Refugees fearful of Thai warning

A Thai governor’s recent suggestion that thousands of refugees housed in camps along its northwestern border may have to return to Burma has sparked concern among the refugee community.

More than 145,000 men, women and children have lived in nine camps in Thailand for the past 30 years but that may soon end.
Fighting continues along the Karen state border as Burmese troops battle an ethnic alliance of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and the Karen National Union (KNU).

Saw Tun Tun, chairman of Mae La camp, the largest in Thailand with a population of nearly 46,000, said he had little optimism that things would change in Burma.

“I don’t think they [new Burmese government] will be able to solve armed conflicts in the border region. That’s why we harbour no hope of returning yet… The international organisations concerned must provide us with the minimum level [of assistance].”
Refugees have continued to move back and forth across the border since a fresh wave of fighting broke out in November last year. The border area remains heavily landmined, and civilians are often forced to porter for the Burmese army.

There have also been rumours that the Burmese army has threatened to confiscate property belonging to the refugees unless they return this month.

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ကိုျမေအး …. (သို ့မဟုတ္) …..



ဒီလမ္းကို ေလွ်ာက္မွေတာ့

ဒီစခန္းကို ေရာက္ရမွာေပါ့….

သိလ်က္နဲ ့ပဲ ဆက္ေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့တယ္ …

အလိုတူျခင္း အလိုမတူျခင္းတို ့

ဘုရားသခင္နဲ ့ ပတ္သက္ေကာင္း ပတ္သက္လိမ့္မယ္ ….

အာဏာရွင္တို ့ရဲ ့ လူမဆန္တဲ ့ လူ ့သက္တမ္းတခုစာ

မတရား ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်ျခင္းအေပၚမွာ ဘုရားသခင္ဟာ

၀င္ေရာက္စြက္ဖက္ခြင့္ မရရွိႏိုင္ဘူး…..။



သူသိတာေပါ့ …

မိဘ ညီအကိုေမာင္ႏွမ ေဆြမ်ိဳးသားခ်င္း

သူကိုယ္တိုင္တည္ေဆာက္ခဲ့တဲ့ မိသားစုဘ၀

ဒါေတြကို လက္လႊတ္ဆံုးရံႈးရမယ္ဆိုတာ

သူ ့ထက္ သိသူေတာင္မွ သူ ့ေလာက္မသိႏိုင္ခဲ့ဘူး …

သမိုင္းေပးတာ၀န္ကို ဘ၀နဲ ့ရင္းၿပီးေပးဆပ္ခဲ့သူ

ေတာက္ပတဲ့ၾကယ္ပြင့္တိုင္းမွာ ေလးစားစံထားရတဲ့ သမိုင္းရွိတယ္..။



ေလးဆယ့္ငါးႏွစ္ ေျမာက္ေမြးေန ့မွာ

ေျခာက္ဆယ့္ငါးႏွစ္ အက်ဥ္းခ်ခံေနရတဲ့ဘ၀ထဲက

အလြမ္းအေဆြးေတြကို အရည္ေဖ်ာ္ေဆးမွင္ရည္လုပ္

စုတ္ခ်က္ၾကမ္းၾကမ္း ေရးဆြဲလိုက္စမ္း အသြင္ဆန္းအျမင္ဆန္း

ကိုယ္ကိုယ္တိုင္ ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းခဲ့တဲ့လမ္းမွာ ေနာင္တဆိုတာမရွိ

ဒီမိုး ဒီေရ ဒီေလ ဒီေျမ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးပန္းေတြ ေ၀ေနတာသာ

ျမင္ေတြ ့ခ်င္တဲ့ဆႏၵ ဒီဘ၀မွာ …………။



ရဲရင့္သက္ဇြဲ ၀၉၀၃ ၂၀၁၁ နံနက္ ၁း၂၀

အာဇာနည္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ၾကီး ဦးရာဇတ္ရဲ႕ ၁၁၃ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေမြးေန႔

၁၉၄၇ ခုႏွစ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း ဦးေဆာင္တဲ႔ အစိုးရ အဖြဲ႕တြင္ ပညာေရးႏွင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားစီမံကိန္းဌာန ၀န္ၾကီး အျဖစ္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့သူ အာဇာနည္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ၾကီး ဦးရာဇတ္ရဲ႕ ၁၁၃ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ေမြးေန႔ဆုေတာင္းပြဲကို

