Day: August 26, 2009
KNU ၊ ကရင္ DKBA၊ ကရင္ KPF၊ ကရင္ KNU/KNLA-PC
စံခလပူရီ(ၾသဂုတ္-၂၆)။ ။ ယခုသီတင္းပတ္အတြင္း ဘုရားသုံးဆူေဒသႏွင့္ဝန္းက်င္ေဒသတဝုိက္၌ ေဒသခံ ကုန္သည္မ်ား သစ္သယ္ေဆာင္မႈအေပၚ ဒီေကဘီေအ ဗုိလ္ႀကီးေစာေအဝမ္းအဖြဲ႔မွ ဂိတ္ေၾကးမ်ား အဆမတန္ ေကာက္ခံလာမႈေၾကာင့္ သစ္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ရပ္ဆုိင္းလုနီးပါးျဖစ္ေနေတာ့ေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံသစ္ကုန္သည္မ်ားက ဖုန္းျဖင့္ ေျပာဆုိခဲ့သည္။
“ကားတစ္စီးကုိ ဘတ္ ၂ ေသာင္းတဲ့၊ ဒီေကဘီေအတစ္ဖြဲ႔ပဲ ဒီလုိေကာက္တာ၊ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႔လဲမသိဘူး၊ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ သြားၫွိတယ္ မရဘူး၊ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔လည္းအလုပ္နားလုိက္ရပါၿပီ၊ ၿမဳိ႕ေပၚမွာလက္က်န္သစ္ေတြကုန္သြားရင္ပရိေဘာဂ သမားေတြလည္း ထမင္းငတ္ေတာ့မွာပဲ” ဟု အမည္မေဖၚလုိေသာ သစ္ကုန္သည္တစ္ဦးက ေျပာခဲ့သည္။
အဆုိပါကိစၥကုိ ဘုရားသုံးဆူအေျခစုိက္ ခမရ ၂၈၃ မွ တပ္ရင္းမႉးဒုဗုိလ္မႉးႀကီး ျမတ္ထြန္းေအးထံသုိ႔ သစ္ကုန္သည္ မ်ား တုိင္ၾကားခဲ့သည္ဟု ဆုိပါသည္။ ယခင္ႏႈံးထားမ်ားအတုိင္း ေကာက္ခံၾကရန္ တပ္ရင္းမႉးက ၫႊန္ၾကားခဲ့ေသာ္ လည္း ဒီေကဘီေအ ဗုိလ္ႀကီးေစာေအဝမ္းက လက္မခံဟု ဆုိပါသည္။
ဒီေကဘီေအ အမွတ္ ၉၀၇ တပ္ရင္းမႉး ေစာေနာ္တရာႏွင့္ အင္အား ၇၀ နီးပါးခန္႔ ဘုရားသုံးဆူနယ္စပ္ၿမဳိ႕သုိ႔ ေရာက္႐ွိ စခန္းခ်လ်ွက္႐ွိရာ အဆုိပါတပ္ဖြဲ႔ ရိကၡာအတြက္ ယခုခဲ့သုိ႔တုိးျမွင့္ေကာက္ခံရေၾကာင္း ဒီေကဘီေအမွ အေၾကာင္းျပေျပာဆုိခဲ့သည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။
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Arakan Governor Arrives in Taungup After Anti-Government Flyers Distributed
8/26/2009
The Chairman of the Arakan State Peace and Development Council, General Thaung Aye, arrived on Monday in Taungup a day after unidentified democratic activists distributed anti-government posters in the town, said a resident.
“He arrived at our town accompanied by many army officials on Monday and he visited many government departments in our town,” he said.
General Thaung Aye, who is also commander of the Western Command, is likely visiting the town to instruct the local authorities to take action against the democratic activists who have undertaken anti-government activities in Taungup recently.
General Thaung Aye has at times visited Taungup on official business but he has never stayed overnight. However, during this trip he has remained in Taungup for two days.
“He arrived on Monday but he stayed in our town through Tuesday,” he said.
A reliable source said that the high authority is reportedly ordering all commanders around Burma to control their respective states and divisions. If they are unable to do so, the authority will take action or punish the concerned authorized person.
Because of this, it is believed that the commander came to the town as a result of the anti-government activities that took place.
A source said Communication Minister General Thein Shwe also arrived at Taungup to meet with town elders and government officials to explain the 2010 election.
Money demands falter in face of monk resistance
Wed 26 Aug 2009, Asah
Construction plans for a 4 story monk training center have been delayed after demands for funding from a government controlled monk group were reduced to a request for voluntary donations, by a senior Burmese military commander in response to local monastery complaints.
