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The Right Time Will Come 

Personally speaking, the reason I came out of Burma in the first place is to return home. But, there must be a change. For those who return, they must be the ones who will be able to contribute to the good of the society. As a journalist, I could be able to contribute to media development. So, I am ready to go home. I have been waiting for the chance to go home for more than 20 years. I am just living in Thailand, the closest country to mine, because I want to go back.The government has to create the right environment for all of us to go home. Will it release political prisoners? How much media persons like us will be able to work when we are there? I want to go back to my own country in a dignified way, not like I am going back to prison. We are concerned about the recent invitation by the President. What he said about exiles was not clear yet. But I hope the right time will come soon. That time the country should be quite stable and there must be a guarantee for those who plan to return. We are not criminals. I mean those who have been working for restoration of democracy and freedom in Burma. The government must initiate some sort of guarantee first. As human being, it is important for us to go home with dignity. There will be many things to do inside the country by applying knowledge and skills that we have learnt when we are in exile. So, I think all of us will eventually return if our country is peaceful and stable, and changes are being taken place.—Aung Zaw, Editor and Founder of The Irrawaddy Magazine




No Invitation is Necessary

First, the government needs to make already-started talks between its representative and Aung San Suu Kyi substantial, which should eventually lead to a genuine and fruitful political dialogue process. Second, it needs to stop its military offensives against ethnic nationalities and declare a nationwide ceasefire for internal peace. Third, its needs to release political prisoners, including Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi, who have been imprisoned for their peaceful activities for restoration of democracy in the country. If those conditions are met, we can say that our country is marching firmly towards it path to democracy and peace. Under such circumstances, the government doesn't even need to invite exiles to come back. The recent invitation by the president wasn't clear. It was made without those conditions. It would be a different story if he made his announcement under those conditions. We didn't run away from our country. We just came out of it to work for bringing about democracy, human rights and internal peace in our country.—Aung Moe Zaw, chairman of the Democratic Party for a New Society


Change Can only Come from Within




 I am watching the situation. I will go back next month. It will be better for artists like us to exist inside the country as we have more audiences there. Changes for Burma can only come from inside the country. We can't make changes from exile.—Godzilla, comedian




Too Soon to Think of Returning

We still can't consider going back home just because President Thein Sein said his government will consider leniency for us. The starting point for resolving Burma's current problems has yet to be reached, as long as our colleagues who remain behind bars for their beliefs are not released. Why did we leave our country? We did so because we believe that our country and people will only be in a situation conducive to peace and prosperity when there is no longer a dictatorship and we are able to establish a democratic system. The recent developments in Burma haven't met with any prospect that will help to realize our desire, so I would say that going home is still something we shouldn't think about.—Nyi Nyi Aung, former political prisoner and a current US citizen who was temporarily detained while visiting Burma last year.




No Return without Reunion


I was glad to hear that the president invited exiles to come back. But things that happened in the past make it difficult for us to believe his offer. Burma's previous military leaders asked students who participated in a nationwide pro-democracy uprising in 1988 and left the country after the military coup in September of the same year to come back. What happened to those who returned? Some disappeared, while others were imprisoned. Their lives were gradually worn down. If the government wants us to go back, there must be a guarantee. Of course, we want to go home. We have been working for 23 years because we want to go back. Who wouldn't want to go home? There are two things in our hearts—to be back in the country, and to continue our fight for what we believe in a dignified way. We don't need business opportunities or political seats. However, if the government wants to invite exiles who were involved in the 8-8-88 [August 8, 1988] uprising, they should allow them to reunite with other members of the 8-8-88 family who are still languishing in different prisons for their beliefs. As long as part of our family is in prison, the rest of us cannot be completely happy. So release the political prisoners, including the '88 generation students. Stop civil war as soon as possible. Also, recognize our efforts for genuine change and bringing about human rights in our country.—Aung Myo Min, director of the Human Rights Education Institute of Burma


Not the Answer to Burma's Problems

Inviting exiled Burmese to come home is not the answer to all of Burma's political problems. To really solve the problem, the government must enter into a dialogue with opposition groups and ethnic forces. Even though the president said his administration will allow exiles to return home, government troops are still deployed in different ethnic areas and engaged in clashes with ethnic armies almost every day.—Naw Zipporah Sein, general secretary of the Karen National Union




