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Two men walking for peace, freedom
PHOTO BY JILL GOSCHE
Pair going cross-county to raise awareness of human rights violations in Burma; headed to United Nations
By Jill Gosche, jgosche@advertiser-tribune.com
POSTED: June 19, 2008
Athein walks eastbound on US 224 Wednesday evening. He and his friend are making a 3,000-mile trip from Oregon to New York to spread a message about freedom and peace.
With each footstep, Athein and Zaw Min Htwe are spreading a message of freedom and peace.
Athein, a 34-year-old who originally is from Burma, said he and his 27-year-old friend are raising awareness about genocide, torture and other human rights violations in his homeland.
“This is a terrible situation,” he said about Burma’s conditions. “We want peace and freedom.”
Athein said he started walking March 1 from Portland, Ore., and plans to arrive at the United Nations Security Council Aug. 8, the 20th anniversary of violence in Burma. He said he wants peacekeeping intervention.
“If it doesn’t work (in New York), I will walk to Washington, D.C.,” he said.
Athein said he was 14 years old in 1988, when the war in Burma began. He said he lived in the jungle from 1988 to 1997, and his brother and sister died in the war.
He relocated to Thailand before arriving in the United States in 2001, and left behind his wife and three children to make the trip across the U.S.
Athein and Zaw Min Htwe are walking at least 30 miles a day as they head toward the United Nations. Wednesday evening, their travels led them to the Tiffin area.
Athein said he had crossed seven states and walked about 2,500 of the trip’s 3,000 miles as of Wednesday evening. He was walking eastbound on US 224 as Zaw Min Htwe looked for a hotel room for the night.
Athein carried the U.S. flag and a flag bearing a peacock, which he said is a symbol of democracy and freedom.
A Web site documenting the men’s journey contains a letter they wrote to the secretary-general of the United Nations.
“We urgently send this petition to you from Iowa because of the critical situations currently going on in Burma. As you are aware, people in Burma under the military regime have been losing democracy and human rights for twenty years,” they wrote.
They also wrote, “On behalf of the people of Burma, we urge you to push the Security Council to immediately make a strong resolution in order to save the people in Burma from various troubles that they are sadly experiencing now and to stop the inhuman acts of the military regime.”
By Jill Gosche, jgosche@advertiser-tribune.com
POSTED: June 19, 2008
Athein walks eastbound on US 224 Wednesday evening. He and his friend are making a 3,000-mile trip from Oregon to New York to spread a message about freedom and peace.
With each footstep, Athein and Zaw Min Htwe are spreading a message of freedom and peace.
Athein, a 34-year-old who originally is from Burma, said he and his 27-year-old friend are raising awareness about genocide, torture and other human rights violations in his homeland.
“This is a terrible situation,” he said about Burma’s conditions. “We want peace and freedom.”
Athein said he started walking March 1 from Portland, Ore., and plans to arrive at the United Nations Security Council Aug. 8, the 20th anniversary of violence in Burma. He said he wants peacekeeping intervention.
“If it doesn’t work (in New York), I will walk to Washington, D.C.,” he said.
Athein said he was 14 years old in 1988, when the war in Burma began. He said he lived in the jungle from 1988 to 1997, and his brother and sister died in the war.
He relocated to Thailand before arriving in the United States in 2001, and left behind his wife and three children to make the trip across the U.S.
Athein and Zaw Min Htwe are walking at least 30 miles a day as they head toward the United Nations. Wednesday evening, their travels led them to the Tiffin area.
Athein said he had crossed seven states and walked about 2,500 of the trip’s 3,000 miles as of Wednesday evening. He was walking eastbound on US 224 as Zaw Min Htwe looked for a hotel room for the night.
Athein carried the U.S. flag and a flag bearing a peacock, which he said is a symbol of democracy and freedom.
A Web site documenting the men’s journey contains a letter they wrote to the secretary-general of the United Nations.
“We urgently send this petition to you from Iowa because of the critical situations currently going on in Burma. As you are aware, people in Burma under the military regime have been losing democracy and human rights for twenty years,” they wrote.
They also wrote, “On behalf of the people of Burma, we urge you to push the Security Council to immediately make a strong resolution in order to save the people in Burma from various troubles that they are sadly experiencing now and to stop the inhuman acts of the military regime.”
Two Burmese men walk 3,000 miles across country
Zaw Min Htwe walks along State Route 224 near Road 12 outside of Ottawa.
Hope to make it to New York by August
By Jessica Honigford
Staff Writer
GILBOA - Athein and Zaw Min Htwe have been making a more than 3,000-mile trek across the U.S. since March 1.
The pair are walking across Ohio, raising awareness about the current politcal situation in Burma.
The activists want to make it to New York in time for the United Nations Community Council on Aug. 8.
Aug. 8 Marks 20 years to the day when the Burmese military gunned down more than 3,000 peaceful protesters in the streets of Burma.
Burmese pilgrims cross the USA
On trek to U.N. to protest abuses by Myanmar junta
By Angela Mapes Turner , The Journal Gazette 
Wherever Athein and Zaw Min Htwe stop on their cross-country trek, two flags announce their arrival.
That red-and-white striped one, with a field of 50 stars over blue? No explanation necessary.
The second flag – a yellow peacock on a blood-red background, running toward a white star – leaves many Americans stumped.
“Some people say, ‘Oh, it’s a turkey,’ ” said Athein, 35, as he unfurled the flag Thursday morning at Fort Wayne’s Triangle Park. “Some say, ‘You a Communist, or what?’ ”
Not even close. Burmese refugees Athein and Zaw Min Htwe, 27, are pro-democracy protesters who wear military camouflage but carry a message of peaceful protest.
