kabarmakyay: ထေလာ့ ရခိုင္……ရခိုင္ ထေလာ့

10/01/2010

ထေလာ့ ရခိုင္……ရခိုင္ ထေလာ့

သမိုင္း သုေတသီ ရမၼာ၀တီ အရွင္ပညာစာရကိစၥက မၿပီးျပတ္ေသး။ ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပ ရခိုင္ေတြကေတာ့ အင္အားေတြစုၿပီး တြန္းလွန္ ေနၾကဆဲျဖစ္တယ္။ တနည္းအားျဖင့္ ေျပာရရင္ ခုခံ ကာကြယ္ေနၾကဆဲ ျဖစ္တယ္။ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ၊ လူမႈေရး အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ စသည္ျဖင့္၊ တဖက္ကလည္း လက္မွတ္ထိုး ေတာင္းဆိုတဲ့အလုပ္ကို လုပ္ေနၾကဆဲ။ ဘာဘဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ပံုစံမ်ဳိးစံု အသြင္မ်ဳိးစံုနဲ႔ အလႊာေပါင္းစံုက ရခိုင္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ခုခံကာကြယ္ေရး အလုပ္ေတြကို သမိုင္း တာ၀န္တရပ္အေနနဲ႔ လုပ္ၾကလိမ့္မယ္ ယံုၾကည္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးထိရင္ မခ်ိေအာင္ နာတတ္တဲ့ ရခိုင္ေတြအတြက္ စိန္ေခၚမႈ တရပ္လည္း ျဖစ္ေနျပန္တယ္။
အခ်ဳိ႕ကလည္း မတရားတဲ့ အမိန္႔အာဏာ ေအာက္က မတရားဖမ္း အမႈစီရင္ျခင္းဟာ မမွန္မကန္တဲ့ အေျဖ (မတရားတဲ့ ဆံုးျဖတ္)ခ်က္ေတြဘဲ ထြက္လာလိမ့္မယ္လို႔ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾက၊ စိုးရိမ္ေနၾကတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဆရာေတာ္ကို ေထာင္ထဲမွာ ရခိုင္သမိုင္းပညာရွင္ ပ႑ိတ္ဦးဦးသာထြန္းလို သတ္ပစ္ၾကမွာကို အရမ္းစိုးရိမ္ၾကတယ္။ တဖက္မွာလည္း အနာဂတ္ ၾကယ္ပြင့္ေလးေတြရဲ႕ အနာဂတ္၊ ၿပီးေတာ့ ရခိုင့္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ သမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ္ေတြ ။ က်ေနာ္တဦးတေယာက္ထဲ အထင္ေျပာရရင္ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္စုအေနနဲ႔ အရမ္းလြယ္လြယ္ကူကူ ကိုင္တြယ္လို႔ရမယ့္ကိစၥလို႔ ျမင္ပံုရပါတယ္။ တကယ့္တကယ္ လက္ေတြ႔မွာေတာ့ နအဖထင္သလို လြယ္လြယ္ကူကူ ကိုင္တြယ္လို႔ရမွာမဟုတ္ဘူး။ ယမ္းပံု မီးက်မယ့္ကိန္း ျဖစ္ေနတယ္။ ထိရဲ ထိၾကည့္ပါလို႔ နအဖကို ျပန္လည္ စိန္ေခၚရမွာျဖစ္တယ္။ အမွန္ကေတာ့ အရမ္းထိလြယ္ ရွလြယ္တဲ့ကိစၥဆိုတာကို ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ နအဖလည္း နားလည္ သေဘာက္ေပါက္ေလာက္ၿပီ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ေက်ာင္းတက္ေနတဲ့ ရခိုင္ေက်ာင္းသား ေက်ာင္းသူေတြရဲ႕ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ေတြဟာ ရခိုင္ျပည္ရွိ ေက်ာင္းေတြထိ ကူးစက္လာနိုင္ပါတယ္။ ရခိုင္ျပည္က ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ ဆရာေတာ္ (၁၅) ပါးရဲ့ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခ်က္ကို ဥေပကၡာျပဳၿပီး ဆရာေတာ္ဦးပညာစာရကို ေထာင္ခ်ခဲ့မယ္ဆိုရင္ ရခိုင္တျပည္လံုးရွိ ရဟန္း သံဃာေတာ္ေတြအထိ ကူးစက္သြာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ထားတဲ့ ရခိုင္တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီဟာလည္း ရခိုင္လူထုကို လႈပ္ခါႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြရဲ႕ ႏုိးၾကား ထၾကြမႈဟာ ရခိုင္တျပည္လံုးကို ဦးေဆာင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ လူမ်ိုးေရးကို ႏြယ္လာတဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဗမာ့စစ္တပ္ထဲက ရခိုင္ေတြ အရွင္နာဂိဓေမာ္ကြန္းကိုေတာ့ မေမ့ေလာက္ေသးပါဘူး ။