Improve Lives of Burma's People First

If the government really wants exiles to come back, it needs to improve the lives of people living inside the country. There are now more than 2,000 political prisoners in Burma, and they must be released. The government must also cease its military offensives in ethnic areas. We will be able to trust the recent government offer only if it is accompanied by efforts to bring about internal peace.—Wai Hnin Pwint Thon, a student of economics in London and the eldest daughter of Mya Aye, a leader of the 88 Generation Students Group




Return to be Silenced?

There is no way that we can go back inside the country and just keep our mouths shut. Even if we do go in, we will have to continue to protect local people, no matter which government rules or which companies come to invest. We have to work to bring more benefit to them. So I will only think about going home if I can fight for their benefit and what they deserve in terms of natural resources, environment and survival.—Wong Aung, coordinator of the Shwe Gas Movement


No Welcome for Former Soldiers

If dissidents in a country are to be given amnesty, the constitution of that country has to be amended first and a new law should be promulgated. It may be easy for those who were involved in political activities to go back to Burma by pledging that they will keep themselves away from politics.But it will be difficult for the return of former military personnel who participated in anti-government protests. Existing military laws and tribunals at different levels have to be revoked in order for those soldiers to go back. I don't have any plan to go home unless there is a clear announcement by the government.—Myint Wai, a former member of the Burmese air force who is currently working with the Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma.Just Another Fake AmnestyThe president said members of exiled opposition groups can go back to Burma while his government doesn't come up with any concrete plan to tackle the major issues the country faces. So we don't believe his nonsense words. It seems to me that his recent invitation was similar to his announcement of amnesty to prisoners in May, which in fact was only a one-year reduction of prison terms. It doesn't make much sense.—Aung Lart, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions


Invitation to a Tight Corner

If the government wants exiles to come back, it has to create the right environment for them to go home. It is very risky though. I mean, what are we going to do if we go back? Will we enjoy reunion with our mothers? Or will we go into business? It will be no problem if we only do those things. But if we plan to get involved in politics again or work for what we believe inside the country, we must ensure in advance that we will be able to do so. Otherwise, we will just end up being thrown into a tight corner. —Sein Win, managing editor of Mizzima News

၂၅ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းေဝစုမွ တပ္မေတာ္သား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ေ႒းလႈိင္၊ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီးတင့္ဆန္း
တို႔မွ အခ်ဳိ႕ေသာ တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ားသည္ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးေၾကာင့္ အရပ္ဘက္ တရား႐ံုးမွ ျပစ္ဒဏ္မ်ား က်ခံခဲ့ရၿပီး ထိုသူမ်ားသည္ ႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ အလုပ္လုပ္ခဲ့သူမ်ား ျဖစ္ျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ထိုသူမ်ားပါ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္တြင္ ပါဝင္ေစလိုသည့္ အတြက္ ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔၏ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ အဆိုကို ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ေဆြးေႏြး သြားၾကသည္။ တေန႔တည္းမွာပင္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း တံခါးပိတ္ တရား႐ုံးက ဗိုလ္ႀကီးေဟာင္း ေနမ်ဳိးဇင္ကို အီလက္ထေရာနစ္ ဥပေဒ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈျဖင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ခ်မွတ္လိုက္သည္။

ယင္းကဲ့သို႔ တပ္မေတာ္သား လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ား ပါဝင္ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းမွာ ပထမဆံုး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းလည္း ျပည္သူ႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ဦးခိုင္ေမာင္ရည္က ဆိုသည္။

“ဒါ ပထမဦးဆံုး ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းပဲ ေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့သူေတြကလည္း ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီးအဆင့္ ရွိသူေတြ ထိပ္ဆံုးမွာ ထိုင္တဲ့
ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ခုံနံပတ္ ၁၊ ၂ အဲဒီမွာထိုင္တဲ့ ႏွစ္ေယာက္က ထေဆြးေႏြးသြားတာ” ဟု မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။

