Thursday, October 25, 2007

Australia announces sanctions on Myanmar leaders


Australia announces sanctions on Myanmar leaders

Wed Oct 24, 2007 11:07am IST


CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia on Wednesday announced financial sanctions against Myanmar's ruling generals and their families following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy supporters last month.

Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the measures would apply to 418 individuals, including Senior General and State Peace and Development Council Chairman Than Shwe.

"Australia has consistently urged the Burmese regime to work towards genuine democratic reform and national reconciliation, and to afford all Burmese citizens international standards of human rights," Downer said in a statement.

"Along with Australia's long-standing tight visa restrictions and ban on defence exports, these new measures are designed to put further pressure on the regime and its supporters, while avoiding harm to the people of Burma."

The suppression of the Buddhist monk-led street protests in Myanmar last month killed 10 people, according to the military junta that rules Myanmar. Western governments say the toll was probably much higher.

Australia said the measures would prohibit transactions involving the transfer of funds or payments to listed Burmese regime figures and supporters without the approval of Australia's central bank.

"They are the strongest financial measures available under existing Australian legislation against countries or individuals that are not subject to U.N. Security Council sanctions," Downer said.

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Monday, October 22, 2007


လမ္းေပၚစီးတဲ့ ဧရာ၀တီ

ကၽြန္ေတာ္ မငိုဘူး အေမ …
အခန္းတံခါးေတြကို အလံုပိတ္
မီးပြင့္ေတြ အကုန္မွိတ္ၿပီး
တိတ္တဆိတ္ အိပ္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ညေတြမွာ ငါဘာေတြမွားခဲ့လို႕လဲဆိုတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းတစ္ခုနဲ႕
သက္ျပင္းေတြကို မႈတ္ထုတ္ေနခဲ့ရတယ္ …။

-ပထမေန႕ …
ေမတၱာတရားရဲ႕ပဲ့တင္သံေတြ
လမ္းမေတြေပၚကိုလႊမ္း
သံဃာေတာ္ေတြခင္းေနတဲ့လမ္းေဘးမွာ
လက္အုပ္ခ်ီ မ်က္ရည္၀ဲ
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ရဲ႕ေျခေထာက္ေတြကို
ေၾကာက္စိတ္ေတြက ဆြဲထားတုန္းပဲ … အေမ။

-ဒုတိယေန႕ …
မိုးထဲေရထဲ
ေျခဗလာနဲ႕ ေမတၱာေ၀ၾကတဲ့ပြဲမွာ
လူငယ္ေတြ ျပည္သူေတြ
ေရႊ၀ါေရာင္စီးေၾကာင္းေဘးကျခံရံ
ဧရာ၀တီအသစ္တစ္ခု လမ္းေပၚကိုလွ်ံထြက္က်
ေမေမေရ …
အဲဒီ့ေန႕ကေတာ့
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ကိုယ္တုိင္ ဧရာ၀တီျဖစ္ခဲ့ရေပါ့ …။

-ေနာက္တစ္ေန႕ …
ရိုးရိုးေလးပါပဲ … အေမ
ေနရဲ႕အပူကို အံတု
ေညာင္းညာကိုက္ခဲမႈေတြကို မမႈတဲ့
သံဃာအာဇာနည္တို႕အတြက္
အုတ္တစ္ခ်ပ္ သဲတစ္ပြင့္
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ … အေသအခ်ာကိုျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္ … အေမ။
ဗုဒၶဘာသာထြန္းကားတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံက
ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္တဲ့ အေမ
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရဲ႕လုပ္ရပ္ေတြအတြက္
သာဓုေခၚ ေက်နပ္ေနမွာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္ …။

-ကၽြန္ေတာ့္စိတ္နဲ႕ မတန္တဲ့ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာသူေတြရဲ႕အေၾကာင္း
အေမ့ကို စာလံုးေပါင္းျပမေနေတာ့ပါဘူး …
အရူးတကာ့အရူးထဲမွာမွ
အဆိုးဆံုးဆိုတဲ့အာဏာရူး …
ၿပီးေတာ့
သူ႕ႏႈတ္မွာက အမိန္႕ေပးခြင့္
သူ႕လက္ေအာက္မွာက ငရဲနဲ႕ေတာင္မတန္တဲ့မိစၧာေတြ
သူတို႕လက္ထဲမွာက လူသတ္လက္နက္ …
ေမေမေရ …
ဒီႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕အနာဂတ္
သူတို႕ လက္ထဲကို ဘယ္လိုစိတ္နဲ႕ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕အပ္ရမလဲ …။

