BURMESE(KAREN) REFUGEES ARRIVED IN JAPAN

「第三国定住」ミャンマー難民が日本へ出発

日テレNEWS24

ယေန ့(၂၈-၀၉-၂၀၁၀) ေန ့နံနက္ ၇း၂၅ နာရီတြင္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံ တိုက်ိဳျမိဳ ့ နာရီတာေလဆိပ္သို ့ဂ်ပန္ပန္အဲယား-JAL FLIGHT
718 ျဖင့္ ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံမွ ကရင္ ဒုကၡသည္(၁၈) ဦးဆိုက္ေရာက္လာခဲ့ျပီး ေလဆိပ္အတြင္း ဂ်ပန္ လဝက ျဖတ္ျခင္း ေခတၱအနား
ယူျခင္းနွင့္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားေနမေကာင္းျဖစ္ေန၍ ေလဆိပ္ေဆးခန္းတြင္ ကေလးငယ္မ်ားအားေဆးကုသမႈမ်ားခံယူျပီး
ေနာက္ မနက္(၉) နာရီတြင္ ေလဆိပ္အျပင္သို ့ထြက္လာခဲ့ႀကရာ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံေရာက္ ကရင္တိုင္းရင္းသားဒုကၡသည္(၃၀)
ခန္ ့နွင့္္ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံေရာက္ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားဒီမိုကေရစီေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူ(၁၀) ဦးခန္ ့စုစုေပါင္း(၄၀) ေက်ာ္မွ ကရင္ဘာသာ
ဆိုင္းဘုတ္မ်ား ျမန္မာ အဂၤလိပ္ နွစ္ဘာသာပါ -
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ၏ ရက္စက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ထြက္ေျပးလာရေသာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအား ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံမွ ေႏြးေထြးစြာ ႀကိဳဆိုပါသည္။
Refugees from Burma (Myanmar) under the junta are warmly welcome to Japan.ဟူေသာဆိုင္းဘုတ္မ်ားကိုင္ေဆာင္၍ ႀကိဳဆိုခဲ့ႀကပါသည္။ ယေန ့ဆိုက္ေရာက္ရန္ရည္ရြယ္ထားသည္မွာ (၂၇) ဦးျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း
ကေလးငယ္မ်ားေနမေကာင္းျဖစ္ေနေသာေႀကာင့္ မဲေဆာက္တြင္ မိသားစုတစ္စု နွင့္ ဘန္ေကာက္တြင္ မိသားစုတစ္စု က်န္ရစ္
ေနခဲ့ျပီး People forum of Burma မွ Yamamoto San က ေျပာျပသည္မွာ အဆိုပါက်န္ေနခဲ့ေသာ မိသားစုနွစ္စုမွာ မိမိ ထိုင္း
နိုင္ငံသို ့သြားေရာက္ခဲ့စဥ္ ကသိရိွမိတ္ေဆြျဖစ္ခဲ့သူမ်ားျဖစ္ေႀကာင္းနွင့္ မိမိအေနျဖင့္ ယေန ့အဆိုပါမိသားစုမ်ားနွင့္ ျပန္လည္
ေတြ ့ဆုံရန္အားခဲျပီးႀကိဳးစားလာခဲ့ေသာ္လဲ ပါမလာ၍ အလြန္စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္မိပါေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားခဲ့ပါသည္။
ေလဆိပ္အျပင္ဘက္ ဘတ္စ္ ကားေပၚမတက္ခင္တြင္ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပဲြျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာ ပထမဦးစြာ
ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံျခားေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာနမွ အရာရိွတစ္ဦး က ရွင္းလင္းေျပာႀကားခဲ့ျပီး ျပန္လွန္ေမးခြန္းထုတ္ျခင္းမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျပီး
ယေန ့ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာဒုကၡသည္မ်ားထဲမွ ကရင္လူငယ္တစ္ဦးနွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္တစ္ဦး တို ့နွင့္လည္းမိတ္ဆက္
ေပးျခင္းကိုျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။
ယေန ့ေန ့လည္ (၃)နာရီခန္ ့မွစတင္၍ TBS News Birds တြင္ UNHCR ညႊန္ႀကားေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳး
မစၥတာတာကီဂါဝါ မွရွင္းလင္းတင္ျပရာတြင္လည္း ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံသည္ UNHCR မွတဆင့္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ ေဒၚလာသန္း
ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာနွစ္စဥ္ ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ကမၻာ့နိုင္ငံအမ်ားစု က ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံသည္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကိုလက္ခံလိုစိတ္မရိွ၍
၄င္းအစားေငြမ်ားစြာေပးအပ္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ေႀကာင္းရႈျမင္ျပီး မိမိ နိုင္ငံျခားတြင္ UNHCR ဝန္ထမ္းအျဖစ္သြားေရာက္လုပ္ကိုင္စဥ္
အထင္ေသးေသာမ်က္လုံးျဖင့္အႀကည့္ခံခဲ့ရ၍ မိမိအေနျဖင့္ အလြန္စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္မိပါေႀကာင္း။ ယခုအခါ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံမွ ဒုကၡ
သည္မ်ားကို မိမိတို ့ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံမွ စတင္လက္ခံခဲ့ရာ အာရွတိုက္မွ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို အာရွတိုက္နိုင္ငံတစ္နိုင္ငံက ပထမဦးဆုံး
စတင္လက္ခံခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ျပီး မိမိအေနျဖင့္အလြန္ဝမ္းေျမာက္ဝမ္းသာျဖစ္မိပါေႀကာင္းနွင့္ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေနနွင့္
နွစ္စဥ္ ဒုကၡသည္ေသာင္းနွင့္ခ်ီ၍ လက္ခံေနရာ အဆိုပါအေရအတြက္နွင့္နိႈင္းယွဥ္ ပါက ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံက လက္ခံေသာ ဒုကၡသည္
အေရအတြက္မွာ အလြန္နဲေနေသးေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားခဲ့ပါသည္။ ယခုမွစ၍နိုင္ငံျခားရိွ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကိုလက္ခံျခင္းနွင့္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္
ငံအတြင္းဒုကၡသည္ေလွ်ာက္ထားသူမ်ားကို ဒုကၡသည္အျဖစ္ လက္ခံျခင္းနွစ္မ်ိဳးစလုံးကို အတူယွဥ္တဲြ၍ တိုးခ်ဲ ့ျမွင့္တင္သြားျခင္း
ကိုျပဳလုပ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားသြားခဲ့ပါသည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ ယေန ့ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား အမ်ားဆုံးစိုးရိမ္ပူပန္
ႀကေသာ အရာမ်ားမွာ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံတြင္ မည္ကဲ့သို ့အသက္ေမြးဝမ္းေႀကာင္းျပဳလုပ္ရမည္နည္းဆိုသည္နွင့္ ဂ်ပန္လူ ့အဖဲြ ့အစည္း
အတြင္းမည္ကဲ့သို ့ဝင္ဆန္ ့ေအာင္လုပ္ရမည္နည္း စသည္တို ့ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားသြားပါသည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံသို ့
ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို မည္ကဲ့သို ့ကူညီေထာက္ပန္ ့မည္လဲဟူေသာေမးခြန္းကိုျပန္လည္ေျဖႀကားရာတြင္ ဂ်ပန္
နိုင္ငံသည္ ကမၻာ ့ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ ေငြေႀကးေျမာက္ျမားစြာေထာက္ပန္ ့လွ်က္ရိွရာ အဆိုပါေထာက္ပန္ ့ေငြ၏ (၀.၁)ရာခိုင္နႈန္း
ကိုအသုံးျပဳလွ်င္ ပင္ လုံေလာက္သည္ဟု မိမိထင္ျမင္ေႀကာင္းနွင့္ ဂ်ပန္အစိုးရက အမွန္တကယ္ပန္ ့ပိုးသင့္ေႀကာင္းေျပာႀကားသြား
ပါသည္။

ယေန ့ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာ ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအတြက္ ကရင္ဘာသာစကားျပန္အျဖစ္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံေရာက္ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္
တစ္ဦးျဖစ္ျပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးကိုလုပ္ေဆာင္လွ်က္ရိွေသာ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားနိုင္ငံေရးအဖဲြ ့အစည္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာKNL-JAPAN
ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုေစာဘလွသိန္းမွေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့ျပီး ယေန ့ေရာက္ရိွလာေသာကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို (၆)လ ႀကာသင္တန္းအမ်ိဳး
ေပးမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး အဆိုပါကာလအတြင္း ျပင္ပသို ့အဆက္အသြယ္လုပ္ခြင့္ကိုကန္ ့သတ္ထားမည္ျဖစ္ျပီး သင္တန္းကာလ(၆) လအျပီး
တြင္ မိမိတို ့ႀကိဳက္နွစ္သက္သလို ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံတြင္ေနထိုင္လုပ္ကိုင္စားေသာက္နိုင္မည္ျဖစ္ေႀကာင္း ကိုေစာဘလွသိန္းမွတဆင့္သိရိွ
ခဲ့ရပါသည္။
သို ့ျဖစ္ရာကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားမိမိတို ့ေျခေထာက္ေပၚမိမိတို ့ရပ္တည္နိုင္ရန္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံရိွျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသား
ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ မိမိတို ့တတ္အားသေရြ ့အကူအညီေပးရန္တာဝန္ရိွေပသည္။
ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံ၏ဒုကၡသည္ျပႆနာမွာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအတြင္းယေန ့အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေနေသာ စစ္အာဏာရွင္
စနစ္၏ ေနာက္ဆက္တဲြ ဆိုးက်ိဳးမ်ားျဖစ္ရာ အဆိုပါျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းရိွ နိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာကိုေျဖရွင္းေရးမွာ အဓိကနွင့္အေျခခံ
အေႀကာင္းအရင္းျဖစ္ရာ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအတြင္း စစ္မွန္ေသာနိုင္ငံေရးျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမ်ားျဖစ္ရန္အတြက္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံအစိုးရအေနျဖင့္
အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုအပါအဝင္ ကမၻာ ့ဒီမိုကေရစီနိုင္ငံမ်ားနွင့္အတူလက္တဲြ၍ ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားအေပၚပိုမိုဖိအားေပး
လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားမွသာလွ်င္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံျပည္သူမ်ားအေပၚအမွန္တကယ္ကူညီရာေရာက္မည္ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းနွင့္ေဝဖန္ခ်က္။ ။ ဘုန္းလိႈင္-FWUBC
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Japan urges Myanmar to release Suu Kyi, hold free, fair election+

TOKYO, Aug. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japan has urged Myanmar to release political prisoners including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and conduct its general election slated for Nov. 7 in an open, free and fair manner, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday.
The minister told a press conference that the Japanese government conveyed Thursday its concern over the November poll, which will be held for the first time in two decades, through Myanmar's ambassador to Japan.

"If Myanmar holds the general election without releasing political prisoners including Ms. Suu Kyi, it would not be a free, fair and open election that the international community has called for and thus would be regrettable," Okada said.

He called on the Myanmar government to swiftly hold a substantive dialogue with Suu Kyi and conduct the general election by including all the concerned parties.

Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy won the 1990 election in a landslide, but it has decided to boycott the upcoming election. The party became legally defunct after failing to re-register with the election commission by a deadline.

The pro-democracy leader has been under some form of detention, mostly house arrest, for 15 of the past 21 years.

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Myanmar junta sets election date for Nov 7

YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar's ruling junta set Nov. 7 as the date for the country's first election in two decades, but made no concessions to critics who say the rules favor the army and its allies and bar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part.

Foreign governments renewed calls for urgent changes allowing a free-and-fair vote. Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy already announced it was boycotting the polls and other parties are wary of participating.

Friday's brief election-date announcement by the Election Commission was carried on state TV and radio.

"Multiparty general elections for the country's parliament will be held on Sunday Nov. 7," said the announcement, which called on political parties to submit their candidate lists starting Monday through Aug. 30.

The elections are part of the junta's "roadmap to democracy," a seven-step program which it says will shift the nation from almost 50 years of military rule in Myanmar, also known as Burma. But critics charge the rules and army-guided constitution are meant to perpetuate the military's commanding role in politics.

The National League for Democracy won a landslide victory in the last elections in 1990. But the junta refused to honor the results and has kept the Nobel laureate Suu Kyi locked away, mostly under house arrest, for 15 of the past 21 years, ignoring worldwide pleas for her freedom.

The NLD and others said the election date would not allow sufficient time for campaigning, which cannot officially begin until the junta announces a campaign period.

