ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားစြာ ဘ၀ပ်က္ခဲ့ဟု မင္းကိုႏုိင္ ေျပာ

By featured, လင္းသန္႔ , on February 1, irrawaddy

စစ္အာဏာရွင္ စနစ္ေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္း မ်ားစြာ၏ဘ၀ ပ်က္ခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“ဘ၀ပ်က္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းေတြ အေနနဲ႔ ကိုယ့္အခ်င္းခ်င္း ႐ိုင္းပင္းကူညီႏိုင္ၾကဖုိ႔ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ကြက္လပ္ေတြ ျဖည့္ဖုိ႔ လိုတယ္”ဟု လည္း ယမန္ေန႔က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ အင္းလ်ားကန္ စိမ္းလန္း စုိျပည္ ဥယ်ာဥ္တြင္ က်င္းပေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ေဟာင္းမ်ား ႀကိဳဆုိေတြ႕ဆုံပြဲ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ၎က ထည့္သြင္း ေျပာၾကားသည္။

ယမန္ေန႔က က်င္းပေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ား ႀကိဳဆုိေတြ႕ဆုံပြဲ၌ ေတြ႕ရသည့္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္ (ဓာတ္ပုံ - မိုးမခ)

အဆုိပါ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုမင္းကုိႏိုင္ႏွင့္ ကိုကိုႀကီးတုိ႔က အမွာစကားမ်ား ေျပာၾကား ခဲ့ၿပီး မၾကာခင္က ျပန္လည္လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသည့္ ကို၀င္းေမာ္(ေရႊသံစဥ္)လည္း တက္ေရာက္၍ ဂီတ အႏုပညာရွင္ ကိုရဲလြင္၊ ကိုေန၀င္း တုိ႔ႏွင့္အတူ ေတးဂီတျဖင့္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖသည္။

ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္ကလည္း သရက္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္တြင္ စပ္ဆုိခဲ့သည့္ သီခ်င္းတပုဒ္ကို မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ လူငယ္မ်ား အစည္းအရံုးမွ လူ ငယ္ တဦး၊ ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္၏ ညီမငယ္ မသႏၲာ အပါအ၀င္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ညီအစ္ကုိ ေမာင္ႏွမမ်ားႏွင့္ သီဆုိေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခဲ့
ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးအတြက္ ဘ၀မ်ားကို စြန္႔လႊတ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရင္း အက်ဥ္းက်ခဲ့ၾကရသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ေဟာင္းမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ဘ၀ရွင္သန္ ရပ္တည္ေရး၊ အနာဂတ္ဘ၀ ထူေထာင္ေရးတုိ႔ အတြက္ အခက္အခဲမ်ား ရွိေန၍ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ရိုင္းပင္း ကူညီသြားႏုိင္ရန္ ယခုကဲ့သို႔ စီစဥ္ရျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ပြဲစီစဥ္သူ တဦးျဖစ္သည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသူေဟာင္း မဇင္မာေအာင္က ဧရာ၀တီကုိ ေျပာသည္။

ကိုကိုႀကီးကလည္း“လက္ေတြ႔ ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ ကူညီေပးေနၾကတဲ့ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ေတြ၊ တျခား ကူညီေပးေနၾကတဲ့ ညီ အစ္ကို ေတြ၊ ညီေနာင္ေတြ၊ သူတုိ႔ေတြကိုလည္း အေလးအနက္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳတဲ့အေၾကာင္း၊ တန္ဖိုးထားတဲ့ အေၾကာင္း အခမ္း အနားမွာ က်ေနာ္ေျပာပါတယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ျပည္တြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ က်န္ရွိေနေသးသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား အျမန္ဆံုး လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အတြက္ သံတုိင္ႏွင့္ အုတ္နံရံ ပုံသဏၭာန္ ကိတ္မုန္႔ေပၚတြင္ ဖေယာင္းတုိင္ထြန္း ဆုေတာင္းျခင္း၊ မီးထြန္းညွိထားေသာ ဖေယာင္းတိုင္မ်ားကို ေရေမွ်ာ ဆုေတာင္းျခင္းမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။

ယမန္ေန႔ က အခမ္းအနား ၌ ဧရာ၀တီ ျမစ္ဆံုဆည္ စီမံကိန္း လက္မွတ္ထုိး လႈပ္ရွားမႈ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့သူမ်ား ၏ အမွတ္တရ ပစၥည္းကိုလည္း ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားကို ေပးအပ္ခဲ့သည္။

