Burma's Monks Regroup after Killer Storm

In helping others, Burma's saffron-robed Buddhist monks have helped themselves.

The monks' critical role in providing relief after Cyclone Nargis has galvanized their ranks and strengthened their political voice—just months after the junta quashed the democracy uprising spearheaded by the monks last fall.

The monks have channeled aid materials into stricken regions and turned monasteries into soup kitchens and refugee camps since the May 2-3 storm.

Their outreach to survivors—many of whom received little or no government help—highlighted the monks' power and the possibility they could clash again with Burma's ruling forces. Some monks are even building secret stashes of makeshift weapons, clerics say.

While Buddhism orders its clergy to shun violence and politics, monks in Burma and elsewhere in Asia have a history of militancy. The monk Saya San became a national hero in the 1930s by leading a revolt against the British colonialists who hanged him after fielding 12,000 troops to suppress his peasant army.

In more recent times, monks were at the forefront of a 1988 uprising against the junta and led mass street demonstrations which the military crushed last fall.

An expert on Burma affairs, retired Rutgers University professor Josef Silverstein, said the monks' post-storm mobilization is consistent with beliefs of Buddhist in the country.

"These beliefs didn't disappear because the military hit them over the head last year," he said by telephone. "The monks are angry and they're seeing that no one else is stepping forward" to lead relief efforts—or political opposition.

A Rangoon monk—one of a dozen interviewed by The Associated Press—said it was impossible to "close our eyes to a government that cares so little for the people that it allows them to suffer and die." He spoke on condition of anonymity because of the intense government scrutiny of monks and the sensitivity of discussing anti-government action in this tightly controlled nation.

His monastery has collected and distributed truckloads of blankets, tarpaulins and food to storm survivors. And, like hundreds of other monasteries throughout Burma's storm-struck southwest, it also became a temporary shelter for those who lost their homes.

Short and wiry with fiery eyes, the monk spoke in hushed but urgent tones as he blamed the ruling generals for failing to adequately warn people of the cyclone, which killed at least 78,000 and left an additional 56,000 missing.

He also blamed government restrictions on foreign aid and humanitarian workers for putting millions of survivors at risk of starvation and disease.

"As monks, it's our responsibility to fight for a change," said the monk, as he fingered a scar that he said came from a melee with authorities during last September's crackdown.

He displayed part of a secret cache, consisting of a half-dozen slingshots, and said he was working with monks in several cities to collect more weapons for storage at other secret locations. Most of them were rudimentary devices patched together from everyday objects such as bamboo rods and bicycle spokes and chains, he said, declining to give numbers and other details for security reasons.

The extent of the weapons gathering could not be independently confirmed.

But other monks interviewed in Rangoon and Mandalay said they had heard of colleagues building weapons stashes, though they stressed they were not hoarding weapons themselves.

Monks are also trying to obtain guns to make any clashes "less one-sided," said the Rangoon monk.

At least 31 people were killed when troops opened fire on demonstrators in Rangoon last year, according to the United Nations.

The "Saffron Revolution," which took its name from the color of the monks' traditional robes and began as a protest against high prices, was the largest show of dissent against the military regime in nearly two decades.

The junta's response was swift and stern. Monks were dragged from their monasteries in overnight raids, beaten, tortured and imprisoned, monks and human rights groups say. An unknown number remain behind bars, while many fled into exile. Those who stayed kept a low profile.

Cyclone affected farmlands likely to be seized for forest reserve

Myint Maung Monday, 23 June 2008 00:00

New Delhi – In an inexplicable move the forest department of the ruling Burmese military junta has decided to confiscate nearly 25,000 acres of cyclone affected farmlands in Kadone Kani village tract, Bogale Township, Irrawaddy Division. The idea – to extend the reserve forest area and there is no answer to what will happen to the livelihood of farmers.

The announcement on June 17 was issued by the Township Forest Department chief U Kan Tun. He in turn was under directives of the Irrawaddy Division Forest Department in a circular on June 15 which said about 23,000 acres of cyclone affected farmlands will be seized and converted to forest reserve, local residents said.

"The announcement states nearly 25,000 acres of farmland will be confiscated," a local resident from Bogale told Mizzima.

