kabarmakyay: ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ရန္ကုန္ အျမန္လမ္းပိုင္း

7/15/2013

ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ရန္ကုန္ အျမန္လမ္းပိုင္း

ကၽြန္ေတာ္လည္း ေရးမယ္ေရးမယ္ စိတ္ကူးၿပီး မေရးျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ စာတစ္ပုဒ္ကို ေရးသားလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဟာ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ရန္ကုန္ အျမန္လမ္းပိုင္းကို တရားဝင္ စတင္မဖြင့္လွစ္ခင္ကတည္းက သြားေရာက္ခဲ့တာပါ။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္တုန္းက တိုးဂိတ္ေတြေတာင္ မေဆာက္ရေသးပါဘူး။ တစ္လမ္းလုံးမွ ကိုယ့္ကား တစ္စီးတည္းလား ထင္ရေအာင္ ဘယ္သူမွ မျဖတ္ေသးတဲ့အခ်ိန္ေပါ့။ ခုခ်ိန္အထိဆိုရင္ အဲဒီလမ္းကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကားေမာင္းတာ အေခါက္ေရး အသြားအျပန္ဆို ၄၀၀ ေလာက္ရွိၿပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အဲဒီလမ္းပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး လမ္းေဖာက္ထားမႈပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာမွာ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ (ခုခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ ဘယ္လူႀကီးေၾကာင့္ဆိုၿပီး အပစ္တင္တာမ်ိဳး မလုပ္ခ်င္ေတာ့လို႔ပါ) လမ္းပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ အားနည္းခ်က္ေတြ ရွိတယ္ဆိုတာကို သတိထားမိပါတယ္။ ဆိုပါစို႔ မိုင္တိုင္အမွတ္ ၁၇၀ ကေန ၁၉၀ ၾကားဆို ေျမသားက အရမ္းေပ်ာ့ၿပီး ခင္းထားတဲ့ အဂၤေဒဟာ တစ္ခါတစ္ခါ နိမ့္လိုက္ျမင့္လိုက္နဲ႔ ျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္မိတ္ေဆြ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားတစ္ဦးေတာင္ အဲဒီလမ္းျဖတ္ရင္းနဲ႔ တင္စားသြားပါေသးတယ္ မင္းတို႔ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ကမာၻ႕အရွည္ဆံုး ရိုလာကိုစတာရွိတယ္တဲ့။ ထားပါေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေျပာခ်င္တာ လမ္းဆိုးတယ္ ေကာင္းတယ္ဆိုတာထက္ လမ္းသြားရင္ အႏၱရယ္ကင္းရွင္းေစေရးပါ။

ေနျပည္ေတာ္လမ္းမွာ ယခုေနာက္ပိုင္း အနိမ့္ဆံုး တစ္ရက္ကို တစ္စီးစာ တိမ္းေမွာက္မႈျဖစ္ပြားပါတယ္။ ေသေၾက ဒဏ္ရာရမႈလည္း နိမ့္က်သြားတယ္ မရွိပါ။ အဲဒီလိုဆိုေတာ့ကား ေသခ်ာဆန္းစစ္ၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ယခုေနာက္ပိုင္း ယာဥ္အႏၱရာယ္ျဖစ္ပြားမႈဟာ လမ္းခင္းမႈစနစ္ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈထက္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းသူမ်ားရဲ႕ အားနည္းခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္တဲ့ျဖစ္စဥ္က ပိုမ်ားပါတယ္။

အျမန္လမ္းသြားမယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့

၁။ မိမိကားတာယာကို ေသခ်ာစစ္ေဆးဖို႔လိုပါတယ္။ ကတၱရာခင္းထားတာ မဟုတ္ပဲ အဂၤေဒခင္းထားတာျဖစ္တာေၾကာင့္ တာယာ မေကာင္းပါက တာယာပြင့္တာမ်ားပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဆိုရင္ ၃ လ သို႔မဟုတ္ ၄ လ ေလာက္တစ္ႀကိမ္ တာယာ ၄ လံုးစလံုး အသစ္လဲၿပီးမွသြားပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အဲဒီလမ္းကို အသံုးျပဳႏႈန္းဟာ တစ္ပါတ္ကို အနည္းဆံုး အသြားအျပန္ ၂ ႀကိမ္ကေန ၆ ႀကိမ္အထိသြားရပါတယ္။

