8/15/2009

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အာဆီယံအသင္းဝင္ ႏုိင္ငံ ၅ ႏိုင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို ေရာက္ရွိေနသည့္ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္သည္ စစ္အစိုးရမွ အလုပ္ႏွင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁၈ လ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ယေန႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည္။ ဆီးနိတ္အမတ္သည္ ယေန႔ အေစာပိုင္းက စစ္အစိုးရ႐ံုးစိုက္ရာ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္အန္အယ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ၃ ဦး အပါအဝင္ ပါတီေပါင္း ၁၀ ပါတီမွ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီး စစ္အစိုးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီးသန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည္။ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ၎၏ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္သည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အေသးစိတ္ကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မျပဳဟုသတင္းမ်ားကဆိုသည္။
မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္မစမီက VOA သို႕ေျပာဆိုရာတြင္ NLD ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “အဖိတ္ခံရ တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြနဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ခဏ ေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ခြင့္ ရပါတယ္။ ေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ခြင့္ ရတဲ့အထဲမွာ ဒီကိစၥ ဟတ္မဟုတ္ဆုိတာ နံပါတ္တစ္ မေသခ်ာဘူး၊ နံပါတ္ႏွစ္က ဒီကိစၥဆိုရင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိက ေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္ရဲ႕ ခရီးစဥ္ကို လုံး၀ စိတ္မ၀င္စားဘူး။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့ သူဟာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ သေဘာထားမွန္တာ တခုမွ မေတြ႕ဘူး။ သူက Sanction ကို ကန္႔ကြက္တဲ့လူ၊ သူ႕ရဲ႕ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ခရီးစဥ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ လုံး၀ ေဖာ္ျပတာ မရွိဘူး။ ဒီအခ်က္အလက္ေတြအရ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ စိတ္၀င္စားမႈ မရွိဘူး။”ဟုေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္္။
ျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေ၀ဖန္သံုးသတ္ခ်က္ ေဆာင္ပါးမ်ားေရးေလ့ရွိသူ လယ္ရီ ေယဂင္ (Larry Jagan)က “အေမရိကန္ ဆီးနိတ္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္မွ အၾကီးအက်ယ္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားျခင္းသည္ အေျမာ္အျမင္မဲ့ရာ ေရာက္ပါသည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံု ခြင့္ရသည္ဆုိလွ်င္ပင္ သူ႔ခရီးစဥ္မွာ သူ႔အတြက္ အလြန္ထူးျခားလွပါသည္။ ကုလအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးသံတမန္ မစၥတာ အီဗရာဟင္ ဂမ္ဘာရီဆိုလွ်င္ အေစာပိုင္းက ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ ရခဲ့ေသးေသာ္လည္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ မရေတာ့ပါ။ ဘာျဖစ္မည္လဲဆိုသည့္ ကိစၥတြင္ အဓိကက်ေသာ အခ်က္မွာ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ကိုယ္တုိင္က စစ္ဘက္ဆိုင္ရာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တဦး ျဖစ္ေနျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သူသည္ မရိန္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေဟာင္းတဦး ျဖစ္သည္။ ဤအခ်က္က အရပ္သားမ်ားကို ရြံရွာမုန္းတီးေလ့ရွိသူ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီးႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ရေရးအတြက္ အေထာက္အကူျပဳႏိုင္ဖြယ္ ရွိပါသည္။”ဟုသံုးသတ္ထားသည္။
မည္သို႕ပင္ျဖစ္ေစ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္သည္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ တခုေက်ာ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္ အဆင့္အျမင့္ဆံုး အရာရွိတဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ယခု ခရီးစဥ္သည္ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ မစၥတာအိုဘားမား အစုိးရ၏ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွတြင္ ဧကစာက်င့္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မူဝါဒမ်ား ခ်မွတ္ရန္ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ေရးအတြက္ အသံုးဝင္လိမ့္မည္ဟု ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္သူမ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းၾကသည္ဟုလည္းအဆိုရွိေနစဥ္အတြင္း
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေနအိမ္အတြင္းသို႔ တိတ္တဆိတ္ ဝင္ေရာက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ အဂၤါေန႔က ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၇ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသူ မစၥတာ ဂြ်န္ယက္ေတာအား လူသားခ်င္း စာနာသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ မနက္ျဖန္တြင္ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္ပို႔ေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သူ၏ က်န္းမာေရး အေျခအေနအရ ျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၇ ႏွစ္ က်ခံရမည့္အစား အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္လည္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရန္ အာဏာ ပုိင္မ်ားက အမိန္႔ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွီၿပီး သူ႔ကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ အလည္အပတ္ ေရာက္ရွိေနသည့္ ဆီနိတ္တာအမတ္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္ မတုိင္ခင္ကတည္းက အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပုိင္မ်ား ေတြ႔ဆံုမႈအတြင္း ထိုကဲ့သို႔ သေဘာတူဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ မစၥတာ ယက္ေတာ (အသက္ ၅၃ ႏွစ္) သည္ မနက္ဖန္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔တြင္ ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ ေပးခံရမည္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး စစ္ေလယာဥ္တစီးျဖင့္ ဘန္ေကာက္သုိ႔ ပို႕ရန္အစီအစဥ္ရွိသည္ဟုသိရသည္။
ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ႏွင့္ ယေန႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံရာတြင္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္လည္း ေတာင္းဆုိခ့ဲသည္ ဟုလည္းသူ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေရး ထားသည္။