-ေမေမေရ …
ရိုက္ႏွက္ခံဒဏ္ရာ ဗလပြနဲ႕
ပ်ံလြန္ေတာ္မူခဲ့ၾကရွာတဲ့
သံဃာေတာ္အခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ႕ ၀ိညာဥ္ေတြ
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကို စကားလာေျပာေနတယ္ … `အေရွ႕အရပ္၌ရွိေသာ
အနႏၱစၾက၀ဌာ အနႏၱ သတၱ၀ါတို႕
ေဘးရန္ခပ္သိမ္း ၿငိမ္းၾကပါေစ
ေဒါသခပ္သိမ္း ၿငိမ္းၾကပါေစ
ဆင္းရဲခပ္သိမ္း ၿငိမ္းၾကပါေစ
ႏွလံုးစိတ္၀မ္း ေအးခ်မ္းၾကပါေစ …´
ငါတို႕ … ေမတၱာတရားဆိုတဲ့ အလင္းနဲ႕
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းျခင္းကို ထြန္းညွိခဲ့ၾကတယ္ … တဲ့ …။
ဟုတ္တယ္ … အေမ
အားလံုးဟာ
တကယ္ကို ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္းပါပဲ …
ဒိုင္းေတြကို နံပါတ္တုတ္နဲ႕ တဒုံုးဒံုးတီးၿပီး
ညာသံေပးခ်ီတက္လာသံေတြ
မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုးခြဲသံေတြ
ေသနတ္ပစ္သံေတြ
ေအာ္ဟစ္ဆဲဆိုသံေတြ
ေနာက္ …
ႀကိမ္းေမာင္းရိုက္ႏွက္သံေတြ
အဲဒီအသံေတြ ေရာက္မလာခင္အခ်ိန္အထိ
တစ္ႏုိင္ငံလံုးဟာ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ ေမတၱာတရားေတြနဲ႕
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းျခင္းအတိၿပီးေနခဲ့ပါတယ္ … အေမ။

-ေမေမေရ …
မိစၧာတို႕ရဲ႕က်ည္ဆံတစ္ေတာင့္ကို
ႏွလံုးသားထဲ ထိုးေဖာက္၀င္ေရာက္ခြင့္ျပဳလိုက္ရတဲ့
ေက်ာင္းသားတစ္ေယာက္ရဲ႕၀ိညာဥ္က
ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ကို စကားေတြလာေျပာတယ္ …
`သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ရွိခိုးတယ္
သံဃာေတာ္ေတြလုိအပ္သမွ်ကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္လွဴဒါန္းတယ္
သံဃာေတာ္ေတြနဲ႕ အတူ သတၱ၀ါအားလံုးကို ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေမတၱာပို႕တယ္ …
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ဘာအမွားမွမလုပ္ခဲ့ပါဘူး …
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ အျဖဴစင္ဆံုးစိတ္တစ္ခုနဲ႕
အလုပ္သင့္ဆံုးအလုပ္ေတြကိုပဲလုပ္ခဲ့တာပါ …´ တဲ့ …။
ဟုတ္တယ္ … အေမ
ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ လူငယ္ေတြ ျပည္သူေတြ
သံဃာေတာ္ေတြေဖာက္တဲ့လမ္းေနာက္ကို ေပ်ာ္လို႕ေလွ်ာက္လိုက္ေနတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး
အမ်ိဳး ဘာသာ သာသနာကို နားလည္လို႕
အမွန္နဲ႕ အမွားဆိုတာကို ခြဲျခားတတ္လို႕
အမွန္တရားဘက္ကရပ္တည္ရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ အသိရွိခဲ့လို႕
ေနာက္ၿပီး …
တတ္ႏုိင္တဲ့အားေလးတစ္ခုနဲ႕
နိစၥဓူ၀ ဘ၀ေတြထဲက
ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့
မျဖစ္သင့္တာေတြကိုေလွ်ာ့ပစ္ႏုိင္ဖို႕
သိပ္မေသခ်ာတဲ့ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ေလး မစို႕မပို႕နဲ႕
လမ္းေပၚကိုထြက္ခဲ့ၾကတာပါ …
အမွားအယြင္းဆိုတာနဲ႕ေ၀းတဲ့ အျဖဴေရာင္လူငယ္ေလးေတြရဲ႕ ရင္ဘတ္ကို
အနီေရာင္ေသြးေတြလႊမ္းေအာင္ ပစ္ခတ္
သူတို႕ေတြ လုပ္ရက္ခဲ့ၾကတယ္ … အေမ။