ျမန္မာလူငယ္ မူဆလင္မ်ား စုေပါင္းျပီး ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႕တြင္ ၂၀ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပခဲ႔သည္။ေမြးေန႔ဆုေတာင္းပြဲတြင္ ဆရာႀကီးအတြက္ ရည္စူး၍ က်မ္းျမတ္ ကုရ္အန္ ကို ဖတ္ၾကား ဆုေတာင္းျပီးမိဘမ့ဲ ကေလး ၁၂ ဦးအတြက္ ၿခံဳေစာင္မ်ား လွဴဒါန္းခဲ႔ၾကသည္။

Anti-Muslim prejudice 'is now deemed acceptable in polite society'

PREJUDICE against Muslims has "passed the dinner table test" and become socially acceptable, Baroness Warsi, the co-chairman of the Conservative Party, has claimed.
In a script for a talk due to be delivered last night, Lady Warsi - the first Muslim woman to attend Cabinet - said faith was discussed in a "patronising, superficial" way, making Britain a less tolerant place for believers.
She said she believed prejudice against Muslims was now seen by many people as normal and uncontroversial, and that expressions of disdain for Britain's nearly two million-strong Muslim minority were becoming acceptable in polite society.
"You could even say that Islamophobia has now passed the dinner table test," she wrote.
But she was expected to warn against portraying Muslims as either "moderate" or "extreme".

"It's not a big leap of imagination to predict where this talk of 'moderate' Muslims leads," she wrote. "In the factory, where they've just hired a Muslim worker, the boss says to employees: 'Not to worry, he's only fairly Muslim'. In the school, the kids say: 'The family next door are Muslim but they're not too bad'.

"And in the road, as a woman walks past wearing a burka, the passers-by think: 'That woman's either oppressed or is making a political statement'."

The speech also reveals that she raised the issue of Islamophobia with Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Britain last year, urging him to "create a better understanding between Europe and its Muslim citizens".

Her decision to speak out suggests the government is willing to tackle sensitive issues of race and religion.
Muslims in Scotland backed Lady Warsi's views. "We particularly welcome Baroness Warsi's acknowledgement of the role the media plays in this process of normalising Islamophobia, as well as the counter-productiveness of categorisations such as 'moderate' and 'extremist' Muslims," said a spokesman for the Muslim Council of Scotland.

ဟုိတယ္ႀကီး ၃ ခုအားIGE ကုမၸဏီ လီမိတက္သို႔ စစ္အစုိးရက လႊဲေျပာင္း

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ သမၼတ၊ အင္းလ်ားလိပ္၊ စထရင္း ဟုိတယ္ႀကီး ၃ ခုအား အမွတ္ (၁) စက္မႈ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ေသာင္း၏သား ဦးေနေအာင္ပုိင္ IGE ကုမၸဏီ လီမိတက္သို႔ စစ္အစုိးရက လႊဲေျပာင္း လုပ္ကုိင္ခြင့္ ေပးလိုက္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

အဆုိပါ ႏုိင္ငံပုိင္ဟုိတယ္ႀကီးမ်ားကုိ IGE ကုမၸဏီအား လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၃ လခန္႔မွ စတင္ၿပီး ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလာေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန က အငွားစနစ္ျဖင့္ လုပ္ပုိင္ခြင့္ ေပးခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလာေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏွင့္ နီးစပ္သူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

“၀န္ႀကီး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္စုိးႏုိင္နဲ႔ တြင္း(၁) သီဟသူရ ဦးတင္ေအာင္ျမင့္ဦး ဆီက ေတာင္းယူတာ၊ လုပ္ခြင့္ရတာ ၃လ ေက်ာ္ေနၿပီ ဘာမွ မလုပ္လုိ႔ မယူျဖစ္ဘူးေတာင္ ထင္ေနတာ၊ ဘယ္နာမည္နဲ႔ လုပ္မယ္ေတာ့မသိဘူး”ဟု ၎က ဆုိသည္။

ယခုအခါ ယင္းဟုိတယ္မ်ားတြင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ထားသည့္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းႏွင့္ ကုမၸဏီ ရုံးခန္းမ်ားကုိ ဖယ္ရွားေပးရန္ သတိေပးအေၾကာင္းၾကားစာ ပုိ႔ထားေၾကာင္း အဆုိပါ နီးစပ္သူက ဆက္လက္ေျပာျပသည္။