“ဧရာဝတီ ျမစ္ႀကီးဟာ ငါတို႔ အေသြးအသားနဲ႔ထပ္တူျပဳၿပီး ခံစားၾကမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ဝိုင္းဝန္းကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ခဲ့ၾကတဲ့အတြက္ ေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတကိုယ္တုိင္ ဆည္စီမံကိန္းႀကီးကို ရပ္တန္႔ပစ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့အထိ ေအာင္ပြဲခံႏိုင္ခဲ့တာဟာ တမ်ိဳးသားလံုး စည္း လံုး ညီညြတ္မႈကို ျပသတာပဲ”ဟု ကိုကိုႀကီး က ေျပာသည္။

အဆုိပါ အခမ္းအနားကို ဦးေဆာင္က်င္းပၾကသူမ်ားမွာ ဦးစြာလြတ္ေျမာက္ၿပီးႏွင့္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ေဟာင္းမ်ားျဖစ္ၿပီး အခ်င္းခ်င္း ႐ိုင္းပင္းကူညီႏိုင္ရန္ စုဖြဲ႔ထားၾကသူမ်ား ျဖစ္သည္။

ကိုကိုႀကီးက“က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဆုံး႐ႈံးနစ္နာခဲ့ရတာေတြ သား ေျမးေတြအထိ ဆက္ၿပီး ခံစားရမယ့္ ေဝဒနာေတြကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ လက္ ထက္ မွာ ႏုတ္ ပယ္ေပးဖို႔၊ ေျဖေလ်ာ့ ေပးဖို႔ အားလုံး တေပါင္းတစည္းတည္း ဝိုင္းဝန္းႀကိဳးပမ္း ၾကပါစို႔ လို႔ တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္”ဟု အခမ္းအနား တြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား ကူညီေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရး အသင္း(AAPP)၏စာရင္းအရ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ၁၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ရန္ က်န္ရွိေနေသးေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

Former political prisoners host reunion near Rangoon University

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ားရဲ့ ကုိယ္ထူကုိယ္ထအစီအစဥ္က ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ Gathering Party

တာရာေဝယံ။ ရန္ကုန္၊ ၃၁၊ဇန္န၀ါရီ၊၂ဝ၁၂

ဒီေန႔ညေနက ကမာရြတ္ၿမိဳ႔နယ္၊ အင္းလ်ားလမ္းမွာရွိတဲ့ စိမ္းလန္းစိုျပည္ဥယ်ာဥ္ ျမက္ခင္းျပင္မွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ား၏ ကုိယ္ထူကုိယ္ထအစီအစဥ္က
ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ Gathering Party မွာ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္က သရက္ေထာင္မွာ တစ္ဦးတည္းက်န္ရစ္ခဲ့သူ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ကိုသန္းေဇာ္ရဲ႔စာသူ႔ဆီကို မၾကာမီကမွ ေရာက္လာေၾကာင္း၊ ထုိကဲ့သုိ႔ မလြတ္ေျမာက္ေသးေသာႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားကုိ အျမန္ဆုံး လႊတ္ေပးရန္လုိအပ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။