"Without freedom of media or expression, the elections cannot be either free or fair," NLD party spokesman Nyan Win said.

Election laws passed ahead of the voting have been criticized as undemocratic by the international community. They effectively bar Suu Kyi and other political prisoners — estimated at more than 2,000 — and members of religious orders from taking part in the elections. Suu Kyi's party was also automatically disbanded under the laws for refusing to register for the elections.

Strict rules for campaigning bar parties from chanting, marching or saying anything at rallies that could tarnish the country's image.

"For these elections to have any credibility, the regime must allow a free and fair campaign and polling process; release all political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, and instigate an inclusive dialogue with the full participation of all opposition and ethnic groups, towards genuine and lasting national reconciliation," Britain's foreign ministry said in a statement.

The United States holds a similar position. After visiting with Myanmar officials in May, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt Campbell said the junta's unwillingness to compromise and reform the electoral process led Washington "to believe that these elections will lack international legitimacy."

With the NLD out of the race, it appears likely the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party will get the most votes. The USDP was set up and supported by the generals since 1993. It has unrivaled access to funds, a nationwide presence, and a claimed official membership of tens of millions.

The only other party with widespread organization and sufficient funding — but little popular appeal — is the National Unity Party, descendant of the Burmese Socialist Programme Party that ruled under late strongman Ne Win, who held power until 1988.

Out of 40 new political parties, all but four or five are almost unknown. Many will have trouble raising the necessary expenses, which include a 500,000 kyat ($500) for each candidate, more than half a year's salary for the average schoolteacher.

A total of 498 seats will be contested, while another 166 seats will be taken by representatives of the military. A 2008 constitution adopted under the junta's roadmap reserves 25 percent of parliamentary seats for the military and says more than 75 percent of the lawmakers must approve any amendments to the charter.

"I am happy that the government has finally set the date as there had been rumors that elections will not be held this year," said Thu Wai, chairman of the Democratic Party.

However, Thu Wai, 77, a longtime democracy activist and former political prisoner, complained that, "We have very little time for party campaigning and we are short of funds."

The Democratic Party earlier this week protested to the Election Commission that police were intimidating its members.

"Nothing has been free or fair since the start," said Khin Maung Swe, leader of the National Democratic Force. "Despite all the obstacles we are determined to contest the elections."

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Associated Press writer Jocelyn Gecker in Bangkok contributed to this report.

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ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္၏တိုက္တြန္းနိႈေဆာ္ခ်က္

2010 Aug 12 FTUB Call for United Action (Bur)

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2010 Aug 12 FTUB call for united action (Bur)

2010 Aug 12 FTUB Call for United Action (Bur)

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မၿငိမ္းေသာမီး

From: Ye Yint Thet Zwe

ႏွစ္ဆယ့္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္တဲ့လား

ခ်စ္ျခင္းမ်ားစြာနဲ ့

ျဖစ္ျခင္း ပ်က္ျခင္း တရားမ်ား

တေရြ ့ေရြ ့ … ခရီးရွည္ …။



ေပးဆပ္ျခင္းမ်ား

ဘ၀ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး အဖံုဖုံ

ေဟာဒီ … လူ ့ဘံုႀကီးမွာ

တခ်ိဳ ့ … ေကာက္ရိုးမီး

တခ်ိဳ ့ … မၿငိမ္းေသာမီး

တခ်ိဳ ့ … မီးခဲျပာဖံုး

တခ်ိဳ ့ … ေတာက္မယ့္မီးခဲ တရဲရဲ

စသည္ျဖင့္ …

ကိုယ့္ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈနဲ ့ ကိုယ္

ေခတ္ေတြကို ျဖတ္သန္းသြားခဲ့ၾက …..။



နာရီေတြ ရာသီေတြ

တျဖဳတ္ျဖဳတ္ေၾကြ

အသက္ေတြ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေတြ

တျဖဳတ္ျဖဳတ္ေၾကြ

လူ ့ေဘာင္ႀကီးတခုလံုး

တျဖဳတ္ျဖဳတ္ေၾကြ

ကမၻာမေၾကေတးသံ ေ၀တဲ့ေျမေပၚမွာ …။



သတိတယ ရွိၾကေဟ့

အေမွာင္ေခတ္ႀကီးရဲ ့အေၾကာင္းကို

ျပန္ေျပာင္းေျပာျပ

အရိုးပံုထဲက တြန္သံမ်ား

ကုန္းရုန္းထၾက

အနာဂတ္ဟာ အမွန္တရားနဲ ့ ၀င္းလက္ေတာက္ပလို ့ …။


(ရွစ္ေလးလံုးအေရးေတာ္ပံုႀကီး ၂၂ ႏွစ္ျပည့္သို ့)
၂၄ ဂ်ဴလိုင္ ၂၀၁၀

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An Open Letter to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon

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An Open Letter to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon,
Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Date 6th August, 2010.
His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon
Secretary-General of the United Nations
United Nations
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
Dear your Excellency,
First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Tin Win and I am a Burmese democratic
and human right activist living in Japan.
I would like to welcome you to Japan as, first ever UN General Secretary who attend
the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima and the first to visit Nagasaki. I also
enthusiastically welcome Your Excellency’s words on intensifying efforts toward nuclear
abolishment. I share Your Excellency’s view that the need to work together toward the
day when governments no longer have a choice but to respond to the will of the people
for a nuclear-free world, by way of Your Excellency have termed in the message to the
Hiroshima Conference for the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons by 2020.
As a democratic activist living in Japan I had seen first-hand the drastic reality caused
by the nuclear war. Furthermore, I have been working very closely with the Japanese
Unionists and other Japanese people to send the same massages as Your Excellency
had mentioned in your letter.
I would like to inform Your Excellency that these generals have banned basic human
rights, but spent tens of millions of dollars building the bases with the reported help of
nuclear experts from Russia and North Korea. The first indications of its nuclear
ambitions came last February when army Major Sai Thein Win defected with a dossier
on the secret sites. The several hundred photographs of the plants that Major Win
brought with him have aroused huge interest among defense chiefs in neighboring
Asian countries and western governments.
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The Directorate of Defense Services, Science and Technology Research Centre in Pyin
Oo Lwin city at the Defense Services Technological Academy manage the country’s
nuclear effort. Evidence has also emerged of a “nuclear battalion” is working at a place
called Thabeikkyin where there are also extensive mining and ore concentrations.
There are suggestions that they are trying to produce yellowcake, a kind of uranium
concentrate powder, for possible use in processing uranium.
Moreover, Burma has obsoleted agreements with the Geneva-based International
Atomic Energy Agency but has not signed protocols that would allow detailed
inspections of the factories. The generals have ignored requests to improve the
agreements that mean the country is virtually exempt from inspections. Nevertheless,
with the generals’ current freedom from sanctions and relative economic prosperity, it is
highly likely that the junta may be able to outsource the technical expertise and tools to
reach its goals far sooner than expected.
In addition to that, Professor Yozo Yokota who was the UN Special Rapporteur on the
Situation of Human Rights in Burma had recently wrote in the Jakarta Post that impunity
prevails in Burma and no action has been taken to bring an end to the war crimes and
crimes against humanity committed by the generals of Burma. That is why he said that
he believe the United Nations has an obligation to respond to the current rapporteur’s
recommendation, establish a commission of inquiry, and propose action.
Given the Balkan-like nature of Burma's domestic situation and its strategic position
between India and China, a nuclear Burma will probably present the single greatest
threat to regional security and will in the long run be very bad for ASEAN countries. The
US and other Asia-Pacific countries have expressed concern that North Korean may
help Burma to become the first nuclear-armed nation in the Southeast Asia, saying the
military ties with North Korea are breaking UN Security Council Resolution 1874.
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For those reason mentioned above, I would like to appeal Your Excellency to make
every effort, using your good office, to investigate the above mentioned information and
take appropriate actions to halt the doomsday scenario of our future.
Please kindly be warned that rogue nation as North Korea has developed the nuclear
capability by the failure on part of UN to make a concerted actions appropriately and
timely. Please do not allow the generals of Burma to create a new rogue state with
nuclear armaments and with Weapon of Mass Destruction. If Your Excellency fail to
take a timely action, the words you had pronounced in your message will never
materialized.
Respectfully,
Tin Win,
Gunma Prefecture, Ota City,
Ushizawa Chou 1000-1, Ushizawa Shiei Jutaku 3-13,
373-0833 Japan.
Phone/Fax: 0(81)276-38-1036
Mobile 0(81)80-3443-2447
E mail: mtinwin@pc5.so-net.ne.jp
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Letter to His Excellency Ban Ki-moon-General Secretary, The United Nations

To
Mr. Ban Ki-moon
General Secretary
The United Nations
Dated – 3-8-2010
Dear Mr. Ban Ki-moon,
First of all, we would like to let you know that our Burmese people would be suffering more
grievances evidently because of the gross violation of human rights and lack of rule of law
under the Burmese dictatorial regime and there will be a bigger burden on the shoulders of
international community including the United Nations as long as all of us cannot set the
following targets in Burma’s political affairs -
1. the current regime should recognize Burma’s 1990 election result appropriately;
2. all concerned parties should amend the 2008 Constitution to be compatible with a
democratic standard,
3. all political prisoners including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi should be released immediately
and unconditionally, and
4. all inclusive dialogue for national reconciliation should be launched immediately.
Without implementing such targets, it is very clear that we cannot make political progress to
change Burma as a democratic nation.
The Burmese regime was completely ignorant of the above-mentioned targets; instead, it
continued to announce its one-sided 2010 Election Law based on the so-undemocratic 2008
Constitution. It should be well aware that any election in accordance with such election law
cannot be considered a free and fair election which the UN and international community have
long expected.
If the current Burmese regime holds an election desperately without the above-mentioned
important political process, as this will not certainly be the much needed one that our
Burmese people and international community including the UN, we request you to use your
good office to leverage the United Nations not to recognize the result of such election.
In addition to these political affairs, we strongly urge you to consider without delay a report
from Mr. Tomás Ojea Quintana, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Burma, in
which he has recommended that the UN should consider establishing a Commission of
Inquiry into war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Burmese government.
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As the IAEA has planned to play a big role in insuring that nuclear materials do not fall into
the wrong hands, we again request you to take necessary measure against the Burmese
junta who has been aiming to develop nuclear weapons despite being a member of the
nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), a global anti-nuclear arms pact, and of the IAEA.
Finally, we would like to let you know that there will be no economic development for our
Burmese people but only for the unnecessarily longer dictatorship in Burma when Daewoo
Group, a major conglomerate from your native South Korea, has invested extremely in Burma
and collaborated with the junta leaders for their bilateral self-interest.
May you be well during your official trip to Japan!
From:
Burmese democratic forces in Japan
N.B. We are individuals and groups of pro-democracy Burmese community in Japan.

