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  • The Navy Refuses Ethnic Kaman Refugees in Sittwe

    The Navy Refuses Ethnic Kaman Refugees in Sittwe

    October 26, 2012
    M-Media
    Reporting by Zarni

    Thae Chaung (at 3:40 PM)

    Terror in Arakan state continue to get worse today.

    Groups of ethnic Kaman refugees from Kyaut Phyu have landed in Thae Chaung, Sittwe (Akyab). But another 5,000 to 6,000 refugees from Pauk Taw and Kyuat Phyu have been prevented by the Navy from entering villages where the refugees are trying to take refuge. A refugee told M-Media that they might be sent instead to A-Ngu-Maw island, near Maung Taw.

    M-Media talked to an ethnic Kaman refugee at 3:40 PM today,

    “They said we should be sent to A-Ngu-Maw island by these boats. There is no food and water at A-Ngu-Maw island. So, refugees might die of hunger and dehydration there. Navy Colonel Maung Maung Oo has confiscated refugees’ boats. We said we didn’t want to go to A-Ngu-Maw, but preferred to stay in villages. A woman from Pak Taw died today. She died of hunger and dehydration as she was on the boat for 2-3 days without food and water. Now, a pregnant woman is making noise as it’s the time to give birth her child. Nobody can do anything. Situations can get worse, and everyone is worried”.

    More pictures of refugees in Thae Chaung, Sittwe, are available at M-Media Facebook.

  • ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ျမန္မာျပည္က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားနဲ႔ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ရဲ့ စိန္ေခၚမွဳ (ဘာသာျပန္)

    ေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ျမန္မာျပည္က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားနဲ႔ ယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ရဲ့ စိန္ေခၚမွဳ (ဘာသာျပန္)

    ၀ါရွင္တန္ပို႔စ္။
    By and Harrison Akins
    ၂၃-၁၀-၂၀၁၂

    source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/aung-san-suu-kyi-the-rohingya-of-burma-and-the-challenge-of-faith/2012/10/24/31901eda-1e11-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_blog.html

    “She came she saw, she conquered.” အေမရိကန္ကြန္ကရက္ေရႊတံဆိပ္ဆုကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လက္ခံရယူခဲ့စဥ္မွာေတာ့ သူမက လိုက္ေလ်ာေဖာ္ေရြေနတဲ့ ကန္ထိပ္သီးႏိုင္ငံေရးေခါငး္ေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔အတူ ရင္ေပါင္တန္းခဲ့တာ ဂုဏ္ယူဖြယ္ပါ။ သူမက ကမၻာ့အာရံုစူးစိုက္မွဳကို ဖမ္းစားထားတာတင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ကမၻာ့အခ်စ္ေတာ္လည္း ျဖစ္ခဲ့သူပါ။ ဂြ်န္မက္ကိန္းကဆိုရင္ သူရဲ႕ကိုယ္ပိုင္သူရဲေကာင္းဟာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ပါလို႔ေတာင္ ေျပာဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။

    အေမရိကန္တကၠသိုလ္ကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳေဒါက္တာဘြဲ႕ယူဖို႔ လာေရာက္ေတာ့လည္း သူမရဲ႕ပံုရိပ္က ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔အတြက္ စြမ္းအားျပင္းခဲ့ေသးတာေပါ့။ သူမကေတာ့ လြတ္လပ္ျခင္းအတြက္  ဟစ္တိုင္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္တစ္ေယာက္။ ဒါေတြတင္မက ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအတြက္ေရာ၊ လူနည္းစု တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ပါ ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ စမ္းေပါက္တစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လူနည္းစု တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ိဳးႏြယ္ေတြကေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ ဖိႏွိပ္တဲ့အစိုးရလက္ထက္မွာ အခ်ိန္ၾကာျမင့္စြာ ျဖတ္သန္းက်င္လည္ခဲ့ရတာပါ။

    သူမကေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေခါင္းေဆာင္အျဖစ္သာမက ဗုဒၶဘာသာ၀င္မ်ားရဲ႕ ကရုဏာတရားအတြက္လည္း ဟစ္တိုင္ျဖစ္ေနပါေသးတယ္။ ဒါ့ျပင္ အဖိႏွိပ္ခံေတြရဲ႕ မဟာမိတ္ဆိုလည္း ဟုတ္ပါတယ္။ ဗုဒၶကေတာ့ သူ႔သာသနာရဲ႕ သေဘာသဘာ၀မွာ ကိုယ္ခ်င္းစာတရားသည္ ဗဟိုခ်က္မျဖစ္တယ္၊ တပါးသူရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာကို ေလးစားရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့အခ်က္ေတြကို ထိထိမိမိ ေဟာေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။

    ဒါေပမယ့္ ေဒၚစုၾကည္ကေတာ့ ျမန္မာျပည္က လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးဆိုင္ရာ အေရးအၾကီးဆံုး ျပႆနာရပ္ၾကီးအေပၚမွာ လံုး၀ႏုတ္ဆိတ္ေနတာကေတာ့ စိတ္၀င္စားဖြယ္ျဖစ္ေနဆဲပါ။ အဲဒီလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးျပႆနာရပ္ၾကီးကေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားရဲ႕ ဒုကၡဗ်ာပါဒေတြပါပဲ။

    လက္ရွိ ဒီမိုအသြင္ေျပာင္း ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရကလည္း ဒီရုိဟင္ဂ်ာေတြရဲ႕ ျပႆနာရပ္ကို ပံုသဏၭာန္မေျပာင္း ေပးရံုမက ၂၀၁၂ ဇူလိုင္လမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို အသိအမွတ္မျပဳ၊ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ကိုယ္ပိုင္အခြင့္အေရးေတြကို လည္း အသိအမွတ္မျပဳ၊ သူတို႔ကို ကုလမဟာမင္းၾကီးရံုးဆီ လႊဲေျပာင္း ေပးအပ္လိုေၾကာင္း ေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ ေၾကျငာခ်က္ေတာင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ စက္တင္ဘာမွာေတာ့ ဗုဒၶဘာသာရဟန္းေတြဟာ ဗုဒၶရဲ႕ သြန္သင္ခ်က္ကို ဆန္႔က်င္ၿပီး အႏၱီရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ဆႏၵျပပြဲေတြေတာင္ က်င္းပၿပီး ဦးသိန္းစိန္ရဲ႕ အဆိုကို ေထာက္ခံခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ အစၥလာမ္မစ္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ အိုအိုင္စီကိုလည္း ျပည္တြင္း ရံုးစိုက္ၿပီး အေထာက္အပံ့ေပးေရးကိစၥမွာ ျမန္မာအစိုးရက ပိတ္ဆို႔ဟန္႔တားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ကေတာ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္မွာ ျပႆနာေတြ မၿငိမ္သက္ေသးလို႔ဘဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

    ျမန္မာလူထုရဲ႔ ရာႏွဳန္း ၃၀ ေလာက္ကေတာ့ ဗမာမဟုတ္တဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးျခားေတြပါ။ သူတို႔ကေတာ့ စစ္တပ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးေအာက္မွာ အဖိႏွိပ္ခံျပစ္မွတ္ေတြပါ။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကေတာ့ သီးျခားခြဲထြက္ေနတဲ့ အျခိမ္းေျခာက္ခံေတြပါ။

    ၁၉၆၂ မွာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေန၀င္းအာဏာသိမး္ပါတယ္။ ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ႕ အတြင္းအျမင္ေတြကို ဖယ္ရွားၿပီး မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ဓာတ္ဆိုတဲ့ အေတြးအေခၚကို အေျခခံကာ ဗမာလူမ်ိဳး၊ ဗုဒၶဘာသာဆိုတဲ့အယူဆီကို ေျပာင္းလဲခဲ့ပါေတာ့တယ္။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကေတာ့ ဗမာလည္းမဟုတ္ဘူး၊ မြတ္စလင္ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့လည္း ကင္ပြန္းအတပ္မခံရဘူး၊ ခုိး၀င္လာတဲ့ ဘဂၤါလီေတြလို႔ မွားယြင္းခြ်တ္ေခ်ာ္စြာ နာမည္အတပ္ခံရပါတယ္။

