Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals

Dr. Zaw Myint's interview (Part II)

2008-05-31T20:09:00.000-07:00

2008-05-29T17:02:00.000-07:00

National Campaign for Food and Freedom

Statement of Burmese democratic forces and supporters around the world,

Calling for an immediate international intervention for food and freedoms in Burma

By creating a coalition of willing

May 28, 2008

We, Burmese democratic organizations – along with Burma campaign groups – around the world are calling for an immediate international intervention in Burma, reminding the international community that this is the time to bring a change in the military-ruled country.

We strongly criticize the United Nations and Association of South East Asia Nations (ASEAN) for their repeated failure to live up to the expectation of international community in providing food and freedoms for Burmese people.

Burmese have suffered again and again under repeated ASEAN and UN's good intentioned but ill fated mediations. ASEAN and UN are simply no match for cunning and cruel Burmese generals who think nothing of breaking their promises. In the past, the end result of the ASEAN and UN failures were only imprisonments of thousands of political activists including our leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Some of those prisoners died in custody. However, the number of deaths from the current crisis will be a thousand times larger than previous crises.

Five days after an apparent agreement by the Supremo General Than Shwe, there is no concrete result on the ground. There are even more restrictions for Burmese donors let alone foreign donors. Even Burmese ex-pat physicians who are planning mercy medical missions using their own resources are subjected to a lengthy visa process.

The regime is using police and armed forces not to help those cyclone victims but to force them back to their villages without any assistance. We know how the regime is going to play the game. There will be more meetings and open up a bit each time just to string along the UN.

More people are dying everyday. This is time for ASEAN and UN to admit its failure and let French, EU, US navy and international aid agencies handle the situation. At this time, the junta has extended the house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi illegally after they exhausted the five year period. They have not shown any goodwill towards their own suffering citizens, political prisoners or the world community. There is no reason to believe that the junta will start to change as a result of more negotiation. Concrete effective action, whose time is way overdue, is the only recourse left.

We demand that UN and ASEAN stop the mediation NOW.

All the current available information from the international experts indicates that thousands of the cyclone victims are facing the second wave of death due to the outbreak of diseases. UN and ASEAN have clearly demonstrated the world that they were unable to persuade the Burmese military regime to save the lives of cyclone victims. As such, we request the Nations of the International Community willing to act upon the principle of “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)," to proceed with their noble intention to save the thousands of lives before it is too late.

Undersigned:

Dr. Cynthia Maung (Burma Medical Association) Thailand Win7@loxinfo.co.th Tel: 66-55-544495

Dr Khin Saw Win (Alice) (Burma Medical Association) Canada Alice.khin@ualberta.ca Tel: 780-4924547/780-9529877

Tin Maung Htoo (Canada) Canadian Friends of Burma www.cfob.org Tel: 613-237-8056 tinmaunghtoo@cfob.org

Dr. Raymond Tint Way (Australia) Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com Mobile 61 0416220208 E mail jostint@hotmail.com

Dr Ko K Lay (UK) Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com Tel: 00 44 07790 427271 drkokolay@yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Soe Naung (Jamaica) Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com Tel: 876-995-2875 soehtwe@cwjamaica.com

Dr. Aye Min (USA) Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com Tel: 804-512-4669 radiomin@gmail.com

Moe Thee Zun (USA) Democratic Federation of Burma wefightwewin@gmail.com

Ar Kar Soe (USA) Anti-Dictatorship People’s Freedom Movement www.adpfmburma.com arkarsoee@yahoo.com Tel: 301-213-0605

Yin Aye (USA) Democratic Burmese Students Organization (USA) yindbso@hotmail.com Tel: 301-905-7591

Tin Maung Thaw (General Secretary) (USA) Committee for Restoration of Democracy in Burma 703-723-4855 tinthaw@yahoo.com

Min Yan Naing (Burma) Generation Wave gwbobmarley@gmail.com

Ko Ko Aung (Japan) Democractic Federation of Burma (Japan) Tel: +81-9015062893 kokoaung_dfbjp@yahoo.com

Kyaw Kyaw Soe (Japan) League for Democracy in Burma (Japan) Tel: +81-9060314394 sayarkway@hotmail.com

Khin Sandi (USA) Women on the Move for Burma Tel: 917 445 9222 freeassk@yahoo.com

Ko Thant Zin Myint (USA)
International Campaign for Burma (New York)
Tel: 347-229-4309 icbnewyork@gmail.com

Ko Myo (USA) 88 Generation Students (Exile) Tel: 347-668-5046 http://www.pbase.com/komyoe88 E-mail: komyoe_art@yahoo.com

Aung Sa Oversea Burmese Patriots (Singapore) aungsayapyi@gmail.com Tel: +65-9487-4413

Taw Thar Gyi (Burma) Democratic Front of the Patriots (HQ) Mindfulness07@gmail.com

Shwe Htee (USA) Nonviolent Empowerment Organization shwehtee@yahoo.com Tel: 571-235-4035

Dr. Thi Ha (USA) Burmese Democracy Forum (Fort Wayne - Indiana) Tel: 260-602-1876

Dong Khup (USA) Chin Freedom Coalition Tel: 443-629-3329

Athein & Zaw Min Htwe (88 Generation) (USA)
Walk for Freedom
Tel: 971 285 7399
Athein168@msn.com
Thurasoe2005@yahoo.com

Aung New Oo (Canada) Burmese Students Democratic Organization Tel: 416-262-5447 Aungoo205@yahoo.com

Thway Ni
Burmese Bloggers without Borders (http://bbwob.blogspot.com/)
thwayni@gmail.com

