ျမန္မာဘာသာျပန္ကို အဂၤလိပ္ဘာသာေနာက္တြင္ဆက္လက္ဖတ္ရႈနိုင္ပါသည္
(ဘာသာျပန္၍ေမးပို ့ေပးေသာအန္ကယ္ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္လွႀကိဳင္အားေက်းဇူးအထူးတင္ရိွပါသည္)
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests and colleagues
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is my second visit to Myanmar in just over a year. Both visits have been at critical times for the country's future.
My first visit was in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. This devastating natural disaster, which took so many lives and created so much hardship, touched hearts across the globe. In Myanmar's moment of need, the world responded generously.
I want to personally thank everyone here today for your remarkable contributions to the relief and recovery effort.
You have saved lives, rejuvenated communities and made it possible for many thousands of people to reclaim their livelihoods. You have helped Myanmar to overcome adversity. It is important that this work continues.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I felt the tragedy of Cyclone Nargis deeply -- as a fellow Asian and as Secretary-General.
I am Asia's second Secretary-General. The first was Myanmar''s U Thant. I revere his memory. I also recall his wise words.
U Thant said: “The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come and go, but humanity remains.”
This is why I have returned.
As Secretary-General, I attach the highest importance to helping the people of this country to achieve their legitimate aspirations.
The United Nations works for people – their rights, their well-being, their dignity. It is not an option. It is our responsibility.
I have come to show the unequivocal shared commitment of the United Nations to the people of Myanmar.
I am here today to say: Myanmar – you are not alone.
We want to work with you for a united, peaceful, prosperous, democratic and modern Myanmar.
We want to help you rise from poverty.
We want to work with you so your country can take its place as a respected and responsible member of the international community.
We want to help you achieve national reconciliation, durable peace and sustainable development.
But, let me emphasize: neither peace nor development can thrive without democracy and respect for human rights.
Myanmar is no exception.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The challenges are many. But they are not insurmountable.
We know from experience that securing Myanmar's peaceful, democratic and prosperous future is a complex process.
None of Myanmar's challenges can be solved on their own. Peace, development and human rights are closely inter-related.
Failure to address them with equal attention will risk undermining the prospects for democracy, durable peace and prosperity.
However, we also know that where there is a genuine will for dialogue and reconciliation, all obstacles can be overcome.
The question today is this: how much longer can Myanmar afford to wait for national reconciliation, democratic transition and full respect for human rights?
The cost of delay will be counted in wasted lives, lost opportunities and prolonged isolation from the international community.
Let me be clear: all the people of Myanmar must work in the national interest.
I said this yesterday when I met with representatives of Myanmar's registered political parties and with those armed groups that have chosen to observe a cease-fire. I encouraged them respectively to honour their commitments to the democratic process and peace.
Nonetheless, the primary responsibility lies with the Government to move the country towards its stated goals of national reconciliation and democracy.
Failure to do so will prevent the people of Myanmar from realizing their full potential.
Failure to do so will deny the people of Myanmar their right to live in dignity and to pursue better standards of life in larger freedom.
These principles lie at the core of the United Nations Charter, whose opening words are “We the peoples”.
The founding Constitution of independent Myanmar echoes these noble words. We must work together to ensure that Myanmar's future embodies these principles too.
With this in mind, I bring three messages.
First, respect for human dignity is the precondition for peace and development everywhere.
Myanmar was one of the first United Nations Member States to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It subscribed early on to the consensus that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is indispensable to political, economic and social progress.
Unfortunately, that commitment has not been matched in deed. Myanmar's human rights record remains a matter of grave concern.
The Government has articulated its goals as stability, national reconciliation and democracy.
The upcoming election –the first in twenty years – must be inclusive, participatory and transparent if it is to be credible.
Myanmar's way forward must be rooted in respect for human rights
This is why I say that all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, should be released without delay.
When I met General Than Shwe yesterday and today, I asked to visit Ms. Suu Kyi. I am deeply disappointed that he refused.
I believe the government of Myanmar has lost a unique opportunity to show its commitment to a new era of political openness.
Allowing a visit to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi would have been an important symbol of the government's willingness to embark on the kind of meaningful engagement that will be essential if the elections in 2010 are to be seen as credible.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi must be allowed to participate in the political process without further delay.
Indeed, all the citizens of Myanmar must be given the opportunity to contribute fully to the future of this country.
National reconciliation cannot be complete without the free and active participation of all who seek to contribute.
The country must embark on a process of genuine dialogue that includes all concerned parties, all ethnic groups and all minorities.
People must be free to debate and to engage in political dialogue, and they must have free access to the information that will help them participate meaningfully in the democratic process.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Any transition is difficult. Myanmar has already undergone transitions from sovereign kingdom, to occupied colony, and now independent State.
This history carries a twin legacy of armed conflict and political deadlock, including recent painful events: the repression of demonstrators in 1988, the cancellation of the 1990 election results, and the clampdown on peaceful dissent that continues to this day.
At the same time, there have been some positive efforts that should be recognized.
Although still fragile, the cease-fire agreements between the Government and armed groups have reduced the level of conflict. The United Nations has wide-ranging experience in making such gains irreversible.
Sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity are legitimate concerns for any government.
We contend that opening and broadening the political space is the best way to ensure that each group and each individual becomes part of the greater collective project.
The military, all political parties, ethnic minority groups, civil society, and indeed every son and daughter of Myanmar has a role to play in this country's transition.
Only mutual compromise, respect and understanding can lay the foundations for durable peace, national reconciliation and democracy.
My second message is on addressing the humanitarian needs of Myanmar's people.
I am glad I have been able to return to see the progress made in the Irrawaddy Delta. The loss of some 130,000 people was tragic, but the rebuilding I saw today was impressive.
The tragedy showed the resilience of the people of Myanmar. It also demonstrated that people throughout the world care deeply about Myanmar and its people.
Above all, the response to Cyclone Nargis proved the value of engagement over isolation.
The unprecedented cooperation between Myanmar, the United Nations and ASEAN through the Tripartite Core Group, with the support of the donor community, has demonstrated that humanitarian imperatives and the principles of sovereignty do not conflict.
Humanitarian assistance -- in Myanmar as elsewhere -- should never be held hostage to political considerations. We can and must work together to ensure access to humanitarian and development assistance to all those in Myanmar who need it.
This brings me to my third message. It is time for Myanmar to unleash its economic potential.
Myanmar sits in the middle of Asia's economic miracle. Harnessing Myanmar to the rapid advances taking place around it is the surest way to raise living standards.
I welcome the Government's policy of opening up to outside trade and investment, and its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, control HIV, combat human trafficking and curtail opium production.
But the reality is that millions continue to live in poverty. Standards of living in Myanmar remain among the lowest in Asia.
The people of Myanmar need jobs, they need food security and they need access to health care.
We must work to ensure that the people of Myanmar can benefit from and contribute to the regional and global economy.
We must recognize that the region and the world have much to gain from a stable, prosperous and democratic Myanmar. We must work together for that goal.
The Government of Myanmar must seize the moment.
It must take advantage of the opportunities that the international community is prepared to offer to the people of Myanmar.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I came here as a friend.
My duty is to uphold the ideals and principles of the United Nations Charter.
My role is to encourage all of you – the Government, political parties, ethnic groups, civil society – to move forward together as one people and one nation.
Nothing is insurmountable or impossible when the people's interest is placed above divisions.
The region and the world are changing fast. Myanmar only stands to gain from engagement -- and from embarking on its own change.
The Government of Myanmar has repeatedly stated that cooperation with the United Nations is the cornerstone of the country's foreign policy.
We ask it to match deeds with words.
The more Myanmar works in partnership with the United Nations to respond to its people's needs and aspirations, the more it affirms its sovereignty.
Similarly it is incumbent on the international community as whole to work together to help Myanmar meet our shared goals: a united, peaceful, prosperous and democratic future, with full respect for the human rights of all the country's people.
Kyae zoo tin bar tae.
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ွိ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ား၊ ဧည့္သည္ေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ေရာင္းရင္းမိတ္ေဆြမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
ဒါဟာ တႏွစ္ေက်ာ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္လာေရာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္စလုံး ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့အခ်ိန္မ်ားပင္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ပထမ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လာေရာက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ဟာ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္း၀င္ေရာက္ၿပီးခ်ိန္အတြင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီ ေၾကာက္မက္ ဘြယ္သဘာ၀ေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ဟာ အသက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကုိယူသြားခဲ့တယ္၊ ၾကမ္းတမ္းတဲ့အေျခအေနေတြကုိလဲ ဖန္တီးခဲ့တယ္၊ တကမၻာလုံးရဲ႕ ႏွလုံးသည္းပြတ္ေတြကုိလဲခံစားရေအာင္လႈပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕လုိအပ္ ေနခ်ိန္မွာ ကမၻာက ရက္ရက္ေရာေရာ တုန္႔ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနဲ႔ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ရန္ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္ျဖစ္တဲ့ သင္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ထင္႐ွားတဲ့ ပ့ံပုိးကူညီမႈမ်ားအတြက္ အား လုံးကုိ ေက်းဇူးတင္႐ိွပါေၾကာင္း ဒီေန႔ ဒီေနရာကေန ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးအရ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေျပာၾကားလုိပါတယ္။
သင္တုိ႔ဟာ အသက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကုိကယ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ လူ႔အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းကုိျပန္လည္႐ွင္သန္လန္းဆန္းေစပါတယ္၊ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာျပည္သူေတြကုိ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ေနထုိင္မႈဘ၀မ်ားအား ျပန္လည္အသက္ဆက္ေစႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါ တယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွလူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
အာ႐ွတုိက္သားတေယာက္အေနနဲ႔ေရာ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္အေနနဲ႔ပါ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ကုိ ေၾက ကြဲစြာခံစားရမိပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဟာ အာ႐ွတုိက္ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယေျမာက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ပါ။ ပထမေျမာက္ပုဂၢဳိလ္ကေတာ့ ျမန္ မာႏိုင္ငံသား ဦးသန္႔ပါ။ သူ႔ရဲ႕မွတ္ဉာဏ္ကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ျမတ္ႏိုးၾကည္ညိဳပါတယ္။ သူရဲ႕ပညာ႐ိွစကားကုိလဲ အ မွတ္ရပါတယ္။
ဦးသန္႔ကဆိုမိန္႔ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “လူသားတဦးခ်င္းစီရဲ႕တန္ဘုိးဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕အဘုိးတန္ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈေတြအနက္ အလြန္ထူးျခားၿပီး အလြန္တန္ဘုိး႐ိွလွပါတယ္။ အစုိးရမ်ား၊ စံနစ္မ်ား၊ အေတြးအေခၚမ်ားနဲ႔ အသင္းအပင္းအ ဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ၀င္လိုက္ ထြက္လုိက္နဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနေပမင့္ လူသားဂုဏ္ရည္ကေတာ့ ဆက္လက္တည္႐ိွ ေနမွာပါ” တဲ့။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ျပန္လာခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္အေနနဲ႔ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ တရား၀င္ဆႏၵျပင္းျပမႈမ်ားရ႐ိွေစႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ဒီႏိုင္ငံျပည္သူ မ်ားအား ကူညီႏိုင္ေရးကုိ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံးအျဖစ္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဦးထိပ္ပန္ဆင္သယ္ေဆာင္လာပါတယ္။
ကုလသမဂၢဟာ လူအမ်ားရဲ႕ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား၊ ခ်မ္းသာသုခမ်ား၊ ဂုဏ္အ႐ိွန္အ၀ါမ်ားအတြက္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပး ေနပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္လုပ္ေပးေနျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါ။ ဒါဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕တာ၀န္ပုိင္းပါ။
ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျပတ္သားၿပီးတာ၀န္ခြဲေ၀ကာ ျပဌာန္းႏွစ္ႁမႇဳပ္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းကို ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားအား ျပသ ရန္ကၽြန္ေတာ္လာေရာက္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီေန႔ ဒီေနရာမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာပါရေစ။ ျမန္မာ- သင္သည္ အထီးက်န္မဟုတ္ပါ။
စည္းလုံးညီၫြတ္တဲ့၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့၊ ေပါႂကြယ္၀တဲ့ ေခတ္သစ္ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ သင္တုိ႔နဲ႔အတူ အလုပ္လုပ္ရန္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုိလားပါတယ္။
ဆင္းရဲတြင္းမွ႐ုန္းထႏိုင္ရန္ သင္တုိ႔ကုိကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ကူညီလုိပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀န္းရဲ႕ ေလးစားခံရတဲ့ တာ၀န္သိတဲ့အဖြဲ႕၀င္ေနရာကုိ သင္တုိ႔ႏိုင္ငံရယူႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ သင္တုိ႔နဲ႔အတူ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္လုိပါတယ္။
အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ တည္တံ့တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ ေရ႐ွည္ခံ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တုိ႔ သင္တုိ႔ကုိကူညီလုိပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အေလးအနက္ျပဳေျပာပါရေစ - ဒီမုိကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေလးစားလိုက္နာမႈမ႐ိွလွ်င္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေသာ္၄င္း၊ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈေသာ္၄င္း ႐ွင္သန္မွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ခၽြင္းခ်က္မဟုတ္ပါ။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွလူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
စိန္ေခၚမႈေတြက အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ ဒါေပမင့္ ေက်ာ္လႊားလုိ႔မရႏိုင္တာေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါ။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီစံနစ္႐ိွတဲ့ သာယာ၀ေျပာ ေပါႂကြယ္၀တဲ့အနာဂတ္ကုိ ကာကြယ္ထိန္းသိမ္း ရမဲ့ကိစၥဟာ ႐ႈပ္ေထြးတဲ့လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အေတြ႕အႀကဳံမ်ားအရ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ သိ႐ိွရပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ မည္သည့္ စိန္ေခၚမႈကုိမဆုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခ်ည္းသက္သက္ မေျဖ႐ွင္းႏိုင္ပါ။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး၊ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေရးနဲ႔ လူအခြင့္အေရးဟာ အျပန္အလွန္ ႏြယ္႐ွက္ ဆက္စပ္ေနပါတယ္။
ဒီအခ်က္ေတြကုိ တူညီတဲ့အာ႐ုံစုိက္ အေလးထားမႈမ႐ိွပဲ ေျပာဆုိေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး၊ တည္တ့ံ တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ သာယာ၀ေျပာေရးတုိ႔ရဲ႕ အလားအလာေကာင္းျခင္းကုိ ေမွးမွိန္ ေသးသိမ္ေစပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္၊ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးနဲ႔ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ဆႏၵ႐ိွမယ္ဆုိရင္ အခက္အခဲအားလုံး ကုိ ေက်ာ္လႊားေအာင္ျမင္မွာပါ။
