Than Shwe Hunter

Than Shwe's Election Dilemma

2010-05-24T09:15:00.000-07:00

By BAMARGYI Monday, May 24, 2010

Snr-Gen Than Shwe is a worried man. He has called for an election which will change the course of the nation’s history. He single-handedly created the Constitution to safeguard his future and to protect his interests, formulated the election laws and presumably will schedule an election this year.

Even so, there are many things that could go wrong along the way.

For the past two decades, Than Shwe has eliminated all challenges to his power, and now, he has near absolute control. However, in spite of his best efforts, it appears things could still unravel beyond his control.

He is getting very old. These final days are when he must protect his family and cronies, all of whom have enriched themselves through questionable means. For the upcoming election, he has to ensure that there are 166 members of parliament elected from among the army's ranks, who will ensure the formation a new military-controlled government after the election.

One of the general's problems is that he is surrounded by corrupt officers and “Yes” men. Can the 166 new military-backed MPs be trusted? When a new government is installed, will it question the way the state has dispensed state-owned property to his family, friends and cronies?

Than Shwe is nearing his final act on the national scene, and the people he puts in power will affect his fate. He himself was picked by the late dictator Gen Ne Win for his loyalty, and his seemingly low profile. It turned out to be Ne Win’s biggest mistake in his life. Than Shwe well knows how a low-profile subordinate can overthrow the leader.

Apparently, he has picked Lt-Gen Myint Swe, the nephew of his wife Kyaing Kyaing, to be the next army chief, who will also be in charge of the interim government (along with five other young generals including Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing). Vice Snr-Gen Maung Aye and Gen Thura Shwe Mann—junta's No.2 and No.3—are slated for retirement. A high level political position for Lt-Gen Tin Aye is out of the question because of his so-called eccentricity.

The problem of picking the right people for the new jobs is difficult because all the men in the top positions lack real creativity or intelligence. The brightest people have not been appointed to high level jobs.

Introducing a new government while his family and his cronies are robbing the state treasury is a formidable task.

Than Shwe has ordered his current ministers including Thein Sein to take charge of the new military-created political party, the Union Solidarity Development Party. However, without vote rigging these people can not be elected. If they are not elected, Than Shwe grand plan is over. If they are elected, then he has ensured his safe passage into the future at the expense of the country which will continue to deteriorate under military rule.

Another headache for Than Shwe is the conversion of cease-fire groups. Some super brain in the cabinet promoted the idea that their armies should be converted into border guards, managed by the junta, which would effectively remove their independence. If they do not agree, the government might be forced to go to war or drop the idea.

Today’s army is mainly composed of corrupt officers. A once proud army is a thing of the past. It is poorly equipped. Morale is at its lowest. For what purpose hasit waged war on its own people other than for Than Shwe to hold on to power?

There have been instances of field commanders colluding with with others to avoid confrontations on the front lines. Than Shwe knows too well he can not win a war in ethnic regions. Their struggle will go on. If he presses too hard on the ethnic armies it will backfire, and there will be a mutiny among the ranks. Perhaps a solution could be found with Aung San Suu Kyi, who could negotiate with the ethnic armies.

Everyone is now asking why no election date has been set? one explanation might be the general is still not sure how to negotiate his way to a safe future. Than Shwe is still not sure what he is going to do.

Although unlikely, there is still time for Than Shwe to come to his senses and to pull the country out of its long nightmare through some genuine acts of reconciliation prior to the announcement of the election date. That type of final act may be the most effective way to ensure his passage into a safe future.

http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=18539

The General must not be disturbed’

2010-04-12T09:22:00.000-07:00

By BENEDICT ROGERS
Published: 12 April 2010

Burma’s Senior General Than Shwe is undoubtedly number one. Since he took power in 1992, he has consolidated his own personal position in a way that means Burma is no longer ruled by a collection of Generals, as it was from September 1988 until the mid-1990s, but by one man, Burma’s tyrant.

Evidence of this is abundant, but an illustration came when British politician Andrew Mitchell MP visited Rangoon in 2007. He asked the Deputy Foreign Minister if he could visit Aung San Suu Kyi. The Deputy Foreign Minister trembled, saying only one man could give permission: Than Shwe. “Well call him up then,” Mitchell suggested. Such an idea was enough to turn the Deputy Foreign Minister’s face pale. The Senior General must not be disturbed, he retorted.

Writing a biography of Than Shwe is far from easy. Few people know much about him, and access to him or his family, for an activist like me, is impossible. I requested an interview with him, and with the Burmese ambassador in London, but received no reply. Instead, I had to rely on anecdotes from defectors from the Burma Army who have known him at different times, during his military training, his time as South-West Regional Commander and as Senior General, and the impressions of international diplomats who have met him. I conducted extensive interviews with people such as former UN Special Envoy Razali Ismail, former British ambassador Mark Canning, former Australian, American, Japanese and Thai diplomats, and others. I also travelled to Burma, visiting Naypyidaw and talking to people in various parts of the country and along its borders about life under Than Shwe’s rule. I was told many stories, some of which I believe are true and others are impossible to verify. Rumour surrounds Than Shwe, but even if some stories are untrue, the fact that they spread says something about him and his family, and how widely disliked they are. In every rumour, there is at least a grain of truth, a flash of insight into his character and mindset.

Than Shwe was born in Kyaukse, an area near Mandalay well known for its conservative culture. His education was limited, and after only a year as a postman, he joined the Officer Training School (OTS) and rose through the ranks of the Tatmadaw. In 1958, the year the military took control of the government for the first time, Than Shwe joined the office of the Director of Education and Psychological Warfare, where he gained grounding in the skills of propaganda and divide-and-rule which he uses to manipulate and destroy his opponents today. His time in the Central School of Political Sciences a few years later was also influential. Tasked with teaching the Burmese Way to Socialism, Ne Win’s ideological framework designed to justify military rule, described by one former diplomat as “an amalgam of Karl Marx and Groucho Marx”, Than Shwe taught history. His love of the ancient Burmese warrior kings, on whom he models himself, and his penchant for giving visiting diplomats long, distorted lectures on Burmese history, is likely to have grown from this time. At least one reason for the move to a new capital, Naypyidaw, described by former British ambassador Mark Canning as “the most awful place you have ever been to,” is that Burmese kings had a tradition of building new capitals, as part of their legacy. Naypyidaw means “the Seat of Kings”, and is part of Than Shwe’s legacy.

According to those who knew Than Shwe during the 1960s and 1970s, he was not regarded as a particularly successful soldier. Sein Thaung says he was “not very smart, very quiet, and always willing to say things to please the commander … but no one was impressed.” But this very lack of flair, ability, charisma and overt ambition was the secret of his success. “Than Shwe kept quiet – he knew that if you show off too much in the military, you are likely to be chopped,” said one of his former colleagues.

In fact, some question the extent of his battlefield experience altogether, and most doubt that the medals he wears today were earned. There are even some stories of real incompetence and cowardice. Former Communist solder Aung Kyaw Zaw claims that in a battle between the Tatmadaw and the Communist Party of Burma (CPB) in 1980, Than Shwe was ordered to move his troops into Khangtang and the Loi Mwe Valley. He fulfilled this command, but then switched off his radio for two days and disappeared. “He went to sleep in the valley,” says Aung Kyaw Zaw. “He didn’t want to fight.”When he finally resumed communications, his superiors were furious. “They told him to take off his badge and rank and hand them over to senior officers. They told him he was incapable.”

Bizarrely, however, it was his very lack of competence that brought him to Ne Win’s attention. Although Ne Win and his top advisors doubted Than Shwe’s military prowess, they had no reservations about his loyalty. “Ne Win didn’t like good soldiers, he only liked followers, dull people like Than Shwe,” concludes Aung Kyaw Zaw.

Than Shwe benefited from Ne Win’s suspicion of potential rivals in the regime, particularly after the coup plot against Ne Win in 1976, and was rewarded for his loyalty. His rose to become South-West Regional Commander, where according to those who knew him he developed a passion for infrastructure projects and false propaganda. He embarked on a campaign to improve literacy rates, and declared victory, claiming to have eliminated illiteracy in the Irrawaddy Delta. Others who were there at the time claim there remained many people who could not read or write.

Despite presiding over a system of widespread forced labour, Than Shwe gained a reputation among those who worked for him as Regional Commander as a modest man with simple tastes and no signs of the cruelty and corruption endemic in his family and regime today. One of his former staff says that in the early 1980s, Than Shwe was “a nice guy”.

But if a palm-reader were consulted, they would not conclude that Than Shwe is a nice guy. According to palm-readers, most people have three lines on their palms: a life line, indicating health, a head line representing intellect, and a heart line, meaning compassion. Look at a photograph of Than Shwe waving, and you will see: he has no heart line.

After the brutal suppression of the democracy movement in 1988 and the return of a fully-fledged military regime, Than Shwe became the number two, under General Saw Maung. He manoeuvred skilfully to oust Saw Maung in 1992, perhaps together with Khin Nyunt, and became the Senior General. Rumours suggest Than Shwe may have been involved in drugging Saw Maung. However, even despite his ruthlessness in ousting Saw Maung, Than Shwe was perceived as a stop-gap. Ne Win saw him as less of a threat to him than Khin Nyunt, and therefore a safer bet. Diplomats say he was seen as a “short-termer”. A former Thai ambassador recalls: “He played the fool at the beginning, giving the impression of a parochial, unambitious person, giving Ne Win the impression that he could trust him, that he was not hungry for power. He was a mastermind – he fooled everybody.”

Razali Ismail says Than Shwe can be “very charming and friendly when he wants to be,” but most diplomats who have met him describe him as “cold and humourless”. Humour, said one, “is not part of his personality” and he has a “plump, sullen face”. He speaks English quite well, loves Manchester United, watches Chinese Shaolin martial arts movies, reads TIME magazine and, reportedly, surfs the Internet. He eats simply, preferring basic curries, fried morning glory, fish-head soup and gourd and magnolia fritters. He is slow to make decisions, but when he does, he tends to overreact. During the Saffron Revolution, he reportedly went into a deep depression, and refused to eat anything except chicken rice soup.

His wife, Kyaing Kyaing, is a significant influence, particularly as far as astrologers are concerned. She had been married before, to another soldier who was killed in battle. Versions vary, but one account suggests Than Shwe was ordered by his superior to marry his fallen comrade’s widow, while another version says soldiers drew lots to decide who should marry her and he drew the short straw. She is known to dislike Aung San Suu Kyi at least as much as he does, if not more. Former diplomats say that Aung San Suu Kyi “represents everything that [the Generals and their wives] are not” – she is beautiful, intelligent, sophisticated, highly-educated and well-travelled.

How has Than Shwe maintained, indeed tightened, such a strong personal grip on power? He is despised and feared in equal measure, yet unlike other dictators, possesses no charisma to inspire loyalty. The answer, according to one diplomat, is that he controls the levers of power, especially regarding patronage and promotion. Many soldiers owe their careers to him, just as he owed his to Ne Win. Only when he had reached the very top did Than Shwe assert his own power. When he went as far as putting Ne Win and his family under house arrest, it was, says a former diplomat, “a pretty powerful statement of intent.” He has built several power bases, notably the Union Solidarity Development Association (USDA), a group of business cronies, the new capital, a new constitution and fake elections that will ensure military rule and protection for him and his family after his eventual retirement or death.

These are just some of the themes I explore in my book, in addition to his family’s greed and corruption, his grandson’s antics and the crimes against humanity perpetrated by his regime. In addition, the book examines the influence of astrology, the drugs trade, the nuclear programme, arms purchases, biological and chemical weapons, relations with China, Russia and North Korea, Khin Nyunt’s demise, Maung Aye’s role, the development of the USDA and Swann Arr Shin, the cronies, the succession, Naypyidaw, the Saffron Revolution, Cyclone Nargis and Than Shwe’s attitudes toward Aung San Suu Kyi who, according to Razali Ismail, “frightened the hell out of the military”. The conclusion I reach is that Than Shwe is a skilled manipulator, who knows how to play people off each other. Although not educated academically, it is a mistake to underestimate him or to think of him as mad or stupid. He is ruthless and brutal, but he knows what he wants and has shown a remarkable ability to get it. His very colourlessness and lack of flamboyance is the secret of his success.

Benedict Rogers is a writer and human rights activist working with Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). His book Than Shwe: Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant will be published by Silkworm Books in June 2010.

http://www.dvb.no/analysis/the-general-must-not-be-disturbed/8617

Than Shwe Mulls his Future Role

2010-03-19T07:38:00.000-07:00

COMMENTARY

By AUNG ZAW Friday, March 19, 2010

Than Shwe issued his long awaited election laws last week and pundits are now wondering whether he will vacate his throne when the voting is over. The fear is that he won't be willing to give up politics and power any time soon.

Sources with access to the top leaders in Naypyidaw say some officials believe Than Shwe is reserving for himself the position of president in post-election Burma, even though he is reported to have told United Nations officials that he planned to retire soon.

Military officers and senior civilian officials in Naypyidaw say some factions within the regime want Than Shwe to remain in power indefinitely and have even asked him to “sacrifice” his life by serving the country until the end.

It's no joking matter—Than Shwe will indeed probably consider this proposal and give it his nod.

Last year, it was rumored that Than Shwe had endorsed the junta's No 3, Gen Thura Shwe Mann, joint chief-of-staff in the armed forces, to become president of post-election Burma. Shwe Mann and his wife are close to Than Shwe and his family, and they are known to go on shopping trips together to Singapore.

However, military sources say Shwe Mann may be now just a spent bullet. one reason being advanced is that Than Shwe promoted Shwe Mann, the former commander of the Irrawaddy division to the War Office in Rangoon in the early 2000s just to counter the growing influence of Gen Khin Nyunt. The feared spy chief and former premier was eliminated, together with his entire intelligence structure, in a 2004 purge, and Than Shwe erased one of his potential rivals.

Shwe Mann was one of several young officers elevated by Than Shwe over the years to top positions in the armed forces and the cabinet. Others included Gen Thein Sein, Lt-Gen Myint Swe, head of the Bureau of Special Operations (5), and Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Maj-Gen Htay Oo, who is now head of the Union Solidarity Development Association.

Sources suggest that although Shwe Mann is considered to be down-to-earth he hasn’t gained as much of Than Shwe's trust and confidence as he needs. Htay Oo and Myint Swe have become Than Shwe’s favorites following the loss of his trusted general, former Prime Minister Soe Win, who died in 2007.

It will be hardly surprising if Than Shwe chooses to cling to power after the election, considering the financial benefits and security of office. The members of Burma's junta have deep pockets, fat foreign currency bank accounts and lucrative business interests that would assure them of a comfortable existence for years to come.

But how can he remain in power as president?

The military will receive 25 percent of the seats at the village, township, state, regional and district levels in the new governing body, according to the 2008 Constitution. There will be three nominees for the presidency—one from the Amyotha Hluttaw (Nationalities Parliament or Senate), one from the members of the Pyithu Hluttaw (People's Assembly or House) and one from the military contingent of the two Hluttaws. The Senate and the House will then vote to choose the president.

Than Shwe can be nominated by the representatives of the military in the future Senate and House, to be formed after the planned 2010 election.

According to the Constitution, one of the duties of the new president will be to head the National Defense and Security Council, which will have the power to declare a state of emergency and nullify the Constitution.

Than Shwe currently holds Burma’s most powerful position in the armed forces and analysts say he will hand this position over only to his most trusted ally. Myint Swe, who is in his mid 50s, could assume this position.

Shwe Mann now oversees regular meetings on political and security affairs with high-ranking military officials in Rangoon and Mandalay, although Than Shwe still calls the shots.

The question now is who will be commander in chief of the armed forces?
Myint Swe, a protégé of Than Shwe and close associate of the general and his wife, is a prime candidate for the job.

One interesting theory is that after claiming to build modern and strong armed forces, Than Shwe will be reluctant to let a strong army leader now take over. Knowing full well the infighting and power struggles among his top commanders, Than Shwe fears that he might not be able to pull the strings when he's no longer in control.

Indeed, as things stand now at this time of “political transition” in Burma, Than Shwe’s real concern is not detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi but young army officers and cabinet ministers who have become increasingly powerful and wealthy in the last decade.

It's not Suu Kyi who keeps him awake at night, but the question of how his trusted officers can ensure his future security and that of his family.

Than Shwe will have to live with the kharma of having imprisoned or put under house arrest several subordinates, including Khin Nyunt, who harbor no good will for him or his family.

For that reason, Than Shwe's exit strategy is likely to restrain him from giving up total power.

If he changes his mind, Shwe Mann or Htay Oo could be candidates for the top job.

Likewise, if Than Shwe feels insecure about appointing Myint Swe to head the army he has several younger officers to choose from—including Lt-Gen Hla Htay Win, Maj-Gen Ko Ko, Maj-Gen Tin Ngwe and Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe.

So, for now, good luck with your election, Mr President-in-Waiting Than Shwe!

http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=18081

Lawsuit Against General Than Shwe (The Killer)

2010-03-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

Lawsuit against General Than Shwe, SPDC and all his government officials to an International Criminal Court for crimes commited during military regime

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To: His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Members of the Security Council

We want to initiate a Lawsuit against General Than Shwe and his SPDC military officials for crimes committed during the military regime. We want to appeal to the International Criminal Court to take actions against the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) being the official name for the military regime of Myanmar and the members are:

General Than Shwe, Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, and Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
General Maung Aye, Vice-Chairman, of the State Peace and Development Council, Vice Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services, Commander-in-Chief (Army)
General Thura Shwe Mann, Joint Chief of Staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force
Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, Prime Minister, First Secretary of SPDC, Adjutant General
Lieutenant-General Ye Myint, Second Secretary of SPDC, Chief of Bureau of Special Operation - 1 (Kachin, Chin, Sagaing, Magawe, Mandalay)
Lieutenant-General Thiha Thura Tin Aung Myint Oo, Quartermaster General
Lieutenant-General Kyaw Win, Chief of Bureau of Special Operation - 2 (Shan, Kayah)
Lieutenant-General Tin Aye, Chief of Military Ordance
Lieutenant-General Aung Htwe, Chief of Armed Forces Training
Lieutenant-General Khin Maung Than , Chief of Bureau of Special Operation - 3 (Pegu, Rangoon, Irrawaddy, Arakan)
Lieutenant-General Maung Bo, Chief of Bureau of Special Operation - 4 (Karen, Mon, Tenasserim)

And the following authorities;
-- Aung Thaung (Minister of Industry), Crack Down Commander of Protest in Upper Burma
-- U Thaung(Minister of Nuclear, Science& Technology), Crack Down Commander of Protest in Lower Burma
-- U Thaung is also Chief of Nuclear Weapons Project of Myanmar with the support and aids of North Korea and Russia
-- Major Gen Maung Oo (Minister of Home Affairs)

For the MISUSE of State property, military projects, and crimes committed during the military regime where human rights are not considered by the government of Myanmar, such crimes being listed as:

1. Myanmar Nuclear Project of Minister U Thaung with the Support of Russia and North Korea. This being the most important charge, as it presents a threat to Burma, the region and to the world.

2. Since the military regime took power, part of the land is being cultivated with Poppy (plants), the Myanmar military and SPDC government have taken ownership of the State lands.

3. During the protests this year 2007, thousands of people, Monks, Nuns, Members of Parliament, members of the elected NLD Party, AIDS sympathizers, Free funeral organization lead by Actor Kyaw Thu, 8888 Veteran Students, college students were arrested tortured and killed on the streets in jails and detention centers. The protests had finished and the arrests, torture during interrogation and killing continue on a daily basis.

4. Due to continuously witch hunting, all the people who dislike the SPDC have filled all the jails in Burma are full with political prisoners. No vacant space is available in all the jails in Burma. The Junta is now searching for more new spaces for new jails. At present, the Institutes and universities are no longer foundations for Education. General Technical Institute (GTI) and Yangon Technical University & Institute, YIT(Formerly RIT), and many other colleges and universities have become jails and detention centers for protesting monks and civilians.

5. Due to the lack of space left in jails all over Burma, recently the authorities freed the real criminal prisoners such as thieves, rapists, robbers and murders because the authorities require more space to keep in custody newer political prisoners. That means that the government is preparing itself to make more arrests in the short future. Many of the new political prisoners of September 2007 died in jails due to lack of space.

6. During the brutal crackdown in September 2007, in two capitals and smaller cities thousands of people were gun blasted, thrown into rivers, and cremated alive by government soldiers. During this period of time the following crimes were committed;

� Machine gun shootings, physically and mentally harming the Buddhist monks and nuns participating in the protest marches currently taking place in major cities and towns in Burma

� Pro-government supporters infiltrated the protesting groups by pretending to be monks and nuns (eg. Shaving their heads, dressing in monks' robes)
and then instigating violence from within the march group

� Pro-government supporters providing poisoned foods as alms (Dana)

� Soldiers and government supporters robbed and continue robbing donations and Money from monasteries and temples (eg. From Ngwe Kyar Yan Monastery & Maggin Temple)

� Police and soldiers arresting and beating up people who offer food and water (Dana) to the monks.

� Police, soldiers and interrogators continue arresting the protesting monks and treat them like criminals, such as catching the monks by lariats and ropes, tying them up with wires and strapping them onto electrical poles, slapping their cheeks, kicking them with military boots and hitting the monks' heads with rifle butts.

� Police, interrogators, and soldiers continue arresting the monks by seizing the whole temples, arresting the monks and disrobing them.

� Police and soldiers rape arrested Nuns and female students whilst in jails. Every time the police and soldiers raid the jungles of Karen they rape women, teenagers and kids.

� Doctors and medical students of Mandalay who treated injured protesters are in jails at the present.

� Many run-away villagers along the Thai-Burma border are still being physically abused, raped, tortured, killed, even robbed from their measly belongings by the patrolling soldiers.

7. Depayin Massacre - Attempt to kill Peace Nobel Prize Laurette Aung San Suu Kyi and the brutal killing of her NLD members by non-uniform SPDC soldiers and thugs in 2003. Since the NLD won the elections in 1990, the junta continuously have been arresting, torturing and killing the NLD members to this date.

8. Brutal Crack down of 8888 Uprising & Genocide on 18.9.1988, the fatalities occurred in almost every city in Burma, it was much higher than those of 2007.

9. The military government provides protection to the world most wanted notorious Opium Poppy King Khun Sa and Lo Hsin Han, protecting them from being arrested by the International Criminal Court

10. In 1962 the Student Union Building in Rangoon University Campus opposed the military coup and boycotted the regime, several students were launched (blast-off).

11. Killing of several students during the funeral of UN Secretary General U Thant, the Military Junta Government planned to bury U Thant at the Kyan-taw Cemetery, an ordinary cemetery. Burmese students and people turned to the streets to demand for the body of UN Secretary General to be buried in a honorable place rather than an Ordinary Cemetery.

12. Killing of people during the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Thankin Kodaw Hmaing who is the most revered literary figure in Burma. As the junta prohibited the celebration many people died during this celebration.

Government-organised gangs, referred to as Swan-arshin, and members of the quasi-official Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) have broken up most of the protests and detained participants, under the guidance of local council officials, special branch police and army officials who are wearing plain clothes. They are not simply "pro-government" gangs as widely reported. According to one news report, they are being coordinated by a Myanmar Armed Forces officer, Colonel Than Han, together with USDA secretary, U Aung Thaung. Col. Than Han is also said to have been involved in the lethal May 2003 attack on a convoy carrying democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters at Depayin in upper Myanmar.

Since August 21 the authorities have been coming to houses and other places and arresting the leaders of the protests. On August 22 the state media reported that 13 persons belonging to the 88 Generation Students Group were arrested, and on August 25 the junta media speaker reported that, "action will be taken against them in accord with the law". The 13 are being held at Insein Prison. But in addition, it is believed that as of August 25 at least 65 persons have been detained and interrogated. Among them, I wish to draw special attention to:

U Myint Aye, the leader of the Human Rights and Promoters and Defenders group: taken by the Kyimyintaing Township Peace and Development Council chairman, U Aung Kyaw Moe, and officials, along with Special Branch police led by Deputy Superintendent Win Myint from near his house at 11:30am on 24 August 2007, while he was taking food in celebration of his wife's birthday to his in-laws.

Ko Htin Kyaw, the leader of the Myanmar Development Committee, arrested with another member of his group, Ko Zaw Nyunt, a few minutes into demonstrating nearby the Theingyi Market in Rangoon around 1pm, 25 August 2007. According to onlookers, they were assaulted as they were put into a waiting vehicle. Htin Kyaw and his colleagues had organised protests against rising prices earlier in the year but had been released after interrogation and "re-education".

Solo protestors U Ohn Than and Aye Win:
Ohn Than was arrested outside the US embassy on 23 August 2007. He had in the past staged a number of similar protests and been jailed repeatedly.
Aye Win was arrested in Bassein, Irrawaddy Division on August 24 for protesting outside the main market. Both had been holding placards decrying the increased fuel prices. Aye Win also had previously been jailed for two years after the lethal attack on a convoy of democracy proponents in Depayin during 2003.

Other persons reportedly arrested on August 24 include National League for Democracy (NLD) members Ko Thein Myint, of Ward 54 in South Dagon Township of Rangoon, who was punched while being taken by a Special Branch officer as he was going to a protest at Tamwe; Ko Nyunt Win and Ko Saw Lwin, taken from a number 56 public bus by USDA members and fire brigade personnel led by Deputy Station Chief Htay Aung; and Ko Aung Zaw of Ward 56 in South Dagon, also arrested by USDA and fire brigade personnel.

Htay Kywe, Mee Mee, Aung Thu, Ko Ko and the 4 most prominent leaders of Burmese Federation of Student Union were arrested on October 11, 2007.

There are also reports and photographs being circulated of vehicles parked around central areas of Yangon to be used to make any arrests the instant that protests occurr. Other persons are still being sought out by the authorities and have gone into hiding. Warrants for arrest with photographs are posted at the airport.

When Burma nationals, mostly students working or studying abroad, return to Burma, they are arrested at the Yagon airport. They are detained for 3 days, checked with photos and videos sent from Myanmar Embassies around the world. If they are found participating in recent demonstrat ions abroad or in Burma they are beaten, tortured, and sent to the Insein Prison.

At this critical time the active involvement of the international community is absolutely vital. People of Myanmar are looking for and depending upon support from outside in order to emerge from the decades of dictatorship under which they have been forced to subsist.

I therefore call upon you and all concerned agencies and mandates within the United Nations system to take special responsibility to see that the situation there obtain the highest attention and priority in the days and weeks ahead.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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Biography of Than Shwe

2010-03-04T07:29:00.000-08:00

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com Guide

General Than Shwe, the leader of Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a secretive, vindictive man. He shows no qualms about having dissidents, journalists, and even Buddhist monks beaten, jailed, tortured, or executed. Highly superstitious, in 2005 he moved the national capital essentially overnight, on the advice of an astrologer.

Despite his absolute power, Than Shwe is so reclusive that most Burmese people have never even heard his voice. Smuggled video footage of the sumptuous wedding thrown for the general's daughter sparked outrage across the country, as it provided a glimpse of the lifestyle of the very rich.

Early Life:

Very little is known about the secretive general's early life. He was born on February 2, 1933 in Kyuakse, in the Manadalay Division of Burma. At the time of Shwe's birth, Burma was considered a division of British India.

Education:

Few details of Than Shwe's education have emerged, though some sources report that he attended public elementary school before dropping out of high school.

Early Career:

Than Shwe's first government job after school was as a mail delivery clerk.

Sometime between 1948 and 1953, the young Than Shwe enlisted in the Burmese colonial army, where he was assigned to the "psychological warfare" unit. He participated in the government's ruthless counterinsurgency campaign against ethnic-Karen guerrillas in eastern Burma. This experience resulted in Shwe's several-year-long commitment to a psychiatric hospital for post traumatic stress disorder. Nonetheless, Shwe was known as a merciless fighter; his no-holds-barred style brought a promotion to the rank of captain in 1960.

Entry into National Politics:

Captain Than Shwe helped General Ne Win seize power in the 1962 coup that ended Burma's brief post-independence experience with democracy. He was rewarded with a steady series of promotions, rising to the rank of colonel by 1978.

In 1983, Shwe took military command of the Southwest Region/Irrawaddy Delta near Rangoon. This posting close to the capital was to aid him enormously in his quest for higher office.

Ascent to Power:

In 1985, Shwe was promoted to brigadier-general, and given the twin posts of Vice Chief of Army Staff and Deputy Minister of Defense. The following year, he was promoted again to major-general, and given a seat on the Burma Socialist Party's Central Executive Committee.

The junta crushed a pro-democracy movement in 1988, leaving 3,000 protestors dead. Ne Win was ousted after the insurrection. Saw Muang took control, and Than Shwe moved into a high Cabinet position due to "his ability to bore everyone else into submission."

Following the abortive elections of 1990, Than replaced Saw Maung as head of state in 1992.

Policies as Supreme Leader:

Initially, Than Shwe was seen as a more moderate-style military dictator than some of his predecessors. He freed some political prisoners, and released democracy-movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest in the late 1990s. (She won the 1990 presidential election despite being in prison.)

Shwe also oversaw Burma's 1997 entry into ASEAN, and cracked down on official corruption.

However, he has become more hard-line with time. His former mentor, General Ne Win, died under house arrest in 2002. In addition, Than Shwe's disasterous economic policies keep Burma one of the poorest countries in the world.

Human Rights Abuses:

Given his early association with the brutal put-downs of the Karen independence and pro-democracy movements, it's not surprising that Than Shwe shows little regard for human rights.

Free press and free speech are non-existant in Burma. The journalist Win Tin, an associate of Aung San Suu Kyi's, has been in prison since 1989. (Aung San herself was also re-arrested in 2003, and has been under house arrest ever since.)

The junta uses systematic rape, torture, summary execution and disappearances to control the people.

Monk-led protests in September of 2007 resulted in a violent crack-down, which left hundreds dead.

Personal Life and Spending Habits:

Meanwhile, Than Shwe and other top leaders enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle (apart from worries about being deposed).

The opulence with which the junta surround themselves was put on display in a leaked video of the wedding reception of Shwe's daughter, Thandar, and an army major. The video, showing ropes of diamonds, a solid-gold bridal bed, and huge amounts of champagne, outraged people inside Burma and around the world.

It's not all jewels and BMWs for Shwe, though. The general is diabetic, and may also be suffering from intestinal cancer. He has spent time in hospitals in Singapore and Thailand.

http://asianhistory.about.com/od/profilesofasianleaders/p/ProfThanShwe.htm

Young take little interest in Burma poll

2010-03-04T07:27:00.000-08:00

REGIONAL POLITICS

Young take little interest in Burma poll

Published: 4/03/2010 at 08:57 AM
Online news: Opinion

Burma is in the grip of election fever, even though a date for the polls has yet to be announced. Most analysts and diplomats are now tipping October or November as the election date.

