Sign Campaign on Chinational Day 20.2.2009

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Photos by Kimpi (CNC-Japan)
CNC-Japan's Demonstration and
Sign Campaign on Chinational Day 20.2.2009
(infront of Burmese Embassy,Tokyo)

Sign Campaign on Chinational Day 20.2.2009

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Photos by Kimpi (CNC-Japan)
CNC-Japan's Demonstration and
Sign Campaign on Chinational Day 20.2.2009
(infront of Burmese Embassy,Tokyo)

26 houses burnt to ashes in Chin State

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)

February 23, 2009: A total of 26 houses of Chin people were gutted in Chin state on 20 February 2009 in Chin state, Myanmar.
The fire broke out in Valung village which has 80 houses and is located 40 miles from Falam Township. The fire started while maize was being cooked around 11 a.m. It destroyed all property.
"The fire started from a Pastor's house. A pot of maize was left cooking at home while they went to church," said a local.
A report said the pastor was arrested by the police.
Although there was no casualty from the fire, many domestic animals were killed.
"I don't know the exact number, my grandmother's three goats and two pigs are gone!" he added.
The houses that were burnt down were made of wood while three restaurants were gutted by the fire. While it is difficult to estimate the value of the lost property, it was said to be over one hundred lakh Kyats.
The same thing happened on 10 February in Hakha city, Chin state and three houses, which were owned by the government, were razed to the ground. - Khonumthung News

26 houses burnt to ashes in Chin State

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)

February 23, 2009: A total of 26 houses of Chin people were gutted in Chin state on 20 February 2009 in Chin state, Myanmar.
The fire broke out in Valung village which has 80 houses and is located 40 miles from Falam Township. The fire started while maize was being cooked around 11 a.m. It destroyed all property.
"The fire started from a Pastor's house. A pot of maize was left cooking at home while they went to church," said a local.
A report said the pastor was arrested by the police.
Although there was no casualty from the fire, many domestic animals were killed.
"I don't know the exact number, my grandmother's three goats and two pigs are gone!" he added.
The houses that were burnt down were made of wood while three restaurants were gutted by the fire. While it is difficult to estimate the value of the lost property, it was said to be over one hundred lakh Kyats.
The same thing happened on 10 February in Hakha city, Chin state and three houses, which were owned by the government, were razed to the ground. - Khonumthung News

23 political prisoners were released in Burma

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Source : http://www.aappb.org

23 February 2009
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) can confirm that 23 political prisoners were released from various prisons in Burma 21st February 2009.
On Friday the ruling military regime announced that it would release 6,313 prisoners from 21 February.

The list of released:

Myintkyina prison

1. Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, Member of Parliament from the National League for Democracy party, was released from Myitkyina Prison. He has been in jail since 1991.
2. U Pe Sein, Township organizer, Mohnyin, Kachin State.
3. U Naw Naw

Insein prison

4. U Kaythara (a) U Kyaw Min Thet
5. U Ingura (a) U Aye Tun Thar
6. U Thireina (a) U Kyaw Moe
7. U Marlaina (a) U Min Zaw Aung
8. U Ardatesa (a) U Aung Ko
9. U Takekanateya (a) U Maung Zaw
10. U Damitika (a) U Tun Tun
11. U Tun Zaw Htay (a) Tun Tun
12. U Khaing Ba Myint
13. U Soe
14. U Nandathiri (a) U Htay Ye Tun
15. U Sandima (a) U Zaw Min Htet
16. Ma Hmwe (a) Ma Kyin Haw
17. Ma Khin Khin Leah
18. Tin Hlaing
19. U Thet Wai (a) Pauk Sa

Kale prison

20. U Tin Htay

21. U Than Htay

22.Ma Htay (insein)

23.Zaw Naing Htwe (a) Kat Net (Labour camp)

AAPP
For more information, please contact:

Tate Naing at +66-(0)81-2878751
Bo Kyi at +66-(0)81-3248935

23 political prisoners were released in Burma

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Source : http://www.aappb.org

23 February 2009
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) can confirm that 23 political prisoners were released from various prisons in Burma 21st February 2009.
On Friday the ruling military regime announced that it would release 6,313 prisoners from 21 February.

