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ျမန္မာဘက္မွ တင္သြင္းခြင့္ပိတ္ထားသည့္ သြပ္ျပားမ်ား
ျပန္လည္တင္သြင္းခြင့္ျပဳ
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၈
နတ္သိၾကားမ်ား ေက်ာက္ဖ်ာတင္းေလၿပီ
Why Myanmar's generals shun aid---------- Larry Jagan, Myanmar analyst for Al Jazeera
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၈
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ 9
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
သခြတ္ပင္က မီးတက်ည္
နာဂစ္ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္းအေတြး
ေမာင္မန္း
က်ေနာ္တို႔ကေရာ ဘာမ်ားရႏိုင္အံုးမည္နည္း
ဂါမဏိ
Dictators' priority
By Christiane Oelrich, dpa
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၀
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈
ရုပ္ရွင္သရုပ္ေဆာင္မ်ား ဆန္ေ၀ငွမႈလုပ္
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၂
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၃
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
မေလွ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ မဲ႐ုံမ်ား
ၾကည္ေ၀
စရိတ္ခံမွ လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးရ
မိုးေအာင္တင္
ဒီခ်ဳပ္ပါတီ၀င္တဦး စစ္ေၾကာေရးတြင္
ရိုက္ႏွက္ခံရသျဖင့္ ေသဆံုး
ဖနိဒါ
ၾကာသပေတးေန႔၊ ေမလ 08 2008 10:39 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္
http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/interview/7/1035-2008-05-08-04-23-38
ဘယ္လုိအမႈနဲ႕ စြဲဆုိထားပါသလဲရွင္။
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/08May2008_news09.php
Lt-Gen Tumrongsak said if TMAC received 500 million baht a year for the
operation, it could likely meet the new deadline. Currently, it gets only
40 million baht a year.
The Gold Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom are generally considered to carry
the same level of prestige (though significantly fewer Gold Medals have been awarded).
The chief difference between the two is that the Freedom Medal is personally awarded by
the President of the United States, and Congressional Gold Medals are awarded in the name
of the Congress.
Per committee rules, legislation bestowing a Congressional Gold Medal upon a recipient
must be co-sponsored by two-thirds of the membership of both the House of
Representatives and the Senate before their respective committees will consider it.
History
Since the American Revolution, Congress has commissioned gold medals as its highest
expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. Each
medal honors a particular individual, institution, or event. Although the first recipients
included citizens who participated in the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the
Mexican-American War, Congress broadened the scope of the medal to include actors,
authors, entertainers, musicians, pioneers in aeronautics and space, explorers, lifesavers,
notables in science and medicine, athletes, humanitarians, public servants, and foreign
recipients.[1] The medal was first awarded in 1776 by the Second Continental Congress to
then-General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War.[2] The medal
has been awarded twice to only one person in history, Admiral Hyman Rickover.
The US Congress has agreed to award its highest honour, the Gold Medal, to detained
Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi, 62, remains under house arrest by the oppressive military regime that controls
Burma, casting doubt on her ability to accept the award. The gold medal received final,
unanimous approval last night.
"This is a well-deserved honour for a remarkable woman who has led the struggle for
freedom and democracy in her country," said Mitch McConnell, leader of Republican
senators and sponsor of the gold medal effort.
Given George Bush's condemnation of the Burmese leadership, Suu Kyi's award could
prove as politically provocative as the October gold medal given to the Dalai Lama.
Bush praised the Tibetan spiritual leader and attended his award ceremony, provoking an
angry response from the Chinese government.
Suu Kyi's Burmese political party, the National League for Democracy, prevailed in
parliamentary elections in 1990, two years after the military regime took over the country.
Instead of recognising her victory, however, the regime jailed her and cut off nearly all of
her ability to communicate with her supporters.
The congressional gold medal is awarded to outstanding scientists, artists, and other
notable US personalities. Past winners include Tony Blair, Mother Teresa, and Pope John
Paul II.
Suu Kyi received the presidential Medal of Freedom, the gold medal's counterpart
award, in 2000
Paul Risley, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program, said, "all the
food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated." He said
the World Food Program was suspending the few flights that the Myanmar
authorities had so far allowed to enter the country until the matter was resolved.
Myanmar said it had turned back one relief flight because, in addition to disaster
relief supplies, it carried disaster assessment experts and an unauthorized media
group.
"Myanmar is not in a position to receive rescue and information teams from foreign
countries at the moment," the statement, from the Foreign Ministry, said. “But at
present Myanmar is giving priority to receiving relief aid and distributing them to
the storm-hit regions with its own resources."
The first of two major international aid shipments arrived Thursday by aircraft
from the United Nations World Food Program, carrying high energy biscuits, water
containers, food and plastic sheets.
But two of four United Nations experts who flew in on Friday were turned back at
the airport for unknown reasons, said John Holmes, a relief coordinator for the
United Nations.
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Altogether, by one count, 11 chartered planes with relief supplies have landed in
Myanmar, a tiny amount for a disaster that the United Nations said has affected 1.5
million people.
By the government’s official count, 22,500 people have died, but Shari Villarosa, the
top American diplomat in Myanmar, said the number could reach 100,000 if help
was not prompt and the humanitarian situation worsened.
One United Nations official said he had never seen delays like this before in
delivering relief supplies and aid officials. In Indonesia after the tsunami in 2004,
he said, an air bridge of daily flights was established within 48 hours.
He said his agency alone had submitted 10 visa applications for relief workers but
that none had been approved before consulates shut down for the weekend.
"We strongly urge the government of Myanmar to process these visa applications as
quickly as possible, including working over the weekend," he said.
In Thailand, in addition to aid workers United States Air Force transport aircraft
and helicopters waited at an airport for permission to enter Myanmar with supplies.
"We are in a long line of nations who are ready, willing and able to help, but also, of
course, in a long line of nations the Burmese don’t trust," said United States
Ambassador Eric John.
He said that on Thursday Myanmar appeared to agree to accept American aid, but
then said it would not accept the aid. He said it was not clear whether there had
been a misunderstanding or a change of mind.
Also in Bangkok it appeared that Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej had changed
his mind about visiting Myanmar to discuss the relief operation, canceling the trip
because the leaders would not welcome aid workers.
"After they said today they would not welcome foreign staff, there is no point of me
going there," Mr. Samak said.
In New York, United Nations officials all but demanded Thursday that the
government open its doors.
Mr. Holmes’s predecessor in that job, Jan Egeland, said, "children are going to die
from diarrhea because of this government’s inaction."
The cyclone struck a country particularly ill-equipped to deal with a public health
catastrophe, said Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins who has
worked extensively in Myanmar.
Under the military government, the public health infrastructure has been crumbling
for decades, he said.
Malaria is already endemic, and many people with AIDS and tuberculosis are going
untreated, he said. "We don’t think the blood supply is safe or adequately screened,"
Dr. Beyrer said, adding that people injured in the storm and in need of transfusions
face the risk of infection and blood-borne diseases.
In Geneva on Friday, a United Nations spokeswoman said the United Nations was
putting together an urgent appeal for funding that would cover its relief efforts in
Myanmar over the next six months.
"If it were a different situation, we would be mobilizing some helicopters now," said
Anthony Banbury, the regional director of the World Food Program, a United
Nations agency. "We recognize that the government may not want international
helicopters flying in their country, for better or worse."
A growing list of countries has pledged aid and assistance, but there appeared to
be disagreement as to how to handle Myanmar's authoritarian government.
The United States said Tuesday it would send $3 million more to help victims,
adding to an initial emergency contribution of $250,000, The Associated Press
reported. The White House press secretary, Dana Perino, said the additional $3
million would be allocated by a USAID disaster response team currently in
neighboring Thailand.
The Bush administration insisted that permission for a U.S. disaster assessment
team to enter Myanmar would allow quicker and larger aid contributions.
Announcing the initial contribution of $250,000 in aid, Laura Bush, the first lady,
said in Washington she was concerned that Myanmar would not accept the aid.
She also called the military government "very inept."
Canada, China, the European Union and Japan all pledged aid without conditions.
The Australian foreign minister, Stephen Smith, said his government was "ready,
willing and able" to offer humanitarian aid. Saying the priority was "rendering
assistance to thousands of displaced people," he withheld judgment on the military
government's handling of relief efforts.
"I just don't think we're in a position to make that sort of judgment now, given the
difficulties of communication," Smith said in comments reported by The Associated
Press.
Banbury, of the World Food Program, said he feared that the assistance pledged
was "ad hoc and uncoordinated," adding, "It's great that others are sending some
kinds of relief supplies, but it will be a challenge to distribute them."
The cyclone felled trees and destroyed dwellings in Yangon, the former capital
once known as Rangoon, but the greatest damage was in the low-lying delta.
Former swampland that was converted during British colonial times into one of the
world's largest rice-growing areas, the delta is exceptionally fertile but difficult to
traverse.
"The infrastructure was degraded to begin with," said Sean Turnell, an expert on
Myanmar at Macquarie University in Sydney. Dikes had collapsed, irrigation
systems had failed and bridges were sometimes impassable before the cyclone,
Turnell said.
The delta was only sparsely inhabited until the 1900s, but by the early 20th century
it had been transformed into what became known as "the rice bowl of Asia." Rice
grown in the delta fed large swaths of the British empire, and colonial Burma was
for several decades the world's leading exporter of rice.
The clearing of mangrove swamps and the destruction of dense primary jungle
removed natural barriers and may have left populations more vulnerable.
Turnell estimated the total population of the delta at 15 million to 20 million people.
But given the crumbling infrastructure and the large number of isolated villages, he
said, the full extent of the damage may never emerge.
"We'll never know how many died," he said. "This a country that hasn't had a full
census since 1937."
Cyclone damage to Myanmar's rice harvest is not likely to have much effect on
international rice prices, according to Ben Savage, managing director for rice at the
rice brokerage Jackson Son, Keith Bradsher reported from Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Myanmar had already seen a steep decline in rice production, as rice paddies
became neglected, international sanctions prevented many buyers from handling
Burmese rice and a lack of investment in ports made trade expensive.
The country was expected to export about 100,000 tons of rice this year, a small
quantity compared with international trade of nearly 30 million tons and global
consumption of 410 million tons.
Damage from the cyclone could turn Myanmar into a net importer of rice this year.
But the imports are not likely to be large enough to have an effect on world
markets, Savage said.
Associated Press
သူငယ္ခ်င္း ေဟမန္သဇင္
Thit Poke Pin - Symbolic Historic Aged Tree of Rangoon University, Kamayut,
Rangoon
University Dhamma Hall seen after the fallen trees, Rangoon University, Kamayut,
Rangoon
The historic ground of University Student Union building after the storm
ေဟမန္ …
ရန္ကုန္ဟာ စစ္မ်က္ႏွာ …။ ။
သူငယ္ခ်င္း ေဟမန္သဇင္
ရန္ကုန္စစ္မ်က္ႏွာကေန ငါ စာေရးလိုက္တယ္။
ျပည္သူေတြ …
ျပည္သူေတြ …
နင့္သူငယ္ခ်င္း
သူ
ရန္ကုန္
ရ ေမ၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၈
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၈၊ ၂၀၀၈
သာသနေမာဠိအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားကို ဦးတည္သည့္
ျမန္မာျပည္ေလေဘးကယ္ဆယ္ေရး ရန္ပုံေငြ လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႕ အာဗာ့ဇ္
( http://azaaz.org ) က ေဆာင္ရြက္လ်က္ရွိရာ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ေကာက္ခံရရွိေငြ
အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၉ သိန္းေက်ာ္ ျပီဟု သိရသည္။
လိုေနၿပီ ၾကင္နာသူမ်ား
ေအးခ်မ္းေျမ့| ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/Articles2008/May/06.html
နာဂစ္ အလြန္
ၾကည္ေဝ၊ ရန္ကုန္| ဧၿပီ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
တာေမြ
တာေမြေစ်းထဲက ဆန္ဆိုင္ေတြရဲ႕ ေရွ႕နားမွာ ျပည္တြင္းျဖစ္ပိတ္စနဲ႔ ခ်ဳပ္ထားတဲ့ မိန္းမကိုင္
ေလးေထာင့္ပိုက္ဆံအိတ္ တအိတ္ကို လက္ထဲမွာ က်စ္က်စ္ပါေအာင္ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားတဲ့ အသက္
၃၀ ၀န္းက်င္အရြယ္ အက်ႌ အ၀ါႏုေရာင္၀တ္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးတဦး ညိႇဳးငယ္စြာ ရပ္ေနတယ္။
စီအန္ဂ်ီဓါတ္ေငြ႕အေရာင္းဆိုင္
သမိုင္း၊ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕
ဒီေန႔မနက္ ေစာေစာ ၄နာရီကတည္းက အိပ္ရာထလာၿပီး ဓာတ္ေငြ႕ရရွိေရးအတြက္ တန္းစီေနတဲ့
အငွားယဥ္ေမာင္း ဦးေတေဇာ တေယာက္ ေန႔လည္ ၁ နာရီ ထိုးတဲ့အထိ သူ႔ကား ဆီဆိုင္နား
မေရာက္ႏိုင္ေသးတဲ့အတြက္ စိတ္ပ်က္ေနရပါၿပီ။
နတ္သိၾကားမ်ား ေက်ာက္ဖ်ာတင္းေလၿပီ
ဧရာ၀တီမဂၢဇင္း အဖြဲ႔သားမ်ား| ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_09e_08.html
ယေန႔ထုတ္ စစ္အစိုးရသတင္းစာတြင္ေၾကညာထားသည့္
ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနကို ဧရာ၀တီက ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းရာ
တာဝန္ရွိသူ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ဦးသန္းဦးက “ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြ လုပ္ေနတယ္
ေမးတာေတြေျဖဖို႔အခ်ိန္မရွိဘူး။ သတင္းစာေတြကိုဖတ္ပါ ေန႔စဥ္နဲ႔အမွ် သတင္းေတြကို
ေဖာ္ျပေနပါတယ္”ဟု ေျဖကာ တယ္လီဖုန္းခ်သြားသည္။
ေနာက္မုန္တိုင္းတခု လာႏိုင္သည္ဟု
ကုလသမဂၢ သတိေပး
ဧရာဝတီ| ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
A leading Spanish honor has been awarded to Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung
San Suu Kyi and Dr Cynthia Maung, who runs a clinic for Burmese refugees and
migrant workers at the Thai-Burmese border. They will share the 2007 Catalonia
International Prize, consisting of the sum of 100,000 euros and a sculpture. The
prize is awarded annually by Spain’s regional government of Catalunya to persons
judged to have decisively contributed through their creative work to the
development of cultural, scientific or human values around the world. Catalunya’s
prime minister, José Montilla, will present the award at a ceremony in Barcelona in
November.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has spent almost 12 years of the past 18 years
in detention under house arrest in Burma. The honorary Canadian citizenship is a
testament to Canada’s long-standing respect and admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi’s
struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma. Suu Kyi will become the fourth
person, and the first woman, to be granted honorary citizenship—after Nelson
Mandela, the Dalai Lama and Raoul Wallenberg.