ဦးသိန္းၫႊန္႔၏ အဆိုပါ အဆိုကို တိုင္းရင္းသား စည္းလံုးညီၫြတ္ေရး ပါတီ အပါအဝင္ တိုင္းရင္းသား ပါတီမ်ား
ျဖစ္သည့္ ရွမ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ၊ ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရး ပါတီ၊ ဖလံုစေဝၚ ပါတီ၊ မြန္ေဒသလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ပါတီ၊ ခ်င္းတိုးတက္ေရး ပါတီမ်ားမွ ေထာက္ခံ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ယင္းအျပင္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစု ပါတီမွ ခြဲထြက္ကာ ပါတီသစ္ေထာင္ခဲ့သူ ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔၏ အဆိုကို အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုပါတီမွ ဦးစိုးဝင္းႏွင့္ ေဒါက္တာ သန္းဝင္းတို႔မွလည္း ေထာက္ခံခဲ့ၾကသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႔အမတ္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ဦးစံလင္းႏွင့္ ေဒၚလဲ့လဲ့ဝင္းေဆြတို႔မွ ကန္႔ကြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔၏ အဆိုတြင္ “ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ အက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနရသူမ်ား အတြက္ အေထြေထြ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ သမၼတမွ ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးေရး” ဟု သံုးႏႈန္းထားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ျပည္ထဲေရးဝန္ႀကီး ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး ကိုကိုမွ
ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ထံ ဆက္လက္ တင္ျပေပးရန္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ဥကၠ႒ သူရဦးေရႊမန္းက ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခဲ့ၿပီး ဒုဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး ကိုကိုက သမၼတထံ ဆက္လက္ တင္ျပေပးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ အဆိုကို ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔မွ ယခုလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္႐ံုး တင္ျပထားခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ႀကံ့ခုိင္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး အမတ္တဦးျဖစ္သူ သူရဦးေအးျမင့္မွလည္း လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ အဆိုကို ယခုလ ၂ဝ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္႐ံုးသို႔ တင္ျပထားသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ေသာၾကာေန႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ားတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ယင္းအဆိုကို
ေဆြးေႏြးသူမ်ားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ထိုအဆို တခုတည္းသာ ေဆြးေႏြးႏိုင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္မ်ားက
ေျပာၾကသည္။

ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္၏ ေမးခြန္းမ်ားတြင္ ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔မွ ေမးျမန္းသည့္ ေမးခြန္းျဖစ္သည့္ သကၤန္းကၽြန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ လူကုန္ကူးခံရသူ ၂၆ ဦး ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္သည့္ ေမးခြန္းကို အလုပ္သမားဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္မွ လူကုန္ကူးမႈ က်ဴးလြန္သူဟု ယူဆရသူ ဦးေက်ာ္ျမင့္ကို ဖမ္းဆီးစစ္ေဆးေနၿပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျဖသည္။

ယင္းအျပင္ ေရွ႕ေန စာေမးပြဲမ်ား ျပန္လည္ က်င္းပခြင့္၊ လိုင္စင္ သိမ္းခံရသူမ်ား အတြက္ ျပန္ထုတ္ေပးရန္ ရွိမရွိကို ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔မွ ေမးျမန္းရာ တရားသူႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဦးထြန္းထြန္းဦးမွ “တရား႐ံုးမွ သတ္မွတ္ထားသည့္ ဥပေဒ ၁၂/၇ အရ ေရွ႕ေန စည္းကမ္း မလိုက္နာသူမ်ားကို ေရွ႕ေန လိုင္စင္ ျပန္ထုတ္ေပးရန္ မရွိပါ” ဟု ျပန္လည္ ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔၏ ေနာက္ထပ္ေမးခြန္းတခုျဖစ္သည့္ ၂ဝဝ၈ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု အေျခခံဥပေဒတြင္ တရား႐ံုးမ်ား တခါးဖြင့္ၿပီး
ျပည္သူ႔ေရွ႕တြင္ တရားစီရင္ရန္ ေဖၚျပထားေသာ္လည္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္ အထူးတရား႐ံုးမ်ား ဖြင့္ကာ တခါးပိတ္ စစ္ေဆးေနျခင္းသည္ ဥပေဒႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီမႈ ရွိမရွိ ေမးသည္ကို ျပည္ေထာင္စု တရားသူႀကီးခ်ဳပ္မွ အထူးတရား႐ံုးမ်ား လုပ္ရျခင္းသည္ သက္ေသမ်ား တရားခံမ်ား၏ လံုၿခံဳေရးအရ၊ လုပ္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ တခါးပိတ္ စစ္ေဆးျခင္းမရွိပါဟု ျပန္လည္ ေျဖၾကားသည္။

