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9/05/2010

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ေမာင္လူေရး အမတ္ ႏွင့္ အမဲ

အခါတပါး၌ ဘုန္းေတာ္ေျခာက္စံု ဂုဏ္ေတာ္အနႏၱႏွင့္ ျပည့္စံုေတာ္မူသည့္ သံုးေလာကရွင္ ဘုရားရွင္သည္ တရားသိျမင္ ရွင္ရဟန္းျပဳခ်င္သည့္ သူေတာ္စင္တစ္ဦးကို ေတြ႔လတ္ေသာ္ ထိုသူ၏ အတိတ္ဘဝကို ရႈၾကည့္ သည္တြင္ သပိတ္ သကၤန္း လွဴဒါန္းထားသည္ကို ျမင္ေတာ္မူေသာအခါ .........

``ဧဟိ ဘိကၡဳ ၊ ခ်စ္သား ရဟန္း လာလွည့္``ဟု ႏႈတ္ေတာ္ျမြက္ဟ ခြန္းေတာ္သလိုက္သည္ႏွင့္ တၿပိဳင္နက္ သကၤန္းရုံ သပိတ္ပိုက္လ်က္ သိုက္ၿမိဳက္လန္းရြင္ ရဟန္းအသြင္ တခါတည္းေပၚထြက္လာဘိသကဲ့သို႔

-ဧဝံ တထာ ၊ မျခားတမူ အလားတူသာလွ်င္ -အခါမတရား၌ ဘုန္းေတာ္လက္နက္ ဂုဏ္ေတာ္ဂက္စ္ႏွင့္ ျပည့္စံု

ေတာ္မူသည့္ ဘုံးေလာကဥကင္ စစ္မ်ားရွင္ အဲ ဆင္မ်ားရွင္ မင္းၾတားႀကီးသည္ စနစ္မလတ္မဆတ္ ေခတ္မသပ္မရပ္ႏွင့္ ရစ္ပတ္ခ်င္သည့္ သူေျမွာ္ျမင္တစ္ဦးကို ေတြ႔လတ္ေသာ္ ထိုသူ၏ အတိတ္ဘဝကို ရႈၾကည့္ သည္တြင္ ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာ ဓားလွံေလးျမား လွဴဒါန္းထား သည္ကို ျမင္ေတာ္မူေသာအခါ ``ဧဟိ အေမစၥ ၊ ခ်စ္သားအမတ္ လာခဲ့လကြယ္``ဟု ႏႈတ္ေတာ္ျမြက္ဟ ခြန္းေတာ္သလိုက္သည္ႏွင့္ တၿပိဳင္နက္ ေသနတ္ကိုင္ ဖိုင္တြဲပိုက္လ်က္ သိုက္ၿမိဳက္လန္းရြင္ အမတ္အသြင္ တခါတည္း ေပၚထြက္လာေသာ ဟူ၏ ။

အႏွီ၎ အေမစၥတို႔၏ ကံကား ထူးေထြတည့္အံ့ရာေသာဟူသတည္း ။ၿပိဳင္စရာ ႏိုင္စရာ မလိုဘဲ မင္းၾတားႀကီး၏ ႏႈတ္ေတာ္ဖြင့္ဟ ဧဟိ အေမစၥႏွင့္ပင္ အမတ္ျဖစ္ၾကရသည္ ။

(**က်န္တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား အဖို႔ရာမွာမူကား သနားစရာေကာင္းလွဘိေတာ့သည္ ။

ယင္းတို႔သည္ ဧဟိ အေမစၥတို႔ ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာ ဓားလွံေလးျမား လွဴဒါန္းသမႈ ျပဳၾကစဥ္က သာဓုမွ် မေခၚခဲ့ၾကေသာဟူ၏ ။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ အႏွီ၎ပုဂၢဳိလ္တို႔ လူအထုိထို၏ လိုသမွ်အက်ဳိး သယ္ပိုးသမႈ ျပဳၾကမည့္ ေနရာတြင္ ဘယ္သူဘယ္ဝါ ျပဳၾကဗ်ာဟု ေရြးေကာက္ၿပီးသကာလ ေထာက္ခံမဲေလးမွ ေပးခြင့္မရႏိုင္ၾကေခ် ။)

