kabarmakyay: February 2015

2/14/2015

အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ေဒသ စစ္ပြဲ တရားခံ အစစ္ ဘယ္သူေတြလဲ။

၂၀၁၅ အစဦးပိုင္း ဇန္န၀ါရီလဆန္းမွာ ကုိးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္
အေနျဖင့္ မၾကာမီ ရက္ပိုင္းက အစိုးရတပ္အား ျပန္လည္ခုခံရန္ျပန္လာမည္ဟု တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရ အာေဘာ္ Global Times တ႐ုတ္သတင္းစာႏွင့္ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ Interview တစ္ခုတြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကရက္တစ္မဟာ မိတ္တပ္မေတာ္ (MNDAA)၊ အမွန္တရားႏွင့္ မွ်တမႈ အမ်ိဳးသားပါတီ (MNTJP)၏ မ်က္ေမွာက္အေျခအေနႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ေၾကညာခ်က္ဟု ေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္ထားသည့္ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၁၀ ရက္တြင္ မီဒီယာအခ်ိဳ႕သို႔ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ခဲ့သည္။

ထိုေနာက္ ယခုရက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသအား ျပင္းထန္စြာထိုးစစ္ ဆင္လာမႈမ်ား ဆက္လက္ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။

ကုိးကန္႔လက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖြဲ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္သည္ ဘိန္းဘုရင္တစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည္။ တခ်ိန္က ဗကပလက္ေအာက္ခံျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္။ ဘိန္းစုိက္ၿပီး စီးပြားရွာသည္။ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးေရာင္း၀ယ္ထုတ္လုပ္သည္။

ဤနည္းျဖင့္ ဘိန္းဘုရင္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ အျဖစ္ ေက်ာ္ေဇာလာၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံတုိ႔မွ ဆုေၾကးထုတ္ကာ ဖမ္း၀ရမ္းထုတ္ထား ခံရသူျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကုိးကန္႔ေဒသခံျပည္သူမ်ားသည္ မူးယစ္ေဆးဒုကၡႏြံထဲမွ ႐ုန္းမထြက္ႏုိင္ျဖစ္ေနရၿပီး ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ကမူ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးျဖင့္ ၾကြယ္၀ခ်မ္းသာကာ အေနာက္ႏိုုင္ငံ မီဒီယာမ်ားက War load ကုိးကန္႔ဘိန္းဘုရင္ဟုပင္ တင္စား ေခၚေ၀ၚျခင္းခံခဲ့ရသူျဖစ္သည္။

တ႐ုတ္နယ္စပ္အားကိုးနဲ႔ ျမန္မာနယ္အတြင္း မိုင္းလားနယ္ေျမမွာ ကာစီႏို ေလာင္းကစား႐ံုမ်ား မူးယစ္ေဆးေရာင္း၀ယ္ ေဖာက္ကားရာ ေစ်းကြက္မ်ား တည္ေထာင္ၿပီး စီးပြားေရးေတာင့္တင္းလာသူ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ မဟာမိတ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ NDAA (မိုင္းလား) အဖြဲ႕ဥကၠ႒ စိုင္းလင္းမွာသူ႔သားမက္ ျဖစ္သည္။
ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ႏွင့္ ကိိုးကန္႕သည္ ၁၉၆ဝ ခုမွ ၁၉၈၉ ခုအထိ ဗမာျပည္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ၏ ေဒသတခု အေနျဖင့္ ရပ္တည္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၁၉၈၉ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဗကပ လက္ေအာက္မွ ခဲြထြက္ကာ ကိုးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္ အင္အားစုမ်ားျဖစ္လာစဥ္ ၁၉၈၉ခုႏွစ္ မတ္လ အတြင္း လူအင္အား ၂၀၆၇ေယာက္ လက္နက္ ၁၃၄၅လက္ျဖင့္ စစ္အုပ္စုႏွင့္ အေစာဆံုး အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲခဲ့ေသာ အဖြဲ႕ အစည္းျဖစ္သည္။
ႏိုင္ငံေရး မေျပာေၾကး ကိုုယ့္ေသနတ္ကိုယ္ကိုင္ထား အျပစ္ရပ္ ႀကိဳက္တာလုပ္ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႕ကို ဘယ္ႏိုင္ငံကဘဲ လိုလို က်ဳပ္မေပးဘူး။ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႕ အသက္ကို အာမခံတယ္ ဆိုၿပီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးခင္ညြန္႕ Personal Order နဲ႕ ကတိျပဳတဲ့ ဗရမ္းပတာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။
ဘိန္းဘုရင္ေလာ္စစ္ဟန္က ကိုးကန္႔ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ကို ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ရယူေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခအျဖစ္ သားျဖစ္သူ ဦးထြန္းျမင့္ႏုိင္အာား ေအးရွားေဝါလ္ အမည္ျဖင့္ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ ႀကီးမားသည့္ ဆိပ္ကမ္း ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈလုပ္ငန္း၊ ေလေၾကာင္း လုိင္း ေျပးဆြဲျခင္းႏွင့္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္း စီမံကိန္းႀကီးမ်ား စသည့္ ထိပ္တန္း စီးပြားေရး လုပ္ငန္းႀကီးမ်ားကို တပ္မေတာ္အစိုးရ ပါ၀ါ အာဏာနဲ႕ ေပးခဲ့တယ္။

