Day: April 4, 2011

မဟာမိတ်များစုံညီသည့် WNO ခေါင်းဆောင် စျာပန တခမ်းတနား ကျင်းပ

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MONDAY, 04 APRIL 2011 19:16 သျှမ်းသံတော်ဆင့်
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ဝ အမျိုးသား အဖွဲ့ချုပ် WNO ၊ ဝအမျိုးသား တပ်မတော် WNAခေါင်း ဆောင် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး တာ့တစ်မိန်း၏ ဈာပန အခမ်းအနားကို ပြီးခဲ့သည့် စနေနေ့ကထိုင်းနယ် စပ် လွယ်ဝဟေ့ ဌာနချုပ်၌ ်ခန်းနားစွာကျင်းပ ခဲ့ကြောင်း သိရှိရပါသည်။

မဟာမိတ်များစုံညီသည့် WNO ခေါင်း ဆောင် စျာပန ပုံရိပ်များ Photo: S.H.A.N 

“အဓိက ကတော့ဗျာ သျှမ်းပြည်တပ်မတော် RCSS/SSA ၊ ပအိုဝ်းအမျိုးသားလွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် PNLA  ကရင်နီတိုးတက် ရေးပါတီ KNPP နဲ့ ဝ အမျိုးသား တပ်မတော် WNA တွေပေါ့၊ မဟာမိတ်တပ်ဖွဲ့တွေ၊ ရပ်နီးရပ်ဝေးမိတ်သင်္ဂဟ ေတွေနဲ့ ဆို လူငါးရာလောက်ရှိမှာ” – ဟု တက်ရောက်သူတဦးကပြော  သည်။

ဝ အမျိုးသားတပ်မတော် WNA ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီးတာ့တစ်မိန်း၏ ဈာပန အခမ်းအနားကို ဧပြီ ၂ ရက် မနက် ၁၀ နာရီ မှ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းအထိ  WNA ဌာနချုပ် လွယ်ဝဟေ့၌ ကျင်းပရာ အမျိုးသားဒီမိုကရေစီတပ်ဦး NDF ၊ သျှမ်းပြည်တပ်မတော် RCSS/SSA ၊ ကရင်နီအမျိုးသားတိုးတက်ရေးပါတီ နှင့် အခြားနိုင်ငံရေးမဟာမိတ်၊ စစ်ရေးမဟာတို့မှလည်း လွမ်းသူ့ပန်းခွေများ၊ သဝဏ်လွှာများ အသီးသီးပေးပို့ခဲ့ကြသည်ဟုဆိုသည်။

မဟာမိတ်များစုံညီသည့် WNO ခေါင်း ဆောင် စျာပန ပုံရိပ်များ Photo: S.H.A.N 

“နေအိမ်မှာ ကျင်းပတဲ့ ဘာသာရေးနဲ့ဓလေ့ထုံးတမ်း မြေမြုပ်သဂြိုဟ်တဲ့ စစ်ရေးစစ်ရာ လုပ်ထုံးလုပ်နည်း အခမ်းအနားက ဝ၊ တရုတ်၊ သျှမ်း၊ ဗမာ ၄ ဘာသာသုံးနှုန်းတယ်။   ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာထုံးတမ်းနဲ့ရော ဝ/တရုတ် ထုံး တမ်းနဲ့ပါကျင်းပတယ်။ သင်္ချိုင်းကို သွား ပို့တော့ ( WNA/PNLA/SSA) တပ်မတော် ၃ ခုက အတူတူ စစ်ရေး ချီတက်အလေးပြုတယ်။ အဖွဲ့အစည်း အသီးသီးရဲ့ သဝဏ်လွှာ တွေဖတ်ကြားတယ်။ ပြီးတော့ လွယ်ဝဟေ့ တပ်စခန်းတောင်စောင်းမှာ မြေမြုပ်သင်္ဂြိုလ်တယ်၊ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်း သုံးနာရီ လောက်မှာ အကုန်ပြီးစီးသွားတယ်” – ဟု တက်ရောက်သူ နောက်ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်တဦးကပြောပါသည်။

