Dawei deep seaport (Tavoy) Development or Destruction by Kwe Ka Lu

 

အစည္းေ၀းကို KNU ဗဟိုႏွင့္ စစ္ဦးစီးမွဴးရံုးမွ (ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၁၆) ရက္ေန႔က phophtaw news

အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ အေရးေပၚ ဗဟိုေကာ္မီတီ အစည္းအေ၀းႏွင့္ အေရးေပၚ တပ္မွဴးမ်ား အစည္းေ၀းကို KNU ဗဟိုႏွင့္ စစ္ဦးစီးမွဴးရံုးမွ (ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၁၆) ရက္ေန႔က ဖိတ္ၾကားခဲ့သည္ဟု ဖိတ္ၾကားခံရသည့္ KNU ဗဟိုေကာ္မီတီ၀င္ တဦးကေျပာပါသည္။

အလားတူ ယင္းအစည္းအေ၀းသို႔ တက္ေရာက္ရန္KNU တပ္မဟာ (၁)၊ တပ္မဟာ (၂)၊ တပ္မဟာ (၄)၊ တပ္မဟာ (၅)၊ တပ္မ ဟာ (၆)ႏွင့္ တပ္မဟာ (၇) မွ တပ္ရင္းမွဴးမ်ားအျပင္ အထူးတပ္ဖြဲ႔မွ တပ္ရင္းမွဴးမ်ားလည္း ဖိတ္ၾကားထားပါသည္။

“ က်ေနာ္တို႔ တပ္မဟာ (၄) ကေတာ့ ဘိတ္ထား၀ယ္ ခရိုင္ဥကၠဌ ပဒိုကြယ္ထူးနဲ႔ ရံုးအဖြဲ႔ဘဲ သြားတက္ၾကတယ္ေလ။ တပ္မဟာမွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဒါးေက်ာ္ေတာင္ မသြားဘူး။ သူတို႔အေၾကာင္းျပထားတာက အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးလုပ္ရမဲ့ ကာလမို႔ေရွ႔တန္းမွာ အလုပ္မ်ားေနလို႔ အဲဒီတပ္မွဴးမ်ား အစည္းအေ၀းကို မတက္ေရာက္ႏိုင္ဘူးလို႔ အေၾကာင္းျပထားပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔က အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးကို လိုလားသူေတြပါ။ အခုေခၚတဲ့တပ္မွဴးမ်ား အစည္းအေ၀း ကေတာ့ လက္မခံဖို႔အတြက္ ဖိအားေပးျပီး ေခၚတဲ့အစည္းအေ၀းျဖစ္လို႔ မတက္ခ်င္တာပါ” ဟု တပ္မဟာ(၄) အရာရွိတဦး က ေျပာခဲ့ပါသည္။

အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္ (ဓါတ္ပံု – အင္တာနက္)

တပ္မွဴးမ်ား အေရးေပၚ အစည္းအေ၀းကို KNU စစ္ဦးစီးမွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ မဲ့အင္စိန္က ဖိတ္ၾကားျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သူသည္ KNU ဥကၠဌ ေစာတာမလာေဘာ၏သားျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သူသည္ စစ္ဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေစာမူတူးေဆးဖိုး မသိဘဲယခုလို ဖိတ္ၾကားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု တပ္မဟာ (၆) အရာရွိတဦးက ေျပာပါသည္။

“တပ္မဟာ (၆)က ဗဟိုေကာ္မီတီနဲ႔ တပ္မွဴးေတြက်ေတာ့ ဒူးပလာယာ (ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္) ခရိုင္ဥကၠဌ ပဒိုေရႊေမာင္း ကိုယ္တိုင္ကေတာင္ အဲဒီဗဟိုရဲ႔ ဖိတ္ၾကားမွဳကို သိပ္လက္မခံခ်င္လို႔ ဖုန္းနဲ႔ေၾကးနန္းအဆက္အသြယ္ေတြ ျဖတ္ထားခဲ့တယ္ ေလ။ အခု ေတာ့ အဲဒီေၾကးနန္းကို ခရိုင္တြင္းမွာ ေဆြးေႏြးေနၾကတယ္။ အမ်ားစုက အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကို လက္ခံေနၾက ေတာ့ အခု KNU ဗဟိုရဲ့ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး လက္မခံတဲ့အႀကံကို မလိုခ်င္ၾကဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ပံုစံအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးနဲ႔ ေရွာင္ေနၾက တယ္ေလ။”ဟု တပ္မဟာ(၆) အရာရွိတဦးက ေျပာသြားခဲ့ပါသည္။

ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဇႏၷာ၀ါရီလ (၁၂)ရက္ေန႔က ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေစာမူတူးေဆးဖိုး ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၁၉) ဦး အဖြဲ႔သည္၊ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ႏွင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကိစၥကို (၄၅) ရက္အတြင္း ဆက္လက္ေဆြးေႏြးသြားရန္ သေဘာတူ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ပါသည္။ ဤ (၄၅) ရက္သည္၊ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ လကုန္ပိုင္းျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ဆက္လက္ေဆြးေႏြးေရးကို လက္ခံသည့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေစာမူတူးေဆးဖိုးအဖြဲ႔ႏွင့္ လက္မခံသည့္ KNU ဥကၠဌ ေစာတာမလာေဘာတို႔ အဖြဲ႔တို႔ အားၿပိဳင္ ေနၾကသည့္အေျခအေနတြင္ ရွိေနပါသည္။

အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္(ဓါတ္ပံုအင္တာနက္)

ဤျပသနာကို ထင္ရွားေစလိုသည္မွာ ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ရက္ပိုင္းက ပစ္ခတ္မွဳကို ေထာက္ျပၾကပါသည္။  ေကအန္ယူတပ္မဟာ (၅)ဧရိယာရွိ ဘီလင္းျမိဳ႔နယ္တြင္ ေကအန္ယူ ကန္႔သတ္ထားသည့္ ေနရာသို႔ အေၾကာင္းမၾကားဘဲ ထိုးေဖါက္၀င္လာသည့္ အစိုးရတပ္ဖြဲ႔ကို အျပန္တြင္ ေကအန္ယူဖက္က တိုက္ခိုက္လိုက္ရာ (၂) ဦးေသျပီး (၉)ဦးျပင္း ထန္စြာ ဒါဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။ ဤသည္ အစိုးရ၏မူရင္းသေဘာထားဟု ေထာက္ျပၾကျပီး ယခုလိုေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ အခ်ိန္အခါမ်ုိးတြင္ မျဖစ္သင့္ဟု ေထာက္ ျပခ်င္ၾကပါသည္။

ေကအန္ယူ ဗဟိုသည္၊ အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရးကို လက္ခံေသာ္လည္း၊ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကိစၥတြင္ အစိုးရ ဖက္က တျပည္လံုး အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးကို လက္ခံမွ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲခ်င္ၾကပါသည္။ ဤသည္၊ ေကအန္ယူပါ ၀င္သည့္ ေသြးစည္းညီ ညြတ္ေသာတိုင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ (UNFC) တပ္ေပါင္းစု၏ မူျဖစ္ပါသည္။

အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ ပါတ္သက္ျပီး KNU ဗဟိုသည္၊ ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ရက္ပိုင္းကလည္း ကရင္လူ႔ထုလူတန္းစား အဖြဲ႔အစည္း အားလံုးကိုဖိတ္ေခၚျပီး မဲေဖၚေဂ ေဒသမွာရွိသည့္ မဲသရစ္မွ ေသ့ေဘ့ဗြာထ စခန္း (ပဒုိမန္းရွာအား သင္းျဂိဳဟ္သည့္ေနရာ)၌ အျမင္ခ်င္းႏွီးေႏွာဖလွယ္ၾကပါသည္။ ယင္းေဆြးေႏြးပဲြ၌လည္း၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေစာမူတူးေဆးဖိုး၊ ေကအန္ယူ ဗဟိုေကာ္မီတီ၀င္၊ ပဒိုေရာဂ်ာတို႔က အစိုးရထံေတာင္းဆိုထားသည့္ ေကအန္ယူ၏ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ (၁၁)ခ်က္ကို ရွင္းလင္းေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါသည္။

လက္ရွိျပသနာ၌ လာမည့္အစိုးရႏွင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြတြင္ ေကအန္ယူအေနႏွင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးကို မည္သို႔သေဘာထား မည္နည္း ဆိုသည့္ျပသနာျဖစ္ေနပါသည္။ မည္သို႔ပင္ဆိုေစ ေကအန္ယူသည္၊ ဘ၀တူ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ လက္တဲြျပီး၊ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တည္ေဆာက္သြားမည္ဟု ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

 

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) delegation visits Burma

ITUC delegation, in its first ever visit to Burma, met with Trade Unions who had applied for registration, met with released FTUB members, NLD leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Bago divsion NLD leader U Myat Hla and Ministry of Labor.

