Daily International News - February 27, 2015

Daily International News February 27, 2015 From VOAnews.com

 

Kurdish Fighters Seize Key Islamic State Stronghold Spokesperson for the People's Protection Units, or YPG, confirmed to VOA that Kurdish fighters had seized the city of Tal Hamis, in Hassakeh province More   Poroshenko: Heavy Weapons to Return to Front Lines if Truce Breached Ukraine president says army 'ready at any moment to stand up to the enemy' and notes threat from the east will remain even if the truce holds More   'Jihadi John’ Unmasking Raises Questions For British Security Services Why didn't British security services stop computer science graduate Mohammed Emwazi from leaving Britain to join IS? More   Al-Thini Calls for Naval Observer Force Off Libyan Coast Libyan prime minister says government has repeatedly called for such a force in order to prevent illegal immigration or arms smuggling More   Clarity Over North Myanmar Fighting Lost in Fog of Conflict In recent round of fighting, Chinese rebel leader Peng Jiasheng is trying to reclaim control of the Kokang autonomous region, where he was in charge until 2009 More   Blogger Hacked to Death in Bangladesh Avijit Roy wrote against religious fundamentalism on his blog More   ICC Upholds Acquittal of Congolese Militia Leader Court rejects appeal by prosecutors who sought retrial after 2012 acquittal of charges including war crimes and crimes against humanity More   African States Push to Keep Boko Haram Offline Central African telecoms ministers working with Nigeria to block all videos posted by Boko Haram in effort to blunt Nigerian militant group's propaganda More   Stability is Goal of Lesotho Polls Lesotho set to hold a tense national election on Saturday aimed at restoring stability following a brief coup last year More   US Cuba Talks Open Friday's session focuses solely on opening embassies in Washington and Havana as quickly as possible More

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RFA Breaking News: Myanmar Says Kokang Rebels Getting Help from China’s Side of Border

 

Myanmar Says Kokang Rebels Getting Help from China's Side of Border

 

FEB. 26, 2015 - Myanmar has evidence that Kokang rebels fighting government troops in weeks of deadly clashes in northeastern Shan State are getting arms, food and medical care from nearby China, the government spokesman said on Thursday.

 

Minister of Information Ye Htut stopped short, however, of accusing China's central government of supporting the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) rebel forces under ethnic Chinese commander Peng Jiasheng. The conflict flared up on Feb. 9 and has killed more than 100 people and displaced tens of thousands of people.

 

"We believe the PRC government has policies to follow the Five Basic Principles for Peaceful Co-existence. However, we now have questions on how closely the local government and business circles in the border regions adhere to these policies," Ye Htut told RFA's Myanmar Service in an interview.

Peng's  MNDAA, which is trying to retake the Kokang self-administered zone that it had controlled until 2009, has denied receiving Chinese help and rejected earlier Myanmar government claims that Chinese mercenaries are fighting alongside rebel forces in Kokang.

But Ye Htut said "the evidence we had gotten proved that the arms supplies, their food rations, and treatment of their injured are not from Myanmar territory. So we wonder how much the regional-level authorities on their (China's) side 'control' themselves."

 

'Arms traders and drug smugglers'

 

Myanmar has been reaching out to China to share information and cooperate on the conflict, he said. 

"It would be more accurate to say groups on the other side of the border rather than saying Chinese," said Ye Htut.  Shan State shares a long rugged border with China's Yunnan province and a significant segment of people in Kokang are ethnic Chinese.

"We are going to feed them with necessary information and cooperate with them so they can stand correctly in accordance with their policies," he added.

China denies having anything to do with the MNDAA or the current fight in Kokang.

Amid confusion and competing claims over casualties, Ye Htut said Myanmar's army "only announces the statistics depending on the bodies they found and so is closer to reality" while MNDAA "would not admit high casualties to avoid bringing their morale down."