They quit their jobs and embarked from Portland, Ore., on March 1 to raise awareness of human rights abuses in their homeland, hoping to reach New York City and the United Nations by Aug. 8. The date marks the 20th anniversary of Myanmar’s most famous pro-democracy uprising, in which Athein participated.
The men set out Thursday morning for Ohio, joined by a small group of local supporters who planned to walk a leg with them.
Raising awareness of abuses and hand delivering letters of protest to the United Nations were the trip’s original purposes. Just two months into their trip, Cyclone Nargis made landfall and added new urgency to the mission.
The cyclone caused 78,000 deaths and left 56,000 missing, according to Myanmar’s military government, which drew new criticism by at first refusing aid. The U.N., which estimates that more than 1 million storm survivors still need aid, said Thursday it has received less than half the money it needs.
Athein’s three daughters – an 8-year-old born in a refugee camp in Thailand and 6- and 1-year-olds born in the U.S. – don’t understand why he’s walking across the country. They may never see their parents’ homeland except in pictures.
But they understand him when he says he’s trying to help people, Athein said.
The men’s walk has taken them through snow in Oregon and driving rain in Nebraska. They stay with volunteers, try to walk 30 miles a day, shed a few pounds and carry petitions for supporters to sign along the journey.
May Shein, 40, a Fort Wayne factory worker who has been in the city a decade, showed up Thursday in a white T-shirt printed with a photo of imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
May Shein still has family in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Her sister and two brothers lost their homes in the cyclone, she said.
For Min Min Htwe Nge, 33, the opportunity to walk a few miles in the name of democracy with two pilgrims was reason enough to show up Thursday morning.
“They’re heroes for me,” she said. “I cannot walk 3,000 miles.”
aturner@jg.net
That red-and-white striped one, with a field of 50 stars over blue? No explanation necessary.
The second flag – a yellow peacock on a blood-red background, running toward a white star – leaves many Americans stumped.
“Some people say, ‘Oh, it’s a turkey,’ ” said Athein, 35, as he unfurled the flag Thursday morning at Fort Wayne’s Triangle Park. “Some say, ‘You a Communist, or what?’ ”
Not even close. Burmese refugees Athein and Zaw Min Htwe, 27, are pro-democracy protesters who wear military camouflage but carry a message of peaceful protest.
They quit their jobs and embarked from Portland, Ore., on March 1 to raise awareness of human rights abuses in their homeland, hoping to reach New York City and the United Nations by Aug. 8. The date marks the 20th anniversary of Myanmar’s most famous pro-democracy uprising, in which Athein participated.
The men set out Thursday morning for Ohio, joined by a small group of local supporters who planned to walk a leg with them.
Raising awareness of abuses and hand delivering letters of protest to the United Nations were the trip’s original purposes. Just two months into their trip, Cyclone Nargis made landfall and added new urgency to the mission.
The cyclone caused 78,000 deaths and left 56,000 missing, according to Myanmar’s military government, which drew new criticism by at first refusing aid. The U.N., which estimates that more than 1 million storm survivors still need aid, said Thursday it has received less than half the money it needs.
Athein’s three daughters – an 8-year-old born in a refugee camp in Thailand and 6- and 1-year-olds born in the U.S. – don’t understand why he’s walking across the country. They may never see their parents’ homeland except in pictures.
But they understand him when he says he’s trying to help people, Athein said.
The men’s walk has taken them through snow in Oregon and driving rain in Nebraska. They stay with volunteers, try to walk 30 miles a day, shed a few pounds and carry petitions for supporters to sign along the journey.
May Shein, 40, a Fort Wayne factory worker who has been in the city a decade, showed up Thursday in a white T-shirt printed with a photo of imprisoned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
May Shein still has family in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Her sister and two brothers lost their homes in the cyclone, she said.
For Min Min Htwe Nge, 33, the opportunity to walk a few miles in the name of democracy with two pilgrims was reason enough to show up Thursday morning.
“They’re heroes for me,” she said. “I cannot walk 3,000 miles.”
aturner@jg.net
March for Peace
By WES KAPPELMANThe Oskaloosa Herald
Burmese activists spend night with Oskaloosa residents during 3,000-mile road march to New York.
Mary Patterson prepared a big breakfast on Thursday morning, but it was not because she and her husband, John, were particularly hungry.
John and Mary were also feeding Burmese activists before they continued their 30-mile per day march across to New York.
Athein, 36, and Zaw Min Htwe, 27, both originally from Burma — Burma is now known by the nation’s military government as Myanmar — left Portland, Ore., on March 1. Their goal is to reach New York City before Aug. 8 to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Burma and deliver letters in protest of the military government in Burma. They also plan to deliver a petition to the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for actions by the U.N.
After detailing grievances with the military junta, the petition asks the U.N. Security Council to impose a universal arms embargo on the Burmese military junta, impose sanctions on the financial transactions of Burma’s ruling military, recognize that genocide is being committed against Burma’s ethnic minorities, take steps to save lives of civilians and hold the ruling generals accountable for crimes against humanity. The petition, which is on their Web site http://88portland.wordpress.com, has more than 1,100 signatures.
Athein, 36, is a student who protested the Burmese government during democracy demonstrations in August of 1988. Aug. 8 is an important date to Athein because it is the 20th anniversary of the day hundreds of thousands of Burmese protested the military government and called for democracy in Burma. According to the BBC’s Web site, human rights organizations had claimed that at least 3,000 people were killed in the 1988 protests in Burma. Aug. 8 is also the first day of the Olympic Games in China.
Athein said he left Burma in 1988 and lived in Thailand with Burmese students involved in the protests in 1988, eventually joining the All Burma Students Democratic Front. Min Htwe’s father was a member of the same student group.