ႎိုင္ငံတကာ အကူအညီမဵား
ဒီလို ဴပည္သူ လူထုဟာ ေခၾးေသ ဝက္ေသ ေသေနတာ ကိုေတာင္ နအဖ စစ္ေခၾး ေတၾက ေမလ
ဆႎၬခံယူပၾဲ ကဵင္းပ ႎုိင္ေရးေလာက္ အေရး မ႒ကီး ပၝဘူးတဲ့၊
(ဓာတ္ပံု - komyo.burmachannel.com)။
(ဓာတ္ပံု - မိုးမခ)။
(ဓာတ္ပံု - komyo.burmachannel.com)။
အလားတူ ဴပင္သစ္ ႎုိင္ငံ ကလည္း အကူညီ ေပးဖုိႚ ကိစၤကို နအဖ ဘက္က ဒီလုိ
တုံႚဆုိင္းဆုိင္း လုပ္ေနမယ္ ဆုိရင္၊ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရး လုပ္မဲ့ သူေတၾကို ဗီၾဇာ ေလ႖ာက္ရမယ္လုိႚ
ေဴပာေနတာ ေတၾဟာ ဘယ္လိုမႀ လက္ခံ ႎုိင္စရာ မရႀိဘူး၊ အဲဒၝေတၾကို ေစာင့္ေနရင္ ေရေဘး
ဒုကၡသည္ေတၾ ထပ္႓ပီး ေသကုန္ လိမ့္မယ္၊ ဒၝေဳကာင့္ ဒီကိစၤကို ကုလ သမဂၢ လုံဴခံႂေရး
ေကာင္စီက အေရးယူမႀ ဴဖစ္မယ္ ဆုိ႓ပီး သတိ ေပးထား ပၝတယ္။
အမည္ နာဂစ္
နာဂစ္ ဆိုင္ကလုန္း မုန္တိုင္း ဴမန္မာ ႎိုင္ငံသိုႚ ဝင္ေရာက္ လာေနပံု၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႎႀစ္၊ ေမလ ၃
ရက္ေနႚက ႓ဂိႂလ္တု ကေန ႟ိုက္ယူ ထားတဲ့ ဓာတ္ပံု။
EDITORIAL
Although the military bosses in Rangoon finally decided to allow the first
UN shipment of relief assistance to be flown in on Wednesday - four days
after the cyclone hit - complaints about the junta's working speed has
been persistent.
The generals have been able to retain their iron grip on the country by
shutting its doors to the West. Visitors entering the country are usually
viewed with suspicion and distrust - especially foreign journalists. It is a
pity the generals continue to operate under this mentality, even with the
fate of their people now at the mercy of the international community's
assistance.
The junta must admit it does not have the capacity to tackle this gigantic
relief task by itself. Nor can it rely on the assistance of a few trusted
neighbours like Thailand, India and China. The work of delivering help to
the survivors of Cyclone Nargis will be one of the biggest logistics
challenges the international aid agencies have ever faced. Burma will
need all the assistance it can get to to bring this help to its people in the
first stage and to rebuild their homes and restore their normal life at a
later stage.
The Burmese junta is notorious for its ruthlessness and lack of human
concern whenever it needs to exert power to remain in control. There is
little doubt the leaders in Rangoon will not care if more of their own
people die, so long as they can keep Western influence out of Burmese
internal affairs.
The junta has already wasted valuable time hiding behind its fear of the
West and its own insecurities. This can no longer be acceptable while the
poor people of Burma are dying.
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Despite a personal appeal by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to focus on its "national
tragedy" in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, which has left about 23,000 people dead and
42,000 missing, and reconsider plans to hold the referendum on a new constitution, the junta
has thus far refused to do so.
"The secretary general, deeply concerned about the welfare of the people of Burma at this
time of national tragedy, has taken note of the government's decision to proceed with the
constitutional referendum on May 10," a UN statement issued Thursday said, adding that
Ban believes it would be "prudent" for the regime to turn its attention instead to its
emergency response.
It was not the first time that Senior General Than Shwe, the country's military supremo, has
ignored a personal appeal from a UN secretary general.
The regime in 2006 rejected an appeal by former UN leader Kofi Annan to release Nobel
Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. Suu Kyi, Burma's foremost
opposition leader, remains confined to her Rangoon home, where she has spent 12 of the
past 18 years.
Than Shwe, 75 to make it happen, even if half the country's population is still reeling from a
natural disaster, observers said.
"He planned it so he does not want to change it, partly for astrological reasons and partly
because he may be worried that things are going to get worse if he waits," said Win Min, a
lecturer on Burma affairs at Chiang Mai University in neighbouring Thailand.
The regime's delays in granting visas to UN disaster relief experts this week has drawn a
storm of criticisms from the international community, which has warned that any delays
would result in an escalating death toll in Burma.
An estimated 1.5 million people there are in need of food, water and medicine, particularly
in the Irrawaddy Delta region, which has thus far received only a trickle of aid.
But Burma's generals were still stalling on granting visas to foreign experts seeking to enter
the country to facilitate the delivery of more than 32 million dollars of emergency aid.
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The New Light of Burma newspaper, a government mouthpiece, published an article Friday
that essentially said Burma welcomed foreign aid for the cyclone's victims but would handle
the distribution itself.
"Currently, Burma is receiving emergency relief provisions and is making strenuous efforts
to transport these provisions without delay by its own labour to the affected areas," the
newspaper said.
The article noted that authorities had turned back aid workers and reporters who had tried to
enter the country on Wednesday with a cargo of emergency goods.
Political observers in Burma said they believe Than Shwe does not want a lot of
international aid workers in the country on Saturday for the referendum.
The referendum was expected to endorse a new constitution that would essentially cement
the military's dominant role in all future governments. The process has been characterized
by intimidation of voters and a high likelihood of vote-rigging.
Even in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the military has continued to crack down on opponents
to the constitution. Seven opposition politicians were arrested Thursday for distributing
pamphlets on the referendum, according to the Thailand-based Assistance Association for
Political Prisoners.
"The military authorities are too concerned with maintaining their grip on power when
really now is the time to set politics aside," said Ko Bo Kyi, the association's joint secretary.
"We urge the regime to postpone the referendum across the whole country and focus
attention on helping the cyclone victims."//dpa
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Samak told reporters earlier that he was contacted by Burmese generals in Nay Pyi
Taw for him to visit the country on Sunday.
But Burma later informed the Thai side that the junta would be too busy with the
people effected by the deadly cyclone to welcome Samak, a government source said.
Lt Gen Niphat and Thai Ambassador to Burma Bansarn Bunnag would carry a letter
from Samak to Burma's Prime Minister Thein Sein.
His travel came after the Burmese junta did not permit the international countries
to enter the country to help millions of the Burmese who were effected by the
Nargis Cyclone.
The Burmese government has said some 30,000 people were killed by the cyclone
but it is estimated the number could reach 100,000.
The United States desperately sought Thailand's help to get into cyclone-ravaged
Burma and deliver humanitarian assistance to millions of storm victims in the
secretive country.
US Ambassador Eric John met Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to ask him to
facilitate permission from Burmese leaders for the US emergency relief team to
enter the country.
Samak gave some assurance that he and his government would work closely with
the US to help Burma, John said.
UPDATED ON:
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 2008
11:19 MECCA TIME, 8:19 GMT
Bunkered away in the centre of the country, the secret and reclusive generals who
rule Myanmar fear all foreigners.
A week after a deadly cyclone and facing huge pressure to open their country to
international aid, they see everyone as a potential enemy intent on overthrowing
their rule.
Rather than alieviating the suffering wrought by Cyclone Nargis, the top generals'
primary concern at present is to preserve their power and protect their families'
future position and wealth.
He seized power in a coup in 1962 and the military have ruled ever since.
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Reclusive and eccentric, Ne Win shunned contact with the outside world, turning
the country then known as Burma into the hermit of Asia.
The first few years of his rule saw pogroms against the Chinese and Indian
communities, forcing tens of thousands to flee the country. He also banned the
teaching of English in the schools.
Fear
For years the generals' greatest fear has been that the US planned a strategic
strike against them.
To prepare for that, they have built a rabbit-warren of bunkers around their new
capital, Naypyidaw, in the hills some 400 kilometres north of Yangon.
They moved the seat of government and the military headquarters to the remote,
purpose-built city abruptly in November 2005. Thousands of civil servants were only
give a few hours' notice to pack up and move.
During the mass pro-democracy demonstrations in August 1988, which brought the
country to a stand still for months, they feared a US invasion when ships of the US
Pacific fleet moored off the country's southern coast.
Then they turned to Beijing for protection and today China's remains Myanmar's
most-important diplomatic ally.
The regime is also highly suspicious of the UN and other international aid agencies,
fearing they are in cahoots with the West and only want to whip up opposition to
military rule inside the country.
Even before the current cyclone disaster hit Myanmar, international aid workers
found it hard to travel around the country and visit development projects.
Rejected
Last year the government expelled the United Nation's top representative in the
country, Charles Petrie on the grounds that he was interfering with government
policy.
"We must get rid of all the white faces," Senior General Than Shwe told his cabinet
several times, according to reliable military sources.
Since then the government has refused to accept several Western nominees as
head of UN agencies.
An American candidate was rejected last year as head of the United Nations High
Commission for Refugees while two western nominees to replace the ousted UN
representative were also recently turned down. Both posts have since been filled by
The restrictions on aid workers' movements are in part because the military regime
fears that they will also be gathering important intelligence that might be used to
undermine the government, but also because of the generals' paranoid obsession
with being in total control of everything.
Given this mindset, there is no prospect the military regime will allow foreign aid
workers to flood into the country, let alone allow foreign troops to enter.
"They're afraid that if foreign soldiers come in they are the spearhead to overthrow
the government," says Josef Silverstein, a retired Rutgers University professor and
Myanmar expert.
From the generals' perspective, he says, "aid workers could be carrying weapons to
give to the people, they could give them ideas of how to overthrow the
government."
Subversive
For decades, the ruling military regimes have kept Myanmar isolated, fearing that
opening the country up would both its businesses and culture – and even worse
foster subversive thoughts like freedom of speech and democracy.
Even tourists were not allowed access to the country until the 1970s, when visitors
were given a strict, seven-day visa.
This changed a decade ago, when the lure of foreign currency spurred a relaxation
of the rules. Nonetheless all visitors are closely controlled and constantly monitored
by military intelligence officers.
Meanwhile there has been an almost total ban on journalists, with authorities only
granting media visas for largely meaningless army-arranged ceremonies.
The generals' parnoia and distrust extends to all civilians – they believe that only
the army has the ability to unite the country and protect it from foreign invaders.
From their perspective only the military represents the nation as a whole, not the
factional interests of political parties or business people.
Intimidation
The irony is of course that they have divided the country as never before – political
parties are effectively banned, more than 2,000 political prisoners are languishing
in jail, there is strict censorship of the press and the people are beaten into
submission through a concerted campaign of harassment and intimidation.
Last year they alienated the country's revered Buddhist monks, after they brutally
cracked down on the saffron-led protests against rising food prices.
In the end the real issue is one of control – the junta understands that it must
remain united or perish.
Their greatest fear now is losing control, losing their wealth, and facing Nuremberg-
The current military rulers, especially General Than Shwe and his family, have
amassed vast fortunes through corruption and nepotism.
Little wonder then that, despite the overwhelming suffering caused by Cyclone
Nargis, the generals seem so anxious to press ahead with their referendum and
institutionalise their power.
