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NCGUB: News on Migrants & Refugees- 24 February, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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HEADLINES
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
Migrants face peril from Thai registration deadline: HRW
Human rights group sounds alarm over Thai mass deportation plan
Group slams Thai deadline for registering migrants
Conflicting Signals on Migrant Verification Deadline
Thai govt puts Burmese migrants ‘particularly at risk’
Broker arrested Burmese migrant woman due to stopping paying a monthly fee
of 200 Baht
Thailand and Burma agree on register cross-border Migrants
The Burden is on Thais to Re-think Their Migrant Strategy
Verification deadline poses risk to migrants, says HRW
NEWS ON REFUGEES
Mass Burmese hunger strike in Malaysian camp
Malaysia May Allow Burmese Refugees to Work
Malaysia may allow refugees to work
SPDC mortar attack on school in Papun District
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ေရြ ႔ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ားသတင္း
မဲေဆာက္စက္႐ံုျမင္ကင
ြ ္းစုံ (၃)
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မားမ်ားေရး လူ
႔ ခြင
့္ ေရး
ေရးဖြ႕ဲ စိုးရိမ္
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၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ စာငတ္ခံဆႏၵျပ
ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား မေလးရွားတြင္ လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ ရဖြ
ရဖြယ္ရိွ
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ြ ့္ ျပဳဖို႕ မေလးရွား စU္းစားေန
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
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Migrants face peril from Thai registration deadline: HRW
Agence France-Presse | 02/23/2010 7:39 PM
BANGKOK - More than one million migrants in Thailand face possible deportation
and further abuse if they fail to meet a deadline this week to register with authorities,
a rights watchdog said Tuesday.
Thailand has ordered all citizens from neighboring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos to
register and verify their nationality by Sunday or risk deportation, as part of an
ongoing clampdown on immigration.
But Human Rights Watch said the ultimatum will force an already vulnerable
community to endure further abuse at the hands of Thai authorities and employers
who they say regularly exploit migrant workers with impunity.
Some 200,000 of an estimated 1.3 million migrants in Thailand have begun the
registration process, and so far 45,000 have completed it, said HRW, quoting official
figures.
The watchdog said registration in theory gives migrants a temporary passport and
legal footing in Thailand, but unscrupulous employers routinely confiscate such
documents.
Officials also extort money from migrants by threatening deportation and arrest unless
bribes are paid, with killings and beatings often going unreported, the 124-page report
said.
HRW urged the Thai government to postpone the registration process and enforce
labor protections for workers.
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has so far bowed to domestic opinion by
maintaining a tough stance on immigration, but he has insisted the government will
use a rights-led approach.
Abhisit has failed to publicly revoke a series of provincial laws which restrict
movement by migrants, banning them from travelling by motorcycle or using mobile
phones and laying down curfews.
Thailand, which is seeking a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, has been heavily
criticized in recent months for its crackdowns on migrants from neighboring Laos and
Myanmar.
In December Bangkok sparked outrage when it defied global criticism and used
troops to repatriate about 4,500 ethnic Hmong from camps on the border with
communist Laos, including 158 recognized as refugees by the United Nations.
Earlier last year hundreds of ethnic Rohingya migrants from Myanmar were rescued
in Indian and Indonesian waters after being pushed out to sea in rickety boats by the
Thai military.
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/02/23/10/migrants-face-peril-thai-
registration-deadline-hrw
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Human rights group sounds alarm over Thai mass deportation plan
Bangkok
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/310743,human-rights-group-sounds-alarm-
over-thai-mass-deportation-plan.html#ixzz0gQPlcFzV
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Group slams Thai deadline for registering migrants
BANGKOK (AP)
The Thai government recently ordered the migrants — numbering between 2 million
and 3 million — to report to authorities to verify their nationality by Feb. 28 as part of
a process to weed out illegal foreign workers. About 90 percent of the migrants are
from Myanmar.
A large number of the migrants entered the country illegally and the Thai government
earlier attempted with limited success to have all of them registered.
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the verification process is expensive,
complicated and poorly regulated, keeping many migrants from reporting themselves
and thus making them vulnerable to abuse.
A report by the group, based on interviews with 82 people, said abuses faced by the
migrants include killings, torture in detention, extortion, sexual abuse and forced labor.
It said some were perpetrated by corrupt civil servants, police, unscrupulous
employers and thugs who knew that the migrants weren’t protected by law.
Kapach Nimmanheminda, spokesman for the Labor and Social Welfare Ministry, said
there have been reports of extortion and harassment of illegal immigrants, but the
ministry expected the situation to improve once the workers are legally registered.
“The illegal migrant workers have not been vocal about the abuses because they were
afraid of threats. Once they have proven their nationalities, they will have their own
right to ask for justice,” Kapach said.
Last week, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said a meeting was held
Feb. 13-14 in Myanmar with a Thai delegation to discuss the issue of migrant workers
in Thailand.
“The two sides had fruitful discussion on the matters relating to verification of
Myanmar workers who are already in Thailand to enjoy legal status and dispatching
fresh Myanmar workers to Thailand,” the newspaper said.
http://www.svherald.com/content/2010/02/23/group-slams-thai-deadline-registering-
migrants
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Conflicting Signals on Migrant Verification Deadline
By SIMON ROUGHNEEN Tuesday, February 23, 2010
However, confusion about the deadline was exacerbated later in the day when M
Thanit Numnoy, the director of Thailand’s Alien Workers Management Committee,
said that the deadline for submitting nationality verification (NV) forms had been
extended to March 31.
Thanit said that migrant workers will only have to express an intention in writing to
enter the NV process by Feb. 28 to avoid deportation. They would then have until
March 31 to complete and file the NV forms.
The Thai Foreign Ministry on Monday sought to reassure that the NV deadline would
be discussed by the Thai government, in response to concerns raised by international
organizations, NGOs and Thailand's National Human Rights Commission. The
reassurance came in a letter to Human Rights Watch (HRW) from the Foreign
Ministry, in response to the report “From the Tiger to the Crocodile— Abuse of
Migrant Workers in Thailand” which was launched on Tuesday by HRW in Bangkok.
However, Minister Phaithoon said that the issue would not be discussed at the Cabinet
meeting on Tuesday.
Despite claims by NGO advocates that NV information was not reaching Thailand's
estimated 2 to 3 migrant workers, Minister Phaithoon said he saw no reason why
migrants cannot apply prior to Feb. 28. The majority of the migrant workers are
Burmese.
Migrant worker advocates said a clear, decisive statement on what is going to happen
is needed.
Andy Hall, the director of the Migrant Justice Programme at the Human Rights and
Development Foundation, said, “The Thai authorities are saying different things,
adding to the confusion surrounding an already-flawed policy.”
Sunai Phasuk, a HRW senior researcher, said he believes that “the Foreign Ministry is
telling the international community what it wants to hear” regarding NV policy.
On Feb. 18, a UN human rights expert on migrants, Jorge A. Bustamente, said that the
Thailand's NV process could lead to mass forced deportation and put Thailand in
breach of fundamental human rights obligations.
Phil Robertson, the deputy director of HRW Asia Division, said that no one disputes
the Thai government's need to have a migrant worker policy. The problem is that the
Ministry of Labour “has not sought to address the nitty-gritty issues facing migrant
workers in Thailand,” he said.
