12/28/2008

ႏွစ္ကူး အႀကိဳ

ဗမာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေၾကာင္းေျပာၾကတဲ့အခါ တရုတ္ဆိုတာကလဲ မပါမျဖစ္ပါလာရသလို အာဏာရႈးငမိုက္သား
ကမၻာ့ေအာ့ေၾကာလန္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္တသိုက္ကို လူမိုက္အားေပးနည္းနဲ႕ထိမ္းထားပီး ၾသဇာရွိေနေအာင္
အိေကာ္လိဖန္လုပ္ေနတာမို႕ အားလံုးရဲ႕အျမင္ကလဲ ဒီတရုတ္ကိုသိပ္ၾကည္တာမဟုတ္ဘူး။
တရုတ္အေနနဲ႕ကလည္း သူ႕စီးပြါးေရးအက်ိဳးအတြက္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ငမိုက္သားတသိုက္ကို “ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရေထာက္ခံ မႈ” မက္လံုးအႀကိဳက္ေပးပီး ကုန္းပိတ္ေဒသဖြင့္တာကအစ ပထ၀ီႏိုင္ငံေရးစိုးမိုးမႈအဆံုး သိမ္းႀကံဳးယူရ ေပအံုး မွာကိုး။

ဘယ္လို ဘယ္ေလာက္မၾကည္ၾကဘူးဆိုေပမဲ့ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕စီးပြားေရးဟာ ၀ုန္းဒိုင္းက်ဲပီး တိုးတက္လာတာနဲ႔အတူ ကမၻာ့ထိပ္ေခါင္ ဆိုသူ အေမရိကန္ႀကီးေတာင္ ေပါက္ေဖၚ ေျခသလံုးႏွိပ္ေပးရမလို ဒူးဖက္ရမလိုျဖစ္ေနပီး အာရွထိပ္သီး က်ားႀကီးဂ်ပန္လဲ ယက္ကန္ ယက္ကန္ျဖစ္လို႔ မ်က္ျဖဴဆိုက္ေနၾကတဲ့ အျဖစ္ေရာက္ေနပါဘီ။
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့အႏွစ္၃၀က တရုတ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ တိန္ေရွာင္ဖိန္ Deng Xiaoping ဖြင့္ခဲတဲ့တခါးတခ်ပ္က နဂါးတပိုင္းက်ားတပိုင္းသတၱ၀ါ တေကာင္ခုန္ထြက္လာတယ္ဆိုရေပမွာေပါ့။















