Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
Karai hte seng ai Karai hpe ap ya ga;Jinghpaw wunpawng myusha mungdan hte seng ai hpe JWP mungdan hpe ap ya ga
Layang ura a lai ka:
Karai Kasang hpe chye ai Jinghpaw Wunpawng hpu nau ni nan rai nga ga ai hte maren, sumsing mungdan hte seng ai hte hpe sumsing mungdan de ap ya chye nna, Wunpawng mungdan hte seng ai hte hpe gaw Wunpawng mungdan a matu ap ya chye ai amyusha ni tai ra nga saga ai. Lam mi hku tsun ga nga yang, lai wa sai aten ladaw hkan na zawn rai sha, amyusha mungmasa hpung ni gaw san san, amyusha hpyen hpung ni gaw san san, makam masham hpung ni gaw san san, amyusha hpungshawa ni mung san san, re ai baw mungdan gawgap lam yan gaw, kaja wa tatut hta masan sa wa lu na matu yak la nga ai lam yan langai mi re, ngu ai lam hpe hkap la ra nga saga ai.
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Karai Kasang hpe chye ai Jinghpaw Wunpawng hpu nau ni nan rai nga ga ai hte maren, sumsing mungdan hte seng ai hte hpe sumsing mungdan de ap ya chye nna, Wunpawng mungdan hte seng ai hte hpe gaw Wunpawng mungdan a matu ap ya chye ai amyusha ni tai ra nga saga ai. Lam mi hku tsun ga nga yang, lai wa sai aten ladaw hkan na zawn rai sha, amyusha mungmasa hpung ni gaw san san, amyusha hpyen hpung ni gaw san san, makam masham hpung ni gaw san san, amyusha hpungshawa ni mung san san, re ai baw mungdan gawgap lam yan gaw, kaja wa tatut hta masan sa wa lu na matu yak la nga ai lam yan langai mi re, ngu ai lam hpe hkap la ra nga saga ai.
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UK london KNO myit su salang langai Malaysia jinghpaw wunpawng ni hpe sadu gawan
London Mare kaba e shanu nga ai slg Layang Hkun Htoi gaw Malaysia du Jinghpaw wunpawng myusha ni hpe sadu bawng ban jahkrup ai lam 26-05-2010/27-05-2010 laman galaw lai mat wa sai lam chye lu ai.
shi hku nna myusha ni yawng hpe hkrumzup bawngban hpawng galaw mayu ai lam nga ai.
Rai tim aten nlaw ai majaw seng ang ai ning baw ni hte lawk shagu hkrum zup hpawng hpe galaw lai wa sai.
KNO a galaw sa wa ai lam ni hte myusha yawng shang lawm gahkyin gumdin yang awng dang ai lam lula na re hpe tsun bawng ban laiwa sai.
Myit rawt ai Malaysia na Jinghpaw wunpawng ram ma ni hte mung ten gadun laman hkrum zup bawng ban lai wa sai.Myit rawt ai ram ma nkau myi gaw ya ten na Jinghpaw mung e byin hkrum ai ai,Malihka madim hte wunpawng ram ma ni hpe majoi mara kata rim hkrum ai lam hpe Ning hkap ai lamang galaw na lam,Myen dat kasa rung ni hta e n gun madun na lam ni bawng ban ai hku re.Rai tim Ya ten na Malaysia mungdan asu ya a jasat jasa hta hkan nna kasu kabrawng ai lam hpe gaw n galaw na lam KRC hte slg nkau myi hpaji jaw ai majaw,laga ladat hku nna sha musha masa hpe rau jawm galaw na lam chye lu ai.
Matut nna KNO de na hpu shawng hpuba ni hku nna Myusha hte mung masa lam hpe ndai mung dan du nga ai ram ma shayi shadang sha ni hpe sadu hkaw tsun n gun jaw lam woi la na lam hpe mung tang shawn dat ai lam chye lu ai.
Ya ten malaysia mung dan e Jinghpaw wunpawng Kaji kaba yawng 4000 jan du taw nga sai re.Law malawng gaw no. 3 mung dan de htawt sit hkyen sai ni mung rai nga ma ai.2009 hte 2010 laman UNHCR hta jahpan shang tawn sai ka ang hkup ram gaw process grai naw la na ra lam hpe mu nga sai majaw, maigan mungdan kaba e du nga sai myusha ning baw ni , dai mung dan asu ya kaw e laika tang shawn ai lam hta garum layang ,grai htap htuk na lam re hpe chye lu ai.
shi hku nna myusha ni yawng hpe hkrumzup bawngban hpawng galaw mayu ai lam nga ai.