The list of released:

Myintkyina prison

1. Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, Member of Parliament from the National League for Democracy party, was released from Myitkyina Prison. He has been in jail since 1991.
2. U Pe Sein, Township organizer, Mohnyin, Kachin State.
3. U Naw Naw

Insein prison

4. U Kaythara (a) U Kyaw Min Thet
5. U Ingura (a) U Aye Tun Thar
6. U Thireina (a) U Kyaw Moe
7. U Marlaina (a) U Min Zaw Aung
8. U Ardatesa (a) U Aung Ko
9. U Takekanateya (a) U Maung Zaw
10. U Damitika (a) U Tun Tun
11. U Tun Zaw Htay (a) Tun Tun
12. U Khaing Ba Myint
13. U Soe
14. U Nandathiri (a) U Htay Ye Tun
15. U Sandima (a) U Zaw Min Htet
16. Ma Hmwe (a) Ma Kyin Haw
17. Ma Khin Khin Leah
18. Tin Hlaing
19. U Thet Wai (a) Pauk Sa

Kale prison

20. U Tin Htay

21. U Than Htay

22.Ma Htay (insein)

23.Zaw Naing Htwe (a) Kat Net (Labour camp)

AAPP
For more information, please contact:

Tate Naing at +66-(0)81-2878751
Bo Kyi at +66-(0)81-3248935

The 61th Chin National Day in Japan

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)

The 61th Chin National Day in Japan

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 ဇာနည္ဝင္း
Source : Irrawaddy
ဂ်ပန္သတင္းဌာန၏ဆု ျမန္မာသတင္းေထာက္ရရိွ
Monday, 16 February 2009 18:32 ေအးလဲ့

သတင္းရယူစဥ္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံသည့္ ျမန္မာ လူငယ္ သတင္းေထာက္္ မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံအေျခစုိက္ APF သတင္းဌာနက ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ဟု သိရသည္။
[အိမ့္ခုိင္ဦး (သရုပ္ေဖာ္ - ဟန္ေလး)]


အိမ့္ခုိင္ဦး (သရုပ္ေဖာ္ - ဟန္ေလး)
APF သတင္းဌာနက၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ရဟန္းသံဃာမ်ား၏ ဆႏၵျပပဲြတြင္ ဓာတ္ပံုရုိက္ေနစဥ္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးခ့ဲသည့္ ၎တုိ႔၏ သတင္းေထာက္ မစၥတာ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (Kanji Nagai)ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳေသာ အားျဖင့္ အဆုိပါဆုကုိ စီစဥ္ခ့ဲျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ဆုရရိွသူ မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးသည္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ အပတ္စဥ္ ထုတ္ေ၀ေသာ အီကိုဗီြးရွင္း (Eco Vision) ဂ်ာနယ္၏ သတင္းေထာက္တဦး ျဖစ္ၿပီး နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ သတင္းလိုက္ေနစဥ္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည္။
မအိမ့္ခုိင္ဦးသည္ APF သတင္းဌာနက ႏွစ္စဥ္ ခ်ီးျမွင့္မည့္ အဆုိပါ ခန္းဂ်ိနာဂအိ ဆုကုိ ပထမဦးဆုံး ရရိွသူျဖစ္သည္။
အဆုိပါဆုကုိ ယခုလအတြင္း ျပဳလုပ္မည့္ ျမန္မာသတင္းသမဂၢ (BMA)၏ ညီလာခံတြင္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ဟု BMAအဖဲြ႔၏ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးစံမိုးေဝက ေျပာသည္။
“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ေသဆံုုးသြားရွာတဲ့ ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳး ဓာတ္ပံုသတင္းေထာက္ကို ေလးစားဂုဏ္ျပဳတဲ့ အေနနဲ႔ ဒီဆုေပးဖို႔ စီစဥ္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူ႔(မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦး) ကိုယ္စား တစံုတေယာက္က လက္ခံရယူမွာျဖစ္တယ္။ ေငြသားဆု အေနနဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ ၁၀၀၀ ေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးစံမိုးေဝက ဧရာဝတီ ကို ေျပာျပသည္။
[ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ဂ်ပန္သတင္းေထာက္ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (ဓာတ္ပုံ - Reuters)]

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ဂ်ပန္သတင္းေထာက္ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (ဓာတ္ပုံ - Reuters)
မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက တရားဝင္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ျခင္း မရွိခဲ့ေပ။ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလက ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ စစ္အစိုးရ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ တခုတြင္ Eco Vision ဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာက မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦး ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသည္မွာ ၃လခန္႔ရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ အေျခအေန သိလိုေၾကာင္း ေမးခြန္း ထုတ္္ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔ ရဲခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ခင္ရီက စစ္ေဆးဆဲျဖစ္သည္ ဟုသာ ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။
၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလတြင္ အာဏာပုိင္တုိ႔က မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား အလုပ္ၾကမ္းႏွင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၂ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ယခုအခါ အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တြင္ ေရာက္ရိွေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 ဇာနည္ဝင္း
Source : Irrawaddy
ဂ်ပန္သတင္းဌာန၏ဆု ျမန္မာသတင္းေထာက္ရရိွ
Monday, 16 February 2009 18:32 ေအးလဲ့

သတင္းရယူစဥ္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံသည့္ ျမန္မာ လူငယ္ သတင္းေထာက္္ မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံအေျခစုိက္ APF သတင္းဌာနက ဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ဟု သိရသည္။
[အိမ့္ခုိင္ဦး (သရုပ္ေဖာ္ - ဟန္ေလး)]