‘အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိ အျပည့္အ၀ အေလးထားေရးအတြက္ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္းဘုိ႔ ျမန္မာဟာအခ်ိန္ဘယ္ေလာက္ၾကာၾကာႀကိဳးပမ္းႏိုင္မွာလဲ’ ဆုိတာဟာ ယေန႔ေမးခြန္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ႐ွင္းလင္းေျပာျပပါရေစ။ အမ်ဳိးသားေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားအားလုံး ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါ တယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ မွတ္ပုံတင္ထားတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားမွကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားနဲ႔ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးေလ့လာ ေနတဲ့ လက္နက္ကုိင္အုပ္စုမ်ားနဲ႔ ယမန္ေန႔ကေတြ႕ခဲ့စဥ္မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာခဲ့တာပါ။ ဒီမိုကေရစီလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္နဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈကုိ ဂုဏ္ျပဳရန္အတြက္ သီးျခားစီ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေျပာၾကားအားေပး ခဲ့တာပါ။
သုိ႔ေသာ္၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကုိ ေျမာ္မွန္းထားတဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ မ်ားကိုေရာက္႐ိွရန္ အဓိကတာ၀န္မွာ ႏိုင္ငံ့အစုိးရေပၚက်ေရာက္လ်က္႐ိွေနပါတယ္။
ဒီတာ၀န္မ်ားကုိေက်ပြန္စြာမေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအား သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ‘စြမ္းရည္ အျပည့္အ၀ကုိ နား လည္သေဘာေပါက္ျခင္း’ မွ ဟန္႔တားထားရာေရာက္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီတာ၀န္မ်ားကုိေက်ပြန္စြာမေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွစြာေနထုိင္ႏိုင္ခြင့္နဲ႔ ပုိမုိ လြတ္လပ္မႈျဖင့္ သာလြန္ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ လူမႈအဆင့္အတန္းမ်ားခံစားခြင့္ကုိ ျငင္းပယ္ရာေရာက္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီ အေျခခံစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားဟာ ‘ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔သည္ ျပည္သူမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည္’ ဆုိတဲ့စကားမ်ားျဖင့္ အဖြင့္နိဒါန္းခ်ီထား တဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢပဋိဉာဥ္စာတမ္းရဲ႕ ေက်ာ႐ိုးအတြင္းမွာတည္႐ိွေနပါတယ္။
ဒီ မြန္ျမတ္တဲ့စကားမ်ားကုိ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ စတင္ေရးဆြဲခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြဲ႕စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒကလဲ ပဲ့တင္ထပ္ထားပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္မွာ ဒီစည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းမ်ားကုိ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ဘုိ႔ ေသခ်ာေစေရးအတြက္လဲ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အတူတကြလုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီအခ်က္ကုိ ကြန္ေတာ္စိတ္ထဲမွာထည့္ထားၿပီး အမွာစကား ၃ ခုကို သယ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ပထမဦးစြာအေနနဲ႔ ဘယ္ေဒသမွာမဆုိ လူသားဂုဏ္ရည္ကုိ အေလးထားေလးစားျခင္းဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳး တုိးတက္ေရးအတြက္ မ႐ိွမျဖစ္လုိအပ္ခ်က္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္းကုိ ပထမ စတင္လက္ခံခဲ့တဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႕၀င္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွာ တႏိုင္ငံအပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြါးေရးနဲ႔ လူမႈေရးတုိးတက္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ အေျခခံလြတ္လပ္မႈမ်ားအား ေလးစား ဘုိ႔ အမ်ားဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ဆႏၵကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ေစာစီးစြာ ေထာက္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကံမေကာင္းအေၾကာင္းမလွစြာပဲ ဒီျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈဟာ အမွန္တကယ္မွာ အံ၀င္ခြင္က်မႈ မ႐ိွခဲ့ပါ။ ျမန္မာ့လူ႔အ ခြင့္အေရးမွတ္တမ္းဟာ အလြန္အမင္း စုိးရိမ္ေသာကျဖစ္စရာအေၾကာင္းအရာအေနနဲ႔ တည္႐ွိေနလ်က္ပါ။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ တည္ၿငိမ္မႈ၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး တုိ႔ကုိ ေျပာဆုိေနပါတယ္။
အႏွစ္ ၂၀ အတြင္း ပထမဆုံးအေနနဲ႔က်င္းပမွာျဖစ္တဲ့ လာမဲ့ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ဂုဏ္ထယ္တင့္တယ္ေစလုိလွ်င္ အားလုံးပါ၀င္ၿပီး အျမင္ၾကည္လင္မႈ ႐ိွရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ေ႐ွ႕ဆက္မဲ့ခရီးမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိေလးစားလုိက္နာမႈ အျမစ္တြယ္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအားလုံးကုိ အျမန္ဆုံးလႊတ္ေပးရမယ္လုိ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာခဲ့တာပါ။
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးသန္းေ႐ႊနဲ႔ မေန႔ကနဲ႔ဒီေန႔ ေတြ႕ရတဲ့အခါ ေဒၚစုၾကည္ကုိေတြ႕ဘုိ႔ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူကျငင္းပယ္ လုိက္တဲ့အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပြင့္လင္းမႈရဲ႕ က႑သစ္မွာ ျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈကိုျပသႏိုင္မဲ့ အခြင့္အေရးထူးတခု ဆုံး႐ႈံး သြားၿပီလုိ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ယုံၾကည္လုိက္ပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အားေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ေပးလိုက္ျခင္းဟာ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပဲြကုိ အမ်ားယုံၾကည္လက္ခံႏိုင္မႈ ႐ိွေစေရးအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္႐ိွေသာေဆာင္႐ြက္မႈကုိ စတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အစုိးရကဆႏၵ႐ိွေၾကာင္း ကိုေဖာ္ျပတဲ့ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ျပယုဂ္ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီနိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္အတြက္ ျပည့္၀တဲ့ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္ခြင့္အား ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားအားလုံးကုိ အမွန္တကယ္ ေပးရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္႐ြက္လုိသူမ်ားအားလုံး လြတ္လပ္တက္ႂကြစြာပါ၀င္မႈမ႐ိွလွ်င္ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးဟာ မျပည့္စုံႏိုင္ပါ။
သက္ဆုိင္တဲ့ပုဂၢဳလ္မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားအုပ္စုမ်ားနဲ႔လူနည္းစုမ်ားအားလုံးပါ၀င္တဲ့ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးမႈ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ စတင္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျပည္သူအမ်ားဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈမွာ လြတ္လပ္စြာအေျခအတင္ေျပာႏုိင္ရမယ္၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မွာ အဓိပၸါယ္႐ိွစြာပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္အေထာက္အကူျဖစ္ေစမဲ့ သတင္းအ ခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကုိ လြတ္လပ္စြာ သိ႐ွိရယူႏိုင္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းမႈတုိင္းဟာ ခက္ခဲလွပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ သက္ဦးဆံပုိင္စံနစ္ကေန ကုိလုိနီစံနစ္၊ အခု
တခါ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။
သမုိင္းဟာ လတ္တေလာမွာ နာက်င္ဘြယ္ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားအပါအ၀င္ ‘အေမြ’ႏွစ္မႊာပူးကို သေနၶေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
လက္နက္ကုိင္ပဋိပကၡ နဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေ႐ွ႕မတုိးသာေနာက္မဆုတ္သာအေျခအေနေတြပါ။
အခ်ဳပ္အျခာပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈ၊ နယ္ေျမတည္တံ့ခုိင္ၿမဲမႈ နဲ႔ အမ်ဳိးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးတုိ႔ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတုိင္းရဲ႕ တရား၀င္ စိုးရိမ္ ေသာကမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံေရး၀န္းက်င္ကုိ ဖြင့္ေပးျခင္းနဲ႔ ခ်ဲ႕ထြင္ျခင္းဟာ ပုိမုိႀကီးမားတဲ့ စုေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းရဲ႕ အစိတ္အပုိင္းအ ျဖစ္ အုပ္စုတစုခ်င္းနဲ႔ လူတဦးခ်င္းပါ၀င္ႏိုင္မႈအတြက္ အာမခံရန္ အေကာင္းဆုံးနည္းလမ္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ကၽြန္ ေတာ္တုိ႔ ရဲရဲႀကီးေျပာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
စစ္တပ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းအားလုံး၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူနည္းစုမ်ား၊ အမ်ားျပည္သူနဲ႔သက္ဆိုင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕အ စည္းမ်ားနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ သားသမီးတုိင္း အမွန္တကယ္ကုိ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးမွာပါ၀င္ၾကရမွာ။
အျပန္အလွန္ အေပးအယူလုပ္ၫိႇႏိႈင္းျခင္း၊ ေလးစားျခင္းနဲ႔ နားလည္မႈတုိ႔သာလွ်င္ ၾကာ႐ွည္တည္တ့ံမဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း ေရး၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးတုိ႔အတြက္ အေျခခံအုတ္္ျမစ္ခ်ေပးႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယအမွာစကားကေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားရဲ႕ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာတဲ႔လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကုိ ေဖာ္ျပ လုိပါတယ္။
ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္၀ကၽြန္းေပၚေဒသမွာျဖစ္ထြန္းခဲ့တဲ့တုိးတက္မႈမ်ားကုိ ၾကည့္ျမင္ႏိုင္ရန္ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္႐ိွလာႏိုင္စြမ္း အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္၀မ္းသာလွပါတယ္။
အလုိခ်င္ဆုံးကေတာ့ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ကုိတုန္႔ျပန္ျခင္းဟာ သီးျခားခြဲျခားထားျခင္းအေပၚ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ ႏိုင္ျခင္းရဲ႕တန္ဘုိးကုိ သက္ေသျပႏိုင္တာပဲ။
အလႉ႐ွင္အသုိင္းအ၀န္းရဲ႕ကူညီပံ့ပုိးမႈျဖင့္ ‘သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ ေက်ာ႐ိုးအုပ္စု’အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာ၊ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ အာဆီယံတုိ႔ အတြင္း မႀကံဳစဖူးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈအေရးပါျခင္းနဲ႔ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာပုိင္မႈရဲ႕ စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းတုိ႔ဟာ ပဋိပကၡ မျဖစ္ၾကဘူးဆုိတာ သက္ေသျပသြားပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ မည္သည့္ေနရာတြင္မဆုိ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈအကူအညီဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအတြက္တုန္႔ျပန္ရမဲ့ ဓားစာ ခံ မျဖစ္သင့္ပါဘူး။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ႐ိွ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈနဲ႔ တုိးတက္မႈအေထာက္အကူမ်ား လုိအပ္ေနသူအားလုံး ရ႐ိွႏိုင္ေရးအာမခံခ်က္႐ိွေအာင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အတူတကြေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္ရမယ္၊ လုပ္ကုိလုပ္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အခုဟာကေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ တတိယ အမွာစကားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အခုအခ်ိန္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ သူရဲ႕ စီးပြါးေရးစြမ္းအင္အလားအလာေကာင္းမ်ားကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ဘုိ႔အခ်ိန္ ျဖစ္ ပါတယ္။
‘အာ႐ွစီးပြါးေရးအံ့ဘြယ္’ အလယ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာရပ္တည္ေနပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံအ၀ွမ္းမွာ လ်င္ျမန္တဲ့တုိးတက္မႈ မ်ားအတြက္ ျမန္မာကုိ ‘ကႀကိဳးဆင္ေစျခင္းဟာ’ လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္မားေရးအတြက္ အေသခ်ာဆုံးနည္း လမ္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရရဲ႕ ကုန္သြယ္မႈအတြက္ ျပင္ပကိုလမ္းဖြင့္ေပးျခင္း၀ါဒ၊ ေထာင္စုဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား ရေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ၊ အိတ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗီြေရာဂါထိန္းခ်ဳပ္မႈ၊ လူကုန္ကူးမႈတုိက္ဖ်က္ေရးနဲ႔ ဘိန္းထုပ္လုပ္မႈအဆုံးသတ္ ေရးတုိ႔ကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ႀကိဳဆုိပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္ အမွန္လက္ေတြ႕မွာေတာ့ ျပည္သူသန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာဟာ ဆက္လက္ဆင္းရဲေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္းဟာ အာ႐ွရဲ႕ အနိမ့္ဆုံးထဲမွာပါ၀င္ေနတုန္းပါ။
ဒီျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားဟာ အလုပ္မ်ားလိုအပ္ေနပါတယ္။ စားနပ္ရိကၡာဖူလုံမႈေတြလုိအပ္ေနပါတယ္။ က်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေ႐ွာက္ခံယူႏိုင္မႈေတြ လုိအပ္ေနပါတယ္။
ေဒသဆုိင္ရာနဲ႔တကမၻာလုံးဆုိင္ရာ စီးပြါးေရးမွ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ရႏိုင္ေအာင္နဲ႔ ပါ၀င္ပံ့ပုိးေပးႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာ ျပည္သူမ်ားကို အာမခံရဘုိ႔ ကြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုပ္ေပးရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တည္ၿငိမ္ၿပီး သာယာ၀ေျပာေပါႂကြယ္တဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ေဒသနဲ႔ကမၻာက အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ေတြပုိမုိရ႐ွိလာ မွာကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီရည္မွန္းခ်က္အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပး ရပါ့မယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရကလဲ ဒီအခ်ိန္အခါကုိ အမိအရ ရယူရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာအသုိင္းအ၀န္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံျပည္သူမ်ားကုိ လက္ကမ္းရန္ျပင္ဆင္ေနသည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္း မ်ားရဲ႕ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈကုိ ျမန္မာအစုိးရက ရယူရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ွိ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဒီကုိ မိတ္ေဆြတဦးအျဖစ္ေရာက္လာခဲ့တာပါ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္တာ၀န္က ကုလသမဂၢပဋိဉာဥ္ရဲ႕ အေကာင္းဆုံးစံမ်ားနဲ႔စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းမ်ားကုိ ထိန္းသိမ္းဘုိ႔ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အခန္းက႑ကေတာ့ သင္တုိ႔အားလုံး - အစုိးရ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားအုပ္စုမ်ား၊ လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား - ကို ျပည္သူတရပ္အေနနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတခုအေနနဲ႔ အတူတကြ ေ႐ွ႕ဆက္ေ႐ြ႕လ်ားဘုိ႔ အား ေပးရန္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
က႑အားလုံးရဲ႕အေပၚမွာ ျပည္သု႕အက်ဳိးကုိထား႐ွိလုိက္တဲ့အခါ မေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္တာ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ ဆုိတာ မ႐ွိပါဘူး။
ေဒသနဲ႔ကမၻာဟာ လ်င္ျမန္စြာေျပာင္းလဲေနပါတယ္။ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းမွ၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ မိမိကိုယ္တုိင္ေျပာင္းလဲ မႈကုိ စတင္လုပ္ျခင္းမွ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ထြန္းဘို႔ ျမန္မာဟာ ရပ္တည္လုိ႔သာ ေနပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရက ကုလသမဂၢႏဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀ါဒရဲ႕ အေျခခံအုတ္ျမစ္ျဖစ္ တယ္လုိ႔ ထပ္ခါတလဲလဲ ေျပာလ်က္႐ွိပါတယ္။
စကားေတြနဲ႔ အလုပ္ေတြ ကုိက္ညီဘုိ႔အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေတာင္းဆုိပါတယ္။
သူ႔ျပည္သူမ်ားရဲ႕လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားနဲ႔ ျပင္းျပတဲ့ဆႏၵမ်ားကုိတုန္႔ျပန္ဘုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ ပုိမုိပူးေပါင္း လုပ္ေဆာင္ေလ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈကုိ အခုိင္အမာျပဳႏိုင္ေလ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီအတူပါပဲ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔္ရဲ႕ေ၀မွ်ခံယူထားတဲ့ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ ျပည္သူအားလုံးရဲ႕လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိ အျပည့္အ၀ေလးစားျခင္းနဲ႔အတူ ညီၫြတ္တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့ သာယာ၀ေျပာတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီနည္းလမ္းက်တဲ့ အနာ ဂတ္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလက္လွမ္းမွီႏိုင္ေအာင္ ကူညီရန္ အတူတကြလုပ္ေဆာင္ဘုိ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀န္း မွာလဲ တာ၀န္႐ွိပါတယ္။
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။
( ၂၀၀၉ ဇူလုိင္ ၄ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အစုိးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား (NGO) ၊ သံတမန္မ်ား၊ ျပည္တြင္း သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား စုစုေပါင္း ၅၀၀ ခန္႔ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ ဟံသာဝတီ မူးယစ္ ေဆးဝါးျပတုိက္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ၌ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည့္ မိန္႔ခြန္းအျပည့္အစုံကုိ ျပန္ဆုိပါသည္ )
Unofficial translation
ေမာင္ေမာင္လွႀကိဳင္
၂၀၀၉ ၀၇ ၀၆
UNSG’s Remarks on Myanmar to Diplomatic Missions, UN Agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations
UNSG’s Remarks on Myanmar to Diplomatic Missions, UN Agencies and Non-Governmental Organizations
Excellencies,
Distinguished guests and colleagues
Ladies and Gentlemen,
This is my second visit to Myanmar in just over a year. Both visits have been at critical times for the country's future.
My first visit was in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis. This devastating natural disaster, which took so many lives and created so much hardship, touched hearts across the globe. In Myanmar's moment of need, the world responded generously.
I want to personally thank everyone here today for your remarkable contributions to the relief and recovery effort.
You have saved lives, rejuvenated communities and made it possible for many thousands of people to reclaim their livelihoods. You have helped Myanmar to overcome adversity. It is important that this work continues.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I felt the tragedy of Cyclone Nargis deeply -- as a fellow Asian and as Secretary-General.
I am Asia's second Secretary-General. The first was Myanmar''s U Thant. I revere his memory. I also recall his wise words.
U Thant said: “The worth of the individual human being is the most unique and precious of all our assets and must be the beginning and end of all our efforts. Governments, systems, ideologies and institutions come and go, but humanity remains.”
This is why I have returned.
As Secretary-General, I attach the highest importance to helping the people of this country to achieve their legitimate aspirations.
The United Nations works for people – their rights, their well-being, their dignity. It is not an option. It is our responsibility.
I have come to show the unequivocal shared commitment of the United Nations to the people of Myanmar.
I am here today to say: Myanmar – you are not alone.
We want to work with you for a united, peaceful, prosperous, democratic and modern Myanmar.
We want to help you rise from poverty.
We want to work with you so your country can take its place as a respected and responsible member of the international community.
We want to help you achieve national reconciliation, durable peace and sustainable development.
But, let me emphasize: neither peace nor development can thrive without democracy and respect for human rights.
Myanmar is no exception.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The challenges are many. But they are not insurmountable.
We know from experience that securing Myanmar's peaceful, democratic and prosperous future is a complex process.
None of Myanmar's challenges can be solved on their own. Peace, development and human rights are closely inter-related.
Failure to address them with equal attention will risk undermining the prospects for democracy, durable peace and prosperity.
