Burma News International - November 19, 2012

Burma News International Burma News International October 19, 2012 Nobel laureates call for end to Rakhine violence Five female Nobel Peace Prize laureates have released an open letter to US President Barack Obama and President Thein Sein of Burma urging them to make a firm commitment to end the sectarian violence in Rakhine State.” Ceasefire brings changes for ethnic villagers, both good and bad An independent human rights organisation has reported that the ceasefire between the government and the Karen national union has brought respite for villagers caught in the 60-year conflict. Obama pledges commitment to Burma’s reforms If Burma continues with its commitment to democratic reforms and ending ethnic conflict, the United States will offer its ongoing support in assisting to rebuild its crippled economy, US President Barack Obama said on Monday afternoon. US Ready To Help Find A Solution To Rohingya Crisis The US is ready to assist Bangladesh to find a lasting solution for Rohingya refugees in their country, according to María Otero, US Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs. Otero who oversees and co-ordinates US foreign policy on issues such as democracy and human rights, was in Bangladesh on Nov.15. “Freedom to Walk” anti-trafficking fundraiser ends in Three Pagodas Pass More than 70 participants joined the final day of a 370-kilometer walk from Bangkok to the Burma border in Three Pagodas Pass on Saturday to support efforts to end human trafficking across the globe. ASEAN leaders sign controversial human rights charter The heads of the 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Sunday night signed a human rights pact despite widespread criticism that the declaration falls short of international standards and offers governments a variety of loopholes. Many Rohingyas Detained In Nasaka Camps Nasaka has exploiting the communal violence in June and October in Arakan State to extort money from Muslim communities. Many Rohingyas have been arrested by Burma’s border security force on trumped up charges but are unable to pay the expensive bribes for their release, according to locals. 45 political prisoners released across Burma The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners- Burma (AAPP) has confirmed that 45 political dissidents were released from prisons across Burma on Monday as part of a presidential amnesty. Italian NGO to work only in KNU controlled areas in Karen State The spokesperson of an Italian non-government organization, Popolis, which has been working in Karen State since 2001, said it would only operate in areas under the control of the Karen National Union. In a statement to Karen News, Popili’s spokesperson (who requested that their name not be used) said. Burma Army torture leaves one man dead in Pa’an Despite a ceasefire agreement between Burma’s military backed government and the Karen National Union (KNU) in January of this year, community based human rights organisation, Karen Human Rights Group continues to document attacks on civilians. ASEAN cannot support Rohingyas’ citizenship claims: Surin The role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in the affairs of the Rohingya minority in Burma must be one of humanitarian engagement and consistency, said Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, the General Secretary of ASEAN, in response to a question at the ASEAN Summit Editors' Roundtable on Friday in Phnom Penh. Thein Sein returns to Burma to meet US President Burma’s President Thein Sein flew on Sunday evening from Phnom Penh to Rangoon where he will host visiting US President Barack Obama on Monday. Thein Sein will