kabarmakyay

9/30/2010

ဒီေန႕ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၃၀ရက္ေန႕ မနက္ ၆-နာရီ ၇ နာရီအတြင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၏ ေကာင္းကင္ယံတြင္ သာႆနာအလံခ်ိတ္ဆြဲထားသည့္ မိုးပ်ံပူေပါင္းမ်ား လြင့္ေမ်ာ၀ဲပ်ံ ေနသည္ကို ေတြရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ အဆိုပါ ပူေပါင္းမ်ားမွာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ေနရာ အႏွံ႕အျပားမွ တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္း

လြတ္တင္လိုက္ဟန္ရွိသည္။ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း အရွိန္ေရာ့ကာက်လာသည့္ပူေပါင္းမ်ားအလယ္တြင္ စာကပ္ထားသည္ကိုေတြ႕ရွိရၿပီး စာပါအေၾကာင္းအရာမွာ ဒကာေတာ္တိုင္းမွဴးႀကီးသို႕ဟု လိပ္မူထားၿပီး ဖမ္းဆီးခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ခံေနရေသာ အသွ်င္ပညာစာရ အျမန္ဆံုး ျပန္လြတ္ေရးအတြက္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံစာျဖစ္ၿပီး ဆရာေတာ္၁၄ပါးက လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးထားပါသည္။

ဒီသတင္းႏွင့္ပါတ္သက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ခံအေၾကာင္းမ်ားကို ေကာက္ႏႈတ္တင္ျပအပ္ပါသည္။

လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ဂ်ဴလိုင္လ ၂၇ ရက္ေန ့ နံနက္၁၀နာရီ ၁၅မိနစ္တြင္ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္၊ အေနာက္ပိုင္းတိုင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္၊ ဒုတိုင္းမွဴးကိုယ္တိုင္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ လံုၿခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ ့၀င္မ်ားစြာတို ့ လက္နက္၊ ဒိုင္းကာမ်ားႏွင့္ စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ ့၊ ကန္ ေတာ္ႀကီး၊ အာကိ်ပ္ေတာ္ကုန္းရွိ မဟာမုနိဗုဒၶ၀ိဟာရ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္အား ရန္သူ ့ စစ္စခန္း ၀င္စီးသည့္ အေန အထားမ်ဳိးျဖင့္ ၀ိုင္းထားလိုက္ၾကသည္။ ထို ့ေနာက္ ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ဆရာေတာ္ ရခိုင္သမိုင္း သုေတသီ စာေရးဆရာ၊ အယ္ဒီတာ ရမၼာ၀တီအသွ်င္ပညာစာရအား ဖမ္းဆီး ေခၚေဆာင္သြား ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဆရာေတာ္အား ဖမ္းဆီးၿပီး ေနာက္၊ ဆရာေတာ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ အႏွစ္ႏွစ္အလလ ဆင္းရဲပင္ပန္းႀကီးစြာ ရခိုင္ျပည္အႏွံ ့ေျခက်င္ခရီးဆန့္ ့လ်က္ ရွာေဖြ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ စုေဆာင္းထားခဲ့ ေသာ ရခုိင္ျပည္သံုး ေရွးေဟာင္းဒဂၤါးမ်ား၊ ဓည၀တီေခတ္မွစ၍ ေျမာက္ဦးေခတ္ ထိ ရခိုင္ဗုဒၶရုပ္ပြားေတာ္မ်ား ပံုေတာ္မ်ား၊ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္ ေရးထိုးခဲ့သည့္ ရခိုင္ ေရွးေဟာင္း ေက်ာက္စာမ်ား၊ ရခိုင္ရာဇ၀င္က်မ္းမ်ား၊ ရခိုင္ေဆးက်မ္းမ်ား၊ ရခိုင္သမိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ေပစာမ်ား၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္တနံတလ်ားမွ ရွာေဖြထားေသာ ငေစြျခင္း၊ ဇန္းျခင္း၊ နတ္ျခင္း၊ သာျခင္း၊ ဧျခင္းမ်ား အပါအ၀င္

ရွိရွိသမွ်ေသာ ရခိုင္စာေပ၊ ေက်းလက္ရိုးရာ ေတးကဗ်ာ မ်ားကို တခုမက်န္ အားလံုး သိမ္းႀကံဳး ယူေဆာင္သြားခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဆရာေတာ္အား စစ္ေတြအမွတ္(၁)ရဲစခန္း၌ အဓမၼသကၤန္းဆြဲခြ်တ္၊
လူ၀တ္လဲကာ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ၿပီး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးမွဳ အပါအ၀င္ အျခား လူမဆန္သည့္ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္မ်ား ျဖင့္ ဖိအားေပး စစ္ေဆးလ်က္ရွိသည္။ရခိုင္သမိုင္း သုေတသီ ရမၼာ၀တီ အသွ်င္ပညာစာရသည္ သက္ေတာ္(၅၇)ႏွစ္၊ ၀ါေတာ္(၃၇)၀ါရွိၿပီး၊ ရမ္းၿဗဲၿမိဳ ့နယ္၊ ခြဆံုရြာသစ္ (ကံ့ေကာ္ေတာင္)ရြာ ဇာတိျဖစ္ သည္။ ခမည္းေတာ္မွာ ဦးေရႊလွျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ မယ္ေတာ္ ေဒၚယင္ေမညိဳျဖစ္သည္။ ငယ္စဥ္က ရမ္းၿဗဲၿမိဳ ့အင္းေတာင္ ဘုန္းေတာ္ႀကီးေက်ာင္း၌ ပညာသင္ၾကားခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ပထမႀကီးတန္းထိ ေအာင္ျမင္ခဲ့သည္။ ငယ္စဥ္ကပင္ ရခိုင္ရာဇ၀င္၊ ရခိုင္သမိုင္း၊ ရခိုင္စာေပ စသည့္ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳ အေမြအႏွစ္မ်ားကို ရွာေဖြ စုေဆာင္း ေဖာ္ထုတ္လိုစိတ္ နက္ရွဳိငး္ႀကီးမားလွ သည္။