However, we also know that where there is a genuine will for dialogue and reconciliation, all obstacles can be overcome.
The question today is this: how much longer can Myanmar afford to wait for national reconciliation, democratic transition and full respect for human rights?
The cost of delay will be counted in wasted lives, lost opportunities and prolonged isolation from the international community.
Let me be clear: all the people of Myanmar must work in the national interest.
I said this yesterday when I met with representatives of Myanmar's registered political parties and with those armed groups that have chosen to observe a cease-fire. I encouraged them respectively to honour their commitments to the democratic process and peace.
Nonetheless, the primary responsibility lies with the Government to move the country towards its stated goals of national reconciliation and democracy.
Failure to do so will prevent the people of Myanmar from realizing their full potential.
Failure to do so will deny the people of Myanmar their right to live in dignity and to pursue better standards of life in larger freedom.
These principles lie at the core of the United Nations Charter, whose opening words are “We the peoples”.
The founding Constitution of independent Myanmar echoes these noble words. We must work together to ensure that Myanmar's future embodies these principles too.
With this in mind, I bring three messages.
First, respect for human dignity is the precondition for peace and development everywhere.
Myanmar was one of the first United Nations Member States to adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
It subscribed early on to the consensus that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is indispensable to political, economic and social progress.
Unfortunately, that commitment has not been matched in deed. Myanmar's human rights record remains a matter of grave concern.
The Government has articulated its goals as stability, national reconciliation and democracy.
The upcoming election –the first in twenty years – must be inclusive, participatory and transparent if it is to be credible.
Myanmar's way forward must be rooted in respect for human rights
This is why I say that all political prisoners, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, should be released without delay.
When I met General Than Shwe yesterday and today, I asked to visit Ms. Suu Kyi. I am deeply disappointed that he refused.
I believe the government of Myanmar has lost a unique opportunity to show its commitment to a new era of political openness.
Allowing a visit to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi would have been an important symbol of the government's willingness to embark on the kind of meaningful engagement that will be essential if the elections in 2010 are to be seen as credible.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi must be allowed to participate in the political process without further delay.
Indeed, all the citizens of Myanmar must be given the opportunity to contribute fully to the future of this country.
National reconciliation cannot be complete without the free and active participation of all who seek to contribute.
The country must embark on a process of genuine dialogue that includes all concerned parties, all ethnic groups and all minorities.
People must be free to debate and to engage in political dialogue, and they must have free access to the information that will help them participate meaningfully in the democratic process.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Any transition is difficult. Myanmar has already undergone transitions from sovereign kingdom, to occupied colony, and now independent State.
This history carries a twin legacy of armed conflict and political deadlock, including recent painful events: the repression of demonstrators in 1988, the cancellation of the 1990 election results, and the clampdown on peaceful dissent that continues to this day.
At the same time, there have been some positive efforts that should be recognized.
Although still fragile, the cease-fire agreements between the Government and armed groups have reduced the level of conflict. The United Nations has wide-ranging experience in making such gains irreversible.
Sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity are legitimate concerns for any government.
We contend that opening and broadening the political space is the best way to ensure that each group and each individual becomes part of the greater collective project.
The military, all political parties, ethnic minority groups, civil society, and indeed every son and daughter of Myanmar has a role to play in this country's transition.
Only mutual compromise, respect and understanding can lay the foundations for durable peace, national reconciliation and democracy.
My second message is on addressing the humanitarian needs of Myanmar's people.
I am glad I have been able to return to see the progress made in the Irrawaddy Delta. The loss of some 130,000 people was tragic, but the rebuilding I saw today was impressive.
The tragedy showed the resilience of the people of Myanmar. It also demonstrated that people throughout the world care deeply about Myanmar and its people.
Above all, the response to Cyclone Nargis proved the value of engagement over isolation.
The unprecedented cooperation between Myanmar, the United Nations and ASEAN through the Tripartite Core Group, with the support of the donor community, has demonstrated that humanitarian imperatives and the principles of sovereignty do not conflict.
Humanitarian assistance -- in Myanmar as elsewhere -- should never be held hostage to political considerations. We can and must work together to ensure access to humanitarian and development assistance to all those in Myanmar who need it.
This brings me to my third message. It is time for Myanmar to unleash its economic potential.
Myanmar sits in the middle of Asia's economic miracle. Harnessing Myanmar to the rapid advances taking place around it is the surest way to raise living standards.
I welcome the Government's policy of opening up to outside trade and investment, and its efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, control HIV, combat human trafficking and curtail opium production.
But the reality is that millions continue to live in poverty. Standards of living in Myanmar remain among the lowest in Asia.
The people of Myanmar need jobs, they need food security and they need access to health care.
We must work to ensure that the people of Myanmar can benefit from and contribute to the regional and global economy.
We must recognize that the region and the world have much to gain from a stable, prosperous and democratic Myanmar. We must work together for that goal.
The Government of Myanmar must seize the moment.
It must take advantage of the opportunities that the international community is prepared to offer to the people of Myanmar.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I came here as a friend.
My duty is to uphold the ideals and principles of the United Nations Charter.
My role is to encourage all of you – the Government, political parties, ethnic groups, civil society – to move forward together as one people and one nation.
Nothing is insurmountable or impossible when the people's interest is placed above divisions.
The region and the world are changing fast. Myanmar only stands to gain from engagement -- and from embarking on its own change.
The Government of Myanmar has repeatedly stated that cooperation with the United Nations is the cornerstone of the country's foreign policy.
We ask it to match deeds with words.
The more Myanmar works in partnership with the United Nations to respond to its people's needs and aspirations, the more it affirms its sovereignty.
Similarly it is incumbent on the international community as whole to work together to help Myanmar meet our shared goals: a united, peaceful, prosperous and democratic future, with full respect for the human rights of all the country's people.
Kyae zoo tin bar tae.
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ွိ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ား၊ ဧည့္သည္ေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ေရာင္းရင္းမိတ္ေဆြမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
ဒါဟာ တႏွစ္ေက်ာ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္လာေရာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏွစ္ႀကိမ္စလုံး ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့အခ်ိန္မ်ားပင္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ပထမ ကၽြန္ေတာ္လာေရာက္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ဟာ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္း၀င္ေရာက္ၿပီးခ်ိန္အတြင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီ ေၾကာက္မက္ ဘြယ္သဘာ၀ေဘးအႏၱရာယ္ဟာ အသက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကုိယူသြားခဲ့တယ္၊ ၾကမ္းတမ္းတဲ့အေျခအေနေတြကုိလဲ ဖန္တီးခဲ့တယ္၊ တကမၻာလုံးရဲ႕ ႏွလုံးသည္းပြတ္ေတြကုိလဲခံစားရေအာင္လႈပ္ကုိင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕လုိအပ္ ေနခ်ိန္မွာ ကမၻာက ရက္ရက္ေရာေရာ တုန္႔ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနဲ႔ ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ရန္ႀကိဳးပမ္းခ်က္ျဖစ္တဲ့ သင္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ထင္႐ွားတဲ့ ပ့ံပုိးကူညီမႈမ်ားအတြက္ အား လုံးကုိ ေက်းဇူးတင္႐ိွပါေၾကာင္း ဒီေန႔ ဒီေနရာကေန ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေရးအရ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေျပာၾကားလုိပါတယ္။
သင္တုိ႔ဟာ အသက္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာကုိကယ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ လူ႔အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းကုိျပန္လည္႐ွင္သန္လန္းဆန္းေစပါတယ္၊ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာျပည္သူေတြကုိ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ေနထုိင္မႈဘ၀မ်ားအား ျပန္လည္အသက္ဆက္ေစႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါ တယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွလူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
အာ႐ွတုိက္သားတေယာက္အေနနဲ႔ေရာ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္အေနနဲ႔ပါ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ကုိ ေၾက ကြဲစြာခံစားရမိပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဟာ အာ႐ွတုိက္ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယေျမာက္အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ပါ။ ပထမေျမာက္ပုဂၢဳိလ္ကေတာ့ ျမန္ မာႏိုင္ငံသား ဦးသန္႔ပါ။ သူ႔ရဲ႕မွတ္ဉာဏ္ကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ျမတ္ႏိုးၾကည္ညိဳပါတယ္။ သူရဲ႕ပညာ႐ိွစကားကုိလဲ အ မွတ္ရပါတယ္။
ဦးသန္႔ကဆိုမိန္႔ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ “လူသားတဦးခ်င္းစီရဲ႕တန္ဘုိးဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕အဘုိးတန္ပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈေတြအနက္ အလြန္ထူးျခားၿပီး အလြန္တန္ဘုိး႐ိွလွပါတယ္။ အစုိးရမ်ား၊ စံနစ္မ်ား၊ အေတြးအေခၚမ်ားနဲ႔ အသင္းအပင္းအ ဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား ၀င္လိုက္ ထြက္လုိက္နဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနေပမင့္ လူသားဂုဏ္ရည္ကေတာ့ ဆက္လက္တည္႐ိွ ေနမွာပါ” တဲ့။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ျပန္လာခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္အေနနဲ႔ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ တရား၀င္ဆႏၵျပင္းျပမႈမ်ားရ႐ိွေစႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ဒီႏိုင္ငံျပည္သူ မ်ားအား ကူညီႏိုင္ေရးကုိ အေရးအႀကီးဆုံးအျဖစ္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဦးထိပ္ပန္ဆင္သယ္ေဆာင္လာပါတယ္။
ကုလသမဂၢဟာ လူအမ်ားရဲ႕ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား၊ ခ်မ္းသာသုခမ်ား၊ ဂုဏ္အ႐ိွန္အ၀ါမ်ားအတြက္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပး ေနပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္လုပ္ေပးေနျခင္း မဟုတ္ပါ။ ဒါဟာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕တာ၀န္ပုိင္းပါ။
ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ ျပတ္သားၿပီးတာ၀န္ခြဲေ၀ကာ ျပဌာန္းႏွစ္ႁမႇဳပ္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းကို ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားအား ျပသ ရန္ကၽြန္ေတာ္လာေရာက္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီေန႔ ဒီေနရာမွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာပါရေစ။ ျမန္မာ- သင္သည္ အထီးက်န္မဟုတ္ပါ။
စည္းလုံးညီၫြတ္တဲ့၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့၊ ေပါႂကြယ္၀တဲ့ ေခတ္သစ္ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ သင္တုိ႔နဲ႔အတူ အလုပ္လုပ္ရန္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုိလားပါတယ္။
ဆင္းရဲတြင္းမွ႐ုန္းထႏိုင္ရန္ သင္တုိ႔ကုိကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ကူညီလုိပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀န္းရဲ႕ ေလးစားခံရတဲ့ တာ၀န္သိတဲ့အဖြဲ႕၀င္ေနရာကုိ သင္တုိ႔ႏိုင္ငံရယူႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ သင္တုိ႔နဲ႔အတူ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုပ္ေဆာင္လုိပါတယ္။
အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ တည္တံ့တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ ေရ႐ွည္ခံ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ တုိ႔ သင္တုိ႔ကုိကူညီလုိပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္အေလးအနက္ျပဳေျပာပါရေစ - ဒီမုိကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေလးစားလိုက္နာမႈမ႐ိွလွ်င္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေသာ္၄င္း၊ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈေသာ္၄င္း ႐ွင္သန္မွာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ခၽြင္းခ်က္မဟုတ္ပါ။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွလူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
စိန္ေခၚမႈေတြက အမ်ားႀကီးပါ။ ဒါေပမင့္ ေက်ာ္လႊားလုိ႔မရႏိုင္တာေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါ။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီစံနစ္႐ိွတဲ့ သာယာ၀ေျပာ ေပါႂကြယ္၀တဲ့အနာဂတ္ကုိ ကာကြယ္ထိန္းသိမ္း ရမဲ့ကိစၥဟာ ႐ႈပ္ေထြးတဲ့လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အေတြ႕အႀကဳံမ်ားအရ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ သိ႐ိွရပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြက္ မည္သည့္ စိန္ေခၚမႈကုိမဆုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံခ်ည္းသက္သက္ မေျဖ႐ွင္းႏိုင္ပါ။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး၊ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္ေရးနဲ႔ လူအခြင့္အေရးဟာ အျပန္အလွန္ ႏြယ္႐ွက္ ဆက္စပ္ေနပါတယ္။
ဒီအခ်က္ေတြကုိ တူညီတဲ့အာ႐ုံစုိက္ အေလးထားမႈမ႐ိွပဲ ေျပာဆုိေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး၊ တည္တ့ံ တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ သာယာ၀ေျပာေရးတုိ႔ရဲ႕ အလားအလာေကာင္းျခင္းကုိ ေမွးမွိန္ ေသးသိမ္ေစပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္၊ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးေရးနဲ႔ျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးအတြက္ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ဆႏၵ႐ိွမယ္ဆုိရင္ အခက္အခဲအားလုံး ကုိ ေက်ာ္လႊားေအာင္ျမင္မွာပါ။
‘အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရး၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီအသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိ အျပည့္အ၀ အေလးထားေရးအတြက္ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္းဘုိ႔ ျမန္မာဟာအခ်ိန္ဘယ္ေလာက္ၾကာၾကာႀကိဳးပမ္းႏိုင္မွာလဲ’ ဆုိတာဟာ ယေန႔ေမးခြန္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ႐ွင္းလင္းေျပာျပပါရေစ။ အမ်ဳိးသားေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားအားလုံး ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါ တယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ မွတ္ပုံတင္ထားတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ားမွကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားနဲ႔ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးေလ့လာ ေနတဲ့ လက္နက္ကုိင္အုပ္စုမ်ားနဲ႔ ယမန္ေန႔ကေတြ႕ခဲ့စဥ္မွာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာခဲ့တာပါ။ ဒီမိုကေရစီလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္နဲ႔ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈကုိ ဂုဏ္ျပဳရန္အတြက္ သီးျခားစီ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေျပာၾကားအားေပး ခဲ့တာပါ။
သုိ႔ေသာ္၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကုိ ေျမာ္မွန္းထားတဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရည္မွန္းခ်က္ပန္းတိုင္ မ်ားကိုေရာက္႐ိွရန္ အဓိကတာ၀န္မွာ ႏိုင္ငံ့အစုိးရေပၚက်ေရာက္လ်က္႐ိွေနပါတယ္။
ဒီတာ၀န္မ်ားကုိေက်ပြန္စြာမေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအား သူတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ‘စြမ္းရည္ အျပည့္အ၀ကုိ နား လည္သေဘာေပါက္ျခင္း’ မွ ဟန္႔တားထားရာေရာက္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီတာ၀န္မ်ားကုိေက်ပြန္စြာမေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွစြာေနထုိင္ႏိုင္ခြင့္နဲ႔ ပုိမုိ လြတ္လပ္မႈျဖင့္ သာလြန္ေကာင္းမြန္တဲ့ လူမႈအဆင့္အတန္းမ်ားခံစားခြင့္ကုိ ျငင္းပယ္ရာေရာက္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီ အေျခခံစည္းမ်ဥ္းမ်ားဟာ ‘ကၽြႏု္ပ္တုိ႔သည္ ျပည္သူမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည္’ ဆုိတဲ့စကားမ်ားျဖင့္ အဖြင့္နိဒါန္းခ်ီထား တဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢပဋိဉာဥ္စာတမ္းရဲ႕ ေက်ာ႐ိုးအတြင္းမွာတည္႐ိွေနပါတယ္။
