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28.Apr.2008

စင္ကာပူ တနဂၤေႏြ မဲေပးပြဲ (ေဆာင္းပါး) Print E-mail
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Monday, 28 April 2008 13:40 - ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္
ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ ့အားလံုးေပါင္းျပီး ေအာခ်ပ္လမ္းမမွာ ရွိေသာ ျမန္မာသံရံုးဆီသို ့ မဲသြားေပး၊ ဆႏၵျပပြဲ စီစဥ္ထားသည့္အတိုင္း လုပ္ေဆာင္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ျမန္မာ ေရွာ့ပင္းစင္တာဟု သတ္မွတ္ထားေသာ ပင္နီစူလား ပလာဇာတြင္ ဘတ္္စ္ကား ၅ စီးႏွင့္၊ အျခား ထရပ္ကားမ်ား၊ ဗင္ကားမ်ားပါ လုပ္အားေပးျပီး ျမန္မာမ်ားကို ဆႏၵျပပြဲ လုပ္ေဆာင္မည့္ ျမန္မာသံရံုးထိ ကူလား၊ ေခါက္ျပန္ ပို႔ေပးခဲ့ကာ ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ ခန္႔မွန္းေျခ ျမန္မာ ၂ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ အက်ၤ ီ အနီမ်ား ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေထာက္ခံ၍ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက ဝတ္ဆင္၍ စုေဝး ေရာက္ရွိၾကပါသည္။

ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မွာ သံရံုးတြင္ က်င္းပေသာ ဧျပီ ၂၅ မွ ၂၉ အတြင္း မဲေပးပြဲကို မဲေပးလိုေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သံရံုးအတြင္းသို ့ ဝင္ခြင့္မရပါ။ မဲေပးရန္အတြက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားမွာ အခြန္ေဆာင္ျပီး စာရြက္ေတာင္းျခင္း၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားအတြက္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းမွ ေက်ာင္းသားျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းေထာက္ခံစာ ေတာင္းျခင္၊ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားမွာ မိမိတို႔ ပတ္စ္ပို႔မ်ားကို အလုပ္ရွင္မ်ားက သိမ္းဆည္းျခင္း ခံထားရသူမ်ား ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ပတ္စ္ပို႔ ျပရမည္ဆိုသည့္ အခ်က္ႏွင့္ပင္ မကိုက္ညီေတာ့ပါ။ အားလံုးေသာ စင္ကာပူေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားမွာ စင္ကာပူအစိုးရက ထုတ္ေပးထားေသာ အိုင္ဒီ (မွတ္ပံုတင္) ကဒ္ျပားမ်ား ရွိၾကသည္။ ကဒ္ျပား ျပျခင္းျဖင့္လည္း မဲေပးခြင့္ မရပါ။ သူတို႔ထံ ၾကိဳတင္ စာရင္းေပးထားေသာ ျမန္မာမ်ားကိုသာ နာမည္ေအာ္ေခၚျပီး မဲေပးေစပါသည္။ အမ်ားအားျဖင့္ ျမန္မာသံရံုးႏွင့္ အဆင္ေျပသူမ်ားမွာ အမွန္ျခစ္မဲကို ေပးၾကမည့္သူမ်ား၊ အစိုးရ အလိုေတာ္ရွိမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္ေနမည္ ေသခ်ာေပသည္။ မဲေပးျပီးေနာက္ ပံုမွန္အရ မဲရံုမွဳးက ၾကားခံ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား ေရွ့တြင္ ေရတြက္ေပးရမည္ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ား၏ မဲေရတြက္မႈအေျဖကို သိရန္ပင္ မလြယ္သလို ျဖစ္ေနပါသည္။ သူတို႔ ၾကိဳက္သလို ေရတြက္ပါေစ - ျမန္မာမ်ား စင္ကာပူတြင္ ေရႊဝါေရာင္ စက္တင္ဘာ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးအျပီး အၾကီးက်ယ္ဆံုး ဆႏၵျပမႈ ညီညြတ္၊ စည္းကမ္းရွိစြာ ျဖစ္လာျခင္းမွာ အၾကီးမားဆံုး ဒီမိုကေရစီ အျမတ္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။