Aung Tin (Canada)
Chairman (NLD-LA Canada)
Tel: 647 343 7871
uaungtin@yahoo.com

Yin Htway (Thailand)
Joint Secretary
Burma Political Prisoner's Union (http://bppuweb.bizhat.com/)
yinhtway@gmail.com
Tel: 0845755416

Guiding Star (Burma) contact: niknayman.niknayman@gmail.com www.niknayman.blogspot.com

Ko Myat Soe (USA) Justice for Human Rights in Burma ( http://www.jhburma.org/ ) msoe9872@aol.com Tel: 260-615-0575

U Than Aung (Canada) Burma Watch International Tel: (780) 439-7555 Cell:(780) 953-9877 www.burmawatch.org

Dr. Win Naing (UK) Burmese Democratic Community Tel: 0208 2067340 walaynaing@aol.com

2008-05-13T20:52:00.000-07:00

Date: May 11, 2008

Statement on Relief and Recovery Efforts for the Victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma

We are members of various overseas Burmese organizations and we are gravely concerned at the growing humanitarian crisis in Burma, as a result of Cyclone Nargis and its aftermath. This is a massive human catastrophe and it is getting more and more desperate day by day. The international community and the United Nations have pledged their support and commitment to assist with the relief and recovery efforts in Burma, but Burma’s State Peace and Development Council has been reluctant to allow aid workers into the country.

We urge to the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to fully cooperate with the international community and the United Nations to allow foreign aid, including disaster relief teams and personnel, to enter into Burma. This is not the time to play political games at the expense of hundreds of thousands of peoples’ lives. Foreign naval ships are waiting in waters nearby Burma to provide food and supplies and help with the relief efforts. Burma does not have the expertise or capacity to handle such large-scale disasters alone. We need technical assistance. The United Nations, the international community, and relief organizations are offering trained personnel in emergency response who can establish urgently-needed field hospitals and water purification systems quickly and efficiently.

We implore the State Peace and Development Council to work with all nations and agencies that offer assistance to the victims of Cyclone Nargis. This situation is not political and our interests are completely non-partisan. We are simply concerned about health and welfare of the Burmese people, and we understand that no country can respond to such devastation and loss alone.

We are also very concerned that international community will be misled by newspaper headlines prints such as "Aid is getting through in increased amounts", while in fact the junta continues to hold millions of its own people hostage. Thousands of innocent cyclone victims lives will be lost while the junta is playing this cat and mouse game. Now, another storm is coming to Burma. Again, time is running out for those victims.

If the regime continues to ignore our plea, International Governments and the United Nations shall no longer pay any attention to the sham sovereignty of the SPDC, which clearly shows its incompetence to protect its own citizens.

We are calling on all governments and UN bodies to provide aid immediately to our people who are dying in the thousands. This is not the time to respect Burma's border controls. National restrictions that are causing further deaths do not deserve anyone's respect.

Dr. Cynthia Maung ( BMA) Thailand

Tel: 66-55-544495

Win7@loxinfo.co.th

Dr Khin Saw Win (Alice) (BMA) Canada

Alice.khin@ualberta.ca

Tel: 780-4924547/780-9529877

Dr. Zaw Myint (USA)
Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com

215-632-9040 extension 652
Email- zmyint51@hotmail.com

Dr. Raymond Tint Way (Australia)

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com

Mobile 61 0416220208

E mail jostint@hotmail.com

Dr Ko K Lay (UK)

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com

Tel: 00 44 07790 427271

drkokolay@yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Soe Naung (Jamaica)

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com

Tel: 876-995-2875
soehtwe@cwjamaica.com

Moe Thee Zun (USA)

Democratic Federation of Burma

wefightwewin@gmail.com

Ar Kar Soe (USA)

Anti-Dictatorship People’s Freedom Movement www.adpfmburma.com

arkarsoee@yahoo.com

Tel: 301-213-0605

Yin Aye (USA)

Democratic Burmese Students Organization (USA)

yindbso@hotmail.com

Tel: 301-905-7591

Tin Maung Thaw (General Secretary) (USA)

Committee for Restoration of Democracy in Burma

703-723-4855

tinthaw@yahoo.com

Min Yan Naing (Burma)

Generation Wave

gwbobmarley@gmail.com

Tel: +66-852385979

Ko Ko Aung (Japan)

Democractic Federation of Burma (Japan)

Tel: +81-9015062893

kokoaung_dfbjp@yahoo.com

Kyaw Kyaw Soe (Japan)

League for Democracy in Burma (Japan)

Tel: +81-9060314394

sayarkway@hotmail.com

Khin Sandi (USA)

Women on the Move for Burma

917 445 9222

freeassk@yahoo.com

Aung Khant (USA)

International Campaign for Burma (New York)

Tel: 516-808-1515

akhant88@yahoo.com

Ko Myo (USA)

88 Generation Students (Exile)

Tel: 347-668-5046

komyoe_art@yahoo.com

Aung Sa

Oversea Burmese Patriots (Singapore)

aungsayapyi@gmail.com

Tel: +65-9487-4413

Taw Thar Gyi

Democratic Front of the Patriots (HQ)

Mindfulness07@gmail.com

Shwe Htee (USA)

Nonviolent Empowerment Organization

shwehtee@yahoo.com

Tel: 571-235-4035

Dr. Thi Ha (USA)

Burmese Democracy Forum (Fort Wayne - Indiana)

Tel: 260-602-1876

Dr. Naing Lin (Malaysia)

National League for Democracy (LA – Malaysia)

Dong Khup (USA)

Chin Freedom Coalition

dkhup@aol.com

Tel: 443-629-3329

Athein & Zaw Min Htwe (88 Generation)
Walk for Freedom
Tel: 971 285 7399
Athein168@msn.com
Thurasoe2005@yahoo.com

Aung New Oo

Burmese Students Democratic Organization (Canada)

Tel: 416-262-5447

Thway Ni

Burmese Bloggers without Borders (http://bbwob.blogspot.com/)

thwayni@gmail.com

Aung Tin,

Chairman (NLD-LA Canada)

Tel: 647 343 7871
uaungtin@yahoo.com.