The electoral and political parties laws, which will govern the process, are expected to be published in May. But for the time being at least everything to do with the election is shrouded in secrecy, though potential pro-junta candidates have aleady hit the campaign trail.

Potential candidates, who hope to challenge the military government's contenders, are urging every Burmese to take the elections seriously _ and not boycott them.

``People don't like the current government of Burma,'' the leader of the newly formed but unregistered Democrat Party, U Thu Wai said. ``Now we have a chance to change it by voting in the forthcoming elections.''

``Everyone in Burma is talking about the elections,'' said the Australian MP and Burma expert Janelle Saffin after a private visit to the country earlier this year. ``But everyone is split on whether it's a good thing and whether they should particpate _ even businessmen are divided.''

There is also growing nervous tension and anxiety amongst many average Burmese, especially in Rangoon, because of the uncertainty surrounding the elections, according to doctors and psychologists inside Burma.

But young people are less than enthusiastic, and remain apathetic towards the elections, said the social researcher and former political prisoner, Khin Zaw Win. ``They are less aware and less interested than their counterparts 20 years ago, who were at the forefront of the movement for democratic change.''

People under 25 could care less about the elections _ they are more interested in getting jobs and spending time on the internet, said a young Burmese student visiting Bangkok recently.

Undaunted, the military regime is now quietly preparing for the forthcoming elections, selecting candidates and launching its unoffical electoral campaign. ``State controlled media _ newspapers and television _ are full of reports and photographs of government ministers inaugurating community and development projects, shaking hands with local leaders and handing out financial asssitance,'' observed a Rangoon-based diplomat. ``Clearly the military are now trying to win the hearts and minds of the people,'' an Asian diplomat dealing with Burma said.

Little is being said publicly by the regime, though the junta's top leader is clearly setting the ground rules for the election.

``Democracy in Burma today is at a fledgling stage and still requires patient care and attention,'' Burma's senior general Than Shwe told the country almost a year ago in his annual speech to mark Armed Forces Day.

``Plans are under way to hold elections in a systematic way this year,'' he said in January. ``In that regard, the entire people have to make correct choices.''

The UN special rapporteur for human rights in Burma, Tomas Ojea Quintana, tried to discuss these matters with senior representatives of the regime when he visited last month but with little success. All they would say was that the legal framework was being worked out and they would be finished in time, he told the Bangkok Post.

Curiously, the attorney general who is in charge of drafting the election and political parties law was no longer involved, he confided to the envoy. ``That can only mean they are finished and sitting in Than Shwe's in-tray,'' said a western diplomat who was briefed by Mr Quintana at the end of his mission to Burma.

Until the election laws are made public, there is little potential political players can do but bide their time. Until then no-one knows how the election will be conducted, and more importantly who will be competing.

Officially there are no political parties registered to stand candidates in the election _ this can only happen after the political parties' law is passed and an electoral commission established to oversee the campaign and the polls.

``The political parties and election laws will be revealed at the last minute even though we understand they have been completetd for some time,'' said Win Min, a Burmese academic based at Chiang Mai University.

``They want to keep any potential opposition wrong-footed and not allow them time to organise.''

While the main opposition party led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy (NLD) which convincingly won the last elections in 1990, insists it will wait for the electoral laws to be revealed before deciding whether to field candidates or not, the Democratic Party leader U Thu Wai is adamant that preparations need to be made now.

``The election is important, and if we don't seize the opportunity now, it will be too late. We must decide before the law is passed and prepare,'' he said. He confided that after their inaugural meeting last year the authorities warned him not to do it again, without prior permission, as the law prohibits a gathering of five or more people _ the penalty is up to seven years in jail.

In frustation, Mr Quintana left the regimes' top people involved in preparing the ground rules for the forthcoming election _ the attorney general, the interior minister and the chief justice _ a copy of the UN's handbook on democratic elections.

``It was a vain hope _ they would not discuss the elections in detail with him _ so he made the gallant gesture,'' said a diplomat at Mr Quintana's briefing in Bangkok.

``I don't think he even thought they would open it, let alone read it.''

But it is the regulations controlling the electoral process that will be critical if the election is to be free and fair.

``We cannot speak freely, we cannot meet freely and we cannot discuss freely,'' said Khin Zaw Win. ``That would have to change if the election is fair.''

But the signs of this happening are far form encouraging. Diplomats and senior UN officials who have had contact with senior memers of the regime have been categorically told that people cannot be allowed to say anything they want as that would be anarchy not democracy.

``Barring an election law that marks a radical departure from its past and present laws and practices, it is more than likely that the Myanmar [Burma] government will not allow political parties to participate fully _ and meaningfully _ in the election process,'' said Benjamin Zawacki, the South-east Asia researcher for Amnesty International based in Bangkok.

Meanwhile the political activists in Rangoon who intend to run in the elections believe it is too early to dismiss them as a farce yet.

``Than Shwe has promised free and fair elections,'' U Thu Wai said. ``So we should take his words at face value because we don't know what will happen in reality.''

``Darkness has already covered us,'' said Khin Zaw Win. ``We have already lost more than 20 years and the people will only suffer more if we miss this opportunity.''

Relate Search: U Thu Wai, Khin Zaw Win, Tomas Ojea Quintana, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy

ပဒုိမန္းရွာလားဖန္းလုပ္ႀကံခံရ၍ ပြဲခ်င္းၿပီးေသဆုံး

2008-02-14T02:48:00.000-08:00

(ေခတ္ၿပိဳင္)

ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ုံး (ေကအန္ယူ) အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး
ပဒုိမန္းရွာလားဖန္း အသက္ (၆၄) ႏွစ္သည္ ယေန႔ ညေန (၄) နာရီ
(၄၀) မိနစ္တြင္ အမည္မသိ လူႏွစ္ဦးက ေနအိမ္တြင္ ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ လာေရာက္ လုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ရင္ၫြန႔္တြင္ ထိမွန္ကာ ပြဲခ်င္းၿပီး ေသဆုံးသြားသည္။

Pado Mahn Sha Assassinated

2008-02-14T02:44:00.000-08:00

Mahn Sha Assassinated

Mahn Sha, general secretary of Karen National Union (KNU), was assassinated at about 4:00 p.m. in Mae Sot, Thailand, a witness said. David Takapaw, the KNU joint-secretary, told The Irrawaddy that Mahn Sha was shot at his home, not far from Mae Sot city center. He said there were two assassins but could not confirm their identities. The Irrawaddy will update later.

ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးအတြက္ ခ်စ္သူမ်ားေန႕ လက္ေဆာင္

2008-02-12T21:07:00.000-08:00

ယေန႕ဟာ ႏုိင္ငံတကာက ဗာလင္တုိင္းေဒး ေခၚသလို ျမန္မာျပည္မွာေတာ့ ခ်စ္သူမ်ားေန႕လို႕ ေခၚဆိုၾကပါတယ္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာေတြမွာကေတာ့ ဒီေန႕မ်ဳိးေရာက္ရင္ လူငယ္လူရြယ္ေတြ အခ်င္းခ်င္း ႏွင္းဆီနက္တို႕ ေခ်ာကလက္တို႕ တျခား ပို႕စ္ကဒ္လွလွေတြတို႕ ေပးၾကသလို တခ်ဳိ႕ေတြက ေတာ့ အခ်စ္ၾကမ္းၾကမ္း အနမ္းဖြဖြေတြလည္း ေပးၾကတယ္။

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာလည္း ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ေတြ ခ်စ္သူအခ်င္းခ်င္းေတြ ႏွင္းဆီပန္းေတြ ေပးသူေပ ေခ်ာကလက္တို႕ ခ်ဳိခ်ဥ္တို႕ ေပးလိုက္ေပးသူေပး အခ်စ္သစ္ေတြ ဖူးစာ အသစ္ေတြ ရွာသူရွာနဲ႕ ဟိုစပ္စပ္ ဒီစပ္စပ္ ပန္းၿခံမွာတို႕ ဘာတို႕မွာ လွမ္းသလားေနၾက ေလရဲ႕။

ထို႕အတူပဲ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာလည္း မက်င္းပစဖူး ခ်စ္သူမ်ားေန႕ အခမ္းအနားကို အထူး အစီအစဥ္နဲ႕ က်င္းပေနပါတယ္။

ေနျပည္ေတာ္အတြင္းရွိ ယမမင္းခမ္းမအတြင္းတြင္ သန္းေက်ာ္တန္သည့္ ေရႊေရာင္ပိတ္ကားေပၚတြင္ အဆင္ဆန္းသည့္ ထူးျခားသည့္ အဆန္တန္စာမ်ားကို သုေတသီပညာရွင္မ်ားက ဘဘုရားအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးျဖစ္ေအာင္ ခမ္းနားထည္၀ါစြာ ျပင္ဆင္ထားပါတယ္။

ေရႊေရာင္ပိတ္ကားရဲ႕ အလယ္မွာေတာ့ နာမည္ႀကီး ကဗ်ာဆရာရဲ႕ ခ်စ္သူမ်ားေန႕ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ကဗ်ာတပုဒ္ကိိုလည္း ထည္ထည္၀ါ၀ါႀကီး ကပ္ထားပါတယ္။

ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ဆယ့္ေလး

အာရင္ဘက္က ေျပာတယ္

နာ နာခံစားတတ္မွ ခံစားမွ

ရူးရူးမူးမူးကို ျဖစ္ေနမွ

ႀကီးျမတ္တဲ့ အႏုပညာလို႔

မႉးမႈန္မိႈင္းေ၀ေစတဲ့ ဓာတ္ပံုေမာ္ဒယ္မေလးေရ

ႀကီးေတာင့္ႀကီးမားက်မွ အသည္းကြဲတဲ့ ေရာဂါတဲ့

သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ ခ်စ္တတ္သူမ်ား

ေရႊအတိခ်ထားေသာ လက္မ်ားျဖင့္ လက္ခုပ္တီး၍ ရယ္ပါ။

ေစာေ၀

၁-၁၀-၂၀၀၈

အဲဒီ ကဗ်ာကိုေတာ့ လာသမွ် ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးရဲ႕ ပရိႆတ္ကေတာ့ ဖတ္ဖတ္ၿပီး သေဘာက်ၿပီး ခ်ီးမႊမ္းေတာ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးနဲ႕ မိသားစုကေတာ့ ေပ်ာ္တၿပံဳးၿပံဳး နဲ႕ေပါ့....

အဲဒီအခမ္းအနားမွာ ၀န္ႀကီးေတြ အရာရွိႀကီးေတြက လက္ေဆာင္ကိုယ္စီနဲ႕ လာၾကသလို အရာထမ္း ၀န္ထမ္းေတြကလည္း ထို႕နည္းတူေပါ့.... ဒါေပမယ့္ သူတို႕ယူၾကတဲ့ လက္ေတြေတာ့ကေတာ့ ဗူးေလးေတြနဲ႕ လံုေအာင္ပိတ္ထားၾကပါတယ္တဲ့....

ညေနေရာက္ေတာ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးတို႕ မိသားစုက စံျမန္းရာ အခန္းထဲမွာ ဖြင့္ၾကပါတယ္... ဖြင့္လိုက္တဲ့ လက္ေဆာင္ဗူးေတြတုိင္းမွာ သူတို႕အထင္နဲ႕အျမင္ သက္သက္စင္ေအာင္ လြဲေနပါတယ္....

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီးအတြက္ ေပးကမ္းလာတဲ့ အထူးလက္ေဆာင္ကေတာ့ ......
ေခြးေသးပန္းနဲ႕ ေရာင္စံု ဆုိက္စံု အမ်ဳိးသမီး အတြင္းခံ ေတြပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်ား...

Monks peacefully protest in Pakokku

2007-10-31T01:12:00.000-07:00

Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

October 31, 2007 - More than 70 Buddhist monks in Pakokku town in central Burma today once again took to the streets in a peaceful protest march, a local monk said.

73 monks from the Sasana Wihmula Monastery, popularly known as the west monastery, began marching the streets at about 8:30 a.m. (local time) and headed east, chanting and reciting the Metta Sutta as they marched, said a monk who witnessed the procession.

"The monks are mainly from the Bodhi Mandaing and Mya Monasteries. They headed to Shwegu Pagoda and chanted the Metta Sutta at the pagoda," said the monk, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal.

The peaceful march, which is the first since the junta brutally cracked down on monk-led protests last month, comes amidst the Burmese junta's continued crackdown on activists and protestors.

Pakokku, a town in Magwe Division, was the turning point of the recent protests in Burma, which began on August 19th after authorities suddenly hiked fuel prices.

အာဏာရွင္ကို လူသတ္ဖို႔ ညႊန္ၾကားသူ အသံရွင္ ဘယ္သူလဲ

2007-10-17T21:19:00.000-07:00

Mizzima News

အရွင္ေကလာသ
ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၆ ရက္၊ ၂ဝဝ၇ ခုႏွစ္

အခုတေလာ အင္တာနက္ သတင္းေတြမွာ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို လူသတ္ဖို႔ အႀကံေပးတဲ့ ဆရာေတာ္ တပါးရဲ့ အသံဖိုင္ကို နားေထာင္ရလို႔ တုန္လႈပ္မိပါတယ္။ ဒါေလာက္ ဗုဒၶသာသနာကို ေစာ္ကားရဲတဲ့ အသံရွင္ ‘ဆရာေတာ္’ ဆိုသူဟာ ဘယ္သူလဲ ဆိုတာကိုလည္း အတိအက် သိခ်င္လာပါတယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပမွာ ရွိတဲ့ မိတ္ေဆြ ရဟန္းတခ်ဳိ႕ကို ရႏိုင္သမွ် စုံစမ္းၾကည့္ပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ အားလုံးကေတာ့ ပဲခူးက ဆရာေတာ္ တပါးရဲ့ အသံပဲလို႔ ေျပာၾကပါတယ္၊ အာဏာရွင္ေတြရဲ့ လုပ္ႀကံ ဖန္တီးမႈလည္း ျဖစ္ႏိုင္တာမို႔ စာေရးသူ အေနနဲ႔ေတာ့ အသံရွင္ ဆရာေတာ္ ဆိုသူကို ကိုယ္တုိင္လည္း မျမင္ဖူး၊ အသံကိုလည္း အျပင္မွာ တခါမွ မၾကားဖူးတဲ့အတြက္ အသံရွင္ ပုဂၢဳိလ္ဟာ ဘယ္သူဘယ္ဝါ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ယတိျပတ္ မေျပာလိုပါဘူး။

ဒါေပမဲ့ အသံဖိုင္မွာ ပါတဲ့အတုိင္း ဆိုရင္ အသံရွင္ ဘုန္းႀကီးဟာ “ခမဲျပင္ နိဗၺာန္ကားလမ္းကို ဦးစီးၿပီး ေဖာက္လုပ္တယ္။ မီးရထား ဝန္ႀကီးက သူ႔ကို ကူညီ ေပးတယ္လို႔ နားလည္ရပါတယ္။ ပရိသတ္ထဲမွာ ပါေနတဲ့ ယခု မီးရထားဝန္ႀကီး “ေအာင္မင္း“ ဟာ အရင္တုန္းက ေတာင္ပိုင္းတိုင္းမႉး ျဖစ္ခဲ့တာမို႔ ပဲခူးတိုင္း၊ ကဝၿမ့ဳိနယ္က ခမဲျပင္႐ြာနဲ႔ နိဗၺာန္႐ြာ ကားလမ္းကို ရည္ညႊန္းတာ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ အသံဖိုင္မွာ “ဆရာေတာ့္ ေက်ာင္းမွာ သံဃာ တေထာင္ေက်ာ္ တေထာင့္ ႏွစ္ရာေလာက္ ေန႔တိုင္း ဆိုရတယ္၊ ကဲ ... လိုက္ဆိုစမ္း” လို႔လည္း ဆိုထားပါတယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ အသံရွင္ဟာ ပဲခူးနယ္က သံဃာ ၁၂ဝဝ ေလာက္ရွိတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းတုိက္ႀကီး တခုက ပုဂၢဳိလ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဝန္ႀကီးနဲ႔ တိုင္းမႉး အဆင့္ရွိတဲ့ လူေတြကို စကားေျပာခြင့္ ရတာမို႔လို႔ အဲဒီ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ရဲ့ အဓိက ပုဂၢဳိလ္ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ အသံရွင္ဟာ မည္သူပင္ ျဖစ္ေစ သူ႔လုပ္ရပ္က သံဃာထု တရပ္လုံးကို သိကၡာက်ေစတာ ျဖစ္လို႔ ၿငိမ္မေနသင့္ပါဘူး။ အသံရွင္ အစစ္အမွန္ကို သိဖို႔ထက္ သူလုပ္တဲ့အလုပ္ မမွန္တာကို ေထာက္ျပဖို႔က ပိုအေရးႀကီးတယ္လို႔ ယူဆပါတယ္။

အသံရွင္ ေျပာတဲ့စကား

အသံရွင္က အာဏာရွင္ေတြကုိ ေျပာတဲ့စကားကို စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ပါမယ္။

အသံရွင္ဘုန္းႀကီးက ပရိသတ္ကို - “အတိုက္အခံေတြဟာ ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ႔ရဲ့ မိတ္ေဆြလား၊ ရန္သူလား” လို႔ ေမးၿပီး အသံရွင္ကိုယ္တိုင္ “ရန္သူ” လို႔ ေရွ့က ေျဖလိုက္ေတာ့ ... အာဏာရွင္ ပရိသတ္က “ရန္သူပါ ဘုရား” လို႔ လိုက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေအာ္တယ္။

အဲဒီေနာက္ အသံရွင္က “မီးႂကြင္း မီးက်န္လည္း မထားနဲ႔၊ ရန္ႂကြင္း ရန္က်န္လည္း မထားနဲ႔။ ျမန္ျမန္ျဖတ္၊ ျပတ္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔ ျဖတ္၊ လႊနဲ႔ ျပတ္ရင္ လႊနဲ႔ျဖတ္၊ တုတ္နဲ႔ျပတ္ရင္ တုတ္နဲ႔ျဖတ္၊ ဓားနဲ႔ျပတ္ရင္ ဓားနဲ႔ျဖတ္၊ ပုဆိန္နဲ႔ျပတ္ရင္ ပုဆိန္နဲ႔ျဖတ္၊ လက္သီးနဲ႔ျပတ္ရင္ လက္သီးနဲ႔ျဖတ္။ ဝန္ႀကီး ... ျမန္ျမန္ျဖတ္ဆိုတာ နားလည္သြားၿပီလား” လို႔ ဆက္ေမးတယ္။ ဝန္ႀကီးဆိုသူနဲ႔ အေပါင္းပါေတြက “နားလည္ပါၿပီ ဘုရား“ တဲ့။ အတိုင္အေဖာက္ ညီလိုက္တဲ့ ျဖစ္ျခင္း။ ဝန္ႀကီးေတြကိုေတာင္ ၾသဝါဒ ေပးခြင့္ရွိတဲ့ သံဃာ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဆရာေတာ္ တပါးရဲ့ ႏွလုံးသားဟာ ဒါေလာက္ ေအာက္တန္းက်ၿပီး မယုတ္မာသင့္ပါဘူး။ “ကုိယ့္မ်က္လုံးကို ေဖာက္ရင္ သူ႔မ်က္လုံးကို ျပန္ေဖာက္၊ ကိုယ့္နံ႐ိုးကို ခ်ဳိးရင္ သူ႔နံ႐ုိးကို ျပန္ခ်ဳိး၊ ကိုယ့္သြားကို ခ်ဳိးရင္ သူ႔သြားကို ျပန္ခ်ဳိး” လို႔ဆိုတဲ့ လက္စားေခ် တရားနဲ႔ ဘာထူးေသးလဲ။ “လူျဖစ္ခ်င္ရင္ လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္း ရွိရမယ္” လို႔ ေျပာတဲ့ အသံရွင္ကို လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္းဆိုတာ ဘာလဲ၊ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေကာ လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္း ရွိရဲ့လားလို႔ ျပန္ေမးရလိမ့္မယ္။

အသံဖိုင္ တခုလုံးရဲ့ လိုရင္းကေတာ့ အတိုက္အခံေတြကို ရန္သူလို႔ သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး က်ဴပင္ခုတ္ က်ဴငုတ္မက်န္ ေခ်မႈန္းပစ္ဖို႔ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို “ဆရာေတာ္” ဆိုသူ အသံရွင္ဘုန္းႀကီးက “လမ္းညႊန္တာ၊ တိုက္တြန္းတာ၊ အားေပးတာ၊ သတ္ပစ္ဖို႔ ခိုင္းတာ” ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အသံရွင္ ဘုန္းႀကီးဟာ ဘယ္နည္းနဲ႔မွ လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္းရွိတဲ့ သူေတာ္ေကာင္း ပုဂၢဳိလ္ မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။

ဝိနည္းအျပစ္ ဘာလဲ

(၁) လမ္းေပၚမွာ ေမတၱာ ပို႔ေနၾကတဲ့ ရဟန္းေတာ္ေတြဟာ လူသားစင္စစ္ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

(၂) သူတို႔ေတြ အသက္ရွင္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာကိုလည္း အသံရွင္ဘုန္းႀကီး သိပါတယ္။

(၃) “ဒုတ္နဲ႔ ျဖတ္၊ ဓားနဲ႔ ျဖတ္၊ ျပတ္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔ ျဖတ္” လို႔ အူလႈိက္သဲလႈိက္ ေျပာလိုက္တဲ့ အသံရွင္ရဲ့ စကားထဲမွာ ေသေစလိုတဲ့ ေစတနာ မပါဘူးလို႔ ျငင္းလို႔ မရပါဘူး။

(၄) အဲဒီလို ရန္သူကို အျမစ္ျပတ္ ရွင္းပစ္ဖို႔ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို ညႊန္ၾကားတဲ့အခါ လက္နက္ အမ်ဳိးအစား၊ အခ်ိန္ကာလ၊ ေနရာေဒသ စတဲ့ သတ္မွတ္ခ်က္ေတြ မပါလို႔ အာဏာရွင္ရဲ့ လက္ပါးေစ လူသတ္သမားေတြက ဘယ္ေနရာ၊ ဘယ္အခ်ိန္၊ ဘယ္လက္နက္၊ ဘယ္နည္းနဲ႔မဆို ဘယ္သူ႔ကိုပဲ သတ္သတ္ ေစခိုင္းသူ အသံရွင္ဘုန္းႀကီးရဲ့ ပေယာဂ မကင္းတာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။

(၅) ရဟန္းသံဃာေတြ၊ လူေတြ ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ပစ္ခံရ၊ ဒုတ္နဲ႔ ႐ိုက္ခံရ၊ နည္းမ်ဳိးစုံ ႏွိပ္စက္ခံရလို႔ လမ္းေပၚမွာ တမ်ဳိး၊ ျမစ္ထဲမွာ ေပါေလာေမ်ာလို႔ တဖုံ၊ လူမသိ သူမသိနဲ႔ပါ ေသေၾကတာကို ကမၻာ အရပ္ရပ္က ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားေတြ၊ အသံလႈိင္းေတြမွာ သန္းခ်ီတဲ့လူေတြ ျမင္ရၾကားရၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဘာမွ အျပစ္မရွိတဲ့ ဂ်ပန္ သတင္းေထာက္ကို အာဏာရွင္ လက္ပါးေစေတြက ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ပစ္သတ္လုိက္ပုံ အေသးစိတ္ကို ကမၻာ့ ႐ုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားေတြမွာ ျပသတာကို ေတြ႔ျမင္ရလို႔လည္း တကမၻာလုံးက လူေတြ မ်က္ရည္က်မတတ္ ခံစားခဲ့ၾကရပါတယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ ရဟန္းသံဃာနဲ႔ လူေတြကို အျပတ္ ရွင္းပစ္ဖို႔၊ သတ္ပစ္ဖို႔ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို လမ္းညႊန္ ၾသဝါဒေပးတဲ့ အသံရွင္ ဘုန္းႀကီး အေနနဲ႔ ဝိနည္းကို သင္ဖူးတယ္ဆိုရင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ “လူသတ္အဂၤါ ငါးရပ္” နဲ႔ ျပည့္စုံေနလို႔ မိမိဟာ ရဟန္းေကာင္း၊ ရဟန္းစစ္ မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး ဆိုတာကို ကိုယ့္ဟာကိုယ္ သိေနေလာက္ပါၿပီ။ အသံဖိုင္ထဲက တခ်ဳိ့ စကားလုံးေတြဟာ သူေတာ္ေကာင္း ရဟန္းေတြ ေျပာဆိုေကာင္းတဲ့ စကားမ်ဳိး မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အာဏာရွင္ကို ဒံေပါက္ထုပ္ကေလး ေပးလိုက္ႏိုင္တာကို “ဖား” စိတ္နဲ႔ အသားယူ ေျပာတာမ်ဳိး၊ “ဝန္ႀကီး” “ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး” စတဲ့ ေျမႇာက္ေကာ္ ေဝါဟာရေတြနဲ႔ ေခၚေဝၚ သုံးႏႈန္းတာမ်ဳိးေတြေၾကာင့္ အလႉပစၥည္း ရေအာင္ႀကံတတ္တဲ့ “ကုဟက” “လပက” လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ေကာက္က်စ္ စဥ္းလဲတဲ့ “သီလေၾကာင္ ပုဂၢဳိလ္” ပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အာဏာရွင္ေတြ ေျပာတဲ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးအတုဆိုတာ တျခား သြားမရွာပါနဲ႔။ အဲဒီလုိ ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ဳိးပါ။ အာဏာရွင္ေတြဟာ မိမိကို ေပါင္းစားတဲ့ “ေၾကာင္သူေတာ္ေတြ” ကို ဆည္းကပ္ေလ့ ရွိပါတယ္။

သူေတာ္ေကာင္း ရဟန္းတပါးအေနနဲ႔ ကိုယ့္တဝမ္းတခါး စားရဖို႔ လူဒါယကာ တေယာက္ကို အဲဒါေလာက္ ေျမႇာက္ပင့္ခယ ဝပ္တြားစရာ မလိုပါဘူး။ ဘုရားတန္ေဆာင္းေတြမွာ ခ်ိတ္ထားတဲ့ ေကာသလမင္း အိပ္မက္ သ႐ုပ္ေဖာ္ ပန္းခ်ီကားခ်ပ္ေတြမွာ ေတြ႔ရတဲ့ ေခြးလိုလို၊ ဆိတ္လိုလို ေကာင္ေတြကို ဦးေခါင္းေသးေသး၊ ႏွာေခါင္းႀကီးႀကီး၊ နဖူးေမာက္ေမာက္နဲ႔ ေခြးျခေသၤ့ေတြ ဝန္းရံ ခစားေနတာကို အမွတ္ရေစပါတယ္။ တကယ့္ကို ေဇာက္ထိုး ေျပာင္းျပန္ႀကီးပါ။

စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ပါ

ကိုယ္တေယာက္ ရႏိုင္စရာရွိတဲ့ မဆိုစေလာက္ အခြင့္အေရးေၾကာင့္ အာဏာရွင္ေတြရဲ့ ရက္စက္ ယုတ္မာမႈကို အားေပး အားေျမႇာက္လုပ္ရင္ ကိုယ္အပါအဝင္ ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံ၊ ကိုယ့္လူမ်ဳိး ဘယ္သူမွ အက်ဳိးမရွိႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ စဥ္းစား ၾကည့္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။

(၁) အသံရွင္ ကိုယ္တိုင္မွာ အလိုအေလ်ာက္ ရဟန္းအျဖစ္က လူ႔အျဖစ္သို႔ ေလွ်ာက် သြားခဲ့ရတယ္။ (သကၤန္း ဝတ္ထားေပမယ့္ ဘုန္းႀကီး မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး။ အာဏာရွင္ေတြ သုံးႏႈန္းတဲ့ သကၤန္းဝတ္ဆိုတာ အဲဒီလုိ ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ဳိးသာ ျဖစ္သင့္ပါတယ္)။

(၂) ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္မွာ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတဲ့ ျပႆနာေတြ မၿငိမ္းတဲ့အျပင္ ရဟန္းသံဃာ၊ တုိင္းျပည့္လူထုနဲ႔ အာဏာရွင္ လူတစုအၾကား ရန္òငိးေတြ ပိုမို ႀကီးထြားသြားခဲ့ရတယ္။

(၃) အျပစ္မဲ့တဲ့ ရဟန္းသံဃာ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္၊ ျပည္သူ မ်ားစြာတို႔ မေသသင့္ဘဲ ေသဆုံးၾကရတယ္။

(၄) အနာဂတ္ ဗုဒၶသာသနာရဲ့ အာဇာနည္ေလာင္းေတြ ျဖစ္တဲ့ စာသင္သား သံဃာငယ္ေတြ အတင္းအဓမၼ လူဝတ္ လဲခံရတယ္။

(၅) ဗုဒၶက်မ္းစာကို သင္ၾကား ပို႔ခ်ေပးတဲ့ စာသင္တိုက္ႀကီးေတြ ညအခ်ိန္မွာ စစ္နယ္ေျမက ရန္သူ႔စခန္းလို ဥပေဒမဲ့ အဓမၼ ဝင္ေရာက္ စီးနင္း၊ လုလက္ဖ်က္ဆီး၊ သတ္ျဖတ္ ခံၾကရတယ္။

(၆) “ယိုသူမရွက္၊ ျမင္သူရွက္” ဆိုသလို ဗုဒၶအဆုံးအမ ထြန္းကားတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဒီလို လူမဆန္တဲ့ ႐ိုင္းစိုင္း ရက္စက္မႈေတြ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနတာကို ကမၻာက သိျမင္သြားလို႔ တမ်ဳိးသားလုံး အရွက္တကြဲ ျဖစ္ရတယ္။

(၇) အာဏာရွင္ေတြ သက္ဆိုးရွည္သေလာက္ တိုင္းျပည္ လူထုရဲ့ဘဝ ဆင္းရဲတြင္း နက္ေစတယ္။

လူျဖစ္ခ်င္ရင္ လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္း ရွိရမယ္လို႔ အာဏာရွင္ ပရိသတ္ကို လိုက္ဆိုခုိင္းခဲ့တဲ့ ဆရာေတာ္ဆိုသူ အာဏာရွင္ရဲ့ အလိုေတာ္ရိ “ေဖာ္လံဖား” ကိုယ္တိုင္မွာ လူ႔အရည္အခ်င္း လူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ ကင္းမဲ့လို႔ ေဖာ္ျပပါ အက်ဳိးဆက္ေတြ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတာပါ။