In 2007, Athein and Min Htwe met in Portland, Ore., where Athein was demonstrating. Min Htwe, who had been visiting his parents decided to join in the demonstration.
Athein said his plan for a march began in 2003 after a military junta-inspired attack on Aung San Suukyi. The prominent figure for the opposition to the military junta and 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner has been mostly under house arrest since.
The beginning of the march in Portland was difficult, as Athein and Min Htwe had to battle subzero temperatures and strong winds. In the Cascade mountains, they faced a demoralizing snowstorm.
The two keep a 30-mile-a-day pace, with each walking 15 miles while the other drives behind. With 1,080 miles from Oskaloosa to New York City, Athein and Min Htwe should comfortably reach their goal.
The Pattersons met Athein and Min Htwe through Zaw Htut, 33, of Des Moines, and they met Htut a few years ago through an exchange student that had gone to William Penn University. Athein and Min Htwe had been staying with people in the Burmese community in Des Moines for a few days before continuing their march east.
From Indianola, the two marched through Knoxville to Oskaloosa, stopping to rest Wednesday evening with the Pattersons.
John said the two look like army rangers in their military uniforms. Athein wears desert fatigues and Min Htwe wears a similar military garb, but with woodland colors.
“I think they are pretty courageous,” Mary said.
People have donated from around the world to help Athein and Zaw during their trip, with strong support from the Burmese community. The next major stop for Athein and Min Htwe is with the Burmese people in Chicago.
3,000-mile mission: Peace in Burma
June 3, 2008,
By Erika Wurst ewurst@scn1.com
For two months and three days, he has walked.
From Oregon to Oswego, he's walked. Two flags perched on his shoulder: One, the American flag; the other, representing peace in his homeland, Burma.
Whether it's a 90-degree Chicago summer, or a snowy mountain he's forced to climb, Athein -- who goes by only one name -- will relentlessly endure it, because to him, he must.
He plans to reach New York by foot, petition in hand, to save the people in the country he fled seven years ago. The camouflage-clad 35-year-old father of three young girls walks through countrysides and city streets, more than 3,000 miles, spreading his story about the genocide, torture and the inconceivable living conditions he was lucky to escape. He walks for those who couldn't.
"They are in a very dangerous situation," Athein said of the people who live in the country now called Myanmar. "I showed a picture (of the tragic conditions) to my daughter. She said, 'Why do they kill the people, daddy?' and I could not explain."
Almost 400,000 people have been displaced from their homes in the eastern region of Burma, due to fighting between the Burmese military and members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Then recently almost 10,000 people were killed when a cyclone ripped though the Southeast Asian country, but the government refused to accept outside aid.
"This is a real story," he said. "Not Hollywood."
The petition in Athein's bag calls for "members of the United Nations to make peaceful political change and reconciliation in Burma a priority, and to take all necessary steps to protect the people of Burma from the oppression and violence of the military junta."
To date, his petition has been signed by thousands.
Athein will present the petition to members of the United Nations on Aug. 8, when he arrives in New York -- 20 years to the day that the Burmese military gunned down 3,000 demonstrators in the now infamous 8-8-88 (Aug. 8, 1988) protests that, as a young boy, he was a part of.
"I tell my daughter, 'Don't cry, this is for you,'" he said, sipping out of his water canteen after carefully walking across the median of the Route 30 bridge in Montgomery.
Cars honked, people waved, and drivers offered well-wishes as Athein and fellow activist Zaw Min Htwe, 27, walked along Oswego streets. Through their travels, they are fed, and sometimes sheltered (depending on the day) through the generosity of people -- all while keeping a 30-mile-a-day pace.
"Everything in my life, I give for peace and freedom," he said, including an extra 15 pounds he's lost along the way.
"You don't need to go to LA Fitness," Athein said with a giggle before he continued walking. "Just come on and follow me!"
By Erika Wurst ewurst@scn1.com
For two months and three days, he has walked.
From Oregon to Oswego, he's walked. Two flags perched on his shoulder: One, the American flag; the other, representing peace in his homeland, Burma.
Whether it's a 90-degree Chicago summer, or a snowy mountain he's forced to climb, Athein -- who goes by only one name -- will relentlessly endure it, because to him, he must.
He plans to reach New York by foot, petition in hand, to save the people in the country he fled seven years ago. The camouflage-clad 35-year-old father of three young girls walks through countrysides and city streets, more than 3,000 miles, spreading his story about the genocide, torture and the inconceivable living conditions he was lucky to escape. He walks for those who couldn't.
"They are in a very dangerous situation," Athein said of the people who live in the country now called Myanmar. "I showed a picture (of the tragic conditions) to my daughter. She said, 'Why do they kill the people, daddy?' and I could not explain."
Almost 400,000 people have been displaced from their homes in the eastern region of Burma, due to fighting between the Burmese military and members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army. Then recently almost 10,000 people were killed when a cyclone ripped though the Southeast Asian country, but the government refused to accept outside aid.
"This is a real story," he said. "Not Hollywood."
The petition in Athein's bag calls for "members of the United Nations to make peaceful political change and reconciliation in Burma a priority, and to take all necessary steps to protect the people of Burma from the oppression and violence of the military junta."
To date, his petition has been signed by thousands.
Athein will present the petition to members of the United Nations on Aug. 8, when he arrives in New York -- 20 years to the day that the Burmese military gunned down 3,000 demonstrators in the now infamous 8-8-88 (Aug. 8, 1988) protests that, as a young boy, he was a part of.
"I tell my daughter, 'Don't cry, this is for you,'" he said, sipping out of his water canteen after carefully walking across the median of the Route 30 bridge in Montgomery.
