Day: May 20, 2011
Burma-Myanmar to get RI rifles
Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro says the government hopes to sell Indonesian-made SS-2 assault rifles to Myanmar.
“[Myanmar] looked at the SS-2. We have been offering it,” he said Thursday after the ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting in Jakarta.
Purnomo said that the nation’s arms trade was currently conducted by Indonesian Incorporated, which represented Indonesia’s state-owned weapons maker, PT Pindad; the Defense Ministry and the Defense Industry Policy Committee (KKIP).
“Myanmar is already in the process of transition. They already had an election. It has to be done in phases,” Purnomo said.
Col. Jan Pieter Ate a special assistant to the Indonesian Defense Minister, said that in principle Indonesia would not limit its arms sales to any nation, including ASEAN member nations.
“They should control their own markets rather than countries outside ASEAN,” he said.
Jan Pieter said that Indonesia’s policy on arms sales was related to the ASEAN defense industry collaboration.
“It’s all right if we want to sell [arms] to Malaysia, Laos or Vietnam, and Myanmar. What we do not hope for — and we do not compromise in this — is if the weapons are used to threaten other countries,” Jan
Pieter said.
He added that Indonesia’s stance was firm, waving off the possibility that Indonesian-made weapons might be used on civilians.
“The main purpose of weapons is to defend a country. This appeals to us as well,” Jan Pieter said.
Weapons sales might help Indonesia support Myanmar’s shift towards democracy, he added.
“With such a relationship, we will have better access to the country to improve democracy. If one [nation] does not have a relationship with another, it would be hard to influence one another. One of the ways is through trade, and defense is one of the ways [to do that],” Jan Pieter said.
University of Indonesia security analyst Andi Widjajanto said the idea of selling Indonesian weapons to Myanmar was more positive than negative. “An ‘embargo’ of light weapons to Myanmar will in fact push the junta to enter the black market,” he said.
Giving Myanmar the option to remain in the international weaponry market would cause the transnational criminal network supporting arms smuggling to lose revenue, he said
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Six trucks_china- loading mine (or land mine) detectors with equipments crossed illegal Burma border door at Manwin -supplied Burma military
Six trucks loading mine (or land mine) detectors with equipments crossed illegal Burma border door at Manwin in southeastern Kachin State, close to Muse border trade zone, and were supplied to the Burma military, said sources of Burma border security in Muse.
KIA soldiers temporarily stopped in the frontline of Manmaw (Bhamo) district in Kachin State.
The sources said, unlike earlier Chinese mine detectors which uses in Burma military, the new detectors are more advanced than earlier for searching land mines and other aerial mines.
The new mine detectors was supplied to Burma before the visit of Xu Caihou, Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission to the country and enhancing the two countries’ friendships and military cooperation from May 12 to 14.
Border-based military analysts thought the two countries’ military cooperation will lead to eliminate ethnic armed groups along the borders— Kachin Independence Army (KIA), United Wa State Army (UWSA) and Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) who denied for transforming their groups into the Burma Army-controlled Border Guard Force (BGF).
China, the main ally of military-back Burmese government is the major arm supplier of Burma and Russia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, India, Singapore, Serbia, Ukraine, Israel are also arms suppliers of Burma.
More than a dozen Burmese soldiers were injured by KIA mines on May 18, when government troops tried to enter KIA controlled areas in three locations, according to KIA officials.