ယင္းအျပင္ ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔မွ သေဘၤာသားမ်ား ကားသြင္းခြင့္ရွိမရွိ ေမးခြန္းကို ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ရာ စီးပြားကူးသန္းဝန္ႀကီး ဦးဝင္းျမင့္မွ ပို႔ကုန္သြင္းကုန္ စည္းကမ္းအတိုင္း လုပ္ေနျခင္းေၾကာင့္ သေဘၤာသားမ်ား ကားသြင္းခြင့္ မရွိေၾကာင္း
ေျဖသည္။

ေသာၾကာေန႔ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အစည္းအေဝးတြင္ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ဦးခက္ထိန္နန္က ဖားကန္႔ေဒသရွိ ေက်ာက္စိမ္းမ်ားကို ေရရွည္ စနစ္တက် ထိန္းသိမ္း တူးေဖၚေရးအဆို တင္သြင္းရာ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္မ်ားအားလံုး သေဘာတူလက္ခံခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ဦးခက္ထိန္နန္၏ အဆိုကို သတၱဳတြင္းဝန္ႀကီး ဦးသိန္းထိုက္က ျဖည့္စြက္ ေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ အဆိုပါ ေဒသအတြင္းရွိ
ေက်ာက္စိမ္းလုပ္ကြက္မ်ားကို ေလွ်ာ့မည္ျဖစ္ကာ တိုင္းရင္းသား အမည္ခံ တ႐ုတ္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား၏ လုပ္ငန္းခြင္အတြင္း ႀကီးစိုးမႈမ်ားကိုလည္း စိစစ္သြားရန္ ရွိသည္ေၾကာင္း ေျဖၾကားသည္ဟု အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ဦးဖုန္းျဖင့္ေအာင္က ဆိုသည္။

“လုပ္ကြက္ေတြကို ေလ်ာ့ပါမယ္ စက္ေတြနဲ႔ တူးတာေတြလည္း ေလွ်ာ့ပါမယ္၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား အမည္ခံၿပီးေတာ့ တ႐ုတ္ေတြ ႀကီးစိုးေနတာေတြကိုလည္း သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရေနၿပီးေတာ့ စနစ္တက် စစ္ေဆး ပါမယ္ ေဒသခံေတြ ဦးစားေပးတဲ့ စနစ္ကို က်င့္သံုးမယ္ အဲဒီလိုေျပာပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးဖုန္းျမင့္ေအာင္က မဇၩိမကို
ေျပာသည္။

ယင္းအျပင္ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ အလုပ္သမားဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္မွ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းကို တင္သြင္သြားၿပီး အဆိုပါမူၾကမ္းကို လာမည့္တနလၤာေန႔တြင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္မွ ဆက္လက္ ေဆြးေႏြးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္၏ ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းတြင္ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ား ဖြဲ႔စည္းႏိုင္ရန္၊ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားမွ မေက်နပ္ခ်က္မ်ား ရွိပါက သက္ဆိုင္ရာ၏ အစီအစဥ္ျဖင့္ ဆႏၵျပခြင့္ႏွင့္ အလုပ္ရွင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား ဖြဲ႔စည္းေရး စသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ပါဝင္ေၾကာင္း ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းကို ဖတ္ခြင့္ရသူ ဦးဖုန္းျမင့္ေအာင္က ဆိုသည္။

အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္၏ ေသာၾကာေန႔ အဆိုမ်ားတြင္ အမ်ဳိးသား လႊတ္ေတာ္ အမတ္ ဦးခင္ေရႊ၏ ေဒၚလာေဈး
ျပန္လည္သတ္မွတ္ေပးရန္ အဆိုကို တနလၤာေန႔တြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ရွိၿပီး ဦးခင္ေရႊ၏ ေနာက္ထပ္ အဆိုတခုျဖစ္သည့္ ခရီးသြား လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းကို ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ ဦးစီးမႈမရွိဘဲ ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား အပါအဝင္ ပုဂၢလိက လုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းရန္ အဆိုကိုလည္း လႊတ္ေတာ္မွ အတည္ျပဳေပးခဲ့သည္။

ေသာၾကာေန႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားကို နံနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီတြင္ စတင္ၾကကာ၊ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္သည္ မြန္းလြဲ ၂း၃ဝ တြင္ ၿပီးဆံုးၿပီး အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္သည္ ညေန ၄း၁၅ တြင္ ၿပီးဆံုးသည္။ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ႏွစ္ရပ္သည္ စေန၊ တနဂၤေႏြတြင္ ေခတၱ ရပ္နားမည္ျဖစ္ကာ တနလၤာေန႔တြင္ ျပန္လည္ စတင္မည္ျဖစ္သည္

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Members of Myanmar's army-dominated parliament have called for an amnesty for political prisoners after a UN envoy called for the release of prisoners of conscience.

A proposal for a general amnesty was raised in Burma's lower house on Friday.

"They firmly hope that the president would make (an) assessment and release an order of amnesty," the New Light of Myanmar reported.

The plight of around 2,000 political prisoners, many of whom are serving double-digit jail terms, is a key concern of the international community, along with other human rights abuses and democratic reforms.
It is the first time that serving military members of parliament have taken part in a discussion of a general amnesty since a nominally civilian government took over in March. A quarter of seats are reserved for the army.

The regime, which came to power after controversial November elections, appears keen to improve its image and recently held the first talks between democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein, a former general.

But the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, said serious concerns remained as he concluded a visit to the country on Thursday.

The UN envoy, who visited Yangon's notorious Insein jail during his five day trip, voiced fears over allegations of torture during detention and the use of prisoners as porters for the military.

"Of key concern to me and the international community is the continuing detention of a large number of prisoners of conscience," Mr Quintana said.

In a move that rights groups said was woefully insufficient, Burma reduced all current jail sentences by one year in May and commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment.

Amnesty International said that political detainees are imprisoned using vague laws that criminalise peaceful political activists.

They are held in poor conditions and moved to jails far from their homes and families.

Opposition leader Suu Kyi was freed from seven years of house arrest in November shortly after the election, Myanmar's first in 20 years.
Mr Quintana, who also held talks with the Nobel laureate last week, urged Myanmar's parliamentarians, many of whom shed military uniforms to contest the election, to hold "open and inclusive debates on issues of national importance".hare1

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KIA ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္ဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အစုိးရ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္တုိ႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အတြက္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေပမဲ့ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ တိက်တဲ့ အေျဖ မရရွိေသးပါဘူး။ ဒီအေတာအတြင္း ၾသဂုတ္လ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲမွာ KIA/KIO အဖြဲ႔က ႏွစ္ဖက္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ေတြကုိ မလုိက္နာဘဲ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ၾကီး ဦးေက်ာ္ဆန္းက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၂ ရက္ေန႔က KIA ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး တပ္ဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အစုိးရ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္တုိ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံခ်ိန္မွာ KIA က ေမးျမန္းခဲ့တဲ့ ထာ၀ရ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အတြက္ အစုိးရက ဘယ္လုိ အဓိပၸါယ္ ဖြင့္ဆုိျပီး KIA ကုိ ဘယ္လုိ သေဘာထားသလဲ ဆုိတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းအေပၚ အစုိးရ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ရဲ႕ ေျဖၾကားခ်က္ေတြကုိ ေကာက္ႏွဳတ္ တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။


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Viewing cable 04BRUSSELS4013, EUROPEAN COMMISSION CONCERNED ABOUT ROHINGYA

Reference ID	Created	Released	Classification	Origin
04BRUSSELS4013	2004-09-21 12:02	2011-08-26 00:00	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	Embassy Brussels

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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.