then return to the Cambodian capital to resume participation at the current ASEAN summit. President Blames Nationalist And Religious Extremists For October Violence Burmese President Thein Sein blamed extremisms for the violence that erupted between Muslims and Buddhists in Rakhine State in October. The president made the comments to Buddhist and Muslim religious leaders during a recent meeting in Rangoon. သမၼတ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ တြင္ ေရွ႕ေန ေစာေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္မင္း ပါ၀င္ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္အရ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသႀကီး အင္းစိန္အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ တရားရံုးေတာ္တြင္ မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳမႈျဖင့္ ဖမ္းဆီးထိန္းသိမ္း ခံထားရေသာ ေရွ႕ေနေစာေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္မင္း ယေန႔နံနက္ ၇ နာရီက လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၿပီျဖစ္သည္။ CNF လူထုေတြ႕ဆံုပဲြ အႀကိဳမိတ္ဆက္ျခင္း ျပဳလုပ္ လက္ရွိ အစုိးရႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အေပၚ လူထု ေတြ႕ဆုံပြဲ အႀကိဳမိတ္ဆက္ျခင္းကုိ ခ်င္းအမ်ဳိးသားတပ္ဦး CNF မတူပီၿမိဳ႕ ဆက္ဆံေရးရုံး က ဦးေဆာင္၍ Rev Tha Dun ဘုရားေက်ာင္းတြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ႀကိဳးမိန္႔က် ABSDF ရဲေဘာ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာ ျမန္မာ-အိႏၵိယ နယ္စပ္ တမူး-နန္႔ဖာလံုေစ်းတြင္ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေနသည္ဟု စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ျဖင့္ မႏၲေလး-အိုးဘို ေထာင္အတြင္း ႀကိဳးမိန္႔ေပး ခံထားရသည့္ ABSDF (အေနာက္ဖက္ေဒသ) မွ မိုးေရး႐ုံးတာဝန္ခံ ကိုေမာင္ေမာင္ဦး ႏိုဝင္ဘာလ ၁၈ ရက္ေန႔က သမၼတ၏ လြတ္ၿငိမ္း သက္သာခြင့္ျဖင့္ ျပန္လည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၿပီဟု ညီမျဖစ္သူ က အတည္ျပဳ ေျပာၾကားသည္။   “သင္မပါဝင္ဘဲ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးမရနိုင္” ရွင္းလင္းပြဲျပဳလုပ္ “သင္မပါဝင္ဘဲ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးမရနိုင္” ဟူေသာ ေဆာင္ပုဒ္ႏွင့္အတူ Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma မွ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား အလုပ္သင္အဖြဲ႕က ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံ၊ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕၌ ႏွစ္ေနရာခြဲ၍ ျမန္မာေရြ႕ေျပာင္း အလုပ္သမားမ်ားအား သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ မွတ္ခ်က္ အေပၚ ဘဂၤလာေဒခ်္႕ အစိုးရ တုန္႕ျပန္ ျမန္မာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္က မြတ္ဆလင္ေတြဟာ ဘဂၤလာေဒခ်္႕ ႏိုင္ငံက တရားမ၀င္ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ ၀င္ေရာက္ေနထိုင္သူေတြ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ မွတ္ခ်က္ေပး ေျပာဆုိမႈသည္ အစုိးရ၏ ရပ္တည္မႈႏွင့္ ကဲြလဲြေနေၾကာင္း ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ခ်္က တုန္႔ျပန္ ေျပာဆုိလုိက္သည္။ ဖားကန္႔ ေဒသ၌ တိုက္ပြဲျပင္းထန္ေန ကခ်င္ ျပည္နယ္ဖါးကန္႔ ေဒသလံုးခင္း ေက်းရြာႏွင့္ မိုးေကာင္းၿမိဳ႕အၾကား ကားလမ္းတေလွ်ာက္ ေနရာ (၃) ခု ထက္မနည္း တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ျပင္းထန္ ေနသည္ဟု ေဒသတြင္းရွိ KIA အရာရွိ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။ လက္နက္ႀကီး ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ဖားကန္႔ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္လုိက္ရ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဖားကန္႔ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚရွိ အစုိးရ၏ ဗ်ဴဟာကုန္းမွ ကခ်င္ျပည္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ KIA တပ္ ရွိရာသို႔ လက္နက္ႀကီးျဖင့္ ၁ဝ ႀကိမ္ ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ဖားကန္႔ အထက ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ထိတ္လန္႔မႈ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ၿပီး ယေန႔ညေနက ေက်ာင္းပိတ္လုိက္ရသည္ဟု ေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။ လူကုန္ကူးတားဆီးေရး