Gathering Party ကို ဒီေန့ညေန ၅းဝဝ နာရီမွ ၈းဝဝနာရီအထိ က်င္းပခဲ့တာပါ။ဒီပြဲကို Self-help program,Yangon by Ex-political prisoner က ဦးစီး က်င္းပခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ ကိုကိုႀကီး၊ ကိုုမင္းေဇယ်၊ကိုဂ်င္မီ၊ ကိုေဌးၾြကြယ္ အပါအဝင္ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ ကိုဒီၿငိမ္းလင္း၊ ကိုစည္သူေမာင္ စတဲ့ ဗကသအဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား၊ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းမ်ား၊ ဖိတ္ၾကားထားတဲ့ ဧည့္သည္ေတာ္မ်ား၊သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ား စံုညီစြာ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ဒီအခမ္းအနားမွာ ဗကသအဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား၊ ပြဲစီစဥ္သူမ်ား၊ ကိုရဲလြင္၊ ကိုေနဝင္း၊ လင္းလင္း အစရွိတဲ့ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားက ၾကြေရာက္လာၾကတဲ့ ဧည့္သည္ေတြကို ေတးသီခ်င္းမ်ားနဲ့ သီဆိုေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ပရိသတ္ရဲ႔ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္အရ သရက္ေထာင္ထဲမွာ ေရးစပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ သူ႔ရဲ႔ သီခ်င္းတစ္ပုဒ္ကို ညီမျဖစ္သူ မသႏၱာ၊ ဗကသအဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား၊ GW အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားနဲ့အတူ သီဆိုျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ပြဲစီစဥ္သူမ်ားက ျမစ္ဆံုေဒသမပ်က္စီးမီက ဓာတ္ပံုကို ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားထ ံေပးအပ္ခဲ့ရာ ကိုကိုႀကီးက ေက်းဇူးတင္စကားနဲ့သဘာဝေဘးအႏၱရာယ္မ်ား၊
ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ေၾကာင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ား ဒုကၡေရာက္ရတဲ့အတြက္ စိတ္ထိခိုက္ရပံုကို ေျပာၾကားသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီေနာက္မွာ ကဗ်ာရြတ္ဆိုျခင္း၊ဗကသ သီခ်င္းမ်ားသီဆိုျခင္းတို႔ကို ဆက္လက္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး မလြတ္ေျမာက္ေသးတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေစရန္အတြက္ အင္းလ်ားေရျပင္မွာဖေယာင္းတိုင္မီးမ်ားေမွ်ာၿပီး ဆုေတာင္းကာ အခမ္းအနားကို ဝမ္းသာျခင္း၊ဝမ္းနည္းျခင္းမ်ားနဲ့ ည ၈းဝဝနာရီမွာ အဆံုးသတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဦးျမင့္ေဆြ၊ ေဒၚငယ္မမသန္း၊ မမာမာဦး၊ မႏွင္းႏွင္းေမႊး၊ ကိုုမင္းကိုုႏိုုင္

အဆိုုေတာ္ လင္းလင္း

မနီလာသိန္း၊ ေဒၚေအးျမင့္သန္း၊ မႏိုုဘယ္ေအး

ကိုုေဇယ်နဲ႔ ဧည့္သည္မ်ား

ကိုုမင္းေဇယ်ာ

ကိုုမင္းကိုုႏိုုင္

ကိုုကိုုၾကီးနဲ႔ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္မ်ား

ေက်ာင္းသားအေရး ေျဖရွင္းရန္ ဗကသ ဖြဲ႔စည္းမည္

မ်ဳိးသန္႔ | ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔၊ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ ၀၁ ရက္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္ ၂၃ နာရီ ၁၆ မိနစ္

ခ်င္းမုိင္(မဇၩိမ) ။ ။ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအေရး ကူညီေျဖရွင္းေပးရန္ ဗမာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ဗကသ) ဖြဲ႔စည္းႏုိင္ေရး စတင္ၾကိဳးပမ္းေနၿပီဟု ဗကသ တရားဝင္ေပၚေပါက္ေရး ေကာ္မတီ (အထက္

ျမန္မာျပည္)က ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔တြင္ ထုတ္ေဖၚ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။

ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားတြင္ အခက္အခဲမ်ားႏွင့္ သင္ၾကားေရးတြင္ နစ္နာမႈမ်ားရွိေနၿပီး ဤကိစၥကို ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ကိုယ္စားျပဳ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားမွ သက္ဆိုင္ရာသို႔ တင္ျပေတာင္းဆိုႏိုင္ရန္ ဗကသ မ်ား ေပၚေပါက္လာေရး ၾကိဳးပမ္းျခင္းဟုလည္း ေကာ္မတီ ျပန္ၾကားေရးတာဝန္ခံ ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္မိုးက မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။

"ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက သူတို႔ရဲ႕ နစ္နာခ်က္ေတြ အခက္အခဲေတြ ရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီ အခက္အခဲေတြကိုေတာ့ ေျဖရွင္း
ေပးႏုိင္မယ့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကို လိုခ်င္ေနၾကတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းသားအားလံုးကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳႏိုင္တဲ့ အဖြဲ႔အစည္း လိုေနၿပီဆိုတာ သူတို႔ သိထားတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဟာ ဒီကိစၥေတြကို ရဲရဲရင့္ရင့္ လုပ္ပါေတာ့မယ္" ဟု ေျပာသည္။