Rai tim aten nlaw ai majaw seng ang ai ning baw ni hte lawk shagu hkrum zup hpawng hpe galaw lai wa sai.
KNO a galaw sa wa ai lam ni hte myusha yawng shang lawm gahkyin gumdin yang awng dang ai lam lula na re hpe tsun bawng ban laiwa sai.
Myit rawt ai Malaysia na Jinghpaw wunpawng ram ma ni hte mung ten gadun laman hkrum zup bawng ban lai wa sai.Myit rawt ai ram ma nkau myi gaw ya ten na Jinghpaw mung e byin hkrum ai ai,Malihka madim hte wunpawng ram ma ni hpe majoi mara kata rim hkrum ai lam hpe Ning hkap ai lamang galaw na lam,Myen dat kasa rung ni hta e n gun madun na lam ni bawng ban ai hku re.Rai tim Ya ten na Malaysia mungdan asu ya a jasat jasa hta hkan nna kasu kabrawng ai lam hpe gaw n galaw na lam KRC hte slg nkau myi hpaji jaw ai majaw,laga ladat hku nna sha musha masa hpe rau jawm galaw na lam chye lu ai.
Matut nna KNO de na hpu shawng hpuba ni hku nna Myusha hte mung masa lam hpe ndai mung dan du nga ai ram ma shayi shadang sha ni hpe sadu hkaw tsun n gun jaw lam woi la na lam hpe mung tang shawn dat ai lam chye lu ai.
Ya ten malaysia mung dan e Jinghpaw wunpawng Kaji kaba yawng 4000 jan du taw nga sai re.Law malawng gaw no. 3 mung dan de htawt sit hkyen sai ni mung rai nga ma ai.2009 hte 2010 laman UNHCR hta jahpan shang tawn sai ka ang hkup ram gaw process grai naw la na ra lam hpe mu nga sai majaw, maigan mungdan kaba e du nga sai myusha ning baw ni , dai mung dan asu ya kaw e laika tang shawn ai lam hta garum layang ,grai htap htuk na lam re hpe chye lu ai.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Mungkan gaw hten wa ai shara law wa sai,myen mung gaw grau hten lawm na masa re.
ဂရိပညာရွင္ ဟီရာကလိုက္တပ္စ္ (Heraclitus) ေလာကၾကီးကို ေရ-ေျမ-ေလ-မီး ဓါတ္ၾကီးေလးပါး နဲ ့ဖြဲ ့ထားတယ္လို ့ေျပာတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ျမန္မာ ျပည္မွာ ေရ-ေျမ-ေလ- မီး ကပ္ၾကီးေလးပါးနဲ ့ဖြဲ ့ထားတယ္လို ့ေျပာရမလို ့ျဖစ္ေနျပီ။ မုန္းတိုင္းဒဏ္ခံထားတယ္။ ေရျပတ္တယ္။ မီးၾကီးေလာင္တယ္။ အခုအခါျမန္မာ ျပည္မွာ အပူရိွန္အလြန္ျမင့္ေနတဲ့အတြက္ ရုတ္ရက္ေလထုဖိအားေျပာင္းလဲနိင္တယ္မုန္တိုင္းလာနိင္တယ္လို ့ ျမန္မာ နိင္ငံ မိုးေလ၀သ ဌာန က ခန္ ့မွန္းထားတယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္မုန္တိုင္း၀င္လာရင္ေတာ့ အားနည္းတဲ့ လူထု ( Vulnerable ) ေတြ ခံရမယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္က စကၤပူ၊မေလးရွား၊ထိုင္းနိင္ငံေတြက အိမ္ေတြလို သာမန္ေလမုန္တိုင္းကိုခံနိင္တဲ့အဆင့္မွာမရိွဘူး။
ငလ်င္ (ေျမ) လည္းလႈပ္မလာဘူးလို ့ ဘယ္ေျပာနိင္မလဲ။ တကယ္လို ့ငလ်င္က ရန္ကုန္ျမို ့မွာ လႈပ္မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ မေတြး၀ံစရာ တိုက္ေတြျပိဳဦးမယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့က တိုက္ေတြက သက္တန္း ေက်ာ္ေနၾကျပီေလ။ ဒုကၡဆိုတာက လာရင္တေယာက္ထဲမလာဘူး မဟာမိတ္ ( allies ) ေတြနဲ ့လာၾကတာကိုး။
ဒီတခါ ျမန္မာ ျပည္က ထြက္လာမဲ့ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ က နိင္ငံေရး၊ဘာသာေရး၊ စီးပြားေရ အရကပ္သင့္လို ့လာတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေတာ့မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး သဘာ၀ ေဘးအႏၱရယ္ေၾကာင့္ တဖက္နိင္ငံေတြကို ထြက္ေျပးခိုလံႈလာရတဲ့ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျဖစ္လိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါက အရင္က ဒုကၡသည္ေတြထက္မ်ားမယ္။ ပိုမယ္။
လူအဖြဲ ့စည္းတလံုးအစုအလိုက္အျပံဳလိုက္ထြက္ေျပးတဲ့ျဖစ္စဥ္ ( Great Exdous) ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ္။
