kabarmakyay: June 2008

6/19/2008

ကိုယ္တိုင္လဲတာ၀န္ပ်က္ ကူညီသူကိုလဲေႏွာက္ရွက္

နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းဒဏ္သင့္ေဒသအတြင္း ေနရာအႏွံအျပား၌ လူႏွင္ကြ်ဲႏြားတိရိစာၦန္တို ့၏အေလာင္မ်ားမွာ ရွင္းလင္းသိမ္းဆီးႏိုင္ျခင္းမရွိေသးဘဲအခ်ိဳ ့အေလာင္းမ်ားမွာပင္လယ္ျပင္၌ စုန္ဆန္ေမ်ာပါေနၿပီး ေရလိႈင္းသင့္ရာကမ္းေသာင္မ်ားတြင္တင္က်န္ျခင္း ပုတ္ပြေဆြးေျမ့အပိုင္းပိုင္း ေၾကကာေပ်က္ပ်က္ သြားျခင္းမ်ားေၾကာင့္အနံ ့အသက္ဆိုး၀ါးမႈႏွင့္ ေရာဂါပိုးမြားတို ့၏ျခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈရွိေနသည္။

ထိုသို ့ဆိုး၀ါးေနသည့္အေျခအေနကို အစိုးရႀကီးၾကပ္သည့္တာ၀န္ရွိအဖြဲ ့အစီး တခုကမွ် ႏိုင္နင္းစြာစနစ္ တက်
အစီအစဥ္ခ်မွတ္၍ လုပ္ေဆာင္ျခင္းမရွိေပ။ နီးစပ္ရာ ေက်းရြာမ်ားက ေစတနာ့၀န္ထမ္းအစုမ်ား ကအေလာင္းမ်ားရွင္းလင္း သၿဂၤ ိုလ္ျခင္း ေျမျမဳပ္ျခင္း ျပဳေနၾက ရသည္။့

မီးရႈိ ့သၿဂၤ ိုလ္ျခင္းျပဳရန္ ေလာင္စာ အခက္အခဲ၊ေျမျမဳပ္ရန္ ေနရာအခက္ အခဲမ်ား လည္းႀကံဳေတြ ့ရမႈရွိသည္။
ထိုအေျခအေနတြင္ အခ်ိဳ ့ေစတနာ့၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားစုစည္းထည့္၀င္၍ေျမေနရာ၀ယ္ကာေျမျမဳပ္ျခင္း
ျပဳရသည္။သို ့ေသာ္ၿပီးခဲ့ေသာစေနေန ့၁၄၊၀၆၊၀၈ က ေျမျမဳပ္သၿဂီဳလ္ေနသည့္သူအခ်ိဳ ့ေပ်ာက္သြားျပီး

၁၇၊၀၆၊၀၈တြင္မွ ၄င္းတို ့ကို အာဏာပိုင္တို ့ကဖမ္းဆီးသြားျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းျပန္လြတ္လာသူအခ်ိဳ ့ထံမွ သိရသည္။

မည္မွ်ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသည္၊မည္သူေတြဖမ္းဆီးခံရသည္၊မည္သည့္အတြက္ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသည္၊ မည္မွ်ျပန္လြတ္လာ၍မည္မွ်အဖမ္းခံရဆဲျဖစ္သည္။မည္သည့္ ေနရာတြင္ဖမ္းဆီးထားသည္ ဆိုသည့္အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားမည္သူမွ်အတိအက်မသိၾကပါ။
မစၹိမသတင္းဌာန၏ ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔၊ ဇြန္လ 18 2008 15:58 - နန္းေဒဝီ ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာသတင္းအရ “ျမန္မာထရီဗ်ဳး” ဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာခ်ဳပ္(အမႈေဆာင္ အရာရွိခ်ဳပ္လည္းျဖစ္သူ) ဦးေအာင္ေက်ာ္ဆန္း
(၄၅ ႏွစ္) အပါအဝင္ ဧရာဝတီတုိင္း ဘိုကေလးၿမ့ဳိနယ္ အတြင္းရွိ လူေသ ႐ုပ္အေလာင္းမ်ားကို
လိုက္လံ သိမ္းဆည္းကာ ေျမျမႇဳပ္ေပးေနသူ ၆ ဦးထက္မနည္းကို ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ စေနေန႔က ဖမ္းဆီး ထိန္းသိမ္းလိုက္ဟုသိရသည္။
အဆိုပါမစၹိမသတင္းဌာနမွနန္းေဒ၀ီ၏ သတင္းတြင္-