ဒီ မြန္ျမတ္တဲ့စကားမ်ားကုိ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ စတင္ေရးဆြဲခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြဲ႕စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒကလဲ ပဲ့တင္ထပ္ထားပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္မွာ ဒီစည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းမ်ားကုိ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ဘုိ႔ ေသခ်ာေစေရးအတြက္လဲ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အတူတကြလုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီအခ်က္ကုိ ကြန္ေတာ္စိတ္ထဲမွာထည့္ထားၿပီး အမွာစကား ၃ ခုကို သယ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ပထမဦးစြာအေနနဲ႔ ဘယ္ေဒသမွာမဆုိ လူသားဂုဏ္ရည္ကုိ အေလးထားေလးစားျခင္းဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနဲ႔ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳး တုိးတက္ေရးအတြက္ မ႐ိွမျဖစ္လုိအပ္ခ်က္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေၾကညာစာတမ္းကုိ ပထမ စတင္လက္ခံခဲ့တဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ အဖြဲ႕၀င္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွာ တႏိုင္ငံအပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြါးေရးနဲ႔ လူမႈေရးတုိးတက္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးနဲ႔ အေျခခံလြတ္လပ္မႈမ်ားအား ေလးစား ဘုိ႔ အမ်ားဆုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ဆႏၵကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ေစာစီးစြာ ေထာက္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကံမေကာင္းအေၾကာင္းမလွစြာပဲ ဒီျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈဟာ အမွန္တကယ္မွာ အံ၀င္ခြင္က်မႈ မ႐ိွခဲ့ပါ။ ျမန္မာ့လူ႔အ ခြင့္အေရးမွတ္တမ္းဟာ အလြန္အမင္း စုိးရိမ္ေသာကျဖစ္စရာအေၾကာင္းအရာအေနနဲ႔ တည္႐ွိေနလ်က္ပါ။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရဟာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ တည္ၿငိမ္မႈ၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး တုိ႔ကုိ ေျပာဆုိေနပါတယ္။
အႏွစ္ ၂၀ အတြင္း ပထမဆုံးအေနနဲ႔က်င္းပမွာျဖစ္တဲ့ လာမဲ့ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ဂုဏ္ထယ္တင့္တယ္ေစလုိလွ်င္ အားလုံးပါ၀င္ၿပီး အျမင္ၾကည္လင္မႈ ႐ိွရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ေ႐ွ႕ဆက္မဲ့ခရီးမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိေလးစားလုိက္နာမႈ အျမစ္တြယ္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားအားလုံးကုိ အျမန္ဆုံးလႊတ္ေပးရမယ္လုိ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာခဲ့တာပါ။
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ၾကီးသန္းေ႐ႊနဲ႔ မေန႔ကနဲ႔ဒီေန႔ ေတြ႕ရတဲ့အခါ ေဒၚစုၾကည္ကုိေတြ႕ဘုိ႔ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူကျငင္းပယ္ လုိက္တဲ့အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္မ်ားစြာစိတ္ပ်က္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပြင့္လင္းမႈရဲ႕ က႑သစ္မွာ ျပဌာန္းႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈကိုျပသႏိုင္မဲ့ အခြင့္အေရးထူးတခု ဆုံး႐ႈံး သြားၿပီလုိ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ယုံၾကည္လုိက္ပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အားေတြ႕ဆုံခြင့္ေပးလိုက္ျခင္းဟာ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပဲြကုိ အမ်ားယုံၾကည္လက္ခံႏိုင္မႈ ႐ိွေစေရးအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အဓိပၸါယ္႐ိွေသာေဆာင္႐ြက္မႈကုိ စတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ အစုိးရကဆႏၵ႐ိွေၾကာင္း ကိုေဖာ္ျပတဲ့ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ျပယုဂ္ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
ဒီနိုင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္အတြက္ ျပည့္၀တဲ့ ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္ခြင့္အား ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားအားလုံးကုိ အမွန္တကယ္ ေပးရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ပါ၀င္ေဆာင္႐ြက္လုိသူမ်ားအားလုံး လြတ္လပ္တက္ႂကြစြာပါ၀င္မႈမ႐ိွလွ်င္ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးဟာ မျပည့္စုံႏိုင္ပါ။
သက္ဆုိင္တဲ့ပုဂၢဳလ္မ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားအုပ္စုမ်ားနဲ႔လူနည္းစုမ်ားအားလုံးပါ၀င္တဲ့ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးမႈ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကုိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ စတင္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျပည္သူအမ်ားဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈမွာ လြတ္လပ္စြာအေျခအတင္ေျပာႏုိင္ရမယ္၊ လြတ္လပ္စြာပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မွာ အဓိပၸါယ္႐ိွစြာပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္အေထာက္အကူျဖစ္ေစမဲ့ သတင္းအ ခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကုိ လြတ္လပ္စြာ သိ႐ွိရယူႏိုင္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ိွ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းမႈတုိင္းဟာ ခက္ခဲလွပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ သက္ဦးဆံပုိင္စံနစ္ကေန ကုိလုိနီစံနစ္၊ အခု
တခါ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။
သမုိင္းဟာ လတ္တေလာမွာ နာက်င္ဘြယ္ျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားအပါအ၀င္ ‘အေမြ’ႏွစ္မႊာပူးကို သေနၶေဆာင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
လက္နက္ကုိင္ပဋိပကၡ နဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေ႐ွ႕မတုိးသာေနာက္မဆုတ္သာအေျခအေနေတြပါ။
အခ်ဳပ္အျခာပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈ၊ နယ္ေျမတည္တံ့ခုိင္ၿမဲမႈ နဲ႔ အမ်ဳိးသားညီၫြတ္ေရးတုိ႔ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတုိင္းရဲ႕ တရား၀င္ စိုးရိမ္ ေသာကမ်ား ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံေရး၀န္းက်င္ကုိ ဖြင့္ေပးျခင္းနဲ႔ ခ်ဲ႕ထြင္ျခင္းဟာ ပုိမုိႀကီးမားတဲ့ စုေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းရဲ႕ အစိတ္အပုိင္းအ ျဖစ္ အုပ္စုတစုခ်င္းနဲ႔ လူတဦးခ်င္းပါ၀င္ႏိုင္မႈအတြက္ အာမခံရန္ အေကာင္းဆုံးနည္းလမ္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ကၽြန္ ေတာ္တုိ႔ ရဲရဲႀကီးေျပာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
စစ္တပ္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းအားလုံး၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူနည္းစုမ်ား၊ အမ်ားျပည္သူနဲ႔သက္ဆိုင္ေသာအဖြဲ႕အ စည္းမ်ားနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ သားသမီးတုိင္း အမွန္တကယ္ကုိ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းေရးမွာပါ၀င္ၾကရမွာ။
အျပန္အလွန္ အေပးအယူလုပ္ၫိႇႏိႈင္းျခင္း၊ ေလးစားျခင္းနဲ႔ နားလည္မႈတုိ႔သာလွ်င္ ၾကာ႐ွည္တည္တ့ံမဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း ေရး၊ အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးနဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးတုိ႔အတြက္ အေျခခံအုတ္္ျမစ္ခ်ေပးႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ ဒုတိယအမွာစကားကေတာ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားရဲ႕ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာတဲ႔လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားကုိ ေဖာ္ျပ လုိပါတယ္။
ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္၀ကၽြန္းေပၚေဒသမွာျဖစ္ထြန္းခဲ့တဲ့တုိးတက္မႈမ်ားကုိ ၾကည့္ျမင္ႏိုင္ရန္ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္႐ိွလာႏိုင္စြမ္း အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္၀မ္းသာလွပါတယ္။
အလုိခ်င္ဆုံးကေတာ့ နာဂစ္မုန္တုိင္းဒဏ္ကုိတုန္႔ျပန္ျခင္းဟာ သီးျခားခြဲျခားထားျခင္းအေပၚ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ ႏိုင္ျခင္းရဲ႕တန္ဘုိးကုိ သက္ေသျပႏိုင္တာပဲ။
အလႉ႐ွင္အသုိင္းအ၀န္းရဲ႕ကူညီပံ့ပုိးမႈျဖင့္ ‘သုံးပြင့္ဆုိင္ ေက်ာ႐ိုးအုပ္စု’အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာ၊ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ အာဆီယံတုိ႔ အတြင္း မႀကံဳစဖူးပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈအေရးပါျခင္းနဲ႔ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာပုိင္မႈရဲ႕ စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းတုိ႔ဟာ ပဋိပကၡ မျဖစ္ၾကဘူးဆုိတာ သက္ေသျပသြားပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ မည္သည့္ေနရာတြင္မဆုိ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈအကူအညီဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအတြက္တုန္႔ျပန္ရမဲ့ ဓားစာ ခံ မျဖစ္သင့္ပါဘူး။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ႐ိွ လူသားခ်င္းစာနာမႈနဲ႔ တုိးတက္မႈအေထာက္အကူမ်ား လုိအပ္ေနသူအားလုံး ရ႐ိွႏိုင္ေရးအာမခံခ်က္႐ိွေအာင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အတူတကြေဆာင္႐ြက္ႏိုင္ရမယ္၊ လုပ္ကုိလုပ္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အခုဟာကေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕ တတိယ အမွာစကားျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အခုအခ်ိန္ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ သူရဲ႕ စီးပြါးေရးစြမ္းအင္အလားအလာေကာင္းမ်ားကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ဘုိ႔အခ်ိန္ ျဖစ္ ပါတယ္။
‘အာ႐ွစီးပြါးေရးအံ့ဘြယ္’ အလယ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာရပ္တည္ေနပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံအ၀ွမ္းမွာ လ်င္ျမန္တဲ့တုိးတက္မႈ မ်ားအတြက္ ျမန္မာကုိ ‘ကႀကိဳးဆင္ေစျခင္းဟာ’ လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္မားေရးအတြက္ အေသခ်ာဆုံးနည္း လမ္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရရဲ႕ ကုန္သြယ္မႈအတြက္ ျပင္ပကိုလမ္းဖြင့္ေပးျခင္း၀ါဒ၊ ေထာင္စုဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ား ရေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈ၊ အိတ္ခ်္အုိင္ဗီြေရာဂါထိန္းခ်ဳပ္မႈ၊ လူကုန္ကူးမႈတုိက္ဖ်က္ေရးနဲ႔ ဘိန္းထုပ္လုပ္မႈအဆုံးသတ္ ေရးတုိ႔ကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ႀကိဳဆုိပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမင့္ အမွန္လက္ေတြ႕မွာေတာ့ ျပည္သူသန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာဟာ ဆက္လက္ဆင္းရဲေနဆဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္းဟာ အာ႐ွရဲ႕ အနိမ့္ဆုံးထဲမွာပါ၀င္ေနတုန္းပါ။
ဒီျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားဟာ အလုပ္မ်ားလိုအပ္ေနပါတယ္။ စားနပ္ရိကၡာဖူလုံမႈေတြလုိအပ္ေနပါတယ္။ က်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေ႐ွာက္ခံယူႏိုင္မႈေတြ လုိအပ္ေနပါတယ္။
ေဒသဆုိင္ရာနဲ႔တကမၻာလုံးဆုိင္ရာ စီးပြါးေရးမွ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ရႏိုင္ေအာင္နဲ႔ ပါ၀င္ပံ့ပုိးေပးႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ ျမန္မာ ျပည္သူမ်ားကို အာမခံရဘုိ႔ ကြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုပ္ေပးရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တည္ၿငိမ္ၿပီး သာယာ၀ေျပာေပါႂကြယ္တဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ေဒသနဲ႔ကမၻာက အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ေတြပုိမုိရ႐ွိလာ မွာကုိ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီရည္မွန္းခ်က္အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေပး ရပါ့မယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရကလဲ ဒီအခ်ိန္အခါကုိ အမိအရ ရယူရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အျပည္ျပည္ဆုိင္ရာအသုိင္းအ၀န္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံျပည္သူမ်ားကုိ လက္ကမ္းရန္ျပင္ဆင္ေနသည့္ အခြင့္အလမ္း မ်ားရဲ႕ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈကုိ ျမန္မာအစုိးရက ရယူရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဂုဏ္သေရ႐ွိ လူႀကီးမင္းမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဒီကုိ မိတ္ေဆြတဦးအျဖစ္ေရာက္လာခဲ့တာပါ။
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္တာ၀န္က ကုလသမဂၢပဋိဉာဥ္ရဲ႕ အေကာင္းဆုံးစံမ်ားနဲ႔စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္းမ်ားကုိ ထိန္းသိမ္းဘုိ႔ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္အခန္းက႑ကေတာ့ သင္တုိ႔အားလုံး - အစုိးရ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား၊ တုိင္းရင္းသားအုပ္စုမ်ား၊ လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား - ကို ျပည္သူတရပ္အေနနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတခုအေနနဲ႔ အတူတကြ ေ႐ွ႕ဆက္ေ႐ြ႕လ်ားဘုိ႔ အား ေပးရန္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
က႑အားလုံးရဲ႕အေပၚမွာ ျပည္သု႕အက်ဳိးကုိထား႐ွိလုိက္တဲ့အခါ မေက်ာ္လႊားႏိုင္တာ သုိ႔မဟုတ္ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာ ဆုိတာ မ႐ွိပါဘူး။
ေဒသနဲ႔ကမၻာဟာ လ်င္ျမန္စြာေျပာင္းလဲေနပါတယ္။ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းမွ၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ မိမိကိုယ္တုိင္ေျပာင္းလဲ မႈကုိ စတင္လုပ္ျခင္းမွ အက်ဳိးျဖစ္ထြန္းဘို႔ ျမန္မာဟာ ရပ္တည္လုိ႔သာ ေနပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစုိးရက ကုလသမဂၢႏဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ျခင္းဟာ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀ါဒရဲ႕ အေျခခံအုတ္ျမစ္ျဖစ္ တယ္လုိ႔ ထပ္ခါတလဲလဲ ေျပာလ်က္႐ွိပါတယ္။
စကားေတြနဲ႔ အလုပ္ေတြ ကုိက္ညီဘုိ႔အတြက္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ေတာင္းဆုိပါတယ္။
သူ႔ျပည္သူမ်ားရဲ႕လုိအပ္ခ်က္မ်ားနဲ႔ ျပင္းျပတဲ့ဆႏၵမ်ားကုိတုန္႔ျပန္ဘုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ကုလသမဂၢနဲ႔ ပုိမုိပူးေပါင္း လုပ္ေဆာင္ေလ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာပုိင္ဆုိင္မႈကုိ အခုိင္အမာျပဳႏိုင္ေလ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီအတူပါပဲ။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တုိ႔္ရဲ႕ေ၀မွ်ခံယူထားတဲ့ရည္မွန္းခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္တဲ့ ျပည္သူအားလုံးရဲ႕လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကုိ အျပည့္အ၀ေလးစားျခင္းနဲ႔အတူ ညီၫြတ္တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းတဲ့ သာယာ၀ေျပာတဲ့ ဒီမုိကေရစီနည္းလမ္းက်တဲ့ အနာ ဂတ္အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလက္လွမ္းမွီႏိုင္ေအာင္ ကူညီရန္ အတူတကြလုပ္ေဆာင္ဘုိ႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသုိင္းအ၀န္း မွာလဲ တာ၀န္႐ွိပါတယ္။
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။
( ၂၀၀၉ ဇူလုိင္ ၄ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အစုိးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား (NGO) ၊ သံတမန္မ်ား၊ ျပည္တြင္း သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား စုစုေပါင္း ၅၀၀ ခန္႔ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ ဟံသာဝတီ မူးယစ္ ေဆးဝါးျပတုိက္တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲ၌ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ မစၥတာ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည့္ မိန္႔ခြန္းအျပည့္အစုံကုိ ျပန္ဆုိပါသည္ )
Unofficial translation
ေမာင္ေမာင္လွႀကိဳင္
၂၀၀၉ ၀၇ ၀၆
Absence of unions has been a bane for students
by Phanida
Tuesday, 07 July 2009 15:12
(Interview with former student leader)
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Absence of students’ unions in Burma, which can operate freely, have led to many sacrifices by students with no guarantee of education, a former student leader of the 7th July student movement said.
The student leader recalled the 7th July 1962 student movement which protested against lack of students’ rights, democratic rights and the military dictatorship in Rangoon University.
The Revolutionary Council led by former dictator Gen. Ne Win grabbed power in a coup from a democratically elected civilian government on March 2, 1962. The students staged peaceful protests against this coup d’etat. The regime quelled the student demonstration brutally by opening fire on peaceful and unarmed students. This student demonstration and massacre was later dubbed the 7th July incident.
On this ill-fated day, hundreds of students were killed and the junta dynamited the student union building situated in Rangoon University campus the next day, July 8 1962.
Though it has been 47 years now, successive Burmese governments still ignore the rightful demands of students and have suppressed student movements brutally till today.
Mizzima reporter Phanida interviewed a former student leader (who wished not to be named on security grounds) on the background of the 7th July student movement, students’ rights and current Burmese politics. The interview is presented here.
Q: Students have sacrificed their lives for democratic rights and an end to military dictatorships in all ages. Why do you think they have not yet achieved their goal?
A: There are two parts to this question, pre-1962 and post-1962. Our democratic struggle took too much time. It took the whole of post-independence period. We must introspect on it. This is very important for all of us. Naturally the sacrifices and losses are inevitable. But Burma experienced two historical ages in its 60-year long post-independence period. This is the significant point of Burma’s history. Another significant point is the complexity of ideology in our movement; the right, left and centrist lines. The last point is there were many separations in our movement.
Q: Please tell us the main objective of the student uprising in brief.
A: Bakatha (All Burma Federation of Students Unions- ABFSU) struggled for student rights and democratic rights. The first student movement in which a student was killed took place in 1956. After that, the then AFPFL (Anti-fascist People’s Freedom League) government imposed restriction on student union movements. The second point is on education. After 1962, let me frankly say, politics overwhelmed us so much that there were hardly any talk on education.
Q: Should students get into politics?
A: In fact, students and education are a part of the political programme. But student movements are not for political power. We joined the student movement but not for power. There was a student circle at a specific time. We joined this movement to fulfill the demands of a needy political situation. In fact, the students did not strive for political power. They struggled only for the restoration of democratic rights and for peace. And they were into these movements for the reform of the education system too, to be transformed to a democratic education system.