The current forest reserve area is 33,340 acres. It will be increased to 58,443 acres after confiscation of the farmlands.

The Irrawaddy Divisional Forest Department circulated its announcement of the seizure to government departments in Pathein, Myaungmya and Bogale Townships. It also sent copies to Kyin Chaung and Kyun Thar Yar Villages Peace and Development Council (PDC) under the Kadone Kani Kodone Kani village tract PDC.

Though residents say that cyclone affected farmers who will lose their farmlands soon, they cannot estimate the exact number of farmers who will be affected by the draconian order of the Divisional Forest Department.

"Some farmers have begun cultivation on their farmlands while some are still waiting because of lack of inadequate equipments and farm inputs," a local resident of Bogale said.

"If the forest department officials force farmers to handover their farmlands, the farmers will make a collective appeal to government officials by producing supporting documents of farmland sale deeds signed by the 'Agricultural Marketing Corporation', the agreement made with forest department and land use right documented in the Land Record and Resettlement Department", he added.

Change of guard in Burmese junta

New Delhi - In a change of guard, Burma's secretive military rulers have carried out a major reshuffle in the cabinet and in key positions held by its military commanders.

While the junta officially announced the reshuffle of its cabinet ministers, the change of guard in its military command and Bureau of Special Operations was not disclosed, as usual.

The junta's state-run radio and television on Friday announced that Major General Maung Maung Swe, who earlier held two posts, has been left with just one - Minister for handling Post-Cyclone Management, Resettlement. One of his earlier portfolios, Minister for Immigration and Population, was given to Maj. Gen. Saw Lwin.

Saw Lwin's earlier post, Minister of Industries (2), has been given to Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Vice Admiral Soe Thein, a move viewed by observers as shunting him from power.

Meanwhile, the Burmese junta not surprisingly made several other changes among its military commanders, including promoting younger officers to commanders and pushing effective commanders into higher ranks. This, however, was not announced.
Sources in the military establishment said the junta has ordered the transfer of four of its key military commanders to positions at the Bureau of Special Operations (BSO).

The four commanders - Maj Gen Aung Than Htut, Commander of the Northeastern Military Command, Maj Gen Ohn Myint Commander of Northern Military Command, Maj Gen Min Aung Hlaing, and Maj Gen. Ko Ko Commander of Southern Military Command – were transferred to positions in the Bureau of Special Operations.

According to the source, among the retiring BSO officers are seniors like Junta's Joint Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Gen. Thura Shwe Mann, who is number three in the junta's hierarchy.

The source said it was inconvenient for Shwe Mann to give orders to BSO officers, as they were senior to him.

Burma's military establishment has a total of five officers in its BSO. While Maj Gen Maung Bo, one of the five BSO officers was spared, the other four – Maj. Gen. Ye Myint, Maj. Gen. Aung Htwe, Maj. Gen. Kyaw Win, and Maj Gen. Khin Maung Thann - were made to retire, in order to make way for the newly transferred officers.

Sources said Brig. Gen. Kyaw Phyo, Commandant of General Staff College in Kalaw was promoted to Commander of Triangle Command, Brig. Gen. Yar Pyae, former Defence Services Medical Academy (DSMA) to Commandant of Eastern Command Commander, and Brig. Gen. Hla Min of the LID 11 has been promoted to Commander of Southern Command.

While Brig. Gen Soe Win commandant of General Staff College in Than Daung has been promoted to Northern Command Commander, Brig. Gen Win Myint of the Light Infantry Division (LID) 77 was promoted as Commander of Strategic Command, Rangoon Division, which is crucial for maintaining power.

The junta also switched two of its commanders' posts. Brig. Gen. Thaung Aye was transferred from Eastern to Western Command, while Brig. Gen. Maung Shein from Western to Northeastern Command.

Meanwhile, the junta also transferred Rangoon Commander Maj. Gen. Hla Htay Win to Chief Military Training, a post held by Lt. Gen Aung Htwe, who will now retire, sources said.

"Almost all commanders have been reshuffled, the only two who are not transferred are [Snr. Gen.] Than Shwe and [Vice Snr. Gen.] Maung Aye," the source in the military establishment said.

