kabarmakyay: “ၾကယ္ေျခြတဲ့လက္”

10/02/2009

“ၾကယ္ေျခြတဲ့လက္”

တပိုင္းတစ မွ်ေ၀ပါရေစ (ၾကယ္ေတြေျကြေနတဲ့ တိုင္းျပည္ )

ၾကယ္ဆိုတာ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ အလင္းေရာင္ရွိတယ္။ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ ေနရာဟာ ျမင့္မားတဲ့ေကာင္းကင္ၾကီးပဲ။

ရာသီဥတု ၾကည္လင္တဲ့ ညေတြဆိုရင္ အေရာင္လက္ေနတဲ့ ၾကယ္ေတြဟာစိန္ေတြလိုပဲ တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္ လက္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာ လူတိုင္း သိၾကသလို၊ ျမင္လည္း ျမင္ဖူးၾကပါတယ္။
စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းခဲ့သည့္ ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၁၈ ရက္ေန႔က ေသနတ္မွန္ထားေသာေက်ာင္းသူေလးကို သယ္ယူေျပးလႊားေနသည့္ ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ႏွင့္ ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းက်မတို႔တိုင္းျပည္မွာ ရွိတဲ့လူငယ္မ်ားစြာဟာလည္း ၾကယ္ေတြလို ပါပဲ။ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အရည္အခ်င္း အထင္အရွားရွိၾကတယ္။