သံရံုးေရွ့တြင္ လူမ်ားမ်ား ေရာက္လာေလေလ၊ ေစာင့္ၾကပ္ေသာ စင္ကာပူရဲမ်ား မ်ားလာေလေလ ျဖစ္သည္။ ေထာင္ရဲကား ၂ စီးကလည္း ရုန္းရင္းဆန္ခတ္ လုပ္သူမ်ားကို ထိမ္းသိမ္းရန္ ေစာင့္ေနေသာ္လည္း ဘာမွ မၾကားရပါ။ ေအးေဆးစြာ ရွိေနၾကသည္။ ရဲမ်ားက မဲမေပးရသူမ်ား ျပန္ရန္ေျပာျခင္း၊ လူမစုရန္ ေျပာျခင္း ရွိေသာ္လည္း လူစုလူေဝးၾကီးက သည္းခံကာ မဲေပးခြင့္ ရလိုရျငား ေစာင္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။ စုစုေပါင္း လာေရာက္ေသာ ျမန္မာမ်ား ၅ဝဝဝ ခန္ ့ရွိမည္ဟု မွန္းၾကသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ ေနာက္ဆံုး လူစုခြဲခ်ိန္တြင္ ၂ဝဝဝ ေက်ာ္ က်န္ေနေသးသည္။ စာရင္းေပးျပီး မဲေပးရန္ မွတ္ပံုတင္ထားသူမ်ားကို အမည္ေခၚ၍ မဲေပးေစသည္ကိုလည္း ေတြ႔ရျပီး ျမန္မာသံရံုးမွ တဦးက ညေန ၅ နာရီတြင္ မဲေပးမႈ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔ အတြက္ ျပီးဆံုးသြားေၾကာင္း၊ ေနာက္ တနလၤာ၊ အဂၤါ (၂) ရက္ က်န္ေသး၍ ထပ္မံ ဖြင့္လွစ္ေပးမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာပါသည္။ ျမန္မာ လူအုပ္ၾကီးလည္း ျပန္ရံုသာ ရွိပါသည္။

ေစတနာရွင္မ်ားက ေရ၊ စတုဒီသာမ်ား ေကၽြးေမြးမႈ ရွိေသာ္လည္း လူအုပ္ မ်ားလွေသာေၾကာင့္ မေလာက္ႏုိင္ပါ။ ေနကလည္း ေတာ္ေတာ္ ပူေသာေၾကာင့္ ေရ၊ စတုဒီသာ ဝယ္ေကၽြးေမြးရန္ အလႉ လိုက္လံေကာက္ရာ ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ားထံမွ ရရွိေငြ ေဒၚလာ ေထာင္ခ်ီ ရပါသည္။ အနီးအနားမွ ေရ၊ ေဖ်ာ္ရည္၊ ပန္းသီးမ်ား ဝယ္ယူ ေကၽြးေမြးျခင္းျဖင့္ ပရိတ္သတ္မ်ားကို ေက်နပ္ေစခဲ့ပါသည္။ အမႈိက္ရွင္းေသာ လူငယ္မ်ားကလည္း အမႈိက္ တစက္မက်န္ေအာင္ စည္းကမ္းမဲ့သည္ဟု အေျပာမခံရေရးအတြက္ ၾကိဳးပမ္း လုပ္အားေပးသြားခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ညေန ၅ နာရီမွာ ေစာေသးေသာေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာမ်ားစုရပ္ ပင္နီစူလား ပလာဇာသို ့ အုပ္စုလိုက္ ျပန္ရန္ ျဖစ္သည္။ မျပန္ခင္ ကမၻာမေၾက အမ်ိဳးသားသီခ်င္းကို စုေပါင္းသီဆိုရန္ အားလံုးက သေဘာတူညီေသာေၾကာင့္ လူအုပ္ျဖင့္ သီဆိုသံမွာ ၾကားသူ၊ ဆိုသူ အားလံုး ၾကက္သီးထဖြယ္ရာ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ တက္ၾကြေစပါသည္။ ျပီးမွ စီတန္း လမ္းေလ်ာက္ျပန္သြားသူမ်ား၏ အက်ၤ ီအနီ၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီ တံဆိပ္မ်ားမွာ ဆႏၵျပသကဲ့သို႔ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ထိုလူတန္းသည္ နာရီဝက္ခန္႔ ပင္နီစူလား ပလာဇာအထိ လမ္းဆက္ေလွ်ာက္ သြားခဲ့ၾကရပါသည္။