စုေပါင္းလမ္းေလၽွာက္ပြဲၿပီးဆုံး လူကုန္ကူးမွုတားဆီးေရးလွုပ္ရွားမွုတရပ္အေနျဖင့္ ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံ၊ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕မွ ဘုရားသုံးဆူနယ္စပ္အထိ Freedom to Walk အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ၇၀ ခန႔္က ၁၅ ရက္ၾကာ စုေပါင္း လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ပဲြကုိ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ရာ နိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႔လည္ပိုင္းက ခရီးစဥ္ၿပီးဆုံးခဲ့သည္။ ‘အာဆီယံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေၾကညာစာတမ္း’ ထုတ္ျပန္ ကေမၻာဒီးယားႏုိင္ငံ၊ ဖႏြမ္ပင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ က်င္းပေသာ ၂၁ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီး အစည္းေဝးမွ အပိုဒ္ေပါင္း ၄ဝ ပါရွိေသာ‘အာဆီယံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေၾကညာစာတမ္း’ ကို ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၈ ရက္ေန႔ ရက္စြဲျဖင့္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကညာ လုိက္သည္။ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္ျဖင့္ ႏုိင္/က်ဥ္း ၄၅ ဦး ထပ္လြတ္လာ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္၏ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္တြင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ၄၅ ဦး ပါဝင္လာေၾကာင္း ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္း သားမ်ား ကူညီ ေစာင့္ေရွာင္ေရး အသင္း(ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ) AAPP က တနလၤာေန႔ ညေန ၃ နာရီအထိ စုေဆာင္း ရရွိေသာ စာရင္းအရ သိရသည္။ ပုဒ္မ ၁၄၄ ထုတ္ထားေသာ္လည္း ေက်ာက္ေတာ္တြင္ ဆိုင္တခ်ိဳ႕ ေဖါက္ထြင္းခံရ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ပုဒ္မ ၁၄၄ အရ ညမထြက္ရ အမိ္န္႕ထုတ္ျပန္ထားေသာ္လည္း ေစ်းဆိုင္မ်ား ေဖါက္ထြင္းခံေနရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ဘဂၤလားပင္လယ္ေအာ္ အတြင္း မုန္တိုင္းငယ္ တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ေပၚေန ေက်ာက္ျဖဴၿမိဳ႕မွ အေနာက္ေတာင္ဘက္ မိုင္ ၃၈၀ ခန္႕အကြာ၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း ပုသိမ္ၿမိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အေနာက္ဘက္ မိုင္ ၃၉၀ အကြာ ဘဂၤလား ပင္လယ္ေအာ္ အတြင္းမွာ မုန္တိုင္္းငယ္ တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတယ္လို႕ သိရပါတယ္။ ခုိလႈံရာမဲ့သူေတြရဲ႕ ဘ၀ စစ္အစိုးရရဲ့ အာဏာရွင္ စံနစ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈေအာက္မွာဖိႏွိပ္ ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ယ္မႈ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးခံခဲ့ရသလုိ ေန႔စဥ္နဲ႔အမွ် စား၀တ္ေန ေရးအခက္အခဲေတြ ေျပလည္ေအာင္ ရုန္းထြက္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ နယ္စပ္ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ၿပီး ေနထုိင္ေနၾကရတဲ့ ခ်င္းလူမ်ဳိးေတြ သြားေရာက္ခိုလံုေနတဲ့ အိႏိၵယ-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ မီဇိုရမ္ဘက္ ကမ္းက ဆိုင္းခုမ္ဖိုင္း ဆုိတဲ့ေက်းရြာတရြာ ၿဖိဳဖ်က္ခံလိုက္ရျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဆစ္ဒနီေရာက္ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ားက မိဘမဲ့ကေလးမ်ား ရံပံုေငြ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပဲြလုပ္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရွိ မိဘမဲ့ကေလးမ်ားအတြက္ ရန္ပံုေငြရရွိရန္ ရည္ရြယ္၍ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား၏ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖ တင္ဆက္မႈတရပ္ကို ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံ ဆစ္ဒနီ ျမန္မာ့လူမႈအဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွ ႀကီးမွဴး က်င္းပခဲ့သည္။ Forward to a friend  Burma News International is an unique network of eleven independent media organizations: Mizzima News, Shan Herald Agency for News, Phop Htaw News Agency, Khonumthung News Group, Narinjara News, Kaladan Press Network, Independent Mon News Agency, Network Media Group, Kantarawaddy Times, Karen Information Center and Kachin News Group. 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