Cars honked, people waved, and drivers offered well-wishes as Athein and fellow activist Zaw Min Htwe, 27, walked along Oswego streets. Through their travels, they are fed, and sometimes sheltered (depending on the day) through the generosity of people -- all while keeping a 30-mile-a-day pace.
"Everything in my life, I give for peace and freedom," he said, including an extra 15 pounds he's lost along the way.
"You don't need to go to LA Fitness," Athein said with a giggle before he continued walking. "Just come on and follow me!"
Men Walk Across U.S.
Monday, May 26th 2008
Two men walking across the country stopped in the Quad Cities on Monday. Athein and Zaw Htwe are walking 3000 miles, for peace and freedom in Burma. They say they left Portland March 1st, and will arrive in New York in early August. They say they are collecting signatures for their cause, and want to talk to U-N leaders. "The military goverment arrest and torture people every day. So nobody knows. That's why we walking, awareness to people. Please help to get peace and freedom for Burma," said Zaw Htwe. Burma is also known as Myanmar. The country is still reeling from a major cyclone. That country's government says the storm killed 22,000 people. Independent organizations fear that number is closer to 100,000.
Two men walking across the country stopped in the Quad Cities on Monday. Athein and Zaw Htwe are walking 3000 miles, for peace and freedom in Burma. They say they left Portland March 1st, and will arrive in New York in early August. They say they are collecting signatures for their cause, and want to talk to U-N leaders. "The military goverment arrest and torture people every day. So nobody knows. That's why we walking, awareness to people. Please help to get peace and freedom for Burma," said Zaw Htwe. Burma is also known as Myanmar. The country is still reeling from a major cyclone. That country's government says the storm killed 22,000 people. Independent organizations fear that number is closer to 100,000.
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ဇြန္လ ၇ ရ က္ ေန ့၂၀၀၈ တြင္ ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြးႏွင့္ ကိုေအသင္တို ့ အင္ဒီယားနားျပည္နယ္ရွိ ဖို ့ဝိန္း ျမိဳသို ့၀င္ ေရာက္ခဲ့ရာ ၄င္းျပည္နယ္ အတြင္းေနထိုင္လ်က္ရွိၾကေသာ ယခင္ ရဲေဘာ္ ေဟာင္းမ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ မကဒတ တပ္ဖြဲ ့၀င္ေဟာင္းမ်ား ၊လူမ်ိဳးစုအဖြဲ ့ အစည္းမွတာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ဆဲပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား၊ ၁၉၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ိဳးဆက္မ်ားႏွင့္ မ်ိဳးဆက္သစ္ ျပည္ခ်စ္လူငယ္မ်ား မွရင္းနီးစြာျဖင့္ၾကိဳဆိုပြဲျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ျခင္း အေပၚ ၈၈ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ိဳးဆက္ မ်ားမွ ေန၍ အသိမွတ္ျပဳမွတ္တမ္း ျပဳစုအပ္ပါသည္။
ေနာင္ေတာ္တို ့အေနႏွင့္ လည္းအခါအား ေလ်ာ္ သလိုဗမာျပည္ အေရးႏွင့္ပါတ္သက္၍တတ္ႏိုင္သည္ ဖက္မွ ကုညီပံ့ပိုး ေနလိမ္ ့မည္ ဟု ၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ိဳးဆက္မွေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါသည္ ။
ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး ႏွင့္ ကို ေအသင္ တို ့ လြန္ခဲ့သည္ ့၃ လမွ စ၍ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုကုန္းျပင္ျမင့္ အေနာက္ဖက္ ျခမ္းရွိ ေအာ္ရီဂြန္ ျမိဳ ့ မွ အေရွ ့ဖက္ျခမ္းတြင္ တည္ရွိလ်က္ရွိေသာ နယူးေယာက္ခ္ ျမိဳ ့ သို ့့ဦးတည္လ်က္ မိုင္ေပါင္း၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ခ်ီတက္လ်က္ ကမၻာတ၀ွမ္းမွ ျပည္သူမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံအသီးသီး မွနယ္ ျခား ႏိုင္ ငံသားမ်ားအား ဗမာျပည္၌ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနႏွင့္ လူမဆန္စြာ အုပ္စိုးေနမွဳ အေပၚ မီးေမာင္းထိုးျပသည္ ့အေနႏွင့္ေသာ္၄င္း။ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂၢ မွဦးေဆာင္၍ လူအခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ေနေသာ ဗမာ စစ္အၾကမ္းဖက္ စစ္အစိုးရအား အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေစရန္ရည္ ရြယ္လ်က္ ေန ့စဥ္ရက္ဆက္ ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵ ျပမွဳ အေပၚ စိတ္အားအရေသာ္၄င္း အျခားေသာဘက္ေပါင္းစံုမွ ကူညီေပးခဲ့သူ မ်ားအားလံုးကို ဤေနရာမွေန၍ မွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါသည္။
