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Burmese blogger Nay Phone Latt, mysteriously missing
The Burmese blogger, Nay Phone Latt, allegedly arrested by the police on Tuesday has mysteriously gone missing, family members complained.
Daw Aye Aye Than, mother of blogger and writer, Nay Phone Latt, said, the whereabouts of her son cannot be confirmed as authorities including police officers in Thuwana and Thingan Kyun police stations and Ministry of Home Affairs deny detaining him.
Daw Aye Aye Than said her son left home on Tuesday at about noon but when they tried to contact him on cell phone at about 1:00 p.m. he could not be contacted.
"And at around 2:30 p.m. the authorities came to our house but did not ask for Nay Phone Latt. They looked around the house. So I think he must have been arrested before they came to us," Daw Aye Aye Than told Mizzima.
She added that the police team led by Maj. Hein Htet while not mentioning their purpose searched around the house, as if looking for someone in hiding.
"We went to the office of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Tingankyun and Thuwana police stations to inquire about him but all the authorities would tell us was they don't know him and he is not here," Daw Aye Aye Than said.
Daw Aye Aye Than said she is worried for her son and could not understand the reason for his mysterious disappearance.
"I am very sad for this kind of unlawful action, I don't understand why they [authorities] are doing this to my son because he is not involved in any illegal activities and does all his work openly," Daw Aye Aye Than said.
Nay Phone Latt, who has a blogsite www.nayphonelatt.blogspot.com, reportedly disappeared on Tuesday. While many of his colleagues believe he has been arrested by the police, there are, so far no eyewitness accounts.
While earlier, some friends said he was taken away by the police from an internet café in Thingan Kyun township in Rangoon, his mother's version indicates that he was arrested while on the road.
While either version cannot be independently verified, it is still uncertain that the authorities have taken him away, as there are no eyewitnesses.
Opening Shan embassy in Germany
Shan representative office inaugurated to mark 61st National Day
In commemoration of the 61st National Day and in order to highlight the struggle of ethnic Shans for freedom, equality, democracy and human rights, a Shan representative office was inaugurated today in Germany.
Spearheaded by a volunteer, Nicholas Ganz, the representative office will act as a liaison office for Shans and highlight the sufferings and struggles of Shans in Burma.
Nicholas Ganz, in an interview with Mizzima said, the representative office, which he named "Shan Embassy" will mainly deal with Public Relations in regard to the Shan people's political struggle and will represent the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS).
"The main purpose of the embassy [liaison office] is to represent the Restoration Council of the Shan State in Europe and in other countries politically," Ganz told Mizzima news.
Ganz, who will be heading the office said, the office came into being after discussions with leaders of RCSS, a political wing formed in 1998, and several visits to the Thai-Burma border, where thousands of Shan refugees continue to suffer as refugees and migrants after fleeing their homes in war-torn Shan state.
"The situation in Shan State is really one of despair because the whole Shan state is occupied by the ruling Burma Army and it has unleashed real war on them so the people are really suffering a lot," said Ganz.
In his statement on the inauguration of the Shan representative office released on Wednesday, Ganz said, "Now it is time, to transform some of the bullets into words and spread the words around the world. Words, that speak about the desire for freedom, equality, democracy and self-determination and the culture of the Shan people."
Ganz said the office will also act as a source of aid that will raise funds and donate to Shan people who are suffering such as refugees, orphan and farmers.
The office was inaugurated on the 61st Shan National Day to make a difference in the history of the struggle of the Shan people, Ganz said.
Meanwhile, Shans in Thailand and other countries today held separate ceremonies in commemoration of the National Day, which symbolizes the unity of the people of Shan State.
On February 7, 1947, four days prior to the Unions Day of Burma, the leaders of different ethnic groups living in Shan State came together to adopt a common flag and national anthem as a symbol unity as a nation.
"This is a significant day in the history of the people of Shan State. Wherever we are, we will always maintain the same spirit and observe this day," a Shan youth told Mizzima on the sidelines of the National Day ceremony in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Along with ethnic Chin and Kachin, the people of Shan on February 12, 1947 joined hands with ethnic Burmans, represented by General Aung San, and signed the historic Pang Long agreement, which eventually led Burma to independence from British colonial rulers.
However, the people of Shan state were among the earliest ethnic groups that rose against the Rangoon regime, when the spirit of the Pang Long agreement was violated after the death of General Aung San, who is regarded as the Independence father of Burma.
Burmese Weekly Kumudra suspends publication for two weeks
A Rangoon based Burmese weekly journal, Kumudra, has suspended its publication for two weeks, an official at the Weekly said.
Publication of the weekly journal has been temporarily suspended as the Weekly is awaiting permission from the authorities to allow an addition to the name of the paper, the official said.
While not revealing the additional name that is to be added, the official said, "We have been awaiting permission from the authorities about adding a new name on the old one and after that we will start publishing our journal again."
While the official reason for suspending publication for two weeks, since February 1, seems to be normal in Burma, where authorities have a tight control over the right to print journals, a Rangoon based journal editor said Kumudra has been facing a problem in renewing its license.
An editor of a Rangoon based journal, who wished not to be named, said Kumudra has been facing a problem in renewing its license as the license holder asked for a heftier sum to renew it.
"We heard that they have a problem with the person who owned the journal license but I am not sure of it," said the editor.
In Burma, several Weekly journals run their papers on rented license, as the license to print is mostly given to close relatives or friends of the authorities. Most publishers, who are unable to obtain a license themselves, act on rented license, which is normally leased out for a year, with the price depending on negotiations.
The information, however, could not be independently verified.
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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Myanmar's surprise announcement that it will hold a vote on a new constitution this May and a general election in 2010 drew little enthusiasm Sunday among the military regime's critics and the public at large.
The official announcements late Saturday of the constitutional referendum and the election were the first moves by the junta to set dates for stages of its so-called road map to democracy.
"The time has now come to change from military rule to democratic civilian rule," said the announcement for the 2010 polls, broadcast on state TV and radio.
But critics claim the long-delayed road map is designed to perpetuate military rule, not promote democracy. And at tea shops in Yangon, where morning news and gossip is traditionally exchanged, many seemed unimpressed with the developments.
"I am not interested in their referendum because the results are known already," said 48-year old noodle salad seller Mar Mar Aye, echoing the popular belief that the government is confident its constitution will be approved.
