How many deaths will it take till he knows ... That too many people have died

Yesterday, I went to see the Rambo movie, after the movie, I feel very sad and sorry for my country and for my fellow countyman, for all the enthics groups, for my fellow brothers and sisters. No Thanks to the Junta, now our country is INFAMOUS in the world for the WRONG Reasons.

When I arrived back home, I didn't know why, I feel very down and I just picked up my guiter and sang the "Bob Dylan" song "Blowin' in the Wind". It reflects me how I felt after I watch the Rambo movie about Burma. Here are the lyrics of this famous peace song "Blowin in the Wind".

You can also watch the Video of Bob Dylan live performance here.



Blowin' in the Wind
Copyright ©Lyrics and sang by Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down
Before they call him a man
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand
How many times must the cannonballs fly
Before they are forever banned
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it is washed to the sea
How many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free
How many times can a man turn his head
And pretend that he just doesn't see
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

How many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky
How many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry
How many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind
The answer is blowing in the wind

Dear Friends, Need your Action for these 6 men

Source: I copied this post from the who is who in Burma Blog

Thursday, 24 January 2008

Vicious Circle (An Appeal To Readers)
Dear ReadersI have drafted a letter to the ILO office, concerning the case of the 6 men who were sentenced to long term imprisonment. I strongly believe that this is one of the most unjust cases and therefore am trying to send it off to anywhere that I hope will be able to help.

I call it a 'Vicious Circle' because the nastiness seems going around all the time. Junta rules the country badly---people are impoverished--- junta force poor people to work for them ----people are frustrated---anger and rebellion leads to imprisonment --- appeals to international help, (like ILO)who are trying hard from outside ---- weak agreement reached---- junta carries on with forced labour ---- people turn to the only hope(the ILO-Junta agreement)-- attempts to use agreement and activate others ---- arrest by junta (ignoring agreement and using different laws) and imprisoned --- junta continues to intimidate and rule the country ---- and so on..... Unless we all help to break this vicious circle (this is only the ILO case, there are thousands more other 'circles' there), the country will continue to drown in shallow water and poor guys like those 6 will be forever ending up in prisons.

If you agree with my belief, could you please join in the action, to do something about this serious breach of basic human rights. I mean to send this to ILO offices. I also hope to do a petition or email circulation.

If you are good at IT and can create something please come forward to help. If you have better ideas, then propose them. If you have legal knowledge then advise us on some actions. My idea is to try as hard as possible to give pressure to the ILO and UN to help and support us.

What is the point of international organizations if they cannot intervene during such times when the breaches of basic human rights are so flagrant?

Many ThanksYours

sincerely
Nay Chi U

(Please send /email the below letter to ILO officials mentioned at the end of the post)

Date ...............

Dear Officials Could I please inform you of an unusual and distressing incident in Rangoon, Burma, which is reported in Scoop Politics Independent News. , tody. The report stated that 6 men were sent to long-term imprisonment; four, Thu Rein Aung, Wai Lin, Myo Min and Kyaw Min to prison terms of 28 years, and two others, Ko Kyaw Kyaw and Nyi Nyi Zaw each received sentences of 20 years.

This was their reward for their part in organising labour rights discussions at the American Centre in Rangoon last May Day.

As an International Labour Organisation could you therefore please take action to help these men as they did not commit any crime.

All they did according to the report was to organise labour rights discussions, perhaps trying to understand the announcement of ILO about the 'Understanding' reached with the Government of Myanmar.

[The GENEVA (ILO News) stated that the International Labour Office (ILO) announced today that it had concluded an Understanding with the Government of Myanmar designed to provide, as previously requested by the International Labour Conference and the ILO Governing Body, a mechanism to enable victims of forced labour to seek redress (Reference ILO/07/04) ].

It is obvious that although agreeing to such an 'Understanding', the military government in Burma will never publically issue this kind of announcement and it is up to people like those 6 men to assist in raising public awareness and assisting in educating ordinary people concerning their own rights.

Very sadly, the cunning military junta have also made their own laws to prevent such discussions and can always find ways to intimidate the public with the exemplary long-term prison sentences targetted at the deterrence of further action, which is in itself one of the junta's more crude abuses of basic human rights.

More worryingly, the news also reported that when contacted, the ILO office in Rangoon declined to comment. Could you please find out the situation of the ILO Rangoon office, in particular as to why they are unable to be more supportive to the the brave young people whom they have 'activated' ?