မသူေတာ္ကို ေရွာင္ပါ

အသံရွင္ ဘုန္းႀကီးအေနနဲ႔ အာဏာရွင္ကို ေထာက္ခံတယ္ ဆိုရင္လည္း သူ႔ရဲ့ ေ႐ြးခ်ယ္မႈပဲ ျဖစ္လို႔ မေဝဖန္လိုပါဘူး။ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ ရွိသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ အသံရွင္ “ဆရာေတာ္” ဆိုသူရဲ့ နည္းလမ္းမက် မွားယြင္းတဲ့ လမ္းျပစကား၊ လူေတြကို သတ္ျဖစ္ေအာင္ အားေပးတဲ့ စကားေတြေၾကာင့္ လက္နက္ဆိုလို႔ ေမတၱာ ပို႔သံမွ်သာ ပါရွိတဲ့ ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းနဲ႔ ေမတၱာပို႔ၿပီး မိမိဆႏၵကို ေဖာ္ျပေနၾကတဲ့ အျပစ္မရွိတဲ့ စာသင္သား ရဟန္း သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ၊ ေက်ာင္းသား လူငယ္ေတြ၊ ျပည္သူျပည္သားေတြ မျမင္ရက္၊ မ႐ႈရက္ေလာက္ေအာင္ ေသြးေျမက်ရတာကေတာ့ သမိုင္းတြင္ရစ္တဲ့ တကယ့္ အျဖစ္ဆိုးႀကီးပါ။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ ၁၂ဝဝ ေက်ာ္ရွိတဲ့ အဲဒီ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္က တပည့္ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကိုေရာ ေထာက္ပံ့ေနတဲ့ ဒကာ ဒကာမေတြကိုပါ “အေသဝနာ စ ဗာလာနံ” ဆိုတဲ့ မဂၤလာ တရားေတာ္အတိုင္း သူေတာ္ေကာင္း မဟုတ္တဲ့ အဲဒီလို သူေတာ္ေယာင္ ပုဂၢဳိလ္မ်ဳိးကို ေရွာင္ၾကဥ္ဖို႔ အႀကံေပး တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲ ဆိုရင္ ဒီလိုပုဂၢဳိလ္ကို ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ေထာက္ပံ့ အားေပးေနအုံးမယ္၊ ဆရာအျဖစ္ ကုိးကြယ္ေနအုံးမယ္ ဆိုရင္ လူမိုက္ေနာက္လိုက္၊ အဓမၼရဲ့ ဘက္ေတာ္သားေတြပဲ ျဖစ္ေနမွာမို႔ပါ။

အာဏာရွင္ေတြရဲ့ သံဃာကို သင္းခြဲတဲ့ လုပ္ႀကံဖန္တီးမႈ မဟုတ္ရင္ ဒီအသံဖိုင္ကို စစ္႐ုံးကေန အျပင္ေရာက္ေအာင္ ထုတ္ေပးတဲ့ ပုဂၢဳိလ္ဟာ အဓမၼကို အဓမၼမွန္း သိတဲ့ လူေကာင္း သူေကာင္း တေယာက္ ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။

ၾသဝါဒဆိုတာ

အသံဖိုင္ထဲမွာ “ၾသပါဒ ခံယူပဲြ” တဲ့။ စကားလုံး ေဝါဟာရကေတာ့ ခမ္းနားလွပါရဲ့။ ဒါေပမဲ့ စကားလုံး လွပသေလာက္ အလုပ္က အ႐ုပ္ဆိုးေနပါတယ္။ ဟုတ္ပါတယ္၊ ၾသဝါဒဆိုတာ မေကာင္းတာကို မလုပ္ဖို႔ တားျမစ္ၿပီး ေကာင္းတာကို လုပ္ဖို႔ ညႊန္ၾကားတာ၊ ဓမၼနဲ႔ အဓမၼကို ခြဲျခားတတ္ေအာင္ သင္ၾကားေပးတာပါ။ “ၾသဝါဒ” ဟာ ဘယ္နည္းနဲ႔မွ် “လူသတ္လမ္းညႊန္” မျဖစ္သင့္ပါဘူး။

ပထမ ေ႐ႊက်င္ ဆရာေတာ္ ဘုရားႀကီးေရးတဲ့ “ဝိစိၾတဝႏၵနာ ဘုရားရွိခိုးက်မ္း” မွာ ဗုဒၶဟာ မိမိကို ေသေၾကာင္းႀကံတဲ့ အရွင္ေဒဝဒတ္ ကိုေတာင္ သားေတာ္ ရာဟုလာနဲ႔ထပ္တူ ေမတၱာ ထားေတာ္မူတယ္လို႔ ေရးထားပါတယ္။

ဒါေၾကာင့္ အာဏာရွင္ေတြကို စကားေျပာခြင့္ရတဲ့ အသံဖိုင္ထဲက အသံရွင္ ဘုန္းႀကီးအေနနဲ႔ “ရန္လိုရင္ ရန္ပိုတယ္၊ ရန္မလိုမွ ရန္ၿပိဳတယ္” ဆိုတဲ့ ဒုတိယေ႐ႊက်င္ သာသနာပိုင္ ဝိသုဒၶါ႐ုံ ဆရာေတာ္ ဘုရားႀကီးရဲ့ ၾသဝါဒကို ေပးလိုက္ႏိုင္ရင္ အနည္းဆုံး အတိုက္အခံနဲ႔ အာဏာရွင္ေတြ အၾကား ရန္သူလို သေဘာမထားဘဲ တင္းမာမႈေတြ ေလ်ာ့သြားၿပီး အာဏာရွင္ေတြ အေနနဲ႔ အျပစ္မဲ့ ရဟန္းရွင္လူကို မသတ္မိေအာင္ ဆင္ျခင္ေကာင္း ဆင္ျခင္သြားေစ ႏိုင္ခဲ့မွာပါ။ ဒီလိုျဖစ္ခဲ့ရင္ အသံရွင္ ပုဂၢဳိလ္ဟာလည္း (ေ႐ႊဥမင္ ဆရာေတာ္ရဲ့ စကားအတုိင္း) “ေလာကတြင္ အလြန္႔ေယာက်္ား” ျဖစ္သြားႏိုင္ခဲ့မွာပါ။ ခုေတာ့ သူ႔ခမ်ာ တသက္လုံး ထိန္းသိမ္းလာတဲ့ သိကၡာေတြ၊ လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္ေတြ တခါတည္း စုန္းစုန္း နစ္ရရွာၿပီေပါ့။

(ဗုဒၶသာသနာကို ထိခိုက္လြန္းလို႔ပါ။ ပုဂၢဳိလ္ေရး တုိက္ခိုက္ဖို႔ကို မရည္႐ြယ္ပါဘူး။)

အစိုးရသတင္းစာ က်င့္၀တ္ႏွင့္မညီဟု ျမန္မာသတင္းသမဂၢက ေ၀ဖန္

2007-10-09T21:47:00.000-07:00

ခြန္ေအာင္ျမတ္။

Network Media Group
ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၈ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္။

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရထုတ္ သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ ျပည္ပအေျခစိုက္ ဘီဘီစီ၊ အာရ္အက္ဖ္ေအ၊ ဗီြအိုေအ အသံလႊင့္ ဌာနမ်ားမွ ထုတ္လႊင့္သည့္ သတင္းမ်ားကို မယံုၾကည္ၾကရန္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္ကို ျပည္ပအေျခစုိက္ ျမန္မာသ တင္းသမဂၢက ျပစ္တင္ရႈတ္ခ်လုိက္သည္။

“က်ေနာ့္အျမင္ေျပာရရင္ ဒီဟာက ေတာ္ေတာ္ကို သူတို႕ မရွက္မေၾကာက္ ေရးလိုက္တာပါ။ သူတို႕ ေလလိႈင္းေတြနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ၿပီးေတာ့ သတင္းစာတစ္ေစာင္ကေနၿပီးေတာ့ တျခား သတင္းဌာနႀကီးတခု ကို အကယ္၍ သတင္းအေပၚမွာ မေက်နပ္လို႕ရွိရင္ သူတို႕ ေထာက္ျပလို႕ ရတယ္၊ ေ၀ဖန္လို႕ ရတယ္၊ ေရးသားလို႕ရတယ္။ အခုဟာႀကီးက စာလံုးမည္းႀကီးနဲ႕ ေရးၿပီးေတာ့ ဒီဟာက သတင္းစာက်င့္၀တ္ စည္းကမ္း အရဆိုလို႕ရွိရင္ မေရးသင့္၊ မလုပ္သင့္တဲ့ အျပဳအမူႀကီးပါ။ ေ၀ဖန္လို႕ရပါတယ္၊ ေထာက္ျပ လို႕ရပါတယ္၊ ရွင္းျပလို႕ရပါ တယ္၊ အခုဟာက သက္သက္မဲ့ မရွက္မေၾကာက္ ေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေရးလိုက္တဲ့ဟာပါ။” ဟု အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးစံမိုေ၀က ေျပာသည္။

ယမန္ေန႕ထုတ္ ျမန္မာ့အလင္းသတင္းစာ၏ ေနာက္ေၾကာဖံုးတြင္ မိုးလံုးျပည့္ မုသာ၀ါဒီ အာရ္အက္ဖ္ေအ၊ ဗီြအိုေအ ႏွင့္ ဘီဘီစီ၊ အာရ္အက္ဖ္ေအ၊ ဗီြအိုေအ ဘီဘီစီ အဖ်က္သမားမ်ား သတိထား၊ အာရ္အက္ ေအ၊ ဗီြအိုေအႏွင့္ ဘီဘီစီ ေလလိႈင္းေပၚက လူသတ္သမားမ်ား၊ ျပည္သူအားလံုး သတိထား။ ႏွင့္ မိုးလံုး ျပည့္ မုသာ၀ါဒီေတြ တုိင္းျပည္ပ်က္ေအာင္ လုပ္ေနသည္၊ ဘီဘီစီ ညာေနသည္၊ ဗီြအိုေအ လိမ္ေနသည္၊ အာရ္ အက္ဖ္ေအ ရန္တိုက္ေပးေနသည္၊ အဲဒီ ေ၀သာလီ ပုဏၰားမ်ား။ မယံုေလနဲ႕ သတိထား ဟု စာလံုးအမည္းႀကီး မ်ားျဖင့္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။

သတင္းအမွားအမွန္ကို ပရိသတ္က အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးသြားမည္ဟု ဦးစံမိုေ၀က ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

လက္ရွိ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္းတြင္ နအဖက တယ္လီဖုန္းမ်ား အကန္႕အသတ္ထားျခင္း၊ ဖုန္းလိုင္းတခ်ဳိ႕ ျဖဳတ္ပစ္ ျခင္း၊ အင္တာနက္ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးတို႕ကို ျဖတ္ေတာက္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း လမ္းသြားလမ္းလာမ်ားကိုလည္း ကင္မ ရာကိုင္ေဆာင္ပါက ဖမ္းဆီး ျပႆနာ ရွာေနျခင္းတို႕သည္ ျပည္တြင္း သတင္းအမွန္မ်ားကို ျပည္ပသို႕ မေပါက္ ၾကားေစရန္၊ သတင္းဌာနႀကီးမ်ား သတင္းအမွန္မရရွိႏုိင္ေစရန္ သတင္းမွန္ကို စစ္အစိုးရက ႀကိဳးစားဖံုးဖိေန ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ျမန္မာသတင္းသမဂၢက ေထာက္ျပသည္။

ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရမွ သတင္းမ်ားကို ဖံုးကြယ္ထားျခင္း၊ သတင္းမွားမ်ားကို ထုတ္လႊင့္ေနျခင္း အေပၚ ျပည္သူမ်ားက ယံုၾကည္လက္ခံၾကျခင္း မရွိဟု ျပည္တြင္း ျပည္ပသတင္းမ်ားကို အဆက္မျပတ္ၾကည့္ရႈနားေထာင္ေနသည့္ ျပည္ သူတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

“ယေန႕ေခတ္ႀကီးေတြက တိုးတက္ေနတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံႀကီး။ က်ေနာ္တို႕ ငါးမိနစ္ အခု ခ်က္ခ်င္း လက္ငင္း ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတဲ့ ဥစၥာကို အင္တာနက္တို႕၊ ဟိုဒင္းတို႕က အကုန္လံုး ေတြ႕ေန ျမင္ေနရတယ္။ တကမၻာ လံုးကလည္း ေတြ႕ရတယ္။ ယေန႕ က်ေနာ္တို႕ ကိုးကြယ္ေနတဲ့ ဦးေခါင္းေပၚ မွာ ဦးထိပ္တင္ထားတဲ့ ဗုဒၶျမတ္စြာဘုရားရဲ႕ ရဟန္းေတြကိုေတာင္မွ သူတို႕ သတ္ရက္ေသး တာပဲ။ အဲဒါကို သူတို႕က မသတ္ ဘူး။ ဒီရဟန္းေတြက ရဟန္းတုေတြပါ ဆိုတာ လံုး၀လည္း မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ဘူး။ ဒီေလာက္ သံဃာေတြ ေသာင္း ခီ်ၿပီးထြက္လာတယ္။ ေနာက္ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းေတြ သူတို႕ ၀င္ဖ်က္တယ္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို ရိုက္တယ္ ႏွက္တယ္။ အဲဒါေတြက လိမ္ညာလို႕ မရတဲ့ ျပယုဒ္ေတြပဲ။ ျမန္မာ့အသံတို႕၊ အမ္အာရ္ တီဗီြတို႕၊ ျမ၀တီတို႕က ဘယ္လိုပဲ ေျပာေျပာ က်ေနာ္တို႕ေတြက ဦးေႏွာက္မဲ့ေနတဲ့ လူတန္းစားေတြ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းမွာ က်န္ေနတဲ့ လူေတြကလည္း ဦးေႏွာက္မဲ့ေနတဲ့ လူတန္းစားေတြ မဟုတ္ပါဘူးလို႕ က်ေနာ္ ဆိုလိုခ်င္တယ္။”

ယမန္ေန႕ထုတ္ ျမန္မာအလင္းသတင္းစာတြင္ မႏၱေလးမွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ ပခုကၠဴသို႕ ေလွ၊ ေမာ္ေတာ္ မ်ားျဖင့္ စုန္ဆင္းလာေၾကာင္း၊ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ခရမ္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္ မ်ား ဆႏၵျပၾကေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ပဲခူးၿမိဳ႕ မွ ၾကခတ္၀ိုင္းေက်ာင္းတိုက္ရွိ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ေထာင္ႏွင့္ ခ်ီ၍ ဆႏၵျပသည္ဆိုသည့္ သတင္းမ်ားသည္ မွန္ကန္မႈ မရွိဘဲ ထုတ္လႊင့္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပထားသည္။

ျမန္မာျပည္ရိွ စာနယ္ဇင္းမ်ားသည္ စာေပစိစစ္ေရးဌာနကို ျဖတ္သန္းၿပီးမွသာ ထုတ္ေ၀ခြင့္ ရရိွေနကာ သတင္းစာ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ကို အစိုးရက တင္းက်ပ္စြာခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထား၍ ျပင္သစ္ အေျခစိုက္ နယ္စည္းမျခား သတင္းေထာက္ မ်ား အသင္းက ျမန္မာျပည္သည္ စာနယ္ဇင္း လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ အနည္းဆံုးႏုိင္ငံမ်ား စာရင္းတြင္ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။

2007-10-03T23:30:00.001-07:00

UN Gambari Meet Aung San Suu Kyi+Cruel Man Than Shwe and Singapore PM

2007-10-03T22:56:00.000-07:00

Japanese Journalist killed in Burma Protest in Sept 2007 back to Japan

2007-10-03T22:42:00.000-07:00

Update News September 28, 2007

2007-09-28T02:48:00.000-07:00

Japanese Photo Journalist Killed in SPDC Crack down

2007-09-28T02:36:00.000-07:00

ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီတိုက္ပြဲအတြင္းမွာ အသက္ေပးသြားရတဲ့
အသက္(၅၀)အ႐ြယ္ ဂ်ပန္ဗီြဒီယုိသတင္းေထာက္ Kenji Nagai

ဓာတ္ပံု ရုိက္တာ

Burma Protest Update Situation (September 28, 2007)

2007-09-27T23:23:00.000-07:00

September 28, 2007

Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

September 28, 2007 - Burmese Air Force planes airborne

Military aircrafts from the Matehtilar airbase are airborne. It is not known why the aircrafts have scrambled. On the other hand there is commotion in the Light Infantry Division 33 and 99 of the Burma Army. The exact nature of the commotion cannot be determined as yet.

Troops marching to Rangoon

There is an urgent report that Burmese troops from middle Burma has started to march towards Rangoon. The reported troops are from Central Command based in Taung Oo and South East Command. At this reporting, it is not clear if the troops are marching to reinforce or to challenge the troops in Rangoon for shooting the Buddhist monks.

September 28, 2007

Situation in Rangoon

(Burmese Standard Time)
2:50 p.m
"People are now shouting slogans on Pansodan Street. And from the corner the street, the soldiers are watching. The people are shouting and running. Now there are more than 10,000 people here. But soldiers' strength remains the same. What we fear is they will come form behind and block us," a protester told Mizzima.

2:45 p.m
Police this morning seized a fighting peacock flag brought by students on the 27th Street in Rangoon.

2:20 p.m
Protesters defy junta's order for the third day

More than 100 protesters have gathered on Pansodan Street and begun to demonstrate. More people are seen joining the demonstration.

2:10 p.m
Protesters versus troops in Sule

There are about 1500 protesters who have gathered near the Thamada cinema hall.Soldiers are waiting for them to come to Sule pagoda.

2:00 p.m
Military trucks leave North Okklapah

About 17 military trucks, was positioned at Maelahmu pagoda in North Okklapah, were seen moving out of the township through the Kabba Aye Pagoda Street.

An eyewitness said:

"I heard that there were military trucks in our locality, so I went out to look and saw 17 military trucks positioned at Maelahmu pagoda. But from there all the trucks moved back at about 1 p.m. (local time) towards Rangoon. They went through the Kabba Aye pagoda road. In one truck there were about 30 to 40 soldiers. No soldiers were left behind. I heard rumours that there is diverse opinion in the military. But it cannot be confirmed. Because they just came here and there are no shootings and it is difficult ot find out what is going on between them."

"The soldiers were stationed at Maelahmu pagoda at about 9:30 or 10 this morning. But now there are no more soldiers. All of them went back. And everything is normal now, and there are no protests here"

"At the Mealahmu pagoda there is a monastery. We thought that the soldiers must have come to the monastery. But they did nothing to the monastery, and they all headed to Rangoon through Kabba Aye Pagoda road."

1:50 p.m
Sporadic protest in Theingyi Market

"Earlier there were about 5000 protesters. They were closeted on the road near Theingyi market, so they disperses. We don't know where they will go and gather. We cannot see the other end but on this side there are three military trucks blocking the road. There are about 100 soldiers," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

1:30 p.m
The troops in Rangoon not backing off

"They went inside Maelahmu pagoda in North Okklapah Township. In front of the pagoda they parked a jeep which carried members of the Swan Arrshin. It is as if they are blocking the road not to allow any civilians to enter. There are about four military trucks, and I think they are putting people inside the trucks. The troops in Rangoon are not backing off but their numbers are increasing. And they are choosing places where the people are to be transfered," an analyst told Mizzima.

Situation in Rangoon

"A lot of people are saying that we must fight against the junta because we will not get the same opportunity later. We must end this show now. They were talking among themselves. And they were unhappy. A lot of people in the locality also talked the same way. They said even today they will continue," a source in Rangoon told Mizzima.

More than 30 security personnel in camouflage fatigues were seen inside the compound of Tharmwe basic high school No. 3 and N.4.

Though all government schools are open, most of the students did not attend.

Soldiers and security forces are seen continuously patrolling the city and barbed wire barricades have been put outside the police station in Kyauktada Township in the heart of the city. In the police station more soldiers and policemen are being sent as reinforcements. Many security personnel are deployed in the Sule area.

Junta arrest more monks including Sayadaw [senior Sangha] U Nyanihthara of Thapeikaing.

11:15 a.m
The Burmese authorities since this morning has disconnected all internet lines.

11:00 a.m
Decay in junta's administrative mechanism

"The Township Peace and Development offices are closed since yesterday. Some officials are avoiding office. Some have gone into hiding. The administrative mechanism is starting to decay and it is affecting up to the district level. We are not even daring to stay in our own house," a local resident of Tharmwe told Mizzima.

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ျပည္မွ ရန္ကုန္သို႔ ဆင္းသြားသည့္ တပ္မ ၆၆ ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာတြင္ လူထုနဲ႔ ေပါင္းလိုက္ၿပီဟု သိရွိရၿပီး စစ္တပ္အခ်င္းခ်င္း ပစ္ခတ္မႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ေပၚေနဟု သတင္မ်ားထြက္ရွိေနသည္။
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ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာပ မယ္လမုဘုရားအနီး ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္ကို စစ္တပ္မွ ၀ိုင္းရံထားေၾကာင္း စစ္တပ္ကို ျပည္သူမ်ားက ထပ္မံ၀ိုင္းရံထားသည္ဟု မ်က္ျမင္တဦးေျပာသည္။ စတင္ပစ္ခတ္ၿပီဟု ၾကားသိရသည္။

လူထုလွဳပ္ရွားမွဳႀကီးႀကပ္ေရးေကာ္မတီ

2007-09-27T22:43:00.001-07:00

ေဒါက္တာလြဏ္းေဆြ၏ အႀကံျပဳစာ

2007-09-27T07:23:00.000-07:00

ႏိုင္ငံေရး step တခု ျမွင့္ကို ျမွင့္မွျဖစ္မယ္

ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္တို႔ အုပ္စုျဖစ္ျဖစ္ သံဃာေတြနဲ႔တိုင္ပင္ၿပီး ျပည္သူ႔အစိုးရ ျမန္ျမန္ဖြဲ႕ ျမန္ျမန္ေၾကညာၿပီး နအဖကို တိုက္မွျဖစ္မယ္။ ၿပီးမွ UN ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးတပ္ကို ၀င္ဖို႔ အကူအညီေတာင္းရမယ္။ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီစီအီးစီေတြလည္း ဘယ္ေရာက္ေနမွန္းမသိ။ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ေတြလည္း ဘယ္ဆီမွာလဲ မသိ။ လံုျခံဳတဲ့ေနရာမွာရွိတဲ့ ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္ တို႔အုပ္စုသာ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ေၾကညာၿပီး နအဖကို ျမန္ျမန္တိုက္ပါ။ အားလံုးကလည္း ႏိုင္ငံေရး step တခု ျမွင့္တဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ေထာက္ခံၾကပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး step တခုကို မျမွင့္ႏိုင္ရင္ အကုန္လံုး ေသကုန္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ သံဃာေတြနဲ႔ တိုင္ပင္ၿပီး အစိုးရျမန္ျမန္ဖြဲ႕ၾကပါ။ အစိုးရဖြဲ႕ၿပီးတိုက္ျခင္းသာ နအဖအျမန္ျပဳတ္မယ့္နည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဆရာ၀င္လုပ္ျခင္းမဟုတ္ပါ။ သံဃာနဲ႔ျပည္သူေတြ မ်ားမ်ားမေသေအာင္ ေစတနာနဲ႔ အၾကံျပဳတာပါ။
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ေငြၾကာရံသုိ႔ အရုဏ္ဆြမ္းပုိ ့သူမ်ားအား စစ္တပ္မွ ေမာက္မာ႐ုိင္းစုိင္း

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ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀း၂၀ နာရီ

ယေန ့မနက္ပုိင္းက ေတာင္ဥကၠလာရွိ ေငြၾကာရံေက်ာင္းတုိက္သုိ႔ အရုဏ္ ဆြမ္းသြားပုိ႔ေသာ သူမ်ားအား ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း အတြင္း တပ္စြဲထားသည့္ စစ္တပ္မွ ႏွင္ထုတ္ ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ေက်ာင္းတုိက္အတြင္း သံဃာတပါးမွ်ကုိမွ မေတြ႕ျမင္ခဲ့ရ ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္အတြင္း တပ္စြဲထားသည့္ စစ္တပ္မွ အရုဏ္ဆြမ္းပုိ႔သူမ်ားကုိလည္း ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္၊ ႀကိမ္းေမာင္းလုိက္ေၾကာင္း ကုိယ္ေတြ႕ႀကံဳခဲ့ရသူ တဦးမွ ေျပာျပသည္။
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ယမန္ေန ့ညက သံဃာမ်ား ထပ္မံဖမ္းဆီးခံရ

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ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀း၂၀ နာရီ

ယမန္ေန႔က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဆႏၵျပပြဲ၌ စစ္အုပ္စုမွပစ္ခတ္ခုိင္းေသာ သူမ်ားသည္ စစ္သား အစစ္မ်ားမဟုတ္ပဲ ေထာင္သားမ်ားအား ေလ့က်င့္သင္ၾကားေပးၿပီး ေဆးတုိက္၍ ပစ္ခတ္ ၏ခုိင္းျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယံုၾကည္ စိတ္ခ်ရေသာ သတင္းရပ္ကြက္ တခုမွေျပာသည္။ ထုိ႔ျပင္ ယမန္ ေန႔ ညက ေဒါပံုၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ရြာလည္ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းအား လည္းေကာင္း၊ ၾကည့္ျမင္တုိင္မွ ေအးေစတီ ေေက်ာင္းအားလည္းေကာင္း၊ ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာ သံသုမာလမ္းတေလွ်ာက္ရွိ ေက်ာင္းတုိက္မ်ားကို လည္းေကာင္း၊ စစ္တပ္မွ၀င္ေရာက္ကာ သံဃာအပါး ၃၀၀ ခန္႔အား ၾကမ္းတမ္းစြာ ဆဲဆုိ ႐ုိက္ႏွက္ကာ ဖမ္းဆီးေခၚေဆာင္သြားေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

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ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၉း၂၀ နာရီ

ယမန္ေန႔ညက ေတာင္ဥကၠလာ ေက်ာ္သူ 21 လမ္းထဲက အိမ္တစ္အိမ္ ( ေငြၾကာရံဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းနားက အိမ္) အဲဒီ့အိမ္က တံခါးဖြင့္ထားမိတာကို ဆႏၵျပသူေတြ အိမ္ထဲ ၀င္ေျပးတယ္ဆိုၿပီး စြမ္းအားရွင္ဆိုတဲ့ ေကာင္ေတြက အိမ္ထဲကို ၀င္ရုိက္ၿပီး တစ္အိမ္သားလံုး အသက္80 ေက်ာ္အဖိုးႀကီးေရာ ကေလးေတြကိုပါ ဖမ္းသြားတယ္။ ေငြေတြနဲ႕ ပစၥည္းေတြပါ လုသြားတယ္။ စစ္သားေတြက အျပင္ကေန ရံေပးထားတယ္။ ေတာင္ဥကၠလာကမွ မ်က္ျမင္တဦးမွေျပာဆိုသည္။
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Photo of Burma Protest (September 27, 2007)

2007-09-27T03:36:00.000-07:00

Burma Protest Situation Update (September 27, 2007)

2007-09-26T20:28:00.000-07:00

Burma time 16;12

To all folk, it is really bad in YGN, pLs can someone do something for our country, now inside YGN it has been look like War Zone, i even heard stooting over the phone. it is over 50 shots, right now. but people are not giving up to protest and more and more people coming out to street.
they even used tear gas into primary school. From Ko Htike Blog

www.irrawaddy.org

Rangoon, 3:30 p.m.—Soldiers entered Traders Hotel, situated in the heart of Rangoon, near Sule pagoda, on Thursday and searched it room by room, according to sources. It was thought the soldiers were searching for foreign journalists suspected of reporting clandestinely on the crackdown.

Rangoon; Mid-afternoon—Thousands of protesters who were dispersed when military troops near Sule Pagoda fired into a large crowd are reportedly heading to Tamwe Township, a participating protester said. The protester said most of the demonstrators are determined to continue their protest despite the danger. After troops fired on the crowd, about 100 civilians were arrested and taken away. Unconfirmed reports say about 10 people were hit by gunfire.

Sule Pagoda, Rangoon; Mid-afternoon—About 10 protesters have been shot by troops trying to disperse tens of thousands of people near Sule Pagoda in Rangoon on Thursday afternoon, witnesses said. One source said the injuries looked serious. Unconfirmed reports say one foreigner was shot and taken away by the troops. It is believed security forces issued a 10-minute warning to the crowd to disperse or face "extreme action."

South Okkalapa Township, Rangoon; Mid-afternoon—Authorities have given civilians surrounding at least one monastery in Rangoon a 10-minute warning to disperse or suffer "extreme action." The crowd, estimated at tens of thousands, is infuriated over a violent raid on at least three monasteries overnight, in which monks were beaten. One monk reportedly died following a violent overnight raid.

South Okkalapa Township, Rangoon; around 1 p.m.—Sources say members of the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association have taken up positions in front of security forces at Ngwe Kyar Yan Monastery in Rangoon. About 100 monks who escaped from a violent raid on the monastery overnight have returned and united with a crowd of tens of thousands of angry people who have surrounded the monastery. Unconfirmed reports say a monk named U Sandima died early Thursday from injuries received during the raid. Crowds of people were throwing stones at the security forces. Authorities fired tear gas to try to disperse the crowd. An estimated 700 monks from three monasteries were taken away overnight. Authorities have order the crowd to disperse.

Okkalapa Township, Rangoon; Around noon—Tens of thousands of civilians have surrounded Burmese troops and police that were deployed around Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery in Rangoon early Thursday morning, after they arrested an estimated 200 monks during a violent nighttime raid, witnesses said. The monastery's walkways were splattered in pools of blood at many locations, indicating the authorities shot or severely beat scores of monks. On Thursday afternoon, one witness said the authorities fired warning shots in an attempt to disperse the hostile crowd. The civilian population of Rangoon is very tense today following the overnight raids on at least three Rangoon monasteries. Sources say up to 700 monks were taken away by security forces to an unknown location.

Rangoon; Thursday morning—Troops and riot police raided at least three Rangoon monasteries overnight, breaking their way in and beating and arresting at least 600 monks, novices and their supporters, according to eyewitness reports.

About 500 of the arrested monks were rounded up at Mogaung monastery in South Okkalapa Township, one source said.

The abbots of Maggin monastery in Rangoon’s Thingangyun Township and Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery in South Okkalapa Township were among monks rounded up and arrested in the early hours of the morning.

Troops and riot police used a vehicle to break down the main gate of Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery. Shots were fired and tear gas used in rounding up about 150 of the monastery’s monks. Soldiers also plundered the monastery, according to eyewitnesses.

Troops and riot police have meanwhile taken up positions at Moe Kaung monastery in Rangoon’s Yankin Township, sources said.

The authorities also arrested four key opposition activists overnight, including National League for Democracy spokesman Myint Thein, Zomi National Congress Chairman Cin Sian Thang and Hla Pay, chairman of the Irrawaddy Division NLD.