Several people said they were unsure what the referendum was, noting the language describing it was similar to that used for the stage-managed mass rallies the government frequently holds to show the public supports its policies. Myanmar's last constitutional referendum took place in 1973.
The last election in the country, also known as Burma, took place in 1990, but the military refused to hand over power to the winning party - the National League for Democracy of detained Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in prison or under house arrest for more than 12 of the past 18 years.
Suu Kyi and other independent political leaders have not been consulted on the constitution or the election process. Suu Kyi's party reacted cautiously, noting the lack of detail on how the referendum would be carried out.
"The announcement is vague, incomplete and strange," NLD party spokesman Nyan Win said Saturday night.
"Even before knowing the results of the referendum, the government has already announced that elections will be held in 2010," he said, also implying the government was certain the draft constitution would get approval.
Trevor Wilson, a Myanmar expert at the Australian National University in Canberra, called the move "a step forward," but added that "it is long overdue."
It "is in itself insufficient to mollify either Burmese opponents of the military regime or the international community," Wilson said.
The international community increased pressure on the junta to hasten political reform after it violently quashed peaceful mass protests last September, killing at least 31 people, according to a U.N. estimate. Thousands were detained.
Last week, the United States broadened financial sanctions against junta members and their families and friends, blaming the military's poor human rights record and failure to hand power to a democratically elected government.
A statement from the British Foreign Office in London said "a genuine and inclusive process of national reconciliation" was necessary for a transition to democracy, and called for the release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.
Scheduling the referendum for May makes it difficult for the junta's critics to mount a campaign against it, particularly because most of the country's leading pro-democracy activists are in jail, many detained in connection with last year's anti-government demonstrations.
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962 and has not had a constitution since the last one was scrapped in 1988, when the army brutally put down earlier pro-democracy demonstrations and the current junta took power.
The country has been in a political deadlock since the military refused to recognize the 1990 election results, saying after the polls the country first needed a new constitution. It harassed and arrested members of the pro-democracy movement, particularly from Suu Kyi's party.
Guidelines for a new constitution were adopted by a military-managed national convention last year, and a government-appointed commission is now drafting the document.
The National League for Democracy has accused the junta of trying to draft a constitution unilaterally, and it therefore "could not be expected to guarantee democracy, human rights and public well-being."
Myanmar's ethnic minority groups, some of whom have been seeking greater autonomy for decades, complained the constitution would give the central government greater powers even as the minorities have been seeking more administrative and judicial autonomy in their home areas.
A clause in the draft guidelines guarantees the military 25 percent of the seats in the country's parliament, with the representatives nominated by the commander in chief.
The guidelines also disqualify presidential candidates who are "entitled to the rights and privileges of a ... foreign country." The clause would bar Suu Kyi, because her late husband was British, thus conferring on her some of the privileges of British nationality.
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Indonesia's dictator Suharto died in 86
Indonesia's Ex-Dictator Suharto Buried
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SOLO, Indonesia (AP) -- Former Indonesian dictator Suharto, a U.S. Cold War ally whose military regime killed hundreds of thousands of left-wing opponents, was buried Monday at a state funeral with full military honors as tens of thousands mourned.
Throngs of Indonesians lined the streets to watch a motorcade carry his body to the family mausoleum. Many sobbed and called out the name of the man whose three-decade rule, though harsh, brought stability and economic growth to Indonesia.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono led a ceremony televised live across the nation from the mausoleum near Suharto's hometown of Solo, some 250 miles east of the capital. After a reading of Suharto's military accomplishments, a shot was fired in his honor and Yudhoyono offered a salute.
"We offer his body and his deeds to the motherland," Yudhoyono said. "His service is an example to us."
Islamic prayers were said and as his body was lowered, mourners tossed flower petals into his grave. A military band played a dirge.
Suharto died Sunday of multiple organ failure after more than three weeks on life support at a Jakarta hospital. He was 86.
Yudhoyono had already declared a week of national mourning and called on Indonesians "to pay their last respects to one of Indonesia's best sons."
"He was a great man," said Sumartini, 65, who came from a nearby village with her four children to watch the funeral procession. "His death touched us deeply."
Suharto loyalists, who run the courts, called for forgiveness and a clearing of his name. But survivors want those responsible for atrocities to be held accountable.
"I cannot understand why I have to forgive Suharto because he never admitted his mistakes," said Putu Oka Sukanta, who spent a decade in prison because of his left-wing sympathies.
Suharto was finally toppled by mass street protests in 1998 at the peak of the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.
His departure from office opened the way for democracy in this predominantly Muslim nation of 235 million people, and he withdrew from public life, rarely venturing from his comfortable Jakarta villa.
Suharto ruled with a totalitarian dominance that saw soldiers stationed in every village, instilling a deep fear of authority across this Southeast Asian archipelago that stretches across more than 3,000 miles.
Since being forced from power, Suharto had been in and out of hospitals after strokes caused brain damage and impaired his speech. Poor health - and continuing corruption, critics charge - kept him from court after he was chased from office.
The bulk of killings occurred in 1965-1966 when alleged communists were rounded up and slain during his rise to power. Estimates for the death toll range from a government figure of 78,000 to 1 million cited by U.S. historians Barbara Harff and Ted Robert Gurr, who have published books on Indonesia's history.
During Indonesia's 1975-1999 occupation of East Timor, up to 183,000 people died due to killings, disappearances, hunger and illness, according to an East Timorese commission sanctioned by the U.N. Similar abuses left more than 100,000 dead in West Papua, according a local human rights group. Another 15,000 died during a 29-year separatist rebellion in Aceh province.
Suharto's five successors as head of state all vowed to end the graft that took root under his regime, yet it remains endemic at all levels of Indonesian society.
With the court system paralyzed by corruption, the country has not confronted its bloody past. Rather than put on trial those accused of mass murder and multibillion-dollar theft, some members of the political elite consistently called for charges against Suharto to be dropped on humanitarian grounds.
Some noted Suharto also oversaw decades of economic expansion that made Indonesia the envy of the developing world. Today, nearly a quarter of Indonesians live in poverty, and many long for the Suharto era's stability, when fuel and rice were affordable.
But critics say Suharto squandered Indonesia's vast natural resources of oil, timber and gold, siphoning the nation's wealth to benefit his cronies, foreign corporations and family like a mafia don.
