kabarmakyay: November 2012

11/13/2012

“ပီအာ” ဟာခ်စ္စရာပါ

သို႔

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၇.၁၁.၁၂

အေၾကာင္းအရာ။ ။ (PR) ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲစနစ္ ေဆာင္းပါးေပးပို႔ျခင္း။
လူၾကီးမင္းတို႔၏ ျမနႏၵာဂ်ာနယ္တြင္ “ေဖါင္းပြပြ ေရြွျမန္မာေတြ“ ေဆာင္းပါးကို ဖတ္ရပါသည္။ “အခ်ိဳးအက်စနစ္“ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေ၀ဖန္ထားသည္ကို ေတြ႔ရပါသည္။ ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ ေဒၚခင္ႏွင္းဦးႏွင့္တကြ စာဖတ္သူမ်ားေလ့လာႏုိင္ရန္ “အခ်ိဳးအက်ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲစနစ္ ” (PR) ေဆာင္းပါးကို ဂ်ာနယ္တြင့္ ထည့္ေပးလွ်င္ သင့္ေလ်ာ္မည္ဟု ယူဆပါသည္။ အမ်ားျပည္သူအတြက္လည္း အက်ိဳးရွိႏုိင္ပါသည္။

ေလးစားစြာျဖင့္

ဦးသုေ၀

“ပီအာ” ဟာခ်စ္စရာပါ

ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲစနစ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး

အခ်ိဳးက်ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေရြးခ်ယ္တဲ့စနစ္ (Proportional Representation) အတိုေကာက္အားျဖင့္ (PR) လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ စနစ္နဲ႔ ေနာက္စနစ္တစ္ခုကေတာ့ အခုက်ေနာ္တို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ က်င့္သံုးေနတဲ့ မဲမ်ားသူအႏုိင္ယူစနစ္ အဂၤလိပ္လိုေတာ့ ( Majority Wins) လို႔လည္းေခၚတယ္။ (First Past The Past) အတိုေကာက္အားျဖင့္ (FPTP) လို႔လည္းေခၚပါတယ္။ မဲမ်ားသူအယူစနစ္ဟာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရယ္လို႔ စလုပ္ကတည္းက ေခၚခဲ့တာပါ။ လူေတြက ျပိဳင္ပြဲလုပ္တဲ့အခါ ဘာျပိဳင္ပြဲပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ အရွဳံးအႏိုင္ကို သတ္မွတ္ဆံုးျဖတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္တဲ့လူက ေပ်ာ္ၾကတာေပါ့။ ရံွဳးတဲ့လူက ေသခ်င္လဲေသေပါ့။ ဒါကိုဟိုတုန္းက အားလံုးလက္ခံခဲ့ၾကတာပါ။ မဲေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာလည္း မဲေရြးသူက မဲတစ္ျပားပဲသာသာ၊ ႏွစ္ျပားပဲသာသာ အႏုိင္ရသူလို႔ အားလံုးေက်နပ္ၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ လူေတြက စဥ္းစားလာတယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကိုတာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြကို ေရြးေကာက္တင္ေျမွာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မဲဆႏၵရွင္တို႔ရဲ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္လြတ္ေတာ္တြင္းေရာက္ဖို႔လိုတာေပါ့။ မဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ားကိုေထာက္ခံရင္လြတ္ေတာ္ထဲမ်ားမ်ား
ေရာက္။ မဲဆႏၵရွင္နဲနဲက ေထာက္ခံရင္ လြတ္ေတာ္ထဲနဲနဲေရာက္။ ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ေတြရဲ့ သေဘာဆႏၵေတြကို သူတို႔မဲေပးလိုက္တဲ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက လြတ္ေတာ္မွတင္ျပေပးႏုိင္တာေပါ့။ ျပည္သူအက်ိဳးေဆာင္ႏုိင္တာေပါ့။
ဥပမာေလးကို ဒီလိုတင္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ နယ္တစ္ခုမွာ ပါတီ (၃)ခုက ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္တယ္ဆိုပါေတာ့။ လူၾကိဳက္မ်ားတဲ့ ပါတီက (၆၀)%၊ ေနာက္တစ္ပါတီက (၃၀)%၊ ေနာ္တစ္ပါတီက (၁၀)%၊ အဲ့ဒီႏံွုးအတိုင္း ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၁၀၀)အတြက္ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြလုပ္တယ္ဆိုရင္၊ (FPTP) စနစ္အရ (၆၀)% ဆီရတဲ့ ပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၁၀၀)လံုးအေရြးခံရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ (၄၀)% မဲေပးလိုက္တာကေတာ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ျဖစ္မလာတဲ့အတြက္၊ မဲဆႏၵရွင္တို႔ရဲ့ အက်ိဳးလဲမျဖစ္ဖူးေပါ့။ (PR) စနစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ပထမပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၆၀) ျဖစ္မယ္။ ဒုတိယပါတီက ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ (၃၀)၊ တတိယပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ (၁၀) ဦးျဖစ္မယ္။ မဲဆႏၵရွင္အားလံုးရဲ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြ လြတ္ေတာ္ထဲ အားလံုးေရာက္တဲ့အတြက္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္အားလံုးရဲ့ အသံေတြ လြတ္ေတာ္ထဲမွာရွိတာေပါ့။ (FPTP) စနစ္လို ကိုယ္ကမၾကိဳက္လို႔ ကိုယ္မဲမေပးတဲ့သူက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အမည္ခံသြားတာ ျဖစ္စရာမရွိေတာ့ဘူး။