    ၁၉၇၈ မွာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့တဲ့ စစ္တပ္ရဲ႕ နဂါးမင္းေခၚတဲ့ လူမ်ိဳးျခားရွင္းလင္းသုတ္သင္မွဳစစ္ဆင္ေရးကေတာ့ တိုင္းျပည္တြင္းက ႏိုင္ငံသားျဖစ္ရင္ျဖစ္၊ မဟုတ္ရင္ေတာ့ ခုိး၀င္လာသူဆိုတဲ့ ပုဒ္မတပ္ဖို႔ ရည္ရြယ္ခဲ့တာပါ။ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကေတာ့ မုဒိန္းက်င့္ခံရတယ္၊ အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္မရွိဖမ္းဆီးခံရတယ္၊ ဗလီေတြဖ်က္ခံရတယ္၊ ရြာေတြအဖ်က္ခံရတယ္၊ ေျမယာေတြ အလုခံရတယ္။

    ၁၉၉၁ မွာေတာ့ ဒုတိယမၸိစစ္ဆင္ေရးလုပ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။ နာမည္က ျပည္သာယာစစ္ဆင္ေရး။ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္ကေတာ့ အထက္မွာေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တဲ့အတိုင္း တေထရာတည္းပါ။ ရလဒ္က ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေပါင္း ၂ သိန္းေလာက္ဟာ ဘဂၤါလားေဒ့ရွ္ကို ဒုကၡသည္ေတြအျဖစ္ ထြက္ေျပးခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ယေန့က်န္ရစ္တဲ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာ ၃ သိန္းေလာက္ကလည္း စားစရာမရွိ၊ ေဆးအေထာက္အပံ့နတၳိ။ မြတ္စလင္အဖြဲ႕ေတြရဲ႕ ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့မွဳေတြကိုလည္း ျငင္းဆန္ပယ္ခ်ပစ္ၾကပါတယ္။

    ၁၉၈၂ ႏုိင္ငံသားျဖစ္ေရးဥပေဒဆိုတာကေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို ထိေရာက္စြာ ႏွိမ္ႏွင္းတဲ့ ဥပေဒပါ။ ႏုိင္ငံသားျဖစ္ခြင့္မရမွာေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြဘ၀ေက်ာင္းဖို႔ဆိုတာ ခက္ခဲသြားပါၿပီ။ သူတို႔ေတြဟာ ရြာအျပင္ထြက္ၿပီး ခရီးသြားခြင့္ပိတ္ပင္ခံရတယ္၊ သူတို့ရဲ႕ ၀တ္ျပဳရာေက်ာင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ျပဳျပင္ခြင့္မရဘူး၊ ပညာသင္ခြင့္ လက္ထပ္ထိမ္းျမားခြင့္ပိတ္ပင္ခံရတယ္။ သူတို႔ေတြက အဲဒီလိုပိတ္ပင္ခံထားရတာကို ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မယ္ဆိုရင္ (သူတို႔အခြင့္အေရးကို သူတို႔အျပစ္မဲ့စြာရယူမယ္ဆိုရင္)  ေထာင္ခ်ခံရမယ္၊ ေထာင္ထဲမွရိုက္ႏွက္ခံရမယ္၊ အမ်ိဳးသမီးဆိုရင္ ဆက္တိုက္မုဒိန္းက်င့္ခံရမယ္။

    အေဖမေပၚတဲ့ ကိုယ္၀န္ေဆာင္ကေတာ့ ေမာင္းထုတ္ခံရမယ္၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ အႏၱရာယ္အမ်ားလွတဲ့ ကိုယ္၀န္ဖ်က္ခ်မွဳပံုစံမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ကေလးဖ်က္ခ်ခံရမယ္၊ ဒီေတာ့ အမ်ားစုက ေသဆံုးၾကရပါတယ္။

    ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကေတာ့ ေခတ္သစ္ေက်းကြ်န္ေတြပါပဲ။ သူတို႔ကို အဓမၼေစခိုင္းမွဳေတြလည္း ရွိေနပါတယ္။ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြကို ဗမာလုံျခံဳေရး တပ္သားေတြက ျပည့္တန္ဆာအျဖစ္မတရားသိမ္းသြင္းၾကပါေသးတယ္။

    ျမန္မာအစိုးရရဲ႕ တံခါးဖြင့္ဒီမိုကေရစီကေတာ့ အမ်ားၾကီးလုပ္ဖို႔ က်န္ပါေသးတယ္။ နယ္လ္ဆင္မင္ဒဲလားလို႔ ဆင္တူတဲ့ ေဒၚစုၾကည္ကေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာအေရးကိစၥမွာ ပါ၀င္ၿပီး ခ်စ္ခင္ၾကည္ႏူးဖြယ္လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းကို တည္ေထာင္ေပးသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအထဲမွာ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြသာမက တိုင္းရင္းသားလူနည္းစုအားလံုုးကိုလည္း ပါ၀င္ေစရပါမယ္။ သူမက သူမရဲ႕ ဗုဒၶဘာသာယံုၾကည္ခ်က္အတိုင္း ကိုယ္ခ်င္းစာတရားကိုျပသမယ္ဆိုရင္ ေတာ့ အားလံုးက သူမေနာက္လိုက္ၾကမွာပါ။

    ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာေတြကို စနစ္က်စြာ အႏၱရာယ္ျပဳေနျခင္းကို ရပ္တန့္မွာသာလွ်င္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာကေရာ သူ႔ရဲ႕ျပည္သူေတြကပါ တရား၀င္ဒီမိုႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္ ျမင္ၾကမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

    ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ျမန္မာအတြက္ပထမေျခလွမ္းကေတာ့ ရိုဟင္ဂ်ာမ်ားတည္ရွိေနျခင္းကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳေပးရပါလိမ့္မယ္။

  • Radio Free Asia’s Interview With A Muslim Fleeing To The Sea

    Radio Free Asia’s Interview With A Muslim Fleeing To The Sea

    The following is the transcript of Radio Free Asia’s interview with a Muslim man who was fleeing in the sea to escape riots in Kyaut Phyu township, Arakan state. The original interview in Burmese language was aired on October 24, 2012.

    RFA: Mr. Maung Ni, where are you now?
    Ans: We are at Kyaut Phyu, in the sea by motorboats.

    RFA: Which quarter in Kyaut Phyu do you live?
    Ans: We live in the east of Kyaut Phyu. It’s called Pait Saet or Kalar Pait Saet.

    RFA: Why are you there in the sea, elaborate to me ?
    Ans: We don’t have our homes anymore as all were destroyed. We have been chased [by Rakhines] or raided by rods and swords. So, we are fleeing to the sea by boats.

    RFA: How many of you are there now?  Families or individual?
    Ans: We are at sea now as we fled because they were chasing us with swords. They had also destroyed all of our houses.

    RFA: How many of you are there? Are they your families?
    Ans: Yes, families and relatives. There are also other people and about 7,000 in total.

    RFA: How many?
    Ans: About 7,000.

    RFA: Where are those 7,000?
    Ans: They are floating in the sea at Kyaut Phyu. Yes, of course, total of about 7,000.

    RFA: How are they staying in the sea? Are they in boats?
    Ans: They are in boats, sir.

    RFA: Where are those 7,000 from? Tell me.
    Ans: They are also from eastern Kalar Pait Saet .

    RFA: Tell me the latest situation of your quarter as you saw.
    Ans: There is no single house left in our quarter. As being nowhere to live, we came here by boats.

