BGF မွ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးလားပိုင္ကားကိုပစ္ခတ္

imယေန႔မနက္ (၄) ခန္႔တြင္ အမွတ္ (၁၀၁၂) အစိုးရနယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္(BGF)က ျမိဳင္ႀကီးငူအနီးရွိ ရင္းပိုင္တံတားထိပ္၌ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးလားပိုင္ ကားတစီးကို ပစ္ခတ္ရာ တဦးေသဆံုးျပီး တဦးေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနသည္ဟု ဒီေကဘီေအ ေျပာခြင့္ရသူ ဗိုလ္မွဴး လု႔ံလံုကဆိုပါသည္။

“ ဒီလိုပါဗ်။ ေသဆံုးသူက BGF  (၁၀၁၁) က ဗိုလ္တင္ညြန္႔ျဖစ္တယ္။ သူကကားၾကဳံ စီးလာတာျဖစ္တယ္။ သူတ ပည့္တေယာက္ ေပ်ာက္ေနတယ္။ ကားကေတာ့ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးလားပိုင္ ကားပါဗ်။ ေမာင္းသူက အရပ္သား ဗိုလ္တင္ညြန္႔ရဲ့ ညီေလး ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ စဥ္းစားေနရတာက ဒီကားဟာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးလား တပ္ မွဴးတဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ကန္ညီေနာင္ ဗိုလ္မွဴးေမာင္ေလးရဲ့ ကားဆိုေတာ့ သူကို႔ရည္ရြယ္ျပီး ပစ္လိုက္တာလား စဥ္းစားစရာျဖစ္ေန တယ္။” လို႔ ဆိုပါသည္။

ယခုပစ္ခတ္မွဳတြင္  BGF (၁၀၁၂) မွ ဒုရင္းမွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴး ေသာဘိုး၏ လက္ခ်က္ျဖစ္ဖြယ္ရွိသည္ဟု ဒီေကဘီေအဖက္က ယူဆ ေနပါသည္။ ဤကဲ့သို႔ ျဖစ္ပြားလာမည္ကို စိုးရိမ္သည့္အတြက္  ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ (၂၅၊၂၆) ရက္ေန႔၌ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ဖါးအံၿမိဳ႔ အမွတ္ (၂၂) ေျချမန္တပ္မ ဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖၚေဆင္ေရး အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္ ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူး ေဘာတပ္ဖြဲ႔မွ ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေစာမိုေရွးႏွင့္ ေစာသန္းေရႊ (ေခၚ) ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ဘိုဘိ တို႔က ျမိဳင္ႀကီးငူေဒသတြင္လက္ နက္ကိုင္ ပ႗ိပကၡမျဖစ္ေစေရး၊ လံုၿခံဳေရးကိစၥ ညွိႏွဳိင္းျပီး ႏွစ္ဖက္ သေဘာတူ လက္မွတ္ေရး ထိုးခဲ့ပါသည္။

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ဒီေကဘီေအႏွင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖၚေဆာင္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြး (ဓါတ္ပံု DKBA)

ယင္းသေဘာတူညီခ်က္နံပါတ္ (၇)တြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ထားေသာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ထာ၀ရခိုင္ၿမဲေစရန္အလို႔ငွာ ျပသနာတ စံုတရာ ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့ေသာ္ လက္နက္ျဖင့္ မေျဖရွင္းဘဲ နယ္ေျမေဒသရွိ စစ္ဖက္နယ္ဖက္ အႀကီးအကဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ညွိႏွဳိင္းျပီး ေျဖ ရွင္းသြားရန္ သေဘာတူသည္ဟု ပါရွိခဲ့ပါသည္။