Jeffrey Winters, associate professor of political economy at Northwestern University, said the graft effectively robbed "Indonesia of some of the most golden decades, and its best opportunity to move from a poor to a middle class country."
"When Indonesia does finally go back and redo history, (its people) will realize that Suharto is responsible for some of the worst crimes against humanity in the 20th century," Winters said.
Those who profited from Suharto's rule made sure he was never portrayed in a harsh light at home, Winters said, so even though he was an "iron-fisted, brutal, cold-blooded dictator," he was able to stay in his native country.
Like many Indonesians, Suharto used only one name. He was born on June 8, 1921, to a family of rice farmers in the village of Godean in the dominant Indonesian province of Central Java.
When Indonesia gained independence from the Dutch in 1949, Suharto quickly rose through the ranks of the military to become a staff officer.
His career nearly foundered in the late 1950s, when the army's then-commander, Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, accused him of corruption in awarding army contracts.
Absolute power came in September 1965 when the army's six top generals were murdered under mysterious circumstances, and their bodies dumped in an abandoned well in an apparent coup attempt against Sukarno, Indonesia's founding father who helped win independence from the Dutch. Suharto, next in line for command, quickly asserted authority over the armed forces.
What followed was a nationwide purge of suspected leftists, a campaign that stood as the region's bloodiest event since World War II until the Khmer Rouge established its gruesome regime in Cambodia a decade later.
Over the next year, Suharto eased out Sukarno, who died under house arrest in 1970. The legislature rubber-stamped Suharto's presidency and he was re-elected unopposed six times.
During the Cold War, Suharto was considered a reliable friend of Washington, which did not oppose his violent occupation of Papua in 1969 and the bloody 1974 invasion of East Timor. The latter, a former Portuguese colony, became Asia's youngest country with a U.N.-sponsored plebiscite in 1999.
President Bush sent his regrets over Suharto's death. "President Bush expresses his condolences to the people of Indonesia on the loss of their former president," said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council.
Even Suharto's critics agree his hard-line policies kept a lid on Indonesia's extremists and held together the ethnically diverse and geographically vast nation. He jailed without trial hundreds of suspected Islamic militants, some of whom later carried out deadly suicide bombings with the al-Qaida-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah after the attacks on the U.S. of Sept. 11, 2001.
Meanwhile, the ruling clique that formed around Suharto - nicknamed the "Berkeley mafia" after the U.S. school they attended, the University of California, Berkeley - transformed Indonesia's economy and attracted billions of dollars in foreign investment.
By the late 1980s, Suharto was describing himself as Indonesia's "father of development," taking credit for slowly reducing the number of abjectly poor and modernizing parts of the nation.
But the government also became notorious for unfettered nepotism, and Indonesia was regularly ranked as one of the world's most corrupt nations as Suharto's inner circle amassed fabulous wealth. The World Bank estimates 20 percent to 30 percent of Indonesia's development budget was embezzled during his rule.
Even today, Suharto's children and aging associates have considerable sway over the country's business, politics and courts. Efforts to recover the money have been fruitless.
Suharto's youngest son, Hutomo "Tommy" Mandala Putra, was released from prison in 2006 after serving a third of a 15-year sentence for ordering the assassination of a Supreme Court judge. Another son, Bambang Trihatmodjo, joined the Forbes list of wealthiest Indonesians in 2007, with $200 million from his stake in the conglomerate Mediacom.
State prosecutors accused Suharto of embezzling about $600 million via a complex web of foundations under his control, but he never saw the inside of a courtroom. In September 2000, judges ruled he was too ill to stand trial, though many people believed the decision stemmed from the lingering influence of the former dictator and his family.
In 2007, Suharto won a $106 million defamation lawsuit against Time magazine for accusing the family of acquiring $15 billion in stolen state funds.
The former dictator told the news magazine Gatra in a rare interview in November 2007 that he would donate the bulk of any legal windfall to the needy, while he dismissed corruption accusations as "empty talk."
Suharto's wife of 49 years, Indonesian royal Siti Hartinah, died in 1996. The couple had three sons and three daughters.
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Sunday, January 20, 2008
exclusive interview with Gambari
Lalit K Jha
Sunday, January 20, 2008 (United Nations)
The Special UN Envoy for Burma, Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, is scheduled to visit New Delhi later this month to have another round of discussion with (his) Indian (counterpart) leaders on how they can play an influential and meaningful role in meeting the Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon's goal of a peaceful, united, stable and democratic Burma, respectful to human rights.
Here are excerpts from an exclusive interview to NDTV.com given by Gambari.
NDTV: What has been India's role towards achieving your mission of a democratic Burma?
Gambari: When I took over as Special Advisor to the Secretary General last year in May, India's position that time was ambivalent, and vaguely supportive of Secretary General's role, but they really did not much with that. I do not want to use the word pressure, but try to strongly urge Myanmar to co-operate fully with the Good Offices role of the Secretary General.
I am happy to say that after two visits to India, India's position seems to have evolved. At least they have now publicly said that they strongly support the role of Good Offices of the Secretary General. Secondly, they have also been sending messages to the authorities in Myanmar to cooperate fully with me. I believe that is a step forward.
NDTV: Is it enough?
Gambari: We want India to do more because, as you know - it is public, they are not hiding - India is just in the process of signing a huge contract to build a port there (in Myanmar). What we are saying is that to the extent that gives India some leverage, we would like (India) to help on other front, to be able to send the right messages to the authorities to cooperate fully and make the process of engagement with them and Good Offices of the Secretary General to produce tangible results. So far, some progress has been made, but still a lot more needs to be done.
NDTV: How much influence India has on Burma?
Gambari: It is difficult to say. India is a big neighbor. So, clearly Myanmar should take into account India's views. There are also, insurgent groups who are fighting from Myanmar side of the border; fighting the Indian government. So I think there is some mutual - and of course India is interested in some of the resources of Myanmar oil and gas and others. The way we see it that it positions them to be helpful. It is also true that it modifies how far they can go, how far they are willing to go, but we think they have enough and sufficient influence to be helpful to us in what is our common objective of a peaceful, united, stable and democratic Myanmar respectful to human rights.