For the people of Burma who suffer the most cruel, blatant and unremitting repression under this ruling military junta, the international organisations like ILO and UN are the crucial and only lifeline. The people of Burma deserve the sound and reliable support of these agencies when it really counts, and whatever back-up and reassurance they can provide.

Could I there fore make an appeal to you to act and do everything in your power for the release of those 6 men immediately.

I understand that there are many thousands more in prisons, who were also unjustly captured there by the military government but this particular case, which is closely related to ILO and his work, could be a model for those in Burma who needs all the support and encouragement they can get to fight back the bully and abuse, subjected to them, in most systematic way. ("The Understanding provides that alleged victims of forced labour in Myanmar will have full freedom to submit complaints to the ILO Liaison Officer in Yangon. The Liaison Officer will then make a confidential preliminary assessment as to whether a case involves forced labour, in order that such cases can be investigated by the Myanmar authorities and appropriate action taken against the perpetrators.")

To read the agreement on 26 February 2007 of a Supplementary Understanding between the ILO and Burma (Myanmar) please click here.

ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

Ms Sachiko Yamamoto
Regional DirectorUnited Nations Building,
11th FloorRajdamnern Nok Avenue
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2295, 2288 1234 Fax: (66) 2288 3056 (direct), 2288 3062
Email: bangkok@ilo.org

Mr Guy Thijs
Deputy Regional Director
United Nations Building, 11th FloorRajdamnern Nok Avenue
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2224, 2288 1234 Fax: (66) 2288 3056 (direct), 2288 3062
Email: bangkok@ilo.org

Mr William Salter
DirectorUnited Nations Building, 10th Floor,Rajdamnern Nok Avenue,
P.O. Box 2-349
Bangkok 10200, Thailand
Tel: (66) 2288 2219, 2288 2220 Fax: (66) 2288 3058
Email: SRO-BKK@ilo.org
SRO-Bangkok covers Cambodia, China (including Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR), the Democratic Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand and Viet NamILO Liaison Office in Myanmar

Mr Stephen Marshall
Liaison OfficerNo. 1212-20,
Traders Hotel,
12th Flr.No. 223,
Sule Pagoda Rd., Kyauktada Township,
Yangon, Myanmar
Tel: (95 1) 242 393, 242 811Fax: (95 1) 242 594
Email: marshall@ilo.org

Office of the Director-General
Tel: +41.22.799.6026 Fax: +41.22.799.8533
E-mail: cabinet@ilo.org

Another Bomb Explosion in Burma! (Related Report) Are these work of Junta?

Source: International Herald Tribune : Asia - Pacific
Read the full story here:
(Explosion on Myanmar bus )

(Related Report)
Are Recent Burma Bomb Blasts Work Of The Junta?

Source:(http://www.mizzima.com/)
January 14, 2008 - The recent bomb blasts in Burma, including in former capital Rangoon could be a plot hatched by the junta to reunite its military. (Full Story)

Myanmar Times 3 Journalists were fired from the job by the order of Information Minister

Source: Ko Htike Blog

15 January 2008

The Three journalist from Myanmar Times were fired from their post by the order of Information Minister on Monday.

The three journalists were Burmese language editor Daw Nwe Nwe Aye and U Win Nyunt and News editor chief U Win Kyaw Nyunt.

The reason of fired from their job was these journalists tried to confirmed the news about the increase of Satellite Television Levy Fee. Myanmar Times was pressured by the Military Junta to fire this 3 journalists.

According to the one reporter, Myanmar Times was watched and monitored by the Junta since it published the news about Bird Flu and the news about the fall down of the bridge which was built by the Junta.

The Junta plan to take more action on Myanmar Times. In 2007, one of the advertisement mentioning "Killer Than Shwe" in the one of the Myanmar Times English edition. Since then Junta was closely monitored on Myanmar Times.

(Translated by Bay Dah)

Lanka-MSMA Blog was hacked

Source: Lanka-MSMA

On 11 January 2008 around 10:00 am Myanmar Student Monks' Blog http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/ was hacked by the Hacker(s).

The monks were informed about that news by the Myanmar Media Watch Group.

The night before the Lanka-MSMA blog was hacked, there was someone online and warned the monks that "You the monks, all of you have nothing to do with the politics and all of you better keep quiet." The person also accused the monks as "Fake Monks".

The Blog's url address was changed to "r-soldier.blogspot.com" and the Blog admin password was change to omega222.

The monks advised all the Burmese Bloggers to be especially vigilant and to take care of their Blogs.