UNFC တြင္ KNPP က ဒုဥကၠဌ ေနရာ တာ၀န္ယူ
UNFC ၏ ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ႏိုင္ဟံသာက “ကရင္နီဆိုတာ ဒုဥကၠဌေတာင္ တာ၀န္ယူထားရေတာ့ သူ႔အခန္းက႑ကေတာ့ အမ်ားႀကီး ပါတာေပါ့” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ဖယ္ဒရယ္ျပည္ေထာင္စု တပ္မေတာ္ အေနျဖင့္ ပူးေပါင္းရပ္တည္မည္ဟု ၎က ေျပာၾကားေသာ္လည္း စစ္ေရးအရ မည္သို႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္ကုိ အေသးစိတ္ ေျပာၾကားျခင္း မရွိေပ။
တိုင္းရင္းသား ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ ရရွိေရးအတြက္ စစ္ေရးႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ဖက္ဒရယ္ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေပၚထြန္းေရးေကာ္မတီ (Committee for Emergence Of Federal Union-CEFU) ကို ယမန္ႏွစ္ ႏို၀င္ဘာလတြင္ တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႕ (၆)ဖြဲ႕ျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႕စည္းခဲ့သည္။
ယင္းမွ ယခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီလတြင္ တိုင္းရင္းသား အဖြဲ႔ (၁၂)ဖြဲ႔ အထိ တိုးခ်ဲ႕၍ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ (UNFC) အျဖစ္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့သည္။ ထိုမွတဖန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီႏွင့္ လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ အခိုင္အမာ ရွိသည့္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း၊ ေထာက္ခံသည့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားျပည္သူႏွင့္ နယ္ေျမအခံရွိေသာအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားျဖင့္ UNFC ကို ျပင္ဆင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုအခ်က္မ်ားျဖင့္ မကိုက္ညီေသာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားက ဆက္စပ္ (၀န္းရံ) အဖြဲ႔မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ပါ၀င္မည္ဟု ႏိုင္ဟံသာက ေျပာသည္။
UNFC အမာခံ (၆) ဖြဲ႕တြင္ ပါ၀င္သည့္ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားမွာ ကရင္နီအမ်ဳိးသား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ (KNPP)၊ ခ်င္း အမ်ဳိးသား တပ္ဦး (CNF)၊ ကခ်င္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (KIO)၊ ကရင္ အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအ႐ံုး (KNU)၊ မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီ (NMSP)၊ သွ်မ္းျပည္ တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ/ သွ်မ္းျပည္ တပ္မေတာ္ (SSPP/SSA) ျဖစ္ၾကသည္။
ဆက္စပ္ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားတြင္မူ ပေလာင္ျပည္နယ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္ဦး (PSLF)၊ လားဟူဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ သမဂၢ (LDU)၊ ညီညြတ္ေသာ ရခုိင္အမ်ဳိးသားပါတီ (NUPA)၊ (၀) အမ်ဳိးသား အဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (WNO)၊ ပအုိ၀္႔အမ်ဳိးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖဲြ႕ (PNLO) ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္အမ်ဳိးသားအဖဲြ႕ (KNO) တို႔ ပါ၀င္ၾကသည္။
ကယားျပည္နယ္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးအတြက္ ဗဟုိႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရအၾကား ညိွႏိႈင္းရန္ လိုေသး
ကရင္နီ(ကယား)ျပည္နယ္ ေဒသဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး စီမံကိန္းမ်ားကို အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေရးအတြက္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အစိုးရႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရအၾကား ဆက္လက္ ညွိႏိႈင္းရန္ လိုေသးေၾကာင္း ကယားျပည္နယ္ စီမံ/စီးပြားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေတာရယ္က ေျပာသည္။
၎က “အခ်ိန္တိုတြင္းထဲမွာဆိုေတာ့ ခ်က္ခ်င္း လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ ခက္ပါတယ္။ အစိုးရ ျဖစ္လာတာလည္း လပိုင္းပဲ ရွိေသးတာ ဆိုေတာ့ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အစိုးရနဲ႔ ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရနဲ႔ ဘယ္လို လုပ္ၾကမလဲဆိုတာ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီးေတာ့မွ အထက္ေအာက္ ညွိႏိႈင္းလုပ္ရဦးမယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ျပည္နယ္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဴပ္ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ဦး (ေခၚ) ဦးဘူးရယ္က ယခုလ ၁၀ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ကယားျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ႏွစ္စဥ္ စီမံကိန္းကို လြိဳင္ေကာ္ခရိုင္ႏွင့္ ေဘာလခဲခရိုင္ရွိ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးမ်ားကို တာ၀န္ ခြဲအပ္ခဲ့သည္ဟု အစိုးရပိုင္ ျမန္မာ့အလင္း သတင္းစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ကယားျပည္နယ္တြင္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၇ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရွိၿပီး တစ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွ တစ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္သို႔ ကူးသန္းသြားလာရန္အတြက္ ေက်ာက္ခင္းလမ္းမ်ားသာ ရွိသည္။