ငလ်င္ (ေျမ) လည္းလႈပ္မလာဘူးလို ့ ဘယ္ေျပာနိင္မလဲ။ တကယ္လို ့ငလ်င္က ရန္ကုန္ျမို ့မွာ လႈပ္မယ္ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ မေတြး၀ံစရာ တိုက္ေတြျပိဳဦးမယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့က တိုက္ေတြက သက္တန္း ေက်ာ္ေနၾကျပီေလ။ ဒုကၡဆိုတာက လာရင္တေယာက္ထဲမလာဘူး မဟာမိတ္ ( allies ) ေတြနဲ ့လာၾကတာကိုး။
ဒီတခါ ျမန္မာ ျပည္က ထြက္လာမဲ့ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ က နိင္ငံေရး၊ဘာသာေရး၊ စီးပြားေရ အရကပ္သင့္လို ့လာတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ ေတာ့မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး သဘာ၀ ေဘးအႏၱရယ္ေၾကာင့္ တဖက္နိင္ငံေတြကို ထြက္ေျပးခိုလံႈလာရတဲ့ဒုကၡသည္ေတြျဖစ္လိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါက အရင္က ဒုကၡသည္ေတြထက္မ်ားမယ္။ ပိုမယ္။
လူအဖြဲ ့စည္းတလံုးအစုအလိုက္အျပံဳလိုက္ထြက္ေျပးတဲ့ျဖစ္စဥ္ ( Great Exdous) ျဖစ္လာေတာ့မယ္။
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Portraits of Independence of Kachins: An interview with Ryan Libre an American photojournalist
Can you tell about the situation of Kachin State and Kachin people in political, social religious, economic and education sectors?
Well there are two Kachins in my opinion. Free Kachin and junta controlled Kachin.
When I went to Myitkynia (capital of Kachin State) I could understand the overall situation of the Kachin much better.
When I arrived in Myitkynia I tried to speak Jinghpaw (Kachin language) to people at the train station and downtown but none understood Jinghpaw. It was all Burmese, Chinese and Indians.
It was also hard to find real Kachin food downtown. That made me realize the Kachins are in serious threat of losing their homeland.
I see the Kachins are fighting in three major fronts, Political, Cultural and Health. The KIO (Kachin Independence Organization) and all Kachins need to keep vigilant on all fronts. Socially the Kachins are quite strong. Their clan system of kinship keeps them close and strong. But the junta's best skill is perhaps dividing and conquering. With the border guard issue they have already caused some factions among the Kachin cease-fire groups to deepen.
Considering all the difficulties the Kachins are facing I'm impressed with the level of success they have achieved in Health care and Education.
Well there are two Kachins in my opinion. Free Kachin and junta controlled Kachin.
When I went to Myitkynia (capital of Kachin State) I could understand the overall situation of the Kachin much better.
When I arrived in Myitkynia I tried to speak Jinghpaw (Kachin language) to people at the train station and downtown but none understood Jinghpaw. It was all Burmese, Chinese and Indians.
It was also hard to find real Kachin food downtown. That made me realize the Kachins are in serious threat of losing their homeland.
I see the Kachins are fighting in three major fronts, Political, Cultural and Health. The KIO (Kachin Independence Organization) and all Kachins need to keep vigilant on all fronts. Socially the Kachins are quite strong. Their clan system of kinship keeps them close and strong. But the junta's best skill is perhaps dividing and conquering. With the border guard issue they have already caused some factions among the Kachin cease-fire groups to deepen.
Considering all the difficulties the Kachins are facing I'm impressed with the level of success they have achieved in Health care and Education.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
VOA news: ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ျပန္ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္မလား?