Satellite TV Levy fee is reduced back to 50,000 Kyats by Junta

Source: Dr. Lun Swe:

http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_3704.html

Read the News in Burmese at above Link:

The Satellite Levy Fee which were increase to 1 million Kyats(about US$ 800) from 6000 Kyats(US$ 5) by Junta at the beginning of this year are now reduced back to 50,000 Kyats(US$ 40).

According to the source, this was happened probably Junta noticed that there are big wide spread of unhappiness and anger among the public because of increasing the Levy Fee unreasonably and increasing the Fee without any announcement.

The source added now people are reinstalling back the Satellite Dish.

Some Political analysts thought, reducing of CNG gas Ration suddenly and unreasonably increasing the Satellite TV Levy Fee are just a Military Junta tactic to test the People Patience.

(Translated by Bay Dah on 07January 2008)

E-Moe and his Satllite Dish (Cartoon)

Source: http://art-of-kha.tk/

There are very Nice Photo and design in this site


Copyright © Thet Paing Kha 2007

Hey!! Why are you Hesitant. Dismantle quickly!

Otherwise if come and check , the TV will be also confiscated in addition!!.

ယခု ႏွစ ္မ ွစ ၿပီး စေလာင္း အခြန္ ကုိ တစ္ႏွစ္ကို က်ပ္ေငြ(ျမန္မာပိုက္ဆံ) ၁၀သိန္း ေပးေဆာင္ရ မည္ ျဖစ္ ပါ သည္..။ယခင္ ႏွစ္မ်ားက စေလာင္းအခြန္မွာ က်ပ္ေငြ ၆,၀၀၀ က်ပ္သာျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယခု ႏွစ္ မည္ သုိ႕ မည္ ပုံ ျဖစ္ သည္ က ုိေတာ့ မသိႏုိင္ေတာ့ပါ…။ အစိုးရ လႊင ့္တင္ ထားေသာ လုိင္းမွာ ၄လုိင္း သာ ရွိ ၿပီး ယင္း လုိင္း မ်ား မွာလည္း တစ္ ျခား ႏုိင္ငံက ၿဂိဳလ္ တု မ်ား မွ တင္လႊင့္ထား ျခင္း ျဖစ္ ပါ သည္..။ ယခု အီမိုတစ္ေယာက္ အခြန္ မေဆာင္ ႏိုင္ ေတာ့ဘဲ့ ျဖဳတ္ ရ ေတာ့ မည ့္ဘ၀ သုိ႕ ရ ရွိ ေန ပါ ေတာ့ သည္…။

Translation:

Starting from this year WITHOUT warning, Burma's military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise to 1 Millions Kyats(Burmese Currency) in the annual satellite television levy. Previous years it was 6000 Kyats only. No one had any idea how it was happen. The Junta only have 4 channels and it is using other country's satellite to broadcast. Now E-Moe can't afford to pay the Levy and he is in the situation of to dismantle his Satellite Dish....

(Bay Dah Comment: massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident and international news broadcasts.)

(People reaction to this Cartoon: one comment in Ko Htike blog mention: "Right on the spot!! this is the Absolute True fact what is happening inside Burma right now!!: )

Long Peace Walk; Lastest Update for the Day No.3 (6 January 2008)

Source: MASA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/
(Read the full report in Burmese and more photos at the above link)

Walking in the Rain.

(The monks reach Kalutara Town this evening(shown with arrow. Colombo on top and Starting point Galle at the bottom.)

After walking 12 Kilometer this morning(6 January 2008), monks stop for a day meal at Sirisudahshanayama Monestary at Kawmula village and get some rest. In the afternoon there was very heavy rain but the monks keep continue walking.

A long all the way, all the wishes and encouragements make the monks more strength and motivation. The city dwellers and villagers asked "why are the monks walking?" and whenever they heard the monks replied " We are walking for to get freedom in Burma from the Junta Suppression and for the peace in the world", they(SriLankan people) give their wishes and Blessing. They also mentioned the Buddhist Country like Burma shouldn't be under Military Junta and they give their best wishes for the success of the campaign of the monks.
All Along the way, people put together their hands and pay respect to the monks like the way Burmese people pay their respect to the monks during Saffron Revolution.

The route is along the Coastal of the Indian Ocean and there are Coconut Trees line up along the way and people donated along of coconut juices.

One of the German tourist group shout "Burmese monks must win". All of them come down from the bus and put their hands together and pay respect to the monks. They claps their hand and shout together "Burmese monks will succeed".

