kabarmakyay: Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) ၏ ေငြေၾကးအ႐ႈပ္ေတာ္ပံု အေၾကာင္း

4/02/2013

Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) ၏ ေငြေၾကးအ႐ႈပ္ေတာ္ပံု အေၾကာင္း

ယခုတေလာ မီဒီယာသတင္းမ်ားတြင္ Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) ၏ ေငြေၾကးအ႐ႈပ္ေတာ္ပံု အေၾကာင္း စိတ္မေကာင္းဖြယ္ရာ ၾကားသိေနရပါတယ္။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ေကာင္းေကာင္းနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးဗဟိုဌာန (MPC) ဟာ တာဝန္ယူလုပ္ကိုင္သူ လူတစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕ အလြဲသံုးစားလုပ္ကိုင္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ဟုတ္၍ေက်ာ္ေသာ ပုတ္၍ေပၚေသာ မေကာင္းသတင္းမ်ား အခ်ိန္တို အတြင္း ထြက္ေပၚလာေနပါတယ္။

ဒီသတင္းမ်ားဟာ တစ္ဖက္သတ္စြပ္စြဲခ်က္မ်ား၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကို မနာလိုသူမ်ားရဲ႕

ေဝဖန္ခ်က္မ်ား အျဖစ္ တံု႕ျပန္ေျဖရွင္းေနေသာ္လည္း အတြင္းသိမ်ားရဲ႕ ေဖာက္သည္ခ်မႈေၾကာင့္ MPC ရဲ႕ ေငြေၾကးရယူသံုးစြဲမႈမ်ားဟာ ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမႈ မရွိျခင္းကိုေတာ့ အျငင္းပြားဖြယ္ရာမရွိ ျမင္ေတြ႕ေနရပါတယ္။

MPC ဟာ Semi-Government ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္လည္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ (Peace Process)အတြက္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕က ဘက္ဂ်က္ခြဲေဝေပးျခင္းမရွိလို႔ NGO အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြလို ႏိုင္ငံတကာအေထာက္အပံ့မ်ားျဖင့္ ရပ္တည္ေနရတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။ လက္ရွိ MPC ကို အကူအညီေပးေနတဲ့အဖြဲ႕ေတြကေတာ့ ဥေရာပသမဂၢအဖြဲ႕ (EU)၊ ေနာ္ေဝ အေျခစိုက္ Peace Donor Support Group (PDSG) နဲ႔ Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI)၊ ဂ်ပန္က NGO အဖြဲ႕ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ Nippon Formdation နဲ႔ Japan Platform တို႔ အဓိကျဖစ္ၿပီး MPC မွာ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္အျဖစ္ ပါဝင္တဲ့ Myanmar Egress မွတစ္ဆင့္ အေနာက္ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားရွိ Donor မ်ားက အကူအညီ ေပးလ်က္ ရွိေနပါတယ္။

ယေန႔ထိ လက္ခံရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ျပည္ပေထာက္ပံ့ေငြမ်ားကေတာ့ EU အဖြဲ႕မွ ယူ႐ိုေငြ ၇ သိန္း၊ Japan Nippon Formdation က ေဒၚလာ ၃ သန္းရွိခဲ့ၿပီး ယခုႏွစ္အတြင္းမွာ ေနာက္ထပ္ PDSG အဖြဲ႕မွ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၃၀ ၊ MPSI အဖြဲ႕မွ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၇၀ ၊ EU အဖြဲ႕မွ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၃၈.၅ သန္း၊ Japan Platform အဖြဲ႕က သံုးႏွစ္အတြင္း အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၁ သန္း ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးမယ္လို႔ သိရွိရပါတယ္။

