HOT NEWS! CORAL ARAKAN: ဟန္ေညာင္ေ၀ ၏ အီးေမးလ္ တြင္ သူ႕အေနျဖင့္ ရခိုင္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား အစည္းအေ၀းအတြက္ EBO က ပိုက္ဆံစိုက္ထုတ္ေပးႏိုင္သည္ ဟု ေဖာ္ျပထားENGLISH/BURMESE

အီးေမးလ္ပါ စာမ်ားမွာ ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္းျဖစ္သည္။ အခ်ိဳ႕ နာမည္မ်ားကို ဖ်က္ထားပါသည္။

For your information, Leon (de Riedmatten) and I met with XXXXXX and XXX representatives in Yangon. We were in general agreement.

It would be good to have an Arakan meeting in Bangkok. EBO can fund and help organize it but we need a joint letter from the legitimate voice and decision makers of XXX, XXXX, AA, ALP, ANC, NUPA, and DPA, giving a short statement on why they want to meet and who should be invited. We can only fund leaders from the region – not from Europe or North America. We will take care of the logistics and the leaders can decide their own political agenda. If experts are needed, the leaders can request who they want or we can recommend experts if the leaders say what kind of experts they would like to have.

It might be best to have the meeting in November before or after the WGEC meeting and workshop.

Best regards – Harn

 

By Moe Chay, Thaung Kwre and Yu Thandar Khin

စစ္ေတြ ၊ ၁၉ ဇြန္န၀ါရီ ၂၀၁၃ ၊ Coral Arakan News ၊ [ သတင္း ]

ယူရိုဘားမား ေအာ့ဖစ္စ္ ၏ အႀကီးကဲျဖစ္သူ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေ၀ က Kristine Gould ဆိုသူ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအား ေပးပို႔ေသာ အီးေမးလ္တစ္ေစာင္ထဲတြင္ ယူရိုဘားမားေအာ့ဖစ္စ္ (EBO) အေနျဖင့္ ရခိုင္အစည္းအေ၀းအတြက္ ရံပံုေငြစိုက္ထုတ္ေပးႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

Coral Arakan News ထံသို႔ သတင္းရင္းျမစ္တစ္ခု က ေပးပို႔ေသာ အဆိုပါ အီးေမးလ္ တြင္ Arakan meeting (ရခိုင္အစည္းအေ၀း) ဟု သာ ေဖာ္ျပထားၿပီး၊ မည္သည့္ အစည္းအေ၀း ဟု တိတိက်က် ေဖာ္ျပထားျဖင္းမရွိေပ။ အစည္းအေ၀းကို ႏို၀င္ဘာလတြင္ လုပ္လွ်င္ ေကာင္းမည္ထင္ရသည္ ဟု သာ ေရးသားထားသည္။

ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသား အမ်ိဳးသား အလုပ္ရံု ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ဖိတ္ၾကားစာမ်ား ၊ တက္ေရာက္မည့္အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ၏ စာရင္းတို႔မွာ ခိုး၀င္ဘဂၤါလီမ်ားအေရးကို ေရးသားတင္ျပသည့္ ကုလား ၀က္ဘ္ဆိုဒ္ တစ္ခုတြင္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဇြန္န၀ါရီလ (၁၇) ရက္ေန႔က တက္လာခဲ့သည္။

အဆိုပါအခ်က္အလက္မ်ား ကုလားဘက္မွ စတင္ ယိုထြက္လာျခင္းမွာ အစည္းအေ၀းကို တက္ေရာက္သူမ်ား ႏွင့္ စီစဥ္သူမ်ားထဲမွ ကုလားဘက္ျခမ္း ႏွင့္ ဆက္စပ္မႈရွိ ႏိုင္သည့္ ANC ၊ NUPA ႏွင့္ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေ၀ တို႔ ဘက္မွ သတင္းယိုစိမ့္ခဲ့ျဖင္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္ ဟု သံုးသပ္ၾကသည္။

ေဖာ္ျပပါ အီးေမးလ္မွာ ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာ ဇြန္န၀ါရီလ (၁၁) ရက္ မွ (၁၄) ရက္အထိက်င္းပခဲ့ေသာ ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသား အမ်ိဳးသား အလုပ္ရံု ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲကို ရည္ညႊန္းျခင္း မဟုတ္ပဲ ေရွ႕က အစည္းအေ၀းတစ္ခုကို ရည္ညႊန္းပံုရသည္။