ကိုေနာ္ဒင္း ။ ။ ေကအိုင္အို နဲ႔ ကခ်င္လူမ်ဳိးေတြကေတာ့ ဘာဘဲေျပာေျပာ ကုိယ့္ရဲ ႔ ေမွ်ာ္မွန္တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပန္းတိုင္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ နဲ႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ဖယ္ဒရယ္ျပည္ေထာင္စု အေရးကိစၥအတြက္ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ မတိုက္ဘဲနဲ႔ ရမွာမဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ခံယူခ်က္ကို အခုအခ်ိန္မွာ ပိုၿပီးျပင္းထန္လာတာကို သိရတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လည္းဆိုေတာ့ ေကအိုင္အို အေနနဲ႔ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသားညီလာခံလုပ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္ နဲ႔ referendum လုပ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္အထိ စိတ္ရွည္လက္ရွည္နဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးကို ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ေျဖရွင္းဖို႔အတြက္ အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္တင္ျပခဲ့တယ္၊ ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ေကာင္းမြန္တိုးတက္တဲ့ အေျဖျပန္မရခဲ့ဘူး။ တဖက္က ဒီလုိအေျခအေနမွာ ေကအိုင္အို ကို ဖ်က္သိမ္းေရးကိစၥကို နအဖက လုပ္ကိုင္ေနတယ္။ အခုလည္း နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ဆိုတာ ေကအိုင္အို ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားရဲ ႔ အေျပာအရဆိုရင္ Road Map လမ္းျပေျမပံု (၇) ခ်က္ထဲမွာ မပါဘူး။ ေနာက္ၿပီး ceasefire လုပ္တဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာလည္း border guard post ဆိုတာ မပါဘူး။ ဒါကို ေနျပည္ေတာ္ ရွိ အရာရွိေတြအေနနဲ႔က ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ ရဲ ႔ စိတ္ေကာင္းေစတနာနဲ႔ ဒါကို လုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို အၿမဲတမ္း ေျပာေနၾကတယ္။ ဆုိေတာ့ ဘာမွ ၫႇိႏိႈင္းလို႔မရဘူးဆိုရင္ ဒီကိစၥအေပၚမွာ ကခ်င္ျပည္သူလူထု နဲ႔ ေကအိုင္အို လက္တြဲဖို႔ အဆင္သင့္ အေနအထားမွာရွိတယ္။ တဘက္မွာလည္း စည္းလံုး ညီညႊတ္မႈေတြကလည္း အရင္ကထက္စာရင္ အခု အခ်ိန္မွာ ပိုမ်ားလာတယ္။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္မို႔ ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ စစ္ပြဲျဖစ္လာခဲ့ရင္ ေကအိုင္အို အေနနဲ႔ တရုတ္ျပည္ဘက္က စစ္ေရး အရ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ ကူညီမႈေတြကို အဓိကရႏိုင္ဖို႔ေတာ့ အခြင့္အေရး မရွိပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကိုယ့္ရဲ ႔ နည္းလမ္းအားျဖင့္ ခုခံ တိုက္ခိုက္ဖို႔ အဆင္သင့္အေနအထားရွိၿပီးလို႔ သိရတယ္။ ေကအိုင္အို က စစ္ျဖစ္လာခဲ့ရင္ အရင္ကေတာ့ ေတာထဲမွာ ျဖစ္တာမ်ားတယ္။ အခုေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာ ၿမိဳ ႔ျပတိုက္ပြဲ နဲ႔ ေတာတိုက္ပြဲ နည္းလမ္းႏွစ္မ်ဳိးနဲ႔ အတတ္ႏုိင္ဆံုး ျပည္သူလူထုေတြနဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး လုပ္ဖို႔ ျပင္ဆင္ထားတယ္ဆိုတာကို သိရပါတယ္။
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Monday, May 10, 2010
CSW AND ROHINGYA DELEGATION ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON, DC TO ADVOCATE UN COMMISSION OF INQUIRY
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
A delegation organized by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) arrived in Washington, DC today, for three days of meetings with U.S. government officials to highlight the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Burma.
