0 Burma’s Political Prisoners book: ‘Abhaya – Burma’s Fearlessness’ with foreword by Aung San Suu Kyi

“ျမန္မာျပည္ရဲ႕ ေၾကာက္ရြံ႕ျခင္းကင္းမ့ဲ မႈ-အဘယ” လို႔ တိုက္ရိုက္အဓိပၸာယ္ ရတဲ့ Abhaya: Burma’s Fearlessness အမည္ရွိ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ေတြအေၾကာင္း ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပထားတဲ့ စာအုပ္တအုပ္ မၾကာမွီထုတ္ေဝ

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အမွာစာ ေရးသားထားတဲ့ ဒီစာအုပ္ကို ၿဗိတိန္ ဓာတ္ပံုဆရာ James MacKay က ေရးသားၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္းေတြနဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြအေၾကာင္း ဓာတ္ပံုနဲ႔ သရုပ္ေဖာ္ပံု ၂၅ဝ ေက်ာ္ ပါဝင္မယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

ဒီစာအုပ္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားသူ အားလံုးဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ေပါင္း မ်ားစြာ အေၾကာက္တရားကို ရင္ဆိုင္ေက်ာ္လႊား ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့သူေတြ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ မဆုတ္မနစ္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းမႈဟာ သူတို႔ရဲ႕သတၱိ ျဖစ္ၿပီး သူတို႔နဲ႔ သူတို႔ ရပ္တည္ခဲ့တာေတြအေပၚ မေမ့ေလ်ာ့သင့္ေၾကာင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ အမွာစာမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

ဓာတ္ပံုဆရာ James MacKay ဟာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈ ဓာတ္ပံုေတြနဲ႔ ျပင္သစ္ ဓာတ္ပံုဆု ၂ ႀကိမ္ ရရွိခဲ့သူျဖစ္ၿပီး မႏွစ္က ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ လြတ္ေျမာက္အၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္း သြားေရာက္ ဓာတ္ပံုမွတ္တမ္းတင္ႏုိင္ခဲ့သူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ဒီစာအုပ္မွာ ျပည္တြင္းက ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေဟာင္း ၅၇ ဦးရဲ႕ ဓာတ္ပံုေတြလည္း ပါဝင္မယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။(Rfa)
In 1962 a military coup lead by General Ne Win saw Burma, an isolated Buddhist country in South-East Asia, come under the power of one of the world’s most brutal regimes. For the past five decades, thousands of people have been arrested, tortured and given long prison sentences for openly expre...ssing their beliefs and for daring to defy dictators who tolerate no form of dissent or opposition to their rule.

Today, more than 2,000 political prisoners including monks, students, journalists, lawyers, elected Members of Parliament and over 300 members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party, The National League for Democracy, are incarcerated in Burma’s notorious prisons.

In Burma and across the world, almost 300 hundred former political prisoners have come together to raise awareness of the tragic plight of their colleagues still detained in jail. Photographed standing with their right hand raised, palm out-turned facing the camera, the name of a current political prisoner is shown written on their hand. The sacred Buddhist gesture of Abhaya, “Fear Not”, is not only an act of silent protest, but also one of remembrance and fearlessness.

“The people featured in this book have all had to learn to face their fears squarely during the decades they have passed in the struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma. Their commitment has been their courage. It is important that they and what they stand for should not be forgotten, that their sufferings as well as their aspirations should be remembered.”

“I hope that all who read this book will be encouraged to do everything they can to gain the freedom of political prisoners in Burma and to create a world where there are no political prisoners” Aung San Suu Kyi

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