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Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

(Burmese Standard time)
3:45 p.m
Two army vehicles coming from the direction of 'Super One' mall opened fire on onlookers and bystanders near the National Library in front of the Kyaikkasan field.

3:35 p.m
An International aid agency worker said, the army gave only two minutes to disperse before they open fire on protestors at Sule.

The troops gave people only two minutes to disperse before they opened fire on protesters in Sule, an International aid agency worker said.

3:28 p.m
Security forces (Lone Htein), with soldiers and prison vehicles, are marching towards the protestors near the Trader Hotel. Soldiers continue to warn the people to disperse.

Security forces (Lone Htein) along with soldiers and prison vehicles are heading towards protesters near the Trader Hotel. Soldiers continue to warn people to disperse.

3:10 p.m
Another violent confrontation in downtown Rangoon

A group of protestors marching towards downtown Rangoon are again confronted by security forces near the Trader Hotel in Rangoon.

"From all the four sides, forming four lines of soldiers with shields march in the front and they are followed by riot police (Lone Htein), and another group of soldiers followed in third line. The soldiers come close together and formed a wall with their shields. And they forced the protestors to disperse. People are watching the situation from the Pansodan flyover. Here the protestors are quite less in number. There are only about 10,000 people. They are now confronting with the army on the streets," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

"Now the soldiers are shouting and telling the people to disperse," added the eyewitness.

2:37 p.m
Soldiers are reportedly opening fire on protestors at Magah road near the Kyaikkasan pagoda in Thingankyun Township.

2:30 p.m
Security forces fired about twenty gunshots in Sule, in downtown Rangoon. Five army trucks carrying about 30 soldiers in each truck blocked the road at the junction of Sule and Anawrattha Street. The soldiers shouted and ordered the residents not to come out of their houses.

2:20 p.m
Protestors fleeing from Sule have reached to Yekyaw area in Pazuntaung Township. At least 10 protestors have been injured.

2:05 p.m
Protesters bleeding from beatings by security forces are seen scattering and fleeing in Sule.

2:00 p.m
Protesters in Rangoon have swelled to at least 50,000 and their shouts of "We will Succeed, We will Succeed," reverberated in downtown Rangoon.

1: 55 p.m
Teargas fired on protesters

Security forces in two trucks, a prison vehicle and a medium vehicle carrying a megaphone were seen speeding on Bogyoke Street. The vehicles seem to be heading towards protesters on the Anawrattha Street, observers said.

1:50 p.m
About 400 students and youths have gathered near Burma's notorious Insein prison, eyewitnesses said.

Reports suggest that detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest at her lakeside villa, was transferred to Insein prison on Sunday.

1:40 p.m
Protesters and soldiers are now face to face at the junction of Thitsar Road and Central Road near the Ngwe Kya Yan monastery in South Okklapah. Members of USDA and Swa Arrshin stood in front of the soldiers and are confronting the protesters. Both sides threw stones at each other.

1:35 p.m
Insect spray to be used for crackdown on protesters

Since teargas seems to have not much impact on protesting monks and people, the Burmese junta is reported to be preparing to use insect spray to crackdown on protesters.

Eyewitnesses said, fire engines and insect spray carrier trucks were seen near Theingyi market in downtown Rangoon.

1:30 p.m.
The situation has become tense in Rangoon's Kanbe Township following the arrest of monks by members of Swan Arrshin and soldiers.

12:55 p.m
All the streets surrounding the Sule Pagoda in the heart of Rangoon have been blocked with barbwire barricades.

12:50 p.m
Security forces are positioned about10 feet inside and the protesters stood at least 10 feet beyond the barbed wires. Burmese business tycoon Tayza-owned 'Myanmar Shopping Mall' near Sule Pagoda remained close. Security forces were seen guarding the mall. Only the AA Pharmacy was open, while the rest of the shops on the street up to the Myanmar Insurance Office remained closed.

12:45 p.m
A group of protesters led by monks are marching on Anawrattha Street. Thousands of people are seen following the monks. Security forces are also closing in and are nearing the demonstrators.

12:34 a.m
Despite government offices remaining open, employees have been restricted from going outside during office hours. However, most private offices, shops and schools are closed. Public buses in Rangoon has noticeably been reduced, residents said,

11:55 a.m
Preparation in Sule

Soldiers and security forces came out of the City Hall near Sule pagoda in downtown Rangoon and blocked the road. After ordering civilians near the area to clear off, the soldiers, in straight lines, were seen marching. At least 12 army trucks and 7 fire engines are parked near the Sule park, opposite the City Hall.

11:30 a.m
Burmese junta raids monasteries, arrests over 200 monks

In a bid to to stem the snowballing protests by monks, authorities early on Thursday morning raided at least five Buddhist monasteries including Ngwe Kya Yan in South Okklapah Township and arrested over 200 monks.

Security forces broke the wall of Ngwe Kya Yan monastery in a raid at about 00:15 hour (local time) Thursday morning. Several monks were injured during a clash between the security forces and the monks.

"Bleeding monks were forced into a vehicle. They couldn't cover themselves," a local resident told Mizzima.

During the two hour raid last night, monks rang the alarm bell and screamed for help. However, as the army has announced it would shoot, civilians did not dareto come to the aid of monks.

"There were sounds of beating and screaming from the monastery," a local, residing beside the monastery, told Mizzima over telephone.

Simultaneously, the army raided four other monasteries in parts of Rangoon and arrested several monks.

Sources confirmed that the army had raided the six storied Religious Science Monastery in Chaukhtatgyi pagoda, Moe Kaung Kin Monastery in Yan Kin township, Mingin in Thingankyun township, and Thein Phyu monastery in Thein Phyu area and arrested several monks.

11:10 a.m
Junta says a man died and three others were injured during a crackdown on protesters yesterday.However, AFP citing an official, said three people died during the brutal crackdown on demonstrators.

11:00 a.m
Junta steps up efforts to divert attention on protest

Rumours have spread that the Burmese military junta is hiring thugs to dress like Buddhist monks with orders to destroy Muslim mosques, in an attempt to foment religious riots between the Muslim and Buddhist communities.

10:50 a.m
Junta accusses monks of being extortionists

Burmese junta's mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar said today protesting monks on Tuesday went from house to house in each township in Rangoon and demanded cash "like extortionists".The paper does not name the monks, the place and time of extortion but merely states that the monks demanded cash and alms from families, who cannot join the protest.

10:40 a.m
Burma Army raids Ngwe Kya Yan Monastery, arrest monksSeveral Monks from Ngwe Kya Yan monastery in South Okklapah township of Rangoon were arrested during an overnight raid by the Burma Army troops. The officials, reportedly, cut-off the telephone connection of the monastery.

ေငြၾကာရံ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား စစ္အစိုးရအရာရွိမ်ားကို ထိန္းသိမ္းထား
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၆း၂၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

ေသြးေျမက် ရိုက္ႏွက္ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈမ်ား ခံရျပီးေနာက္ ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပ ျမိ့ဳနယ္ ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္တြင္ စစ္အစိုးရ အရာရွိမ်ားကို ေဒါသ ထြက္ေနၾကေသာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ဖမ္းဆီးထားသည္။

ယေန႔ နံနက္ ေန႔ကူးစအခ်ိန္က ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း ဝင္းတံတိုင္းကို ျဖိဳဖ်က္ကာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို ေသြးေျမက် ရိုက္ႏွက္ကာ အပါး ၂ဝဝ ေက်ာ္ကို ဖမ္းဆီး သြားခဲ့ျပီးေနာက္ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္တြင္းရွိ ပစၥည္း အပ်က္အစီးမ်ားကို စစ္ေဆးရန္ ဆိုကာ ေရာက္လာေသာ စစ္အစိုးရ အရာရွိမ်ားကို သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက ဖမ္းဆီး ထားလိုက္သည္။

ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း အျပင္ဘက္တြင္လည္း ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ လူထု တေသာင္းခန္႔က ဝိုင္းရံထားသည္။

လံုထိန္းမ်ားေရာ၊ ရဲမ်ားပါ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ဝင္းအတြင္း ထြက္ခြင့္ မရေသးပါ။

“ကမၻာမေၾကဘူး” သီခ်င္းကို လူထုက ဟစ္ေၾကြး သီဆိုလ်က္ ရွိသလို “ျပည္သူ႔ဆႏၵ ျပည့္ဝပါေစ၊ ျပည္သူ႔ဆႏၵ ပါဝင္ရမည္” ဟု လည္း ေၾကြးေက်ာ္ေနေၾကာင္း မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက မဇၩိမ ကို ေျပာျပသည္။

ဖမ္းဆီးခံထားရေသာ စစ္အစိုးရ အရာရွိမ်ား၏ အမည္မ်ားကို မဇၩိမက စီစစ္လ်က္ ရွိသည္။

ေက်ာင္းသားတေယာက္ ဒဏ္ရာျပင္းထန္
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၆း၀၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

စစ္တပ္က ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ပန္းဆိုးတန္းဂံုးေက်ာ္ တံတားေအာက္ ေက်ာင္းသားတေယာက္ ဝမ္းဗိုက္တြင္ ေသနတ္ ဒဏ္ရာ ျပင္းထန္စြာ ရရွိသြားသည္။

ဆူးေလတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသား တဦး ဒဏ္ရာရ
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၄၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

အသက္ ၃ဝ ေက်ာ္အရြယ္ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားတဦး ေသနတ္မွန္၍ ဒဏ္ရာ ရသြားသည္။ အေမရိကန္ အလံပါ တံဆိပ္တခုကို သူ၏ ပိုက္ဆံအိတ္ထဲမွ ေတြ႔ျမင္ရျပီး လံုၿခံဳေရးမ်ားက သူ၏ ဗီဒီယို ကင္မရာကို သိမ္းဆည္းသြားသည္။

ဆူးေလမွာ ဆႏၵျပသူတဦး ေသ
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၄၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

“က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ ၂ နာရီ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္မွာ ဒီလူစုေတြရယ္ သံဃာေတြရယ္ ေမတၱာ ပုိ႔ၾကတယ္ေပါ့၊ အဲဒီ ပုိ႔ေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ စစ္သားကားႀကီးနဲ႔ စစ္သားေခါင္းမွာ ထုိင္ေနတဲ့ ဗုိလ္မွဴးႀကီးရယ္၊ ေနာက္မွာ စစ္ကားနွစ္စီးရယ္ စစ္ကားသံုးစီး ေရာက္လာတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ လူထုေတြကုိ ေသနတ္နဲ႔ ထုိးခ်ိန္တယ္။ ေသနတ္ကုိ မုိးေပၚ ေထာင္ပစ္တယ္။ လူေတြကုိ ထုိးပစ္လုိက္တဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ လူတေယာက္ကို ထိေတာ့ ပြဲခ်င္းျပီး ေသသြားတယ္။” ဟု ဆူးေလတြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားေသာ ပစ္ခတ္မႈကို ျမင္ေတြ႔ရသူ တဦးက မဇၩိမ သို႔ ေျပာျပသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၄၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
က်ဳိကၠဆံကြင္းေရွ့ အမ်ဳိးသား စာၾကည့္တိုက္အနီး စစ္ကား ၂ စီး ဆူပါဝမ္း ကုန္တိုက္ဘက္မွ ေမာင္းႏွင္လာျပီး အနီးပတ္ဝန္းက်င္တြင္ ၾကည့္ရႈ ေနသူမ်ားထံ ပစ္ခတ္လိုက္သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၃၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ပန္းဆိုးတန္း တံတားအနီး ေသနတ္ ထိမွန္မႈေၾကာင့္ အမ်ဳိးသားတဦး ဦးေခါင္း ေသနတ္မွန္ ေသဆံုးသြားသည္။

ဒဂံုအထက ၁ ႏွင့္ လသာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ေစာစြာ အိမ္ျပန္ခိုင္းလိုက္သည္။

တာေမြ က်ဳိကၠဆံ လမ္းေၾကာင္းမွ ခ်ီတက္လာေသာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ဆႏၵျပ စစ္ေၾကာင္းကို စစ္တပ္က ရိုက္ႏွက္၍ ေနာက္ျပန္ လွည့္သြားရသည္။ စစ္တပ္က ေသနတ္ ၆ ခ်က္ ပစ္ေဖာက္ခဲ့သည္ဟု ၾကားသိရသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၁၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ဆူးေလပစ္ခတ္မႈတြင္ လူစုခြဲရန္ ၂ မိနစ္သာ ႀကိဳတင္ေျပာျပီး ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အကူအညီေပးေရး ေအဂ်င္စီ တခုတြင္ လုပ္ေနသူ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၅၆ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
လံုထိန္းမ်ားက စစ္ကား၊ ရဲအခ်ဳပ္ကားမ်ားကို ေနာက္ခံထားလ်ွက္ ထရိတ္ဒါး ေဟာ္တယ္ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ား အနီးသို႔ ခ်ဥ္းကပ္လာသည္။ စစ္တပ္က လူစုခြဲရန္ ေအာ္လ်က္ပင္ ရွိေသးသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၅၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ျမိ့ဳထဲမွာ ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကျပန္ျပီ

ျမိ့ဳထဲသို႔ ခ်ီတက္လာေသာ ဆႏၵျပ အဖြဲ႔ႀကီးတခုႏွင့္ လံုၿခံဳေရးမ်ား ထိပ္တိုက္ ရင္ဆိုင္မႈတခု ထရိတ္ဒါး ေဟာ္တယ္အနီး ျဖစ္ပြား ေနျပန္သည္။

“ေလးဘက္ေလးတန္းမွာ လမ္းဆံုးေတြမွာ ဒုိင္းနဲ႔ စစ္သားေတြက ပထမတန္း၊ လံုထိန္းေတြက ဒုတိယတန္း၊ စစ္တပ္က တတိယတန္းနဲ အတင္း ဆင္းေနႀကတယ္။ လူခ်င္းေစ့ျပီးေတာ့ ဒုိင္းေတြ ကာထားတယ္။ လူေတြကုိ အတင္း လူစုခြဲခုိင္းတယ္။ ျပည္သူေတြကေတာ့ ပန္းဆုိးတန္း ဂုံးေပၚမွာ ေစာင့္ေနႀကတယ္။ လူအုပ္က နည္းနည္း နည္းတယ္။ တေသာင္းေက်ာ္ေလာက္ဘဲ ရွိတယ္။ အဲမွာ စစ္တပ္နဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနႀကတယ္။” ဟု မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။

“အခုေအာ္ေနတာကေတာ့ လူေတြကုိ အတင္း ခြဲခုိင္းေနတယ္။ လူစုလူေဝး မေနရဘူးေပါ့ဗ်ာ” ဟု သူက ထပ္ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၃၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
လံုျခံဳေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားက ပစ္ခတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ဘီဘီစီ သတင္းေထာက္ တေယာက္တဦး ေသဆုံးသြားသည္ ဟူေသာ ေကာလာဟလမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ ေနသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၂၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
သကၤန္းကၽြန္း က်ဳိကၠဆံဘုရားအနီး မာဃလမ္းႏွင့္ဆံုရာ ထိပ္တြင္ စစ္တပ္က ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ပစ္ခတ္မႈ ျဖစ္ပြားေနသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၁၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ဆူးေလမွ ျဖိဳခြင္းခံလိုက္ရသည့္ ဆႏၵျပ အုပ္စုႀကီးသည္ သိမ္ျဖဴလမ္းမွသည္ ျဖတ္သြားရာ သာေကတ တံတားအနားထိေအာင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနျပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဆင္းသြားရာ လမ္းတေလ်ာက္ မည္သည့္ အတားအဆီးမွ မေတြ႔ရဟု ေျပာသည္။

ဆူးေလတြင္ ေသနတ္ အခ်က္ ၂ဝ ခန္႔ ပစ္ေဖာက္ခဲ့သည္။ တစီးလ်ွင္ စစ္သား ၃ဝ ခန္႔ တင္ထားေသာ စစ္ထရပ္ကား ၅ စီး ဆူးေလႏွင့္ အေနာ္ရထာ လမ္းဆံုကို ပိတ္ဆို႔ ေစာင့္ထားျပီး ေနအိမ္မ်ားမွ မထြက္လာရန္ ေအာ္ဟစ္ ေျပာဆိုေနသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၀၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ဆူးေလဘက္မွသည္ ေျပးဆင္းသြားေသာ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားသည္ ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ ေရေက်ာ္ဘက္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိသြားျပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ ရန္ကုန္ ဆႏၵျပမႈ မ်ားတြင္ လူ ၁၀ ဦးခန္႔ ဒဏ္ရာ ရရွိသည္။

ေမတၱာပုိ႔ေနသူမ်ားကို ဝင္ရိုက္
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၅၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

“မ်က္ရည္ယုိဗုံးခြဲေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ လူေတြအကုန္လံုး ထြက္ေျပးေနရျပီ။ ျပန္ဆုတ္ေနရတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ႔က အားလံုးစုျပီး ေမတၱာပုိ႔ေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္မွာ စစ္ကားက ဝင္လာျပီးေတာ့ မ်က္ရည္ဗံုးေတြ ခြဲလုိက္တယ္ေလ။ အလံုးက ၂ဝ ေလာက္ ရွိတယ္။ စစ္တပ္ အင္အားက ၃ဝ စီးေလာက္ ရွိမယ္။ ေနာက္ထပ္ ကား ၅ စီး ထပ္ဝင္တယ္ဗ်ာ၊ အဲဒီမွာ စြမ္းအားရွင္ကားက နွစ္စီးပါတယ္။ စြမ္းအားရွင္ ၂ဝ ေလာက္ပဲ ရွိမယ္။ ျပည္သူအင္အားက အားလံုး ၅ ေသာင္းေလာက္ ရွိမယ္။” ဟု ဆႏၵျပသူတဦးက ေျပာျပသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၃၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ဆူးေလတြင္ လံုၿခံဳေရးတပ္မ်ားက ဆႏၵျပလူထုကို မီးသတ္ပိုက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ထိုးခြဲျပီး လဲက်သြားသူမ်ားကို ဝါးရင္းတုတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ရိုက္ႏွက္ေနသည္။ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ား ပန္းဆိုးတန္း တံတားဘက္ ခ်ီတက္သြားရင္း “ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့ စစ္ပညာ ျပည္သူေတြကို သတ္ဖို႔ မဟုတ္ဘူး” ေအာ္ဟစ္ ေၾကြးေက်ာ္ ေနၾကသည္။ လူထု တသိန္းခန္႔ ရွိသြားျပီဟု မ်က္ျမင္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၃၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)
ဆူးေလတြင္ အရိုက္ခံရ၍ ေသြးသံရဲရဲျဖင့္ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ား ထြက္ေျပး လာေနၾကသည္။

ဆႏၵျပလူထု ၅ ေသာင္းခန္႔ ရွိေနျပီး “ ေအာင္ရမည္၊ ေအာင္ရမည္“ ဟူေသာ ေၾကြးေက်ာ္သံမ်ား မဇၩိမက သတင္းရယူေနခ်ိန္တြင္ ၾကားေန ရသည္။

ဆႏၵျပလူထုထံသို႔ မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုး ပစ္ခြင္းေနသည္။

စစ္သား အျပည့္ပါေသာ စစ္ကား ၂ စီး၊ လံုထိန္းကား ၂ စီး၊ ေထာင္ကား တစီးႏွင့္ ေလာ္စပီကာ တင္ထားေသာ ဟိုင္းလပ္စ္ကား တစီး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ လမ္းအတိုင္း ေမာင္းႏွင္သြားသည္။ အေနာ္ရထားလမ္းရွိ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားထံသို႔ ဦးတည္ သြားေရာက္ဟန္ ရွိသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၃၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

အင္းစိန္ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အနီး ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ ၄ဝဝ ခန္႔ စုရံုး ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကသည္ဟု မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ေနအိမ္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္မွ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္သို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို တနၤဂေႏြေန႔ကတည္းက ေျပာင္းေရႊ႔ထားလုိက္ျပီဟု သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၂၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပျမိ့ဳနယ္ ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္အနီး သစၥာလမ္းႏွင့္ ဗဟိုလမ္းေထာင့္တြင္ စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ လူထု ထိပ္တိုက္ ေတြ႔ေနၾကသည္။ ၾကံ့ဖြံ႔မ်ားကို ေရွ့တန္းတင္ကာ တပ္က ေနာက္မွ လိုက္ပါလာသည္။ တဖက္ႏွင့္ တဖက္ ခဲမ်ားႏွင့္ ပစ္ေပါက္လ်ွက္ ရွိသည္။

ျခင္ေဆးရည္သံုး၍ ျဖိဳခြင္းမည္
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၁၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုး ထိေရာက္မႈ မရွိသည့္ အေျခအေနတြင္ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ျခင္ေဆးျဖန္း ျဖဳိခြင္းရန္ စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက အဆင္သင့္ ျပင္ထားသည္။ ရန္ကုန္ျမိ့ဳ သိမ္ႀကီးေစ်းအနီး မီးသတ္ကားမ်ားႏွင့္ ျခင္ေဆးျဖန္းေရမ်ား တင္ေဆာင္ထားေသာ ကားမ်ား ယေန႔ ေတြ႔ရွိရသည္ဟု မ်က္ျမင္ သက္ေသမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၃း၁၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

ရန္ကုန္ျမိ့ဳ ကန္ဘဲ့တြင္ စစ္တပ္ပါဝင္ေသာ စြမ္းအားရွင္မ်ားက သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို လိုက္လံ ဖမ္းဆီးျပီးေနာက္ အေျခအေန တင္းမာေနသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၂း၅၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

လံုထိန္းမ်ားက သံစည္းရိုးအတြင္းမွ ၁ဝ ေပေလာက္ အကြာအေဝးတြင္ ရွိၿပီး ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားက စည္းရိုးအျပင္ ၁ဝ ေပေလာက္ အကြာမွာ ရွိေနသည္။ ဆူးေလအနီးရွိ ဦးေတဇပိုင္ Myanmar Shopping Mall ကို ပိတ္ထားျပီး စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ရဲ လံုျခံဳေရး အေစာင့္မ်ားလည္း ခ်ထားသည္။ ျမန္မာ့ အာမခံရံုးအထိ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ ဆိုင္မ်ား ပိတ္ထားျပီး AA Phamacy ေဆးဆိုင္ တခုသာလ်ွင္ ဖြင့္ထားသည္။

ဆူးေလဘုရားအနီး လမ္းၾကားမ်ား အားလံုးကို သံဆူးႀကဳိးမ်ားႏွင့္ ပိတ္ကာလိုက္ျပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၂း၄၅ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဦးစီးေသာ ဆႏၵျပအဖြဲ႔တခု အေနာ္ရထာ လမ္းအတုိင္း ခ်ီတက္လာေနသည္။ လူေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာလည္း ေဘးမွ လိုက္ပါလာေနသည္။ လံုထိန္းမ်ားကလည္း အနား ကပ္လာေနရာ ေပအနည္းငယ္သာ ကြာေဝးေတာ့သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၂း၃၀ (သတင္းလႊင့္တင္ခ်ိန္)

ရန္ကုန္ျမိ့ဳတြင္း အစိုးရရံုးမ်ား ဖြင့္ထားေသာ္လည္း ဝန္ထမ္းမ်ားကို ရံုးခ်ိန္အတြင္း အျပင္ထြက္ခြင့္ ကန္႔သတ္ထားသည္။ ပုဂၢလိကရံုး အမ်ားစု ႏွင့္ ေစ်းဆိုင္ အမ်ားစု ပိတ္ထားျပီး စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားလည္း ေျခာက္ကပ္ေနသည္။ လမ္းေပၚတြင္ ဘတ္စ္ကားမ်ား ေျပးဆြဲမႈ သိသိသာသာ ေလ်ာ့နည္းသြားသည္။

ဆူးေလ ျပင္ဆင္မႈ
(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၁း၅၅)

ဆူးေလဘုရားအနီး စစ္သားႏွင့္ လံုထိန္းမ်ား ျမိ့ဳေတာ္ခန္းမထဲမွ ထြက္လာျပီး လမ္းပိတ္လိုက္ျပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ အနားရွိသူမ်ား အားလံုးကို ေမာင္းထုတ္ကာ ရင္ေဘာင္တန္းကာ ေရွ႕သို႔ ခ်ီတက္လာေနသည္။ စစ္ထရပ္ကား ၁၂ စီး ဆူးေလပန္းျခံေရွ့ ရပ္ထားျပီး မီးသတ္ကား ၇ စီးလည္း ပါဝင္သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၁း၃၀
ရန္ကုန္ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းမ်ားကို စစ္တပ္ဝင္စီး၊ သံဃာေတာ္အပါး ၂ဝဝ ေက်ာ္အဖမ္းခံရ

ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပျမိ့ဳနယ္ ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ အပါအဝင္ ရန္ကုန္ရွိ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း အနည္းဆံုး ၅ ေက်ာင္းကို စစ္တပ္က ယေန႔ နံနက္အေစာပိုင္း ဝင္ေရာက္ စီးနင္းျပီး သံဃာေတာ္အပါး ၂ဝဝ ေက်ာ္ကို ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့သည္။

ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ကို နံနက္ ဝဝး၁၅ နာရီ အခ်ိန္တြင္ နံရံ ျဖဳိဝင္ေရာက္ရာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ စစ္တပ္တို႔ ထိပ္တိုက္ ရင္ဆိုင္ ေတြ႔ၾကျပီး သံဃာေတာ္ အမ်ားအျပား ထိခိုက္ဒဏ္ရာ ရသြားခဲ့သည္။

“ေသြးသံရဲရဲနဲ႔ပဲ။ ကားတစီးက ဦးဇင္းေတြဆုိရင္ ေအာက္ကဟာေတြပါ ေပၚတာ။” ဟု ရန္ကုန္ျမိ့ဳခံ တဦးက မဇၩိမကို ေျပာျပသည္။

၂ နာရီခန္႔ၾကာ စီးနင္းမႈအတြင္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက တုန္းေမာင္းမ်ား ေခါက္၍ ေအာ္ဟစ္ အသိေပးရာ ရပ္ကြက္ လူထုမ်ား အကူအညီေပးရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေသာ္လည္း အရပ္သားမ်ားကို ပစ္မည္ဟု စစ္တပ္က အမိန္႔ ထုတ္ျပန္သျဖင့္ အကူအညီ မရခဲ့ေပ။

“ရိုက္လို႔ ေအာ္သံ၊ ဟစ္သံ ေတြ ပြက္ေလာ ရိုက္သြားတာပဲ” ဟု ေက်ာင္းတုိက္အနီး ေနသူတဦးက မဇၩိမ သို႔ တယ္လီဖုန္းျဖင့္ ေျပာျပသည္။

တျပိဳင္နက္တည္း လိုလိုပင္ ေနာက္ထပ္ အနည္းဆံုး ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း ၄ ေက်ာင္းကို စစ္တပ္က ဝင္စီးျပီး သံဃာေတာ္ အခ်ဳိ့ကို ဖမ္းဆီးသြားခဲ့သည္။

ေျခာက္ထပ္ႀကီးရွိ သာသနာ့ သိပၸံေက်ာင္း၊ ရန္ကင္းရွိ မိုးေကာင္းေက်ာင္း၊ သကၤန္းကၽြန္းရွိ မဂၢင္ေက်ာင္း၊ သိမ္ျဖဴရွိ သိမ္ျဖဴေက်ာင္းတို႔မွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား အဖမ္းခံရသည္ဟု မဇၩိမ က အတည္ျပဳခ်က္ ရရွိသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၁း၀၀

ယမန္ေန႔ ဆႏၵျပမႈကို အင္အားသံုး ၿဖိဳခြင္းရာတြင္ အမ်ဳိးသားတေယာက္ ေသဆံုးျပီး ၃ ဦး ဒဏ္ရာ ရရွိခဲ့သည္ဟု စစ္အစိုးရက ထုတ္ျပန္ ေၾကညာထားသည္။

ေအအက္ဖ္ပီ သတင္းတရပ္ အရ လူ ၃ ဦးေသဆံုးေၾကာင္း အမည္မေဖာ္လိုေသာ အစိုးရ တာဝန္ရွိသူ တဦးက ေျပာၾကားသည္ဟု ပါရွိသည္။

ဓါးျပတိုက္တဲ့ သံဃာမ်ားဟု စစ္အစိုးရ သတင္းစာမ်ား ေရးသား
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀း၅၀

ယမန္ေန႔က ရန္ကုန္တြင္ ဆႏၵျပသူ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ ရပ္ကြက္ အသီးသီးရွိ အိမ္အသီးသီးသို႔ ဝင္ေရာက္ျပီး ျခိမ္းေျခာက္၍ ေငြေတာင္းခံခဲ့ေၾကာင္း စစ္အစိုးရ သတင္းစာမ်ားက ေရးသားထားသည္။

အခင္း ျဖစ္ပြားသည့္ ေနရာ၊ အခ်ိန္၊ လူအမည္မ်ား စသည္တို႔ကို လံုးဝ ေျပာဆိုႏိုင္ျခင္း မရွိဘဲ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ လူအမ်ားကို အတင္းအၾကပ္ ဆြဲေခၚ ဆႏၵျပေစျပီး ေငြေကာက္ခံသည္ဟု ေရးသားထားသည္။

ဆႏၵျပမႈကို အာရံုလႊဲရန္ စစ္အစိုးရ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေန

စစ္အစိုးရသည္ အခေၾကးေငြေပး ငွားရမ္းျပီး လူတခ်ဳိ့ကို သကၤန္း ဝတ္ေစလ်ွက္ အစၥလမ္ ပလီမ်ား ဖ်က္စီးရန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနသည္ ဆိုေသာ ေကာလာဟလမ်ား က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔ ထြက္ေပၚေနသည္။

ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ကို စစ္တပ္က ဝင္စီး၊ သံဃာမ်ားကို ဖမ္း
ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၀း၃၀

ရန္ကုန္ ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပ ျမိ့ဳနယ္ ေငြၾကာရံ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္သို႔ ယေန႔နံနက္ ေစာေစာက စစ္တပ္ကဝင္စီးျပီး သံဃာအခ်ိဳ့ကို ဖမ္းဆီးသြားသည္။ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ရွိ တယ္လီဖုန္းကိုပါ ျဖတ္ေတာက္လိုက္သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ နံနက္ ၉း၀၀ နာရီ
ယေန႔နံနက္ ၂ နာရီ မိနစ္ ၄၀ တြင္ နအဖ စစ္တပ္မွ ေတာင္ဥကၠလာပၿမိဳ႔နယ္ ေငြၾကာ႐ုံ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းရိွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား ၀င္ေရာက္႐ုိက္ႏွက္ဖမ္းဆီးသြားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးအနီးပတ္၀န္းက်င္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သူမ်ားက ၀င္ေရာက္ရုိက္ႏွက္သံမ်ားပါ ၾကားေနရသည္ေျပာဆိုသည္။ တခ်ဳိ႕ဘုန္းၾကီးမ်ား ကိုရင္ေလးမ်ားအား ရိုက္ႏွက္သျဖင့္ ကိုရင္ေလးမ်ား ငိုယို၍ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း၀င္းတြင္ ေျပးလႊားေနသည္ကို ျမင္ေတြ႔ရေၾကာင္း မ်က္ျမင္တဦးမွ ေျပာၾကားသည္။