“ကိုေအာင္ေက်ာ္ဆန္းကို အခုထိ မလႊတ္ေသးဘူး။ ဘိုကေလးမွာ ဖမ္းတာလို႔ ေျပာတယ္။
ရန္ကုန္ ပို႔လိုက္ၿပီလို႔ေတာ့ ၾကားတယ္။ အခု ဘယ္မွာ ဆိုတာလဲ သူ႔ဇနီးသည္က မသိေတာ့ စိတ္ပူေနတယ္။
လုိက္ၿပီး ေမးေနတာပဲ။ ဘယ္မွာလဲဆိုတာ မသိရေသးဘူး” ဟု အမည္မေဖာ္လိုသူ မိသားစုႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

သူက “ဘိုကေလးကို သြားလိုက္ျပန္လိုက္ပါပဲ။ စုစုေပါင္းေတာ့ ၃ ေခါက္ေလာက္ ရွိသြားၿပီ။
အခု ေနာက္ဆံုး အေခါက္မွာ အဖမ္းခံလုိက္ရတာ။ သူနဲ႔ အတူတူ အလုပ္လုပ္တဲ့ သူေတြကိုေတာ့
မေန႔ကပဲ စစ္ေဆး ေမးျမန္းတာေတြ လုပ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ျပန္လႊတ္လိုက္တယ္လို႔ ၾကားတယ္” ဟု ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

ဖမ္းဆီးမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေသးစိတ္ မသိရေသးေသာ္လည္း ေလေဘး ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို ဝိုင္းဝန္းကူညီေနသူ
ေစတနာရွင္မ်ားအား အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားဘက္က ေမးျမန္းစစ္ေဆးျခင္း၊ လိုက္လံတားဆီး ေႏွာင့္ယွက္ျခင္းမ်ား အျပင္ ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းအထိ လုပ္ေဆာင္လာသည့္အေပၚ စာေပအႏုပညာရွင္ အသိုင္းအဝုိင္းက ေဝဖန္ ေျပာဆိုၾကသည္။

အပတ္စဥ္ထုတ္ ဂ်ာနယ္ အယ္ဒီတာတဦးက “သူတို႔ (အစုိးရ) ကိုယ္တိုင္က မလုပ္ႏုိင္တဲ့ ကိစၥေတြကို လူထုဘက္က ေစတနာရွင္တခ်ဳိ့က တဖက္တလမ္းကေန ကူညီပံ့ပိုးေပးတာ ေကာင္းတဲ့အခ်က္ပါ။
ဒါကို လိုက္ၿပီး ေႏွာင့္ယွက္တာမ်ဳိး၊ တားဆီး ပိတ္ပင္တာမ်ဳိးလုပ္တာ ဒုကၡ ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ေလေဘး ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ပိုၿပီး ဒုကၡ ေရာက္ေစပါတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
-ဟုေဖၚျပပါရွိသည္။

ဂြ်န္လ ၁၇ရက္ေန ့ထပ္မံရရွိေသာသတင္းအရအဖမ္းခံရသူ ၇ ေယာက္တြင္ အေလာင္းေကာက္သၿဂႋဳဟ္သည့္ အဖြဲ႔ကိုဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ျမန္မာ

ထရီႁဗြန္းဂ်ာနယ္ ထုတ္ေ၀သူ ဦးေအာင္ေက်ာ္ဆန္းႏွင့္ ေဒါက္တာ ေန၀င္းတို႔ အပါအ၀င္ ဗကသ အဖြဲ႔မွ ကိုလင္းထက္ႏိုင္၊ မႏွင္းပြင့္ေ၀၊ ကိုဟိန္းရာဇာထြန္း တို႔ပါ၀င္ၿပီး အျခားသူမ်ား၏အမည္မ်ား မသိရေသးေပ။ ေဒါက္တာ ေန၀င္းသည္ မႏွင္းပြင့္ေ၀၏ ဖခင္ျဖစ္သည္။

ယခုလအတြင္း စစ္အစိုးရက ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ လူ႐ႊင္ေတာ္ ဇာဂနာ၊ အားကစားအယ္ဒီတာ ေဇာ္သက္ေထြး၊ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ ဗကသ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားအပါအ၀င္ မုန္တိုင္းကယ္ဆယ္ေရးလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသူ ၂၀ ခန္႔ကို အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ တစံုတရာမေပးဘဲ ဖမ္းဆီးထားသည္။

6/16/2008

ျမစ္၀ကြ်န္းေပၚေဒသျပန္လည္ဖြင့္လစ္မည္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားအတြက္ သင္ပံုးႀကီးဖတ္စာသစ္

မူရင္းစာသား
http://a-paw-sar-myar.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post.html

ေမတၱာေက်းဇူး ဆပ္ဖူးေလေအာင္

ဘေလာ့မ်ားကိုအလည္သြားရင္း ဖခင္မ်ားေန ့ကိုအမွတ္ျပဳမိပါတယ္္။
အဲဒီထဲကတဆင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကိုလြမ္းသူ: ဘေလာ့ဂ္ က(မ)ေမရဲ ့ (မားမားရဲ့တစ္လျပည့္ရက္ေလး)နဲ ့
ပန္းခေရရဲ ့FATHER ဆိုတဲ့ပို ့စ္၂ခုက ျပန္လာတဲ့အထိပါလာပါတယ္။
၂ခုလံုးကေတာ့အမိအဖကိုလြမ္းတျခင္းပါ။