အဓိက ထိုဆႏၵျပပြဲ ႏွင့္ မဲေပးပြဲကို မနားမေန၊ စည္းရံုးေပးခဲ့ေသာ အိုဗာဆီး ဗားမိစ္ အဖြဲ ့ (အိုဘီပီ) စည္းရံုးေရးမႉးမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ကိုေက်ာ္စိုး၊ ကိုေက်ာ္ဝင္းတို႔ကို စင္ကာပူရဲမွ ေခၚယူ ေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါသည္။

စင္ကာပူတြင္ ဆႏၵျပမႈ လုပ္ခြင့္မရွိပါ။ အထူးသျဖင့္ သံရံုးေရွ့တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လူအုပ္ႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပျခင္းကို စင္ကာပူ ဥပေဒအရ သူတို႔ ႏုိင္ငံသမိုင္း ႏွစ္ ၄ဝ ေက်ာ္တြင္ ဘယ္သံရံုးမွ မျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ခ်ီတက္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ဆႏၵျပျခင္းလည္း ဘယ္လူမ်ိဳးမွ လုပ္ခြင့္ မရေသာ္လည္း စကၤာပူေရာက္ ျမန္မာမ်ားက ရဲ့ဝံ့စြာ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏုိင္ခဲ့သည္။

ျမန္မာ့အေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားကိုလည္း အလုပ္သမားဝန္ၾကီးဌာနမွ အလုပ္ဗီဇာ ရုပ္သိမ္းႏုိင္သည္ ေၾကျငာခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ေျပာၾကေသာ္လည္း သတင္း အတိအက် မရေသးပါ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားကို စင္ကာပူတြင္ ေနထိုင္ခြင့္ ဗီဇာ ရုပ္သိမ္းေလ့ရွိသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံျဖစ္ျပီး - ယခင္ကလည္း သူတို႔ ႏိုင္ငံလုံျခံဳေရးကို အေႏွာက္အယွက္ေပးသည့္ ဥပေဒျဖင့္ ေနထိုင္ခြင့္ ဗီဇာ ရုပ္သိမ္းေလ့ ရွိသည္။ ယခုကိစၥတြင္ ထိုသို႔ မျဖစ္ရန္ ျမန္မာမ်ား စည္းကမ္းတက် ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကသည္။ စင္ကာပူႏုိင္ငံသည္ ေသးငယ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ လူစုေဝး၊ ဆႏၵျပမႈကို စင္ကာပူ အတိုက္အခံပါတီကသာ ပါမစ္မ်ားယူျပီးမွ လုပ္ေလ့ ရွိပါသည္။ ျမန္မာမ်ား ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ ပါမစ္ယူရန္ ၾကိဳးစားခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း မေပးခဲ့ေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည့္နည္းႏွင့္ စည္းကမ္းရွိစြာ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။


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Singapore မွျမန္မာမ်ားရဲစိတ္ဓာတ္ကေတာ့ေလးစားေလာက္ပါေပတယ္ . Singapore Government ဘယ္ေလာက္တင္းၾကပ္တယ္ဆိုတာ Singapore မွာေနထိုင္သူေတြအသိဆုံးပါ အခက္အခဲမ်ားၾကားမွ စိတ္ဓာတ္ကိုေဖာ္ထုတ္ရဲတာ ေလးစားပါတယ ္ေသြးေသာက္တို Bravo
Boedaw - စည္းလံုးညီညာ ေအာင္ေၾကာင္းျဖာ ............ 67.159.5.xxx | 2008-04-28 13:49:09
ေလးစားပါတယ္ စကၤာပူေရာက္ ျမန္မာေတြရယ္ ...........

