Myanmar's military ambitions

ျပည္သူေတြငတ္ျပတ္ေနေပမယ့္ နအဖ စစ္အုပ္စုက ညဴးကလီးယားလက္နက္ ထုတ္လုပ္ႏုိင္ဖုိ ့ ့ႀကိတ္ႀကံေနပါတယ္။ အဲဒီလက္နက္ေတြကုိတစ္ေန ့ ျပည္ပရန္ထက္ ျပည္တြင္း တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြကုိ မ်ိဴးတုန္းေအာင္သတ္ျဖတ္ဖုိ ့ပါပဲ။ လက္နက္အသစ္အဆန္းေတြ ဗမာ့တပ္မေတာ္လက္ထဲ ေရာက္လာတုိင္း လက္နက္စမ္းသပ္မွဳအျဖစ္ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြအေပၚ အစမ္းသပ္ခံလူသားေတြ အျဖစ္ အသုံးခ်ပါတယ္။ (ဥပမာ ေဆးပညာရွင္ေတြက ေဆးတီထြင္ ေဖၚစပ္ထားတဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ထုတ္လုပ္တဲ့ ေဆးအသစ္ေတြကုိ ႀကြက္ေတြနဲ ့ စမ္းသပ္ပါတယ္။ က်ေနာ္တုိ ့တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြအေပၚ မဟာ၀ါဒီ ဗမာ့ေတာ္မေတာ္က တိရစၦန္လုိ ့ပဲ သေဘာထားဒါပါ။ အျပစ္မဲ့ကရင္လူထုေတြကုိ သတ္ျဖတ္၊ ရြာမီးရွိဳ ့၊ အမ်ိဴးသမီးေတြကုိ မုဒိန္းက်င့္၊ ဒါေတြဟာ ျငင္းလုိ ့မရတဲ့ ယေန ့တကယ့္ျဖစ္ပ်က္ေနတဲ့ အရာေတြပါ )။

တခ်ိဳ ့ေသာကရင္ျပည္နယ္တုိက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ကယားျပည္နယ္ KNPP ေဒသ ဥဏ္မူကုန္းတုိက္ပြဲတြင္ ဗမာ့တပ္မေတာ္က ဓါတုလက္နက္သုံးတဲ့ အေထာက္အထားေတြ ေတြ ့ခဲ့ရျပီးျဖစ္တယ္။ ျမစ္၀ွမ္းကြ်န္းေပၚ ဘုိကေလးအေရးမွာ နအဖ စစ္အစုိးရက သူတုိ ့ထုတ္လုပ္တဲ့ လက္နက္အသစ္ေတြကုိ စမ္းသပ္မွဳအျဖစ္ အျပစ္မဲ့ကရင္လူထု ေတြကုိ ႀကက္ကေလး ဌက္ကေလးလုိ သတ္ျဖတ္ခ့ဲဒါ သဓာက ေတြပါ။ ဒါေတြဟာ ျမစ္၀မ္းကြ်န္းေပၚ ဘုိကေလး ေဒသမွာေနထုိင္ေနတဲ့ ကရင္ေတြ အသိဆုံးပဲ။

တဆက္တည္းမွာပဲ အေမရိကန္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ဂ်င္၀က္ တစ္ေယာက္ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံလာလည္မည့္ ခရီးစဥ္ လွ်ပ္တစ္ျပက္ ဖ်က္သိမ္းလုိက္ဒါဟာ နအဖ ညဴးကလီးယား ကိစၥနဲ ့ဆက္စပ္ေနတယ္လုိ ့သတင္းေတြက ဆုိပါတယ္။


Myanmar's ruling generals have started a programme to build nuclear weapons. They are trying to develop long-range missiles.

Elections later this year are aimed at convincing the world they are moving towards democracy. But fearing attack from the US and an uprising by their own people, Myanmar's generals are instead digging themselves in with a nationwide network of bunkers.

With top-secret material gathered over five years, this film reveals how Myanmar is trying to become the next nuclear-armed North Korea.

Key files and other information has been smuggled out by defecting army Major Sai Thein Win, a former deputy commander of a top-secret military factory at a town called Myaing.

Before leaving, he smuggled out thousands of files detailing a secret programme by Myanmar's ruling generals to build nuclear weapons.

To check Sai Thein Win's claims, the Democratic Voice of Burma had him show the files to Bob Kelley, a former intelligence officer at North America's nuclear facility Los Alamos and an ex-director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Files and photos were also shown to Geoff Forden, a military research scientist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The experts agree Myanmar is a long way from achieving its goals.

But many believe that with its stated intent to one day acquire nuclear weapons, Myanmar's military ambitions should be taken seriously.

Myanmar's military ambitions can be seen from Friday, June 4, at the following times GMT: Friday: 0600; Saturday: 1900; Sunday: 0300; Monday: 1400; Tuesday: 0530; Wednesday: 1900; Thursday: 0300.

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/general/2010/05/201053110470990951.html