Source: Al Jazeera
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၈
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
ျမန္မာျပည္သုိ႔သြားေရာက္မည့္ခရီးစဥ္ကုိဖ်က္သိမ္းလုိက္ၿပီဟု ထုိင္း၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္က
ဆုိသည္။ ခရီးစဥ္ကုိ တရား၀င္ေၾကညာၿပီး နာရီပုိင္းအတြင္း ထုိသုိ႔ဖ်က္သိမ္းလုိက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
(နံနက္ ၁၁း၄၅)
ဥပမာေပးထားသည္႕ အစားအစာမ်ားမွာ
ဒါမ်ိဳးအစားအစာေတြ ကိုေရွာင္ပါ။
ကိုယ္လက္သန္႕စင္ရန္အတြက္ အနည္းဆံုးေအာက္ပါပစၥည္းမ်ားလိုအပ္ပါသည္။
- ကလိုရင္း ေဆးရည္
- အိမ္သာသံုးစကၠဴ
- အိမ္သာဘယ္လိုေဆာက္မလဲ -
- ေရပတ္တိုက္ျခင္း
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ 9
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈
လြန္ခဲ့သည့္အပတ္က တိုက္ခတ္ခဲ့ေသာ
မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒီေရျမင့္ တက္ကာ ဆားငံေရမ်ား
အတြင္းဖက္ ကုန္းပိုင္း ၁၂-ကီလိုမီတာအထိ
၀င္လာခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ယခင္လယ္ကြက္မ်ားအတြင္း
သက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ေသာ ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထိုမွ်မက
သိုေလွာင္ရံုမ်ား ညံ့ဖ်င္းျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ယခင္က
သိုေလွာင္ထားခဲ့ေသာ စပါးမ်ားလည္း မုန္တိုင္းႏွင့္
ဆားငံ ေရမ်ားဒဏ္ ခံရကာ ပ်က္စီး ဖြယ္ ရွိေနသည္။
ဤအေနအထားတြင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာမွ
ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမ်ားသာ ေရာက္ရွိမလာပါက ေဒသတြင္း
ဆန္ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား အလြန္ အမင္း
ျမင့္တက္သြားေစႏိုင္သည္။ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ
ၾကက္ေျခနီအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အသင္းခ်ဳပ္ (IFRC) က
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာင္ပိုင္း၊
အထူးကၽြမ္းက်င္သူ အကဲျဖတ္ ပညာရွင္ မ်ားကို
ေက်ာက္တန္းၿမိဳ႔နယ္ရွိ ခိုလႈံရာ
ျမစ္၀ကၽြန္းေပၚေဒသသို႔ အဖြဲ႔ဖြဲ႔ ေစလႊတ္ခဲ့ၿပီး၊
ယာယီဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတခုတြင္
ျပႆနာအတိမ္ အနက္ကို သိရွိႏိုင္ရန္ႏွင့္ လိုအပ္
ျမန္မာကေလးမေလး တဦးက ထမင္းႏွင့္
သည့္ အေျဖမ်ားရႏိုင္ရန္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့သည္။
ေျမပဲကို ေရာနယ္စားေနစဥ္ (ေမလ ၈
ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္) (ဓါတ္ပံု-ေအပီ) အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ၾကက္ေျခနီအဖြဲ႔မ်ား အသင္းခ်ဳပ္
(IFRC) သာ ကပ္ေဘးသင့္ေဒသမ်ား အတြင္းက်က်
၀င္ေရာက္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည့္ အနည္းငယ္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားအနက္မွ တခုျဖစ္ၿပီး၊
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက ေနာက္ထပ္ အကူအညီေပး ေရးအဖြဲ႔မ်ား ဆက္လက္ခြင့္ျပဳရန္လည္း
တုံ႔ဆိုင္းေနခဲ့သည္။
" ႏိုင္ငံတကာ
အလွဴရွင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္း
ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ဥပမာ
ကမၻာ့ဘဏ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံ တကာ
ေငြေၾကးရန္ပံုေငြအဖြဲ႔ (IMF)
တို႔လို အဖြဲ႔ေတြ အၾကားမွာ
ျမန္မာစစ္ အစိုးရက
အေႂကြးျပန္မေပးထားတဲ့
နာမည္ပ်က္ ျပႆနာ
ရွိေနတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္
ADB က ေရွ႔ဆက္ဘယ္လို
တုံ႔ျပန္လာမလဲဆိုတာကေတ
လြန္ခဲ့သည့္အပတ္ ဆိုင္ကလုန္းမုန္တိုင္း ဖ်က္ဆီးခံရအၿပီး ာ့ ေစာင့္ ၾကည့္ရဦးမွာပဲ။"
ၾကာသပေတးေန႔က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႔ ဆင္ေျခဖုန္းရပ္ကြက္တခုတြင္ ဘန္ေကာက္ရွိ
အစိုးရက အခမဲ့ ဆန္ေ၀ေနသည္ကို ေစာင့္ဆိုင္းေနၾကသူ အေနာက္တိုင္းသံရံုးတခုမွ
ၿမိဳ႔ေနလူထုမ်ား (ဓါတ္ပံု-ေအပီ) အမည္ မေဖာ္လိုသည့္
စီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္ တဦးက
ေျပာပါသည္။
WILLIAM BOOT ေရးသားသည့္ Burma’s ‘Rice Basket’ Knocked out, say Experts ကို
ဆီေလ်ာ္ေအာင္ ျပန္ဆို ေဖာ္ျပပါသည္။
ျမန္မာျပည္သစ္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္သာ
ျပင္ဆင္ၾကပါစို႔
ဧရာဝတီ | ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မည္သို႔ရွိမည္နည္း။
သခြတ္ပင္က မီးတက်ည္
http://www.khitpyaing.org/editorial/may_08/8-5-08.php
နာဂစ္ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္းအေတြး
ေမာင္မန္း
အဆင့္ (၁) ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္းရဲ႕အရွိန္ႏႈန္းက တနာရီ (၇၄) မိုင္ကေန (၉၅) မုိင္၊ တနာရီ (၉၆)
မုိင္ကေန (၁၁၀) မုိင္ဆုိရင္ အဆင့္ (၂)၊ တနာရီ (၁၁၁) မုိင္ကေန (၁၃၀) ထိ တုိက္ရင္ အဆင့္
(၃)၊ တနာရီ (၁၃၁) မုိင္ကေန (၁၅၄) မုိင္ထိ တုိက္ရင္ အဆင့္ (၄) နဲ႔ တနာရီ (၁၅၅) မုိင္
အထက္ တုိက္ရင္ အဆင့္ (၅) ဆုိၿပီး ခြဲထားပါတယ္။
က်ေနာ္တို႔ကေရာ ဘာမ်ားရႏိုင္အံုးမည္နည္း
ဂါမဏိ
(၁) နအဖ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အခန္း (၁) ပုဒ္မ (၆-စ) မွာ “ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္၏ အမ်ဳိးသား ႏိုင္ငံေရး
ဦးေဆာင္မႈအခန္းက႑တြင္ တပ္မေတာ္က ပါ၀င္ထမ္းေဆာင္ႏိုင္ေရးကို အစဥ္တစိုက္
ဦးတည္သည္” လို႔ ဆိုထားပါတယ္။
၁၉၄၃ ဂ်ပန္ေခတ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အခန္း (၁) ပုဒ္မ (၂) မွာ “ဗမာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ မဟာအေရွ႕
အာရွ သာတူညီမွ် ႀကီးပြားေရး နယ္ပယ္ႀကီးကို တည္ေထာင္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းၾကေသာ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာ
အာဏာပိုင္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား အစုအသင္းတြင္ အျခားႏိုင္ငံမ်ားႏွင့္ အခြင့္အေရး တန္းတူရရွိ၍ ပါ၀င္
ေသာႏိုင္ငံတခုျဖစ္သည္” လို႔ ျပ႒ာန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဆိုလိုရင္းကေတာ့ ဂ်ပန္ဖက္ဆစ္၀ါဒရဲ႕ ကိုလိုနီ
တခုျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုတာပါပဲ။
မဆလေခတ္ ၁၉၇၄ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အခန္း (၂) ပုဒ္မ (၁၁) မွာလည္း “ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သည္ တခု
တည္းေသာ ပါတီစနစ္ကိုသာ က်င့္သံုးရမည္။ မဆလပါတီသည္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၏ တခုတည္းေသာ
ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီျဖစ္၍ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို ဦးေဆာင္သည္” လို႔ ပါရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္။
(၂) နအဖ အေျခခံဥပေဒ အခန္း (၈) ပုဒ္မ (၃၅၄) မွာ “ႏိုင္ငံသားတုိင္းသည္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္လံုျခံဳ
ေရး၊ တရားဥပေဒ စိုးမိုးေရး၊ ရပ္ရြာေအးခ်မ္းသာယာေရး သို႔မဟုတ္ ျပည္သူတို႔၏ ကိုယ္က်င့္
တရားအက်ဳိးငွာ ျပ႒ာန္းထားသည့္ ဥပေဒမ်ားႏွင့္ မဆန္႔က်င္လွ်င္ ေအာက္ပါ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကို
လြတ္လပ္စြာ သံုးစြဲေဆာင္ရြက္ခြင့္ရွိသည္။
(က) ျပည္ေထာင္စုမၿပိဳကြဲေရး
(ခ) တိုင္းရင္းသားစည္းလံုးညီၫြတ္မႈ မၿပိဳကြဲေရး
(ဂ) အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာ တည္တံ့ခိုင္ျမဲေရး" စသျဖင့္ ျပ႒ာန္းထားပါတယ္။
BANGKOK, Thailand: With only a few aging helicopters and little disaster
experience, Myanmar's junta is risking the lives of millions of cyclone survivors by
running the relief operation alone, aid experts said Friday.
Since Cyclone Nargis struck a week ago, few of the estimated 1.9 million survivors
in the country's flooded Irrawaddy delta have received any assistance and aid
agencies fear many will die of disease.
"Not only don't they have the capacity to deliver assistance, they don't have
experience," said Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, which
campaigns for human rights and democracy in the country. "It's already too late for
many people. Every day of delays is costing thousands of lives."
Few countries are capable of dealing with a disaster of this magnitude, a fact that is
magnified in a country like Myanmar which is one of the poorest in Asia. The
government has spent the bulk of its money on building the 400,000-strong military
and lacks even the most basic equipment for a relief effort.
"Even if they (the helicopters) were all serviceable, it's not even a drop in the
ocean," Brookes said. "The task is so awesome. It would faze even a sophisticated
force like the British, French or Germans."
Foreign aid agencies and governments, many of which are seeking visas for their
workers, argue they can bring years of experience to the job from managing
disasters like the 2004 tsunami and the 2005 Pakistani earthquake.
They have the helicopters, cargo planes and trucks to quickly deliver supplies, the
expertise to reach survivors in the most inhospitable situations and the ability to
avert disease outbreaks and starvation.
"As we know, the first two weeks are crucial. Speed is crucial," said Sarah Ireland,
a regional director for the aid agency Oxfam. It has yet to receive permission to join
the relief effort.
Christiane Berthiaume of the World Food Program said aid agencies are an integral
part of any relief effort.
Others contend that handing over relief supplies to the Myanmar government
without outside oversight could result in assistance being diverted to junta
supporters or lost to corruption.
Farmaner said he already has heard reports of the military taking relief supplies and
putting general's names on them in a government propaganda campaign.
"We have to be accountable to our donors in the states that paid for this assistance
and we have to be transparent," said Elisabeth Byrs of the U.N. Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. "We have to be sure the aid is reaching the
victims."
So far, arguments to allow experts and equipment into the country have fallen on
deaf ears.
The government hammered home that point Friday, when it seized 38 tons of high-
energy biscuits from two WFP flights that landed in Yangon. The biscuits were
enough to feed 95,000 people.
That prompted the U.N. agency to say it would temporarily halt relief flights. Later,
WFP chief spokeswoman Nancy Roman said flights would resume Saturday while
negotiations continued for the release of the supplies.
The frustration was evident in the voice of Shari Villarosa, the top American
diplomat in Myanmar, who met with Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu.
She came away without a commitment to allow American aid workers into the
country, saying the government "was not ready," to accept the help.
"I'm bewildered," Villarosa told The Associated Press. "None of this makes any
sense."
Dictators' priority
By Christiane Oelrich, dpa
http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=12
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While bloated corpses still litter Irrawaddy delta fields, the controlled
media promote the referendum. While a million Burmese in deep shock
fight for their survival, government ministers give speeches on the
"flourishing discipline democracy."
Mae Sot - The ruling military junta of Burma has imposed a vacation ban
for all officials - but not so every last person can be available to assist
survivors of the recent cyclone that devastated the country.
While bloated corpses still litter fields across the Irrawaddy river delta,
the regime-controlled media continue to busily promote the referendum.
And while a million people in deep shock fight for their survival,
government newspapers inform about upcoming election speeches by
different ministers under the concept of a "flourishing discipline
democracy."
"The junta wants to merely legitimise their regime with the constitution.
They want a licence to kill," asserted Bo Kyi, who founded a non-
governmental organisation, the Association for the Assistance of Political
Prisoners (AAPP), to help incarcerated dissidents and their families.
"We have received nothing so far," said Soe Win, a resident of Kawhmu
township some 35 kilometres south of Rangoon.
His sister and 7-year-old nephew were killed by a falling tree that was
uprooted by the cyclone.
"Everybody here is deeply upset and we all certainly will vote 'no'," he
said.
Meanwhile, those familiar with the regime's workings don't harbour any
illusions about the referendum result that the ruling generals =
"The junta just cannot be trusted. They will never give up their sabotage
[of democracy]," said NLD member Win Hlaing, 45, who in 1990 won a
parliamentary seat during the country's last national election, which saw
a landslide victory for the NLD.
The junta ignored the outcome and put opposition leader Aung San Suu
Kyi under house arrest, where she remains till this day.
Win Hlaing himself also spent 10 years in prison before last year fleeing
to Mae Sot, a little town on the Thailand side of the border.
Since then, the junta has trained the country to give frightened
obedience.
The regime reared its ugly head most recently in September last year
when it ordered troops to open fire on tens of thousands of peaceful
protesters and monks in Rangoon.
Official figures put the death toll at 31 people, but human rights activists
believe that dozens more lost their lives.
The opposition is convinced that a new public uprising is only around the
corner.
"Our next phase of struggle will begin after the referendum," said Win
Hlaing. He claimed that the NLD maintains secret observers throughout
the country to expose election fraud.
"The people are angry with the military. They only need one little spark
to explode again," he added.
"The United Nations will have to support the will of (Burmese) people,
not the will of the junta," he explained.
"You may play the violin to a buffalo, but it won't listen," he said, citing a
local proverb
BURMA
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/10May2008_news21.php
''The government's attitude is that the referendum is the top priority and
the cyclone is an inconvenience; we believe any government's priority
should be the humanitarian response rather than the referendum,'' he
said.
''If you are patriotic and you love your nation you must give an
affirmative vote,'' Burmese citizens were told by state-run television
yesterday.
The irony is that very few people have actually seen the draft
constitution. In Rangoon, it sells for at least 1,000 kyat, the equivalent
of a dollar in a country where 80% of the families live on less than $2 a
day.
The cost varies in other places in the country, from the equivalent of $2
a copy in Mon state near the border with Thailand, to more than $4 in
the predominantly Muslim areas of Arakan (Rakhine) state in the west
near Bangladesh, according to Sai Khuensai Jaiyen, director of the Shan
Herald Agency, a dissident publishing firm based in northern Thailand.
''I'm going to vote 'yes' because I'm tired of the top brass running the
country, and doing it very badly,'' said an army colonel who wanted to
remain anonymous for safety reasons. ''It's time to get them out of
government and a new constitution is the only sure way of doing that,''
he added.
The poor farmers in Burma's once prosperous rice growing areas in the
Irrawaddy delta and the centre of the country were delighted with the
opportunity to tell the government what they think of them, a Western
aid worker said.
''It's the first opportunity since the 1990 election that they have had to
express themselves,'' she said. ''And they see it as a referendum on the
military government; so expect a resounding 'no' from them.''
The vote has been postponed there _ and may never happen.
