Burma's Muslim's - A Primer - by Andrew Selth

http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/03/27/Burmas-Muslims-A-primer.aspx

New Burma in one photo - not happy about this -

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/03/27/this_is_what_reform_in_burma_looks_like

Another Chinese copper mine where it should not be - above an ancient Buddhist site in Afghanistan -

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/22/opinion/afghanistan-buddha-site-mine/index.html?fb_action_ids=122593067888235&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366

Kyi May Kaung's comment on Ko Aung Zaw's article "Buddhist" thugs make a comeback

See the inverted commas in the title? 

I agree with Ko Aung Zaw -- this has "military plot" written all over it - "Let them want democracy, they will have to call in army to restore order." 

Anyone know if Meikhtila is a predominantly NLD town?  I know in Helsinki in 2008, when we last met, Ko Aung Zaw suggested that in the Nargis obstruction of cyclone aid, it was suspected that the regime wished to punish the Delta Karen -


These incidents are also to show the world, people, that the army can do what it likes - security standing by is also a trademark - until final shootings - see 1962, 1970s U Thant episode, 1988, 2007, list goes one -

Ko Aung Zaw, this time you have really told the Truth - now what? 

Also folks, I don't know if you have seen these, but there are items going around the Internet about how bad the gold merchant couple were, complete with photos of the gold bracelets involved.  Now who would have these but?? - 

According to a reliable source, this couple, perhaps junta agents or mercenaries, have already been "fed to the mob".

There's also someone named Tony Carlucci - who is writing that "Aung San Suu Kyi's Saffron Monks" are doing this.

I don't think people know that there are monks and there are monks, and in Burmese Buddhism anyone can put on a robe and take the vows for as short as 24 hours or a few days.  And there are many sects within the mainstream - Mandalay's Yahan Pyo were always militant - Anyone can buy a robe and shave his head - does not need to go into an ordination hall.

It is well known also that Ne Win Government wanted to control and register monks -

and also USDA (Union Solidarity Development Association) a. k. a. Hitlerite Brown Shirts - were active up to 2007, and 2008, and there is also Possessors of Strength (Swan Ahr Shin) -  and in 1988 they were called Lon Htein - so, one can't suppose that these have all been disbanded like lightning and all disappeared.

If it is any comfort to you, (poor comfort of course) Nazis remained under cover in W. Germany decades after Hitler committed suicide and Allied Armies marched in, and some were even in judiciary - this is well documented.

About 2009 I heard a rumor that Swan Ahr Shin leader/founder had been eliminated as he "knew too much.'

In 1988, after the clamp down or shoot down, Ms. Maureen Aung Thwin wrote in Foreign Affairs Magazine - "Once again the military has held things together."

Presdt Thein Sein too quick to declare emergency, Asian Human Rights Commission says -

http://www.humanrights.asia/news/ahrc-news/AHRC-STM-070-2013

VOA news in Burmese on Meikhtila unrest etc -

http://www.youtube.com/user/voaclips

Two Aung San Suu Kyi films will air on HBO in USA

http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/24229-aung-san-suu-kyi-films-hbo

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes a veiled comment about

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi makes a veiled comment about racial strife in Meikhtila to reporters in Naypyitaw  --
translation:  "I am telling you now, just because a lot of people do it, and the majority does it, does not make it right.

"For instance if everyone was hitting one reporter, it is still not right."

See RFA TV 3-22-2013

http://www.rfa.org/burmese/

Martial Law declared in Meikhtila, photos, trafficked Burmese children etc from Democratic Voice of Burma

http://www.dvb.no/

Kyi May Kaung's article - "Aung San Suu Kyi: Strange Collection of Clear Victories" in International Gallerie

http://www.gallerie.net/issue31.html

U Win Tin says democracy icon is too conciliatory -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-burma-democratic-conscience-still-wears-blue/2013/03/12/c59b0660-8010-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html?fb_action_ids=10151539545764669&fb_action_types=og.recommends&fb_ref=sm_btn_fb&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

New Pope Francis represents many firsts

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/world/europe/vatican-new-pope/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

May become the People's Pope, but will have to face many challenges from the establishment .

so-called reformer U Thein Sein hems and haws in Helsinki, Finland -

From Ko Nyo on Facebook - + contact numbers for demonstration - It is now -15 degrees F in Helsinki.

• ဖင္လန္ သမတ အေမး သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ မေျဖ..။
  ဒီေန႔ သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔ အဖဲြ႔ ဖင္လန္ ကိုေရာက္တယ္။
  ဖင္လန္ သမတ နဲ႔ နႈတ္ဆက္ဂါရ၀ျပဳရင္း ဖင္လန္ သမၼတ က “ ၂၀၁၅ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ က်ရင္ စစ္တပ္ကယူထားတဲ႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ထဲက ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ရာခိုင္နံႈးကို စြန္႔လႊတ္ဖို႕ရိွသလား” လို႕ ေမးပါတယ္။ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္က ရွင္းရွင္းေမးတာ တည္႔တည္႔မေျဖဖူး။ “အင္း အဲ...အီးဟိုုဟာ..ဒီမိုကေရစီျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးကို က်ေနာ္တို႕ လုပ္ေနပါတယ္။ ဗမာျပည္အေျပာင္းအလဲက ေနွးပါတယ္..ေျဖးေျဖးခ်င္းေပါ့” လို႔ အရူးလိုေျဖသြားတယ္။ ေသခ်ာတာကေတာ့..ဒီအစိုးရ လိမ္ေနျပီး။“ သိန္းစိန္လူလိမ္” လို႕က်ေနာ္တို႕ေအာ္စလိုမွာ ကမၻာသိ ေအာ္ေျပာခဲ႔တာ အတိအက်ပဲ။ သူလိမ္ေနတာမွန္း ဖင္လန္ျပည္သူေတြကို နက္ဖန္ အဲဒီက ျမန္မာမ်ိဳးခ်စ္ေတြက ဆႏၵျပျပီးေျပာအံုးမွာ။ ဖင္လန္မွာ သိတ္ေအးတယ္။ နက္ဖန္ အနႈတ္၁၅ အထိရိွတယ္။ ဒါေတာင္ဆႏၵျပမဲ႔သူ ၅၀ေက်ာ္ လာမယ္။ အေ၀းျမိဳ႕ေတြကေတာင္ သြားျပၾကမွာ။
  ေအာက္မွာအစီအစဥ္ေရးထားတယ္။ ဖံုးဆက္ေမးျမန္းစံုစမ္းသတင္းယူလို႕ရတယ္။
  
  ဖင္လန္ႏိုင္ငံသို့ မနက္ဖန္တြင္ ေရာက္ရိွမည့္ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ အစိုးရအဖြဲ့၏ ႏိုင္ငံတကာလွည့္လည္ လိမ္လည္ေရး (၁ - ၃ ၊ ၃၊ ၂၀၁၃) ခရီးစဥ္အား ဆန့္က်င္ေၾကာင္း ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖၚမည့္ ခ်ီတက္ပြဲအား ၂၊ ၃၊ ၂၀၁၃ နံနက္ ၁၁ နာရီတိတိတြင္ ဟဲလ္ဆင္းကီးၿမိဳ့ ျပည္သူ့လြွတ္ေတာ္ေရွ့မွ ဟဲလ္ဆင္ကီး ျမဳိ့လယ္ ရင္ျပင္သို့ ခ်ီတက္ မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရပ္နီးရပ္ေ၀းမွ စိတ္တူသေဘာတူမ်ားအား ဖိတ္ၾကားအပ္ပါသည္။
  
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