WFP: fund crisis may halt airlifting relief supplies in Burma

Mungpi
Friday, 20 June 2008 22:54
New Delhi – The use of helicopters for airlifting relief materials into Burma's Irrawaddy delta could come to a halt by next week, unless more funds come in, the United Nations World Food Program spokesperson said on Friday. "We need funds to the tune of 20 million USD to keep the helicopters operational," Paul Risley, WFP's spokesperson in Bangkok told Mizzima. Risley said the 10 helicopters, which the government of Burma finally allowed to be used for carrying relief supplies on June 2, have been ferrying aid supplies for at least 50 aid agencies, which are helping cyclone survivors in Burma's Irrawaddy division. "The helicopters are crucial," said Risley, adding that before the use of choppers relief supplies had not been reaching the majority of cyclone survivors in remote areas due to difficulties in transportation and communication. "But we are in serious fund crisis now," Risley added. The WFP said 20 million USD is needed for fuel for the helicopters as well as to pay for hourly usage. "We have to pay several thousand US dollars per hour," said Risley. The WFP earlier made an appeal for 50 million USD for aid supplies for victims of Cyclone Nargis that lashed Burma's northwestern coastal divisions of Irrawaddy and Rangoon on May 2 and 3. "To date, only just over half of the US$ 50 million required for the logistical operation has been secured," WFP said in its statement released on Friday. Much of the funds have been used on barges, boats, river craft and basic infrastructure needed to reach cyclone survivors in remote, hard-hit villages across the Irrawaddy Delta, the statement added. Fresh Appeals Risley said the WFP will make an appeal for donations that is needed to maintain the use of helicopters for supplying relief materials. "We will make a donor appeal next week in Geneva, Switzerland and to all countries. There should be small contributions," Risley said. Meanwhile, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), on Thursday said it will give an additional US $ 3 million to support the WFP's logistical operations in Burma. The USAID has so far contributed a total of $ 4 million to WFP for its logistical support in Burma. "The international humanitarian community has come to rely on the UN World Food Program logistics operation to provide assistance to the Burmese people, and we are pleased to offer this much needed additional support for the relief efforts," said USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore in a statement on Thursday. In response to the killer Cyclone Nargis that left at least 134,000 dead and missing, the USAID has provided US$ 31.4 million as emergency assistance to the devastation caused by the cyclone.

ကုလသမဂၢ မဟာအဖဲြ႔ႀကီးမ်ားနဲ႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္အစုိးရထက္
အရပ္သားအလွဴရွင္ေလးမ်ား ေျခလွမ္းသြက္
ဓာတ္ပုံသတင္း
ဇြန္ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၀၈

ယခုလဆန္းပုိင္းက ရန္ကုန္မွ ပုဂၢလိကအလွဴရွင္အဖဲြ႔တဖဲြ႔ ေဒးဒရဲၿမိဳ႔နယ္အတြင္းရိွ ေရပူ၀၊ ေက်ာင္းကေလးေက်းရြာႏွစ္ရြာသုိ႔ ေရာက္ရိွသြားစဥ္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ခ့ဲေသာပုံအခ်ဳိ႔ျဖစ္သည္။ ေရဒီယုိနားေထာင္စဥ္ မၾကာခဏၾကားေနရေသာ ကုလသမဂၢကယ္ဆယ္ေရး၊ အစုိးရအကူအညီ ဆုိသည္တုိ႔ကုိ ထင္ထင္ရွားရွား မေတြ႔ခ့ဲရ၊ အရပ္သားအလွဴရွင္မ်ားကုိသာ ေတြ႔ရသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။ (photos: KS/Moemaka)

စစ္အစိုးရက လယ္ဧက ၁၀၀ မွ လယ္ထြန္စက္ ၁ လုံး ခြဲတမ္းခ်ေပး၊ လယ္သမားမ်ား ေခါင္းရႈပ္မခံႏိုင္၊ ျပီးေတာ့ လယ္ထြန္စက္မ်ားကလည္း အပ်က္ေတြဟု သိရ
မိုးမခ အေထာက္ေတာ္ ၀၀၃
ဇြန္ ၂၀၊ ၂၀၀၈

စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက မိုးရာသီ လယ္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ လယ္ဧက ၁၀၀ လ်င္ လယ္ထြန္စက္ ၁ လုံး ႏႈန္း သတ္မွတ္ျပီး ေရာင္းခ်ေပးေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။ လယ္ထြန္စက္ ၁ လုံး ေငြ ၂ သိန္း သြင္းရန္ႏွင့္ စပါးေပၚခ်ိန္၊ ေငြေပၚခ်ိန္တြင္ အေက် သိန္း ၂၀ အျပည့္ ေခ်ေပးရမည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။

လယ္သမားမ်ားမွာ ၁ ဦးတည္း လယ္ဧက ၁၀၀ မပိုင္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း၊ လယ္ဧကမ်ား အခ်င္းခ်င္း ၀ိုင္းစုၾကျပီး ဧက ၁၀၀ ျပည့္ျပန္ဦးေတာ့ ေပးစရာ ေငြ ၂ သိန္းလည္း မရွိေၾကာင္း၊ ေငြ ၂ သိန္း ထြန္စက္ ၁ လုံး ရျပန္ေတာ့လည္း မည္သူက မည္သည့္လယ္ကို မည္သုိ႔ အခ်ိန္ခြဲျပီး ထြန္ယက္ၾကေရး စီမံခန္႔ခြဲရန္လည္း မတတ္ႏိုင္ၾကေၾကာင္း၊ ရသည့္ လယ္ထြန္စက္မ်ားတြင္ အပ်က္မ်ားက အမ်ားစုျဖစ္ရာ ျပင္ဆင္ရန္အတြက္လည္း အကုန္အက် မခံႏိုင္ၾကေၾကာင္း လယ္သမားမ်ားက ျငီးတြား ေ၀ဖန္ေနၾကသျဖင့္ အစိုးရ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးစီမံကိန္းမ်ားမွာ လက္ေတြ႔မက်သည္မွာ ထင္ရွားလွသည္ဟု ေျပာေနေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားသုိ႔
စြမ္းအားရွင္မ်ား ၀င္ေရာက္႐ိုက္ႏွက္ဖမ္းဆီး

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟိုဌာနခ်ဳပ္၌ ယေန႔နံနက္တြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္၏ (၆၃) ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔ပြဲသို႔ စစ္အစိုးရလက္သပ္ေမြးထားသည့္ စြမ္းအားရွင္ႏွင့္ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕ မ်ားက ၀င္ေရာက္႐ိုက္ႏွက္ၿပီး လူ (၄) ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္သြားသည္ဟု အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေျပာသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ပါတီ၀င္တဦးက “မနက္က (၁၁) နာရီေလာက္က ဒီမွာ ေဒၚစုေမြးေန႔ လုပ္တာ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ က်န္းမာပါေစဆုေတာင္းၾကတာေပါ့။ ဆုေတာင္းၿပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔႐ံုးေရွ႕ ပလက္ေဖာင္းေပၚကေန ငွက္လႊတ္တယ္ေပါ့။ စာကေလးေတြ သက္ေစ့လႊတ္ၿပီးတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႕ေတြ ကားေတြနဲ႔ ေရာက္လာၿပီးေတာ့ ဆင္းလာၿပီး ေရွ႕မွာရွိတဲ့ လူေတြကို ဆြဲလႊဲ႐ိုက္ႏွက္ၿပီး ဖမ္းခ်ဳပ္ေခၚသြားတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသူမ်ားမွာ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ လူငယ္အတြင္းေရးမႉးႏွင့္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ဓာတ္ပံု
ဗီဒီယို ႐ိုက္ကူးသူ ဦးထြန္းျမင့့္၊ လိႈင္သာယာမွ ဦးလွေအး၊ မဂၤလာဒံုၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ကိုေမာင္ေမာင္သိန္းႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔၀င္တဦးတို႔ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သံဃာေတာ္တပါး ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသည္ဟု သတင္းထြက္ေန ေသာ္လည္း အတည္မျပဳႏိုင္ေသးေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးငယ္တဦး အ႐ိုက္ခံရၿပီး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိ သြားေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒါက္တာ၀င္းႏိုင္က ေျပာသည္။