အလားတူ ယမန္ေန႔ညက သိမ္ျျဖဴလမ္းႏွင့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းလမ္းေထာင့္ရွိ သိမ္ျဖဴ ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္းရွိ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား အားလံုးကို ဖမ္းဆီးေခဓေဆာင္သြားၿပီး ကိုရင္ေလးႏွစ္ပါးသာ ေက်ာင္းတြင္ ထားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ နံနက္ ၈း၅၀ နာရီ
မိဳ႕ေတာ္ခန္းမေရွ႕ မီးသတ္ကားမ်ားႏွင့္ စစ္ကားမ်ား ေနရာယူထား၊
ေတာ္လွန္ေရးပန္းၿခံေရွ႕ ဦး၀ိစာရလမ္းေပၚ လိုင္းကားမ်ား လိုင္းနံပတ္မ်ား
စကၠဴျဖင့္အုပ္ကပ္ထားၿပီး ၇ စီးခန္႕ရပ္ထား၊ မိစာၧတပ္ေတြသံုးဖို႕ျပင္ထား ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးမွ ေျပာဆိုသည္။
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ဆူးေလအနီး အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦး ေသနတ္ထိမွန္
(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၅းဝဝ)

ဆူးေလဘုရား အနီး မိုးေပၚေထာင္ပစ္ လူစုခြဲရံုတင္မကဘဲ လူအုပ္ၾကားထဲသို႔ ေသနတ္တခ်က္ ပစ္ထဲ့၍ အမ်ဳိးသမီး တဦး ေသနတ္ ထိမွန္ သြားသည္။

အသက္ ၄၅ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေရႊျပည္သာျမိ့ဳနယ္ေန အမ်ဳိးသမီ းတဦးကို ေသြးသံရဲရဲျဖင့္ ရွိေနျပီး အနားမွ လူအမ်ားက ေဆးရံုပို႔ရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ ေနၾကသည္ကို မဇၩိမ အေထာက္ေတာ္က ေတြ႔ျမင္ခဲ့ရသည္။

သူမသည္ ေရႊျပည္သာ ျမိ့ဳနယ္မွ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ခင္ပြန္းအမည္ ကိုေအာင္စိုးဟု သိရသည္။

(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၄း၃၀)
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ လမ္းေပၚတြင္ စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ ထိပ္တိုက္ ရင္ဆိုင္ ေနခဲ့ၾကေသာ လူထုႀကီးမွာ လူစုခြဲလိုက္ျပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၄း၂၅)
မဇၩိမက စံုစမ္းသိရွိရေသာ ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားအနီး သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ျဖိဳခြင္းရာတြင္ ဦးေဆာင္ ကြပ္ကဲသူမ်ားမွာ (၁) ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ ေက်ာ္ဆန္း (ျပန္ၾကားေရး ဝန္ႀကီး)၊ ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး တင့္ဆန္း၊ အမွတ္ ၁၆ ေျခလ်င္ တပ္ရင္း ယာယီ တပ္ရင္းမႉး ဗိုလ္မႉး ရဲေဇာ္ေဇာ္ တို႔ ပါဝင္သည္။

ဖိနပ္၊ အမိႈက္တို႔နဲ႔ အပစ္ခံရတဲ့ စစ္တပ္
(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၄း၁၅)

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းေပၚ စစ္တပ္ႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပ လူထုႀကီး ရင္ဆုိင္မႈအျပီး ဆႏၵျပ လူထုႀကီးက တျဖည္းျဖည္း ပိုမိုေရွ႕တိုးလာသည္တြင္ စစ္ကား ၃ စီးပါ စစ္တပ္သည္ ေနာက္သို႔ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ဆုတ္သြားရာ ပန္းဆိုးတန္း ဂံုးေက်ာ္ တံတားႀကီး ေအာက္ဘက္ ေရာက္သြားခဲ့သည္။ တံတားေပၚမွ ၾကည့္ရႈေနေသာ လူအုပ္စုႀကီးကလည္း စစ္သားမ်ားေပၚသို႔ စီးလာေသာ ဖိနပ္မ်ား၊ အမိႈက္မ်ားျဖင့္ ပစ္လိုက္ၾကသည္။

လံုထိန္းမ်ားလက္မွ သံဃာမ်ားကို စမ္းေခ်ာင္းလူထု ျပန္လု
(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၄း၀၀)

ရန္ကုန္တြင္ လံုထိန္းက သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို လံုထိန္းက ကားေပၚ ဆဲြတင္ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈကို မခံရပ္ႏိုင္ေသာ ေဒသခံ လူထုက လံုထိန္းမ်ားကို ဝင္ရိုက္သျဖင့္ လံုထိန္းမ်ား ဆုတ္ေျပးခဲ့ၾကရသည္။

ဗားကရာတိုက္၊ ဥယာဥ္တိုက္၊ ရွင္ဥတၱမတိုက္၊ ေဇယ်ဝတီေက်ာင္း၊ ေအာင္မဂၤလာ ေက်ာင္းမ်ားမွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ခ်ီတက္လာရာ ယေန႔ေန႔လည္ ၁ နာရီခန္႔တြင္ စမ္းေခ်ာင္း ဗားကရာလမ္းႏွင့္ ဗဟိုလမ္းေထာင့္ အမွတ္ ၆၁ ဓာတ္ဆီဆိုင္ အနီးတြင္ လမ္းပိတ္ကာ လံုထိန္းက ဖမ္းဆီးျပီး ကားေပၚတင္ရာ စမ္းေခ်ာင္းလူထုက ရရာလက္နက္ ဆြဲကိုင္ျပီး လံုထိန္းမ်ားကို ဝင္ရိုက္သျဖင့္ လံုထိန္းမ်ား ဗဟိုလမ္းအတိုင္း အာရွေတာ္ဝင္ေ ဆးခန္းအထိ ဆုတ္သြားေတာ့သည္။

ထို႔ေနာက္ လမ္းပြင့္သြားသျဖင့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဆက္လက္ တက္သြားႏိုင္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

(ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၃း၅၅)
အဝါေရာင္လည္စီးမ်ား ဝတ္ဆင္ထားေသာ စစ္သား အေယာက္ ၃ဝ ခန္႔ကို တပ္မႉးတေယာက္က ဦးေဆာင္၍ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းအတုိင္း ေလွ်ာက္လာေနၾကသည္။ သူတို႔ေနာက္မွ စစ္ကား ၃ စီးကလည္း လိုက္ပါလာေနသည္။ ထိုအုပ္စု ၃၆ လမ္းထိပ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနျပီး ဆႏၵျပ လူထုႀကီးကလည္း သူတို႔ႏွင့္ နီးသထက္ နီးလာေနသည္။ ဆႏၵျပလူထုႀကီးက တေရြ႔ေရြ႔ ေရွ႕တိုးလာေနျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာ စံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ (၃း၃၀)
“ဗဟန္းမွာ ရဲေတြက သိပ္ရိုင္းတယ္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို ကန္တယ္၊ ေခါင္းေတြကို ရိုက္တယ္။ လမ္းေပၚမွာ လဲေနတဲ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို တက္နင္းတယ္။” ဟု ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရား အနီး ရဲမ်ားက ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာမ်ားကို ျဖိဳခြင္းပံုကို ရည္ညြန္းလ်က္ ရန္ကုန္ ေဒသခံတဦးက မဇၩိမသို႔ ေျပာျပသည္။ မဇၥ်ိမသတင္းမွ

A few minutes ago, my fri who is living at Subroad 30 before reaching to Sule said, 3 civilians were shot in front of him. they took the bodies. What is more tragedy is one of them is rakhine who talked to him before before he was killed.

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ညေန ၄း၃၀ နာရီ

ေန႕လည္က ေရႊတိဂံုမွာ မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုးခြဲတယ္ ရိုက္တယ္ အဲဒီ့မွာ ဘုန္းဘန္ုးေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား အဖမ္းခံလိုက္ရတယ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ဘုန္းဘုန္းေတြ ဘယ္သူမွ မက်န္ေတာ့ဘူးအဲဒီ့မွာ ဘုန္းဘုန္းေတြလူစုကြဲသြားေပမယ့္ ေရႊဂံုတုိင္မွာ ျပန္စုၾကတယ္ ၿပီးေတာ့ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ခ်ီတက္ရင္းနဲ႕ ၿမိဳ႕ထဲကိုေရာက္လာတယ္ ၿမိဳ႕ထဲအေရာက္မွာ ပစ္လို႕ ရုတ္ရုတ္သဲသဲျဖစ္သြားတယ္။

ဒါေပမယ့္ ခ်က္ခ်င္းလူျပန္စုတယ္ ၿပီးေတာ့ Trader ေရွ႕မွာေစာင့္ေနတဲ့ လူထုနဲ႕စံုတယ္ တပ္က ဆူးေလပတ္ပတ္လည္မွာ စီးထားတယ္ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္ ကမ္းနားဘက္ကိုဆက္တက္ၿပီး ေလွ်ာက္သြားၾကတယ္။အခု ပန္းဆိုတမ္းနဲ႕ ကမ္းနားလမ္းေထာင့္မွာ ကားေတြနဲ႕ လူအုပ္ႀကီးကိုလုိက္ဆြဲေနၿပီ ဟု ကိုယ္တိုင္ႀကံဳေတြသူတဦးမွ ေျပာဆိုသည္။ ဆံုဆည္းရာ Blog မွ

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၆း၂၆
ခိုင္လံုတဲ့သတင္းတစ္ခုအရ ရဲတပ္ရင္းတစ္ခုက စစ္တပ္အတြက္ ယူနီေဖါင္း အစံု (၅၀) ပို႔ေပးရတယ္။ ဒီသတင္းေပၚအေျခခံၾကည့္မယ္ဆိုရင္ အခုရန္ကုန္မွာ ရဲ၊ လံုထိန္းယူနီေဖါင္းေတြဟာ အားလံုးရဲမ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ရဲယူနီေဖါင္း၀တ္စစ္သားေတြလည္း ေရာပါေနလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒီသတင္းကို ကမၻကသိေအာင္ ေျပာေပးႀကပါ။
(ဒီစာကို တစ္ေယာက္ေယာက္ english လို ဘာသာျပန္ေပးၿပီး ေမလ္းပို႔ေပးပါ၊ ကၽြန္ေတာ္ မအားလို႔ပါခင္ဗ်ာ။ အဂၤလိပ္ လိုလည္း အမ်ားသိေအာင္တင္ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေက်းဇူးပါပဲ။)

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ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၄း၀၀ နာရီ
ဗဟန္းမွာ ရဲေတြက သိပ္ရိုင္းတယ္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို ကန္တယ္၊ ေခါင္းေတြကို ရိုက္တယ္။ လမ္းေပၚမွာ လဲေနတဲ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို တက္နင္းတယ္... ဟု ကိုယ္ေတြ႔ ၾကံဳေတြ႔သူ တဦးမွ ေျပာသည္။

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ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့စစ္ပညာ ျပည္သူေတြကို သတ္ဖို႕မဟုတ္ဘူး

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၁၆

ရန္ကုန္ ပန္းဆိုးတန္းလမ္းအတိုင္း ဘူတာႀကီးဘက္မွ ေျမာက္မ်ားစြာေသာ လူအုပ္ႀကီး ဆူးေလဘက္သို႔ ခ်ီတတ္လာၾကပါသည္။ အနီးအနားမွ ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီးက လမ္းေတြမွ ေျပးထြက္က ႀကိဳဆို အားေပးေနၾကပါသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၀၇

အလံုတြင္ ေသနတ္အခ်က္၂၀ အိမ္နားတြင္ ပစ္သြားသည္ဟု ကိုယ္ေတြ႔ၾကားလိုက္ရသူက ေျပာျပပါသည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄.၅၉

အခုယုဇနပလာဇာ ေရွ့မွာ ဘုနး္ၾကီးေတြ ေသြးစက္လက္နဲ႔ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ေနၾကတယ္ ခုဏက ေ၇ေက်ာ္ဘက္မွာ သံဃာ ႏွင့္ လူထုအင္အား ၅၀၀၀၀ ေလာက္ ၿဖတ္သြားပါတယ္ ဆူးေလကို ခ်ီတက္သြားတယ္။

ျမန္မာစံတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၄၅

ဆူးေလ လမ္းမႀကီးတြင္ လူေထာင္၊ ေသာင္းခ်ီေသာ လူအုပ္ႀကိးက ဆက္လက္ ခ်ီတတ္လ်က္ရွိၾကသည္။ ေနာက္မွ လိုက္သြားေသာ စစ္ကားမ်ားက အဆိုပါလမ္းကို အ၀င္အထြက္ မရေအာင္ ပိတ္ဆို႔လိုက္ၿပီျဖစ္သည္။

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၄း၄၀

ယခု အခ်ိန္အထိ ဗဟန္းၾကားေတာရလမ္းတြင္ ျဖစ္ေနေသာ ရုတ္ရုတ္သဲသဲ ျဖစ္မႈမွာ ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ပြားေနဆဲျဖစ္သည္။ မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုး ၈ လံုး တိတိ ခြဲခဲ့ၿပီးေၾကာင္း မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသမွ ေျပာျပသည္။

မႏၱေလးတြင္ ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္းအေပါက္၀မ်ားတြင္ စစ္သားမ်ား၊ရဲ မ်ား ရိွေနၾကၿပီး သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို အၿပင္သို ့ေပးမထြက္ခိုင္းေပ။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားမွာ နံနက္ ဆြမ္းခံဖို ့ပင္ ထြက္ခြင့္ မရခဲ့ပါ။ မိုက္ရိုင္းသည္မွာ ေန ့လည္း ၁နာရီခန္ ့တြင္ အစိုးရမွ ေခါက္ဆြဲထုတ္မ်ားကို ၿမေတာင္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္သို ့ကပ္သည္။ သို ့ ေသာ္ သံဃာမ်ားက ေခါက္ဆြဲထုပ္မ်ားကို ၃၅ လမ္းမေပၚသို ့ လႊင့္ပစ္ခဲ့ၾကၿပီး လမ္းမေပၚတြင္ ေခါက္ဆြဲထုပ္မ်ား ပ်ံက်ဲေနသည္ဟုသိရသည္။
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Photo of Burma Protest (September 26, 2007)

2007-09-26T00:32:00.000-07:00

သံဃာေတာ္တစ္ပါးဒဏ္ရာရေနသည့္ပံု

Police gas, beat Burmese protesters

2007-09-25T23:48:00.000-07:00

POLICE armed with batons and tear gas have beaten about 700 anti-junta protesters in Burma, witnesses said.

Police first used the batons to break up a crowd including students and some Buddhist monks near a pagoda in Burma's main city Rangoon.

Earlier, the troops had blocked the road as the protesters prepared to march.

Police also responded by firing tear gas at the protesters.

Hundreds of Buddhist monks, surrounded by a human chain of supporters, later began a protest march towards downtown Rangoon.

The marchers gathered on a street near the Shwedagon Pagoda, where security forces had only minutes earlier attacked protesters with batons and tear gas.

The human chain of supporters linked arms to protect those involved in the march, witnesses said.

Police arrested 80 protesters, including monks - who led mass protests against 45 years of military rule.

The monks were beaten or manhandled as they were taken away, witnesses said.

Witnesses also said only monks were allowed to enter the Shwedagon Pagoda, where they had gathered for prayers before their earlier marches. Soldiers sealed off the smaller Kyay Toon pagoda, near the eastern entrance to Shwedagon.

Opposition under police guard

The headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition party was under guard by riot police today, as the ruling junta rolled out a heavy security presence to stifle mass demonstrations.

Witnesses said that a covered police truck, with some 30 armed riot police sitting inside, stood 100 metres from the ramshackle National League for Democracy (NLD) headquarters in central Rangoon.

About 30 members of the party were waiting outside the building, apparently ready to join any fresh protests despite stiff government warnings against a new public display of defiance against the regime.

Yesterday, dozens of NLD members also gathered outside the building before joining the throngs of demonstrators, led by Buddhist monks, which swelled to 100,000 and swept through the city in the eighth straight day of protests.

Large contingents of students also joined the march, carrying the red flags emblazoned with yellow peacocks that symbolise the NLD and pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest.

The NLD joined calls for a peaceful resolution to the demonstrations, which have grown into a nationwide movement that poses the most potent challenge to the junta's rule in 20 years.

"We can definitely solve these matters because of our recent condition and the general crisis in our country. The only way is through peaceful dialogue," it said in a statement yesterday.

Burma Protest (September 26, 2007)

2007-09-25T23:34:00.000-07:00

အထူးသတင္း

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေနမ်ား ပူေနေသာ္လည္း မိုးၿခိမ္းသံမ်ား ၾကားေနရလွ်က္ရွိသည္။ ဗုဒၶဘာသာႏွင့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို ေစာ္ကားေနေသာ သူမ်ားအား သတိေပးေနျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

သံဃာ့ နာယက အဖြဲ႔ကို အသံုးျပဳ၍ သံဃာဂိုဏ္းကြဲေအာင္ နအဖက ႀကံေနျပန္

2007-09-24T19:57:00.001-07:00

ဒီကေန႔ နအဖပိုင္ မီဒီယာမွ သံဃာစက္ျဖင့္မရလွ်င္ အာဏာစက္ျဖင့္ သံုးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖၚေနေသာ သိန္းဂဏန္းရွိသည့္ သံဃာမ်ားကို ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္သြားၾကသည္။

သံဃာ့နာယက အဖြဲ႔၀င္ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ားကို အသံုးျပဳၿပီး တိုင္းျပည္ကို ဆက္လက္လိမ္ညာရန္ သံဃာကိုဂိုဏ္းကြဲေအာင္ ႀကံစည္ေနျပန္ပါသည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးမ်ားမွာ စိတ္ပါခ်င္းမရွိပဲ မ်က္နွာမေကာင္းစြာ ေဆြးေႏြးေနၾကရၿပီး ၄၇ ပါးရွိေသာ သံဃာနာယက အဖြဲ႔တြင္ အပါး ၂၀ ခန္႔သာ တတ္ေရာက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။ သံဃာဂိုဏ္းကို ခြဲေသာသူသည္ ေနာင္ ဘ၀ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ သံသရာမွာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ ျပန္မျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေသာ ပဥၥာနႏၱရိယကံထဲမွ သံဃေဘဒကကံ ကိုဆိုက္ေရာက္ၾကမည္ဆိုတာကို နအဖတို႔ နားလည္ႏိုင္စြမ္းရွိႏိုင္မယ္ မထင္ပါဘူး။

ကဲ .. တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ား ခင္ဗ်ာ ... လူမိုက္ သာသနာဖ်က္ သန္းေရႊရဲ႕ အျပစ္ကို တပ္မေတာ္ႀကီး တစ္ခုလံုးရဲ႕ အျပစ္ မျဖစ္ေအာင္ ျပည္သူေတြနဲ႔ အတူ လက္တြဲကာ တိုင္းျပည္ႏွင့္ ဘာသာ အေရးကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကပါစို႔။

Posted by ကိုထိုက္ at 16:29

Monks Protest (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T04:20:00.000-07:00

Protest Uptated (Sept 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T02:28:00.000-07:00

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၃၀

မိုးကုတ္မွာသံဃာ 5000 ေက်ာ္နဲ႔ လူထု အင္အား 200000 ေက်ာ္ခန္႔ဆႏၵျပေနပါတယ္။

(ေန႔လည္ ၂း၀၀နာရီီ) လြႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္မ်ားနဲ႔ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊအပါအ၀င္ ရဟန္း၊ ေက်ာင္းသား ေသာင္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီး ရန္ကုန္တြင္ ဆႏၵျပေန။ မႏၱေလးတြင္ သံဃာအပါး (၃၀၀၀)ေက်ာ္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ဆႏၵျပ၊ လူထုေသာင္းနဲ႔ခ်ီၿပီး လိုက္ပါခ်ီတက္ေန။ မင္းသားေက်ာ္သူသတင္း မဟုတ္မွန္ေၾကာင္း ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ ၾကားသိရ။ ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားတြင္ ကိုဇာဂနာတို႔နဲ႔အတူ ဆႏၵျပၾကမယ့္ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကို ဆြမ္းကပ္ေနဟုသိရ။ ကိုဇာဂနာနဲ႔ ကိုေက်ာ္သူတို႔ ဦးစီးတဲ့ ဆြမ္းကပ္ပြဲကို ကဗ်ာဆရာ ေအာင္ေ၀း၊ စာေရးဆရာမ သန္းျမင့္ေအာင္၊ ေဇာ္သက္ေထြး၊ မသီတာ(စမ္းေခ်ာင္း)၊ ကာတြန္းေအာ္ပီက်ယ္၊ ဒီဇိုင္းစိုး၀င္းၿငိမ္းအပါအ၀င္ ကဗ်ာဆရာ၊ စာေရးဆရာ၊ ကာတြန္းဆရာ၊ အယ္ဒီတာ အင္အား(၁၀၀)ေက်ာ္၊ ကိုရဲလြင္၊ စံလင္း၊ ထြန္းအိၿႏၵာဗိုလ္၊ ျဖဴျဖဴေက်ာ္သိန္း အပါအ၀င္ ဂီတသမား (၇၀)ေက်ာ္ ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ေနၿပီး မင္းသားလြင္မိုး ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ ရုပ္ရွင္မင္းသားမင္းသမီးေတြလည္း ထပ္မံပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္လာဖို႔ ရွိတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

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ယေန့ ၂၄၊ ၉၊ ၂၀၀၇ ေန့လည္ ၂ နာရီခန္ ့က မႏၱေလး တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား စီတန္းလွည့္လည္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ၃၅ လမ္းဖက္မွ ၇၃ လမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္သြားခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေရွ့ဆုံးတန္းတြင္ သာသနအလံ ႏွင့္အတူ မဟာမုနိပုံေတာ္ကို ကိုင္ေဆာင္ထားပါတယ္။ ဒုတိယအတန္းတြင္ သပိတ္ ၄ လုံးကို ေမွာက္လွ်က္ကိုင္ေဆာင္ထားပါတယ္။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား မွာ သုံးပါးတစ္တန္းစီးတန္းလွ်က္ၾကြခ်ီၾကျပီး ၅ ျပခန့္ က်ဳံးထိပ္သို့ၾကြျပီး ၂၆ လမ္းအတိုင္း ေအာက္သို့ ဆင္းသြားပါတယ္။ မဂၤလာတံတားထိပ္တြင္ အေရွ့ဘက္မွ ဆင္းလာေသာ (၁ ျပခန့္ ရွည္ေသာ) သံဃာအုပ္စုႏွင့္ ေပါင္းသြားတယ္လို့ ေျပာပါတယ္။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို ေရဘူး၊ အခိ်ဳရည္ ဆက္ကပ္သူမ်ား လဲရိွပါတယ္။ တစ္ခ်ိဳ့မွာ လမ္းေဘးမွ တစ္ခ်ိဳ့မွာ ဆိုင္ကယ္ႏွင့္ လိုက္၍ဆက္ကပ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ေဘးမွာ ဆိုက္ကား ၂ စီးမွလဲ ေရဘူးမ်ားတင္ေဆာင္၍လိုက္ပါလာပါတယ္။ ယခု (၂း၃၀ ခန့္)တြင္ ၂၆ လမ္းအတိုင္းဆင္းသြားပါတယ္။ ၇၃ လမ္းအတိုင္း သံဃာအုပ္စု တစ္စု ၃၅ လမ္းဘက္သို့ ၾကြသြားပါတယ္။ ၁ ျပခန့္ရွည္လ်ားျပီး ေနာက္မ်ာ လူတခ်ိဳ့က ေမတၱာပို့ကို ရြတ္ဆို၍လုိက္ပါသြားၾကတာကို ေတြ့ရပါတယ္။ ဘယ္ကို ၾကြတယ္ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ မသိေသးပါ။

Photo-Monks Protest in Burma Latest Update (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T01:03:00.001-07:00

Monk Protest In Burma Latest Update (September 24, 2007)

2007-09-24T00:17:00.000-07:00

www.irrawaddy.org

Burma Protests: the Situation on September 24

Rangoon; 4 p.m.—Buddhist monks have led at least 100,000 protesters through the streets of Rangoon on Monday. The demonstration began at noon at Shwedagon Pagoda and covered at least 8 km (5 miles) in its first few hours, passing by the old campus of Rangoon University, a hotbed of protest in times past. Students, artists and members of parliament who were elected in 1990 were seen joining in Monday's march, witnesses said.

Pakokku, Magway Division; 1 p.m.—About 2,500 monks and more than 100,000 civilians marched on Monday in Pakokku Township in Magway Division in central Burma at about 1 p.m., chanting the “Metta Sutta” (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness), according to monks who were involved in the demonstration. The protest was organized by the monks living in four monasteries in Pakokku.

Kawthaung, Thai-Burma border; 2:30 p.m.—About 37 monks marched on Monday from 1: 45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in Kawthaung Township, on the border with Thailand’s Ranong province. The monks chanted the “Paritta Sutta” (a prayer for protection from evil or harm), according to a local resident. A monk at the front of the demonstration held a Buddhist flag and another monk turned his alms bowl upside-down, said a local resident.

Sittwe, Arakan State, 2 p.m.—About 20,000 monks led an estimated 100,000 civilians from all over Sittwe Township in Arakan state in a peaceful demonstration around the city at about 2:00 p.m. on Monday, according to witnesses who were involved in the protest. The monks chanted the metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness) and witnesses said that all classes of people—such as farmers, workers and students—also joined the march. The demonstrators were demanding a reduction in the price of fuel and basic commodities. “There have been no disturbances so far,” the witnesses said.

Shwebo, Sagaing Division, 1 p.m.—About 80 monks in Shwebo Township in Sagaing Division participated in a peaceful demonstration at about 1 p.m., chanting the metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness), according to an eyewitness. Members of the public offered water and food to the monks during the march.

Bamaw, Kachin State, 8 a.m.—About 270 monks in Bamaw Township in Kachin State staged a peaceful demonstration on Monday from about 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and recited the metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness), according to a monk who was involved in the protest. The monks at the front of the march held Buddhist flags and three alms bowls were turned upside-down, said the monk. Authorities closely followed the protest and security has been beefed up since Sunday, he said.

Rangoon; 2 p.m.— Several state schools in Rangoon’s downtown have been closed down. Currently, the demonstrators are heading to Sule Pagoda. The crowd has swollen to about 30,000 people, including about 20 celebrities.

Pegu; 1 p.m.—More than 400 monks took part in a peaceful demonstration in Pegu city while hundreds of others monks waited on the other side of the city to join in, residents said. About 3,000 laypeople joined the demonstration.

Monywa, Sagaing Division; 11:30 a.m. —More than 350 monks led a peaceful demonstration in Monywa Township in Sagaing Division at 11:30 a.m., according to witnesses. Monks were reciting the "Metta Sutta" (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness) as they marched around the town. Hundreds of monks were also waiting on Pyidaungsu Road in Monywa town to join the march.

Bahan, Rangoon; noon —More than 1,000 monks, accompanied by some 10,000 protesters, staged a peaceful demonstration starting from Shwedagon Pagoda, according to a witness. Several people got out of their cars to join in, the witness said. The monks and protesters marched to the headquarters of the National League for Democracy, Burma’s leading opposition party. The monks stopped at the NLD office for a few minutes and recited the “Paritta Sutta” (a prayer for protection from evil or harm). Leaving the NLD headquarters, several members of parliament who were elected in 1990, joined the march. Many well-known writers and poets also took part in the demonstration. There are rumors that a famous Burmese actor, Kyaw Thu, was arrested by the Burmese authorities near Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon.

Nattalin Township; Pegu Division; 5 a.m.—About 50 monks took part in a peaceful demonstration in Nattalin town at 5 a.m. for one hour, according to a local resident. The monks marched around the town and recited the "Metta Sutta" (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness). The local authorities are currently trying to find out who was behind the demonstration, the witness said.

Mandalay, 8 a.m.—About 10,000 monks from several monasteries in Mandalay, including Masoeyein and Mya Taung, conducted peaceful protests, according to a witnesses. Two of the leading monks in the demonstration turned their alms bowls upside-down as a symbol of the boycott against the military, and monks from each of the monasteries carried Buddhist flags. The monks marched in rows of three reciting the "Metta Sutta" (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness). Hundreds of residents participated in the monks’ demonstration, some of them wearing traditional pinni jackets. They plan to march around the city.

Rangoon; 11 a.m.—Trucks carrying soldiers are patrolling the city. Medical doctors and nurses were reportedly gathering at Shwedagon in case of a confrontation. Government offices and many private businesses were reported closed today over fears of a confrontation between the government and protestors. Monks marching in Rangoon are expected to draw a large number of civilian supporters.

Tamwe Township, Rangoon; 9 a.m.—About 400 monks began a demonstration march in Rangoon’s Tamwe Township at 9 a.m., according to a monk in Rangoon. The monks gathered in front of the Tamwe’s Yuzana Plaza in preparation to march to Shwedagon Pagoda where they were going to be offered lunch by a group of artists and writers. Other groups of monks were also planning to gather at Shwedagon. From Shwedagon, the monks plan to continue their march through the city.

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Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

(Indian Standard time)
12:15 p.m.
With monks calling for people from all walks of life to join the ongoing protests, sources in Rangoon said people are gearing up in groups of thousands to join the demonstrations.

Burmese celebrities are also ready to join the protests. The famous Burmese comedian Zarganar and actor Kyaw Thu will lead the group of film-stars while musician San Linn and Ye Lwin will lead Burmese musicians. Myint Moe Aung will organize the song-writers. Burmese celebrities will join the strike to begin at noon today.

12:30 p.m
Elected Burmese representatives to join protests

Burmese Members of Parliament elected in the 1990 general elections have pledged to join the protest today, according to sources in Burmese political circles.

Water and medicines will be distributed for protesters in front of the National League for Democracy head office in west Shwegonedine.

Mizzima sources witnessed a monk distributing photographs of Burma's father of peace Thakhin Kodawhmine to all passers by.

12:07 p.m
Monks, public gear up for protest in Rangoon

Monks along with thousands of civilians have formed groups in Rangoon and are gearing up to begin demonstrations at 1 p.m. (local time).

