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By Dhaka Tribune Editorial November 5, 2017 How can we answer to our conscience knowing full-well what the Myanmar military is doing to the innocent Rohingya minority -- not even sparing children or pregnant women? Despite the on-going humanitarian crisis involving Rohingya refugees ...

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U.S. Keeps Pressure On Myanmar For Political Change by Michele Kelemen

People stand behind barricades as they wait for family members to be freed from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday. Myanmar's government announced Monday that it is reducing the sentences of many prisoners, but stopped short of declaring an amnesty for political prisoners that many people had [...] Read more

Myanmar prisoner term cuts disappointing: US

WASHINGTON — The United States said Tuesday that Myanmar's decision to cut prison terms for detainees fell short of what Washington expects to reward reforms undertaken by the army-backed regime. "Even one political prisoner is one political prisoner too many," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said, underscoring points [...] Read more

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားလႊတ္ေရး သတိၱရိွရိွလုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ အမတ္ေတြ တိုက္တြန္း

ဒီကေန႔ အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာရာမွာ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသလိုျဖစ္မလာဘဲ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ အနည္းအက်ဥ္းပဲ ပါဝင္တာေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား လြတ္ေရးအတြက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္း တိုက္တြန္းေျပာဆိုခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ လြႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြ စိတ္ပ်က္လက္ပ်က္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္အေနနဲ႔ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြကို သတၱိရိွရိွနဲ႔ ရဲရဲတင္းတင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားဖို႔လိုမယ္လို႔လည္း လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြက တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္။ ကိုသားညြန္႔ဦးက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ အက်ဥ္းက်ေနသူ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို လြႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ု လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္းမွာလည္း တိုက္တြန္းမႈေတြရိွခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ အခု အစိုးရသစ္လက္ထက္ တတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္အထိ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို မယ္မယ္ရရ လႊတ္တာ မေတြ႔ရတဲ့အေပၚ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြလႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ တုိက္တြန္းခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ လြႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြက အားမလိုအားမရ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ အမ်ိဳးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မဲဆႏၵနယ္အမွတ္ (၁) ကိုု္ယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးေအးေမာင္ကေတာ့ [...] Read more

လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသည္႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား စာရင္း

လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔သည္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအားမွတ္ေက်ာက္တင္ စမ္းသပ္မည့္ေန႔  မနက္ျဖန္ (၄-၁-၂ဝ၁၂) ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အထြဋ္အျမတ္ထားရတဲ့ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ႀကီးမွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာပါေတာ့မယ္။ ဒါက အစိုးရ ထိပ္ပိုင္း အရာရွိႀကီးေတြ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့တဲ့ စကားနဲ႔ အခ်ိန္သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ အတိအက်ပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာျခင္းဟာ ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး တိုးတက္မႈရဲ႕ အေရးႀကီးဆံုးလမ္းစ တခု ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့အတြက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ႀကီးစြာနဲ႔ ေစာင့္ဆိုင္းေနရတဲ့ ရက္ေကာင္းအခ်ိန္အခါကို အခုဆိုရင္ ေရာက္လုဆဲဆဲ ျဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ၂-၁-၂ဝ၁၂ ညေနပိုင္းက ၾကားလိုက္ရတဲ့ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ အက်ဥ္းသား လႊတ္ေပးမယ့္ သတင္းတပုဒ္မွာေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြအေၾကာင္း မပါရွိဘဲ အက်ဥ္းက်ေနသူမ်ားအတြက္ ေထာင္က်ရက္ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ေပးမယ္ ဆိုတာကို သိလိုက္ရပါတယ္။ [...] Read more

Than Shwe wants to be remember like Kim Jong IL and not Pol Pot by Prof.Kanbawza Win

The common denominator of these three men are cruelty, brutality, ruthlessness, and secrecy that had set-up a tyranny which simultaneously oppressed and starved its people to an almost unique degree to sustain their own regime. All of them have directly or indirectly killed from 1-5 to 2 million [...] Read more

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Maungdaw Township Administration officer told the village administration officers not to use the word “Rohingya” as their reports and official corresponding to other government offices, said a village administration officer.

U Kyi San, The Township administration officer had ordered not to use the word “Rohingy” to the village administration officers who attend the monthly meeting at Township administration office on January 1, 2012.” 

The township officer told in the meeting that the word “Rohingy” was not accepted by the official and will not use it while they are corresponding with government office and the officer had no rights to Rohingya in the office, said an officer from Maungdaw Township administration office. 

