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Thursday, 10 March 2011
ရခိုင္ လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ နအဖတပ္ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္
ALA တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား (ဓာတ္ပံု - ခြန္းတိုင္းသက္သိ)
တိုက္ပြဲသည္ အိႏိၵယ-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ျဖစ္ေသာ ရခိုင္ႏွင့္ခ်င္းျပည္နယ္စပ္ရွိ ပလက္၀ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၏ တရန္အိုင္ေက်းရြာအနီး၌
“တိုက္ပြဲက မေန႔က တရက္တည္းမွာ သုံးႀကိမ္ရွိေနၿပီ၊ ဒီေန႔လည္း ဆက္တိုက္ေနဆဲပါ၊ နအဖ ဘက္က က်ဆုံးတာကို အတိ အက် ေျပာႏိုင္တာက အနီးကပ္ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေနတဲ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ လူေတြဆီက သတင္းရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္”ဟုလည္း ၎က ေျပာ ဆိုသည္။
နအဖဘက္မွ တပ္သား ဦးေရ ေထာင္ခ်ီ၍ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္ေနၿပီး ALA ဘက္မွ ေျပာက္က်ား စနစ္ျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္ခုခံေနရရာ ယခု အခ်ိန္အထိ ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာရသူ မရွိေသးဟု ဗိုလ္ႀကီးစိုးႏိုင္က ဆက္လက္ ေျပာသည္။
တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားရာ ေနရာသို႔ ပလက္၀ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းမွ ျမရိတ္၀ေက်းရြာ၊ စတင္၀၊ ပကာ၀၊ ပုန္ညင္း၀၊ အုန္းသီ၀၊ ေပါက္တူ၀၊ ေဖြလိပ္၀ စသည့္ ေက်းရြာမ်ားမွ ေဒသခံမ်ားကို ေပၚတာ အျဖစ္ အဓမၼ ေခၚယူပို႔ေဆာင္ေနသည့္အျပင္ နအဖ တပ္မ်ားအတြက္ ၄ ရက္စာ ရိကၡာမ်ားကိုပါ သယ္ေပးရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ယခုတိုက္ပြဲသည္ ALA ႏွင့္ နအဖ တပ္တို႔အၾကား ယခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ဒုတိယ အႀကိမ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၃ ရက္ေန႔က ပထမအႀကိမ္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့သည္။
ပထမအႀကိမ္ တိုက္ပြဲ တိုက္ခိုက္ရျခင္းမွာ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၄ ရက္ေန႔တြင္က်ေရာက္မည့္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔သည္ စစ္အစိုးရအတြက္ သာျဖစ္ၿပီး တျခားေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား၊ ျပည္သူမ်ားအတြက္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးမရေသး၍ တိုက္ခိုက္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ALA ၏ ဗဟိုအဖြဲ႔၀င္ ကိုခိုင္သုခ က ေျပာသည္။
ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအျပင္ တျခားေသာတိုင္းရင္းသား အားလုံးႏွင့္ပူးေပါင္း၍ စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ က်ဆုံးေရး၊ ကိုယ္ပိုင္လြတ္ လပ္ခြင့္ ႏွင့္ တန္းတူ အခြင့္အေရးရရွိေရး တို႔ကို ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟုလည္း ၎က ဆိုသည္။
ALA ႏွင့္ နအဖ တပ္တို႔သည္ ပလက္၀ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း၌ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား မၾကာခဏ ျဖစ္ပြားေလ့ရွိသည္။
နအဖ တပ္မ်ားကို ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ နယ္စပ္ တေလွ်ာက္၌ ျဖန္႔ခ်ထားေၾကာင္း၊ နယ္စပ္တြင္လွႈပ္ရွားေနၾကေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို အၿပီးျပတ္ေခ်မွႈန္းရန္ျပင္ဆင္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဗိုလ္ႀကီး စိုးႏိုင္က ေျပာသည္။
ALA သည္ အိႏၵိယ-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္တေလွ်ာက္၌ အေျချပဳကာ စစ္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္ တခုတည္းေသာ ရခုိင္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔ ျဖစ္သည္။
