၀င္α€œာေထာင္ တိုα€€္တြα€”္းα€–ို႔ခက္ခဲေၾကာင္းေျပာပါα€α€š္။


"ႏိုင္ငံα€žားဆိုတာ ႏိုင္ငံတစ္ႏိုင္ငံα€›ဲα‚• ထခ်ဳပ္ထျခာထာဏာ α€—α€Ÿုိခ်α€€္ပါ ။ α€’ါα€Ÿာ ႏိုင္ငံေတြထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” α€‘α€œြα€”္α€žα€ိထား ဂရုတစိုα€€္α€€ိုင္တြα€š္α€›α€™α€š္႔ထရာပါ။ α€˜α€š္α€žူα€Ÿာ α€žူတိုα‚”ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္α€α€š္။ α€˜α€š္α€žူေတြα€€ို α€žူတိုα‚”α€›ဲα‚• ပိုင္α€”α€€္α€™ွာ ေနခြင္α‚”ေပးα€™α€š္ဆိုတာα€€ို ႏိုင္ငံေတြα€€ ဆံုးျဖတ္α€–ိုα‚” ထခြင္႔ထေα€›းα€›ွိပါα€α€š္" α€œိုα‚” α€žူα€™α€€ ဆိုပါα€α€š္။


α€˜α€š္ႏိုင္ငံα€žားα€›α€š္ဆိုတာ α€™α€›ွိရင္ α€žူတိုα‚”α€Ÿာ ပစα₯α€Š္းα€₯α€…α₯ာပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင္α‚”၊ α€˜α€္ထေα€€ာင္α‚”α€–ြင္α‚”α€œွα€…္ခြင္α‚”၊ တရား၀င္α€œα€€္ထပ္ထိα€™္းျα€™ားခြင္α‚”၊ ေα€™ြးα€…ာရင္းα€žြင္းခြင္α‚” ထပါထ၀င္ α€€ိα€…α₯ရပ္ ထေတာ္α€™်ားα€™်ားα€™ွာ ျα€•α€žα€”ာေပါင္း ေα€žာင္းေျခာα€€္ေထာင္α€€ို ရင္ဆိုင္ေနရပါα€α€š္။


α€žူတုိα‚”α€Ÿာ α€•α€Šာα€žα€„္ၾကားခြင္α‚”α€œα€Š္း မရၾကပါα€˜ူး။ တစ္ခ်ဳိ႕ဆိုရင္ ေα€”α€›ာတစ္ခုခုα€™ွာ ထခ်ိα€”္ထၾကာα‚€α€€ီး ထထိα€”္းα€žိα€™္းခံထားရပါα€α€š္။ α€˜ာα€œိုα‚”α€œဲဆိုေတာα‚” α€žူတိုα‚”α€˜α€š္α€žူα€˜α€š္၀ါျα€–α€…္α€α€š္။ α€˜α€š္α€€α€œာα€α€š္ဆိုတာα€€ို α€™ျပႏိုင္α€œို႔ပါပဲ။ α€žူတိုα‚”α€Ÿာ တစ္ခါတစ္ေα€œα€™ွာ α€‘α€žα€€္α€›ွင္ရပ္α€α€Š္ႏိုင္α€™ႈထတြα€€္ တရားမ၀င္α€”α€Š္းα€œα€™္းေတြα€€ို α€‘α€žံုးျပဳα€œာၾကရပါα€α€š္။
ကမၻာα‚”ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၆၆ ႏိုင္ငံα€žာ ၁၉၅၄ ခုႏွα€…္ ႏိုင္ငံα€™ဲα‚”ေတြα€€ို α€€ူα€Šီေα€…ာင္α‚”ေα€›ွာα€€္α€–ိုα‚” α€žေα€˜ာတူα€Šီခ်α€€္α€€ို α€œα€€္α€™ွတ္ေα€›းထိုးထားၿပီး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း αƒαˆ ႏိုင္ငံα€€ေတာα‚” ၁၉၆၁ ခုႏွα€…္ α€žေα€˜ာတူα€Šီခ်α€€္α€™ွာ ထဖြဲ႔၀င္ထားပါα€α€š္။


"ႏွα€…္ေပါင္း ၅၀ ၾကာၿပီးတာေတာင္ α€’ီα€žေα€˜ာတူα€Šီခ်α€€္ေတြα€€ို ႏိုင္ငံα€‘α€”α€Š္းα€€α€žာ α€…ိတ္၀င္α€…ားၾကပါα€α€š္။ α€œူα€žα€”္းေပါင္းα€™်ားα€…ြာα€Ÿာ α€žူတိုα‚”α€€ိုα€š္ပိုင္ ႏိုင္ငံα€™α€›ွိα€˜ဲ ကမၻာေα€•αšα€™ွာ ေနထုိင္αΎα€€α€›α€α€š္။ ထေျခခံα€œူထခြင္႔ထေα€›း ျα€–α€…္တဲα‚” ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ခြင္α‚”ေတာင္ α€žူတိုα‚”α€™ွာα€™α€›ွိၾကပါα€˜ူး။ α€’ါα€Ÿာ α€›ွα€€္α€…α€›ာၾကီးပါ" α€œိုα‚” Mr Guterres α€€ ထပ္α€™ံေျပာၾကားပါα€α€š္။


ႏိုင္ငံα€™ဲα‚”ျα€–α€…္ရတဲα‚” ထေၾကာင္းထရင္းေတြα€€ေတာα‚” ထမ်ားၾကီးပါ ။ ဆုိα€—ီα€šα€€္α€šူα€”ီα€šံα€”ဲα‚” α€šူဂိုα€†α€œားα€—ီးα€šားα€œို ႏိုင္ငံၿပိဳα€€ြဲα€œို႔ပဲျα€–α€…္ျα€–α€…္ ၊ ထာα€–α€›ိα€€α€”ဲα‚” ထာα€›ွα€›ွိ တစ္ခ်ဳိα‚•ေα€’α€žေတြα€™ွာα€œို α€€ိုα€œိုα€”ီα€…α€”α€…္α€€ေα€”α€œြတ္ေျα€™ာα€€္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံα€‘α€žα€…္ ထူေထာင္α€œို႔ပဲျα€–α€…္ျα€–α€…္ ႏိုင္ငံα€žားျα€–α€…္ခြင္α‚”α€Ÿာ ျα€•α€žα€”ာတစ္ရပ္ထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” ေα€•αšေပါα€€္α€œာတတ္ပါα€α€š္။


ျα€™α€”္α€™ာα€›ွိ α€›ိုα€Ÿα€„္ဂ်ာ၊ ထိုင္းα€›ွိ တခ်ဳိα‚•ေα€žာ ေတာင္တန္းေα€’α€žα€€ α€œူα€™်ိဳးα€…ုေတြ ၊ α€₯ေα€›ာပမွ α€›ိုးα€™ား (Romani) α€”ဲα‚• ပင္α€œα€š္ေα€€ြα‚”ေα€’α€žေတြα€›ွိ Bidoon α€™်ဳိးႏြα€š္α€…ုေတြα€Ÿာ ထခုထိ α€™ီွတင္းခိုα€œႈံα€›ာα€™ဲα‚” α€œူα€žားေတြထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” α€žူတိုα‚”α€˜α€α€€ို ျဖတ္α€žα€”္းေနရဆဲပါ။


α€žူတိုα‚”α€Ÿာ ခိုα€”ားα€›ာα€™ဲα‚”α€˜α€α€”ဲα‚” ေα€žα€†ံုးၾကရမွာပါ။ ေα€žα€†ံုးေၾကာင္းα€œα€Š္း α€˜ာα€™ွတ္တမ္းα€™ွတ္α€›ာα€™ွ α€€်α€”္ခဲα‚”α€™ွာ α€™α€Ÿုတ္ပါα€˜ူး။ α€˜ာα€œိုα‚”α€œဲဆိုေတာα‚” α€žူတိုα‚” α€’ီကမၻာၾကီးေα€•αš ေα€™ြးα€–ြားα€œာေၾကာင္း α€žူတိုα‚”α€α€Š္α€›ွိေၾကာင္း α€˜ာထေထာα€€္ထထားα€™ွ α€™α€›ွိαΎα€€α€œို႔ပါ။


The United Nations has warned that about 12-million people across the world have no citizenship of any country and consequently suffer from a denial of basic human rights.

The problem is growing worse because children of stateless parents are themselves stateless.

The UN said the problem is most acute in South East Asia, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Without citizenship or permanent resident papers, stateless people are vulnerable to a large number of problems – for example, they’re often restricted from owning property, getting legally married or opening up a bank account. In worse cases, the stateless can be detained indefinitely since they cannot prove who they are or where they come from.

Prominent stateless people include the Rohingya people of Burma. An ethnic Muslim minority, thousands of Rohingya have fled brutality and oppression in Burma for neighboring Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh seeks to deport them back to Burma.

Perhaps the most famous stateless people in the world are the Roma of Eastern Europe. Typically called ‘Gypsies,’ the Roma are a diverse, nomadic group of people who originated in India and have lived in Europe for centuries.

"These people are in desperate need of help because they live in a nightmarish legal limbo," said Antonio Guterres of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

"Apart from the misery caused to the people themselves, the effect of marginalizing whole groups of people across generations creates great stress in the societies they live in and is sometimes a source of conflict."

As a result, the UN is calling on more countries to sign up to Conventions that guarantee some basic rights for the stateless.


At present, only 66 nations are signed up to the 1954 Convention which entitle stateless people to minimum standards of treatment; and only 38 states have agreed to the 1961 Convention which allows for provides a legal framework to help states minimize statelessness.

"After 50 years, these conventions have attracted only a small number of states,'' Guterres noted."It's shameful that millions of people are living without nationality - a fundamental human right."
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The chief of mission of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of India said that all relevant factors and changes in conditions in a country of origin are important but they must be seen in an overall context when talking about sending refugees back home.