ထိုအႏွီ၎ စစ္အေမစၥတုိ႔၏ ကံကား အလြန္အက်ဴး ထူးႀကီးထူးဘိေခ်ေတာ့ ေသာဟူ၏ ။

သူရုိ႕ကား သာျမင္ေညာင္ည အေမစၥမ်ား မဟုတ္ၾကေခ် ။ ရာထူးဌာနႏၱရ တြဲလ်က္ရသည့္ စပယ္ရွယ္အေမစၥ မ်ားျဖစ္ၾက၏။ ခ်ဳပ္ထက္ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတ္ထက္ဒုတ္ျဖစ္ေတာ္မူေသာ ဆင္ျဖဴမ်ားရွင္ႀကီးသည္ ၂၅%ကို ယူနီေဖာင္း အမတ္ လုပ္ၿပီး သကာလ ျမန္မာ့ဝင္ရုိး မက်ဳိးမခ်င္း ထမ္းၿပီးရင္းထမ္းေနခ်င္ေပေတာ့ရာ က်န္ ၇၅%ကို ကရုဏာငါးခူၿပံဳးျဖင့္ သိမ္းက်ဳံးရႈၾကည့္လိုက္သည္တြင္ သ႑ာန္တစ္မ်ဳိးျဖင့္ ကုသိုလ္ပ်ဳိးထားၾကသူမ်ားကို ေတြ႔သိ သြားေလေသာ ဟူ၏ ။ထိုသူတို႔ကား ဧဟိ အေမစၥမ်ား ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာ ဓားလွံေလးျမား လွဴဒါန္းပြဲ၌ ေဝယ်ာဝစၥ ျပဳခဲ့ၾက သူတိို႔တည္း။

အႏွီ၎တို႔သည္ ေဝယ်ာဝစၥ ျပဳခဲ့ၾကရုံမွ်မက ၊ လႊတ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာမ်ားပင္ လွဴဒါန္းခဲ့ၾကေသာဟူ၏ ။ လႊတ္ဝတ္ တန္ဆာဟူသည္ ေခါင္းေပါင္း ၊ ေတာင္ရွည္ ၊ တိုက္ပံုတို႔ကို ဆုိသတည္း ။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ခ်ဳပ္ထက္ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတ္ထက္ဒုတ္ျဖစ္ေတာ္မူေသာ ဆင္ျဖဴမ်ားရွင္ႀကီးသည္ အႏွီ၎ပုဂၢဳိလ္တို႔၏ ကုသိုလ္ အေဆာက္ အဦကို ေထာက္ကူေသာအားျဖင့္ ဥဳံဖြ အပ္ခ်ေလာင္းလုပ္ကာ အမတ္ေလာင္းမ်ား ေမြးထုတ္လိုက္ ျပန္ေသာဟူ၏ ။

ထို ဥဳံဖြ အပ္ခ်ေလာင္းအမတ္တို႔သည္ ဟို ဧဟိ အေမစၥအမတ္တို႔ေလာက္ေတာ့ ကြန္နက္ရွင္ မေကာင္းလွေခ် ။ အေၾကာင္းမွာ လႊတ္ဝတ္ တန္ဆာသည္ ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာေလာက္ စြမ္းရည္မျမင့္မားျခင္းလည္းတစ္ေၾကာင္း ၊ ထိုလႊတ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာလွဴပြဲ၌ တပ္မေတာ္သားေလးမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္သားျပည္သူတို႔သည္ ေဝယ်ာဝစၥ ဝိုင္းဝန္းျပဳဖို႔ ထား ၊ သာဓု စကားေလးမွ် မေျပာဆိုခဲ့ၾကသည့္ ဧရာမ အ-ကုသိုလ္ႀကီး အက်ဳိးေပးခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ အပ္ခ်ေလာင္းခ်ိန္ တထပ္တည္း က်ေနျခင္းလည္း တစ္ေၾကာင္းေၾကာင့္တည္း ။