Yin Htway (Thailand)
Joint Secretary
Burma Political Prisoner's Union (http://bppuweb.bizhat.com/)
yinhtway@gmail.com
Tel: 0845755416

Guiding Star (Burma)

contact: niknayman.niknayman@gmail.com

Joint Statement by BMA, CMPP and Burmese civic groups

2008-05-10T12:51:00.000-07:00

Date: May 8, 2008

Statement Released for Cyclone Disaster

We, Burmese medical professionals and Burmese civic organizations all over the world have been following the news of cyclone Nargis victims with deep sympathy and concerns. Cyclone victims have been without effective help for 6 days now and we are very much concerned about unnecessary human suffering and deaths. The situation is extremely dire with many people barely surviving.

The Burmese regime's blocking of aid is beyond horrendous. There are still many people and supplies waiting to go, but the Burmese regime continues to deny access.

We strongly urge International Community and Disaster Management Team enter into the country on humanitarian basis without waiting for permission from the military regime to provide immediate assistance to the victims of cyclone Nargis. We need immediate and massive airborne assistance to help the victims in outlying areas since roads have been destroyed. Actually, we need field hospitals, instant water purification plants, helicopters, boats...etc. The regime and the health professionals alone do not have the capacity to do it. There are no facilities in Burma for disaster assessment and management.

The cholera outbreak is starting now. The death toll is likely to rise drastically if massive large scale aid does not reach the affected areas to prevent the spread of water-borne diseases and address the survivors’ lack of clean water, shelter and food. We only have precious minutes and hours (not days) to help those hundreds of thousands of victims.

For further info:

Contact:

Dr. Cynthia Maung ( BMA) Thailand

Win7@loxinfo.co.th

Tel: 66-55-544495

Dr Khin Saw Win (Alice) (BMA) Canada

Alice.khin@ualberta.ca

Tel: 780-4924547/780-9529877

Dr. Aye Min (USA)

radiomin@gmail.com

Tel: 804-512-4669

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals www.cmpp-burma.blogspot.com

Moe Thee Zun (USA)

Democratic Federation of Burma

wefightwewin@gmail.com

Ar Kar Soe (USA)

Anti-Dictatorship People’s Freedom Movement www.adpfmburma.com

arkarsoee@yahoo.com

Tel: 301-213-0605

Yin Aye (USA)

Democratic Burmese Students Organization (USA)

yindbso@hotmail.com

Tel: 301-905-7591

Tin Maung Thaw (General Secretary) (USA)

Committee for Restoration of Democracy in Burma

703-723-4855

tinthaw@yahoo.com

Min Yan Naing (Burma)

Generation Wave

gwbobmarley@gmail.com

Tel: +66-852385979

Ko Ko Aung (Japan)

Democractic Federation of Burma (Japan)

Tel: +81-9015062893

kokoaung_dfbjp@yahoo.com

Kyaw Kyaw Soe (Japan)

League for Democracy in Burma (Japan)

Tel: +81-9060314394

Khin Sandi (USA)

Women on the Move for Burma

917 445 9222

freeassk@yahoo.com

Aung Khant (USA)

International Campaign for Burma (New York)

Tel: 516-808-1515

akhant88@yahoo.com

Ko Myo (USA)

88 Generation Students (Exile)

Tel: 347-668-5046

komyoe_art@yahoo.com

Aung Sa

Oversea Burmese Patriots (Singapore)

aungsayapyi@gmail.com

Tel: +65-9487-4413

Taw Thar Gyi

Democratic Front of the Patriots (HQ)

Mindfulness07@gmail.com

Shwe Htee (USA)

Nonviolent Empowerment Organization

shwehtee@yahoo.com

Tel: 571-235-4035

Dr. Thi Ha (USA)

Burmese Democracy Forum (Fort Wayne - Indiana)

nainglulu@aol.com

Tel: 260-602-1876

Dr. Naing Lin (Malaysia)

National League for Democracy (LA – Malaysia)

nainglin2006@yahoo.com

Tel: 60-16-366-9347

Dong Khup (USA)

Chin Freedom Coalition

dkhup@aol.com

Tel: 443-629-3329

Immediate Press Release

2008-05-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

Press Release
May 7, 2008

We have been following the news of cyclone Nargis victims with deep sympathy and concerns. Cyclone victims have been without effective help for 4 days now and we are very much concerned about unnecessary human suffering and deaths.We urge international NGOs to provide immediate assistance to the victims of cyclone Nargis. We are afraid there will be more deaths and suffering of people from infectious gastrointestinal diseases and dehydration from lack of clean water. We only have precious hours not days to help those victims since those diseases can kill a person within hours. We will need immediate and massive airborne assistance to help the victims in outlying areas since roads have been destroyed.

We request the State Peace and Development Council to allow immediate and unrestricted access to international NGOs to help our people. There will be hundreds more deaths for every hour of delay in assistance.

Burma Medical Association (BMA)

contact person

Dr. Alice Khin 780-952-9877

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals

Dr. Tint Way's letter to Julie Owens (Elected MP)

2008-04-02T22:41:00.001-07:00

Dr. Tint Way's Interview with RFA

2008-01-31T18:06:00.000-08:00

Dr Tint Way's interview with RFa on Professor Pai Soe's comments on health issues in Burma.

2008-01-31T15:22:00.000-08:00

Dr Tint Way’s interview with RFA on Professor Pai Soe's comments on health issues in Burma.