The Mae La refugee camp is located about 90 km from Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese border.  Refugees have been living in Thai camps since the mid-1990s. Photo: AFP
The Mae La refugee camp is located about 90 km from Mae Sot on the Thai-Burmese border. Refugees have been living in Thai camps since the mid-1990s. Photo: AFP
“The UNHCR follows very closely the political situations in all countries of origin of refugees, and we will continue to do so,” said Montserrat Feixas Vihe.

He told Mizzima that the UNHCR welcomed the Burmese president’s comments on Wednesday inviting Burmese living abroad to return home to help the country develop.

According to UNHCR reports, there are a total of 11,500 Burmese who are refugees or applying for refugee status in New Delhi.

“The UNHCR hopes that being a refugee is a temporary condition. Therefore, the UNHCR always welcomes positive development in countries of origin so that eventually refugees are able to go back home,” Vihe said.

He said the UNHCR considers voluntary repatriation as the best durable solution for refugees.

“If the situation in Burma evolves in such a way that makes return possible and the refugees are willing to return, the UNHCR will assist them to voluntarily repatriate as much as possible,” he said.

After President Thein Sein’s comments, Burmese refugees in camps along the Thai-Burmese border said they are worried that the Thai government will close the refugee camps, according to refugee sources.

Thein Sein said in a meeting with officials from economic and social organizations, “We will make a review to make sure that Burmese citizens living abroad can return home if they have not committed any crime, and if a Burmese citizen in a foreign country who committed a crime applies to return home, we will show our benevolent attitude in dealing with their case.”

One refugee said, “If the UNHCR repatriates us because of the government’s offer, we will live in border areas. It is impossible that we can go back.”

A Chin refugee in New Delhi told Mizzima. “If the UNHCR forcibly repatriates us, I will join up with an armed group in the border area. I cannot be arrested in Burma.”

Stevin Kap Tlutng, the chairman of the Chin Refugee Committee based in New Delhi, said, “I don’t want them [UNHCR of India] to repatriate us, but I can’t say that it won’t happen.”

Burmese refugees are also concerned that if the UNHCR trusts the Burmese government’s offer, it may stop accepting new refugees, and it could stop or delay sending Burmese refugees to resettlement countries.

“We’re worried that Thailand will close the refugee camps. All the refugees here are worried,” Myo Thant, a refugee in the Umpiem Mai refugee Camp in Thailand, told Mizzima.

There are nine Burmese refugee camps along the Thai-Burmese border: Baan Mai Nai Soi, Baan Mae Surin, Mae La Oon, Mae Ra Ma Luang, Mae La, Nu po, Umpiem, Baan Don Yang and Tham Hin; and one Shan refugee camp, Wieng Heng, in Chiang Mai District in northern Thailand.
 
In Mae La, the largest refugee camp, the Thailand- Burma Border Consortium provides relief to more than 50,000 refugees, and another 16,000 refugees at the Umpiem camp.

Burmese refugee organizations said that if the government really wants to make a positive change, it should first agree to a cease-fire with ethnic armed groups and release all political prisoners before inviting Burmese citizens abroad to return home.

Tha Kell, the vice chairman of the Mae La refugee camp, said, “The conditions in Burma have not improved. Inside Burma, revolutionists and other groups haven’t gotten what they want. Agreements have not been reached. The government’s problems with ethnic groups such as the Shan, Kachin and the KNU [Karen National Union] are not resolved.”

According to the UNHCR Web site, there are 62,015 internally displaced persons affected by the civil war in Burma, 415,670 Burmese refugees and 22,270 asylum seekers from Burma. 

Credit : Mizzima
Dublin, Ireland: Rohingya Community Ireland held a demonstration in Dublin in front of both British and Australian Embassies on 24th August.

The demonstration was jointly organized by Burma Action Ireland and Bangladesh community in Ireland with the primary reason of showing the concern over the 16th July attack on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

The attacked occurred when a group of villagers from Fawliyapara attacked and robbed both registered and unregistered camps armed with knives, swords, wood and bamboo sticks, which led to at least death, injured more than twenty and destroyed many huts.

The demonstration successfully underwent with the presentation of a letter and a copy of the report written by the Irish Centre for Human Rights to each ambassador. Although Australian ambassador was away with duty, the other has given full attention on the concerns and issues raised by the community; and promised

Deomonstrators marching along the 20-minute walk towards that he would prioritize and Australian Embassy discuss the issues with the concerned personalities including the ambassador of Britain in Yangon.

The demonstrators urged to work together with UNHCR, International communities, Burmese and Bangladesh governments to bring and solve the issues; among them were to recognize unregistered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to cease forceful repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Burma, to end crimes on Rohingya and other ethnic groups in Burma, and to protect and Demonstrators in front of Australian Embassy provide basic needs for the refugees in Bangladesh.

Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority in Western Burma, are one of the most prominent stateless people among 12 million across the world, and are subjected to various persecutions under the 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law, fleeing over 270,000 Rohingya people to neighbouring country Bangladesh where majority of them still remain unregistered with daily harsh lives.

Source: Rohingya Community Irelandeomonstrators marching along the 20-minute walk towards that he would prioritize and Australian Embassy discuss the issues with the concerned personalities including the ambassador of Britain in Yangon.

The demonstrators urged to work together with UNHCR, International communities, Burmese and Bangladesh governments to bring and solve the issues; among them were to recognize unregistered Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, to cease forceful repatriation of Rohingya refugees to Burma, to end crimes on Rohingya and other ethnic groups in Burma, and to protect and Demonstrators in front of Australian Embassy provide basic needs for the refugees in Bangladesh.

Rohingya, an ethnic Muslim minority in Western Burma, are one of the most prominent stateless people among 12 million across the world, and are subjected to various persecutions under the 1982 Burmese Citizenship Law, fleeing over 270,000 Rohingya people to neighbouring country Bangladesh where majority of them still remain unregistered with daily harsh lives.


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Source: Rohingya Community Ireland

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By MAHN SAIMON

Surapong Kongchantuk, vice chairman of the Thai National Human Rights Commission’s sub-committee on ethnic minorities, the stateless, migrant workers and displaced persons, has said now is not yet the right time to repatriate refugees from Burma.

Kongchantuk was responding to a remark recently made by the governor of Thailand’s Tak province Samart Loifah. He had issued an order for refugee camps situated along the border in the region to make lists of their population to pre-empt a send back to Burma.
Kongchantuk however told DVB that we have yet to see tangible improvements;
“We sent a list of procedures for the concerned [Thai] government departments regarding the repatriation – that it should be voluntary and that their native country must be in a ready-state to accept them back,” Kongchantuk said.

“To decide whether the native country is ready or not should not be based on claims by the [Burmese government] alone but also needs to be inspected and approved by a UN organisation such as the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). So far, the UNHCR is yet to make any inspection about the real situation,” he added.
“This is not a case between just two countries but also concerns the international community. The Tak governor’s decision is irrelevantly premature and is causing a panic among the refugees.”

Samart Loifa made the orders after President Thein Sein’s remark on 17 August, that Burmese nationals living abroad in exile were allowed to go back to their home country.
He told the media that he was happy for Burmese refugees, who were forced to flee their homes, that they were allowed to go back to Burma and expressed a belief that this would bring peace to the Thai-Burma border region.
Saw Po Dan, chairman of Nupo refugee camp however said they had not received any order from Loifa as yet;
“There is no official order yet. [Loifa] came around our camp a couple of times in the past but he didn’t come in [the camp] – he just hung around outside and talked with camp officials. There was no clear order as yet,” said Saw Po Dan.

There are nearly 150,000 refugees living in nine refugee camps along the Thai-Burma border. Whilst commentators have welcomed what appears to be a relative softening of rhetoric from Naypyidaw, others have responded to invitations back and supposed offers of dialogue with some scepticism.

Far from a decrease in violence in the ethnic areas of Burma the past year has seen an escalation in fighting as the Burmese military has pursued greater incursions into Shan, Karen and Kachin areas.

The last of which has seen around 10,000 people internally displaced and the World Food Program commence delivering food aid to over 3,000 vulnerable people near Kachin state’s capital, Myitkina last week.


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Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Mijarul Quayes will be paying a visit to Myanmar to meet his counterpart on August 24 for two days to discuss bilateral and regional issues. The last meeting at the foreign secretary level took place in Dhaka on December 28, 2009. The trip is welcomed.

It is reported that the issues to be discussed, among others, may include:

* Multi-modal transport connectivity;
* Border security to prevent criminal activities and illegal immigration;
* Facilitation of trade;
* Repatriation of remaining Rohingya refugees;
* Cooperation in other areas including energy and agriculture.

Myanmar is the only other neighbour of Bangladesh besides India. Bangladesh shares 271 km of border with Myanmar -- both land and water. The two countries share the boundary Naaf River. Bangladesh is adjacent to two states of Myanmar -- Rakhaine and Chin.

Myanmar recognised Bangladesh on January 13, 1972 (the 7th country to do so) and Bangladesh remembers this friendly gesture. 

Soon after independence, Bangladesh attached importance to its relations with Myanmar and in May 1972, the Bangladesh foreign minister visited Myanmar, and sent our seniormost diplomat.

Myanmar is so close but at the same time it is too far because of lack of interconnectivity. One has to travel by air from Bangladesh to Myanmar through a third country. This is unacceptable and needs to be sorted out as soon as possible for mutual benefit.

Bilateral relations are friendly but interactions between the two neighbours leave much to be desired. There are about 10 Agreements between the two countries, including those on areas of land boundary management, trade, transport, and prevention of narcotics smuggling. However, there is no direct road connectivity, no air link and no shipping connection between the two countries. 

With the availability of weatherproof road, people-to-people contact is bound to increase and, consequently, commercial and trade opportunities will receive further boost between the two neighbouring countries. The road could also be used for establishing links with China and Thailand. Meanwhile, China has agreed in principle to Bangladesh's proposal of road connectivity through Myanmar to China's Yunnan province.

Since the present government came to power, there has been an attempt to inject momentum and dynamism into bilateral relations. On May 16, 2009, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni visited Myanmar and held official talks with her counterpart U Nyan Winz. 