''Not only are the tens of thousands dead, the wind and water destroyed
local and provincial offices, including the lists of registered voters,'' said
an Asian diplomat. ''They will not be able to recover those in the two
weeks they have delayed the polls there.''
While the results may not stand up to intense professional scrutiny, the
information gleaned from their telephone and face-to-face interviews
does give an interesting insight into voters' intentions, which is
supported by other anecdotal information. ''The overwhelming result was
clear _ a large majority of the people will vote 'no','' said Mu Hlaing
Theint.
''The 'no' vote is particularly strong in the ethnic minority areas,'' said
Sai Khuensai Jaiyen. In Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Mon and Shan
states, more than 80% of those interviewed intended to vote ''no''. In
Karen and Karenni states near the Thai border, more than 95% of
people were going to vote ''no''.
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Almost seven out of 10 interviewed said they had no idea what was in
the constitution, but more than 80% said they would vote anyway. One
in four voters had still to make up their minds which way they would
vote. So despite the regime's intensive propaganda campaign, there
remains a significant number of undecided voters.
Burma's military rulers must know that many people are unlikely to
support the new constitution. To help control the vote, or more
particularly, the result, the regime is going to make the announcement
of the results in the capital Naypidaw, and not at each polling station or
even provincial level as happened in the 1990 election, which the pro-
democracy parties _ the National League for Democracy and the Shan
Nationalities League for Democracy won overwhelmingly.
''This is very different from the 1990 elections, when the election results
were made public at each local polling station,'' said Zin Linn, a former
political prisoner and now spokesman for the Burmese government-in-
exile. ''It means they will be able to manipulate the results to their own
ends.''
EDITORIALS
Today's referendum aside, Cyclone Nargis might spell the end of the
generals' heartless rule
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2008/05/10/opinion/opinion_30072703.php
In the Buddhist world, whatever you do, whether actions that bring you merit or
evil deeds, will come back to you. Nobody can escape the results of one's own
actions or, as we call it, destiny. In this sense, one may regard the cyclone tragedy as
an act of "karma", because for the Buddhist Burmese junta it was an act of
punishment for all the bad deeds they have inflicted on the Burmese people over
nearly two decades, not to mention their killing of innocent monks last September,
which is the greatest evil of all. Indeed, we might witness the unravelling of the
regime led by these heartless junta leaders who have ruled Burma without mercy.
Mother Nature can unleash its power in unimaginable ways.
At this juncture, all donor countries have put their political positions aside,
especially the US and EU countries. They have come together with the goal of
helping the Burmese people as their top priority. China has been no exception; it
has moved quickly to aid Burma. Beijing knows full well that foreign aid if
unchecked would further complicate the political situation in the future. But then,
to cope with a disaster like this no single country can effectively deal with the
myriad problems involved. Only a well-coordinated and sustainable plan can
alleviate the hardships the cyclone has caused.
Along with the international community, Asean as a group can do more than its
members can individually. The grouping is stuck with its non-interference
principle, even in a situation like this, and Asean is unable to do anything
collectively. Asean Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan has already appealed to
Burma's leaders to cooperate with Asean and international donors. During the East
Timor crisis in 1999, Indonesia showed the Asean spirit by inviting Asean
peacekeeping efforts to help with the situation there. That helped ease the
peacekeeping operations and the overall peace process in the months that followed.
It is about time for Burma to display the same solidarity with Asean. The grouping
can only move when Burma invites it in. If that does not happen, only individual
member countries can provide minimal relief assistance. Other regional
organisations - such as the EU and the African Union - have mechanisms in place to
provide emergency relief for member countries.
People's lives matter more than the junta. By being on the ground in Burma, Asean
could use its reputation to draw in additional aid. It is absurd indeed to think that
Asean as a group cannot do anything. The Asean Charter, which is waiting for
ratification by all, will mean nothing if the Burmese people continue to suffer and
die due to the intransigence of the junta. Asean's leaders should act in solidarity to
bring the burden of responsibility to bear on the junta. A failure to do so will hurt
Asean and its future.
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CYCLONE NARGIS
Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej will dispatch a special envoy to Burma today to
attempt to convince the junta leaders to permit foreign relief teams, notably those
from the United States and the United Kingdom, to help those hit by Cyclone
Nargis.
Samak said earlier that he had contacted Burmese generals in the capital of
Naypyitaw and would fly to see them tomorrow, but subsequent talks suggested
that the junta's leaders were "too busy" to welcome the Thai leader.
The letter conveys condolence messages and concerns from Thai leaders to
Burmese leaders and people, Niphat said. However, he declined to reveal further
details, such as whether the letter also asked for permission from the junta for
Western relief teams to enter the country.
"In order for the international community to assist the Burmese people at this time
of pressing need, the Burmese government should provide immediate visas to allow
rapid access for specialists and aid to reach those affected as soon as possible,"
Quayle said.
The UK through its Department for International Development has made an initial
pledge of up to ฃ5 million (Bt311 million) - the largest single contribution by any
one country so far - to go to United Nations, Red Cross and NGO partners on the
ground to help meet immediate needs.
The Burmese junta asked for humanitarian assistance to help millions of affected
people after Cyclone Nargis hit the country last week, but has refused to grant visas
for foreign relief teams.
More than 65,000 people are dead or missing in the region, with fears the death toll
will top 100,000. More than 1 million people have been left homeless.
The UN has blasted the military government, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid
workers to help victims of a devastating cyclone was "unprecedented" in the history
of humanitarian work.
The UN's World Food Programme, however, said it was able to begin delivery of
food and plastic tarpaulins to cyclone-devastated areas in the Irrawaddy delta.
BOGALE, Myanmar: The water has not receded fully, and few aid trucks have
made it here. Only one helicopter, from the Myanmar military, was spotted all
Friday, dropping off instant noodle packages around a devastated delta that needs
much more. Win Kyi, a mother looking for a lost son, was crying, her body shaking
and arms outstretched for food, money, water - anything.
"I have nothing," she said, shuffling in a state of shock. "Everything is gone."
Six days after a cyclone churned through the coastal plain of Myanmar, it is clear
the damage is great and that little aid has made it to the thousands of villagers
along the sea south of the commercial capital, Yangon.
The smell of rot and death is in the air here, part of a single district where the
military government says 10,000 people have died.
Yet it is difficult to assess the actual human toll, even in a landscape of toppled
trees and houses and bloated farm animals that resemble the devastation of the
2004 tsunami that killed 181,000.
Aid groups and the few reporters on the ground have not had full access to some of
the areas that were reportedly hardest hit, especially directly on the Andaman Sea.
And people spoke of villages wiped off the map, the damage tallied not by the dead
but by the survivors, so few they were easier to count.
Thein Tun, a 44-year-old bus conductor in the village who is out of work because all
the buses were destroyed, said food was scarce and the well water contaminated.
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"The diarrhea is coming," he said, echoing a grave concern among aid officials that
the death toll could rise quickly if clean water and medicine does not arrive here
soon.
Lacking alternatives, villagers are eating waterlogged bananas and other rotting
fruit, he said.
"Normally we have two meals," Thein Tun said. "Now we eat only once." Yet, of the
two dozen people interviewed in the flattened villages and flooded rice fields along
the road, none said they were starving.
Most rice reserves were soaked during the storm, but villagers have laid the grains
on large plastic mats to dry. The rice has a musty smell, but farmers say they have
no choice but to eat it.
"It tastes bad, but if we can eat it we will," said Than Tun, 43, a rice farmer. "If not,
we will throw it to the pigs."
Like hundreds of other farmers here, he has lived in a small bamboo A-frame along
the side of the road since his house was destroyed.
Many villagers fled to the relative safety of the road when the storm came because
it was constructed on an embankment higher than the surrounding countryside.
But the floodwaters have not completely pulled back to the sea. They are brackish,
a problem for humans but not so much for rice: A little salt, the farmers say, does
not hurt the plants. The longer problem is that many farmers have no seeds.
"Everything is gone with the wind," said Zaw Win, a farmer in Leyaim, a half-hour
drive from the city limits of Yangon.
His rice reserves, which would have lasted him until November, were blown and
washed away by the storm. The main crop is normally planted this month and
harvested in November.
To help with immediate needs, the monastery in Painal Kone village distributed rice
from their stocks on Friday. Some villagers, especially in areas farther south, said
the government was also giving out rice rations.
"Anyone with a broken roof gets one or two cups of rice," said Htayl Lwin, a trader
in duck eggs.
At the entrance to his stilt house, built on the river that runs beside Bogale, his
smudged and still damp account books are laying out to dry. He counts himself
lucky that no one from his family died. In the days after the storm, several bodies
floated past his house.
Htayl Lwin said the worst-affected areas were along the coast. In one village, Kyme
Kyoung, only two people survived. The police refused to allow this reporter into that
area.
About 400 people without homes have sought shelter in the prayer hall of a local
monastery, including Win Kyi, who was separated from two sons when the cyclone
hit. She also lost her house and all her water buffalo.
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Every day since then she traveled to the police checkpoint to scour the names of
the dead. On Friday, the police told her that one of her sons had been found,
though he had been hurt in the storm. They hugged for a long time, she said, when
they were united.
"He told me 'I'm alive. My whole body hurts. But I've come back to mama,' she said.
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious
humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close
to 100,000 people are dead. Delays in delivering relief to the victims, the
inaccessibility of the stricken areas and the poor state of Burma's infrastructure and
health systems mean that number is sure to rise. With as many as 1 million people
still at risk, it is conceivable that the death toll will, within days, approach that of
the entire number of civilians killed in the genocide in Darfur.
So what is the world doing about it? Not much. The military regime that runs
Burma initially signaled it would accept outside relief, but has imposed so many
conditions on those who would actually deliver it that barely a trickle has made it
through. Aid workers have been held at airports. UN food shipments have been
seized. US naval ships packed with food and medicine idle in the Gulf of Thailand,
waiting for an all-clear that may never come.
Burma's rulers have relented slightly, agreeing Friday to let in supplies and perhaps
even some foreign relief workers. The government says it will allow a US C-130
transport plane to land inside Burma Monday. But it's hard to imagine a regime this
insular and paranoid accepting robust aid from the US military, let alone agreeing
to the presence of US Marines on Burmese soil — as Thailand and Indonesia did
after the tsunami. The trouble is that the Burmese haven't shown the ability or
willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale
— and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster
will devolve beyond anyone's control. "We're in 2008, not 1908," says Jan Egeland,
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the former U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "A lot is at stake here. If we let them
get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent."
That's why it's time to consider a more serious option: invading Burma. Some
observers, including former USAID director Andrew Natsios, have called on the US
to unilaterally begin air drops to the Burmese people regardless of what the junta
says. The Bush Administration has so far rejected the idea — "I can't imagine us
going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Defense Secretary
Robert Gates said Thursday — but it's not without precedent: as Natsios pointed out
to the Wall Street Journal, the US has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid
without the host government's consent in places like Bosnia and Sudan.
So what other options exist? Retired General William Nash of the Council on
Foreign Relations says the US should first pressure China to use its influence over
the junta to get them to open up and then supply support to the Thai and
Indonesian militaries to carry out relief missions. "We can pay for it — we can
provide repair parts to the Indonesians so they can get their Air Force up. We can
lend the them two C-130s and let them paint the Indonesian flag on them," Nash
says. "We have to get the stuff to people who can deliver it and who the Burmese
government will accept, even if takes an extra day or two and even if it's not as
efficient as the good old US military." Egeland advocates that the UN Security
Council take punitive steps short of war, such as freezing the regime's assets and
issuing warrants for the arrest of individual junta members if they were to leave the
country. Similar measures succeeded in getting the government of Ivory Coast to let
in foreign relief teams in 2002, Egelend says.
And if that fails? "It's important for the rulers to know the world has other options,"
Egeland says. "If there were, say, the threat of a cholera epidemic that could claim
hundreds of thousands of lives and the government was incapable of preventing it,
ေအာင္သူၿငိမ္း
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အကိုးအကား
Paul B. Spiegel, Differences in World Responses to Natural Disasters and Complex
Emergencies, JAMA, April 20, 2005, Vol 293, No. 15
In our Behind the Scenes series, CNN correspondents share their experiences
covering news and analyze the stories behind the events. Here CNN's Dan Rivers
details his remarkable personal story to CNN Wire news editor Ashley Broughton
after returning home Friday from five days in Myanmar, reporting on the aftermath
of Cyclone Nargis.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/rivers.btsc/index.html
CNN's Dan Rivers returned Friday from five days in Myanmar, reporting on
the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.
(CNN) -- Hiding under a blanket in the back of a car at a police checkpoint. Hopping
on boats instead of staying on a road. Constantly looking over your shoulder,
It sounds like a spy movie. But CNN's Dan Rivers, who sneaked into storm-ravaged
Myanmar without the knowledge of the nation's secretive ruling junta, says the
reality is even more frightening than it appears on the silver screen.
Now out of Myanmar, Rivers said Friday that his experience raises a question: If
the government is chasing down a journalist reporting on a natural disaster, what
kinds of problems are aid workers facing?
"The whole country is kind of a basket case," Rivers said. "Combine that with a
disaster on this scale and a government that won't let anyone in -- they're turning a
bad situation into ... what really is criminal negligence on a massive scale." Look
at satellite pictures of the damage by the flooding »
He is concerned, he said, that many more may die as a result of the government's
self-imposed isolation.
Earlier in the week, he said, his crew videotaped government workers dumping
bodies of the dead into a river. A government not engaged in such activities, which
amount to a kind of cover-up, should have nothing to hide, Rivers noted. "Why
should they be trying to hide a natural disaster? It's not their fault. It just illustrates
the mentality of the regime. It's so suspicious of the outside world." Watch how
some aid is getting through »
Rivers arrived in Myanmar on Monday morning, a few days after Cyclone Nargis
ripped through the Irrawaddy Delta region, putting more than 2,000 square miles of
land under water and killing tens of thousands of people.
The Myanmar government has said 22,000 people were killed. The top U.S. envoy
in the country has said the death toll may be as high as 100,000.
"I've seen a lot of horrible things like that, unfortunately," he said of the situation in
Myanmar. But "it was bad, and ... it's the kind of story you really feel emotionally. In
that way, it's easy to write the story, because it just flows out. You feel passionate
about it."