ဦိးဖိုးေအာင္ ပို႔စ္္အထဲ ေရးထားဖူးသလို - ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကာလ ဖုန္ၾကား႐ွင္လက္ထက္မွာ

ၿမိဳ႕လယ္က ဘံုခုနစ္ဆင့္မွာ လူသတ္ၿပီး အေလာင္းကို ခ်ိတ္ဆြဲျပထားတာေတြ၊ မသတ္ခင္ အသတ္ခံရမည့္လူကို တ႐ုတ္ရာဇဝင္ကားထဲကလို ၿမိဳ႕ထဲမွာ လွည့္လည္ ျပတာေတြနဲ႕ ဥပေဒအထက္ကၿမိဳ႕၊ ကာစီႏိုဝိုင္းႀကီးေတြ ဖဲဝိုင္းႀကီးေတြနွင့္ ေလာင္းကစား အဆိုင္း ၃ ဆိုင္းမွာ အလုပ္သမ မိန္းကေလးေထာင္ခ်ီ႐ွိတဲ့ ဟိုတယ္ႀကီးေတြ႐ွိတဲ့ ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေလာင္းကစားရံု လံုၿခံဳေရးက ေမာင္းျပန္ေသနတ္ကိုင္ၿပီး အေပါက္ဝကေစာင့္တဲ့ ၿမိဳ႕၊ အစိုးရဝန္ထမ္းေတြ ၾသဇာ မ႐ွိ တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေသနတ္ကိုင္ရပ္ကြက္ရဲကို ေနာက္က ေသနတ္အသင့္ႏွင့္လိုက္ခိုင္းၿပီး ရပ္ကြက္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးးက ရဲကားမီးဖြင့္လို႕ မိန္းမကို အႀကိဳ အပို႕ လုပ္္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕ အႏွိပ္ခန္းနွင့္ ဖာတန္းကို ဆိုင္ခန္းစနစ္တက်နဲ႕ လမ္းေဘးမွာ ေဖာက္သည္ေအာ္ေခၚ ေနတျဲ့မိဳ႕၊ ျမန္မာေငြ
သံုးမရတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ျမန္မာစကားျပာမရတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေသနတ္ခ်ိတ္ၿပီး ကလပ္ထဲဝင္က ၾကတဲ့ေကာင္းဘိြဳင္ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေသနတ္ခ်ိတ္ထားတဲ့ ကိုးကန္႕မွ တ႐ုတ္မေတြကပ္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေစတီပုထိုးကို အလွထားတတ္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေန႕အိပ္ညမအိပ္ ဖဲ႐ိုက္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ လူသတ္မႈေတြအမႈမဖြင့္ဘဲ ကိုးကန္႕အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးလက္ထဲေပ်ာက္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊

ေဆးျပားေပါတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ေဆးသမားေပါတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ကစထမွဴးေလာက္ပဲ လူထင္တဲ့ ကိုးကန္႕အႀကီးအကဲေတြ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္တဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊ ဖဒရယ္စနစ္ထက္ပိုတဲ့ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရေနတဲ့ၿမိဳ႕၊
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကိုးကန္႔ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရေဒသကို ဖန္တီးသူမွာ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ အစိုးရပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။
၂၀၀၉ခုမွာ ဦးဖုန္ၾကားရွင္မွ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ရန္ တရားဝင္ ျငင္းဆိုခဲ့ေသာအခါ လက္နက္စက္႐ံုမ်ား၊ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးစက္ရံုမ်ား တည္ေထာင္ျပီး မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးမ်ားကို ျဖန္႔ျဖဴးးခဲ့သည္

သာမက ေဒသခံရဲတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားကိုပါေခၚယူ၍ ရက္စက္စြာသတ္ျဖတ္ ခဲ့ျခင္းမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ဟု အေႀကာင္းျပခ်က္ျဖင္ ဦးပယ္ေစာက္ခ်ိန္ (အထူးေဒသ(၁)ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီဝင္) ကို အာဏာသိမ္း ေစကာ ကိုးကန္႔ ယာယီအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး အဖြဲ႕ လက္နက္လူအင္အား ၈၀၀ က နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္လုပ္ရန္ သေဘာ တူညီခဲ့ၿပီး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ရန္လည္း သေဘာတူ ညီမႈ ရရွိခဲ့ၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ျပည္ထဲေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ဒုဝန္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ဖုန္းေဆြမွသတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ကာ ေၾကညာခဲ့သည္။့