အဲဒီေနရာမွာစဥ္းစားစရာရွိလာတာက တခါးခ်ပ္ရဲ႕ အတြင္းဖက္ပိုင္းကိုပါ။
တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ၿမိ့ဳႀကီးေတြ၊ ကမ္းရိုးတန္းေဒသေတြ ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္၀လာေပမဲ့ က်န္ေဒသအေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားမွာ
လူဦးေရသန္းရာနဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီးစုတ္ျပတ္သတ္ေနတဲ့ဲအေျခ အေနမွာရွိဆဲပါ။အာရွဘဏ္က ျပဳစုတဲ့ ကိန္းဂဏန္းအရ
၀င္ေငြညီမွ်မႈ မရွိတဲ့ (Gini coefficient)ဇယားမွာ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အခ်မ္းသာဆံုး လူဦး ေရ (၁၀)%ရဲ႕၀င္ ေငြဟာ အဆင္းရဲဆံုး (၁၀)%ရဲ႕၀င္ေငြထက္ (၁၂)ဆနီးပါး ျမင့္မားကြာဟေနပါတယ္။ တရုတ္အစိုးရဟာ
လူမႈေရးစနစ္ ေပါက္ကြဲ ဖို႔ လက္တကမ္း အေျခအေနမွာ ရွိပါတယ္။
မေပါက္ကြဲႏိုင္ေစဖို႔ တခုခု လုပ္ေပးရေတာ့မယ္လို႔ တရုတ္အစိုးရက သိေနပါတယ္။ဒါေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံျခား အရန္ေငြ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ကုေဋေပါင္း တသိန္းခြဲနီးပါးကို လ်ာထား ခ်က္ မျပည့္မီေသးတဲ့ လူမႈေရးက႑
မွာ ျမွင့္တင္သံုးစြဲဖို႔ ရွိေပမယ့္ အင္မတန္မွ ေႏွးေကြးေနပါေသးတယ္္။
လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ႏွစ္ပိုင္းအတြင္းမွာ တရုတ္လုပ္ ပစၥည္းေတြဟာ ေရရွည္မခံပဲ ပ်က္သြားတတ္တာ၊ လူကို အဆိပ္အေတာက္ ျဖစ္ေစၿပီး အႏၱရာယ္ ေပးႏိုင္တာေတြေၾကာင့္ တရုတ္လုပ္ ပစၥည္းေတြကို ႏိုင္ငံျခား
တိုင္းျပည္ေတြက သံုးစြဲဖို႔ ျငင္းဆန္လာခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
ဒီလို ျဖစ္လာမႈအေပၚ တရုတ္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက အရည္အေသြး စံမီေအာင္ ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ကုမၸဏီေတြကို တင္းတင္းၾကပ္ၾကပ္ စည္းကမ္း သတ္မွတ္ေပးပါတယ္။
တရုတ္ကုမၸဏီေတြဟာသူတို႔ရဲ႕ႏိုင္ငံျခားေစ်းကြက္ကို လက္လႊတ္ဆံုးရွံဳး မခံႏိုင္္ပါဘူး။အေကာင္းဆံုး ႀကိဳးစား ျပဳျပင္လာပါတယ္။
ဒါေပမယ့္ အဲဒီ တရုတ္ ကုမၸဏီေတြကပဲ ျပည္တြင္းမွာ ျပန္ေရာင္းတဲ့အခါက်ေတာ့ သူတို႔ႏိုင္ငံသား စားသံုး သူ
ေတြကို အဆိပ္အေတာက္ ျဖစ္ေစတာ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ကို ထိခိုက္ပ်က္စီးေစတာမ်ဳိးလံုး၀ဂရုမစိုက္ပါ။
ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနေပမဲ့ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္တဲ့ ျပဳျပင္မႈေတြ ဘာမွ ရွိမေနပါဘူး။
ဆိုးက်ိဳးသက္ေရာက္မႈ ထိမ္းမႏိုင္သိမ္းမရ မျဖစ္မျခင္း သက္ဆိုင္ ရာ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ ကလဲ သူတို႔ မွာ
တာ၀န္ရွိတယ္လို႔ မယူဆပဲ ေနတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။

“အေရွ႕အာရွရဲ႕အနာဂတ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ အေရးပါဆံုး ေမးခြန္းေတြ ေမးလာၿပီဆိုရင္ အဲဒီထဲက တခုကေတာ့ တရုတ္ရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစနစ္ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတြင္းမွာ တျဖည္းျဖည္းခ်င္း ေျပာင္းလဲ တိုးတက္လာေနသလား ဆိုတာပဲ ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ စီးပြားေရးဟာ ဒလေဟာကိုပဲ တိုးတက္လာတာနဲ႔အတူ ကမာၻ႔
အင္အားႀကီး ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္လည္း ထြက္ေပၚလာပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြဟာ အာဏာရွင္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီရဲ႕ ဦးေဆာင္မႈ
ေအာက္ကေန ေျပာင္းလဲသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အမွန္မွာေတာ့ တရုတ္ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီဆိုတာ ဒီမိုကေရစီက်က် ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမွာက္လို႔ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ပါတီ
မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒါ့အျပင္ မာ့က္ခ္စ္နဲ႔ လီနင္တို႔ရဲ႕ အေတြးအေခၚႏွစ္ရပ္ကို ေပါင္းစပ္ထားတဲ့ တရုတ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္
ကိုယ္ပိုင္အေတြးအေခၚအေပၚမွာ အေျခခံလို႔လည္း မရႏိုင္ပါဘူး။
ဒါဆိုရင္ ဒီလို ပံုစံမ်ဳိးဟာ ေရရွည္ခံပါ့မလား။ စီးပြားေရး တိုးတက္မႈနဲ႔အတူ၊ စီးပြားေရး လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေတြ

ရွိလာတာနဲ႔အမွ် လူေနမႈ စရိုက္သဘာ၀ေတြလည္း အထိုက္အေလ်ာက္ ေျပာင္းလဲသြားမွာျဖစ္လို႔ အဲဒီလို
အေျပာင္းအလဲဒဏ္ေၾကာင့္ တရုတ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီဟာ မတည္မၿငိမ္ ျဖစ္လာမလား။ ဒါမွမဟုတ္လည္း
ေနာက္ဆံုးက်ေတာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္ကို အဆင့္ဆင့္ ေျပာင္းလဲေပးရေတာ့မလားလို႔ ေမးစရာ ျဖစ္
ေန ပါတယ္။ ”လို႔ ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ - Francis Fukuyama (Professor of international political economy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies)က For China, stability comes before democracy ဆိုတဲ့ေဆာင္းပါး( http://antidictatorship.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/for-china-stability-comes-before-democracy/ ) မွာေရးသားထားပါတယ္။








တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈမ်ားဟာ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ အနည္းႏွင့္အမ်ား အက်ဳိးသက္ ေရာက္ေစႏိုင္ၿပီး ေဒသႏၱရ ႏိုင္ငံေရး (Geopolitics)ဆိုင္ရာ ဗဟုသုတအျဖစ္ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရးႏွင့္ယွဥ္ေတြးၿပီး မိတ္ေဆြတေယာက္ ေဖၚ၀ါ့တ္ လုပ္လာတဲ့ ဘီဘီစီက Michael Bristow ရဲ႕အျမင္ေဆာင္းပါးကိုလဲ မွ်ေ၀လိုက္ပါတယ္။

Chinese learn to live with reform

Thirty years ago, China's leader Deng Xiaoping launched a series of sweeping economic reforms. The BBC's Michael Bristow looks at how these momentous changes have affected ordinary people.








Deng Xiaoping is credited with launching sweeping economic reforms.


For those who value fine dining, the Yuebin Restaurant, tucked away in a Beijing back alley, might not be their first choice. With its whitewashed walls and plain furniture, it is not much to look at. The food, too, is simple Beijing home-style cooking. But the restaurant is more important than it looks. Thirty years ago, China embarked on a reform programme that has transformed the country, and continues to do so today.
The Yuebin was Beijing's first privately-run restaurant to open after the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping began his revolutionary reforms. Deng's policy shift, called Reform and Opening Up, fundamentally changed the way the Chinese economy functions. Under Chairman Mao Zedong, everything was owned by the state, but the reforms have allowed private firms, like the Yuebin Restaurant, to flourish. The restaurant was opened by Guo Peiji and his wife, Liu Guixian, in 1980 in their small home. They still run the restaurant today.


Guo Peiji and his wife opened Beijing's first privately run restaurant.
When they began, the couple had just a few tables and chairs and did their own cooking. They sold whatever they could buy at local markets. "On the first day we had 36 yuan ($5.20, £3.60) to buy some vegetables and duck. We made a profit of around 50 yuan," said Mr Guo, now 75.

'Capitalist roaders'

When the restaurant first opened, not everyone welcomed the move. In the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic political campaign that virtually paralysed the country from 1966-76, private businesses were not allowed. Anyone accused of being a "capitalist roader" could be thrown in prison - or face a worse fate. "Some people said the restaurant was capitalism. But after a year, many of those who said that themselves started selling things," recalled Mr Guo.
The results of China's economic reforms have been amazing. In just a few years, tens of millions of people have been able to escape poverty. According to the World Bank, the average income was just $293 in 1985. But in 2006, that figure had risen to $2,025.