ကုလားရံပုံေငြမ်ား ေနာက္ခံရွိသူ ဦးဟန္ေညာင္ေ၀ စီစဥ္ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္းကို တက္ေရာက္ သူေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ႀကိဳသိခဲ့ၾကသည္ ဟု ျပင္ပ သံုးသပ္သူမ်ားက မွန္းဆၾကေသာ္လည္း အစည္းအေ၀းရလဒ္မွာ ကုလားမ်ား အလိုက် ျဖစ္မလာဘဲ၊ ေရွ႕ကက်င္းပခဲ့ေသာ ရေသ့ေတာင္ညီလာခံ ႏွင့္ ေတာင္ကုတ္ညီလာခံတို႔၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ရလဒ္မ်ားကို ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း ရခိုင္အမ်ိဳးသားအလုပ္ရံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ (ဇြန္န၀ါရီ ၁၁-၁၄) က ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္ ထုတ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။

Léon de Riedmatten ဆိုသူမွာ Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue ေခၚ လွ်ိဳ႕၀ွက္ ေစ့စပ္ညွိႏိႈင္းေရး အဖြဲ႕အစည္းငယ္ ၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကိုယ္စားလွယ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ၄င္းသည္ ၁၉၉၉-ခုႏွစ္ ႏွင့္ ၂၀၀၀-ခုႏွစ္ တို႔တြင္ ICRC ၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ရံုးခြဲအႀကီးအကဲ အျဖစ္တာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ဖူးသူျဖစ္သည္ဟု သတင္းေပးပို႔သူ မိုးေခ် က Coral Arakan အားေပးပို႔ေသာ စာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

( Coral Arakan News အတြက္ မိုးေခ် ၊ ေသာင္းၾကြယ္ ႏွင့္ ယုသႏၱာခင္ တို႔ ပူးေပါင္းေရးသားသည္။)

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http://coralarakan.com/?p=1479

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ဂ်ပန္နိင္ငံအေျခစိုုက္ နီပြန္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း က ယမန္နစ္ ျမန္မာနိုုင္ငံတိုုင္းရင္းသား ဖယ္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ (UNFC) ကိုုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားကိုု တိုုင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြမွာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာ အကူအညီ ေပးဖိုု ့ တိုုက်ိဳၿမိဳ ့သိုု ့ေခၚယူေတြ ့ဆုုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲပါသည္၊ ၄င္းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမွ စတင္၍ ျမန္မာနိုုငံ စစ္ေရွာင္ေျပးရတဲ့ တုုိင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြ အတြက္ ေဒၚလာ သုုံသန္း တန္ဖိုုးရွိတဲ့ အကူအညီေပးဖိုု ့ေၾကျငာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၂ ရက္ေန စ၍ မြန္ျပည္သစ္လက္ေအာက္ခံေဒမ်ားကိုု အကူအညီ စတင္ေပးေနပါၿပီ။ က်န္တဲ့ တိုုင္းရင္းသားေဒသေတြမွာ အကူအညီေပးဖိုု ့စတင္လုုပ္ေဆာင္ေနေၾကာင္းသိရပါတယ္။

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တိုုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုုင္ ေဒသေတြကိုု အကူအညီ ဒီေလာက္ႀကီးမားတဲ့ အကူအညီရရွိတာဟာ ပထမဆုုံးအၾကိမ္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါသည္၊ ယခင္က အစိုုရမွ တဆင့္သြားၾကရတာျဖစ္ပါသည္၊ ဒီအတြက္ သေဘာတူေပခဲ့ ဦးေအာင္မင္းကိုုေတာင္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ဖိုု ေျပာမဆုုံးခင္မွာ ျမန္မာအစိုုးရအေနနဲ့ ၂၀၁၁ မွစ တိုုက္ပြဲ အျပင္းအထန္ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ကခ်င္ေဒသကိုု မေပးရန္ အျပင္းအထန္ကန္ ့ကြက္တဲ့အတြက္ နီပြန္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း ဥကဌ Yohei Sasakawa အေနနဲ ့အလြန္ခံျပင္း စိတ္မေကာင္းေဒါသ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္လိုု ့ဆိုုပါသည္။

နီပြန္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း ကိုုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားကိုု ” ကခ်င္ ကလြဲၿပီး က်န္တဲ့ ေဒသအကုုန္လုုံးကိုု ကူညီလိုု ့ရတယ္” လိုု ့ဦးေအာင္မင္းက ေျပာေၾကာင္း အမည္မေဖာ္လိုုသူ တိုုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုုင္ ကိုုယ္စားလွယ္တဦးက အင္ဂြန္ဂ်ာဝါ ကိုု ေျပာၾကားလာပါသည္။ ျမန္မာပီးစ္စင္တာ (MPC)မွ ဝန္ႀကီးဦးေအာင္မင္းသည္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဟုု ပါးစပ္ကတဖြဖြေျပာေနေသာ္လည္း လက္ေတြ ့တြင္ ေကအုုိင္ေအအဖြဲ ့ကိုု နည္းမ်ိဳးစုုံသုုံး၍ အၾကပ္ကိုုင္နည္းကိုု သုုံးေနတာဟာ ဤနီပြန္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္း အကူအညီကိစၥကိုု ၾကည့္လ်ွင္ သိသာၾကာင္း ဆက္ေျပာပါသည္။