Tonight, the monks will rest at Maha Bodhiya Monastery, Kalutara Town.(see the http://www.wikimapia.org/ photo).

Colombo is not very far away now, it is only about 30km away. The journey will end in front of United Nation office after reciting Metta Suta on 8 January 2008. Today the monks walk for a distance of 28km.

(Translated By Bay Dah)

Burmese Activist was called up by Singapore Police

Source: To protect the identity of the Activist I don't want to reveal the source.

According to the Blog site of the Burmese Activist who participated in the protest at the Orchard during the ASEAN summit, the Activist was called up by the Singapore police just very recently and was advised to come to Tanglin Police Station for "interview".(Orchard area is the vicinity of Tanglin Police Station).

This information was posted on that Activist's Blog in Burmese. The Activist mentioned that the phone call from the police caught the activist by surprise because it was quite some time ago. The police asked the activist when will the activist be able to come to the police station for interrogation regarding the Protest issue.

According to the activist, the police talked quite nicely on the phone.

The activist was not sure about how many Burmese Activists who participated Orchard Road Protest during ASEAN summit were called up by the police.

(If I get more information about this news update, I will post as soon as possible .. Bay Dah)

TRACKBACK LINK: (Video of Protest at Orchard Road)

Long Peace Walk Update (Third Day)

Source: Lanka-MSMA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/

To read the News Photos in Burmese, posted by MSMA and also MORE PHOTOS, Please visit this link:

http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_9250.html

On the Third day of the Long Pace March for Peace in Burma and World Peace, Burmese Monks start their Peace Journey at 7:30am on 06 January 2008, from the Kande Viharaya Temple at Aluthgama Town where they rest for the overnight.

Before continue their walk, Burmese monk conduct consecration service at the temple and recite Metta Suta.

The monks taking a break at Kilometer 49 point and having cold drinks donated by the Sri Lanka devotees.

At the moment, the monks are passing by Kilometer 52 point outside of Beruwala Town while the cold breeze air of Indian Ocean welcome their Journey.

The monks are already completed over half way mark of the journey.

The monks are probably passing by this Area now .. (satellite map from http://www.wikimapia.org/ )

(I translated this article from MASA blog site with my best intention. .... Bay Dah)

Additional Information:

Kande viharaya Temple Kalwamodara Aluthgama, Sri Lanka

Outside view of the Kande Viharaya, Aluthgama. built in 1809 it has features of British colonial architecture. (Photo from http://www.hotelsinlanka.com/picture_gallery.html )

The building of the Kande Viharaya was initiated way back in 1734 by the Ven. Dedduwa Dhammananda Thero, an understudy of the most Ven. Weliwita Sri Saranankara Nayaka Thero.

Thousands of devotees flock the holy grounds of the Kande Vihara daily, seeking mental & spiritual relief from all the troubles & worries of day to day life. The tranquility and serenity that the Kande Viharaya brings into your heart, mind, body & soul cannot be expressed or described with words. It has got to be experienced.

The "Kshethrarama Pirivena" founded by the Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thero in 1904 is also located within the Kande Viharaya premises. This acts as a vital centre in Buddhist eduction in the country.

Under the patronage of the Chief Incumbent the Ven. Batuwanhene Sri Buddharakkitha Thero, the Kande Viharaya continues to be a vital link in the socio cultural & religious activities in the country.

Among the latest additions to the temple is a computer educational facility to be used by the student Bhikkus of the Kande Viharaya.

The Largest meditating Buddha statue in Sri Lanka, at the Kande Viharaya, Aluthgama

Photo from http://www.hotelsinlanka.com/picture_gallery.html

Condition of the Political Prisoners Seriously Deteriorate

Source: Dr. Lun Swe:
Link: http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

URGENT ACTION NEEDED
Burmese Bloggers, Your Help is much Needed !

The condition of Political Prisoners at Insein Prison is Seriously Deteriorating, all the media and the blogs please spread this news as much as possible and as soon as possible, to get the world wide attention for taking action and help.
(This was requested by Political Prisoners Watch Group inside Burma.)

At Blk 1, Ko Minn Ko Naing, Ko Jimmy, Ko Tin Htu Aung, Ko Zaw Lin Aung, Ko Myo Thant and Ko Kap Khan Khual are held together with others criminals and also with Kywe Gyi aka Khin Maung Thaik ( a crminal who committed murder 2 times ) who was appointed as the supervisor of that Blk 1.

