88 Generation Students (Exile): March 2012

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Children struggle in Yangoon

This photograph discloses that the children are searching food among the rotten rubbish for their daily survival in Kyaut Tadadar township, Yangoon, Myanmar(Burma).This photo -report expresses that the majority of the population in Myanmar is still suffering and facing hardship daily while the international governments and diplomats are taking consideration that Myanmar has started to change to democratization. But it is not realism for grassroots.

Reported by Burma Development Network
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POSTED BY NAN MAY SU THWE
ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ.ေက်ာက္တံတားၿမိဳ.နယ္တြင္ေက်ာင္းေနအရြယ္ကေလးငယ္မ်ားသည္စြန္.ပစ္အမိွဳက္မ်ားအတြင္းမွစားေသာက္စရာမ်ားရွာေဖြစားေသာက္ေနေသာပံုၿဖစ္ပါသည္.။ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံသည္ယခုအခ်ိန္အခါမွာၿပဳၿပင္ေၿပာင္းလဲမွဳေတြၿဖစ္ေပၚေနၿပီဟုနိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀န္းကထင္ၿမင္မွဳမ်ားကိုနိုင္ငံတြင္းၿဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာပကတိအမွန္တိုင္းတင္ၿပၿခင္းၿဖစ္ပါသည္။ တိုင္းၿပည္အတြင္းဆင္းရဲမြဲေတမွဳမ်ားစြာကိုၿပည္သူအမ်ားခံစားေနၾကရၿပိးေန.စဥ္နွင္.အ မ်ွခက္ခဲၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာဘ၀မ်ားကိုၿဖတ္သန္းေနၾကရသည္မွာအပကတိအမွန္ပင္ၿဖစ္ သည္။သို.ပါေသာေၾကာင္.နိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းမွသိရိွနိုင္ေစရန္အလို.ငွာမွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံုနွင္.တကြၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးကြန္ယက္မွတင္ၿပပါသည္။ POSTED BY NAN MAY SU THWE

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းဒဂံုၿမိဳ.သစ္ေတာင္းပိုင္းၿမိဳ.နယ္(၁၀၇)ရပ္ကြပ္မွာၿဖစ္ပါသည္။ယခုေတြၿမင္ရေသာမွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံုမွာေသာက္သံုးေရးမလံုေလာက္ေသာလူေနရပ္ကြက္တြင္စား၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡမ်ိဳးစံုခံစားေနရေသာမိသားစုမ်ားပံု၇ိပ္မ်ားၿဖစျ္ပီး၊ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာဆင္းရဲမြဲေတမွဳအင္မတန္မွမ်ားၿပားေနၿပိး၊တတိုင္းၿပည္လံုးဆင္းရဲတြင္းသို့ ေဇာက္ထိုးက်ေနၿပီဟုဆိုရမည္ၿဖစ္သည္၊တိုင္းၿပည္တြင္းရိွေသာသယံဇာတမ်ားမွာတိုင္းတပါးသိုစစ္အုပ္စုႏွင့္၄င္းတို့နီးစပပ္ရာစီးပြါးေရးသမားမ်ားမွလက္၀ါးၾကီးအုပ္အက်ိဳးၿမတ္မ်ားရရိွေနၿပီးနိုင္ငံတြင္းမွထြက္၇ိွေနေသာေရနံနွင္.သဘာ၀ဓါတ္ေငြမ်ား၊သစ္ေတာထြက္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကိုေနစဥ္ၿပည္ပသို႔ ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရာင္းခ်ကာ စီးပြါေရးလူတစုတို့နွင့္ အက်ိဳးတူခံစားခ်မ္းသာေနၾကသည္။သို႔ေသာ္တိုင္းၿပည္တြင္းမွအေၿခခံလူတန္းစားဘ၀သည္ပို၍ပို၍ဆင္း၇ဲၾကပ္တည္းမွဳကိုေန႔တဓူ၀ခံစားေနၾက၇သည္ကိုဓါပံုႏွင့္တကြ တင္ၿပလိုက္ပါသည္။ ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတို.တက္ေရးကြန္ယက္ BURMA DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (BDN) မွတ္ခ်က္၊ က်ေနာ္တို့ တင္ၿပေသာ ဓါတ္ပံုႏွင့္ စာသားမ်ားကို အသံုးၿပဳလိုပါက က်ေနာ္တို့ကြန္ယက္မွ ခြင့္ၿပဳခ်က္ကိုေတာင္းခံရမည္။ ဆက္သြယ္ရန္ ကိုေအာင္ႏိုင္ေထြး 630 456 6517 (အေမရိကန္ၿပည္ေထာင္စု) ကိုလွေဌးႏိုင္ 09 430 64660 (ၿမန္မာၿပည္) burmadevelopmentnetwork@gmail.com

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Burmese army accused of murder and rape