The monk training center is a project proposed by the Mahar Sangha Nayaka Township Group, a Burmese government supported group of monks. The building, slated for construction in Myay Ni Koung quarter in Moulmein, would be a facility for monks of all different ethnic groups to test for level advancement within the monkhood. The intended site is noted for is proximity to both the bus and train station.
To fund the project, in early June, the Mahar Sangha Nayaka Township group asked for money from monasteries in Moulmein Township, according to monks in Mon State.
“Every monastery in Moulmein has to pay 900,000 kyat for the building,” a source close to Moulmein monks, explained. “But just only in Moulmein and Moulmein townships have to pay 900,000 – other townships such as Mudon Township [monasteries] have to pay 100,000 kyat for it.”
According to a Mudon township monk, on July 13th and 14th, Mudon township monasteries met with Mahar Sangha Nayaka Township Group, and were given to the end of August for every monastery to pay 100,000 kyat.
The demands for funding have produced an outcry from area monks. A head monk from a monastery in Moulmein said, “we want to pay 300,000 for this building. The monk group [Mahar Sangha Nayaka Toship group] asked for a larger amount of money, so if we can’t pay at one time we would have to pay three times in a year. Most of monks in Moulmein can’t accept that.” Continue reading “Money demands falter in face of monk resistance”
military government Web site, “kyaymon” [meaning “the mirror”], which operates as an online daily newspaper in Burmese, on Wednesday criticized two well-known Buddhist monks’ organizations and warned that the Burmese military authorities will take action against them.
The Burmese-language kyaymon Web site claimed that the International Burmese Monks’ Organization [commonly known as “Sasana Moli”] and the Sangha League (Myanmar) are trying to launch another monks’ boycott in Burma similar to the 2007 Saffron Revolution when Buddhist monks were instrumental in leading anti-government protests.The Web site claimed that U Nayaka and U Candobhasacara from Sasana Moli, and U Jotika, U Paramikhanti and Shwe Zin Tun from Sangha League (Myanmar) are playing leading roles in the movement and that the Burmese public would not approve of it.
It went on to say that the Burmese government would not tolerate this type of movement and would take “severe action” against those involved in it. The Web site urged the public “not to become the monks’ victims.”
The warning comes the day after The Irrawaddy reported that several exiled monk leaders had said that Buddhist monks across the country were preparing to stage a third boycott of military personnel and their families. continue
Webb’s statement is either shockingly naïve or willfully misleading. We Buddhist monks, who Webb discounts as a “throng,” marched for an end to military dictatorship in Burma not because we wanted marginal improvements in our economy. We marched because we believe in freedom and democracy and are willing to make sacrifices to reach those goals.
Webb’s Misguided Views
By PYINYA ZAWTA Wednesday, August 26, 2009
US Sen Jim Webb recently traveled to Burma to lean not on Burma’s military regime, but to pressure my country’s democracy movement into giving up economic sanctions—the most important tool in our struggle for freedom.
Although he emphasized the necessity of the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, this falls far short of the demands of the US, the United Nations and the European Union for the immediate and unconditional release of all my country’s 2,100 political prisoners.
Webb’s ignorance of the situation in my country was revealed his book “A Time to Fight” in which he came down squarely on the side of the oppressors in Burma. He wrote about the demonstrations which took place in Burma in 2007, led by Buddhist monks such as myself.
“If Westerners had remained in the country this moment might never have occurred, because it is entirely possible that conditions may have improved rather than deteriorated.”
Webb’s statement is either shockingly naïve or willfully misleading. We Buddhist monks, who Webb discounts as a “throng,” marched for an end to military dictatorship in Burma not because we wanted marginal improvements in our economy. We marched because we believe in freedom and democracy and are willing to make sacrifices to reach those goals.
Webb claims that the Burmese people would benefit from interaction with the outside world, as if we need to be condescendingly “taught” by Americans about our rights and responsibilities. Had Webb spent some time with real Burmese people apart from the military regime and others who share his views, he would better understand the sacrifice we made for democracy, and he would know that we Burmese value the longstanding support we have had from the US Congress. Continue reading “Webb’s statement is either shockingly naïve or willfully misleading. We Buddhist monks, who Webb discounts as a “throng,” marched for an end to military dictatorship in Burma not because we wanted marginal improvements in our economy. We marched because we believe in freedom and democracy and are willing to make sacrifices to reach those goals.”
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