Q: What is the reason for not allowing freedom of association in Burma? Why do you think this is crucial?
A: This should exist. This is a hallmark of democracy. We need freedom of association, freedom of expression and right to demonstration by chanting slogans. If we want to exercise these democratic rights in a legal framework, we must have an organization. But now the students have no such organization. In fact, Ko Paw (Min Ko Naing) is no more a student. They are now working as student activists under the shadow of the 88 uprising. There are no labour rights also. Lack of such freedom and democratic rights create an intense situation. Such a situation reveals the students badly need democratic rights to express their will and desire freely.
Q: To what extent did the students suffer in their right to education due to the absence of a legal student union (ABFSU)?
A: Yes, they have and are suffering a lot in this regard, not only now but since our time. This vicious circle will never end. To the question, to what extent, we have to sacrifice our lives…..the current education has no guarantee for the students.
Q: How important is the role of the UN in Burmese affairs. Can we rely on it to some extent?
A: I’ll tell my own view in this regard. Many people said that our country’s affair is sandwiched in the ‘international platform strategy’ of major countries. I’d like to point out that as long as this situation exists, whatsoever they (international community) talk about our country, these talks will be a far cry from Burma’s practical situation as they are not aware of the in-depth situation in Burma.
Q: Please give a brief account of the 7th July movement for the current student of today.
A: The 1962 student movement originated from the tightening of hostel rules. The students demanded abolishment of tight hostel rules, to give them more freedom, to revoke the curfew order imposed under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code on that day of 7th July. They held meetings in the night and dynamited the student union building in the early morning of the next day at about 3 a.m. The army was deployed in the campus at about 4 p.m.
Almost all political organizations supported the then ‘Revolution Council’ after that incident. Only the students were left in this (anti-military dictatorship) struggle. At that time, there were student organizations namely ABFSU, University Student Union, Rangoon University Federation of Ethnic Student Union etc.
Q: What would you like to say in memory of the 7th July student movement?
A: In fact, in a human society where there is no peace, no democracy, no education policy which can guarantee the future of students, it will be very hard for the society to move forward. For the students, there will be their education on the one hand and the political system on the other.
http://www.mizzima.com/edop/interview/2412-absence-of-unions-has-been-a-bane-for-students.html
UN Chief Speaks Out Against Lack of Human Rights
BURMA: UN Chief Speaks Out Against Lack of Human Rights
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Jul 8 (IPS) - Using the power of his office, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon achieved a rare diplomatic feat during his recent visit to military-ruled Burma. He broke a taboo by delivering a public speech about the lack of democracy and human rights in the country.
So far, the notoriously prickly regime, which controls the South-east Asian nation with an iron grip, has accepted Ban's verbal thrust without an outburst. But Burma watchers wonder how long that silence will last, given the regime is known to lash out at U.N. officials who have made public statements in the country about the debilitating effects of ignoring political and civil liberties.
"Neither peace nor development can thrive without democracy and respect for human rights," the world body's top diplomat said over the weekend to an audience of diplomats, U.N. officials and staff from aid agencies in Rangoon, the former capital. "Peace, development and human rights are closely inter-related."
"Myanmar's human rights record remains a matter of grave concern," Ban added, using the name of the country that the junta opts for, instead of Burma. "Myanmar's way forward must be rooted in respect for human rights."
Ban's speech, on the last of his two-day stay in Burma, also touched on the plight of Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader who has spent over 14 years either under house arrest or in Rangoon's Insein Prison. He called for the release of the Nobel Peace laureate and the over 2,100 political prisoners languishing in Burmese jails.
"Aung San Suu Kyi must be allowed to participate in the political process without further delay," Ban said after being denied a chance to meet the 64-year-old Suu Kyi, currently being held in the Insein Prison as part of a bizarre trial after a U.S. citizen showed up as an uninvited guest in her home in early May after he swam there across a lake.
Little wonder why Ban's critical comments - which shatter the illusion being created by the regime that it is on the right track as part of its "roadmap to democracy," including a planned general election in 2010 - is being welcomed in some quarters.
In the past, the junta has not been kind to the far less provocative and milder comments about the shortcomings of the regime's model for democracy and the humanitarian situation made by Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N. special envoy to Burma, and Charles Petrie, the former U.N. humanitarian coordinator in the country.
Gambari was given a dressing down by Information Minister Brig-Gen Kyaw Hsan in March last year for comments the Nigerian diplomat made about flaws in the "democratic" political process being pushed by the junta. Gambari said that the U.N. wanted this push, including the new constitution, to be inclusive, accommodating the opposition.
Petrie paid a different price for speaking his mind in a press release issued in October 2007. The junta refused to renew his visa, prompting an early departure from his post, after the head of the United Nations Development Programme deplored the "deteriorating humanitarian situation" in the country
The regime described that statement as "unprecedented" and "very negative."
But by going many steps further, Ban's speech is being described as "encouraging" by the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), the democratically elected government forced into exile after the regime refused to recognised the results of the 1990 general elections.
"This is the first time that someone has been so openly critical about the reality in Burma," says Bo Hla Tint, the foreign minister of the NCGUB. "It was important for Mr. Ban to tell the regime how the U.N. sees the problem in Burma."
"The U.N. secretary-general's role is important to bring change in Burma," the minister in the exile government told IPS. "It has to be part of a long serious political process, and not just a one-time event."
The personal commitment shown by Ban to usher in an open and inclusive democratic culture in Burma is being well received by the Association of South-east Asian Nations (ASEAN), a 10-member regional bloc of which Burma is a member.
"The prime minister, as the chair of ASEAN, supports the U.N. secretary-general's trip to Myanmar and he wants to ensure that the U.N. keeps engaging the Myanmar government," said Panitan Wattanayagorn, the acting spokesman for the Thai government. "We will see from this point onwards what more can be done now that the U.N. secretary-general has delivered his message."
Such a regional response marks a departure from the harsh comments by Western governments that saw Ban's trip as a failure, achieving barely any concessions from the junta. A key to this dismissive stance was Ban being denied access to meet Suu Kyi.
"Although we know that expectations among some in the international community was very high and they wanted the secretary-general to meet Aung San Suu Kyi, it is not fair to say the mission was a failure because the meeting did not take place," added Panitan in an interview. "The issues are much more complex and beyond this single issue."
But for the current U.N. engagement to achieve political reform in Burma more is required, say human rights groups that have continued to expose the litany of abuse in a country that has been under the grip of successive military regimes since a 1962 coup.
"Setting the standards through a speech is the easiest thing to do; achieving the standards is the difficult part," says David Scott Mathieson, Burma consultant for Human Rights Watch, a New York-based global rights watchdog. "That is where the hard work and effort is going to be." "The average person in Burma will find Ban's speech patronising," Mathieson told IPS. "They expect more from the U.N." (END/2009)
Burmese Army Still Recruiting Under-age Soldiers
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By LAWI WENG Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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The Burmese army is still recruiting under-age soldiers in contravention of a United Nations call to stop the practice, according to child labor activists in Burma.
In the latest incident, a 16-year-old youth was taken late at night by an army truck from Light Infantry Division 77, based in Pegu.
Aye Myint, a leading labor activist in Pegu Division, said the youth was taken from a local restaurant where he worked. His parents were told by an officer at the Pegu army base that the youth had been sent to a recruitment center in Rangoon’s Mingalardon Township.
Aye Myint said the youth’s family has lodged a letter of complaint with the International Labour Organization (ILO) office in Rangoon on June 17. The Irrawaddy tried
unsuccessfully to contact the office on Wednesday.
Kyin Toe, chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD) in Twante Township, said another family had complained to his office that their under-age son had been recruited by the army.
Burma’s state-run media maintains that the government is screening recruits and releasing any found to be under age. It reported that 68 children were detected recently in various military training schools and were released to their parents or guardians.
The ILO says it has been instrumental, together with the International Committee of the Red Cross, in the release of 12 under-age recruits. A further 14 cases are still being processed.
The New York-based Human Rights Watch has said that 70,000 under-age soldiers are serving in the Burmese armed forces.
The UN also says in its latest report on the situation that the Burmese military junta is still recruiting child soldiers. The report on “Children and Armed Conflict” was released this month.
Human rights groups say children are recruited at train stations, bus depots, tea shops, outside video halls and movie cinemas or even while walking home at night.
The groups say the young recruits are threatened and beaten if they refuse to agree to undergo military training. After their training, many are sent to areas where the army is in conflict with ethnic groups.
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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကဗ်ာ-BY [Ye Yint Thet Zwe]
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကဗ်ာ
ထိန္လင္း
ဆယ့္ကိုးရက္ေန႔ ဇြန္လ ဟာ
ေဒၚစုေမြးေန႔ပါ။
တစ္ေထာင့္ကိုးရာ ေလးဆယ့္ငါး
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ဖြား။
ဦးေအာင္ဆန္းနဲ႔ ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္
ေမြးဖြားသန္႔စင္သည္။
စိတ္ဓာတ္တည္ၾကည္ ႏွလံုးသား
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လိုလား။
ျမန္မာျပည္ႀကီး လြတ္လပ္ေအာင္
ေဒၚစု တို႔ေခါင္းေဆာင္။
ဦးေဆာင္လို႔သာ သူစြန္႔စား
ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ အား။
ညီညြတ္ေရးကို ေဖာ္ေဆာင္သည္
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္။
အနာဂတ္မွာ ျပည္ေထာင္သစ္
ႀကံေဆာင္ သူဖြင့္လွစ္။
သမီးလည္းခ်စ္ သားလည္းခ်စ္
လူထုအားလံုးခ်စ္။ ။
၁၆၊ ၆၊ ၂၀၀၉
Refugee treatment under spotlight
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Asia-Pacific region watching how Japan handles new program for people fleeing Myanmar
By SETSUKO KAMIYA
Staff writer
Nongovernmental organizations in the Asia-Pacific region supporting asylum seekers say they are watching with great interest how Japan will handle the resettlement of people from Myanmar starting next year, because it will influence their nations.
Helping hands: Panelists from the U.S., Myanmar, Hong Kong, Thailand and Malaysia discuss refugee support at an international symposium Saturday in Minato Ward, Tokyo. SETSUKO KAMIYA
Panelists at an international symposium titled "Refugee Protection in the New Era and Civil Society" in Minato Ward, Tokyo, on Saturday also said getting the word out on the need for humanitarian assistance is growing increasingly necessary in these dire economic times when people are losing their jobs and feel supporting refugees should not be a priority.
Organized by the Japan Association for Refugees, the symposium drew participants from NGOs in Australia, the United States, South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand and Japan.
In December, Japan announced it will accept 30 Myanmar people a year from refugee camps in Thailand for the next three years, with the support of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Japan will be the first Asian country to take in refugees living in foreign camps. The U.S. and Australia have taken in thousands of such refugees, but a majority of people seeking asylum in Japan came directly from their homeland. A total of 1,599 people applied for political refuge in Japan last year.
"Resettling the 30 refugees each year for the next three years, this may not be a significant number but is a significant milestone for your country," said Christine Petrie, deputy director of the International Rescue Committee in the U.S., a group that helped about 10,000 refugees settle in America last year. The country as a whole took in more than 60,000.
"It's an initiative that cannot afford to fail, because this small number will then set the tone as we move forward in further developing refugee programs," she said.
Eri Ishikawa, secretary general of JAR, said that if the three-year pilot program is successful, she hopes to see Japan expand the number of nationalities that will be accepted, like Australia, which uses an allotment system.
Malaysia and Thailand have yet to sign the U.N. Convention Related to the Status of Refugees but have the most seekers registered with their local UNHCR offices. NGOs in these countries said they work to protect and empower the refugees, who do not hold legal status and face severe discrimination.
Although China has signed the convention, it does not apply to Hong Kong because of the two-government system, but legal professionals there are providing assistance to refugees.
Asked how NGOs are dealing with prejudice against refugees as well as the overall lack of understanding by society toward humanitarian aid, Tamara Domicelj of the Refugee Council of Australia said demonstrating how refugees are making significant contributions to their new country is important.
This was echoed by Lee Ho Taeg, president of South Korean NGO Pnan, who said he tells opponents that "South Korea is the 10th major economically developed country in the world but only a small portion of refugees are being accepted, which is much smaller than other developed countries," he said. "The refugees devote themselves to Korean society. . . . They are not burdens. They are blessings."
Tin Win, a refugee from Myanmar who was granted political asylum by Japan in 1999 and is now president of the Federation of Workers' Union of Burmese Citizens in Japan, said that while he welcomes the resettlement program, there are still problems regarding local integration of the refugees.
He criticized the Japanese government for giving much more support to the Brazilian community than to refugees.
"I sympathize with many Brazilians who lost their jobs, but they can go back to their country. We refugees can't," he said.
Tin Win said the Myanmar community in Japan has focused on political activities in the hope that the situation in their home country will improve and they will be able to return. But as the number of refugees increases, they are facing integration issues as their children grow up and start attending school.
"We have been expecting that the situation in our country will change quickly and we will be able to get back. But the reality is not like that. So now I think we have to think about long-term settlement and about our children's future," he said.
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Lower House passes bill revising foreign residency rules
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Saturday, June 20, 2009
By MINORU MATSUTANI
Staff writer
The Lower House passed bills Friday making it easier for the Justice Ministry's Immigration Bureau to keep tabs on foreigners who have overstayed their visas as well as others residing legally in the country.
The Upper House is also expected to pass the bills, which have the support of both the Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc and the Democratic Party of Japan, the largest opposition party.
The Immigration Bureau and lawmakers worked out the bills to reduce the number of undocumented foreign residents, which the bureau estimates to be about 110,000.
"The bills suggest the government has set its sights on cracking down on undocumented foreigners," said Amnesty International Japan official Sonoko Kawakami. "But it remains unclear how people in a difficult situation, like those applying for refugee status, will be dealt with."
The bills will abolish the Alien Registration Act and revise the immigration control and resident registration laws. Responsibility for overseeing foreign residents will be shifted from municipalities to the Immigration Bureau, which will keep track of personal information, including name, address, visa type and expiration date.
Currently, municipalities issue alien registration cards and provide other public services even to those who have overstayed their visas.
"Municipal officials are simply doing their jobs registering foreigners in compliance with the Alien Registration Act," immigration lawyer Shogo Watanabe said, adding that local governments issue alien registration cards to overstayers with the words "no residential status" typed on them.
With the passage of the bills, undocumented foreigners who are not granted special permission to stay will be detained for deportation.
To prevent the deportation of overstayers with a legitimate reason to reside in the country, the bills also require the Justice Ministry to clarify and announce the standards for granting special permission to stay.
Since 2003, about 10,000 foreigners a year on average have been granted special permission to stay, according to the Immigration Bureau. Granting permission is entirely at the discretion of the Justice Ministry.
A new form of identification, called a "zairyu" (residence) card, will replace alien registration cards, with the information on them kept by the Justice Ministry.
Foreign residents will be listed on the Juki Net resident registry network, a computer network linking municipalities that contains demographic information of Japanese residents.
Visas, typically good for three years, will be extended to five. Also, foreign residents will no longer be required to obtain re-entry permits if they return to Japan within a year.
On the other hand, the punishments for failing to report one's address and other personal information will become harsher. In order to curb fake marriages, the bills give the justice minister the authority to revoke the spousal visas of those who fail to conduct "activities spouses normally do" for six months. Special consideration would be given to spouses who live separately because of mitigating circumstances, including abuse.
According to the bills, the government must review the new immigration law and make necessary changes within three years of enforcement. If enacted, the new law will be enforced within three years of its announcement to the public.