၂။ မိမိကား ေအာက္ပိုင္း ၾကံ့ခိုင္မႈေကာင္းမေကာင္း၊ ယာဥ္ပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ စစ္ေဆးမႈေတြ ဆီ ေရ ေလ ဝိုင္ေတြ စစ္ေဆးဖို႔လိုပါတယ္။ တစ္ခါဆိုရင္ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၉ လာေလာက္က ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကား ေအာက္ပိုင္းၾကံ႕ခိုင္မႈ အားနည္းလို႔ ကားေမာင္းရင္း ေရဝတ္တဲ့ေနရာမွာ ပါသြားကာ ၃ ပါတ္လည္ သြားဖူးပါတယ္။ ကံေကာင္းလို႕မေသခဲ့တာပါ။ ေဝဟင္ခ်စ္သူ စာမ်က္ႏွာ မျပဳလုပ္ခင္ ၂ ပါတ္ေလာက္အလိုကေပါ့။ ေနာက္ပိုင္း အဲဒီကားကို ေရာင္းၿပီး ကားအသစ္လဲခဲ့ရပါတယ္။

၃။ ကားေမာင္းတဲ့အခါမွာ မိမိ speed ကို မိမိသတိအျမဲထားဖို႕လိုပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ kilo 100 ကို setup ခ်ၿပီး cruise control ဖြင့္ေမာင္းပါတယ္။ cruise မပါတဲ့ ကားကို ေမာင္းၿပီဆိုရင္လည္း မိမိကားရဲ႕ console ကို အျမဲတမ္းၾကည့္ၿပီး rpm နဲ႔ speed ကို အျမဲစစ္ေဆးပါတယ္။

၄။ ေနာက္ လူနဲ႔သက္ဆိုင္ပါၿပီ အဲဒါက ကားေမာင္းရင္ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ အိပ္မငိုက္ဖို႔ပါပဲ။ လမ္းက ရွည္ၿပီး ၿမိဳ႕ေရွာင္ျဖစ္ေတာ့ တစ္ဦးတည္းဆိုရင္ အလြန္ အိပ္ငိုက္လြယ္ပါတယ္။ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကေတာ့ အဲဒီလမ္းကို ေမာင္းတာ ေမာင္းက်င့္ျဖစ္သြားေတာ့ အိပ္မငိုက္ေအာင္ ထိန္းႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေပမယ့္ ခုမွ စတင္ေမာင္းမယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အိပ္ငိုက္တာမရွိေအာင္ ေဘးကတစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ကို စကားေျပာခိုင္းဖို႔လိုမွာပါ။

၅။ ကားလမ္းမွာ လမ္းေျပာင္းျပန္ စည္းကမ္းမဲ့ သြားေနတဲ့ လူ၊ ဆိုင္ကယ္၊ စက္ဘီးတို႕ကို သတိထားရမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆိုင္ကယ္ေတြက လမ္းခ်ိဳးေတြ တံတားထိပ္ေတြမွာ ျဖတ္ထြက္တတ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒါ သတိထားရမယ့္အႏၱရာယ္ပါ။ အျမန္လမ္းဥပေဒအရ ေမာင္းေနတဲ့ကးာက လူ ဆိုင္ကယ္ စက္ဘီးတို႔တိုက္မိလို႕ လူေသဆံုးေတာင္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းဘက္က အမွန္ျပဳလုပ္ေပးထားပါတယ္။ တရားဝင္အရ လူ ဆိုင္ကယ္ စက္ဘီးတို႔ ေပးမတက္ပါ။ သို႔ေပမယ့္ ယခုတိုင္ စည္းကမ္းမဲ့ သြားေနၾကျဖစ္လို႕ အႏၱရာယ္မ်ားတုန္းပါပဲ။