The newly released HRW report documents alleged abuses and challenges faced by
migrant workers in Thailand, including killings, torture in detention, extortion, sexual
abuse, trafficking and forced labor.
“Many police and officials treat migrant workers like walking ATMs” according to
HRW. “They are just part of a system that robs and mistreats migrants wherever they
turn.”
Now, the NV deadline “creates the risk of further abuses,” leaving migrants more
vulnerable to extortion and traffickers, and should be postponed until it can be carried
out in a fair manner, Robertson said.
The NV process is targeted at nearly 1.4 million migrant workers who only have
temporary-stay status.
Burmese migrant workers are often from ethnic minorities and sometimes are linked
to ethnic or opposition political groups, according to Htoo Chit, the director of the
Foundation for Education and Development. Burmese migrants in general do not want
to give personal information to Burmese government officials, Htoo Chit said, in fear
of jeopardizing the safety of family members still inside Burma.
Burmese economic migrants have left an economy that remains one of the poorest in
Asia. Seventy percent of Burmese are subsistence farmers, and while the country has
made billions of dollars from natural resource exports, little of this filters down to
ordinary Burmese, who have at best intermittent electricity even as Burma supplies
gas to neighboring countries to fuel power stations.
Pollock referred to recent strikes in Burma, protesting low wages and poor working
conditions imposed by South Korean and Australian-run businesses, among others,
and noted that the Burmese government responded by sending the military onto the
streets.
"Burmese migrant workers come to Thailand seeking a better life than what they face
at home," she said. "All they ask for in Thailand is the minimum wage, which is not
even a living wage," she said.
Many other Burmese migrants have fled to Thailand from villages that have either
been relocated or destroyed by the Burmese army, meaning that they do not have the
necessary information to complete the NV process.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17872&page=2
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Thai govt puts Burmese migrants ‘particularly at risk’
Feb 23, 2010 (DVB)
A New York-based rights group has again petitioned the Thai government over its
demand that migrants in the country register in the scheme by the end of the month.
The scheme, known as the Nationality Verification (NV) process, has sought to
register all migrants and offer them a two-year grace period to stay in Thailand,
providing they registered with the scheme by the 28 of February. If migrants fail to
make this deadline they face immediate deportation.
HRW said the Nationality Verification process was setting “unrealistic demands on
migrants” and that the price of applying for the process was prohibitive.
It “can amount to two or three months of salary” which is “unacceptably high for
these migrant communities”, while also being complicated and difficult, it said.
“Starting on 1 March, people who are currently documented, who currently have the
right to be here in Thailand, will no longer have the right to,” said one of the authors
of the report, Phil Robertson.
The report further condemns the treatment of migrants whilst in Thailand. HRW
claims that “Police abuse migrants with impunity”. It used the example of one migrant
interviewed in the report who said she witnessed police kick a Burmese youth to death
simply for failing to answer them in Thai.
The findings were echoed by the Asia director of HRW, who said that "many officials
and police treat migrant workers like walking ATMs".
Robertson further told DVB that: “The police and other people who have been
perpetrating these various abuses know very well that that deadline is expiring on the
28th. After the 28th it’s a free for all: the Thai police have shown no reservation so far
in basically extorting, abusing, physically beating, torturing and killing migrant
workers.”
The Thai economy meanwhile is heavily reliant on the cheap labour that migrants
from countries such as Burma, Laos and Cambodia provide.
DVB found that migrant workers in Mae Sot thought it routine and normal for
migrants with full paperwork to have their documentation kept by their employers;
intentionally to restrict their freedom of movement.
“This government has said they respect international human rights on a number of
occasions and as a point of pride,” said Phil Robertson. He further noted that the
current Thai strategy to regulate the migrant worker population comes with little
incentive for the worker to register.
The report calls for “an independent and impartial commission to investigate
allegations of abuse by police and other authorities against migrants. Such a
commission should have the power to subpoena, require presentation of evidence, and
recommend criminal and civil charges against abusers. It should make public reports
on a periodic basis”.
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3342
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Broker arrested Burmese migrant woman due to stopping paying a monthly fee
of 200 Baht
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 09:48
Daw Khin Soe, a 49 year old house maid from near Wihtinaing market, Kyown Phaw
Town, Souther Thailand was arrested by police on a motorbike following a call from
Phi More, 30, a broker who had previously organized a working ID for Daw Khin Soe.
Soe Win Hlaing, son of Daw Khin Soe said; "My mother organized her work ID
through Phi Moe and she had paid the 5,000Baht fee in full. Phi Moe had further
charged a 200Baht monthly fee from 7 migrant workers whom she had made work
IDs for but who were unable to speak Thai. My mother gave almost 6 months of fees
but then she was arrested after stopping paying the monthly charge. She was arrested
because of disobedience; I heard she was sentenced to 10 days, now my mother was
in jail but I only just found out yesterday when I made an enquiry."
Daw Khin Soe, a widow from Zayakone village, Man Aung Township, Arakan State
who has two younger sons came to Kyown Phaw, Thailand only 2 years ago.
After seeking for almost 2 days, Soe Win Hlaing had met his mother at Lian Chan
prison, Kyown Phaw. According to the authorities of prison, she would be released on
the 8th of February but both sons were worried as they did not know where she would
be sent to.
Thousands of Burmese migrant workers staying in Kyown Phaw and Pharnan Peik
Sea pot who have had legal work IDs made are worried that a broker who has
organized work IDs for migrant workers has made friends with the police and caused
the arrest of a worker.
According to workers from Kyown Phaw, this Thai lady - who managed to get Daw
Khin Soe arrested - has been asking any Burmese migrant workers that she sees on
the roads, harbour, train and bus station whether they have legal documents and
calling the police and trying to extort money from the victims.
Some of the legal aid organizations have been preparing to help seek protection
through the law and providing legal assistance.
http://www.ghre.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=313:broke
r-arrested-burmese-migrant-woman-due-to-stopping-paying-a-monthly-fee-of-200-
baht&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=70
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Thailand and Burma agree on register cross-border Migrants
The Nation, February 24, 2010
He said the Thai government and the Thai Labour Ministry needed to talk with the
Burmese government about setting up an independent office based in Thailand to
identify migrant Burmese workers working here.
Labour Minister Phaithoon Kaeothong said the Burmese government promised to him
that it was willing to grant Burmese citizenship to all workers born on Burmese soil,
except Rohingya people and members anti-Rangoon minority groups.
Tomoo Hozumi, a United Nations local official in Thailand, said labour migration
was helpful in attributing to Thailand's economy, as Thailand's own workforce was
entering retirement age and migrant labourers could contribute to low-skill positions
in Thailand.
He said Thailand's policy to send back unregistered Burmese workers to their country
was not a right thing to deal with the problem. "There are now one million registered
Burmese workers in Thailand while the total number of them reach two to three
million," he said.
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/home/2010/02/24/national/Thailand-and-Burma-
agree-on-register-cross-border--30123297.html
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The Burden is on Thais to Re-think Their Migrant Strategy
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Question: The new Human Rights Watch report “From the Tiger to the Crocodile:
Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand," comes out as a Feb. 28 deadline for migrant
workers to enter into a Nationality Verification process looms. How will NV as
currently envisaged impact on the conditions faced by migrant workers in Thailand?