In some ways, Banda Aceh before the tsunami resembled Myanmar, he said. The
region, the closest land to the magnitude-9.0 underwater earthquake that spawned
the tsunami, was also home to a nearly three-decade conflict between Indonesian
troops and separatist rebels, and people tended to be suspicious of outsiders.
Watch Dan Rivers' report from Myanmar »
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However, after the disaster, "they just opened the whole place up, and it was just
carte blanche," he said. "Anyone could go in. I guess I naively assumed it would be
the same in this instance," thinking that police, with so many victims and so much
damage to worry about, would not be concerned with, say, the kind of visa carried
by a visitor.
Rivers and his crew had been in Myanmar for only a day when a local contact
warned them that the government was seeking him -- just after his name was
broadcast. The contact said authorities were alerting all hotels to report which
foreigners had stayed there.
Still, though, "I was pretty confident we were being careful enough," he said. He
and his crew were continually changing locations, moving from hotel to hotel. But
he knew that the potential for a problem was there.
That became more apparent during a visit in the country's southern portion
Thursday, when members of his crew asked a local official whether a road was
open. The official said yes and was going to give them a pass, but he said an
immigration official wanted to talk to them, Rivers said. That official took the crew
members' passports and were comparing them to a picture of Rivers -- apparently
taken from a picture of a CNN screen. Learn more about Myanmar's recent
history »
"They disappeared for, like, two hours," Rivers said. "I didn't know what had
happened to them." He said he was worried his crew members might be
interrogated or tortured, and considered turning himself in.
"I was wandering the street, not knowing what to do," he said. It was "baking hot" --
about 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), he said. He knew no one and
was not fluent in the language. People were asking him who he was, where he
came from. One person asked whether he was with the CIA.
The situation was "pretty uncomfortable," he said. "I must have looked pretty
suspicious."
Luckily, he did not turn himself in -- and later found out that the officials did not
know the crew members were from CNN or that they were accompanying him.
When the crew told him the officials had his photo, however, Rivers realized other
authorities probably had his picture as well. The group decided to push farther
south, he said. At one point, he hid under a blanket in the back of the car at a police
checkpoint. It was at that checkpoint they were told that the people in the village
they had just left wanted to see them again.
The crew turned around but decided to get off the road and followed a dirt road into
the middle of the jungle, Rivers said. They parked the car, hopped on a boat and
traveled down the river in two small boats. They reached a small village and were
While walking, however, they were stopped by a local official carrying a walkie-
talkie, he said. The group was told to return to their van and that police would be
waiting for them there.
The encounter, he said, was "gut-wrenching ... you think, 'Oh, my God, this is just
going horribly wrong.' "
On the hour-long trek back through the jungle, Rivers said, he was genuinely
fearful.
"For the first time, I was thinking, you know, this is it," he said. "We're in the middle
of nowhere. No one knows where we are, exactly. They could just shoot us and
throw us into the river and say we had an accident. ... You start to think about
family and what you'd put them through if you disappear."
He said he expected a large phalanx of police officers at the van but was heartened
to see only two officers there. The group was asked for their passports. In holding
his out -- the last one to offer it -- Rivers said he held it in such a way that his thumb
covered his surname. Not noticing, police took his middle name and radioed it in.
"They thought we weren't who they were looking for and basically let us go," he
said, calling it a "fluke."
The group was escorted back into town and met with a more senior government
official, who appeared convinced they were there as part of an aid group. Finally
released, "we kind of hightailed it," driving all night into Yangon, he said.
"It was a genuinely very scary 12 hours," he said. "It really did seem like a week."
Sitting in a seat on a flight out of Yangon, having made it through security with no
problems, Rivers thought he was finished with the Myanmar government.
But a flight attendant approached him and told him immigration authorities wanted
to see him again, he said. He was escorted off the plane to officials who were
waiting for him at the gate.
The authorities "basically searched everything I had," he said. They went through
his bag and made him turn out his pockets, remove his shoes and socks.
He believes they were looking for pictures or videotapes, but he had none. They did
find a computer flash drive, Rivers said, but it had nothing on it and it was returned
to him. His passport was taken -- and his real name seen this time.
Eventually, the flight attendant returned. Although he did not understand the
discourse, Rivers said he believed she was telling them the flight could not be held
any longer and asking whether they were going to let him leave.
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And so they did. "They hadn't found anything on me. They probably just wanted to
get me out of the country anyway," he said. "The whole time, I just didn't really say
anything."
Speaking from his home Friday and battling exhaustion after about 36 hours
without sleep, Rivers said his experience as a wanted man was "really surreal."
"I guess the colorful bit, all this sneaking around in the swamps and getting on
boats and stuff -- there were some quite comical moments, when I was literally
under a blanket in the back of a car, sweating profusely at a checkpoint, trying to
look like a piece of luggage in the boot, and you're thinking, 'How do I get into these
situations?' "
But he said the stubbornness of the Myanmar regime was "breathtaking" -- that, in
the face of such a large-scale disaster, they would utilize time and resources
looking for a reporter.
"The more resources are spent chasing me, the less they're going to be
concentrating on actually helping people," he said. "There comes a point where I've
done my job. I've told people what was going on ... staying in much longer would
have meant I was getting in the way of the story."
စစ္သားေတၾ ဘယ္ေရာက္ကုန္႓ပီလဲ
ထိန္လင္း
ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈ http://moemaka.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1633&Itemid=1
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၀
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈
ရဟတ္ယာဥ္မ်ားအသုံးျပဳပုံ (Aljazeeraသတင္းဌာန)
ရဟတ္ယာဥ္တစ္စီးဆုိက္လာသည္။ (ဘုိကေလးၿမိဳ႔နယ္ေရာက္)ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားက
ရဟတ္ယာဥ္ဆင္းမည့္ေနရာသုိ႔ ေရာက္သြားၾကသည္။ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးပစၥည္းမ်ား
သယ္ေဆာင္လာမည္ဟု ယူဆၾကသည္။
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၁
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈
ဴမန္မာဴပည္အႎႀံႛ မဲေပးပံု
မရိုးသားမႁေတၾမဵားဴပား
2008-05-10 http://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/voting_in_burma-
05102008135223.html/story_main?textonly=1
ကူးစက္ေရာဂၝဴဖစ္ႎိုင္ေဳကာင္း
က႗မ္းကဵင္သူေတၾ သတိေပး
2008-05-10 http://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/expert_warn_diseases-
05102008141756.html/story_main?textonly=1
ဒီကေန႔ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေျခခံဥပေဒမူၾကမ္း
လူထုဆႏၵခံယူပြဲမွာ တႏိုင္ငံလံုး ေနရာအႏွံ႔
အျပား မဲလာေပးသူ အေရအတြက္
အေတာ့္ကို နည္းပါးပါတယ္။ ေနရာအမ်ား
စုမွာ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြရဲ႕ အာဏာအလြဲ
သံုးစားလုပ္မႈေတြ၊ ဖိအားေပးၿပီး ေထာက္
ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း၊ လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ခံမဲ ထည့္ခိုင္းတာေတြ၊ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြက
မဲေပးေနစဥ္။ ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈။ ကိုယ့္ဘာသာ မဲထည့္လိုက္တာေတြ
စသည္အားျဖင့္ မေတာ္မတရားလုပ္မႈမ်ဳိးစံု
ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဗီြအိုေအက စံုစမ္းသိရွိရပါ
တယ္။ အေၾကာင္းစုံကုိ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕ေရာက္ ဗြီအိုေအ၀ုိင္းေတာ္သား
ကိုေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္းက တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
“ေထာက္ခံမဲက ၉၀၇ မဲ၊ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲက ၁၄၇ မဲ၊ ႀကိဳတင္ေပးမဲက ၄၀၀၊ ေနာက္ သူတို႔
မဲေပးပံုေပးနည္းက ေကာ္မရွင္ေတြက အမွန္ျခစ္ၿပီးသား စာရြက္ေတြကို တခါထဲ
ကမ္းေပးတယ္။ ႀကိဳတင္မဲေတြကိုကေတာ့ သူတို႔ ညကတည္းက အိမ္ေပါက္ေစ့ ယူထား
တယ္။ ႀကိဳတင္မဲကို ေပးတဲ့အခါမွာ စာအိတ္ လံုး၀မေပးဘူး။ မဲ႐ံု၀န္ထမ္းေတြကလည္း
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ျပည္သူမ်ား ကူညီေရး
ေႏွာင့္ေႏွးေနသည့္ၾကားက က်င္းပသည့္ ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲ
ဘ၀င္မက်သူမ်ားျပား
10 May 2008 http://www.voanews.com/burmese/2008-05-10-referendum.cfm
ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြအေနနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအသစ္
ကို ႀကိဳက္ မႀကိဳက္ဆိုတာ လြတ္လြတ္
လပ္လပ္ ဆႏၵမဲေပးခြင့္ ရရွိခဲ့ၾကပါရဲ႕လား။
ျပည္သူလူထုက ဘယ္ေလာက္ တက္တက္
ႂကြႂကြ ရွိခဲ့ၾကပါသလဲ။ တႏုိင္ငံလံုးအေျခ
အေန ဘယ္လိုရွိသလဲဆိုတာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဒီဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကို
ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း လွည္းကူးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ အနီးကပ္ေစာင့္ၾကည့္
ဆႏၵမဲေပးေနပုံ။ ေမ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈။ ေလ့လာေနတဲ့ ဗြီအိုေအ၀ိုင္းေတာ္သား
ဆုိင္ကလုန္းမုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ ခံခဲ့ရသူေတြ၊
လတ္တေလာ အခက္အခဲေတြနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနရ
သူေတြကုိ အေရးေပၚအကူအညီေတြ ေပးအပ္ဖုိ႔
ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ကမ္းလွမ္းမႈေတြ ရွိေနေပမယ့္
လည္း ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရဘက္ကေတာ့ ဒါေတြကုိ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ
အျပည့္အ၀ လက္မခံေသးတာ
မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ခံလိုက္ရသည့္ ေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းမွာ အဓိက
ဘုိကေလးၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ေဆြးေႏြးေျပာဆုိေနရတဲ့ ကိစၥတခု ျဖစ္ေနရပါ
အပ်က္အစီးအခ်ဳိ႕။ တယ္။ အခုလည္းပဲ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု
ေမ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၈ နယူးေယာက္ခ္ၿမိဳ႕က ကုလသမဂၢ႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္မွာ
အေရးေပၚအကူအညီေတြကုိ ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရ
ျမန္မာေလေဘးသင့္ ျပည္သူေတြကို
ႏိုင္ငံတကာ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ကူညီခြင့္မရ
09 May 2008 http://www.voanews.com/burmese/2008-05-09-un-us-burma.cfm
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ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ အကူအညီေပးပစၥည္းေတြကို
ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္ေတြက ခြင့္ျပဳခဲ့တာေၾကာင့္
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္ခံစားခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေဘးဒုကၡသည္
၂၇၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္တို႔အတြက္ အကူအညီေတြကို
ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း အသီးသီးက ေပးႏိုင္ခဲ့
ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ တကယ္လိုအပ္မႈရွိေနတဲ့
လူအေရအတြက္ ၁,၅၀၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္နဲ႔ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္
မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ခံ ဘုိကေလးၿမိဳ႕မွ
မယ္ဆိုရင္ ဒီပမာဏဟာ မေျပာပေလာက္ေသး
ကေလးငယ္မ်ား။
ပါဘူးလို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ တာ၀န္ရွိသူတဦးက
ေမ ၈၊ ၂၀၀၈
ဗီြအိုေအကို ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္လိုအပ္တဲ့
သယ္ယူပို႔ေဆာင္ေရးယာဥ္ေတြ အပါအ၀င္ ပစၥည္းေတြဟာလည္း အဆင္သင့္ျဖစ္ေနတာမို႔
ဒါေတြကိုေပးခြင့္ျပဳဖို႔ ျမန္မာအာဏာပိုင္
ေတြကို ေမတၱာရပ္ခံ ေတာင္းဆိုတာေတြကိုလည္း ထပ္တလဲလဲ ေျပာဆိုေနၾကပါတယ္။
အျပည့္အစံုကို ဘန္ေကာက္ကေန ကိုေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္သိန္း တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္။
ဒုကၡေတာ ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းမွ …
ေအးခ်မ္းေျမ့ | ေမ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၈
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းဇာတိ အယ္ဒီတာေလး
တေယာက္က က်မကို ေျပာျပတာပါ။
သူတို႔ရြာနာမည္က ကၽြန္းေခ်ာင္းတဲ့။ လယ္
ေတြ၊ ယာေတြ သီးပင္စားပင္ေတြနဲ႔
တကယ့္ကိုစည္ပင္တဲ့ ရြာႀကီးတရြာလို႔
ဆိုပါတယ္။
သူ႔ဦးေလးအိမ္က
အိမ္လံုးႀကီးကေကာင္းေသးေတာ့
မေသဘဲက်န္ခဲ့တဲ့ သူတို႔ေဆြမ်ိဳးေတြအတြက္
ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းေပါ့။ အဲဒီ အယ္ဒီတာေလးနဲ႔
လက္လွမ္းမီသမွ် ရြာေတြ အားလံုးကေတာ့
ရြာလံုးကၽြတ္ ပ်က္စီးတာပဲလို႔ ဆိုတယ္။
ေတာင္ကုန္း၊ ဆိပ္ႀကီး၊ ျမတ္ေလး႐ံု
စတဲ့ရြာႀကီးေတြ၊ အရင္က အိုးစည္
ဒိုးပတ္သံေတြညံလို႔ အလွဴပြဲေတြ ၿခိမ့္ၿခိမ့္
သည္းခဲ့တဲ့ ရြာႀကီးေတြ၊ စပါး ေပၚခ်ိန္မွာ
ဘုရားပြဲေတြ က်င္းပလို႔ တရြာနဲ႔တရြာ ကူးလူး ဆက္ဆံ ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ ရြာႀကီးေတြ…။
“ကၽြဲႏြားေတြကေတာ့ ေျပာမေနနဲ႔။
မေရႏိုင္ဘူး။ ကၽြဲ၊ ႏြား၊ ေခြး၊ ေၾကာင္၊ ဝက္
အိမ္ေမြးတိရစၦာန္ အကုန္ေသတာ၊
ေခြးတေကာင္ ႏွစ္ေကာင္ေလာက္ပဲ
ရွင္တယ္”လို႔ သူ ေျပာျပလို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
“လူေတြက ေလေဘးနဲ႔မေသတာေတာင္
ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ စိတ္ေဝဒနာခံစားရတာ၊
ေရာဂါေဘးဒဏ္ခံစားရတာ၊ အငတ္ေဘး
ျပႆနာခံစားရတာနဲ႔ ေသမွာပဲအစ္မေရ။
ကယ္မယ့္ ကူမယ့္သူေတြအျမန္ဆံုး လာေစခ်င္ၿပီ”လို႔ လည္း သူက ညည္းညဴ ေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။
CONTRIBUTOR
Further Stormy Prospects for Burma
By MIN ZIN Saturday, May 10, 2008
Since security is all about preventing any major threat to human life, the effect of
the deadly cyclone that hit Burma last Saturday must be seen from a serious human
security perspective. However, the Burmese military junta is far from
comprehending such a humane concept.