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ရခိုင္တစ္ျပည္လံုး ေက်းလက္ေတာရြာမ်ားသို ့ငတ္ျပတ္၊ ဆင္းရဲမွဳဒဏ္ကို သည္းခံလ်က္ ရခိုင္ရိုးရာယဥ္ေက်း မွဳကို တစိုက္မတ္မတ္ သြားေရာက္ ရွာေဖြ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ စုေဆာင္းခဲ့သည္။ ရမၼာ၀တီမဂၢဇင္း၊ ရခိုင္ရိုးမမဂၢဇင္း အပါအ၀င္ ရခိုင္ေဒသထုတ္ မဂၢဇင္း၊ စာေစာင္မ်ား၏ အၿမဲတမ္း အယ္ဒီတာအျဖစ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ရခိုင္ေဒသမဂၢဇင္းမ်ားတြင္လည္း ရမၼာ၀တီ-ပညာစာရ အမည္ျဖင့္ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳ ေဆာင္းပါးမ်ားကို စဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္ ေရးသားလ်က္ရွိသည္။ ရမၼာ၀တီသဘာ၀ေတးကဗ်ာမ်ား စာအုပ္အပါအ၀င္ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳသမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ ္စာအုပ္မ်ား ပံုႏွိပ္ ထုတ္ ေ၀ခဲ့သည္။ ဆရာေတာ္ကို ေလးစားသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ သမိုင္းပညာရွင္မ်ား မၾကာခဏ လာေရာက္ အကူအညီ ေတာင္းခံၾကရာတြင္ ၾသစႀတီးယား အမ်ဳိးသားတကၠသိုလ္ ပါေမာကၡ ပင္မလာဂတ္မင္ မွသည္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ခ်ဴလာ ေလာင္ကြန္တကၠသိုလ္ ပါေမာကၡ ဂ်က္ေလဒါ အထိ ပါ၀င္ၾကသလို ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္းမွ သမိုင္း၊ ေရွး ေဟာင္းသုေတသန၊ အေရွ ့တိုင္းဘာသာရပ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ဘဲြ ့ယူစာတမ္းျပဳစုမည့္ တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ကိုလည္း သမိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ အခ်က္အလက္မ်ားကို လူမ်ဳိးမေရြး၊ ဘာသာမေရြး ကူညီေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့သည္။ ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္ သမိုင္းဌာန၊ ေရွးေဟာင္းသုေတသနဌာန၊ စစ္ေတြတကၠသိုလ္၊ စစ္ေတြ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳျပတိုက္တို ့အတြက္ မ်ားစြာ အေထာက္အကူေပးခဲ့သည္။ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္တြင္းရွိ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမွဳ ေဆာင္းပါးမ်ား၊ စာအုပ္မ်ားေရးသား ထုတ္ေ၀ေနသည့္ ရဟန္းပုဂၢိဳလ္၊ လူပုဂၢိဳလ္တိုင္း ဆရာေတာ္ထံမွ ပံုစံမ်ဳိးစံုျဖင့္ အကူအညီ ယူခဲ့ၾကရသည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သမိုင္းသုေတသနဌာန၊ ျမန္မာစာအဖြဲ ့တို ့မွပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ားလည္း မၾကာခဏ လာေရာက္၍ ေဆြးေႏြး အကူအညီေတာင္းခံေလ့ရွိၾကသည္။၁၉၉၀ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ဆရာေတာာ္သည္ စစ္ေတြ၊ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးရပ္ကြက္၌ ရခိုင္သို ့စစ္မွန္ေသာ ေထရ၀ါဒ ဗုဒၶသာသနာ စေရာက္သည့္ အမွတ္သေကၤတ ဓည၀တီိေခတ္ မဟာမုနိရုပ္ရွင္ေတာ္ျမတ္ႀကီးကို အစြဲျပဳ ၍ မဟာမုနိဗုဒၶ၀ိဟာရ အမည္ရွိ ၀ါးေက်ာင္းငယ္တစ္ခုကို စစ္ေတြၿမိဳ ့မွ ရခိုင္စာေပသမားမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဆာက္လုပ္ခဲ့သည္။ ဆြမ္းအခက္အခဲ ရွိ၍ ဆန္ႏို ့စည္ ၁ဗူး လူ ၄ ေယာက္ စားေသာက္လ်က္ မဟာမုနိကို ထူေထာင္ခဲ့့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ဆင္းရဲ ငတ္ျပတ္မွဳဒဏ္ကို ဆိုး၀ါးစြာ ခံစားေနရေသာ္လည္း ရခိုင္စာေပ၊ ရခိုင္ေတာင္ပိုင္း ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ညီညြတ္ေရး အတြက္ ဆရာေတာ္ အျပံဳးမပ်က္ဘဲ ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီး၊ မင္းဂံရပ္ကြက္မ်ားမွ ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးသည့္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ကို၊ ရာႏွင့္ခ်ီလ်က္ မူလတန္းမွ အထက္တန္းထိ အခမဲ့ ပညာသင္ၾကားေပးရံုမွ်မက အစြန့္ ့ပစ္ခံ ရင္ခြင္ပိုက္ မိဘမဲ့ကေလးငယ္မ်ားကိုလည္း ေကာက္ယူ ေကၽြးေမြးေစာင့္ေရွာက္ခဲ့သည္။ ကုလားမ်ားက မူဆလင္အျဖစ္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းရန္ လူကုန္ကူးခံရမည့္ ရခိုင္မိဘမဲ့ကေလးမ်ားကို တဖက္လွည့္ျဖင့္ ေငြႏွင့္လဲလွယ္ ယူလ်က္ ေမြးျမဴကာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ သကၤန္းစည္းေပးခဲ့သည္။

