ခ်င္းမိုင္မွာရွိတဲ့ ေတဇရဲ႕ Air Bagan ေလေၾကာင္းလိုင္းရုံးေရွ႕မွာ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေရးေထာက္ခံတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားမ်ားမွ ကန္႔ကြက္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္...
ခ်င္းမိုင္ရွိ ေတဇပိုင္ Air Bagan ရုံးေရွ႕မွာ ဆႏၵျပေနတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ ျမန္မာ့အေရးေထာက္ခံသူ ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားမ်ား
ဆႏၵျပပြဲ ျပဳလုပ္ခ်ိန္မွာ Air Bagan ဝန္ထမ္းေတြ တံခါးေတြ မီးေတြ ပိတ္ျပီး အထဲမွာကုပ္ေနပါတယ္..။
ေတဇရဲ႕ AirBagan ရုံးေရွ႕ကိုေတာ့လွ်က္တစ္ျပက္ သြားေရာက္ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ၾကတာပါ..။
ဒါ့အျပင္ အတုအေယာင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ဖို႔ ေဆာ္ၾသခဲ့ပါတယ္..။boycott of the upcoming election in Burma 'Real Election, not a Military
Selection'.
ေတဇရဲ႕ Air Bagan ကိုသပိတ္ေမွာက္ဖို႔ လွဳံေဆာ္တဲ့ ကမ္ပိန္းကို ခ်င္းမိုင္ ရွိလူစည္ကားရာ ဘတ္(စ္)ကားဂိတ္မ်ားနဲ႔ ေစ်းမ်ား ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားေတြ အမ်ားဆံုးရွိတဲ့ ေနရာမ်ား ခရီးသြားလုပ္ငန္းေတြ ရွိရာေနရာမ်ား မွာ လိုက္လံေဝငွခဲ့ျပီး.. ("Hey, Hey! No, No! Air Bagan has got to go!") ဒီလို Sologans ေတြ တိုင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္..။
ေတဇရဲ႕ဒီ Air Bagan ရုံးဟာ ခ်င္းမိုင္မွာ ဒီႏွစ္ႏွစ္စပိုင္းမွာ ဖြင့္ခဲ့ျပီး တပတ္ကို ႏွစ္ၾကိမ္ ခ်င္းမိုင္နဲ႔ ရန္ကုန္ကို ပ်ံသန္း ေျပးဆြဲေနပါတယ္..။ဒီပြဲကို ဦးေဆာင္ က်င္းပခဲ့သူကေတာ့ ျမန္မာဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြ ေဆာင္ရြက္လႈပ္ရွားေနတဲ့ အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသား Mr.Garrett Kostin ျဖစ္ျပီး ခ်င္းမိုင္မွာ ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးမ်ားအတြက္ မိတ္ေဆြေကာင္း စာၾကည္႔တိုက္ကို ဖြင့္လွစ္ျပီး.. ဦးစီးဦးေဆာင္ ျပဳေနသူျဖစ္ပါတယ္...။ Mr.Garrettဟာ ယခုႏွစ္ ဧျပီလအတြင္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ျမိဳ႕နယ္ ၁၅ခု၌ ြ္ျမန္မာျပည္အျမန္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းပါေစ(Peace In Burma Now) ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး စတစ္ကာကပ္မႈေၾကာင့္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကို မလိုလားတဲ့ ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားမွ ေမလ(၃)ရက္ေန႔မွာ ျပည္ဝင္ခြင့္ ဗီဇာမျပည္႔မွီ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံသ႔ို ျပန္လည္ ပို႔ေဆာင္ျခင္း ခံခဲ့ရပါတယ္...။
ျမန္မာျပည္ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလိုလားတဲ့ Mr.Garrett ရဲ႕ ယခုႏွစ္ ဧျပီလအတြင္းက ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း မွာျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ စတစ္ကာ ကမ္ပိန္းအေၾကာင္း ျပန္ဖတ္ခ်င္ရင္..
အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံသား Mr.Garrett Kostinရဲ႕ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းမွ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး စတစ္ကာမ်ား ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းမွာ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး စတစ္ကာေတြ ကပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ Mr. Garrett နဲ႔အင္တာဗ်ဳး (ပထမပိုင္း)..
ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း၌ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးစတစ္ကာ ကပ္ခဲ့သူ Mr.Garette ႏွင့္ အင္တာဗ်ဴး( အပိုင္း ၂ ) ...
Mr.Garrett ရဲ႕ ယေန႔ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ ဆႏၵျပပြဲအေၾကာင္း အဂၤလိပ္လို အျပည္႔အစံု ေအာက္မွာ ဖတ္ရွဳႏိုင္ပါသည္..။
*'Boycott Air Bagan' Campaign Launched in Chiang Mai*
Today a group of Burmese and international activists with a concern for the people of Burma launched a campaign in Chiang Mai, Thailand, calling for a complete boycott of Air Bagan, a Burmese airline with close ties to the Burmese military regime, as well as other businesses that support and sustain the military dictatorship in Burma.
A protest demonstration was conducted in front of Air Bagan's Chiang Mai office early in the afternoon. Almost immediately after the protest began, the staff of Air Bagan locked the front door and shut off their lights. The office remained closed for the rest of the day.
Air Bagan opened its office in Chiang Mai earlier this year, and has been running twice-weekly direct flights from Chiang Mai to Rangoon. Chiang Mai is a key part of Air Bagan's plan to increase its international market share after failed attempts to sustain international routes to and from Singapore and Bangkok.
The group also took today as an opportunity to add their voices to those calling for a boycott of the upcoming election in Burma. They displayed posters from Burma Partnership calling for a 'Real Election, not a Military Selection'. In speeches and interviews with the media, representatives urged all citizens of Burma to protest this mockery of democracy in any way they are able.
The protest action began at The Best Friend Library with a small press conference with several members of the Burmese exile media. The Irrawaddy, Burma News International, Mizzima, and DVB all sent reporters to cover the event, as did a Thai media outlet.
Next, the group travelled to the Air Bagan office on Chang Klan Road in Chiang Mai. They distributed informational brochures in English and Thai to expose the truth about Air Bagan and its owner, Tay Za, a disreputable Burmese tycoon. Among other ties, Tay Za has worked as a broker for the Burmese military in their quest to acquire more advanced military aircraft and weapons.
After blowing whistles, distributing information, reading a statement, and chanting slogans ("Hey, Hey! No, No! Air Bagan has got to go!") for approximately 45 minutes, the group headed down Chang Klan Road to Loi Kroh Road, a busy street with many foreigners and tourist information centers, all the while passing out brochures and carrying posters of Aung San Suu Kyi.
The group has plans to continue their "Boycott Air Bagan" campaign by continuing to distribute information to Thai travel agencies and tour operators in Chiang Mai, along with Thai-language versions of “Forbidden Glimpses of Shan State”, a report produced by Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN) about the adverse effects of state-sponsored tourism in Shan State.
Future actions will also focus on distributing information to tourists at Chiang Mai's busy bus station and Night Bazaar. The group also has plans to conduct more surprise demonstrations at the Air Bagan office in Chiang Mai.
The group, many of whom are members of The Best Friend Library, strongly encourage travel and tour agencies in Thailand to be more informed and selective about companies they partner with in Burma. They also ask all potential visitors to Burma to make informed and compassionate travel choices, as well as to seek out alternatives to traveling with Air Bagan.
The group calls on all people and governments concerned with ending human rights abuses to end all financial dealings with Air Bagan and other businesses owned by Tay Za.
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Garrett Kostin
The Best Friend Library – Chiang Mai
ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးအတြက္ အျမဲအားၾကိဳးမာန္တက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနတဲ့ မိတ္ေဆြၾကီး Mr.Garrett နဲ႔ ျပန္လည္ေပးပို႕ေပးတဲ့ ညီငယ္ အလင္းဆက္အား ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါသည္..။
Tay Za ရဲ႕ Air Bagan Sale Promotion ေၾကာ္ျငာတစ္ခုပါ.. Mr.Garrett ေရ
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