Thursday, February 25, 2010

၆၂ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားေန႕နွင့္၂၀၁၀ခုနွစ္ကရင္ႏွီးေနွာဖလွယ္ပဲြကိုဂ်ပန္နိဳင္ငံတိုက်ိဳျမို႕တြင္က်င္းပ

ကရင္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားသည္လူမ်ိဳးတမ်ိဳးျဖစ္သည္အေလ်ွာက္မိမိတို႕၏ဆုံးရွံဳးေနေသာအခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကိုေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့သည္မွာ
၆၂ နွစ္ပင္ရွိခဲ့ေလျပီ သို႕ရာတြင္ကရင္မ်ိဳးတို႕ သည္မိမိတို႕၏ဆံုးရႈံးေသာလူအခြင့္အေရးမ်ားကိုစစ္အစိုးရနွင့္
စစ္တပ္၏ဖိနွိပ္သတ္ျဖတ္သည္႕ၾကားမွရဲရဲဝံ့ဝံ့ေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့သည္မွာရာစုနွစ္ဝက္ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ျပီျဖစ္သည္၊၊
မိမိတို႕လူမ်ိဳးမ်ား၏အခြင့္အေရးေတာင္းဆိုခဲ့သည္႕ေဖေဖၚဝါရီ ၁၁ ရက္တြင္က်ေရာက္မည္႕ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားေန႕ ကိုဂ်ပန္နိဳင္ငံတိုက်ိဳျမိဳ႕တြင္၇-၂-၂၀၁၀ ေန႕တြင္က်င္းပခဲ့ပါသည္၊၊

ဂ်ပန္အေျခစိုက္ကရင္အဖဲြ႕အစည္းမ်ားအားလံုးစံုညီစြာတက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ျပီးကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားေန႕
အက်ိဳးရွိရန္အလို႕ွဌာေန႕လည္၂း၁၅မွညေန၅း၃၀အထိကရင္နွီးေနွာဖလွယ္ပဲြ
တရပ္ကိုက်င္းပခဲ့ရာ KNL-JAPAN ,KNU-JAPAN,OKO-JAPAN,ဇဲြကပင္စာေစာင္-ဂ်ပန္KNC-JAPAN နွင့္မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ကရင္လူငယ္တို႕မွျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပနယ္စပ္္ေဒသနွင့္
ဂ်ပန္ျပည္တြင္းကရင္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအေရးနွင့္ပတ္သက္ျပီးေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါသည္၊၊နယ္စပ္ေဒသမွ
( PILOT CASE ဟုအမည္ရေသာ) ဂ်ပန္သို႕ပထမအသုတ္ေခၚမည္႕ကရင္ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား
အေရးနွင့္ပတ္သက္ျပီးေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ပါသည္၊၊
၇-၂-၂၀၁၀ေန႕ညေန၆း၀၀မွည ၈း၃၀အထိ ၆၂ ၾကိမ္ေျမာက္ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသားေန႕
ကို္အလံတင္အခမ္းအနားနွင့္က်င္းပခဲ့ျပီးကရင္အေရးကိုကိုယ္က်ိဳးစြန္႕
ကူညီေနသည္႕ဂုဏ္ျပဳသင့္ေသာဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳးမ်ားကိုလည္းဂုဏ္ျပဳခဲ့ပါသည္၊၊
ကရင္နွီးေနွာဖလွယ္ပဲြ တရပ္ကိုက်င္းပခဲ့ရာ KNL-JAPAN ,KNU-JAPAN,OKO-JAPAN,
ဇဲြကပင္စာေစာင္-ဂ်ပန္KNC-JAPAN နွင့္မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ကရင္လူငယ္တို႕ နွင့္တက္ေရာက္သူမ်ား
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SPDC mortar attack on school in Papun District

SPDC mortar attack on school in Papun District
SPDC mortar attack on school in Papun District

FBR REPORT: Burma Army Kills One Child and Wounds Two in Attack on School

FBR REPORT: Burma Army Kills One Child and Wounds Two in Attack on School
2010 February 24
Free Burma Rangers __ Reports_ Burma Army Kills One Child and Wounds Two in Attack on School

KHRG-Abuse between borders: vulnerability for Burmese workers deported from Thailand

KHRG-Abuse between borders: vulnerability for Burmese workers deported from Thailand
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Damn those dams

2010 February 22
The mighty Mekong river is just a memory

Ever since the completion of a few dams across the Mekong river in China, the once mighty river, which flows through all the riparian countries except China, has diminished to a trickle every dry season. The situation this year is worse than the previous years and the worst is yet to come with more dams being built.

If they were alive today, our forefathers would be in shock. The mighty Mekong – the traditional lifeline of Chinese, Burmese, Thais, Lao, Cambodians and Vietnamese – has dried up so badly this year that it no longer qualifies to be called a river.

Boat travel from Chiang Rai’s Chiang Khong district to the old Lao capital of Luang Prabang, a popular tourist route has been halted because the water too shallow for boats with the capacity to accommodate more than four people. Cargo boats from China have been stranded in Chiang Saen district of Chiang Rai.

Chirasak Inthayos, coordinator of the Network for the Conservation of Mekong River Natural Resources and Cultures, said that the river’s condition is the worst for more than a decade. He could only imagine how much worse it will be by April, when the dry season normally peaks. This drying up of the Mekong River is attributable to the closure of four Chinese dams in the upper reaches of the river reportedly to conserve water for electricity generation. The southern Chinese province of Yunnan, which borders Bumr and Laos, is reported to be experiencing the worst drought in more than 60 years.

It is obvious that the Chinese government could not care less about the hardships it causes people and countries along the Mekong down river from the dams. Beijing is interested only it its own people and its ever expanding industrial, business and farming sectors.

Apparently, we, I mean all the Mekong riparian countries except China, have been cowed by Big Brother China and none of us protested when the first dam was built on the Mekong river, despite the fact that the dam’s construction was in breach of international practice and treaties. Belated it may be, but we must all break our silence and loudly proclaim our objection to Bejing’s unfair usage of the water from the Mekong river.

More than a dozen dams are planned on the Mekong river. Just imagine what it will be like.

Will there even be any water released downstream for countries like Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, especially during the dry season? What will happen to Cambodia’s Tonle Sap, the lifeline of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians and the source of the famous pla krob dried fish? Also, will Vietnam’s Mekong Delta retain its status as the country’s rice bowl?

The livelihood of the people living along this once mighty river may never be the same as it was only a generation ago when the river still ran free, unharnessed by any dam, and its life giving water flowed downstream.

The destruction of this river and of the lives of the people who depend on it should not be allowed to happen. But it will if we all remain silient and just bear the hurt in quiet bitterness.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/169260/the-mighty-mekong-river-is-just-a-memory