ယင္းတပ္မေတာ္သားေလးမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည္သားျပည္သူတို႔၏ မဲငရဲခံ အကုသိုလ္ကံအက်ဳိးေပးပံုမွာ အဆန္းတကာ့ အက်ယ္ဆံုးဟု ဆိုရခ်ိမ့္မည္ ။

ခံရပံုမွာ - ျဖဴသလား မဲသလား ၊ ႏူသလား ဝဲသလား ၊ အူအူလား အအလား ၊ အကန္းလား အပင္းလား ၊ ေစြသလား ေစာင္းသလား၊ လူလား မလူလား၊ ပြဲလန္႔ဖ်ာခင္းလား ေလွႀကဳံစီးလား၊ ၾကာကူလီလား ပိုင္းလံုးလား ၊ သာကူးလား ႏွာဗူးလား၊ အသျပာရူးလား မယားတာရူးလား၊ ဘာဆိုဘာမွ ကြဲကြဲျပားျပား သိမထားသည့္ ဟိုေရာင္ေရာင္ ဒီရားရား က်ားက်ားမီးယပ္ အမတ္မ်ားကို ေထာက္ခံမဲေပးၾကရေသာဟူ၏ ။“မေပး ေပး ေပး ေပး ေပး ေပး ၊ ရေအာင္ယူဖို႔ ဒို႔အေရး” ဟူေသာ ေမဆြိဝါဒ က်င့္သံုးသည့္ ျပည္တိုင္ခ်ဳိးပါတီ တဖြဲ႔တည္းကိုသာ ခ်ဳပ္ထက္ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုတ္ထက္ဒုတ္ႀကီးက အပ္ခ်ေလာင္း ဥဳံဖြလုပ္ထားၿပီးျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ထိုေထာက္ခံ မဲဟူသည္ကလည္း အမဲခံ၍ ေထာက္ရျခင္းသာ ျဖစ္ေသာဟူ၏ ။ ထိုေရာအခါ မဲတျပားသည္ အသဲၾကားက ဟူသည့္ ဂုဏ္ျဒဗ္အႏွစ္ မရွိေတာ့ဘဲ တပဲႏွစ္ျပားဟူသည့္ ပလံုဇြပ္အျဖစ္သာ ရွိရေပေတာ့ေသာဟူ၏ ။ဤကား မဲငရဲက်ပံုတစ္မ်ိဳးတည္း ။

ပို၍ အကုသိုလ္ထူးသူတို႔အတြက္ မဲငရဲတစ္မ်ဳိး ရွိေပေသးေသာဟူ၏။

ထိုသူတို႔ုသည္ ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာ ၊ လႊတ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာလွဴပြဲ၌ ေဝယ်ာဝစၥမျပဳ ၊ သာဓုုမေခၚရုံသာမက အမနာပ ပင္ ေျပာခဲ့ၾကေသာဟူ၏ ။

ယင္းတို႔ မဲငရဲခံရပံုမွာ -ထိုသူတို႔ုသည္ ျပည္တိုင္ခ်ဳိးပါတီ တစ္ဖြဲ႔တည္းသာ မင္းမူေသာေနရာ၌ ေနထိုင္ၾက ရေသာဟူ၏ ။ အမတ္မင္းမ်ား က ယင္းတို႔ကိုင္ထားသည့္ အသဲၾကားက မဲျပားကို ေျခႏွင့္ ကန္သြားၾက၏ ။

တံေတြးႏွင့္ ေထြးၾက၏ ။ ႏွပ္ႏွင့္ ပက္ၾက၏ ။ ေျခသုပ္ပုဆိုး ေျမြစြယ္က်ိဳးငရဲဟုလည္း ေခၚေပေသာဟူ၏ ။

