88 Generation Students (Exile)

Thursday, March 29, 2012

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

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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

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