This would be consistent with India's own being. It is a democratic country with true commitment to human rights. We also believe that a peaceful prosperous and democratic Myanmar would be even a better partner for India than what the situation is right now.
NDTV: What further steps you would like India to take in the coming months?
Gambari: I would really like to impress upon the authorities in Myanmar that it is in their interest as well as the interest of the neighboring countries, ASEAN and the international community that they engage seriously with the Good Offices Mission of the Secretary General and work with me to bring up tangible results from the engagement. That message has to be delivered, and if India offered to do so, it would be extremely helpful to us.
NDTV: Hasn't India delivered that message in the last couple of months?
Gambari: We read some reports that the Foreign Minister of Myanmar was visiting India. We also read the public statement and hope that even in the private conversation, this point would be made much more strongly. Fortunately, the Indian government has invited me and I would be going there (India) at the end of this month. I would try to find out from them, what further steps they have taken or intend to take and even more importantly what feedback do they have from conversations with the representatives of the Myanmar government.
NDTV: When you visit India at the end of this month, what would be on your agenda?
Gambari: I would like to continue the conversation and consultation on how best we can all work together to bring about tangible results we expect from the authorities in Myanmar. Do not forget, on December 19, the Secretary General inaugurated the Group of Friends of the Secretary General on Myanmar. India is a member of this. So I want to review this, how they see this group, in what direction it is moving and how to strengthen it. Also, to get brief on that conversation with authorities and finally to seek their support for my next visit, which I hope would be sooner than later to Myanmar with the objective of deliverance of tangible results.
NDTV: What are the tangible results? What are you looking for?
Gambari: First of all we believe the current situation in Myanmar can only be resolved through dialogue. A process of dialogue has been ensued between the government and the leader of the opposition. There are three things we are looking for in that dialogue. Firstly, the dialogue should lead to tangible results in terms of advancing the process of democratizations; advancing more inclusive national reconciliation process; advancing the writing of the constitution in a way that it takes into account the views of the opposition and ethnic nationalities group and including views of those who were excluded from the national convention process or decided not to participate because they thought it was not serious. That is something I would like to see either before or at least during or immediately after my next visit to the country.
The second is that hopefully my next visit would also lead to release of political prisoners particularly Aung San Suu Kyi. We believe that if a political figure - her party NLD had won the last election in 1990 - is to be considered as a true partner then she should not be subject to the same restrictions as she is having before engaging her as a partner in the dialogue.
The third major thing that hopefully would come out is the decision by the Myanmar government on establishment of what we recommended as a Poverty Alleviation Commission, because we feel strongly at the UN that the root causes of discontent are not only political, but also social and economic and that these should be addressed.
A commission can begin to identify the scale of the problem and strategies for addressing them. I can assure them if there is tangible progress overall, the international community is ready to help them in addressing the root cause of the discontent.
NDTV: Since August 2007 how much progress has been made by military junta towards achieving these tangible results?
Gambari: Well, they have released some detained people, including those detained in the last crisis in September and October. They have allowed (the UN Special Rapporteur) Prof Paulo Penheiro to come into the country. I have been allowed back and forth in the country twice including the opportunity each time to see Aung San Suu Kyi and to help facilitate the dialogue.
They have also appointed the Minister of Labor as the Liaison Officer, which has had four meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi. She has also been allowed to have, on one occasion, to meet with some executive members of her political party. They have also taken the step to appoint a constitutional drafting committee. Now we recommend a Constitutional Review Commission.
So these are potentially positive, but a substantive dialogue is yet to be started. Aung San Suu Kyi is still in detention. We have yet seen no commitment to open up the process of constitutional drafting that takes the views of others, who were excluded and finally establishment of a broad based national poverty alleviation commission.
NDTV: How much hopeful are you that Aung San Suu Kyi would be released soon?
Gambari: I can only hope sooner than later. The reason: after accepting some one as partner, you can't continue to put that partner in the condition she is now. People of Myanmar would be better served when their leaders are talking about how to jointly address the challenges facing the country. We believe that is the best way forward and this would send the right signal not only to people of Myanmar but also to the neighbors.
NDTV: You are the only one from the outside world to meet Aung San Suu Kyi. What is her vision for Burma? Is she willing to talk and have a dialogue with the junta leaders?
Gambari: You know, the government authorities in Myanmar used to say that she was stubborn and impossible; she does not want to talk. Well she has said publicly in statement that she was ready on her behalf. She was also committed to cooperate with the government with a view to start a dialogue.
I think she wants to engage in dialogue, but not a dialogue just for the sake of dialogue but something that would be substantive, time bound and at some point later would include ethnic nationalities because she realized that Myanmar is no where close where it should be. It is a resource rich country, but has been forced to a state of isolation and subject to sanctions. That is not where she would like her country to be. I think, she wants a country that is united, there is national reconciliation so that it can realize its true potential and also be a respected member of the international community. I believe that she should be given an opportunity to make a meaningful contribution to take the country in that direction.
NDTV: Coming back to India, in the last one decade India moved from being pro-democracy supporter to almost pro-junta and now it appears to be that it is gradually moving towards pro-democracy. How do you assess India's progress?
Gambari: I did not handle these until 2006. I read about India's previous position. Once I started working on this issue first as the Head of the Department of Political Affairs and now as the Special Envoy, it has coincided with what I believe is gradual movement of India living true to its own principles - democracy, open society and respect for human rights. This is where I believe India should be. I am happy we have seen that. What I am urging is to translate this into concrete support to the Good Offices of the Secretary General so as to produce tangible result in terms of our engagement with the authorities and believe that they can do it. I see the willingness that they want to do it.
NDTV: Observers say that in the last couple of months, India has been sending mixed signals. How do you view all this?
Gambari: Well, I guess as a neighboring country the bilateral relationship between India and Myanmar is very varied and multidimensional but what concerns us is not really their bilateral relations, but to use that in our view as an opportunity and leverage to help us by transmitting right messages and strongly encourage the authorities there to do the right thing. We strongly believe that the best guarantee for India's investment really is a peaceful, stable and democratic Myanmar. This would be the best for people of Myanmar and also for neighboring country such as India for sustainability of their bilateral relations and their investments in that country.
NDTV: Do you think, China influences India's role in Burma?