ဉာဏ္ပညာ ထက္ျမက္တယ္။စိတ္ဓာတ္ျမင့္မားၾကတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ၀မ္းနည္းဖို႔ ေကာင္းတာက အဲ့ဒီၾကယ္ ေတြဟာ တျဖဳတ္ျဖဳတ္နဲ႔ ေၾကြေနတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ က်မက ၾကယ္ေတြ ေၾကြေနတဲ့ တိုင္းျပည္လို႔နာမည္ေပးထားတယ္။
၁၉၈၈ ခု စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၈ ရက္ ေန႔က အျဖစ္အပ်က္ေတြကို ေျပာလိုက္တာနဲ႔လူတိုင္းျမင္ဖူးျပီးသား ျဖစ္တဲ့ ဓာတ္ပံု တပံု အေၾကာင္း ေျပာျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။
အဲဒီ ဓာတ္ပုံက ေသနတ္မွန္ျပီး ဒဏ္ရာရေနတဲ့ အက်ႌအျဖဴ လံုခ်ည္အစိမ္းနဲ႔ေက်ာင္းသူေလးကို ဂ်ဴတီကုတ္အျဖဴ၀တ္ ထားတဲ့ ဆရာ၀န္ႏွစ္ဦးက ဆြဲေျပးေနတဲ့ပံုပါ။ဒီဓာတ္ပံုကိုမျမင္ဘူးတဲ့လူမရွိပါဘူး။ ျမင္တဲ့လူတိုင္း ခံျပင္းေဒါသ ျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီဓာတ္ပံုထဲက ဆရာ၀န္ႏွစ္ဦး ဘယ္ကိုေရာက္သြားတယ္ ဆိုတာ သိတဲ့လူနည္းမယ္လို႔လည္း က်မထင္ပါ တယ္။
ေရွ႕ကေနေက်ာင္းသူေလးရဲ႕ ေျခေထာက္ကို ဆြဲမထားတဲ့ဆရာ၀န္ရဲ႕ နာမည္ကေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္၊ ေခါင္းကိုမထား တဲ့ ဆရာ၀န္က ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။သူတို႔ႏွစ္ဦးစလံုးဟာ ပညာခြ်န္သူေတြျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။
ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္ဟာ ဆယ္တန္းစာေမးပြဲေအာင္တုန္းက သဃၤန္ကြ်န္းတျမိဳ႕နယ္လံုးမွာ ပထမရခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူ႔အစ္မ ကလည္း ဆရာ၀န္ပါပဲ။
ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းကလည္း ေဆးေက်ာင္းမွာ ထိပ္တန္းကေက်ာင္းသားပါ၊ သူ႔ညီကုိဝင္းသိန္းလည္း ဆရာ၀န္ တေယာက္ ပါပဲ၊ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ဖခင္ကလည္းဌာနတခုကညႊန္ၾကားေရးမွဴး အဆင့္ရွိတဲ့သူပါ။
ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းဟာ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္းျပီးတဲ့ေနာက္မွာ ေတာခိုသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံလုံးဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ား ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ တပ္ဦး(ABSDF)မွာေဆးမွဴးတာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့ျပီး တာ၀န္နဲ႔ ျပည္တြင္းကို ျပန္ေရာက္ခဲ့ပါ တယ္။
အဲဒီ အခ်ိန္အတြင္းမွာပဲ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဴပ္ခင္ညြန္႔က ေတာတြင္းက ျပန္ေရာက္လာသူေတြအေနနဲ႔န၀တ ကို သတင္းပို႔ဖို႔ လိုေၾကာင္း၊ သတင္းပို႔လာခဲ့လ်ွင္ အေရးမယူပါေၾကာင္းသတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပြဲကေန ေျပာတာေၾကာင့္စိုးရိမ္တတ္တဲ့ ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းရဲ႕ အေဖကသူကိုယ္တိုင္စစ္ေဒသကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ စစ္ေဆးဖို႔ မေခၚခင္မွာ ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္း က ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ကို သူတာ၀န္နဲ႔ ျပန္လာေၾကာင္းကို ေျပာျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ေနာက္တေန႔မွာ ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းကိုေမးျမန္း စရာရွိတယ္ဆိုျပီး ေခၚသြားပါေတာ့တယ္။
တပတ္ေလာက္ၾကာေတာ့ ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းကို ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးစခန္းကေနျပန္လာပို႔ေပးပါတယ္၊ မိဘေတြဆီ ေသခ်ာအပ္ႏွံသြားခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ သို႔ေသာ္လည္း ေဒါက္တာမင္းသိန္းတေယာက္ ေျခလက္ေတြေဖာေယာင္ျပီး ဆီးမသြား ႏုိင္ေတာ့ပါ၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ကို၀င္းသိန္း (ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းရဲ့ညီ)က ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္တို႔ ေမာင္ႏွမကိုအေၾကာင္း ၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ေရာက္လာေတာ့ ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းကေျပာျပပါတယ္။ သူ႔ကို ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး က ေဆးတလံုး ထိုးေပးလိုက္တယ္တဲ့၊ဘာေဆးလဲဆိုတာေတာ့ မေျပာဘူးတဲ့၊ သူအခုျဖစ္ေနတာေတြက အဲဒီ ေဆးေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္မယ္လို႔ဆိုပါတယ္။ အခုသူ ဗိုက္ၾကီးတင္းေနျပီး အသက္႐ႈရတာ ၾကပ္ေနတယ္လို႔ ေျပာျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္နဲ႔ ကို၀င္းသိန္းကေဆးရုံတင္ဖို႔ စီစဥ္ေနစဥ္မွာပဲ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးကေဆရုံတင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ စစ္ေဆးရုံကိုပဲ တင္ခြင့္ရွိေၾကာင္း၊ စစ္ေဆးရုံမွာကုသဖို႔စီစဥ္ထားေၾကာင္း အေၾကာင္းၾကားလာပါတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းက စစ္ေဆးရုံမွာဆိုရင္ေဆးကုမခံႏုိင္ဘူးလို႔ဆိုျပီး အိမ္မွာပဲေနမယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္၊ အဲဒါနဲ႔ ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္နဲ႔ ကို၀င္းသိန္းတို႔ကပဲ ကုသေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းဟာဘယ္ေဆး႐ုံကိုမွ တက္ေရာက္ကုသျခင္း မရွိခဲ့ဘဲေနာက္တေန႔မွာ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ေဒါက္တာ မင္းသိန္းဆံုးလွ်င္ဆံုးျခင္း ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္နဲ႔ ကို၀င္းသိန္းတို႔ကသူတို႔ရဲ႕ ဆရာ ဆရာဝန္ႀကီး တဦးကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားၿပီး အဲဒီ ဆရာႀကီးနဲ႔အတူရင္ခြဲစစ္ေဆးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္၊ အေျဖကေတာ့ ေက်ာက္ကပ္ အရမ္းႀကံဳ႕သြား တာတဲ့။ ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္တို႔က မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒါကို သိသြားတဲ့ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးကရင္ခြဲ စစ္ေဆးတဲ့ ဆရာ၀န္ၾကီးကိုမေပါက္ ၾကားေစရပါဘူးဆိုျပီးလက္မွတ္ထိုးခိုင္းခဲ့လို႔ ထိုးခဲ့ရျပီး ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္က ေတာ့ထြက္ေျပးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။
ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ထြက္ေျပးရတဲ့အတြက္ သူ႔ကို အားထားေနရတဲ့ ဆင္းရဲသားလူနာေတြဒုကၡေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကရတာ က်မမ်က္ျမင္ပါ၊ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္က ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္ေဆးခန္းမွာက်မကူလုပ္ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ ဆင္းရဲတဲ့လူနာေတြကို ပိုက္ဆံမယူတဲ့အျပင္သူ႔ရဲ႕ေဆးဝါးေတြကိုပါ ေပးလိုက္ပါေသးတယ္။ ကင္ဆာ ေ၀ဒနာရွင္ တဦးကိုလည္းေဆးဖိုး၀ါးခ အကုန္ခံျပီး ေဆးကုသ ေပးခဲ့တာက်မေရွ႕တင္ပါ။
၁၉၉၄ ခုႏွစ္ထဲမွာ ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ေၾကာင့္ ပင္စင္ေပးခံခဲ့ရတဲ့သူ႔ရဲ႕အေဖႏွလုံးေရာဂါနဲ႔ ကြယ္လြန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တိမ္းေရွာင္ေနတဲ့ေဒါက္တာေစာလြင္ျပန္ေရာက္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ ဘာမွထူးျခားမႈမရွိတဲ့အတြက္ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးေမ့ေနေလာက္ျပီဆိုျပီး အစိုးရေဆးရုံမွာ အလုပ္ေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းဘိုကေလးျမိဳ႕နယ္ အတြင္းက တိုက္နယ္ေဆးရုံတ႐ုံမွာ တာ၀န္က်ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ အစပိုင္းမွာဘာမွမျဖစ္ခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာေတာ့ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး က မၾကာခဏ စစ္ေဆး ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။
၁၉၉၅ ခုႏွစ္ထဲမွာ စစ္ေမးတာ ပိုစိပ္လာျပီး စိတ္အေႏွာင့္အယွက္လည္းပိုျဖစ္လာပါတယ္၊ မခံႏုိင္တဲ့အဆံုးမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေခတၱ လြတ္ေျမာက္စဥ္မွာေတြ႔ရေအာင္ ခြင့္ယူျပီးရန္ကုန္တက္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သို႔ေသာ္ အန္တီနဲ႔မေတြ႕ျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဘိုကေလးကို ျပန္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဘိုကေလးကုိေရာက္ေရာက္ခ်င္း မ၀တ အတြင္း ေရးမွဴးက ေခၚလို႔သြားတဲ့အခါမွာ မ၀တ ရုံးခန္းတြင္းစစ္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး ၃ ေယာက္နဲ႔ အခ်ိန္အေတာ္ၾကာ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့ ရပါတယ္။ အဲဒီေနာက္ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္တေယာက္ ညွဳိးညႇဳိး ငယ္ငယ္နဲ႔အိမ္ျပန္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
အတူေနသူေတြရဲ့ ေျပာျပခ်က္အရ ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ဟာ စိတ္ဒုကၡေရာက္စရာရွိေနပံုရပါတယ္၊ သိသိသာသာ စကားနည္းသြားတယ္လို႔လည္း ဆိုပါတယ္။ ေမးရင္လည္းစကားလႊဲသြားျပီး ဘာမွေသခ်ာမေျပာခဲ့ပါဘူး။ အဲဒီလို မေျပာတာကလဲဘယ္သူ႔ကိုမွသူလိုမျဖစ္ေစခ်င္လို႔ မေျပာတာလို႔ ယူဆရပါတယ္။
အဲဒီေနာက္ ခြင့္ဆက္ယူျပီး ပစၥည္းေတြသိမ္းဆည္းေနပါတယ္၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ေနာက္၂ရက္အၾကာမွာ ဆရာ ေဒါက္တာ ေစာလြင္ အခန္းက တိတ္ဆိတ္ေနျပီး လႈပ္ရွားသံမၾကားရလို႔အတူေနသူေတြက စိုးရိမ္ျပီး တခါးဖ်က္၀င္ခဲ့ရာ သ႔ူကိုယ္သူ (ၾကိဳးဆြဲခ်)သတ္ေသေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဆရာ ေသဆံုးရျခင္း အတြက္ က်မတကယ္ ႏွေျမာ၀မ္းနည္းမိပါတယ္။ ဆရာဟာလူေတာ္လူေကာင္းတဦးပါ။
က်မတို႔ (ျမန္မာ)ျပည္မွာၾကယ္ေတြေၾကြေနပါတယ္၊ ဘယ္သူ႔မွာတာ၀န္ရွိပါသလဲ၊ အဖိုးတန္သားေတြဆံုးရႈံးရတဲ့ မိဘ ေတြရဲ႕ခံစားခ်က္က ဘယ္ေလာက္မ်ားနာက်င္ေနမလဲ၊က်မတို႔ရဲ႕အဖိုးတန္ လူငယ္ေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္အထိမ်ား ဆံုး႐ႈံးေနရဦးမွာလဲ……။
ဒီေဆာင္းပါးနဲ႔ အညၾတ သူရဲေကာင္းမ်ားကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳအပ္ပါတယ္။

ခင္ျငိမ္းသစ္
*ခင္ျငိမ္းသစ္သည္ မၾကာေသးခင္က ထိုင္း -ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာေသာႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္း တဦးျဖစ္သည္။*

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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”!