At Blk 2, Ko Ko Gyi, Ko Mya Aye, Ko Myo Khin aka Mone Khet and Ko Kyaw Kyaw Htwe aka Mar Kee are held together with the criminals who are on death row.

At Blk 3, Ko Dee Nyein Linn and Ko Thein Swe are held together with the criminals who are on death row.

At Blk 5, Ko Htwe Kywe is held together with other 30 criminals.

At Prison Hospital, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Htin Kyaw are held together with ex army officer Hla Win Aung who is already mentally abnormal and another mad criminal.

Ko Myo Khin is going to sentence under Section 505/143 and Ko Thein Swe is going to sentence under Section 6.
Posted by Dr. Lun Swe 1:35am

(Disclaimer: I translated the original post as best as possible to the original Post with my best intention. .. Thank you.. Bay Dah)

Original Post in Burmese:
အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း၌ အထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ အေျခအေနမ်ား အထူးဆိုး႐ြားေနေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ သိရွိေစေရးအတြက္ ေအာက္ပါ သတင္းမွန္မ်ားကို မီဒီယာမ်ားမွ အျမန္ဆံုး ကူညီေရးသား ထုတ္လႊင့္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ျပည္တြင္းရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား အေျခအေန ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာသူမ်ားက ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခဲ့သည္။

ေထာင္မႀကီး တိုက္ႀကီး(၁)တြင္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ ကိုဂ်င္မီ၊ ကိုတင္ထူးေအာင္၊ ကိုဇင္လင္းေအာင၊္ ကိုမ်ိဳးသန္႔၊ ပတ္ခမ္းကြာ တို႔အား အျခားရာဇ၀တ္ အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ အတူထားရွိၿပီး ေထာင္ထဲတြင္ပင္ လူသတ္မႈႏွစ္ခါ က်ဴးလြန္ထားသည့္ ကြၽဲႀကီး (ခ) ခင္ေမာင္သိုက္ကို ထိုတိုက္ႀကီး(၁)၏ တန္းစည္းခန္႔ထားေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

တိုက္ႀကီး(၂)တြင္ ကိုကိုႀကီး၊ ကိုျမေအး၊ ကိုမ်ဳိးခင္ (ခ) မုန္းခက္၊ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ေထြး (ခ) မာကီး တို႔အား ေသဒဏ္က်ထားသည့္ ရာဇ၀တ္သားမ်ားႏွင့္၎၊

တိုက္ႀကီး(၃)တြင္ ဒီၿငိမ္းလင္း၊ ကိုသိန္းေဆြ တို႔အား ေသဒဏ္က်ထားသည့္ ရာဇ၀တ္သားမ်ားႏွင့္၎၊

(၅)ေဆာင္ (၂)တိုက္တြင္ ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္အား အျခားအက်ဥ္းသား (၃၀)ႏွင့္၎၊

ေထာင္ေဆး႐ံုတြင္ ကိုလွမ်ိဳးေနာင္ႏွင့္ ကိုထင္ေက်ာ္ တို႔အား စိတ္ေဖာက္ျပန္ေနသည့္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ေဟာင္း လွ၀င္းေအာင္၊ အျခားအ႐ူးတေယာက္တို႔ႏွင့္၎ အတူေရာ၍ ထားရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

ကိုမ်ိဳးခင္ကို ပုဒ္မ ၅၀၅၊ ၁၄၃ တို႔ႏွင့္၎၊ ကိုသိန္းေဆြကို ပုဒ္မ ၆ခုႏွင့္၎ တရားစြဲထားေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။
Posted by ေဒါက္တာလြဏ္းေဆြ at 1:35 AM

Burmese Monks Long Peace Walk Update

Source: Ashin Mettacara

Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Monks Long Peace Walk Route Map: courtesy from Ashin Mettacara Blog Site: Starting from Galle (bottom of the map) to Colombo (top of the map)

Monks have already walked 31km. They will spend in Aluthgama for tonight. There is only two and half kilometers left to enter the city.(more news and More Photo at this link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/)

Long Peace Walk Latest Update (05 Jan 2008) Afternoon

Source: Ashin Mettacara

Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Burmese Monks are now having a lunch at the beach of Ambalagoda. On the way, local lay people paid respect to the monks and donated king coconut and water. Reportedly the car is full of coconuts. (More Photos and full article please visit this link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/ )

Latest News about Long Peace Walk

Source: Ashin Mettacara's Blog: Link:

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka have arrived at the Janandananamya Temple, praying for the Burma by reciting Metta Sutta and offering flower to the Buddha. Ven. Aggadhamma said that everying is okay and they are very delighted to see local people are helping , security are guarding on the way the walk. Temple where the Burmese Monks staying will make for breakfast for tomorrow morning and lunch will be donated by the local Buddhists. The monks will continues to march from Hikkaduwa to Aluttgama at 7am in tomorrow(5 January 2008).