The tragic toll exacted by Cyclone Nargis could exceed 100,000 deaths and a
million homeless, according to a US diplomat. There has been nothing like it in
Burmese history, neither during colonial rule nor in the country’s civil war. Some
older residents of Rangoon say they have seen nothing like it since the city was
severely bombed in World War II.
Many aid agencies worry that disease and starvation will claim thousands more
lives in the next few days. World Food Program spokesman Paul Risley said aid
agencies normally expect to fly in experts and supplies within 48 hours of a
disaster, but nearly a week after the cyclone the Burmese authorities are still
refusing to let foreign relief workers in.
Although the regime says it welcomes all forms of international help, in reality it
only accepts donations of cash or emergency aid such as medical supplies, food,
clothing, generators and shelters. A foreign ministry statement on Friday said:
"Myanmar (Burma) is not ready to receive search and rescue teams as well as media
teams from foreign countries." The military even deported some aid workers on
Wednesday.
The junta said it can deliver foreign aid "by its own labors to the affected areas."
According to a reliable source, it was junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe who decided
to bar international aid workers, although there had been a signs of initial flexibility
from Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein and the foreign ministry.
The source added that Than Shwe believes he has already distributed 5 billion kyat
(4.5 million dollars), which he mostly extorted from Burmese businessmen as
"donations", and he also has more than US $30 million from international
assistance pledges. He then decided to use his own Union Solidarity and
Development Association (USDA) and army to distribute aid.
"What Than Shwe doesn’t understand is that his $4.5 million can only be used for
food for 12 days, and all the promised dollars from the world may not come if the
international experts are not allowed into the country," said Win Min, a Burmese
analyst in Thailand.
Moreover, Burmese businessmen cannot afford to donate much more cash, and
overworked Burmese doctors have run out of resources.
Since many NGOs do not have projects in the Irrawaddy delta, they are not allowed
to do any aid work in the devastated region since they were not authorized to do so
in their MOUs.
According to inside sources, NGOs are now trying to work under the UN's umbrella
in order to reach into the delta.
Meanwhile, the military and its thuggish USDA members are intimidating private
donors who provide rice and clothing to cyclone victims in the suburban townships
of Rangoon. Many donors are reportedly being asked to hand over their relief
supplies to local USDA members for them to supervise distribution.
"Instead of protecting the people, the military and its thugs are looting from us,"
said one businesswoman.
Some sources closed to the military suggest that world leaders—particularly those
from China, India and Thailand, and even US President George W Bush—should
tackle Than Shwe directly as the junta leader’s subordinates might not be giving
him a full picture of the crisis.
Than Shwe ignored him and decided to go ahead with the referendum to approve a
constitution that will allow the perpetuation of military rule in the country. For
Than Shwe, regime security is more vital than human security, although people are
dying in massive numbers.
One military source said that Than Shwe stopped the planned dispatch of troops to
the disaster zones in the wake of Cyclone Nargis because he wanted them to
guarantee the security of the referendum.
The inability of the regime to respond to the cyclone crisis is now self-evident and
clearly demonstrates that Burma is a failed state.
The devastation caused by the cyclone will very likely have immense social and
political consequences. The limited or inequitable distribution of assistance and
outright bullying by government "thugs" could outrage discontented victims and
lead to social unrest and even violence.
Whether or not the cyclone disaster could lead to political change in Burma
depends on intermediary linkages—the leadership of opposition activists and public
influencers such as Buddhist monks— that could connect the disaster to
Meanwhile, the international community has done its best to help the people of
Burma.
A top US aid official said the US may consider air-dropping supplies for survivors
even without permission from the junta, though geopolitical considerations make
such action difficult. The junta agreed to allow a single US cargo aircraft to bring in
relief supplies, but it isn’t clear how the aid will be distributed.
Eventually, Than Shwe may negotiate with UN aid agencies to conduct limited
distribution work inside Burma in order to prevent direct intervention by the US
and other western countries. Some inside sources indicate that a few top brass
officials, including Gen Thura Shwe Mann, the third most powerful man in the
military hierarchy and a former regional commander of the Irrawaddy delta,
persuaded Than Shwe to cooperate with the international community.
Of course, Than Shwe will delay permission as long as possible since he likes to
show who’s in charge. Meanwhile, people will continue to perish hourly.
Copyright © 2008 Irrawaddy Publishing Group | www.irrawaddy.org
ရုပ္ရွင္သရုပ္ေဆာင္မ်ား ဆန္ေ၀ငွမႈလုပ္
မဇၩိမသတင္းဌာန
ေသာၾကာေန႔၊ ေမလ 09 2008 09:44 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္
ခ်င္းမုိင္။ ။ လမ္းျပၾကယ္ စာၾကည့္တုိက္မွ ေကာက္ခံ ရရွိေသာ အလႈေငြျဖင့္
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းတြင္းရွိ ေလေဘးဒဏ္ခံ ေနရာအခ်ဳိ့ အတြင္း ဆန္မ်ား လိုက္လံ ေ၀ငွျခင္းကို
ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ရုပ္ရွင္ သရုပ္ေဆာင္မ်ားက ျပဳလုပ္လ်ွက္ ရွိသည္။
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အမည္မေဖာ္လုိသူ လပြတၱာၿမ့ဳိသား
Privy Councillor and former prime minister Surayud Chulanont and a six-
member entourage will reportedly fly to Burma's new capital Naypyidaw
today in an effort to convince the ruling junta to accept humanitarian aid
for cyclone victims.
They will also present aid packages provided by the King to the Burmese
generals today.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn also ordered three
electricity generators along with a second package of disaster relief aid
to be sent to Burma yesterday.
The relief packages include 20 water purifiers and six boxes of water
purifying tablets, 500 packs of basic commodities, 120 boxes of
chocolate-malt powder, 63 large tents, 34 small tents and 300 pieces of
plastic clothes.
The packages, prepared in cooperation between the air force, the Thai
Red Cross and the Puen Pung (Pha) Yam Yak Volunteer Foundation,
arrived in Rangoon at about 2.30pm yesterday.
Meanwhile, UN refugee agency UNHCR said its first trucks had arrived in
Burma without a hitch yesterday, carrying 20 tons of emergency aid for
survivors of the cyclone. The trucks, with enough emergency material to
provide shelter for up to 10,000 people, crossed over from Thailand at
the Friendship Bridge border at Mae Sot. They carried plastic sheets and
tents.
The UNHCR also started airlifting 100 tons of shelter supplies, including
4,500 plastic sheets and 17,000 blankets, from its Dubai stockpile to
Rangoon early yesterday.
The first 33 tons left on a World Food Programme aircraft with two other
flights scheduled for early next week.
More than one million people are estimated to have lost their homes
after the cyclone hit last week.
The lorry convoy is expected to take about two days from the border to
Rangoon in the south.
The supplies, raided by the UNHCR from its existing stockpiles normally
intended for refugee camps scattered along the Thai-Burma border, will
be distributed by UNHCR staff.
The UNHCR negotiated a concession for the border posts to stay open at
the weekend to allow the convoys through.
The UNHCR launched a $187 million appeal for Burma on Friday which
included $6 million to provide 250,000 cyclone victims with shelter.
"With the likelihood of 100,000 or more killed in the cyclone there are all the
factors for a public health catastrophe which could multiply that death toll by up to
15 times in the coming period," said Oxfam's Regional Director for East Asia, Sarah
Ireland.
"We support a call to lift visa restrictions on international aid agencies wanting to
assist disaster affected people in Myanmar," said Ireland, joining a growing chorus
of relief experts demanding Burma's ruling generals grant them visas to expedite a
massive emergency aid programme in the areas hard-hit by the cyclone on May 2 to
3, which are only receiving a trickle of supplies a week after the storm.
The cyclone has been described as the worst natural disaster in South-east Asia
since the December 26, 2004, tsunami that claimed a quarter-of-a-million lives in
Indonesia, Thailand, India and other countries rimming the Indian Ocean.
The cyclone came at a sensitive time politically for the junta, which had planned a
referendum on Saturday to win approval of a new constitution that will cement its
dominant role under future elected governments through s system of appointees in
the upper and lower houses.
Ignoring international appeals to postpone the vote and concentrate on the helping
the cyclone victims instead, the military went ahead with the referendum on
Saturday, although it was delayed until May 24 in 47 of the worst-hit townships.
International aid workers are growing increasingly frustrated with the generals self-
serving strategies in the face of a looming hunger and health crisis in the country,
especially in the Irrawaddy delta where the majority of the victims are still without
basic supplies because of logistical obstacles and lack of goods.
"In the Boxing Day tsunami 250,000 people lost their lives in the first few hours but
we did not see an outbreak of disease because the host governments and the world
mobilised a massive aid effort to prevent it happening," said Oxfam's Ireland. "We
have to do the same for the people of Myanmar."
Citing evidence from previous experiences in disasters such as the 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami and Pakistan earthquake in 2005, Oxfam said that without an
immediate injection of life-saving aid such as clean water sources, up to 1.5 million
people are at risk from a diseases such as cholera, typhoid and shigella.
"We are certain the international humanitarian community can make a difference
on the ground and that's why we want to work with the people of Myanmar affected
by this terrible disaster," said Ireland.
The World Food Programme (WFP) reportedly flew in three deliveries of high-
energy biscuits over the weekend and the UN Human Rights Commissioner
(UNHCR) was allowed to send trucks with 20 tons of provisions from Thailand into
Burma via the Mae Sot border crossing.
Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 80, added to the aid flow on Sunday when he
donated 2,000 relief kits valued at over 1 million baht (31,750 dollars) to victims of
the cyclone.
The royal donation, including kitchen utensils and bedding material, was
transported by a Thai military C-130 aircraft to Rangoon Sunday morning.
Nearly 100 per cent of the people voted in favour of the new constitution in
Kokogyun township, Rangoon Division, in the referendum held Saturday, while
about 90 per cent cast "yes" votes in Mandalay Division and 95 per cent in Tachileik
township, Shan State, said a government source, who asked to remain anonymous.
Although the junta has postponed the vote to May 24 in 47 of the districts worst-hit
by the cyclone, including much of the former capital Rangoon, it rejected
international appeals to delay the controversial referendum and concentrate on
providing emergency relief.
The referendum process, held under the strict control of Burmese military masters,
has been call a sham by human rights activists and western democracies for being
neither free nor fair.
The regime has used both intimidation and vote-buying to assure the populace
votes yes, and will predictably resort to vote-rigging if too many vote no, observers
said.
Many civil servants, including teachers, soldiers, police, and members of the Union
Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) - the military's mass organisation -
were required to cast their votes in advance, and most were told by their bosses to
vote yes, sources said. Others were enticed to do so.
During recent weeks Burmese military has made clear through billboard and media
campaigns that they expect the people to vote yes.
It is expected that many people will still vote no, but since criticising the
constitution in public became a crime as of last February, they are not likely to
admit it.
"No" protest votes were expected to be especially high in the cyclone-affected areas,
given the government's poor response to the disaster and deliberate interference
with an international assistance programme, but whether they will be
acknowledged in the official tallies is doubted.
An estimated 1.5 million people were affected by Cyclone Nargis, which crashed in
to the central coastal region on May 2 and 3, leaving 23,335 dead and 37,019
missing, according to the latest official figures. Others estimate the death toll could
reach 100,000.
Burma has been under military rule for the past 46 years. The current junta has
promised a general election in 2010, but given its constitutional control over both
houses, prospects for true democracy remain dim.
The trucks, with enough emergency material to provide shelter for up to 10,000
people, had crossed over from Thailand at the Friendship Bridge border at Mae Sot.
They bore plastic sheets and tents.
"This convoy marks a positive step in an aid effort so far marked by challenges and
constraints," said Raymond Hall, UNHCR's Representative in Thailand.
"We hope it opens up a possible corridor to allow more international aid to reach
the cyclone victims."
Hall added: "What we are sending in by road is in addition to the supplies we have
already procured locally in Yangon and the 100 tons of supplies we started airlifting
today from Dubai."
UNHCR has also started airlifting 100 tons of shelter supplies, including 4,500
plastic sheets and 17,000 blankets, from its Dubai stockpile to Yangon early
Saturday.
The first 33 tons left on a World Food Programme aircraft with two other flights
scheduled for early next week.
The refugee agency is focusing on providing emergency shelter for the cyclone
victims in the Irrawaddy delta and parts of Yangon, which were among the worst
UNHCR has already distributed 50,000 dollars worth of shelter items bought
locally in the aftermath of the storm.
The lorry convoy is expected to take around two days from the border to Rangoon
in the south. The supplies, raided by UNHCR from its existing stockpiles normally
intended for refugee camps scattered along the Thai-Myanmar border, will be
distributed by UNHCR staff.
UNHCR negotiated a concession for the border posts to stay open at the weekend to
allow the convoys through.
UNHCR launched a 187 million dollars appeal for Burma Friday which included six
million to provide 250,000 cyclone victims with shelter.
THANAP PIN SATE, Myanmar: The bodies come and go with the tides. They
wash up onto the riverbanks or float grotesquely downstream, almost always face
down. They are all but ignored by the living.
In the southern reaches of the Irrawaddy Delta, where the only access to hundreds
of small villages is by boat, the remains of the victims of the May 3 cyclone that
swept across Myanmar are rotting in the sun.
"These people are strangers," said Kyaw Swe, a clothing merchant who said he
expected the tides to take away the six bloated bodies lying on the muddy banks
near his collapsed home. "They come from upstream."
