Taungup residents arrested in Muslim murder case

NARINJARA NEWS

( Taungup, 18 July 2013): The Arakan police have arrested six residents of Taungup, a town located at southern part of Arakan with the suspicion of killing ten Muslim pilgrims last year in the town. The news of the arrest of six persons was confirmed by U Tin Thein Aung, a Taungup based politician.

“I come to know about the arrest of 6 persons on Thursday morning. But they were actually arrested by the midnight of Wednesday. I got the information as the arrested persons were brought to Thandwe prison in the morning,” said U Tin Thein Aung.

The arrested persons have been identified as U Thein Maung (alias Tun Naing), Ko Wing (alias Maung Pu), Pauk Sin (alias  Tun Myint), Ko Thein Shwe Maung, U Tun Kyaw and U Tun Win.

The Taungup based politician did not cite any concrete reason for the arrest but he assumed that they have been arrested by the authority for their suspected roles in sensational murdering of ten Muslims on 2 June 2012.

The incident of killing ten Muslim pilgrims in Taungup after they were dragged out from a bus by a furious  mob was an immediate after affect of the rape & murder episode of an Arakanese young woman by three Muslim goons that took place Rambre township of Taungup locality. The bus was on the way to mainland Burma from Thandwe and it happened while the bus was crossing the town.

Following the arrest of six residents, the security has been tightened in Taungup. Additional security forces have been deployed by the authority in many key places of the locality and the situation remains peaceful.

Sense of insecurity prevails in western Burma, Six government workers face dismiss

NARINJARA NEWS

News | July 19, 2013, 1:08 pm

Sitwe_ 19 July 2013

Six government workers have been fired from their jobs in western Burma following their refusals to join duties in rural worksite for the security reason.

The dismissed employees were working in the Agriculture Mechanization Department under Arakan Agriculture & Irrigation Ministry, said one of the drive-out workers.

U Aung Tun Thein, who was a senior tractor driver in the department with 28 years long service record informed that they were fired from their jobs on 23 June by an order of U Bo Bo Aung, director of Agriculture Mechanization Department based in the Arakan capital city Sittwe.

Besides U Aung Tun Thein, the other five dismissed tractor drivers are U Tun Win, U Tin U Latt, U Kyaw Myo Win, U Myo Min Tun and U Tun Aye Kyaw.

According to a source closed to the workers, all the six tractor drivers of the agricultural department were asked to harrow an area of 300 acres by their tractors in Pauktaw township. But the drivers refused to obey the order citing the reason that the plot was nearer to a Muslim refugee camp in Kyini Byint.

But initially the drivers went to the locality for ploughing the land and worked for one day. However they were later escorted by three soldiers apprehending unpleasant incidents there. Thus their mission in the first week of June came to an end because of the security reason.

Security officials: Still no information on North Korean hostages

PANGLONG NEWS 17.JULY 2013

Burmese officials on the hunt for North Korean hostages in Tachilek, opposite Thailand’s Chiang Mai, say they still have no news on their presence in Burmese soil.

“The last we heard of North Koreans on their way to Thailand was 4 years earlier,” a security officer who asked not to be named told SHAN. “They had mistaken the Burmese shore north of Tachilek for Thai territory and had embarked there. We told them to return to where they came from.”

golden-triangle

The Mekong, beginning from China and flowing past Burma and Thailand in the West and Laos and Cambodia in the West to Vietnam into the Pacific, has long been a means of travel and transportation for people in the region especially after its rapids were demolished by the Chinese a decade earlier.

Apart from the Burma Army, there are Burma Army-run People’s Militia Forces (PMFs) and Border Guard Force (BGF) 1008 and elements of the United Wa State Army (UWSA) active in the area.

Burmese officials interviewed by SHAN also maintained that there are no poppy fields in areas northeast of Tachilek. SHAN’s Shan Drug Watch researchers have reported existence of poppy fields northwest of Tachilek. “It’s been a few years since we have received any reports of poppy fields in the northeast,” said a researcher.

The Burmese officer interviewed by SHAN wondered whether the 64 North Koreans as reported by AFP on 13 July were actually in the neighboring territory, meaning Laos.

Burma, Laos and Thailand meet at what is now known as the Golden Triangle.