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ဒီ ........... အာဏာရမက္ ရစ္မူး ရမ္းကမ္းတဲ့ ဒီ စစ္အစိုးရ အခ်ိန္တန္ရင္ သူတို႔နဲ႔ ထိုက္တန္တဲ့ အျပစ္ေၾကြး ကို ျပန္ေပးကို ေပးဆပ္ရမွာပါ။

ျပည္သူ အားလံုး ညီညာပါ၊ စည္းကမ္း ရွိၾကပါ၊ ဦးတည္ခ်က္ တူညီေသာ ပန္းတိုင္ကို ညီညီညာညာ ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းၾကပါ။

စကၤာပူ အစုိးရ အေနနဲ႔ သူတို႔ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ အတြက္ နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရ အလိုက် ျမန္မာေတြကို ႏွိပ္ကြပ္လို႔ရတဲ့ နည္းနဲ႔ မသိမသာ ႏွိပ္စက္မွာ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။
hikari - ၾကိဳဆိုပါသည္။ 75.7.148.xxx | 2008-04-28 15:15:40
အားေပးပါသည္။
အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ လႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားႏွင္ ့လည္းဆက္သြယ္ပါ။ ပူးေပါင္းလႈပ္ရွားပါ။
အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုမွ ၾကိဳဆိုေနပါသည္။
Htett Aung - စုေပါင္း ညီညာ ေအာင္ေၾကာင္းျဖာ 218.186.12.xxx | 2008-04-28 19:15:52
စကၤာပူ ကျမန္မာ မ်ားရဲ.....
ညီညြတ္မွူ....
စည္းကမ္းရွိမွူ.....
ဇြဲရွိမွူ....
အခ်င္းခ်င္း အျပန္အလွန္ ေလးစား နားလည္မွူ.....
လူငယ္မ်ားရဲ. ပီျပင္တဲ. co-ordination ေတြ နဲ....
အေကါင္းဆံုး Team Work ကို စကၤာပူနိုင္ငံရွိ St.Martin dr မွာ ေနထိုင္ၾကတဲ.သူမ်ား..ရဲနဲ. အထူးကြန္မန္ဒို တပ္ဖြဲ.၀င္မ်ာ....အျပည္ျပည္ ဆိုင္ရာ သတင္းမီဒီယာ မ်ား နဲ. နအဖ သံရံုး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ေရွ.မွာ ပီပီ ျပင္ျပင္ ျပသလိုက္ပါျပီ........
ညေန ၆း၃၀ နာရီ လူစုမခြဲ ခင္ စကၤာပူရဲ ရဲ.ခြင္.ျပူခ်က္နဲ. သံရံုးေရွ. ျမန္မာ ၂၀၀၀ေက်ာ္ဟာ တညီတညာ တည္း သံျပိုင္ ဆိုလိုက္တဲ. ကမၻာ မေၾကသီခ်င္း ဟာ ဆိုေနတဲ.သူေတြ နဲ. ၾကားရတဲ.သူေတြ ၾကက္သီး ထမွာ မလြဲပါဘူး....

က်ြန္ေတာ္တို. ဒိထက္ ပိုျပီး စီးကမ္းတၾကနဲ....တိုင္းျပည္လြတ္လပ္ေရးကို ဆက္ျပီးတိုက္ပြဲ ၀င္ၾကရအုန္းမယ္....

အဲဒီပြဲမွာ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ိုးမ်ိုးေၾကာင္. မပါလိုက္ရသူမ်ား
ေရွ.မွာ ဆက္လုပ္ရမဲ. တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား မွာ ရဲရဲ ၀န္.၀န္. ညီညီ ညြတ္ညြတ္ နဲ.ပါ၀င္ၾကပါ.....

က်ြန္ေတာ္တို. အမိျမန္မာ နိုင္ငံ ဒုတိယ အၾကိမ္ လြတ္လပ္ေရး အတြက္ ျမန္မာ နိုင္ငံသားတိုင္းမွာ တာ၀န္ရွိပါတယ္.....

သံရံုးမွာ မဲမေပးရေသးသူမ်ား ေမလ ၂ ရက္ေန.မတိုင္မွီ ေပးျဖစ္ေအာင္ေပးရင္နဲ. ကိုယ္.ရဲ.တာ၀န္ တစိတ္တပိုင္းကို ေၾကျပြန္ၾကပါ....