အေမ့အိမ္ ပညာဒါန

လႈိုင္သာယာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၁၃ ရပ္ကြက္ ေမခလမ္းတြင္ အမ်ိ္ဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္(NLD) ဦးေဆာင္မႈျဖင့္ အေမ့အိမ္ ပညာဒါန အမည္ ရွိ အေျခခံပညာ အဆင့္ အခမဲ့ ပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းကို ယမန္ေန႔က စတင္ ဖြင့္လွစ္လုိက္ၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ယင္းပညာသင္ ေက်ာင္းကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္၏ ညႊန္ၾကားမႈျဖင့္ ဖြင့္လွစ္ျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ေငြးေၾကးခ်ိဳ႕တဲ့ သည့္ ကေလးငယ္ေပါင္း ၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ ရန္ အတြက္ စာရင္းေပးသြင္းၿပီးျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
အေျခခံပညာအဆင့္ အခမဲ့ ပညာသင္ေက်ာင္းကို ပညာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန အေျခခံပညာ ဦးစီးဌာနမွ တားျမစ္ေသာ္လည္း ဆက္လက္ ဖြင့္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္သည္ ဟု ေက်ာင္း ျဖစ္ေျမာက္ေရးတြင္ ပါ၀င္သည့္ ကိုၿဖိဳးမင္းသိန္း က ေျပာသည္။

“ဖြင့္မယ့္ေန႔ မတုိင္ခင္ကတည္းက ေက်ာင္းဖြင့္ဖို႔ မလုပ္ဖို႔ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ပညာေရးဦးစီးဌာနကတဆင့္ အေၾကာင္းၾကားပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ တို႔ကေတာ့ ဒါနမႈျပဳတဲ့ သေဘာအေနနဲ႔ လုပ္သြားမွာပါ။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ေက်ာင္းက စာေမးပြဲစစ္တာေတြ၊ ဘာေတြလည္းလုပ္မွာမဟုတ္ ေတာ့ ဆက္လုပ္သြားဖို႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္ထားပါတယ္”ဟု ၎က ေျပာျပသည္။

လာမည့္ႏွစ္တြင္ တရား၀င္ ေက်ာင္းဖြင့္ခြင့္ ရရွိရန္အတြက္ မွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကိုလည္း ဆက္လက္ လုပ္ေဆာင္ သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းလည္း ကိုၿဖိဳးမင္းသိန္းက ဆုိသည္။

အေမ့အိမ္ ပညာဒါန ေက်ာင္းကို လွိဳင္သာယာၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၁၄ ရပ္ကြက္ ေမခလမ္း အမွတ္ ၅၄၈ ဦးမင္းလြင္ ၏ ေနအိမ္တြင္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ လ ၁၇ ရက္ေန႔က စတင္ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

တိုက္ခန္း ၁၂ ခန္းကို အမွတ္ ၁ စက္မႈဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ဖယ္ရွားခိုင္း

လူေနတိုက္ခန္း ၁၂ ခန္းကို အမွတ္ ၁ စက္မႈဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ဖယ္ရွားခိုင္းမႈတရပ္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ေက်ာက္တံတားၿမိဳ႕ အမွတ္ ၁ ရပ္ကြက္၌ ယေန႔မနက္ ၁ဝ နာရီခြဲခန္႔တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

၃၃ လမ္း အေပၚဘေလာက္ရွိ တုိက္အမွတ္ ၁၇၉ / ၁၈၅ မွ ၄ ခန္းတြဲ ၃ ထပ္တုိက္ခန္းမ်ားျဖစ္ၿပီး စက္မႈ ၁ ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ားပင္ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ႏွစ္ ၅ဝ ခန္႔ကတည္းက ေနထုိင္လာခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ေန႔ နံနက္ ၁၀ နာရီခန္႔က တိုက္ခန္းမွ ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ဆြဲခ်ကာ ဖယ္ရွားခိုင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ တုိက္ခန္းအနီးတြင္ ေနထိုင္သူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

“ဒုတိယထပ္မွာ တုိက္ခန္း ၀ယ္ၿပီး ေနတဲ့ လူေတြက တံခါးဖြင့္မေပးေတာ့ အတင္းပဲ တံခါးေတြ ႐ိုက္ဖြင့္မယ္ဆိုၿပီး အေခ်အတင္ ျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။ ရဲေတြလာၿပီး ဖယ္ခိုင္းတာပါ” ဟု ၎က ဆိုသည္။
“ေနဖို႔ အိမ္တလံုး ရွာတယ္ဆိုတာ အရမ္းကို ခက္ခဲပါတယ္။ က်မကေတာ့ ပစၥည္းေတြ ပ်က္စီးမွာစိုးလို႔ ငါတို႔ဘာသာ ဖယ္ေပး ပါမယ္လို႔ ေျပာရတယ္။ ပစၥည္းေတြကို အတင္းပဲ ေအာက္ကို ပစ္ခ်တာေလ” ဟု ၎က ဆိုသည္။