Answer: The issue that concerns Human Rights Watch most about nationality
verification is the explicit threat by Thai policy-makers, which was issued again by
the Minister of Labor at the ILO-Japan seminar in Bangkok on Feb. 23, to arrest and
deport all migrant workers who do not apply to enter nationality verification by Feb.
28. Our research found that both officials and private Thai citizens abuse the rights of
migrants with impunity. This was happening before migrants ever were told about
“nationality verification,” and, in fact, these abuses appear to be continuous and
systematic wherever there are significant groups of migrant workers present. But our
concern is that the nationality verification deadline, and likely crackdowns that will
follow after the deadline passes, give police and other officials yet another convenient
excuse to commit human rights abuses against migrants on a wide scale. The police
already know that the deadline is coming. Unless this deadline is postponed, or better
yet, revoked altogether, the crackdown will occur as a matter of course, since our
research shows that arresting and extorting migrants is a profitable enterprise for local
officials. .
Q: There are contradictory statements coming from different Thai ministries and
agencies regarding NV. Do you think this reflects a lack of coherence in Thai policy
making with regard to NV, or just a result of turf wars between the different entities?
A: For a long time, too few people have paid attention to the problems with
nationality verification. It was clear three to six months ago that it was going to be
difficult, if not impossible, to get all the migrants to register for nationality
verification. Now that the deadline is coming up fast, the various government
ministries are scrambling to come up with a response. But while it looks like a lack of
coherence in policy-making, there is a cabinet resolution on the Feb. 28 deadline. That
makes it a shared responsibility of the entire government to listen and respond to the
concerns raise by HRW and other rights groups regarding the NV issues, and to take
immediate steps to end the threat of mass deportation and curtail any abuses that
might come up after the Feb. 28 deadline.
Q: The report includes numerous case studies of human rights abuses against
migrant workers. Is there a sense among some elements of the Thai security forces
and among some officials that migrant workers are an easy target to be extorted and
intimidated with impunity? How can this be changed, and the abuses you outline in
the report be prevented?
A: Precisely, a number of the Thai security forces, particularly the police, have
recognized that targeting migrant workers is both lucrative and relatively risk-free.
This is why HRW is calling for the establishment of an independent, impartial and
powerful commission to receive complaints, compel evidence and require witness
testimony, and make recommendations for prosecutions to bring to justice those who
are abusing migrant workers and their families. Let’s be clear that until some of these
officials believe they face a risk of discovery and prosecution for their abuses against
migrants, it will be difficult to change the way migrants are treated. The impunity
must end, it is as simple as that—and any police measure that contributes to that goal
can be considered a sign of progress.
We also are calling for the establishment of an ombudsman based in Bangkok who
can receive complaints from migrant workers who are too terrified to report these
grievances to local authorities who are either the abusers in the first place, or in
cahoots with the abusers. We also believe that if permitted, the migrant workers can
defend themselves—which is why we are calling to amend the Labor Relations Act of
1975 to give full rights to migrant workers to form labor unions (not just join them as
an ordinary member) and to serve as the elected leaders of a union.
Q: The UN human rights expert on migrants, Jorge A. Bustamante, has said that
Thailand could be in breach of its international human rights obligations, if it goes
ahead with NV in its current form. Can you detail how NV as currently constituted
would put Thailand in breach of these obligations?
A: Well, it would be good for The Irrawaddy to contact the special rapporteur directly
on this. I am sure that he will give an answer since what is happening in Thailand is a
major matter in the world of migrant rights. Thailand is supposed to be a progressive
leader with a respectful, pro-human rights position—yet the policy on migrant
workers raises concerns about that image.
As I mentioned earlier, what concerns HRW is the human rights violations that we
documented as occurring regularly to migrant workers, and the fact that often no one
is held accountable for these abuses. Therefore, your question misses the point—it is
not “NV as currently constituted” that will breach obligations, but rather, what the
implementation of nationality verification will mean if done as currently planned.
Right now, it looks like as many as 600,000 to 800,000 currently registered migrant
workers (mostly Burmese) will not apply for the nationality verification before the
end of the month. What will happen then? We believe that come March 1, there will
be a crack-down on unregistered and undocumented migrants, and this will exacerbate
the human rights problems faced by migrants and their families.
A: The HRW report makes a specific recommendation for AICHR, so I am glad you
asked this question. Few people have paid attention to the role of Asean in these
matters, but I think that opinions in Asean matter to the Thai government and so we
should encourage Asean to speak out on these matters. For AICHR, we urge them to
play a leadership role in engaging with Thailand to better protect migrant worker
rights and encourage Thailand to live up to its responsibilities as a signatory to the
Asean Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers.
While AICHR does not have as strong a mandate as Human Rights Watch would like
regarding human rights protection, we do urge AICHR to use its authority under its
terms of reference to conduct a study and request information from Thailand and
other Asean states about abuses of migrant worker rights. We also hope that AICHR
will speak out on migrant worker issues and remind countries like Thailand, Burma,
Cambodia and Laos that in regulating migration, they need to keep the issue of human
rights as a paramount concern.
Q: Is Thai policy toward migrant workers contradictory and self-defeating, given that
the Thai economy and Thai businesses depend on migrant labor, a vital asset given
the tough time endured by the Thai economy since the global downturn hit after
September 2008?
Q: NV affects all migrant workers in Thailand. However, given that the majority of
these people are Burmese, NV affects Burmese migrants on a greater scale. Does NV
affect Burmese migrants in a different qualitative way to say migrants from Laos or
Cambodia in Thailand?
A big problem is that the migrants don’t trust the SPDC government. They have a
good reason for this, because the SPDC is one of the most dictatorial, human rights
abusing, and arbitrary regimes in Asia—and for people like the Shan, Karen, Karenni,
Kachin, and others, the abusive track record of the SPDC is clear. There is no wonder
these migrants stay as far away from a SPDC official as they can. But for the
Cambodians and Lao, their government officials come to where the workers reside
and work, and there are not the abusive, controlling elements to the nationality
verification that we see with the process for Burmese.
Q: One hopes that a democratic, stable and well-governed Burma would not see so
many of its sons and daughters fleeing to what they hope to be a better life in
Thailand, Malaysia and beyond, and nip the migrant worker/NV issue in the bud.
Does the presence of millions of Burmese migrant workers, as well as around 160,000
refugees, tell the Thai authorities that it needs to rethink its Burma policy in general,
if it wants to see a democratic, stable and well-governed neighbor?
A: Until Burma has restored respect for human rights in the country, people will
continue to flee. Many persons and governments, including the Thais, have tried to
persuade the SPDC to start a transition to a democratic, rights-respecting government.
There has been no substantive response, and now one wonders whether the SPDC
government really cares what the Thai government thinks. As you correctly mention,
the burden is on the Thais to re-think their strategy but so far there has been little
indication that they have the political will or interest to do this.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17880&page=3
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Verification deadline poses risk to migrants, says HRW
24/02/2010 at 12:00 AM
The deadline on Saturday for migrant workers to begin their nationality verification
will only exacerbate the risk of further abuses against them, Human Rights Watch
warns.
HRW Thailand representative Sunai Phasuk yesterday said the deadline for all
migrants to begin the national verification process or face arrest and deportation posed
an imminent threat to workers who have contributed much to the Thai economy.
The workers are required to register to begin the nationality verification process
before Feb 28. Anyone who failed to apply for nationality verification would be sent
back to their countries.