ကို ေအသင္ႏွင့္ ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး မွာ ယခု ဆိုလ်င္ မိုင္ေပါင္း ၂၅၀၀ နီးပါးျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ျပီးျပီ ျဖစ္ျပီး က်န္ ရွိေနေသးေသာ မိုင္ေပါင္း ၇၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ကို ေနာက္ ႏွစ္လအတြင္း ၈-၈-၈၈ မတိုင္မွီ ကုလသမဂၢရံုးသို အေရာက္ ခ်ီတက္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ ။ လက္ရွိ ရာသီဥတု အေျခအေနမွာ ယခင္ကဲ့သို ့မဟုတ္ဘဲ အလြန္ပူျပင္းသည္ ရာသီဥတုကို ေန ့စဥ္ရရွိေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ခရီးသြားမိုင္ႏုန္ုးမွာ ၃၀မိုင္ႏုန္း မွ တေန ့လ်င္ ၂၅ မိုင္ႏုန္းျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း ႏွင့္ ေရွ ့ခရီးတေလွ်ာက္တြင္ ပါ၀င္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လိုပါကလည္း ကိုေအသင္ ႏွင့္ ကို ေဇာ္မင္းေထြးတို ့ အားဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းလ်က္ အတူပါ၀င္ ခ်ီတက္ႏိုင္ပါေၾကာင္း အသိေပးအပ္ပါသည္ ။
ဗမာျပည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးႏွင့္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ဦးတည္လ်က္။
၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ိဳးဆက္
ေနာင္ေတာ္တို ့အေနႏွင့္ လည္းအခါအား ေလ်ာ္ သလိုဗမာျပည္ အေရးႏွင့္ပါတ္သက္၍တတ္ႏိုင္သည္ ဖက္မွ ကုညီပံ့ပိုး ေနလိမ္ ့မည္ ဟု ၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ိဳးဆက္မွေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါသည္ ။
ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး ႏွင့္ ကို ေအသင္ တို ့ လြန္ခဲ့သည္ ့၃ လမွ စ၍ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုကုန္းျပင္ျမင့္ အေနာက္ဖက္ ျခမ္းရွိ ေအာ္ရီဂြန္ ျမိဳ ့ မွ အေရွ ့ဖက္ျခမ္းတြင္ တည္ရွိလ်က္ရွိေသာ နယူးေယာက္ခ္ ျမိဳ ့ သို ့့ဦးတည္လ်က္ မိုင္ေပါင္း၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ခ်ီတက္လ်က္ ကမၻာတ၀ွမ္းမွ ျပည္သူမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံအသီးသီး မွနယ္ ျခား ႏိုင္ ငံသားမ်ားအား ဗမာျပည္၌ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအေျခအေနႏွင့္ လူမဆန္စြာ အုပ္စိုးေနမွဳ အေပၚ မီးေမာင္းထိုးျပသည္ ့အေနႏွင့္ေသာ္၄င္း။ ကမၻာ့ကုလသမဂၢ မွဦးေဆာင္၍ လူအခြင့္အေရးခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ေနေသာ ဗမာ စစ္အၾကမ္းဖက္ စစ္အစိုးရအား အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေစရန္ရည္ ရြယ္လ်က္ ေန ့စဥ္ရက္ဆက္ ခ်ီတက္ဆႏၵ ျပမွဳ အေပၚ စိတ္အားအရေသာ္၄င္း အျခားေသာဘက္ေပါင္းစံုမွ ကူညီေပးခဲ့သူ မ်ားအားလံုးကို ဤေနရာမွေန၍ မွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါသည္။
ကို ေအသင္ႏွင့္ ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး မွာ ယခု ဆိုလ်င္ မိုင္ေပါင္း ၂၅၀၀ နီးပါးျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ျပီးျပီ ျဖစ္ျပီး က်န္ ရွိေနေသးေသာ မိုင္ေပါင္း ၇၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ကို ေနာက္ ႏွစ္လအတြင္း ၈-၈-၈၈ မတိုင္မွီ ကုလသမဂၢရံုးသို အေရာက္ ခ်ီတက္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္ ။ လက္ရွိ ရာသီဥတု အေျခအေနမွာ ယခင္ကဲ့သို ့မဟုတ္ဘဲ အလြန္ပူျပင္းသည္ ရာသီဥတုကို ေန ့စဥ္ရရွိေနေသာေၾကာင့္ ခရီးသြားမိုင္ႏုန္ုးမွာ ၃၀မိုင္ႏုန္း မွ တေန ့လ်င္ ၂၅ မိုင္ႏုန္းျဖင့္ ခ်ီတက္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း ႏွင့္ ေရွ ့ခရီးတေလွ်ာက္တြင္ ပါ၀င္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လိုပါကလည္း ကိုေအသင္ ႏွင့္ ကို ေဇာ္မင္းေထြးတို ့ အားဆက္သြယ္ေမးျမန္းလ်က္ အတူပါ၀င္ ခ်ီတက္ႏိုင္ပါေၾကာင္း အသိေပးအပ္ပါသည္ ။
ဗမာျပည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးႏွင့္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို ဦးတည္လ်က္။
၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသား မ်ိဳးဆက္
Sunday, June 8, 2008
ျပည္သူလူထု သို႔ ပန္ၾကား ခ်က္
မိုင္ ၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ခရီး႐ွည္ ခ်ီတက္ေနေသာ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမွ ျပည္သူလူထု သို႔ ပန္ၾကား ခ်က္
ျပည္တြင္း၊ျပည္ပ႐ွိ ရဟန္း႐ွင္လ ူေက်ာင္းသားျပည္သူမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား…။