အိမ့္ခုိင္ဦး (သရုပ္ေဖာ္ - ဟန္ေလး)
APF သတင္းဌာနက၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ရဟန္းသံဃာမ်ား၏ ဆႏၵျပပဲြတြင္ ဓာတ္ပံုရုိက္ေနစဥ္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးခ့ဲသည့္ ၎တုိ႔၏ သတင္းေထာက္ မစၥတာ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (Kanji Nagai)ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳေသာ အားျဖင့္ အဆုိပါဆုကုိ စီစဥ္ခ့ဲျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ဆုရရိွသူ မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးသည္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ အပတ္စဥ္ ထုတ္ေ၀ေသာ အီကိုဗီြးရွင္း (Eco Vision) ဂ်ာနယ္၏ သတင္းေထာက္တဦး ျဖစ္ၿပီး နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ သတင္းလိုက္ေနစဥ္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည္။
မအိမ့္ခုိင္ဦးသည္ APF သတင္းဌာနက ႏွစ္စဥ္ ခ်ီးျမွင့္မည့္ အဆုိပါ ခန္းဂ်ိနာဂအိ ဆုကုိ ပထမဦးဆုံး ရရိွသူျဖစ္သည္။
အဆုိပါဆုကုိ ယခုလအတြင္း ျပဳလုပ္မည့္ ျမန္မာသတင္းသမဂၢ (BMA)၏ ညီလာခံတြင္ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ဟု BMAအဖဲြ႔၏ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးစံမိုးေဝက ေျပာသည္။
“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ေသဆံုုးသြားရွာတဲ့ ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳး ဓာတ္ပံုသတင္းေထာက္ကို ေလးစားဂုဏ္ျပဳတဲ့ အေနနဲ႔ ဒီဆုေပးဖို႔ စီစဥ္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ သူ႔(မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦး) ကိုယ္စား တစံုတေယာက္က လက္ခံရယူမွာျဖစ္တယ္။ ေငြသားဆု အေနနဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ ၁၀၀၀ ေပးမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးစံမိုးေဝက ဧရာဝတီ ကို ေျပာျပသည္။
[ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ဂ်ပန္သတင္းေထာက္ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (ဓာတ္ပုံ - Reuters)]

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေသနတ္က်ည္ဆံ ထိၿပီး ေသဆုံးသြားေသာ ဂ်ပန္သတင္းေထာက္ ကန္ဂ်ီးနာဂအိ (ဓာတ္ပုံ - Reuters)
မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက တရားဝင္ သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ျခင္း မရွိခဲ့ေပ။ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလက ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ စစ္အစိုးရ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ တခုတြင္ Eco Vision ဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာက မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦး ထိန္းသိမ္းခံရသည္မွာ ၃လခန္႔ရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ အေျခအေန သိလိုေၾကာင္း ေမးခြန္း ထုတ္္ရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔ ရဲခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ခင္ရီက စစ္ေဆးဆဲျဖစ္သည္ ဟုသာ ေျဖၾကားခဲ့သည္။
၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလတြင္ အာဏာပုိင္တုိ႔က မအိမ့္ခိုင္ဦးအား အလုပ္ၾကမ္းႏွင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၂ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ယခုအခါ အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တြင္ ေရာက္ရိွေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ဂန္ဘာရီ၏ခရီး ဘန္ကီမြန္း အေကာင္းျမင္

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 ဇာနည္ဝင္း
Source : Irrawaddy

ကမၻာ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္က ၎၏ အထူး အႀကံေပး အရာရွိ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီသည္ ၿပီးခ့ဲသည့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း စစ္အစုိးရ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္၊ အတုိက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တုိ႔ႏွင့္ အဆင္ေျပ ေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ခ့ဲသည္ဟု ယမန္ေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလုိက္သည္။
ကုလသမဂၢ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ပုံမွန္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ လစဥ္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲြတြင္ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း က ထုိသုိ႔ ေျပာလုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ားကုိ ေထာင္မွ လႊတ္ေပးရန္၊ ႀကိဳတင္ စည္းကမ္းခ်က္မ်ား သတ္မွတ္ျခင္း မျပဳလုပ္ဘဲ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ အတုိက္အခံတုိ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကရန္ စသျဖင့္ ထပ္မံ ေတာင္းဆုိလုိက္သည္။

[မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း (ဓာတ္ပုံ - ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ)]

“မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီက ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ခြင့္ မရခ့ဲဘူး ဆုိတာ မွန္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူက ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သိန္းစိန္၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ အတုိက္အခံ ပါတီ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တုိ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ခ့ဲပါတယ္” ဟု အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္က သတင္းစာဆရာမ်ားကုိ ေျပာျပသည္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးအတြက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖဲြ႔ႀကီးက ၾကား၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ရိွၿပီး၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ အထူး ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား အဆက္မျပတ္ ေစလႊတ္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ လက္ရိွ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ အထူးအႀကံေပးအရာရိွ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီသည္ ၿပီးခ့ဲသည့္ ၃ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာျပည္သုိ႔ ၇ ႀကိမ္ သြားေရာက္ကာ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ အတုိက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ညိွႏိႈင္း ေဆြးေႏြးခ့ဲၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။
ဤအေတာအတြင္း ကုလသမဂၢ၏ ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္မ်ားကုိ ေထာက္ခံသည့္ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ ယမန္ေန႔က ထြက္ေပၚလာသည္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအား အျပဳသေဘာ ေဆာင္သည့္ ကူညီမႈမ်ား ေပးၾကရန္ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး ဌာန၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္၊ ၎၏ အထူး ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာဂန္ဘာရီ တုိ႔ အတြက္ ၾကား၀င္ ေစ့စပ္ေပးသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။
တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ မစၥတာဂန္ဘာရီ သြားေရာက္ကာ တရုတ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး၊ ဒု၀န္ႀကီးတုိ႔ႏွင့္ သီးျခားစီ ေတြ႔ဆုံၿပီး ေနာက္တေန႔တြင္ ထုိသုိ႔ ေၾကညာလုိက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ထင္ရွားသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသား ႏုိင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ တဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးေအးသာေအာင္ကမူ ကုလသမဂၢ၏ ၾကား၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ားကုိ အားရျခင္းမရိွဟု ဆုိသည္။
“စစ္အစိုးရက ကုလသမဂၢ ေျပာဆုိတာေတြကို တေလးတစား နားေထာင္ေလ့ မရွိပါဘူး၊ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲေနျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္တယ္၊ အတိုက္အခံ အင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔လည္း ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးေရး လုပ္ဖို႔ ဆႏၵ မရွိဘူး၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကုလသမဂၢက ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ တင္သင့္ပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးေအးသာေအာင္က ဧရာ၀တီသုိ႔ ေျပာသည္။

ဂန္ဘာရီ၏ခရီး ဘန္ကီမြန္း အေကာင္းျမင္

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Wednesday, 11 February 2009 ဇာနည္ဝင္း
Source : Irrawaddy

ကမၻာ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္က ၎၏ အထူး အႀကံေပး အရာရွိ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီသည္ ၿပီးခ့ဲသည့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း စစ္အစုိးရ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္၊ အတုိက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တုိ႔ႏွင့္ အဆင္ေျပ ေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ခ့ဲသည္ဟု ယမန္ေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလုိက္သည္။
ကုလသမဂၢ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ပုံမွန္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ လစဥ္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲြတြင္ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း က ထုိသုိ႔ ေျပာလုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ားကုိ ေထာင္မွ လႊတ္ေပးရန္၊ ႀကိဳတင္ စည္းကမ္းခ်က္မ်ား သတ္မွတ္ျခင္း မျပဳလုပ္ဘဲ စစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ အတုိက္အခံတုိ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးၾကရန္ စသျဖင့္ ထပ္မံ ေတာင္းဆုိလုိက္သည္။

[မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း (ဓာတ္ပုံ - ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ)]

“မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီက ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ခြင့္ မရခ့ဲဘူး ဆုိတာ မွန္ပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ သူက ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သိန္းစိန္၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ အတုိက္အခံ ပါတီ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တုိ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ခ့ဲပါတယ္” ဟု အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္က သတင္းစာဆရာမ်ားကုိ ေျပာျပသည္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီစနစ္ ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးအတြက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖဲြ႔ႀကီးက ၾကား၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ရိွၿပီး၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ အထူး ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား အဆက္မျပတ္ ေစလႊတ္လ်က္ရိွသည္။ လက္ရိွ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ အထူးအႀကံေပးအရာရိွ မစၥတာ ဂန္ဘာရီသည္ ၿပီးခ့ဲသည့္ ၃ ႏွစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာျပည္သုိ႔ ၇ ႀကိမ္ သြားေရာက္ကာ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ အတုိက္အခံ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ညိွႏိႈင္း ေဆြးေႏြးခ့ဲၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။
ဤအေတာအတြင္း ကုလသမဂၢ၏ ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္မ်ားကုိ ေထာက္ခံသည့္ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ ယမန္ေန႔က ထြက္ေပၚလာသည္။
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအား အျပဳသေဘာ ေဆာင္သည့္ ကူညီမႈမ်ား ေပးၾကရန္ တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး ဌာန၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္၊ ၎၏ အထူး ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာဂန္ဘာရီ တုိ႔ အတြက္ ၾကား၀င္ ေစ့စပ္ေပးသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။
တရုတ္ႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ မစၥတာဂန္ဘာရီ သြားေရာက္ကာ တရုတ္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး၊ ဒု၀န္ႀကီးတုိ႔ႏွင့္ သီးျခားစီ ေတြ႔ဆုံၿပီး ေနာက္တေန႔တြင္ ထုိသုိ႔ ေၾကညာလုိက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ထင္ရွားသည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသား ႏုိင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ တဦးျဖစ္သူ ဦးေအးသာေအာင္ကမူ ကုလသမဂၢ၏ ၾကား၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ားကုိ အားရျခင္းမရိွဟု ဆုိသည္။
“စစ္အစိုးရက ကုလသမဂၢ ေျပာဆုိတာေတြကို တေလးတစား နားေထာင္ေလ့ မရွိပါဘူး၊ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲေနျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္တယ္၊ အတိုက္အခံ အင္အားစုေတြနဲ႔လည္း ေတြ႕ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြးေရး လုပ္ဖို႔ ဆႏၵ မရွိဘူး၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကုလသမဂၢက ျမန္မာ့အေရးကို လုံၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ တင္သင့္ပါတယ္” ဟု ဦးေအးသာေအာင္က ဧရာ၀တီသုိ႔ ေျပာသည္။

ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ဂ်ပန္မွာ ဆႏၵျပ

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
ျမင့္ေမာင္
တနလၤာေန႔၊ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ 09 2009
နယူးေဒလီ (မဇၥ်ိမ)။ ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အန္အယ္ဒီႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီ ၇ ပါတီ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္အေပၚ ေထာက္ခံသည့္အေနျဖင့္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာအင္အားစုမ်ားက ယမန္ေန႔က တိုက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕တြင္း လွည့္လည္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့သည္။
ျမန္မာတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဂ်ပန္ဌာခြဲမွ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ လူဦးေရ ၅၀၀ ခန္႔က Minami Ootsuka Hall အနီးရွိ Ootsuka Daitoen ပန္းၿခံမွ စတင္၍ တုိက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕တြင္းသို႔ ေထာက္ခံ ခ်ီတက္ပြဲကို ညပိုင္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
"ဦးတင္ဦး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ အခုလက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ရွိတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ ရွိ္တယ္။ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၁၀၀၊ ၁၅၀ ခ်တယ္ဆိုတာ မၾကားဖူးတဲ့ ဥပေဒေတြ ထုတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ခ်တဲ့ ကိစၥကို ဂ်ပန္ျပည္သူေတြ သိေအာင္လို႔ ဂ်ပန္ဘာသာနဲ႔ ေရးထားတာ ျဖစ္တယ္" ဟု အန္အယ္ဒီ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဂ်ပန္႒ာခြဲမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူ ကိုဆန္နီက မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။
ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ လိုအပ္ခ်က္အရ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ရွမ္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး၊ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ မင္းကိုႏုိင္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ မြန္၊ ဇိုမီး၊ ရခုိင္၊ ခ်င္း၊ ရွမ္း အပါအ၀င္ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီ ၇ ပါတီ၏ ယခုႏွစ္ဆန္းတရက္ေန႔ ရက္စဲြပါ အထူးေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။
ထိုေၾကညာခ်က္အား တုိင္းသူျပည္သားမ်ားက ၀ိုင္း၀န္းေထာက္ခံရန္ တုိက္တြန္းႏႈိးေဆာ္သည့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို အန္အယ္ဒီက ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႔က ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္လုိက္သည့္အေပၚ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားက ယခုလို ေထာက္ခံ ဆႏၵျပၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ကိုဆန္နီက "ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအေနနဲ႔ လုပ္ေစခ်င္တယ္" ဟု ဆုိသည္။
ဆႏၵျပပဲြသို႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနသည့္ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ ဂ်ပန္ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၊ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားလည္း ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပပဲြကို ည ၇ နာရီခဲြမွ စတင္ကာ ၉ နာရီခဲြတြင္ အဆံုးသတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သူက ေျပာသည္။
ယမန္ေန႔ကပင္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အင္ဒီယားနားျပည္နယ္ ဖို႔၀ိန္းၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ေနာ္ေ၀းႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ အင္အားစုမ်ားကလည္း အလားတူ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမ်ဳိး က်င္းပခဲ့ေသးသည္။
လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ေနရေသာ အေထြေထြ အက်ပ္အတည္းမ်ားမွ ေျပလည္ႏိုင္မည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အေျပာင္းအလဲတရပ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးမွာ ျပည္သူလူထုကို ဦးေဆာင္ႏုိင္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံအက်ဳိးအတြက္ စြန္႔လႊတ္အနစ္နာခံေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္တကြ ဖမ္းဆီးခံ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းမ်ား အျမန္ဆံုး လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးသည္ အဓိက လိုအပ္ခ်က္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဖို႔၀ိန္းေၾကညာခ်က္က ဆိုသည္။
ယခုလအတြင္း၌ ကေနဒါ၊ ကိုရီးယား၊ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ား၊ အိႏၵိယႏွင့္ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံရွိ အန္အယ္ဒီ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဌာနခဲြမ်ားက ဦးေဆာင္ကာ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမ်ား က်င္းပသြားမည္ဟုလည္း သိရသည္။

ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ဂ်ပန္မွာ ဆႏၵျပ

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
ျမင့္ေမာင္
တနလၤာေန႔၊ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ 09 2009
နယူးေဒလီ (မဇၥ်ိမ)။ ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ အန္အယ္ဒီႏွင့္ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီ ၇ ပါတီ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္အေပၚ ေထာက္ခံသည့္အေနျဖင့္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာအင္အားစုမ်ားက ယမန္ေန႔က တိုက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕တြင္း လွည့္လည္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့သည္။
ျမန္မာတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဂ်ပန္ဌာခြဲမွ ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ လူဦးေရ ၅၀၀ ခန္႔က Minami Ootsuka Hall အနီးရွိ Ootsuka Daitoen ပန္းၿခံမွ စတင္၍ တုိက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕တြင္းသို႔ ေထာက္ခံ ခ်ီတက္ပြဲကို ညပိုင္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
"ဦးတင္ဦး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအ၀င္ အခုလက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ရွိတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေတြ ရွိ္တယ္။ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ႏွစ္ ၁၀၀၊ ၁၅၀ ခ်တယ္ဆိုတာ မၾကားဖူးတဲ့ ဥပေဒေတြ ထုတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ခ်တဲ့ ကိစၥကို ဂ်ပန္ျပည္သူေတြ သိေအာင္လို႔ ဂ်ပန္ဘာသာနဲ႔ ေရးထားတာ ျဖစ္တယ္" ဟု အန္အယ္ဒီ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဂ်ပန္႒ာခြဲမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူ ကိုဆန္နီက မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။
ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ လိုအပ္ခ်က္အရ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ရွမ္းေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး၊ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ မင္းကိုႏုိင္ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးရန္ မြန္၊ ဇိုမီး၊ ရခုိင္၊ ခ်င္း၊ ရွမ္း အပါအ၀င္ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီ ၇ ပါတီ၏ ယခုႏွစ္ဆန္းတရက္ေန႔ ရက္စဲြပါ အထူးေၾကညာခ်က္တေစာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။
ထိုေၾကညာခ်က္အား တုိင္းသူျပည္သားမ်ားက ၀ိုင္း၀န္းေထာက္ခံရန္ တုိက္တြန္းႏႈိးေဆာ္သည့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို အန္အယ္ဒီက ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႔က ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္လုိက္သည့္အေပၚ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားက ယခုလို ေထာက္ခံ ဆႏၵျပၾကျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
ကိုဆန္နီက "ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအေနနဲ႔ လုပ္ေစခ်င္တယ္" ဟု ဆုိသည္။
ဆႏၵျပပဲြသို႔ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနသည့္ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ ဂ်ပန္ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၊ ေရွ႕ေနမ်ားလည္း ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပပဲြကို ည ၇ နာရီခဲြမွ စတင္ကာ ၉ နာရီခဲြတြင္ အဆံုးသတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သူက ေျပာသည္။
ယမန္ေန႔ကပင္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အင္ဒီယားနားျပည္နယ္ ဖို႔၀ိန္းၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ေနာ္ေ၀းႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ အင္အားစုမ်ားကလည္း အလားတူ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမ်ဳိး က်င္းပခဲ့ေသးသည္။
လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ေနရေသာ အေထြေထြ အက်ပ္အတည္းမ်ားမွ ေျပလည္ႏိုင္မည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အေျပာင္းအလဲတရပ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာေစရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးမွာ ျပည္သူလူထုကို ဦးေဆာင္ႏုိင္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံအက်ဳိးအတြက္ စြန္႔လႊတ္အနစ္နာခံေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္တကြ ဖမ္းဆီးခံ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းမ်ား အျမန္ဆံုး လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးသည္ အဓိက လိုအပ္ခ်က္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဖို႔၀ိန္းေၾကညာခ်က္က ဆိုသည္။
ယခုလအတြင္း၌ ကေနဒါ၊ ကိုရီးယား၊ ၾသစေၾတးလ်ား၊ အိႏၵိယႏွင့္ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံရွိ အန္အယ္ဒီ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဌာနခဲြမ်ားက ဦးေဆာင္ကာ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမ်ား က်င္းပသြားမည္ဟုလည္း သိရသည္။

British MPs Call for End to Religious Persecution in Burma

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Chinland Guardian
London, UK 5 February 2009: A group of British Parliamentarians led by John Bercow of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma is initiating an Early Day Motion on Burma to express deep concerns at recent clampdown by Burmese authorities on Christians in the former capital Rangoon. The motion, which is still open for signature, has already received 25 signatures from the British MPs.
According to reports, authorities have ordered at least 100 local Christian churches to shut down in Rangoon with threats of imprisonment for non-compliance. Human rights campaigners see it as the latest example of a regime being hostile to minority religions in Burma, describing the move as 'an extremely worrying development.'
The motion calls for an independent investigation by the UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom and Belief, and urges the British government to raise the issue of violations of religious freedom with Burma's ruling military junta. It also calls for the release of all political prisoners and unhindered humanitarian access to all parts of Burma.
A similar motion was tabled at the British House of Commons in January 2007 following the release of a report by UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) "Carrying the Cross: The military regime's campaign of restriction, discrimination and persecution against Christians in Burma." The report documented widespread and systematic violations of religious freedom by the military regime against non-Buddhist religious minorities such as Christians and Muslims.