They reportedly discussed a host of issues, including repatriation of the remaining Myanmar refugees, relaxation of visa requirements for citizens of either country, facilitation of banking services, increased border trade, export of surplus power to Bangladesh, road link between the two countries up to China, direct air link, and sharing bandwidth with fiber-optic cable.

In January 2011, the Bangladesh foreign minister attended the 13th ministerial level meeting of BIMSTEC in Myanmar, and on the sidelines she discussed bilateral issues with her counterpart. She held discussions with a private company in Myanmar to purchase hydropower from adjoining Rakhaine state (Arakan).

The amount of bilateral trade is meager. It is reported that in 2008-09 Bangladesh's exports stood at $9.17 million and imports from Myanmar at $66.65 million. To increase trade, the joint trade commission of Bangladesh and Myanmar held its fifth meeting on July 21-22. It was agreed that the two countries would raise bilateral trade to $550 million from $160 million now. 

Both countries agreed to increase the ceiling for transaction value to $50,000 per consignment from $30,000. Officials also discussed the potential for setting up wholesale border markets at Bangladesh's Teknaf and Myanmar's Maungdaw, a border town. 

They also discussed how to complete border transactions through the Asian Clearing Union payment system as Bangladeshi importers now settle their payments for bulk shipments through bank drafts issued by foreign banks to a third country.

One of the bilateral issues that often cause tension is related to the issue of Rohingya refugees. It first cropped up in 1978. Within a year, it was resolved amicably. The result was all the refugees were repatriated to Myanmar with the assistance of the UNHCR. However, the flow of refugees came to Bangladesh in 1991 and 1997. About 21,000 refugees remain in Bangladesh and negotiations on the issue continue.

The migration of Rohingya people to Bangladesh is a complex matter. It should not be seen merely as a refugee problem with humanitarian dimension partly because Rohingya Liberation Front has been reportedly fighting for decades for a separate land in Rakhaine state. 

Given the background, both countries need to identify the root cause of the issue and jointly develop effective border management to prevent the flow of Rohingyas to Bangladesh.
The political environment in Myanmar is different from that of the past. Myanmar had elections in November and a civilian government (dominated by former military officials), has been in power since March 30. 

The opposition leader Suu Kyi has met twice in recent weeks with representatives of the government, who have delivered conciliatory overtures toward her. On August14, she made her first political trip to the countryside. On August 19, the government invited Suu Kyi for the first time to participate in an economic development workshop, and she met for the first time with President Thein Sein.

Given the political atmosphere, Bangladesh may now seize the opportunity to expand its relations, both in depth and in dimension, with the government of Myanmar, including the desirability of a visit of Bangladesh prime minister to Myanmar. 

The geographical proximity makes both countries natural partners, and they should see cooperative efforts and interconnectivity as catalysts for economic growth and prosperity for the people of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

The writer is a former Bangladesh Ambassador to the UN, Geneva.


α€˜α€‚ၤα€œာေဒခ်္α‚• α€œα€€္α€€ိုင္α€™ိုα€˜ိုင္းα€–ံုးα€™်ားα€€ိုင္ေဆာင္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€…ြပ္α€…ြဲျပီး α€–α€™္းဆီးခံထားα€›ေα€žာာ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္ (၃) ဦးထံα€™ွ တစ္ဦးα€œွ်င္ α€€်ပ္ (၂) α€žိα€”္းα€€်α€…ီ α€”α€…α€€ တာ၀န္α€›ွိα€žူα€™်ားα€€ ေတာင္းခံထားα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žα€α€„္း α€›α€›ွိα€žα€Š္။ 

" α€žူတိုα‚• α€™ိα€žားα€…ုေတြα€€ ဆင္းα€›ဲα€α€š္။ α€™ေပးႏိုင္α€˜ူး။ ခုα€œို α€™ေပးႏိုင္တဲ့ ထတြα€€္ α€’ီα€€ေန႕ပါဆိုရင္ α€žူတိုα‚•α€€ို α€–α€™္းဆီးျပီး ထခ်ဳပ္ထဲα€€ို α€‘α€Š့္ထားတာ α€žံုးα€›α€€္α€›ိွျပီ" α€Ÿု ေတာင္ျပိဳα€™ွ α€žူတိုα‚•၏ ေဆြα€™်ိဳး တစ္ဦးα€€ α€”ိα€›α€₯α₯α€›ာα€žိုα‚• ေျပာα€žα€Š္။


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α€–α€™္းဆီးခံထားα€›α€žူα€™်ားα€™ွာ α€€ိုေα€™ာ္α€Ÿီထူα€œာ (α€˜) ဦးα€™ူဇာα€™်ာ (၁၈ ႏွα€…္)၊ α€€ိုေα€αšα€œီα€™ူα€œာ (α€˜) ဦးα€œာα€œူး (၃၀ ႏွα€…္)ႏွင့္ ဦးႏုα€›္ေα€˜ာေခ်ာ (၆၀ ႏွα€…္) တိုα‚•ျα€–α€…္αΎα€€α€žα€Š္။ α€žူတိုα‚• (၃)ဦးα€™ွာ ေα€™ာင္ေတာေျα€™ာα€€္ပိုင္း ေတာင္ျပိဳျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္ခြဲ ရပ္α€€ြα€€္ (၂) ျα€–α€…္αΎα€€α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

" α€žူတိုα‚•α€€ို α€’ီα€œ ၂၁ α€›α€€္ တနဂၤေႏြေα€”α‚• α€Šေα€”α€–α€€္α€™ွာ α€”α€…α€€ တပ္α€žား ျမတ္ျမင့္ထြα€”္းα€”ဲα‚• ထဖြဲα‚•α€€ α€œာျပီး α€–α€™္းα€žြားပါα€α€š္။ α€žူတိုα‚•α€™ွာ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œာα€€ α€™ိုα€˜ိုင္းα€–ံုးα€›ွိα€α€š္။ α€…α€…္ေဆးα€…α€›ာ α€›ွိα€α€š္ဆိုျပီး ေα€αšα€žြားပါα€α€š္။ ထခု α€žူတိုα‚•α€€ို α€€်ပ္ (၂) α€žိα€”္းα€”ဲα‚• α€œာေα€›ႊးပါဆိုုျပီး ထေၾကာင္းၾကားပါα€α€š္" α€Ÿု ေျပာα€žα€Š္။

ထမွတ္ (၃) α€”α€…α€€ ေတာင္ျပိဳ၀ဲ α€Œာနခ်ဳပ္ စခန္းတြင္ ထဆိုပါ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္ (၃) ဦးထား α€šα€ုထခါ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ထားα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

" α€”α€…α€€ α€”α€š္ေျα€™ (၃) α€™ွဴးα€€ α€—ိုα€œ္ၾကီး α€™ိုးα€žြင္ျα€–α€…္ပါα€α€š္။ ျမတ္ျမင့္ထြα€”္းα€€ α€”α€…α€€α€™ွဴးα€›ဲα‚• α€α€•α€Š့္ထရင္းပါ။ ထခု ျမတ္ျမင့္ထြα€”္းα€€ ေတာင္ျပိဳα€™ွာ α€žိပ္ဆိုးေနပါα€α€š္။ α€žူα€€ α€žူ႕ဆရာ α€™ိုးα€žြင္α€€ို α€œα€€္α€€ိုင္α€›ေတာ့ ကၽြα€”္ေတာ္ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္ေတြα€€ို ထေၾကာင္းထမ်ိဳဳးα€™်ိဳး α€…ြပ္α€…ြဲျပီး α€–α€™္းဆီး ေငြေတာင္းေနပါα€α€š္။ α€–ံုးα€™α€›ွိတဲ့α€žူေတြα€€ိုα€œα€Š္း α€–ံုးα€›ွိα€α€š္ဆိုျပီး α€–α€™္းဆီး ေငြေတာင္းေနပါα€α€š္" α€Ÿု α€žူα€€ ဆက္ေျပာα€žα€Š္။

ေα€™ာင္ေတာျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္တြင္ ဆက္α€žြα€š္ေα€›း ထတြα€€္ ေα€’α€žα€ံα€™်ားα€€ ေα€…်းေပါေပါျဖင့္ α€›α€›ွိေα€žာ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œာေဒခ်္α‚•α€™ွ α€–ံုးα€™်ားα€€ို တရားမ၀င္ α€€ိုင္တြα€š္ α€‘α€žံုးျပဳေα€”αΎα€€α€žα€Š္။ ထိုα€žိုα‚• α€€ိုင္တြα€š္ α€‘α€žံုးျပဳα€žူα€™်ားα€€ို α€”α€…α€€ တပ္α€–ြဲ႕၀င္α€™်ားα€€ α€–α€™္းဆီးျပီး ဒဏ္ေငြα€›ိုα€€္ေα€œ့α€›ွိα€žα€Š္။

ဒဏ္ေငြα€™ွာ α€α€žိα€”္းα€™ွ α€žံုးα€žိα€”္းထိ ေပးα€›ျပီး α€›α€›ွိα€œာေα€žာ ဒဏ္ေငြα€™်ားα€€ို ေα€’α€žα€ံ α€”α€…α€€ ထရာα€›ွိα€™်ားထၾကား ခြဲေ၀ α€šူαΎα€€α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။ α€”α€…α€€α€™ွ ျမတ္ျမင့္ထြα€”္းα€™ွာ ထိုထခြင့္ထေα€›းα€€ို α€šူျပီး ေα€’α€žα€ြင္ ေα€žာင္းα€€်α€”္းေα€”α€€ာ α€–ံုးα€™α€›ွိα€žူα€™်ားα€€ိုα€œα€Š္း α€–ံုးα€›ွိα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€…ြပ္α€…ြဲျပီး α€–α€™္းဆီးα€€ာ ေငြα€Šα€…္ေα€”ေၾကာင္း ေα€’α€žα€ံα€™်ားα€€ ေျပာα€žα€Š္။ α€žို႕ထတြα€€္ တခ်ိဳα‚• ေα€’α€žα€ံ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္α€™်ားα€™ွာ ေတာင္ျပိဳα€˜α€€္α€™ွေα€”ျပီး α€˜α€‚ၤα€œာေဒခ်္α‚•α€žိုα‚• ခိုး၀င္ျပီး တိα€™္းေα€›ွာင္ ေα€”αΎα€€α€›α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žူα€€ ေျပာα€žα€Š္။ 