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ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ

Tuesday, August 3, 2010
ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ


ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ ဟီရိုရွီးမားၿမိဳ့ႏွင့္ နာဂါဆာကီးၿမိဳ့မ်ားတြင္ က်င္းပရန္ရွိသည့္ Peace Memorial ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားသို႔ တက္ေရာက္လာမည့္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုတို႔မွ ျမန္မာ့အေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈတရပ္ကို တိုက်ိဳ Shibuya UN House ေရွ႔၌ ယေန႔ ညေန ၃း၀၀ နာရီ မွ ၄း၀၀ နာရီအထိ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။


အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား ျမန္မာ့အေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုသည့္စာကို ကုလသမဂၢရုံး(ဂ်ပန္)တာ၀န္ရွိသူ Mr.KAWADE NOBUYUKI မွလကၡံရယူေပးခဲ့ပါသည္။ တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုသည့္စာတြင္ လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံ၏ အေထြေထြ အက်ပ္အတည္းမ်ားကို ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေျဖရွင္းႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းပါ အခ်က္မ်ားကို ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုတို႔မွ အဓိကထားၿပီး တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုထားပါသည္။


ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းပါ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားကို နအဖ စစ္အာဏာပိုင္တို႔က လံုးဝ လစ္လ်ဴရႈကာ ၂ဝ၁ဝ မတ္လတြင္ ၎တို႔စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ တဘက္သပ္ ေရးဆြဲထားေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဥပေဒမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ စံႏႈန္းမ်ား မျပည့္စံုဘဲ ရွိေနသျဖင့္ ကုလသမဂၢႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားသည့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အသြင္ေျပာင္းေရးအတြက္ လြတ္လပ္၍ တရားမွ်တေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ျဖစ္မလာႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းကိုလည္း ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား တပ္မွန္ၿပီး အသိေပးျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။ တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုမႈမ်ားကို လစ္လ်ဴရႈလ်က္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ဇြတ္အတင္း က်င္းပလာမည္ ဆိုပါက ကုလသမဂၢ အပါအဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက အလိုရွိအပ္ေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အသြင္ကူးေျပာင္းျခင္း မဟုတ္သျဖင့္ အဆိုပါ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ရလဒ္ကို ကုလသမဂၢမွ အသိအမွတ္ မျပဳရန္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းအား တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့ပါသည္။


အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ ႏိုင္ငံေရးကိစၥမ်ားအျပင္ ျမန္မာနအဖ စစ္အစိုးရမွ အႀကီးအက်ယ္ က်ဴးလြန္ေနေသာ စစ္ရာဇဝတ္မႈမ်ား (war crimes) ႏွင့္ လူသားမ်ားအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္သည့္ ရာဇဝတ္မႈမ်ား(crimes against humanity) ကို စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးရန္ ေကာ္မရွင္တရပ္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းေရးကို ကုလသမဂၢမွ သံုးသပ္ စဥ္းစားသင့္ေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ Tomas Ojea Quintana ၏ အစီရင္ခံစာကို ဘန္ကီမြန္းမွ အေလးအနက္ထားကာ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးသင့္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ သံသယျဖစ္ဖြယ္ရာ အႏုျမဴလက္နက္မ်ားကို ထုတ္လုပ္ရန္ ၾကံစည္ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနျခင္းကို ကုလသမဂၢအေနျဖင့္ လစ္လ်ဴမရႈပဲ လိုအပ္သလို အေရးယူ တားဆီးေပးရန္ စသည့္အခ်က္မ်ားကိုပါ ထည့္သြင္းေတာင္းဆိုထားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။တိုက္တြန္းေတာင္းဆိုသည့္ အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစု စုစုေပါင္း ၉၀ ခန္႔ ပူးေပါင္း ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၾကေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။

သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း ။ Mai Kyaw Oo
မွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပုံ ။ Lian Khan Sum(CNC-Japan)

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(၆၃)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အာဇာနည္ေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ

http://www.pnsjapan.org/2010/07/blog-post_18.html

(၆၃)ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အာဇာနည္ေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို ဂ်ပန္္ႏိူင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံသားမ်ား၏ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ေရး ေကာ္မတီ (JAC)မွ ဦးစီး၍ တိုက်ိဳၿမိဳ႔ Toshimaku Minami Otsuka Dai Ichi ခမ္းမ၌ ညေန ၅း၃၀ နာရီ မွ ၉း၀၀ နာရီ အထိ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ ခဲ့ပါသည္။

ယေန႔ အခမ္းအနားက်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ရျခင္း ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကမွာ စစ္အာဏာရွင္တို႔က ျမန္မာသမိုင္း အစစ္အမွန္ကို ေမွးမွိန္တိမ္ေကာ ပေပ်ာက္ေအာင္ ႀကံစည္ျပဳမူ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနျခင္းကို ဖယ္ရွားရန္ မရွိမျဖစ္ လိုအပ္ေနသည့့္အျပင္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးတိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းႏွင့္တကြ အာဇာနည္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ားက တိုင္းျပည္နဲ႔ လူမ်ိဳးအတြက္ အသက္စြန္႔ ေပးအပ္ခဲ့တဲ သမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ္ေကာင္းမ်ားကို အမ်ိဳးသားေရး တာ၀န္ႀကီးတရပ္ အေနျဖစ္ ယေန႔ေခတ္ မ်ိဳးဆက္လူငယ္မ်ား တာ၀န္ေၾကစြာ ဆက္လက္ထိမ္းသိမ္းသြားႏိုင္ရန္ အာဇာနည္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား ေမွ်ာ္မွန္းခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးမွာ ယေန႔ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ လူငယ္မ်ား ပုခုံးေျပာင္းတာ၀န္ယူသြားႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ က်င္းပရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါသည္။

အခမ္းအနားတြင္ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအသီးသီးမွွတာ၀န္ရွိပုဂၢိဳလ္(၇)ဦးတို႔မွအမွတ္ေပးဒိုင္မ်ားအျဖစ္ တာ၀န္ယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ၾကၿပီး မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ လူငယ္ ၁၁ ဦးတို႔က သမိုင္းေနာက္ခံ အခ်က္အလက္
အေထာက္အထားမ်ားကို ကိုးကား၍ “ အာဇာနည္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ား ေမ်ွာ္မွန္းခဲ့သည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ” ေေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖစ္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ ေဟာေျပာသြားခဲ့ၾကရာ အေကာင္းဆုံ ပထမဆုကို FWUBC မွ ကိုစည္သူေက်ာ္ ကလည္းေကာင္း၊ ဒုတိယ ဆုကို BDA မွ မေအးနႏၵာေအာင္ ကလည္းေကာင္း၊ တတိယ ဆုကို DPNS-Jp မွ မၾကည္ျပာေဇာ္၀င္း မွလည္းေကာင္း အသီးသီးရရွိခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။ ယေန႔ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္သည့္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ ပရိတ္သတ္ အထူးစိတ္၀င္စားမႈရရွိၿပီး ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့ၾကေသာ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ လူငယ္မ်ားအား ႏွစ္သိမ့္ဆုမ်ားျဖင့္ ဂုဏ္ျပဳလက္မွတ္မ်ား ခ်ီျမွင့္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

စာတမ္းဖတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲ က်င္းပပုံ အစီအစဥ္မ်ားကို Burma Campaign Japan (BCJP)(www.burmacampaign.net)မွ ဂ်ပန္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမ်ားပါ ၾကည့္ရႈႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ တိုက္ရိုက္ ထုတ္လႊင့္ျပသခဲ့ပါသည္။ညေန ၉းး၀၀ နာရီတြင္ ၿပီးဆုံးခဲ့ၿပီ ပထမ ဆုံးအႀကိမ္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္သည့္ စာတမ္းဖတ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲတြင္ တက္ေရာက္သူ စုစုေပါင္း ၁၀ဝ ေက်ာ္ခန္႔ ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။


သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း ။ Mai Kyaw Oo
မွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပုံ ။ Lian Khan Sum(CNC-Japan)

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* ビルマ女性国際法廷 開催！ *

みなさまへ

以下の企画、いよいよ今週末に迫ってまいりましたので、
是非ご参加・ご協力いただけると幸いです。
是非私たちとしてもメディアで取り上げてもらいたい、と思っていますので、
お知り合いのメディア関係者の方々にもご案内いただけると嬉しいです。
26日の関連企画、アクティビスタも、ビルマ女性たち(27日にお話しいただかない活動家)の
お話になりますので、是非こちらもあわせてご参加いただけると嬉しいです。

では、よろしくお願いいたします。

ヒューマンライツ・ナウ　伊藤和子


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* ビルマ女性国際法廷　開催！ *
International　 Tribunal on Crimes against women of Burma
2010.06.27
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軍事政権が続くビルマ(ミャンマー)。
ここに生きる女性たちは暴力にさらされ、彼女たちの生活と自由は脅かされています。
軍事政権は、少数民族の女性たちに性的な暴力を繰り返し、3,300以上の村を破壊し
人々を殺害、拷問し、女性や少女を厳しい強制労働に駆り立てています。
また民主化運動のリーダー、アウンサンスーチーさんは自宅に軟禁され、
2,100人以上の政治犯たちが投獄され、自由を奪われています。
軍事政権は、国連などから何度批判をされても人権侵害をやめることなく
犯罪の責任を問われません。
私たちビルマの女性は何十年もの長い残虐な圧制に耐えてきましたが
いま、勇気をもって立ちあがります。
2010年3月2日、ニューヨークにて、
ビルマ女性連盟とノーベル平和賞を受賞した女性たちのイニシアティブで
初めてのビルマ女性国際法廷が開催され、
軍事政権が人道に対する罪を犯したことが認定されました。
今度はビルマから軍政の抑圧を受けてきた女性たちが来日して証言、
この日本でアジア初のビルマ国際女性法廷を開催します。
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●日時　　　2010年6月27日(日)　13: 00～17:00
●場所　　　青山学院大学 6号館模擬法廷
http://www.aoyama. ac.jp/other/ access/aoyama. html
JR山手線・東急線・京王井の頭線「渋谷駅」宮益坂方面出口より徒歩10分
地下鉄「表参道駅」B1出口より徒歩5分
●参加費　　500円　(申込不要)
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【主催】　ビルマ女性連盟(Women's League of Burma) 【共催】　特定非営利活動法人ヒューマンライツ・ナウ
【協賛】　アジア女性資料センター、社団法人アムネスティ・インターナショナル日本、在日ビルマ民主化グループ
全日本フェミニスト議員連盟、ビルマ市民フォーラム、ビルマ情報ネットワーク、ヒューマン・ライツ・ウォッチ
【助成】　株式会社ラッシュジャパン
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≪裁判官≫
濱田邦夫(弁護士/元最高裁判事)
久保利英明(弁護士/元日弁連副会長)　
後藤弘子(千葉大学教授/内閣府男女共同参画局女性に対する暴力調査会委員)
新倉修(青山学院大学教授/国際民主法律家協会事務局長)
敷田みほ(会社経営/市民の裁判員制度・つくろう会元事務局長)
≪検察官≫
雪田樹理(弁護士/ヒューマンライツ・ナウ女性プロジェクト)
渡邉彰悟(弁護士/ビルマ市民フォーラム事務局長)
石田真美(弁護士/ヒューマンライツ・ナウビルマプロジェクト)
弘川欣絵(弁護士) 小田川綾音(弁護士) 三輪咲絵(弁護士)
≪弁護人≫
矢花公平(弁護士) 原田いづみ(弁護士) 鈴木多恵子(弁護士)
≪証人≫
軍政の人権侵害の被害にあい、また人権侵害を目撃した三人のビルマ女性たち
&　土井香苗氏(ヒューマンライツ・ウォッチ)
詳細は
http://hrn.or. jp/activity/ event/627/
をご確認ください。
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特定活動非営利法人　ヒューマンライツ・ナウ
〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野1-20-6 丸幸ビル3F
Tel：03-3835-2110　　Fax：03-3834-2406 Email：info@ngo-hrn. org
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* Asian Activist-α2010！ *　世界を変えようとする女性たち
～ビルマ・女性に対する暴力への挑戦～
2010.06.26
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いま、アジアに生きる女性たちの多くが、人権を否定されています。
理不尽な暴力、踏みにじられる心、自由に生きることへの恐怖。
その事実に正面から光りをあて、問題克服を目指し
世界を変えようとするActivist-αたち。
今回は、軍事政権の支配が続くビルマ（ミャンマー）で、軍によるレイプ、
強制労働、投獄などの人権侵害にたちむかって
果敢に活動するActivist-αたちが来日。
ビルマの女性たちの深刻な現実とこれからの課題を語り合います。
彼女たちの活動と現実に耳を傾け、日本と世界の現状を変えるために
私たちができることを考えてみませんか？
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●日時　　　2010年6月26日(土)　13: 30～16:30
●場所　　　青山学院大学　総研ビル11階　19会議室
http://www.aoyama. ac.jp/other/ access/aoyama. html
JR山手線・東急線・京王井の頭線「渋谷駅」宮益坂方面出口より徒歩10分
地下鉄「表参道駅」B1出口より徒歩5分
●参加費　　500円
人数把握の為、なるべく事前のご予約をお願い致します。
（ヒューマンライツ・ナウ事務局
Email：info@ngo-hrn. org /　Fax：03-3834- 2406）
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【主催】　特定非営利活動法人ヒューマンライツ・ナウ
【助成】　株式会社ラッシュジャパン
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◆プログラム
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挨拶　　　　目黒依子(国連女性の地位委員会日本代表)
【第一部】記念講演
『ビルマ・女性に対する暴力への挑戦』
＊ティンティンアウン氏　（ビルマ女性連盟理事）
【第二部】シンポジウム
＊ティンティンアウン氏　（ビルマ女性連盟理事）
＊雪田樹理氏　（弁護士/ヒューマンライツ・ナウ）
＊渡辺彰悟氏 （弁護士/ビルマ市民フォーラム事務局長）