A delegation from the ITUC visited Burma on 12th to 16th of February 2012.  The delegation was headed by Mr. Stephen Benedict, Director of the Human and Trade Union Rights (HTUR) department and also included Mr. Jeffrey Vogt, Legal Advisor of the ITUC and the HTUR, and Mr. Patuan Samosir Senior Officer, Organizing and Projects ITUC Regional Organization for Asia-Pacific (ITUC-AP).

During the visits, the delegation met with the representatives from the Myanmar Industrial Trade Unions (MITU), the Agriculture and Farmers Federation of Myanmar (AFFM), the Journalist Press and Publication Workers’ Union (JPPWU) and the Textile and Garment and Leather Workers Union (Bago) and the Daikoo General and Transport Workers Union. They also met with FTUB leader Myo Aung Thant.

They also met with U Myat Hla a senior attorney and leader of the Bago region NLD. Also in the meeting were lawyers, farmers and youth. The discussion was on the legal interpretation on the recently passed Labor Organization Law and past and present functions and interpretations of the labor law in Burma/Myanmar.

On the 14th, they went to Shwe Pyi Thar Industrial Zone to observe Deputy Minister of Labor U Myint Thein talk to workers on the Labor Organization Law.

On the 15th the delegation went by plane  went to Naypyidaw and met with the Ministry of Labor headed by the Director General and discussed on the Labor Organization Law, the Prison Code and the Labor Organization Rules .

Returning by car, on the morning of the 16th  Stephen Benedict and Jeffery Vogt  met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the NLD HQ briefly, presented support for the NLD and a letter from the Sister Sharan Burrow, the General Secretary of the ITUC.

After that the delegation also went to Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone to observe the work places.

The delegation left Burma / Mynamar on 16th evening.

 

The result of their re-employment( Chemists) with the Peopl. Militia Forces in Shan State East, the quality of heroin there has increased significantly

FRIDAY, 17 FEBRUARY 2012 11:22 S.H.A.N.

One of unintended side effects of the Burma Army’s offensive against the Shan State Army (SSA) North as well as the Shan State Army (SSA) South campaign against Burma Army supported People’s Militia Forces (PMFs) last year was the displacement of refineries in Shan State South as well as skilled chemists working there, according to sources from Shan State East.

 

Heroin

As a result of their re-employment with the PMFs in Shan State East, the quality of heroin there has increased significantly. “We used to say Markkieng and Nayai PMFs (in Namzang townships) produced #1 quality Kheptin (slippers, slang for heroin blocks) until a few monthly back,” one of businessmen in Monghsat to SHAN. “No more. The quality of Kheptin produced in Tang Hseng (in Monghsat township), Punako (also in Monghsat township) and Nampong (Tachilek township) has become just as high. Even the Wa recognize the fact.” 

The Burma Army, from March to August 2011, had launched an offensive against the SSA North that had refused to be transformed into a PMF. The offensive was reinforced by constructions of chain fortifications by the newly formed Central Eastern Region Command, the 4th regional army in Shan State.

The SSA South in the meanwhile had been warring against PMFs, particularly those that had actively taken part in the Burma Army’s campaigns against it. One outcome was the seizure of cooked opium, #3 heroin, precursors and paraphernalia used in the manufacturing of #4 heroin, at the main base of Wanpang PMF in Laikha township in December.

The result was the migration of refineries and chemists into Shan State East, where the SSA is less active.

“The Wa may still be #1 when it comes to Ice (crystal methamphetamine) and yaba (methamphetamine pills),” said another businessman coming from Kengtung. “But Lahu PMFs have now emerged as #1 in heroin.”

RCSS/SSA: We don’t trust the military, but it’s time to enter the ring

In response to critics, bother former supporters and rivals alike, who say the movement’s leadership has gone naïve by entering a ceasefire pact with Naypyitaw, the Restoration Council of Shan State / Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) argues the matter of trust, though important, is secondary.

“The world wants peace in Burma and our people want a respite from the endless conflict,” said 73 year old Sao Pai Mong, the RCSS/SSA’s principal adviser. “We know (by offering ceasefire talks and eventual political dialogue) the regime has challenged us to fight in the ring (and not outside it as it used to). By accepting the challenge, it doesn’t mean we have placed our fate in the regime’s hands.”

 

Sao Pai Mong

 

He cited several reasons why Naypyitaw especially the Tatmadaw (Armed Forces) could not be trusted: continued construction of fortifications, refusal to withdraw its troops to towns and cities, and continued harassment and attacks on the SSA, among others. “It shows they have only changed clothes but they still remain the same people,” he said.