ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ NLD မွာ ပညာတတ္မရွိေၾကာင္း ဇာဂနာ၏ ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို ဒီေန႔ထုတ္ ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႕စ္ သတင္းစာမွာ ေဖၚျပထားတာကို ေတြ႕ရွိရပါတယ္ ။ သူ႕ရဲ႕ေျပာဆိုခ်က္ကို Bangkok Post က ေဖၚျပရာမွာ "Our country has no intellectual people in the political area. For example ... [where] are the intellectual people in the NLD?" လို႕ ေဖၚျပထားပါတယ္ ။
" ကၽၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ ႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေရးေလာကမွာ ပညာတတ္မရွိပါဘူး ဥပမာအေနနဲ႕NLD ပါတီေပါ့ဗ်ာ ဘယ္မလဲပညာတတ္ ? " ဆိုျပီးေျပာဆိုလိုက္တာဟာ NLD ပါတီကိုသာမက ျမန္မာ့ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေလာကသားေတြအကုန္လံုး ကို ေစာ္ကား ေျပာဆို လိုက္တာ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေ၀ဖန္သံေတြ စတင္ထြက္ေပၚလာေနျပီျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။ဇာဂနာ၏ ပထမဆံုးျပည္ပခရီးစဥ္မွာပဲ စီးပြားေရးပိတ္ဆို႔မႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ျပီး အျငင္းပြားဘြယ္ရာ ေျပာဆို မႈေတြ ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့ျပီး ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ေျပာဆိုမႈေတြ ထပ္မံထြက္ေပၚလာတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ။
ဘန္ေကာက္ပို႕စ္ရဲ႕ မူရင္းသတင္းကို ေအာက္မွာေဖၚျပေပးလိုက္ပါတယ္ -
Freed Burmese comic set to stand up and deliver
Burma's most famous dissident comedian, who survived "electronic shock" torture during eight years in prison, has been allowed out of the country for the first time and is travelling to the Clinton Foundation in the US while requesting that US economic sanctions be lifted.
The satirical Maung Thura is popularly known by his stage
name Zarganar - "Tweezers" in Burmese - and met US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton during her visit to Burma earlier this month.
"This is the dawning era of our country, this is the start of
change," Zarganar said, describing Burma's new tentative shift from
harsh military rule towards some civilian administration and fragile
political freedom. "You should support us. Now improvement starts," the
bald Zarganar, 50, said at a Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand
news conference last Monday shortly after arriving from Burma.
"This afternoon, I already met with the World Bank. They want to give
some aid, or some help, some humanitarian aid. So if they lift up the
sanctions, we can get aid for our people not for our military."
Washington has lead efforts to clamp international sanctions on
Burma, insisting that financial hardship will force the impoverished
country to embrace democracy.
After decades of dodging the sanctions by establishing economic ties
with China, India, Thailand, Singapore and other nations friendly to the
junta, Burma has started to allow some media freedom and political
activity, while requesting that the US lift its boycotts.
"Now I can say, 'I am here.' This is [an] improvement. Many times [in
the past], I didn't get a passport. I [haven't] gone to any country.
This is my first trip."
Zarganar said powerful minority ethnic groups waging insurgencies for independence or autonomy are Burma's biggest problem.
The regime should arrange peace talks with Shan, Karen, Karenni, Wa
and other groups who have been fighting guerrilla wars on and off since
the country gained independence from Britain in 1948, he said. Zarganar
had positive words for Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, but
said her National League for Democracy (NLD) party lacked intellectuals.
"Our country has no intellectual people in the political area. For example ... [where] are the intellectual people in the NLD?"
Mrs Suu Kyi's NLD recently re-registered as a political party to run
in a promised, but unscheduled, 2012 by-election for parliament which is
dominated by the military and pliant civilian politicians.
The NLD won a nationwide election in 1990 but Mrs Suu Kyi was not
allowed to become Burma's leader because the military, which has ruled
since a 1962 coup, ignored the polls.
Zarganar, a dissident poet, performer and film-maker, was jailed four
times, and most recently released on Oct 12 among a group of prisoner
amnesties.
In 1988, during his first six months in jail for participating in a
failed 1988 pro-democracy insurrection, an army major "tortured me" in
Insein Prison, Zarganar said.
"He beat me. He kicked me many times. He gave [me] electronic shocks.
"The second time I was arrested, in 1990, that experience was very
terrible ... I was in solitary confinement for five years. I had no
friends. No cell mates. No paper to use as toilet paper. So I used the
leaves to clean my faeces.
"There was no window in my cell," he said, describing his punishment
for making political jokes. After a three-week jail sentence in 2007 for
helping Buddhist monks stage anti-government protests, his fourth term
of imprisonment began in 2008 when he was sentenced to 35 years for
"public order offences" because he criticised the regime for restricting
emergency rescue efforts during Cyclone Nargis in May that year, during
which 140,000 people died.
Prison conditions improved slightly during his recent stint.
"I had a chance to read a lot of books. For example, On China by [former US secretary of state Henry] Kissinger," he said.
Zarganar plans to arrive in America on Jan 30 and remain for three
months, during which he says he will study at the Clinton Foundation.
