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ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕အေနာက္ဘက္နားရွိ စကခ(၁၂) လက္ေအာက္ခံ ခမရ(၂၃၀)တပ္ရင္း အေျခစိုက္ရာေနရာကို ေကအဲန္ယူႏွင့္ ဒီေကဘီေအ တပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားက ယေန႔မနက္ေစာေစာတြင္ စတင္ ၀င္ေရာက္တိုက္ခိုက္ရာ အရာရွိတစ္ဦး က်ဆံုး ခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ယေန႔မနက္ ၅နာရီခြဲေက်ာ္၌ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ လိႈင္၀ဂိတ္မွ ၃မိုင္ခန္႔ကြာေ၀းသည့္ တံတားက်ဳိးရြာအနီးရွိ ခမရ(၂၃၀) တပ္၀င္း ကို ကရင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားက ၀င္ေရာက္တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ၿမိဳ႕ခံတစ္ဦးက ယခုလို ေျပာသည္။

“ျဖစ္တာက မနက္ ၅နာရီခြဲေလာက္က။ ေကာ့ကရိတ္က က်ဳံဒိုးကိုအသြားဆိုရင္ လိႈင္၀ကအထြက္ ကားလမ္းညာဘက္က ခမရ (၂၃၀)၀င္းထဲကို ေကအဲန္ယူေတြက ၀င္ပစ္တာေလ။ ကတုတ္က်င္းထဲက ဒုဗိုလ္တစ္ေယာက္ ေသသြားတယ္။ အဲဒီတပ္၀င္း က ထို႔ေကာ္ကိုးဘက္သြားမဲ့လမ္းဘက္မွာ ရွိတယ္။ လိႈင္၀ကထြက္ရင္ စကခ(၁၂)၊ ခမရ(၂၃၁)၊ ၿပီးရင္ ခမရ(၂၃၀)တပ္ဆိုၿပီး အစဥ္လိုက္ ရွိေနၾကတာေလ။”ဟု စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ထိုပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ ရပ္ကြက္မ်ားတြင္လည္း လက္နက္ႀကီး အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား က်ေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အရပ္သားမ်ားကို ထိခိုက္မႈမ်ား မရွိေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းေနထိုင္သူမ်ားက ေျပာဆိုသည္။

ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕ေန အမ်ဳိးသမီးတစ္ဦးက “တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္တာက တစ္ေနရာထဲ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ေနရာအေတာ္မ်ားတယ္။ လက္နက္ ႀကီးနဲ႔ ပစ္ထဲ့တာ ၂၄လံုးေလာက္ရွိတယ္။ ၿမိဳ႕အေရွ႕ဘက္ ခ်က္ပိြဳင့္နားက ခင္နိမ္းမူ သခ်ဳိၤင္းေနရာမွာလည္း က်တယ္။ ၿမိဳ႕ထဲက ခလရ(၉၇)၀င္းထဲက တိုက္၀ါအနားမွာလည္း တစ္လံုးက်တယ္။ ၀င္းႀကီးရပ္ကြက္မွာလည္း က်တယ္ေလ။ လူေတြကိုေတာ့ မထိပါဘူး။”ဟု ေကအိုင္စီကို ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ကို ၀င္ေရာက္တိုက္ခိုက္သည့္ ကရင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ား၏ အင္အားမွာ ၃၀၀နီးပါးရွိႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေကအဲန္ယူ လက္ ေအာက္ခံ ေကအဲန္အယ္လ္ေအ (၁၀၁)တပ္ရင္းမွဴး ဒုဗိုလ္မွဴးႀကီးေစာေဖာဒိုက ခန္႔မွန္းေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ထိခိုက္က်ဆံုးမႈ အေသးစိတ္ကိုမူ ၎အေနျဖင့္ မသိရွိရေသးေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုသည္။

တိုက္ပြဲေၾကာင့္ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရလူနာမ်ား အေျခအေန သိရွိရန္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ေဆး႐ံုသို႔ ေကအုိင္စီက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းရာ ျပန္လည္ေျဖဆိုျခင္းမရွိဘဲ ဖုန္းခ်သြားခဲ့သည္။

ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕၏ အေရွ႕ဘက္ႏွင့္ အေနာက္ဘက္တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားေနသည့္ အဆိုပါတိုက္ပြဲမွာ မနက္ ၁၀နာရီခန္႔တြင္ ေခတၱ ရပ္ နားခဲ့ၿပီး ထပ္မံ၍ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းတြင္ ႀကိဳၾကားႀကိဳၾကား ဆက္လက္ ျဖစ္ပြားေနဆဲျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕ခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

http://kicupdatenews.blogspot.com/2011/05/blog-post_5008.html

Thailand:Chiranuch receives IWMF’s 2011 Courage in Journalism Award

Wed, 11/05/2011 – 07:09 | by prachatai

International Women’s Media Foundation

Three brave women journalists who have risked their lives covering the news have been named the International Women’s Media Foundation’s 2011Courage in Journalism Award winners.

Withstanding danger, threats and political pressure, Adela Navarro Bello of Mexico, Parisa Hafezi of Iran and Chiranuch Premchaiporn of Thailand have shown extraordinary dedication covering violence, corruption and social unrest in their countries.

“We are proud to recognize these brave women, who endure the most incredible trials to shed light on the events vital to the nations in which they live,” said IWMF Executive Director Liza Gross. “They exemplify the crucial role of the press in society.”

The 2011 Courage in Journalism Award winners — who will be officially honored in Los Angeles and New York in October – are:

Adela Navarro Bello, Courage in Journalism Award

Adela Navarro Bello, general director and columnist for Zeta news magazine in Mexico, who reports on the escalating violence and corruption in the border city of Tijuana. Navarro Bello, 42, has refused to remain silent, despite repeated warnings that she is being targeted by drug cartels.

Parisa Hafezi, Courage in Journalism Award

Parisa Hafezi, bureau chief for Reuters in Iran, has been beaten, harassed and detained while covering public opposition to the government. Hafezi, 41, is under constant surveillance. Government officials have raided her home and office and threatened her.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, Courage in Journalism Award

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, director and webmaster of Prachatai online newspaper in Thailand. Premchaiporn, 43, faces up to 70 years in prison for anti-government comments posted on her website. She has been repeatedly arrested, her offices have been raided and her website has been blocked multiple times by the Thai government.

WAR Update Shan-Burma Army officers killed

The remains of Lt-Col Than Htike Way, Commander of the Faikhun (Pekhon) based Light Infantry Battalion 422, who was killed in an ambush staged by the Shan State Army (SSA) “South” on 9 May in Mongkeung, given a hero’s reception by Burmese troops in every town it passed through yesterday on the way to the battalion’s home base, according to local sources. (SHAN)

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7 Burma Army officers and 2 privates were killed while 8-15 others were injured by an ambush staged by the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘South’ of Gen Yawd Serk in Shan State South’s Mongkeung township, according to local sources.

SSA ‘South’ (Photo: S.H.A.N.)

The death included Faikhun (Pekhon) based Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 422 commander  Lt-Col Than Htike Way, Sergeant Major Soe Myint, Sergeant Htun Aung, Sergeant Thein Hlaing, Coporal Htun Htun Lwin, Corporal Kyaw Soe Min, Corporal Htun Khaing and privates Ko Zaw and Myo Zaw Oo, according to SSA sources.

The attack took place on 9 May at 3:45, on the way between Tonglao and Hsataw, where the Burma Army troops were coming in a Tolaji (Chinese made farm tractor). The attack lasted about an hour.

The civilian Tolaji driver was also reportedly killed in the attack. The SSA said it suffered no casualties on its side.

“We received the information in advance, because the battalion is loathed by the local population for its excesses,” said an SSA officer.

According to the SSA, the reason there were many non-commissioned officers among the casualties was because they had just finished the non-commissioned officers training course and were sent to inspect the areas in order to familiarize themselves with the terrain.

Both the SSA ‘South’ and  the SSA ‘North’ have been employing mobile tactics against the Burma Army which have caused many casualties on the Burma Army side.