“ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ ၈၈-မ်ဳိးဆက္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ သမၼတ၏ လယ္ေတာအိမ္၌ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ”

“ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ ၈၈-မ်ဳိးဆက္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္
ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ
သမၼတ၏ လယ္ေတာအိမ္၌ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ”

ယေန႔၂၀၁၃ခုႏွစ္၊ စက္တင္ဘာလ၊ ၁၄ရက္၊ နံနက္ ၁၀း၀၀
နာရီတြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတႀကီး၏ လယ္ေတာ
အိမ္သို႔ ၈၈မ်ဳိးဆက္(ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း)မွ
ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားျဖစ္ၾကေသာ မင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ကိုကိုႀကီး၊မင္းေဇယ်၊
ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္၊ကိုဂ်င္မီ၊ကိုမာကီ၊ကိုေအာင္သူ၊ကိုသက္ေဇာ္၊ကိုေဇာ္မင္း
ႏွင့္မနီလာသိန္းတို႔ေရာက္ရွိလာခဲ့ၾကျပီး၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတႀကီး
ဦးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ျပည္ေထာင္စုဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည့္ ဦးစိုးသိမ္း၊
ဦးေအာင္မင္း၊ဦးတင္ႏိုင္သိန္းဦးအုန္းျမင့္ႏွင့္ဦးခင္ရီတို႔က လႈိက္လွဲ
ပ်ဴငွာစြာ ႀကိဳဆိုႏႈတ္ဆက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲစတင္သည္ႏွင့္ ၈၈မ်ဳိးဆက္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္း
လူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွ ကုိမင္းကိုႏိုင္က“ လက္ရွိရင္ဆိုင္ၾကံဳေတြ႔ေနရေသာ
အခက္အခဲမ်ားႏွင့္ မိမိတို႔၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအျမင္မ်ားကို ” စတင္ ေျပာဆုိ
ေဆြးေႏြးျပီး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သမၼတႀကီးကလည္း “ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔အေနျဖင့္
အေကာင္ထည္ေဖာ္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ခဲ့ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊စီးပြားေရး၊လူမႈေရး
ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာဆက္ဆံေရးကိစၥမ်ားကို” ရင္းႏွီးပြင့္လင္းစြာ ေျပာဆို
ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့သည္။

ထိုသို႔ အျပန္အလွန္ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးၾကရာတြင္ – “ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္
သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္စဥ္မ်ားတြင္
လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ျပင္ပရွိ တိုင္းရင္းသားအင္အားစုမ်ား၊
ႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုမ်ား၊ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား အားလံုးပါဝင္
ႏိုင္ေရး၊ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား အားေကာင္းေရး၊ အစိုးရအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး
အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအဆင့္ဆင့္ႏွင့္ အရပ္ဘက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား အျပန္အလွန္
ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ေရး၊ ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡမ်ားႏွင့္ လယ္ယာေျမျပႆနာ
အစရွိသည္မ်ားကို ပူးေပါင္းေျဖရွင္းသြားေရး၊ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးကာလ
စိန္ေခၚမႈမ်ားကို အေျမာ္အျမင္ရွိရွိ၊ သေဘာထားႀကီးႀကီးျဖင့္ ရင္ဆိုင္
ေျဖရွင္းေရး။ ျပည္သူလူထုတစ္ရပ္လံုး၏ လူမႈစီးပြားေရးဘဝ ျမင့္မား
လာေစဖို႔ ဝိုင္းဝန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းေရးစသည္တို႔ကို ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေန႔လည္ ၃း၀၀ နာရီတြင္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈ ၿပီးဆံုးခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု
ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားက ေန႔လည္စာျဖင့္ တည္ခင္းဧည့္ခံခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ၈၈မ်ဳိးဆက္
ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူတုိ႔သည္ ညေန
၄း၀၀နာရီတြင္္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွ ျပန္လည္ထြက္ခြာလာခဲ့ၾကသည္။

– ၈၈မ်ဳိးဆက္( ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႕အစည္း )
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President Thein Sein receives ’88’ student leaders in his farm house

     

 

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Myanmar’s President Thein Sein met 88 Generation Peace and Open Society Group on Saturday in his farm house in Nay Pyi Taw.

One member of the 88 Group, formed with former student leaders of the 1988 Pro-democracy Movement, said the meeting focused on the ongoing issues in Myanmar.

“The president and his ministers explained the ongoing issues related to workers, farmers and religious and racial affairs. Our side discussed what we had known about those issues. We also discussed the facts we had known about the country’s peace process,” said Min Zeya from the group, who attended the meeting.

“The president said he would direct the government and regional authorities to have more contacts and cooperation with the 88 Group in its activities,” he added.

The meeting that lasted from 10a.m to 1p.m was reportedly arranged by the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC).

During the meeting, the president was accompanied by Presidential Office ministers, the immigration and population minister and the livestock, fishery and rural development minister.

The 88 Group comprised 10 representatives, including Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi.

The president’s farm house, the venue of the meeting, became more famous after a meeting between Thein Sein and members of the interim Press Council earlier this month. The president donated 50 million kyats (about US$50000) to the council, attracting public criticism against the acceptance of the donation.

One prisoner killed, seven others injured in a riot

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One prisoner was killed and seven others injured on September 13 in a prison riot in southern Myanmar that was sparked by the use of torture, according to officials.

The incident started at around 8pm on that day at 9 Mile Prison located in Kawthaung Township, Tanintharyi Region.

Prison officials tried to disperse a crowd of prisoners by cutting off the power lines in the prison. Gunfire broke out soon afterward, resulting in casualty and the injuries.

“The riot started after a fight between two prisoners namely Ye Ko Hlaing and Htun Htun there. [Prisoners] tore down roofs and doors of room (3) and (4) of Ward (1), trying get out and started burning down the bedrooms. [The officials] cut off the power lines for the rooms. The situation became out of control and eight prisoners got injured when the prison officials fired on the crowd. When the officials sent the injured to Kawthaung Township Hospital, one prisoner identified as Htay Nge was dead at the hospital. The situation is now under control,” said a police officer who took part in the action.

Three of the injured are so seriously injured that the officials are preparing to send them to Myeik District Hospital, the police said.

“The problem started after the two prisoners got into a fight which was calmed down by the prison officials. And later the prison warden Saw Hla Chit called them back and asked a group of prison staff to kick and punch them. When other prisoners heard loud crying of them being beaten up, they started shouting “The governor, do not torture prisoners,” and “The governor, do not beat up prisoners,”. When the officials tried to calm down the noisy shouting by turning off the power and gunfire which killed one prisoner on the spot and seven got injured,” said Than Tun from Democratic Party (Myanmar) who met with the injured.

Three from the party and two from 88th generation Peace and Open society were allowed to meet the injured, and relatives of the injured were not allowed to meet the media.

“The shooting started at past 8pm, leaving one killed and seven others injured. It’s said roofs of prison rooms were torn down, but the damaged areas still has yet to be inspected,” said an official from Kawthaung District Administration Department.

The dead is said to be jailed for illegal logging, but not convicted of that crime yet.

88th generation Peace and Open society and Democratic Party (Myanmar) are in cooperation with officials to meet the injured and their relatives.