(၁) နအဖ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္အစိုးရ၏ ဖိႏွိပ္ရက္စက္မႈေအာက္ အမိျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး၊လူမႈေရး အခက္အခဲအၾကပ္အတည္း မ်ားစြာကို အားလံုး ၾကားသိျပီးျဖစ္ ပါသည္၊ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ယုတ္မာ႐ုိုင္းစိုင္း ေကာက္က်စ္မႈႏွင့္ ဖိႏွိပ္ေနမႈမ်ားသည္လည္း ပိုမိုတိုး၍သာ လာေနသည့္အေျခအေနျဖစ္သည္၊ ေမ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြရလာဒ္ကိုျပစ္ပယ္၍ စစ္အုပ္စု အက်ိဳးစီးပြား ကို ကာကြယ္ေပးမည့္ ဖဲြ႔စည္းပံုအ ေျခခံဥပေဒ ကိုအတည္ျပဳႏိုင္ဖို႔ လိမ္လည္ လွည့္စားမႈ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈ မ်ိဳးစံုျဖင့္ ဟန္ျပလူထုဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကိုက်င္းပ၍ လူထုက အမွန္တကယ္ ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း အ႐ွက္မ႐ွိေၾကျငာခဲ့သည္။ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္းသိန္းခ်ီ အသက္ ဆံုး႐ွဴံးခဲ့မႈကို စာနာျခင္းကင္းမဲ့စြာ လူမဆန္စြာျဖင့္ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအား အားစိုက္ကူညီ ကယ္ တင္ ေရး ထက္ ၎တို႔ အာဏာတည္ျမဲေရးအတြက္သာ ဦးစားေပး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနမႈကိုလည္း မ်က္ႏွာ ေျပာင္တိုက္၍ လုပ္ရဲသည္၊ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာ လွ်င္ ျပီးေရာ ဆိုသည့္ အေတြး အေခၚ ႏွင့္လုပ္ဟန္ပင္ျဖစ္ သည္။တုိင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ားစြာမွာ လည္း စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ဖိႏိွပ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ဆင္းရဲ ဒုကၡၾကီးစြာ ခံစား ေနရျမဲျဖစ္သည္၊ ျပည္သူလူထုဘ၀မွာ တေန႔ထက္တေန႔ ၾကပ္တည္း မြဲေတေသာ ရင္ဆိုင္မႈမ်ားျဖင့္သာ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ ေနရ သည္။
(၂)ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီရ႐ွိေရး ျပည္သူလူထုဘ၀ သာယာေအးခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပဲြ ၀င္ေနေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ကို မင္းကိုႏိုင္ တို႔အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လႉပ္႐ွားေနသူ မ်ားစြာ မွာလည္း စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ဖမ္းဆီး ထိမ္းသိမ္းျခင္းကိုခံေနၾကရသည္ ၊ NLD ပါတီ၀င္မ်ား မတရား ရက္စက္ အႏိုင္က်င့္မႈ နည္းမ်ိဳးစံုျဖင့္ ဖိႏိွပ္ ခံေနၾကရသည္ ကိုလည္း အားလံုး ၾကားသိျပီး ျဖစ္သည္၊ စက္တဘၤာလ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ၏သပိတ္ေမွာက္ ကံေဆာင္မႈကို အၾကမ္းဖက္၍ ျဖိဳခြဲခဲ့သည္ မွာလည္း တကမၻာလံုးအသိပင္။ စစ္အုပ္စုမွာ ၎တို႔ တရား၀င္ဖိႏွိပ္ရက္စက္ ခြင့္ရေအာင္ ဆက္လက္၍ ၾကိဳးစားေနပါဦးမည္၊ အလြယ္အကူ အေလ်ွာ့ ေပးမည္မဟုတ္ပါ။
(၃) အမိျမန္မာ ျပည္သူလူထု ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တိုင္းျပည္ ဖံြ႔ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးတြင္ စစ္အုပ္စု အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ ေနသေရြ႕ ဟန္႔တား ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ားျဖင့္ ၾကံဳ ေတြ႔ေနပါလိမ္႔မည္၊ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖၚႏိိုင္မည္ မဟုတ္ပါ၊ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ စစ္အုပ္စု ကို ျဖိဳဖ်က္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ျပည္သူလူထု အားလံုး ၀ိုင္း၀န္း ဆန္႔က်င္ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္မွ ရပါလိမ့္မည္၊ တိုက္ပြဲနည္းနာ ေပါင္းစံုျဖင့္ေတာ္လွန္ၾကရပါမည္။
မိမိတို႔ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ ျပည္သူလူထုအားပန္ၾကားလိုသည္မွာ…
-၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း စစ္အုပ္စု ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေရးတိုက္ပြဲ အ႐ွိန္ကို တတ္ႏုိင္သမ်ွ ျမွင့္တင္ေစလိုပါသည္၊
-တိုက္ပြဲနည္းနာ ေပါင္းစံုျဖင့္ ေတာ္လွန္တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ၾကရန္တပ္လွန္႔ႏို္းေဆာ္ပါသည္။
-ယခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္ (၁၉) ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ ျပည္တြင္း၊ျပည္ပ ႐ွိျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားအားလံုး တႏိုင္ငံလံုး အတိုင္းအတာ ေဆာင္သည့္ လူထုဆႏၵျပပြဲ ၾကီးမ်ားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ျပင္ဆင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကပါရန္ ပန္္ၾကားလိုက္ပါသည္၊
စစ္အုပ္စု မုခ်က်ဆံုးေစရမည္..။
၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္း
၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား
ရဲေဘာ္ ေအသင္
ရဲေဘာ္ ေဇာ္မင္းေထြး
(ဤထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို ျပဳစုေပးေသာ ဗမာျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးကို လိုလားသည့္ ေစတနာရွင္ အား အသိမွတ္ျပဳ မွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါ သည္)
ျပည္တြင္း၊ျပည္ပ႐ွိ ရဟန္း႐ွင္လ ူေက်ာင္းသားျပည္သူမ်ားခင္ဗ်ား…။