Gambari: I am told that one of the reasons in the past that Indian has not been as forthcoming as they could have been, was geo-political relationship between India and China. And there was fear that if they played too hard on the generals that would push them further in the hands of China. I do not know if that is correct analysis or not. But, what I know is that it is not in China's interest or India's interest or any neighboring country's interest or ASEAN's interest, certainly not in the interest of the people of Myanmar if the status quo continues. It is not sustainable.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Aung San Suu Kyi will be on the screen
Film on Burma 's detained Nobel Laureate to commence soon
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)
January 15, 2008 - Italian film director Giuseppe Tornatore will soon capture the journey of Burmese pro-democracy icon, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, on celluloid in an effort to honour and highlight her struggle to restore democracy in her native land.
It will be an English film with an estimated budget of 30 million US dollars, Naofumi Okamoto, the film's Japanese producer said. Okamoto happens to be among the very few foreigners, who have met the detained Burmese leader. She has been under house arrest for the last 12 years of the 18 years she has spent in Burma.
Speaking to Mizzima over the telephone, Okamoto said, "The purpose of producing this film is to honour Noble Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, because she chooses to be a mother to a nation instead of being a mother to a family, it is a very difficult thing for women to do."
The film's script will be completed in May and shooting is likely to begin by September or October this year. It would be the first movie depicting the life and times of the Nobel Laureate.
"We are still working on the script, it may be finished by May and after that we will start shooting," Okamoto said.
According to the producer, the film would be shot in Southeast Asia, with Thailand and Vietnam being the most likely venues. Malaysia could also be considered. However, he added that nothing had been confirmed yet. He had chosen Italian award winning director Tornatore, as he was famous for making women-centric films, Okamoto said.
The Japanese producer, who had a chance to meet Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in the early 1990s, said he has been working on the film for several years and had finally, thought of commencing shooting.
"I have been trying to make this film for the past ten years and we have already met three times [with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi] and also got the permission from her for creating this film," Okamoto said.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the daughter of Burma's independence hero General Aung San, who spearheaded the Burmese independence movement against the British colonial rulers. Educated at Oxford University and married to an English scholar, Suu Kyi, returned to her homeland in 1988, only to be met with political chaos, where the student-led protestors put an end to the more then 20 years of one party rule in the country.
She was catapulted to lead the Burmese Opposition after her public speeches during the time of protests. She later formed a political party – the National League for Democracy – which won a landslide victory in the 1990 General Elections.
Despite leading her party to victory, Suu Kyi was never allowed to govern the country, which her father had envisaged as a free and prosperous nation. Instead, the military rulers had her put under house arrest, detaining her for the past 12 of 18 years.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
meeting between aung san suu kyi and u aung kyi
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ရရန္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ လိုလား
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Monday, 14 January 2008 21:33 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္
ပါတီ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဝင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ ေပးသင့္သည္ဟု အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ယေန႔တြင္ ေျပာဆိုလုိက္သည္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ နအဖ ဆက္ဆံေရးဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တို႔သည္ ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာ ေသာၾကာေန႔က ၃ လအတြင္း ၄ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာၾကားလုိက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
“အခု က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုဖို႔ ျမင္ရတဲ့ အခ်က္အလက္ေတာ့ ဘာမွ မရွိပါဘူး။ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ အဖြဲ႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္က အျမဲတမ္း ထိေတြ႔သင့္တယ္ေလ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္တာေပါ့” ဟု ပါတီ ေျပာခြင့္ရ ပုဂၢဳိလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းက မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။
ေနာက္ဆံုး ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးသည့္ အေၾကာင္းအရာမ်ားကိုလည္း အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္က ယခုတုိင္ မသိရေသးဟု သူက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။
၂ဝဝ၃ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလကတည္းက ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊ၊ ဦးလြင္၊ ဦးၫြန္႔ေဝ၊ ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းတို႔သည္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ ၉ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ အစီအစဥ္ျဖင့္ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ျပန္လည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ ရခဲ့သည္။
