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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to deliver BBC lectures

LONDON : Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver two BBC lectures on the struggle against authoritarian regimes, eight months after her release from house arrest, the broadcaster said Friday.
The addresses have been pre-recorded in Myanmar and form part of the 2011 Reith Lectures, a major annual event in the BBC calendar which honours the first head of the broadcaster, John Reith.
To be speaking to you through the BBC has a very special meaning for me. It means that once again I am officially a free person," said Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi in a statement released by the BBC.

"When I was officially 'unfree', that is to say when I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me -- I listened."

Her first lecture, to be broadcast on June 28, looks at dissent in Myanmar and the second, to be broadcast on July 5, explores how freedom can be won with reference to the pro-democracy movements sweeping the Middle East.

Suu Kyi was released on November 13 following her latest stint of house arrest, which lasted seven years, and shortly after the country's first elections in 20 years.

Oxford-educated Suu Kyi swept the National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide election win in 1990, but the military regime never accepted the result and she spent much of the past two decades a prisoner in her own home.

Her party boycotted the November 7 elections, saying the rules were unfair. Suu Kyi was excluded from the vote which was won by the military's political proxies.

Power is now held by a nominally civilian but army-backed government.

In her comments released on Friday, Suu Kyi said that listening to the BBC while she was under house arrest gave her "a kind of freedom, the freedom of reaching out to other human minds.

"Of course it was not the same as a personal exchange but it was a form of human contact."

She added: "Even though I cannot be with you in person, I am so grateful for this opportunity to exercise my right to human contact by sharing with you my thoughts on what freedom means to me and others across the world who are still in the sad state of what I would call 'unfreedom'."

- AFP /ls
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09:20

Bomb injures five in Myanmar's capital

Yangon - An explosion at a market in Naypyitaw, Myanmar's capital, injured five men, sources said Saturday. The handmade bomb went off Friday night in a men's toilet at the Myoma Market in the city 350 kilometres north of Yangon, the former capital.
Five men were slightly injured, and one woman was in shock,' said a local official who asked to remain anonymous.

Some shops were closed at the market Saturday. Bombings are rare in Naypyitaw, which is also the headquarters of Myanmar's military, the country's de-facto ruler.

A bomb that exploded in May on a train outside the city killed two passengers.

Authorities have blamed past explosions on political activists or Karen rebels who have been waging a struggle for the autonomy of the Karen State for the past six decades.

Former military strongman Senior General Than Shwe decided to move the capital from Yangon to Naypyitaw in November 2005 purportedly to create a more central capital although observers said he actually did so out of security concerns about Yangon, a port city.
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ဟူးေကာင္းခ်ိဳင့္ဝွမ္းမွလယ္သမားမ်ား လယ္ယာေျမ ျပန္ရဖို႔ စာတင္

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဟူးေကာင္းခ်ိဳင့္ဝွမ္းေဒသက ေဒသခံ လယ္သမားေတြ ပိုင္ဆိုင္တဲ့ လယ္္ယာေျမေတြကို ယုဇနကုမၸဏီက သိမ္းယူထားတဲ့အမႈ နဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သူတို႔ပိုင္ လယ္ယာေျမေတြကို ျပန္လည္ေပးအပ္ဖို႔ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ၉ ခုကို လယ္သမားေတြက မေန႔က ဇြန္လ ၉ ရက္ေန႔က စာေရး တင္ျပလိုက္ၾကတယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ /div>
စာေရးတင္တဲ့အထဲမွာ ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ေရးသား လက္မွတ္ထိုးခဲ့သူ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ဖားကန္႔ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ခါရာဇုေက်း႐ြာ ေအာင္ရာ႐ြာက လယ္ယာေျမ ၁၄ ဧက သိမ္းယူခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ေဒၚေဘာက္ဂ်ာက RFA ကို ခုလို ေျပာပါတယ္။

“ကၽြန္မတို႔က လိုခ်င္တာက နစ္နာေၾကး လိုခ်င္တာ။ နစ္နာေၾကးဆိုတာက ဒီ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၃-၄ ႏွစ္ မလုပ္စားႏိုင္တဲ့ နစ္နာေၾကးရယ္၊ သီးပင္စားပင္ေတြကို ဖ်က္ဆီးလိုက္တဲ့ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး အဲဒီ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးကို ကၽြန္မတို႔က ေတာင္းတာ။ လယ္ယာေျမကေတာ့ ကၽြန္မတို႔ မရလို႔ မျဖစ္ဖူး။ ကၽြန္မတို႔က ေတာင္သူေတြ ျဖစ္တယ္။ လယ္ယာေျမပဲ လုပ္ကုိင္စားေသာက္တဲ့အတြက္ ဒီလယ္ယာေျမကိုပဲ အားျပဳၿပီး လုပ္ကိုင္စားေသာက္တဲ့အတြက္ ေျမကိုေတာ့ ျပန္ရမွ ျဖစ္မယ္။ နဂိုတုန္းက လက္ငုပ္လက္ရင္း လုပ္စားေနတဲ့အတိုင္းပဲ ကၽြန္မတို႔ကို ျပန္လည္ ခ်ေပးၿပီးေတာ့ လုပ္ကိုင္စားခြင့္ ေပးဖို႔ရန္နဲ႔ တရား႐ံုးမွာ တင္ထားတဲ့ အမႈ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးကိုလည္း ျပန္လည္၍ ဒါေတြကို စိစစ္ေပးဖို႔ရန္ တင္ျပတာ မေန႔က စာတင္လိုက္တယ္ေလ။”

ေဒၚေဘာက္ဂ်ာဟာ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပဲြမွာ အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အင္အားစုပါတီက အမတ္အျဖစ္ ဝင္ေရာက္ အေ႐ြးခံခဲ့သူလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

လယ္သမားေတြ ၃ႏွစ္နီးပါး လယ္မဲ့ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ ေလ်ာ္ေႀကး ျပန္ေပးဖို႔နဲ႔ သီးပင္စားပင္ေတြကို ဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့တဲ့အတြက္ ယုဇနကုမၸဏီက ေလ်ာ္ေႀကးေပးဖို႔၊ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရ အေနနဲ႔ သိမ္းယူခံရတဲ့ လယ္ယာေျမအားလံုးကို ကခ်င္ေတာင္သူလယ္သမားေတြကို ျပန္လည္ ခ်ထားေပးဖို႔ စာေရး ေတာင္းဆိုျခင္း ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ ေဒၚေဘာက္ဂ်ာက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ဟူးေကာင္းခ်ိဳင့္ဝွမ္းမွာ ဦးေဌးျမင့္ပိုင္တဲ့ ယုဇနကုမၸဏီက ၂၀၀၇ ခုႏွစ္ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းေလာက္ကစၿပီး လယ္ယာေျမ ေထာင္ဂဏန္းခ်ီၿပီး သိမ္းယူခဲ့အတြက္ လယ္သမား တရာခန္႔က ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တရား ႐ံုးမွာ ယုဇနကုမၸဏီကို တရားစြဲဆိုခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တရား႐ံုးက လယ္တဧကကို ျမန္မာက်ပ္ေငြ ရွစ္ေသာင္းသာ ေလ်ာ္ေႀကးေပးဖို႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခဲ့ေပမဲ့ လယ္သမားအမ်ားစုက လက္မခံပဲ အယူခံတင္ထားပါတယ္။
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