But they must pay high costs for nationality verification, usually two or three times
their monthly salary.
Mr Sunai was speaking at the launch of the HRW's 124-page report, "From the Tiger
to the Crocodile: Abuse of Migrant Workers in Thailand".
The report, based on 82 interviews with migrants from Burma, Cambodia and Laos,
released yesterday, describes widespread severe human rights abuses faced by
migrant workers in Thailand.
Phil Robertson, HRW deputy director for Asia, said the deadline should be postponed
and incentives for migrants to register themselves in the process should be introduced.
Bill Salter, director of the International Labour Organisation's East Asia office, said
the government should be more flexible in its policy of requiring alien workers to
apply for nationality verification.
The other 2 million to 3 million illegal Burmese workers would face deportation.
The Foreign Ministry defended the national verification scheme, saying the process
would give migrant labour legal status which would provide them with more access to
better protection.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/33405/verification-deadline-poses-risk-to-
migrants-says-hrw
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NEWS ON REFUGEES
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Mass Burmese hunger strike in Malaysian camp
Feb 22, 2010 (DVB)
The predominantly Burmese inmates in the Lenggeng camp have for a long time been
living in “terrible conditions”, according to Min Tha from the Arakan Refugee Relief
Committee (ARRC).
“It is very difficult to continue their life; they are ready to [hunger] strike until
whenever,” Min Tha told DVB after contacting detainees too afraid to speak to the
press.
The camp is said to have a capacity of 1,250; but as of August 2009 it had a
population of 1,430. Exact figures of the current population are difficult to attain.
Aegile Fernandez, head of Tenaganita, a migrant NGO based in Kuala Lumpur, said:
“They have transferred detainees from other camps so it’s really full to the brim. I
think this is one of the reasons they are on this hunger strike, because there is lack of
water and it is so uncomfortable being crushed into one place like that.”
She added that “we are asking Suharkam [the Malaysian human rights commission] to
go in immediately and get feedback”.
Fernandez also suggested that the protest had come amidst a crackdown by Malaysian
authorities on undocumented foreigners in the country.
“They have started the operations for nabbing the undocumented workers after the
Chinese New Year [last week] so the camps now will get even more full up; they will
just dump them in" with or without water.
Malaysia’s home minister last week was quoted in the press as saying that the
government intended to create an environment where foreigners without legal status
would feel “afraid and threatened”.
If there was any doubt therefore about the chain of command in Malaysian policing,
Min Tha relayed that: “One of the captains [elected detainees] from the camp was
beaten badly because he made a report to the outside”. Another captain was “told to
eat the food or [the police] will become violent. They threatened them”.
The crackdown comes after Malaysia was reclassified as a Tier 3 country for human
trafficking by the US state department; the worst possible classification on its scale.
The situation has been called into question by Tenaganita as the Malaysian
government looks set to register around 10,000 new migrant workers, despite the
large numbers of undocumented migrants already in the country.
“Our call is that they stop the intake of new migrant workers; we have asked the
government to register the ones who are already here,” she said.
“The ones who are here have not all come here illegally, [but] have become
undocumented as a result of the employers or agents”.
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3337
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Malaysia May Allow Burmese Refugees to Work
By LAWI WENG Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Kuala Lumpur-based The Star reported on Feb. 22 that the Malaysian Home Ministry
and Ministry of Foreign Affairs are expected to discuss the issue following calls from
many sectors asking the government to allow the country's refugees––the vast
majority of whom are Burmese –– the opportunity to work.
While noting that the refugees' stay in the country is considered temporary, Home
Minister Datuk Seri Hisham-muddin Tun Hussein said, “The suggestion might work,
but we need to look at it from all angles. The implications need to be made known
before we decide. My ministry can't decide on this alone. We will engage the Foreign
Ministry and probably even foreign missions as well as other relevant authorities to
get their views.”
Several parties, including the Malaysian Trades Union Congress, have called on the
Malaysian government to allow refugees to work, particularly in “labor-strapped
sectors,” instead of importing more foreign workers.
According to The Star, the move “would help to overcome the worker shortage and, at
the same time, gain Malaysia international recognition as a humane country.”
Yante Ismail, a spokesperson for the United Nations' refugee agency, the UNHCR, in
Malaysia, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday: “The UNHCR is pleased to hear that the
government of Malaysia is considering allowing refugees to work while they are here
in Malaysia.
“We believe that this is in the long-term humanitarian, economic and security interest
of Malaysia, and consistent with Malaysia's own humanitarian tradition in helping
those in need. We look forward to supporting the government of Malaysia in this
initiative,” she said.
Oug Kar Mon, a Mon refugee, said, “There are many Burmese refugees here who
don't have enough food because they don't dare go out to find work. The Malaysian
government's latest plan might help us to get out from under this problem.”
On Feb. 1, The New Straits Times, which is also based in the Malaysian capital,
reported that Home Ministry Secretary-General Datuk Seri Mahmood Adam had
announced that the government will issue identification cards to refugees registered
with the UNHCR.
"I have never heard of such a large-scale plan for refugees before,” said Khaing Myo
Thu, a refugee from Arakan State.
However, rights groups claim that Malaysian police have arrested and detained many
Burmese refugees even though they were in possession of refugee cards from the
UNHCR. In several cases, Burmese refugees have said that the authorities ripped up
their ID cards in front of them before arresting them. Rights groups say that refugees
are not provided enough food and water and have little living space in detention
camps.
As of January, there were 79,300 refugees and asylum seekers registered with the
UNHCR in Malaysia, some 90 percent of whom were Burmese––mostly Chin and
Rohingya ethnic minorities.
The UNHCR said a large number of Burmese migrants, perhaps 30,000, remain
unregistered in Malaysia.
The UNHCR said they will continue to push for long-term solutions for all refugees,
including finding them homes in third countries and helping them return home safely.
Burmese refugees have been sent from Malaysia to third countries, including the
United States, Canada, Australia, France, New Zealand, Sweden, Finland, Denmark
and Norway.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17873
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Malaysia may allow refugees to work
Feb 23, 2010 (AFP)
Rights groups have accused Malaysia of mistreating the nearly 80,000 refugees and
asylum-seekers in the country, mainly from military-ruled Burma.
Home minister Hishammuddin Hussein told the Star newspaper he would discuss the
proposal to allow refugees to work with the foreign ministry and foreign embassies.
"The suggestion might work but we need to look at it from all angles," he said. The
minister's office was not able to immediately confirm his comments.
"It will benefit the country if refugees with certain expertise are allowed to work
while they are here," foreign minister Anifah Aman was quoted as saying by the paper.
The United Nations refugee agency in Malaysia said it was ready to support the
initiative.
"We believe that this is in the long-term humanitarian, economic and security interest
of Malaysia, and consistent with Malaysia's own humanitarian tradition in helping
those in need," spokeswoman Yante Ismail told AFP.
Malaysia, which has about 2.2 million migrant workers, is one of Asia's largest
importers of labour and relies heavily on foreigners for maids and to work in
plantation and factories.
http://english.dvb.no/news.php?id=3339
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SPDC mortar attack on school in Papun District
One 15-year-old student is dead and two other students are injured after an 81 mm
mortar fired into an IDP hiding site in Lu Thaw Township, Papun District, landed in
a school set up by the villagers. As of February 21st, the site's 353 residents remained
in hiding and are actively seeking to avoid being shot-on-sight by SPDC Army troops
that remain in their area.