၎ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ နအဖ အႀကီးအကဲ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္ပါ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားအျပင္ စက္တင္ဘာ ဆႏၵျပပြဲအတြင္း ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာ ရသူမ်ားကို အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္အေနျဖင့္ အကူအညီေပးေရး ကိစၥမ်ား ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ဒီမုိကေရစီ လုိလားသူမ်ားကို စစ္အစိုးရက အၾကမ္းဖက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းခဲ့ေသာ စက္တင္ဘာ အေရးေတာ္ပံု အၿပီးတြင္ ရွားပါးစြာ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ေသာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ၏ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ သေဘာထားတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနျဖင့္ ထိပ္တိုက္ ရင္ဆုိင္ေရး၊ အလံုးစံု ပ်က္သုဥ္းေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး ပိတ္ဆို႔ေရး အပါအဝင္ အလံုးစံု ပိတ္ဆို႔ေရးတို႔ကို စြန္႔လႊတ္လွ်င္ သူကိုယ္တုိင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။
ကုလသမဂၢ အထူးကုိယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာဂမ္ဘာရီ၏ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေနာက္ဆံုးခရီးစဥ္ အၿပီးတြင္ ထြက္ေပၚလာေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ သူ႔အေနျဖင့္ အမ်ဳိးသား ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရး အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ အသင့္ရွိသလို၊ ဆက္ဆံေရးဝန္ႀကီး ခန္႔အပ္သည့္အေပၚ ႀကိဳဆိုေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ေနာင္တြင္ ပံုမွန္ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္သြားရန္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေၾကာင္း စသည့္အခ်က္မ်ား ပါဝင္သည္။
စစ္အစိုးရသည္ တဖက္တြင္ လမ္းျပေျမပံုအတုိင္း ဆက္သြားမည္ဟု ေျပာဆိုထားၿပီး အျခားတဖက္တြင္ ဆက္ဆံေရး ဝန္ႀကီးခန္႔အပ္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေနသည့္အေပၚ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ သတိျဖင့္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနၾကသည္။
ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေလ့လာသူ ဦးေအာင္ႏိုင္ဦးက “ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ အခုလို ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးေရး ေန႔မ်ိဳးေတြေတာ့ ဆက္ျပီးေတာ့ လုပ္ႏိုင္တာမ်ဳိးရွိတယ္။ အေျဖရတယ္၊ မရဘူးဆိုတာေတာ့ တပိုင္းေပါ့။ တနည္းအားျဖင့္ ေျပာရရင္ဗ်ာ၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဆိုလို႔ရွိရင္ ဘာျဖစ္လဲဆိုေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသား ညီလာခံ ရွိတယ္ မဟုတ္လား။ စစ္အစိုးရက အမ်ဳိးသား ညီလာခံကုိ အသံုးျပဳၿပီးေတာ့ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး လုပ္ေနပါတယ္။ ေျပလည္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေနပါတယ္။ စသျဖင့္ ဒါမ်ဳိးေျပာတာ ရွိတယ္ေလ။ အဲဒီနည္းနဲ႔ပဲ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ၁၄-၁၅ ႏွစ္ေလာက္ အခ်ိန္ဆြဲသြားတာ ရွိတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
လက္ရွိ ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ားသည္ ႐ုပ္ျပသေဘာလည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း တိက်စြာ ေျပာရန္ ခက္ခဲသည္ဟု သူက ဆိုသည္။
“အဲဒီလို တျဖည္းျဖည္းနဲ႔ ေတြ႔-ေတြ႔၊ ေတြ႔-ေတြ႔၊ ေတြ႔ၿပီးေတာ့ တကယ္ လက္ေတြ႔ အေျဖမရတာလည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္တယ္။ အခုပဲ တခ်ဳိ႔ ေျပာေနတာကေတာ့ မစၥတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီ လာမွာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ ႀကိဳၿပီးေတာ့ ေတြ႔တာမ်ဴိး ဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ ေျပာေနတာမ်ဳိးလည္း ရွိတယ္ဆိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ့္ အေနနဲ႔ေတာ့ အတိအက် ေျပာဖို႔ေတာ့ ခက္တာေပါ့” ဟု သူက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။
ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲတြင္ ဆက္ဆံေရး ဝန္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္က ပထမအႀကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမႈသည္ ႏွစ္ဘက္ နားလည္မႈအတြက္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္မွာ အနာဂတ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမ်ားအတြက္ မူေဘာင္ သတ္မွတ္သည့္အဆင့္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး တတိယအႀကိမ္မွာမူ မူေဘာင္တြင္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ထည့္သြင္းရမည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားကို ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ ယခု ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က ယခုအခ်ိန္ထိ တစံုတရာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာၾကားျခင္း မရွိေသးပါ။
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suhato in serious condition ( Burma prime minister postponed the trip)
အင္ဒိုနီးရွားသုိ႔ ျမန္မာ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္သြားေရာက္မည့္ခရီးစဥ္ ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္း
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ျမန္မာ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဒု-ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သိန္းစိန္ ယခုသီတင္းပတ္အတြင္း အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံသို႔ သြားေရာက္လည္ပတ္မည့္ ခရီးစဥ္ကို ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရႏွင့္ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားအစိုးရတို႔က ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းရန္ သေဘာတူလိုက္သည္။
အင္ဒိုနီးရွားသမၼေဟာင္း ဆူဟာတို၏ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုး၀ါးလာမႈေၾကာင့္ အဆိုပါခရီးစဥ္ကို ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္း လုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အင္ဒိုနီးရွားသမၼတ၏ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္က ယမန္ေန႔တြင္ ေျပာသည္။
ဆူဟာတိုသည္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ေသာၾကာေန႔တြင္ ကိုယ္အဂၤါအစိတ္အပိုင္း လႈပ္ရွားမႈအားလံုး ယိုယြင္း လာေနၿပီး က်န္းမာေရးအေျခအေန ပိုမိုဆုိးရြားလာသျဖင့္ ေဆး႐ုံတင္ထားရသည္။
ယင္းအခိ်န္တြင္ မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရိွေနသည့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဆူဆီလို ဘမ္းဘန္ ယူဒိုယိုႏိုက ၎၏ခရီးစဥ္ကို ႐ုတ္တရက္ရပ္ဆုိင္းခဲ့ၿပီး အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံသို႔ အလ်င္အျမန္ ျပန္လာခဲ့သည္။
ဆူဆီလိုဘမ္းဘန္က ယင္းအေျခအေနႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍  ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔
၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ အစည္းအေ၀းတရပ္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းေခၚယူခဲ့သည္။
ျမန္မာ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္သိန္းစိန္၏ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံသို႔ သြားေရာက္လည္ပတ္မည့္ခရီးစဥ္သည္ အဓိက အားျဖင့္ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံ စီးပြားေရးဆက္သြယ္မႈ တိုးျမႇင့္ရန္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သမၼတ၏ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဒိုင္ႏိုပတ္တီဒီဂ်ာလာက ေျပာသည္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရႏွင့္ ညႇိႏိႈင္းတိုင္ပင္မႈ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ျမန္မာ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္၏ခရီးစဥ္ကို ေရႊ႕ဆုိင္းရန္ သေဘာတူညီမႈရရိွခဲ့ၿပီး အင္ဒိုနီးရွားႏိုင္ငံအေနျဖင့္ ယခုလက္ရွိတြင္ ယင္းခရီးစဥ္အတြက္ အာ႐ံု မစိုက္ႏိုင္ေသးေၾကာင္း၊ ႏွစ္ႏိုင္ငံစလံုးက အဆင္ေျပမည့္အခ်ိန္တြင္ ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းထားသည့္ရီးစဥ္ကို ျပန္လည္စီစဥ္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၎ကေျပာသည္။