コーディネーター
＊伊藤和子氏　（弁護士/ヒューマンライツ・ナウ事務局長）
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◆スピーカー紹介
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＊ティンティンアウン氏
1988年ビルマの民主化運動に参加し、軍のクーデターの後
ビルマからインドに亡命。
ビルマ・インド国境の難民キャンプで2年間を過ごしたのち、
インドのニューデリーにて難民認定申請。
以後20年にわたり、インドにおいてビルマ民主化や女性の人権、
エンパワーメントのために活動を続けている。
2010年3月、ノーベル平和賞を受賞した女性の団体
「ノーベル女性イニシアティブ」がニューヨークで開催した
ビルマ女性に対する犯罪についての国際民衆法廷に参加し、
ビルマ軍政によるレイプや拷問、強制労働などの被害を訴えた。
＊雪田樹理氏
1990年、弁護士登録（大阪弁護士会）。ヒューマンライツ・ナウ関西事務局長。
1995年から2年間イギリスに留学し、
女性や子どもの権利に関する問題を調査、研究。
現在は、女性に対する暴力、とりわけ性暴力、セクシュアルハラスメント、
ドメスティックバオレンスの事件や女性労働者に対する差別、
婚外子差別、難民問題を扱っている。
2007年には、ヒューマンライツ・ナウの「女性に対する暴力」プロジェクトの
メンバーとして、インドの現地調査に参加。
＊渡辺彰悟氏
1990年弁護士登録（第一東京弁護士会）。日本弁護士連合会人権擁護委員、
第一東京弁護士会人権擁護委員、年民問題調査研究委員会委員長等を歴任し、
現在、全国難民弁護団連絡会議事務局長、在日ビルマ人難民申請弁護団事務局長、
ビルマ市民フォーラム事務局長を務める。
医療事件、外国人事件、難民事件を専門的に手がけてきた。
ヒューマンライツ・ナウのビルマ・みらいの法律家プロジェクトの講師として、
2009年秋、タイ・ビルマ国境のメイソットにあるピースローアカデミーを訪問し
学生に講義を行った。

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◆呼びかけ人
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◆大崎麻子（開発政策、ジェンダー専門家）
◆久保利英明（弁護士、元日弁連副会長）
◆郡司真弓（WE21ジャパン）
◆佐藤安信（東京大学教授）
◆園部逸夫（弁護士、元最高裁判所判事）
◆林陽子（弁護士、国連「女性差別撤廃委員会」委員）

◆目黒依子（上智大学名誉教授、国連婦人の地位委員会日本代表）
◆山下泰子（国際女性の地位協会会長・文京学院大学名誉教授）
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◆Asian Activist-αとは？
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人々のかけがえのない人権が守られるように積極的に活動し、
世界を変えようとする女性アクティビストたち。
ヒューマンライツ・ナウは、アジアで女性の権利のために活動し、
未来のリーダーとなる女性アクティビストを
「Asian Activist-α」と呼び、その活動をサポートしています。
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●ヒューマンライツ・ナウ（Human Rights Now）
http://hrn.or. jp/
国境を越えて世界の人権に取り組む日本発の国際人権NGO。
アジアを中心に 各国の人権侵害に光を当て告発し、状況を変えていく活動を展開。
「女性に対する暴力廃絶プロジェクト」はアジア各国のNGOとともに暴力根絶のための政策提言を行い、
アジアにおける女性の人権のウォッチドッグの役割を果たそうとしています。
「ビルマプロジェクト」は軍事政権の抑圧の続くビルマの人権監視、告発、国連や各国政府への働きかけを行っています。
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＊問合せ先＊
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特定活動非営利法人　ヒューマンライツ・ナウ
〒110-0015 東京都台東区東上野1-20-6 丸幸ビル3F
Tel：03-3835-2110　　Fax：03-3834-2406 Email：info@ngo-hrn. org

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(၉၉)ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ILOညီလာခံ စံနႈန္းစံထားေကာ္မတီ၊ အထူးႀကားနာခ်က္မွ ခ်မွတ္ေသာဆုံျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ေႀကာျငာခ်က္

2010 June 8 Statement on Conclusion of Special Sitting on Conv 29 Fcd Lbr _Bur_-1

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ILO force labor and FTUB

07-06-2010-ILO

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ASEAN'S NEW DILEMMA: Burma's nuclear ambitions

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/05/31/opinion/ASEANS-NEW-DILEMMA-Burmas-nuclear-ambitions-30130505.html

By Kavi Chongkittavorn
The Nation
Published on May 31, 2010


THE US ACTION was swift following confirmation of a North Korean ship with suspicious arms cargoes docking in Burma last month in violation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1874. A few days later, in the third week of April, the US State Department dispatched an urgent message to the Asean capitals recommending the scheduled Asean-US Economic Ministers' roadshow in Seattle and Washington DC, from May 3-5, proceed without the Burmese representation at "all levels." The drastic move surprised the Asean leaders.
The American ultimatum was not a bluff but a genuine show of frustration. This time Washington wanted to send a strong signal to Burma and the rest of Asean that unless something was done about Burma's compliance with the relevant UN resolutions on North Korean sanctions, there would be dire consequences. Political issues aside, Burma's nuclear ambition can further dampen Asean-US relations in the future. Already, there was the first casualty when the US downgraded the high-powered economic roadshow which was meticulously planned months ahead between the Office of US Trade Representatives and Asean economic ministers through the US-Asean Business Council.

Since nearly all Asean countries, except Singapore, decided to dispatch their trade or industry ministers to join the campaign, they agreed the roadshow should continue without the Burmese delegation as requested by the US. After some bargaining, the US softened its position agreeing to accept a representation at the charge d'affaires level from the Burmese Embassy in Washington DC. But Rangoon chose to opt out as it wanted diplomats directly dispatched from Rangoon. Without a consensus in Asean, a new name - absurd as it seemed - was in place, as the Southeast Asia Economic Community Road Show. It would be a one-time only designation.


When Kurt Campbell, Assistant State Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs returned to Burma for the second time recently, he was blunt telling the junta leaders to abide and fully comply with the UN Security Council Resolution 1874. That has been Washington's serious concern due to the growing link between North Korea and Burma and their existing transfer of nuclear-related technology. Last June, a North Korean ship, Kang Nam, was diverted from going to Burma after being trailed by the US navy.


Since 2000, Western intelligence sources have been gathering evidence of North Korea providing assistance to Burma to build a nuclear reactor that can produce graded plutonium used in assembling future weapons of mass destruction. Last year, reports were released using data collected from two defecting Burmese military officers, intercepted calls and messages as well as human intelligence along Thai-Burmese border, all finger-pointing to Burma's nuclear ambitions.


When they came out last fall, scepticism was high among military experts and strategists on the junta's nuclear intentions. Most said there was insufficient evidence. Some viewed them as attempts to further discredit the regime's international standing. As additional interviews were conducted, especially with a former major in the Burmese Army, Sai Thein Win, who was directly involved with the recent secret nuclear programme, it has become clearer that Burma is investigating nuclear technology. This week, a special report on a huge new body of information, with expert comment from a former official working for the International Atomic Energy Agency, will be released.


As such, it will have far-reaching implications on Asean and its members, who signed the 1995 Southeast Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (SEANWFZ) and Non-proliferation Treaty. Asean is currently working hard to persuade all major nuclear powers to sign the protocol to the SEANWFZ. The grouping has even delayed China's eagerness to accede to the protocol.


Further complicating the issue, Asean has not reached a consensus on how its members would move forward with a common approach on nuclear energy and security. In general, Asean backs nuclear disarmament, which the Philippines has played a leading role as chair of the just concluded Review Conference of State Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation on Nuclear Weapons. Asean also backs the ongoing efforts of US and Russia over non-proliferation.


One sticky problem is that Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, Burma, and Indonesia have yet to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. In the case of Indonesia, it is on the Annex 2 list of the treaty which, to enter into force, must be reatified by all 44 states on this list. At the upcoming Asean summit in Hanoi (October), Asean leaders will study a matrix of common positions that have been or could be taken up by Asean. It remains to be seen how Asean would approach some of the sensitive issues such as the South China Sea, climate change and issues related to nuclear technology.


At the recent Nuclear Summit in Washington DC, leaders from Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand were invited by US President Barack Obama to share their views on non-proliferation and peaceful use of nuclear energy. They supported the summit's plan of action to prevent nuclear terrorism. All these Asean members have long-term plans to build nuclear power plants for peaceful use as energy sources. Vietnam has long decided on building two, while Thailand is planning one in the next ten years. Indonesia has serious parliamentary support to explore a nuclear option. Even the Singapore Economic Strategies Committee has recommended nuclear energy should be considered as a possible long-term solution to the island's energy security. Obama will certainly raise the issue again when he visits Indonesia in the second week of this month.


What is most intriguing has been the lack of serious attention from the Thai security apparatus regarding the nuclearisation of Burma. Apart from the two informal meetings convened by the Defence Council at the end of last year, the topic has been discussed only among a handful of military intelligence officials who have worked closely with their Australian counterparts. The National Security Council still does not believe Burma has that kind of ambition, not to mention the overall nuclear capacity to embark on the controversial programme. Concerned officials argued that domestic problems still have precedence.

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ေမ(၃၀)ဒီပဲယင္း ႏိူင္ငံေတာ္ လုပ္ႀကံမႈႀကီး (၇)ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္ အခမ္းအနား(တိုက်ိဳ)။

၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေမလ(၃၀)ရက္။

ေမ(၃၀)ဒီပဲယင္း ႏိူင္ငံေတာ္ လုပ္ႀကံမႈႀကီး (၇)ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္ႏွင့္ ဘာသာေပါင္းစုံ ဆုေတာင္းပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို တိုက်ိဳၿမိဳ ့ ရွီနာဂါ၀ါ အရပ္ရွိ ျမန္မာစစ္အခြန္ရုံး(သံရုံး)ေရွ ့တြင္ ေန ့လည္ ၃း၀၀ နာရီမွ ၄း၄၀ရီ အထိ ဂ်ပန္ႏိူင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုမ်ားတို႕မွ ပူးေပါင္း က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

အခမ္းအနားမွဴးအျဖစ္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္(လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) ဂ်ပန္႒ာနခြဲ႕ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးေဇာ္မင္းထြန္း မွ တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ၿပီး ဒီပဲယင္းလုပ္ႀကံမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားရာမွာ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ သူရဦးတင္ဦးတို႔၏ ျမန္မာျပည္ အထက္ပိုင္း စည္းရုံးေရးခရီးစဥ္တေလွ်ာက္တြင္ လူထုေထာက္ခံအားေပးမႈ အထူးရရွိခဲ့သည့္အတြက္ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္စုမွ အလြန္စိုးရိမ္လာသည္အတြက္ ဒီပဲယင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ က်ည္ရြာအနီးတြင္ စနစ္တက် ခ်ဳံခိုတိုက္ခိုက္သည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ လုပ္ႀကံမႈႀကီးကို က်ဳးလြန္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ သူရဦးတင္ဦးတို႔၏ အသက္ကို ကာကြယ္ရင္း အသက္ေပး စြန္႔လႈခဲ့ၾကသည့္ သူမ်ားအတြက္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္းအထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ ဘာသာေပါင္းစုံ ဆုေတာင္းပြဲ အစီအစဥ္ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကားသြားပါသည္။ တက္ေရာက္လာၾကသည့္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအသီးသီးမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ား ေျပာၾကားသြာရာမွာ ေမ(၃၀)ဒီပဲယင္း လုပ္ႀကံမႈတြင္ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၾကသည့္ သူမ်ားကိုလည္း ယေန႔အထိ တစုံတရာ အေရးယူ ေျဖရွင္းေျပးသည္ကိုလည္း မေတြ႔ရသည့္အတြက္ အေရးယူ ေျဖရွင္းေပးရန္တိုက္တြန္း ေတာင္းဆိုသြားခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

ဆုေတာင္းပြဲ အစီအစဥ္မွာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဓမၼေဇာတိ မွလည္ေကာင္း၊ ခရစ္ယာန္ဘာသာဆရာ ဆရာက်ဲဆန္းကုန္း ႏွင့္ အစၥလာမ္ဘာသာ၀င္ ဦးသက္လင္းတို႔မွ မိမိတို႔ ဘာသာအလိုက္ ဆုေတာင္း ေမတၱာပို႔သေပးခဲ့ၾကၿပီးသည္ေနာက္ လြတ္သူ ့ပန္းေခြခ်ျခင္း အစီအစဥ္ျပဳလုပ္ကာ အခမ္းအနားကို ၿပီးဆုံးခဲ့ပါသည္။

ယေန ့အခမ္းအနားတြင္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိူင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ တက္ၾကြစြာ လႈပ္ရွားခဲ့ၾကသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံသားမ်ား စုစုေပါင္း (၅၀၀) ခန္႔ တက္ေရာက္ပူးေပါင္း ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။

သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း။ Mai Kyaw Oo

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UN experts say NKorea is exporting nuke technology

By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press Writer – Fri May 28, 2:38 am ET
UNITED NATIONS – North Korea is exporting nuclear and ballistic missile technology and using multiple intermediaries, shell companies and overseas criminal networks to circumvent U.N. sanctions, U.N. experts said in a report obtained by The Associated Press.