လက္ရွိတြင္ ျပန္လည္ညိႇႏိႈင္းမႈကို မယက က ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးေနေသာေၾကာင့္ အဆိုပါ တိုက္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သူမ်ားသည္ ပစၥည္းမ်ားကို တိုက္ေရွ႕တြင္ ပံုထားၿပီး တိုက္ခန္းေပၚတြင္ ျပန္လည္ေနထိုင္ေနၾကသည္။


ေနာက္ဆံုးရရွိေသာ သတင္းအရ ညေန ၅ နာရီတြင္ တိုက္ခန္းအား ခ်ိတ္ပိတ္ရမည္ဟု အိမ္ရွင္တဦးက ေျပာဆိုသည္။ ဦးထင္ေက်ာ္သည္လည္း လူအင္အား ၃ဝ ခန္႔ျဖင့္ လမ္းအတြင္းရွိ ေလထန္ကုန္း လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္ေဘး ဓမၼာ႐ံုတြင္ ေစာင့္ဆုိင္းေနသည္ဟု ဆုိသည္။

The Muslim school teacher who joined Burma’s martyrs

The Muslim schoolteacher who joined Burma’s martyrs
U Razak rose from the position of headmaster of Mandalay Central National High School to become minister of education and national planning in Burma’s pre-independence government. His career was brought to a brutal end at the age of 49, when he was gunned down by assassins on July 19, 1947, together with independence leader Gen Aung San and seven other cabinet members and colleagues. The nine murdered leaders are commemorated annually on the country’s Martyr’s Day.
Mandalay, where U Razak taught, is a center of Burmese Buddhist faith and culture. Yet U Razak, of ethnic Indian-Burmese origin, was fully accepted by the community.

His former students remember him with affection, retaining a picture of their former headmaster dressed in a white shirt, black jacket and green sarong, holding a cheroot in one hand and a cane in the other. A new book published in July titled U Razak of Burma: A Teacher, a Leader, a Martyr, collects some of their reminiscences.

“Whenever we saw Sayagyi (headmaster), he always smiled back at us. Even when he was holding a cane to punish the students for their misdeeds, one could not see any hint of anger on his face but only a grin on his lips,” retired air force Lt-Col Tin Aung wrote in a school memoir.
U Razak was the child of an Indian father, Sheik Abdul Rahman, a police inspector, and a Burmese Buddhist woman Nyein Hla. While his brothers and sisters chose to be Buddhists, he maintained the Muslim name Razak, in honor of his father. Although nominally Muslim, U Razak was a secularist who deeply loved Burma and encouraged unity in diversity.

As a bachelor of arts student at Rangoon University, the staunchly nationalist U Razak took part in the 1920 demonstrations against the British colonial education system. He demonstratively switched to a BA course with the alternative Council of National Education, established by Burmese nationalists. He graduated with the council’s BA degree, and carried the academic title with pride.

In 1921, U Razak founded the Central National High School in Mandalay and became headmaster in 1922. Envious rivals referred to his school as Nay-jin-dai School—nay-jin-dai describes an undisciplined place where people come and go as they please.

Undeterred, U Razak built his school into one of the two leading academic establishments in Mandalay. It produced an impressive number of national and local leaders, civil and military leaders, diplomats, scientists, sportsmen and women, artists, writers and journalists.

Although a Muslim, the young U Razak won high respect for his proficiency in Buddhist studies and the Pali language. He frequently visited Shwe Kyaung, Mandalay’s “golden monastery,” to study Buddhism and Pali, demonstrating his personal belief that young people need to respect and learn their religion for its moral values and national culture.

U Razak’s school routine ensured that all Buddhists students attended their prayers and religious lessons. The newly emerging national education system frequently ran short of funding and often could not pay staff salaries. But he won great trust among his teachers and the parents of his students with his school program of reinvigorating Burmese studies and promoting Burmese culture, patriotism and nationalism.

U Razak also encouraged his pupils to participate fully in sports. He employed a former Indian boxing champion to train his students, some of whom went on to represent Burma at the Olympic Games.

U RAZAK