2008-01-31T15:12:00.001-08:00

2007-12-02T09:30:00.000-08:00

Part VI

2007-12-01T17:54:00.001-08:00

Part V

2007-12-01T17:53:00.002-08:00

Part IV

2007-12-01T17:53:00.001-08:00

Part III

2007-12-01T17:48:00.001-08:00

Dr. Tint Way's Interview (Part II)

2007-12-01T17:41:00.000-08:00

Dr. Tint Way's Interview with SBS radio (Part I)

2007-12-01T17:37:00.000-08:00

Letter from Australian Prime Minister to Dr. Tint Way

2007-11-23T05:39:00.000-08:00

An Australian MP's response to Dr. Tint Way

2007-11-21T20:52:00.000-08:00

Dr. Win Naing's interview with DVB

2007-11-18T18:04:00.000-08:00

Letter to Minister of Health Dr. Kyaw Myint

2007-11-15T08:25:00.000-08:00

November 15, 2007

The Honorable Dr Kyaw Myint
Minister of Health
Ministry of Health
Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Email: dmkm@health.gov.mm

Dear Dr Kyaw Myint

We, the Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals would like to bring to your attention the following accounts of life in Burma, with particular reference to the health system and its failure to attend to the basic medical needs of the populace.

The conscience of the world was moved by recent events. An editorial in the prestigious British Medical Journal The Lancet (vol. 370, 27 October 2007) pointed to the ailing health system of Burma, which has not coped with the demands placed on it, leaving Burma with a rank of 190th out of 191 nations in health care provision.

The Lancet article expressed concern about the recent disruption of food distribution programs for poor people, orphans and patients with tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, etc, as well as the ICRC's suspension from carrying out many field operations, which has impeded the relief work of the Red Cross inside Burma. The editorial went on to state that "military misrule," the root cause of the suffering, was largely responsible for Burma's humanitarian crisis, and that it was man-made, as in Zimbabwe.

It also stressed the urgent need to address the root causes of both the health system failure and the widespread suffering among the people, as well as the necessity to ensure that humanitarian aid reaches those in the most desperate need by preventing it from being siphoned off.
The following account, which we received from sources inside Burma in recent weeks, gives a true representation of the suffering of the great majority of the Burmese people: “The people are suffering grievously. Prices of food and bare essentials continue to rise sky-high. There is no adequate medical treatment for the sick. Unless you have money you cannot get treatment at all. If you can get into a general hospital you have to supply even cotton wool when necessary. Even in emergencies requiring blood transfusion, relatives are needed to seek the assistance of compatible donors through the black market and to offer high prices to ensure an adequate supply,just as in an auction. A relatively high percentage of the population is affected by beriberi, including children and monks.”

As a concerned Burmese physician and professional group, we call upon you and the government of Burma to allow the ICRC or the UN to monitor the distribution of aid to the most needy people of Burma and to rectify the ailing health care system by investing a larger proportion of GDP in it, implementing a more efficient health system, in which all donors’ blood are appropriately screened for HIV & HepA,B,C and patients are not required to supply their own bandages and cotton wool or to bid for blood supplies.

We also call upon the government to allow the ICRC to see political detainees and provide necessary assistance.

Yours sincerely

Dr Raymond Tint Way, MB BS, MM, FRANZCP

Consultant Psychiatrist & Member of CBPP

Suite 7, 83 George St, Parramatta, NSW 2150,Australia.

Ph: 61 2 96335155 Fx: 61 2 96335166 Mobile: 0416220208

Email: jostint@hotmail.com

BBC interview by Dr. Ko Ko Lay

Statement regarding arrests of innocent family members (7/2007)

2007-10-22T08:14:00.000-07:00

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals Statement regarding arrests of innocent family members ( 7/2007)

We, the Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals are saddened and outraged to learn that SPDC continues its practice of holding activists' families hostage. This is in blatant disregard for basic human rights and international norms. Those continued arrests, especially arrests of innocent family members, torture of detainees and denial of medical access for detainees reflect SPDC's lack of respect of international pleas. Those acts also reaffirm the world community's suspicion that SPDC has no sincere desire for genuine dialogue and national reconciliation.

We call upon SPDC to take the following steps unequivocally to start a genuine dialogue and national reconciliation.

1. Immediately release all political prisoners including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
2. Stop arrests and torture of detainees.
3. Allow detainees immediate access to medical care.
4. Grant international human rights groups and family members access to detainees.

We also ask international human rights groups to continue their efforts to help those in detention and we stand by ready to assist in anyway we can.

We will continue to push for United Nations' brokered mediation as well as bilateral and multilateral actions by the United States and its allies until our goals are met.

We again strongly pledge our continued commitment and support for our people's struggle for freedom and national reconciliation.

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals
http://cmpp-burma.blogspot.com/
October 22, 2007

Invictus

2007-10-21T15:42:00.000-07:00

B E L I E V E !

2007-10-21T13:08:00.000-07:00

B E L I E V E !

For freedom Burmese people cry.

" So do I "

For food Burmese people cry.

" So do I "

For families Burmese people cry.

" So do I "

For friends Burmese people cry.

" So do I "

From fear Burmese people fly."

So do I

"Said a little caged bird not yet in the sky,"

I believe, perhaps one day, all will be free ".

Said the Burmese people, " So do we "

kklay20/10/2007

Article published in a US newspaper by a concerned Burmese physician

2007-10-17T20:47:00.000-07:00

CURRENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN MYANMAR NEEDS YOUR HELP

Recently, some of us may have noticed the disturbing news from Myanmar (formerly Burma) both in this paper and the national news media. Being a native of that country, I would like to inform the readers about the current crisis with a special appeal for help particularly from our elected officials.