As Burma prepares for by-elections, a new report accuses the army of the rape, torture and murder of ethnic people, with Human Rights Watch (HRW) saying that the abuse of civilians has deepened since fighting against ethnic Kachin rebels in the country's north-east was triggered last year after a 17-year ceasefire. Up to 75,000 people have been forced from their homes. Troops have blocked humanitarian aid and attacked innocent people, burning down entire villages, abducting women and forcing children as young as 14 to become porters. "The Burmese army is committing unchecked abuses in Kachin state while the government blocks humanitarian aid to those most in need," HRW's Elaine Pearson said. "Both the army and Kachin rebels need to act to prevent a bad situation for civilians from getting even worse." The fighting is one of a number of wars with ethnic groups in Burma that have rumbled on for decades with devastating consequences. Western countries, including Britain, have stressed that finding a peaceful solution to ethnic conflicts is a requirement for the lifting of economic sanctions, something the Burmese authorities are very keen to achieve. When British Foreign Secretary William Hague met with senior Burmese leaders earlier this year, he reportedly highlighted the need to achieve reconciliation. Talks between the Kachin fighters and government peace negotiators have been held on seven occasions since President Thein Sein issued a call for dialogue last August to find "everlasting peace", but they have been fruitless. Reuters reported that according to the rebels, the conflict has now reached the stage of "total annihilation". POSTED BY NAN MAY SU THWE

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I am disappointed by the unwillingness of the government of Burma to deliver on its promises for democratic dialogue and the release of political prisoners."

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I would like to make an appeal to President Bush: Please take pride as a President who has worked hard for Burma to achieve something before his term expires.”

-U Gambira, a leader of the All-Burma Monks’ Alliance that spearheaded nationwide protests in Burma in September---

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U WIN TIN

Because we refuse to bow to these unjust election 'laws,' our party will be abolished by the regime soon. Still, the NLD will not disappear. We will be among the people, with the people. We will continue to fight for democracy, human rights and equality among all ethnic nationalities, by peaceful means. —

Win Tin, a member of NLD Central Executive Committee

From Stalin to Burma, a history lesson

They may wear different cloaks, but under the surface all dictators are similar. As the memory of dictators like Joseph Stalin fades, mistakes of the past repeat themselves with a vengeance in forgotten places like Burma.One writer said of Stalin: “He had found Russia working with wooden ploughs and left it equipped with atomic [stock]piles.” But perhaps the true question doesn’t regard Stalin’s undisputable impact on humanity, but whether the legacy justified all the human sacrifice. To Stalin, the millions killed as a consequence of his ambitious drive were simply stepping stones along the road to national prosperity. However, such a Machiavellian frame of mind can neither be justifiable nor ethical.Stalin utilized numerous harsh methods in attempting to meet his ‘utopian’ goals. Collective farms were prevalent, while each Five Year Plan sought to leapfrog Russia ahead of competing nations and systems. Toward this end, virtually every industry fell under the direct control of the government and its de facto and shackled workforce. And the sad truth, more often than not, was results never met by an increasingly impoverished population.Stalin’s principle instrument for maintaining control over his country was his secret police. Through this institution, fear was instilled in the hearts of the people. The final death toll from Stalin’s regime is indeed staggering, with estimates ranging from 10 to 20 million people having perished.Stalin was under the belief that all his actions, extreme or otherwise, were necessary in order to pull Russia into the industrial age. Yet, ultimately, the major flaw in Stalin’s reasoning was that he claimed all sacrifices were necessary and for the future of Russia. “Life has improved, comrades. Life has become more joyous,” he once remarked. And while he was thinking about the future of the country and the generations to come, the standard of living within Russia had plummeted.Today, forgetting that dictatorship is a self inflicted wound, some intellectuals and humanitarians reason that simply sending more aid and increasing engagement are starting points to improving the political situation in Burma. But when they begin to regard the active opposition, as symbolized by Aung San Suu Kyi, as increasingly irrelevant, the time has come to refresh their memory about Joseph Stalin and the enormous price of dictatorship. It is one thing to want to bring Burma into the international community, but it is another to coddle and nurture tyrants without speaking out against their inhumane acts.So far, newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama and Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton have taken a cautious and slow approach toward Burma. But in a world of competing interests and ideology, it will be a great tragedy if they fail to take a firm stand against the dictators in Burma.After all, the United States and its allies helped reform the militaries in Indonesia and Turkey within democratic transitions and transformations. Now, the U.S., United Nations, ASEAN and the European Union need decisive and effective leadership to help Burma. Obama and Clinton have a great chance to seize this mantle…if they are willing to seriously take on the leadership role.Today, even as Burma’s generals tragically act more and more like Stalin, could it not be that the army as an institution in Burma was originally inspired by similar beliefs to those of countries such as Indonesia and Turkey? This should offer an important clue as to where to begin with Burma.

88 Generation Students (Exile)

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Children struggle in Yangoon

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Burmese army accused of murder and rape

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