ျပည္တြင္းက ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား ကလည္း က်ြန္ေတာ္တို. လို တာ၀န္သိသိ ရဲရဲ၀န္.၀န္. နဲ. ကန္.ကြက္မဲ ထည္...
Htett Aung 218.186.12.xxx | 2008-04-28 19:18:55
ျပည္တြင္းက ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား ကလည္း က်ြန္ေတာ္တို. လို တာ၀န္သိသိ ရဲရဲ၀န္.၀န္. နဲ. ကန္.ကြက္မဲ ထည္.ၾကမွာ မလြဲပါဘူး.......

ဗိုလ္ခ်ုပ္ၾကီးမ်ားနဲ. ျမန္မာျပည္သူမ်ား
ေၾကာက္ရြံ.ခ်င္းမွ ကင္းေ၀းၾကပါေစ......

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Tribunal for Than Shwe - Victory for Vote No. 76.93.57.xxx | 2008-04-28 20:12:10
We respected the courage and fearless Burmese prople in Singapore.We should encourage the Burmese people inside Burma should follow the example of Burmese people in Singapore.Burmese public should go to polling booth on May 10, 2008 and cast "No" vote.But their duty should not end after the voting, they should wait infront of polling booth until their votes are counted and to observe there is any irregularities in votes counting and declare the voting results in front of them.If Burmese people found something irregularties in voting counting and declaring the results, they should protest until free and fair voting of Referendrum happen.

We also would like to request the Reverend Monks to serve as Indepemdent Observers to observe and monitor voting process at every polling booth and to implement the free and fair of Referendrum.
So May 10,2008 is the possible final showdown of our struggle of Second Independence from Murederer Than Shwe and his cronies.We should send the message to Murderer Than Shwe that we,Burmese people are not Second Class Citizens and they could not use forever the Tamadaw (Army) to persecute and oppress and killthe innocent Burmese people including monks.

We, Burmese people welcome any soliders who will stand with Burmese people.
Finally we ,Burmese people salute Burmese people at Singapore for their courage .
KKWin - Also in the UK... 90.208.224.xxx | 2008-04-29 04:12:22
Many Burmese voters came to the embassy in London to vote, but those who live and work outside London have difficulties having to travel far.Especially those with young children and those with elderly parents ,sadly ,have missed their rare opportunity to vote.
Nevertheless ,there were a few hundred Burmese who came to vote while a group of demonstrators with "NO" placards present across the street, reminding us how we should vote to help our country and the people.

 


Singapore Embassy Demonstration 27.04.2008  Photos
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Overseas Burmese Protest Constitution


By SAW YAN NAING and THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday, April 28, 2008

Thousands of exiled and expatriate Burmese people have been gathering outside Burmese embassies around the world to express dissatisfaction with the military government’s constitutional referendum. 

Voting has already begun in some countries ahead of the May 10 referendum. While some were allowed into their respective embassies to cast their votes, others were turned away by officials.

 

Burmese pro-democracy activists participate in a protest in front of the Burmese embassy in Seoul April 27. (Photo: Reuters)
The protests were mostly launched by Burmese nationals—both those who can vote and those with no voting rights in the referendum—at their respective embassies in several countries, including Canada, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea and Thailand.  

The biggest demonstration was held in Singapore on Sunday where some 2,500 protesters—many wearing red t-shirts with the word “No” emblazoned on the front—gathered outside the Burmese embassy and protested against the draft constitution. 

Sources in Singapore said that even some Burmese people who were invited to vote in the national referendum by the embassy were denied the right by authorities when they went into the embassy to vote.

 

Burmese nationals hold up their passports as a sign that they have the right to vote, gathered outside their country's embassy in Singapore to vote in a referendum on a draft constitution on April 27. (Photo: AP)
More than 40,000 Burmese people are currently living in Singapore, about 10,000 of who were officially invited by authorities to vote in the referendum, said sources.  

The Burmese regime has stipulated that only citizens with legitimate documents, such as Burmese passports, can vote overseas, a ruling that excludes most political exiles and refugees.