For 19 years, Myanmar has been ruled by the world's most repressive military regime, after it brutally crushed a popular democratic uprising in 1988 when 3,000 people were killed, thousands imprisoned and many ran away to border areas as refugees or freedom fighters hoping to start an armed struggle against the military. Instead they were outmatched by the well equipped Myanmar army. For the last twelve years the Generals also have kept the democratic opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, who had won the noble peace prize in 1991 for her unarmed struggle, under house arrest. Her party won the elections in 1990, the results of which were ignored by the military junta. Many concerned and well meaning countries lead by the USA had condemned the military regimen repeatedly and applied economic sanctions in the past and present.

With this background, many a time I had been asked by puzzled friends in the West. How come, the military remains in power when even the Berlin wall had fallen? And why doesn’t the population of 48 millions rises up against the 450,000 man strong military?

The first question as to why the regime survives despite the sanctions is simply because there are other nations that don’t impose sanctions, but encourage trade including sales of arms. In return they were able to buy natural resources from Burma at cheap prices through deals offered by junta led companies. Myanmar is their economic colony. The country at the top of this list is China followed by the neighboring ASEAN countries. That’s how the Military regime has avoided economic collapse but it is at the expense of the country and its citizens because it is becoming one of the poorest nations of the world, instead of the rising star it was in Southeast Asia some 60 years ago.

Events that had taken place in the last two weeks should have answered the second question as to why many prior uprisings failed. It is because, the military doesn’t hesitate a minute to shoot the peaceful unarmed demonstrators. They don’t operate under the norms that you and I understand. This time that barbaric act is more obvious when they did not hesitate to kill even the highly revered Buddhists monks who initiated the “saffron revolution” two weeks ago. Pictures of blood shed were all over the news lately. That should also put to rest some of the misconception in the West that this predominantly Buddhist nation discriminate against people of the other faiths. It is the ruthless military regimen which suppresses any individual of any faith including their own Buddhist monks as soon as one starts demanding for freedom, human rights and democracy. Earlier this week, President Bush condemned the military’s action in Burma demanding to stop the killing of unarmed protesters. He and the UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown led an effort to place this matter on the agenda for discussion at the United Nations Security Council. But to no one's surprise of those who follow the Myanmar news in the last two decades that motion was vetoed by the two other permanent members of the UNSC, China and Russia, as usual. The international community is back to the helpless state again like it had been in the last 19 years.

But now, you as a conscientious human being or a friend of the Myanmar citizens can help. China is the country with most influence on the current military junta. As an emerging power and a global citizen, it should do the right thing by prevailing upon the military junta to stop the ongoing violence against its own people. It should firmly urge the junta to start working for the national reconciliation and dialogue with the imprisoned political activists including Aung San Suu Kyi which should lead to a free civil society and a democratically elected government in Burma. Otherwise its reputation as a good global citizen is at risk especially just a year before it intends to be the friendly, modern and welcoming host of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Please write letters and petition to the Chinese government and its citizens to facilitate this process by pulling the plug on the Myanmar military. Otherwise calls for boycotting the 2008 Olympics may become inevitable. Though we generally discourage using sports to win political objectives, dire events call for dire actions and the Myanmar people are in dire strait at present. Please help them. This is their only chance to make a difference after many prior failures played to the same old playbook.

Dr T.N. Oo.

Burma Buddhists and Bad Kings

2007-10-17T17:09:00.000-07:00

Burma Buddhists and Bad Kings

Anawrahta established the first unified Burma
He succeeded by propagating Buddhism by Theravada
He needed the Tipitaka to standardize Sasana
King Manuha denied Anarahta’s request
He was duly dethroned and detested.

King Narathu killed his father Alaungsithu by suffocation
Murdered his brother Min Shin Saw by poisoning
Insulted the monks by lying
Pantthaku Mahathera admonished him
Narathu was beheaded by the Sri Lankese king
(Hence he is known as the “Kalakya Min”.)

King Shwe Nan Kyawt Shin was dethroned by Mohnyin Shan
Ava was over-run and ransacked by the northern men
Tho Han Bwa was proclaimed as King of Ava by his father
He ruled the country with an iron fist and torture
Men, women and monks suffered thereafter.

Min Gyi Yan Naung came to their rescue
He killed Tho Han Bwa and his men in retinue
By showing Burmese swordsmanship anew
He showed his moral and manual courage true
He renounced the kingship and manhood too.

U Ottama the monk opened the Burmese eyes
To fight for the people’s rights the British denied
He was imprisoned and disrobed
But he resisted and came out still robed
He instilled in the Burmese a hope
They fought for self determination in a ready mode.

U Wisara followed in the U Ottama’s footsteps
He too was arrested
He fought defrocking by fasting
British could not destroy his determination
He died after five months in incarceration
His statue was erected after independence in celebration.

The Japanese Fascists ruled Burma here
They ransacked, raided and raped for three years
They too were anti-Buddhist to be clear
They paid no respects to the Buddhist monks
They were chased out and flunked.

General Ne Win had two faces
One was religious to be seen by the populace
Another was murderous to all men and monks in case
They were opposing his grip on power base.

He tried to unite different sects of monks in Burma
By sponsoring seminars and selecting Sangha Nayakas
He even erected a pagoda by the name of “Wizaya”
But he disrobed and destroyed many Sanghas
He ordered his secret agents to persecute in camera.

Now SPDC is doing the same thing
Befitting the lackeys of Fascists and sons of U Ne Win
They are killing Buddhist monks and destroying
Monasteries, pagodas and Buddhist cultural things
They will certainly end in A-wi-zi hell
Like all anti-Buddhist criminals before them have dwelled.