On February 19th 2010, soldiers from State Peace and Development Council (SPDC)
Military Operation Command (MOC) #7 based in Hsar Law Kyoh, Lu Thaw
Township, killed a 15-year-old student and injured two others after firing an 81 mm
mortar into the T--- hiding site for internally displaced persons (IDPs). This site was
inhabited by 353 civilians that had fled their home villages, including the entire
population of Thay Thu Kee village, as a means to resist ongoing attacks against
villagers in northern Papun District designed to drive civilians into SPDC-controlled
areas. Such attacks have been a well-documented and direct consequence of the
increased military presence in Papun since the initiation of the Northern Karen State
Offensive in November 2005. Even though the SPDC had withdrawn from some
camps previously located near IDP areas of Lu Thaw Township, the residents of T---
had not yet felt it safe to permanently return to their villages. They had instead chosen
to stay in the hiding site and had even built a school so that their children could
continue to receive an education during displacement.
KHRG researchers report that the school in T--- was hit by an SPDC mortar just after
9:00 am on February 19th. The attack occurred during the school's exam period;
students had arrived at school and were sitting an exam when the shell landed. Three
schoolboys were injured by fragments from the mortar: Saw R---, 15; Saw Hs---, 8,
who sustained injuries to his arm; and Saw E--- (age unknown), who was injured in
his leg. The three were sent to a clinic at Kay Bpoo village to receive treatment for
their injuries. Saw R---'s condition was too serious to be treated at Kay Bpoo clinic,
and the medics sent him south along the Yunzalin River to another hospital at Bp'na
Ay Bper Ko, Lu Thaw Township, where his injuries were again deemed too severe for
treatment. The boy was then sent on to Kaw Lu Der hospital, where he was admitted
for medical care, but by this time his health had deteriorated and his injuries were no
longer treatable. Saw R--- Htoo passed away at about 3:00 am on February 21st 2010.
KHRG has confirmed that, prior to the attack, the Karen National Liberation Army
(KNLA) had not been active in the area into which the mortar was fired. This
indicates that the soldiers from MOC #7 did not fire the mortar as a response to a
prior attack or in an attempt to strike a legitimate military target, but as a deliberate
attack on the civilian population of the T--- hiding site. This is consistent with
numerous accounts of similar assaults documented by KHRG, including mortar
attacks on villages and shooting civilians on sight, by SPDC units since the start of the
Northern Karen State Offensive. Prior to this incident villagers from T'B---, a 1.5 hour
walk from Kay Bpoo, reported to KHRG that they had escaped after soldiers from
MOC #7 shot at them in January; the soldiers had entered their village on patrol and
opened fire after seeing the villagers working in their fields.
This incident also illustrates the way that militarization and measures designed to
consolidate control over villagers in hiding impact essential services such as health
and education. Though only one shell fell on the T--- hiding site, it not only injured
and killed three children, but disrupted school for all the students; as of February 21st,
the residents of T--- had not been able to return to the hiding site and the students'
exams remained on hold. That one of the boys injured in the mortar attack had to be
taken to three different locations before a clinic was found that could treat him, and
that he ultimately died from his injuries, is also the predictable result of SPDC Army
forward camps and patrols that force health organisations to operate covertly, on pain
of being shot on sight. Movement and trade restrictions imposed by SPDC authorities
in areas under their control, meanwhile, further undermine access to health services
and create a shortage of basic medicines in areas both under and beyond military
control. The cumulative impact is that, for displaced villagers in hiding, flight and
evasion as tactics for resisting abuse become increasingly difficult to sustain.
http://khrg.org/khrg2010/khrg10b5.html
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ခဏခြင့္ေပးလိုက္ရင္ ညေန ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ေနာက္တေန႔ဆို ျပန္လာၾကမွာပါ။ ေနာက္ဆံုးေတာ့ ခြင့္မေပးႏိုင္ဘူး၊
နင္တို႔ျပန္မယ္ဆို ၿပီးျပန္၊ ျပန္မလာနဲ႔ေတာ့ဆိုေတာ့ ေကာင္မေလးႏွစ္ေယာက္လည္း ျပန္သြားၾကတာေပါ့။
ဲလ
ို ျပန္မွာ မန္ေနဂ်ာက ေနာက္ကေန ကားနဲ႔လိုက္သြားၿပီး လမ္းမွာကားနဲ႔တိုက္တယ္။ ေကာင္မေလး
ႏွစ္ေယာက္လည္း ေရွာင္ေပးလိုက္ၿပီး လမ္းေဘးမွာရွိတဲ့ စပါးပင္ေတြ ေတာထဲကို ထြက္ေျပးသြားတယ္။
စပါးခင္းေတြက လမ္းမၾကီးနဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ စက္႐ံုၾကားထဲမွာပါ။ မန္ေနဂ်ာလည္း ဒုတ္ယူၿပီး ကားေပၚကေန
ဆင္းလိုက္သာြ းတယ္။ မိန္းကေလးနဲ႔ ေယာက်္ားဆိုေတာ့ မီတာေပါ့။ မီလည္းမီေရာ ပါလာတဲ့ဒုတ္နဲ႔
