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Myanmar to kick out top U.N. official (2-11-2007)
By Ed Cropley

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar's military junta is kicking out the U.N.'s top resident diplomat for highlighting the country's deepening economic crisis, casting a shadow over a planned visit this weekend by special envoy Ibrahim Gambari.
U.N. officials said on Friday that country chief Charles Petrie had been summoned to the former Burma's new capital, Naypyitaw, for an official dressing down for a statement he released on the October 24 United Nations Day.
After the meeting, Petrie and his colleagues were given a letter saying the military government would not be renewing his credentials, which expire "pretty much now", a Yangon-based diplomat said.
"They were basically not very happy with the statement," one U.N. official told Reuters in Bangkok. "The government has emphasised that they do not want him to continue to work in Myanmar."
It is not known when Petrie would actually leave the country, but it is hard to see him working alongside Gambari, due to arrive on Saturday for a second visit since September's bloody crackdown on monk-led pro-democracy protests.
Gambari's mission is supposed to persuade the junta to enter serious talks about political reform with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who won a 1990 election landslide but was denied power by the army.
In the statement, Petrie said the protests that started in mid-August against shock increases in fuel prices and snowballed into a major anti-junta uprising were indicators of the dire state of the economy after 45 years of military rule.
"The events clearly demonstrated the everyday struggle to meet basic needs and the urgent necessity to address the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the country," it said.
One of Asia's brightest economic prospects when it won independence from Britain in 1948, Myanmar has become one of its most desperate cases after a series of disastrous experiments with home-grown socialism.
It has also been riven by decades of ethnic civil war and, in the last 10 years, some U.S. and European sanctions.
According to the U.N.'s World Food Programme, five million people out of a population of 56 million do not have enough food. One third of children under five years are underweight, and 10 percent are classified as "wasted", or acutely malnourished.

Myanmar Refuses To Renew Top UN Official's Mandate - AFP (2-11-2007)

YANGON (AFP)--Myanmar's military rulers have decided not to renew the mandate of the United Nations' most senior official here, a UN spokesperson said Friday, meaning his likely departure.
Charles Petrie, the world body's country chief, was told of the decision after being summoned to the capital, Naypyidaw, to meet junta officials, said Aye Win, a UN information officer in Yangon.
"I can confirm that the government has expressed its intention not to continue his assignment," Aye Win said.
He did not give a reason for the government's decision, which will likely force Petrie to leave the country.
But in the aftermath of the junta's violent crackdown on anti-government protests in late September that left 13 people dead, Petrie made several public remarks that were critical of Myanmar's leaders.
The abrupt move comes as the regime prepares to meet with the UN's point man on Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, who is due in Yangon Saturday to press junta leaders for reform.

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးေရွ႕ ဆႏၵျပ
သတင္း - ဧရာ၀တီ (၂-၁၁-၂၀၀၇)