Senator wins release of US prisoner in Myanmar

AP - Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:17:37 PM
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb won the release Saturday of an American prisoner convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison for swimming secretly to the residence of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the senator's office said.
Yettaw, 53, is to be officially deported Sunday, when he will fly with Webb on a military plane to Bangkok, according to a statement from Webb's office.
Before his conviction on Tuesday, Yettaw had spent a week in a prison hospital for epileptic seizures. He is also said to suffer from asthma and diabetes.
During Webb's visit to Myanmar -- the first by a member of the U.S. Congress in more than a decade -- the senator also secured a rare visit with Suu Kyi, who was convicted along with Yettaw and sentenced to 18 more months under house arrest. She has been detained for 14 of the last 20 years.
The junta may have approved the meeting with Suu Kyi to mitigate the torrent of international criticism against Myanmar following the trial and Tuesday's verdict. In July, authorities barred U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from meeting with Suu Kyi during a two-day visit.
Webb, the statement said, requested that Suu Kyi be released during a meeting with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe on Saturday. It was the first time the reclusive general had met with a senior U.S. official.
"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying the foundations of goodwill and confidence building in the future," Webb was quoted as saying.
On Saturday, the 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate was driven from her residence to a nearby government guest house for a 40-minute meeting with Webb, then reporters saw her taken home by car.
Webb, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, described the meeting as "an opportunity ... to convey my deep respect to Aung San Suu Kyi for the sacrifices she has made on behalf of democracy around the world."
The senator, who arrived in Myanmar's capital of Naypyitaw on Friday, was scheduled to address reporters in Yangon on Sunday.
The visit -- particularly the meetings with senior officials and Suu Kyi -- was unusual because of the poor state of relations between Myanmar, also known as Burma, and the U.S. Many critics said it was bad timing for outreach -- only days after the junta flouted international appeals that Suu Kyi be cleared of the latest charges. It also drew criticism from activists who say it confers legitimacy on a brutal regime.
While Washington has traditionally been Myanmar's strongest critic, applying political and economic sanctions against the junta, President Barack Obama's new ambassador for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, recently said the administration is interested in easing its policy of isolation. Webb has said that "affirmative engagement" could bring the most change to Myanmar, concerning those who think a hard line is the best approach.
Britain's ambassador to the United Nations suggested Webb's visit could help persuade the junta to free Suu Kyi.
"If the Americans can get the generals to see that their country's interest is reflected in taking interest in reconciliation, releasing Aung San Suu Kyi and holding free and fair elections, that would be very helpful." John Sawyers told BBC Radio 4 on Saturday.
But in a letter to Webb, dissident groups warned the junta would use the senator's trip for its own ends.
"We are concerned that the military regime will manipulate and exploit your visit and propagandize that you endorse their treatment on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and over 2,100 political prisoners, their human rights abuses on the people of Burma, and their systematic, widespread and ongoing attack against the ethnic minorities," the letter said. Daw is a term of respect for older women in Myanmar.
Possibly reflecting a similar wariness, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy said the party "has no interest in Jim Webb because he is not known to have any interest in Myanmar affairs." He did not elaborate.
Official media, however, appeared to herald Webb's arrival. The nightly broadcast led with the visit, reporting that the senator met with Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein on Friday, and returned to the subject several times during the night.
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The junta called elections in 1990 but refused to honor the results when Suu Kyi's party won overwhelmingly.
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Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Greg Katz in London contributed to this report from Washington

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PALI ZI. CHAU’ CHE’ PALI OU: GYI PALI ZI. NJAN: HSIN

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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