ယခုႏွစ္ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔၌ ျပည္သူလူထုနာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံေနရသျဖင့္ ေပ်ာ္ပြဲရႊင္ပြဲ မက်င္းပဘဲ အလႉဒါနပြဲသာ က်င္းပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္႐ံုး၌ ေမြးေန႔ဆြမ္းကပ္လႉရန္ သံဃာေတာ္ မ်ားအား ပင့္ဖိတ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အာဏာပိုင္တို႔၏ တားျမစ္ပိတ္ပင္မႈေၾကာင့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ႂကြခြင့္ မရဘဲ ဆြမ္းခ်ဳိင့္သာပို႔ခြင့္ရခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဗဟိုအမ်ဳိးသမီးအဖြဲ႔မွ ေဒၚလဲ့လဲ့က ေျပာသည္။

၎က “ေမြးေန႔မွာ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေတြကိုဆြမ္းကပ္ၿပီး ကုသိုလ္ေကာင္းမႈလုပ္တယ္။ အက်ဥ္းက်ေန တဲ့လူေတြ လြတ္ပါေစဆိုတဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ ငွက္ကေလးေတြ လႊတ္တယ္။ ဒီလိုလုပ္တာကို အဟန္႔ အတား အေႏွာင့္ အယွက္ေတြေပးတာ။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ မလုပ္ေကာင္းပါဘူး။ အန္တီ တု႔ိက သူမ်ားကို အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ေပးတာလည္း မဟုတ္ဘူး၊ ကိုယ့္႐ုံးေရွ႕မွာကိုယ္ ကုသိုလ္ ေကာင္းမႈလုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ခုလို၀င္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဖမ္းလားဆီးလား ႐ိုက္လားႏွက္လား လုပ္တာဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာနဲ႔ လံုး၀မအပ္စပ္ပါဘူး။ ဘယ္လိုမွ မေကာင္းပါဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ အက်ဥ္းက် ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ သားသမီး (၇၀) ေက်ာ္တို႔အား အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ပညာသင္ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။

အလားတူ ထိုင္း၊ မေလးရွား၊ ဖိလစ္ပိုင္၊ အိႏၵိယ၊ ဂ်ပန္၊ တိုင္၀မ္ စသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတုိ႔၌လည္း ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ေမြးေန႔ ဆုေတာင္းပြဲမ်ား အသီးသီး က်င္းပခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္မွ အျမန္ဆံုးျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ ဆႏၵျပေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ၾကသည္။

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သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကို မနက္ပိုင္းမွာ တန္းဆြမ္းေလာင္းၿပီးပါၿပီ။ ေန႔ဆြမ္းကပ္ဖို႔ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္႐ံုးမွာ စီစဥ္ထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ႂကြေရာက္မယ့္သံဃာေတြကို သက္ဆိုင္ရာေတြက လာတားတဲ့
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ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ အျပည့္အ၀မရမႈ
ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ဟု အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ေျပာၾကား

ေလေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့့္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူညီ လံုေလာက္စြာ မရသည္မွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးရန္ႏွင့္္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ အျမန္ဆံုးေခၚယူေပးရန္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။

မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္းသိန္းခ်ီေသဆံုးၿပီး ကၽြဲ၊ ႏြား၊ လယ္ယာေျမႏွင့္ ေဆး႐ံု၊ ေက်ာင္းစသည့္ အေျခခံ အေဆာက္အံုမ်ား ပ်က္စီးကာ ဆံုး႐ံႈးမႈပမာဏ ႀကီးႀကီးမားမား ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏိုင္ငံမွာ စီးပြားေရး ခၽြတ္ၿခံဳက်ေနၿပီး ျပည္သူလူထုမွာလည္း ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတေနေၾကာင္း၊ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ ေရးအတြက္ တဦးတဖြဲ႕တည္းျဖင့္ ေဆာက္ရြက္ႏိုင္စြမ္းမရွိဘဲ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀န္းထံမွ ေငြေၾကးႏွင့္နည္းပညာအကူအညီ အေျမာက္အျမားလိုအပ္ေနေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ ယမန္ေန႔ အထူးေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ပါရွိသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူတဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔က “ဘယ္လိုပဲေျပာေျပာ လက္ေတြ႕ တကယ္တမ္းကေတာ့ ဗမာျပည္ရဲ႕ႏိုင္ငံေရးစနစ္ေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီေတြ ထိထိ ေရာက္ေရာက္ ရသင့္သေလာက္ မရတဲ့အျပင္ အင္မတန္မွရဖို႔ အလွမ္းေ၀းေနတယ္။ အဲဒီအေျခ အေနဟာ ဗမာျပည္ရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ လုပ္ဖုိ႔ လိုအပ္ေနတယ္ဆိုတာ ေဖာ္ျပေနတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈ လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အေကာင္းဆံုးနည္းလမ္းသည္ ၁၉၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အႏိုင္ရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား၊ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ားအၾကား အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔ဆႏၵကို ေလးစားေၾကာင္းျပသသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ကို အျမန္ဆံုးေခၚယူေပးရန္ ေလးနက္စြာထပ္မံေတာင္းဆိုေၾကာင္း အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေျပာသည္။

မုန္တိုင္းကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ တိုင္းျပည္ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ရန္၊ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ လက္တြဲေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က အဆင္သင့္ရွိသည္ဟုလည္း ဦးသိန္းၫြန္႔က ေျပားသည္။

ျမန္မာ့ေလးေဘး ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ အသံုးျပဳရန္အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွထည့္၀င္ရန္ ကတိျပဳထားသည့္ အလႉေငြ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္း (၂၁၀) အနက္ (၈၂) သန္းသာရရွိေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢက သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ထားသည္။ ။

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အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ) က ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးရန္ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ အျမန္ဆုံးေခၚယူေပးရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈသည္ လုပ္သင့္လုပ္ထိုက္သည့္ကိစၥတခုကို လုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ သည္ဟု ျမန္မာျပည္ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ မဟာမိတ္အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (DAB) က ေျပာသည္။

ေလေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ လုံေလာက္ စြာမရသည္မွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးရန္ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေခၚယူရန္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ယမန္ေန႔တြင္ အထူးေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတျ္ပန္ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့သည္။

ယင္းသို႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ DAB အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒါက္တာေက်ာ္ညြန္႔က “အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ၁၉၉၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္မွာ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ ေထာက္ခံမႈ ရရွိ ထားတဲ့ အႏုိင္ရပါတီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူလုပ္သင့္လုပ္ထုိက္တဲ့အလုပ္ကုိ လုပ္တယ္လုိ႔ျမင္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တခ်က္က နာဂစ္ကိစၥဟာ ဘယ္လုိအေျခအေနပဲၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး အေျခ အေနဟာ လုံေလာက္မႈမရွိဘူးဆုိတာ အားလုံးသိတယ္။ နအဖရဲ႕လႈပ္ရွားမႈေတြ အားလုံးကုိ ျပန္ၾကည့္ရင္ အခုထိ စနစ္က်တဲ့ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္မႈမ်ဳိး ဘာတခုမွမေတြ႕ရဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အန္အယ္လ္
ဒီက လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူဖုိ႔ ေတာင္းဆုိထုိက္တဲ့ကိစၥျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ျမင္တယ္။ ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ (၂) ႏွစ္ (၃) ႏွစ္က ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းကုိ ျပန္ၾကည့္ပါက စစ္တပ္ကုိ လုံး၀အာဏာစြန္႔ရန္ ေျပာဆိုျခင္းမ်ဳိးမဟုတ္ဘဲ လႊတ္ေတာ္တရပ္ကေနၿပီး တရား၀င္
လုပ္ႏုိင္ရန္ ထိန္းေက်ာင္းႏုိင္သည့္ အေနအထားမ်ဳိးကုိ ေျပာင္းလဲေပးမည္ဆုိသည့္ ကမ္းလွမ္း ခ်က္မ်ဳိးရွိခဲ့ဖူးသည္ဟု ၎က ေျပာသည္။

