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Day: September 27, 2010
မင္းထက္ေအာင္(စက္တင္ဘာ-၂၆)။ by Kaowao
မင္းထက္ေအာင္(စက္တင္ဘာ-၂၆)။ ။ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ရက္ပုိင္းအတြင္း ျမဝတီရဲစခန္းကုိ ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ဝုိင္းရံခဲ့ေသာ ဒီေကဘီေအဗုိလ္ေစာေက်ာ္သက္ႏွင့္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္(၂၀)ေယာက္တုိ႔အား ျမဝတီရဲစခန္းမွ အမႈဖြင့္ထားေၾကာင္း ခုိင္လုံေသာသတင္းရပ္ကြက္မ်ားမွ သိရသည္။
“ဥပေဒႏွင့္အညီသိမ္းဆည္းထားတဲ့ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္ေတြကုိ လက္နက္မ်ားျဖင့္ခ်ိန္ရြယ္လုယက္ျခင္း၊ လက္နက္မ်ားျဖင့္ အမ်ားျပည္သူအထိတ္တလန္႔ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းစတဲ့ပုဒ္မေတြနဲ႔ အမႈဖြင့္လုိက္တယ္” ဟု ရဲအသုိင္းအဝုိင္းႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတစ္ဦး ေျပာသည္။
စက္တင္ဘာလ(၂၃) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ဒုရဲအုပ္စိုးႏိုင္၀င္းမွ တုိင္တန္းသျဖင့္ ျမ၀တီရဲစခန္း၌အမႈဖြင့္လွစ္ၿပီး ရဲအုပ္ စခန္းမွဴးေအာင္မ်ိဳးလြင္ စစ္ေဆးေဆာင္ရြက္လွ်က္ရွိသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
သုိ႔ရာတြင္ ဗိုလ္ေစာေက်ာ္သက္သည္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္တိုင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္တိုင္းမႉးထံ အသနားခံစာတင္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း တိုင္းမႉးမွလက္မခံဟု သိရသည္။
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ဒီေကဘီေအ အခမ္းအနားတစ္ခု
“ဒီကိစၥမွာပါတဲ့ဒီေကဘီေအအဖြဲ႔ေတြကိုလည္း ဆင့္ေခၚထားတယ္၊ ကားေတြကိုလည္း ျပန္မေပးေတာ့ဘူး၊ ေနာက္အခါ ဒီလိုျပႆနာမ်ဳိးထပ္ျဖစ္ရင္ ပစ္မိန္႔ရထားၿပီ”လည္း ျမဝတီအာဏာပုိင္ႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။ Continue reading “မင္းထက္ေအာင္(စက္တင္ဘာ-၂၆)။ by Kaowao”
Burmese military forces such as the army, navy, Step-Up Illegal Tax Collection in Arakan with Approaching Election
Sittwe: Burmese military forces such as the army, navy, Nasaka, police, and forestry officials that have been deployed for “safeguarding national security” along waterways and land routes across western Burma’s Arakan State have been stepping up collection of tolls on the public as the election scheduled for 7 November draws near, report local residents.
“Before they used to collect tolls from the boats and barges carrying goods, and from passengers carrying goods. But after the announcement of the election date, the forces have been stepping up collection of the tolls from even vessels and passengers without goods or cargo in a manner that they will have nothing after the election,” a boat owner from Sittwe told Narinjara. Continue reading “Burmese military forces such as the army, navy, Step-Up Illegal Tax Collection in Arakan with Approaching Election”
Meeting for Arrested Monk Ashon Pyinya Sara Foiled by Police
Sittwe: A meeting for the arrested monk Ashon Pyinya Sara that was organized by monks in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan, was foiled by police on Monday.
Speaking to Narinjara, one monk said, “We attempted to gather at the monastery where Ashon Pyinya Sara was living for a meeting to consult on his arrest, but the meeting was postponed after police foiled the program.”
Police from Min Gan police station in Sittwe blocked the meeting on the pretense that the monastery was not allowed to be used for such on orders from the high authority.
“Around ten monks arrived at the front of the monastery to attend the meeting but they gave up their plan after the police threatened to arrest us if we did not follow their orders,” the monk said.
The meeting was organized by the abbot of Vasali Dhama Pala Monastery in Sittwe, to discuss the latest situation of Ashon Pyinya Sara, who is being detained in Sittwe prison.