(Please visit Ashin Mettecara Blog for More update news and Photo. Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/ )

Pictures of today(4 January 2008) protest in Political Prisoner uniform

(Pictures are from Dr. Lun Swe and Moemaka blog. Please give credit to these blogs )

To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this

link:http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

Please read the News below for both in Burmese and in English click here

Protesters wearing Prisioners uniforms and Protest in Rangoon Today

Source: Ko Nicknayman: Link: http://koniknayman.blogspot.com

Friday, January 4, 2008

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္ဆႏၵျပ။

ယခုႏွစ္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့တြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ရုံးတြင္ ႏွစ္ (၆၀) ေျမာက္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန ့အခမ္းအနားက်င္းပရာတြင္ တက္ေရာက္သူ (၁၂၀၀) ခန္ ့ရွိေႀကာင္း သိရွိရပါသည္။ ထို ့အျပင္ ရုံးခ်ဴပ္ေရွ ့တြင္ အဖြဲ ့၀င္ (၁၂) ဦးမွ အေပၚေရာင္တြင္ အျပာႏုႏွင့္ ေအာက္တြင္ ပုဆိုးအျပာရင့္ေရာင္မ်ား၀တ္ဆင္ကာ ေက်ာေနာက္ဘက္တြင္ (ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသမားမ်ားအျမန္ဆံုးလႊတ္) စာလုံးမ်ားအား တစ္လုံးခ်င္းစီ ေရးသားထားကာ ဆႏၵျပႀကပါသည္။ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရမွဳသတင္းမရွိေသးပါ။ ဆႏၵျပမွဳႀကာျမင့္ခ်ိန္မွာ (၁၅) မိနစ္ခန္ ့ရွိပါသည္။

Translation: Protest to release Political Prisoners

About 1200 people attended this year 60th anniversary of Burma Independance day organized by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD Party infront of NLD party headquarter. 12 NLD members dressed like a political prisoners in dark blue sarong and light blue tops with a sentence "Release Political Prisioners in No time" with each word on the back of the each member.

So far no arrest was carrried out yet and the demostartion took about 15 mins.

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Source : Dr Lun Swe Blog
To read the Full news in Burmese, please go to this link:
http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

4 Jan 08, 11:17
ယေန႔ ေန႔ခင္း ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔ စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ေန႔ခင္း ၁၂ နာရီတြင္ ေရႊဂုံတိုင္လမ္း၌ အက်ဥ္းသား ေထာင္ပုံစံ ၀တ္စုံမ်ားျဖင့္ လူအမ်ား တန္းစီးျပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လႊတ္ေပး ဆိုသည့္ စာတမ္းကို ဆြဲလွ်က္ စီတန္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။

Translation:
Today(4 January 2008) noon time, at Shwe-gon-dine Road, Rangoon, People wearing prisoner clothes and doing walking protest carrying banner demanding to release political prisoners.

More detail in Burmese read at the DVB link:

http://burmese.dvb.no/news.php?id=3423

Latest Update News about Long Peace March by The Burmese Monks

Photo taken: at 12:34 pm local time: 1 Kilometer away from Hikkaduwa City

Now the procession arrived Hikkaduwa City and the monks are walking in the city. Proudly, the Sri Lanka National Television programs are continuously showing our walking campaign.

More Photos at : Ashin Mettacara Blog: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Sri Lanka Long Peace Walk Update

Source: MSMA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/

You can read Full news in Burmese at this link:
http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_4835.html

Over 50 Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, at 7:00am today (4 January 2008), praying metta prayer and marching towards City Hall, Galle City toward City Hall Galle for the opening ceremony of Long Peace Walk. The ceremony which was stsrting at 8:00 am in front of the City Hall, Buddha square. The ceremony was attended by the Principle Abbot of Galle Buddhist Council Ven. Chandakumara,Ven. Pannaratana and monks, Gelle region police chief Mr. Keerthie. D- Silva (S. S. P) and others responsible personals and over 200 Citizens from Gelle city.