(မ)ေမရဲ ့အားတင္းလ်က္လြမ္းတမႈကို ႏိုင္သေလာက္ အားေပးစကားေလးနဲ ့။
ခိုကိုးရာေပ်ာက္လို ့ခုတိုင္ယိမ္း ယိုင္ေနဆဲပါဆိုတဲ့ ပန္းခေရမကိုေတာ့ (သားအဖလိုအျပန္အလွန္ခင္မင္ရင္းစြဲကလဲရွိၾကသူမ်ားမို ့) comment ရွည္ေလးတခုလဲပြတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

က်ေနာ့ရဲ ့ဆိုလိုရင္းကေတာ့ ဆပ္မကုန္ေအာင္ႀကီးမားလွတဲ့ေမတၱာတရားကို အခါမလပ္နားလည္သိရွိ
သတိရေနျခင္းဟာလဲ ေက်းဇူးဆပ္ျခင္းျမည္ပါတယ္။မိဘမ်ားသက္ရွိထင္ရွားရွိခိုက္မွာ ကိုယ္စြမ္းရွိသမွ်
ေၾကြးေမြးျပဳစုၾကပါ အႏြံအတာခံပါ သီးခံပါ မိဘမ်ားသက္ရွိထင္ရွားရွိေနျခင္းရဲ ့ျပည့္စံုမႈထက္ ပိုတဲ့ျပည့္
စံုျခင္းဆိုတာ ေလာကမွာမရွိပါ။

မိဘႏွစ္ပါးက သားသၼီးဆယ္ေယာက္ကိုလူလားေျမာက္ေအာင္ေၾကြးေမြးေစာင့္ေရွာက္ခဲ့ေပမဲ့ သားသၼီးဆယ္ေယာက္ကမိဘႏွစ္ပါးကိုျပန္ၾကည့္ႏိုင္ခဲတယ္လို ့ေရွးစကားရွိပါတယ္။
ရႊတ္ေနာက္ေနာက္ေျပာတတ္တဲ့က်ေနာ္က သားသၼီးေတြကိုမိဘကပ်ိဳးေထာင္တံုးက ဂ်ီက်ယင္ ေက်ာျပင္ကို
ေဗ်ာတင္ႏိုင္ခြင့္ရွိတာကိုး သားတို ့အလည့္က်ေတာ့အသက္ႀကီးလာလို ့ဂြက်တဲ ့မိဘကို ေဗ်ာျပင္ဖို ့ ေနေန
သာသာလို ့အရႊန္းေဖါက္ဖူးပါတယ္။ေစာ္ကားစိတ္နဲ ့ေျပာျခင္းမဟုတ္ပါ။
သဘာ၀ကိုရည္ရႊန္းမႈနဲ ့ေထာက္ျပတာပါ။
ျဖတ္သန္းလာရတဲ့ေလာကဓံရဲ ့ရိုက္ပုတ္မူေတြေၾကာင့္သက္ႀကီးရြယ္ရင့္လာတဲ့အခါရွိတတ္တဲ့ သေဘာ
သဘာ၀ကိုနားလည္ေပးၾကပါ။
မိဘေက်းဇူးကိုက်ေနာ္သိျမင္ဆင္ျခင္တတ္လာတဲ့အခ်ိန္ကစျပီး မိဘႏွင့္ အတိုက္အဆိုင္ျဖစ္တိုင္း
အေၾကာင္းအရာကိုမထည့္တြက္ေတာ့ဘူး။အေၾကာင္းအရာအရက်ေနာ္မွန္ေကာင္းမွန္မယ္ မူအရ
ေမတို ့ေဖတို ့ မွန္တယ္ (ေယာကၡမမ်ားအပါအ၀င္) ။
က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့အေမနဲ ့ဘဲအတိုက္အဆိုင္ေျပာရတာပါ အေဖကတခါတေလ တေန ့လံုးေနလို ့စကား တခြန္းမွေျပာမသြားတာ။
ေျပာၿပီဆိုရင္လဲ အခ်က္အလက္နဲ ့အေၾကာင္းအက်ိဳးနဲ ့ တခါတေလ လတ္တေလာ ကိစၥနဲ ့ႏြယ္ျပီး
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့၃-၄ ႏွစ္က ကိုယ္ေပါက္ကရလုပ္ထားတာ ကိုယ္ေတာင္ မွတ္မိေတာ့ဘူး ဟဲဟဲ အသာေလးသာၿငိမ္ေနယံု။ အခုက်ေနာ့မိဘမ်ားမရွိၾကေတာ့ပါ မိဘတို ့၏ေက်းဇူးကို ဦးထိပ္ထား၍
ဘ၀ေပးအေျခအေနအရ ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္ရသည့္ မိဘသဖြယ္ပုဂၢဳလ္မ်ားကိုသာအလုပ္အေၾကြးျပဳရပါေတာ့သည္။