႐ိုက္ေတာ့တာေပါ့။ ဲဒီမွာ က်န္တ့ဲ မိန္းကေလးတေယာက္က ော္ၿပီး ကူညီေတာင္းတဲ့ သံကို
တေယာက္စကား တေယာက္နား က်ေနာ္တို႔ စက္႐ံုထဲကလူေတြ သိသြားတယ္။ ဲဒီမွာတင္ပဲ စက္႐ံုထဲမွာ
လုပ္လုပ္ေနတဲ့ လူားလံုး ရရာလက္နက္ဆဲြၿပီး လယ္ကင
ြ ္းထဲကို ဆင္းေတာ့တာပဲ။
လာတဲ
့ ဖဲ႔ထ
ြ က
ဲ မ်ဳိးသမီးၾကီးတေယာက္ ဆဝါဒီကန္႐ံုး (လုပ္သမားဝါဏိဇၨပဋိပကၡ႐ံုး) ကလို႔
ထင္ပါတယ္။ သူက မင္းတို႔ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ လုပ္မဆင္းၾကတာလဲဆိုၿပီး စကားျပန္နဲ႔ ေမးပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔
လုပ္သမားေတြကလည္း က်ေနာ္တို႔ လုပ္ဆင္းမွာပါ။ သူေ႒းက ေပးမဆင္းတာပါလို႔ ျပန္ေျဖၾကတယ္။
ဲဒ
ီ ခ်ိန္မွာ သူေ႒းက စက္ားလံုးနီးပါး တျခား႐ံုကို ေျပာင္းၿပီးေနပါၿပီ။ လုပ္စရာလုပ္လည္း
မရွိေတာ့ပါဘူး။ စက္ခန္းထဲကိုလည္း ေပးမဝင္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။ ဲဒီလို ားလံုးက ေျဖလိုက္တ
ဲ့ ခ်ိန္မွာ
ဲဒ
ီ မ်ဳိးသမီးၾကီးက ဆက္မေျပာဘဲ သူေ႒းနဲ႔ ဘာေတြ ေျပာမွန္းမသိပါဘူး။ စကားမ်ားေနတဲဲ့ပံုပါပဲ။
ေနာက္ဆံုးမွာေတာ့ ဲဒ
ီ မ်ဳိးသမီးၾကီးကပဲ ဆက္ေျပာပါတယ္။ မင္းတို႔ လုပ္သမားေတြ ားလံုးကို
သူေ႒းက မယူေတာ့ဘူး။ စက္႐ံုပိတ္လိုက္ၿပီ။ ဲဒါ မင္းတို႔ လုပ္သမား လက္မွတ္ေတြကို ၇ ရက္တြင္း
တျခား သူေ႒းရွာၿပီး သက္တမ္းဆက္ေပါ့။ ၇ ရက္ျပည့္ရင္ေတာ့ မင္းတို႔လက္မွတ္ေတြ (ဘတ္ေတြ)
သက္တမ္းကုန္ၿပီ။ ဒီ႐ံုထမ
ဲ ွာလည္း ေနလို႔မရေတာ့ဘူး။ တျခားလုပ္ရွာၾကပါဆိုၿပီး ေျပာသြားပါတယ္။
ဲဒ
ီ မ်ဳိးသမီးၾကီး ေျပာၿပီးတဲ့ခ်ိန္မွာ ရဲေတြကလည္း မ်က္ႏွာထားက စဝင္လာတုန္းကလို
မဟုတ္ေတာ့ပါဘူး။ ဘာဟင္းခ်က္လ၊ဲ ဘာညာနဲ႔ ဟင္းိုးေတြ ဖြင့္ၾကည့္ၿပီး မင္းတို႔ ထမင္းစားလို႔ရပါၿပီ။
ဘာမွမဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ငါတို႔ကိုေခၚတာက လုပ္သမားေတြ ေသာင္းက်န္းေနတယ္ဆိုၿပီး ေခၚလို႔ ခုလို
လာရတာပါ။ ဒီေရာက္ေတာ့ သူတို႔သိထားသလို မဟုတ္တ
ဲ့ တြက္ ားနာပါတယ္၊ စိတ္မဆိုးပါနဲ႔လို႔ေတာင္
ေျပာသြားၾကပါေသးတယ္။
က်ေနာ္တို႔ စက္႐ံုမွာက ဘတ္ (လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္လက္မွတ)္ ရွိတဲ့သူ ရွိသလို၊ မရွိတဲ့သူေတြလည္း ရွိပါတယ္။
ဘတ္ရွိတ့ဲ သူကိုေတာ့ သူေ႒းက တလကို ဘတ္ ၄ဝဝ ျဖတ္ပါတယ္။ ဘတ္ဖိုးေက်တဲ
့ ထိ ျဖတ္တာပါ။
ဘတ္မရွိတ့ဲ လုပ္သမားေတြကိုေတာ့ (သူေ႒းက လုပ္မေပးတာပါ) တလကို ဘတ္ ၁၅ဝ ျဖတ္ပါတယ္။
ရဲေၾကးလို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕လုပ္သမားေတြ ဘတ္သက္တမ္းဆက္ရန္ တျခားစက္႐ံုေတြမွာ
လုပ္သာြ းေလွ်ာက္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဘယ္စက္႐ံုကမွ လက္မခံပါဘူး။ က်ေနာ္တို႔သူေ႒းက စက္႐ံုေတြကို
သတင္းပို႔ၿပီးပါၿပီ။ သူ႔ဆီက လုပ္သမားေတြ လာရင္ လက္မခံဖို႔။ သူေ႒းေတြကလည္း
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ျပည့္ေတာ့မယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ေတြလည္း စU္းစားရၿပီေပါ့။ ဘာဆက္လုပ္ၾကမယ္ဆိုတာကို။
ဲလိုေဖာင္ျဖည့္ၿပီး တိုင္တ
့ဲ ခ်ိန္ၾကမွပဲ လုပ္သမားေယာက္ရ႕ဲ ရပိုင္ခင
ြ ့္ေတြ သိပါေတာ့တယ္။ တာ့ခ္႐ိုင္
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ီ ခ်ိန္တုန္းက လုပ္သမားတေယာက္ရ႕ဲ လုပ
္ ားခဟာ တေန႔လုပ္ခ်ိန္ ၈
နာရီတြက္ ၁၄၃ ဘတ္ပါ။ ခုဆို ၁၅ဝ ေက်ာ္သြားပါၿပီ။ ခ်ိန္ပိုလုပ
္ ားခကေတာ့ တနာရီကို ၂၅
ဘတ္ေလာက္ ရွိပါတယ္။ တနဂၤေႏြန႔ဲ မ်ားျပည္သူ ႐ံုးပိတ္ရက္ေတြ (Uပမာ - ဘုရင့္ေမြးေန႔လိုဟာမ်ဳိး) မွာ
လုပ္ဆင္းရရင္ လုပ
္ ားခရဲ႕ ၃ ဆ ရ,ရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဲဒ
ီ တိုင္း ေဖာင္ျဖည့္လိုက္ၾကတာ
တေယာက္ကို လုပ္သက္ႏွစ
္ လိုက္ နည္းဆံုး ဘတ္ ၄ ေသာင္းေလာက္ ရ,ရမွာပါ။
ႏွစ္မ်ားတဲ့သူေတြကေတာ့ ဘတ္သိန္းဂဏန္း ရွိ္ပါတယ္။ ဆဝါဒီကန္ရ႕ဲ မိန္႔ကို ၃-၄ လေလာက္
ေစာင္ရ
့ ပါေသးတယ္။ ခ်ိန္တန္လို႔ ဆဝါဒီကန္က မိန္႔ခ်တဲ
့ ခါမွာေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔
လုပ္သမားေတြေနနဲ႔ သူေ႒းဆီက ရစရာ တျပားမွ မရွိပါဘူးတဲ့။ သူေ႒းေနနဲ႔ ေလ်ာ္ေပးစရာ
မလိုဘူးေပါ့။
ဘယ္လ
ို ေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ေတြန႔ဲ ဘယ္လ
ို မိန္႔ခ်တယ္ ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔လည္း နားမလည္ပါဘူး။
က်ေနာ္တို႔ စက္႐ံုက ထြက္လာတုန္းက ကိုယ္ရစရာရွိတဲ့ လုပ
္ ားခကိုေတာင္ ထုတ္မလာၾကပါဘူး။
လုပ
္ ားခ ထုတ္လိုက္ရင္ မႈတိုင္လို႔ မရမွာစိုးၾကလို႔ပါ။
က်ေနာ္တို႔ကို ကူညီေပးေနတဲ
့ ဖဲ႔က
ြ ဆဝါဒီကန္က မိန္႔ခ်တာကို မေက်နပ္ရင္ တရား႐ံုးကို ဆက္တက္လို႔
ရတယ္။ ဲဒ
ီ တြက္ ေရွ႕ေနငွားရမယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလည္း မႈသာႏိုင္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ဘယ္ထိပဲ
တက္ရတက္ရ၊ လုပ္မယ္ဆိုၿပီး တညီတညြတ္တည္း ဆံုးျဖတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီလိုနဲ႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔မႈ တရား႐ံုးကို
ေရာက္သာြ းတယ္ ဆိုပါေတာ့။ တရား႐ံုးခ်ိန္းကိုေတာ့ လုပ္သမားေတြက ေရြးခ်ယ္တင္ေျမႇာက္ထားတဲ့
ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ၅ Uီးပဲတက္ရင္ ရပါတယ္။ က်န္တ
့ဲ လုပ္သမားေတြ မတက္လည္း ရပါတယ္။
လုပ္ပ်က္စရာ မလိုေတာ့ဘူးေပါ့။ ေနာက္မွ တရား႐ံုးရဲ႕ ေျခေနေတြကို ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက
ျပန္ရွင္းျပေပါ့။ တရား႐ံုးမွာ ဆဝါဒီကန္က ဝန္ထမ္းေတြလည္း ေတြ႔ရေၾကာင္း၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဘက္က
ေရွ႕ေနေတြရွိသလို သူေ႒းဘက္ကလည္း ေရွ႕ေနရွိေၾကာင္း၊ ျမန္မာစကားျပန္ ထားေပးေၾကာင္း
ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြရ႕ဲ ေျပာျပခ်က္ရ သိရပါတယ္။
တရား႐ံုး ဘယ္ႏွစ္ၾကိမ္တက္လိုက္ရလဲေတာ့ တိက် မသိေတာ့ပါဘူး။ ႏွစ္ေတြလည္း ၾကာခဲ့ၿပီကိုး။ ခု
၂ဝ၁ဝ ႏွစ္ဆန္းပိုင္းမွာေတာ့ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြကတဆင့္ ဖုန္းနဲ႔ဆက္သြယ္လာတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တ
ို႔ မႈ
ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးရၿပီ။ ေရာင္ျခည္Uီးကို ဘယ္ေန႔ဘယ္ခ်ိန္ လာခဲ့ပါဆိုေတာ့ ဝမ္းသာလိုက္တာဗ်ာ..
