ALTHOUGH MILITARY CHANGES CLOTH, IT DOES NOT WORK FOR BURMA

စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္အခ်ဳိ႕ ယူနီေဖာင္းခၽြတ္မႈ ျပည္သူမ်ား စိတ္မ၀င္စား
၂၇ ဧၿပီ ၂ဝ၁ဝ


ျမန္မာ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးသိန္းစိန္ႏွင့္ ၀န္ႀကီး (၂၂) ဦးတို႔သည္ ယမန္ေန႔ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ ၎တို႔၏ စစ္ရာထူးမ်ားမွ အနားယူလုိက္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ယခုကဲ့သုိ႔ စစ္ရာထူးမ်ားမွ အနားယူလိုက္ျခင္းသည္ ယခုႏွစ္အတြင္း က်င္းပရန္ရိွသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမတိုင္ခင္ အရပ္၀တ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈပိုင္းသို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲလိုက္သည့္ ေျခလွမ္းတရပ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အမည္မေဖာ္လိုသည့္ အစိုးရအရာရိွတဦးကို ကိုးကားၿပီး ေအအက္ဖ္ပီသတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။

ယခုေလာေလာဆယ္ ၀န္ႀကီးနွင့္ဒု-၀န္ႀကီး (၂၃) ဦးခန္႔ စစ္တပ္မွ စစ္ယူနီေဖာင္းခၽြတ္ကာ သာမန္အရပ္သားအျဖစ္ ကူးေျပာင္းလိုက္ၾကေသာ္လည္း ၎တို႔၏ အလုပ္တာ၀န္မ်ားမွာမူ မူလရာထူးမ်ားအတုိင္း ဆက္လက္ရိွမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ေနာက္ထပ္ အရပ္ဘက္သို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းမည့္သူမ်ား ရိွေသးေၾကာင္း သတင္းတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။

စစ္တပ္မွ အနားယူၾကသူမ်ားထဲတြင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေဌးဦးႏွင့္ ဗိုလ္မႉးခ်ဳပ္ဘုန္းေဆြတို႔လည္း ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း၊ ယခုအသုတ္သည္ ပထမဆုံးအသုတ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေနာက္ထပ္ စစ္ဘက္မွ အရပ္ဘက္ေျပာင္းသူမ်ား ဆက္လက္ ထြက္ေပၚလာဦးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ အစိုးရအရာရိွက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ စစ္အစိုးရကမူ တရား၀င္ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မရိွေသးေပ။

ယင္းသုိ႔ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မ်ား စစ္ဘက္ရာထူးမွႏုတ္ထြက္ကာ အရပ္ဘက္သို႔ ကူးေျပာင္းသည့္သတင္းကို ျပည္သူမ်ားက စိတ္မ၀င္စားၾကေၾကာင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

ဗဟန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ ေနထိုင္သူ စီးပြားေရးသမားတဦးက “သူတို႔ဟာ သူတို႔ အရပ္၀တ္ပဲ ေျပာင္းေျပာင္း၊ ဘုန္းႀကီး၀တ္ပဲ ေျပာင္းေျပာင္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ အလုပ္မဟုတ္ဘူး။ စား၀တ္ေနေရး ဘယ္လို အဆင္ေျပမလဲဆိုတာကို ေတြးေနရေတာ့ ဘယ္သူက ဘာေျပာင္းေျပာင္း က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ စိတ္မ၀င္စားႏိုင္ဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယခု အရပ္၀တ္လဲသူမ်ားအနက္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္၀န္လည္းပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း သတင္းထြက္ေနသည့္အတြက္ ရန္ကုန္စည္ပင္ အၿငိမ္းစားအရာထမ္းတဦးက “ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္၀န္က အရပ္ဘက္ေျပာင္းေနတာ အရင္ကပဲ ေျပာင္းေနတာပဲ။ သူလုပ္ေနတဲ့ အလုပ္ေတြက ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္ဆိုတာထက္ ႀကံ့ဖြံ႔ကိုပဲ လုပ္ေနတာ။ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ (၃) ႏွစ္ေလာက္ကပဲ လူတိုင္း သတိျပဳမိၿပီးသား။ က်ေနာ္တို႔အေနနဲ႔ သူ အရပ္ဘက္ေျပာင္းတာကို ဘယ္လိုမွ မခံစားရဘူး၊ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္၀န္ေနရာကို ဘယ္သူ လာမလဲလည္း စိတ္ မ၀င္စားဘူး။ ဘယ္သူ လာလာ စားဖားပဲ လာမွာပဲ” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ယခုနွစ္ေႏွာင္းပိုင္း၌ က်င္းပရန္ရိွသည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ပါ၀င္ႏိုင္ျခင္းမရိွေစရန္ ဥပေဒမ်ား ထုတ္ျပန္ကန္႔သတ္ထားသျဖင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းက စစ္အစိုးရက်င္းပမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ျပစ္တင္ေ၀ဖန္ေနၾကသည္။

အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီအေနျဖင့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္ရန္ မွတ္ပုံတင္မည္ဆိုပါက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ပါတီမွ ထုတ္ပစ္ရမည္ဟု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒမ်ားအရ ျပ႒ာန္းထားသျဖင့္ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ပါတီအျဖစ္ ဆက္လက္မွတ္ပုံမတင္ေတာ့ဘဲ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မ၀င္ရန္ ဆုံးျဖတ္ခဲ့သည္။


Myanmar ministers to resign from military: government source
YANGON (Reuters) – At least 20 ministers in Myanmar's ruling junta will resign from the military this week to become civilian politicians ahead of this year's election, a government official said on Tuesday.

"So far as I heard, about 20 ministers ... and some deputy ministers will officially give up their military positions effective this week," a government official told Reuters by telephone from the capital, Naypyitaw.

"However, they will remain in their present cabinet positions for some time," added the official, who requested anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

Among those due to resign from their army posts will be Prime Minister Thein Sein, the official said.

The move means the ministers could potentially take parliamentary seats not included in the 25 percent quota allocated to serving armed forces personnel.

The general election, a date for which has not yet been set, has been widely dismissed as a move by the military to extend its five-decade hold on power by creating a facade of civilian rule.

Under the 2008 constitution passed in a disputed referendum, the armed forces chief will still be the country's most powerful figure and key ministries will remain under military control.

Analysts say the legislature will act only as a rubber stamp for the military's policies and will be dominated by the army and its civilian proxies, with independent lawmakers in the minority and largely powerless.

"It's just part of the military's attempt to secure its grip on state power in the post-election period," a retired senior civil servant said of the resignations from the military. He also requested anonymity.

So far, 19 organizations have requested permission to form political parties to run in the election. Five have been given the go-ahead, most of them believed to be close to the junta.

Only four of the existing 10 parties have applied. The deadline for registration is May 6.

The National League for Democracy (NLD), which won the last election in 1990 by a landslide but was denied the chance to rule, announced last month it would boycott this year's polls.

It complained the election rules were unjust and would exclude most of its top politicians, including detained Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, the charismatic NLD leader who analysts say heavily influenced the decision.

The county's biggest party said it would continue to fight for Myanmar's people, even after its dissolution. Many analysts say the move could backfire, playing into the hands of the generals who have long fought to minimize the NLD's influence.

(Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Alan Raybould and Jerry Norton)