U WIRA THU: ” ဟန္နာဘိခ်္ (Hannah Beech) ခ်စ္သည့္ လူနည္းစု၏ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ လုပ္ရပ္မ်ား စျပီ “

” ဟန္နာဘိခ်္ (Hannah Beech) ခ်စ္သည့္ လူနည္းစု၏ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ လုပ္ရပ္မ်ား စျပီ ”
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မႏၱေလးၿမဳိ႔၊ မဟာေအာင္ေျမၿမဳိ႕နယ္၊ ၃၆လမ္း၊ ၈၄×၈၅ လမ္းၾကား၊ တရားပြဲကုိ ယေန႔ 21.7.2013 ရက္ေန႔ ည 8:35 နာရီတြင္ စတင္ေဟာၾကားသည္။
မစုိးရိမ္တုိက္သစ္၊ ဓမၼသဟာယေက်ာင္း နာယက အမ်ဳိးသားေရးဝါဒီဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဝီရသူက “ေဆြမ်ဳိးဆုိတာ မ်ားေလေကာင္းေလ” တရားေဟာၾကားေနစဥ္ ၉း၀၀ နာရီခန္႔တြင္ တရားမ႑ပ္ေနာက္ေက်ာမွ ရုတ္တရပ္ေပါက္ကြဲမႈၾကီး တစ္ရပ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ရာ ဦးဝီရသူက တရားဆက္မေဟာဘဲ ရပ္ထားလုိက္သည္။

