၀က္ၿမီးဆြဲဗ်ဴဟာ

အာဆီယံအသင္းဝင္ ႏုိင္ငံ ၅ ႏိုင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို ေရာက္ရွိေနသည့္ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္သည္ စစ္အစိုးရမွ အလုပ္ႏွင့္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၁၈ လ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသည့္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ယေန႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည္။ ဆီးနိတ္အမတ္သည္ ယေန႔ အေစာပိုင္းက စစ္အစိုးရ႐ံုးစိုက္ရာ ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္အန္အယ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ၃ ဦး အပါအဝင္ ပါတီေပါင္း ၁၀ ပါတီမွ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ၿပီး စစ္အစိုးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီးသန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည္။ေနျပည္ေတာ္တြင္ ၎၏ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္သည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ဦးဉာဏ္ဝင္းက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း အေသးစိတ္ကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မျပဳဟုသတင္းမ်ားကဆိုသည္။
မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္မစမီက VOA သို႕ေျပာဆိုရာတြင္ NLD ေျပာခြင့္ရပုဂၢိဳလ္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းက “အဖိတ္ခံရ တဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြနဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ခဏ ေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ခြင့္ ရပါတယ္။ ေဆြးေႏြးတုိင္ပင္ခြင့္ ရတဲ့အထဲမွာ ဒီကိစၥ ဟတ္မဟုတ္ဆုိတာ နံပါတ္တစ္ မေသခ်ာဘူး၊ နံပါတ္ႏွစ္က ဒီကိစၥဆိုရင္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိက ေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ဂ်င္မ္ ၀က္ဘ္ရဲ႕ ခရီးစဥ္ကို လုံး၀ စိတ္မ၀င္စားဘူး။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့ သူဟာ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ သေဘာထားမွန္တာ တခုမွ မေတြ႕ဘူး။ သူက Sanction ကို ကန္႔ကြက္တဲ့လူ၊ သူ႕ရဲ႕ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ခရီးစဥ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ႏုိင္ငံေရးအရ လုံး၀ ေဖာ္ျပတာ မရွိဘူး။ ဒီအခ်က္အလက္ေတြအရ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ စိတ္၀င္စားမႈ မရွိဘူး။”ဟုေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္္။
ျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေ၀ဖန္သံုးသတ္ခ်က္ ေဆာင္ပါးမ်ားေရးေလ့ရွိသူ လယ္ရီ ေယဂင္ (Larry Jagan)က “အေမရိကန္ ဆီးနိတ္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္မွ အၾကီးအက်ယ္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားျခင္းသည္ အေျမာ္အျမင္မဲ့ရာ ေရာက္ပါသည္။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံု ခြင့္ရသည္ဆုိလွ်င္ပင္ သူ႔ခရီးစဥ္မွာ သူ႔အတြက္ အလြန္ထူးျခားလွပါသည္။ ကုလအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ အထူးသံတမန္ မစၥတာ အီဗရာဟင္ ဂမ္ဘာရီဆိုလွ်င္ အေစာပိုင္းက ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ ရခဲ့ေသးေသာ္လည္း ေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ မရေတာ့ပါ။ ဘာျဖစ္မည္လဲဆိုသည့္ ကိစၥတြင္ အဓိကက်ေသာ အခ်က္မွာ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ကိုယ္တုိင္က စစ္ဘက္ဆိုင္ရာ ပုဂၢိဳလ္တဦး ျဖစ္ေနျခင္းပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သူသည္ မရိန္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔ဝင္ေဟာင္းတဦး ျဖစ္သည္။ ဤအခ်က္က အရပ္သားမ်ားကို ရြံရွာမုန္းတီးေလ့ရွိသူ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီးႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခြင့္ရေရးအတြက္ အေထာက္အကူျပဳႏိုင္ဖြယ္ ရွိပါသည္။”ဟုသံုးသတ္ထားသည္။
မည္သို႕ပင္ျဖစ္ေစ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္သည္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ တခုေက်ာ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးၾကီး သန္းေရႊႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့သည့္ အေမရိကန္ အဆင့္အျမင့္ဆံုး အရာရွိတဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ယခု ခရီးစဥ္သည္ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ မစၥတာအိုဘားမား အစုိးရ၏ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွတြင္ ဧကစာက်င့္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ မူဝါဒမ်ား ခ်မွတ္ရန္ ျပန္လည္သံုးသပ္ေရးအတြက္ အသံုးဝင္လိမ့္မည္ဟု ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေလ့လာသံုးသပ္သူမ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းၾကသည္ဟုလည္းအဆိုရွိေနစဥ္အတြင္း
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေနအိမ္အတြင္းသို႔ တိတ္တဆိတ္ ဝင္ေရာက္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ အဂၤါေန႔က ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၇ ႏွစ္ ခ်မွတ္ခံခဲ့ရသူ မစၥတာ ဂြ်န္ယက္ေတာအား လူသားခ်င္း စာနာသည့္ အေနျဖင့္ မနက္ျဖန္တြင္ အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္ပို႔ေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သူ၏ က်န္းမာေရး အေျခအေနအရ ျမန္မာ ႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၇ ႏွစ္ က်ခံရမည့္အစား အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ျပန္လည္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရန္ အာဏာ ပုိင္မ်ားက အမိန္႔ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွီၿပီး သူ႔ကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ အလည္အပတ္ ေရာက္ရွိေနသည့္ ဆီနိတ္တာအမတ္ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးမည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္၏ ခရီးစဥ္ မတုိင္ခင္ကတည္းက အာဏာပိုင္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ လဲႊေျပာင္းေပးရန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း မစၥတာဝက္ဘ္ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာအာဏာပုိင္မ်ား ေတြ႔ဆံုမႈအတြင္း ထိုကဲ့သို႔ သေဘာတူဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ မစၥတာ ယက္ေတာ (အသက္ ၅၃ ႏွစ္) သည္ မနက္ဖန္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔တြင္ ျပည္ႏွင္ဒဏ္ ေပးခံရမည္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး စစ္ေလယာဥ္တစီးျဖင့္ ဘန္ေကာက္သုိ႔ ပို႕ရန္အစီအစဥ္ရွိသည္ဟုသိရသည္။

ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ ႏွင့္ ယေန႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံရာတြင္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ မစၥတာ ဂ်င္မ္ဝက္ဘ္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္လည္း ေတာင္းဆုိခ့ဲသည္ ဟုလည္းသူ၏ ေၾကညာခ်က္တြင္ ေရး ထားသည္။

Senator wins release of US prisoner in Myanmar

AP - Saturday, August 15, 2009 2:17:37 PM
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb won the release Saturday of an American prisoner convicted in Myanmar and sentenced to seven years in prison for swimming secretly to the residence of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the senator's office said.
Yettaw, 53, is to be officially deported Sunday, when he will fly with Webb on a military plane to Bangkok, according to a statement from Webb's office.
Before his conviction on Tuesday, Yettaw had spent a week in a prison hospital for epileptic seizures. He is also said to suffer from asthma and diabetes.
During Webb's visit to Myanmar -- the first by a member of the U.S. Congress in more than a decade -- the senator also secured a rare visit with Suu Kyi, who was convicted along with Yettaw and sentenced to 18 more months under house arrest. She has been detained for 14 of the last 20 years.
The junta may have approved the meeting with Suu Kyi to mitigate the torrent of international criticism against Myanmar following the trial and Tuesday's verdict. In July, authorities barred U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon from meeting with Suu Kyi during a two-day visit.
Webb, the statement said, requested that Suu Kyi be released during a meeting with junta leader Senior Gen. Than Shwe on Saturday. It was the first time the reclusive general had met with a senior U.S. official.
"It is my hope that we can take advantage of these gestures as a way to begin laying the foundations of goodwill and confidence building in the future," Webb was quoted as saying.
On Saturday, the 64-year-old Nobel Peace laureate was driven from her residence to a nearby government guest house for a 40-minute meeting with Webb, then reporters saw her taken home by car.
Webb, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's East Asia and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, described the meeting as "an opportunity ... to convey my deep respect to Aung San Suu Kyi for the sacrifices she has made on behalf of democracy around the world."
The senator, who arrived in Myanmar's capital of Naypyitaw on Friday, was scheduled to address reporters in Yangon on Sunday.
The visit -- particularly the meetings with senior officials and Suu Kyi -- was unusual because of the poor state of relations between Myanmar, also known as Burma, and the U.S. Many critics said it was bad timing for outreach -- only days after the junta flouted international appeals that Suu Kyi be cleared of the latest charges. It also drew criticism from activists who say it confers legitimacy on a brutal regime.
While Washington has traditionally been Myanmar's strongest critic, applying political and economic sanctions against the junta, President Barack Obama's new ambassador for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, recently said the administration is interested in easing its policy of isolation. Webb has said that "affirmative engagement" could bring the most change to Myanmar, concerning those who think a hard line is the best approach.
Britain's ambassador to the United Nations suggested Webb's visit could help persuade the junta to free Suu Kyi.
"If the Americans can get the generals to see that their country's interest is reflected in taking interest in reconciliation, releasing Aung San Suu Kyi and holding free and fair elections, that would be very helpful." John Sawyers told BBC Radio 4 on Saturday.
But in a letter to Webb, dissident groups warned the junta would use the senator's trip for its own ends.
"We are concerned that the military regime will manipulate and exploit your visit and propagandize that you endorse their treatment on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and over 2,100 political prisoners, their human rights abuses on the people of Burma, and their systematic, widespread and ongoing attack against the ethnic minorities," the letter said. Daw is a term of respect for older women in Myanmar.
Possibly reflecting a similar wariness, a spokesman for Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy said the party "has no interest in Jim Webb because he is not known to have any interest in Myanmar affairs." He did not elaborate.
Official media, however, appeared to herald Webb's arrival. The nightly broadcast led with the visit, reporting that the senator met with Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein on Friday, and returned to the subject several times during the night.
Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. The junta called elections in 1990 but refused to honor the results when Suu Kyi's party won overwhelmingly.
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Associated Press writers Foster Klug and Greg Katz in London contributed to this report from Washington