ဝ အမျိုးသားတပ်မတော် WNA ခေါင်းဆောင် ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီးတာ့တစ်မိန်းသည် တိုက်ရေးခိုက်ရေးအထူးကျွမ်းကျင် ကြောင်း၊ ကွန်မြူ နစ် တပ်ဖွဲ့များအား ပူးပေါင်းတိုက်ခိုက်ခဲ့ရသူသျှမ်းလက်နက်ကိုင်းတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်ဟောင်းတစ်ဦး ကပြောပါသည်။

ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီးတာ့တစ်မိန်းသည် ဝ ပြည် ပန်ဝိုင်စော်ဘွားနယ် လွယ်ဟင် လွယ်ဖါ တွင် မွေးဖွားခဲ့၏။ငယ်စဉ်က တည်း ဝ စစ်တပ်တွင်  တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ပြီး ဝိန်းငင်းစော်ဘွားသား (ဝ အမျိုးသားအဖွဲ့ချုပ် WNO ဥက္ကဌဟောင်း) စဝ်မဟာဆန်း ကွယ်လွန်သည့် ၂၀၀၇ မှစ၍ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီးတာ့တစ်မိန်းက ဥက္ကဌရာထူးကို ကွယ်လွန်ချိန်အထိ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ခဲ့သည်။

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WAR:Six Burmese Soldiers Killed in SSA/SSPP’s Ambush

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At least 20 Burmese soldiers killed or injured in the ambush planned by Shan State Army (SSA)/ Shan State Progressive Party (SSPP) fighters in Kaesi area. There was a captain among the dead.

 

On 2 April at 5 pm SSA/SSPP fighters ambushed a farm tractor carrying some Burmese soldiers from Larng Khur based ILB 578 on the way between Panse village and Loi Yoi village, Kaesi Towship.  While they headed to Nam Puk base at Nam Puk village, Ha Wan tract to rotate at the duty, Burmese soldiers were attacked.

 

In the 15 minutes- fighting, Burmese Army lost 6 men and at least 12 wounded. Among the dead were a captain and 5 privates. SSA/SSPP side suffers nothing.

 

Since Burmese Army launched a series of attacks on them last month, SSA/ SSPP has declared that they would use guerrilla warfare to defense themselves against Burmese Army that enter their controlled areas.

Mighty Mekong to be dammed?

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04/ 1/11
Peter Bosshard
Policy Director, International Rivers
Posted on The Huffington Post

The mighty Mekong River is about to face its greatest test. This month, the governments of Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam will decide whether to give approval to the first ever dam planned for the lower Mekong mainstream, the Xayaburi Dam.

Much is at stake in this decision. The Mekong River is the world’s largest freshwater fishery, providing the main source of protein for 60 million people in the lower Mekong basin. The amount of fish caught here is staggering — about 2% of the world’s fish catch is caught from this one river basin each year.

The Mekong’s strong currents and scenic rapids in the remote province of Xayaburi in Northern Laos are important spawning grounds of several important migratory fish species, including the critically endangered Mekong Giant Catfish. This riverine cornucopia is now at risk. Since 2007, Ch. Kamchang, a large Thai construction company, has been planning to build the massive Xayaburi Dam on the Mekong’s Kaeng Luang rapids.

The Xayaburi Dam would have a capacity of 1,260 megawatts, comparable to the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River. According to an independent review, it would directly affect 202,000 people and put at least 41 fish species — including the Mekong Giant Catfish — at risk of extinction. The Xayaburi Dam could also open the floodgates to further dam building on the river. It is the first of a total of 11 dams on the lower Mekong mainstream under consideration. Continue reading “Mighty Mekong to be dammed?” →

Burma Arrests ex-army officer who supports opposition-U Zin Linn

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On 30 March, President Thein Sein addressed the first regular session of Union Parliament.

In his speech, he said, “To safeguard the fundamental rights of citizens in line with the provisions of the constitution in the new democratic nation is high on our government’s list of priorities. We guarantee that all citizens will enjoy equal rights in terms of law, and we will reinforce the judicial pillar.”