Extremists attack Ven. Wirathu’s sermon

ဟုိဟုိဒီဒီလွည့္ပတ္ၾကည့္ေနစဥ္ တရားနာပရိသတ္မ်ားမွ ဆရာေတာ္ကုိ ပစ္တာ “ေအာက္ကုိဆင္းပါဘုရား ေအာက္ဆင္းပါဘုရား” ဟု ေအာ္ဟစ္ေလွ်ာက္ထားၾက၍ ပလႅေပၚမွဆင္း၍ စင္ေပၚတြင္ ခဏထုိင္ေနခဲ့သည္။
သံဃာေတာ္တာ္မ်ား အမ်ဳိးသားမ်ား စင္ေပၚတက္လာျပီး ဦးဝီရသူကုိ ၀န္းရံကာကြယ္ထားၾကသည္။
နိဗၺာန္ေဆာ္မွ ကားဘီးေပါက္သည္ဟု ေၾကညာသည္။ ဦးဝီရသူ တရားျပန္ေဟာသည္။
တရားနာပရိတ္သတ္မ်ား သုံးပုံတစ္ပုံသာ က်န္ေတာ့သည္။ ပလႅင္ေနာက္ေက်ာမွာ ရုတ္ရုတ္သဲသဲျဖစ္ေနဆဲ။
ေရစက္ခ် အမွ်ေ၀အျပီး တရားနာပရိသတ္မ်ားက ၀န္းရံကာ အနီးရွိ သစၥပါရမီ တုိက္အိမ္ထဲ ပင့္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ပရိသတ္ေရွ႕ဆုံးမွ နာယူေနေသာ မပန္းႏုေအာင္ အသက္ (၂၁) ႏွစ္ ညာဘက္ေျခေထာက္ထိမွန္သြား၍ ပတ္တီးစည္းထားသည္ကုိ ေတြ႕ရသည္။
ထိမွန္စဥ္ မနာက်င္၊ ေနာက္မွ ပူေလာင္နာက်င္လာ၍ ေဆးခန္းသြားျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေလွ်ာက္ထားသည္။
အဖြားၾကီးတစ္ေယာက္ ေပါင္ရင္း ဗုံးစထိမွန္သြားသည္။
ျမေတာင္တုိက္ ေခမာ၀န္းေက်ာင္း မွ ကုိရင္ပညာသာမိ ေပါင္ႏွင့္ ဒူးေခါင္ဒဏ္ရာရသြားသည္။
ျပည္ၾကီးတံခြန္ၿမဳိ႕နယ္၊ ဃသ(၁၃)ရပ္ကြက္၊ အိမ္အမွတ္ က(၃၀)ေန (အသံခ်ဲ႕စက္ ဆရာ) ဦးေက်ာ္၀င္း (၃၆)ႏွစ္ ခါးမွာ ဒဏ္ရာရသြားသည္။
ခဲယမ္းအစအနေလးမ်ား အသားထဲစူး၀င္ေန၍ ၀ုိင္း၀န္းဖယ္ရွားေပးရသည္။
တရားပလႅင္ေနာက္ေက်ာတြင္ ခ်ိတ္ဆြဲထားေသာ ဗီႏုိင္းစ အစအန ထိမွန္ေပါက္ၿပဲသြားသည္။ SE ကားျဖဴ ေနာက္ဘီး ႏွစ္ဘီးႏွင့္ ေရွ႕ဘီး ညာဘက္ဘီး ထိမွန္ေပါက္ကြဲသြားသည္။ ကားေအာက္ ဆီတုိင္ကီ ယုိစိမ့္ထြက္က်လာသည္။ ကားမွန္ေပါက္ၿပဲ၊ ကားေနာက္ခန္းေဘး အစအန ထိမွန္ေပါက္ၿပဲသြားသည္။
ေပါက္ကြဲရာေနရာလမ္းမေပၚတြင္ ခ်ုဳိင့္ငယ္တြင္းငယ္တစ္ခုလုိ ခ်ဳိင့္၀င္သြားသည္။
၅င/၈၆၆၅ ေနာက္ပုိင္း ကုိယ္ထည္ ယမ္းအစအနမ်ား စင္၍ ေပါက္ၿပဲသြားသည္။
ဦးဝီရသူ အျပန္အတြက္ ကားတစ္စင္း သီးသန္႔စီစဥ္ရင္း ဦးဝီရသူ၏ တပည့္ လူငယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ႏွင့္ တရားပြဲပင့္သူ လူငယ္အခ်ဳိ႕ စကားမ်ားၾက၍ ပရိသက္ ရုတ္ရုတ္သဲသဲ ထပ္ျဖစ္သည္။
လုံၿခဳံေရး အရ ကားကုိစစ္ေဆးရာမွ စကားမ်ားရင္း လက္ပါသြား၍ ဦးဝီရသူ၏ တပည့္ ေမာင္ဆံရွည္ လက္သီးႏွင့္အထုိးခံရသည္။
ကုိျပာေလာင္ ေျခႏွင့္ အကန္ခံရသည္။
ေနာက္ဆုံး ဦးဝီရသူ၏ ဒကာရင္းကားျဖင့္ လာၾကဳိ၍ ေက်ာင္းသုိ႔ ေခ်ာေမာစြာ ျပန္ေရာက္သည္။
၁၀း၃၀ နာရီ တရားပြဲျပီး၍ ၁၁း၀၀ နာရီမွ ေက်ာင္းေရာက္သည္။
ယခု ည ၁၁း၃၀ နာရီအထိ ေပါက္ကြဲေနရာတြင္ လုံၿခဳံေရးတင္းက်ပ္ထားျပီး ၾကဳိး၀ုိင္းထားကာ ေသခ်ာစစ္ေဆးေနျပီး၊ မပန္းႏုေအာင္ ေျခေထာက္ထဲ ယမ္းစႏႈတ္မရ၍ ေဆးရုုံၾကီး OPT သုိ႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနျပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ေနာက္ဆုံးသတင္းအရ ယၡဳည ၁၂း၀၅ နာရီတြင္ ေအာင္ေျမသာဇံမွ ေဒၚေအးခင္၊ အမည္မသိ အေမၾကီးတစ္ဦး၊ ကုိရင္ပညာသာမိ၊ ဦးေက်ာ္၀င္း (အသံခ်ဲ႕စက္ဆရာ)၊ မပန္းႏုေအာင္ တုိ႔ ေဆးရုံတက္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ သိရသည္။

National race protection law :More than two million signatures have reportedly been received from the public

At present, petitions for the proposed national race protection law are being collected across the country. More than two million signatures have reportedly been received from the public so that the draft law can be forwarded to Parliament. 

Myanmar’s Lower House speaker said a national race protection law would be considered only if the issue was raised by members of Parliament and union level organizations.
Speaker Thura Shwe Mann was replying to the question of a reporter during a meeting with members of Myanmar Journalists Network in Parliament Building in Nay Pyi Taw on Thursday. Also together with Shwe Mann at the meeting were MP’s Aung San Suu Kyi and Thein Swe.  “Parliament is responsible for legislative affairs. To make a law, the union government has to draft a bill first. Likewise, MP’s can submit a bill. Then, MP’s also have to discuss that bill. This is why we will consider (any proposed law) according to the parliamentary procedures if it is submitted by those concerned,” said Speaker Shwe Mann.
At present, petitions for the proposed national race protection law are being collected across the country. More than two million signatures have reportedly been received from the public so that the draft law can be forwarded to Parliament.

CREDIT EMG 22 JULY 2013