-ေမေမေရ …
အဲဒီေတာ္လွန္ေရးမွာ …
ဘုရားရင္ျပင္ေတာ္ေတြကအစ
စစ္ေျမျပင္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရတယ္ …
သံဃာေတာ္ေတြရဲ႕ေသြးကစလို႕
ေက်ာင္းသားလူငယ္ေတြရဲ႕ ေသြးအဆံုး
မိစၧာေတြ ၿမိန္ရည္ယွက္ရည္ေသာက္သံုးခဲ့ၾကတယ္
ေမေမေရ …
အေျပာင္းအလဲတစ္ခုအတြက္
အသက္၀ိညာဥ္ေတြစေတးဖို႕လိုအပ္တယ္တဲ့
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းျခင္းအတြက္
တရားမွ်တမႈအတြက္
အမွန္တရားအတြက္
ဒီထက္ပိုၿပီး …
ဘယ္ေလာက္အထိေတာင္
ထပ္ေပးဆပ္ရဦးမွာလဲဆိုတဲ့အေမး
ေျဖႏုိင္သူေတြကို ေမးၾကည့္ေပးပါဦး ေမေမ …။

မိုးေပၚေထာင္ေဖာက္ဖို႕မဟုတ္တဲ့ ေသနတ္ေတြ
အလွျပထားတာမဟုတ္တဲ့ ၀ါးရင္းတုတ္ေတြ
အဲဒါေတြထားလိုက္ပါ … ေမေမ …
ေသခ်ာတာတစ္ခုကေတာ့
ဘယ္ေလာက္သတ္သတ္ …
ဘယ္ေလာက္ေသေသ …
လမ္းေပၚက ဧရာ၀တီဟာ …
ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ရဲ႕ ရင္ဘတ္ထဲမွာ
ထာ၀ရစီးဆင္းေနဦးမယ္ဆိုတာပါ …။ ။

ဘုန္းမင္းဇြန္
၂၈.၀၉.၂၀၀၇ (ေသာၾကာေန႕)

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Thursday, October 18, 2007


ဒီသီခ်င္း ကို က်ေနာ္ မိတ္ေဆြ တစ္ေယာက္ကေရးထာတာပါ ခံစားၾကည့္က်ပါ

Green and Red

Was it yesterday?
The summer of 88
For a brief taste of Freedom
and a glimmering ray of Hope
What a heavy price we paid

Was it yesterday?

December seventy four
In the name of Dignity
We claimed the coffin of Mr Clean
And our first encounter with SLORC

I see green and I see red

Oh! Mr. Gambari
Can you hear me!
My brothers are lying dead

To the west, India –

the world’s largest Democracy
Hand and glove with generals
Or is the largest Hypocrisy?

To the east Big Brother, China

Readying for their Olympics
They had Tiannemen Square,
while we had our bitter share
and probably the same Bullets

It happened yesterday

But what about tomorrow?
Will the generals give you another finger?
As we continue our sorrow?

US of A – the world’s greatest Democracy

With not enough oil to make you move
How many more lives do we have to lose?
Are you rather - the greatest Hypocrisy?

I see green and I see red

Oh! Mr. Gambari
Can you hear me!
My brothers are lying dead
Saffron robes soaked in Blood
The world sees yet, another day
Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
Memories won’t fade away

We want an affirmation

To define our destination
A place with freedom from fear
If not right now or not tomorrow
God willing, maybe….next year

I see green and I see red

Oh! Mr. Gambari
Please hear our calling,
My brothers are lying dead
(Reggie B)

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Wednesday, October 17, 2007

US diplomat discusses about Burma

www.abc.net.au/lateline

US diplomat discusses about Burma

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Broadcast: 16/10/2007

Reporter: Tony Jones

US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill discusses the United States's relationship with North Korea.

Transcript

TONY JONES: All right. On Burma, is the West really powerless to do anything again other than stand by and watch while a popular uprising for democracy is quite savagely suppressed?