ဒီလိုေပးတဲ့ေနရာမွာ EU နဲ႔ ေနာ္ေဝအဖြဲ႕ေတြက MPC ကို ေငြသားေတြတိုက္႐ိုက္ေပးၿပီး ဂ်ပန္အဖြဲ႕ေတြကေတာ့ MPC မွတစ္ဆင့္ ကခ်င္ႏွင့္ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ေတြမွာ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြကို စီမံကိန္းအေနနဲ႔ တိုက္႐ိုက္ေပးသြားဖို႔ စီစဥ္ထားရွိပါတယ္။ ျပည္ပကေန ေထာက္ပံ့ေပးလာတဲ့ အကူအညီေတြကို MPC က လက္ခံရယူသံုးစြဲရာမွာ စဥ္းစားသင့္တဲ့ အခ်က္ (၂) ခ်က္ကေတာ့ ေငြေၾကး စာရင္းဇယား
ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာမႈနဲ႔ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈမ်ားရဲ႕ ေနာက္ကြယ္က ေႏွာင္ႀကိဳးမ်ား ရွိ/မရွိဆိုတဲ့ အခ်က္မ်ား ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လက္ရွိ MPC ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္မင္း ဟာ ဒီ (၂) ခ်က္စလံုးကို ဂ႐ုမစိုက္ဘဲ MPC မွာ အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ျဖစ္တဲ့ MIC ဥကၠဌႀကီး ဦးစိုးသိန္း ရဲ႕ ခ်ယ္လွယ္မႈေအာက္မွာ ေရာက္ေနပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ႏွစ္ေယာက္စလံုးရဲ႕ ေနာက္ကြယ္မွာရွိေနတဲ့ အခ်ိတ္အဆက္မ်ားကေတာ့

ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးေခါင္းစဥ္ ေအာက္မွာ တိုင္းျပည္ မ်က္ႏွာကို မၾကည့္ဘဲ ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္စားသူမ်ားျဖစ္တာကို သမၼတႀကီးအေနနဲ႔ သတိျပဳသင့္ပါတယ္။

NGO အဖြဲ႕အစည္းပံုသ႑န္ လႈပ္ရွားသက္ဝင္ေနတဲ့ MPC ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ဘက္ဂ်က္ကို သံုးစြဲျခင္း မရွိလို႔ စာရင္းစစ္ခံစရာမလိုတဲ့ အခြင့္အေရးကို အမိအရသံုးၿပီး ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာကေပးလာတဲ့ ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြေတြကို တိတိက်က် ထိထိေရာက္ေရာက္ သံုးစြဲျခင္းမရွိဘူးလို႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႕အစည္းေတြ၊ မီဒီယာေတြက ေထာက္ျပေျပာဆိုေနပါတယ္။

အဆိုးဆံုးကေတာ့ ႏုိင္ငံျခား ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြနဲ႔ ရပ္တည္ေနရတဲ့ ပြင့္လင္းလူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းနဲ႔ MPC တို႔ဟာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ Donor မ်ား ရရွိေရး အၿပိဳင္အဆိုင္လႈပ္ရွားေနရတာေၾကာင့္ တစ္ဖြဲ႕နဲ႔တစ္ဖြဲ႕ ေျမြေျမြျခင္း ေျချမင္ၿပီး MPC ရဲ႕ ေငြေၾကးစာရင္း မရွင္းႏိုင္ပံုကုိ ပြင့္လင္းလူ႕အဖြဲ႕အစည္းက ေျပာင္ေျပာင္တင္းတင္း ေ၀ဖန္လ်က္ရွိေနပါတယ္။

NGO အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားရဲ႕ ထံုးစံအတုိင္း ေငြေၾကးကုိ ကုိင္တြယ္သံုးစြဲသူ တာ၀န္ခံမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ပုထုဇဥ္ လူသားမ်ားပီပီ ကုိယ္ေရးကုိယ္တာသံုးစြဲေလ့ ရွိၾကပါတယ္။ ျပည္တြင္းမွာရွိေနတဲ့ NGO အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားဟာ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ Project မ်ား အလုိက္ရရွိတဲ့ ေငြေၾကးမ်ားအေပၚမွာ စီးပြားေရး အခြင့္အလမ္းတစ္ခုလို လုပ္ကုိင္စားေသာက္ၾကတာ လည္း ထံုးစံပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ သံုးစြဲရမဲ့ ေငြေၾကးရဲ႕ သံုးပံုတစ္ပံုခန္႔သာ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ Project အတြက္ သံုးစြဲၿပီး က်န္တဲ့ သံုးပံုႏွစ္ပံုကေတာ့ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေထာက္ပံ့မႈနဲ႕ ကိုယ္ေရးကိုယ္တာ စရိတ္မ်ား အျဖစ္ သံုးစြဲၾကတာလည္း မထူးဆန္းလွပါဘူး။

ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း MPC လို Semi-Government အဖြဲ႕က ႏိုင္ငံတကာရဲ႕ အေထာက္အပံ့ေတြကို အလြဲသံုးစားလုပ္ေနတာကေတာ့ တိုင္းျပည္ နစ္နာလွပါတယ္။ အဆိုးဆံုးကေတာ့ စစ္အစိုးရလက္ထက္က ဝန္ႀကီးေဟာင္းေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ MPC ဥကၠဌ နဲ႕ MIC ဥကၠဌႀကီးတို႔က ယခင္အက်င့္ဆိုးေတြ မေပ်ာက္ဘဲ Peace Process အတြက္ ေပးအပ္လာတဲ့ ေငြေၾကးေတြေပၚမွာ ေကာ္မရွင္ခဆန္ဆန္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အသံုးစရိတ္မ်ား ရယူသံုးစြဲေနျခင္းဟာ အလြန္ဆိုးရြားလွပါတယ္။ လက္ရွိအစိုးရအဖြဲ႕အေပၚ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွလည္း ယံုၾကည္မႈ ပ်က္ျပားေစပါတယ္။

ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္လည္း MPC အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ Myanmar Egress အဖြဲ႕က သူတို႔ အဆက္အသြယ္နဲ႕ရရွိတဲ့ ေထာက္ပံ့မႈေတြကို သူတို႔ အစီအစဥ္နဲ႕ သံုးစြဲေနတာျဖစ္မယ္ထင္ပါတယ္။
ကတိျပဳထားၿပီး မရရွိေသးတဲဲ့့ ေငြေၾကးေတြကို စီးဝင္လာဖို႔ ရရွိၿပီးျဖစ္တဲ့ ေငြေၾကးေတြရဲ႕ ရေငြ၊ သံုးေငြစာရင္း ရွင္းလင္းရဲရပါမယ္။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္အတြက္ သံုးလိုက္တဲ့ေငြေၾကးေတြဟာ အမွန္တစ္ကယ္ ထာဝရၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို အေထာက္အကူျပဳရပါမယ္။ တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း ေတြ အေျခခိုင္ဖို႔ ေထာက္ပံ့ေငြမျဖစ္ရန္ လိုအပ္သလို စစ္တပ္အတြက္ ဘက္ဂ်က္အျဖစ္ မသံုးစြဲမိရန္လည္း လိုအပ္ပါတယ္။ လက္ရွိျမင္ေတြ႕ၾကားသိ ေနရတာကေတာ့ -
- MPC အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ဒါ႐ိုက္တာမ်ား လစာေငြျမင့္မားေနျခင္း။
- MPC အဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားရဲ႕ ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပခရီးသြားလာစရိတ္မ်ား ျမင့္တက္ေနျခင္း။
- ျပည္ပမွာ ေနထိုင္တဲ့ ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားရဲ႕ သားသမီးမ်ားက Peace Process နဲ႕ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ Project မ်ား လုပ္ေဆာင္ရာမွာ ေကာ္မရွင္ခမ်ာ ၫွိႏိႈင္းရယူျခင္း။
- MPC ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ား၏ အသံုးစရိတ္မ်ား စာရင္းဇယားမွန္ကန္မႈ မရွိျခင္းတို႔ဟာ အေျဖမရွိတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းမ်ား ျဖစ္တာကို သံုးသပ္မႈမ်ား ရွိေနပါတယ္။
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ပုတ္ရင္ေပၚၿပီး ဟုတ္ရင္ေၾကာ္ၾကားတဲ့ သတင္းဆိုးမ်ား ဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ တိုးတက္ျဖစ္ထြန္းလာမဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ မ်ားအေပၚ မ်ားစြာထိခိုက္မွာ စိုးရိမ္မိေၾကာင္းပါ ခင္ဗ်ာ။

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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”!