ALA ကို ၁၉၇၃ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္၌ တည္ေထာင္ခဲ့ၿပီး အိႏိၵယႏိုင္ငံ၌ အေျခစိုက္ကာ ျမန္မာ-ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ နယ္စပ္ႏွင့္ အိႏၵယ နယ္စပ္တို႔တြင္ စစ္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ကရင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္လည္း ၂၀၁၀ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ ႏွင့္ ၈ ရက္ေန႔မ်ားမွစ၍ ျမ၀တီႏွင့္ ေကာ့ကရိတ္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားအတြင္း တိုးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသား တပ္မေတာ္(DKBA)ႏွင့္ စစ္အစိုးရ တပ္မ်ားသည္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ားျဖစ္ပြားလ်က္ရွိသည္။
ထို႔အတူ တိုင္းရင္းသား ေဒသမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ ႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္မ်ား၌လည္း နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရ တပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕မ်ားအၾကား စစ္ေရး တင္းမာမႈမ်ား ရွိေနသည္။
စစ္အစိုးရ က တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို အၿပီးသတ္ေခ်မႈန္းေရးအတြက္ စားနပ္ရိကၡာအရင္းအျမစ္ကို ျဖတ္ ေတာက္ျခင္း၊ ဘ႑ာေငြအရင္းအျမစ္ မ်ားကို ျဖတ္ေတာက္ျခင္း၊ သတင္းအရင္းျမစ္ကုိ ျဖတ္ေတာက္ျခင္းႏွင့္ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္သစ္ မစုေဆာင္းႏိုင္ရန္ ျဖတ္ေတာက္ျခင္း ဆိုသည့္ ျဖတ္ေလးျဖတ္အစီအစဥ္ျဖင့္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ စစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္မ်ားသို႔ ညႊန္ၾကားထားသည္ဟု စစ္ဘက္ဆိုင္ရာ သတင္းမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
ကြယ္လြန္သူ ပဒိုမန္းရွာအား အမ်ဳိးသားတန္းတူေရးဆု ေပးအပ္ခ်ီးျမွင့္လုိက္ၿပီ
Monday, 7 March 2011
မတ္လ ၇ရက္။ ေစာခါးစူးညား (ေကအိုင္စီ)
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ကြယ္လြန္သူ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ံုး(KNU)၏ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴးေဟာင္း ပဒိုမန္းရွာလားဖန္းအား အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အင္ဒီယားနားျပည္နယ္၊ ဖို႔ဝိန္းၿမိဳ႕ IPFW အင္ဒီယားနား ပါဒူးတကၠသိုလ္က ခ်ီးျမွင့္မည့္ အမ်ိဳးသားတန္းတူေရးႏွင့္ သာတူညီမွ်ေရးဆု(National Equality Award)ကို မတ္လ ၅ရက္ေန႔က ေပးအပ္ခ်ီးျမွင့္လုိက္ၿပီဟု သိရသည္။
ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလဆန္းပိုင္းက အဆိုပါဆုကို ပဒိုမန္းရွာအား ေပးရန္ ဖို႔၀ိန္းၿမိဳ႕ အမ်ုိးသားေသြးစည္းညီညႊတ္ေရးပါတီက ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ၿပီးယခုမတ္လ ၅ရက္ေန႔တြင္ က်င္းပသည့္ ဖုိ႔ဝန္း (IPFW) ညီလာခံတြင္ ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ရာ ထုိဆုကို ပဒုိမန္းရွာ၏ အငယ္ဆံုး သားျဖစ္သူ စလံု႔ဖန္းက တက္ေရာက္ လက္ခံယူေပးခဲ့သည္။အေဖအတြက္ ေပးအပ္သည့္ အဆုိပါဆုႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ စလုံ႔ဖန္းက “က်ေနာ့္အေဖ မရွိေတာ့ေပမဲ့ ကရင့္အမ်ဳိးသားေရးအျပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာရွိတဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသားအားလံုး စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ ေအာက္မွ လြတ္ေျမာက္ဖို႔အတြက္ သူလုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အရာေတြေၾကာင့္ သူ႔ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳတဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ဒီဆုေပးတာပါ။ က်ေနာ့္ ဖခင္ရဲ႕ကိုယ္စား ဒီဆုကို တက္ယူရတာ က်ေနာ္လည္း ၀မ္းသာမိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ သူ႔ကို ခ်စ္တဲ့သူေတြေတာ့ မၿပီးေသးတဲ့ သူ႔ရဲ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ေတြ ဆက္လုပ္ၾကမယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္ ယံုၾကည္တယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။