α€‘α€œားတူ ဇူα€œိုင္α€œ ၁၀ α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚•α€€α€œα€Š္း α€€ြα€™္းα€žီးပင္ ထုပ္α€…ု α€”ံα‚•α€žာေတာင္ ေα€€်းα€›ြာα€™ွ ေα€™ာ္α€œα€—ီ ဆရာ ထာα€˜ူထာေα€œာင္α€€ို α€”α€…α€€ α€”α€š္ေျα€™ (၃) α€™ွဴး α€—ိုα€œ္ၾကီး α€™ိုးα€žြင္α€€ ေဆာ္α€’ီထာေα€›α€—ီးα€šားα€™ွ α€—α€œီ ေဆာα€€္α€›α€”္ ေငြα€‘α€œွဴခံα€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ဆိုα€€ာ α€–α€™္းဆီးခဲ့ျပီး ေငြ (၅) α€žိα€”္း ေတာင္းခံခဲ့ေၾကာင္း α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

ေα€”ာα€€္ဆံုးတြင္ ေငြ (၂) α€žိα€”္းေပးျဖင့္ ျပန္α€œα€Š္ α€œႊတ္ေပးခဲ့ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း ထခ်ဳပ္ထဲတြင္ (၂) α€Šα€‘ိပ္ ထားျပီးα€™ွ ျပန္α€œြတ္ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။ 

ေα€™ာင္ေတာျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္တြင္ တာ၀န္α€€်ေα€”ေα€žာ α€”α€…α€€ α€”α€š္ေျα€™α€™ွဴးα€™်ားα€™ွာ ထိုα€žိုα‚• α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္α€™်ားα€™ွ α€”α€Š္းα€™်ိဳးα€…ံုျဖင့္ ေငြα€Šα€…္ α€›α€›ွိေα€”α€žျဖင့္ ခ်α€™္းα€žာ ၾကီးပြားေနၾကျပီး α€žံုးႏွα€…္တာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ျပီးပါα€€ α€α€žα€€္ α€œုပ္α€…ားα€…α€›ာ α€™α€œိုေထာင္ထိ ထရင္းထႏွီးα€™်ား α€›α€›ွိα€žြားαΎα€€α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ေα€’α€žα€ံα€™်ားα€€ ေျပာα€žα€Š္။

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YANGON (AFP) - Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday she believes the country's army-backed president wants "real positive change" amid warmer relations between the regime and its most famous critic.
Suu Kyi met President Thein Sein on Friday in her highest-level discussions since she was freed from seven years of house arrest soon after a November election that was marred by claims of cheating and the absence of her party.
"From my point of view, I think the president wants to achieve real positive change," she told reporters on Wednesday.
Suu Kyi was warned to keep out of politics in June, but has since engaged in increasing dialogue with the government, which is nominally civilian but remains dominated by former generals.
The Nobel laureate was speaking after a meeting with Tomas Ojea Quintana, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, and said the pair had covered a variety of subjects including the fate of political prisoners.
It was the first meeting between the envoy and the democracy champion, who was locked up during his last visit in February 2010.
"I am really satisfied. I am encouraged to have seen him as he is an expert in this issue," she said of Quintana.
Myanmar allowed the UN envoy into the country for the first time in more than a year amid signs that the government wants to improve its international image.
Quintana described his discussions with Suu Kyi as "very important, fruitful and productive", in brief comments after the meeting.
The UN envoy, who has been an outspoken critic of Myanmar's rulers in the past, is due to hold a press conference on Thursday at the end of a five-day visit that has included a trip to the new parliament in Naypyidaw and talks with senior regime figures.
Earlier on Wednesday, Quintana visited Yangon's notorious Insein prison, which is believed to hold some of Myanmar's around 2,000 political prisoners.
After his trip to the country last year, the envoy angered Myanmar's ruling generals by suggesting that human rights violations in the country may amount to crimes against humanity and could warrant a UN inquiry.
He has since been refused visas to visit several times.
The international community has called for a number of reforms in Myanmar including the release of political prisoners, improved human rights and dialogue with the opposition

α€žံတြဲျα€™ိဳα‚•α€™ွ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္ ထမ်ိဳးα€žα€™ီးα€„α€š္ ႏွα€…္ဦးα€€ α€₯ပေα€’ ခ်ိဳးေα€–ါα€€္α€™ူေၾကာင္း α€œα€α€€ ထရာα€›ွိ တစ္ဦးထေα€•αš တိုင္ၾကားေα€žာ ထမူα€€ို α€žံတြဲ α€›ဲစခန္းα€€ α€œα€€္မခံα€˜ဲ ျငင္းဆိုα€œိုα€€္ေၾကာင္း α€žα€α€„္း α€›α€›ွိα€žα€Š္။ 

α€‘α€™α€Š္α€™ေα€–αšα€œိုα€žူ α€žံတြဲျα€™ိဳ႕ခံ α€™ြတ္α€†α€œα€„္ ထမ်ိဳးα€žား တစ္ဦးα€€ α€žံတြဲα€›ဲ စခန္းα€™ွ ထမူα€€ို α€œα€€္မခံα€˜ဲ ျငင္းα€•α€š္ α€œိုα€€္ေၾကာင္းα€€ို α€šα€ုα€œို ေျပာα€žα€Š္။

" α€’ီα€œ ၁၇ α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚•α€€ ထဲα€’ီ ထမ်ိဳးα€žα€™ီးα€„α€š္ ႏွα€…္ဦးα€Ÿာ α€žံတြဲα€€ေα€” α€›α€”္α€€ုα€”္α€€ို ျα€™α€”္α€™ာ ေα€œေၾကာင္းα€”ဲα‚• α€žြားα€–ိုα‚• ေα€œα€†ိပ္ ဆင္းပါα€α€š္။ ေα€œα€†ိပ္α€€ို ေα€›ာα€€္ထျပီး ထကုα€”္α€œံုး α€…ီα€…α€…္ျပီး Boarding Pass ေတြ ျဖတ္္ျပီး ေα€œα€šာα€₯္ေα€•αšα€€ို တက္α€™α€š့္ ထခ်ိα€”္α€™ွာ α€œα€α€€ ထရာα€›ွိ တစ္္ဦး ေα€›ာα€€္α€œာျပီး α€™ွတ္ပံုတင္α€™ွာ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ α€”ာα€™α€Š္ ပါα€α€š္ ဆိုျပီး α€žြားα€œိုα‚• α€™α€›α€˜ူးα€œို႕တားတာေၾကာင္း ခရီးα€…α€₯္α€€ို α€–်α€€္α€žိα€™္း α€œိုα€€္α€› α€α€š္။ α€’ါα€Ÿာ ႏိုင္ငံα€žား တစ္ဦးα€›ဲα‚• α€›α€žα€„့္ရထိုα€€္တဲ့ ထခြင့္ထေα€›းα€€ို တားျα€™α€…္တာ ျα€–α€…္တဲ့ ထတြα€€္ α€›ဲစခန္းα€€ို α€žြားေα€›ာα€€္ျပီး α€œα€α€€ ထရာα€›ွိα€€ို ထေα€›းα€šူေပးα€–ိုα‚• ထမူα€–ြင့္ တိုင္ၾကား ပါα€α€š္။ α€’ါေα€•α€™α€š့္ α€’ီထမူα€€ို α€›ဲα€€ α€œα€€္မခံႏိုင္α€˜ူးα€œိုα‚• ေျပာပါα€α€š္။" 

α€›ဲα€€ ထမူα€€ို α€œα€€္မခံျခင္းα€™ွာ α€™α€Š္α€žα€Š့္ ထတြα€€္ေၾကာင္း ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္α€€ို α€žူα€€ α€šα€ုα€œို ဆက္ေျပာ α€žα€Š္။

" ထဲα€žα€œို ထမူα€–ြင့္ေပးα€–ိုα‚• ေတာင္းဆိုတဲ့ ထခါ α€›ဲα€€ α€˜α€š္α€œို ပုα€’္α€™α€”ဲα‚• ထမူα€–ြင့္α€›α€™α€š္ဆိုတာ α€™α€žိα€˜ူးα€œိုα‚• ေျပာပါα€α€š္။ ထဲα€’ါဆိုရင္ မတရားတားဆီး ပိတ္ပင္α€™ူ ၃၃၉ (၃၄၁) α€”ဲα‚• ထမူα€–ြင့္ပါα€œိုα‚• ထဲα€’ီ ေα€€ာင္α€™ေα€œး ႏွα€…္ဦးα€€ ေျပာပါα€α€š္။ ထဲα€žα€œို ေျပာတ့ဲ ထခါ α€›ဲထရာα€›ွိα€€ α€˜ာျပန္ေျပာα€žα€œဲဆိုရင္ ၀န္ထမ္းထခ်င္းခ်င္းα€™ိုα‚• တရားα€…ြဲတာ α€œα€€္မခံႏိုင္္α€˜ူး။ ခင္α€—်ားတိုα‚• ျပႆα€”ာ ကၽြα€”္ေတာ္တိုα‚• α€Œာα€”α€”ဲα‚• မဆိုင္α€˜ူး။ α€œα€α€€α€”ဲα‚• α€žြားα€Šွိပါဆိုျပီး ေျပာα€œႊတ္α€œိုα€€္ပါα€α€š္" α€Ÿု α€žူα€€ ေျပာα€žα€Š္။

ထဆိုပါ ထမ်ိဳးα€žα€™ီးႏွα€…္ဦး α€€ိုင္ေဆာင္ထားေα€žာ α€€α€’္α€™ွာ ႏိုင္ငံα€žား α€…ီα€…α€…္ေα€›း α€€α€’္ ထစစ္ထမွα€”္ ျα€–α€…္ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း α€œူα€™်ိဳးေα€”α€›ာတြင္ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ α€Ÿုေα€›းα€žားထားα€žျဖင့္ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီပါေα€”၍ ခရီးα€žြားα€œာခြင့္α€€ို α€œα€α€€ ထရာα€›ွိα€™ွ တားျα€™α€…္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

ရခိုင္ျα€•α€Š္α€”α€š္တြင္ ေနထိုင္ေα€žာ ထစα₯α€œာα€™္α€žာα€žာ၀င္α€™်ားထဲα€™ွ α€€α€™α€”္ ထစα₯α€œာα€™္α€™်ားα€€ို ခရီးα€žြားα€œာခြင့္ ျပဳေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း ထစိုးα€›α€€ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ ထစα₯α€œာα€™္ α€œူα€™်ိဳးα€™်ား ထျα€–α€…္ α€žα€္α€™ွတ္ထားα€žူ ထစα₯α€œာα€™္α€™်ား ခရီးα€žြားα€œာျခင္းα€€ို တင္းတင္းα€€်ပ္α€€်ပ္ ပိတ္ပင္ထားျပီး αΎα€žα€‚α€္α€…္α€œ ၁ α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚•α€€α€œα€Š္း α€žံတြဲျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္ ထေထြေထြ ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေα€›းα€™ွဴးα€™ွ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ α€œူα€™်ိဳးα€™်ား ခရီးα€žြားα€œာျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္α€žα€€္ျပီး α€…ာတစ္ေα€…ာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့α€žα€Š္။ 

ထဆိုပါ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ေα€žာ α€…ာထား ေα€€်းα€›ြာ ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေα€›းα€™ွဴးα€™်ား ထားα€œံုးα€žုိα‚• ေပးပို႕ခဲ့ျပီး α€™ိတၱဴα€€ို ခရိုင္ α€œα€α€€၊ ျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္ α€œα€α€€ ထပါထ၀င္ ျα€•α€Š္α€”α€š္ ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေα€›းα€™ွဴ၊ ခရိုင္ ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေα€›းα€™ွဴးα€™်ားα€€ိုα€œα€Š္း ေပးပိုခဲ့α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

α€…ာပါ ထေၾကာင္းထရာႏွင့္ ပတ္α€žα€€္ျပီး α€žံတြဲα€™ွ ေα€’α€žα€ံ တစ္ဦးα€€ α€šα€ုα€œို ေျပာα€žα€Š္။ 

" α€…ာα€€ αΎα€žα€‚α€္ ၁ α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚• ထုတ္ပါα€α€š္။ ေα€’α€žႏၱα€› ထမိα€”္႕ထမွတ္ (၁) α€™်α€₯္းေα€…ာင္း ၂၀၁၁ ဆိုျပီး α€…ာထဲα€™ွာ ပါα€œာပါα€α€š္။ α€…ာထဲα€™ွာ ထဓိα€€ ပါα€œာတဲ့ ထေၾကာင္းထရာα€€ α€žံတြဲျα€™ိဳα‚•α€”α€š္ ထတြင္း α€™ွီတင္းေနထိုင္ေα€žာ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ α€™်ားα€žα€Š္ တိုင္းေα€€်ာ္ ျα€•α€Š္α€”α€š္ ခရီးα€žြားα€œိုပါα€€ ပံုα€…ံ(၄) α€”ဲα‚•α€žာ α€žြားα€œာα€›α€™α€š္။ α€‘α€€α€š္၍ ပံုα€…ံ (၄) α€™α€šူα€˜ဲ α€žြားα€œာပါα€€ α€₯ပေဒထရ ထေα€›းα€šူခံα€›α€™α€š္α€œိုα‚• ပါα€›ွိပါα€α€š္။" 

α€šα€ုα€€ဲ့α€žိုα‚• α€…ာထုတ္ျပီးေα€”ာα€€္ α€žံတြဲတြင္ ေနထိုင္ေα€žာ α€˜α€‚ၤα€œီ α€‘α€™α€Š္ျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံα€žား α€€α€’္α€€ိုင္ေဆာင္ ထားα€žူα€™်ားα€™ွာ ရခိုင္ျα€•α€Š္α€”α€š္α€€ို ေα€€်ာ္ျပီး တျခား ျα€•α€Š္α€”α€š္ႏွင့္ တိုင္းα€™်ားα€žိုα‚• α€žြားα€œာα€›α€”္ ပိုα€™ို၍ ထခက္ထခဲေတြα‚•ေα€”αΎα€€α€›α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€žိα€›α€žα€Š္။

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ေα€”ျα€•α€Š္ေတာ္တြင္ αΎα€žα€‚ုတ္α€œ (၁၈) α€›α€€္ေα€”α‚”α€€ α€žα€™α€ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ တက္ေα€›ာα€€္α€œာα€žူα€™်ားα€€ို ထံ့ထားα€žα€„့္α€–ြα€š္α€›ာ α€™ိα€”္းခြα€”္α‚”ေခြ်α€…α€€ားေျပာဆိုခဲ့α€žα€Š့္ထေα€•αš α€œူထမ်ား α€…ိတ္၀င္α€…ားα€…ြာ ထိုα€€ိα€…α₯α€€ို ေα€α€˜α€”္ ေျပာၾကားေနခဲ့αΎα€€α€žα€Š္။ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာα€œူα€™်ဳိးα€™်ားα€žα€Š္ ထေα€€ာင္းျမင္တတ္αΎα€€α€žူα€™်ား၊ ထျပဳα€žေα€˜ာေဆာင္ α€™ႈα€€ို α€œိုα€œားαΎα€€α€žူα€™်ားျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ ထမ်ားα€…ုα€žα€Š္ α€—ုα€’αΆα€˜ာα€žာ၀င္α€™်ား ျα€–α€…္ၾကၿပီး α€˜ာα€žာေα€›းထရ ခြင့္α€œႊတ္α€™ႈ၊ α€žေα€˜ာထားα‚€α€€ီးα€™ႈα€€ို α€œα€€္α€€ိုင္ထားαΎα€€α€žူα€™်ားျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္ α€™ိα€”္႔ခြα€”္းတြင္ ထေα€›းပါေα€žာ ထခ်α€€္ (၃) ခ်α€€္ပါ၀င္α€žα€Š္။ 

(၁) α€žူα€€ ျα€•α€Š္တြင္းα€›ွိ ထျမင္မတူ α€žေα€˜ာα€€ြဲျပား ျခားα€”ားα€žူα€™်ားႏွင့္ ထေတြးထေα€αš α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ခ်α€€္ မတူαΎα€€α€žူα€™်ားα€€ို α€žေα€˜ာထားα‚€α€€ီးα‚€α€€ီးထား၍ α€œα€€္တြဲၿပီး တိုင္းျα€•α€Š္α€€ို ထူေထာင္αΎα€€α€˜ုိα‚”α€”ဲα‚” “α€€ြ်α€”္ေတာ္တုိα‚”α€Ÿာ α€’ီα€™ိုα€€ေα€›α€…ီα€…ံα€”α€…္α€”ဲα‚” ႏိုင္ငံα€žα€…္α€€ုိ ထူေထာင္α€›ာα€™ွာ ထခက္ထခဲေတြ ရင္ဆိုင္α€›α€™ွာ ျα€–α€…္ပါα€α€š္။ ထျမင္မတူတဲ့ α€œူေတြα€”ဲα‚” α€œα€€္တြဲေဆာင္႐ြα€€္α€–ိုα‚” α€–ိတ္ေα€αšα€•ါα€α€š္” α€œိုα‚” ေျပာၾကားျခင္း။ 

(၂) ျα€•α€Š္ပကို ေα€›ာα€€္ေနၾကတဲ့ တုိင္းရင္းα€žားေတြထားα€œုံးα€€ိုα€œα€Š္း ျပန္α€œာခ်င္တဲ့α€žူα€›ွိရင္ ျပန္α€œာႏိုင္ေထာင္ ျပဳα€œုပ္ေပးα€˜ုိα‚” α€…α€₯္းα€…ားေα€”ေၾကာင္းα€”ဲα‚” α€›ာဇတ္α€™ႈ α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္ခဲ့α€žူα€™်ား ထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” ျပစ္α€™ႈα‚€α€€ီးရင္ ျပစ္ဒဏ္α€€ို α€€်ခံα€›α€™ွာ ျα€–α€…္ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း ထျပစ္ခံα€–ိုα‚” ျပန္α€œာခဲ့ရင္ ထထူးα€žα€€္α€Šွာα€…ြာ α€…α€₯္းα€…ားေပးα€™ွာ ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္း။ 

(၃) α€žူ႔ထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” ျα€™α€”္α€™ာျα€•α€Š္α€Ÿာ တခ်ိα€”္α€€ α€€ိုα€š္ထက္α€”ိα€™့္α€€်တဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြ α€€ိုα€š္α€”ဲα‚” တန္းတူα€›ွိတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြထက္ α€šေန႔ထခ်ိα€”္α€™ွာ α€™်ားα€…ြာα€”ိα€™့္α€€်ေနတဲ့ ထေျခထေα€”ေα€›ာα€€္ေနၿပီဆိုတာα€€ို ၀န္ခံα€žြားခဲ့ပါα€žα€Š္။ α€’ီα€œိုα€”ိα€™့္α€€်α€™ႈα€€ို ျα€™ွင့္တင္ႏိုင္ေထာင္ ထားα€œံုးα€€ ၀ိုင္း၀န္း ပူးေပါင္းα‚€α€€ိဳးα€…ားα€˜ုိα‚” α€œိုေၾကာင္း ဆိုခဲ့ျခင္း။ 

ထိုα€žုံးခ်α€€္α€žα€Š္ ျα€•α€Š္α€žူα€œူထုα€€ို ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္α€›α€”္ထတြα€€္ ၎ ကမၻာ့ႏိုင္ငံα€™်ားα€€ α€œα€€္ခံα€œာေα€…α€›α€”္ထတြα€€္ ၎ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း α€α€€α€š့္ရင္ထဲα€™ွ ထြα€€္α€œာေα€žာ α€…α€€ားα€™်ား α€Ÿုတ္α€™α€Ÿုတ္ဆိုα€žα€Š္α€€ို ေα€…ာင့္αΎα€€α€Š့္α€˜ုိα‚” α€œိုေα€•α€žα€Š္။ 