အခ်ဳပ္အားျဖင့္္က်ေနာ္တို ့သားသၼီးမ်ားရဲ ့တာ၀န္ကေတာ့မိဘေက်းဇူးကုိ နားလည္ၾကပါ။သက္ရွိထင္ရွားရွိစဥ္
မွာေရာမရွိေတာ့တဲ့အခါမွာပါ ေက်ဇူးေမတၱာတို ့ကိုတရံမလပ္သတိရၾကပါ။သက္ရွိထင္ရွားရွိစဥ္ ရွိခိုက္မွာ
ဂါရ၀တရားအျပည့္ထား၍က်ိဳးႏြံမႈႏွင့္ေမြးေၾကြးေစာင့္ေရွာက္ၾကပါ လို ့လိႈက္လွာစြာတိုက္တြန္းပါသည္။ သားေကာင္းသမီးမြန္မ်ားကိုလဲသာဓုေခၚပါသည္။

စိန္မမဂြက္ခေရ(အားးး..လက္ကြက္မွားသြားလို ့) ပန္းခေရအတြက္ရည္ညြန္းေရးခဲ့ေသာ comment ကို
အျခားေသာ ေဖခ်စ္သမီးမ်ားအတြက္ ထည့္ေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
ရႊင္လန္းခ်မ္းေျမ့ၾကပါေစ။

မာတာပီတုဥပဌာနံ......။
ပီတု..ဖခင္ဂုေနာ အနေႏၱာ၏ ဂုဏ္ေက်ဇူးသည္..
ကုန္ေပေလေစ ေဖေဖ ့ေငြနဲ ့
ေထြေထြတတ္ေကာင္းသင္တို ့ေက်ာင္း၀ယ္
တတ္ေအာင္သာကြယ္ အားမငယ္ႏွင့္
ခါးသီးလႈိင္းထန္ ေလာကဓံထဲ တိုး၀င္ႏြဲေရး
ေလးမွ်ားပမာ ျမတ္ပညာေပးတဲ့အျပင္
ေနေရး စား၀တ္ မယြင္းခြ်တ္တမ္း သူဆင္လြမ္းခဲ့.........။
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လမ္းကႏၱာေႏြအလွ်င္မွာ စမ္းတံတ်ာေရစင္ပမာ
ခ်မ္းျမၾကည္ေမာ တမ္းတရည္ေႏွာလို ့
မွန္းဆဦးတင္(လွ်င္္ ) ဖခင္ေက်းဇူး
အထူးဆပ္ရာ က်ပါေလ၏ “မယ္ခေရ”သိေလာ့။ ။
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သင္ျပဳသမွ် လူ ့ဘ၀၀ယ္
တင့္တယ္ေစရန္ စိတ္ရည္သန္၍
ကိုယ္က်င့္မွ်တ ထိမ္းသိမ္းကလွ်င္
ခ်စ္စြာဖခင္ေမတၱာရွင္သည္ ေရာက္ရာဘ၀ပီတိလွ၍
ေသာမန ႏွလံုးသူရြင္ၿပံဳးလိမ့္...။
အသိ သိကၡာ ညဏ္ပညာႏွင့္
ယွဥ္ကာမျပတ္ မာန္မာနကင္း
ေနတတ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ဖခင္ဂုေနာအနေႏၱာကို
ဆပ္ျခင္းအရာ ျမည္ပါေလ၏ “မယ္ခေရ”သိေလာ့။ ။
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ပညာလက္နက္ သိကၡာစြက္၍
အားမာန္အျပည့္ ႏွလံုးညွိက
အားငယ္စရာ ဖယ္ခြါေသြတိမ္း
ခ်မ္းေအးၿငိမ္းလိ္မ့္ ...။
ပီတု မာတာ စံုႏွစ္ဖ်ာ၏
ေမတၱာၿခံဳလႊမ္းသစၥာပန္းေၾကာင့္
မ်က္ႏွာပြင့္လန္း ေအးျမခ်မ္းအံ့
ပန္းအလွ“မယ္ခေရ”သိပါေလ။ ။

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အစက လက္တမ္းေရးရင္းလွ်ာညိသြားတာေၾကာင့္သံခ်ိဳမယ္ထင္တာေလးေဇာင္းေပးလို ့ျပန္ေရးလိုက္ပါတယ္။
အျမင္မေပ်ာ္အဆင္ေခ်ာ္တာေလးမ်ား Ignore All ေလး လုပ္ေပးပါခင္ဗ်ား။