CHRISTOPHER HILL: You know, I think to say we're powerless is to understate our position. At the same time it's not easy to deal with Burma. This is a problem that didn't just happen yesterday. This is a junta that's been in power for a long time and a junta that has really failed to understand what they need to do to reach out to their people. I mean to keep Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in prison, in house arrest for so long, it's really an indication of the stubbornness that one encounters there. And really the fact of their - of being so out of touch.

So, what we have to do diplomatically, I think, is not only make statements as we all have, but also actually work together and figure out what we can do, especially with the UN with the Secretary-General through his person, Mr Gambari. I think we're doing that. I think there's a very strong statement out of the Security Council last week. I think that was a positive sign, and ASEAN (Association of South-East Asian Nations) is really stepping up. You know, a lot of people who had doubts about ASEAN had to be impressed by statements that have emanated from ASEAN in the last few week. So, I think we've got a good overall approach. We've need to get China very much in the game. You know, the Burmese often try to hide behind China with a perception that somehow China doesn't care about these issues. So, I think we need to work with China. We're doing that. So, let's see how we can come out of this, but it is a very tough issue.

TONY JONES: Is there any sign of all of a reformist faction or anything like it emerging within the military junta?

CHRISTOPHER HILL: Haven't seen that, we haven't seen that. You know, the United States has been prepared to have a dialogue. In fact, several months ago we had some talks with the Burmese through Beijing. But we have not seen a willingness on the part of the junta to reach out and to begin to do the things that have to do. You know, they have been engaged in a sort of - in an overall Congress to revise the constitution. It's not working and clearly they've got to look in another direction.

TONY JONES: Christopher Hill, looking in another direction, the country, as you've mentioned with the most influence over both Burma and North Korea is China. But can we really trust a regime which engineers political change behind closed doors in a one-party state, as is going on now in Beijing?

CHRISTOPHER HILL: We have to be engaged with the Chinese. We have to get the Chinese to understand they have a stake in this international system, they have a stake in addressing problems such as Burma. I mean, it is very interesting to hear the Chinese talk about Burma, and the concerns they have with some of the drug trade coming into China, the concerns they've had with some of the addiction rates in neighbouring provinces in China. They are not unaware of some of the dysfunctionalism coming out of Burma.

The problem is the Chinese have traditionally taken a very - a view that they don't really want to put pressure on a neighbouring government. Now, you know, mind you we have to be careful in the long run. Do we want China to put pressure on neighbouring governments, only in some cases not in others? So, we have to be mindful of, you know, be careful what we wish for with the Chinese.

TONY JONES: One of the thing we might wish for is to understand better what's actually happening as they engineer political change, as I said, behind closed doors. A strong belief among China watchers is Mr Hu will end up in an even stronger position than he currently is, will somehow consolidate that position. But if I can put it this way, who is Hu?

http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s2061425.htm

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Sunday, October 7, 2007



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"Who's the courageous?




Who's the courageous?

The one who loves people
The one who can sacrifice for people
The one who fights for people
The one, a true son of the people
That is the courageous one!

The one who is afraid
The one who is gripping the weapon
Who is this one?

Source: Niknayman

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Saturday, October 6, 2007

Burma Solidarity group (Brisbane)

Australia ႏုိင္ငံ, Queensland ျပည္နယ္, Brisbane ျမိဳ ့ က အင္အား ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္ရွိိုိ္ျမန္မာ မ်ားရဲ ့လူထုလူုပ္ရွားမူ ့ ကို ဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီး မ်ား ရယ္ , boelawyers group,Burma Solidarity group
၊ Brisbane ေရာက္ ကရင္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား၊ကခ်င္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား၊ခ်င္းလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ရယ္ ကလည္းတက္တက္ၾကႊၾကႊ
Amnesty international Australia, Democrats က Senator Andrew Bartlett ရယ္ ျမန္မာအေရးကို တက္ၾကႊေဆာင္ရႊက္ၾကတဲ့ Australians မ်ားနဲ ့ျမန္မာမ်ဳိးခ်စ္ ၃၀၀ေက်ာ္ တက္ေရာက္ ျပီး Mr.AlexanderDowner(Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade) ထံသို ့ေပးစာ တစ္ေစာင္ရယ္၊ Consul General Mr. Ren GongPing ( Chinese Consulate) ထံသို ့ေပးစာ တစ္ေစာင္ ကို ေပးရန္ ရွိေသာ္လည္း Chinese Consulateက ေပးစာကို လက္ခံရန္ ျငင္းဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။





Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade မွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမွ စာလက္ခံယူေနစဥ္
5 October 2007