(၁) နအဖ စစ္အာဏာ႐ွင္အစိုးရ၏ ဖိႏွိပ္ရက္စက္မႈေအာက္ အမိျမန္မာျပည္၏ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ စီးပြားေရး၊လူမႈေရး အခက္အခဲအၾကပ္အတည္း မ်ားစြာကို အားလံုး ၾကားသိျပီးျဖစ္ ပါသည္၊ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ယုတ္မာ႐ုိုင္းစိုင္း ေကာက္က်စ္မႈႏွင့္ ဖိႏွိပ္ေနမႈမ်ားသည္လည္း ပိုမိုတိုး၍သာ လာေနသည့္အေျခအေနျဖစ္သည္၊ ေမ ၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြရလာဒ္ကိုျပစ္ပယ္၍ စစ္အုပ္စု အက်ိဳးစီးပြား ကို ကာကြယ္ေပးမည့္ ဖဲြ႔စည္းပံုအ ေျခခံဥပေဒ ကိုအတည္ျပဳႏိုင္ဖို႔ လိမ္လည္ လွည့္စားမႈ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္မႈ မ်ိဳးစံုျဖင့္ ဟန္ျပလူထုဆႏၵခံယူပြဲကိုက်င္းပ၍ လူထုက အမွန္တကယ္ ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း အ႐ွက္မ႐ွိေၾကျငာခဲ့သည္။ နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္းသိန္းခ်ီ အသက္ ဆံုး႐ွဴံးခဲ့မႈကို စာနာျခင္းကင္းမဲ့စြာ လူမဆန္စြာျဖင့္ ေလေဘးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားအား အားစိုက္ကူညီ ကယ္ တင္ ေရး ထက္ ၎တို႔ အာဏာတည္ျမဲေရးအတြက္သာ ဦးစားေပး လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနမႈကိုလည္း မ်က္ႏွာ ေျပာင္တိုက္၍ လုပ္ရဲသည္၊ ဘယ္သူေသေသ ငေတမာ လွ်င္ ျပီးေရာ ဆိုသည့္ အေတြး အေခၚ ႏွင့္လုပ္ဟန္ပင္ျဖစ္ သည္။တုိင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ိဳးစုမ်ားစြာမွာ လည္း စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ဖိႏိွပ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ဆင္းရဲ ဒုကၡၾကီးစြာ ခံစား ေနရျမဲျဖစ္သည္၊ ျပည္သူလူထုဘ၀မွာ တေန႔ထက္တေန႔ ၾကပ္တည္း မြဲေတေသာ ရင္ဆိုင္မႈမ်ားျဖင့္သာ ၾကံဳေတြ႔ ေနရ သည္။
(၂)ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဒီမိုကေရစီရ႐ွိေရး ျပည္သူလူထုဘ၀ သာယာေအးခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပဲြ ၀င္ေနေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ကို မင္းကိုႏိုင္ တို႔အပါအ၀င္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လႉပ္႐ွားေနသူ မ်ားစြာ မွာလည္း စစ္အုပ္စု၏ ဖမ္းဆီး ထိမ္းသိမ္းျခင္းကိုခံေနၾကရသည္ ၊ NLD ပါတီ၀င္မ်ား မတရား ရက္စက္ အႏိုင္က်င့္မႈ နည္းမ်ိဳးစံုျဖင့္ ဖိႏိွပ္ ခံေနၾကရသည္ ကိုလည္း အားလံုး ၾကားသိျပီး ျဖစ္သည္၊ စက္တဘၤာလ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ၏သပိတ္ေမွာက္ ကံေဆာင္မႈကို အၾကမ္းဖက္၍ ျဖိဳခြဲခဲ့သည္ မွာလည္း တကမၻာလံုးအသိပင္။ စစ္အုပ္စုမွာ ၎တို႔ တရား၀င္ဖိႏွိပ္ရက္စက္ ခြင့္ရေအာင္ ဆက္လက္၍ ၾကိဳးစားေနပါဦးမည္၊ အလြယ္အကူ အေလ်ွာ့ ေပးမည္မဟုတ္ပါ။
(၃) အမိျမန္မာ ျပည္သူလူထု ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တိုင္းျပည္ ဖံြ႔ျဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးတြင္ စစ္အုပ္စု အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ ေနသေရြ႕ ဟန္႔တား ေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ားျဖင့္ ၾကံဳ ေတြ႔ေနပါလိမ္႔မည္၊ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖၚႏိိုင္မည္ မဟုတ္ပါ၊ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ စစ္အုပ္စု ကို ျဖိဳဖ်က္ႏိုင္ဖို႔ ျပည္သူလူထု အားလံုး ၀ိုင္း၀န္း ဆန္႔က်င္ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္မွ ရပါလိမ့္မည္၊ တိုက္ပြဲနည္းနာ ေပါင္းစံုျဖင့္ေတာ္လွန္ၾကရပါမည္။
မိမိတို႔ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ ျပည္သူလူထုအားပန္ၾကားလိုသည္မွာ…
-၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း စစ္အုပ္စု ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေရးတိုက္ပြဲ အ႐ွိန္ကို တတ္ႏုိင္သမ်ွ ျမွင့္တင္ေစလိုပါသည္၊
-တိုက္ပြဲနည္းနာ ေပါင္းစံုျဖင့္ ေတာ္လွန္တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ၾကရန္တပ္လွန္႔ႏို္းေဆာ္ပါသည္။
-ယခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္ (၁၉) ရက္ေန႔မွစ၍ ျပည္တြင္း၊ျပည္ပ ႐ွိျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ားအားလံုး တႏိုင္ငံလံုး အတိုင္းအတာ ေဆာင္သည့္ လူထုဆႏၵျပပြဲ ၾကီးမ်ားျဖစ္ေအာင္ ျပင္ဆင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ၾကပါရန္ ပန္္ၾကားလိုက္ပါသည္၊
စစ္အုပ္စု မုခ်က်ဆံုးေစရမည္..။
၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္း
၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား
ရဲေဘာ္ ေအသင္
ရဲေဘာ္ ေဇာ္မင္းေထြး
(ဤထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို ျပဳစုေပးေသာ ဗမာျပည္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးကို လိုလားသည့္ ေစတနာရွင္ အား အသိမွတ္ျပဳ မွတ္တမ္းတင္အပ္ပါ သည္)
Monday, June 2, 2008
သပိတ္ေမွာက္ မွ...ေခတ္မီတယ္ ဗ်ိဳ ့
၃၁ရက္. ၂၀၀၈
အမိျမန္မာျပည္၏ လြတ္လပ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တို့အတြက္ မိုင္၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ခရီးစဥ္အားခ်ီတက္ေနၾကေသာ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ ကိုေအသင္ႏွင့္ ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး တို ့သည္..မိုင္၂၂၀၀ေက်ာ္ခရီးေပါက္ခံါျပီးျဖစ္၍ Illinois State, Chicago တြင္ ခရီး တေထာက္နားခဲ့ပါသည္။
