Spoof (Satire) re-posting. Presdt. Obama visits Burma during Cyclone Nargis

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s3i35220

BURMA GHOSTS

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BURMA
Democracy Declared:
Majority over authority!
Down with the brutal military regime.
Election lost in 1990.
Dictator lost self esteem.
Xenophobic,
fear frail know it,
Down with SPDC.
Stop torturing innocent
people
prisoners
politicians.
Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
Free Aung San Suu Kyi!
Right now!
Right now!

Music:
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Remix of Ghosts II & III
Tracks 20 & 10

Words and Edits:
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2010 poem( for Nyi Nyi Aung and Wa Wa Kyaw) by Kyi May Kaung

"Don't rely on UN" poster, from Internet.



2010 poem
(for Nyi Nyi Aung and Wa Wa Kyaw.)

So we are even
in the first year of the first decade of the new millennium
already, and what has changed, since
I watched TV New Year 2000, with my friend from Brazil and her three
mad aunts – one a ballerina and the sad widow, of an opera singer – about midnight
she started, not actually dancing but striking, dance poses. Her face sad as a funeral. Watching Peter Jennings
walking, talking and broadcasting, from behind, the curved plate glass windows on Times Square
Paula said “Look at that!”

I think she meant, “How powerful! The most powerful nation on earth.”
But since then 9/11, Jennings dead of cancer, a three trillion $ war etc.
For us Burmese and Burmese-Americans, even worse.

January 4, tomorrow, the 62nd anniversary of Burma’s independence from Great Britain
only a few years after I was born. Almost my whole life already and what have we achieved?
A civil war still on-going. Some of the worst human rights abuses in human history.
Since the junta’s 1962 coup, a continuous, descent into
a trash heap hell of the junta’s own making. At least a million internally displaced persons and
orphans tramping around inside Burma,
a chain of refugee camps like sad pearls, produced when oysters die,
along the Thai-Burma border.

Wa Wa (“Goldie”) and Nyi Nyi (Younger Brother)
before mid-September last year, I didn’t know you
I barely remembered Nyi Nyi, though I did when I saw his photo.
So many demonstrations for democracy
in front of so many buildings, in Washington DC and New York.
I felt I had to help you, in the beginning there was only one other woman helping you,
before Jonathan Hulland wrote of Nyi Nyi’s Sept. 3 arrest at Rangoon airport, in the Huffington
Post. Since then, NPR and AP wrote about you. Then Nyi Nyi’s hunger strike, very worrying,
and after he broke his hunger strike, instead of giving him medical attention, they put him in a
dog cell with trained German Shepherds sit khway (army dogs) barking at him night and day.
At least now he’s back in a “normal cell.”
I’m glad Wash Post, the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Malaysia Times and Straits Times now all write about you, but sad to know, you are still in prison and
still have to go through a sham trial, against trumped up charges, just like
Aung San Suu Kyi did. Senator Webb went in to “rescue Yettaw” the Mormon man who swam to Suu Kyi’s house. But so far only statements. Sen. Webb has not yet flown to Burma, on another mission, prompting questions, “Is it because of Nyi Nyi’s skin color? Is it because he’s a hyphenated American?”
Nyi Nyi and Wa Wa, for you and the over 2100 political prisoners, including Aung San Suu Kyi, U Tin Oo, Su Su Nway, Min Ko Naing, Zarganar, Ko Ko Gyi, Mi Mi etc.
We wish for you, Freedom and a Happy Reunion, with your loved ones.
Sen. Webb and Kurt Campbell, please go to Burma and help Nyi Nyi and the others.
Presdt. Obama -- I, a naturalized citizen and I hope not a neutralized one,
voted for you. I’m not too keen about your new health care plan. Not happy it takes from Medicare, and mandates health insurance for us
we may not be able to afford.

Please review the review of your Burma-U.S. policy.

It’s not all up to you of course
but please move us closer to the Change we believe in.

Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Jan 3, 2010

Burmese junta pushes election 20 years after ignoring NLD win.

http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=41991

Woman reporter in Burma given a 20 year prison sentence

http://www.mizzima.com/gallery/media-alert/3317-another-20-year-prison-term-for-undercover-reporter-hla-hla-win.html

Radios provided by Australian Co. used by Burmese junta

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/technology-news/burmese-army-tunes-in-to-australian-technology-20100104-lq6l.html

[Altsean-Burma] December 2009 Burma Bulletin

Dear Friends,

Please find attached the December 2009 issue of ALTSEAN
Burma Bulletin.

The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in
Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy
movement and human rights activists.

In the December 2009 issue you will find:

* China & SPDC sign key deals
* SPDC snubs Daw Suu
* MPs call for Commission of Inquiry
* UNGA condemns SPDC
* SPDC buys Russian fighter jets
* Stiglitz offers advice to SPDC
* Other Burma news
* List of Reports
* Much more...