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စက္တဘၤာလ ၇ ရက္ေန႕က ဆရာေတာ္ပညာစာရအား တရားမွ်တစြာ စစ္ေဆးရန္ စစ္ေတြ ပု႑ားကြ်န္း မင္းျပားျမိဳ႕နယ္မ်ားမွ ဆရာေတာ္ ၁၅ ပါးက အေနာက္ပိုင္း တိုင္းမွဴး ဗိုလ္မွဴးခ်ဳပ္ စိုးသိန္းထံ စာေရး ေမတၱာ ရပ္ခံခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း တစံုတရာ ျပန္ၾကားမႈ မရွိေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ဆရာေတာ္ အရွင္ပညာစာရကိုု ေန႕စဥ္ဆက္တိုက္ ရံုးထုတ္စစ္ေဆးေနျပီး ဆရာေတာ္ဘက္မွ လိုက္ပါေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနသူ ေရွ႕ေနႏွစ္ဦးကိုလည္း တနလၤာေန႕က ေရွ႕ေနပါ၀ါ ရုတ္သိမ္း လိုက္သည့္အတြက္ ယခုအခါ ဆရာေတာ္ အမူတြင္ အစိုးရဘက္က အႏိုင္ရေရး အတြက္ ေရွ႕ေန သံုးဦး လိုက္ပါ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ဆရာေတာ္ဘက္မွ ေရွ႕ေနမ ေဒၚေအးႏုစိန္က တဦးတည္းသာ လိုက္ပါ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနေၾကာင္း၊ ျမိဳ႕ခံအမ်ားအျပား ကလည္း ဆရာေတာ္ဘက္မွ ရပ္တည္ျပီး သက္ေသထြက္ ဆိုေနၾကေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။
ဆရာေတာ္အေပၚစစ္အစိုးရက မဟုတ္မတရားလီဆယ္ စြတ္စြဲမႈျပဳရာတြင္ မာတုကာမမ်ားႏွင့္ ဖါက္ျပန္က်ဴးလြန္ သည့္အမႈလည္းပါရွိရာ စစ္အစိုးရတင္ေသာသက္ေသ ေဒၚမာလာႏွင့္ မသန္းေမတို႕မွ မိမိတို႕မွာ ဆရာေတာ္ႏွင့္ တစံုတရာ ျပစ္မွားမိျခင္း မရွိေၾကာင္း ရံုးေတာ္တြင္ တိုက္ရိုက္ ေလွ်ာက္လဲခ်က္ ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။
ယခုအခါ ဆရာေတာ္အား မဟုတ္ မတရား စြပ္စြဲထားသည့္ အမႈ ၇ မႈ အထဲမွ ပုဒ္မ ၅၀၅(ခ) ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ တည္ျငိမ္ေရးကို ထိပါးေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈႏွင့္ တျခား စြဲခ်က္တခုကို တရားရံုးမွ လံုး၀ ပလပ္ လိုက္ျပီး က်န္ ၅မႈကိုသာ စစ္ေဆး ေနသည္။
စစ္ေတြျမိဳ႕ခံအမ်ားအျပားမွာ ဆရာေတာ္အား ဖမ္းဆီးစဥ္က ဆရာေတာ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေယာင္လည္လည္ ျဖစ္ေနခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း ယခုအခါ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို နားလည္ သေဘာေပါက္လာၾကၿပီးဆရာေတာ္ဘက္မွာ သိသိသာသာ ရပ္တည္ လာၾကသည္ဟုသိရသည္။

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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”!