၂၀၀၃ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီပဲယင္း လုပ္ၾကံမႈၿပီးေနာက္ ဖို႔ဝိန္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ IPFW အင္ဒီယားနား ပါဒူးတကၠသိုလ္က ကမကထျပဳ၍ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုမ်ား ညီလာခံတရပ္ က်င္းပခဲ့ၿပီး ထိုညီလာခံ၌ ပဒိုမန္းရွာလည္း တက္ေရာက္ကာ အမ်ိဳးသားတန္း တူေရးနဲ႔ သာတူညီမွ်ေရးဆိုင္ရာမူဝါဒေတြကို ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည့္အေပၚ ယခုက်င္းပသည့္ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ဖို႔ဝိန္း ညီလာခံ တြင္ သူ႔အား ဆုခ်ီးျမွင့္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစု (၁၀၀)၀န္းက်င္ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ အဆိုပါ ညီလာခံတြင္ ပဒိုမန္းရွာအား ဂုဏ္ျပဳ သည့္ အမ်ိဳးသားတန္းတူေရးႏွင့္ သာတူညီမွ်ေရးဆုသည္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳစာလႊာႏွင့္ ေက်ာက္သားျပင္ အမွတ္အသားတခု ပါရွိသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ပဒိုမန္းရွာအား ယခုေပးအပ္သည့္ အမ်ိဳးသားတန္းတူေရးႏွင့္ သာတူညီမွ်ေရးဆုသည္ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ဖို႔၀ိန္းညီလာခံ တက္ေရာက္လာသူ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား သေဘာတူပါက ႏွစ္စဥ္ေပးအပ္သြားဖြယ္ရွိသည္။
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Burma protest at six European Embassies
On 10th March, Wai Hnin, daughter of Ko Mya Aye, will be leading a protest visiting the embassies of six European countries which have failed to publicly support a UN inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma. The countries are Sweden, Latvia, Norway, Luxembourg, Germany and Denmark. Wai Hnin will be handing in a letter to each embassy, asking why they are not taking action to support her father and other poli...tical prisoners in Burma.
10th March is Ko Mya Aye’s 44th birthday. A leader of the 88 Generation Students, he has been in jail since 2007 for his role in the uprising that year. The UN has ruled that his detention is arbitrary and illegal. Arbitrary detention is in violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute. It is a crime against humanity. There are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma.
It is now almost a year since the UN Special Rapporteur on Burma stated that the UN should consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the dictatorship. In October 2010 he went further, stating; “Failing to act on accountability in Myanmar will embolden the perpetrators of international crimes and further postpone long-overdue justice.”
Ko Mya Aye is currently serving a 65 year jail term. He is being denied medical treatment for a life-threatening heart condition. In January 2011 the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that his detention is arbitrary and breaks international law. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma has also raised concerns about the detention and treatment of Ko Mya Aye. The dictatorship claims that there are no political prisoners in Burma, and has ignored repeated calls from the UN to release all political prisoners.
So far ten European countries are publicly supporting a UN Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
10th March is Ko Mya Aye’s 44th birthday. A leader of the 88 Generation Students, he has been in jail since 2007 for his role in the uprising that year. The UN has ruled that his detention is arbitrary and illegal. Arbitrary detention is in violation of Article 7 of the Rome Statute. It is a crime against humanity. There are more than 2,100 political prisoners in Burma.
It is now almost a year since the UN Special Rapporteur on Burma stated that the UN should consider establishing a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the dictatorship. In October 2010 he went further, stating; “Failing to act on accountability in Myanmar will embolden the perpetrators of international crimes and further postpone long-overdue justice.”