The seven-member panel monitoring the implementation of sanctions against North Korea said its research indicates that Pyongyang is involved in banned nuclear and ballistic activities in Iran, Syria and Myanmar. It called for further study of these suspected activities and urged all countries to try to prevent them.

The 47-page report, obtained late Thursday by AP, and a lengthy annex document sanctions violations reported by U.N. member states, including four cases involving arms exports and two seizures of luxury goods by Italy — two yachts and high-end recording and video equipment. The report also details the broad range of techniques that North Korea is using to try to evade sanctions imposed by the U.N. Security Council after its two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009.

Council diplomats discussed the report by the experts from Britain, Japan, the United States, France, South Korea, Russia and China at a closed-door meeting on Thursday.

Its release happened to coincide with heightened tensions between North Korea and South Korea over the March sinking of a South Korean navy ship which killed 46 sailors. The council is waiting for South Korea to decide what action it wants the U.N.'s most powerful body to take in response to the sinking, which a multinational investigation determined was caused by a North Korean torpedo.

The panel of experts said there is general agreement that the U.N. embargoes on nuclear and ballistic missile related items and technology, on arms exports and imports except light weapons, and on luxury goods, are having an impact.

But it said the list of eight entities and five individuals currently subject to an asset freeze and travel ban seriously understates those known to be engaged in banned activities and called for additional names to be added. It noted that North Korea moved quickly to have other companies take over activities of the eight banned entities.

The experts said an analysis of the four North Korean attempts to illegally export arms revealed that Pyongyang used "a number of masking techniques" to avoid sanctions. They include providing false descriptions and mislabeling of the contents of shipping containers, falsifying the manifest and information about the origin and destination of the goods, "and use of multiple layers of intermediaries, shell companies, and financial institutions," the panel said.

It noted that a chartered jet intercepted in Thailand in December carrying 35 tons of conventional weapons including surface-to-air missiles from North Korea was owned by a company in the United Arab Emirates, registered in Georgia, leased to a shell company registered in New Zealand and then chartered to another shell company registered in Hong Kong — which may have been an attempt to mask its destination.

North Korea is also concealing arms exports by shipping components in kits for assembly overseas, the experts said.

As one example, the panel said it learned after North Korean military equipment was seized at Durban harbor in South Africa that scores of technicians from the North had gone to the Republic of Congo, where the equipment was to have been assembled.

The experts called for "extra vigilance" at the first overseas port handling North Korean cargo and close monitoring of airplanes flying from the North, saying Pyongyang is believed to use air cargo "to handle high valued and sensitive arms exports."

While North Korea maintains a wide network of trade offices which do legitimate business as well as most of the country's illicit trade and covert acquisitions, the panel said Pyongyang "has also established links with overseas criminal networks to carry out these activities, including the transportation and distribution of illicit and smuggled cargoes."

This may also include goods related to weapons of mass destruction and arms, it added.

Under council resolutions, all countries are required to submit reports on what they are doing to implement sanctions but as of April 30 the panel said it had still not heard from 112 of the 192 U.N. member states — including 51 in Africa, 28 in Asia, and 25 in Latin America and the Caribbean.

While no country reported on nuclear or ballistic missile-related imports or exports from North Korea since the second sanctions resolution was adopted last June, the panel said it reviewed several U.S. and French government assessments, reports from the International Atomic Energy Agency, research papers and media reports indicating Pyongyang's continuing involvement in such activities.

These reports indicate North Korea "has continued to provide missiles, components, and technology to certain countries including Iran and Syria ... (and) has provided assistance for a nuclear program in Syria, including the design and construction of a thermal reactor at Dair Alzour," the panel said.

Syria denied the allegations in a letter to the IAEA, but the U.N. nuclear agency is still trying to obtain reports on the site and its activities, the panel said.

The experts said they are also looking into "suspicious activity in Myanmar," including activities of Namchongang Trading, one of the companies subject to U.N. sanctions, and reports that Japan in June 2009 arrested three individuals for attempting to illegally export a magnetometer — which measures magnetic fields — to Myanmar via Malaysia allegedly under the direction of a company known to be associated with illicit procurement for North Korea's nuclear and military programs. The company was not identified.

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The 20th anniversary of 1990 elections

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ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံရိွ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားေသာအဖဲြ ့အစည္းမ်ားအၾကား ထိေရာက္စြာပူးေပါင္းဆာင္ရြက္ႏိူင္သြားရန္ ညိုႏိႈင္းစည္းေ၀း။

ယေန ့(၁၆-၀၅-၂၀၁၀)ေန ့တြင္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံတိုက်ိဳျမိဳ ့ရိွ ညီညြတ္ေသာ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအဖဲြ ့အစည္း(AUN-Japan)ရုံးခန္းတြင္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံရိွ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနေသာအဖဲြ ့အစည္းမ်ားအႀကား ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ အထူးအစည္းအေဝး တစ္ခုကို က်င္းပခဲ့ရာ ေအာက္ပါ အခမ္းအနား(၂)ခုကို အားလုံးလက္တဲြ က်င္းပသြားရန္ သေဘာတူ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

(၁) (၇)နွစ္ေျမာက္ ဒီပဲယင္းနွစ္ပတ္လည္အခမ္းအနား။
(၂)၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြနွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားမ်ား၏ ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္ပဲြ။

(၁) (၇)နွစ္ေျမာက္ ဒီပဲယင္းနွစ္ပတ္လည္ အခမ္းအနားကို လာမည့္(၃၀-၀၅-၂၀၁၀)ေန ့တြင္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံ တိုက်ိဳျမိဳ ့ရိွ နအဖ အခြန္ရုံးေရွ ့တြင္ ညေန(၃)နာရီမွ (၅)နာရီ အထိအဖဲြ ့အစည္းအားလုံးပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္က်င္းပသြားရန္ သေဘာတူညီခဲ့ျပီး အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ ့ခ်ဳပ္လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ(ဂ်ပန္ဌာနခဲြ) NLD-LA-JAPAN မွအခမ္းအနားမႉးတာဝန္ကို တာဝန္ယူရန္အမ်ား သေဘာတူ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့သည္။

(၂) ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ နွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားမ်ား၏ ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္ပဲြ အဆိုပါ အခမ္းအနားကို BURMA PARTNERSHIP ၏ GLOBAL CAMPAIGN အေနျဖင့္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံရိွ ျမန္မာ့နိုင္ငံေရးအဖဲြ ့အစည္းအားလုံး ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း ျဖစ္ျပီး ၊ ယခင္ကတည္းက ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္သြားရန္ ဂ်ပန္နိုင္ငံရိွ နိုင္ငံေရး အဖဲြ ့အစည္းမ်ားက စီစဥ္ေနခဲ့ေသာ အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္သည္။ အခမ္းအနားကို
အိခဲဘုခုရို ု ရိွ ခင္းခိုးပလာဇာ(7-F)တြင္ လာမည့္(၁၃-၀၆-၂၀၁၀)ေန ့၌ မြန္းလဲြ (၁) နာရီမွ (၅)နာရီအထိ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ျပီး အခမ္းအနားမႉးတာဝန္ကို ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေကာ္မတီ(JAC) မွတာဝန္ယူရန္ အမ်ားသေဘာတူ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့ႀကသည္။

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2010 Mayday declaration by FTUB

2010 Mayday declaration by FTUB

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Nuclear Free Burma ေဖၚေဆာင္ေရး Signature Campaign လႈပ္ရွားမူကို ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမ်ဴးခ်ဳပ္ထံေပးပို ့ရန္ျပင္ဆင္။

CREDIT-သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း ။ PNS-Japan

Monday, April 26, 2010
Nuclear Free Burma ေဖၚေဆာင္ေရး Signature Campaign လႈပ္ရွားမူကို ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမ်ဴးခ်ဳပ္ထံေပးပို ့ရန္ျပင္ဆင္။




၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ဧၿပီလ (၂၆)ရက္။

ႏ်ဴကလီးယားကင္းစင္ေသာ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံ Nuclear Free Burma ေဖၚေဆာင္ေရး Signature Campaign လႈပ္ရွားမူ ကို ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလမွစတင္၍ FTUB ဂ်ပန္ ေကာ္မတီမွ ဦးစီးေကာက္ခံလာခဲ့ရာ ဧၿပီလ ၂၆ ရက္ေန ့တြင္ ေကာက္ခံထားသည့္ လက္မွတ္မ်ားကို စုစီးၿပီး FTUB နာယက Dr.မင္းညို ထံ လႊဲအပ္သည့္ အစီအစဥ္ကို ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

FTUB(Japan) ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ေဒၚခင္ေဆြေအးမွ Signature Campaign လႈပ္ရွားမူႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ရွင္းျပရာမွာ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံသည္ သဘာ၀သယံဇာတ အရင္းအျမစ္မ်ား ပိုင္ဆိုင္သည့္ ႏိူင္ငံမ်ားအနက္ နံပါတ္(၉)အဆင့္တြင္ ရွိၿပီး Hydro power ေရအားလွ်ပ္စစ္ျဖင့္ စီမ္းအင္မဂၢါ၀ပ္ အေျမာက္အမ်ားထုတ္လုပ္ႏိူင္ေသာ ႏိူင္ငံျဖစ္သည္။ ႏွစ္စဥ္ ေရအား လွ်ပ္စစ္စြမ္းအင္ ႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ဓါတ္ေငြ ့မ်ားမွ ေရာင္းခ်ရေငြသည္လည္း ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံ၏ ႏွစ္စဥ္ ၀င္ေငြ၏ ၅၀% ေက်ာ္ရရွိလ်က္ရွိသည္။

ထိုေၾကာင့္ နအဖ မွ စြမ္းအင္လုံေလာက္မႈ မရွိဟုေသာ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ျဖင့္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယား စြမ္းအင္ကို ထုတ္လုပ္ရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈမွာ လကၡံ ယုံၾကည္ႏိူင္ဘြယ္ရာ မရွိသည့္အျပင္ ႏ်ဴကလီယား စြမ္းအင္မွတဆင့္ ႏ်ဴကလီယား လက္နက္ပိုင္ဆိုင္ေသာ ႏိူင္ငံျဖစ္ရန္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနျခင္း၊ စစ္အာဏာရွင္စနစ္ သက္ဆိုးရွည္ေစရန္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည့္အတြက္ အခုလို Signature Campaign လႈပ္ရွားမူကို လုပ္ေဆာင္ရေၾကာင္း ရွင္းလင္းေျပာၾကားသြားပါသည္။ ဂ်ပန္ႏိူင္ငံတြင္ Sign Campaign ျပဳလုပ္ရျခင္း ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မွာ အႏ်ဴျမဴ၏ ဆိုးက်ိဳးကို ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳးတို ့ ကိုယ္တိုင္ ခံစားခဲ့ၾကရၿပီး ကမာၻတစ္၀န္း ႏ်ဴကလီးယား လက္နက္ေလ်ာ့ခ်ရန္ ႏ်ဴကလီယားအဆိပ္ အေတာက္ ကင္းရွင္းရန္ ႀကိဳးစားေနေသာ ႏိူင္ငံျဖစ္သည့္အတြက္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိူင္ငံတြင္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈကို စတင္ျပဳလုပ္ရျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ႏိူင္ငံေတာ္ဘတ္ဂ်က္ ေဒၚလာသန္းေပါင္းေထာင္ခ်ီ အကုန္က်ခံေနျခင္းသည္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယားစြမ္းအင္မွ ရရွိလာမည့္ အက်ိဳးကို ျပည္သူမ်ား စံစားႏိူင္မည္မဟုတ္၊ ႏ်ဴကလီးယားႏွင့္ပတ္သက္သည့္ ေခတ္မွီနည္းစနစ္ျဖစ္ ထိမ္းသိမ္း ေဆာက္ေရွာက္မႈ ၊ ေဘ းထြက္စြန္ ့ပစ္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည့္ အႏၱရာယ္ အလြန္စိုးရိမ္ရေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ႏ်ဴကလီယား စြမ္းအင္ကို ကန္ ့ကြက္ေနသည္မဟုတ္ နအဖမွ ႏ်ဴကလီယား လက္နက္ပိုင္ဆိုင္ရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနျခင္းကို ကန္ ့ကြက္ရေၾကာင္းကို FWUBC ဒု ဥကၠ႒ ကိုဘုန္းလိႈင္မွ ေထာက္ျပ ေျပာဆိုသြားပါသည္။