British MPs Call for End to Religious Persecution in Burma

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
Chinland Guardian
London, UK 5 February 2009: A group of British Parliamentarians led by John Bercow of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Burma is initiating an Early Day Motion on Burma to express deep concerns at recent clampdown by Burmese authorities on Christians in the former capital Rangoon. The motion, which is still open for signature, has already received 25 signatures from the British MPs.
According to reports, authorities have ordered at least 100 local Christian churches to shut down in Rangoon with threats of imprisonment for non-compliance. Human rights campaigners see it as the latest example of a regime being hostile to minority religions in Burma, describing the move as 'an extremely worrying development.'
The motion calls for an independent investigation by the UN Special Rapporteur on Religious Freedom and Belief, and urges the British government to raise the issue of violations of religious freedom with Burma's ruling military junta. It also calls for the release of all political prisoners and unhindered humanitarian access to all parts of Burma.
A similar motion was tabled at the British House of Commons in January 2007 following the release of a report by UK-based Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) "Carrying the Cross: The military regime's campaign of restriction, discrimination and persecution against Christians in Burma." The report documented widespread and systematic violations of religious freedom by the military regime against non-Buddhist religious minorities such as Christians and Muslims.

No Concrete Results for Gambari

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
By WAI MOE Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Source : www.irrawaddy.org
United Nations Special Envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari on Tuesday concluded his seventh official visit to Burma after a meeting with Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein in Rangoon. However, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Nyan Win said that there had been no developments during the envoy's visit.
"During our meeting with Mr Gambari, the NLD made a stand and he listened carefully to what we said. However, we have not received a response to our demands. So far, we cannot see any developments from this trip."
UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari (2nd L) meets senior leaders of the opposition National League for Democracy party at the state guesthouse in Rangoon on February 2. Pictured are (L-R): Personal assistant to Gambari, Gambari, NLD Central Executive Committee member U Than Tun, CEC member U Soe Myint, NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe, CEC member U Hla Pe, CEC member U Nyunt Wai and Aung San Suu Kyi.

(Photo: Reuters/ MNA)

Aye Win, an official with the UN Information Centre in Rangoon, said on Tuesday that the Nigerian diplomat left Burma at about 4:30 p.m. local time. He added that Gambari had not flown to the Burmese regime's new capital, Naypyidaw, nor met with other high-ranking generals or junta head Snr-Gen Than Shwe.
“Today Mr Gambari met with Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein at 2 p.m. for about one hour,” he said on Tuesday. “The envoy also sat again with the government’s 'spokes authoritative team' today.”
Aye Win said Gambari was able to meet all the persons who were on his itinerary before the trip.
He said Gambari also held meetings on Tuesday with pro-junta political groups, such as the so-called "88 Generation Students and Youth (Union of Myanmar)" group and the Wintharnu NLD, a splinter group from the NLD.
Aye Win confirmed that the UN envoy had met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and senior members of her party, the NLD, on Monday.
“In past trips, Mr Gambari met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD separately. But yesterday's meeting was with the NLD and her together. It was the first time in the envoy’s seven visits,” he said.
Burma analysts questioned whether the Nigerian diplomat would make an eighth trip to Burma as he has only been granted an audience with Than Shwe once in seven visits.
“This could be Gambari’s final trip," said Larry Jagen, a Bangkok-based British journalist who focuses on Burma. "He is unlikely to return to Burma in the near future."
He said that Gambari had only achieved limited objectives: he was able to meet Suu Kyi and he laid the groundwork for another visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; but still he was unable to meet with Than Shwe.
Meanwhile, the Burmese authorities refused to allow recently released political prisoners Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe join the five other members of the NLD who met with Gambari and Suu Kyi, sources within the party said.
Win Tin, 79, an executive member of the NLD and a former journalist, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that before the meeting with Gambari, the Special Branch of Burma's police force told the NLD that he and Khin Maung Swe could not attend the meeting.
Win Tin was Suu Kyi’s close aide in the late 1990s before he was arrested. He has spent some 19 years in prison. Observers say Win Tin was the mastermind behind the NLD’s civil disobedience movement in 1989.
"Preventing us meeting with a UN envoy who is here to discuss political issues in the country demonstrates that political rights in Burma have vanished," said Win Tin.
The other barred NLD central committee member, Khin Maung Swe, was twice arrested and has served lengthy imprisonments.
Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe were both released in September. Soon after their release, they resumed their political activities within the party.
State-run media and private weekly journals were recently coerced by the authorities to publish articles attacking Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe, according to journalists in Rangoon.
NLD sources said that at the meeting with Gambari, Suu Kyi reiterated her call for the release of political prisoners and spoke about her disappointment in Burma’s legal system, reflected in the heavy prison sentences, one of 104 years, handed down to dissidents, as well as the harassment of activists' lawyers by security forces.
Win Tin said Suu Kyi had also endorsed the NLD’s four demands for a political solution in Burma: freedom of political prisoners (including herself); a genuine dialogue between the ruling junta and the opposition; convening the parliament; and the forming of a committee to review the constitution.