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ILO ညီလာခံရဲ့ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံနဲ့ပတ္သတ္တဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကို ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဳးဦးေမာင္ေမာင္နွင့္ RFA ဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းခ်က္
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ (၉၈)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ကမၻာ့အလုပ္သမားအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ ILO ညီလာခံကေန ျမန္မာနို္ငံနဲ့ ပတ္သတ္ျပီး အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္မဲ့အစီအစဥ္ေတြ ဆံုးျဖတ္လိုက္တယ္လို့ သိရပါတယ္ ဘာေတြမ်ား ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်ခဲ့ပါလဲ
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ရွိတယ္ ။အဓိကအခ်က္ကေတာ့ သကရာဇ္ ၂၀၀၀-၂၀၀၆ တုန္းက ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြရွိတယ္။ အဲဒီ့ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြအတိုင္း လိုက္နာမယ္လို့ေျပာျပီး မလိုက္နာလို ေ၇ွ့ဆက္ျပီး ဒါကို ျမန္ျမန္ဆန္ဆန္လုပ္ဖို ့ဆိုတာကို သေဘာထားေပးတယ္။ သေဘာထားေပးတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ဆက္လက္ျပီးေတာ့ မလုပ္ေဆာင္ နိုင္ရင္ ဘာလုပ္မယ္ဆိုတဲ့ကိစၥေတြ၇ွိတာေပါ့ေနာ္ ။ ဥပမာ ICJ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာခံုရံုးေပါ့ ။ခံုရံုးကိုသြားျပီး ျမန္မာျပည္က ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္တာေတြကို ဆက္လက္ တင္ျပမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ကိစၥရွိတယ္။ခ်က္ခ်င္းေဖာ္ေဆာင္ရမဲ့လုပ္ငန္း အားလံုးက လုပ္ဖို ့ဆိုတဲ့ဟာ ကိုတင္ျပသြားတာ ရွိတယ္။
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ခ်က္ခ်င္းလုပ္ေဆာင္ရမဲ့လုပ္ငန္းဆိုတာဘယ္လို လုပ္ငန္းေတြလဲ ခင္ဗ်ား
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ အေရးႀကီးဆံုး တခ်က္ကေတာ့ဘာလဲဆိုေတာ့ န အ ဖ ရဲ့ ၂၀၁၀ အတြက္ ျပင္ဆင္ေနတဲ့ အေျခခံဥပေဒ ထဲမွာ ပုဒ္မ ၃၅၉ အပိုဒ္ ၁၅ အခန္းခြဲ ၈ မွာပါတဲ့ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ အဓမၼလုပ္အားေပးမွဳကို အားေပးရာေရာက္တဲ့အတြက္ေႀကာင့္ ဒါကို ျပင္ဆင္ေပးပါဆိုတာကို ILO က ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္တယ္ (ဒီနွစ္ထဲမွာ)
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္။ ။ ဒါဟာ ၂၀၀၈ ဖြဲ ့စည္းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒကို ျပင္ဆင္ခိုင္းတာေပါ့ေလ အကယ္၍ မျပင္ဘူးဆိုရင္ သူတို ့ဘာ လုပ္မယ္ဆိုတာပါေသးလားခင္ဗ်ား။
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ မျပင္ခဲ့ရင္ ဘာလုပ္မယ္ဆိုတာမပါဘူး ဒါေပမဲ့ခုနကကြ်န္ေနာ္တင္ ျပခဲ့သလို သကၠရာဇ္ ၂၀၀၀-၂၀၀၆မွာ ခ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မွာရွိထားျပီးသားဟာ ဘာလဲဆိုရင္ လိုက္နာမွဳ မရွိခဲ့ဘူးဆိုရင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာခံုရံုးကိုသြားျပီး ခံုရံုးက တဆင့္ ဆက္လက္ျပီးေတာ့ ေရွ့သြားမဲ့လုပ္ငန္းေတြကိုသူတို့ ေျပာဆိုထားတယ္။ အဲဒီ့ေျပာဆိုထားတဲ့လုပ္ငန္းေတြဟာ ဘာလဲဆိုရင္ စီးပြြါးေရးပိတ္စို့မွဳတို ့ရင္းနွီးျမဳတ္နွံမွဳေတြ ရပ္ဆိုင္မွဳအားလံုးကို အဲဒီ့ကတည္းက ေဆြးေႏြးထားျပီးသား ျဖစ္တဲ့ အတြက္ေႀကာင့္ အခုလိုျပင္ဆင္မွဳမရွိဘူးဆိုရင္ မႀကာခင္မွာပဲ နို၀င္ဘာလ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးေကာ္မတီ အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ တစ္ခါျပန္ျပီး သံုးသပ္တဲ့အခါအေျဖက္ုက်ေနာ္တို ့ေတြ ့ရပါလိမ္ ့မယ္။
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက အခုအစည္းအေ၀းမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ရဲ့အမွဳကိစၥနဲ့ ပတ္သတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလးေျပာဆိုႀကတယ္လို ့ႀကားရပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား။ အဲဒီ့ကိစၥနဲ့ပတ္သတ္ျပီးေတာ့ ဘာမ်ား ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ခ်ပါသလဲ ခင္ဗ်ား
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မွာေတာ့ အေျခခံလူ ့အခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မွဳျဖစ္တဲ့ နို္င္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြကို ဖမ္းဆီးထားတဲ့ကိစၥ အလုပ္သမားအခြင့္အေရးကို လုပ္ေဆာင္တဲ့သူေတြကို ဖမ္းဆီးထားတဲ့ကိစၥ အထူးသျဖင့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုႀကည္ဟာ က်ေနာ္တို ့ဗမာျပည္ ျပည္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးမွာ ျပန္လည္ဖြြ့ံျဖိဳးေရးမွာ မပါမျဖစ္တဲ့ ပုဂိုလ္တစ္ဦးျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ ေႀကာင့္အဲဒီ့ ပုဂိုလ္ဟာလြတ္ဖို ့လိုတယ္ဆိုတဲ့အေနအထားမ်ိဳးကို ကမၻာ့အလုပ္သမားေရးရာအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးက ေတာင္းဆို ထားတာဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ထဲမွာပါ ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္။ ။ ဒီေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ေတြနဲ့ပတ္သတ္ျပီးေတာ့ စစ္အစိုးရဖက္ကေနျပီး ဘယ္လိုမ်ား တုန္ ့ျပန္ခ်က္ေတြမ်ား လုပ္ပါသလဲ
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ ခါတိုင္းနွစ္ေတြက ျပန္ျပီးေတာ့ျငင္းဆိုတာတို ့ေဆြးေႏြးတာတို ့ရွိတယ္။ ဒီနွစ္ေတာ့ ဘာမွေျပာမသြားဘူး ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္က်တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာလည္း ဒီလိုပဲအားလံုးသေဘာတူတယ္ျငိမ္ျပီးျပန္သြားတာပဲခင္ဗ်
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္က အစည္းအေ၀း သဘာပတိကေႀကညာလိုက္တာလားခင္ဗ်
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ာ က်ေနာ္တို ့အစည္းအေ၀းစဖြင့္တယ္ က်ေနာ္တင္ျပႀကတယ္ နအဖ ကတင္ျပတယ္ အလုပ္သမားကိုယ္စားလွယ္တင္ျပတယ္ အလုပ္ရွင္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္တင္ျပတယ္ ျပီးေတာ့တခါ ျပန္ျပီးသံုးသပ္တယ္ ျပီးတဲ့ ေနာက္မွာ ညီလာခံ ဥကၠဌကေနျပီးေတာ့ သူတို ့အဖြဲ ့ငယ္ေလးတစ္ခု နဲ့ေဆြးေႏြးျပီးေတာ့ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ခ်တယ္။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ ခ်တဲ့အေႀကာင္းကိုလည္း ေႀကညာတာက ဥကၠဌက ပဲေႀကညာသြားတာပါ။
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ ဒီေႀကညာခ်က္ေတြဟာ စာနဲ့ေပ နဲ့ထြက္လာပါဦးမလားခင္ဗ်ာ
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္တို ့အဂၤ ါေန ့ေလာက္ဆိုထြက္ပါျပီ
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ ဟုတ္ကဲ့ ဒီအစည္းအေ၀းေပၚကရလဒ္ေပၚမွာ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္အေနနဲ ့ဘာမ်ားသံုးသပ္ခ်င္ပါသလဲခင္ဗ်ာ
ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ။ ။ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ေႀကနပ္အားရပါတယ္ က်ေနာ္တို ့ ၁၉၉၂ေလာက္ကတည္းက ေတာက္ေလ်ာက္ လုပ္လာ ခဲ့တဲ့ကိစၥေတြမွာ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ဖိအားေပးခဲ့ျပီးေတာ့ ေျပာင္းလဲမွုအတြက္ ။ အေျခခံအလုပ္သမားအခြင့္အေရးကို ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မွဳ အတြက္ ႀကိဳးစာေနတာကို က်ေနာ္တို ့ေတြ ့ရတယ္ ခုထက္ထိလည္း အားမေလ်ာ့သြားတဲ့အျပင္ အခုလိုလာမဲ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ ့ပတ္သတ္တဲ့ အေျခခံဥပေဒကိုျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲဖို ့အတြက္စတင္ျပီးေတာ့ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာအဖြဲ ့အစည္း တခုကေန တိတိက်က်ေထာက္ျပျပီးေတာ့ ေျပာတဲ့ကိစၥ ကအင္မတန္ အားရွိတယ္ ဒါကိုလည္းအျခားအျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာအဖြဲ ့အစည္းေတြမွာ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ဆက္လက္ျပီး ႀကိဳးစားသြားမယ္လို ့ က်ေနာ္ကေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္ ။
ဦးတင္ေအာင္ခိုင္ ။ ။ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ခင္ဗ်ား
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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္(၆၄)ေျမာက္ေမြးေန ့အထိန္းအမွတ္ စာစု
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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္(၆၄)ေျမာက္ေမြးေန ့အထိန္းအမွတ္ စာစု
အရင္ဆုံးသတင္းေပးခ်င္တာက ဂီရင္းလို ့ေခၚတဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးကို
ေထာက္ခံအားေပးေနတဲ့ ဂ်ပန္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ားအဖဲြ ့က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ကို
Democracy and Peace Award ဆုကို နက္ျဖန္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ေမြးေန ့မွာခ်ီး
ျမင့္မွာျဖစ္ျပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ရဲ့ကိုယ္စား အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္ဒုတိယ
ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးရဲ့ သားလဲျဖစ္ အမ်ိဳးုသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ
ဂ်ပန္ရဲ့ ဥကၠဌလည္းျဖစ္တဲ့ ကိုသန္ ့စင္ဦးကလက္ခံရယူမွာျဖစ္ေႀကာင္းသတင္းပါးလို
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ေနာက္တခုက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္အသက္(၆၄) နွစ္ျပည့္အထိန္းအမွတ္ ဆန္လႉပဲြ
ကိုလဲ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားမ်ားစုေပါင္းျပီး ထိုင္ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ မဲေဆာက္ဧရိယာ
မွာျပဳလုပ္ေနပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာက်ပ္ေငြသိန္း(၁၁၀) ဖိုးေလာက္အလႉခံရရိွပါတယ္။
အမ်ွေပးေဝပါတယ္။
သာဓုေခၚႀကပါခင္ဗ်ား
အခုက်ႊန္ေတာ္တင္ျပခ်င္တာက - တရားကိုျမင္မွ ဘုရားကိုျမင္မယ္
ဆိုတဲ့ဆိုရိုးစကားဗုဒၶဘာသာမွာရိွပါတယ္။ အခုလဲေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကညရဲ့နိုင္ငံ
ေရးအျမင္ကိုသိမွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ကိုသိမွာျဖစ္လို ့ ၈၈- အေရးအခင္း
ေနာက္ပိုင္း လူငယ္မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ေတြကို ရည္ရြယ္ျပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ရဲ့
အေတြးအေခၚေတြထဲက စာပိုဒ္(၃) ပိုဒ္ကို ေခါင္းစဥ္ခဲြျပီးမွတ္မွတ္ရရတင္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာလူထုနဲ ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ
ဒီမိုကေရစီနိုင္ငံမ်ားမွ နိုင္ငံသူနိုင္ငံသားမ်ားရရိွေသာ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ားခံစားပိုင္ခြင့္မ်ားကို
ျမန္မာျပည္သားတို ့မခံစားထိုက္ဟူေသာ စကားသည္ ေစာ္ကားရာေရာက္ပါသည္။
တခ်ိန္တည္းတြင္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအစိုးရကမူ ဒီမိုကေရစီနိုင္ငံအစိုးရမ်ားထက္ ပိုမို၍ အခြင့္အေရးမ်ား
ခံစားပိုင္ခြင့္ရိွသည္ဟု ယူဆထားျခင္းမွာ ယုတၱိတန္ပါသလားဟု ေမးစရာျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ဥပေဒ
ဥပေဒဟူသည္ တရားမွ်တမႈနွင့္ ထပ္တူထပ္မွ်ျဖစ္ျပီး တရားမွ်တမႈရိွျခင္းေႀကာင့္ ျပည္သူ
ျပည္သားမ်ား ေႀကေႀကနပ္နပ္နွင့္ ျငိမ္သက္ေနႀကေသာ ျငိမ္ဝပ္ပိျပားမႈမ်ိဳးသာလွ်င္ မြန္ျမတ္ပါသည္။
ဥပေဒကို အစိုးရ၏ ဖိနိွပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္ေသာကရိယာအျဖစ္ အသုံးျပဳျခင္းသည္ အာဏာ
ရွင္စနစ္၏ အမ်ားသိႀကန္အင္လကၡဏာတရပ္ပင္ျဖစ္သည္။
ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုက္ပဲြ
သစ္ပင္၏အရိပ္သည္ေအးျမ၏
ထို ့ထက္ မိဘ၏အရိပ္သည္ပိုေအးျမ၏
ထို ့ထက္ ဆရာသမား၏အရိပ္သည္ပိုမိုေအးျမ၏
ထို ့ထက္ မင္း ၏အရိပ္သည္ ပိုမို၍ေအးျမ၏
သို ့ေသာ္ အေအးျမဆုံးမွာ ဗုဒၶရွင္ေတာ္ျမတ္၏ အရိပ္ျဖစ္၏
ထို ့ေႀကာင့္ ျပည္သူလူထုကို ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးနွင့္ လုံျခံဳေရးဟူသည့္
ေအးျမေသာအရိပ္အာဝါသေပးနိုင္ရန္အတြက္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူတို ့သည္ ဗုဒၶ၏အဆုံးအမ
ႀသဝါဒမ်ားကို လိုက္နာရမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းႀသဝါဒမ်ားထဲတြင္ သစၥာရိွျခင္း ၊
ဂရုဏာထားျခင္း နွင့္ တရားဓမၼေစာင့္စည္းျခင္း တို ့သည္အဓိကျဖစ္သည္။
ဤသို ့ေသာအရည္အခ်င္းမ်ားေပၚတြင္ အေျချပဳေသာ အစိုးရကိုရရန္ရည္ရြယ္၍
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားတို ့က ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုက္ပဲြဝင္ေနႀကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။
အထက္ပါ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုက္ပဲြေအာင္ျမင္ဖို ့ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္တေယာက္အေနနဲ ့
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ့အျမင္ကိုတင္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုက္ပဲြေအာင္ျမင္ဖို ့
၁။ကိုယ့္အားကိုယ္ကိုးရမယ္(ကယ္တင္ရွင္ေတြကိုေစာင့္မေနႀကပါနဲ ့ ဗုဒၶ ကေဟာထားတယ္ ကိုယ့္အား
ကိုယ္ကိုးပါတဲ့-ဟုတ္ပါတယ္ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုကိုယ္ ကိုယ့္နိုင္ငံကိုကိုယ္ကယ္တင္ႀကရမွာပါ။ ဘယ္သူ ့ကိုမွ
ဘယ္နိုင္ငံကိုမွ လာကယ္တင္လိမ့္မယ္ဆိုျပီးေမွ်ာ္ေနလို ့မရပါဘူး ဘယ္နိုင္ငံမဆို ကိုယ့္အက်ိဳးစီးပြား
အတြက္အရင္ႀကည့္ျပီးမွလုပ္ႀကတာပါ
၂။စည္းလုံးညီညြတ္ရမယ္(ဦးတည္ခ်က္ကို့အဓိကထားျပီးတေယာက္နဲ ့တေယာက္သေဘာထားႀကီးျပီး
စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံဖို ့လိုပါတယ္၊ တေယာက္အားနွင့္ယူေသာ္မရ အမ်ားအားနွင့္ယူေသာ္ရ၏တဲ့။)
ျပီးေတာ့ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားေပၚမွာအေျခခံတဲ့
က) ျပင္းျပတဲ့ဆႏၵ
(ခ) ျပင္းျပတဲ့ဝီရိယ
(ဂ) စဲြျမဲတဲ့စိတ္ဓါတ္
(ဃ)စူးစမ္းေလ့လာမႈ တို ့ရိွရပါမယ္။
(ကိုယ့္က်င့္တရားမေကာင္းတဲ့လူေတြမ်ားေနရင္ဒီမိုကေရစီနိုင္ငံထူေထာင္လဲနိုင္ငံေကာင္းလာမွာမဟုတ္
ပါဘူး ျပီးေတာ့ ဗုဒၶကေဟာထားပါတယ္ တရားကိုေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေသာသူကို တရားကျပန္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္၏တဲ့
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြ ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားပ်က္ျပားတာကေတာ့ေျပာစရာကိုမလိုေတာ့ပါဘူး ျပည္သူေတြေရာ
ဘယ္ေလာက္ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားေစာင့္ႀကသလဲဆိုတာကိုယ့္ဘာသာကိုယ္ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ဖို ့လိုပါတယ္။
အဲ့ဒီမွာေျပာခ်င္တာက ၆၂ ခုနွစ္စစ္တပ္ကအာဏာသိမ္းျပီး ဗိုလ္ေနဝင္းက အူမေတာင့္မွသီလေစာင့္
နိင္မယ္ ဆိုတဲ့စကားနဲ ့ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားအမ်ားစုကို ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားပ်က္ေအာင္လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္ အခု
ဗုဒၶရဲ့အဆုံးအမအရ ဘယ္သူတရားပ်က္ပ်က္ကိုယ္မပ်က္နဲ ့ဆိုတဲ့ အဆုံးအမအတိုင္း ကၽြန္ေတာ္
တို ့တေတြ ကိုယ့္ရဲ့ကိုယ္က်င့္တရားကို ကိုယ့္ဘာသာထိန္းျပီး ျပဳျပင္ဖို ့အခ်ိန္တန္ေနျပီ ေနာက္ေတာင္
က်ေနပါျပီ)
ေနာက္ဆုံးအေရးအႀကီးဆုံးအခ်က္ကေတာ့ သတိတရား ပါဘဲ
တခြန္းထဲနဲ ့မွန္ေသာစကားကိုေျပာေသာေႀကာင့္ ဗုဒၶ ဟုေခၚ၏(အဲ့ဒါ ဗုဒၶ ရဲ့ဂုဏ္ပုဒ္ေတြထဲကတခုပါ)
အဲ့ဒီ ဗုဒၶရွင္ေတာ္ျမတ္က သတိလက္မလြတ္နဲ ့လို ့အႀကိမ္ေပါင္းရာေက်ာ္ေျပာသြားပါတယ္ ခႏၶာဝန္
ခ်ခါနီးေနာက္ဆုံးအခ်ိန္မွာလဲေနာက္ဆုံးေဟာသြားတာက သတိမလြတ္ေစႀကနဲ ့ေဟ့လို ့မွာသြားရွာပါ
တယ္။ သတိတရားအေရးအႀကီးဆုံးပါ သတိတလုံးလြတ္ျပီဆိုရင္ အေပၚကေျပာထားတာေတြ ကိုယ္
က်င့္တရားေတြအကုန္ကုန္ပါျပီ။
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားအားလုံးကိုယ္စိတ္နွစ္ျဖာက်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာႀကပါေစ။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္ကိုယ္စိတ္နွစ္ျဖာက်န္းမာခ်မ္းသာပါေစ။
ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္-
(ဘုန္းလိႈင္)
F W U B C
ေလွာင္ခ်ိဳင့္တံခါးေတြ ရိုက္ခ်ိဳးၾကေဟ့
ျမန္မာ့သမုိင္းတေလွ်ာက္
အုပ္စုိးသူအဆက္ဆက္မွာ
သူ႔ထက္ဆုိးသူေတာင္မ
သူ႔ေလာက္မဆုိးခဲ့ၾကဘူး
အဲဒီလူေပါ့
တုိင္းသူျပည္သားေတြရဲ႕
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲပက္လက္ေမ်ာသူ
တိရစာၦန္လုိလူတေယာက္
အာဏာမက္စိတ္က ေတာင္လုိေမာက္ေနပုံမ်ား …၊