ဂ်ပန္ႏိူင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာႏိူင္ငံသားမ်ား၊ ဂ်ပန္ျပည္သူမ်ား ႏွင့္ ဂ်ပန္အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢမ်ားထံမွ စုစုေပါင္းလက္မွတ္ (တစ္ေသါင္း)ေက်ာ္ ေကာက္ခံရရွိထားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ လာမည့္ ၂၉ ရက္ေန ့ဂ်ပန္အလုပ္သမားေန ့(ေမေဒး)ေန ့ ေနာက္ဆုံးထား ေကာက္ခံသြားမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေကာက္ခံရရွိထားသည့္ လက္မွတ္မ်ားကို ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမ်ဴးခ်ဳပ္ႏွင့္ လုံၿခဳံေရးေကာင္စီ ႏိူင္ငံမ်ားသို ့ ေပးပို ့သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ဂ်ပန္အစိုးရကို တိုက္တြန္း တင္ျပသြားႏိူင္ရန္အတြက္ FTUB ဗဟိုႏွင့္ ေဆြးေႏြးတိုင္ပင္ၿပီး ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ အင္အားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ၿပီး ပိုမိုက်ယ္ျပန္ ့သည့္ လႈပ္ရွားမူကို ဆက္လက္ေဖၚေဆာင္ သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။

သတင္းမွတ္တမ္း ။ PNS-Japan

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APPEAL OF FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE FOR NUCLEAR FREE BURMA SIGN CAMPAIGN TO IUF JCC WRITTEN BY PHONE HLAING

To the leaders of IUF-JCC,
We FTUB-Federation of Trade Unions-Burma would like to say thanks to all of you to invite us.-
I came here to speak on behalf of Dr. Min Nyo –Patron of FTUB, and FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE. He was invited here but he cannot attend this meeting, because he is in Thailand now.
We came here to explain and appeal for your support to our Nuclear Free Burma Sign Campaign
First of all, we want to tell you that the goal of our campaign is absolutely not to discourage nuclear energy but to discourage the Burmese Military Regime’s aim to possess Nuclear Weapons. And there is no proper safety measure and can not safeguard nuclear accidents under military régime.
The Regime has been telling the world that it needs a nuclear reactor to supply energy for the country. In reality, we have other energy resources including gas which only is enough for supply.
According to the Burmese and Chinese news sources, the Burmese regime has been building the total of 48 hydropower plants, and on completion of those projects, Burma will be able to fulfill domestic electricity demand in the near future. (app-1)
Hydropower is not the only main energy source in Burma. Our country is also sitting on the very large amount of natural gas deposits. Burma’s proven natural gas reserve ranks 39 in the world. I believe all of you are well aware of the fact that the Burmese junta is selling natural gas to Thailand and China and Burma’s half of the income is coming from natural gas sale. (app-2-a, app-2-b)
So Burma does not need nuclear power to supply its energy needs according to the data I mentioned above.
Burmese Military Regime lies to the world to fulfill its nuclear dream.
Under the regime, Burma is buying and acquiring both high technology and high-tech machines related to the nuclear weapon and missile according to the ISIS report.(app-3) ISIS is Institute for Science and International Security based in United States of America.

NUCLEAR FREE BURMA
PRESENT BY PHONE HLAING
VICE PRESIDENT OF FWUBC
BURMA BUILDING 48
hydropower plants
• May 18, 2009:
• "Myanmar Works To Meet Growing Demand of Electricity"]
• Sources: Xinhua News
• Myanmar [Burma] has been working to meet its domestic
demand of electricity,
• building up a total of 13 hydropower plants covering the power
grids of the whole nation since 1988 when the present
government took office.
• On completion of other 35 ongoing hydropower projects, the
editorial predicts that
• Myanmar will be able to fulfill domestic electricity
demand in the future.
BURMA’S NATURAL GAS RESERVE
RINK 38 IN THE WORLD
• Burma Economy 2010
• SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2010
• Natural gas - proved reserves(cu m) 2010 Country
Ranks,
• By Rank
• SOURCE: CIA World Factbook 2010
• 38- Burma - 283,200,000,000 -1 January 2009 est
January 28, 2010
-ISIS REPORT ON Burma: a Nuclear Wannabe, Suspicious Links
to North Korea
and High-Tech Procurements to Enigmatic
Facilities.
• Minimal Nuclear Capability
• Currently, Burma has little known indigenous
nuclear
• infrastructure to support the construction of
• nuclear facilities. Nonetheless, it has sought
to purchase
• a nuclear research reactor for about a
decade.
Minimal Nuclear Transparency
• Burma joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
• (NPT) in 1992.
• However, Burma has not agreed to update its
• commitments under the Small Quantities Protocol- SQP.
• Moreover, it has not agreed to the Additional
• Protocol,which would obligate Burma to provide far
• greater information about its nuclear activities and plans
• and allow the IAEA much greater access to Burmese sites.
• U.S. officials have expressed worries about the “nature
• and extent” of Burma’s ties with North Korea.
• Because transparency remains so minimal, the
• fundamental question remains: has Burma decided
• to embark on a covert route to nuclear weapons on
• its own or with the help of North Korea?
Suspicious or Illegal Procurement
Activities-1
• Burma is seeking abroad a large quantity of
top-notch,
• highly sophisticated goods with potential
missile
• and nuclear uses.
• According to one senior European
intelligence official.
• Its military cooperation with
• North Korea has increased over the last
several years,
• fueling concerns about nuclear cooperation.
Suspicious or Illegal Procurement
Activities-2
• North Korea could also supplement Burma’s
own foreign procurement networks, and it
• could sell nuclear goods made in
• North Korea.
• There are lingering questions about two
Pakistani nuclear scientists who reportedly
went to Burma in late 2001,
• Their whereabouts or activities since
• then remain unknown
Namchongang Trading (NCG)
• Evidence of North Korean/Burmese cooperation
includes
• the reported presence in Burma of officials from
• Namchongang Trading (NCG), a North Korean
trading
• company that is sanctioned by U.N. Security
Council.
• Syria’s reactor project depended on assistance from
NCG.
Reports of North Korea selling a
reactor
• Reports of North Korea selling a reactor to Burma date
• back to at least 2004, a time when NCG was helping
• Syria acquire its reactor. According to a 2004
• Asia Times article, citing Indian intelligence, Burma
• approached North Korea in November 2002 as a seller
• of last resort after the military regime failed to acquire a
• reactor from Russia, China, and India.
• The Asia Times article makes the additional claim that
• a reactor deal was signed between Burma and
• North Korea in early 2004. But all these claims remain
• unconfirmed.
In June 2009 Japan arrested three individuals for
attempting to illegally export
a magnetometer to Burma via Malaysia
• In June 2009, Japan arrested three individuals for
• attempting to illegally export a magnetometer to
Burma
• via Malaysia, under the direction of a company
• associated with illicit procurement for North Korean
• military programs. Authorities learned subsequently
that
• this group successfully delivered other nuclear
dual-use
• equipment to Burma.
The judge concluded that there was “thus a risk of
greatly
affecting the peace and security of Japan and the
world.”
• In November 2009, Li Gyeong Ho of Toko Boeki trading
• company was found guilty and given a two year
suspended
• sentence and a fine of six million yen (about $67,000).
• In his ruling, the judge said that all these exports or
• attempted exports involved “all dangerous
equipment
• used to develop and/or manufacture nuclear
weapons.
• The judge concluded that there was “thus a risk of
greatly
• affecting the peace and security of Japan and the world.”
procurements of extremely high
precision expensive dual-use
industrial equipment
According to a European intelligence official,
in 2006 and 2007 Burma made a series of
procurements of extremely high precision,
expensive dual-use industrial equipment,
including computer-numerically controlled
(CNC) machine tools, from companies
located in Switzerland,Germany, and Japan.
• European intelligence services
yielded that the equipment
• was multi-purpose, including
nuclear
• component manufacturing.
SECRET MISSILE OR NUCLEAR
PROGRAM
• The procurements are multipurpose
and difficult to
• correlate conclusively with a
secret missile or nuclear program.
STOP BEFORE TOO LATE
• The Syrian reactor, Iran’s gas
centrifuge uranium enrichment
program, and
• Pakistan’s highly enriched uranium
program were all enabled in large part
• because of the failure of the
international community to halt the
illicit sale
• of nuclear-related technology.
UNSAFEGUARDED NUCLEAR
PROGRAM
• The international community has a
unique opportunity to set a new
precedent
• and prevent Burma from acquiring
• materials that could eventually be
used in an unsafeguarded nuclear
program.
BURMA HAS NO REASON TO
SEEK NUCLEAR WEAPONS
• Burma has no reason to seek nuclear
weapons.
• The international community should
convince Burma
• that pledging not to do so in a truly
verifiable manner
• could provide significant benefits.
STOP BURMA REGIME’S
NUCLEAR PROGRAM NOW!!!!!
•WE FTUB ASK FOR
•YOUR SUPPORT.
•THANK YOU
In reality, the Burmese Generals are trying to possess nuclear weapons following the step of their close friend North Korea. They think that if they possess nuclear weapon, they will be in a stronger position just like the regime in North Korea and cannot be overthrown easily.
It is the real danger of threat to regional stability across Asia including Japan and other nations.
Therefore, we strongly urge the world to prevent Burma’s nuclear program.
Our FTUB has been working hard on it. At the same time, we would like to ask for your support to our campaign. And I also would like to inform you that our associate Japanese trade union JAM (Japanese Association of Metal, Machinery and Manufacturing Workers) has started to collect signatures in KANTO area( not only in their headquarters but also in all grass roots level). We are very hopeful and grateful to such cooperation.
We have already requested the support from following IUF-JCC member unions.
1.Food RENGO
2.UIZENSEN
We also asked for support from All NTT Workers Union of Japan.
We are very hopeful and grateful for their cooperation.
And we are asking for support from all the member unions of IUF-JCC too.

Thank you very much.

Phone Hlaing
Vice President
FWUBC
Federation of Workers’ Union of Burmese Citizens (in Japan)
Member of FTUB JAPAN COMMITTE.
2nd, April, 2010.

Appendixes
(1) May 18, 2009: "Myanmar Works To Meet Growing Demand of Electricity"]
Sources: Xinhua News
(2-a)Corridor of Power By Shwe Gas Movement.
(2-b) EIA - International Energy Data and Analysis for Burma
(3) Burma: a Nuclear Wannabe, Suspicious Links to North Korea and High-Tech Procurements to Enigmatic Facilities- January 28, 2010

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Nuclear Free Burma

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GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE 2010 MILITARY ELECTIONS IN BURMA

GLOBAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE 2010 MILITARY ELECTIONS IN BURMA

APPEAL

To the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Franco Frattini
To the Chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and Senate
To the EU Special Envoy for Burma, Hon. Piero Fassino

I strongly condemn the Burmese military junta, the sham Constitution and the unacceptable election laws which prevent the Burmese heroine, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the other over 2,100 political prisoners to stand in and cast their ballot at the upcoming elections, while the political parties – in order to continue to exist – must expel Aung San Suu Kyi and the other political prisoners and swear to protect and respect the “sham Constitution”.

These laws are the tragic confirmation of the total non-credibility of the elections and reveal the absolute lack of will, by the junta, to undertake a fast and effective transition to democracy.

These laws follow the imposition of a sham Constitution that will perpetuate the power of the military junta and which prevents freedom of political and trade union organisation, provides for the possibility of continuing to exploit forced labour and the continued violation of the fundamental human rights and guarantees the impunity of the members of the military who are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Alongside the Burmese FTUB trade union and democratic organisations, I denounce these elections as a further attempt by the military junta to keep a firm hold on power, albeit in civilian clothing, in an authoritarian and repressive manner, while the rule of law will remain a fiction used by those governments that are set on continuing to deplete the country of its natural, social and human resources.
I denounce the dramatic increase in repression of the people’s fundamental human rights, in murders, rapes, arbitrary arrest, forced labour, the use of child soldiers, and the tremendous worsening of the living and working conditions of people that has sparked large-scale strikes in the industrial areas of Rangoon, forcing thousands of workers to risk their freedom.
I support the requests of the clandestine trade union movement and all of the Burmese democratic organisations calling on the international community to subject the recognition of the upcoming elections to the following conditions:

1. the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all the other political prisoners, and the protection of their right to take part and stand in the elections;
2. the ceasing of all attacks against the ethnic communities and democratic activists;
3. the immediate launching of a genuine and inclusive dialogue between the junta, the democratic organisations and ethnic nationalities, including a reform of the Constitution.