Maung Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), and Benedict Rogers, CSW's East Asia Team Leader, will meet officials at the U.S. State Department, and give evidence at a briefing in Congress. They will also meet Congressman Chris Smith, Congressman Joseph Pitts, and staff in several other Congressional offices, as well as NGOs including Genocide Intervention, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
The two activists will brief policy makers on the overall situation in Burma, including the plight of the ethnic nationalities. Benedict Rogers will give evidence from his recent visits to the Karen on the Thailand-Burma border, the Chin on the India-Burma border, the Kachin on the China-Burma border and the suppression of democracy inside Burma. Maung Tun Khin will present detailed evidence of the systematic persecution of the Rohingya people and the refugee crisis on the Bangladesh-Burma border.+++
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Christian Solidarity Worldwide and Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK
A delegation organized by Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) arrived in Washington, DC today, for three days of meetings with U.S. government officials to highlight the human rights and humanitarian crisis in Burma.
Maung Tun Khin, President of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK (BROUK), and Benedict Rogers, CSW's East Asia Team Leader, will meet officials at the U.S. State Department, and give evidence at a briefing in Congress. They will also meet Congressman Chris Smith, Congressman Joseph Pitts, and staff in several other Congressional offices, as well as NGOs including Genocide Intervention, Human Rights Watch and the U.S. Campaign for Burma.
The two activists will brief policy makers on the overall situation in Burma, including the plight of the ethnic nationalities. Benedict Rogers will give evidence from his recent visits to the Karen on the Thailand-Burma border, the Chin on the India-Burma border, the Kachin on the China-Burma border and the suppression of democracy inside Burma. Maung Tun Khin will present detailed evidence of the systematic persecution of the Rohingya people and the refugee crisis on the Bangladesh-Burma border.+++
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http://www.burmacampaign.org.uk
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
LEE HSIEN LOONG: Myanmar is a problem. Re: Singapore News
LEE HSIEN LOONG: Myanmar is a problem. They have a system. The government, the
military is in charge. The world has limited influence over them, and you
can’t change them short of going there and providing a government, which
the British did for a couple of centuries, but eventually they can’t carry on. So they have to move forward because I think many people in Myanmar know that this is not a solution for Myanmar. Many of the people know that the government is doing badly by them and resent it deeply. I think many people know that this is leading nowhere and needs to change. I suspect that --
CHARLIE ROSE: How about many people in the military?
LEE HSIEN LOONG: Included.
CHARLIE ROSE: OK.
LEE HSIEN LOONG: But I suspect a few key people who make the decisions, they have decided that this is an existential thing for them. If they’re out, it’s not just the country and the government has changed, but where do I go and which jail will I be in and my children and my jewels and my billions? So they are not likely to be persuaded by elections. You have to wait. I think there will be a change over time as the generations change.
And they’re holding elections this year. It may or may not be perfect, but it’s a step forward.
And if you look at Indonesia and President Suharto, he came to power in a coup, military-backed. But over 30 years he acquired legitimacy, he developed a kind of ideology to legitimize the rule. He had some kind of elections, he had some sort of a political process.
CHARLIE ROSE: But at the end of the day he was a dictator. He was in control.
LEE HSIEN LOONG: At the end of the day he did a lot of good for Indonesia, but unfortunately towards the end the rapacity became intolerable. And he didn’t deserve the end he came to.
(http://shanghaiist.com/2010/04/20/singapore_pm_lee_hsien_loong_china.php)
military is in charge. The world has limited influence over them, and you
can’t change them short of going there and providing a government, which
the British did for a couple of centuries, but eventually they can’t carry on. So they have to move forward because I think many people in Myanmar know that this is not a solution for Myanmar. Many of the people know that the government is doing badly by them and resent it deeply. I think many people know that this is leading nowhere and needs to change. I suspect that --
CHARLIE ROSE: How about many people in the military?
LEE HSIEN LOONG: Included.
CHARLIE ROSE: OK.
LEE HSIEN LOONG: But I suspect a few key people who make the decisions, they have decided that this is an existential thing for them. If they’re out, it’s not just the country and the government has changed, but where do I go and which jail will I be in and my children and my jewels and my billions? So they are not likely to be persuaded by elections. You have to wait. I think there will be a change over time as the generations change.
And they’re holding elections this year. It may or may not be perfect, but it’s a step forward.
And if you look at Indonesia and President Suharto, he came to power in a coup, military-backed. But over 30 years he acquired legitimacy, he developed a kind of ideology to legitimize the rule. He had some kind of elections, he had some sort of a political process.
CHARLIE ROSE: But at the end of the day he was a dictator. He was in control.
LEE HSIEN LOONG: At the end of the day he did a lot of good for Indonesia, but unfortunately towards the end the rapacity became intolerable. And he didn’t deserve the end he came to.
(http://shanghaiist.com/2010/04/20/singapore_pm_lee_hsien_loong_china.php)