ပထမ ေျပာဆိုခ်α€€္α€”ဲα‚” ပတ္α€žα€€္ၿပီး α€žုံးα€žα€•္α€›α€œွ်င္ ထစိုးα€›α€žα€…္α€žα€Š္ ျα€•α€Š္တြင္းထတိုα€€္ထခံα€™်ား α€α€Š္α€›ွိေα€”α€™ႈα€€ို α€œα€€္ခံျခင္း၊ ထျမင္မတူ α€€ြဲျပားျခားα€”ားα€žα€Š့္ထတြα€€္ မတရားေထာင္α€žြင္း ထက်α€₯္းခ်ထားေα€žာ ႏိုင္ငံေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žားα€™်ားα€€ို α€žေα€˜ာထားα‚€α€€ီးα€…ြာ α€œႊတ္ေပးα€˜ုိα‚”α€œိုα€žα€Š္။ ထျမင္မတူ α€€ြဲျပားျခားα€”ားα€žူα€™်ားႏွင့္ α€œα€€္တြဲ α€œုပ္ခ်င္α€œွ်င္ α€™ိα€™ိα€€ိုα€š္တိုင္α€€ α€žေα€˜ာထားα‚€α€€ီးေၾကာင္း ပထမ ျပႏုိင္α€˜ိုα‚”α€œိုα€žα€Š္။ α€…α€€ားေα€”ာα€€္တြင္ α€œα€€္တြα‚• α€‘α€œုပ္α€›ွိα€˜ိုα‚” α€œိုα€žα€Š္။ ထစိုးရထဖြဲα‚• α€€်α€™္းα€žα€…α₯ာ α€€်ိα€”္ဆိုα€€α€α€Š္းα€€ α€œႊတ္ေပးα€žα€„့္ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း α€šα‘ဳ ၅ α€œေα€€်ာ္ ၾကာα€žα€Š္ထထိ ႏိုင္ငံတကာႏွင့္ α€€ုα€œα€žα€™α€‚ၢ ထပါထဝင္ ထတိုα€€္ထခံ ပါတီα€™်ားα€€ ေတာင္းဆိုေα€”ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း α€œႊတ္α€™ေပးα€˜ဲ ထား႐ွိျခင္းα€žα€Š္ α€žေα€˜ာထား α€™α‚€α€€ီးα€›ာ၊ ေ႐ွα‚•α€…α€€ား ေα€”ာα€€္α€…α€€ား α€™α€Šီα€›ာα€€်α€žα€Š္။ 

α€’ုတိα€šα€‘α€်α€€္α€™ွာ ထစုိးα€›α€žα€…္α€–ြဲ႕ၿပီးα€™ွ α€œြတ္α€œα€•္α€…ြာ ေျပာဆိုခြင့္α€€ို ပိတ္ပင္α€žα€Š့္ တင္းၾကပ္α€žα€Š့္ α€₯ပေဒထြα€€္α€œာခဲ့α€žα€Š္။ ထင္တာα€”α€€္ α€‘α€žုံးျပဳα€žူα€™်ားα€€ို Skype, Gtalk, VZO ႏွင့္ ထင္တာα€”α€€္ α€…α€€ားေျပာ ပ႐ိုဂရမ္α€™်ားα€€ို α€‘α€žုံးထျပဳα€›α€Ÿု ထမိα€”္႔ထုတ္ျခင္း၊ α€œြတ္α€œα€•္α€…ြာ ထုတ္ေ၀ခြင့္α€€ို ပိုα€™ိုတင္းၾကပ္α€…ြာ ျပဳα€œုပ္α€œာျခင္း၊ ျα€•α€Š္α€žူ ၅၅ α€žα€”္းေα€€်ာ္ထတြα€€္ ထစိုးရပိုင္α€žα€α€„္းα€…ာ ၄ ေα€…ာင္α€žာ ထား႐ွိၿပီး α€œြတ္α€œα€•္ေα€žာ ပုဂၢα€œိα€€ α€žα€α€„္းα€…ာα€™်ား ထုတ္ေ၀ခြင့္ α€šα€ုထက္တိုင္ α€™α€›ွိျခင္း။ α€œူထု α€œူတန္းα€…ား α€€ိုα€š္α€…ားျပဳထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းα€™်ား α€šေန႔ထက္တုိင္α€–ြဲα‚•α€…α€Š္းခြင့္မ႐ွိျခင္းတိုα‚”α€žα€Š္ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ျα€•α€Š္α€žူα€œူထုထားα€œα€€္ေတ႔ြ α€œုပ္α€€ိုင္ျα€•α€žα€›α€™α€Š့္ 

α€‘α€œုပ္ၿဖစ္α€žα€Š္။α€’ီα€™ိုα€€ေα€›α€…ီα€…ံႏွα€…္တြင္ α€›ွိα€žα€„့္α€›ွိထပ္α€žα€Š္α€€ို α€œα€€္ေတြα‚•α€œုပ္ရပ္α€™်ားျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ 

ျα€•α€Š္ပေα€›ာα€€္ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏုိင္ငံα€žားα€™်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္α€žα€€္၍ ေျပာၾကားα€›ာတြင္ ျပစ္α€™ႈα‚€α€€ီးα€™်ား α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္ထားα€žူα€™်ား ထေနထႏွင့္ ထျပစ္α€’ါဏ္ခံα€›α€™α€Š္ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ထျပစ္α€™ႈ α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္ျခင္း α€™α€›ွိα€žူα€™်ား ထေα€”ႏွင့္ ျပန္α€œာႏိုင္α€›α€”္ α€…α€₯္းα€…ားေα€”ေၾကာင္း ျပစ္α€™ႈ α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္α€žူα€™်ားထေα€”ႏွင့္ ျပစ္α€™ႈα€€ို α€€်ခံα€›α€”္ ျပန္α€œာα€œွ်င္ ထထူးα€žα€€္α€Šွာα€…ြာ α€…α€₯္းα€…ားေပးα€™α€Š္ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခ်α€€္α€žα€Š္ “α€˜α€€္α€œိုα€€္α€™ႈ α€›ွိα€žα€Š္α€Ÿုα€Ÿုျမင္α€žα€Š္”။ 

ျပစ္α€™ႈ α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€™α€Š္α€€ဲ့α€žိုα‚” ထခ်α€€္α€‘α€œα€€္ ထေထာα€€္ထထားα€™်ားျဖင့္ ထဓိပၸါα€š္α€–ြင့္α€™α€Š္α€”α€Š္း။ တဖက္တြင္α€œα€Š္း α‚α€α€αˆ ထေျခခံα€₯ပေဒတြင္ αα‰αˆαˆ ခုႏွα€…္ပိုင္းα€™ွα€…၍ ထစုိးရထဖြဲ႕၀င္α€™်ား၊ ႏုိင္ငံ့၀န္ထမ္းα€™်ား၏ α€œုပ္ေဆာင္α€™ႈα€™်ားα€€ို α€œြတ္ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€žာခြင့္ ေပးထားခဲ့α€žα€Š္။ ထိုα€…α€₯္ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€žα€Š္ ထစိုးရထဖြဲ႕၀င္ α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္တေα€šာα€€္ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ α€…α€…္ထစိုးα€› α€œူα€™်ားα€€ို α€œြတ္ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€žာခြင့္α€€ို α‚α€α€αˆ ထေျခခံα€₯ပေဒတြင္ α€‘α€Š့္α€žြင္းၿပီး ထကာထကြα€š္ ေပးထားေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း αα‰αˆαˆ ခုႏွα€…္ ေα€”ာα€€္ပိုင္း ျα€•α€Š္α€•α€žုိα‚” ထြα€€္ခြာα€œာ αΎα€€α€žူα€™်ားα€€ိုα€™ူ ခြ်င္းခ်α€€္α€™်ားျဖင့္ ခြဲျခားα€žα€္α€™ွတ္ထားျခင္းα€™ွာ တရားα€™ွ်တမႈ α€™α€›ွိα€˜ဲ တဖက္α€žα€္ α€˜α€€္α€œိုα€€္ထားα€™ႈ ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ေတြα‚•α€›ွိα€›α€žα€Š္။ 

ထိုα‚”ျပင္ αα‰αˆαˆ ခုႏွα€…္တြင္ α€›α€”္α€€ုα€”္ၿမိဳα‚•၌ α€œူ ၃၀၀၀ ေα€€်ာ္α€€ို α€žα€္ျဖတ္ခဲ့α€™ႈ (ေα€€်ာင္းα€žားα€œူα€„α€š္α€™်ား ထပါထ၀င္)။ α€’ီပဲα€šα€„္း α€œုပ္α‚€α€€ံα€žα€္ျဖတ္α€™ႈတြင္ α€œူေပါင္း တရာေα€€်ာ္ α€žα€္ျဖတ္α€žα€Š့္ တရားခံα€€ို တေα€šာα€€္α€™ွ ထေα€›းα€šူမခံα€›ျခင္း၊ ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€…ြာ ဆႏၡျပခဲ့ၾကေα€žာ α€›α€Ÿα€”္းα€žံဃာ ေတာ္α€™်ားα€€ို α€›α€€္α€…α€€္α€…ြာ α€žα€္ျဖတ္ေထာင္ခ်ခဲ့ျခင္းႏွင့္ α€›ာေပါင္းα€™်ားα€…ြာα€€ို ေထာင္α€žြင္းခ်ထားျခင္းတိုα‚”α€€ို ျပဳα€œုပ္ခဲ့α€žူα€™်ားα€€ို α‚α€α€αˆ ထေျခခံα€₯ပေα€’ျဖင့္ တဖက္α€žα€္ ထကာထကြα€š္ေပးထားၿပီး α€™ိα€™ိα€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ခ်α€€္ျဖင့္ ျα€•α€Š္α€•α€žုိα‚” ထြα€€္ခြါခဲ့ၾကၿပီး တုိα€€္ ပြဲဝင္ေα€”α€žူα€™်ားα€€ိုα€™ူ α€›ာဇ၀တ္α€€်ဴးα€œြα€”္ခဲ့ပါα€€ ထေα€›းα€šူα€™α€š္၊ α€žα€္α€Šွာα€…ြာ α€…α€₯္းα€…ားေပးα€™α€Š္ ဆိုα€žα€Š္α€€ α€™ွ်တမႈ α€™α€›ွိေခ်။ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္ထေα€”ႏွင့္ ကထခ်α€€္α€€ို ထေα€œးထနက္ထားၿပီး α€™ွ်တစြာ α€˜α€€္α€œိုα€€္α€™ႈα€™α€›ွိα€˜ဲ α€…α€₯္းα€…ားα€˜ိုα‚”α€œိုα€žα€Š္။ 