The word “Rohingya” is using in the Rohingya community inside Arakan and exile as per Ancient Arakan historical prospect and the international and national media (exile) also using the word “Rohingya” in their reports. It is first time, the high officer from Maungdaw is giving direction not to use word “Rohingya” in the northern Arakan, said a politician from Maungdaw.

“The most extensive exodus was due to the harshness of Dragon King Operation in 1978. Nearly 300.000 fled to Bangladesh. First Burma denied them to be Burmese citizens or residents. Later signed the agreement on 7th July 1978 to receive the refugees back, as they were residents of Burma and finally repatriated all under a bilateral agreement between Bangladesh and Burma.”

“Historically Arakan has many names. Most of the names are nearer in pronunciation. Different people who had contacts with Arakan pronounced its name in their own languages, which sound a bit different from each other. Rakhasa, Rakhasha, Rakhapura were the names called by Indians. Arkhaung, Rakhanj, Rakham, Recon, Rachami and Rakhang were mostly used by Armenians, Moors, Arabs and Persians Recon, Rakan, Rachan, Rakao, Arkao and finally Arakan were the names found in the records of Dutch, Portuguese, French, Italian and English peoples.Rakan, Rakham, Rohang and Roshang were found in medieval Bengali, Tripura and Indian literatures. People in Arakan (mostly the Muslims, Hindus and Bruwas) called their country Rowang or Rohang or Roshang. From Rohang, its people are Rohingyas.”
In traditional Bengali literature, Arakan amply and wider has been described as “Rohang”. Thus from Rohang its people is Rohingya, according to Dr. Kunango, History Chittagong, vol: 1, 1978 and Etymology of Arakan by one researcher in Rakhine, “Thahara” magazine, 2002.

U Nu, the Union Prime Minister, on the radio speech relayed from BBS (Burma Broadcasting Service) on 25th September 1954 at 8:00 PM explained that the people living in Maungdaw and Buthidaung regions are our national brethren.They are called Rohingyas according to U Nu's radio speech .5th Sep.1954. P-3.

Both Prime Minister U Nu and then Defense Minister U Ba Swe in November 03, 04 1959 made public speeches to the mass public gatherings in Maungdaw and Buthidaung. There, they assured the public that the government was clean and clear in regard of Rohingya's Burmese citizenship. They told Rohingyas were at the same par in the status of nationality with Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Mon, Rakhine and Shan.

"The people in this district (May Yu) now northern Arakan are Ruhingya. On the other side of the border, there are Muslims too. They are Pakistanis (Now Bangli). Muslims in Arakan side are Rohingyas. Some other ethnic people live on the both sides of the border, not only in this border, but also in our borders with India, China and Thailand. So, frankly speaking people living in this May Yu region are our national brothers, and one of our national minorities. So, we had any wrongs in the past, forget them. From today, you all are our Union citizens. Feel yourself as our family members, not strangers,” according to Brigadier Aung Gyi, Deputy Chief of Staff, had given the speeches on Mujahids surrendered ceremonies on 8/7/61 and 15/11/61 which were published in a booklet, named “Future of May Yu”.


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Burma announces a false Amnesty for the third time

By Zin Linn, Burma’s President Thein Sein Government has announced it has cut back on the sentences of some prisoners who got grave punishments such as death sentence, life sentence and more than 20 to 30 years imprisonments. Those inmates will be released beginning on 3 January on [...] Read more

လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ ေၾကညာျခင္းနွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ေဟာင္းမ်ားအျမင္ (ရုပ္/သံ)

လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႕အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားလြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ကုိႏုိင္ငံပုိင္ရုပ္သံလုိင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အက္ဖ္အမ္ ေရဒီယိုမွ ၂၀၁၂ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၂ ရက္ေန ့ ယေန႕ ညေန ၄နာရီတြင္ ေၾကျငာသြားပါသည္။ လြတိၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္မွာ ေထာင္က်ႏွစ္မ်ားကိုသာေလ်ာ့ေပးသြားျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္သမားေတြက ေထာင္ဒဏ္ အႏွစ္ ၂၀၊ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ အႏွစ္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္သမားေတြက ေထာင္ဒဏ္ အႏွစ္ ၃၀၊ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ အႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေအာက္က လူေတြက ၄ပုံ၁ပုံ၊ ေသဒဏ္သမားေတြကုိ တကၽြန္း လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ရမည္ဟု ႏုိင္ငံပုိင္ မီဒီယာမ်ားက တရား၀င္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာလိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ အဆိုပါေၾကညာခ်က္အရ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼအမိန္ ့နဲ ့ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၃ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ [...] Read more

ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္ရမွာ မေၾကာက္ပါနဲ႔

ေမာင္၀ံသ ေၾကာက္စိတ္ဟာ လူသားရဲ႕ ေမြးရာပါပစၥည္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ မႏုႆေဗဒ ပညာရွင္ေတြက ဆုိတယ္ဗ်။ အားလံုးသိၾကတဲ့ အတုိင္း ခြန္အား အင္မတန္ ႀကီးမားတဲ့ ဒိုင္ႏိုေဆာတို႔လို သတၱဝါႀကီးေတြ၊ ရွည္လ်ားတဲ့ အစြယ္ရိွတဲ့ ဆင္လိုသတၱဝါႀကီးေတြ၊ ခြန္အားေရာ၊ လ်င္ျမန္ဖ်တ္လတ္မႈပါရိွတဲ့ က်ားေတြ၊ ျခေသၤ့ေတြလို သတၱဝါေတြ၊ အင္မတန္ အဆိပ္ျပင္းတဲ့ ေျမြလို၊ ကင္းလို သတၱဝါေတြအလယ္မွာ အဲဒီစြမ္းပကားေတြ တစ္ခုမွမပါဘဲ ေမြးဖြားေပၚေပါက္လာရတဲ့ လူသားေတြအဖို႔ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာ ျမင္ျမင္သမွ်ဟာ ေၾကာက္စရာေတြခ်ည္း ျဖစ္ခဲ့မွာအမွန္ပဲဗ်ာ။ အဲဒီ သတၱဝါႀကီးေတြအျပင္ ေျမငလ်င္လႈပ္တာ၊ မီးေတာင္ေပါက္ကဲြတာ၊ မုိးႀကိဳး ပစ္တာ၊ ေရႀကီးတာ၊ ေတာမီးေလာင္တာ စတဲ့ သဘာဝေဘးဆုိးေတြကိုပါ ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရျပန္ေတာ့ ေၾကာက္စိတ္ဟာ [...] Read more

၂၀၁၁ ထူးျခား ထင္ရွားသူမ်ား

၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသည္ အစိုးရသစ္ တက္လာျခင္း အပါအ၀င္ အေျပာင္း အလဲမ်ားစြာ ျဖစ္ေပၚမႈႏွင့္အတူ လူအမ်ားႏွင့္ သတင္း မီဒီယာမ်ားက အထူးအာ႐ုံစိုက္ ခံရေသာ ထူးျခားရွားသူမ်ားကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ျမင္ခဲ့ရပါသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ယခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ထူးျခားထင္ရွား သူမ်ားကို ဧရာ၀တီ ပရိသတ္အတြက္ စုစည္း ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါသည္။ အျပည့္အစံု ဖတ္ခ်င္ရင္ေတာ့ ဒီမွာပါ။ [...] Read more

လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ မမွန္ကန္ဟု ဦး၀င္းတင္ေ၀ဖန္

By မသင္းသီရိ အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ကို သြားေရာက္ေလ့လာခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေကာ္မရွင္ဟာ ေထာင္အာဏာပိုင္ေတြ လိမ္ညာတာကို ခံခဲ့ရတာလို႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ႏွစ္ရွည္အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္း သတင္းစာဆရာႀကီး ဦး၀င္းတင္က ေျပာပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္ဟာ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္နဲ႔အတူ ေလွေလွာ္အင္း ရဲဘက္စခန္းေတြကို သြားေလ့လာအၿပီး ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္တဲ့ စာနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ဦး၀င္းတင္က အခုလို တုံ႔ျပန္ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္တာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအေျခအေန အျပည့္စံုကိုေတာ့ မသင္းသီရိက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၃၀ ရက္ ေန႔စြဲနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေကာ္မရွင္က အင္းစိန္ေထာင္န႔ဲ ေလွေလွာ္အင္း ရဲဘက္စခန္းေတြအေၾကာင္း သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္တာကို အစိုးရသတင္းစာေတြမွာေရာ ျမန္မာ့႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကား ေတြမွာပါ ျပသခဲ့တာပါ။ အခ်က္ [...] Read more

Muslims in Myanmar have the RIGHT to use our religion to POLITICALLY FIGHT for getting back all our rights