အသက္ (၈၆) ႏွစ္အရြယ္ရွိ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္းျဖစ္ခဲ့သည့္ သမၼတေဟာင္း ဆူဟာတိုသည္
၁၉၆၇ ခု၊ သမၼတ ဆူကာႏိုလက္ထက္တြင္ အာဏာသိမ္းယူခဲ့သည္။
၎သည္ ၁၉၉၈ ခုတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံတ၀န္းဆႏၵျပလႈပ္ရွားမႈေၾကာင့္ ရာထူးမွ ဆင္းေပးခဲ့ရၿပီး အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ သန္းေပါင္း ရာႏွင့္ခ်ီေသာလာဘ္စားမႈျဖင့္ တရားစြဲခံခဲ့ရသည္။
သို႔ေသာ္ သမၼေဟာင္း ဆူဟာတို၏ ဆိုး၀ါးေနသည့္ က်န္းမာေရးအေျခအေနေၾကာင့္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အစိုးရက အမႈကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းေပးခဲ့သည္။ ။
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bomb blast in burma ( January )
မန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၌ (၃) ရက္အတြင္း ဗံုးကြဲမႈ (၃ ) ႀကိမ္ျဖစ္ပြား
စစ္အစိုးရက ျပည္ပအဖြဲ႔အစည္းႀကီးတခုကို စြပ္စြဲ
NEJ/ ၁၄ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၀၀၈
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းလမ္း ဘူတာႀကီး အထူးတန္းလက္မွတ္႐ံု၌ ယမန္ေန႔မြန္းလြဲ
(၂) နာရီခန္႔က ေပါက္ကြဲမႈတခုျဖစ္ပြားၿပီး အဖြားအိုတဦး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိသြားေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာစစ္ အစိုးရက သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္သည္။
လက္မွတ္႐ံုအနီး ေရခ်ဳိးခန္းအိမ္သာအနီး၌ ေပါက္ကြဲျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ေရခ်ဳိးေနသည့္ အသက္
(၇၃) ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေဒၚေအးျမင့္၏ လက္ႏွင့္ တင္ပါးတို႔တြင္ ဒဏ္ရာရကာ ရန္ကုန္ေဆး႐ံုႀကီး၌ ေဆးကုသမႈခံယူေနရသည္ဟု ယေန႔ထုတ္ျမန္မာ့အလင္းသတင္းစာ၌ ပါရွိသည္။
လက္မွတ္႐ံုသည္ ရန္ကုန္၊ မႏၲေလး၊ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္စသည့္ၿမိဳ႕မ်ားသို႔ သြားသည့္ခရီးစဥ္အတြက္ လက္မွတ္ေရာင္းရာ ေနရာျဖစ္၍ နံနက္ (၁၁) နာရီခန္႔အထိသာ လက္မွတ္၀ယ္သူမ်ားႏွင့္ စည္ကားေနတတ္ၿပီး ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္ပြားခ်ိန္သည္ အျပင္လူမ်ားမရွိဘဲ လံုုၿခံဳေရးႏွင့္ မီးရထား
၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားသာ ရွိေနခ်ိန္ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္ပြားရာေနရာသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိသြားသူ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။
၎က “ရန္ကုန္မွာ ယူနီေဖာင္း၀တ္ရဲအပါအ၀င္ လံုၿခံဳေရးေတြ အမ်ားအျပားခ်ထားတယ္။ ဒီၾကား ထဲက ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္တယ္။ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္ၿပီးၿပီးျခင္း လက္မွတ္႐ံု၀င္ေပါက္ကို အာဏာပိုင္ေတြ ကပိတ္လိုက္တယ္။ လက္မွတ္႐ံုေရွ႕ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းေပၚမွာလည္း လံုၿခံဳေရးေတြေနရာယူလိုက္
တယ္။ ျဖတ္သြားျဖတ္လာ တကၠစီေတြကို စစ္တာကလြဲရင္ ထူးျခားတာ ဘာမွမေတြ႕ရဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ဗံုးခြဲတရားခံကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ဖမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိေသးဘဲ ျပည္ပရွိအဖြဲ႕ႀကီးတဖြဲ႕က ျပည္တြင္း ၌ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ေဖာက္ခြဲဖ်က္ဆီးေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ ေဖာက္ခြဲေရးသမားမ်ားကို ေစလႊတ္ေနသည္ဟုသာ စစ္အစိုးရက စြပ္စြဲသည္။
ယခုဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈသည္ (၃) ရက္အတြင္း တတိယေျမာက္ ျဖစ္ပြားျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေသာၾကာေန႔ကလည္း ေနျပည္ေတာ္ဘူတာ႐ံုႏွင့္ ပဲခူးတိုင္း ျဖဴးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တို႔၌ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈ ျဖစ္ပြားသည္။
ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဘူတာ႐ံု အိမ္သာ၌ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈတြင္ ေနာ္ေဂးလာအမည္ရွိ အသက္ (၄၀) အရြယ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦး ေသဆံုးၿပီး ထိုအမ်ဳိးသမီးသည္ ဗံုးေဖာက္ခြဲရန္ျပင္ဆင္ေနစဥ္ ေပါက္ကြဲ၍ ေသဆံုးျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ျဖဴးၿမိဳ႕နယ္ေညာင္ပင္သာရြာ ေဘာလံုးကြင္း ေပါက္ကြဲမႈ၌လည္း ဗံုးခြဲသူ ေကအန္ယူတပ္သားတဦး ေသဆံုးၿပီး အမ်ဳိးသမီး (၃) ဦးႏွင့္ ကေလးငယ္ (၁) ဦး ဒဏ္ရာရေၾကာင္း စစ္အစိုးရပိုင္ သတင္းစာမ်ား၌ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ ။
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bird flu in bangladesh
ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္တြင္ ၾကက္ငွက္တုပ္ေကြးေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြား
Reuters / ၁၄ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၀၀၈
ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ဘက္ခ႐ိုင္တခုတြင္ ၾကက္ငွက္တုပ္ေကြးေရာဂါျဖစ္ပြားသျဖင့္ ၾကက္ေကာင္ေရ (၅၀၀) ေသဆံုးခဲ့သည္။
ေရာဂါျဖစ္သည့္ေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံသည္ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ဒါကာႏွင့္ မိုင္ (၁၅၀) ေက်ာ္ေ၀းသည့္ ေမာ္လာဗီ ဘာဇားခ႐ိုင္အတြင္း တည္ရွိၿပီး ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ျဖစ္ပြားျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားက ယေန႔အတည္ျပဳေျပာၾကားသည္။
အစိုးရေမြးျမဴေရးဆိုင္ရာဌာန ဒါ႐ိုက္တာဆလီဟတ္ဒင္ခန္းက “ေရာဂါျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ေသခ်ာၿပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္ ေရာဂါျဖစ္တဲ့ၿခံရဲ႕ (၁) ကီလိုမီတာအတြင္းက ၾကက္၊ ဘဲ အေကာင္ (၈၀၀) ေလာက္ကို
တာ၀န္ရွိတဲ့သူေတြက သတ္လိုက္တယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ၾကက္ငွက္တုပ္ေကြးေရာဂါအား ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ယမန္ႏွစ္ မတ္လအတြင္းက ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ဒါကာ အနီး၌ ပထမဆံုးေတြ႕ရွိခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ႏိုင္ငံေျမာက္ပိုင္းသို႔ အဓိက ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႕သြားခဲ့သည္။ ယခုအထိ ၾကက္ ငွက္ေပါင္း (၃၀၀,၀၀၀) ေကာင္ေက်ာ္ကို သုတ္သင္ခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။
ယခုေနာက္ဆံုးျဖစ္ေပၚမႈအပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းရိွ ခ႐ိုင္ (၆၄) ခုအနက္ (၂၂) ခုရွိ ေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံေပါင္း (၇၁) ၿခံ၌ အဆိုပါေရာဂါ ကူးစက္ခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း လူသို႔ကူးစက္မႈမရွိေသးေပ။
ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္တြင္ လူေပါင္း (၄) သန္းခန္႔ မီွခိုလုပ္ကိုင္ေနေသာ ေမြးျမဴေရးၿခံေပါင္း (၁၅၀,၀၀၀)