တတိα€šα€‘α€်α€€္ထေα€”ႏွင့္ တိုင္းျα€•α€Š္α€€ ကမၻာ့α€‘α€œα€š္တြင္ ခ်α€™္းα€žာႂα€€ြ၀ေα€žာ ႏုိင္ငံα€™ွ ကမၻာ့ ထဆင္းα€›ဲဆုံး ႏိုင္ငံα€˜α€α€žိုα‚” α€€်ေα€›ာα€€္α€žြားခဲ့α€›α€žα€Š္α€€ို ၀န္ခံျခင္းα€žα€Š္ ထမွα€”္α€€ို တင္ျပရဲျခင္း ျα€–α€…္ေα€žာ္α€œα€Š္း α€…α€…္ထာဏာα€›ွင္ α€…ံα€”α€…္ေၾကာင့္ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ α€…α€…္ထာဏာα€›ွင္α€™်ား ထာဏာα€‘α€œြဲα€žုံးα€…ားα€™ႈေၾကာင့္ ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ထုတ္ေα€–αš ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္း α€™α€›ွိေခ်။ α€žူ႔ထစိုးα€›α€žα€Š္ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာျα€•α€Š္α€žူα€™်ား ဆင္းα€›ဲα€™ြဲေတမႈα€€ို α€žα€ိျပဳα€™ိα€žα€Š္။ ထို႔ထတြα€€္ေၾကာင့္ ျα€•α€Š္α€žူα€™်ား α€…ိတ္ခ်α€™္းα€žာေα€…α€›α€”္ ေα€…်းα€€ြα€€္α€…ီးပြားေα€›း α€…ံα€”α€…္α€€ို ျပဳα€œုပ္ေပးခဲ့့ၿပီး α€œြတ္α€œα€•္တဲ့ α€šွα€₯္ၿပိဳင္α€™ႈα€€ို ပြင္α€œα€„္း ျမင္α€žာေထာင္ α€…ီα€™ံေဆာင္α€›ြα€€္ႏိုင္ခဲ့α€α€š္ ဆိုခဲ့ပါα€žα€Š္။ ေα€€်းα€œα€€္ေα€€်း႐ြာေတြ α€–ြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေα€›းထတြα€€္α€œα€Š္း α€‘α€œုပ္α€›ုံ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြ α€œုပ္ေပးခဲ့α€α€š္ ဆိုခဲ့ပါα€žα€Š္။ α€žိုα‚”α€›ာတြင္ ႏွα€…္ေပါင္း ၂၀ ေα€€်ာ္ ထစိုးα€›α€”ဲα‚” ေပါင္းၿပီး တိုင္းျα€•α€Š္α€›ဲα‚• α€žα€˜α€α€žα€šံဇာတမ်ားα€€ို α€šွα€₯္ၿပိဳင္α€žူα€™α€›ွိ α€œα€€္၀ါးα‚€α€€ီးထုပ္ၿပီး α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α€™်ားα€”ဲα‚” ထက်ဳိးထျမတ္α€€ို α€™ွ်ေ၀ခံα€…ားေနၾကေα€žာ ေခတ္ပ်α€€္α€žα€”္းႂα€€ြα€š္α€žူေα‚’း α€œα€€္တဆုတ္α€…ာ α€€ို α€žာα€™α€”္ျα€•α€Š္ α€žူေတြ ထေα€”α€”ဲα‚” α€˜α€š္α€œိုα€™ွ α€šွα€₯္ၿပိဳင္ၿပီး ေα€…်းα€€ြα€€္ထဲα€€ို ၀င္α€œုိα‚”α€™α€›ႏိုင္ပါα€˜ူး။ α€’ီထတြα€€္ α€™ွ်တတဲ့ ေα€…်းα€€ြα€€္α€…ီးပြားေα€›းα€…ံα€”α€…္α€€ို ျပဳα€œုပ္α€™α€š္ဆိုရင္ ခ်α€™္းα€žာα€œြα€”္းေနတဲ့ α€žူေတြα€›ဲα‚• α€œα€€္၀ါးα‚€α€€ီးထုပ္ထားα€™ႈα€€ို α€₯ပေဒထုတ္ α€€α€”္α‚”α€žα€္ၿပီး α€žာα€™α€”္ျα€•α€Š္α€žူေတြထတြα€€္ α€œုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ေတြα€€ို α€–ြင့္ေပးα€›α€™α€Š္ျα€–α€…္ပါα€žα€Š္။ 

ထေα€™α€›ိα€€α€”္ႏိုင္ငံα€€ို ႏိုင္ငံေα€›းခိုα€œႈံα€žူ ထျα€–α€…္ေတာင္းခံခဲ့ေα€žာ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာα€…α€…္α€žံα€™ႉး၊ α€—ိုα€œ္α€™ႉးေထာင္α€œα€„္းထြဋ္α€€ α€šေန႔ထေျခထေα€”α€€ို α€žုံးα€žα€•္ထားα€™ႈα€Ÿာ α€…ိတ္၀င္α€…ား α€œα€€္ခံႏိုင္α€…α€›ာ ေα€€ာင္းပါα€žα€Š္။ ဦးေထာင္α€œα€„္းထြဋ္α€€ α€šα‘α€„္α€…α€…္ထစိုးα€›α€žα€Š္ တုိင္းရင္းα€žား α€œα€€္α€”α€€္α€€ိုင္ထဖြဲα‚• (၁၇) α€–ြဲα‚•ႏွင့္ ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းေα€›း α€šူႏုိင္ခဲ့ျခင္းα€€ို ေထာင္ျမင္α€™ႈα‚€α€€ီး တရပ္ထျα€–α€…္ α€‘α€žားေပး ေα€–αšျပခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ၎တိုα‚”α€žα€Š္တုိင္းျα€•α€Š္ ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€›းα€€ို ေဆာင္α€€်α€₯္းႏိုင္α€žူα€™်ားထၿဖစ္ေα€™ာ္ၾကြားခဲ့ၾကပါα€žα€Š္။ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္ႏွင့္ NLD ပါတီα€€ိုα€™ူတိုင္းα€–်α€€္ ျα€•α€Š္α€–်α€€္α€™်ား ထျα€–α€…္ ထပုပ္ခ်ခဲ့α€žα€Š္။ α€šα€ု ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္၏ α€…α€…္၀တ္ခြ်တ္ ထစိုးα€›α€œα€€္ထက္တြင္α€™ူ α€šα€α€„္α€”α€Š္းα€—ဴα€Ÿာα€€ို ေျပာင္းျပန္α€œွα€”္ၿပီး တိုင္းရင္းα€žား α€œα€€္α€”α€€္α€€ိုင္ ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းα€™်ားα€€ို တုိင္းျα€•α€Š္ α€–်α€€္α€žူα€™်ားထျα€–α€…္ ပုံေα€–ာ္ ခါ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္α€€ို α€žူတိုα‚”α€”ဲα‚” α€žα€„့္ျမတ္ေနပါၿပီ ဆိုၿပီး ပြဲထုတ္α€œာ ခဲ့ျပန္α€α€š္α€Ÿု ဆိုထားပါα€žα€Š္။ ထဓိα€€ α€›α€Š္α€›ြα€š္ခ်α€€္α€™ွာ ထဖက္α€žα€္ ေα€›းဆြဲ α€‘α€α€Š္ျပဳထားေα€žာ α€”ာဂစ္ ထေျခခံα€₯ပေα€’α€€ိုα€™ူ ထျα€–α€…္α€€ိုင္α€…ြဲၿပီး ေα€’αšေထင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္α€€ို α‚α€α€αˆ α€₯ပေα€’ေα€˜ာင္ထတြင္းα€žိုα‚” α€žြတ္α€žြင္း ေα€”ျခင္းျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ေထာα€€္ျပထား ခဲ့ပါα€žα€Š္။ 

ထစိုးα€›α€žα€…္α€™ွ ၎တိုα‚”ႏွင့္ တုိα€€္ခိုα€€္ေနၾကေα€žာ တိုင္းရင္းα€žားα€œα€€္α€”α€€္α€€ိုင္ ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းα€™်ားα€€ို α€žားဆိုးα€™်ားျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္၊ ေα€–်ာင္းα€–်α€šူα€›α€™α€Š္ ၊ ျα€–α€…္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခ်α€€္α€žα€Š္ ပဋိပကၑကို ေျα€–α€›ွင္းႏိုင္α€˜ုိ႔ထက္ တမင္α€žα€€္α€žα€€္ ျပႆα€”ာα‚€α€€ီးထြားေထာင္ ဆြေပးα€žα€€ဲ့α€žိုα‚” ျα€–α€…္ေစပါα€žα€Š္။ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္α€žူတုိα‚”α€€ ဖခင္ေα€”α€›ာα€™ွေα€”၍ တိုင္းရင္းα€žားα€™်ားα€žα€Š္ α€žားဆိုးα€™်ားေα€”α€›ာတြင္ ထား၍ေျပာၾကားျခင္းα€žα€Š္ ႏွိα€™့္ခ်ျခင္းα€žေα€˜ာျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ α€šα‘ုα€œုပ္ရပ္α€žα€Š္ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္ႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းα€žား α€œα€€္α€”α€€္α€€ိုင္ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းတို႔ၾကားα€žα€•္α€œွ်ဳိ ၿဖိဳခြဲျခင္းα€žာျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ α€’ီα€™ိုα€€ေα€›α€…ီထင္ထားα€…ုα€™်ားα€€ို α€…ိတ္ဓါတ္α€…α€…္ဆင္ေα€›း တုိα€€္α€€ြα€€္တခု ျα€–α€…္ႏုိင္α€žျဖင့္ α€žα€ိထားα€žα€„့္α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု ျမင္α€žα€Š္။ 