ေျပာမျပတတ္ောင္ပါပဲ။ လုပ္သမားခ်င္းခ်င္း လမ္းမွာေတြ႔ရင္လည္း ဒီေၾကာင္းပဲ ေျပာေျပာၿပီး
ေပ်ာ္ေနၾကတာ။
က်ေနာ္လည္း ေပ်ာ္လန
ြ ္းလို႔ ဲဒီေန႔ ေစာၾကီးကိုသြားတာ။ ဟိုေရာက္ေတာ့ ကိုယ့္ထက္ေစာတဲ့
သူေတြေတာင္ ရွိေနတယ္။ တခ်ိန္တုန္းက တ႐ံုထဲ တူတူလုပ္ခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဘက္ေတြ
ေရွးေဟာင္းေႏွာင္းျဖစ္ေတြ ေျပာၾကဆိုၾကနဲ႔ ေပ်ာ္စရာေကာင္းေနလိုက္တာ။ တခ်ဳိ႕ဆို ိမ္ေထာင္ေတြက်လို႔
ကေလးေတြ တို႔လို႔တေ
ြဲ လာင္းနဲ႔၊ တိုးပြားလာလိုက္ၾကတာ။ တခ်ဳိ႕ဆို ကေလးႏွစ္ေယာက္။ လုပ္သမား ၁ဝဝ
ေက်ာ္ရွိတာ ကုန္မလာႏိုင္ၾကပါဘူး။ ဘန္ေကာက္သြားတဲ့သူ၊ ျမန္မာျပည္ျပန္တဲ့သူေတြလည္း ရွိပါတယ္။
ေန႔လည္ ၁၂ နာရီေလာက္မွာေတာ့ မက္ (MAP) ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းက ကားနဲ႔ ေရာက္လာၾကပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔
လုပ္သမားေတြကိုစုၿပီး စကားေျပာပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ မႈ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေငြ ရၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊
ဘယ္ေလာက္ရတယ္ဆိုတာ သိၾကလားဆိုေတာ့… တခ်ဳိ႕လည္း သိတယ္။ တခ်ဳိ႕လည္း မသိဘူးေပါ့။ သူကပဲ
ဆက္ေျပာပါတယ္။ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးက ၃ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းပဲရေၾကာင္း၊ တိက်ဆို ဘတ္ေငြ ၃ သိန္း ၉ ေသာင္းနဲ႔ ၆
ေထာင္ပရ
ဲ ပါတယ္။ ၃ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းပဲရတာဆိုေတာ့ က်ေနာ္တို႔ လုပ္သမားေတြ ရစရာရွိတာ ဘတ္ ၁၃၂
သိန္းေပါ့။ လုပ္သမားမ်ားစုက ၃ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းကို နားမလည္ၾကလို႔ ေသခ်ာရွင္းျပပါတယ္။ သူေ႒းဆီမွာ
၁ဝဝ ရဖို႔ တင္ထားတယ္ဆိုရင္ ၃ ဘတ္ပရ
ဲ မွာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရွင္းျပေတာ့ တခ်ဳိ႕လုပ္သမားေတြလည္း
မ်က္ႏွာမေကာင္းဘူးေပါ့။ ႏွစ္ေတြ ဒီေလာက္ၾကာၾကီးရင္ ဆိုင္လာတာ ဒီေလာက္ကေလးကေတာ့
နည္းတယ္ေပါ့။
http://www.mizzimaburmese.com/edop/songpa/4875-2010-02-22-12-04-42.html
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က်ားလက္တင
ြ ္းမွသည္ မိေက်ာင္းဆီသို႔ ဟု မည္ရသည္႔ စီရင္ခံစာထုတ္ျပန္
ပန္
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 17:32
လူ
႔ ခြင
့္ ေရး ေစာင္႔ၾကည့္ ေလ့လာေရးဖြဲ႔မွ “က်ားလက္တင
ြ ္းမွသည္ မိေက်ာင္းဆီသို႔” ဟု
မည္ရသည့္ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံတင
ြ ္ လုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္ေနၾကသည့္ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ လူ႔ခြင
္႔ ေရး
ခ်ဳိးေဖါက္ခံရမႈ ေျခ ေနမ်ားကုိ ထင္ဟပ္ေစသည့္ စီရင္ခံစာကုိ ယေန႔ ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္သည္။
သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြတ
ဲ င
ြ ္ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားမ်ားေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနၾကသည္႔ MAP
foundation မွ
တက္ေရာက္ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔သည္။
Phasuk က ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔သည္။
ျဖစ္သည္။
ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔သည္။
ဆုိပါ စU္ရင္ခံစာသည္ စာမ်က္ႏွာ(၁၂၀) ေက်ာ္ ပါ၀င္ၿပီး လူ
႔ ခြင
္႔ ေရး ခ်ိဳးေဖါက္ခံရသည့္ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း
ေရးသားထားေၾကာင္း သိရွိရသည္။
http://www.ghre.org/mm/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=467:2010-02-23-
10-36-38&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=54
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လုပ္သမားမ်ား ထုိင္းတြင္ ႏွိပ္စက္ခံရမႈ HRW ဖြင့္ခ်
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 19:04 ဘေစာတင္
စာမ်က္ႏွာ ၁၂၄ မ်က္ႏွာ ပါ၀င္သည့္ စီရင္ခံစာကုိ ျမန္မာ၊ ကေမၻာဒီးယား၊ လာုိ ႏုိင္ငံတုိ႔မွ လုပ္သမား
မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ေမးျမန္းမႈ ၈၂ ခုကုိ ေျခခံၿပီး ျပဳစုထားျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
မဲေဆာက္ၿမိဳ ့တင
ြ ္ ထိုင္းရဲကို သတင္းေပးသူျဖစ္ လုပ္ကုိင္ခ့ဲဖူးသူ ကိုေစာထူးက “လမ္းေဘးမွာ သတ္
ခံရလို ့ေသေနတဲ့သူေတြ မ်ားႀကီး ေတြ ့ဖူးတယ္။ ေသနတ္သံ ၾကားရင္ ရဲေတြလာမယ္ မထင္နဲ ့။ ေနာက္မွ
လာၿပီး စစ္တာ၊ ေဆးတာ၊ သတင္းပို ့တာ လုပ္လိမ့္မယ္။ ၿပီးရင္ သူတို ့လစ္သြားမွာပဲ” ဟု ေျပာၾကားေၾကာင္း
စီရင္ခံစာတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပထားသည္။
ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂၈ ရက္ေန႔ ေနာက္ပုိင္း တရားမ၀င္ လုပ္သမားမ်ားကုိ ေနရပ္ရင္း ျပန္ပုိ႔ရန္
စုလုိက္ ၿပဳံလုိက္ ဖမ္းဆီးသည့