Society has also loosened up. Chinese people have now more freedom to choose such things as where to live, what to wear and which career to pursue. But despite the obvious material benefits reform has brought, some people are still nostalgic about a past that often seemed more secure. The reforms have swept away many free state benefits, covering health and education, that people had come to expect - and corruption now seems to plague all sectors of society. Only slowly is the government rebuilding a social security safety net.
"Suddenly people have discovered that they have to worry a lot about their children's education and their employment," said Chinese journalist Li Xing. "They've discovered that medical bills have shot up, so they fear that they don't have enough to pay for them."



“Rising inequality”

And although reforms have brought benefits to almost everyone, not everyone has benefited equally. China's economic miracle has been partly built on the backs of migrant workers, of which the government says there are currently 210 million.
These are farmers who leave their fields to work in the cities. But the children of this migrant population do not have the right to a free education when they move. Special schools have been set up in most cities, and although they receive a little support from city governments, these schools mostly rely on the fees paid by their pupils. "It's my dream to see migrant children attend the same schools as ordinary city kids," said Zhang Gezhen, headmaster of one such school, in a shabby suburb of Beijing.

Most cities have special schools for migrant workers' children.
Providing all Chinese people with adequate benefits is going to be a key challenge over the next few years, according to World Bank President Robert Zoellick - and Chinese people will not want to wait forever to get them. "The 30 years of success have raised expectations in China," he told the BBC.
"There is goodwill and pride but, at the same time, we have a new generation coming up and they will be impatient." But working out what people want from future reforms will not be easy in a country that is still run by one party that does not have to test its popularity at the polls.
There have been enormous social and economic changes in China over the last three decades, but few political reforms - and that could be a problem. "The decision-making process is a consensual group process, but [China's leaders] are very attentive to the idea that they have to be responsive to public moods," said the World Bank president.
"They know that for all they have accomplished and all the confidence they have won, this is a serious challenge."

December 2008.

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PALI ZI. CHAU’ CHE’  PALI OU: GYI  PALI ZI. NJAN: HSIN
[Stuff and nonsense – lies] [Wheeler, one who deceives in an endearing way] [Using deceits as scaffolding]

Maung Thar Kyaw

The Statement, dated October 30th, 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 30th 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 5th 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.



OUR COUNTRY -----

Burmese society is unique. With extended family system Burmese are laid back, or rather happy go lucky.
Sayar-Dagar relationship, or, the bond between the Sanghas and laymen is deep rooted and has been part of the culture from the time immemorial.

Elderly people spend time at pagodas or the monasteries sharing merits or family gossip, or whatever, and, that is how, unlike the Western society, members of the Burmese society do not need much of psychiatrists’ assistance.

Quiet time, alone, communicating with the Lord Buddha is part and parcel of our heritage we all enjoy tremendously. Visiting pagodas had never needed permission from the authorities.

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http://uk.geocities.com/kabarmakyay/Our_Country.pdf

Are these happening in Burma!

As long as one enriches him/her-self in the decadences the sky is the limit, as the junta would not bother them, that’s the saying goes in present context of Burma.
Thinzar Win, a Model, could do pretty well on Catwalk and other walks such as Burmanization of Bikini, for example. Just kicked off the blouse and the jeans and leave only bra and the underwear, that becomes Bikini, as simple as that. Look!



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!

These girls really have come out of Burmese cocoon – hi ri. u’ ta’ pa. [Shame and fear of sinning] for sure.

Mind you dear reader – the decaying culture of the people is unfathomable, especially the urbanites, the sponsors of such decadences, and, contemplate what reforms would be needed for our beloved country. Mind you, the tiger would never change into vegetarian out of pity for animals!

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”!


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