ထိုအျဖစ္အပ်က္မ်ားေၾကာင့္ စစ္တပ္၊ ရဲတပ္သားမ်ားႏွင့္ ကိုးကန္႔တို႔ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၂၇ မွ ၂၉ထိ ၃ရက္ၾကာ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြါး ခဲ့ၾကရသည္ဟု ေျပာခဲ့သည္။ တုိက္ပြဲမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြါးခဲ့မႈေၾကာင့္ ကိုးကန္႔ ေဒသတြင္ ေနထိုင္သူ ၃၀၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ခန္႔ ေနရပ္ရင္းကို စြန္႔ခြာ ထြက္ေျပး ခဲ့ၾကရသည္။ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ေန႔ ညေန ၆နာရီအထိ ထြက္ေျပးခဲ့သူ ၁၅၆၀၇ ေယာက္ ျပန္လာခဲ့ၿပီဟု ေျပာခဲ့ၿပီး ယခုအခါ ပံုမွန္အေျခအေနသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနၿပီဟု ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။
ဤသို႕ျဖင့္ ဦးဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ကို ေလာက္ကိုင္မွ ကန္ထုတ္ခဲ့သည္။
တရုတ္ႏွင့္တစံုတရာ နားလည္မႈယူထားႏိုင္သျဖင့္ ဦးဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ကို တရုတ္က က်ားကန္မေပး သည့္အျပင္ တ႐ုတ္ အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ၄င္းတို႔ႏိုင္ငံတြင္တည္ရွိသည့္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ ပိုင္ဆိုင္ေသာ ဘဏ္မ်ား၊ ဟိုတယ္ မ်ားႏွင့္ အျခားစီးပြားေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကိုယာယီပိတ္ပင္ခဲ့ျပီး ဘဏ္အေကာင့္ မ်ားတြင္ရွိေသာ ေငြေၾကးမ်ားကိုပါ ထုတ္ယူျခင္း မျပဳႏိုင္ေအာင္ ပိတ္ဆို႔တားဆီးခဲ့သည္။

ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္၏ ဘဏ္တစ္ခုအပါအ၀င္ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားသည္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္အထင္ကရ ရွိေန သည္။ ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသမွ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါး ေရာင္း၀ယ္ေဖာက္ကားရရွိခဲ့သည့္ ေငြေၾကးပမာဏ
ေျမာက္ျမားစြာလည္း တ႐ုတ္ဘဏ္မ်ားတြင္ဘဏ္အေကာင့္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာျဖင့္ အပ္ႏွံထားလ်က္ရွိသည္။
မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးနာမည္ဆုိးနဲ႔ ေက်ာ္ေဇာသည့္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္လုိ ဘိန္းဘုရင္သည္ တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံအေနျဖင့္ လုိအပ္ပါက အသုံးခ်ရန္ ေမွာက္ထားေသာ ဖဲျဖစ္သည္။
+(စစ္အစိုးရကလည္း ယခုအခါ ေဝစန္းဆိုတာကို နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ကေန တပ္မေတာ္ ကာကြယ္ေရးဦးစီးခ်ဳပ္က တိုက္႐ိုက္ခန္႕ ဂုဏ္ထူးေဆာင္ ျပန္တမ္းဝင္အရာ႐ွိ ဗိုလ္မွဴးႀကီး ခန္႕ထားကာဦးပယ္ေစာက္ခ်ိန္ ႏွင့္ ဗိုလ္မွဴးႀကီးေဝစန္းတို႕ က်ိတ္ၿပိဳင္ေန ၾကေအာင္ ဖန္တီးထား ျပန္သည္။)+
အခ်ဳပ္ဆိုရလွ်င္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးခင္ညြန္႕ေခါင္းခံသည့္ တပ္မေတာ္အစိုးရ မလည္ရႈပ္လုပ္ရပ္မွ ေပါက္ဖြါး လာေသာ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္၏ ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသအား ျပင္းထန္စြာထိုးစစ္ ဆင္လာမႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေဒသခံ ၿပည္သူမ်ား အတြက္ ထိတ္လန္႔မႈမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚခဲ့ရေပသည္။ တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား အလဟသ အသက္ ဆံုးရံႈးရသည္။

ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ လက္ရွိအေျခအေန တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဖန္တီးလာခဲ့ေသာ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ ထိုးစစ္မ်ား ေနာက္ကြယ္မွ တရုတ္အစိုးရ ႏွင့္ အတူ ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားကို အဓိက တရားခံမ်ားအျဖစ္ အျပစ္ျမင္ရပါသည္။

တရား၀င္ဇနီး နံပတ္ ၇ ႏွင့္ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္

ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ လက္ရွိအေျခအေန တြင္ တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဖန္တီးလာခဲ့ေသာ ဖုန္ၾကားရွင္ ထိုးစစ္မ်ား ေနာက္ကြယ္မွ တရုတ္အစိုးရ ႏွင့္ အတူ ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားကို အဓိက တရားခံမ်ားအျဖစ္ အျပစ္ျမင္ရပါသည္။

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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”!