I call on:
• the Italian Government, Parliament and the EU Special Envoy for Burma to support the three conditions detailed above and to subject the recognition of the elections to their application, launching urgent consultations with the Burmese trade unions and democratic organisations;
• the Italian Government to commit itself to ensuring that the EU decides to further strengthen the targeted economic sanctions by including the financial and insurance sectors as well, with the prohibition to make new investments and implementing certain and effective control procedures. The sanctions should be applied flexibly, according to the positive or negative developments in the political process;
• the EU to promote these legitimate requests in its negotiations with the other Asian countries;
• the EU to actively call on the UN Security Council to approve a total arms embargo on Burma;
• the EU to support the recommendations by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma to set up a UN Commission of Inquiry on the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the junta.
Italy must no longer remain silent.

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PRESS RELEASE-BONANNI: first signatory of the CISL Appeal for Burma

PRESS RELEASE
BONANNI: first signatory of the CISL Appeal for Burma

Appeal for a commitment against the upcoming sham elections in Burma, which are set to perpetuate the military dictatorship in civilian clothing, the violation of human rights, forced labour and the prohibition against political and trade union freedom, ensuring the impunity of the military junta for its crimes against humanity.

The CISL launches an urgent appeal to the Italian Government and to the European Union to respond to the call made by the Burmese trade unions and democratic organisations to the international community for subjecting the recognition of the upcoming elections to the following conditions:

1. the immediate and unconditional release of Aung San Suu Kyi and of all the other political prisoners, and the protection of their right to take part and stand in the elections;

2. the ceasing of all attacks against the ethnic communities and democratic activists;

3. the immediate launching of a genuine and inclusive dialogue between the junta, the democratic organisations and the ethnic nationalities, including the reform of the Constitution.

Through this appeal, CISL strongly condemns the Burmese military junta and the unacceptable election laws recently introduced, which prevent the country’s heroine, Aung San Suu Kyi, and the other over 2,100 political prisoners to stand in and cast their ballot at the upcoming elections. These laws are the tragic confirmation of the total non-credibility of the elections and reveal the absolute lack of will by the junta to undertake a fast and effective transition to democracy.

CISL invites you to sign this appeal calling on:

• the Italian Government, Parliament and the EU Special Envoy for Burma to support the three conditions detailed above and subject the recognition of the elections to their implementation, launching urgent consultations with the Burmese trade unions and democratic organisations;
• the Italian Government to commit itself to ensuring that the EU decides to further strengthen the targeted economic sanctions by including the financial and insurance sectors as well, with the prohibition to make new investments and implementing certain and effective monitoring procedures. The sanctions should be applied flexibly, according to the positive or negative developments in the political process;
• the EU to promote these legitimate requests in its negotiations particularly with the Asian countries;
• the EU to actively call on the UN Security Council to approve a total arms embargo on Burma;
• the EU to support the recommendation by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Burma to set up a UN Commission of Inquiry on the war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the junta.
Italy must no longer remain silent.
Sign our appeal online at the CISL website www.cisl.it or at www.birmaniademocratica.org.

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NLD Says 'No' to Election

NLD Says 'No' to Election
By Taunggyi Time သတင္း

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By THE IRRAWADDY Monday, March 29, 2010

Burma's main opposition party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), on Monday decided against registering for the general election this year, a party spokesman told The Irrawaddy.

“Without any objections, all the party leaders reached a consensus not to register the party and join the election because the junta's election laws are unjust,” said senior party official Khin Maung Swe who attended the meeting at the party's Rangoon headquarters. “We also agreed to call for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.”


Members of the detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy gather at Rangoon's headquarters before its central committee meeting on March 29. (Photo: AP)
Party officials said that the lawyer of detained leader Suu Kyi read out a message from Suu Kyi to the party leaders at the meeting and said that “Daw Suu could not accept the party registering under the unjust laws, but she said that neither she nor anyone else owns the party. Therefore, the party members have to make the decision by themselves democratically.”
The party's 92-year-old party chairman, Aung Shwe, who recently voiced support for the party registering and taking part in the election, did not join in the meeting, but instead sent a letter stating that he would follow Suu Kyi's decision, according to the party spokesman.

Nearly 160 party representatives from across the country gathered at the party's headquarters to take part in the meeting. The discussion mainly heard the views of the party's central committee members. Reportedly, only one of them voiced the opinion that a political party “cannot be involved in politics without existing.”

“U Tin Wai from Kachin State expressed his opinion on party registration, but accepted the majority decision,” said Ohn Kyaing, a party official. The election laws prohibit parties from having members who are currently in detention, so a decision to register would have forced Suu Kyi out of the party.

About 50 party members wearing white T-shirts bearing a slogan saying “No” gathered in front of the party compound. Female party members were also reportedly holding a large green gourd presented to them by Suu Kyi last Tuesday through her lawyer. The word “No” is said to have been written on the gourd.

Although security was heightened with four riot police trucks deployed near the party headquarters, there were no reports of harassment of NLD leaders by the authorities.

Before the meeting, several township representatives and party youth leaders declared that they will stand by Suu Kyi's stance against registration, claiming that they can still struggle for democratic rights without a political party.

The party decision would appear to ensure that the NLD will cease to exist as a legal entity as of the May 7 deadline for party registration, according to the election law.

Many observers are currently speculating what will become of the party after it ceases to be a valid political entity, and what kind of action the regime will take against the NLD's leadership and its party members.

A political analyst in Rangoon, said that what the NLD does after May 7 would depend on the wit and wisdom of the party leaders at the local level.

Reuters correspondent Martin Perry said, “The boycott, however, could backfire and marginalize the NLD, possibly leading to its dissolution. Its credibility as a pro-democracy force will be questioned now it has spurned the chance to be part of a political transition that the junta itself says will be lengthy and challenging.”

Perry said that the decision of the NLD “came as a disappointment to the international community, which has long painted Suu Kyi and the NLD as the people's choice and the best hope for a democratic Myanmar [Burma].”

In Suu Kyi's statement, she said that the party will not come to an end, and she also relayed a message to the Burmese people saying that she will continue her efforts for democracy.

Last week, Suu Kyi reportedly told her lawyers that if the imprisoned former student leader Min Ko Naing could fight for democracy in Burma without a political “signpost,” she could do the same.


Charismatic Min Ko Naing and several student activists of the 88 Generation Students group were arrested in 2007 and sentenced to lengthy prison terms.

The election laws bar more than 2,000 political prisoners from taking part in the election which junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe described as “the very beginning of the process of fostering democracy” in his speech on Armed Forces Day in Naypyidaw on Saturday.

No date has been announced for the upcoming election, which critics have called a sham designed to keep the military in power through the facade of an elected government.

The NLD won a landslide victory in Burma's last election in 1990, but the results were never honored by the regime. Party leader Suu Kyi is currently serving an 18-month term of house arrest. With her sentence due to expire in November, Suu Kyi would not be released before the polls expected in October.

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US won't accept legitimacy of Myanmar's elections

Washington - The United States will not recognize the outcome of Myanmar's elections scheduled for later this year because of new laws that ban political prisoners and the country's leading democratic activist from participating, the US State Department said Wednesday. The military junta that runs Myanmar, published a law on Wednesday that stated 2,000 imprisoned dissidents cannot participate, effectively sidelining jailed activist Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the National League for Democracy.

"We made clear that, given the tenor of the election laws that they have put forward, there's no hope that this election will be credible," State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said, adding the laws make the election a "mockery of the democratic process."

The regime has yet to announce a date for the election, the last of which took place 20 years ago before the military junta seized power and began rounding up democratic activists. Suu Kyi has been in prison or under house arrest for years.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/313477,us-wont-accept-legitimacy-of-myanmars-elections.html

The United States has applied sanctions to Myanmar to keep pressure on the regime for democratic reforms, and the Obama administration had reached out to Myanmar hoping to encourage change. But those efforts do not appear to be working.

"Our engagement with Burma will have to continue until we can make clear that the results thus far are not what we had expected and that they are going to have to do better," Crowley said.

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ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရး မဝင္ေရး၊ အထ အထုိင္

http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/index.php/articles/2-articles/2712-2010-03-04-07-42-11

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရး မဝင္ေရး၊ အထ အထုိင္
Thursday, 04 March 2010 14:40 ခက္ထန္

ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည္ဟု ဆုိသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အတြက္ အနည္းဆံုး ရွိသင့္ ရွိသင့္ထိုက္ေသာ ျပင္ဆင္ခြင့္ ျပဳရမည့္ အခ်ိန္မွာ အနည္း ငယ္သာ က်န္ေတာ့သည္။ ထိုအခ်က္ကပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ျဖစ္လာလတၱံ႔ေသာ သရုပ္သကန္ကို ေဖာ္ျပေနသေယာင္ ရွိသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ဤအေျခအေနမွာပင္ ကြဲျပားျခားနားေသာ အထိုင္ေပၚမွေန၍ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသို႔ ဝင္ေရး၊ မဝင္ေရး ဘက္ႏွစ္ဘက္မွာလည္း အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ ကိုယ္စီျဖင့္ ျပင္ဆင္ေနၾကသည္။ အျပန္အလွန္ ေဝဖန္ ေစာေၾကာေနၾကသည္။ မည္သို႔ေသာ အေျခခံ ကြဲျပားခ်က္ေပၚမွ ျပင္ဆင္ၾကသနည္းဟု သံုးသပ္ၾကည့္ရန္ ရွိသည္။

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ၊ ခ်င္းမုိင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ယခင္တပတ္က ၇ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ျမန္မာ သတင္းသမဂၢ ညီလာခံ က်င္းပရာ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရး မဝင္ေရးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တခု ပါဝင္ခဲ့ျပီး အၾကိတ္ အနယ္ ရွိခဲ့သည္။ ဝင္ေရး ဘက္တြင္ မၾကာေသးမီက ေပၚေပါက္ လာသည့္ ဒီမိုရက္တစ္ ပါတီမွ ဦးသုေဝႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ NGO တခုမွ ေဒါက္တာ ခင္ေဇာ္ဝင္းတို႔က ရပ္တည္ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ ၾကၿပီး မဝင္ေရး ဘက္တြင္ ျပည္ပ အေျခစုိက္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အမ်ိဳးသား ေကာင္စီ (NCUB) မွ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္က ေျပာဆိုသည္။ ယင္းသို႔ ဝင္ေရး မဝင္ေရး ဘက္ ႏွစ္ဘက္ အျပင္ နယ္ပယ္ မ်ိဳးစံုမွ လာေသာ ပရိသတ္မ်ား၏ ေမးခြန္းမ်ား၊ ေဝဖန္မႈမ်ား၊ စကားစစ္ထိုး မႈမ်ားသည္ အနည္းႏွင့္ အမ်ားဆိုသလို ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး ဝန္းက်င္၏ စရိုက္ လကၡဏာကို ေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္ ေဖာ္ျပေန သေယာင္ ရွိသည္။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရး၊ အထ
ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ေရးဆိုရာ၌ ျပည္တြင္းႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုတခ်ိဳ႕၏ ေျခလွမ္းကို ဆိုလိုပါသည္။ အစဥ္အလာ ရွိခဲ့သည့္ ဝါရင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမား တခ်ိဳ႕၊ ယင္းတို႔၏ ပါတီမ်ား၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ထြက္ေပါက္ဟု သေဘာထား ေပၚလြင္စြာ ေဖာ္ျပလာေသာ ျပည္တြင္း မီဒီယာမ်ားဟု ထည့္သြင္း ေရတြက္ႏိုင္သည္။ သူတို႔အဖို႔ ကာလရွည္ၾကာစြာ မလူးမလြန္႔သာသည့္ အေနအထားမွ ေရြ႕လ်ား လိုလာေသာ သေဘာကို ထင္ဟပ္သည္။ လႈပ္ရွားစရာ 'ခြင္' မရွိသည့္ အခ်ိန္တြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ေကာက္ရိုးတမွ်င္ အျဖစ္ ယူဆလာသည္။ လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ အလုိအေလ်ာက္ ေနရာရမည့္ တပ္မေတာ္သား ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ၂၅ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ဟူေသာ ျပဌာန္းခ်က္ျဖင့္ ခ်ည္တုပ္ထားသည့္တိုင္ လတ္တေလာတြင္ ေဘာင္အတြင္းမွ လႈပ္ၾကည့္ၾကမည့္၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုလည္း 'စင္' တခု အျဖစ္ ျမင္ေယာင္ၾကည့္ေနၾကသည့္ သေဘာကို ေတြ႔ရသည္။