“The abbot invited some monks who are close to him to consult on the affairs of arrested monk Pyinya Sara, because his trial will be finished soon and the judge will pass his verdict. Before the verdict is passed, we should do something for his release – so we arranged the meeting,” the monk added.
Ashon Pyinya Sara is an Arakanese historian as well as an abbot of an orphanage named Mahamuni Buddha Vihara, and he was arrested by military authorities on 27 July on seven charges.
Ashon Pyinya Sara wrote many articles related to the ancient kingdom of Arakan and Arakanese literature. The authorities however, see this as behavior contrary to the solidarity of the union. U Pyinya Sara also refused to cooperate with the military authorities when they proposed he work for the government.
It was learned that many believe the arrest of Ashon Pyinya Sara is related to politics and his attitudes about the military government.
U Pyinya Sara is now being detained at Sittwe prison and authorities have filed seven charges against him. Among the charges, trials in six of the cases have been completed, while the charge in the final case to be tried is misappropriate of funds donated by foreign countries. A verdict is expected to be passed in the case next week.
Narinjara
On Myanmar, Team Obama Dodges, Critiques, Resigns Itself to Chinese Dominance
UNITED NATIONS, September 26, 2010 — The Obama administration’s less critical stand on the military government in Myanmar has been on display of late.
In the run up to the September 27 meeting at the UN of the Group of Friends of the Secretary General on Myanmar, Inner City Press has been asking a range of Obama administration officials what the US position in the meeting, and on Myanmar, will be.
First, Inner City Press asked the Myanmar question to a senior US official who gave a briefing to preview the General Debate. The official, who has spoken about Sudan, Iran and a range of other topics, said they hadn’t been briefed on Myanmar.
Then at an on the record session with US State Department spokesman PJ Crowly on September 21, Inner City Press asked about the “meeting of the Group of Friends and the Secretary General on Myanmar – Burma on Monday. With the NLD dissolved, like what’s the U.S. in this UNGA trying to accomplish on Burma?”
PJ Crowley said, “I’ll take the question of our involvement of that particular meeting and have that for you at our next briefing.”
But two days later, still no answer had been provided. After another US briefing, about President Obama’s two speeches at the UN, Inner City Press tried again to get the US position.
As transcribed below, the State Department spokesman’s presentation to Inner City Press of the US position on Myanmar and the meeting initially seems strong, critical of the military government of Than Shwe and other generals, but ultimately uses the support of China and India for Myanmar as a reason not to push for much.
Some point out that the Obama administration, loudly, does not allow Chinese support for Sudan to stop it from publicly speechifying about Sudan, and being seen to “apply pressure” to the al Bashir government.
Why has the US, as some see it, given up on Burma? Watch this site.
Here is the transcript of what State Department spokesman PJ Crowley told Inner City Press on September 23:
Inner City Press: Do you remember my Myanmar question. Did I miss a briefing of yours?
Crowley: No. There is a friend of Myanmar meeting on Monday. We will be participating. And we’ll go through a full range of issues. Obviously our concerns about the human rights climate are well known. We have been encouraging Myanmar to open up political space. Clearly they have failed to do that. We have been encouraging them to have a serious dialogue with the various ethnic groups which compose their population. They haven’t done that. The electoral laws that they’ve passed for the election later this fall we believe will not lead to a credible result. Just taking generals out of uniform and making them civilians is not enough. Part of the challenge with Burma is also working more collaboratively with other countries some of whom do have strong relations with Burma. To settle on a common approach and then see if we can’t together demonstrate to Burma there are definitely things that they have to do.
Inner City Press: You mean India as well as China?
Crowley: yes
Inner City Press: There’s this call for an international inquiry into war crimes in Burma which was made by the UN rapporteur. France has just said there’s going pursue it in this GA. It was never clear to people if the Obama administration joined that call There were some articles where a senior US official said they supported the call but it was never.. I don’t know what that meant. Do you know what I’m referring to?
Crowley Yeah I do. I don’t know if that’s going to be brought up at this meeting or not. Let’s wait and see.
If the Obama administration were really behind this call for an inquiry into war crimes in Burma, it seems unlikely that the State Department spokesman would say “let’s wait and see” if the issue comes up at the September 27 meeting the US is participating in.
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