လြတ္လပ္ေရးရၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း ရခိုင္ပညာရွင္ေတြ တနည္းနည္းနဲ႔ သတ္ပစ္ခံခဲ့ရဖူးတဲ့ သမိုင္းအေတြ႔ အႀကံဳေတြ ရွိေနၿပီးသားပါ ။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ရခိုင့္သမိုင္းေတြကို ရခိုင္လူထုသိေအာင္ ကမၻာကသိေအာင္ ေဖာ္ထုတ္တဲ့ ရခိုင္ပညာရွင္ေတြ သုေတသီေတြ သတ္ပစ္ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ သမိုင္းအေတြ႔အႀကံဳက ရွိၿပီးသားပါ။ ဒီတခါထိရင္ ရခိုင္ေတြ ဘာလုပ္မလဲ။ ရခိုင္သမိုင္းေတြကို ရခိုင္ေတြျပန္လည္ သိရွိလာေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈေတြအားလံုးဟာ မဟာလူမ်ဳိးႀကီး၀ါဒဘက္က ရပ္သူေတြအတြက္ကေတာ့ မဟာရန္သူျဖစ္မွာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။ ဒီဆရာေတာ္ကေတာ့ ပိုမိုထူးျခားတယ္။ ေလလြင့္သြားမယ့္ မိဘမဲ့ကေလးငယ္ေတြကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ထားနိုင္တယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ အနာဂတ္ ေပ်ာက္မသြားေအာင္ အနာဂတ္ကို လမ္းညြန္ ေပးႏုိင္သူျဖစ္တယ္။ လူငယ္ေတြရဲ႕သဘာ၀က အနာဂတ္ရဲ႕ ၾကယ္ပြင့္ေတြျဖစ္တယ္။ သိပၸံေမာင္၀စကားနဲ႔ ေျပာရရင္ အနာဂတ္မွာ သမၼတေလာင္း၊ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေလာင္း၊ ပညာရွင္ေလာင္းေတြ မပါဘူးလို႔ ဘယ္သူတတ္အပ္ေျပာႏုိင္မွာလဲ။ ထို႔အတူ ရခုိင္စာေပဆန္းသစ္ေရးကို ကိုယ္တိုင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနၿပီး ကစဥ့္ကလ်ားျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ သမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ္ေတြကို စုစည္းထိမ္းသိမ္းေနတာ ျဖစ္တယ္ ။ ဒီလို ထူးျခားခ်က္ေတြက လည္ေခ်ာင္းထဲက ဆူးတေခ်ာင္းလိုျဖစ္ေနမွာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။ ရခိုင္ေတြအတြက္ေတာ့ “ဆူး” တေခ်ာင္း မဟုတ္ပါဘူး ။ “ေဆာက္” တေခ်ာင္းသာျဖစ္တယ္။ အနာဂတ္ကို ထုဆစ္ေနတဲ့ ေဆာက္တေခ်ာင္း ။
အနာတ္ၾကယ္ပြင့္ေတြျဖစ္တဲ့ ဒီကေလးငယ္ေတြက နင္းေခ်ပစ္ဖို႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္နဲ႔အေ၀းဆံုးကို ဆြဲထုတ္သြားၿပီ ။
ေဒသခံလူထုက ဒီကေလးငယ္ေတြကို တာ၀န္ယူဖို႔ ေျပာေနတဲ့ၾကားက ဗမာျပည္ကို အဓမၼ ပို႔ပစ္ လိုက္ျခင္းဟာ ရခိုင္ေတြ လက္ပိုက္ ၾကည့္ေနလို႔ မရဘူးဆိုတာကို ျပသ လိုက္တာျဖစ္တယ္ ။
ရခိုင္ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ သမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ္ေတြေကာ ဘယ္မွာလဲ။ ဆရာေတာ္ကိုလည္း လုပ္ႀကံဖန္တီးျပီး ဖမ္းထားတယ္ဆိုတာ တျဖည္းျဖည္းနဲ႔ ရုပ္လံုးေပၚလာပါတယ္ ။ ျပန္မလြတ္ဘဲ အဓမၼေထာင္ခ်ပစ္ရင္ ဘာလုပ္မလဲ ။ ဒါေတြကေတာ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္သူ ျပည္သားအတြက္ တကယ့္စိန္ေခၚမႈတရပ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။ ဒီေနရာမွာေတာ့ ဆရာေတာ္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ၊ ဗမာျပည္ကို အဓမၼေခၚယူသြားတဲ့ ကေလးငယ္ေတြ မူလေနရာကို ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိေရး ၊ အဓမၼသိမ္းယူထားတဲ့ ရခိုင့္သမိုင္းအေမြအႏွစ္ေတြ မူလေနရာကို မေပ်ာက္မရွိ ျပန္လည္ေရာက္ရွိေရးနဲ႔ မဟာမုနိဗုဒၶ၀ိဟာရေက်ာင္း ျပန္လည္ရွင္သန္လႈပ္ရွားေရးအတြက္ ခုခံကာကြယ္ေရးကို အရွိန္ျမွင့္လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔လိုအပ္တယ္ ။ ဒါေတြဟာ ရခိုင္လူထုအတြက္ သမိုင္းကတင္ေပးလိုက္တဲ့ သမိုင္းေပးတာ၀န္တခုျဖစ္တယ္ ။ ။