ဒါေၾကာင့္မဲဆႏၵရွင္ေတြကို ေလးစားေသာအားျဖင့္လည္းေကာင္း၊ သူတို႔ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြရွိတဲ့အတြက္၊ သူတို႔အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးႏုိင္မွာျဖစ္လို႔၊ ၀မ္းေျမာက္ေက်နပ္ၾကမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

မဲရတဲ့ႏွုန္းတစ္ခုကို ေျပာျပပါဦးမယ္။ ပထမပါတီ (၄၀)%၊ ဒုတိယပါတီ (၃၀)%၊ တတိယပါတီ (၃၀)% ရတယ္ဆိုပါေတာ့၊ (FPTP) စနစ္အရ (၄၀)% ရတဲ့ ပထမပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ျဖစ္သြားတယ္။ ဒုတိယပါတီရတဲ့မဲ (၃၀)%၊ တတိယပါတီရတဲ့မဲ (၃၀)% စုစုေပါင္း မဲ(၆၀)% ရပါလွ်က္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အေရြး မခံရဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္အမ်ားကို ကိုယ္စားျပဳတယ္လို႔ ေျပာမရျဖစ္သြားတာပါ။ (PR) စနစ္ အသံုးျပဳရင္ေတာ့ ပထမပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္(၄၀)%၊ ဒုတိယပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္(၃၀)%၊ တတိယပါတီက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္(၃၀)% ရမွာျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ ပါတီတိုင္း တရားမွ်တပါတယ္။ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ေရာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အတြက္ပါ အက်ိဳးရွိပါတယ္။

ဘယ္သူ႔ကို္မွလည္း မနစ္နာ၊ ကိုယ့္ေ၀စု ကိုယ္ရၾကတဲ့အတြက္ အင္မတန္တရားမွ်တတယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ယူဆပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္က်ေနာ္တို႔က ႏုိင္ငံအက်ိဳး ျပည္သူ႔အက်ိဳးအတြက္ အဆိုျပျခင္း ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ မဲမ်ားသူအႏုိင္ရရင္ျပီးတာပဲ။ တစ္မဲသာသာ၊ ႏွစ္မဲသာသာ ႏုိင္တာပဲ။ ရွံဳးတဲ့သူကို ဂရုစိုက္စရာမလို။ ရံွဳးသူကို မဲေပးတဲ့ ဆႏၵရွင္ေတြကိုလည္း ဂရုစိုက္စရာမလိုဘူး လို႔ သေဘာထားသူေတြပဲရွိမွာေပါ့။ အဲ့ဒီသေဘာထားမ်ိဳးကို ေကာင္းတယ္မွန္တယ္လို႔ ယူဆသူမ်ားက သူတို႔ကို ေထာက္ခံေပါ့။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ့ အားလံုးအတြက္မွ်တတဲ့ သေဘာထားမ်ိဳးကို ေကာင္းတယ္မွန္တယ္လို႔ ယူဆသူမ်ားက က်ေနာ္တို႔ကို ေထာက္ခံေပါ့။ လူတိုင္းလြတ္လပ္စြား ဆံုးျဖတ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ရွိပါတယ္။

