စာဖတ္ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ားအားလုံးခင္ဗ်ား။
နွစ္ ၂၀-ေက်ာ္ခရီးစဥ္ရဲ့ တပုိင္းတစဒုိင္ယာရီအျဖစ္ "သူပုန္ေက်ာင္းသားတဦးရဲ့ မာရသြန္ခရီး" ဆိုတဲ့ေခါင္းစဥ္နဲ့ ABSDF မွာတာ၀န္ထမ္းစဥ္ကာလ က်ေနာ္ေတြ့ျကုံခဲ့သမွ်ကို ဧရာ၀တီမွာ အခန္းဆက္ေရးေနပါတယ္။ဒီအတြက္ မွတ္တန္းမွတ္ရာနဲ့ ဓါတ္ပုံေတြရွာရတာအေတာ္မလြယ္ကူျဖစ္ေနလုိ့
မွတ္တန္းဒုိင္ယာရီရွိသူမ်ား။ ဓါတ္ပုံမွတ္တန္းရွိသူမ်ား။ တပ္ဖြဲ့၀င္မ်ားအေနနဲ့
တတ္နုိင္သေလာက္၀ုိင္းကူညီေပးျကပါရန္ ဖိတ္ေခၚအပ္ပါတယ္။
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ေျကြလြင့္သြားေသာ ျကယ္ပြင့္မ်ား
၂၀၁၁-ခုနွစ္ နုိ၀င္ဘာလ ၁-ရက္ေန့ (လာမဲ့ အဂၤါေန့) မွာက်ေရာက္မဲ့ ABSDF
တည္ေထာင္ျခင္း ၂၃-နွစ္ျပည့္ေမြးေန့အမွတ္တရအျဖစ္ အမွတ္ ၂၀၁-တပ္ရင္း။ မင္းသမီးစခန္းကရဲေဘာ္ေတြ ၁၉၉၈ တုန္းကထုတ္ေ၀ထားတဲ့စာေစာင္တခု ကုိ ေကာ္ပီကူးပီး ျပန္လည္တင္ျပလုိက္ပါတယ္။
ေပးဆပ္သြားသူတုိ့ရဲ့ သမုိင္းကိုအမွတ္ရေစဖုိ့နဲ့ ေ၀ဖန္ဆင္ျခင္နုိင္ျကေစဖုိ့ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
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DVB journalist launches book in Chiang Mai
Dec 11, 2008 (DVB), Former student activist and rebel soldier Htet Aung Kyaw, who now works as a journalist for the Democratic Voice of Burma, launched his book "Far from Home: 20 years in exile" in Chiang Mai yesterday.
In his book, Htet Aung Kyaw looks back over the past 20 years of the struggle for democracy in Burma, drawing on personal reminiscences and political analysis.
"Far from Home" includes many of Htet Aung Kyaw's articles for DVB, the Irrawaddy, the Bangkok Post and the Nation as well as new material on his experiences with the All Burma Students' Democratic Front.
At yesterday's launch, Htet Aung Kyaw spoke about his reasons for publishing the book.
"Now we are reaching 20 years of our democracy revolution and I was asking myself why it has taken 20 years already, and how many more it will take," he explained.
"Then I asked myself what I have done over these years and I had the idea of publishing a compilation of my articles and writing about my experience in the jungle as an ABSDF member," he said.
"I’m publishing this in the hope that it will at least give people something to think about for the struggle."
Htet Aung Kyaw said the focus of his writing had changed over the years.
"The articles I wrote about 10 years ago for various publications , questioned why a lot of people in the exile movement, especially ABSDF fighters, had started to seek asylum in third countries at that time , had they always planned to do that since they came out of Burma?" he said.
"Ten years on from then, today my attention has switched to how far we have come on our journey."
Reporting by Naw Say Phaw and Siân Thomas
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Burmese Journalist Looks Back at a 20-Year Struggle
BANGKOK, Dec 19 (Asia Media Forum) - On the 20th year anniversary of the 1988 uprising in Burma, a Burmese journalist in exile looks back at how that crucial event influenced his decision to tell the truth about his country.
“At
the moment, it’s the only thing we can do — tell the truth — through the
media,” said Htet Aung Kyaw, a Norway-based journalist and author of‘Far
from Home: 20 Years in Exile‘, at the Foreign Correspondents Club of
Thailand Dec 17.