But, now, people are suspicious with his words. The case is that Nay Myo Zin, 36, a retired Burmese military officer who works as a volunteer of ‘Blood Donation Network’ affiliated with the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), has been arrested on Saturday by the Special Branch Police in South-Dagon in Rangoon.

According to his family, the ex-army captain did not commit any crime except helping poor patients who need emergency blood transfusion. Nay Myo Zin was taken off in the middle of a street by the police but they did not give any reason of his detention.

Zin Myo Maw, wife of the detainee, said she heard that her husband was taken to Aung Thapyay detention centre in Mayangone Township in Rangoon. She could not have a message or a call by her husband since he was taken away to detention center. She said that her husband’s mobile phone had been turn off. Continue reading “Burma Arrests ex-army officer who supports opposition-U Zin Linn” →

9 Burmese Migrants Killed in Truck Crash

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Injured Burmese migrants are attended to at Samut Sakorn Hospital. (PHOTO: Kyaw Thaung/ Irrawaddy)

At least nine Burmese migrant workers were killed and nearly 50 were injured after two trucks collided in Mahachai in Samut Sakorn Province near Bangkok.

The accident took place on Monday morning. All the injured workers were taken to Samut Sakorn and Srivichai 5 hospitals nearby.

Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Monday, a nurse from Samut Sakorn hospital confirmed nine workers had died.

However, rumors were rife among the migrant worker community in Mahachai that no less than 30 migrants had been killed.

“When I arrived at the hospital at least nine people had died and at least 30 workers were severely injured,” said Khaing Kyaw Kyaw, a volunteer from the Mono Thai worker organization that helps migrant workers.

An eyewitness to the accident, Thet Myo Aung, said, “When I went to Srivichai hospital they [the hospital authorities] would not allow me to take photos. They would not let me go to other rooms or wards.”

Most of the workers were on route to a food processing factory in Mahachai, according to the sources who added that one of the trucks was crammed with at least 90 Burmese migrant workers.

“Migrant workers depend on the truck every day for their transportation. The accident took place while they headed to the factory,” said Aye Shwe, a Burmese migrant worker.

“I don’t know the details of the death toll although I enquired at the hospital,” said Burmese worker Khaing Gyi. “Some are still missing.”

There are an estimated two to three million Burmese migrants in Thailand, although only 1,310,686 have registered as migrant workers.

The Irrawaddy reporter Ba Saw Tin also contributed to this article.

 

Blood donation group volunteer arrested in Rangoon

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Monday, 04 April 2011 19:49 Myint Maung
New Delhi (Mizzima) – A former Burmese military officer who is a volunteer with a NLD blood donation group in Rangoon was arrested on Saturday evening by the Special Police Branch and detained in the  Aungthabyay Interrogation Centre.

The National Blood Center in Rangoon. A volunteer blood donor who works with the National League for Democracy was arrested in Rangoon on Saturday while on his way to donate blood to a hospital. Photo: MizzimaThe National Blood Center in Rangoon. A volunteer blood donor who works with the National League for Democracy was arrested in Rangoon on Saturday while on his way to donate blood to a hospital. Photo: Mizzima

The blood donation group, supported by National League for Democracy members and other volunteers, was formed in 2009 and operates in South Dagon Township.

The volunteer, Nay Myo Zin, was arrested while on his way from his home to Sanpya Hospital in Thingangyun Township to donate blood.

Nyi Nyi, who is in charge of the blood donation group, told Mizzima that Nay Myo Zin called him and said he was being taken to the interrogation centre.

He said that on Sunday police and government officials came to his home to return some belongings of  Nay Myo Zin and to pick up some of his clothes.

On November 13, 2010, to mark pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest, Nay Myo Zin and his colleagues donated 40 bottles of blood to leukemia patients at  Rangoon Children’s Hospital and 32 bottles of blood to the National Blood Centre of Burma and Sanpya Hospital.

Similarly, ten days after Suu Kyi was released from house arrest, Nay Myo Zin  led a blood donation group to donate 19 bottles of blood to patients at Mingaladon Military Hospital 2 to promote a message that the people and the army were not enemies, sources said. The blood group is made up of a number of former servicemen.