က်ေနာ္တို႔ အဆိုျပဳတဲ့ (PR) စနစ္အေၾကာင္းကို ေျပာျပပါမယ္။ အခ်ိဳ႔က (PR) စနစ္အေၾကာင္းကို အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေရွာက္ေရးျပီး ရွဳပ္ေထြးေအာင္ ေဖာ္ျပ၊ လူေတြက ရွဳပ္ပါတယ္ကြာလို႔ ျဖစ္ေအာင္ ဖန္တီးၾကပါတယ္။

အမွန္ကေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ အဆိုျပဳတဲ့ (PR) စနစ္ဟာ မဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ားအတြက္ အခုမဲေပးေနတာထက္ေတာင္ လြယ္ပါတယ္။ အခုမဲေပးတာက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္းအမည္၊ ပါတီအမည္၊ ပါတီတံဆိပ္ကိုၾကည့္ျပီး မဲေပးၾကပါတယ္။ (PR) စနစ္အရ ပါတီအမည္ႏွင့္ ပါတီတံဆိပ္ကိုၾကည့္ျပီး ေပးလိုက္ရံုပဲ။ သိပ္လြယ္တယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ေတြက ပါတီေတြရဲ့ မဲရာခုိင္ႏွဳန္း ေပၚမူတည္ျပီး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အခ်ိဳးက် တြက္ေပးပါတယ္။ ပါတီေတြထဲမွာ အေတာ္ဆံုးလူကို ဦးစားေပးေရြးတာျဖစ္လို႔ တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္လည္း ပိုေကာင္းပါတယ္။ ေနာ္တစ္ခ်က္က်ေနာ္တို႔ အဆိုျပတဲ့ (PR) စနစ္ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ႏုိင္ငံမွာ က်င့္သံုးမွာျဖစ္လို႔ ျပည္သူ႔လြတ္ေတာ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္သာ စမ္းသတ္ျပဳလုပ္ေပးဖို႔ အဆိုျပဳတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ိဳးသားလြတ္ေတာ္နဲ႔ တိုင္း၊ျပည္နယ္ လြတ္ေတာ္မ်ားအတြက္ေတာ့ လက္ရွိ (FPTP) စနစ္ဘဲအသံုးျပဳပါလို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ သေဘာထားကို ေျပာျပတယ္။ တကယ္ဆံုးျဖတ္ရမွာက ျပည္ေထာင္စုလြတ္ေတာ္မွာ လြတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြေဆြးေႏြးဆံုးျဖတ္ရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္တစ္ခ်က္ (PR)စနစ္ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဘာေၾကာင့္အဆိုျပဳရတာလည္း ဆိုတာကို ရွင္းျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။ (၁၉၆၀-၆၁) ခုႏွစ္က က်ေနာ္ နယ္တာလင္နဲ႔ ေနာ္ေ၀း၊ ဆြီဒင္၊ ဒိန္းမတ္စတဲ့ စကင္ဒီးေနးမီးယန္းႏုိင္ငံေတြကို ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ႏုိင္ငံေတြကို (PR) ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲစနစ္ကို က်င္းသံုးေနၾကပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ေလ့လာၾကည့္တဲ့အခါ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏုိင္ငံမွာ က်င့္သံုးရရင္ ေကာင္းမွာပဲလို႔ က်ေနာ့္စိတ္ထဲမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အဲ့ဒီအခ်ိန္မွ စျပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြ မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး။ (၁၉၉၀) ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ လုပ္တဲ့အခါ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္က ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီေတြထံမွ အၾကံျပဳစာေတြ ေတာင္းပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဲ့ (ဒီမိုကေရစီ) ပါတီက (PR) စနစ္ကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ အသံုးျပဳသင့္ေၾကာင္း အၾကံျပဳခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အျခားမည္သည့္ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမွ (PR) အေၾကာင္းသိရွိဟန္ မတူပါ။