No Concrete Results for Gambari

Posted by Thawngsian Tung (CNC-Japan)
By WAI MOE Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Source : www.irrawaddy.org
United Nations Special Envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari on Tuesday concluded his seventh official visit to Burma after a meeting with Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein in Rangoon. However, the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) spokesman Nyan Win said that there had been no developments during the envoy's visit.
"During our meeting with Mr Gambari, the NLD made a stand and he listened carefully to what we said. However, we have not received a response to our demands. So far, we cannot see any developments from this trip."
UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari (2nd L) meets senior leaders of the opposition National League for Democracy party at the state guesthouse in Rangoon on February 2. Pictured are (L-R): Personal assistant to Gambari, Gambari, NLD Central Executive Committee member U Than Tun, CEC member U Soe Myint, NLD Chairman U Aung Shwe, CEC member U Hla Pe, CEC member U Nyunt Wai and Aung San Suu Kyi.

(Photo: Reuters/ MNA)

Aye Win, an official with the UN Information Centre in Rangoon, said on Tuesday that the Nigerian diplomat left Burma at about 4:30 p.m. local time. He added that Gambari had not flown to the Burmese regime's new capital, Naypyidaw, nor met with other high-ranking generals or junta head Snr-Gen Than Shwe.
“Today Mr Gambari met with Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein at 2 p.m. for about one hour,” he said on Tuesday. “The envoy also sat again with the government’s 'spokes authoritative team' today.”
Aye Win said Gambari was able to meet all the persons who were on his itinerary before the trip.
He said Gambari also held meetings on Tuesday with pro-junta political groups, such as the so-called "88 Generation Students and Youth (Union of Myanmar)" group and the Wintharnu NLD, a splinter group from the NLD.
Aye Win confirmed that the UN envoy had met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and senior members of her party, the NLD, on Monday.
“In past trips, Mr Gambari met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD separately. But yesterday's meeting was with the NLD and her together. It was the first time in the envoy’s seven visits,” he said.
Burma analysts questioned whether the Nigerian diplomat would make an eighth trip to Burma as he has only been granted an audience with Than Shwe once in seven visits.
“This could be Gambari’s final trip," said Larry Jagen, a Bangkok-based British journalist who focuses on Burma. "He is unlikely to return to Burma in the near future."
He said that Gambari had only achieved limited objectives: he was able to meet Suu Kyi and he laid the groundwork for another visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; but still he was unable to meet with Than Shwe.
Meanwhile, the Burmese authorities refused to allow recently released political prisoners Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe join the five other members of the NLD who met with Gambari and Suu Kyi, sources within the party said.
Win Tin, 79, an executive member of the NLD and a former journalist, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that before the meeting with Gambari, the Special Branch of Burma's police force told the NLD that he and Khin Maung Swe could not attend the meeting.
Win Tin was Suu Kyi’s close aide in the late 1990s before he was arrested. He has spent some 19 years in prison. Observers say Win Tin was the mastermind behind the NLD’s civil disobedience movement in 1989.
"Preventing us meeting with a UN envoy who is here to discuss political issues in the country demonstrates that political rights in Burma have vanished," said Win Tin.
The other barred NLD central committee member, Khin Maung Swe, was twice arrested and has served lengthy imprisonments.
Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe were both released in September. Soon after their release, they resumed their political activities within the party.
State-run media and private weekly journals were recently coerced by the authorities to publish articles attacking Win Tin and Khin Maung Swe, according to journalists in Rangoon.
NLD sources said that at the meeting with Gambari, Suu Kyi reiterated her call for the release of political prisoners and spoke about her disappointment in Burma’s legal system, reflected in the heavy prison sentences, one of 104 years, handed down to dissidents, as well as the harassment of activists' lawyers by security forces.
Win Tin said Suu Kyi had also endorsed the NLD’s four demands for a political solution in Burma: freedom of political prisoners (including herself); a genuine dialogue between the ruling junta and the opposition; convening the parliament; and the forming of a committee to review the constitution.