A group of internally displaced children in Myanmar/ Photo credit: Free Burma Rangers (ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြ ေဒၚလာေသာင္းခ်ီျပီး နယူကလီးယားလက္နက္အေျကာင္းသင္ျကားေနခ်ိန္မွာ ပညာသင္ခြင့္မရရွိတဲ့ ျမန္မာကေလးငယ္မ်ား၊ အခုလို ကေလးငယ္ေတြ သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာရွိေနတာ ျမန္မာ့အနာဂတ္အတြက္ ရင္ေလးစရာပါ)
ျမန္မာျပည္က တိုးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲမွဳသတင္း၊ ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ရဲ ့အလည္အပတ္ခရီးစဥ္သတင္းေတြ ဘက္ကုိ ႏိုင္ငံတကာက အာရံုစိုက္ေနျကခ်ိန္မွာ ျမန္မာအစိုးရရဲ ့ နယူကလီးယားလက္နက္ ထုတ္လွုပ္မွု နဲ ့ ဆိုင္တဲ့ ေျခလွမ္းေတြ အေျကာင္း တိုင္မ္းမဂဇင္းက ေရးသားလိုက္ပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာအစိုးရဟာ စစ္မွန္ေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သစ္ဆီကုိ ဦးတည္သြားေနျပီလို ့ တဖက္က ေျကြးေျကာ္ေနသလို၊ ပညာသင္စားရိတ္ျမင့္မားလွတဲ့ ရုရွားႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြဟာ နယူကလီးယားလက္နက္နဲ ့ သက္ဆိုင္တဲ့ ပညာရပ္ေတြကုိ သင္ျကားေနဆဲျဖစ္တဲ့ အေျကာင္း ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၇ရက္ေန ့ ထုတ္ တိုင္မ္းမဂႊဇင္းရဲ ့ အင္တာနက္စာမ်က္ႏွာမွာ ေရးသားထားပါတယ္။
ရုရွႏိုင္ငံေမာ္စကိုမွာရွိတဲ့ Bauman တက႓သိုလ္က နယူကလီးယားသိပၼံပညာရပ္ကုိ သင္ျကားပို ့ခ်ေနတဲ့ ပေရာ္ဖက္ဆာ Gostev ရဲ ့ ေျပာျကားခ်က္အရ လက္ရွိသူသင္ျကားေနရတဲ့ စာသင္ခန္းေတြမွာ (ခါတိုင္းႏွစ္ေတြလိုပဲ) ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ကေစလြတ္တဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ပါ၀င္ေနဆဲပဲလို ့ တိုမ္းမဂႊဇင္းက ေရးသားလိုက္ျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
တိုင္မ္းက အေသးစိပ္အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကုိ ဆက္လက္ေမးျမန္းတဲ့အခါ Bauman တက႓သိုလ္ရဲ ့ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ Anna Lustina က “တျခားႏိုင္ငံက ေက်ာင္းသားေတြနဲ ့သူတို ့သင္ျကားေနတဲ့ ဘာသာရပ္ေတြ အေျကာင္းကုိ ေျပာျကားလို ့ ရေပမယ့္ ၊ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ ့ ကြ်န္မတို ့ျကားမွာ အထူးသေဘာတူညီမွဳ ရယူထားတဲ့အတြက္ ျမန္မာေက်ာင္းသားေတြ အေရအတြက္နဲ ့သင္ျကားေနတဲ့ ဘာသာရပ္ေတြအေျကာင္းကုိ ေျပာဆိုလို ့ မရပါဘူး” လို ့ျငင္းပယ္သြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အေရအတြက္ အတိအက်ကုိ မသိရေပမယ့္ ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားဟာ ဒံုးက်ည္ပညာရပ္၊ နယူကလီးယားသိပၼံပညာရပ္ စတဲ့ ပညာရပ္ေတြကုိ ဆက္လက္သင္ျကားေနတဲ့ အေျကာင္း ပေရာ္ဖက္ဆာ Gostev က အတည္ျပဳေျပာျကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ Bauman တက႓သိုလ္လိုပဲ ရုရွားႏိုင္ငံရွိ အျခားေက်ာင္းေတြမွာ ၂၀၀၁ခုႏွစ္ကစျပီး ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြကုိ အမ်ားအျပားကုိ စတင္လက္ခံခဲ့တာျဖစ္တယ္လို ့ သိရပါတယ္။