ဘဝရဲ႕ ဆည္းဆာခ်ိန္
တိမ္ေတာက္ေတာက္ထဲမွာ
ေထြးၿပီးသား တံေတြးေတြ ပလုတ္ပေလာင္းနဲ႔
ေသြး႐ူးေသြးတမ္း အမိန္႔ျပန္တမ္းေတြထုတ္
အေမ့ကုိ ေနာက္တႏွစ္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္တဲ့
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲကအေကာင္ေပးတဲ့
အေမ့အတြက္ ေမြးေန႔လက္ေဆာင္ …။
တကမၻာလုံး ဝက္ဝက္ကြဲပါပဲ
အေမ့အတြက္ ဝမ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း
စိတ္မေကာင္းေၾကာင္း
သတင္းစကားေတြ
သဝဏ္လႊာေတြ
ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ေတြ ပလူပ်ံလုိ႔
တႏွစ္တခါ ေတာေျခာက္သံလား
ေတာလဲသံလား
ၿပီးေတာ့လည္း ၿပီးသြားတာပါပဲ
အေမ့လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးဟာ
ေလနဲ႔အတူလြင့္ေမ်ာသြားခဲ့
အေမ့စိတ္တခုသာ
သံမဏိေက်ာက္ေဆာင္တခုအလား
ပုိမုိမာေက်ာက်စ္လာခဲ့တယ္ …။
အေမ့ရဲ႕ဒုကၡဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ ဒုကၡမဟုတ္ဘူး
ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ဒုကၡသာလွ်င္ အေမ့ရဲ႕ ဒုကၡျဖစ္တယ္
ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ အေမ့ရဲ႕အသက္ကုိ ေပးထားၿပီးသားမုိ႔
အေမ့ရဲ႕ ခုိင္မာတဲ့စိတ္ဓါတ္အင္းအားေအာက္မွာ
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲကေကာင္ေတြတေန႔ …
ဒူးေထာက္ၾကရမယ္ဆုိတာ သားတုိ႔ ယုံတယ္ …၊
ကံၾကမၼာေရ …
ရက္စက္မႈအေပါင္း သရဖူမေဆာင္းလုိက္ပါနဲ႔
အေမဟာ
ေခတ္သစ္ဗမာျပည္သမုိင္းရဲ႕ ေကာင္းကင္မွာ
ထြန္းလင္းေတာက္ပတဲ့ လမ္းျပၾကယ္ျဖစ္တယ္
အေမဟာ
ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးျဖစ္တယ္
ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးရဲ႕ေသြးက
အေမ့ကုိယ္ထဲ လွည့္လည္စီးဆင္းတယ္ …၊
ကမၻာႀကီးေရ …
ဗမာျပည္ႀကီးေရ …
အေမ့ကုိ ခ်စ္သူ မုန္းသူမ်ားအားလုံးအား
အေမ့ကုိယ္စား
ငါတုိ႔က ေက်းဇူးစကားဆုိပါရေစ …၊
အေမလြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
ျပည္သူလူထုလြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
တုိင္းျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
ေလွာင္ခ်ဳိင့္တံခါးေတြ ႐ုိက္ခ်ဳိးၾကေဟ့ …။
(ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၆၃ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔အမွတ္တရ)
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Posted By Ye Yint Thet Zwe to Ye Yint Thet Zwe at 6/15/2009 09:23:00 PM
[Ye Yint Thet Zwe] ေလွာင္ခ်ိဳင့္တံခါးေတြ ရိုက္ခ်ိဳးၾကေဟ့
ျမန္မာ့သမုိင္းတေလွ်ာက္
အုပ္စုိးသူအဆက္ဆက္မွာ
သူ႔ထက္ဆုိးသူေတာင္မ
သူ႔ေလာက္မဆုိးခဲ့ၾကဘူး
အဲဒီလူေပါ့
တုိင္းသူျပည္သားေတြရဲ႕
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲပက္လက္ေမ်ာသူ
တိရစာၦန္လုိလူတေယာက္
အာဏာမက္စိတ္က ေတာင္လုိေမာက္ေနပုံမ်ား …၊
ဘဝရဲ႕ ဆည္းဆာခ်ိန္
တိမ္ေတာက္ေတာက္ထဲမွာ
ေထြးၿပီးသား တံေတြးေတြ ပလုတ္ပေလာင္းနဲ႔
ေသြး႐ူးေသြးတမ္း အမိန္႔ျပန္တမ္းေတြထုတ္
အေမ့ကုိ ေနာက္တႏွစ္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္တဲ့
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲကအေကာင္ေပးတဲ့
အေမ့အတြက္ ေမြးေန႔လက္ေဆာင္ …။
တကမၻာလုံး ဝက္ဝက္ကြဲပါပဲ
အေမ့အတြက္ ဝမ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း
စိတ္မေကာင္းေၾကာင္း
သတင္းစကားေတြ
သဝဏ္လႊာေတြ
ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာခ်က္ေတြ ပလူပ်ံလုိ႔
တႏွစ္တခါ ေတာေျခာက္သံလား
ေတာလဲသံလား
ၿပီးေတာ့လည္း ၿပီးသြားတာပါပဲ
အေမ့လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးဟာ
ေလနဲ႔အတူလြင့္ေမ်ာသြားခဲ့
အေမ့စိတ္တခုသာ
သံမဏိေက်ာက္ေဆာင္တခုအလား
ပုိမုိမာေက်ာက်စ္လာခဲ့တယ္ …။
အေမ့ရဲ႕ဒုကၡဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ ဒုကၡမဟုတ္ဘူး
ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ဒုကၡသာလွ်င္ အေမ့ရဲ႕ ဒုကၡျဖစ္တယ္
ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ အေမ့ရဲ႕အသက္ကုိ ေပးထားၿပီးသားမုိ႔
အေမ့ရဲ႕ ခုိင္မာတဲ့စိတ္ဓါတ္အင္းအားေအာက္မွာ
တံေတြးခြက္ထဲကေကာင္ေတြတေန႔ …
ဒူးေထာက္ၾကရမယ္ဆုိတာ သားတုိ႔ ယုံတယ္ …၊
ကံၾကမၼာေရ …
ရက္စက္မႈအေပါင္း သရဖူမေဆာင္းလုိက္ပါနဲ႔
အေမဟာ
ေခတ္သစ္ဗမာျပည္သမုိင္းရဲ႕ ေကာင္းကင္မွာ
ထြန္းလင္းေတာက္ပတဲ့ လမ္းျပၾကယ္ျဖစ္တယ္
အေမဟာ
ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးျဖစ္တယ္
ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးရဲ႕ေသြးက
အေမ့ကုိယ္ထဲ လွည့္လည္စီးဆင္းတယ္ …၊
ကမၻာႀကီးေရ …
ဗမာျပည္ႀကီးေရ …
အေမ့ကုိ ခ်စ္သူ မုန္းသူမ်ားအားလုံးအား
အေမ့ကုိယ္စား
ငါတုိ႔က ေက်းဇူးစကားဆုိပါရေစ …၊
အေမလြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
ျပည္သူလူထုလြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
တုိင္းျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ဖုိ႔အတြက္
ေလွာင္ခ်ဳိင့္တံခါးေတြ ႐ုိက္ခ်ဳိးၾကေဟ့ …။
(ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ၆၃ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမြးေန႔အမွတ္တရ)
[Ye Yint Thet Zwe] ကမၻာႀကီးက သိပါတယ္
အေမ
လြတ္လပ္ႁခင္း ေကာင္းကင္မွာ
ႃငိမ္းခၽမ္းေရး ခၽိဳးငွက္တို႔
အေထာင္အေသာင္း ပၽံသန္းလာႂကႃပီ ။
အေမရဲ႔
ေႁခာက္ဆယ့္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္ေႁမာက္ေမြးေန႔ကို
ေနာက္ထပ္ တႏွစ္
အကၽယ္ခၽဳပ္ သက္တမ္းတိုးႁခင္းနဲ႔
ႁပည္သူလူထုႄကီးရဲ႔ လိုအင္ဆႏၵေတြကို
ေႁခမြ ဖၽက္ဆီး ႁပလိုက္ၿပီေလ ။
အေမနဲ႔ႁပည္သူလူထုႄကီးအေပၚ
သူတို႔
ရက္စက္နိုင္တာထက္
ပိုၿပီး ရက္စက္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္ ။
ႏွိပ္စက္ႏိုင္တာထက္
ပိုၿပီး ႏွိပ္စက္ ခဲ့ၾကတယ္ ။
မိုက္တြင္းနက္ႏိုင္တာထက္
ပိုၿပီး မိုက္တြင္းနက္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္ ။
အေမရဲ ့
ခံႏိုင္ရည္စြမ္းအား
သားတို႔
ေဟာဒီ ရင္ဘတ္ႄကီးေတြနဲ႔
ႁမင္ေတြ႔ခံစား ခြန္အား ႁဖစ္ေစခဲ့တယ္ ။
အေမေရ
ဗမာတႁပည္လံုးနဲ႔
ကမၻာႄကီးတခုလံုးရဲ႔
ခၽစ္ႁခင္းေမတၲာတရား
အေမ့အေပၚမွာ လႊမ္းႃခံဳလို႔ထားႂကတယ္ ။
ကမၻာ့ရြာႄကီး တခုလံုး
ႃခိမ့္ႃခိမ့္သဲသဲ
အေမ့ရဲ႔ ေမြးေန႔ပြဲေတြ ကၽင္းပေနခၽိန္မွာ
အေမ့ရဲ႔ လြတ္ေႁမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ေတာင္းဆိုေနခၽိန္မွာ
အေမကေတာ့
သည္းခံ ခြင့္လႊတ္ႁခင္းနဲ႔
ေမတၲာတရားကသာလၽင္
အရာရာကို ေအာင္ႏိုင္လိမ့္မယ္ ဆိုတဲ့
ဘုရားရွင္ရဲ႔ တရားေတာ္ကို
ႏွလံုးသြင္း ဆင္ႁခင္ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို
တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ေနမယ္ဆိုတာ
သားတ႔ုိ သိသလုိ
ကမၻာႄကီးကလဲ သိႂကပါတယ္ အေမ ။
အေမ့ရဲ႔ ေမြးေန႔မွာ
အေမ သက္ေတာ္ ရာေကၽာ္ ရွည္ေစေႂကာင္း
ဆုမြန္ေတာင္းရင္း
အေမ့ရဲ႔ ၪီးေဆာင္မႈေအာက္မွာ
သားတို႔
ႁပည္သူလူထုႄကီးတရပ္လံုး
ညီညီၫြတ္ၫြတ္ နဲ႔
ေခတ္တေခတ္ကို္ ထုဆစ္သြားမယ္ ။
(ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႂကည္ ၏ ၆၂ႏွစ္ေႁမာက္ ေမြးေန႔သို႔)
[Ye Yint Thet Zwe] တရားတဖက္ ဓါးတလက္
-ေႂကကြဲ၀မ္းနည္းမႈေတြအားလံုး
ထားရစ္ခဲ့တဲ့အေမ
ငါတို႔ခၽစ္တဲ့ အေမေပါ့
ခင္ပြန္းသည္ကေသဆံုး
သားႏွစ္ေယာက္နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ဆံုးရႈံး
မိသားစုဘ၀တခုလံုး
ႃပိဳကြဲပၽက္စီးခံႃပီး
တိုင္းႁပည္ကိုခၽစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေမ
မိသားစုသံေယာဇၪ္ႄကိဳး
အပိုင္းပိုင္းရိုက္ခၽိဳးခံခဲ့ရေပမယ့္
မေဗဒါအံကိုခဲ
ပန္းပန္လၽက္ပါပဲ --- ငါတို႔ အေမ ။
-အေမ့အသက္ ေႁခာက္ဆယ္ ႁပည့္ႃပီတဲ့ ----
ႁဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ရတဲ့ကာလ
အရင္းအႏွီးေတြမၽားလွ
ဗမာႁပည္သူေတြ လူလံုးလွဖို႔
မတရားတဲ့အမိန္႔အာဏာဟူသမွ်
တာ၀န္အရ ဖီဆန္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေမ
ကံႂကမၼာရဲ႔ရိုက္ပုတ္မႈေတြ
အေမ့အသဲႏွလံုးေတြ မြမြေႂကခဲ့
အေမကေတာ့ အႃပံဳးမပၽက္
ႁပည္သူ႔ေရွ႔က မားမားရပ္လၽက္ပါဘဲ ။
-လူသားေတြ အကၽဳိးအတြက္
တားႁမစ္ထားတဲ့ ၪပေဒေတြႂကားက
ကမၻာသူကမၻာသားေတြဆီ
မီးကိုယူေဆာင္လာတဲ့
ပရိုမီးသီးယတ္စ္ နတ္ဘုရားနဲ႔
ထပ္တူ တူညီစိတ္ထား
အေမထားတဲ့အခါ
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြဟာ
ေႂကာက္ရြံ႔တုန္လႈပ္
အေမ့ကို ဖမ္းခၽဳပ္ခဲ့ႂကတယ္ ။
-ဖမ္းဆီး ခၽဳပ္ေႏွာင္ ေထာင္ခၽ
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြ ယုတ္မာသမွ်
အရာေတြအားလံုးဟာ
အေမ့ရဲ႔စိတ္ဓာတ္ကို
ပိုမိုႁပတ္သားမာေကၽာေစေတာ့တယ္ ။
-အေမ့ရဲ႔အကၽယ္ခၽဳပ္ဘ၀ထဲမွာ
တရားတဖက္နဲ႔
ႃငိမ္းခၽမ္းေရးလက္နက္ကိုင္ဆြဲ
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို
တိုက္ပြဲဆင္ႏႊဲေနရင္း
အေမ့ရဲ႔ ႏႈတ္ထြက္စကား
ဓါးသြားတလက္လို
စူးရွထက္ႁမက္
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို ပိုးစိုးပက္စက္
ဂေယာက္ဂယက္ ႁဖစ္ေစခဲ့တယ္ ။
-အေမရယ္ -----
ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္
ဒီမိုကေရစီသူရဲေကာင္းတို႔ရဲ႔
၀ိညာၪ္အေပါင္းနဲ႔
ဒီပဲယင္းသူရဲေကာင္းတို႔
၀ိညာၪ္အေပါင္းက
(ကၽေနာ္တို႔အပါအ၀င္)
အေမ့ရဲ႔ အႏွစ္ေႁခာက္ဆယ္ႁပည့္ေမြးေန႔မွာ
တရားတဖက္ ဓါးတလက္နဲ႔ အေမ
အသက္ရာေကၽာ္ ရွည္ေစေႂကာင္း
ေမတၲာနဲ႔ ဆုေတာင္းေနႂကေလရဲ႔ ။
(ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႂကည္
အသက္(၆၀)ႁပည့္ေမြးေန႔သို႔)
ကေလးအခြင့္အေရး
ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ ကေလးအလုပ္သမားပေပ်ာက္ေရးေန႕ အခမ္းအနား
ျမန္မာကေလးမ်ား ပါ၀င္တက္ေရာက္
ႏြယ္ေလး။
ဇြန္လ ၁၂ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္။
ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ မဲေဆာက္ၿမဳိ႕တြင္ ယေန႕ က်ေရာက္သည့္ ကေလးအလုပ္သမား ပေပ်ာက္ေရးေန႕ အခမ္း အနား၌ ျမန္မာေရြ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ ကေလးမ်ားလည္း ပါ၀င္ ဆင္ႏြဲခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ျမန္မာကေလးမ်ားက တိုင္းရင္းသား ရိုးရာယဥ္ေက်းမႈမ်ားျဖင့္ ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ခြင့္ ရခဲ့သည္ဟု မယ္ေတာ္ ေဆးခန္းမွ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားသည့္ ကေလးမ်ား ဖံြ႕ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးစင္တာ (CDC)မွ ေက်ာင္းအုပ္ ဆရာ မန္းေရႊနွင္း က ေျပာ သည္။
“က်ေနာ္တို႕ ျမန္မာကေလးေတြက ထို္္င္းေက်ာင္းက ကေလးေတြနဲ႕ ကေလးအလုပ္သမား ပေပ်ာက္ ေရး ထင္ျမင္ခ်က္၊ ယူဆခ်က္၊ ေဆာင္ပုဒ္ေတြနဲ႕ ၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳင္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ ပါ၀င္ခ်ီတက္ ခြင့္ရတာ၊ ျမန္မာအ ကေတြနဲ႕ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခြင့္ရတာ သူတို႕ေလးေတြ စိတ္ဓါတ္ေရးရာအရ ညီတူ ပါ၀င္ခြင့္ရေတာ့ ေက်နပ္ေန တာမ်ိဳး စိတ္ဓါတ္အပိုင္းလဲ ပိုၿပီးတက္ၾကြမႈရွိတာျမင္ရတယ္။”
ထိုင္းဌာနဆိုင္ရာနွင့္ နိုင္ငံတကာ အလုပ္သမားေရးရာ အဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္(ILO)တို႕ ဦးစီးၿပီး က်င္းပသည့္ အခမ္းအနားသို႕ မဲေဆာက္ရွိ ျမန္မာေရြ႕ေျပာင္း အလုပ္သမားေက်ာင္းမွ ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားနွင့္ ထိုင္း ေက်ာင္း(၅)ေက်ာင္းမွ ေက်ာင္းသူေက်ာင္းသား အင္အား (၆၅၀၀)ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။
ထိုင္းသက္ဆိုင္ရာမွ ကေလးအလုပ္သမားပေပ်ာက္ေရး အတြက္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္းတိုက္ဖ်က္ျခင္း သရုပ္ျပ၊ ကေလးအလုပ္ သမား ပါ၀င္လုပ္ကိုင္မႈ သရုပ္ျပ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပဲြ၊ ပန္းခ်ီၿပိဳင္ပဲြ၊ လက္မႈ ပညာၿပိဳင္ပဲြမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္သည္ဟု အခမ္းအနား သို႕တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သူ ေန႕သစ္ေက်ာင္းမွ ဆရာ ရဲရင့္ေအာင္ က ယခုလိုေျပာသည္။
“လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ပဲြ တခုလုပ္တယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ျပဇာတ္ေတြ ကေလးအလုပ္သမားပံုစံမ်ိဳး ပန္းရံ လုပ္တဲ့ပံု ေတြ၊ အမိႈက္ေကာက္တဲဲ့ပံုေတြ သရုပ္ျပတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႕ Migrant ေက်ာင္းကပဲ သရုပ္ေဆာင္ၾက တယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႕ေက်ာင္းက ကေလးေတြေတာ့ တံငါသည္လို ကြန္ပိုက္နဲ႕ သရုပ္ျပတယ္။ တျခားက ရိုးရာ အကေတြနဲ႕ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖတယ္။ ထိုင္းကေလးေတြက အတီး အမႈတ္ ပိုင္းပါ။”
မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ကေလးအလုပ္သမားပေပ်ာက္ေရးေန႕ အခမ္းအနားကို ဒုတိယအၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ က်င္းပျခင္းျဖစ္ ျပီး (ILO) အဖဲြ႕မွ လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ခုနွစ္တြင္ ကမၻာတ၀ွမ္း ကေလး အလုပ္သမား ပေပ်ာက္ေစရန္ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု သိရသည္။
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ILO Warns Global Financial Crisis Could Lead to More Child Labor
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By Lisa Schlein
Geneva
10 June 2009
The International Labor Organization, or ILO, warns that the global financial crisis could push more children, particularly girls, into child labor. The ILO is highlighting the plight of girls in a new report that finds girls are just as likely as boys to be forced into some of the most hazardous forms of child labor. The report is being released in advance of the World Day Against Child Labor, which falls on June 12.
Child labor is an equal opportunity employer. It does not discriminate between boys and girls. The new ILO report finds that nearly half of the 218 million child laborers around the world are girls.
More than half of the girls are forced to work in prostitution and pornography or in bonded labor in hazardous work in agriculture, mining and quarrying.
Patrick Quinn, co-author of the ILO study, says children as young as five work long hours for little or no pay. He says all children are vulnerable, but girls run particular risks. He says girls very often are entrapped in hidden work situations, which leave them open to abuse.
"For example, children in child domestic labor, possibly working a long way from their families and their communities," said Quinn. "The fact that they may be physically weaker than boys."
"They may be exposed to sexual exploitation in some situations, the fact that girls bear a double burden very often of working both in the home and in other economic activity outside the home. These various factors put girls very often in a situation of having multiple disadvantages," he added.
In 2006, the ILO reported that there were 218 million child laborers around the world. This was a significant decrease from the 246 million child laborers reported four years earlier.
Frank Hagemann, the Head of Research and Policy at the ILO, says he fears that the current global economic crisis will reverse the decline in child labor.
"Not in all regions, but particularly in Latin America and a stabilization of child labor in Asia and also in Africa," he said. "We now risk that this positive, generally positive trend is going to be reversed through declining commodity prices on the one hand, through credit constraints on the other hand. In the recession and with declining household income, children are put out of school and put into work. And girls are often among the first."
The report finds a strong link between child labor and education. The ILO says that when forced to make a choice, poor families will send their boys rather than their girls to school. So not only do girls lose out on education, but they also are in danger of being forced into labor.
The ILO says that investing in the education of girls is an effective way of tackling poverty and protecting girls from child labor.
People made to construct road without wages by USDA