6/12/2008

၀မ္းနဲေၾကကြဲျခင္း

ဒီကေန ့အားအားမရွိပါဘဲလ်က္(ကိုယ့္အတြက္တန္ဖိုးရွိေသာအခ်ိန္မ်ားကိုေပး၍ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ ေရးသူမ်ားကိုေလးစားစြာ) က်ေနာ္၏အခ်ိန္မ်ားကိုလုၿပီးလိုက္ဖတ္ေနစဥ္ SMNTL မစိုးျမတ္နႏၵာသက္လြင္http://moralvirtues.blogspot.com/ မွာ Blog has been removed Sorry, the blog at moralvirtues. blogspot.com has been removed. လို ့အမွတ္မထင္ေတြ ့လိုက္ရပါသည္။
မေတာ္တဆမဟုတ္ သူ ့သေဘာအေလ်ာက္လည္းမဟုတ္ဟု၀မ္းနဲစြာခံစားမိပါသည္။
မေျပးေသာ္ ကန္ရာရွိေပတာကိုး။
သနားဖြယ္ရာကိုယ္တိုင္၀န္ခံေၾကျငာထားေသာ“ကၽြႏု္ပ္တို ့သည္ အသက္ႏွင့္ လူလုပ္ၿခင္းမဟုတ္၊ အရွက္ႏွင့္လူလုပ္ၿခင္း ၿဖစ္သည္ဟု ေအာ္ခ်င္ေပေသာ္ၿငားလညး္ မ်က္ခြက္မ်ား မေဖၚၿပနိုင္သည့္အတြက္ ထြက္သက္ ၀င္သက္ႏွင့္ လူသားမ်ားသာ ၿဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း ”… လို ့ ့မိမိအျဖစ္ကိုမိမိသိပါလ်က္ႏွင့္ရပ္တည္ေရးအတြက္ေရးရရွာသူ မ်က္ႏွာမျပ၀ံ့ နာမည္မေဖာ္ရဲေသာ 1001burmese ဘေလာ့ေရးသူတို ့၏ထိုးႏွက္ေစာ္ကားမႈေၾကာင့္ဟုနားလည္လိုက္ပါသည္။
“သူတို ့သည္ေနပူပူေအာက္တြင္ရုပ္ေသးပြဲ ကျပရန္ ၾကိဳးစားေနသူမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္သည္ ။
သူတို ့၏ေျခရာမ်ား ေန၀င္လွ်င္ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္မည္ ”ဟုသူတို ့ကိုယ္သူတို ့ႏွစ္သိမ့္သည္။

လူသည္ကိုယ္သမိုင္းကိုယ္ထြင္း၍ ကိုယ့္ေျခရာ ကိုယ္ခ်န္သူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္ကိုမေမ့ေစလိုပါ။

က်ေနာ္သည္ ဘေလာ့ဂါအားလံုးကိုမိသားစုစိတ္ထားေပးပါသည္။ ဘယ္သူဘာလဲဘယ္လိုလဲမေျပာလိုပါ။ယခုအျဖစ္အပ်က္အတြက္မ်ားစြာေၾကကြဲ၀မ္းနည္းပါေၾကာင္း သာ မွတ္တမ္းျပဳပါရေစ။
အားလံုးကိုသံေယာဇဥ္ထား ေလးစားလ်က္....

6/01/2008

Aid workers still waiting to enter Myanmar's delta

- Myanmar needs more than food and shelter. It needs human expertise for everything from cleaning water to mental health counseling — and right now, those experts can't get to the hard-hit delta.

ADVERTISEMENT Dozens of aid workers from UNICEF, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and other groups are still stuck in Yangon, the nation's largest city, without the required travel permits to leave for the delta region.
These workers include Red Cross water quality engineers, for example, to train their local counterparts to run major drinking water treatment plants.

"The priority is drinking water," UNICEF spokeswoman Shantha Bloemen said Friday.
For the first several weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck May 2-3, few of the more than 2 million survivors received any help. Myanmar's government only has about 15 transport planes that cannot carry tons of food and up to 40 aging helicopters, many not working, experts say.
Foreign aid agencies are now trying to get in not just trucks and helicopters, but also workers with experience from dealing with disasters like the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 2005 Pakistani earthquake.
"It's not about extra pairs of hands; there are special skills that are required," said Richard Horsey, a spokesman for the U.N. humanitarian effort that is trying, like other groups, to reach the country's flooded Irrawaddy delta.
Relief officials say they are poised to:
• Set up dozens of drinking water treatment plants in the delta and operate hand pumps and other equipment to desalinate wells and fields contaminated by the saltwater tidal surge.
• Send in health and nutrition experts to track disease and to identify acute cases of malnutrition, particularly in children, and mental health counselors.
• Join local teams to conduct emergency assessments of just what help is most needed, including food, water, shelter and medicine, and how many schools and other public facilities are required. UNICEF said Friday that more than 4,000 schools serving 1 million children were either damaged or destroyed.
Some people in Myanmar are already trained to deal with similar problems but not on such a large scale, said John Sparrow, Red Cross spokesman for the Asia-Pacific region.
"The kind of expertise you need doesn't come overnight, and that's why we need the expatriates in there," he said. Those who have handled multiple disasters will be able to reach more people and work more efficiently and quickly, he said.