ရုရွားႏိုင္ငံမွာ နည္းပညာပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ ပညာရပ္ကုိ သြားေရာက္ပညာသင္ျကားဖို ့အတြက္ ေက်ာင္းသားတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ကုန္က်စားရိတ္က တစ္ႏွစ္ကုိ ေဒၚလာ ေျခာက္ေသာင္း ခန္ ့ ရွိတာမို ့၊ ကမာ႓ ့ဆင္းရဲေသာႏိုင္ငံမ်ားထဲမွာ တစ္ခုအပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက တျခားအေရးျကီးတဲ့ ပညာေရးနဲ ့ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းေတြ မွာ ရင္းႏွီးျမွဳပ္နွံမွဳ မလုပ္ပဲ၊ နယူကလီးယားထုတ္လွုပ္မွုနဲ ့ဆိုင္တဲ့ နည္းပညာရပ္အတြက္ ေငြအေျမာက္အမ်ားရင္းနွီးေနတာဟာ ေမးခြန္းထုတ္စရာပါ။
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံဟာ ယခုထက္ထိ နယူးကလီးယားလက္နက္ထုတ္လုပ္မွဳနဲ ့ပတ္သက္ျပီး စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးခြင့္ သေဘာတူညီမွဳ လက္နက္ကုိ ေရးထိုးဖို ့ျငင္းဆိုထားတဲ့ အေျကာင္း အိုင္ေအအီးေအ ေခၚ International Atomic Energy Agency ကသတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ထားပါတယ္။
ရုရွႏိုင္ငံဟာ သယံဇာတေတြ ေပါျကြယ္၀တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ရင္းႏွီးျမဳပ္ႏွံမွုေတြ ကုိ ဆက္လက္ျပဳလုပ္ သြားဖို ့အစီအစဥ္ရွိပံုရပါတယ္။ DMNG ကလို ့ေခၚတဲ့ ရုုရွ ကုမနီတစ္ခုက သတၴဳ နဲ ့ ေရနံရွာေဖြေရးလုပ္ငန္းအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ ့မွာ ရံုးခန္းဖြင့္လွစ္ထားျပီး၊ Gazprom လို ့ေခၚတဲ့ သဘာ၀ဓာတ္ေငြ ့တူးေဖာ္ေရးကုမနီက တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ ကလည္း ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကုိ ျသဂုတ္လတုန္းက သြားေရာက္ျပီး ေလ့လာမွုေတြလုပ္ခဲ့တယ္လို ့တိုင္မ္းကေရးသားထားပါတယ္။
ဦးသိန္းစိန္အစိုးရ အေနနဲ ့ တကယ္စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏိုင္ငံကုိ တည္ေဆာက္ဖို ့ေစတနာရွိရင္ ရုရွမွာ စစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြ နယူကလီးယားလက္နက္ပညာသင္ျကားမွုေတြကုိ ရပ္ဆိုင္းျပီး ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း က ကေလးေတြ ကုိ အခမဲ့ပညာသင္ျကားႏိုင္ဖို ့ ဦးစြာ လုပ္ေဆာင္သင့္ ေျကာင္းပါ။
Why Are Burmese Scientists Studying Missile Technology in Moscow?