But, it is a tragedy for the country
As it has lost the religion and democracy
Only political power matters to the SPDC
People have to fight hard and long from this tyranny
Encouraging thing is that most peoples support this struggle
Except the Russian and China double
Victory is with the Sangha and people
The fight will be through!
Hold on, Carry on!

Aesclepius B

Is it time for the doom of Buddhism in Burma?

2007-10-15T11:35:00.000-07:00

Dear Members,

I am trying to find the answer and I don't have the intention of disparaging our Buddhism since I think I am a follower with a serious faith. I used to be a traditional Buddhist and recently I am tryingto explore the essence of Buddhism. I thought I did the right thing to believe in our Buddha's teaching.

Usually the starting point of Buddhism is to take refuge in three jewels, namely Buddha, Dhamma, and Sanghas, as everybody knows. Because we believe that by doing this we will be protected from some kind of unforeseeable misfortune. Right now our at least psychological protectors are facing perishment imposed by evil forces. So the inevitable question arises right now is are they really protecting us. Please don't accuse me of Deiti's because I am still deeply believe in our Buddha's teaching and thisis my own decision without anybody's influence and I won't regret bydoing this. But when and if this question arises from more than 50million population, what is the explanation?

We all know that there are five major sins in Buddhism, namely 'Pancanantariya Kamma' and if someone perpetrate one of those acts, he or she will have retribution right away. At this time and age, I am wondering why the punishment is delayed. Will it ever happen in our lifetime? If not then what we learned since we are young are questionable and become dubious. Because those evil, monk-killers are still on the throne and people are thinking of negotiation with those religionless for a better life but ?without the sasana. OurBuddha said, if you jump from a cliff, you will die only once. But if you don't know the dhamma your suffering will be endless in infinite lives. I still strongly believe in our Buddha teaching and I don't want to see our sasana easily disappear and is destroyed by those Deitis . Sanghas are assumed as the sons of Buddha, because they are the carriers of our sasana for more than 2500 years. With their great sacrifices and endless efforts, we can learn the precious teaching of our Buddha and can think of seeing Nirvana in our life time even without personally worshipping or refuging with a live Buddha. Needless to say the Sanghas right now come out for the suffering ofthe people at the same time sacrificing their lives, we should protect our sasana and our eternal benefactors. I would say it is the last battle and we should come out and do something for our religion. We need everybody's effort to bring down the evil regime since we see the evil forces are winning the battle. Everybody please actively participate in our activities before it is too late.

Regards,

Richard
ျမန္မာစာ ေရးသားရန္

Letter to Mrs. Bush

2007-10-14T21:39:00.000-07:00

Dear Mrs. Bush,

We thank President Bush's administration for its strong commitment to Burmese cause for democracy and freedom. We also thank you for taking a personal interest in helping Burma gains freedom. Even though it is encouraging for the United Nations and specifically the Security Council to take a strong interest in Burma, we are genuinely afraid Burmese generals are not sincere and again deploying delaying tactics.

There are daily reports of continued arrests and torture while junta offers dialogue with insincere preconditions. Revered Buddhist monks are still being forcibly disrobed and subjected to torture while the international community waits. In recent news, a prominent '88 generation student leader Ko Htay Kywe and five other student activists were arrested. An NLD member and two student activists died during interrogation. The military continues both daytime and night time raids and enforces a climate of intimidation.

In the past, Burmese generals released a fraction of detainees just to deflect the world's attention and soften a stepped up measures against them. In the end, there were more political prisoners in the junta's jails and torture centers. We are afraid it is happening again. We again do not want to forget about the murder, rape, forced relocation, destruction of villages and pillaging suffered by various ethnic groups for years under the same murderous military regime.

Mrs. Bush, the world must not let Burmese people down again. United States must take a leading role to save those innocent lives. Time is running out for those detainees. They are dying in the regime's torture centers as the United Nations Security Council waits for the next step. The Security Council must demand that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi must be freed first in order to start a genuine dialogue and national reconciliation process. All political prisoners also must be freed immediately. The climate of intimidation must be lifted. Concrete actions must be taken if the regime fails to do so.

Burmese monks, students and people have asked for these things during the last peaceful demonstrations, "Will the United States come and help us?" We strongly ask the United States and its allies to consider a strong unilateral action if necessary to save those innocent lives. It is very important at this juncture to show the world that the United States has the political will and plan to take a strong and unilateral action if necessary. Burmese people are with the United States of America and will be grateful for your help.

Concerned Burmese Physicians and Professionals
October 15, 2007.

Urgent Release (6/2007)

2007-10-11T09:11:00.000-07:00

Urgent Release

We, Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals are extremely
concerned with the eye condition of Ko Hla Myo Naung, a recently
arrested 88 generation student leader. We understand that he is
suffering from severe glaucoma and has been suffering severe eye pain.
There is a very good possibility that he will lose eye sight if he
does not receive appropriate treatment immediately.

We request the SPDC to grant him immediate access to proper
medical care based on humanitarian ground.

We also request the international human rights groups, including
ICRC to request SPDC to grant immediate treatment.

We reiterate our call for immediate release of all political
prisoner and access to medical care while being detained.

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals

October 11, 2007

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What is this world regarding Burma?

2007-10-11T05:15:00.000-07:00

What is this world regarding Burma?

Monks are supposed to be meditative
Not demonstrative or progressive
But in Burma they led the protest
They sided with the mass on their behest.

Senior-General was born in Kyaukse
From an obscure and obsolete family
But he said he is King Anawrahta reincarnate
He bejeweled his daughter with diamonds in marriage!

ASSK was born of a general
Father of Burma army and all Burmese nationals
However, SPDC depicts her as opponent of the army
What happened to the concept of sincerity and progeny?