Htet
was an art student in Burma
and a local student leader when the Aug 8, 1988 pro-democracy uprising, focused
around a call to an end to 26 years of military rule, exploded. Thousands of
people, most of them students, were killed in the ensuing crackdown, and many
more went into exile into neighbouring Thailand and other countries,
making up a good number of today’s exiled community. The series of
protests ended on Sep 18, 1988 when the State Law and Order Restoration Council
(SLORC), as the junta as called, was established after a military coup.
Fleeing
to the Karen-controlled rebel area, Htet was recruited into the All Burma
Student Democratic Front where he served as commander.
A
journalist for the past 12 years, Htet could only shrug when asked about the
future of Burma.
“Everybody is asking why nothing has happened after 20 years. Frankly, I don’t
know,” said Htet, adding that change does not happen overnight.
In
1989, the SLORC declared martial law to quell further protests and in 1990 held
elections, the first time for the country in almost 30 years of military rule.
When the National League for Democracy (NLD) party led by opposition leader
Aung San Suu Kyi won by a landslide, the SLORC declared the elections void.
Since
then, Burma
has been under the tight grip of the Gen. Than Shwe-led government, now renamed
the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung
San Suu Kyi continues to be under house arrest, along with other opposition
figures.
Although
not much improvement is seen in the political situation, Htet have noted subtle
changes happening.
“The
way people think does seem to have changed. This shift in mentality could be
said to be the most significant sign of progress in the past 20 years,” Htet
wrote in an article he wrote for the Democratic
Voice of Burma website
in September this year.
In
September 2007, the military cracked down on massive protests led by thousands
of monks in different cities in Burma.
What began as a series of fuel price hike protests became a pro-democracy
movement. The protests resulted in at least nine people being killed
(independent reports say the figure was much higher), hundreds injured and
reportedly thousands of arrests made.
One
of the major changes, Htet said, is the advent of new media which allowed
people to share information faster and to a wider audience. The 2007 protests,
for instance, are a prime example of this power given to the people. Through
mobile phones and the Internet, particularly via blogs and through the
contributions of citizen journalists, the outside world was able to witness the
events in Burma.
Short-wave
radio also helped a lot in the pro-democracy movement’s information campaign,
especially via such programmes as Radio Free Asia Burmese and the Democratic Voice of Burma.
“The
media coverage provided by those in exile is crucial given the current unrest.
. . .This time, four short-wave radio stations, a satellite television channel
broadcasting to Burma and the Democratic Voice of Burma TV and radio provide
non-stop reports from inside Burma,” he wrote for Thailand’s English-language
daily ‘The
Nation‘ on Oct. 2, 2007.
“I
think that the Burmese media in exile have contributed a lot in terms of
exposing the issues that the government want suppressed. We say this in such
events as the 2007 monk-led demonstration and the May 2008 Nargis cyclone,”
Htet told AMF.
While
he does not see the media within Burma being free anytime soon, he
believes that there are many good journalists there who share pro-democracy
groups’ sentiments. “They just have no chance to voice out their ideas for
obvious reasons,” he added.
But
despite these changes, Htet concedes that much work needs to be done,
especially in uniting the different factions among opposition parties and
ethnic minorities in Burma,
as well as the conflicts among the Burmese media in exile. “We need to have a
systematic strategy, a step-by-step approach to finding a resolution. We need
to change the thinking of people,” he said. “We also need a unified and leading
organisation to be successful.”
Unfortunately,
he said there is a lack of dialogue between ethnic minorities and the NLD. In
the past, ethnic minorities complained that the NLD does not have their best
interests in mind and would likely to continue the government’s unfair policies
towards the ethnic groups, which include the Karen and Shan.
When
asked about the Association of South-east Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) role in a free
Burma,
Htet again shook his head. “Although it is playing a more active role now than
before, the ASEAN, of which Burma
is a member, still has its limitations. I don’t see a way they can change the
political situation in Burma
anytime soon,” he said.
After
the September 2007 protests, ASEAN urged the government to stop the violent
crackdown against the demonstrators, one of its strongest statements ever
against a member country.
As
for the planned national elections in 2010, Htet is wary about getting his
hopes too high. “I don’t see a democratic government after the elections. It’s
merely a changing of ‘uniforms’ from military to civilian ‘clothing’ but I am
afraid it will still be the same,” he said. — Lynette Lee Corporal
(END/IPSAP/LLC/JS/181208)
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