At least 5,000 people have gathered in Rangoon's Myanikone, San Shaung Township after another crowd of at least 5,000 gathered in front of the office of Burma's largest opposition party, the National League for Democracy, in west Shwegonedine Street.

11:47 a.m
Rumors have spread that Burmese actor Kyaw Thu, who was donating 'Swan' to protesting monks, has been arrested by the police at the eastern gate of Shwedagon pagoda.

11:19 a.m
Led by Kyaw Thu, a group of Burmese artists including famous comedian and critic Zargana, well known writer Min Lu and a few movie directors offered 'Swan' to protesting monks, eyewitnesses said.

10:33 a.m
Famous Burmese movie star, Kyaw Thu and his group distributed food packets to protesting monks at Shwedagon pagoda.

School authorities of the Bahan high school No (2) after announcing the closure of the school, sent back students at 9:30 a.m.

10:15 a.m
With monks continuing their protests, authorities in Rangoon have closed-down some of the middle and high schools in the city.

9:40 a.m
Will the junta resort to brutal crackdown?

There is overt concern on whether the junta will come down heavily on monks, who are demonstrating peacefully. The rare protest in military-ruled Burma, which has gained momentum, coincides with the United Nations' busy schedule of convening its general assembly.

The junta wanted to use teargas to disperse the protesters but due to incessant rain in Rangoon teargas shells have been rendered ineffective. In a ludicrous move the junta is looking for a huge quantity of liquid insect killer spray, to quell demonstrations. Reports suggest that the Rangoon Municipal Corporation has ordered for a huge quantity of insect killer spray.

September 24, 2007

Protests across Burma

Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

(Indian Standard time)
12:03 p.m
Fire fighters stand by in Taungyi

More police personnel have been deployed in Taungyi and fire fighters are on standby at the police station along with USDA and Swan Arr Shin members.

"We can see police and soldiers swarming all over the place," a local resident said.

10 a.m
Monks protest in Natmauk, Magwe division

About 250 monks from nine Buddhist monasteries in Natmauk town of Magwe division today hit the streets. The protest march began at 6:30 a.m. (local time).

Monks in Natmauk, the birth place of Burma's independence hero Gen. Aung San, father of detained Burmese democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, carried religious flags and marched in rows of three. More than 100 people followed the monks, who marched through the town's Thamarpin, Zeyat and Myomah wards.

During the protest, the abbot of Thamarpin monastery said, "Every one of us has to fulfill a historic duty that has been passed onto us and we cannot turn away from our responsibilities."

အထူးသတင္း စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႔

2007-09-23T04:07:00.000-07:00

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၇း၁၅

သိမ္ျဖဴမွာ ဆိုင္ခန္းေတြ ပိတ္ထားၿပီလို႔ ၾကားရ

ကမၻာေအးဖက္မွာလည္း ရဲေရာ မီးသတ္ေရာ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြပါ ေရာေရာေထြးေထြးျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္

ေဒၚစုျခံေရွ႕မွာ ဘုန္းႀကီး ၅၀၀ ကို မီးသတ္နဲ႕ ရဲ ၀ိုင္းထားတယ္ အခု ....
အဲဒါ သြားကူၾကပါဦး ....... ခင္ဗ်ာ။

ဆူးေလဘက္ကို စစ္ကားေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ထြက္သြားပါတယ္။

Monk Protest in Rangoon (September 23, 2007)

2007-09-23T03:50:00.001-07:00

Monks Protest in Burma Update (September 23, 2007)

2007-09-23T03:43:00.000-07:00

Biggest gathering in Sule pagoda Protestors call for Dialogue, Protests in Rangoon continued for the sixth-day
Monks in Bamaw, Kachin state began protest march, protest continues in Mandalay

September 23, 2007

Protests in Rangoon

Mizzima News (ww.mizzima.com)

(Indian Standard time)

4:37 p.m
Local eyewitnesses said, a number of army trucks are seen heading towards the Sule pagoda.

4:35 p.m
Police and fire fighters gears up for crackdown on the more than 500 monks, who are gathering in front of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's resident.

4:28 p.m
Situation of Rangoon Protest

More than twenty thousand monks and civilians from Sule Pagoda have marched toward Thamada cinema hall and towards Thigankyun and to Kyaikkasan pagoda, according to a Rangoon resident who follow the protests in Rangoon.

4:00 p.m
Security forces blocked protesting monks from going to detained Burmese democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's house.

More than 40 security personnel (Hlone Htein) are seen taking up positions at the Kokkaing traffic point in Bahan Township to stop about 400 monks marching from Sule pagoda towards the residence of Burmese pro-democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on University Avenue, where the Nobel Peace Laureate has been detained for 12 of the past 18 years.

An eyewitness told Mizzima about the goings on.

"We could see about 40 to 50 Hlone Htein at the Kokkaing traffic point. But we did not see them carrying weapons as such. But they might be hiding them. And there are also about four fire brigade trucks. We heard that they would use water canons to stop the marching crowds. Some monks have wound up for today but there are still about 300 to 400 monks marching. But we don't know how many people are following them. Meeting with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi might depend on the strength of the people following the monks. Yesterday, in Sule pagoda there were more than 1,00,000 monks and civilians. But today we don't know where the monks have headed. I could not get the detailed information as yet."

3:30 p.m
Over ten thousand people have gathered near the Sule pagoda in down town Rangoon, eyewitnesses said.

3:11 p.m
A group of monks are now marching from Theinphyu to Sule pagoda to join other protesters who are already there. Thousands of civilians shouting political slogans - 'our cause, our cause' - joined the protests and marched along with the monks.

2:22 p.m
At least 3,000 monks in a separate column are marching in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township and there are more than 4,000 monks near Alanpyah pagoda Street, according to eyewitnesses.

At least 200 Buddhists nuns have joined the protesters on Alanpyah Pagoda Street, eyewitnesses said.

The demonstrators are shouting slogans like 'dialogue, dialogue – our duty', 'Release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners – our duty'. The number of people following them have increased to thousands.

2:00 p.m
A Christian church goer, who witnessed the procession of more than 200 monks in Myaynikone, Sanchuang Township in Rangoon, told Mizzima.

"We just returned from church and we saw about 200 monks marching. There were a lot of people on the wayside offering water to the monks. I don't know from where they began but at about 1 p.m. (local time) they were in Bakara Street and they are heading towards the revolution monastery. There are about 800 people followeing. They are now reaching n the Myaynikone traffic point Two monks leading the procession are holding up religious flags and an upside down alms bowl. Now even Christians are being invited to join the protests, they have given invitation letters to all the churches. Most of the Christians have agreed to join. It is so saddening to see the monks and some people are crying watching the monks protest."

2:30 p.m - About 9000 monks and 100 nuns have gathered near the Sule pagoda

About 9000 monks and more than 100 nuns leading thousands of civilian followers have arrived in front of the American embassy and near the Sule pagoda. Protestors shouted slogans for the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and for national reconciliation.

"We are now in front of the American embassy. There are at least 9000 monks and more than 100 nuns. And there are tens of thousands of civilians. They are shouting slogans of 'national reconciliation – our duty', 'release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners – our duty'. The monks are in the middle and the nuns are behind them, and the civilians are circling them and now we shouting slogans," a Rangoon resident who is joining the protest told Mizzima.

1:45 p.m
Protesting monks and thousands of followers in Rangoon have arrived to Sule Pagoda in down town.

September 23, 2007

Protests across Burma

(Indian Standard time) -
2:50 p.m
300 Monks protest in Myitkyina, Kachin state

More than 300 monks in Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State in Northern Burma, today joined the nation-wide monks' boycott and marched on the streets at about 1 p.m. (local time).

"Monks from Tatkone monastery led the procession and marched through the town towards the main market. They marched along the Aung San Street. There were at least 300 monks with more than 1.000 people following. They came through the market and crossed Sasanah museum. Again they came from the town's clock tower and marched passed the park. Plainclothes officials watched silently. Though the police commander ordered blocking the roads, nobody cared to block it. They began the march at about 11 a.m. (local time). It ended at about 2 p.m. (local time). The monks are from all the monasteries in Myitkyina town and they plan to continue protests tomorrow. There is lot of interest among the people," a Myitkyina resident told Mizzima.

2:40 p.m.
Protests in Magwe and Minbu

About 250 monks in both Magwe and Minbu town of Magwe division in Upper Burma are out on the streets even as the ongoing movement gains ground.

The monks in Magwe town began their protests at about 5 a.m. (local time). About 200 Monks from Aung Myay Yadana, Pyidawthar, Phayathonesuu, Yadanarama monasteries holding religious flags in front of them in rows of three marched along the streets and chanted Suttas (Buddhist words for loving kindness), eyewitnesses said.

"The procession was followed by many civilians. including surprisingly Indians and Chinese residing in the town. There are also a lot of people following on motorcycles. Some people took off their slippers because the monks are walking without them. The monks have refused to accept any offering like bananas or even water. We can see some old men and women in tears even as they worship the protesting monks," Magwe town National League for Democracy member U Myint Oo, who saw the procession, told Mizzima.

"The monks are maintaining strict discipline and are united. We politicians should learn from the monks. The monks are showing us how they are united, disciplined, and the love and care they have for us," U Myint Oo added.

Meanwhile, in Minbu town, about 40 monks at about 5 a.m. (local time) held protests rallies. Monks from Minbu's ward No. 1 Aung Myay Shwe Kyin Myat Kara monastery, chanting Suttas, began marching, an eyewitness said.

1:30 p.m
Monks in Monywa continue protest for the fourth-day

At least 50 monks in Monywa in central Burma's Sagaing division today continued protests for the fourth day. The protest began at about 12:30 p.m. (local time) with monks from smaller monasteries in Yonegyi ward of the town.

"The monks without slippers formed a column of two in a row and marched along the streets. As usual they headed to the Suhtuangpyih and Shwezigone pagoda and prayed there. The monks chanted Suttas (Buddhist word for loving kindness). There was no interference from the authorities. A few plainclothes officials and members of Swan Arrshin were seen hanging around. They were there in street corners busy talking on phones. But we don't know who they were reporting to," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

12:00 noon
About 600 monks from the Mandalay's Ma Soe Yein Monastery today continued protests and took to the street at about 11 a.m (local time), according to local residents.

"The protesting monks just pass in front of my house. And there were at least 600 monks. They were chanting suttas and monks in the front held religious flags," a resident of Mandalay's street 84th street told Mizzima.

11:55 a.m
Monks in Bamaw, Kachin state today joined the nation-wide monks boycott against the ruling military junta. About 100 monks this morning began protest march at about 6 a.m (local time).

An eyewitness explained Mizzima of the Monks' march in Bamaw

"About 100 monks in Bamaw this morning at about 6 a.m (local time) began marching through the town. The monks are combining from all the monasteries in Bamaw. There were no disturbances from the authorities. They started at about 6 and ended at about 8 a.m (local time). And there were some people following the monks."

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www.irrawaddy.org

Burma Protests: the Situation on September 23

Rangoon, 4:00 p.m.—The crowds of demonstrators in downtown Rangoon grew to an estimated 20,000, including about 5,000 Buddhist monks and nuns, by mid-afternoon on Sunday. To the cheers and applause of bystanders, they chanted support for detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, according to eyewitnesses. The demonstrators passed the US Embassy before heading for the Sule Pagoda in the heart of the city.

Rangoon, 1:30 p.m.—About 2,000 Buddhist monks, joined for the first time by white-clad nuns, marched on Sunday afternoon from the country's landmark Shwedagon Pagoda in Rangoon towards the city center. Eyewitnesses told The Irrawaddy that the monks and nuns, together with hundreds of accompanying young people and students shouted demands for lower commodity prices, a start to meaningful political dialogue and the release of detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners.

Myitkyina, Kachin State, 1:00 p.m.—About 300 Buddhist monks on Sunday midday marched in a peaceful demonstration in Myitkyina, capital of Kachin State. An eyewitness said they paraded around the city and chanted the metta sutta (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness).

Magwe, Magwe Division, Noon—About 300 Buddhist monks on Sunday held a prayer vigil in Magwe, about 375 kilometres (230 miles) north of Rangoon. The AFP news agency reported that the vigil lasted about one hour and passed off peacefully.

Mandalay, Mandalay Division, 12:30 p.m.—About 600 monks marched peacefully from Mandalay’s Maha Myat Muni pagoda on Sunday afternoon, eyewitnesses said. Hundreds of residents turned out to support and follow the monks.

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သံဃာသပိတ္တိုက္ပဲြ၌ သီလရွင္ႏွင့္ျပည္သူလူထု ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္
NEJ / ၂၃ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၇

ယေန႔ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၌ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား (၆) ရက္ေျမာက္ေန႔အျဖစ္ ကံေဆာင္သပိတ္ ဆက္လက္ ဆင္ႏႊဲေနၿပီး သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္အတူ သီလရွင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္ျပည္သူလူထု ေသာင္းခ်ီပူးေပါင္း
ပါ၀င္ ဆႏၵျပလွ်က္ရွိသည္။

ယေန႔ ဆႏၵျုပသည့္ သံဃာေတာ္ (၅) ေထာင္ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး လူထုလူတန္းစား အလႊာအသီးသီးမွ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ကာ “အမ်ဳိးသားျပန္လည္ရင္ၾကားေစ့ေရး၊ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားျပန္လႊတ္ေရး၊ အေရးေတာ္ပံုေအာင္ရမည္” စသည့္ ေၾကြးေၾကာ္သံမ်ား ေအာ္ဟစ္ကာ ဆႏၵျပၾကသည္ဟု သံဃာေတာ္တပါးက မိန္႔ၾကားသည္။

၎က “သီလရွင္ေတြေရာ လူထုပရိတ္သတ္ေတြေရာ ပါလာလာတယ္။ ခု ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရားကေနၿပီး
ေတာ့ ဆူးေလဘုရားကို ဦးပဥၥင္းတို႔ေလွ်ာက္ေနတာ။ ဒီေန႔ဆိုရင္ ဦးပဥၥင္းတို႔ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္
(၃) ခ်က္ပါ ပါလာၿပီ” ဟု မိန္႔ၾကားသည္။

အခ်ဳိ႕သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ ကမ္းနားလမ္းမွ ဆူးေလဘုရားသို႔ ခ်ီတက္လာၾကၿပီး ေရႊတိဂံုဘုရား ဘက္မွ ခ်ီတက္လာသည့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ပူေပါင္းကာ ဆူးေလဘုရား ထိုမွတဆင့္ ဗိုလ္ တေထာင္ႏွင့္ သိမ္ျဖဴလမ္းဘက္ၾကြခ်ီသြားၾကသည္ဟု ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက “ေနလည္ (၁၂) ခြဲေလာက္ကေန စတာ မရပ္ေသးဘူး။ လူေရာဘုန္းႀကီးေရာပါတယ္။ ဒီေန႔က ေမတၱာပို႔သက္သက္မဟုတ္ေတာ့ဘူး၊ ေၾကြးေၾကာ္သံေတြပါလုပ္ၾကတာ။ လူေတြက ဒီအတိုင္း ဆက္မ်ားလာရင္ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ေခါင္မွာ သိန္းဂဏန္းနီးပါးေလာက္ ေရာက္သြားႏိုင္တယ္” ဟု ခန္႔မွန္း ေျပာဆိုသည္။

မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕၌လည္း သံဃာေတာ္အပါး (၁) ေထာင္ေက်ာ္တို႔ (၃) ရက္ေျမာက္ေန႔အျဖစ္ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္း လွည့္လည္ၾကြခ်ီကာ မဟာျမတ္မုနိဘုရားပံုေတာ္ကိုင္ေဆာင္ကာ ဆႏၵျပသည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက “ဒီေန႔ ထူးျခားတာက မႏၱေလးတုိင္း သံဃနာယက ဥကၠ႒ ဦးသာသနရဲ႕ ျမေတာင္ ေက်ာင္းက အပါး (၄၀၀) ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ၾကြတယ္။ ေန႔လယ္ ဆြမ္းဘုန္းေပးၿပီးခ်ိန္မွၾကြတာ၊ စစ္ေၾကာင္း (၃) ေၾကာင္း ခ်ီသြားတယ္။ ၿမိဳ႕ထဲ (၈၄) လမ္းကေန ၾကြၾကတယ္။ ေစ်းခ်ိဳနဲ႔ ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ ေခါင္မွာလည္း ၾကြတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယခုလ (၁၈) ကတည္းက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕အပါအ၀င္ ျပည္နယ္ႏွင့္တိုင္းအသီးသီးရွိ ၿမိဳ႕ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ငယ္မ်ား
တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၏ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ကံေဆာင္ပြဲမ်ား ေန႔စဥ္ရက္ဆက္ျဖစ္ပြားေနၿပီး မနက္ျဖန္၌ ျပည္သူလူထု အားလံုးပါ၀င္သည့္ အေထြေထြသပိတ္ဆင္ႏႊဲရန္ သံဃတပ္ေပါင္းစုက တပ္လွန္႔ ႏိႈးေဆာ္ထားသည္။ ။

Monks Protest in Burma (September 22, 2007

2007-09-22T06:21:00.000-07:00

Suu Kyi Greets Monks at Her Home; 10,000 Monks Demonstrate in Mandalay

By Kywa Zwa Moe
September 22, 2007
www.irrawaddy.org

Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, dressed in yellow, came out of her home, where she is under house arrest, to pay respect to protesting monks who marched in front of her home on Rangoon’s University Avenue on Saturday afternoon, witnesses said.

Monks and protesters in front of Suu Kyi’s house on Sept 22, 2007

The monks marched through a barricade on the street in front of Suu Kyi's home while chanting the "Metta Sutta" (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness).

Authorities in blue uniforms, wearing helmets, formed a line in front of Suu Kyi's property. They held grey protective shields in front of their bodies.

Monks, standing in the street, chanted the sutta. A line of citizens joined hands and formed a line behind the monks.

When Suu Kyi appeared at the edge of her property, shouts of "Be in good health" and "Be free very soon" filled the air over and over again, said an eyewitness. Many women had tears flowing down their cheeks. Eyewitnesses said Suu Kyi appeared pale.

Suu Kyi had a conversation with a monk, believed to be a leader, before returning to her home. What they discussed was not known. About two hundred monks and civilians were gathered in front of her house.

A witness said Suu Kyi probably came out of her home because she heard the monks chanting the "Metta Sutta" in the street.

A column of protesting monks marching so near Suu Kyi's lakeside home on Rangoon's University Avenue was seen as a powerful symbol of solidarity. Suu Kyi, a symbol of democracy, has been under house arrest for 11 of the past 17 years.

Also in Rangoon on Saturday, a source said about 1,000 monks marched peacefully from Shwedagon Pagoda to the Chinese Embassy in Dagon Township where they chanted the "Metta Sutta" (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness). The monks made no public speeches or statements at the embassy, but again, the gesture was seen as a powerful symbolic statement.

Burmese citizens see China as the military junta's strongest supporter. After a short time at the embassy, the monks continued their march through the city.

In Mandalay on Saturday, an estimated 10,000 monks threaded their way through the city in the largest anti-junta protest so far.

Mandalay, about 600 km north of Rangoon, is home to the largest number of monks in the country and has an estimated 200 monasteries.

Unlike in Rangoon, Mandalay citizens didn’t turn out in large numbers to support the monks, a resident said. He said monks told the people not to join the protest which ended peacefully around 11 p.m.

Five monks held three Buddhist religious flags and two alms bowls turned upside down (a symbol of an alms boycott), a witness in Mandalay said by telephone.

Saturday was the fifth day since the monks started their demonstrations on September 18, one day after a deadline for the military government to apologize for the authorities’ brutal crackdown on protesting monks in Pakokku in central Burma on September 5.

Outside of Rangoon and Mandalay, about 200 monks staged a peaceful demonstration in Sagaing in upper Burma on Saturday morning.

In Sittwe in Arakan State, officials and monks of the Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee, a government-organized monks’ organization, summoned about 50 abbots to a meeting without government authorities. One abbot who attended the meeting said monks of the Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee requested the abbots not to continue protest demonstrations.

One abbot told The Irrawaddy by telephone that after the abbots rejected the request, the monks from the Sangha Maha Nayaka organization urged the abbots to hold peaceful protest demonstrations. The abbot said the gathered monks formed a committee to organize protests in the coming days.

On Thursday, The Federation of All Burma Young Monks Unions called on students and civilians to join hands with monks in public demonstrations against the military regime which has ruled the country for almost 20 years.

The group said in a statement, “It is time for the Burmese people to work with monks and courageously demonstrate their genuine aspirations.”

In the demonstrations, students should lift their own "fighting peacock flag," a symbol of struggle against the military regime, the statement said.

Meanwhile, the military government has increased security forces throughout the country.

Shah Paung contributed to this story.

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Biggest Protests in two decades
Monks protest in Rangoon, Mandalay,
Yenanchaung, Taungdwingyi, Sagaing,
Aung San Suu Kyi greets
protesting monks

September 22, 2007

Protests in Rangoon

Mizzima News (ww.mizzima.com)

(Indian Standard Time)
5:54 p.m
About 100 monks in Kawhmu Township in Rangoon division took to the street at about 12 noon (local time). The monks attracted at least a thousand followers, according to eyewitnesses.

5:15 p.m
Protesting monks on Sule pagoda in downtown Rangoon came to a general agreement and a conclusion was drawn based on the love of the people that they all demanded for the national reconciliation in Burma.

5:10 p.m
A protesting monk told Mizzima that as they passed the residence of detained Burmese democracy icon Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, tears rolled down his cheeks even as the NLD leader cried.

5:00 p.m
Monks in Rangoon's Kwanchankone Township join protests

Monks in Kwanchangone Township of Rangoon division today joined the nation-wide boycott by monks.

More than 500 monks from at least 22 monasteries in Kwanchankone, with religious flags aloft marched along the streets and chanted Suttas.

"The people cheered on the monks by coming out of their houses and also worshipped them. Many people also followed them," a protesting monk told Mizzima.

"As declared by the Monks Alliance, since the authorities are not apologizing for their high handed action against monks in Pakhokku town, we are boycotting the junta and protesting against it," the monk added.

4:30 p.m
Monks protesting near Sule pagoda have divided themselves into groups of 15 and are now discussing on how to go ahead with the demonstrations. A crowd of at least 5,000 people collected as the monks arrived near the Sule pagoda. The sound of cheering reverberated in the area said an eyewitness. Following the meetings and applause, the monks called it a day and dispersed.

3:50 p.m
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi greets protesters

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, detained Burmese pro-democracy leader, greeted protesting monks and their civilian followers, from inside her residence compound for about 15 minutes as they arrived in front of her house on the University Avenue Street in Rangoon. However, as she is restricted from going out, she was unable to address them.

Protesters shouted "Long-live Daw Aung San Suu Kyi" and continued marching and are heading for Sule pagoda in downtown Rangoon.

"We saw Daw Aung San Suu Kyi come out of her house. She was wearing a yellow shirt and the crowd began shouting 'Long-Live Daw Aung San Suu Kyi' for about 15 minutes and continued marching towards Sule pagoda. Now they are in Sule pagoda, and are going up on to the pagoda. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi came out to the compound," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

3:15 p.m
Protesting monks and their civilian followers have arrived near the house of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the University Avenue Street in Rangoon.

1:52 p.m
At least 2,000 monks are marched towards Hledan along Pyi Road from Myaynikone in Rangoon.

1:40 p.m
Monks continue protests in Rangoon

More than 1000 monks in Rangoon have begun marching from Revolution Park to Myanikone and from Myaynikone to Hantharwaddy square in rows of three. The monks, chanting Suttas, were followed by at least 500 people. Eyewitnesses said the streets are blocked because of the crowd. Monks in the nearby monasteries have also joined the procession, they added.

1:52 p.m.
At least 2,000 monks are marched towards Hledan along Pyi Road from Myaynikone in Rangoon .

September 22, 2007

Protests across Burma

(Indian Standard Time)
5:35 p.m
Monks in Sagaing join nation-wide monks protest

For the first time, monks in Sagaing town, capital of Sagaing division in central Burma, joined the nation-wide monks' boycott by taking to the streets today.

At least 200 monks came down from the famous Sagaing hills and marched through the town protesting. A local resident gave an eye witness account to Mizzima.

"The monks came down from the Sagaing hills and started the march about 12:30 p.m. (local time). There were about 200 monks and they marched through the main market and in front of the township offices and to Dupayone pagoda. From there they headed for the hills through Min Road. They chanted Suttas as they marched. Many people waked behind them. Some were on motorcycles. There were no security personnel in sight. Only a few plainclothes officials were seen here and there. They went back to the hills at about 3:30 p.m. (local time). Everything went off smoothly."

5:30 p.m
Monks in Monywa continued protest for the third day

At least 300 monks in Monywa in central Burma Sagaing division today continued their protest march for the third day today.

"Today the monks continued the demonstration. They came from smaller monasteries and holding religious flags marched along the streets even as they chanted Suttas. They entered the Phayagyi from the eastern gate and prayed. And they came out from the northern gate and headed towards Shwezigone pagoda. But some of them did not enter the pagoda and continued marching on the street from the Bogyoke statue towards Tharsi road," said a local resident.

"The people worshipped the monks from the side walk and offered cold drinks and water. And from there the monks marched towards the 80 feet-wide highway and headed for their monasteries," another resident told Mizzima.

Thousands of Monks protests in Mandalay

4:00 p.m
Two men sent to jail for giving water to monks released

The two men detained for offering drinking water to monk protestors were released after five days in prison.

Min Min and Min Aung of San Pya ward were released from Sittwe prison from Arakan State in Western Burma at 4 p.m. on Friday. They were arrested on September 18 after offering water bottles to the monks who were demonstrating against the regime. The monks also launched the 'Pattanikuzana' Excommunicative boycott against the regime as a part of nationwide campaign the same day.

"They released the two at about 4 p.m. yesterday as they had promised. I heard that the monks suspended their protest march today after the release of these two people," a local told Mizzima.

The monks in Sittwe today suspended their protest march after the release of the two.

2:30 p.m
At least 200 monks in Yenanchaung, in Magwe division, took to the streets this afternoon.

The march started at noon (local time) from Shwe Kyan Gone new town to the Yadanamyaythu pagoda in the middle of Yenanchaung town. The monks in rows of two, chanted Suttas as they marched to the pagoda. They prayed for about 20 minutes at the pagoda. The monks continued marching to Myat Saw Nyinaung pagoda and dispersed after prayers.

More than 2,000 civilians worshipped the monks as they arrived in the main market and applauded and offered drinking water, eyewitnesses said.

" The Secretary of the Township Peace and Development Council, township police commander, in-charge police officials and Military Affairs Security officials all followed the procession and took pictures. But the Chairman of the TPDC was not present. These security people continued to send messages to their higher authorities. But there was no disturbances," a local resident, who followed the protest march, told Mizzima.

2:00 p.m
In a major show of strength about 10,000 monks congregated and protested today afternoon in Mandalay, the second largest city in Burma, according to news agency AP. The city is home to more than half of the 4, 00,000 monks in the country.

1:00 p.m
In a bid to avoid further unrest created by young monks, the authorities have pressurised abbots of some monasteries in Insein Township in Rangoon to send back young novices to their respective home towns.

However, unconfirmed reports suggest that the novices, instead of going back to their home towns have joined other monks in Rangoon and continue to take part in the demonstrations.

The information, however, could not be independently confirmed.

12:20 p.m
Situation of Mandalay Monks protest, Interview with an eyewitness to the procession

"Today, monks from both Ma Soe Yein old and new monasteries came out on the streets. They began the protest march at about 9 a.m. (local time). The processions started from 38th street and headed for the north to the 82nd street. The monks walked in rows of five and chanted Suttas, promoting loving kindness. The monks then went westwards from the 26th (B) Street and marched past the Zegyo market to Ein Daw Yar west. From there they went to the 90th street and turned north. They then went towards the east to 35th (A) street and again to the north towards the Ma Soe Yein monastery.

"I think there are at least 3,000 monks. The procession occupied at least three blocks of the streets. There were a lot of bystanders and onlookers cheering the monks. The streets were crowded with monks as well as people. Many civilians followed the procession. At the Ein Daw Yar and on the 35th street people offered the monks drinking water.

"The march began at about 9 a.m. and ended at about 12:30 p.m. (local time). The monks marched at least 10 miles. There was no interference by the authorities. But the monks prohibited civilians from taking photographs. The held the religious flags in front."

11:30 a.m
Thousands of monks in Burma's second largest city of Mandalay came out on the streets in protest today. Monks holding religious flags began the protest at about 9 a.m. (local time). The procession ended at about 12:30 p.m.