ဝင္ေရးဘက္မွ ရပ္တည္ ေျပာဆိုရန္ ညီလာခံ တက္ေရာက္လာသည့္ွ ဦးသုေဝႏွင့္ ေဒါက္တာခင္ေဇာ္ဝင္းတို႔က အထက္ပါ အတိုင္းပင္ ရည္ညႊန္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ၾကသည္။ စစ္တပ္သည္ ၂၀၀၈ ဖဲြ႔စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံ အေျခခံ ဥပေဒကို အကာအကြယ္ယူ၍ တပ္ဆုတ္သည္ဟု ဦးသုေဝက ယူဆသလို၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား မလႈပ္ဘဲေနၾကလွ်င္ ျမန္မာျပည္ အေျခအေန ပိုဆိုးသြားမည္ ဟုလည္း ေဒါက္တာခင္ေဇာ္ဝင္းက ေထာက္ျပသည္။ သူတို႔က ေရြ႕လ်ားမရသည့္ အေနအထားတြင္ စစ္အစုိးရ ဖြင့္ေပးလာသည့္ ကန္႔သတ္ခ်က္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းအတြင္းမွ ေမွ်ာလိုက္ၾကည့္ၾကမည္ဟု သေဘာရသည္။

ဤ ဝင္ေရးဘက္ကို သံုးသပ္ၾကည့္လွ်င္ အေလွ်ာ့အတင္းႏွင့္ ကစားေနရသည့္ အျဖစ္ကို ျမင္ရသည္။ ရသည့္ ေအာက္ေျခကို တဆင့္ တိုးၾကည့္မည္၊ 'ထ' ၾကည့္မည္။ သူတို႔အတြက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ေရာက္မွ မီးစင္ၾကည့္ကေရးသည္ ဒုတိယ အစီအစဥ္ ျဖစ္ေနသည္။ ေအာက္မွ အထက္သို႔ ေမွ်ာ္ၾကည့္သည့္ စနစ္ဟု ျမင္ရသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ထိုင္ေနအေကာင္းသား ထသြားမွ က်ိဳးမွန္းသိ ျဖစ္မည္လား၊ လႈပ္ၾကည့္မွ ျမဳပ္မည္လား ဆိုသည္က ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ရန္သာ ရွိသည္။

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မဝင္ေရး၊ အထိုင္
မဝင္ေရး အထိုင္တြင္ ျပည္ပေရာက္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အင္အားစုမ်ား၊ တိုင္းရင္းသား အင္အားစုမ်ား၊ ျပည္ပ မီဒီယာတခ်ိဳ႕တို႔ ပါဝင္သည္။ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ကမူ ဝင္ေရး မဝင္ေရးကို ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ေၾကညာခ်က္ျဖင့္ စည္းသတ္ထားသည္။ လိုက္ေလ်ာလွ်င္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္မည္၊ မလိုက္ေလ်ာလွ်င္ မဝင္ဟု လမ္းေၾကာင္းေပးထားျပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မဝင္ေရး ရပ္တည္သူမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ၉၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရလဒ္ကို ဆုပ္ကိုင္သည္။ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒ ျပင္ဆင္ေရးကို ေတာင္းဆိုသူက ေတာင္းဆုိသည္။ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းကို ေထာက္ခံေဆာ္ၾသသူက ေဆာ္ၾသသည္။ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလဒ္မွ အစခ်ီ၍ စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား၏ ကတိကဝတ္၊ လုပ္ထံုး လုပ္နည္းမ်ားကို လံုးဝမယံုၾကည္ဟု ျငင္းဆိုသည္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို လက္မခံေၾကာင္း၊ စစ္အစုိးရက ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ဆက္လုပ္လွ်င္ တုိက္ပြဲ ဆက္ဝင္မည္ဟု ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္က ဦးသုေဝ၊ ေဒါက္တာခင္ေဇာ္ဝင္းတို႔ ေရွ႕ေမွာက္မွာပင္ ေျပာခဲ့သည္။

မဝင္ေရးဘက္မွ သံုးသပ္ရမည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ေလွ်ာ့ရန္လည္း မရွိသလို၊ အေခ်ာ့လည္း မခံဟူေသာ ခံယူခ်က္ကို ထင္ဟပ္ျပသည္။ ဝင္ေရး 'အထ' အဖြဲ႔ႏွင့္ မတူဘဲ အထက္ပိုင္း ေပၚလစီျဖစ္ေသာ ၂၀၀၈ အေျခခံဥပေဒပိုင္းမွ စတင္ ကိုင္တြယ္ ျပင္ဆင္လိုျပီး က်န္ကိစၥက ဒုတိယ အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္သည္။ အထက္မွ ေအာက္သို႔ တဆင့္ခ်င္း သြားရန္ စဥ္းစားသည့္ စနစ္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ကမာၻ႔မိသားစု အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ားကုိ ဆြယ္တရားေဟာမည္ျဖစ္သည္။ အထိုင္အေနႏွင့္ 'ယိုင္' ဖို႔ မရွိဟု သံုးသပ္ရသည္။

အဓိကအားျဖင့္ ႏွစ္ဘက္စလံုး၏ ဦးတည္ရာ လမ္းေၾကာင္းတုိ႔မွာ ရသေလာက္ စၿပီး ေပၚလစီကို တက္ျပင္ေရး၊ ေပၚလစီ အေပၚပိုင္း ျပင္ျပီးမွ အေသးစိတ္ ဆက္သြားေရး ဟူ၍ ေျပာင္းျပန္ ျဖစ္ေနၾကသည္။ အတြင္းက 'ေဘာင္'ကို ကန္႔သတ္ခ်က္ အေနႏွင့္ လက္ခံျပီး ကစားသည္၊ အျပင္က 'ေဘာင္'ကို ဖ်က္သိမ္းပစ္ေရး အရင္ ေတာင္းဆိုသည္။ တနည္းအားျဖင့္ ဝင္ေရး အပိုင္းက အေပ်ာ့ထည္ သံုးျပီး မဝင္ေရးက အမာထည္ကို ကိုင္စြဲသည္။

တဖက္တြင္ စစ္အစုိးရက ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးေရးကို မသိက်ိဳးကြ်ံ ျပဳလ်က္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အပါအဝင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ ထိန္းသိမ္းထားျခင္းျဖင့္ ျပည္တြင္း အတိုက္အခံ အင္အားစုကို ခ်ည့္နဲ႔ေအာင္ လုပ္ထားဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။ ခါးပိုက္ေဆာင္ျဖစ္ေသာ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾကံ့ခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရး အသင္း ေျခလွမ္း သြက္လာျခင္း၊ စစ္ဝတ္စံု ခြ်တ္ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း၊ ပုဂၢလိကပိုင္ ေခါင္းစဥ္ေအာက္မွ စီးပြားေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို လႊဲေျပာင္းယူလာျခင္း စသည့္ မူမမွန္ေသာ ေျခလွမ္းမ်ားကို ေတြ႔ေနရသည္။

အာဏာပုိင္တုိ႔က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ လံုေလာက္သည့္ ျပင္ဆင္ခြင့္ မေပးေသးျခင္း၊ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမႈ မရွိျခင္းတို႔မွာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို လက္ခံလိုသူ၊ ဝင္လိုသူမ်ားအတြက္ပင္ ထိခိုက္ေစေသာ အခ်က္မ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းအခ်က္သည္ပင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ဆန္႔က်င္သူမ်ား အဖို႔ ခိုင္မာေသာ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္လည္း ျဖစ္လာေစသည္။ ဝင္ခ်င္သူမ်ားအဖို႔ ေသခ်င္သည့္က်ား ေတာေျပာင္း ျဖစ္မည္ေလာ၊ အစဥ္တစိုက္ ဆန္႔က်င္သူမ်ားအဖို႔ေရာ မည္မွ် အထိုင္ ေညာင္းဦးမည္လဲ ဆိုသည္မွာ မၾကာမီ ထြက္ရွိလာမည္ဟုေမွ်ာ္လင့္ရေသာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒအျပင္ ေရွ႕တလွမ္းတိုးသြားမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ရလဒ္အေပၚ မူတည္ေပသည္။ ။

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ITUC Burma Conference 2010 in Tokyo held on 11-12 Feb.

(Tentative)

Statement by the International Trade Union Confederation Conference “Building
Solidarity with Burmese workers, Tokyo”,11-12 February 2010


The 5th international trade union conference on Burma hosted in Tokyo by the
JTUC-RENGO was held in order to prepare for the ITUC’s upcoming Congress in
Vancouver in June 2010, where the future strategy of the international trade union
movement with regards to Burma will be decided.
The Conference was a working session on all the strategic options available to the
international trade union movement ahead of the announced elections in Burma in
2010. The possibility that certain governments may shift their policy towards Burma in
the wake of the elections and the international trade union movement’s policy response
were discussed. In the absence of constitutional change and dialogue, the Conference
affirmed that the elections could not be considered legitimate, It expressed its firm
opposition to the 2008 constitution adopted by the regime, and called for meaningful
dialogue before elections are held.
The Conference reaffirmed the conclusions and the solidarity expressed in 2007 during
the 4th Burma Conference held in Kathmandu and called for a strengthening of the
commitment undertaken in 2007 for the restoration of democracy and to combat the use
of forced labour in Burma. The Conference welcomed the efforts undertaken by
affiliates in the region and globally to raise awareness with their governments about
workers’ rights and democratization in Burma.
Forced labour is still prevalent in Burma despite the ILO Commission of Inquiry in
1998 and people reporting cases of forced labour continue to be persecuted. Even after
the conclusion of the Supplementary Understanding in 2007, giving immunity to
victims and complainants, people have been arrested and too many remain in prison.
The Conference expressed outrage at the continued reprisals against complainants and
against the fact that the present number of detainees were as high as 23.
The Conference welcomed the holding of the first congress of the FTUB in March 2009
and the subsequent affiliation of the Burmese trade union to the ITUC and the
ITUC-AP in 2009. The Conference expressed the urgent need to address more
aggressively the situation with regards to freedom of association in Burma. The
Conference stressed that while it was important to maintain the pressure on the issue
of forced labour it should be considered, how the issue of freedom of association could be
given greater attention, especially within the framework of the ILO. It therefore
proposed tabling a complaint leading to the establishment of an ILO Commission of
Inquiry on freedom of association in Burma.
The discussion happened against the backdrop of an increasing number of strikes in
Burma by discontented workers and growing divisions within the military. In the course
of the Conference, the FTUB received information about a strike by 12000 workers
inside Burma.
The overall strategy within the ILO was discussed in depth, both with regards to forced
labour and freedom of association. The Conference reaffirmed its strong support for the
decisions of the ILO Governing Body and the Conclusions of the 2006 ILC Selection
Committee to pursue a referral to the International Court of Justice.
The strategy with regards to investment in Burma was the subject of serious
discussions. The Conference reaffirmed the commitment towards divestment and to
maintain pressure on all companies operating in Burma as their operations directly or
indirectly serve to prop the illegitimate regime. It was proposed that the different
database and information sources on pension funds and companies investing and/or
operating in Burma be better coordinated to bring more aggressively targeted pressure
to bear.
The Conference concluded that there was a need to aggressively follow-up on the call by
the ILO to Governments, Workers and Employers to take all “appropriate measures to
ensure that the said member cannot take advantage of such relations to perpetuate or
extend the system of forced or compulsory labour referred to by the Commission of
Inquiry… and report back in due course and at appropriate intervals to the Governing
Body” within the framework of its Resolution adopted in 2000.
The Conference reiterated the resolve of the international trade union movement to
support the struggles of our Sisters and Brothers in Burma and their capacity through
the FTUB to carry out their just fight for democracy and workers’ rights. The
Conference agreed a plan of action to strengthen the capacity of the FTUB by providing
support for a reinforcement of its structures. It finally committed to mobilizing support
amongst ITUC affiliates for the funding of an expansion of FTUB’s activities and
training programs.

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FTUB and FTUK Joint Press Release on Forced Labour in Burmese Version

FTUB and FTUK Joint Press Release on Forced Labour in Burmese Version

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