ထိုငရဲ၌ အမဲခံေထာက္ခြင့္ပင္ မရွိေခ် ။မဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ားသည္ အမတ္မင္းမ်ားကို မိမိတို႔၏ အရပ္ေဒသႏွင့္ ဘဝကို ျမင့္မားေအာင္လုပ္ခြင့္ေပးရမည္ျဖစ္ရာ မဲတျပားသည္ မိမိတို႔ကိုယ္ႏွင့္ပင္ ထပ္တူ တန္ဖိုးရွိေလ၏ ။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ မဲဆႏၵနယ္တစ္နယ္၌ မဲအေရအတြက္ ျပည့္မွီမွသာ အမတ္ျဖစ္ရေသာဟူ၏ ။မဲခံလိုသူ အမတ္ေလာင္းမ်ားမွာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၏ ပထမအဆင့္အေနျဖင့္ မဲေပးသူ အေရအတြက္ျပည့္မွီေရးျဖစ္၏။

မဲႏိုင္ေရးသည္ ဒုတိယအဆင့္တည္း ။ အမွန္က ၿပိဳင္သူမရိွလည္း မဲပံုးေထာင္ရမည္သာ ၊ မဲေပးသူ အေရ အတြက္ မျပည့္မွီလွ်င္ အမတ္ျဖစ္ခြင့္ မရွိေခ် ။ယခုမဲငရဲမွာ ပထမအဆင့္ကို ေက်ာ္လႊားကာ မဲျပား၏ မူလ တန္ဖိုးကို သေရာ္ေမာ္ကားျပဳ၍ ၿပိဳင္ဖက္မရွိရေအာင္ ညစ္နည္းအမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိးသံုးၿပီး ၿပိဳင္ဖက္မရွိက ႏိုင္ၿပီဟုု သတ္ မွတ္သည့္ တစ္ေယာက္ထဲေျပး တစ္ေပးဇာတ္ခင္း ငရဲျဖစ္ေလသည္။ တကယ္ေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟူသည္ အရႈံးအႏိုင္ထက္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္မည္မွ်က မဲထည့္ၾကသနည္း ဆိုသည္က ပဓာနျဖစ္သည္ ။ ျပန္ျဖဳတ္လိုလွ်င္လဲ ကန္႔ကြက္မဲ အေရအတြက္ျဖင့္သာ ျဖဳတ္ရမည္ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ မည္မွ်က ေထာက္ခံသည္ ဆိုသည့္ အခ်က္မွာ လြန္စြာ အေရးႀကီးေပသည္ ။အခုေတာ့ျဖင့္ ငါးဖေလာင္းကေျပာင္းျပန္ အမတ္လုပ္မဲခံမည့္သူက မဲဆႏၵရွင္မ်ားကို လွန္ျပခြင့္ရွိေနျခင္းျဖစ္ရ ကား ဤငရဲကို မထီမဲ့ျမင္ငရဲ ဟုလည္း ေခၚေသာဟူ၏။

ခ်ပ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာအလွဴကို မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳမႈသည္ လႊတ္ဝတ္တန္ဆာအလွဴကို မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳမႈထက္ အကုသိုလ္ အတိုင္းအဆႀကီးေလ၏။

ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ တပ္မေတာ္သားေလးမ်ားသည္ မိမိတို႔ႏွင့္ ထိစပ္ပတ္သက္သူမ်ားကို အမဲေပးခြင့္ မရမူ၍ မိမိတို႔ႏွင့္ မထိမစပ္ အရပ္တပါးက အျခားသူမ်ားကိုသာ အမဲေပးၾကရေသာဟူ၏ ။တိုင္းသားျပည္သူ လူဟူသမွ်တို႔သည္ အတိတ္ဘဝက ျမတ္ေသာအလွဴႏွစ္ပါးကို မထီမဲ့ျမင္ျပဳခဲ့ၾကျခင္းေၾကာင့္ မထီမဲ့ျမင္ငရဲမွာ အမဲေပးရင္း ငရဲခံၾက ရျခင္း ျဖစ္သတည္း ။

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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”!