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ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို ေဒၚစု မ်က္ရည္ျဖင့္ ဖူးေမ်ွာ္

သံဃာေတာ္ ၃ဝဝဝ မႏၱေလးမွာ ဆႏၵထပ္ျပျပန္ၿပီ

ရန္ကုန္ မႏၱေလး မုံရြာ ေရနံေခ်ာင္း စစ္ကုိင္း ေကာ့မႉးႏွင့္ ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးတုိ႔တြင္ ဆႏၵထပ္ျပျပန္ၿပီ

မဇၩိမ သတင္းဌာနမွ အခ်ိန္ႏွင့္ တေျပးညီ ထုတ္လႊင့္ေပးေနသည္။
စက္တင္ဘာလ ၂၂ ရက္၊ ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္။

ရန္ကုန္ဆႏၵျပ သတင္းမ်ား

6:15 PM
ဆူးေလဘုရားတြင္ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား အားလံုးက ေမတၱာတရား ေရွ့ထား၍ အမ်ဳိးသား ျပန္လည္ သင့္ျမတ္ေရး လုပ္ၾကေရးသည္ သူတို႔ အားလံုး၏ ဆႏၵ ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ ရခဲ့ၾကသည္။

5:50 PM
ဆူးေလ ဘုရားေပၚတြင္ သံဃာေတာ္ ၁၅ ပါးစီ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားဖြဲ႔ကာ မည္သို႔ ဆက္လုပ္သြားသင့္သည္ကို ဆက္လက္ ေဆြးေႏြး ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ဘုရား အေရာက္တြင္ လူအင္အား ၅ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ ရွိခဲ့ၿပီး “လက္ခုတ္သံေတြက ဟိန္းေနတာပဲ” ဟု မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက ေျပာသည္။ ထို႔ေနာက္ လူစုခြဲလိုက္ကာ ယေန႔ ဆႏၵျပပြဲ အဆံုးသတ္လိုက္သည္။

5:20 PM
ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေတြ႔ျမင္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အိမ္ေရွ့ အေရာက္တြင္ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္ေပါင္း ၂ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ ရွိခဲ့ၿပီး ေဒၚစုကလည္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို ရွိခိုးဖူးေမွ်ာ္ခဲ့သည္။

ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ လူစုႀကီးကို ေနအိမ္ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ က်ခံေနရေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္က ၁၅ မိနစ္ခန္႔ ေနအိမ္ဝင္း အတြင္းမွ ထြက္ၾကည့္ခဲ့သည္။

ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားက “ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ က်န္းမာပါေစ။” ဟု ဆုေတာင္း ေအာ္ဟစ္ ခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ဆက္လက္ ခ်ီတက္ခဲ့ၾကရာ ယခု ဆူးေလဘုရားသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနၿပီဟု သိရသည္။

“ေဒၚေအာင္္ဆန္း စုႀကည္ ထြက္လာတယ္။ အက်ႌအဝါေလးနဲဲ႔ အဲဒီမွာ ၁၅ မိနစ္ေလာက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုႀကည္ကုိ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုႀကည္ က်န္းမာပါေစ ဆုိျပီးေတာ့ ေအာ္ျပီးေတာ့ ဆက္ျပီး ေလ်ာက္လာတာ အခု ဆူးေလဘုရားကုိ ေရာက္ျပီး ဘုရားေပၚ တက္သြားႀကျပီ။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုႀကည္ ျခံဝင္းဘက္ကေနပဲ ထြက္လာတာေပါ့။” ဟု မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက မဇၩိမ သို႔ ေျပာျပသည္။

“၁၂ နာရီ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ေလာက္မွာ လွည္းတန္းကေန တကၠသိုလ္ ရိပ္သာလမ္း ေဒၚစု အိမ္ေရွ႔ကို ျဖတ္တယ္။ ေဒၚစုက ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို ထြက္ဖူးေမွ်ာ္ခဲ့တယ္။ အထဲကေနေပါ့။ သံဃာထုကေတာ့ ၂ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ ရွိတယ္။ လံုျခံဳေရးကေတာ့ ပံုမွန္ အရင္အတိုင္းပဲ၊ အားလံုး ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးပါပဲ။ လမ္းေတြလည္း ရွင္းထားတာ ထင္တယ္၊ ရွင္းေနတာပဲ။ ကမၻာေအး ဘုရားလမ္းအတိုင္း ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ ေလွ်ာက္လာတာ အခုဆူးေလမွာ ေရာက္ေနၿပီ။ လူထုေတြကေတာ့ အမ်ားႀကီးပဲ။ က်ေနာ္တို႔က ေနာက္မွ ေရာက္တာဆိုေတာ့ အေရအတြက္ေတာ့ သိပ္မွန္းမရဘူး” ဟု လိုက္ပါ အားေပးေနသူ တဦးက မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္သည္ မ်က္ရည္က်ခဲ့ၿပီး သူလည္း မ်က္ရည္ က်ခဲ့ရေၾကာင္း သံဃာေတာ္ တပါးက ျပန္လည္ ေျပာျပသည္။

4:05 PM
ရန္ကုန္ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ လိုက္လံ အားေပးေနေသာ လူစုႀကီးသည္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္ တည္ရွိရာ တကၠသိုလ္ ရိပ္သာ လမ္းမႀကီးေပၚသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိေနၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။

3:55 PM
ရန္ကုန္ ဆႏၵျပသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ လိုက္လံအားေပးေနေသာ လူထုႀကီး လွည္းတန္းမွာ ေရာက္ရွိေနသည္။

ရန္ကုန္ဆႏၵျပပြဲ

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ မြန္းလြဲ ၂း၁၀ မိနစ္ ေျမနီကုန္းတြင္ ဘုန္းႀကီးမ်ား လွည္းတန္းသို႔ ခ်ီတက္လ်က္ ရွိသည္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးအပါး ၁၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး ပန္းၿခံဘက္မွ ေျမနီကုန္း၊ ေျမနီကုန္းဘက္မွ ဟံသာ၀တီ အဝိုင္းဘက္သို႔ သံုးပါးတတြဲ ေမတၱာသုတ္မ်ား ရြတ္ဆို ခ်ီတက္သြားပါသည္။ ေဘးဘက္မွ လုိက္ပါလာသည့္သူ ငါးရာေလာက္ ရွိၿပီး ေျမနီကုန္းတြင္ လမ္းမ်ား ပိတ္ဆို႔ကုန္ပါသည္။ လမ္းနေဘး ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ လမ္းအနီးတြင္ ရွိေနသည့္ ဘုန္းႀကီးမ်ားမွလည္း ဝင္ေရာက္ပါဝင္ ပူးေပါင္းလ်က္ ရွိသည္။

ႏုိင္ငံတဝွမ္း ဆႏၵျပ သတင္းမ်ား

7:00 PM
ေကာ့မႉးတြင္ ဆႏၵျပ

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ေကာ့မႉးၿမိ့ဳနယ္တြင္လည္း ယေန႔ ေန႔လည္ ၁၂ နာရီခန္႔က သံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၁ဝဝ ခန္႔က ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကရာ လူ ၁ဝဝဝ ခန္႔ လိုက္ပါခဲ့ၾကသည္။

6:50 PM
စစ္ကိုင္းမွာ ပထမအႀကိမ္ သံဃာထု ဆႏၵျပပဲြ ျပဳလုပ္

စစ္ကိုင္းတုိင္း ၿမ့ဳိေတာ္ စစ္ကိုင္းတြင္ ယေန႔ ၁၂ နာရီခဲြခန္႔မွ စတင္ကာ သံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၂ဝဝ ခန္႔သည္ ကံေဆာင္ သပိတ္ေမွာက္သည့္ အေနျဖင့္ ၿမ့ဳိတြင္း၌ လွည့္လည္ကာ ပရိတ္ ရြတ္ဖတ္ခဲ့သည္။

ၿမ့ဳိခံ တဦးက “စစ္ကိုင္းက ဒီေန႔ ထြက္တယ္ေလ။ ေန႔ခင္းပိုင္းေလာက္က သံဃာ ၂ဝဝ ဝန္းက်င္ေလာက္ ရွိတယ္။ စစ္ကိုင္း ေတာင္ေပၚကေန ဆင္းလာၿပီးေတာ့၊ ေစ်းကို ပတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ၿမ့ဳိနယ္ရံုး ဘက္ကိုသြား၊ အဲဒီကေနမွ တခါ ဒူပါ႐ံု ဘုရားကေန မင္းလမ္းေတာင္ေပၚကို ျပန္ႂကြသြားၾကတာ။ ပရိတ္ေတြ ဘာေတြ ရြတ္ၾကတာေပါ့။ အားေပးတဲ့ လူထုကေတာ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ သူတို႔ကေတာ့ ဆိုင္ကယ္ေတြနဲ႔၊ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လည္း လိုက္အားေပးၾကတာေပါ့။ အာဏာပိုင္ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကလည္း ဘာမွ လုပ္တာေတာ့ မရွိပါဘူး။ ေအးေအးေဆးေဆးနဲ႔ ၿပီးသြားတာပါပဲ။ ဟိုက ထြက္လာတာေတာ့ ၁၂ နာရီခြဲေလာက္က ျဖစ္မယ္။ ဒီေရာက္တာနဲ႔ ျပန္တာနဲ႔ဆိုေတာ့ ၃ နာရီခြဲေလာက္ ရွိမယ္။ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက အရပ္ဝတ္ေတြနဲ႔ေတာ့ ရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ဘာမွ ဟိုလို လုပ္တာမ်ိဳးေတာ့ မရွိပါဘူး” ဟု မဇၩိမကို ေျပာသည္။

6:20 PM
မံုရြာသံဃာေတာ္မ်ား တတိယေန႔ေျမာက္ ဆႏၵျပ

မံုရြာသံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၃ဝဝ ခန္႔သည္ ယေန႔ မြန္းတည့္ခ်ိန္တြင္ ၿမ့ဳိတြင္းသို႔ လွည့္လည္ကာ ပရိတ္ဖတ္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။

“ဒီေန႔ မံုရြာမွာ ထပ္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပတယ္။ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္း တိုက္ငယ္ေလးေတြက စုၿပီးေတာ့ ျပတာပါ။ သာသနာ့ အလံကို ကိုင္ၿပီးေတာ့ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္တယ္။ ဘုရားႀကီး အေရွ့မုဥ္ကေန ဝင္ၿပီးေတာ့ ဘုရားကို ဝတ္ျပဳၾကတယ္။ ေျမာက္ဘက္မုဥ္ကေန ေရႊစည္းခံု ဘုရားဘက္ ရွိရာကို ႂကြခ်ီ္တယ္။ တခ်ဳိ့ ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကေတာ့ ဘုရားကို မဝင္ဘဲ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေၾကး႐ုပ္ လမ္းမႀကီးအတိုင္း သာစည္ လမ္းဘက္ကို ပရိတ္ရြတ္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားခဲ့တယ္” ဟု ၿမိဳ့ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ေနာက္တဦးကေတာ့ “လူထုေတြကေတာ့ လမ္းေဘးကေန ဖူးေမွ်ာ္ၾကတာေပါ့ေနာ္၊ ကန္ေတာ့ၾကတယ္။ အေအးေတြ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ရည္ေတြ၊ ေသာက္ေရေတြ ကပ္လႉၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီကတဆင့္ ေပ ၈ဝ လမ္းဘက္ကို ေလွ်ာက္ၿပီးေတာ့ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ေတြဆီကို ျပန္ႂကြသြားတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယေန႔ မံုရြာၿမ့ဳိတြင္း၌ လံုျခံဳေရး အေျခအေနသည္ တည္ၿငိမ္ ေအးေဆးလ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

6:15 PM
ကြမ္းၿခံကုန္းမွာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ကံေဆာင္ ဆႏၵျပ

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ကြမ္းျခံကုန္းၿမိ့ဳရွိ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းစံုမွ သံဃာေတာ္ ၅ဝဝ ခန္႔က ယေန႔ ေန႔ခင္းတြင္ လမ္းေလ်ာက္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေက်ာင္းေပါင္း ၂၂ေက်ာင္းမွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ သာသနာ့ အလံ ၆ ခု ေရွ့တြင္ ကိုင္ေဆာင္ၿပီး ပရိတ္ရြတ္ဆိုကာ ၿမိဳ့တြင္း လွည့္လည္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။

“ျပည္သူလူထုကလည္း အားေပးၾကပါတယ္ ေဘးကေနျပီးေတာ့။ သူတုိ႔ အိမ္ေတြ အိမ္ေရွ႔ေတြမွာ ထြက္ျပီးေတာ့ ရွစ္ခိုးၾကတာေပါ့။ အဲဒီမွာ တကာေတြက ေနာက္ကေန လိုက္ပါလာၾကပါတယ္။ လူေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား လိုက္ပါ လာၾကပါတယ္။” ဟု ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္တပါးက မဇၩိမ သို့ ေျပာျပသည္။

“သံဃာ့ တပ္ေပါင္းစုကေနျပီးေတာ့ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ ထုတ္ထားတာ၊ ပခုကၠဳ သံဃာေတြ ဓါတ္တိုင္မွာ ရိုက္ျပီးေတာ့ ဓါတ္တုိင္မွာ ခ်ည္ျပီးေတာ့ ရိုက္တဲ့ ကိစၥနဲ့ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အစိုးရက မေတာင္းပန္တဲ့ အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ဦးပဥၥင္းတုိ႔လည္း ကံေဆာင္တယ္ေလ။” ဟု ဦးပဥၨင္းက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။

သံဃာမ်ားကို ဂါရဝျပဳ အားေပးသူ လူထု အင္အား ၅ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္ ရွိသည္ဟု ေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

4:30 PM
ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးတြင္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား စစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ကံေဆာင္ ဆႏၵျပ

ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးၿမိဳ့တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္ ၇ဝ ခန့္ႏွင့္ လူအင္အား ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာသည္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ လမ္းေလ်ာက္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေန့လည္ ၁ နာရီခြဲခန့္တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ သံုးပါးတတန္း စီတန္းကာ ေရႊအင္းေတာင္ ဘုရားသို့ ေရာက္ရွိ ကမၼဝါဖတ္ၿပီး၊ ဘုရား ၃ ပတ္ပတ္ကာ အေနာက္ဘက္ မုဥ္ဦးမွသည္ ၿမိဳ့ထဲသို့ ေမတၱာသုတ္ရြတ္ ခ်ီတက္ ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းမွအထြက္ ပုလဲလမ္းတြင္ ျပည္သူလူထု လက္ခုတ္တီး လိုက္ပါလာခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ထို့ေနာက္ ရတနာ ေပါင္းခ်ဳပ္လမ္းမွ မေကြးလမ္း၊ ျပည္လမ္း၊ ေရႊေမာ္ေတာ ဘုရားလမ္း၊ ေနရွင္နယ္ ေက်ာင္းလမ္းမွသည္ ေရႊအင္းေတာင္သို့ ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

“ေဘးကတစ္ခ်ိဳ့ကလဲ ဓါတ္ပံုေတြ ရုိက္ႀကတယ္။ လက္ခုတ္ေတြတီး၊ အေမအုိေတြေရာ၊ ကေလးေတြေရာ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြေရာ တျမိဳ့လံုးနီးပါး ျဖစ္သြားတယ္။ ျမိဳ့တစ္ျမိဳ့လံုး နီးပါး ပတ္ျဖစ္သြားတယ္ ဆုိေတာ့ ပရိသတ္ေတြက ေသာင္းဂဏန္း ရွိသြားတယ္။” ဟု မ်က္ျမင္သက္ေသ တဦးက မဇၩိမ သို့ ေျပာျပသည္။

၁ နာရီ ခြဲခန့္ၾကာ ဆႏၵျပမႈသည္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ စစ္အစိုးရ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားႏွင့္ မိသားစုမ်ားကို မပတ္သက္ေရး သပိတ္ေမွာက္ ကံေဆာင္ျခင္းကိုလည္း ျပသခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္ တပါးက ေျပာသည္။

3:45 PM
ေရနံေခ်ာင္းလည္း ဆႏၵျပျပန္ၿပီ

ေရနံေခ်ာင္းၿမိ့ဳနယ္တြင္ သံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၂ဝဝ ခန့္က ယေန့ ေန့လည္တြင္ ေမတၱာသုတ္မ်ား ရြတ္ဆိုကာ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေန့လည္ ၁၂ နာရီခြဲခါနီးမွစ၍ သံဃာေတာ္ ၂ ပါးတတြဲ စီတန္းကာ ေရႊႀကံဂံု ရြာသစ္လမ္းမွသည္ ျမိဳ့လယ္ရွိ ရတနာေျမသူ ဘုရားသို့ ခ်ီတက္ျပီး မိနစ္ ၂ဝ ခန့္ ဝတ္ျပဳ ဆုေတာင္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ထို့ေနာက္ ေစ်းအေရွ့ဘက္ လမ္းမွသည္ ျမတ္ေစာညီေနာင္ ဘုရားသို့ ဆက္လက္ ခ်ီတက္ခဲ့ၾကကာ ေမတၱာသုတ္ ရြတ္ဆို ဘုရားဝတ္ျပဳၿပီး လူစုခြဲလိုက္ၾကသည္။

ေစ်းနားသို့ ေရာက္ေသာအခါ လူထုအင္အား ၂ ေထာင္ေက်ာ္က ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားကို ဝတ္ျပဳရွိခိုး၊ လက္ခုတ္တီး အားေပးကာ ေရသန့္ဗူးမ်ား ကပ္လႈျခင္း ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။

“လံုျခံဳေရး အေျခအေနကေတာ့ အခု မရက ဥကၠဌေတာ့ မပါဘူး။ အတြင္းေရးမႉးေတာ့ ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္စခန္းမႉးပါတယ္။ နယ္ထိန္းအားလံုး ပါတယ္။ စရဖ ပါတယ္။ သူတုိ႔ ဆိုင္ကယ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေဘးကေန လိုက္ျပီးေတာ့ ၾကည့္တာရွိတယ္။ ဓါတ္ပံုရိုက္တာ ရွိတယ္။ ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္ သတင္းပုိ႔ေနတာေပါ့ေနာ္။ က်န္တဲ့ ေႏွာက္ယွက္မႈကေတာ့ မျပဳဘူး။” ဟု ဆႏၵျပမႈကို ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခဲ့သူ ေဒသခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

3:15 PM
ရန္ကုန္က လာေသာ ေအပီသတင္း တရပ္အရ တႏိုင္ငံလံုး၏ သံဃာထက္ဝက္ေက်ာ္ ေနထိုင္ရာ မႏၱေလးတြင္ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား တေသာင္းခန္႔ ရွိေနၿပီဟု သိရသည္။

3:10 PM
ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီး ဆႏၵျပမႈ

ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးတြင္ သံဃာေတာ္အပါး ၁ဝဝ ခန္႔ စစ္အစိုးရကို ဆန္႔က်င္ ဆႏၵျပလ်က္ ရွိသည္။

သံဃာေတာ္ ၃ဝဝဝ မႏၱေလးမွာ ဆႏၵထပ္ျပျပန္ၿပီ

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁ နာရီ၊ မိနစ္ ၂ဝ (သတင္းေပးပို႔ခ်က္)

သံဃာေတာ္ အင္အားက ၃ဝဝဝ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ရွိတယ္။ လမ္းမွာေတာ့ ဘာမွ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ မရွိပါဘူး။ သံဃာေတာ္ ေတြ ကိုယ္၌ကိုက ဖုန္းနဲ႔ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ကင္မရာနဲ႔ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္တာ ခြင့္မျပဳဘူး။

မႏၱေလးၿမ့ဳိရွိ မစိုးရိမ္ ေက်ာင္းတုိက္ တိုက္ေဟာင္းႏွင့္ တုိက္သစ္မွ သံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၃ဝဝဝ ခန္႔သည္ ယေန႔ နံနက္ ၉ နာရီခန္႔မွ စတင္ကာ မႏၱေလး ၿမ့ဳိတြင္းသို႔ ေျခက်င္ လွည့္လည္ကာ ပရိတ္ ရြတ္ဖတ္ျခင္းကို ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည္။

အေျခအေန အေသးစိတ္ကို မႏၱေလး ေဒသခံတဦး ေျပာျပခ်က္အတိုင္း တင္ျပလိုက္ပါ သည္။

“ဒီကေန႔ မစိုးရိမ္ တိုက္သစ္၊ တိုက္ေဟာင္းက ထြက္တယ္။ ၃၈ လမ္းအတိုင္း အထက္ကိုတက္တယ္။ ေနာက္ၿပီး ၈၂ လမ္းအတိုင္း ေျမာက္ဘက္ကို ခ်ီတက္တယ္။ သံဃာ ၅ ပါး တတြဲေပါ့၊ တန္းစီၿပီးေတာ့ ေမတၱာသုတ္ ရြတ္တယ္။ အဲဒီကေနမွ ၂၆ ဘီလမ္းအတိုင္း ေစ်းခ်ဳိ နာရီစင္ကို ျဖတ္တယ္။ ေစ်းခ်ဳိ နာရီစင္ကေန အိမ္ေတာ္ရာ အေနာက္ဘက္ လမ္း ၉ဝ ေလာက္က်ေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေတာင္ဘက္ကို ျပန္ခ်ဳိးတယ္။ အဲဒီကေန ၿပီးေတာ့မွ ၃၅ ေအလမ္းအတိုင္း ျပန္ခ်ဳိးသြားတယ္။ အဲဒီ ၃၅ လမ္းကေန အေရွ့ဘက္ကို တည့္တည့္ ျပန္ႂကြလာၿပီးေတာ့မွ မစိုးရိမ္ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ရွိတဲ့ ေတာင္ဘက္ကို ျပန္ႂကြသြားတယ္။ ၅ ပါးတတြဲစီနဲ႔ ေလွ်ာက္တယ္။

သံဃာေတာ္ အင္အားက ၃ဝဝဝ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ရွိတယ္။ လမ္းမွာေတာ့ ဘာမွ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ မရွိပါဘူး။ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ ကိုယ္၌ကိုက ဖုန္းနဲ႔ျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ကင္မရာနဲ႔ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္တာ ခြင့္မျပဳဘူး။

လူထု ပရိသတ္ကေတာ့ လမ္းေတြ ပိတ္ဆို႔သြားမွာ စိုးလို႔ လမ္းေဘးကေန ရပ္ၾကည့္ၾကပါတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ျပည္သူေတြက သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ ေနာက္ကေန ေျခက်င္နဲ႔ ရတနာ စက္ဘီးဆိုင္ထိ လိုက္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္။ ပရိသတ္ကေတာ့ လမ္းအျပည့္ပါပဲ။ အထူးသျဖင့္ လူစည္ကားတဲ့ေနရာ ေစ်းခ်ဳိတို႔လို ေနရာမ်ဳိးကို ျဖတ္တဲ့အခါက်ေတာ့ အကုန္ ၾကပ္ညႇပ္သြားတာေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ေရကမ္းတာေတာ့ အေစာပိုင္းမွာ မရွိေပမယ့္ အိမ္ေတာ္ရာတို႔၊ ၃၅ လမ္းဘက္တို႔ကို ေရာက္လာတဲ့ အခါက်ေတာ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြက ေလွ်ာက္လာတာလည္း ၾကာၿပီဆိုေတာ့ ေရသန္႔ဗူးေတြ ကမ္းၿပီးေတာ့ ေရတိုက္ၾကတယ္။

၉ နာရီေနာက္ပိုင္းေလာက္မွာ စတယ္၊ ၁၂ နာရီခြဲေလာက္မွာ ၿပီးသြားတယ္။ ၃ နာရီေလာက္ ေလွ်ာက္တာေပါ့။ မိုင္အားျဖင့္ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ ၁ဝ မိုင္ေလာက္ ရွိမယ္။ ဘာမွ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ေတြ မရွိဘူး။ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြက ေမတၱာသုတ္ေတြ ရြတ္ဖတ္ၿပီးေတာ့ ပံုမွန္ပဲ တန္းစီၿပီး ေလွ်ာက္တယ္။ အေရွ့ဆံုးမွာ သာသနာ့ အလံ ကိုင္ေဆာင္ၿပီး ခ်ီတက္တယ္။

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မႏၱေလးမွသံဃာေတာ္မ်ား သပိတ္တိုက္ပြဲ ဆက္လက္ပူးေပါင္း
NEJ/ ၂၂ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၇

ယေန႔နံနက္ (၉) နာရီခန္႔က မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕၌ မစိုးရိမ္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္သစ္ႏွင့္ တိုက္ေဟာင္း ႏွစ္ခုတည္းမွ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားစုေပါင္းကာ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ကံေဆာင္သည့္အေနျဖင့္ ေမတၱာ သုတ္မ်ား ရြတ္ဆိုကာ ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းစီတန္းလွည့္လွည္ၾကသည္။

သံဃာေတာ္အပါး (၁,၇၀၀) ေက်ာ္တို႔က (၅) ပါးတတြဲစီ ၃၈/၈၄ လမ္းမွ နာရီစင္ ၂၆/၈၄ လမ္း၊ ထုိမွ တဆင့္ အိမ္ေတာ္ရာ လမ္း (၉၀) သို႔ (၂၆) လမ္း အတုိင္း တန္းစီလွည့္လည္ၿပီး ကမ္းနားလမ္းဘက္
သို႔ ႂကြခ်ီသြားၾကသည္ဟု မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးက ေျပာသည္။

၎က “ေရွ႕ဆုံးက ႂကြခ်ီတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ (၅) ပါးက သာသနာ့အလံ သုံးခုနဲ႔ သပိတ္တလုံးကို ေမွာက္ၿပီး ကိုင္ေဆာင္လာတယ္။ လူေတြရဲ႕အားေပးမႈကေတာ့ အေတာ္ေလးကို လမ္းပိတ္ဆို႔ ေလာက္ေအာင္ မ်ားသြားတယ္။ ပရိသတ္က မွန္းလို႔ကိုမရဘူး။ ေတာ္ေတာ္ႀကီးကိုမ်ားတယ္။ ေရသန္႔ဘူးေတြေပးၾကတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

အျခားၿမိဳ႕ခံတဦးကလည္း “လာမယ္ၾကားေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဆီးႀကိဳၿပီးသြားၾကည့္ၾကတာ။ က်ေနာ္ ဖူးလိုက္ရတာေတာ့ (၅) ပါး တတန္းစီ ႂကြတယ္။ အပါးေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားတယ္။ မွန္းေတာ့မမွန္း
တတ္ဘူး။ ေထာင္နဲ႔ခ်ီလိမ့္မယ္။ သာသနာ့အလံေတြ ေထာင္ၿပီးသြားတယ္။ နံေဘးမွာ ႀကီးၾကပ္ တဲ့ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြလည္းပါတယ္။ ေဘးကလူေတြက ၾကည္ညိဳၿပီး လက္အုပ္ခ်ီၾကတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ ခံစားရတာေတာ့ ၀မ္းသာၿပီးမ်က္ရည္ေတာင္လည္ပါတယ္ခင္ဗ်” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

သပိတ္ေမွာက္သည့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို လမ္းေဘး၀ဲယာ တေလ်ာက္မွျပည္သူလူထု ေထာင္ေသာင္း ခ်ီ၍ ေနအိမ္မ်ားမွထြက္ကာ ၾကည္ညိဳကန္ေတာ့ၾကၿပီး ေစ်းခ်ိဳအေရာက္တြင္ ေစ်းသူေစ်းသားမ်ား အားလုံးထြက္ၿပီး လက္ခုပ္တီးအားေပးၾကေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕၌ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔ကလည္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းလွည့္္လွည္သပိတ္ေမွာက္ကံ ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကၿပီး ယေန႔ ဒုတိယေျမာက္အေန႔အျဖစ္ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ၾကျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားသည္ လူစုမခြဲေသးဘဲ ေန႔လည္ပိုင္းတြင္လည္း မဟာျမတ္မုနိဘုရားႀကီးသို႔ ဆက္လက္ႂကြခ်ီသြားၾကေၾကာင္း၊ သံဃာေတာ္အပါး (၁) ေသာင္းခန္႔ရိွေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕ခံမ်ားက ခန္႔မွန္းေျပာဆိုသည္။

ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ားကို အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက တစံုတရာ ဟန္႔တားေႏွာင့္ယွက္ျခင္းမရွိေသာ္လည္း ညဘက္၌ ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းမ်ားသို႔လာေရာက္ကာ ဆႏၵျပသည့္ ကိုယ္ေတာ္မ်ားကို ဖမ္းဆီးသည့္သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚေနသည္။ ။

တိုက္ပြဲေခၚသံ

2007-09-21T23:13:00.000-07:00

တျပည္လံုး အေထြေထြသပိတ္ႀကီး စတင္ရမည့္အခ်ိန္

၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္
စက္တင္ဘာလ
(၂၄) ရက္၊ တနလၤာေန႕
ေန႕လည္ ၁ နာရီတိတိ
ကိုယ့္အခြင့္အေရးကို ကိုယ္ကုိယ္တိုင္စည္းကမ္းရွိစြာ
စနစ္တက် အၾကမ္းမဖက္သည့္ နည္းလမ္းျဖင့္ေတာင္းဆိုၾကပါရန္

ရဟန္းရွင္လူ ေက်ာင္းသားျပည္သူ တပ္မေတာ္သားအားလံုးပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ၾကရန္

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သံဃာ့တပ္ေပါင္းစုမွ လူထုတပ္ေပါင္းစု ဖြဲ႕စည္းရန္ တုိက္တြန္းလိုက္ၿပီး တပ္ေပါင္းစု ဖြဲ႕စည္းမည့္ ၂၃ ရက္မွ ၂၅ ရက္ေန႕အတြင္း အိမ္တိုင္း ေက်ာင္းတိုင္း ရံုးတိုင္း မွ ေအာက္ပါေမတၱာပို႕ကို ရြတ္ဆိုရန္ ႏိႈးေဆာ္ ထားပါသည္။

ေမတၱာဓါတ္နည္းပါးေနေသာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္းရွိ ၿမိဳ႕တိုင္း ရြာတိုင္းရွိ အိမ္မ်ား၊ ေက်ာင္းမ်ား၊ ရံုးမ်ား၏ ၀င္ေပါက္မ်ားတြင္ ည ၈ နာရီမွ စတင္၍ ၁၅ မိနစ္ၾကာ ရြတ္ဆိုၾကရန္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

လူအခ်င္းခ်င္းႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္း
ကင္းရွင္းၾကပါေစ။
တို႕ေမတၱာစြမ္း ကမၻာလႊမ္း
ေအးခ်မ္းၾကပါေစ။

ဓမၼသည္သာ ေအာင္ပြဲခံရမည္မွာ ေလာကနိယာမ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။

Monk Protest in Burma (September 21, 2007)

2007-09-21T22:43:00.001-07:00

Monks Protest IN Burma Update

2007-09-20T23:08:00.000-07:00

Burma Protests: the Situation on September 21

www.irrawaddy.org

Amarapura, Mandalay Division; around noon—Over 700 monks from Maha Gandayone Monastery marched through the street in rows of three in Amarapura Township. A witness said that a leading monk held a religious flag while another monk held an alms bowl turned upside-down at the forefront of the demonstration. About two dozen police officers and members of the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Association followed the protesting monks on motorbikes, the witness said. He added that residents turned out to support the monks.

Shwebo Township, Sagaing Division; about 12:30 p.m—More than 70 monks in Shwebo Township in Sagaing Division marched around the Shwebo market chanting the “Metta Sutta” (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness) on Friday from about 12:30 p.m. to 1 p.m., according to a witness. About 1,000 people cheered the monks along the way. Authorities also followed the monks. The march ended peacefully.

Rangoon; 3 p.m.—Several thousand monks marched from Bogyoke Aung San Street to Sule Pagoda at around 3 p.m., according to a witness. Walking in rows of four, the monks were guarded by about 1,000 youths and students. The monks at the front of the march carried three Buddhist flags and the monks on the final row carried three flags too. The monks also made public speeches.

Rangoon; morning—About 300 monks in Rangoon marched in a demonstration on Friday morning to Mei Lamu Pagoda in Rangoon’s North Okkalapa Township. The monks chanted at the pagoda for 15 minutes. In intense rain, another 200 monks marched from Yankin Township on the outskirts of Rangoon to the Shwedagon Pagoda and joined 50 monks already gathered there, according to the AP news agency.

Pegu, Pegu Division; about 1 p.m.—About 100 monks in Pegu about 80 km north of Rangoon marched in a peaceful demonstration in the rain from about 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., on Friday, according to a local witness. The monks marched from their monasteries to Shwemawdaw, a famous pagoda in Pegu town while chanting the “Metta Sutta” (the Buddha’s words on loving kindness). A source also said monks in three cars tried to travel to Rangoon but were stopped by authorities at Htaukkyant Gate on the outskirts of Rangoon.

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September 21, 2007
Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

Indian Standard Time: 5:15 p.m
Interview of an eyewitness to today's procession by monks from Tharmwe Township to Rangoon's city hall and back.

