- သန္းေရႊ၏ အမိန္႕ေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္း ၈၁ေယာက္ တစ္ခ်ိန္က ပစ္ခတ္ သတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္းခံခဲ့ရသည္။ ကေလး၊ မိန္းမ၊ ေယာက်ာ္း အားလံုး ပါပါသည္။ ထိုင္းလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား၏ မိသားစုမ်ားလည္းပါသည္။ ဦးေအာင္လင္းထြတ္ (ယခင္ Washington DC မွ ျမန္မာသံအမတ္ အေဟာင္း) ကိုယ္တုိင္ သက္ေသ ျပဳလုပ္ထားသည္။ ထိုလူေတြကို ျမန္မာ၏ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ဘက္ isolated ကၽြန္းတစ္ကၽြန္းတြင္ 1998 ၌ သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ VOA သတင္းငွာနသို႕ ဦးေအာင္လင္းထြက္ ကိုယ္တုိင္ သက္ေသခံျပီး ေျပာဆိုထားသည္။
- ျမန္မာအစိုးရသည္ မုန္တိုင္းအတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားမီဒီယာမွ သတင္းမ်ားသည္ မမွန္ပါဟု ေျပာဆိုလိုက္သည္။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ဆိုေသာ္ လူတစ္ခ်ိဳ႕က ဗီဒီယုိအတုေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ျပီး ေရာင္းခ်ေသာေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ညွိးႏြမ္းထိခိုက္ ေစသည္ဟု ျမန္မာ့အလင္းမွ ေျပာသြားသည္။
- ၃ရက္အတြင္း ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆီ လိုအပ္ေသာ ပစၥည္းမ်ား ပို႕ေပးႏိုင္ေသာ U.S မွ ရဟတ္ယဥ္ ၂၂စင္းသည္ အဆင္သင့္ ျဖစ္ေနေသးပါသည္။ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက စိတ္ျပန္လည္ ေျပာင္းလဲလာပါက ကူညီေပးရန္ ျဖစ္သည္။
- Lt. Gen. John Goodman, commandar of Marine Forces Pacific and head of the U.S. relief operation for Myanmar ၏ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္အရ ၁သန္းမွ ၁.၅သန္း အထိ လူမ်ားသည္ အကူအညီလိုေသးသည္။ ၄င္းတို႕ အထဲမွ ၄သိန္းခြဲႏွင့္ ၇သိန္းခြဲၾကား လူတို႕သည္ အင္မတန္ လ်င္ျမန္ေသာ အေရးေပၚအကူ အညီမ်ား လိုအပ္ေနသည္။ သံုးရက္ အတြင္း ရဟတ္ယဥ္မ်ားျဖင့္ သြားေရာက္ ကယ္တင္ေပးႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာသြားသည္။
- ဤကဲ့သုိ႕ မုန္တိုင္း ေၾကာင့္ ဆိုးရြားစြာ ဒုကၡခံေနရေသာ အခ်ိန္မ်ားတြင္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရသည္ USS Essex မွ ေတာင္းဆိုေသာ အကူအညီ ေပးမည့္ အစီအစဥ္ မ်ားကို ၁၅ၾကိမ္တိတိ ျငင္းဆိုခဲ့သည္။
- ၂.၄သန္းေက်ာ္ ထိခိုက္ခဲ့ျပီး ယခု အခ်ိန္ထိ ၁သန္းေက်ာ္သည္ အကူအညီ လိုအပ္ေနေသးေၾကာင္း U.N မွ ခန္႕မွန္းထားပါသည္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတြင္ျဖစ္သည္။
- မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားသည္ အကူမညီမရေသးသည့္ အတြက္ ေရာဂါမ်ား ဆက္လက္ ျဖစ္ပြားလွ်က္ရွိပါသည္။
- ကိုသူရ (ဇာဂနာ) အား အစိုးရမွ ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႕ညတြင္ ေခၚေဆာင္ သြားပါသည္။ ဧရာ၀တီသို႕ သြားလွဴျပီး ျပန္အလာမွ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ကိုသူရ၏ စစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ အင္တာဗ်ဴး တစ္ခုအတြင္း မုန္တိုင္းထိခိုက္ေသာ အခ်ိဳ႕ delta ေနရာမ်ားတြင္ အကူအညီ ကို အစိုးရမွ လံုး၀ မေရာက္ပါ ဟု ေျပာဆိုျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္သည္ဟု ခန္႕မွန္းေနၾကသည္။
- မုန္တိုင္းက်ေရာက္စဥ္အတြင္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္အတြင္းတြင္ ေထာင္သားမ်ား အသတ္ခံခဲ့ရေသာ ကိစၥကို UN Human rights မွ ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို မွန္ကန္စြာ စံုစမ္းျပီး တင္ျပဖို႕ ေျပာသည္။ ထိုင္းမွ လႈပ္ရွားသူ တစ္ခ်ိဳ႕၏ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္အရ အေစာင့္မ်ားသည္ ေထာင္သား ၃၆ေယာက္ကို သတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ေထာင္အမိုးမ်ား မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ကြ်တ္ထြက္သြားသည္ႏွင့္ ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့သည္။
- Burma's officials က ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အလွဴေတြကို ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို မျဖန္႕ေ၀ပဲ သိမ္းေနဆဲဟု RFA မွ သတင္းပို႕သည္။ ေဒသယာ ေဆးရံုမွ Nurse တစ္ေယာက္က ႏိုင္ငံတာကာက လွဴခဲ့ေသာ ေဆး၀ါး ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ဖယ္ရွားခံရေသာေၾကာင့္ ဆရာ၀န္ႏွင့္ ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား စိတ္တိုေနခဲ့သည္ဟု ေျပာသည္။ ေရသန္႕မ်ား ျပတ္လပ္ေသာ ဒုကၡမ်ားကို ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား ခံစားေနရဆဲဟု ဆိုသည္။ အိမ္မ်ား ျပန္ေဆာက္ဖို႕ သစ္မ်ား အခိုးခံရသည္ဟု Volunteer လုပ္ေသာ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။ ကိုယ္ထူကိုယ္ထ စနစ္မ်ားျဖင့္ ျပဳလုပ္ေနရေၾကာင္းေျပာသည္။
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Burma: Than Shwe 'ordered troops to execute villagers'
General Than Shwe
General Than Shwe is referred to as the ’Great Father’
Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia Editor
The leader of the Burmese junta, Than Shwe, personally ordered the murder of scores of unarmed villagers and Thai fishermen, according to a senior diplomat and military intelligence officer who defected to America.
Aung Lin Htut, formerly the deputy chief of mission at the Burmese Embassy in Washington, described to a radio station how 81 people, including women and children, were shot and buried on an isolated island after straying into a remote military zone in the southeast of the country in 1998.
After one general hesitated to kill the civilians, fearing that the commander who had given the order was drunk, he was informed that it came from “Aba Gyi” or “Great Father” – the term used to refer to Senior General Than Shwe, the head of the junta.
A few days later troops from the same military base captured a Thai fishing boat that had strayed close to Christie Island in the Mergui Archipelago. The 22 fishermen on board were also shot and buried on the island. “I was a witness to the two incidents in which a total of about 81 people were killed,” Mr Aung Lin Htut, formerly a major in military intelligence, told the Burmese language service of Voice of America. “All of them were unarmed civilians.” In 46 years of military rule in Burma, there have been numerous reports of grave human rights violations but few have been attested by so well placed a source as Mr Aung Lin Htut. They come at a time when General Than Shwe and his regime are coming under scrutiny, after their refusal to allow a full scale relief operation for the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
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The French Government has said that it comes close to being a “crime against humanity”, and last week Robert Gates, the US Defence Secretary, called it “criminal neglect”. If a tribunal like the ones established for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia is ever created for Burma, then Mr Aung Lin Htut will doubtless be called to give evidence.
He sought asylum in the US in 2005, along with six members of his family, after a purge against the country’s prime minister and intelligence chief of the time by General Than Shwe destroyed the careers of a generation of intelligence officers. Given the control of information in Burma, his account is impossible to verify. But it has credibility because it is the first time since his defection that Mr Aung Lin Htut has made any public comment on his former masters.
In May 1998 he was stationed on Zadetkyi island, a frontline base close to Burma’s maritime border with Thailand. The commander of the base was Colonel Zaw Min, who is now Minister for Electric Power and general secretary of the Union Solidarity and Development Association, the junta’s grassroots organisation.
A unit led by the colonel landed on Christie Island and found 59 people living there to gather wood and bamboo, in violation of Burmese law. The order came back from headquarters that they were to be “eliminated”.
Myint Swe, an air force general, said that he was a religious person, and that the matter should be handled delicately. He said that he was very concerned by the timing of the elimination order – just after lunch, a time when General Maung Aye, now the number two in the junta, was usually drunk.
* Have your say
When is enough finally enough!? What new crimes of the junta would justify intervention? Are they right now still within the bounds of being acceptably criminal? How many more lifes need to be destroyed? How many more children will never get a chance at a normal life? When will the world act???
Ron, Norway,
When is the international community going to have the guts to acknowledge that those in charge of Burma are either insane or in the grip of paranoid megalomania? Thousands of people have needlessly died. The ruling Junta is as guilty as Milosevic, and should all be tried for genocide.
Benjamin Griffiths, London,
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4083370.ece
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