Ye Htut reiterated Myanmar's stance that it will not negotiate with the MNDAA and Peng, who published an open letter to President Thein Sein this week requesting talks.

"We have no reason to hold talks with criminals, murderers, arms traders and drug smugglers," he told RFA.

Reported by Khin Khin Ei for RFA's Myanmar Service. Translated by Khin Maung Nyane. Written in English by Paul Eckert.

View this story online at: http://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/ye-htut-kokang-02262015162400.html

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Daily International News - February 26, 2015

Daily International News February 26, 2015 From VOAnews.com

 

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ဗီြအုိေအျမန္မာ ေန႔စဥ္သတင္းလႊာ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလ ၂၆၊ ၂၀၁၅ ဗီြအုိေအျမန္မာသတင္းဌာန၏ ေန႔စဥ္ ေနာက္ဆံုးရ ျမန္မာ ႏွင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သတင္းမ်ား၊ သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးမ်ား နဲ႔ တီဗီြမဂၢဇင္း၊ တီဗီြသတင္းလႊာ အစီအစဥ္မ်ား...

 

ျမန္မာ တ႐ုတ္အကူ မယူေၾကာင္း ကုိးကန္႔ျငင္းဆုိ ကိုးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္ အဖြဲ႔ရဲ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ျဖစ္သူ ဖုန္က်ားရွင္ က တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံသားေတြ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ တ႐ုတ္ေၾကးစား စစ္သားေတြက ကူညီတိုက္ခိုက္ေပးခဲ့တယ္ဆိုတာ မဟုတ္မွန္ဘူးလုိ႔ ျငင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ျမန္မာလမ္းမွန္ေပၚ အျမန္ျပန္ေရာက္ေရး ကုလတုိက္တြန္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး အစီအစဥ္ေတြဟာ လမ္းလြဲေနၿပီး လမ္းမွန္ေပၚ ျပန္ေရာက္ဖုိ႔ အေရးတႀကီး လုိအပ္ေနေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး မဟာမင္းႀကီး Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein က သတိေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ပညာေရးဥပေဒ ျပင္ဆင္မႈ ဥပေဒၾကမ္း အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္ ၾကားနာမည္ “အခုက ပုိၿပီးေတာ့ က်စ္လစ္ခုိင္မာတဲ့ အေျဖတခု ရဖုိ႔အတြက္ အမ်ားကုိယ္စားျပဳၿပီးေတာ့ ၀ုိင္း၀န္းၿပီးေတာ့ ေဆြးေႏြးေတာ့ကာ နဂုိရွိေနတာထက္ ပုိၿပီးေတာ့ေကာင္းတဲ့ အလားအလာ ရွိႏုိင္ပါတယ္” အျပည့္အစံု   ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးေနအိမ္ကို သူပုန္ေတြ တိုက္ခိုက္ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရး ေၾကညာထားတဲ့ ကိုးကန္႔ေဒသ ေလာက္ကိုင္ၿမိဳ႕ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး ဦးပယ္ေဆာက္ခ်ိန္ရဲ႕ ေနအိမ္ကို ကိုးကန္႔လက္နက္ကိုင္တပ္ဖြဲ႔က ဒီကေန႔ မနက္ပိုင္းက တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ရန္ကုန္ အေမရိကန္စင္တာသစ္ ေခတ္မီနည္းက်ဖြင့္လွစ္သြားမည္ "ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ အေမရိကန္စင္တာ အေဆာက္အဦး ေျမေနရာသစ္ ပႏၷက္႐ိုက္ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားကို အေမရိကန္သံ႐ုံးက ဒီကေန႔ ကမကထလုပ္ က်င္းပပါတယ္။" အျပည့္အစံု   တ႐ုတ္နယ္ေျမအသံုးျပဳ တိုက္ခိုက္မႈမ်ား တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရ ခြင့္ျပဳမည္မဟုတ္ တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာပိုင္ဆိုင္မႈကို အၿမဲေလးစားတယ္လို႔ တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးဌာန ေျပာခြင့္ရ Hong Lei က ေျပာလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ေရႊျပည္သာ ဆႏၵျပအလုပ္သမားသပိတ္ မၿပီးျပတ္ "က်မတုိ႔ဘက္မွာ ဘယ္သူမွကို မရွိတာ။ ျပည္သူလူထုကလြဲရင္ေပါ့။ ျပည္သူလူထု ဆိုတာေတာင္မွပဲ ေျပာရမယ္ဆုိရင္ ရပ္ကြက္လူႀကီး ဥကၠဌတို႔၊ ရာအိမ္မွဴးတုိ႔ အဲ့လိုလူေတြကပါအစ စက္႐ံုဘက္က သိန္း ၂၀၀ ေပးထားတယ္လို႔ ၾကားတယ္" အျပည့္အစံု   ကုိးကန္႔စစ္ေဘးေရွာင္ ေသာင္းခီ်ထြက္ေျပး "ဒီေန႔ကေတာ့ ၁၂ နာရီအတိမွာေတာ့ ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္က ၉ စီး၊ က်ားက ၃၂၁၊ မက ၁၈၇၊ စုစုေပါင္း ၅၀၈ ဦး။ Total Amount ကေတာ့ ေမာ္ေတာ္ယာဥ္ အစီးေရ ၂၀၆၊ က်ားက ၇၃၇၁၊ မက ၁၇၄၁၊ စုစုေပါင္းက ၉၁၁၂။ သူကေတာ့ မႏၱေလးပဲပို႔တာ။ တခ်ိဳ႕အတြက္ကေတာ့ သီရိလကၤာ မန္ဆူစမ္းေခ်ာင္း ဆရာေတာ္ကေန ကမကထလုပ္တာ" အျပည့္အစံု   ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားလုပ္သား ျပည္ပလုပ္ကုိင္ခြင့္ ၂၀၁၇ ရပ္ဆုိင္းမည္ "ျပည္ပေရာက္ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အလုပ္သမားေတြအေပၚ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈနဲ႔ ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံမႈတုိ႔ ေလ်ာ့နည္းေစဖို႔ အားထုတ္မႈတရပ္အေနနဲ႔ ၂၀၁၇ ကစၿပီး အိမ္ေဖာ္ေတြ၊ အလုပ္သမားေတြ ျပည္ပေစလႊတ္မႈေတြ ရပ္ဆုိင္းေတာ့မယ္လုိ႔ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား အစိုးရက ေျပာၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္" အျပည့္အစံု   ၂၀၁၄ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကပ္ဆုိက္တဲ့ႏွစ္ AI အဖြဲ႔ေထာက္ျပ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္ဟာ ကမာၻတလႊား ႀကီးမားတဲ့ ပ်က္ဆီးယုိယြင္းမႈေတြနဲ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ႏွစ္ ျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရး အဖြဲ႔တဖြဲ႔ျဖစ္တဲ့ Amnesty International က ေျပာလုိက္ပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   IS အၾကမ္းဖက္လုပ္ရပ္ ကူဖုိ႔ႀကံစည္သူ ၃ ဦး အေမရိကန္ဖမ္းဆီး ဆီးရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက IS အစြန္းေရာက္ေတြကို ေထာက္ခံဖုိ႔၊ သမၼတ Barack Obama နဲ႔ ရဲအရာရွိေတြ၊ FBI အရာရွိေတြကုိ လုပ္ႀကံဖုိ႔ ႀကံစည္တယ္ဆုိတဲ့ စဲြခ်က္ေတြနဲ႔ လူ ၃ ဦးကုိ အေမရိကန္ အာဏာပုိင္ေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးလုိက္ၾကပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   IS ဖမ္းထားတဲ့ Assyrian ခရစ္ယာန္ေတြ ျပန္လႊတ္ဖို႔ ကန္ေတာင္းဆို "ဆီးရီးယားႏုိင္ငံ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ပိုင္းက တိုက္ပြဲေတြအတြင္း အစၥလာမ္စစ္ေသြးႂကြ IS အဖြဲ႔က ျပန္ေပးဆြဲဖမ္းဆီးသြားတဲ့ Assyrian ခရစ္ယာန္ ဘာသာ၀င္ ၉၀ ေက်ာ္ကို ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုက အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ေတာင္းဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္" အျပည့္အစံု   ကုလရာသီဥတု ေျပာင္းလဲမႈအဖြဲ႔ အႀကီးအကဲ ရာထူးႏႈတ္ထြက္ လိင္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာ မဖြယ္မရာ ျပဳမူခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ စြပ္စြဲခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢ ရာသီဥတု ေျပာင္းလဲမႈဆုိင္ရာအဖြဲ႔ အႀကီးအကဲ ရာထူးက ႏႈတ္ထြက္သြားပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ေန႔စဥ္ တီဗီြသတင္းလႊာ ေန႔စဥ္ တီဗီြသတင္းလႊာ ၀၂-၂၅-၂၀၁၅ ဆီးရီးယားမွာ IS စစ္ေသြးႂကြေတြ ဖမ္းဆီးသြားတဲ့ ခရစ္ယာန္ေတြ ျပန္လႊတ္ေပးဖို႔ အေမရိကန္က ေတာင္းဆို လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက ပဋိပကၡေတြကုိ ၀င္ေရာက္စြက္ဖက္မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလုိ႔ တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံက ေျပာၾကားလုိက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အေျခအေန နိမ့္က်ေနတာကုိ AI အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ေထာက္ျပပါတယ္။ စသျဖင့္ …. အျပည့္အစံု   ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ယူကရိန္း ဒုကၡသည္ေတြဘ၀ ယူကရိန္းႏိုင္ငံ Debaltseve ၿမိဳ႕ကေန သူပုန္ေတြဆုတ္ခြာသြားေပမဲ့ ေဒသခံအရပ္သားေတြ အခက္အခဲ အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳး ႀကံဳေနၾကရဆဲ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ Reuters သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးကို မခင္ျဖဴေထြး က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   Star Wars ဇာတ္၀င္ခန္းသုံး၀တ္စုံျပပဲြ Star Wars လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ၾကယ္တာရာစစ္ပြဲမ်ား ရုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္၀င္ခန္းသုံး အ၀တ္အစားေတြကုိ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု Seattle ၿမိဳ႕မွာ ျပသခဲ့ပါတယ္။ AP သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးကုိ ကုိၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ျမန္မာ ရန္ကုန္အလုပ္သမားသပိတ္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ျပင္ စက္မႈဇုံက အလုပ္သမားေတြ အေျခခံအခြင့္အေရးေတြ ရရွိေရး ေတာင္းဆုိဆႏၵျပေနၾကေပမဲ့ ေျပလည္မႈေတာ့ မရေသးပါဘူး။ ဗီြအုိေအသတင္းေထာက္ Steve Herman ရဲ႕ သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးကုိ ကုိေဇာ္၀င္းလႈိင္ က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ဂ်ာမနီ႐ုပ္ရွင္ပဲြေတာ္က ျမန္မာဇာတ္ကား ဂ်ာမနီႏုိင္ငံက ၆၅ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ပဲြေတာ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ ႐ုိက္ကူးခဲ့တဲ့ the Golden Kingdom ဇာတ္ကားလည္း ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ AP သတင္းေဆာင္းပါးကုိ ကုိေအာင္လြင္ဦး က တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစံု   ကမာၻ႔သတင္း စကၠန္႔ ၆၀ ကမာၻ႔သတင္း စကၠန္႔ ၆၀ အျပည့္အစံု   VOA60 USA VOA60 USA အျပည့္အစံု

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