(၂၀၁၂) ခုႏွစ္ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ျပီးသည့္အခါ၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား (အေမရိကန္၊ အီးယူ၊ ၾသစေၾတလ်နဲ႔ အာရွ) လာေရာက္ျပီး က်ေနာ္တို႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔တဲ့အခါ၊ သူတို႔ကစျပီး (PR) စနစ္ေကာင္းတဲ့အေၾကာင္း (PR) စနစ္ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ စိတ္၀င္စားသလားလို႔ ေမးပါတယ္။ ဒီကာလမွာမွ သူတို႔က အေလးတယူ ဒီကိစၥကို တင္ျပလာတယ္ဆိုေတာ့ သူတို႔လည္း ထူးျခားတဲ့အေၾကာင္း ရွိပါလိမ့္မယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။

ၾသစေၾတးလ် အစိုးရ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီေတြနဲ႔ ASEAN မွႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား ဖိတ္ေခၚေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့ အခါမွာလည္း၊ (PR) အေၾကာင္းကို သူတို႔ ရွင္းျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေနာ္ေ၀း၊ နယ္တလန္ ႏုိင္ငံမွ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းတစ္ခုကလည္း (PR) စနစ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ရန္ကုန္မွာ လာေရာက္သင္တန္း ေပးပါတယ္။

က်ေနာ့္အထင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေျခအေနကို သူတို႔ေလ့လာျပီး စုိးရိပ္စိတ္ရွိဟန္ တူပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔လည္း စိုးရိမ္တာေတြရွိတယ္။ ဘယ္ပါတီမဆို ပါတီတစ္ခုတည္း လြတ္ေတာ္ကို လြွမ္းမိုးသြားရင္ အႏၱရာယ္ရွိတယ္။ ၾကံ႔ခုိင္ေရးပါတီဟာ အာဏာရွင္မ်ားျဖစ္သြားမလားလို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ရင္တစ္ထိတ္ထိတ္ ၾကည့္ေနရတယ္။ အလားတူပဲ ပါတီတစ္ခုတည္း လြတ္ေတာ္မွာ လြမ္းမိုးသြားျပီး အျခားအာဏာရွိအဖြဲ႔အစည္းနဲ႔ မသင့္ျမတ္ဖူးဆိုရင္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မွုေတြ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာလို႔ တုိင္းျပည္လည္း နာမယ္။ လူထုလည္း ဒုကၡျဖစ္ၾကပါလိမ့္မယ္။ မၾကာေသးေသာႏွစ္မ်ားက ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံအျဖစ္အပ်က္ကို ျပန္ၾကည့္ပါ။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသမိုင္းမွာလည္း အေထာက္အထားေတြရွိပါတယ္။

(PR) စနစ္က်င့္သံုးတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတြ (၉၀) ေက်ာ္ရွိပါတယ္။ ကမၻာမွာ တျဖည္းျဖည္းမ်ားလာျပီး အဲ့ဒီစနစ္အတြက္ သူတို႔ ဂုဏ္ယူေနၾကပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာလည္း (PR) စနစ္ကို က်င့္သံုးမယ္ဆိုရင္ အႏၱရာယ္ကိုလည္း တာႏုိင္မယ္။ ဒီမိုကေရစီလည္း ပိုမိုပီျပင္လာပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စုျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ခ်စ္ရင္ျဖင့္ (PE) စနစ္ကို ေလ့လာၾကပါလို႔ တိုက္တြန္းပါတယ္။

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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”!