On Saturday, a U.N. official warned Myanmar against prematurely resettling cyclone refugees, saying those who leave relief camps may not receive the aid they need and will become even more vulnerable to disease and the elements.
Human rights groups have lambasted Myanmar's military rulers, accusing them of kicking homeless cyclone survivors out of shelters. The U.S. defense secretary said the junta's blockage of international help has cost "tens of thousands of lives."

But Myanmar's deputy defense minister, Maj. Gen. Aye Myint, said Sunday that his government responded promptly to the emergency by opening relief camps, providing food and water to cyclone victims, restoring electricity and clearing roads.
Relief operations are now over and the government is now concentrating on rehabilitation and rebuilding, he told a security conference in Singapore.
Few countries can deal with such a huge disaster, let alone one of the poorest nations in Asia. Senior Gen. Than Shwe and other top generals who run the country have spent most of the money on the military's 400,000 soldiers.
But some foreign aid workers with a history of working in Myanmar say the government's resistance to foreign assistance also has sparked an impressive grass roots effort to deliver aid.
"It's come from the Myanmar people themselves," said Curt Bradner, who with his wife, Cathy, has been working on a water treatment project called Thirst-Aid the past two years in Myanmar.
"They may not be responding as quickly as the international community would like to see happen," he said of Myanmar's people. "But in their own way, they're really doing an excellent job. This is a country that is 300 years behind the rest of the world, in many respects. Only 7 percent of the country has electricity. It's astounding."
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By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
On the Net:
U.N. humanitarian office: http://ochaonline.un.org/
Thirst-Aid: http://www.thirst-aid.org/

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Maung Thar Kyaw

The Statement, dated October 30^th, and with the Place mentioned as: Sane Lai Kan Thar, the name of the State Guest House: ‘from 13:00 to 13:55 Daw Aung San Su Kyi [ASSK] came to see Union Minister U Aung Kyi, as she was invited by the Government of the Republic of Myanmar’ was issued.

At the Meeting the discussion dwelled on the situation where ‘the State is providing necessary assistances [meaning Constitution Amendments, for example, I guess]; and, in order to have economic development views on the importance of freedom of trade, and free circulation of currencies were also discussed’. And also, ‘the progress of the State’s undertakings to obtain perpetual peace initiatives with ethnic armed groups and the people that should be included in the amnesty were discussed’. Meetings in the future shall convene is agreed.

Details of the entire Meeting were not disclosed, as usual. This is the fourth time such Meeting had taken place.

After the Third Meeting between the two factions the Statement mentioned that the President was considering Amnesty, to join hands in controlling the flow of the Irrawaddy River, to bring in into legal folds of the people who are undergoing armed rebellion; and peace and rule of law were discussed.

After meeting with Aung Kyi twice ASSK met the President Thein Sein in August in Naypyidor. Soon afterward, over 200 so-called political prisoners were released under Amnesty Order. So-called political prisoner because the Governing clique consistently mentioned there is no political prisoners in Myanmar though there are plenty. There is some truth in the government’s claim that there is no political prisoner because no one was arrested under political issues but rather on criminal charges - for example: currency law, or disturbing public tranquility, etc.

ASSK met with Aung Kyi nine times under the previous military government but there was no substantive result whatsoever came out.

The Government came into existence on January 31, 2011 under the caption of the Government of the Republic of Myanmar with its President elected by the Union Parliament, a former military officer General Thein Sein. Many opinionated this General is a Dove – a soft liner, and his Deputy President Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo [Shit Loane], another ex-General is a Hawk – a hard liner; all baloney; they all are one liner, i.e. for the prosperity and welfare of the Armed Forces, meaning the top and upper echelon of the Army, under the guise of democracy.

New Guise needs, of course, new format and that new format is what the new government is formatting or formatted by the military junta before the State Power was transferred and implementing it as planned. Whether former SG Than Shwe is pulling the string from behind or is he still involved in day to day affairs are all irrelevant, though his State managed private office near Oatparta Thati Pagoda in Naypyidor is hooked with Online TV honing in onto the proceedings of the Union Parliament. He knows or he is privy to know who is behaving or misbehaving in the Union Parliament but whether he is watching the TV is something yet to be known or playing his favorite games.