Ko Mya Aye is currently serving a 65 year jail term. He is being denied medical treatment for a life-threatening heart condition. In January 2011 the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ruled that his detention is arbitrary and breaks international law. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Burma has also raised concerns about the detention and treatment of Ko Mya Aye. The dictatorship claims that there are no political prisoners in Burma, and has ignored repeated calls from the UN to release all political prisoners.
So far ten European countries are publicly supporting a UN Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Burma.
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
UN’s Libya action must be reproduced
By NANT BWA BWA PHAN
Published: 1 March 2011
Troops from the KNU's armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), march during Karen Revolution Day (Reuters)
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan is the UK representative of the Karen National Union.
Published: 1 March 2011
Troops from the KNU's armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), march during Karen Revolution Day (Reuters)
A petition sent yesterday to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that carried 84,000 signatures was a desperate appeal from Karen civilians who have lived in fear of the Burmese army for their whole lives, as have their parents and grandparents before them.
People from Burma have watched in disbelief at how swiftly Ban Ki-moon and the UN Security Council have acted in response to Colonel Gaddafi’s attacks on Libyan civilians. It took just two weeks for a unanimous Security Council resolution to be passed, demanding an end to the attacks, imposing sanctions, and referring Libya to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Attacks against Karen and other ethnic civilians have been going on for more than sixty years, with no action taken by the international community.
Since Burma got independence from Britain in 1948, our Karen people have been targeted for planned, widespread and systematic attacks by the ruling governments in Burma. These have forced hundreds of thousands of us into hiding, refugee camps and to other countries.
The Karen National Union (KNU), the largest political organisation representing the Karen people of Burma, organised this petition at the request of the Karen civilians. We are asking UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take effective action to immediately stop the Burmese regime’s military operations and human rights violations in Karen areas. This petition is supported by KNU branches and Karen communities around the world. The petition was signed by 83,950 Karen civilians from Burma, aged from 16 to 103 years, who are victims and survivors of military attacks and human rights abuses by the Burmese army.
The dictatorship in Burma continues to target civilians in their military operations in our homeland. These attacks are in breach of the Geneva Conventions, and require immediate international action. Our Karen community in the UK fully supports the KNU, not only for defending the Karen people and finding ways to listen to them, but also for leading the Karen struggle for our rights, protection and security to establish a federal democratic Burma where everyone can live side by side in peace. The crisis in our country requires high level international attention in order to influence the dictatorship.
The elections held on 7 November 2010 did not represent any kind of progress towards democratisation, national reconciliation, or peace and stability in Burma. The election was designed only to legitimise the continuation of the military rule, under civilian guise. The constitution that this election brought in gives no protection to the ethnic people. As our General Secretary, Zipporah Sein has said, it is a death sentence for ethnic diversity in Burma.
In order to solve the political problems in Burma, the KNU has always called for dialogue with the ruling regime. This is in line with calls from the international community, including the United Nations, European Union and the US, to solve the problems through dialogue. However, the dictatorship ignores this call and continues its military offensives against the Karen people.
Ban Ki-moon has never made the strong statements on Burma that he has with Libya. This is why Karen communities worldwide also delivered copies of the petition to presidents and prime ministers across the world, calling on them to also take action. We asked them to use their influence to support Ban Ki-moon to secure a nationwide ceasefire as a top priority, leading to meaningful and inclusive dialogue to achieve genuine national reconciliation and a federal Burma. We also called on them to pressure the regime to enter into dialogue with the KNU and other ethnic political parties, together with the rest of the democracy movement in Burma.
The international response to what has happened in Libya has been swift and strong. It has been the opposite with Burma. Are the lives of Karen people and others from Burma less valuable than the lives of people in Libya? Of course the answer is no. In which case, Ban Ki-moon must listen to the 84,000 people who appealed for his help yesterday. We are suffering just as much as the people of Libya. He must put the issue of a nationwide ceasefire at the top of his agenda for Burma. If he continues to fail to act, the cost will be counted in more lost lives, more rape, more torture, and more burnt villages.
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan is the UK representative of the Karen National Union.
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