The December 2009 Burma Bulletin is also available online
at: http://www.altsean.org/Reports/Burma
Bulletin/BBDecember09.php

Yours, in solidarity,

ALTSEAN-Burma

The Economist magazine rates Burma as a very high risk country

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17509

ၿဖိဳးမင္းသိမ္း ရဲ့ ေသတမ္းစာ

ၿဖိဳးမင္းသိမ္း နဲ မိႈ (---လိုလိုို မိႈ လိုလိုို မလုပ္နဲ ့ဆိုတာ ဒါမ်ိဳးကိုေျပာတာ ျဖစ္မယ္)


ျမန္မာ့အေရး ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲက်င္းပေရးေကာ္မတီ

ဆက္သြယ္ရန္ဖံုးနံပါတ္ ၀၉၅၀၇၆၂၃၄ (ၿဖိဳးမင္းသိမ္း)

ျပည္သူလူထုႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးလုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္မ်ားသို႕ အသိေပးထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာခ်က္
(ေၾကျငာခ်က္ ၁/၂၀၀၉)

၁။ ယေန႕ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရးကို ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ရာတြင္ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၏ ေျပာင္းလဲက်င့္သံုးလာေသာ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးမူ၀ါဒအသစ္အရ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတည္ဆဲအစိုးရႏွင့္ တိုက္ရိုက္ထိေတြဆက္ဆံလာျခင္း၊ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအေပၚ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့ေသာ ပိတ္ဆို႕အေရးယူမႈမ်ားကုိ ဖယ္ရွားေရးအတြက္ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္၏ေခါင္းေဆာင္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေ၇းမွဴး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာေ၇းႏွင့္ ဖြံၿဖိဳးေရးေကာင္စီႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္လိုျခင္း၊ ပိတ္ဆို႕အေရးယူမႈမ်ားႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္းၿပီး ပိုမိုသိရွိလိုေၾကာင္း တင္ျပခ်က္အေပၚ နအဖက လိုအပ္ေသာ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ေပးျခင္းႏွင့္လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္တြင္ လြတ္လပ္ၿပီး တရားမွ်တေသာ ပါတီစံုအေထြေထြေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ က်င္းပႏုိင္ရန္ တပ္မေတာ္အစိုးရ၏ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနမႈစသည့္ အေျခအေနအရပ္ရပ္တို႕ကို လက္ေတြ႕က်က် မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ ရႈျမင္သံုးသပ္ရန္လိုအပ္သည္ဟုယူဆပါသည္။

၂။ ယခုအခါ အေမရိကန္အစိုးရ၊ ဥေရာပ သမဂအဖြဲ႕၀င္အစိုးရမ်ား၊ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂ ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာအစိုးရမ်ားအပါအ၀င္ အစိုးရမဟုတ္ေသာ အျခားအဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီးတို႕အေနျဖင့္ တည္ဆဲအစိုးရႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး အင္းအားစုမ်ား သင့္ျမတ္ေပါင္းစည္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္မည့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏လူမႈေ၇း၊ စီးပြားေရးႏွႈင့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးတည္ၿငိမ္တိုးတက္မႈမ်ားကို လုိလားသည့္အျပဳသေဘာေဆာင္ေသာ ေျခလွမ္းမ်ား စတင္ေနၿပီကို ေတြ႕ျမင္ေနၾကရေပသည္။

၃။ ထို႕အျပင္ယခုက့ဲ့သို႕ တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ အလြန္အေရးႀကီးေသာ အခ်ိန္အခါတြင္ တည္ဆဲအစိုးရ ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုမ်ားအပါအ၀င္ ျပည္သူတစ္ရပ္လံုအေနျဖင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရး၊ အမ်ိဳးသားျပန္လည္သင့္ျမတ္ေရးႏွင့္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေရးတုိ႕အတြက္ ရိုးသား ေျဖာင့္မတ္တည္ၾကည္စြာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကမည့္ လူပုဂိဳလ္ႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားအား ရပ္တည္ရွင္သန္ခြင့္ေပးရန္ အထူးလိုလွေပသည္။
၄။ ဒီမိုကေရစီဖြ႕ံၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးအတြက္ ဦးတည္ေသာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကို လာမည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏုိင္ငံေ၇းအခင္းအက်ငး္သစ္မွ စတင္ေဖၚေဆာင္ႏဳိင္ရန္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး ႏုိးၾကားတက္ၾကြသည့္ ႏဳိင္ငံေ၇းအင္အားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္မ်ားအားလံုးေဆြးေႏြး ညွိႏိႈင္းၿပီး အနညးဆံုး ဘံုတူညီခ်က္မ်ားကို အေျခခံကာ ရလဒ္ေကာင္းမ်ားေပၚထြက္ လာေအာင္ ပူးေပါငး္ေဆာင္ရြက္ၾကရန္လိုအပ္သည္ဟု အေလးအနက္ယံုၾကည္ပါသည္။

၅။ သို႕ျဖစ္ပါ၍ သမိုင္းေကာင္းမွတ္တိုင္ေဟာင္းမ်ားကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလက္ခံရင္းျဖင့္ သမိုင္းသစ္ စာမ်က္မွာသစ္တြင္ မွတ္တိုင္သစ္မ်ား စိုက္ထူၾကပါစို႕၊ ဟူေသာ တိုက္တြန္းႏိႈးေဆာ္ခ်က္ႏွင့္အတူ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို ပါ၀င္ျဖတ္သန္းႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ျမန္မာ့အေ၇းႏိုးၾကားသူမ်ား ပါ၀င္ေဆြးေႏြးၾကမည့္ ျမန္မာ့အေ၇းေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတစ္ရပ္ကို ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလအတြင္းရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕၌က်င္းပသြားမည္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး က်င္းပမည့္ အေသးစိတ္အစီအစဥ္မ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ထုတ္ျပန္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေလးစားစြာ အသိေပးေၾကျငာအပ္ပါသည္။

(ျမန္မာ့အေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲက်င္းပေရးေကာ္မတီ)