Meanwhile, some 230 Burmese expatriates living in Japan staged a mock referendum on Sunday outside the Burmese embassy in Tokyo, criticizing the draft constitution as a ploy to keep the ruling junta in power.

The Burmese embassy had mailed letters earlier this month to more than 2,000 of its citizens in Japan, inviting them to vote on the proposed constitution in a two-day advance poll held over the weekend at the embassy, Japanese police and the foreign ministry said. However, fewer than 100 people had voted at the embassy as of Sunday afternoon, according to a count by the protesters.

About 100 Burmese citizens in Malaysia, including political activists, migrant workers and people from ethnic minorities, gathered in front of the Burmese embassy on Saturday wearing colorful traditional costumes displaying the word “No” and demanding the right to vote.

An estimated 500,000 Burmese people are living in Malaysia, about 180,000 of who possess legal documents. No official count for voters was available from the embassy.

About 100 protesters, including activists, migrant workers, students and ethnic minority people, gathered outside the Burmese embassy in Bangkok for about 30 minutes on Sunday.

The demonstrators, organized by the Joint Action Committee for Democracy in Burma, chanted slogans against the May 10 referendum. A statement from the umbrella committee for the dozen dissident organizations said the constitution was drawn up solely by pro-junta groups and would give the military great powers in any future government.

An estimated 360,000 registered Burmese migrants and 1.2 million unregistered migrants in Thailand were denied their voting rights.

Meanwhile, about 60 Burmese people in Seoul, the South Korean capital, gathered outside the Burmese embassy on Sunday to protest against the junta-written draft constitution, many wearing white shirts bearing the words “Vote No” and the logo of a cross. According to Yan Naing Htun, a Seoul-based Burmese activist, the protesters set up two artificial ballot boxes and urged people to vote “No” in the referendum.   

In the United States, sources estimated that up to 100 people participated in the referendum in New York. It is estimated that the New York's Permanent Mission of Burma has some 500 registered voters.

The Burmese embassy in Washington, D.C

 

 

DVB 29-April-2008

“Vote No” campaign continues across Burma

Apr 28, 2008 (DVB)—Activists in Magwe and Mandalay divisions have continued their resistance to the government’s draft constitution with leaflet and graffiti campaigns urging people to vote “No” in the 10 May referendum.

Two senior government officials arriving in Saku township in Magwe division were met with the word “No” written in black paint on building walls as they came into the town.

Colonel Zaw Min, the minister of electric power (1) and chairman of Magwe division's USDA, and colonel Phone Maw Shwe, the Magwe Divisional Peace and Development Council chairman, had come to Saku to campaign in support of the new constitution.

A youth member Saku National League for Democracy said Zaw Min threatened to punish those who voted against the constitution.

"Graffiti with the word “No” was written all along the way the minister and the Divisional PDC chief went as they came into the town – on pagoda compound walls, on a local monastery and also on the township USDA chief's house," the youth member said.

"Zaw Min threatened the town residents during his campaign speech by telling them they all should vote 'Yes' to the referendum if they didn't want to be in trouble. He said if any farmers voted 'No', their farmlands would be confiscated."

Dr Aung Moe Nyo, a 1990 people's parliament representative from Pwint Phyu township, Magwe division, said unidentified anti-constitution activists have been painting cross marks on faces of local dogs in an unusual bid to encourage people to vote “No”.

Graffiti reading “We say No” along with a cross mark was also painted on the walls of primary school (2), Dr Aung Moe Nyo said.

"Local ward authorities near the school along with some police officers had to go there to erase the graffiti," he said.

“The police officers stayed there overnight to prevent another incident.”

In Myaing township, Magwe division, local activist groups such as the Monks’ Union (Upper Burma), the Patriots and other unidentified groups have been distributing leaflets which call on people to vote “No” in the May referendum, according to locals.

In the city of Mandalay, a local resident said the word “No” had been written in red paint in several places around Mandalay Hill.

Reporting by Khin Hnin Htet

 


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Singapore Police Special Operations Command
(We don't care - we are peaceful demonstrators)


Sing National Athen in front of Embassy

 


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