kabarmakyay: March 2014

3/31/2014

မေလးရွား ေလယာဥ္ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးမႈအတြက္ အ႐ိုးရွင္းဆံုးႏွင့္ ယုတၱိအရွိဆံုး ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ

ခရီးသည္ ၂၂၇ ဦးႏွင့္ ေလယာဥ္ ဝန္ထမ္း ၁၂ ဦး၊ စုစုေပါင္း လူ ၂၃၉ ဦးကို တင္ေဆာင္သြားေသာ မေလးရွား ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းပိုင္ ဘိုးရင္း ၇၇၇ ေလယာဥ္ႀကီး ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနသည္မွာ ဆယ္ရက္ေက်ာ္ ၾကာျမင့္လာၿပီးသည့္ ေနာက္တြင္ စံုစမ္းသိရွိရေသာ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားေပၚ မူတည္၍ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ ရွိသည့္ သီအိုရီမ်ား အမ်ားအျပား ေပၚေပါက္လာခဲ့သည္။

အခ်ိန္ၾကာလာသည္ႏွင့္အမွ် မူလ အယူအဆ ျဖစ္သည့္ စက္ခ်ိဳ႕ယြင္းမႈ တစ္ခုခုေၾကာင့္ သမုဒၵရာ အတြင္းသို႔ ပ်က္က်သြားျခင္း သို႔မဟုတ္ ေလထဲတြင္ ေပါက္ကြဲသြားျခင္း ျဖစ္မည္ဟူေသာ အယူအဆမွာ ေမွးမွိန္သြားၿပီး အေသးစိတ္ ႀကိဳတင္ ႀကံစည္ထားသည့္ ျပန္ေပးဆြဲမႈ၊ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ၊ ေလယာဥ္ခိုးယူမႈႀကီး တစ္ခုျဖစ္မည္ဟူေသာ သီအိုရီမ်ားမွာ ပိုမို အားေကာင္းလာခဲ့သည္။

ထိုသီအိုရီမ်ားအရ ေလယာဥ္ ျပန္ေပးဆြဲမႈ သို႔မဟုတ္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ သို႔မဟုတ္ ခိုးယူမႈကို က်ဴးလြန္သူမ်ားသည္ ေလယာဥ္ အေၾကာင္းကို ေကာင္းစြာသိသူ၊ ကြၽမ္းက်င္သူ ျဖစ္မည္ဟု ေကာက္ခ်က္ ခ်ရမည္ ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားက MH 370 ေလယာဥ္ကို တာဝန္ယူ ေမာင္းႏွင္သြားသည့္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴး ႏွစ္ဦး၏ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္း ရာဇဝင္ႏွင့္ ၎တို႔၏ အိမ္မ်ားကို စံုစမ္းရွာေဖြခဲ့ၿပီး ေလယာဥ္ေပၚတြင္ လိုက္ပါသြားသည့္ ခရီးသည္မ်ား၏ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္းကိုလည္း စံုစမ္း စစ္ေဆးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ထိုကဲ့သို႔ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း လက္ရွိ အခ်ိန္အထိ ေလယာဥ္မွဴး ႏွစ္ဦးႏွင့္ ခရီးသည္မ်ား၏ ေနာက္ေၾကာင္း ရာဇဝင္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး တိက်ခိုင္မာေသာ မသကၤာစရာ အခ်က္အလက္ တစ္ခုတေလမွ် ရွာေဖြ ေတြ႕ရွိရေသးျခင္း မရွိသျဖင့္ ေလယာဥ္ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးမႈကို စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ေလ့လာ သံုးသပ္သူမ်ား အေတြးလြန္ေနၿပီလားဟု စဥ္းစားစရာ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။

ထိုအခ်ိန္တြင္ လုပ္ငန္းအေတြ႕ အႀကံဳအႏွစ္ ၂၀ ရွိ ေလယာဥ္မွဴးေဟာင္း တစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည့္ ခရစၥဂြတ္ဖဲလိုးဆိုသူက မေလးရွား ေလယာဥ္ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သူ႔လုပ္ငန္း အေတြ႕အႀကံဳေပၚ အေျခခံထားသည့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္သီအုိရီ တစ္ရပ္ကို တင္ျပလာခဲ့ကာ သူ၏သီအိုရီမွာ လက္ရွိ စံုစမ္းသိရွိထားရသမွ် အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီလ်က္ ရွိသလို ယုတၱိအရွိဆံုး အယူအဆ တစ္ရပ္လည္း ျဖစ္ေနသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားက သူ၏သီအိုရီကို အေရးတယူ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေလယာဥ္မွဴးေဟာင္း ခရစၥဂြတ္ ဖဲလိုး၏သီအိုရီကို အက်ဥ္းခ်ံဳးေဖာ္ျပရလွ်င္ -
မေလးရွား ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းပိုင္ ေလယာဥ္ သမုဒၵရာကို ျဖတ္၍ပ်ံသန္းေနစဥ္ တြဲဖက္ေလယာဥ္မွဴးက မေလးရွား ေလေၾကာင္း ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ေရးစခန္းသို႔ ေနာက္ဆံုး ႏႈတ္ဆက္စကား ေျပာၾကားၿပီး မၾကာမီမွာပင္ ခ်ဳိ႕ယြင္းမႈ တစ္ခုေၾကာင့္ ေလယာဥ္တက္သည့္ အခ်ိန္က ေလယာဥ္ ေရွ႕ဘီးတာယာ ေလာင္ကြၽမ္းၿပီး ထြက္ေပၚလာျခင္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဖြယ္ရွိေသာ မီးခိုးမ်ားသည္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴး အခန္းထဲသို႔ စတင္ ဝင္ေရာက္လာခဲ့သည္။

ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴးသည္ ၎ေလ့က်င့္ သင္ၾကားထားသည့္အတိုင္း ေလယာဥ္ကို အနီးဆံုး ေလဆိပ္တစ္ခုသို႔ ဆင္းသက္ႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ေလယာဥ္ကို လမ္းေၾကာင္း ေျပာင္းခဲ့သည္။

အသင့္ေလ်ာ္ဆံုးႏွင့္ အနီးဆံုး ေလဆိပ္မွာ ပူေလာလန္ကာဝီ ေလဆိပ္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး ထိုေလဆိပ္တြင္ ေပ ၁၃၀၀၀ ရွည္လ်ားေသာ ေလယာဥ္ ေျပးလမ္းလည္း ရွိသည္။ ေလယာဥ္မွဴးသည္ ေလယာဥ္၏ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစနစ္တြင္ ေလယာဥ္ ပ်ံသန္းမည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကို ေျပာင္းလဲ ထည့္သြင္းလိုက္သျဖင့္ အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ေမာင္းစက္သည္ ေလယာဥ္ကို အေနာက္ဘက္သို႔ ေကြ႕ေစၿပီး ေလယာဥ္ ေျပးလမ္းရွိရာ လမ္းေၾကာင္းအတိုင္း ပ်ံသန္းေစခဲ့သည္။ (ေရဒါ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားအရ ေလယာဥ္သည္ အမွန္တကယ္ ထိုလမ္းေၾကာင္းအတိုင္း ပ်ံသန္းသြားခဲ့သည္)
ထို႔ေနာက္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴးႏွင့္ တြဲဖက္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴးတို႔သည္ မီးခိုးႏွင့္ မီးေတာက္မ်ား ထြက္ေပၚရာေနရာႏွင့္ အေၾကာင္းအရင္းကို ရွာေဖြရန္ ႀကိဳးစားရင္း အေၾကာင္းအရင္းကို ခြဲခြဲျခားျခား သိႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္ရွိသည့္ ကိရိယာမ်ားကို ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။ ထိုကဲ့သို႔ ပိတ္ပစ္သည့္ အထဲတြင္ ေျမျပင္စခန္းသို႔ သတင္းအခ်က္အလက္ပို႔ ကိရိယာႏွင့္ စနစ္တို႔လည္း ပါဝင္သည္။ (သို႔ေသာ္ ေလယာဥ္ကို ထိန္းေက်ာင္း ပ်ံသန္းေနသည့္ အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ေမာင္းႏွင္စက္ကိုေတာ့ ပိတ္မည္ မဟုတ္ေခ်)။ ေလယာဥ္မွဴး ႏွစ္ဦးသည္ ေလယာဥ္တြင္ ျပႆနာ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ေျမျပင္စခန္းသို႔ သတင္းပို႔ရန္ ပထမဆံုး ႀကိဳးစားမည္ မဟုတ္ေခ်။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ ဆိုေသာ္ ေလထဲတြင္ အေရးေပၚ အေျခအေန ႀကံဳေတြ႕ရပါ က ေလယာဥ္မွဴးမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည့္ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ အဆင့္ဆင့္မွာ (၁) ဆက္လက္ ပ်ံသန္းႏိုင္ရန္ ႀကိဳးစားပါ၊ (၂) ပ်ံသန္းမည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္း သတ္မွတ္ပါ။ (၃) ဆက္သြယ္ပါ ဟူ၍ ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ဆက္သြယ္ရန္မွာ ေနာက္ဆံုး အဆင့္ ျဖစ္ေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ မီးခိုးမ်ားမွာ အခ်ိန္ အနည္းငယ္အတြင္း ေလယာဥ္မွဴး အခန္းထဲတြင္ ျပည့္လာၿပီး (ေလယာဥ္ဘီးတာယာ မီးေလာင္မႈက ထိုကဲ့သို႔ အမွန္တကယ္ ျဖစ္ေစႏိုင္သည္) ေလယာဥ္မွဴး ႏွစ္ဦးမွာ သတိလစ္သြားခဲ့သည္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ေသဆံုးသြားခဲ့သည္။