၀န္းက်င္ရွိၿပီး ႏွစ္စဥ္ ၀င္ေငြအေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာသန္း (၇၅၀) ေက်ာ္ ရရွိေနသည္။
ယခုလဆန္းပိုင္းကလည္း ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ဒါကာရွိ မီရာပူးအရပ္တြင္ အဆိုပါေရာဂါေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့သျဖင့္ ၾကက္ငွက္ (၂၀,၀၀၀) ခန္႔ကို သတ္ပစ္ခဲ့ရသည္။
ၾကက္ငွက္တုပ္ေကြးေရာဂါအား ၂၀၀၃ ခုမွစ၍ ယခုအထိ ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း (၁၄) ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လူကိုကူးစက္ ခဲ့ၿပီး (၁၂) ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေရာဂါကူးစက္မႈေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း (၂၁၆) ဦး ေသဆံုးခဲ့သည္။ ။
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Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Myanmar MBBS students going on abroad for study
Exodus of Medical Students from Burma
By Min Lwin
January 9, 2008
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Medical students in Burma are frustrated by the lack of opportunities and future prospects, according to Aye Sandar, who is studying a Third MB junior degree at Medical University of Rangoon No 2 in North Okkalapa in the outskirts of Rangoon.
“Traditionally, medical universities are popular destinations for eager young minds, said Aye Sandar. “However, nowadays, young medical students are losing interest; they are leaving medical school to go abroad.”
“I was really interested in learning medicine,” said Ze Yar, a student at Rangoon Medical University in 2006. “But when I started attending the class, it was different to what I had imagined. There were 20 students performing surgery on each cadaver. We were not getting enough experience, so I decided to go and study in Singapore,” he told The Irrawaddy by phone on Tuesday. “What we learnt in medical university in Burma didn’t fit the medical profession.”
“It is estimated that there are currently up to 900 former medical students from Burma studying for diplomas in Singapore,” said Ze Yar, who is himself studying education at a polytechnic in the island state.
According to Ze Yar, graduating medical students in Burma must wait a long time until the Department of Health selects a post for them. Degrees and diplomas obtained at Burmese medical universities are not internationally recognized.
Ze Yar said he had no regrets about turning his back o¬n the country of his birth. “I spent 18 years of my life in Burma, but the government didn’t do anything for me,” he said. He feels no sense of gratitude towards Burma—on the contrary, he says, “I’d really like to serve my home country, but I owe my gratitude to Singapore.”
Another former student of Medical University of Rangoon No 2, Kyaw Tun, now works at an electronics store in Singapore after receiving a diploma from Nanyan Polytechnic in Singapore. Like thousands of young Burmese before him, Kyaw Tun sought employment abroad.
“I left Burma to give my life stability, and that’s the main reason I joined the polytechnic,” he told The Irrawaddy in a phone interview. For Kyaw Tun, stability means the opportunity to earn a secure living in a country free from the restrictions and uncertainties of life in Burma.
“It’s very sad that even the brightest Burmese students only receive diplomas in Singapore; they cannot even hope to get a degree, because it’s so difficult,” says Thidar, a former teacher at Medical University of Rangoon No 1.
Thidar says that the difficulties in applying the knowledge learnt in the medical profession in Burma is an additional reason why so many Burmese medical students elect to study abroad after completing their matriculation exams.
Ko Htike, who qualified to go to medical university in Burma but did not attend, said most of the outstanding young students don’t want to be doctors. “They are not interested in working as doctors,” he said. “They leave their home country because there is no future there.”
Less than six years ago, Ko Htike was at high school in Burma, contemplating his future. Now he works as a technical assistant in Singapore. He added that all technicians from Burma are in high demand within Singaporean industries.
After graduating from the prestigious Medical University of Rangoon No 2 in 2004 with a degree, Zin Mar Aung could not find suitable employment. “In Burma, it’s difficult for general practitioners to find jobs, and their salaries are so low,” she said. “I regret that it took me six years to earn my degree.”
Zin Mar Aung left home seven months ago to study for a master’s degree in business at the National University of Singapore. “It is good to be here because I wouldn’t be able to do anything in Burma,” she said, adding that many students who graduated from her college are now working as salespeople for pharmaceutical companies in Rangoon.
A total of 2,400 students per year are entitled to apply to study medicine in Burma at one of the four medical universities, according to the university entrance guide booklet from the Department of Higher Education in Rangoon.
Students who graduate from medical universities have to wait for several months just to work as assistant doctors because the government cannot find posts for the number of students who are graduating each year in medical science. “Half of the students who graduate go to work in government hospitals,” says Dr Tint Zaw, formerly of North Okkalapa General Hospital.
Thidar is acutely aware of the irony inherent in medical universities where there is a lack of teachers. The former teacher drew a comparison with the insufficient equipment in laboratories. While she sees the necessity in gaining work experience, she still despairs. “I am afraid that the next generation of doctors in Burma coming from these universities will be unqualified,” she said.
Singapore has been a popular destination for Burmese students since the 1990s. The city state suffers from a manpower shortage and lures foreign students with offers of permanent resident status and 80 percent loans. Recipients repay the loans by working for the Singaporean government after completing their studies.
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