လက္ရွိ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ားသည္ ၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ေဝးကြာသည့္ ေနရာတြင္ တည္ရွိၿပီး အပန္းေျဖရန္၊ အားကစား လိုက္စားရန္ႏွင့္ အားလပ္ခ်ိန္မ်ားတြင္ ေလ့လာႏုိင္ရန္ စာၾကည့္တိုက္မ်ား မရွိျခင္းေၾကာင့္လည္း လူမႈေရးျပႆနာမ်ား ေပၚေပါက္ လာႏိုင္ၿပီး ထိုျပႆနာမ်ားကို ဗကသ မ်ား ေပၚေပါက္လာပါက ကူညီေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္မည္ဟုလည္း ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္မိုးက ယူဆသည္။

"ေက်ာင္းေတြဟာ ၿမိဳ႕နဲ႔အေဝးၾကီးမွာရွိေနၿပီး ျခံဳပုတ္ေတြက ပတ္ျခာလည္ ဝိုင္းထားတဲ့အတြက္ လူမႈေရး ျပႆနာေတြ
ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္တယ္။ ေနာက္တခုက သူတို႔မွာ ေလ့လာစရာ စာအုပ္၊ အပန္းေျဖစရာ ပန္းျခံ စတာေတြ ဘာမွမရွိေတာ့ သူတို႔ ေက်ာင္းအားတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ လယ္ကြင္းေတြ၊ ထန္းေတာေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အလုပ္ေတြပဲ လုပ္ျဖစ္ၾကလိမ့္မယ္။ ဗကသ ရွိရင္ေတာ့ ေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ စာၾကည့္တိုက္ ဖြင့္တာမ်ဳိးကစၿပီး ဒီျပႆနာေတြ နည္းနည္း ထိန္းႏိုင္မယ္" ဟု မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။

ဗကသမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ တရားဝင္ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ဗဟို စည္း႐ံုးေရး ေကာ္မတီကိုလည္း ေကာ္မတီဝင္ ၁၂ ဦးျဖင့္ ဇန္ဝါရီလအတြင္းက ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့သည္။ ေကာ္မတီ၏ ဥကၠ႒မွာ ကိုေက်ာ္ကိုကိုျဖစ္ၿပီး သူသည္ အသင္းအဖြဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းျခင္း ပုဒ္မ၊ ဗီဒီယို အက္ဥပေဒ တို႔ျဖင့္ ၂ဝဝ၉ ခုႏွစ္က ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၈ ႏွစ္ အျပစ္ေပးခံခဲ့ရသူျဖစ္ၿပီး ယခုႏွစ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလ အတြင္း လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာသူ ျဖစ္သည္။

ဗကသမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ တရားဝင္ရပ္တည္ႏိုင္ေရးဟု ေျပာဆိုသံုးႏႈန္းေသာ္လည္း အစိုးရထံ မွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း လုပ္မည္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ ျပည္သူႏွင့္ ေက်ာင္းသားတို႔၏ ရင္တြင္သာ မွတ္ပံုတင္မည္ဟုလည္း ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္မိုးက "ဗကသ ကို မွတ္ပံုတင္ဖို႔ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ဗကသ ကို ေက်ာင္းသားထုရဲ႕ ႏွလံုးသား၊ ျပည္သူရဲ႕ ႏွလံုးသားထဲမွာပဲ မွတ္ပံုတင္ဖို႔ ရွိပါတယ္" ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ တကၠသိုလ္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား သမဂၢ (တကသ)ကို ၁၉၂၇ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ စတင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့ၿပီး ရန္ကုန္ တကၠသိုလ္ အတြင္း ေဆာက္လုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ သမဂၢ အေဆာက္အဦးကို သူေဌးဦးညိဳ က တည္ေဆာက္လႉဒါန္းခဲ့သည္။

နယ္ခ်ဲ႕ ဆန္႔က်င္ေရးႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ တကသ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ကိုႏု၊ ကိုေအာင္ဆန္း၊ ကိုဗဟိန္း၊ ကိုသိန္းေဖ၊ ကိုေက်ာ္ၿငိမ္း စသည့္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက ျပည္သူလူထုကို လႈံ႕ေဆာ္ေပးႏိုင္ ခဲ့သည္။

ထိုကဲ့သုိ႔ သမိုင္းတြင္သည့္ သမဂၢ အေဆာက္အဦးၾကီးသည္ ၁၉၆၂ ခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္လ ၈ ရက္ နံနက္ေစာေစာတြင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေနဝင္း ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေကာင္စီ အစိုးရ၏ မိုင္းခြဲဖ်က္စီးျခင္းကို ခံခဲ့ရသည္။

ဗကသမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ကို စတင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းသည့္ႏွစ္မွာ ၁၉၃၆ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ပထမဆံုး ဥကၠ႒မွာ ဦးရာရွစ္ျဖစ္ ၍ ဒုကၠ႒မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ လြတ္လပ္ေရးဖခင္ၾကီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း ျဖစ္သည္။

သမဂၢ အေဆာက္အဦး မိုင္းခြဲဖ်က္စီးျခင္းခံခဲ့ရအၿပီး တျဖည္းျဖည္း ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္လာခဲ့ရသည့္ ဗကသ ကို ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္ လူထုအံုၾကြမႈအတြင္း ဥကၠ႒ ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္ ဦးေဆာင္၍ ယာယီအျဖစ္ ျပန္လည္ဖြဲ႔စည္းႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။

ကိုမင္းကိုႏုိင္က “ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢဆုိတာ ေက်ာင္းသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ပဲ။ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏုိင္ငံကို သြားမယ္ဆုိရင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ရွိရမယ္။ လႊတ္ေတာ္ရွိရမွာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြအတြက္ ေလ့က်င့္ေပးေနတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢေတြ ရွိကို ရွိရမယ္။ ဒီမုိကေရစီ တကယ္သြားတယ္ဆုိရင္ ဒီမုိကေရစီ အခြင့္အေရးေတြနဲ႔ ေက်ာင္းသားသမဂၢ ဖြဲ႔စည္းဖို႔ ခြင့္ကို ခြင့္ျပဳရမယ္" ဟု ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၁ ရက္ေန႔ ရန္ကုန္ ေတာ္ဝင္စင္တာတြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲတြင္
ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

EU keeps the pressure up on Burm

By AFP
Published: 31 January 2012

The EU earlier this month lifted visa bans on the Burmese president and vice president (Reuters)

European Union leaders on Monday urged Burma’s leaders to continue reforms and pledged to further ease sanctions if the regime meets the bloc’s expectations.

“I welcome the important changes taking place in Burma and encourage its government to maintain its determination to continue on the path of reform,” EU president Herman Van Rompuy said in a statement after a summit in Brussels.

“These changes are opening up important new prospects for developing the relationship between the European Union and Burma.

“I look forward to further progress in the coming weeks, in particular the further release of political prisoners, free and fair elections, and halting ethnic conflicts.”

After nearly half a century of outright military rule in the country, the regime has surprised observers with a series of reforms which culminated recently in democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi standing for a seat in parliament.

The EU agreed in January to begin easing sanctions on Burma to encourage reform, lifting travel bans against the nation’s leaders and pledging further action pending continued change.

“We will continue to ease the EU’s restrictive measures if our expectations are met,” Van Rompuy said.

Separately British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was possible he could visit Burma, following a series of visits by senior western officials including US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Cameron said he would “keep all options open” when asked if would visit the country, but said that Aung San Suu Kyi was on an “extremely busy schedule with these elections and everything else coming up.”

“But we’re going to watch very closely and do anything we can to help frankly,” he said.

Peace Efforts Persist, But a Nationwide Ceasefire Remains Elusive

By WAI MOE Monday, January 30, 2012

In the month of January, the Burmese government successfully concluded some form of ceasefire agreement with the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North) and the Karen National Union (KNU), but was unable to do so with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and New Mon State Party (NMSP).

On Tuesday and Wednesday, a delegation from the NMSP and the government’s peace building committee will meet for “peace talks” in Moulmein, the capital of Mon State and the headquarters of the Burmese army’s Southeast Regional Military Command, according to Nai Hang Tha, the general secretary of the Mon armed group.

“Nai Rot Sa, the vice chairman of the NMSP, is leading the Mon delegation to Moulmein, and the government delegation will be led by Railway Minister U Aung Min,” Nai Hang Tha told The Irrawaddy on Monday.

“Within the policy of the UNFC (the United Nationalities Federal Council, an alliance of ethnic groups), the Mon delegation will raise the issue of a ceasefire across the country,” said Nai Hang Tha.

“I do not think there will be any signing ceremony in Moulmein since the meeting is the beginning of the process,” he said.

Although the NMSP is small compared to other ethnic armed groups, it is politically significant and has maintained its policy of demanding a nationwide ceasefire. This position particularly supports the Kachin Independence Organization, which has been engaged in armed conflict with government forces since June 2011.