၆။ ကၽြဲ ႏြား ေခြး တိရိစာၦန္ေတြေၾကာင့္လည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တစ္ခါဆို ညဖက္ႀကီး ေမွာင္ေမွာင္မဲမဲထဲ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကားေမာင္းေနတုန္း ကၽြဲတစ္ေကာင္ျဖတ္ေပးလို႕ ကားကို လမ္းေဘးထိုးဆင္းလိုက္ရတယ္ ကံေကာင္းလို႕ မေမွာက္တာ ေနာက္ လမ္းေဘးကလည္း ေခ်ာက္မဟုတ္ဘဲ လမ္းေခ်ာေနလို႕ မဟုတ္ရင္ေတာ့ သြားၿပီပဲ။ တစ္ခါ ေဘးက ေက်ာ္တက္တဲ့ကားက ေရွ႕ကေျပးတဲ့ ေခြးကိုဝင္တိုက္တာ ကားဘန္ပါ ျပဳတ္ထြက္သြားၿပီး ဘန္ပါေရာ ေခြးေရာ ကံေကာင္းလို႕ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကားကို လာမမွန္တယ္။ အဲဒီ တိရိစာၦန္ေတြကိုလည္း သတိထားရပါ့မယ္။

၇။ ကားေမာင္းရင္ အရက္ ဘီယာ ေဆးလိပ္ ႏွင့္ အျခား မူးယစ္ေစတဲ့ အရာေတြ လံုးဝမေသာက္ဖို႕လိုပါတယ္။ အလြန္တရာမွ အႏၱရာယ္ၾကံဳေတြ႕ လြယ္ေစပါတယ္။

၈။ ေနာက္တစ္ခုက လမ္းျပဳျပင္တဲ့ ေနရာေတြမွာပါ အဲဒီေနရာေတြမွာ လူေတြဟာ ထြက္ထြက္လာတတ္သလို လမ္းျပဳျပင္တဲ့ ဆိုင္းဘုဒ္ေတြကို ညဖက္ မျမင္မစမ္းနဲ႔ ဝင္တိုက္တတ္ပါတယ္။

၉။ ကားေမာင္းတဲ့အခါ ေန႔ပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ညပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ လမ္းလယ္မွာထားတဲ့ ေရာင္ျပန္ မီးေျခာက္မ်ားကို ဘီးျဖင့္တက္မက်ိတ္ပါနဲ႔ တတ္ႏိုင္သေလာက္ေရွာင္ေမာင္းပါ။ အဲဒီမီးေျခာက္ေတြက တာယာေတြကို ပြတ္တိုက္မိၿပီး ကြဲေစပါတယ္။

၁၀။ ယာဥ္ ေက်ာ္တက္မယ္ဆိုရင္ တစ္ဖက္ယာဥ္က ကိုယ့္ကို ျမင္မျမင္ ေသခ်ာစမ္းစစ္ပါ။ ကိုယ္ေက်ာ္တက္ေနတုန္း တစ္ဖက္ယာဥ္က ေနာက္ၾကည့္မွန္မၾကည့္ပဲ ကိုယ့္ကို ဝင္တိုက္တဲ့ ျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြ ျဖစ္တတ္လို႕ပါ။

ဒီ ၁၀ ခ်က္က ေတာ့ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းေတြ ကိုယ္တိုင္ သတိထားရမယ့္ အခ်က္ေတြပါပဲ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ အထက္ပါ အခ်က္ေတြေၾကာင့္ ယာဥ္တိမ္းေမွာက္မႈျဖစ္ေစတာပါ။

ခု လမ္းပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ အားနည္းခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ ယာဥ္အႏၱရာယ္ျဖစ္ေစတာကို ဆက္ေရးသားပါဦးမယ္။

၁။ လမ္းေတြဟာ အေကြ႕ေတြမွာ ျဖည္ထားတာနည္းပါတယ္ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕ေနရာဆို လံုးဝျဖည္မထားပါ ဒါေၾကာင့္ high speed နဲ႔ ေမာင္းလာမယ္ဆိုရင္ စတီယာယင္ကို မႏိုင္တဲ့အခါ ကားပါသြားပါတယ္ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ ေၾကာက္လန္႔ၿပီး break ကို နင္းတဲ့အခါ ကားလည္ ထြက္သြားပါလိမ့္မယ္ ကားေကြ႕ေနရင္ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ high speed နဲ႔ break နင္းၿပီး မေကြ႕ပါနဲ႔ high speed ကို ေမာင္းေနရင္လည္း အေကြ႕ကို လွမ္းေတြ႕ေနတာနဲ႔ အရွိန္ေရွာ႕ထားပါ။

၂။ လမ္းေတြဟာ အေကြ႕ၿပီးတာနဲ႔ တံတားလာပါတယ္။ အလြန္ေၾကာက္ဖို႕ေကာင္းပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕တံတားဆိုရင္ နက္ပါတယ္ ေအာက္မွာ ေခ်ာက္ပါ ကားက အေကြ႕မွာ ပါသြားမယ္ break လည္းနင္းလို႕ ကားလည္သြားၿပီး ေခ်ာက္ထဲကတာေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးျဖစ္ဖူးပါတယ္။