လက္ရွိျပသနာ၌လည္း ဒီေကဘီေအ ကလို႔ထူးလား တပ္မွဴးဗိုလ္မွဴး ကန္ညီေနာင္ ေမာင္ေလးကို တမင္ပစ္ခတ္ျခင္း ဟုတ္ မဟုတ္၊ ဒီေကဘီေအဖက္က စံုစမ္းေနပါသည္။ ဤကဲ့သို ႔ျပသနာမ်ဳိး ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ လဆန္းကလည္း ျမ၀တီျမိဳ႔နယ္ ေရႊကုကၠိဳရြာ၌ အေျခခ်ေနေသာ BGF ၁၀၁၉ တပ္ရင္းမွတပ္စုမႉး ဗိုလ္တင္ညႊန္႔ႏွင့္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ ၈ ဦးတို႔သည္ DKBA ကလို႔ထူး လား စစ္ကြပ္ကဲေရးဌာန အဖြဲ႔မ်ားႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းလို၍ လာေရာက္ ဆက္သြယ္ကာ DKBA က လက္မခံခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း လံုၿခံဳ ေရးအရ ျပန္မလွည့္ လိုေတာ့သျဖင့္ ေျဖရွင္းေနခ်ိန္တြင္ ဒီေကဘီေအအေပၚ BGF က သံသယျဖစ္ခဲ့ဘူးပါသည္။

ဤသို႔ေၾကာင့္ အစိုးရ BGF တပ္ဖြဲ႔တို႔သည္၊ ျပီးခဲ့သည့္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ (၁၉) ရက္ေန႔က ျမိဳင္ႀကီးငူရွိ DKBA တပ္ဖြဲ႔ထံမွ လက္ နက္ (၃၂) လက္နဲ႔ အီကြစ္မင္း (၁၅) စံုကို သိမ္းယူခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ (၂၄) ရက္၌ ျပန္လည္ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ရ ပါသည္။  ဤကဲ့သို႔ေသာ နွစ္ဖက္ ဆက္ဆံေရး အေျခအေနေၾကာင့္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ (၂၆) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျမိဳင္ႀကီးငူေဒသ လက္ နက္ကိုင္ ပ႗ိပကၡမျဖစ္ေစေရး၊ကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖၚေဆာင္ေရးအဖြဲ႔က လက္မွတ္ထိုးေစခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

Myo Yan Naung Thein: ‘Our students are determined. So, we are not downhearted. Difficulties cannot stop us’,

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Bayda Institute in Tamwe Township in Rangoon Division, an education group associated with the social networking program supported by Aung San San Kyi, is moving to Sanchaung Township, according to principal Myo Yan Naung Thein.

Earlier, the school was asked by its landlord to move, after the landlord was presured by the authorities.

The principal of the school said such difficulties would not make them discouraged.

‘We opened the school with a good spirit’, said Myo Yan Naung Thein. ‘Our students are determined. So, we are not downhearted. Difficulties cannot stop us’, he told Mizzima.

On February 8, the authorities threatened the landlord by saying that her room would be sealed if the Bayda Institute, which it claimed was carrying out political work, did not relocate.

After her release from house arrest, Suu Kyi announced a National League for Democracy project to form social networking organisations across the country, called the Nation Youth Network, to be headed by 88-Generation leader Myo Yannaung Thein. Many people and groups expressed interest.

The Bayda Institute is one of 104 groups in the social network group, which was formed on January 6. The institute offers two-week training courses in Social Science, Global Conflicts, South East Asia Studies and Basic English and has offered the training courses since November 2010,

It has provided courses in in Yedashe, Pathein, Magway, Shwebo, Mandalay in Pegu, Myo Yan Naung Thein said.

He said the school is simply conducting education courses and it is not trying to disturb the authorities.

The opening ceremony of a training course will be held at No. 4/B, Sanchaung Seven Street in Sanchaung Township on Monday.

Karen villagers escape fresh clashes

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – At least 1,000 refugees over the weekend fled fresh clashes between junta troops and units from a breakaway brigade of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in the east of Burma’s Karen State, ethnic armed groups said.