Burmese junta leader Than Shwe reviews
troops during a military parade marking the country's Armed Forces Day
in the capital Naypyidaw on March 27, 2010
Christophe Archambault / AFP / Getty Images
A few years ago, during a summer recess at Moscow's Bauman University, two foreign students from Burma were abruptly expelled for drinking vodka in their dormitory. It was a minor infraction, one that would earn their Russian peers a reprimand at most. But these two students, like hundreds of others, were studying in Russia as part of their service in the Burmese military. They were part of a program to teach the Burmese government how to operate a nuclear reactor, how to find and process uranium, and how build missiles big enough to carry a nuclear bomb. Although they were thousands of miles from home, living in a run-down Moscow dormitory, they were subject to Burmese military discipline. That meant, they were headed back to Burma.
The chore of taking them to the airport then fell to one of their professors, Valery Gostev, a lecturer in missile design, who recalls how their faces turned white as they sat in the departure lounge. "They were terrified of going home," he says. An aging engineer of the old Soviet school, who favors tweed blazers and orthopedic shoes, Gostev had never thought very hard until that day about the distant Asian government whose citizens he had been assigned to train. He started asking the students about their leaders, and they told him, warily, that Burma is run by a military junta. "I asked them, Why do you need these rockets?" he says. "And they told me, The same reason you keep dogs in your yard — to scare people off." (Read about Hillary Clinton's landmark visit to Burma.)
For decades, that has been the main prerogative of Burma's government, which has been run by a clique of paranoid generals since 1962 until late 2010, when the country began a transition to civilian rule. The generals, however, still retain enormous influence. Their rule, which often mimics the regime in North Korea, has used their country's natural-resource wealth to build up a powerful army — purchasing weapons stockpiles and building a network of underground bunkers — while the population sank into abject poverty.
According to rights watchdog Freedom House, Burma ranks among the "worst of the worst" regimes in the world. Its relations with the U.S. saw a breakthrough this month when Hillary Clinton became the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Burma in more than 50 years. But Burma remains under international sanctions for its human-rights abuses and is considered a pariah state. One of Burma's more prominent partners during its decades of isolation, aside from China and North Korea, has been Russia, which began accepting large numbers of Burmese military officers into its schools since 2001, the same year Russia agreed to build a small nuclear reactor for Burma. (In parallel, Russia reached a deal to sell Burma fighter jets and heavy artillery.) (See if Burma's ethnic minorities will be forgotten.)
The reactor sale was formalized in 2007 and, according to the contract, included training for "300-350 nuclear-energy specialists." It also stipulated that the reactor would be used not for military purposes but for scientific and medical research. But that explanation did not sit will with the world's nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA. As a portion of its economy, Burma spends more on its military and less on health care than almost any other country in the world, and the idea that it would splurge on a reactor worth $150 million just to make medical isotopes seemed ridiculous. A reactor that small "would represent no threat to world peace," Robert Kelley, a former director at the IAEA, wrote in an op-ed last month. "But without inspections, there would be constant concerns that even a small facility could be used for nefarious purposes." So far, however, Burma has refused to sign the nuclear agreements that would allow for IAEA inspections, even after evidence surfaced last year of a secret weapons program.
The source of that evidence was Sai Thein Win, a former major in the Burmese military. In 2010, he defected to the West with a cache of secret documents and photographs, which were published by the Democratic Voice of Burma, an opposition news agency based in Oslo. One of the documents appeared to be a military order for a "bomb reactor," while many of the photos showed Sai Thein Win posing with missile parts or with equipment that could be used to enrich uranium. He spoke to TIME by phone in October, but asked not to reveal his location. "If they know where I am, it would not be hard for them to have me taken out."
By his estimate, around 10,000 Burmese students, mostly military officers, have studied at Russia's technical universities, and many of them were sent specifically as part of a nuclear program. He was among the first. In 2001, he says he became one of only three Ph.D. students accepted into Bauman's secretive rocket-engines department, where Gostev is a lecturer. "There was one guy from North Korea, one guy from Iran, and me," Sai Thein Win says. "The only guy who completed the degree in the end was the North Korean, so his rockets would be the ones flying tests over Japanese islands by now." Sai Thein Win's career was less prodigious.
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