စာၾကြင္း ။ ။ အရွင္နာဂိဓေမာ္ကြန္းကို စိန္ေခၚလိုက္တာျဖစ္တယ္ ေဆာင္းပါး Arakan Review မွာ ေရးၿပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း ျပည္တြင္းနဲ႔ေရာ ျပည္တြင္းနဲ႔ဆက္စပ္ေနသူေတြေရာ တပ္ထဲက ရခိုင္အခ်ဳိ႔နဲ႔ေရာ စကားေတြေျပာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တပ္ထဲက ရခိုင္ေတြ လက္ပိုက္ၾကည့္မေနဖို႔ က်ေနာ္ေရးေတာ့ ျပည္ပက လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔စည္းတခ်ဳိ႕ ထုတ္ျပန္ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ေလး တေစာင္ေတာင္မထုတ္ျပန္တာကို ေထာက္ျပၾကတယ္။ တဖက္ကလည္း ျပည္တြင္းထဲက ရခိုင္ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ၊ ၀ိဇၨာပညာရပ္မ်ား အထူးျပဳ ရခိုင္ေက်ာင္းသား ေက်ာင္းသူမ်ား (တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား – ရန္ကုန္) နဲ႔ ရခိုင္ျပည္ အမ်ဳိး သား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္က ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး (၁၅) ပါး လက္မွတ္ထိုး ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း ေတြနဲ႔ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ျပၾကတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ကေတာ့ က်ေနာ့္ ဗီဇအတိုင္း နားဘဲေထာင္ေနခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဆိုေတာ့ ျပည္ပ မွာရွိတဲ့ ရခိုင္ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္း (နယ္သာလန္) ရခိုင္ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (ျပည္ပ) ဗဟိုနဲ႔ ဂ်ပန္ဌာနခြဲ၊ ရခိုင္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား အစည္းအရံုး၊ ရခိုင္ျပည္ အမ်ဳိးသား ညီညႊတ္ေရး ပါတီတို႔ကို က်ေနာ့္ ေဆာင္းပါးမွာ တခုတ္တရ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ထို႔အတူ အနာဂတ္ ရခိုင္သမိုင္းမွာလည္း သမိုင္းအျဖစ္က်န္ခဲ့မွာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။ ဆရာေတာ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး လက္မွတ္ထိုး ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ကိုလည္း က်ေနာ္ လွမ္းၾကည့္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘယ္သူေတြ ထိုးထားသလဲေပါ့၊ ေဒါက္တာေအးေက်ာ္၊ ေဒါက္တာေအးခ်မ္းစတဲ့ က်ေနာ္သိတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြပါသလို က်ေနာ္သိတဲ့ အရမ္းကို မ်ဳိးခ်စ္တယ္ဆိုတဲ့ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြ နာမည္လံုး၀ (လံုး၀) ပါမလာတာေတြကိုလည္း ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။ နိုင္ငံျခားသားေတြ နာမည္ကိုေတာင္ ေတြ႔ရပါ လ်က္နဲ႔ မ်ဳိးခ်စ္ပုဂၢိဳလ္ႀကီးေတြ နာမည္ မေတြ႔ရေတာ့ စိတ္ထဲမွာ ကသိ ကေအာက္ ျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ဒါဟာ သမိုင္း ဆိုတာကို နားလည္လိုက္တယ္ ။ ။

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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”!