The SSA-North and its political wing, the Shan State Progressive Party, also held recent talks with the peace building committe, meeting with the team led by Aung Thaung and Thein Zaw in Thaunggyi, Shan State on Saturday.

At the meeting, the SSA-North officials raised the issue of a nationwide ceasefire as well, saying that the government should not enter into ceasefires with some groups and offend others.

After the meeting, however, the SSA-North reportedly signed an agreement with the government negotiators.

According to the state-run-newspaper The New Light of Myanmar, the government and the SSA-North signed a five-point ceasefire agreement on Monday.

The agreement reportedly allows the SSA-North to maintain a base in the Wanhai area of Shan State and to have temporary bases in other locations. It also provides for the opening of liaison offices in Thaungyi, Lashio and Kholan.

Despite the requests of their fellow ethnic armed groups for a nationwide ceasefire, fighting continues in Kachin State between government forces and the KIA.

“Government troops still attack our troops, particularly in the northern Shan State area,” said Awng Jet, a KIA officer in Laiza.

“There was a public assembly in Laiza, where Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) officials explained what is happening in talks with the government delegation,” he said.

A delegation from the KIO, which is the political wing of the KIA, met with the government peace delegation led by Aung Thaung in China’s border town of Ruili on Jan.18-19.

The meeting did not result in a ceasefire agreement, however, and the government troops even attacked KIA bases during the talks.

Aung Thaung told the KIO delegation that the peace process could take three years.

“But the talks between the KIO and the government will continue, probably in the second week of February,” said Awng Jet.

The other major ceasefire agreement signed by Naypyidaw in January was with Burma’s longest-operating insurgent group, the Karen National Union (KNU).

The ceasefire with the KNU was signed on Jan.12 in Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State, by a government delegation led by Aung Min.

During its talks with the government, the KNU delegation proposed an 11-point agreement that included issues such as the halting of human rights violations and forced labor.

As part of the ceasefire agreement that was signed, the government negotiator agreed to include the 11 points as part of future discussions.

After signing the ceasefire, both the government and the KNU will reposition their troops. The KNU held a central committee meeting on Jan.23-25 to discuss the repositioning of troops and the next round of talks with Naypyidaw.

“For building trust in the interest of a ceasefire, dialogue and discussion will be undertaken on the matter of reduction/pulling out and positioning of Burmese government troops in the KNU areas,” the KNU announced in a statement on the day following the central committee meeting.

David Takapaw, the vice chairman of the KNU, said the repositioning of troops would be difficult for the government army since more than 200 government outposts are in KNU areas, but he said he “hopes for the best.”

“The ceasefire agreement is a good step, but it is also a small step in the whole picture of the peace process in Burma,” said Takapaw.

Burmese Army Stands Behind President

By YAN PAING / THE IRRAWADDY Friday, January 27, 2012

Burmese military parade during the 65th Anniversary of Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw. (Photo: AP)

Burmese President Thein Sein’s recent political reform efforts have garnered continuous support within the army, according to military sources.

Many army officers and other rank-and-file soldiers are reportedly in favor of Thein Sein’s administration regarding its meeting with pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, peace talks with different ethnic armed groups and the release of a large number of political prisoners.

Many believe that the actions of the new president—who used to follow the direct orders of previous junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe—have been improving the image of the army, according to a high-ranking official in Naypyidaw Military Command.

Relations are fine between Thein Sein and Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of armed forces, despite a slight rift previously developing between the pair, the official told The Irrawaddy.

“They have good relations. Sometimes the president tried to stop the commander-in-chief when he thought the latter wanted to do anything that came into his mind, that’s all,” said the official.

During his goodwill visit to Thailand earlier this month, Min Aung Hlaing said the Burmese armed forces have no desire to turn backwards while the country is marching towards a democratic future.

In her recent interview with the Washington Post, Suu Kyi emphasized that the army has much more power than necessary.

“Our present constitution gives the military far too much power,” said the Nobel Laureate. “Although the president is the head of state, he is not necessarily the highest power in the land. The commander-in-chief can take over all powers of government at any time he feels it to be necessary.

“I don’t know how much support [Thein Sein] has within the army. He himself is an army man, so I assume there must be considerable support for him in military circles. But that is just an assumption.”

The army under Min Aung Hlaing’s command, however, ignored the president’s order to stop its current offensive against the Kachin Independence Army in northern Kachin State. Critics believe that hardliners in both the military and government have resisted some of the Thein Sein's reforms.