The Executive, Judiciary, and Legislature were formed and on March 30^th the State Power was transferred; the military junta SPDC was dissolved. The Ministry of Interior had given warnings to NLD Chairman Aung Shwe and Secretary ASSK in the last week of June to stop all its political activities as NLD is no political party according to the Party Registration Law of the Union Election Commission. The Ministry warning emphatically mentioned that NLD’s actions were intentionally motivated against the Law.

On top of that Union Election Commission had warned with a letter dated April 5^th to all 37 Registered Political Parties not to communicate with illegal political entities. Presumably, political circles as well as diplomatic community considered the warning was directed towards NDL.

Though the new government’s changing color is visible it is still noticeably unruly. The disregards of public opinions as well as international barrages remain as the hallmark of the Thein Sein’s Administration.

Disregarding its own Ministry’s Order Thein Sein allowed Minister Aung Kyi to parley with ASSK and even invited her to Naypyidor and received her exclusively where all political leaders from the Registered Political Parties are treated shabbily at the same occasion.

The Constitution was amended proposed by the Union Election Commission regarding the Membership where criminals cannot be party members or a political entity cannot register if its members are serving criminals. That phrase has now been erased for the sake of NLD. That amendment had made eased NLD to avoid the issue of abandoning its own jailed members when and if they apply for Party Registration.

The antagonistic political ogres of Burma are, on the visual body politics, in cordial relationship. One is, up to recent past, enjoyed full support of China and now trying its best to veer off to get into the western orbit. The other ogre has, from the very beginning to present, receives consistent and absolute no-matter-what support from the western camp. It has four Radio stations providing overwhelming support in high volume of propaganda just for one person, viz. Radio Free Asia and Voice of America [two US outfits], BBC [British outfit], and Democratic Voice of Burma [EU outfit] beaming into Burma where people are socket in with one line to support, day in and day out, every day. This ogre is the western group’s horse of Burma and Thein Sein Administration wants to ride along with that horse to the winning post. Is consistent propping up necessitate a leader to become an icon? Yes, it is, at least in Burma, it has been proven!

Within a couple of days NLD will decide whether to register and the outcome is quite predictable: ‘if ASSK is promised to contest in the upcoming By-election then NLD will allow to Register by ASSK regardless of party or public opinion’. Does it mean: ‘if she is not allowed to contest in the upcoming By-election’ then NLD will not be permitted to register by ASSK? Quite likely so, as all the past behaviors indicated that: ‘person is superior to policy’, and the ‘party is dispensable’.

So far, there is no knowledge that the outcome of the Aung Kyi-Su Kyi Meeting had agreed whether ASSK will be allowed to contest in the election. If that is the case the amendment of the constitution will be a major issue. At the end of the day, one faction will sure to swallow the other like python. No on

e knows, which one will come out as the python and which one is Mai Dwe Lay.

Maung Thar Kyaw

Taiwan, November 3, 2011.

Here she is, Thinzar Win, on the right.

Could you still think you are looking at Burmese girls who are posting for this photo in Rangoon? If you think the junta is to be blamed for all decadent aspects, then, your thinking may be inconclusive.

Shwedarling.com, a website for dating and mating prevails in today’s Burma. In 1988 no one could dream that Burma would be at this stage today but it has advanced so fast and so vast.

Infested with nouveau riche in the ngathalau’ economy decadences are abound; instead of tea break at usual hour at or around 4:00 PM now the nouveau riche have new past time at 3:30 PM or so – “Time to squeeze Pau’ Si” at Karaoke bars that are mushrooming through out Burma!

Junta’s policies may have pushed urbanites to that corner but it is just a plain excuse. Getting along by going along is a sin, by all means.

Here is another exhibit to think of!

Moe Hay Ko, another Model, good at Catwalk as well as other walks – bed walk [?] smooching somewhere in the quiet corner!

Salamani Kantchalar!

Burma was under absolute monarchy from 1044 AD until 1885 AD and was under different dynasties. The Monarchs yearned to possess White Elephant; i.e. to claim as the Owner of the White Elephant or Sin Phyu Shin, or, if they have more than one White Elephant, then, Sin Phyu Myarr Shin!

One White Elephant-crazy king even commanded to retrieve a dead elephant floated down the river that had resemblances of White Elephant and kept in his palace and claimed he was the Sin Phuy Shin.

White Elephant is considered to represent the power and glory of the Owner and the White Elephant would appear, according to the myth, only if the Ruler of the country has strong Power and Glory.

Burma has dictators since 1962: viz. Ne Win, Saw Maung, Than Shwe; and, all of them seem to believe that they were the royalty somehow or other. The last dynasty, Koane Baung, ended with His Majesty King Thibaw. The prophecy had it that there would be 13 Koane Baung kings to reign Burma. Thibaw was the 11th and two more kings are yet to reign. Ne Win presumed he was the 12th Koane Baung King! Saw Maung seemed to have believed that he was the reincarnation of King Kyan Sit Tharr of the Pagan Dynasty, and, Than Shwe believes he was the reincarnation of King Thar Lun.