"After arriving in front of the City Hall the monks stayed there for about 10 minutes and chanted Suttas. They then again headed along the Maha Bandula Street to Bothathaung pagoda chanting Suttas all the way. From Bothathaung they headed for Tharketha and Mingalar Market. Finally, they moved to Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township . There were at least 1500 monks and thousands of followers even though it was raining heavily."

"Along the streets most offices shut the doors though they were open inside. I think they were closed to prevent employees from coming out in support of the procession. In the City Hall too the doors were shut. But the employees peeped through the small windows and lifted their hands in support. There were no security personnel in uniforms visible."

"The monks started from Tharmwe at noon (local time). And then they headed back to Tharmwe. People applauded all along."

4:05 p.m
Protesting monks have now dispersed and called off their demonstration for the day.

3:45 p.m
Protesting monks have started marching again from Sule pagoda along the Maha Bandula Street

Continuous rain has caused floods on Maha Bandula Street in downtown Rangoon

2:31 p.m
Over 1,000 monks are heading towards Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon.

2:05 p.m
Heavy rain which flooded the streets of Rangoon is creating problems for the groups of monks heading towards Shwedagon pagoda, where they are to meet other monks.

"Since 9 in the morning, monks have begun to head for monasteries in Bahan, Ahlone and Kyimyindine townships. Monks from other townships are also heading towards Bahan and Ahlone townships. Whenever a bus stops monks without their bowls and with umbrellas are getting off. They are heading to their respective monasteries where they will receive their 'Swan' and commence their march in the afternoon and in the evening," a Rangoon resident, who is monitoring the situation, told Mizzima.

But, due to heavy rain the monks are finding it difficult to reach their rendezvous, according to eyewitnesses.

1:53 p.m
More security and USDA members stationed in Rangoon

More than 50 Union Solidarity and Development Association members and riot police (Hlone Htein) have been positioned in front of the Rangoon City hall and near the Sule Park in downtown Rangoon since last night.

Over 200 monks begin protest march in Rangoon

11:30 a.m
Continuing to take on the Burmese military junta, over 200 monks in Rangoon started a march from Maelahmuh Pagoda in North Okklapah and are now approaching Kaba Aye Pagoda Street.

"Chanting Suttas the monks held aloft religious flags and walked in rows of two or three. When they go up to the pagoda they will proceed in rows of two. They are now on the street in front of the Kaba Aye Pagoda," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

The agitating monks gathered at about 10:30 a.m. local time in Maelahmuh Pagoda in north Okklapah Township.

"It is raining heavily. There are not too many people following the marchers as yet. But I think the crowd will gradually increase by the time they reach Shwedagon pagoda. Yesterday they marched from Shwedagon to Sule Pagoda. In the evening the march gained momentum. Yesterday the monks began almost at the same time as today. Yesterday there were thousands of people who followed the monks. If the rain stops in the evening then it will be easier for people to lend support and follow," a Rangoon resident told Mizzima.

Protests across Burma

September 21, 2007
Indian Standard Time: 5:45 p.m
Over 1,000 monks protest in Pakhokku

Over 1,000 monks in Pakhokku town in central Burma's Magwe division staged a protest march this afternoon. The monks marched towards Thihoshin pagoda in the west of the town and chanted Suttas promoting loving kindness along the road as they marched, a monk in Pakhokku told Mizzima.

"The monks began at about 2 p.m. (local time). Today monks came not only from the four big monasteries but also from smaller monasteries. There were more than 1000 monks and they marched to Thihoshin pagoda. They chanted Suttas along the way. And they dispersed at about 4 p.m. (local time). Today, many people followed the monks but there were no disturbances."

"We are aiming to do everything peacefully both for the junta as well as for the people. We do not want any trouble. So we are following the peaceful path. What I mean is that no body should be hurt, as Buddhism does not encourage violence where people get involved in bloody clashes," the monk said.

5:43 p.m
Monks in Shwebo join protests today

At least 1,000 Buddhist monks in Shwebo town in Central Burma division of Sagaing today joined monks across the country in their ongoing protest.

Monks from Maha Aung Myay and Bon San Monasteries began their protest march at about 1 p.m. local time on Friday, joining monks in Rangoon, Monywa and Daike Oo, who also took to the streets in their respective towns.

"Monks from the Maha Aung Myay and Bon San monasteries held the protest rally starting out from the market. They marched for about one hour," a Shwebo resident told Mizzima.

Monks, who chanted Suttas, promoting loving kindness, as they marched into the market place and on the streets of the town, were applauded by onlookers. They gave the monks drinking water bottles and cold drinks. Authorities, however, stayed away from the scene and the procession went on with out any disturbances, said an eyewitness.

"There were a lot of civilians applauding. I think there were at least 1,000 onlookers who cheered. They handed out water bottles, cold drinks and other things to the monks. Everything went smoothly," said another resident, who was an eyewitness to the event.

The protest march by monks in Shwebo is the first since the Buddhist monks alliance boycotted the ruling military junta on September 18, following the failure of the authorities to apologize to the monks for its high handedness during a crackdown on a procession by monks in Pakhokku in central Burma, last month.

5:30 p.m
Monks led crowd joined protest in Mogoke

Protestors stopped at Nyuangpingyi Suhtaungpyih pagoda and chanted suttas. And the crowd sang national anthems and dispersed.

2:45 p.m
Protestors with motorbikes and cars headed to about 7 mile west of Mogoke, where they were received with joy by local residents and joined them. The crowd grew up to at least 50000. Protestors continued marching the town and the crowd grew double to nearly 100000.

2:40 p.m
Monks in Daike Oo begin protest march

At least 200 Monks in Daike Oo town, Bago Division began a protest march today.

Monks chanting Suttas marched from Maydawi monastery road through the town, past the police and local PDC offices and out of the town to north Beli Bridge . While returning the monks marched along Aung Shan Thar and station streets.

"From the beginning there were about 400 to 500 people following the monks. Even onlookers joined the procession. One of the monks was about 70 or 80 years old. When they started marching he shouted and said 'this is what should have been done long ago'," an eyewitness in Daike Oo told Mizzima.

However, there are no signs of security being tightened in town except for a few plainclothes officials here and there, said the eyewitness.

2:00 p.m
Monks stopped at Chan Thar Gyi pagoda and chanted suttas.

12:50 p.m
Desist 'Swan' offerings to monks: Ward authorities

Ward Peace and Development Council officials in Rangoon's Kyimyindine, Ahlone, and Sanchaung townships have ordered people to desist from offering dawn 'Swan' to monks.

12:37 p.m
Monks in Monywa take to the streets

At least 1,500 monks in Monywa, central Burma today once again took to the streets in protest.

Monks from Zawthikah, Yankin and Chaung Oo monasteries began marching at noon to Shwezigone and Sutaung Pyih pagodas chanting Suttas and promoting loving kindness.

More monks are ready to join the march, residents said.

"Monks from Hledi and Yankin monasteries marched separately but other monks from Bon Soe and Mahnih Yadanabon monasteries joined monks from Zawthikah. Monks from Okkan Thawrah and Maha Hledi monasteries are still marching," a woman resident in Monywa told Mizzima.

"Monks holding aloft flags are coming in cars from Chaung Oo, northern Monywa, to join the protests," she added.

12:00 p.m
At least 500 monks in Mogoke town in northern Burma began protests rallies chanting, as they marched the town, suttas of promoting loving kindness. More than 1000 civilians followed the procession of monks with motorbikes and by foot.

Myanmar protests enter 4th day
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070921/ap_on_re_as/myanmar
21 September 2007

15 minutes ago
AP

YANGON, Myanmar - About 200 Buddhist monks staged a brief demonstration in Myanmar on Friday, the fourth day of protests in the country, witnesses said. A day earlier, nearly 1,000 monks and thousands of citizens marched, the largest challenge in a decade to the iron-fisted junta that rules the nation.

Braving driving rain, the monks converged at Mei Lamu pagoda on the outskirts of Yangon. After chanting sermons and praying for 15 minutes, the monks dispersed, witnesses said.

It was the fourth straight day the monks have marched in Yangon. Their activities have given new life to a protest movement that began a month ago after the government raised fuel prices, sparking demonstrations against policies that are causing economic hardship.

Authorities normally quick to crack down hard on dissent left the marchers alone, apparently wary of stirring up further problems.

On Thursday, processions of monks converged from various monasteries around Yangon in the early afternoon at the golden hilltop Shwedagon pagoda, the country's most revered shrine. They prayed there before embarking on a more than three-hour march through Yangon in steady rain, gathering supporters as they went.

Monks at the head of the procession carried religious flags and an upside-down alms bowl, a symbol of protest.

Some monks are refusing alms from the military and their families — a religious boycott deeply embarrassing to the junta. In the Myanmar language, the term for "boycott" comes from the words for holding an alms bowl upside down.

As the monks marched calmly through the streets, some onlookers offered refreshments while others kept the streets clean by picking up water bottles.

The government appeared to be handling the situation gingerly, aware that any action seen as mistreating the monks could ignite public outrage. They are aware that restraining monks poses a dilemma, because monks are highly respected in predominant Buddhist Myanmar, and abusing them in any manner could cause public outrage.

A member of one of the junta's neighborhood councils said it had been given instructions by authorities not to interfere with the protesting monks.

"We've been instructed to be patient and to even protect the monks," said the official, who asked not to be named because he is not authorized to release information.

No uniformed security personnel were in sight, although dozens in plainclothes stood by without interfering. Car and motorbikes carrying junta supporters — present at most previous protests — were also absent.

Rumors that a state of emergency had been declared were denied by a government spokesman.

"You can see the government handling the situation peacefully," the Information Ministry's Ye Htut said in an e-mail.

"Anti-government groups want to see the state of emergency because their objective is to exploit and provoke the Sangha (monks), students, workers and innocent people," and to provoke riots and anarchy, he said. "So they use rumors to destabilize the situation."

While many bystanders clasped their hands together in a traditional gesture of respect as the procession passed, others joined in to march with the monks.

Witnesses said the number of marchers swelled to as many as 5,000 by the end, many of them linking arms in a human chain to protect the monks from outside agitators.

The protests express long pent-up opposition to the repressive regime and have become the most sustained challenge to the junta since a wave of student demonstrations that were forcibly suppressed in December 1996.

The junta's crackdown on the protesters has drawn increasing criticism from world leaders, including U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President Bush. They have called for the government to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been under house arrest for more than 11 of the past 18 years.

The U.N.'s envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, focused on the protests in a Security Council briefing Thursday.

"The developments over the last few weeks in Myanmar have raised serious concerns in the international community and once again underscore the urgency to step up our efforts to find solutions to the challenges facing the country," Gambari told the council, according to a U.N. account of the closed session.

Gambari said he was very concerned about protesters who have been detained and expressed hope for their release.

The demonstrations had been faltering, with about 200 protesters being detained, before the monks entered the fray.

Monks angered over being manhandled at a Sept. 5 demonstration in Pakokku in north central Myanmar had threatened to take to the streets unless the junta apologized. The regime remained silent, so they launched protests around the country on Tuesday that have been steadily growing.

Monks may now be assuming the vanguard because top pro-democracy activists were rounded up soon after the start of the demonstrations, said Debbie Stothard of Altsean-Burma, a Bangkok, Thailand-based coalition of non-governmental groups working for human rights and democracy in Myanmar, also known as Burma.

"In these situations, the monks have sought to protect the civilian population by taking sole responsibility for these protests," she said by e-mail. "Despite this, if the monks are violently attacked en masse, it will be inevitable that the rest of the population will weigh in."

The monks and their followers in Yangon stopped briefly in front of the U.S. Embassy. Washington is a top critic of the junta.

Speaking to the crowd, an unidentified monk said people's lives were getting worse because the government was "unjust and selfish."

"We will stage our marches every sabbath day," said another monk who sat on a huge ornamental chair. The next Buddhist sabbath falls on Sept. 26.

As the monks marched, they chanted sermons, avoiding explicit anti-government gestures. But their message of protest was unmistakable to fellow citizens as monks normally leave their monasteries only for morning rounds with bowls seeking alms.

Unconfirmed reports said monks staged protests in several other cities Thursday, including Pakokku and Monywa in north central Myanmar.

Monks have historically been at the forefront of protests in the country, first against British colonialism and later against military dictatorship. They played a prominent part in a failed 1988 pro-democracy uprising that sought an end to military rule, imposed since 1962.

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AP writer Sarah DiLorenzo at the United Nations contributed to this report.

သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား သပိတ္ေမွာက္ကံေဆာင္ လွမ္းေလွ်ာက္ဆႏၵျပပြဲ (ရန္ကုန္ စက္တင္ဘာ ၁၉ ႏွင့္ ၂၀၊ ၂၀၀၇)

2007-09-20T21:56:00.000-07:00

ရဟန္းပ်ိဳသမဂၢမမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ ေက်ာင္းသားျပည္သူမ်ားသို႔ ပန္ၾကားခ်က္

2007-09-20T21:39:00.000-07:00

UN Envoy Says Concerned About Myanmar's Crackdown On Protests

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UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The U.N.'s envoy to Myanmar told the Security Council Thursday that recent protests in the country and the military regime's subsequent crackdowns raised "serious concerns" and underlined the urgency of resolving the political turmoil there.

In what U.K. Ambassador John Sawers called a "sobering briefing," the secretary-general's special envoy Ibrahim Gambari told the council he planned to make a trip to the country as soon as possible. He said he was still in discussions on the timing.

"Undoubtedly, the developments over the last few weeks in Myanmar have raised serious concerns in the international community and once again underscore the urgency to step up our efforts to find solutions to the challenges facing the country," Gambari told the council, according to a U.N. account of the closed session.

The junta held a general election in 1990 but refused to honor the results when pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Party won. Suu Kyi has been detained under house arrest for more than 11 of the past 18 years.

Demonstrations over economic conditions have carried on since Aug. 19 despite the arrests of more than 200 protesters, the detention of top pro-democracy activists, and the use of strong-arm squads of pro-government civilians to physically attack protesters.

Thousands of monks have taken to the streets in recent days, pledging to keep alive the most sustained protests against the military government in at least a decade. The junta, normally quick to crack down hard on dissent, has left them unmolested, apparently fearful of stirring up further problems in a country where the predominantly Buddhist population tends to be devout.

Gambari said he was very concerned about those in detention, particularly about those reportedly on hunger strike, and he expressed hope that the government will heed worldwide calls for their release - as well as the release of all political prisoners.

After Gambari's briefing, Sawers said many members of the council were " sympathetic" to the protesters and expressed outrage over their treatment and detention.

"We certainly are appalled by the steps the regime have taken to silence peaceful protest and to clamp down on dissent in the country," he said.

U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad added that Gambari should focus his attention on finding ways to improve the political environment in Myanmar, including working toward democratic reforms.

"One of the key elements of his mission to Burma is the political track, particularly within that track the release of political prisoners, the treatment of ethnic minorities, a process that can allow for political participation and determination by the people for their political future," said Khalilzad, using the original name for Myanmar.

Earlier this month, the military regime wrapped up a convention to write guidelines for a new constitution, the first stage of its seven-step "road map to democracy," which critics have said ensures a continued prominent military role in the government.

Khalilzad slammed the convention as a "sham."

"Not only the convention was not representative, but it has coincided with increased oppression," he said.

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Burmese monks challenge junta

2007-09-20T21:38:00.000-07:00

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Rangoon (dpa) - Members of Burma's opposition party cheered when hundreds of defiant monks marched past their headquarters Thursday on the third day of the monks' anti-military protests in the former capital, said witnesses.

Diplomats said that by walking by the headquarters of opposition heroine Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon the marchers had raised the protests to a new level.

The National League for Democracy won 1990 elections by a landslide, but the result was ignored by the military. Aung San Suu Kyi currently is held under house arrest in Rangoon. The 500 or so monks went on to enter the Shwedagon Pagoda, which towers above the city, before parading downtown, where they dispersed at 4 pm.

A second march numbering some 400 monks proceeded towards the Shwedagon from a different direction and also ended downtown. Hundreds of ordinary citizens followed the processions of red-robed young men who are highly revered in this strongly Buddhist country.

A loose organization of monks has stepped up dignified protests this week after failing to extract an apology from the regime for its rough handling of a procession of monks in the north earlier this month.

More groups of monks were reported to have marched in the northern city of Mandalay in another show of open dissatisfaction with the military that has ruled since it seized power in 1962.

Hundreds of people are reported to have followed both lines of monks in the Rangoon marches, which in itself is a form of defiance in a country where the authorities have scant tolerance of dissent.

The highly unusual protests against economic hardship and inflation started when a few individuals staged protests some seven months ago.

The monkhood has now taken on the job of confronting the regime after the junta sharply lifted energy and transport prices a month ago without warning, causing deep problems for ordinary people who already struggle to survive.

As in Thailand, monks are revered in Burma, which makes it tricky for the authorities to crack down on them. Yet they have also traditionally been in the vanguard of moves against authoritarian governments, be they colonial or military.

Many of Burma's monks are young, feisty men with the guts to confront armed soldiers, strengthened by the knowledge that they are admired in the country for their moral toughness.

The protest marches have broken out in several locations this month, making it harder for the authorities to crack down. The monks have also driven home their displeasure with the regime by refusing to accepted alms from soldiers.

The regime attempted this week to paint the marching monks as deviants or fakes in stories in the state-controlled newspapers. Foreign and exiled observers are divided over whether these robed protestors will trigger the wider nationwide demonstrations that threatened to bring down the regime in 1988.

Monk Protest in Burma Update (September 20, 2007)

2007-09-20T03:19:00.001-07:00

Burma Protests: the Situation on September 20

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Rangoon; about 1 p.m.—About 1,000 monks gathered at Shwedagon Pagoda and then marched to Sule Pagoda in downtown Rangoon on Thursday, witnesses said. One source said the protesting monks were protected by onlookers who joined hands as a human chain. Hundreds of supporters followed along with the monks. Some monks carried religious flags or an alms bowl turned upside down, symbolizing the alms boycott against the military government and its supporters.

Rangoon; Noon—More than 300 monks from Ma Soe Yein Monastery in Kyeemyindine Township marched to Shwedagon Pagoda at 12 noon. According to a witness, several members of the public followed the monks and provided drinking water for them. The demonstrating monks arrived at Shwedagon Pagoda in the rain to find that the authorities had closed the gates. The monks were subsequently refused entry to the pagoda.

Rangoon, 11:00 a.m.—Hundreds of Buddhist monks from Pegu tried on Thursday morning to travel to Rangoon to join protesting monks in the former capital, but the carriage in which they were traveling was unhitched by the authorities at Toe Kyaung Lay, the last station before Rangoon. Undeterred, the monks set out to walk the remaining few miles from the suburb to Rangoon, where they planned to join Rangoon monks at Shwedagon pagoda. In Rangoon, sources report that the authorities have erected barbed wire around the city hall.

Monks Protest in Burma Update (September 20, 2007)

2007-09-20T02:53:00.000-07:00

Monks protest in Bago, Rangoon, Monywa

Mizzima News (www.mizzima.com)

September 20, 2007 - Indian Standard Time - 3:30 p.m - Protesting Monks are now reportedly heading back to Sule Pagoda from Alanpyah Pagoda Street. "They are now marching in front of the Bogyoke Aung San Market and are heading towards Sule pagoda. They are still in downtown Rangoon," a civilian who is following the demonstration told Mizzima.

2:15 p.m - A group of at least 500 monks and about 30,000 civilians have arrived back at Alanpyah Pagoda Street.

1:50 p.m - A group of Monks marching to Shwedagon Pagoda have had to alter their course, as the Eastern Gate of the Pagoda was closed.

1:47 p.m - "The two groups of monks have not been able to meet up as of yet. But when the one group left the vicinity of Shwedagon Pagoda, some more monks joined. Now that group is about one thousand monks, and there are at least 5,000 civilians. And the youths are continuing to form a human-chain on either side of the marching monks to protect the monks from any harrassment. At this time they are in Kanna Street. It is likely that they will head toward Bothataung Township," an eyewitness told Mizzima.

Meanwhile, intelligence and Special Branch police are on alert.

1:26 p.m - About 500 monks, in two groups, are marching along Yetharshay Street in Bahan Township. Meanwhile, youths, with hands linked, have formed a human-chain on either side of the marching monks to protect them. An eyewitness told Mizzima, "Thousands of people are now following the monks."

12:45 p.m - About 500 monks, marching in Rangoon, have reportedly arrived near the Bahan Circle and the zoo.

With three religious flags in the front and the rear of the procession, the group of monks is being followed by at least 2,000 civilians.

11:50 a.m - Monks in Rangoon's North Dagon Township demonstrate

At least 250 monks from Myingyan Buddhist monastery in Rangoon's North Dagon Division staged a protest rally this morning.

The monks began marching the streets at about 5 a.m. (local time) this morning, said eyewitnesses. Onlookers and the public, inspired by the monks' activities, donated money to the monks after first seeking permission.

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စက္တင္ဘာ (၁၉) ရန္ကုန္သံဃာဆႏၵျပပြဲတြင္

2007-09-20T00:03:00.000-07:00

NEJ / ၂၀ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၇

ယမန္ေန႔က ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေရႊတိဂုံဘုရားမွ ဆူးေလဘုရားအထိ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ရာတြင္ လိုက္ပါၾကည့္႐ႈသူတဦး၏ ေျပာျပခ်က္ကို တင္ျပထားပါသည္။

“ဒီေန႔ ဆႏၵျပပဲြမွာေတာ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြဟာ မေန႔ (၁၈) ရက္ေန႔က စုတဲ့ ေရႊတိဂံုေစတီ အေရွ႕ဘက္ မုခ္ ေၾကးသြန္းဘုရားႀကီးေရွ႕မွာ စုစည္းခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ အဲဒီကမွတဆင့္ ဆူးေလေစတီေတာ္ဆီကို အလံျပဘုရားလမ္း ဆူးေလဘုရားလမ္းကေနတဆင့္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခ်ီတက္ခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

ဒီေန႔ ထူးျခားတာက သံဃာေတာ္ေတြနဲ႔အတူ လမ္းေဘး ၀ဲဘက္ကေန လိုက္ပါတဲ့ လူအုပ္ႀကီးထဲမွာ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ပါ၀င္လာၿပီး သံဃာေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ လိုအပ္ခ်က္ေတြကို အကူအညီ ေပးေနၾကျခင္းပဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီေန႔မွာ မေန႔ကနဲ႔မတူ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြက ဓာတ္ပံု၊ ဗီဒီယို ႐ိုက္တာ မႀကိဳက္ဘူးလို႔ မိန္႔ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ဓာတ္ပံု တဖ်ပ္ဖ်ပ္႐ိုက္တာ မေတြ႔ရပါ။

သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ စီတန္းလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ရာ အေရွ႕ကေန ကားေတြနဲ႔ ႀကိဳတင္သြားၾကတဲ့ အာဏာပိုင္ ေတြကလည္း သိပ္နီးနီးကပ္ကပ္မေနပဲ ခပ္လွမ္းလွမ္းကသာေနၿပီး ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္တာကိုလည္း ေပၚေပၚ ထင္ထင္ လုပ္ရဲတာမေတြ႕ရပါ။

သံဃာေတြ ခ်ီတက္ပံုကေတာ့ ေရွ႕ဆံုးက သံဃာ (၃) ပါးက သာသနာ့အလံကို ကိုင္ေဆာင္သြား ပါတယ္။ ေရွ႕ဆံုးက သံဃာငယ္တပါးက သပိတ္တလံုးကို ေမွာက္ၿပီး ကိုင္ေဆာင္သြားပါတယ္။
(၅) ေယာက္တတဲြ စနစ္တက် စီတန္းၿပီး ေမတၱာသုတ္ကို ရြတ္ဆိုလမ္းေလွ်ာက္ပါတယ္။ စုစုေပါင္း သံဃာ (၈၀၀) ကေန (၁,၀၀၀) ၾကား ရွိႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ဆူးေလ ဘုရားပတ္၀န္းက်င္ မေရာက္ခင္
ေဘးက ေတာက္ေလွ်ာက္လုိက္တဲ့ လူထုကေတာ့ (၁,၀၀၀) ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ေလာက္ပဲ ရွိပါတယ္။

အဆိုပါအခ်ိန္က ရန္ကုန္မွာ မိုးရြာလိုက္ တိတ္လိုက္ ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့အတြက္ သံဃာေတြ သကၤန္းမွာ မိုးစိုေနတာကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ျမင္ရပါတယ္။ ယာဥ္ထိန္းရဲေတြ အားလံုးကလည္း လမ္းရွင္းေပးပါတယ္။

ဆူးေလဘုရားလမ္း ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းကို ေက်ာ္လာတဲ့အခါ လမ္းေဘးက သစ္ပင္ေအာက္ ထိုင္ခံုေတြမွာ ထိုင္ေနတဲ့ လူေတြကို အတူပါလာတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက လက္အုပ္ခ်ီဖို႔ လွမ္းေျပာတဲ့အခါ အားလံုး ထိုင္ရာထၿပီး လက္အုပ္ခ်ီ ၾကတာ ေတြ႕ရပါတယ္။ ဒီအခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ လူထုပရိသတ္ (၃-၄) ေထာင္ ေလာက္ စုမိေနပါၿပီ။

လူထုေတြၾကားထဲက ဓာတ္ပံု႐ိုက္သူေတြ ရွိရင္လည္း ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက မ႐ိုက္ဖို႔ တားျမစ္ေပး ပါတယ္။ ဆူးေလဘုရား ေျခေတာ္ရင္းေရာက္တဲ့အခါ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ခန္းမအေပၚကေန ဗီဒီယို ကင္မရာ အႀကီးႏွစ္လံုးနဲ႔ ႐ိုက္ေနတာကို ျမင္တဲ့အခါ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက ေအာ္ဟစ္တားျမစ္တာေၾကာင့္ ဗီဒီယိုကင္မရာကို ခ်ၿပီး အခန္းထဲ ျပန္လည္ ေျပး၀င္သြားပါတယ္၊ ဆက္မ႐ိုက္ေတာ့ပါ။

ဆူးေလဘုရားမွာေတာ့ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြက ဘုရားေပၚ တက္ခြင့္ေပးတဲ့အတြက္ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ ဘုရားေပၚတက္ ဘုရား၀တ္ျပဳ တရားေဟာ စတာေတြ လုပ္ပါတယ္။ ဆူးေလဘုရား ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ခန္းမေရွ႕မွာေတာ့ သတင္းၾကားလို႔ ေရာက္လာတဲ့ လူထုပရိသတ္ေတြ အမ်ားအျပား ျပည့္ႏွက္သြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဆူးေလဘုရားနဲ႔ ဗိုလ္ေအာင္ေက်ာ္လမ္းအၾကား မဟာဗႏၶဳလလမ္းတေလွ်ာက္မွာလည္း မေန႔ကလိုပဲ သံဃာေတြ ဗိုလ္တေထာင္ဘုရားဘက္ ဆက္သြားမလားဆိုၿပီး လူထုပရိသတ္ ရာေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ေစာင့္ဆိုင္းေနၾကတာ ေတြ႕ျမင္ရပါတယ္။

(၄၅) မိနစ္ေလာက္ အၾကာမွာေတာ့ သံဃာေတြ ဆူးေလဘုရားေပၚကေန လာရာလမ္းအတိုင္း ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းဘက္ကို ျပန္လည္ ထြက္ခြာပါတယ္။ ဒီအခါ ပရိသတ္ေတြက တိုးမေပါက္ေအာင္ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနပါၿပီ။ သံဃာေတြ လူစုခဲြခ်ိန္ျဖစ္လို႔ ေမတၱာသုတ္ ရြတ္ဖတ္တာမ်ိဳး စနစ္တက် စီတန္း
သြားတာမ်ိဳးေတာ့ မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး။

ဒီအခါမွ ေဘးပတ္၀န္းက်င္က ပရိသတ္ေတြက လက္ခုပ္တီး အားေပးၾကပါတယ္။ လမ္းေဘး တဘက္တခ်က္ အေဆာက္အဦေတြေပၚမွာ အခ်ိဳ႕ အစိုးရ၀န္ထမ္း႐ံုးေတြ ရွိေနၿပီး ၀န္ထမ္းအမ်ား အျပား ထြက္ၾကည့္ေနၾကပါတယ္။ ေအာက္ကေက်ာင္းသားေတြက အားေပးပါလို႔ ေအာ္ေျပာတဲ့အခါ ယူနီေဖာင္း၀တ္ စည္ပင္၊ ေက်ာင္းဆရာမ စတဲ့ ၀န္ထမ္းေတြက လက္ခုပ္တီး အားေပးၾကပါတယ္။ သံဃာေတြ အသီးသီး အရပ္ (၄) မ်က္ႏွာ ျပန္ႂကြသြားၿပီး ေနာက္အက်ဆံုး သံဃာ (၃၀-၄၀)
ေလာက္ ဟာ ညေန (၅း၀၀) နာရီေလာက္က်မွ ဆူးေလ- ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လမ္းအတိုင္း သိမ္ျဖဴလမ္းကို ခ်ိဳးေကြ႕ၿပီး သက္ဆိုင္ရာေက်ာင္းတိုက္ေတြဆီ စနစ္တက် စီတန္းျပန္သြားတာ ေတြ႕ျမင္ရ ပါတယ္”။ ။

Thousands turn out to support Rangoon protests

2007-09-19T19:41:00.000-07:00

Sep 19, 2007 (DVB)—Thousands of people took to the streets in Rangoon today to support monks protesting against the Burmese government. More than 1000 monks braved rain in the former capital today to stage another protest against government harassment around the famous Sule Pagoda, where several monks gave political speeches, slamming the military's use of violence against peaceful protests. Huge crowds of civilians gathered in the streets to watch the monks protest. Some reports from Rangoon claimed that almost 10,000 people had turned out to watch the demonstrations. Today’s protest was started by about 500 monks who marched past Shwedagon pagoda before being joined by hundreds more monks at Tamwe roundabout. They then marched down Bogyoke road to Sule junction while chanting metta, eyewitnesses said. “The authorities shut down the gates to Sule Pagoda and initially refused to let the monks in. But after the monks demanded access, the officials finally gave in,” one eyewitness told DVB. “They closed the gates after the monks came in and they argued again and the monks had the gates reopened. Then the bystanders came into the pagoda,” the eyewitness said. The monks reportedly stayed at the pagoda for about 30 minutes before returning to their monasteries. During their march through town the monks were followed by more than 20 police vehicles and large groups of officials. There were no reports of government interference in the demonstration. Groups of monks also protested in a number of other cities around Burma today with more than 1000 marching in Mandalay, 500 in Prome and 150 in Kalay township, Sagaing division. Reporting by Aye Naing

Photos of Monks Protest in Burma (the last update)

2007-09-19T09:29:00.000-07:00