အမိျမန္မာျပည္၏ လြတ္လပ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး တို့အတြက္ မိုင္၃၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ခရီးစဥ္အားခ်ီတက္ေနၾကေသာ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ ကိုေအသင္ႏွင့္ ကိုေဇာ္မင္းေထြး တို ့သည္..မိုင္၂၂၀၀ေက်ာ္ခရီးေပါက္ခံါျပီးျဖစ္၍ Illinois State, Chicago တြင္ ခရီး တေထာက္နားခဲ့ပါသည္။
ဤသို ့ခရီးတေခါက္နားစဥ္တြင္ ေမ ၃၁ ၌ Chicago ျမိဳ ့ တရုပ္္ ေကာင္စစ္ ၀န္ ရံုးေရွ ့၌ ပီကင္းအိုလံပစ္ကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။
ဤ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ပြဲသို ့ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္အတူ Chicago ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ား။ Indiana ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ား။ US campaign Burma အုပ္စုမ်ားပါ၀င္ဆႏၵျပျပီး..တရုပ္နိုင္ငံ၏ အလံကိုဆန္ ့က်င္ေသာ အားျဖင့္ မီးရွိဳ ့ ဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။
ဇြန္လ (၁) ရက္တြင္ wheaton ျမိဳ ့တြင္ Chicago ရွိ ျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ကိုဒင္နီယယ္။ ကို ေအာင္နိူင္ေထြး။ကိုညီညီ၊ ကိုထင္ေက်ာ္ထက္ တို ့က ၾကီးမွဴး၍ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ လမ္းေလ်ွာက္သူ မ်ား အားေဒသခံံမ်ားမွ ၾကိဳဆို.လက္ကမ္းပြဲအားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။
ထို ့အျပင္. လာမည့္ ဇြန္လ ၇ ရက္ေန.တြင္ Indiana ျပည္နယ္ Forth wyane ျမိဳ ့တြင္. Indiana ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ားနွင့္ေတြ ့ဆံုျပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီရရွိရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းမွဳ မ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖၚေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။.
ဤ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ပြဲသို ့ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင့္အတူ Chicago ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ား။ Indiana ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ား။ US campaign Burma အုပ္စုမ်ားပါ၀င္ဆႏၵျပျပီး..တရုပ္နိုင္ငံ၏ အလံကိုဆန္ ့က်င္ေသာ အားျဖင့္ မီးရွိဳ ့ ဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့ၾကပါသည္။
ဇြန္လ (၁) ရက္တြင္ wheaton ျမိဳ ့တြင္ Chicago ရွိ ျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ားျဖစ္သည့္ ကိုဒင္နီယယ္။ ကို ေအာင္နိူင္ေထြး။ကိုညီညီ၊ ကိုထင္ေက်ာ္ထက္ တို ့က ၾကီးမွဴး၍ ၈၈ စစ္ေၾကာင္းမွ လမ္းေလ်ွာက္သူ မ်ား အားေဒသခံံမ်ားမွ ၾကိဳဆို.လက္ကမ္းပြဲအားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါသည္။
ထို ့အျပင္. လာမည့္ ဇြန္လ ၇ ရက္ေန.တြင္ Indiana ျပည္နယ္ Forth wyane ျမိဳ ့တြင္. Indiana ရွိျမန္မာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္အဖြဲ ့မ်ားနွင့္ေတြ ့ဆံုျပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီရရွိရန္ ၾကိဳးပမ္းမွဳ မ်ားကို ဆက္လက္ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖၚေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။.
ေဟ့ မင္း သေဘာမျဖဴလို ့ ဒို ့သပိတ္ေမွာက္တယ္..
Today Athein and his team started from route 90/94 and walked through Chicago Downtown by Congress road. When they hit to Michigan Street they go North.
They were escorted by four Illinois state Police, two women and two men. When we reached Lessalle street we went north again and arrived to Erie Street around 1pm. we turn right on Erie and we saw a Chinese consulate on our left with Chinese Flag raising on the top.
There we met comrades from Fort Wayne Indiana. They were waiting for us. All of them around seven to eight . They brought placards and posters of ASSK and pictures of Cyclone victims and dead bodies. All together we were around 15-20 people including two white women.
Athein started to make three salutes. Athein give a speech about why he is doing this trip and thanks to people who came a support their long march especially from Fort Wayne , Indiana and people from Chicago.
We shouted slogans:
Free free free Burma!
China China killing Burma
boycott boycott china olympic
We burned Chinese flag and took photo of that moment
After 3pm we ended our demo and returned home.
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