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားက ပခုကၠဴသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ရဟန္းသံဃာအေပါင္းတို႔အား ဖမ္းဆီး သတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္း မျပဳလုပ္ရန္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရကို ေတာင္းဆုိလိုက္သည္။
ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိေနေသာ သီရိလကၤာ၊ ဘဂၤလားေဒ့ရွ္ ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံတို႔မွ သံဃာေတာ္ ၁၄ ပါး အပါအ၀င္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား ၅၀ ခန္႔က ယမန္ေန႔ နံနက္ ပိုင္း ၁၁ နာရီခန္႔တြင္ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးေရွ႕၌ ပခုကၠဴ သံဃာေတာ္ မ်ား၏ လြန္ခဲ့ေသာဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔က ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာေမတၱာပို႔လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ဆႏၵျပျခင္းကို အျပည့္အ၀ ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ ယင္းသံဃာေတာ္မ်ားအား စစ္အစိုးရက ဖမ္းဆီးသတ္ျဖတ္ျခင္းမျပဳလုပ္ရန္ ေတာင္းဆို ဆႏၵျပျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆႏၵျပ ရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္သည့္ သံဃာေတာ္ အရွင္ေခမာ၀ံသ က ေျပာသည္။
“ဦးပဥၹင္းတို႔ဆႏၵျပတာက ပခုကၠဴသံဃာေတြနဲ႔ တသားတည္းရွိတယ္၊ အျပည့္အ၀ ေထာက္ခံတယ္ဆိုၿပီး သာသနာ့ အလံကိုကိုင္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပတာပါ”ဟု အရွင္ေခမာ၀ံသ က ဧရာ၀တီသို႔ မိန္႔ၾကားသည္။
ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔ နံနက္ပိုင္းက မေကြးတိုင္း ပခုကၠဴၿမိဳ႕ရွိ သံဃာေတာ္ အပါး ၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္က ၿမိဳ႕ကိုပတ္၍ အခ်ိန္ တနာရီခန္႔ ၾကာသည္အထိ ေမတၱာပို႔႐ြတ္ဆို၍ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ဆႏၵျပ ခဲ့သည္။
အဆိုပါ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔က ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးေရွ႕ဆႏၵျပပြဲကို ျပည္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ လူငယ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႕က ဦးေဆာင္ ျပဳလုပ္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
“မေန႔က ဆႏၵျပတာ ရဟန္းသံဃာေတြ၊ ေက်ာင္းသား အလုပ္သမားေတြနဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြ အစုံအလင္ ပါ၀င္တယ္၊ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကို မဖမ္းဖို႔၊ မသတ္ဖို႔ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ ေတာင္းဆို ဆႏၵျပတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္”ဟု ျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ လူငယ္ မ်ားအဖြဲ႕ ဥကၠဌ ကိုေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ က ေျပာသည္။
ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္မ်ားတြင္ အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံကို လုံး၀မလိုလား မေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း၊ ဒီမုိကေရစီႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္ေရး ျဖစ္ေပၚ ရရွိေရး အစရွိသည္တို႔ကို ေရးသား၍ ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးသို႔ ေပးပို႔ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းလည္း ၎က ေျပာသည္။
ယင္းျပည္ပေရာက္ ျမန္မာ့မ်ိဳးခ်စ္လူငယ္မ်ားအဖြဲ႕ကို သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္ဆႏၵျပေနစဥ္ကာလ စက္တင္ဘာလကုန္ ပိုင္းတြင္ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံေရာက္သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားက နာယက အျဖစ္ေဆာင္႐ြက္ၿပီး အလုပ္သမား၊ ေက်ာင္းသား အစရွိသည့္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား ၁၀၀ ခန္႔ျဖင့္ စတင္ဖြဲ႕စည္းခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုသည္။
အဆိုပါ ဆႏၵျပအဖြဲ႕သည္ ယမန္ေန႔က ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံးေရွ႕တြင္ နာရီ၀က္ခန္႔ ဆႏၵျပၿပီးေနာက္ ဘန္ေကာက္ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ သံ႐ုံးသို႔ သြားေရာက္၍ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ စက္တင္ဘာ ၂၇ ရက္ ရန္ကုန္ ဆႏၵျပပြဲကာလအတြင္း နအဖ စစ္အစိုးရ စစ္တပ္က ဆႏၵျပသူ မ်ားအား ေသနတ္ျဖင့္ ပစ္ခတ္ ၿဖိဳခြဲရာတြင္ ေသနတ္မွန္ ေသဆုံးခဲ့ရသည္ ဂ်ပန္လူမ်ိဳးဓာတ္ပုံ သတင္းေထာက္ ကန္ဂ်ီး နာဂါအိ အတြက္ ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း သ၀ဏ္လႊာႏွင့္ လြမ္းသူ႔ ပန္းေခြခ်ခဲ့ေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။
“က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဒီမုိကေရစီရရွိေရး ဆႏၵျပပြဲ သတင္းယူေနရင္း ေသဆုံးခဲ့ရတာျဖစ္လို႔ သူ႔ႏိုင္ငံ သူ႔မိသားစု နဲ႔ ထပ္တူ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ႏိုင္ငံသားေတြက ၀မ္းနည္းေၾကာင္း၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဘယ္ေတာ့မွ မေမ့ေၾကာင္း သ၀ဏ္လႊာ ေရးခဲ့ပါတယ္”ဟု ကုိေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္က ေျပာျပသည္။