The ceremony was opening by reciting "Namaw Satha" prayer 3 times by the attendees. The public and monks recite the peace prayer for the Peace in Burma and for the World Peace. Also offering flowers and candles.

After that, Chief Monks take turns give speeched for the Peace in Burma and peace in the world. On behalf of the Burmese Monks in Sri Lanka, Ashin Thura Wuntha explaining about the reason of the Long Peace Walk.

Ashin Thura Wuntha explain that 4 January is the 60th Anniversary of Burmese Independence from British Colony but Burma is still under Military Junta Dictatorship for 45 years. Current Military Dictator practise only interest to hold their power and for the sake of to prolong their their power as long as possible, the military Junta is killing, arresting, torturing its own people without considering any Human Rights at all.

Especially in September 2007, Military arrested more than 4000 monks and killed almost 40 monks inhumanely, who were (for the sake of the Burmese public) ,reciting Metta prayer and carried out peaceful walking demonstration to show the people desire and demand.

Because of this, The intention of the today Long Peace Walk by the overseas Burmese monks is to make the World aware of the suppression in Burma and participate to help Burmese people in peaceful way.

More Photos of Long Peace Walk at Ashin Mettacara Blog:

http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Myanmar Monks in Sri Lanks start Long Peace Walk

Source: Ashin Mettacarra Blog (link here)

Myanmar Monks in Sri Lanka Start Campaign
Myanmar Student Monks in Sri Lanka have started walking campaign 7 am in this morning. Welcomed by the authority of Galle City and will be guarded by the Sri Lanka security on the long way. This walking campaign is dedicated to Myanmar Independence Day and to keep peace in the whole world including inside Burma. This news will be posted with the photos sooner or later.
Posted by Ashin Mettacara at 10:42 AM

New Year News from DID

Source: DID,

Read this Full news in Burmese here:

DID ျပည္တြင္းႏွစ္သစ္ကူးသတင္းမ်ား

Around 8:00 pm New Year, The Shwedagon Pagoda was closed to the Public by putting up Signboards everywhere mentioning "Cleaning In Process". Not a single person was allow to enter the Shwedagon pagoda for worshipping.

About 8:30 pm, along the Rangoon's Pyay Road, security forced were stopping all the cars and Transports by the roadside in Frantic manner. Later long motorcade passing by according to the eye witness reported to DID.

According to the report which is considered as reliable by the people who close to the security force, General Than Shwe and so many Officers lighted up 90,000 candles at Shwedagon Pagoda as a "Ye-Ta-Yar(doing some thing or offering something as certain place,at certain time and date to counter-act in advance to prevent the bad things going to happen to someone).

On the same day(earlier time) at Shwedagon Pagoda, some activists shouting "our Cause" slogan at the Shwedagon Pagoda and distributed VCD and CD to the public. The person who reported this news had no chance to obtain these VCD and CD, he was not sure what informations inside these VCD and CD. So far noone was arrested yet.

Another unrelated news which DID got was, according from the public from Rangoon that the Fuel(petrol) price will be increased up to 4500 -5000 Kyats

Breaking News!! Counsellor of Myanmar embassy in Moscow found dead

Thanks to Happy who posted the link on Ko-Htike's Blog C-box.

Source: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=12231991&PageNum=0

Counsellor of Myanmar embassy in Moscow found dead
03.01.2008, 20.48

MOSCOW, January 3 (Itar-Tass) -- The third counsellor of the Myanmar Embassy in Moscow was found dead at the embassy premises in downtown Moscow, a source in the Moscow police told Itar-Tass on Thursday. Doctors said in a preliminary diagnosis report that the diplomat died of intestinal poisoning and acute heart attack.



“An alarm call about the incident came at 6.14 p.m. Moscow time on Thursday to the police alert force. The 40-year-old third counsellor of the Myanmar Embassy was found dead at the premises of the embassy situated at 41, Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street,” the police source said.
The investigation into the incident is underway.

I am happy and I am not alone anymore !!!

Today, I surf around all the blogs which are related to Burma and find out more and more Burmese blogs are translating and/or posting the articles and news in English language to make the whole world aware of Burmese people feeling and Burma related news which are not mentioning in the major News Broadcaster Like VOA English news, BBC World news or CNN, etc.

There must be a lot of Burmese Bloggers who start posting in both Language (Burmese and English). I am going to find out as fast as I can and as much as I can.

Recently I come to notice that following bloggers are stepping up their translation of Burmese articles and news into English Language. These bloggers are Naychiu' Blog (Who is Who in Burma), Ashin Mettacarra's Blog(Ashin Mettacara), Thway Ni's Blog (Burmese Bloggers w/o Borders).