By Dr. Ko Ko Gyi My “learned” Political Friends used to advice me not to mix politics and religion. The origin of this concept started from the separation of church and state idea where in ancient times Church-state mixing and melding in the governing of a country. And [...] Read more

ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအက်ႈဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားက အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ထဲမွ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားသို႔ ၂၀၁၂ ႏွစ္သစ္ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္

ဟံသာ၀တီ ဦး၀င္းတင္၏ ႏႈတ္ခြန္းဆက္စကား ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားဆိုုတာ အေၾကာင္း ၂ ခ်က္ ေၾကာင့္ ေထာင္ထဲေရာက္တယ္။ ႏိုုင္ငံေရး အယူ၀ါဒ သေဘာတရား လုုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြမွာ ယံုုၾကည္လိုု႔ ေထာင္က်တယ္။ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးဆန္႔က်င္တဲ့ စစ္အစုုိးရ အာဏာရွင္အစုုိးရေတြကိုု မယုုံၾကည္လိုု႔ ေထာင္က်တယ္။ စစ္အစုုိးရတပိုုင္း သမၼတက ဒီေန႔ျမန္မာႏိုုင္ငံမွာ ယုုံၾကည္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ေထာင္က်ေနတဲ့ အက်ဥ္းသားမရွိဘူးလိုု႔ ဆိုုတယ္။ သူစကားမွာ မယုုံၾကည္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ အက်ဥ္းသားရွိတယ္ ဆိုုရင္လည္း က်ဳပ္တိုု႔ ဘယ္လိုုမွ မယုုံပါဘူး၊ မတုုန္ပါဘူး။ သမိုုင္းမွာ စာရင္းခ်ဳပ္ေတာ့ က်ဳပ္တိုု႔ အားလုုံးဟာ ယုုံၾကည္ခ်က္ေတြ၊ မယုုံၾကည္ခ်က္ေတြ အပထား၊ က်ဳပ္တိုု႔ဟာ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြပါပဲ။ ငါတိုု႔ အားလုုံး ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြေဟ့။ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကြ။ [...] Read more

Burma army’s New Year greeting to Rohingya community

Maungdaw, Arakan State: Burma’s Engineering army (GE) destroyed seven-shop, looting goods and battered severely to the Rohingya shopkeepers in Fokira Bazar, of Maungadaw north on the night of December 29, as New Year greeting to Rohingya community, said a local elder who denied to be named. “Six army [...] Read more

Rohingya Refugees And Thailand’s ‘Push-Back’

Written by: IPCSBy Panchali Saikia The Rohingya refugee crisis is not a new phenomenon, and it has now grabbed the attention of the international media for all the wrong reasons. The Rohingyas, in large numbers, are now trying to escape to Malaysia via the sea route through Thailand, [...] Read more

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားလက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားတဲ့ ၁၂၅သိန္းတန္ တီရွပ္

တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ပညာေရးရန္ပံုေငြ ေတးဂီတေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲမွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ့ အဖြင့္အမွာစကား ရန္ပုံေငြပဲြမွာ အဆုိေတာ္အားလုံး လက္မွတ္ထုိးထားတဲ့ ၁၂၅ သိန္းတန္ တီရွပ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ပညာေရးရန္ပံုေငြ ဂီတေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားေသာ အက်ၤ ီကို ေလလံပစ္ရာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္တစ္ဦးက က်ပ္ ၁၂၅ သိန္းျဖင့္ ေစ်းအျမင့္ဆံုးေပး၍ ၀ယ္ယူသြားသည္။ ရန္ပံုေငြပြဲအမွတ္တရအျဖစ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ မ်က္ႏွာဓာတ္ပံုျဖင့္ ဒီဇိုင္းျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ အနီေရာင္တီရွပ္(XL size)တြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားက လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားသည့္ အက်ၤ ီကို ၾကမ္းခင္းေစ်း က်ပ္သိန္း ၃၀ ျဖင့္ ည ၈ နာရီေက်ာ္တြင္ စတင္ေလလံပစ္ၿပီး ကုမၸဏီ ၆ ခုက [...] Read more

Myanmar sets by-election date ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဧၿပီ ၁ ရက္ က်င္းပမည္

By Hla Hla Htay (AFP)  YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar is to hold by-elections on April 1, a government official said Friday, which could propel democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi into the army-dominated parliament. "The by-election will be held on April 1," a Myanmar government official who asked [...] Read more

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