စီမံကိန္း ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေတာရယ္က “လမ္းေတြ တံတားေတြ လုပ္သြားဖို႔ စီမံကိန္းေတြကေတာ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး လုပ္ငန္းအတြက္က ႏွစ္စဥ္ စီမံကိန္းေတြကို အထူးစီမံကိန္း တစ္ခု အေနနဲ႔ လုပ္ထားပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ စီမံကိန္း အေသးစိတ္ကိုမူ ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မရွိေပ။
ႏွစ္စဥ္ စီမံကိန္းထဲတြင္ တမ်ိဳးသားလုံးႏွင့္ သက္ဆိုင္ေသာ ပညာေရး၊ က်န္းမာေရး၊ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး အစီအစဥ္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း အမည္မေဖၚလိုသည့္ ျပည္နယ္ စီမံကိန္းရုံးမွ အရာရွိ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။
ကယားျပည္နယ္သည္ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ထိစပ္ေနေသာ္လည္း နယ္စပ္ ကုန္သြယ္သြယ္ေရး ပီပီျပင္ျပင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ရန္ သံလြင္ျမစ္ကူးတံတား မရွိျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ကုန္သြယ္စီးပြားေရးတြင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အျခားေဒသမ်ားထက္ ေနာက္က်ေနသည္။
ျပည္နယ္တ၀ွမ္းရွိ ေက်းလက္ေဒသမ်ားတြင္လည္း စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၊ ေဆးေပးခန္းမ်ား လုံေလာက္စြာ မရွိေသးေပ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတ၀ွမ္းသို႔ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓါတ္အား ျဖန္႔ျဖဴးသည့္ ေလာပိတ ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္စက္ရုံမွာ ကယားျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ရွိေသာ္လည္း ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓါတ္အား ျပည္စုံစြာ ရရွိမႈ မရွိေသးေပ။
Mon People’s Liberation Army Named as Perpetrators of Bomb Blast
May 19th, 2011
By NAI MARN – Mudon—– A passenger of the Hilux car, which was taken hostage by an armed group in Mudon Township on May 14th, has claimed that the armed group which exploded a bomb at the Telecommunications Office in Mudon, was a group of ethnic Mon.
A field reporter from the Independent Mon News Agency conducted an interview with one of the passengers, who said, “They were speaking in Mon. I noticed on the shirt that they were wearing, there was a name, which was ‘MPLA’ [Mon People’s Liberation Army].”
The MPLA was formed in 2009 and is led by Nai Than Lwin, a former member of the New Mon State Party (NMSP).
The MPLA has been active in Mudon, formerly demanding taxes from Mudon Township residents.
At the Kakalao Pagoda, six members of the MPLA forced the passengers out of the car, while allowing the driver to remain, before heading to the Telecommunications Office.
At six a.m., the group forced the car driver to hit the gate of the Telecommunication Office which was locked.
The group set off a bomb at the Telecommunication Office, killing one policeman and injuring one telecommunication officer. The group drove the car back to Kakalao Pagoda, got out, and left.
Meanwhile, the car driver, who is from Kamarwet village, has been detained with the Light Infantry Battalion No. 209, based near Kamarwet Village.
Authorities investigating the case have ordered the village headman in Jone Paik to make a list of former NMSP members staying in the village.
The Telecommunications Office is located in Jone Paik village, which is 0.5 mile from Kakalao Pagoda, where the six MPLA members got out of the car and fled into the jungle.
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