The villagers escaped to the south of the Thai border town of Mae Sot, joining about 200 who had fled late on Saturday when clashes erupted between Burmese troops and the breakaway faction of the DKBA, one of the many such battles this month, Reuters also reported.

b-refuCivilians flee fighting between units of a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army breakaway brigade and the Burmese Army to Sangkhlaburi, on the Thai side of Three Pagodas Pass, on November 9, 2010. As many as 1,500 villagers at the weekend, (November 27 and 28) fled the Phalu village area, 12 miles (19km) south of Myawaddy, to south of the border town of Mae Sot, Thailand, when fresh clashes erupted between Burmese troops and another unit of the DKBA group, in one of the many such battles this month. Photo: Mizzima

Fighting broke out in two locations on November 8 as DKBA splinter battalions seized parts of Burmese border town Myawaddy, across the Moei River from Mae Sot, Thailand. At least 20,000 villagers crossed into Mae Sot and five Thais were wounded when rocket-propelled grenades landed on the Thai side. At the same time, other breakaway DKBA units took over Payathonsu, a town about 333 miles (535 kilometres) to the south of Myawaddy near Three Pagodas Pass, sending at least 2,500 refugees into Sangkhlaburi, Thailand.

In the most recent of clashes between the two sides, DKBA Battalion 901 led by Bo A-One fought a Burmese army column from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 406 near Three-hut village, between Kyeinchaung and Chaungsone villages, about 18 miles west of Payathonsu. Continue reading “Karen villagers escape fresh clashes”

Fighting Breaks Out Again Near Myawaddy

The Burmese border town of Myawaddy was on high alert again on Friday after fighting broke out a few miles away between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) and troops of the newly formed Border Guard Force (BGF) combined with units of the government army.

Schools closed early and shops shut after the fighting broke out early in the afternoon near Thinganyinaung, in Kawkareik Township, sources said.

The KNLA is the military wing of the Karen National Union, a rebel group that has been locked in conflict with the government for six decades.

The BGF, led by Col Chit Thu, currently controls Myawaddy after a bloody battle for the town earlier this month.

After the BGF warned Myawaddy residents that the current fighting could continue, the town went on high alert. It saw heavy fighting on Nov. 8 between government troops and a breakaway faction of the DKBA’s Brigade 5, led by Brig-Gen Saw Lah Pwe.

Adding to the uncertainty in Myawaddy were rumors that Saw Lah Pwe and his 5th Brigade were planning an attempt to retake the town.

About 12 battalions of the BGF, led by Col Chit Thu, are stationed in Myawaddy town, along with a government force.

More than 20,000 residents of Myawaddy and outlying areas fled to Thailand to escape the Nov. 8 fighting. Most returned when the fighting died down.

Brigade 5, led by Saw Lah Pwe, is the only DKBA brigade that rejected the junta’s BGF plan. Tension between government troops and the faction has been mounting since then.

Sources on the Thai-Burmese border said Brigade 5 recently held a meeting in a secret location on the border with leaders of KNLA Brigades 6 and 7 and reached an agreement to provide military assistance to each other.

The meeting took place amid reports that the BGF and government troops were preparing an offensive against the three brigades.

As fighting for control of Myawaddy on Nov. 8 broke out, hostilities erupted further south, at the Three Pagodas Pass. The Brigade 5 headquarters there were captured and Saw Lah Pwe’s home in Wah Lay was burnt down.


 

38 DKBA splinter troops rejoin armed wing of KNU

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – About three dozen soldiers with weapons from a Democratic Karen Buddhist Army splinter brigade yesterday rejoined the Karen National Union army, both sides said. Saying “we can’t stand the junta anymore”, the defectors’ act ends months of speculation over whether any “renegade” troops aligned with the junta would rejoin the Karen National Liberation Army.

thai-soldiersThai soldiers rest after guarding the border from the Thai side of Three Pagodas Pass on Saturday. Around 200 soldiers have been deployed near the Thai checkpoint after fighting broke out between ‘renegade’ DKBA troops and the Burmese Army in Myawaddy, near Mae Sot and near Three Pagodas Pass. Yesterday, 38 soldiers from DKBA battalion 909 yesterday morning formally joined the Karen National Union, bringing weapons including a 60-millimetre cannon with them, officers on both sides confirmed. Photo: Brennan O`Connor/Nomad Photos 

The 38 soldiers from DKBA battalion 909 yesterday morning joined the Karen National Union, officers on both sides confirmed.

The 38 troops with the Wawlay-based battalion 999 led by Lieutenant Saw Steel under Brigade 5 led by Colonel Saw La Pwe, aka Bo Moustache, formally joined KNLA battalion 101 at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Steel said.  Continue reading “38 DKBA splinter troops rejoin armed wing of KNU”