ဘုန္းေတာ္ၾကီး မ်ား ရယ္ ၊ Brisbane ေရာက္ ကရင္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား၊ကခ်င္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား၊ခ်င္းလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ရယ္ ကလည္းတက္တက္ၾကႊၾကႊ



မ်ဳိးခ်စ္ျမန္မာ Andrew Boe(Boelawyers group)
Australia ရဲတပ္ဖြဲ ့ က ဆႏၵျပသူ မ်ား ကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ လိုက္ပါလ်ွက
Democrat’s ပါတီက Senator Andrew Bartlett





Burma Solidarity group (Brisbane)



5 October 2007

Mr Alexander Downer
Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade
C/o Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
295 Ann Street
Brisbane QLD 4000



Dear Minister Downer,

We write to you as representatives of the expatriate Burmese community in Brisbane, Australia. We comprise of Australian citizens, permanent residents and refugees.

We wish to voice our concern about the deteriorating situation in Burma between the military government, the “State Peace and Development Council”, and the Burmese people.

We request that the Australian government take a stance which accords with that of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma’s position before the UN General Assembly.

In particular, we ask that you make direct representations to the Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister, Li Zhaoxing, in an effort to persuade China to remain neutral in the UN Security Council in respect of any resolution which may provide a strong mandate to mediate a political settlement in Burma.

We understand that Australia has strong trade ties with both China and India. Again, we request your assistance in utilising Australia’s strong relationship with these countries in an effort to persuade them to cease the provision of any support to the SPDC.

We further ask that the Australian Government encourage the SPDC to:

• Allow peaceful protest and cease the violent retribution currently being carried out against activists.
• Allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all Burmese prisons to provide medical assistance to prisoners (including political prisoners) and prevent unnecessary deaths.
• Allow representatives of the international media to safely and truthfully report on the conditions faced by the people of Burma.
• Permit full and free access to any representative of the United Nations working in Burma.
• Release all those recently detained for participating in peaceful demonstrations, as well as all political prisoners, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.




Burma Solidarity group (Brisbane)



5 October 2007

Mr Ren GongPing
Consul General
Chinese Consulate
Level 9, 79 Adelaide Street
Brisbane QLD 4000



Dear Sir,

We write to you as members of the Burmese expatriate community living in Australia. We wish to voice our concern about the deteriorating situation between the military, the “State Peace and Development Council” and the Burmese people.

We note that the Peoples’ Republic of China has historically had strong and close ties to the people of Burma and a growing, lucrative trade relationship with its government. Because of this, we believe that the government of China is well placed to guide and influence its neighbour towards a mutually beneficial outcome.

We ask that the Chinese government refrain from taking any action in the UN Security Council which would block the passage of a UNSC resolution on Burma. We believe that such a resolution could facilitate the necessary mandate for a mediated political settlement, to bring a peaceful end to the conflict.

We further ask that the Chinese government encourage the SPDC to:

• Allow peaceful protest and cease the violent retribution currently being carried out against Burmese monks and civilians.
• Allow the International Committee of the Red Cross access to prisoners held by the Burmese government.
• Allow representatives of the international media to safely and truthfully report on the conditions faced by the people of Burma.
• Permit full and free access to any representative of the United Nations working in Burma.
• Release all those recently detained for participating in peaceful demonstrations, as well as all political prisoners, including leader Aung San Suu Kyi.





(ဒီစာကိုေတာ့ Chinese Consulate လက္ခံယူရန္ ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္ေၾကာင္းပါ)









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Wednesday, October 3, 2007

ေခြးေျပးေျပး ရေသာ စစ္အုပ္စု နုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ၾကီး




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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Free Burma Rangers

ျမန္မာတြင္း ကျပည္သူမ်ား၊နူိင္ငံတကာေရာက္ျမန္မာလူငယ္မ်ား……………...

က်ေနာ္တို ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ နယ္စပ္ေဒသ အသီးသီးမွာ လူမ်ဳိးစု ေတြ ကို စစ္အုပ္စု က ဘယ္ေလာက္ဖိႏွိပ္တယ္ ဆိုတာကို ဒီvideoမွာေတြ ့ျမင္နိုင္ပါတယ္၊

(ဒီ video ကို free Burma Rangers website မွ ရယူထားပါတယ္)





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Monday, September 10, 2007

ABSDF S-1 Meet in Japan Demo Group(26-08-2007 )


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