Burma was once the richest country in SEA
Plenty of resources for the people to squander
Singapore was just a small island of poor coolies
Now, she is rich and investing in the country!

Lee Kuan Yew taunted the Burmese generals
As being dumb and de-economical
But he was a guru for them
Now he admonishes them for the recent mayhem.

Many Burmese have left the country
Settled in various lands as the adopted country
Some claimed fresh citizenships
They discard Burmese connections as being blemish.

Now monks have given life for the people
So that a democratic government rules
Most Burmese-Americans and the like join
They show their Burmese-ness with smiles.

2007 protest against the SPDC is unique
It is led by the Buddhist clerics
Not for themselves but for the public
How novel and unselfish it is!

Although SPDC has arms and won this time
In that it can still govern and grind
All opposition without reason and rhymes
They lost the people faith and minds.

A new era is evolving
Dawn is coming
World has heard and seen
What happened in Burma has been
Near hell and animal kingdom in between
All Burmese would wish the future gleam
It is free, democratic and pristine.

Aesclepius B

Statement 5/2007

2007-10-08T15:24:00.000-07:00

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals
( Statement 5/2007)

We, the concerned Myanmar physicians and professionals view with cautious optimism, the offer of dialogue made by the military regime. However, the preconditions set for the meeting between Senior General Than Shwe and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi call into question the regime's sincerity in making this gesture.

We are also very much concerned about the continuing arrests and night time raids of monasteries and homes taking place in various parts of the country, the conditions of the recent detainees who have not been given access to health care or allowed visits by International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) personnel.

We, therefore, strongly urge the SPDC to initiate an immediate dialogue without any prerequisites.

We also call upon the SPDC to show its sincerity for national reconciliation by removing the present climate of intimidation. We demand that SPDC stop immediately the arrests and night time raids of monasteries and private homes. We further urge the SPDC to grant detainees, access to medical care and visits by ICRC personnel and family members based on humanitarian grounds.

We reiterate our call for unconditional release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, 88 generation student leaders and all remaining political prisoners.

We also call upon SPDC to meet the demands of Sanghas as to show they are true Buddhists and followers of Buddhism.

We take this opportunity to honor and salute the venerable Sangha and people who have sacrificed their lives and freedom for the common good of our people of Burma who have been denied their basic human rights and decent living conditions.

We welcome the UN and international community's commitment to bring positive changes in our country's current crisis and call upon them to continue in their efforts to bring freedom and national reconciliation to Burma.

With this statement, we express our solidarity with Burmese people and strongly pledge our continued commitment and support for our people's struggle for freedom and national reconciliation.

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals

October 8, 2007.

Victory is Assured

2007-10-05T05:04:00.001-07:00

Victory is Assured!

Many people are dismayed and angered
By brutal killings and repressions in Burma
They recommended armed struggle
Protesters fight SPDC in the jungle.

SDC will hear it with glee
They can fight back with spree
They will now use modern arms freely
Until the people vanish eternally.

In 1956, the Hungarian people raised alarms
Fought with rifles, rockets and small arms
To earn democracy and sovereignty
But it was crushed with animosity.

USA fought in Vietnam with huge force
Vietnamese fought back without remorse
But the whole world condemned US invasion
The US army lost the war by public opinion.

So does in the Burmese case
SPDC has already lost the race
Democrats just need to behave
Continue fighting peacefully in their place.

Peaceful means has been accepted
By the leadership of monks and protested
It appears in a news report a few days ago
I take it as a harbinger of hope or so.

Yes, victory is assured for the Burmese people
They would definitely be free of SPDC rule
Gandhi had shown the non-violence success
Mandela has proved it again no less.

Now that Aung San Suu Kyi is in center stage
People need not be afraid
She is taking Gandhi and Mandela image
She will surely lead Burma to achieve greatness.

SPDC chieftain declared he would meet her
Previously he said he won’t meet her ever
This is a sign of their wear and tear
It’s a harbinger of hope for the furtue.
“Rome is not built in a day”
Democracy is not made like hay
It takes longer and has to pay
There is progress anyway.

I see a red star coming out in the east
Harbinger of hope has flown at least
It’s the lady and the beast
We know the lady ultimately succeeds
She will fulfills the people’s needs
That is peace, progress and prosperity indeed.

Aesclepius B

What is the difference?

2007-10-05T04:57:00.000-07:00

What is the Difference?

People could speak freely under the British
So they said it was democratic
But any one criticizing British rule was imprisoned
They included U Ottama and U Wisara Thera-wun.

U Wisara was to be disrobed by the jailors
He protested with intense fervor
He fasted for Sangah rights there
He sacrificed his life for ever.

British suppressed all opponents after annexation
They jailed or killed without deliberations
They fired at the crowd in Mandalay
Seventeen monks were killed on that day.

SLORC fired at the crowd in eighty eight in Burma
They killed many monks and laymen there
SPDC also fired at the monks in 2007
They killed many monks in the mayhem.

So, what is the difference between the British and SPDC?
One is the colonialist and another the Burmese army
Many would have said one was alien and another national
But both are the same in the act infernal!

One must oppose any government so brutal
Such as the Burmese one at present so cruel
Whether alien, national, vassal or feudal
We just need democracy at this interval.

Use nonviolent means as the weapon
Rely on the truth as a beacon
Be sincere in your talkathon
Be persevere in your marathon
Then you will succeed in your carry-on.

Aesclepius B

A poem by a Burmese physician

2007-10-04T08:18:00.000-07:00

They know no diplomacy
They know no tact one can see
They have no skills
They were brought up just to kill.

They are full of arrogance
Born of their own ignorance
And ideas of grandiosity
Fill them up with such pomposity

They deem themselves above the law
They deem themselves above religion
On par with god all the more
In their blinkered sighted vision.