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June 11, 2009
Khonumthung News: Chin people are being forced to construct a road in Kanpelet Township by the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) in Kanpelet Town, Southern Chin State, in western Burma.
“We have started work from April. A link road between Hmuchinding and Cin dwe villages, a stretch of 30 miles, will allow motor cars to travel on the road. The construction work is being led by USDA with 20 neighboring villages. We have been divided into five groups and told to construct a specific number of meters of the road. We have almost finished 16 miles,” a local said.
The construction of the link road between Hmuchinding and Cindwe village has been sponsored by “I Love Myanmar” which is a non government organization (NGO). However, the USDA does not pay daily wages to the villagers who are involved in the project.
Although the USDA has spent all the sponsored funds for buying digging equipment, people’s labour is more useful for the work. “Especially they’re using people’s energy. The machines can’t handle crushing of big stones,” he added.
On the other hand, one of the USDA leaders told workers “The construction of the road is none of our business but we are only doing it to help transportation between the two villages. It will be beneficial for students who go to school in Hmuchinding village.”
There are about 70 houses with approximately 500 people in Hmuchinding village. The village has a Middle School where most students from neighbouring villages attend. “I Love Myanmar” will sponsor a new High School building next year.
Similarly, people are being forced to build a road between Mukwe Inu village and Mindat town by the USDA.
Meanwhile, the workers are anxious about their livelihood as they are being forced into road construction by the USDA without getting paid. They are worried about their family. Yet, they want to complete the project as it would mean better transportation between the two villages and will help their children’s education.
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JOINT STATEMENT of Migrants from Burma Working In Thailand and Malaysia
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
JOINT STATEMENT of Migrants from Burma Working In Thailand and Malaysia
We, migrants from Burma, live in a perpetual state of crisis and the global economic crisis is further adding to our difficult and sometimes desperate situation.
We, migrants from Burma and migrant support groups, trade union leaders and human rights activists and lawyers from Thailand and Malaysia, met and discussed the impact of the global economic crisis on Burmese migrant workers at the 2nd Two Destinations One Origin Conference organized jointly by MAP Foundation (Thailand), Workers Hub for Change (WH4C) and Network of Action for Migrants in Malaysia (NAMM). We are concerned that Burmese migrants live in a perpetual state of crisis and that the global economic crisis is further adding to their difficult and sometimes desperate situation. We therefore appeal to the governments of Malaysia, Thailand and the ASEAN on the following issues.
We are concerned that Thailand and Malaysia governments’ response to the situation of workers affected by the economic crisis has not been comprehensive and does not provide adequate protection for workers. Migrant workers are not even included in these programs and are thus expected to deal with the impact of the economic crisis by themselves.
We call on the Malaysian government to immediately stop the unjust, discriminatory and unconstitutional policy and practice, known as ‘Foreign Workers First Out’ (FWFO) principle. According to this policy migrant workers lose their jobs before local workers regardless of length of time in the job.
We call on Malaysia and Thailand to demand that all employers fulfill their contractual agreements with regard to all workers, including foreign workers. Employers must not use the economic crisis as an excuse to dismiss workers or close down factories without adequate notice to the workers. Mechanisms should be put in place to ensure that employers pay workers adequate and just compensation for any early termination of employment agreement.
The social protections provided during these times of economic crisis to retrenched workers which include payment of 50% of salary for six months in Thailand and re-training and new job placements in Malaysia should be extended to cover all workers including migrant workers.
We ask the governments to ensure that employers of migrant workers bear all the costs of employing migrant workers. Employers in Malaysia should not make deductions from migrants wages to cover the levy that employers have to pay. Employers in Thailand should not make deductions from migrants wages to cover the registration fee that employers have to pay. The only permissible deductions should be with regards to social security schemes for workers.
We are deeply concerned that all workers wages are falling below a living wage. For migrants the impact of a further reduction may have severe repercussions on the well-being of the workers and their families in Burma who rely on these wages for survival and for settling the debts incurred in the migration process.
Burmese migrants in both Malaysia and Thailand have reported accidents in the workplace due to the sub-standard occupational health and safety standards and enforcement. We call for the governments of Thailand and Malaysia to ensure that employers do not take shortcuts on matters concerning health and safety of workers and to facilitate migrants’ access to the legal mechanisms to receive compensation when accidents do occur. Migrants should also have the freedom of association.
Thailand and Malaysia’s health systems are trying to cope with new and different health issues such as H1NI, Chirkungya, Leptospirosis and Avian flu. In these times of economic crisis, it is imperative that no sector of society be excluded from the right to health. We call on the Thai and Malaysia government to set up effective national free universal health care systems without exceptions, and to work closely with migrant communities for health promotion.
The future of our region depends on the education of the children, and the children of migrant workers must be included in this future. We call for the governments of Malaysia and Thailand to support the education of migrant children in both formal and non-formal education systems.
All migrants have a precarious legal status in Malaysia and Thailand. The majority of migrants are completely undocumented while those with legal or semi-legal status too easily lose their status. Migrants can become illegal by reason of poor policy and practice, by negligence on the part of government officials, by irresponsible actions of the employers or when the migrants attempt to fight for their rights.
Consequently all migrants risk arrest, detention and deportation or threats thereof. We are deeply concerned about the recent reports of deaths of migrants in detention in Malaysia, deaths which could have been avoided with proper access to health care.
Due to the on-going multiple crises in Burma at the hands of an illegal regime, migrants from Burma are forced to leave the country without any preparation, information, safety or documents. The governments of Thailand and Malaysia need to recognize and respond to this reality and ensure that Burmese migrants are not criminalized.
In Thailand, the new registration is a welcome move however we are concerned that forcing migrants to work only within one sector is contrary to all labour rights principles.
We therefore call on Malaysia and Thailand to devise programs which protect the rights of migrants and ensure that migrants can exercise their labour, social, cultural, economic and political rights.
Lastly, we call on the ASEAN and its member nations to abandon their constructive engagement policy with the Burmese regime which only serves to prolong the injustice in Burma.
For further information please contact:
Network of Action for Migrants in Malaysia (NAMM): Ms Pranom Somwong +60192371300
MAP Foundation: Ms Jackie Pollock +66860904118 twodestinations@yahoo.com
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Friday, May 29, 2009
* U.N. agency tells Myanmar to end forced labour
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20090606/tap-myanmar-labour-c3bb44c.html
By Jonathan Lynn
GENEVA, June 6 - The U.N. International Labour Organisation told Myanmar on Saturday to end forced labour, saying the action it had taken so far was "totally inadequate".
But the ILO's committee on labour standards stopped short of referring Myanmar to the International Court of Justice, the top U.N. tribunal, as worker representatives demanded.
The ILO has been at odds with the former Burma for more than a decade over what it says is a widespread practice of forcing villagers to work on infrastructure projects or as porters for the army.
The committee said Myanmar's military government had taken some steps to tackle underage recruitment into the military, and to publicise a temporary complaints mechanism, which was extended for one year.
"The Committee was however of the view that these steps are totally inadequate," it said in the conclusions of its meeting.
The committee told the government it must amend both existing legislation and the new constitution to ban forced labour, publicise the ban, punish those who impose it, and stop harassing people who complain about it or those who help them.
Myanmar's ambassador in Geneva, Wunna Maung Lwin, told the committee: "Myanmar has shown its political will, and she has been and will be cooperating with the ILO in a constructive manner with a view to eradicating the practice of forced labour in the country."
But employers' and workers' representatives and Western governments at the ILO dismissed this.
FEW COMPLAINTS
A report by the ILO's liaison officer in Myanmar, Steve Marshall, said only 152 complaints of forced labour had been received under the mechanism agreed in 2007. [ID:nL6136921]
"The government continues to play the diplomatic game of doing just enough to create an appearance of cooperation ... No one in this room is fooled by that," said Edward Potter, who speaks for the employers' group on the committee.
Several workers' representatives called for disinvestment from Myanmar, which is rich in oil, gas, timber and gems, and was once a major rice producer.
But Myanmar drew support from China, which values Myanmar as a source of raw materials and route to the Indian Ocean, and from India, which has recently toned down criticism of its neighbour for fear of allowing Chinese influence to grow.
"We are glad to notice that ... the two sides have been conducting close cooperation, taking substantive actions with substantive achievements made," the Chinese representative said.
India also said Myanmar and the ILO had made tangible progress in tackling forced labour.
Myanmar also got backing from fellow members of the Southeast Asian grouping ASEAN.
Singapore urged it to redouble efforts to end forced labour, but criticised speakers who raised the case of Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader currently on trial after years of house arrest, or referred to Myanmar as Burma.
ILO alarmed by forced labour clause in Myanmar constitution
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GENEVA (AFP) — International labour experts on Saturday called on the Myanmar government to amend a provision in the country's new constitution that could be interpreted as justifying forced labour.
A special session at the International Labour Organisation on the forced labour situation in Myanmar concluded that the steps taken by the ruling junta towards eradicating forced labour were "totally inadequate."
In a report presented at the meeting, the experts pointed to a provision in the new constitution referring to "duties assigned thereupon by the State in accord with the law in the interests of the people."
The experts expressed deep concern about a provision in the text of the Constitution that "may be interpreted in such a way as to allow a generalised exaction of forced labour from the population."
They called on the government to amend the new constitution, which is meant to take effect in 2010, to bring it into conformity with labour rules.
Myanmar's representative however said the government "cannot accept criticism on our constitution process", which he said had been adopted by over 90 percent of voters.
ILO experts said that exploitation remained rampant in the Asian country, adding "there is no genuine and sustained political will to end forced labour."
They also raised "serious concern on the continued human rights violations in Myanmar and the detention of Aung San Suu Kyi" and other political prisoners.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces up to five years in jail on charges of having breached the conditions of her house arrest after an incident in which US national John Yettaw swam to her lakeside home in May.
The authorities in Myanmar accused Suu Kyi of covering up the American's presence and rebuked her for offering him food and shelter, allegations that have sparked international outrage.
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