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-စစ္အစိုးရတီဗြီမွ ယေန႔ညတြင္ သန္းေရႊ၊ ေမာင္ေအး၊ သိန္းစိန္တို႔ႏွင့္ ဂမ္ဘာရီေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့မူကို လႊင့္ထုတ္ျပသခဲ့သည္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟုေခၚယူသံုးစြဲခဲ့ၿပီး၊ သူမႏွင့္ဂမ္ဘာရီေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့မူကို ဓါတ္ပံုသံုးပံုႏွင့္ ျပသခဲ့သည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သတင္းဆက္လက္ေၾကျငာရာတြင္ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ တိုင္းျပည္ကို ဘယ္ေလာက္ေစတနာထားေၾကာင္း၊ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေအာင္ ေန႔မအားညမအား ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ယခုဆိုလွ်င္အမ်ိဳးသားညီလာခံႀကီးကို ေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ၿပီျဖစ္ၿပီး လမ္းျပေျမပံုႀကီးအတိုင္း ဆက္လက္အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ကာ တည္ၿငိမ္ ေအးခ်မ္းေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္သစ္ႀကီးဆီသို႔ ဆက္လက္ခ်ီတက္ႏိုင္ေတာ့မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။

မေန႔ကလည္း ျမန္မာတီဗြီတြင္ အခ်က္ေလးခ်က္ကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနျဖင့္ လိုက္နာမည္ ဆိုလွ်င္သန္းေရႊအေနျဖင့္ သူမျဖင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၾကျငာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့သည္။

ဂမ္ဘာရီနယူးေယာက္ျပန္ေရာက္အၿပီးတြင္ ဘမ္ကီမြန္မွ ဂမ္ဘာရီခရီးစဥ္သည္ ေအာင္ျမင္သည္ဟုမဆိုႏိုင္ေၾကာင္းထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္။ ယေန႔မနက္တြင္ ကုလသမဂၢဌာနခ်ဳပ္၌ ဂမ္ဘာရီမွ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီအဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားသို႔ ျမန္မာျပည္ခရီးစဥ္ႏွင့္ပတ္သက္၍ ျပန္လည္အစီရင္ခံခဲ့သည္။ ဂမ္ဘာရီမွ အဖြင့္စကားေျပာၾကားရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးႏြးေရးကို မျဖစ္မေနလုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ လိုအပ္ေနၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္ဟုသိရပါသည္။

အေျခအေနမ်ားကိုၿခံဳငံုသံုးသပ္ရမည္ဆိုလွ်င္ ဂမ္ဘာရီအေနျဖင့္ သန္းေရႊတို႔ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုရာတြင္မျဖစ္မေန ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမူလုပ္ ရန္တိုက္တြန္းခဲ့ပံုရပါသည္။

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- Universities in Mandalay were closed down today after students staged protests three days ago. Military government obtained photos of protest leaders and arrested them and later swiftly sentenced to five years imprisonment.

- Also, Commander Ohn Myint ordered universities in Myitkyina, Kachin State capital, where government organized forced public rally recently, to be shut down on 27, and students were forced to go back home. The order effected both day and distant classes. No date was set when the universities would be reopened. But, sources claimed it would last at least the end of the year. Local people said Ohn Myint was worried about possible demonstrations by students.

- India demanded military government today to release DASSK, saying India sincerely believed DASSK could help the improvement of Burma and move forward toward democratization in Burma.

- China today announced that violent crackdown by military government on peaceful protesters in Burma was its internal affair but was not a threat to regional and international peace and stability. Russia followed China’s stance later on.

- Japanese police institution founded out that the dead of Japanese journalist in Burma was a criminal. Thus, they are planning to bring justice and sue against responsible, in accordance with Japan existing law.

- Universities in Magwe were ordered to close. A student from Magwe Art and Science University said the universities were closed without delivering any message when those would be reopened.

- Endless raids on monasteries continue to undergo every night, followed by arrests. At least five monasteries were raided last night and other monasteries in rural areas were also under attacked. U Nyan Win, NLD spokesperson said monasteries near Shwe Dagon and Sue Le pagodas were raided and monks were arrested yesterday. He added about 100 people were arrested during raids on Thursday. Houses were searched and a numbers of NLD members were arrested while many have been hiding.

- Daily high commodity prices are increasing and reached to 300% now since increase on gasoline and fuel prices on August 15, and following the current protests in Burma.

- Unconfirmed report carried out by VOA Burmese service read out a letter of a soldier in Rangoon. A soldier said military government used prisoners, who were former soldiers but detained in prisons as they broke army rules, to shoot peaceful protesters. The soldiers said those prisoners told him that military authorities negotiated them granting they would be freed from prison term if they shoot people.

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Agency News

Myanmar Leader Willing to Meet Opponent

By THOMAS FULLER
Published: October 5, 2007
BANGKOK, Oct. 4 — Myanmar’s military junta broke its silence today about the brutal crackdown on protesters, making a heavily qualified offer to meet with the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and acknowledging that more than 1,400 people are still being detained. The junta offered to hold talks with Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi but only if she abandoned her attitude of “confrontation” and repealed her call for foreign sanctions on the country. The announcement was made on the nightly radio and television newscasts, which are monitored by wire services.

State media said that during a meeting in Myanmar earlier this week, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the leader of the junta, told Ibrahim Gambari, the United Nations envoy, that Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi “has called for confrontation, utter devastation, economic sanctions and all other sanctions.” If she “announces publicly she has given up these four things, he would hold direct talks” with her, General Than Shwe told Mr. Gambari, according to Myanmar media.
Dissident groups from Myanmar, formerly Burma, were scathing in their appraisal of the proposal.

“This is meaningless — this is just for show,” said Aung Din, the policy director of the United States Campaign for Burma, a Washington-based group working to bring democracy to the country. “There are economic sanctions against Burma not because of Aung San Suu Kyi but because of the military rulers. He has to meet with Aung San Suu Kyi without any conditions.”
State media also announced today that 2,093 people were arrested in the crackdown and that 692 had been released. This is the first time the secretive junta has released any numbers on its daily arrests during the crackdown.

One of those released today was an employee of the United Nations in Myanmar, Myint Ngwe Mon, who was taken from her home with her husband and two other people on Wednesday. Her release was confirmed by Charles Petrie, the most senior official for the United Nations in the country, but no further details were available about the reasons for her detention and release. David Mathieson, an expert on Myanmar with the international rights group Human Rights Watch, said the junta’s numbers on its arrests “seem very plausible.” He added: “That’s certainly very similar to what we’ve been hearing.”

Mr. Mathieson said he believed the junta broke its silence because of pressure from neighboring countries such as China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
“I think it’s a reflection of pressure coming from the outside,” he said.
Pressure has also come from the United Nations. Mr. Gambari, the United Nations envoy, asked that the government offer more information on the detentions during his meeting with the leader of the junta, said Mr. Petrie, who was present in the meeting.

The junta has announced that 10 people were killed in the crackdown, a number that diplomats in Yangon and other analysts believe may be an underestimation.
Public pressure has come from the United States, which last week expanded its visa ban on Myanmar’s military leaders and their families, and the European Union, which on Wednesday agreed in principle to toughen sanctions against Myanmar.

The public reaction from China, which is thought to have the most sway over Myanmar’s generals, has been more restrained. A statement by the spokesman of China’s Foreign Ministry Wednesday praised the “mediation” by the United Nations.
Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. Than Shwe have met only a few times since elections in 1990, when Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won a landslide victory that was ignored by the generals.

This is from this link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05myanmar.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
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