မီးခိုးမ်ားသည္ ေလယာဥ္ ေနာက္ခန္းဆီထိ ေရာက္ရွိသြားၿပီး ခရီးသည္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေလယာဥ္ ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ားပါ မီးခိုးဒဏ္ကို ခံစားလိုက္ၾကရသည္ သို႔မဟုတ္ ေလယာဥ္မွဴး အခန္းတံခါးသည္ ေသာ့ပိတ္ထားသျဖင့္ မည္သူမွ် ေလယာဥ္မွဴး အခန္းထဲသို႔ ဝင္ေရာက္ၿပီး ေလယာဥ္၏ အေျခအေနကို ၾကည့္႐ႈကာ ေလယာဥ္ကို ေျမျပင္ေပၚသို႔ ေကာင္းေကာင္းမြန္မြန္ ဆင္းသက္ႏိုင္ရန္အတြက္ ႀကိဳးစား အားထုတ္ႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိေတာ့ေခ်။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးက ေလယာဥ္မွဴး အခန္းထဲသို႔ေရာက္သြားခဲ့ၿပီး
ေလယာဥ္မွဴးမ်ား သတိလစ္ေနသည္ကို ေတြ႕လွ်င္ေသာ္မွ ေလယာဥ္၏ လွ်ပ္စစ္စနစ္ အမ်ားစုမွာ ပိတ္ထားၿပီးသား သို႔မဟုတ္ ပ်က္စီးေနၿပီးသား ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ လက္ေတြ႕တြင္ ေလယာဥ္ကို
ေအာင္ေအာင္ျမင္ျမင္ ဆင္းသက္ႏိုင္ေရး ႀကိဳးစားရန္မွာ လြယ္ကူေသာ အလုပ္မဟုတ္ေခ်)

ေလယာဥ္ကို ဆင္းသက္ရန္အတြက္ အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ေမာင္းႏွင္စက္ကို ညႊန္ၾကားမည့္သူ တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္မွ် သတိရလာျခင္း မရွိသျဖင့္ ေလယာဥ္သည္ ၎၏ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာစနစ္ထဲ ထည့္သြင္းထားသည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းအတိုင္း ပူေလာလန္ကာဝီကို အေပၚမွ ျဖတ္ကာ အိႏၵိယ သမုဒၵရာဘက္သို႔ ပ်ံသန္းသြားခဲ့သည္။ ေလယာဥ္ အင္ဂ်င္၏ ပ်ံသန္းမႈ သတင္းပို႔စနစ္မွာမူ ၿဂိဳဟ္တုသို႔ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ား အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ဆက္လက္ ေပးပို႔ေနခဲ့သည္။ အထက္ပါအတိုင္း ျဖစ္ပြားၿပီး ၆ နာရီ သို႔မဟုတ္ ၇ နာရီခန္႔ ၾကာျမင့္ၿပီးသည့္ ေနာက္တြင္မူ ေလယာဥ္သည္ ဆီကုန္သြားၿပီး ပ်က္က် သြားေတာ့သည္ဟူ၍ ျဖစ္သည္။

ခရစၥဂြတ္ဖဲလိုး၏ သီအိုရီမွာ ေလယာဥ္ပ်ံသန္းမည့္ လမ္းေၾကာင္းကို တစ္စံုတစ္ဦးက ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ရွိရွိ ေျပာင္းလဲလိုက္ျခင္း၊ အဆက္အသြယ္ ျပတ္ေတာက္ သြားၿပီးေနာက္ ေလယာဥ္မွာ ၇ နာရီခန္႔ ဆက္လက္ ပ်ံသန္းေနခဲ့ေသးျခင္း စသည့္ လက္ရွိ စံုစမ္းသိရွိထားရသည့္ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားႏွင့္ ကိုက္ညီလ်က္ ရွိသလို စိတ္ကူးယဥ္ဆန္ေသာ ႀကိဳတင္ ႀကံစည္မႈမ်ား၊ အျဖစ္အပ်က္မ်ားလည္း မပါမဝင္သျဖင့္ လတ္တေလာတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားကေရာ၊ ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္သူ မ်ားကပါ အ႐ိုးရွင္းဆံုးႏွင့္ ယုတၲိအရွိဆံုး သီအိုရီတစ္ခုအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္လ်က္ ရွိၾကသည္။

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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”!