Villagers here say it is not their responsibility to handle the dead. But the
government presence is barely felt in the serpentine network of canals outside
Bogale and Phyarpon, devastated towns in the delta, one of the areas hardest hit
by the storm.
"When we first saw the bodies floating past, we were sad and afraid," said Aung
Win, a 45-year-old rice farmer, who seemed to have survived because his house is
made of hardwood. "Now we just say, here comes another body."
In the less devastated areas, the military junta was focused on a constitutional
referendum on Saturday intended to cement its power after a campaign of
intimidation, even as it continued to restrict foreign aid shipments.
But here in the series of canals outside Bogale, many people interviewed Saturday
during an eight-hour boat trip used the same word to describe how many bodies
they saw in the immediate aftermath of the cyclone: "countless."
The trip began in Phyarpon, one of the delta's major cities, and continued
southwest through canals large and small, with stops at half a dozen villages. But in
a delta so vast, crisscrossed by tiny waterways, it is very difficult to assess the
overall scale of death and destruction. The official government death toll from the
cyclone is about 23,000, but by some accounts, it could reach 100,000 if aid does
not reach survivors soon.
As the boat wended its way through canals, it passed at least 24 bodies, most of
them along the banks, tangled with the fallen foliage. One body was positioned
reaching out toward the shore. Nearby, the bodies of an adult and a child clung to
each other, floating in the middle of a canal as riverboats passed by.
Even more pervasive are the giant corpses of water buffaloes bobbing in the water.
Because the dead have not been gathered in one place, calculating a precise
number of deaths caused by the cyclone could ultimately prove impossible. In
villages here, stunned survivors say the missing are presumed dead.
With no roads connecting them to larger towns and cities, these villages have
always been isolated. Now villagers say they feel abandoned.
In Gwe Choung, 13 miles from Bogale, a reporter visiting Saturday was the first
outsider to set foot in the village since the storm hit.
"We have no seed, no cows and no buffaloes," said Mawin Lat, 34, a villager. "We
only have food for the next few days."
Fish are plentiful in the canals, but villagers refuse to eat them because they fear
the bodies still floating have contaminated the water, she said.
Of the 200 people in the village, 96 died. In other villages visited Saturday, the
death tolls ranged from 3 to 20.
Hundreds of houses were destroyed, detritus from the storm hung from trees and
dozens of fishing boats were ruined. Many boats were swept by the winds and
waves during the storm onto embankments or into rice paddies.
In the worst-hit areas, only the dirt foundations of houses remain. On one mound of
mud where a house once stood, a dog waited patiently with no people in sight.
There is so much worry about measles outbreaks that the government has begun
vaccinating children in some of the Irrawaddy townships and also in temporary
shelters in other parts of the region, the World Health Organization reported
Saturday.
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Closer to Yangon, the main city, formerly known as Rangoon, the water is receding,
the rebuilding is accelerating and the cemeteries are dry enough to dig graves.
After a tumultuous week, the rituals of death returned to the small village of Ta Nyn
Kone. The thin but rigid body of 6-year-old Pauk Gyi was lowered into the ground,
wrapped in a bamboo mat and red fabric. Pauk Gyi died after a high fever that his
neighbors, who buried him, thought was caused by typhoid. He was laid to rest next
to his brother, Kyaw Zin Htat, who drowned in flood waters on Friday.
The parents, stricken by their double loss, stayed at home during the burial.
"They are anguished," said U Shwe Nyne, a neighbor who helped bury the boys.
"The mother is hysterical."
Deltas are disaster zones in waiting. From the Mekong to the Mississippi, the rich
soils and strategic positions of river mouths have long lured farmers, fishermen and
traders. But the same geography also guarantees they will be periodically
inundated.
A case in point was Cyclone Nargis. As it roared over the sprawling, crowded delta
of the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar, the sea surged up to 11 kilometers, or 7 miles,
inland like a slow-motion tsunami, as up to 60 centimeters, or 2 feet, of rain fell.
Still, many experts say it is not nature that largely determines the amount of death
and destruction in such circumstances, but investment, governance and policy (or
the lack of it).
Governments that do not prepare adequately - either through political inertia and
underinvestment as in New Orleans, or willful disregard, as critics of the Myanmar
junta charge - will continue to see tragic losses.
There is a long list of reasons for countries with low-lying population centers,
particularly around rivers, to do more to gird for the worst.
Simultaneously, such regions face a faster retreat of coastlines from the rise in sea
levels, as climate and oceans warm under the influence of accumulating
greenhouse gases, scientists warn.
Cyclones in its deltas killed something like half a million people in 1970, and
140,000 in 1991. Last November, aid organizations estimate, the toll from Cyclone
Sidr was about 4,000; in that case, more than two million people had taken shelter
when the storm struck.
Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath, on the other hand, provide a vivid study in how
poverty and insufficient government investment can turn a natural disaster into an
outsize human tragedy, said Debarati Guha-Sapir, the director of the World Health
Organization's Collaborating Center for Research on Disaster Epidemiology, in
Brussels.
"The villages are in such levels of desperation - housing quality, nutritional status,
roads, bridges, dams - that losses were more determined by their condition rather
than the force of the cyclone," she said.
The junta is refusing to grant entry to foreign aid workers, who relief officials say are
crucial to preventing more deaths from disease among an estimated 1.5 million
victims of the May 3 storm.
The United Nations World Food Program said that only one visa had been
approved out of 16 it had requested and the aid group World Vision said it had
requested 20 visas but received two.
At Yangon's port, shipments of rice were being loaded onto two freighters bound for
Malaysia and Singapore, apparently as part of a pre-existing contract. Nearby,
another ship was being loaded with rice bound for the Irrawaddy Delta, which bore
the brunt of the storm.
As aid shipments continued Sunday, a spokesman for the World Food Program,
Paul Risley, said it amounted to about one-tenth of what was needed, in addition to
a major logistical operation.
The World Food Program said the authorities had released 38 tons of high-energy
biscuits it had confiscated on Friday and that 4.4 tons of biscuits had been
delivered Sunday.
The International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said
that three of its aircraft delivered 14 tons of shelter materials.
The United States was preparing to send in its first aircraft with relief supplies on
Monday.
Reuters reported Sunday that state-run Myanmar TV had said that the death toll
had risen to 28,458, with 33,416 people missing.
But the focus for the military junta this weekend was on a referendum for a
constitution that is intended to perpetuate military rule. Residents said the vote
followed a campaign of coercion mixed with propaganda.
The military appeared to have diverted some resources from helping cyclone
victims to the overseeing the voting, which was held in all but the hardest hit areas.
A resident of Yangon said by telephone that refugees who had sought shelter in
schoolhouses had been evicted so the sites could be used as polling places. She
said refugees had also been evicted from other buildings.
But he said that most voters had no idea what they were voting for, and that neither
he nor most people he knew had actually read the proposed constitution. "The
government says vote, so we vote," he said with a shrug. He spoke openly, but,
fearing retribution, asked that his name not be used.
Most villagers, when asked about their votes, said nothing. A man selling batteries,
combs and flip-flops from a small pushcart hurried off when he was asked about the
referendum. "I cannot speak about this," he said over his shoulder. "I'm afraid."
No preliminary results had been announced by late Sunday, but the state-run
media said the voting had proceeded without incident. The front page of the
government newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar, on Sunday carried
photographs of General Than Shwe, the leader of the junta, voting with his wife,
Kyaing Kyaing.
Thousands of soldiers were on the roads Saturday, using axes, machetes and two-
handled cross-cut saws to clear trees from towns and roads.
Small groups of residents in Yangon banded together to distribute aid, but one said
the authorities sometimes confiscated their supplies. They said some victims had
taken shelter in Buddhist monasteries, which had been targets of the military when
it suppressed the protests led by monks in September.
Relief officials warned of an epidemic of cholera and said there was generally a 10-
day window after a disaster before the death rate rose steeply.
Health officials are concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and
dysentery, which can be spread by contaminated water and food. Severe diarrhea
can be rapidly fatal, especially in children, and clean water and rehydrating
solutions must be made available quickly to save lives.
While the generals were getting out the vote and relief workers were stranded
abroad waiting for visas, the local staffs of international agencies were struggling
with a disaster far beyond their capacities.
With limited stockpiled supplies and without the huge infrastructure needed for a
relief operation of such a size, they were doing what they could, meeting each day
to coordinate their work.
Unicef has one of the largest staffs in place, with 130 local workers and 17
foreigners. The World Food Program has 200 Burmese on staff and 15 foreigners.
Some other staffs are tiny.
The first priorities are gathering stockpiled disaster relief food from around the
country and mapping the affected areas to determine what is needed, said Shantha
Bloemen, a spokeswoman for Unicef in Bangkok.
At the same time, Bloemen said, Unicef is shopping at the local market for things
like tarpaulins, plates and first aid supplies. "The local markets are probably now
depleted," she said.
Once the emergency of food, water, shelter and medical care are addressed, the
second emergency arrives, the rebuilding of lives and livelihoods.
The building blocks are rice, livestock and fisheries, said Diderik de Vleeschauwer,
a spokesman for the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
Two experts are in the field, testing the salinity of the soil, the damage to rice
stocks, the state of irrigation systems and the possibilities for draining vast pools of
seawater deposited by the storm.
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Many fishing boats were probably lost, leaving survivors with no livelihood. Large
numbers of animals probably died in a region that raises 40 percent of the nation's
livestock.
"This is the food basket of the whole country," De Vleeschauwer said, "so damage
to the crops and livestock and fisheries may affect seriously the food security
situation of the entire country."
This article is by a reporter for The International Herald Tribune in Myanmar and
Seth Mydans in Bangkok. Warren Hoge and Denise Grady contributed reporting
from New York.
YANGON: A week after a cyclone smashed into Myanmar, killing more than 28,000
people and endangering more than a million, the horrifying stories and gruesome
pictures from the southern delta have finally begun reaching Yangon.
With an estimated six million people, the former capital, once known as Rangoon, is
by far the largest city in the country. Yangon took a ferocious pounding in the
storm, and it is estimated that 70 percent of the city's trees were uprooted or
damaged. Power was still out in much of the city on Sunday, although military and
municipal crews were working to clear fallen trees and untangle power lines.
And despite the damage, fear and sadness to the south, the city was trying to
regain some sense of normalcy.
The markets were bustling Sunday with merchants and shoppers, but prices for
basic items had jumped dramatically. Rice, the main staple of any Burmese diet,
has more than doubled in price. The same goes for gasoline, as people with home
generators drive up demand. Candles, which provide the only light in the poorest
homes, have tripled in price.
"These military men are notorious," said a college student whose family had to buy
seven panels to repair their storm-damaged roof. "They get these supplies free.
They are donated by other countries, then the military receives them and sells them
to the people. The price is normal, but these things should be free."
In the streets of Yangon, however, people seemed to be getting on with daily life.
They got haircuts, read newspapers, dodged traffic, bought groceries and waited
for buses. Sweethearts cuddled on benches at Inya Lake. Boys swam and dunked
each other.
The temple was badly damaged in the storm, as cyclone winds tore hundreds of
gold-leaf panels off the body of the 98-meter bell-shaped stupa. More than 1,000
precious stones - jade, rubies, emeralds and sapphires - also fell off, although the
76-carat diamond atop the pagoda's spire had stayed in place.
The pagoda complex was immediately closed for five days, for clearing, cleaning
and repairs. It finally reopened Saturday, and worshipers streamed in all weekend,
chanting prayers and offering thanks for surviving the deadly storm. A number of
people said the city was spared more serious damage because of the holiness of
the pagoda here. Legend has it that eight hairs from Buddha's head are buried
somewhere in the complex.
A banyan tree in the far corner of the complex also was damaged, as the 120-mph
winds tore off huge limbs and branches, an especially worrisome development
because the tree was brought from India 82 years ago, said to be grown from
cuttings taken from the very tree that Buddha was sitting under when he achieved
Enlightenment.
Many worshipers knelt in front of the tree on Sunday. They chanted, prayed, bowed
their heads, and burned sticks of incense. A Shwedagon curator standing nearby
said a botanist had inspected the tree and oversaw some post-storm pruning.
COMMENTARY
Black Saturday
By AUNG ZAW Sunday, May 11, 2008
A category 3 cyclone ripped through the Bay of Bengal last week and slammed into
the Irrawaddy on Friday night, May 2. By the time the 120 mph winds and tidal
waves had subsided on Saturday morning, Burma was in the midst of one of the
greatest catastrophes in modern history and had an enormous humanitarian crisis
on its hands.
About 100,000 people are believed to be dead or missing and over 1.5 million have
overnight become homeless refugees.
The people of Burma are in mourning; but the ruling generals of the junta have
Ironically, those same leaders only escaped the natural disaster because they built a
new capital for themselves in central Burma in 2005.
In the wake of the cyclone, the finger of blame is pointing directly at Sen-Gen Than
Shwe, his hard-core ministers and the junta leaders.
The uncaring military leaders who claimed to be building a “modern, developed and
flourishing disciplined democracy” have to be held accountable.
First, Than Shwe’s regime failed to issue an advanced warning to people in the delta
region.
Second, the regime responded slowly to the devastation in the cyclone-hit areas.
And, most shockingly, the regime stalled international aid workers and aid
packages coming into Burma and delayed issuing visas to international aid and
medical workers.
Vocal critics of the Burmese military government, such as the US and the EU,
circumvented their sanctions on Burma and immediately offered not only
sympathy, but aid in the form of money, food, supplies and personnel.
Still, the Burmese generals refused to answer the door. The frustration the UN
expressed was almost palpable; people were dying as they were kept waiting on the
doorstep.
To date, the amount of humanitarian aid reaching the victims of Nargis has been
but a drop in the ocean. According to aid agencies, 75 percent of survivors have still
received no aid.
Last week, US President Bush again reached out to the military junta, saying: “Let
the United States come to help you, help the people. Our hearts go out to the people
of Burma. We want to help them deal with this terrible disaster.”
A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed the US Navy has three ships in the Gulf of
Thailand, including the USS Essex, which is carrying 1,800 marines, 23 helicopters
and five amphibious landing craft.
“The [US] military has vast resources and experience in dealing with this type of
situation,” Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell told reporters, undoubtedly
referring to the massive humanitarian response to the 2004 tsunami.