During Thar Lun Than Shwe’s reign, a White Elephant was sited in the jungle of Rakhine State. With pomp and pageantry the White Elephant was brought to Rangoon, the then Nay Pyi Daw and kept in the highly decorated pavilion that befits only to the royalty with special elephant guards, etc., so on and so forth. All the necessary arrangements were carried out by MI and its Chief Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt who believes he was the reincarnation of Bayint Naung of Taungngoo Dynasty, though he never got to the top most spot of the junta’s ivory tower. The propaganda mill was fanning at high speed that the current rulers of Burma have highly auspicious power and glory so much so that the White Elephant was presented by the Nats [Resplendent being worthy of veneration].

Within a few months after the White Elephant had settled in at the newly built pavilion a Bangladeshi, or, to be more exact, a Chittagonian, or better known in Burma as Khortaw Kalar showed up at the Bangladeshi Embassy in Rangoon, claiming that the elephant at the Pavilion was his elephant that was herded away by the Burmese while grazing in the jungle and requested the Bangladeshi Ambassador to reclaim the elephant from the Burmese junta on his behalf. To cut the story short the Ambassador along with the Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and MI officers went to the Pavilion with the Khortaw Kalar and demanded to prove his claim.

There, Khortaw Kalar stepped out and bellowed: Salamani Kantchalar!

At the very instant the ‘Command’ was heard the White Elephant lifted up his trunk and trumpeted a very loud noise. The ‘Command’ was given for the second time and the White Elephant responded in the same manner again. Then, Khortaw Kalar commanded in more Khortaw words: the White Elephant was under complete spell of commands – sitting, kneeling, etc. Now, the claim was proven to be true and the negotiation was but started. MI ended up paying US $ 100,000.00 from the State coffer as demanded by the Khortaw Kalar for the White Elephant that was supposed to have been presented by the Nats due to the power and glory of the rulers of Burma.

Khortaw did not stop then and there. He added there are four more such elephants in his possession and they were up for sale if the price is right. MI arranged a delegation to accompany the Khortaw to his native village in the no-man’s land between Bangladesh and Burma to inspect the so called White Elephants. There, the delegation found two more White Elephants out of the four and agreed to pay US$ 200,000 a piece.

Burmese delegation could not just take the two elephants away they bought; they need the Khortaw to release the two in the Rakhine jungle for them to herd them back to Burma later as though it was naturally sited. Thus, the usurper royalties of Burma got three White Elephants at a price of US $ 500,000.

Some one got excited regarding the Salamani Kantchalar and traced back how it came into existence! In the anal of Burma there was a time when a Shan Prince by the name of Sao Han Pha, better known as Tho Han Bwa reigned Burma. He was a tyrant by all means; conceited and insolent, and very much anti-Buddhist religion. During his rein many Monks were tortured, killed and extradited to far away places and forced them from learning Buddhist scripture. Tho Han Bwa was the Daman daye [impediment endangering the teachings of Buddha] of his time. Under Tho Han Bwa, some aspects of Buddhist incantations had changed; for example: Buddhan Tharanan Gitsarmi, Dhaman Tharanan Gitsarmi but Sanghan Tharanan was turned into Gunsarmi, and Buddhan Puzaymi, Dhaman Puzaymi, and Sangan had turned into Pu-Jail-mi, just like recent events under Daman daye Thar Lun Than Shwe.

Many Burmese fled to far away places, including Burma-Bangladesh border to fight back Tho Han Bwa and/or other tyrants. There, they deployed Khortaws to attend their elephants. Khortaws were taught to learn ‘Commands’ in Burmese but it was very difficult for the Khortaws to learn the necessary commands for the elephants. By virtue of wits a Burmese gave a ‘battle command or a battle cry’ for the elephants: “Sarr Lho. Ma Nyee Kanazoe Thee”, in rhyme with the actual command. That, Khortaw could learn with not much difficulty. As the time woes on the command Sarr Lho. Ma Nyee Kanazoe Thee had resonance into Salamani Kantchalar!

Ne Win who presumed to be the 12th Koane Baung, Saw Maung who presumed to be the reincarnation of King Kyan Sit Tharr of the Pagan Dynasty, and the cagey sly fox Khin Nyunt who believes he was the reincarnation of Bayint Naung of Taungngoo Dynasty had all but ended badly. Now we have to see how Than Shwe who believes he was the reincarnation of King Thar Lun ended? Is it to believe that those who sit on such chairs excrete such excreta?

As a matter of fact, the real Owner of the White Elephants or the Sin Phyu Myarr Shin actually was the Khortaw Kalar of Bangladesh!

By the way,
All the Usurpers,
Ne Win, Saw Maung, Than Shwe are mere “Suu Yauts”!