္ ခါ ႏွိပ္စက္ညွU္းပန္းမႈမ်ား ေပၚေပါက္လာႏုိင္ဖြယ္ ရိွသည္ကုိ HRW
ဖဲ႔က
ြ သာမက တျခားေသာ လူ
႔ ခြင
့္ ေရး ကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္သည့္ ဖဲြ႔မ်ားကလည္း
စုိးရိမ္ေနၾကသည္။
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/index.php/news/1-news/2666----hrw-
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ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားမ်ား
မားမ်ားေရး လူ
႔ ခြင
့္ ေရး
ေရးဖြ႕ဲ စိုးရိမ္
23 February 2010
ဒီေရႊ႕ေျပာင္းလုပ္သမားေတြဟာ လူ
႔ ခြင
့္ ေရး ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ မ်ဳိးစုံကို ခံေနၾကရေပမဲ့ ဒီျပစ္မႈ
က်ဴးလြန္ေနသူေတြကိုေတာ့ ေရးယူတာမ်ဳိး သိပ္ကုိရွားပါးတယ္လုိ႔လည္း ေျပာပါတယ္။
ာဆီယ
ံ ေနနဲ႔ ထုိင္းစုိးရဘက္က ေရႊ႕ေျပာင္း လုပ္သမားေတြရ႕ဲ ခြင
့္ ေရး ရပုိင္ခင
ြ ့္ေတြကုိ
့ ၀ ကာကြယ္ေပးဖို႔ ဓိက တာ၀န္ယူသင့္တယ္လို႔လည္း မစၥတာ ေရာဘတ္ဆန္က
ျပည္
ေျပာပါတယ္။
Human Rights Watch ဖြ႕ဲ ရဲ႕ ာရွေဒသဆုိင္ရာ လက္ေထာက္ ၫႊန္ၾကားေရးမႉး မစၥတာ ဖိလစ္
ေရာဘတ္ဆန္ ေျပာျပသြားတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/2010-02-23-voa5.cfm
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နယ္စပ္လမ္းက ဝမ္းတထြာ - ၁၃
ခိုင္မာေက်ာ္ေဇာ /ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂၄၊
၂၄၊ ၂၀၁၀
http://moemaka.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5937&Itemid=1
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မေလးရွား ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးစခန္း၌ ျမန္မာ (၁,၀၀၀)
၀၀၀) ေက်ာ္ စာငတ္ခံဆႏၵျပ
ဝီရ/ ၂၃ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီ ၂ဝ၁ဝ
http://www.khitpyaing.org/news/February%2010/23210d.php
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ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား မေလးရွားတြင္ လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ ရဖြယ္ရိွ
Tuesday, 23 February 2010 18:14 ၀ါးရွီးေဖာ
မေလးရွား ႏုိင္ငံတင
ြ ္ ကုလသမဂၢ သိမွတ္ျပဳ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကို လုပ္လုပ္ကိုင္ ခြင့္ေပးရန္ မေလးရွား
စိုးရက စU္းစားေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ ေပးမည့္ စီစU္သည္ ေကာင္ ထည္ ေပၚလာဖြယ္ ရိွေသာ္လည္း ရႈေထာင့္ေပါင္းစံုမွ
စစ္ေဆး ေဆာင္ရက
ြ ္ရန္ လု
ိ ပ္ေၾကာင္း မေလးရွားျပည္ထေ
ဲ ရး ၀န္ႀကီးက မေလးရွား ႏုိင္ငံထုတ္ The Star
သတင္းစာကုိ ေျပာသည္။
“ျပည္ထေ
ဲ ရး ၀န္ႀကီး ဌာန တခုတည္းက ဒီကိစၥကို ဆံုးျဖတ္လုိ႔ မရဘူး။ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ႏုိင္တကာ
႔ြ စည္းေတြ ပါ၀င္ သက္ဆုိင္ရာ ာဏာပိုင္ ဖဲြ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ညွိႏႈိင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္” ဟု
ဖဲ
၀န္ႀကီး Datuk Seri က ဆက္ေျပာသည္။
ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ားနည္းခ်က္ ားသာခ်က္မ်ားကို ေသခ်ာစြာ
ဆန္းစစ္ရမည္ဟု မေလးရွား ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးက ဆုိသည္။
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/index.php/news/1-news/2665-2010-02-23-11-15-49
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ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို လုပ္လုပ္ကိုင္ခင
ြ ့္ ျပဳဖို႕ မေလးရွား စU္းစားေန
23 February 2010
ဒုကၡသည္ေတြကို လုပ္လုပ္ခင
ြ ့္ေပးဖို႔ စိုးရရဲ႕ စU္းစားခ်က္ေၾကာင့္ လူေတြ ဆမတန္ မ်ားေနတဲ့
ဒုကၡသည္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး စခန္းေတြထမ
ဲ ွာ လနဲ႔ခ်ီ ေနၾကရတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြ၊ ေနရပ္ျပန္ပို႔မယ့္ ႏၲရာယ္၊
ႀကိမ္ဒဏ္ခံရမယ့္ ႏၲရာယ္ေတြ ရင္ဆိုင္ၾကရေလ့ရွိတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြေပၚ ထားတဲ့ မူဝါဒ
ေျပာင္းသြားႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
ဒီလို မူဝါဒေျပာင္းမယ့္ ဆိုျပဳခ်က္န႔ဲ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး ဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ႏိုင္ငံျခား သံ႐ံုးေတြနဲ႔
ေဆြးေႏြးမွာျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ မေလးရွား ျပည္ထေ
ဲ ရးဝန္ႀကီး ဟစ္ရွာမူဒင္ ဟူစိန္ (Hishammuddin Hussein) က
Malaysia’s star သတင္းစာကို တနလၤာေန႔က ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီဆိုျပဳခ်က္ လုပ္ျဖစ္ႏိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ေပမဲ့
ဘက္ေပါင္းစံုကေန ၾကည့္ဖို႔ လိုတယ္လို႔ ဝန္ႀကီးက ေျပာပါတယ္။
http://www.voanews.com/burmese/2010-02-23-voa2.cfm
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