However, while the rest of the world appears to be overwhelmed with a need to help
and save the victims of Cyclone Nargis, Burma’s ruling generals only appear to be
concerned with holding a superficial referendum and consolidating their own
power.
Opposition leaders and activists now accuse Than Shwe of committing crimes
against humanity.
State-run Burmese newspapers have been filled with propaganda and articles
advertising the constitutional referendum and calling for an affirmative vote.
The cyclone victims and the devastation caused by the cyclone have been eclipsed
by footage of well-dressed smiling generals delivering food and water to nervous
cyclone victims, propagating the impression that the junta is playing a leading role
in helping survivors.
Since the regime announced it was holding a referendum on May 10 and elections
in 2010, a climate of fear has been ubiquitous in Burma. Constant tactics of
intimidation have been employed to extract a “Yes” vote from Burma’s 27 million
voters that would enshrine a leading role for the military in the country’s
constitution.
Critics and international observers have dismissed the referendum as nothing more
than a “sham” or a political ruse to legitimize the military's grip on power. They
have noted that the proposed constitution reserves a hefty chunk of parliamentary
seats for the army and effectively bars opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize
winner Aung San Suu Kyi from holding office.
Civil servants, soldiers and members of the servile Union Solidarity and
Development Association (USDA) were told to vote in advance with no doubt as to
which way they were expected to vote.
Burmese living overseas were “invited” to vote, but those who were suspected of
intending to vote “No” were turned away from Burmese embassies.
Then, on Saturday, exactly a week after the deadly storm, to the fury of many
Burmese, state television showed Than Shwe and his wife arriving at a polling
station to vote, after conspicuously retreating from public eye since the cyclone hit.
Many voters in Rangoon townships and Mandalay, Pegu, Sagaing and Magwe
divisions told The Irrawaddy that referendum officials had handed out ballot
papers already marked with a tick, indicating approval of the government’s draft
constitution.
They also complained that the referendum was by no means “free and fair,” saying
they cast their votes observed by officials, including members of the USDA and
security guards from the pro-junta Swan-Ar-Shin. In many cases, officials sat close
to the ballot boxes and advised people how to vote.
A few days ago, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed his concern about
the welfare of people in Burma and made reference to the government's decision to
proceed with the referendum, while postponing it only in areas most affected by the
cyclone.
“Due to the scope of the disaster facing Myanmar [Burma] today, however, the
Secretary-General believes that it may be prudent to focus instead on mobilizing all
available resources and capacity for the emergency response efforts,” said in a
statement released by Ban’s press office.
The Burmese people who have endured military dictatorship for decades and who
now face the catastrophe of a major natural disaster have been dealt a double
Many Burmese are deeply superstitious and believe that Cyclone Nargis was a form
of divine intervention to disrupt the regime’s referendum and undermine the
stability of the military government.
Burmese have traditionally believed that if a country is ruled by a bad king, it will
face natural disasters such as storms, fire and floods. It’s a sign that the tyrant or
inept ruler needs to be removed—the gods are not happy with the rulers of Burma.
Whether divine intervention or not, the cyclone has changed Burma’s political
dynamics and undermined the regime’s “road map” and constitutional process. The
wrath of the cyclone has unmasked Than Shwe and his perfidious cronies and
uncovered their true colors for the world to see.
Yet, this is by no means the first time the regime has shown callous indifference to
suffering. In fact, it has been a continuous policy since 1962.
It may still be wishful thinking that Than Shwe’s days are numbered. However, it is
a hope widely shared among Burma’s people and millions of others around the
world.
The victims of the cyclone do not want ballot papers—they want food, water, shelter
and medicine. Then they want freedom from tyranny.
Copyright © 2008 Irrawaddy Publishing Group | www.irrawaddy.org
ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ဧၿပီ၊ ၂၉
ျပည္ပေရာက္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသူႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား၏ အေရအတြက္ကို
တိတိက်က်စာရင္းျပဳစုႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိေသးေသာ္လည္း ခန္႔မွန္း ေျခ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ (၃)သန္းမွ
(၅)သန္းအထိ ရွိႏုိင္သည္ဟု ဆိုၾကသည္။ အကယ္၍ (၅)သန္းမွ်ရွိ၍ တဦးလွ်င္ တေဒၚလာ စီ
ထည့္၀င္စုေဆာင္းၾကသည္ဆိုပါစို႔။ တလလွ်င္ေဒၚလာ(၅)သန္းမွ်ရွိမည့္ ရန္ပံုေငြသည္
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ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္း မ်ားအတြက္ အေထာက္အကူ ျဖစ္ေပလိမ့္မည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္
က်ေနာ္တို႔အေနျဖင့္“ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရး ရန္ပံုေငြ”ဟူသည့္ ရန္ပံုေငြစနစ္တရပ္ကို
ထူေထာင္ႏုိင္ၾကမည္ဆိုပါက မုခ်ပင္အက်ဳိးရွိေပမည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ထိုရန္ပံုေငြကို ယခုလို
ကပ္ဆုိက္မႈ ႀကီးမ်ားေပၚေပါက္လာပါက အသံုးျပဳရန္ႏွင့္ (စစ္အစိုးရလြန္)
အနာဂတ္ျမန္မာျပည္ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးကိစၥရပ္မ်ား၌သာ အသံုးျပဳရန္ဟူသည့္
ဦးတည္ခ်က္မ်ဳိးျဖင့္ ထူေထာင္ထားရွိမည္ဆိုလွ်င္ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါ၏ေလာ။
အို…
နာဂစ္ငဲ့
ဧရာ၀တီဟာ
ငတို႔ရဲ႕ ၀ိညာဥ္
ငတို႔ရဲ႕ မိခင္
ငတို႔ဖို႔ ဧရာ၀တီ ျပန္ေပးပ။
ေအာင္ေမာ္ဦး
ေမ၊ ၁၀၊ ၂၀၀၈။
ေအာင္သူၿငိမ္း
ေမလ ၁၁ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္။
ၾကက္ေျခနီအဖြဲ႔မွအဆိုျပဳေသာ အဲန္ဂ်ီအိုမ်ားထားရွိသင့္သည့္
လူမႈကယ္ဆယ္ေရး က်င့္ထံုး (၁၀) ခ်က္
"The crew managed to get to the safety of an island, along with four Red Cross
staff who were on the boat," Red Cross official Joe Lowry said. "But we've lost most
of the cargo."
The double-decker relief boat was carrying about 100 bags of rice, 5,000 thousand
liters of drinking water, 10,000 water purification tablets, 200 water storage
containers, 10 stretchers, 30 boxes of clothing and household items like soap.
A submerged tree damaged the hull of the boat as it headed toward the delta town
of Bogale, which was hit hard by the cyclone, Lowry said. The boat sank quickly,
leaving its cargo at the bottom of a muddy river, he said.
The boat was traveling from Yangon to Mawlamyinegyun when it sank, according to
the Red Cross.
"[It's] the first time we got a boat going with so much aid on it; the local Red Cross
people are extremely saddened and distressed that they've lost this," Lowry said.
"Thankfully no lives were lost."
A U.S. military transport aircraft with relief supplies is expected to land in Myanmar
on Monday on a mission that officials hope will help forge a relationship to allow the
United States to send in disaster experts.
The United States said it received permission to land the Lockheed C-130
Hercules, and hopes to send in two more planes on Tuesday.
The C-130 will be carrying items such as wood, buckets, nails, blankets and plastic
tarps to help with shelter needs. The supplies will be handed to the military junta
that rules Myanmar.
The U.S. military also is trying to meet face-to-face with junta leaders to get
permission to distribute U.S. aid to cyclone victims in remote regions by helicopters,
according to two senior U.S. officials.
The Britain-based international aid agency Oxfam warns that without the proper
relief -- particularly clean water -- nearly 1.5 million people could be affected by a
wider humanitarian crisis.
Nearly a week after Cyclone Nargis hit the south Asian country, providing relief
supplies has been a daunting task for international aid agencies.
The country's name was changed from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, but many who
do not recognize the current government still use its former name. The military junta
has said it will accept international aid but insisted it would distribute the supplies
itself.
That has raised fears that the supplies will not get to the people who need it most,
according to Debbie Stothard, head of the Southeast Asian human rights group
ALTSEAN-Burma.
"We're getting, starting to get, reports of aid being distributed with the names of
military leaders and VIPs plastered all over the aid packages," Stothard
said."There's people who are very concerned now, that the reason the aid workers
are being blocked is so that the military can deliver aid selectively and so that they
can appropriate the aid and pretend it was from them in the first place."
An American embassy official in Thailand said the USS Essex was also en route to
Myanmar with supplies.
A French naval ship is also on its way toward Myanmar, transporting 1,500 tons of
medical equipment, food and water.
Bernard Kouchner, foreign affairs minister, said the French aid will go directly to the
victims.
"We won't give aid to Burma's junta, even if they would accept it. We will use our
own channels in the country."
Three IRC planes carrying 14 tons of shelter materials landed at the Yangon
International Airport on Saturday. Two more arrived from the U.N. World Food
Program, which temporarily halted flights Friday after the government refused to let
their workers pass out the supplies.
"The authorities at Yangon airport told us yesterday it can be collected and taken to
distribution wherever we decide," Luescher said via e-mail Sunday. "We will be
collecting them today and moving them directly for distribution."
The marketing campaign showed pictures of people voting as a song played with
the lyrics, "Let's go to cast vote with sincere thoughts for happy days." Similar notes
were posted on ballot boxes.
"The state on the ground remains essentially the same and the so-called
referendum, in which voting took place yesterday, on the reports we've had,
effectively took place without incident," said Australian Foreign Minister Stephen
Smith.
"But I again make the point as I've made consistently: Australia regards the
referendum process as nothing more, nothing less than a sham. And our view
would be the referendum process be deferred completely, rather than just being
deferred until the 24th of May in the most adversely affected areas."
ျမန္မာျပည္ကလားေဟ့ - ၀င္ခဲ့ေလကြယ္ …
ေမာင္ရစ္
ေမ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၈
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၂
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၈
၂၈၄၅၈ ေသဆုံး၊
၃၃၄၁၆ ေပ်ာက္ဆုံး
ဟု ဆုိသည္။ွ
လပြတၱာၿမိဳ႔နယ္ တေနရာတြင္
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ေတြ႔ရေသာ ကြ်ဲႏွင့္လူ႐ုပ္အေလာင္းအခ်ဳိ႔
လပြတၱာေဆး႐ုံ (APသတင္းဌာန)
လပြတၱာအေျခအေန(Reutersသတင္းဌာန)
မုန္တိုင္းေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ သတင္းတုိထြာ ၁၃
ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား
ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/Articles2008/May/13.html
ကြမ္းျခံကုန္းၿမိဳ႕ခံ ဆိုက္ကားနင္းတဲ့
ကိုထြန္းထြန္းကေတာ့ ႀကံဳေတြ႕ေနရတဲ့
လက္ရွိအေျခအေနအရ သူ႔ဘဝအာမခံခ်က္
အေပၚ သံသယ ဝင္လာတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
မေလွ်ာ္ကန္ေသာ မဲ႐ုံမ်ား
ၾကည္ေ၀ | ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/Articles2008/May/12.html
ေက်ာင္း၀န္းေရွ႕ ဂိတ္ေပါက္အနီးတြင္
ယူနီေဖာင္းအျပည့္ အစံု၀တ္ ရဲတပ္ၾကပ္ၾကီး ၁
ဦးႏွင့္ ရဲသား ၁ ဦး၊ မီးသတ္ ရဲေဘာ္ ၃ ဦးကို
အေစာင့္ခ်ထားလ်က္ရွိျပီး ေမာ္ေတာ္
ဆိုင္ကယ္ႏွင့္ အရပ္၀တ္ရဲမ်ား၊
စစ္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးမ်ားမွာ
စကားေျပာစက္မ်ား ခါးတြင္ခ်ိတ္၍ အဆိုပါ
မဲရံု အနီးတ၀ိုက္ တြင္လည္းေကာင္း၊ အဆိုပါ
ျမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္းရွိ မဲရံု တရံုမွ တရံုသို႔
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ေမွာ္ဘီၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရွိ မဲ႐ုံတ႐ုံေရွ႕တြင္ လည္းေကာင္း ကူးလူးလ်က္ရွိသည္။
မဲဆႏၵရွင္တခ်ိဳ႕ မဲေပးရန္ ေရာက္ရွိေနပုံ (ဓာတ္ပံု
- ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ) မဲရံု၀င္ေပါက္အနီးတြင္ တပ္ဆင္ထားေသာ
ေဆာင္းေဘာက္ ၾကီးဆီမွ မဲရံုမွာ မဲေပးစို႔
သီးခ်င္းသံကလည္း မဲရံု အတြင္းရွိ အသံမ်ားအားလံုးကို လႊမ္းျခံဳပစ္လိုက္သလို တရပ္ကြက္လံုး
ကိုပင္ လႊမ္းမိုးဆူညံလ်က္ရွိသည္။
ျမန္မာအႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား
ေလေဘးသင့္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို သြားေရာက္ကူညီ
ကိုသက္ | ေမ ၁၁၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_11a_08.html
ေလေဘးအလႉပစၥည္း အလြဲသံုးစားမႈမ်ား
ရန္ကုန္တြင္ရွိ
ကိုသက္ | ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_12a_08.html
စရိတ္ခံမွ လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးရ
မိုးေအာင္တင္/ရန္ကုန္ | ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_12b_08.html
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_12c_08.html
ျမန္မာ့ေရတပ္ သေဘၤာမ်ားလည္း
မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္
ေအးခ်မ္းေျမ့ | ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_12d_08.html
ႏိုင္ငံတကာအကူအညီ အျမန္လိုအပ္ဟု
ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားေတာင္းဆို
ေအးလဲ့ | ေမ ၁၂၊ ၂၀၀၈
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2008/May/may_12e_08.html
ႏိုင္ငံျခားကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္သားမ်ာကို တားျမစ္ျခင္းႏွင့္ပတ္သက္ၿပီး
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဴပ္မႈးႀကီးသန္းေရႊမွာသာ တာဝန္အရွိဆံုးျဖစ္ သည္ဟု ျမန္မာ့အေရး
ေလ့လာသူဦးေအာင္ႏိုင္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။