နီပြန္ေဖာင္ေဒရွင္း အေနနဲ့ ့ျမန္မာနိင္ငံကိုု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္ဖိုု ့မနားမေန ႀကိဳးစားေနသူဆိုုသူ ထံမွ ဤမည္ေသာစကားကိုု ၾကား၍ အလြန္ စိတ္မေကာင္း အံ့အားသင့္ ေသာ္လည္း မိမိ၏ က်န္သည့္ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာ အကူအညီ ပေရာဂ်က္မ်ားကိုု မထိခိုုက္လို၍ အကူအညီ ဆက္ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္၊ ကခ်င္စစ္ေျပးေရွာင္ေနသူမ်ားကိုု MPC မွ ကန္ ့ကြက္သည့္ၾကားမွ ကူညီနိင္မည့္ နည္လမ္းရွာႀကံ ကူညီသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းၾကားသိရပါသည္။

ILO negotiates between Kachin, Myanmar for release of CHILDSOLDIERS -VIDEO

The Kachin Independence Army on January 14 released eight underage recruits from the Tatmadaw captured during the fighting in Kachin State, the International Labour Organization has confirmed.

The eight soldiers were recruited as minors but are now aged over 18.  TheILO acted as an intermediary between the government and Kachin, and is working with the government to have them formally discharged.

“I am pleased to confirm that the ILO has received from the KIA eight Tatmadaw underage recruits who had been held by the KIA as prisoners of war,” Mr Steve Marshall, the ILO’s liaison officer in Yangon, told The Myanmar Times by email on January 20.

“Both the Tatmadaw and the government of Myanmar have cooperated positively in respect of their return with the Ministry of Social Welfare providing direct support.

“The ILO is currently working with the government towards the boys receiving formal discharge documentation. UNICEF and their operating civil society partners will be providing them with rehabilitation support.

“It is very gratifying to see the safe return of these boys and to know that they now have the opportunity to resume normal life – the very positive approaches adopted by the KIA, the government of Myanmar and the Tatmadaw, without which this could never have happened, should be recognised and appreciated.”

Due to the sensitive nature of the case, Mr Marshall said he could not comment on how long or where the boys had been held while in KIA custody.

The KIA is the armed wing of the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). Headquartered in Laiza, on the China border, the group has been fighting the Tatmadaw since June 2011, when a 17-year ceasefire broke down.

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A KIA spokesperson could not be reached for comment last week.

Mr Marshall said in a recent interview with ILO News that the ILO believes there are approximately 5000 child soldiers in Myanmar. He said the process to release them is continuing to gain momentum.

“We started the complaints mechanism in 2007, and between 2007 and 2011 we had approximately 260 boys discharged from the army. Since 2012 so far, it would be close to 60, so it’s increasing,” he said in November.

In late June, the government and the UN signed an action plan that is designed to prevent the recruitment and use of children by the Tatmadaw and allow for the release of underage recruits.

By signing the plan, the Tatmadaw and government have committed to preventing underage recruitment, as well as identifying, discharging and reintegrating underage recruits.

But the Tatmadaw is not alone in using child soldiers in Myanmar. In 2011, the UN said in a report that it believed seven other armed groups were also actively recruiting and using underage soldiers, including the KIA.

Other listed groups were the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, Karen National Liberation Army, Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council, Karenni Army, Shan State Army-South and United Wa State Army.

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/3883-ilo-negotiates-between-kachin-myanmar-for-release-of-underage-recruits.html

Mae Sot in line for economic zone

TAK: The Interior Ministry is set to propose a new regulation to develop Mae Sot district into a special economic zone at the cabinet meeting in Uttaradit province on Monday.

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Deputy Interior Minister Chatt Kuldiloke revealed the plan before attending a meeting on Sunday evening. He was speaking while visiting the districts of Mae Sot, Mae Ramat and Phop Phra in Tak this morning.

Pol Lt Gen Chatt said he had been assigned by Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to inspect areas to be used as construction sites for future development projects as the government wanted to turn the districts into a special economic and administrative zone to support border trade with Myanmar and respond to the formation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. 

 

The cabinet was expected to receive several budgetary requests from the province and its vicinities during the two-day meeting.

At Sunday’s meeting, Tak authorities would propose the expansion of the 84-kilometreTak-Mae Sot Highway and a railway track project from Tak to Mae Sot.

The province would also propose the establishment of village surface water supply systems, improvement of an international stadium and construction of a steel reinforced concrete road in tambon Chong Kab of Phop Phra district, said Pol Lt Gen Chatt.

Banpot Korkietchareon, president of Tak Chamber of Commerce, said the private sector would ask Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to establish the Mae Sot-Myawaddy joint trade and investment zone opposite Ban Rim Moei near the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge. 

 

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