ထမ်ဳိးα€žား α€€ာα€€ြα€š္ေα€›းႏွင့္ α€œုံၿခဳံေα€›းေα€€ာင္α€…ီα€žα€Š္ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ိုေα€”ာα€€္α€™ွ α‚€α€€ိဳးဆြဲထားၿပီး ၎ေα€”ာα€€္တြင္ α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α€žα€”္းေ႐ႊ α€›ွိေα€”α€žα€Š္α€Ÿု α€šူα€†α€›α€žα€Š္။ 

α€€ြ်α€”္ေတာ္တုα‚”ိထားα€œုံး ေတာ္α€œွα€”္ေα€›းα€žα€ိ α€›ွိαΎα€€α€›α€™α€Š္ျα€–α€…္ၿပီး ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်α€€္α€žα€Š္ ထမွα€”္α€α€€α€š္ ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€›α€”္ထတြα€€္ α€›ိုးα€žားα€…ြာ ပထမေျα€α€œွα€™္းထေα€”ႏွင့္ α€œွα€™္းျခင္းေα€œာ α€žိုα‚”α€™α€Ÿုတ္ ပ်ားα€›α€Š္ဆမ္းα€…α€€ား α€žα€€္α€žα€€္α€™ွ်α€žာ ျα€–α€…္α€žေα€œာ ေα€…ာင့္αΎα€€α€Š့္α€˜ိုα‚” α€œိုေα€•α€œိα€™့္α€™α€Š္။ 

တိုင္းရင္းα€žား ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းα€™်ားα€€ိုα€œα€Š္းေα€€ာင္း၊ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာျα€•α€Š္α€žူα€™်ားα€€ိုα€œα€Š္းေα€€ာင္း၊ α€…α€…္ထာဏာα€›ွင္ ထဆက္ဆက္α€žα€Š္ ကတိα€™်ဳိးα€…ုံ ေပး၍ α€œိα€™္α€œα€Š္α€œွα€Š့္α€–်ား ထားခဲ့αΎα€€α€žα€Š့္ထတြα€€္ α€žံα€žα€š ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္α€€ို ထျပစ္တင္α€…α€›ာ α€™α€›ွိေပ။ ျα€•α€Š္တြင္းျα€•α€Š္ပရွိ α€™်ဳိးခ်α€…္ျα€™α€”္α€™ာα€™်ားထေα€”ႏွင့္ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္α€€ို α€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္ၿပီးေα€”ာα€€္α€™ွ α€šုံα€šုံαΎα€€α€Š္αΎα€€α€Š္ α€œိုα€€္ၾကရန္ ထထူးα€œိုထပ္ေα€•α€žα€Š္။ ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းα€…ုαΎα€€α€Š္α€žα€Š္ α€–ြင့္ေပးေα€žာ တခါးα€™ွα€”္α€žα€™ွ်α€€ို တိုး၀င္α€…ူα€…α€™္းရင္း α€Ÿα€”္ေဆာင္α€™ႈα€œား၊ ထမွα€”္ ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€›α€”္ ျပဳα€œုပ္ျခင္းα€œား ဆိုα€žα€Š္α€€ို ထုထ္ေα€–αšေပးပါα€œိα€™့္α€™α€Š္။ ဆႏၡေα€…ာၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေα€›း α€€α€…ားα€€ြα€€္တြင္ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲပါ၀င္ α€€α€…ားေα€”αΎα€€α€žα€Š့္ ေα€’αšα€…ုα€€ို မပုပ္ခတ္α€˜ိုα‚” α€”ားα€œα€Š္α€™ႈ ေပး၍ ေα€…ာင့္αΎα€€α€Š့္ရင္း ထားေပးα€˜ိုα‚” ထထူးα€œိုထပ္ေα€”ေα€žာ ထခ်ိα€”္ျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ α€€်ားα€€ြα€€္ α€™ေ႐ြ႕ခင္ α€žူα€€ α€˜ာထင္α€žα€Š္ ငါα€€ α€˜ာထင္α€žα€Š္ႏွင့္ α€›α€”္ျα€–α€…္ေα€”α€œွ်င္ α€€ြ်ႏု္ပ္တိုα‚” α€›α€Š္α€™ွα€”္းခ်α€€္ ပန္းတိုင္α€žုိα‚” α€™α€›ာα€€္ႏိုင္α€˜ဲ α€›ွိα€™α€Š္α€žာျα€–α€…္α€žα€Š္။ ထိ္ုα‚”ေၾကာင့္ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္တြင္ α€α€€α€š္ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€œို α€…ိတ္α€›ွိ α€™α€›ွိ၊ ထေα€•αšα€šံႏိုင္ငံေα€›း ထျမတ္ထုတ္α€œိုα€™ႈျဖင့္ α€€α€…ားျခင္းေα€œာ။ တႏွင့္တဦကို ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံၿပီး ေα€žြးα€€ြဲေထာင္α€œုပ္၍ ထုပ္ခ်ဳပ္α€›α€”္ α‚€α€€ံα€…α€Š္ျခင္းေα€œာ ဆိုα€žα€Š္တိုα‚”α€€ိုα€…α€…္ထုပ္α€…ုα€žα€Š္ α€˜α€€္α€…ုံα€™ွ ထၾကပ္ α€‘α€α€Š္းျα€–α€…္α€œာတိုင္း ထြα€€္ေα€•αšα‚ွာα€žα€Š့္ ထေα€”ႏွင့္ ၿပဳα€œုပ္တတ္α€žαΏα€–α€„့္α€Ÿα€”္ျပေျပာင္းα€œဲα€›α€”္ တာα€…ူျပျခင္းα€œား α€žိα€˜ုိα‚”α€œိုα€žα€Š္။ 

α€‘α€€α€š္၍ ဦးα€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္ထေα€”ႏွင့္ α€—ိုα€œ္α€žα€”္းေ႐ႊ ထရိပ္ေထာα€€္α€™ွ ထမွα€”္α€α€€α€š္ ႐ုα€”္းထြα€€္ၿပီး α€…α€…္α€™ွα€”္ေα€žာ α€’ီα€™ိုα€€ေα€›α€…ီα€…ံα€”α€…္α€€ိုα€α€Š္ေထာင္α€œိုα€œွ်င္α€žူα€žα€Š္ျα€™α€”္α€™ာႏိုင္ငံ၏α€›ာα€™ိုα€…္(αΏα€•α€Š္α€žူα€˜α€€္ေၿပာင္းα€œာေα€žာ α€–ိα€œα€…္ပိုင္α€…α€…္α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္α€‘α€™α€Š္) ျα€–α€…္α€œာေα€•α€œိα€™့္α€™α€Š္။ α€—ိုα€œ္α€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္ ထေα€”ႏွင့္ ၎ေျပာခဲ့ေα€žာ ပ်ားα€›α€Š္ဆမ္းα€…α€€ားα€™်ားα€žα€Š္ ထမွα€”္α€α€€α€š္ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းα€œဲα€œိုα€…ိတ္ႏွင့္ ေျပာၾကားျခင္းေၾကာင္းα€€ို α€žα€€္ေα€žျα€•α€žα€Š့္ထေα€”ႏွင့္ ျပဳα€œုပ္α€›α€”္ ထထးူα€œိုထပ္α€œွေα€•α€žα€Š္။ 

(၁) ႏုိင္ငံေα€›း ထက်α€₯္းα€žားထားα€œုံးα€€ို ခြ်င္းခ်α€€္α€™α€›ွိ ထျα€™α€”္ဆုံးα€œႊတ္ေပးα€›α€”္။ 

(၂) ျα€•α€Š္ပေα€›ာα€€္ ျα€™α€”္α€™ာα€™်ားα€€ို ထေထြေထြ α€œြတ္္ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းα€žာ ခြင့္ေပးα€›α€”္။ 

(၃) တိုင္းရင္းα€žား α€œα€€္α€”α€€္α€€ိုင္ ထဖြဲα‚•α€‘α€…α€Š္းα€™်ားထားα€œုံးႏွင့္ α€—α€Ÿိုထစိုးရတိုα‚” ေα€’αšေထာင္ဆန္းαΎα€€α€Š္ထား ၾကားျα€–α€”္ေျα€–ေα€›း ေα€”α€›ာတြင္ ထားၿပီး ေဆြးေႏြးα€Šွိႏႈိင္းၿပီး ၿငိα€™္းခ်α€™္းေα€›းα€šူၾကရန္။ 

ပထမဦးဆုံး α€€ြ်ႏု္ပ္တိုα‚”၏ ေထာင္တြင္း ထက်α€₯္းα€€်ခံေα€”α€›ေα€žာ α€€ြ်ႏု္ပ္တိုα‚” α€Šီထစ္α€€ို ေα€™ာင္ႏွα€™α€™်ားα€€ို α€œႊတ္ေပးျခင္းျဖင့္ α€—ိုα€œ္ခ်ဳပ္ α€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္α€€ ထေျပာα€™α€Ÿုတ္၊ α€‘α€œုပ္ၿဖင့္α€žα€€္ေα€žျပျခင္းα€€ို αΎα€€α€Š့္α€œိုပါα€žα€Š္။ α€—ိုα€œ္α€žိα€”္းα€…ိα€”္ α€žα€€္ေα€žျပခ်α€€္α€€ို ေα€…ာင့္ေα€™ွ်ာ္αΎα€€α€Š့္ရင္း ထေျပာႏွင့္ α€‘α€œုပ္α€œα€€္ေတြα‚•α€€် α€™α€€်α€€ို ဆုံးျဖတ္α€™α€Š္ ျα€–α€…္ပါα€žα€Š္။ 

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