    RFA: Didn’t the army or police protect you from rioters? Didn’t they prevent rioters from burning houses?
    Ans: Yes, they did. But they are unable to protect us well because there are too many rioters. That’s why we fleet from the area.

    RFA: How many military personnel are there? How do they protect you?
    Ans: I saw 20-30 soldiers.

    RFA: Did this event start from last night or this morning?
    Ans: There were fewer attacks last night, but more attacks took place this morning since 8 AM.

    RFA: More attacks took place at 8 AM today, is that correct?
    Ans: Yes, more today started from 8 AM.

    RFA: Tell me what you saw last night – from the beginning to the latest situation.
    Ans: What happened was, since 8 PM last night, they started burning down Muslim houses in our quarter.

    RFA: How many of them? What did you see?
    Ans: There were army units and there are [unclear answer].

    RFA: Did you see by yourself or you heard it from someone else?
    Ans: I was there. Fire department was there. Together with the military, I was extinguishing fire.

    RFA: How many houses were burnt down?
    Ans: About 50 at that time. As I saw it by myself, it’s correct. Together with the army, I was extinguishing fire.

    RFA: You and the army together extinguishing fire, is that correct?
    Ans: Yes, yes. Fire department also came, but the fire couldn’t be extinguished completely.

    RFA: So?
    Ans: Rakhines came again and set on fire our mosque.

    RFA: Where was it?
    Ans: The old mosque.

    RFA: Where was it? Was it in Kyaut Phyu?
    Ans: Near Kalar Pait Saet office in Kyaut Phyu.

    RFA: Is the mosque still there? What happened?
    Ans: The mosque was not burnt down completely last night. But today at 8 am, the mosque (two mosques) were burnt down completely. When Rakhines started burning, Muslims tried to resist and retaliate. When Rakhines retreated a little bit, the army opened fire and three Muslim youth were shot dead.

    RFA: Where are they from? Tell me whose children they are.
    Ans: They are from our quarter.

    RFA: Did you see it by yourself or heard it from elsewhere?
    Ans: I was right beside there. My son was also there.

    RFA: Why did the army open fire? Tell me about the incident.
    Ans: When Rakhines came to set the mosque on fire, Muslims tried to counterattack with rods and swords. The army opened fire randomly and three Muslims got killed. Another 10 person got wounded.

  • Violence in Arakan Spread to Kyaut Taw Today

    Violence in Arakan Spread to Kyaut Taw Today

    October 25, 2012
    M-Media
    Reporting by Htun Taut

    Rakhines have started burning down Muslims’ houses in Kyaut Taw township today.

    At 6:30 AM, Rakhines have started burning down houses at Lat Saung Kaut village. Those fleeing the area were shot dead by the Rakhine Army, which is pretending to be the Burmese Army.

    A local contact told M-Media that 7 Muslims have been shot dead.

  • Security in Pak Taw Township Now Uncertain

    Security in Pak Taw Township Now Uncertain

    October 24, 2012
    M-Media
    Reportings by Htun Taut

    At 11: 30 & 11: 48 PM

    Security situation is uncertain in Pak Taw. The township authorities told Pak Taw Ward 3 and 4 residents that they could not provide security to the residents. Thus, the residents are trying to leave their villages.

    According to information received by M-Media at 11:48 last night (October 24, 2012), Muslim residents in Pak Taw township are worried as the border security forces also told that they could not take responsibility for the security of Char Ae Taung, Zaw Gyi, Nget Chaung, Lambadi and Don villages.

    Some villagers thus went out at night to rent ferries to leave their villages. At Zay Cho village, they were shot from a Rakhine boat. Out of seven villagers, five  escaped but two persons were arrested by Rakhines. The arrested villagers are

    (1) Marlar Ahmed (age 34) (father: Mosta Ahmed)

    (2) Hla Maung (age 31) (father: Kawbi Rahmed)

    “Rakhines have arrested them. Since they are in Rakhines’ hands, they won’t come alive. Their bodies won’t even come back”, told a resident from Pak Taw.