၃။ လမ္းမ်က္ႏွာျပင္ဟာ မညီညာပါဘူး။ ေျမသားကို ေသေအာင္ထားမယ့္အစား ေအာက္ေျခေျမသားမေသမီ အခ်ိန္မီၿပီးေအာင္လုပ္ရတဲ့အတြက္ လမ္းေတြဟာ ေျမေပ်ာ့တဲ့ေနရာဆို နိမ့္ဝင္ေနတတ္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ ကားဟာ ေျမာက္တက္လိုက္ ျပန္ေဆာင့္လိုက္ျဖစ္ၿပီး တိမ္းေမွာက္တတ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ကားေအာက္ပိုင္း ေရွာ႕ဘားေတြလည္း ျပဳတ္ထြက္တာ တိုက္ေရာ့ ျပဳတ္တာေတြ ျဖစ္တတ္ပါတယ္။

၄။ ညဖက္ေတြမွာ အခုဆိုရင္ ေရာင္ျပန္ေတြ လမ္းမီးေတြဟာ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေၾကာင့္ ေပ်ာက္ရွသြားတာ ပ်က္စီးသြားတာေတြ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ သြားေနၾကမဟုတ္ရင္ ညဖက္မသြားတာ အေကာင္းဆံုးပါပဲ။

၅။ မိုးရြာတဲ့အခါ ေရတအား ဝတ္ပါတယ္ အဲဒီေရက ကားကို လည္သြားေစၿပီး လမ္းေဘး သို႕မဟုတ္ လမ္းလယ္ကၽြန္းကို ဝင္တိုက္မိတတ္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ၿပီး လမ္းေဘးကို ကားသိပ္မကပ္ပါနဲ႔ လမ္းေဘးမွာ မိုးရာသီဆိုရင္ ေရညွိတက္ကာ လမ္းေခ်ာတတ္လို႕ အႏၱရာယ္မ်ားပါတယ္။ ကိုယ္ေတြ႕ပါ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဆို ၁ ဖာလံုေလာက္ ကား ၃ ပါတ္လည္ လြင့္သြားဖူးပါတယ္။ ကံေကာင္းလို႕ မေသခဲ့တာပါ။

အခု ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တာေတြကေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေမာင္းခဲ့တဲ့ အေတြ႕အၾကံဳအရ ျဖစ္ပြားတတ္တဲ့ အႏၱရာယ္ေတြနဲ႔ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ ကိုယ္ေတြ႕ျဖစ္စဥ္ေတြပါပဲ ခုဆိုရင္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္လမ္းသြားခါနီးတိုင္း အျမဲတမ္းသတိဝီရိယထားၿပီး သြားေနတုန္းပါပဲ။ တတ္ႏိုင္သေလာက္ အရွိန္ေလ်ာ့ေမာင္းပါ အလ်င္မလိုပါနဲ႔ ကားေအာက္ပိုင္းနဲ႔ တာယာကို ေသခ်ာစစ္ပါ။ အိပ္မငိုက္ပါနဲ႔ အရက္မေသာက္ပါနဲ႔ မူးယစ္ေစေသာအရာကို မမွီဝဲပါနဲ႔ ဒါဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ထိုက္သင့္သေလာက္ စိတ္ခ်ရမႈ ရပါၿပီ။

သို႕ေပမယ့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ဟာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဝင္တစ္ဦးျဖစ္လို႕ သြားခါနီးတိုင္း ျပန္ေရာက္တိုင္း အျမန္လမ္းမွ ၃၁ ပံုသတၱဝါအားလံုးကို ေမတၱာပို႕ အမွ်ေဝၿပီးမွ သြားပါတယ္။ ဒါကလည္း ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕ ဆရာတစ္ဦးရဲ႕ ဆိုဆံုးမမႈနဲ႔အတူ ဘုရား တရား အာရံုျပဳၿပီး အမွ်ေဝျဖစ္ျခင္းပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အျမန္လမ္းကိုေမာင္းမယ္ဆိုရင္ အႏၱရာယ္ကင္း ေဘးရွင္းၾကပါေစလို႕ ဆုေတာင္းလိုက္ပါတယ္။

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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”!