“ဒါဟာ တုိင္းျပည္အတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အေျမာ္အျမင္ရွိမႈပါပဲ။ ဒီလုိအေျမာ္အျမင္ရွိမႈအားလုံးကုိ နအဖ ဘက္က ပယ္ခ်ခဲ့တာျဖစ္တယ္။ လုပ္မေပးျခင္းသည္ နအဖရဲ႕တာ၀န္သာျဖစ္တယ္။ ေတာင္းဆုိတာ ဟာ မွန္ကန္တဲ့ေတာင္းဆုိမႈျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ပဲ ျမင္တယ္” ဟု ေဒါက္တာေက်ာ္ညြန္႔က ေျပာသည္။

ရန္ကုန္အေနာက္တုိင္းသံတမန္တဦးကမူ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီသည္ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၊ ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ခံစားထုိက္သည္မွန္ေသာ္လည္း လက္ရွိအေျခအေနရ အတိတ္၏ ခါးသီးမႈမ်ားကုိ မၾကည့္ေတာ့ဘဲ ပုိေကာင္းမည့္အနာဂတ္ကုိသာ ၾကည့္သင့္သည္ဟု ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ကုိ ေျပာသည္။

မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ထိသည့္ ကိစၥအတြက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္က ေျဖရွင္းမေပးႏုိင္၊ တာ၀န္ရွိသည့္ အစုိးရမ်ား၊ ပညာရွင္မ်ား၊ အလွဴရွင္မ်ား၊ လုပ္အားေပးမ်ားကသာ ေျဖရွင္းႏုိင္မွာ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဥေရာပအေျခစုိက္ အေနာက္တုိင္း သံတမန္တဦးကလည္း ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္ကုိ ေျပာသည္။

အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံ ၀ါရွင္တန္ဒီစီၿမိဳ႕မွ ျမန္မာအေရးအကဲျဖတ္သူ ဦးတင္ေမာင္သန္းကမူ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ အေျပာင္းအလဲသည္ စစ္တပ္ကေနခ်ေပးသည့္ အေျပာင္းအလဲသာ ျဖစ္လိမ့္မည္ဟုဆိုသည္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ ဒီမုိကေရစီကုိ သြားေနသည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းတြင္ အေျပာင္းအလဲသည္ တခ်ဳိ႕ ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားတြင္ ေတြ႕ရသကဲ့သို႔ အေပၚကခ်ေပးသည့္ အေျပာင္းအလဲသာျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္ဟု ဦးတင္ေမာင္သန္းက ေျပာသည္။

ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး၊ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး၊ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္နွင့္္ အေပၚကခ်ေပးျခင္းဟူသည့္ အေျပာင္း အလဲပုံစံ (၄) ခုအနက္ ျမန္မာနုိင္ငံတြင္ ပထမ (၃) ခုမွာ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဘဲ အေပၚက ခ်ေပးျခင္းပဲျဖစ္မယ္။ အကန္႔အသတ္မ်ားႏွင့္သြားသည့္ အေပၚကခ်ေပးျခင္းသာျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္ဟု ၎က ေျပာသည္။

“အဲဒီလမ္းေၾကာင္းကုိ ေရြးၿပီးသားျဖစ္တယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ေျပာေနတာ သေဘာ တူညီခ်က္နဲ႔ေျပာင္းတဲ့ အေျပာင္းအလဲကုိ ေျပာေနတာျဖစ္တယ္။ အဲဒါဟာ ပယ္ခ်ထားၿပီးသား ျဖစ္တယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဟာ ေျပာင္းလဲဦးမယ္ဆုိရင္ေတာင္ အဲဒီအေျပာင္းအလဲဟာ စစ္အစုိးရက ခ်ေပးတဲ့ အေျပာင္းအလဲပဲ ျဖစ္လိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါက တကယ့္အျဖစ္၊ တကယ္သြားေနတဲ့လမ္းေၾကာင္းလုိ႔ ျမင္တယ္” ဟု ဦးတင္ေမာင္သန္းက ေျပာသည္။

အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ေျပာေနသည္မွာ (၂) ဦးသေဘာတူၿပီး ေျပာင္းလဲသည့္ အေျပာင္း အလဲမ်ဳိးျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ျဖစ္သင့္သည့့္ေဒါင့္က ေျပာမည္ဆုိပါက အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူရန္ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈသည္ ျဖစ္သင့္ျဖစ္ထုိက္ေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္ တကယ့္ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ ေဒါင့္က ေျပာမည္ဆိုပါက စစ္အစုိးရခ်ေပးသည့္လမ္းကိုသာ သြားရလိမ့္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ယခင္ကလည္း မျဖစ္ခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ယခုလည္း ျဖစ္မည္မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ၎က သုံးသပ္သည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီသည္ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အႏုိင္ရပါတီျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ဥပေဒေၾကာင္းအရ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚရန္ ေတာင္းဆုိႏုိင္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒကုိ တဘက္သတ္ အႏုိင္ယူျပီး ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္တြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသစ္ လုပ္မည္ဆုိသည့္အတြက္
၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရလဒ္ကုိ စစ္အစိုးရက မေၾကညာဘဲ တရား၀င္ပယ္ဖ်က္လုိက္သည့္သေဘာ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ျပည္တြင္းႏုိင္ငံေရးသမားအခ်ိဳ႕က ေျပာသည္။

ယခင္ကလည္း အလ်င္းသင့္တုိင္း လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚယူေရး ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ဖူးသည့္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ၏ ယခုအခ်ိန္ ေတာင္းဆုိမႈသည္ အခ်ိန္ကုိက္အခါကုိက္ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဆုိသည့္အေပၚ ရန္ကုန္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကုိယ္စားလွယ္အခ်ိဳ႕ၾကား သေဘာထားကြဲျပားမႈ ရွိေနသည္ဟု စုံစမ္းသိရသည္။ ရန္ကုန္ႏုိင္ငံေရးသမားအခ်ိဳ႕ကလည္း အင္အားမရွိဘဲ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္သည္ဟု ယူဆေၾကာင္း ေျပာသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ ယင္းသို႔ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္မႈေၾကာင့္ သက္ေရာက္မႈအေနႏွင့္ စစ္တပ္ တြင္းရိွ တုိင္းခ်စ္ျပည္ခ်စ္ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ စဥ္းစားစရာကိစၥအျဖစ္ ႐ႈျမင္လာမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး နအဖ အေနႏွင့္လည္း ယင္းကိစၥအေပၚ ဖိႏွိပ္မႈျပင္းထန္လာမည့္ အေနအထားရွိေၾကာင္း၊ သို႔ေသာ္ ေနာက္ဆုံးတြင္ အာဏာရွင္မ်ားသည္ ၎တို႔၏ နိဂုံးခ်ဳပ္ကုိ ဦးတည္သြားရသည္သာျဖစ္သည္ဟု
DAB အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒါက္တာေက်ာ္ညြန္႔က သုံးသပ္သည္။

၁၉၉၈ ခု ၾသဂုတ္လ (၂) ရက္ေနာက္ဆုံးထားၿပီး စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚေပးရန္
၁၉၉၈ ခု ေမလ (၂၈) ရက္ေန႔မွာ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ဖူးသည္။ မၾကာခင္ ၁၉၉၈ ခု
ဇူလုိင္ (၂၄) ရက္၊ (၂၉) ရက္ႏွင့္ ၾသဂုတ္ (၁၂) ရက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ရန္ကုန္ျပင္ပ ခရီးစဥ္မ်ားကုိ နအဖဘက္က ေႏွာင့္ယွက္ခဲ့သည္။ နအဖဘက္က လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚမေပးသည့္အျပင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးသမား အမ်ားအျပားကုိ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈမ်ားလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ ၂၀၀၆ ခု ျပည္ေထာင္စုေန႔ကလည္း လႊတ္ေတာ္ေခၚေပးရန္ ႏွစ္ဆန္း (၁) ရက္ ေနာက္ဆုံးထားၿပီး စစ္အစိုးရက အေၾကာင္းျပန္ရန္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက အထူးေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ဖူးသည္။ ။