Another senior officer based in an infantry unit in Shan State, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Irrawaddy that the commander-in-chief has been consolidating power by transferring or dismissing high-ranking personnel who were previously appointed by Than Shwe and his deputy Vice-Snr-Gen Maung Aye.

“He asked many colonels in army regional commands such as in Lashio, Shan and Arakan states either to move somewhere else or resign if they don’t want the transfer, so many have chosen the second option,” said the senior officer.

He added that Min Aung Hlaing recently transferred some senior officers, who were earmarked for regional and divisional commander posts before Than Shwe retired, to unimportant positions within the army.

Thein Sein was a graduate of the Defense Services Academy (DSA) Intake 9 and served as Colonel General Staff at the office of the commander-in-chief. He later became the head of the Military Operation Command No. 4 based in Rangoon. In 1997, he served as the commander of Triangle Region Command. He also took the position of the Adjust General within the army.

Gen Min Aung Hlaing was much junior in military rank compared to the president and graduated from DSA Intake 19. In 2001, he served as the commander of Division 44 based in Mon State. He later became the headmaster of Pyin Oo Lwin Military University.

Min Aung Hlaing also took other positions such as head of the Western Command, Triangle Region Command, Bureau of Special Operations and Coordinator of Special Operations (Army, Navy and Airforce).

Nine Years Sleeping on a Cold Concrete Floor

By THE IRRAWADDY

A number of Burma's political prisoners who were recently released told The Irrawaddy that conditions inside the prisons were deplorable until 1999 when the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) became involved. Many, however, expressed dissatisfaction with the physical environment and said that conditions varied in prisons across the country.

The Irrawaddy reporter Lin Thant spoke to Ko Ko Gyi, the well-known 88 Generation Students Group leader about conditions and his personal experiences inside Mong Hsat Prison, which is situated in a remote location in eastern Shan State.

Ko Ko Gyi was arrested together with his colleagues in 2007 after his involvement in peaceful protests. For his role in the demonstrations, he was handed a 65 and a half year prison sentence.

Having spent nearly 20 years inside, and having done time in Insein, Maubin, Keng Tong and Mong Hsat prisons, Ko Ko Gyi is well qualified to talk about Burma's prison system.

He was released on Jan. 13 under a presidential amnesty.

Question: Based on your personal experience, please tell us the conditions in the different prisons you were detained.

Answer: The prison conditions were quite bad when we were imprisoned for the first time. What I mean is that we were beaten and maltreated and regularly sent to the guard dogs' cells. We were not allowed to read and anyone caught with a piece of paper was given a severe punishment.

However, after the ICRC’s visits to prisons, conditions began to change gradually. For instance, I had to sleep on a cold concrete floor for about nine years until the Red Cross came to inspect the jail. After their visit I was allocated a bed. Also, toilets that had manual flushing were installed, and we were permitted to read books, newspapers and journals.

Q: Were there any situations that did not improve?

A: A political prisoner could previously receive a remission on his or her sentence like other inmates. However, after the changes took place in 1997, he no longer qualified for a remission of his sentence. It was a very bad practice. In prison, we can generally calculate that we have the right to get a pardon on one-third of our sentence in accordance with the jail manual. It means that if a political prisoner was given a 15-year term he should be released after serving 10 years. The issue caused a rift between the political prisoners and the prison authorities. On one hand, the government said there are no prisoners in Burma, but on the other hand our rights were systematically abused. That was the worst thing.

Another issue was that during our second time of imprisonment we were sent to remote prisons, intentionally creating a situation where our families could not contact or visit us regularly. A fortnightly prison visit creates an outlet for frustration for a political prisoner. By having an opportunity to meet and talk with family members a political prisoner can release his/her stress that has been bottled up for the past 14 days.

For example, I was in Mong Hsat prison for over three years, during which time my family visited me only three times. And I would say that I was a bit luckier than many others. There were those whose families could not even afford to come and see them even one time.

So, whether intentional or not, transferring political prisoners to remote prisons was a mental torture for them. While physical conditions in different prisons were improving, psychological torture continued.

Q: How about health care in prison?

A: Even an ordinary citizen has to pay everything for health care under the motto za-yeik-hmya-pay-kyan-mar-yay [Share expenses for health]. But it is worse for a prisoner. Especially in small towns in remote areas, local residents don’t receive adequate health care. For instance, there is neither an X-ray machine nor an eye-doctor nor a dentist.