There must be others Burmese Bloggers posted in english for sure, Please forgive me if I don't mentioned these blogs and please let me know so that I can mention next time and non-Burmese speaking, Burmese people supporters can visit all of your blogs and read the articles.

I salute and give my up most respect to my fellow bloggers Ashin Mettacarra, Naychiu and Thway Ni.

Here are their blogs.

Ashin Mettacarra http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/






Naychiu http://whoiswhoinburma.blogspot.com/




Thway Ni http://bbwob.blogspot.com/

(Updated Blog list of Burma News and Articles in English: )
Suggestion Blog: http://suggestion2007.blogspot.com/

Junta raises Satellite Dish TV fees to 1 Million Kyats !!!

To read Full News in Burmese read at this link: http://burmese.dvb.no/news.php?id=3385 .

Full news in English Source:

Burma cut off again as junta raises TV fees
From Aung Hla Tun in Rangoon January 02, 2008

WITHOUT warning, Burma's military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident and international news broadcasts.

With no word in state media of any licence fee increases, the first satellite dish owners knew of the hike was when they went to pay the 6,000 kyat levy, only to be told it was now one million kyat ($A892), three times the average citizen's yearly income. (Full Report at this Link)

Burma : Human Rights Information

1 Jaunary 2008

Original report : Read at this link: DVB (in Burmese)

Information on human rights violations in Burma can now be reported to United Nations Human Rights Commission, in the statement issued by 8888 generation students.

(For Full Translation read at this link: http://whoiswhoinburma.blogspot.com/ )

Most Hated Man of the Year 2007

Source: http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/
This is the remarks of Ko Htike:

I looked at the Online Game which is the target to the world unpopular or hated person or organization., I noticed that Burmese people most "(un)beloved" U Than Shwe got the most hit points much higher than his nearest competitors General Musharraf of Pakistan and the Janjaweed Militia group from Darfur.



It clearly shows and proves How much the general public hate U Than Shwe. (see below )


1. General Than Shwe of Burma : Total Games Play: 28,410; Hit Points: 1,425,125

2. General Musharraf of Pakistan: Total Games Play: 1181; Hit Points: 69,754

3. Janjaweed Militia of Darfur: Total Games Play: 841; Hit Points: 58,034


If we have to give Award: the UNDISPUTED most hated man on Earth; we have to give it to U Than Shwe for sure.

Walking Campaign For Burma

Source: http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2007/12/blog-post_6620.html

On 4 January 2008 Burma Independence Day, to commemorate this occasion, Burmese monks in Sri Lanka will walk 116 km Long Peace Walk starting on from Galle City and end at infront of the UN Office at Colombo City on 8 January 2008 for the Freedom of Burma and the World Peace.

TP Myanmar Students Announcement

Announcement

We would like to announce that We, the Tamasek Myanmar Associations from Singapore Tamasek Polytechnic is not getting involve with the entertainment program which is going to be preformed by Burmese Students from various Polytechnic from Singapore; on the 2 January 2008 at the Singapore Mandarin Hotel(Orchard) for the Burma Independent Day Celebration(which is on 4 January ..baydah) organized by Burmese Embassy in Singapore.

BACK LINK:
Please United:

On 2 January 2008, Junta Collaborators, Traitors of the Burmese People and some Burmese Students from various Polytechnic in Singapore are participate in the entertainment program at Singapore Mandarin Hotel (Orchard Road) to mark the anniversary of Burma Independent Day,, organized by the Burmese Embassy in Singapore.

We want to warn all those entertainer not to forget the Monks, Students and Public who were sacrifice their lives in the recent September Saffron Revolution. Don't forget the cruelty and suppression of the Na-Ah-Pha(Junta).

While all the Burmese people are suppressing and suffering, to accept to participate in the Junta Entertainment is the act of supporting the Junta cruel suppression in last September 2007.

Ask yourself "who you are". Are you the collaborator of Junta? If not, then think carefully what to do before it is too late. Don't make yourself a person hated by the all Burmese People.

It is the responsibility of all patriotic Burmese to try to stop this Independence Day celebration organized by the Junta's embassy. Tell your friends not to go there if they are invited, Not to get involve.

Businessman and Students in Singapore and everywhere around the world, If you love your country, if you are patriotic Burmese, then don't go to this Celebration even you are invited by the Junta embassy..