They are corrupt in mind
They are corrupt in soul
`The country's ours' they thus opine
`For we're the saviours as a whole'.

Thus has led to the decline and fall
Of our motherland that once stood tall
Ruled by rulers without consent
Loathed by one and all resent.

The time has come for them to go
But onto power they cling on so
With weapons and lies the world they tell
Alas their sins will toll their death knell.

Maximus.

2007-10-04T06:39:00.000-07:00

Struggle for Democracy in Burma Continues

2007-10-03T20:24:00.001-07:00

Struggle for Democracy in Burma Continues…

August is a memorable month for Burma
Public protests occur in both eighty eight and O seven
Many people demonstrated and remember
Many protesters were killed or beaten.

Protesters had no firearms
SPDC has so many guns
It was an unequal struggle
The world sees it as a puzzle.

Many Buddhist monks were beaten and killed
Many more were tortured and imprisoned
But their sacrifice and stamina are strong still
People support them with passion.

All Buddhists are indignant with the SPDC
For suppressing the monks without mercy
They were also treated similarly
It is right to fight back with ferocity.

Some may recommend taking up arms
Others may suggest ,“don’t accept alms”
Still there is a way to emigrate
There’re many ways to topple SPDC degenerates.

Mahattama Gandhi had shown us the correct way
To oppose the oppressors in open days
To use peaceful means in all confrontations
So that people win morally in all conflagrations.

Gandhi marched peacefully
British beat, kicked and shot savagely
Still he marched on to his destination
He succeeded after incarceration.

In eighty eight, students went underground
They fought with arms from beyond
But they were not trained to acclaim
SPDC found them easy game.

It’s a mistake to fight an army with arms
“An eye for an eye” will give you harm
Buddha’s way is to fight tormentor with “Meytta”
It is the correct way to conquer everywhere.
So fight hatred with equamnimity
Oppose cruelty with sympathy
Be steadfast in your mission
Continue your commitment with dedication.

Ultimately justice will prevail
No body needs to wail
People must work in unity
They will achieves success, peace and democracy.

Aesclepius B

Call to Action

2007-09-30T18:53:00.000-07:00

We honor and commend all those physicians, nurses and medical and nursing students who provided medical care to those injured peaceful protesters. At the same time, we are deeply saddened by the fact that those peaceful protesters who received injuries and wounds were not allowed to be taken to hospitals immediately. What is more repulsive to us is the news that some of the wounded and injured were cremated alive at Ye Way cemetery.

Therefore, we the Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals strongly condemn SPDC for such inhuman acts of atrocity committed against its own people. As a civilized nation and society, we the People cannot and will not tolerate the rule of atavistic bullies who dare to maim and massacre venerable sangha and unarmed citizens in full view of the world.

Therefore, we emphatically urge our fellow physician, nurses and healthcare professionals to join hands with our venerable Sayadaws and people general strike that will begin on Monday, October 1, 2007.

We also urge fellow members of our professions who are serving in the military to join us in this fight for the future of our People, Sasana and Nation.

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals

September 30, 2007

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ အေထြေထြသပိတ္ႀကီးတြင္ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားပါ၀င္ရန္ တိုက္တြန္းခ်က္

2007-09-30T15:14:00.000-07:00

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးေနသည့္ ဆရာ၀န္၊ သူနာျပဳမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဆးေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား အတြက္ ကြ်ႏု္ပ္တို႔ ဂုဏ္ယူပါသည္။

တဆက္တည္းမွာပင္ ဒဏ္ရာရဆႏၵျပသူမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ရန္ကုန္ျပည္သူ႔ေဆးရံုႀကီးသို႔ ခ်က္ခ်င္းသြားေရာက္ခြင့္ မရျခင္းအတြက္ စိတ္မေကာင္းျဖစ္ရပါသည္။ အဆိုးဆံုးမွာ အခ်ိဳ႕ဒဏ္ရာရသူမ်ား ေရေ၀းသုႆန္တြင္ အရွင္လတ္လတ္ သၿဂၤိဳလ္ခံရျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ဤသို႔ လူမဆန္ေသာ အျပဳအမူမ်ားကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ျမန္မာဆရာ၀န္မ်ားႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔ အေနျဖင့္ အျပင္းထန္ဆံုး ရႈတ္ခ်လိုက္သည္။

တိုင္းျပည္အေနျဖင့္ ေခတ္ေနာက္ျပန္ဆြဲကာ အႏိုင္က်င့္သတ္ျဖတ္မႈမ်ား လႊမ္းမိုးေနရျခင္းကို မည္သို႔မွ်သည္းညည္းမခံႏုိင္ပါ။

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္းရွိ ဆရာ၀န္၊ သူနာျပဳ က်န္းမာေရးလုပ္သားမ်ားကို တနလာၤေန႔ (ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁ ရက္ေန႔တြင္) စတင္မည့္ အေထြေထြသပိတ္ႀကီးတြင္ ရဟန္းသံဃာျပည္သူအမ်ားႏွင့္ လက္တြဲညီညီ ပါ၀င္ၾကပါရန္ အထူးတိုက္တြန္းလိုက္သည္။

တပ္မေတာ္ေဆး၀န္ထမ္းတပ္တြင္ တာ၀န္ ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနေသာ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားကိုလည္း ကြ်ႏု္ပ္တို႔ႏွင့္အတူ ပူးေပါင္းပါ၀င္ပါရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္သည္။

ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားႏွင့္က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႔

YGH did not accept WHO donation

2007-09-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

ျမန္မာစံေတာ္ခ်ိန္ ၁၅း၅၅

ဒဏ္ရာရသူမ်ား မ်ားျပားသည္ဆုိေသာ သတင္းေၾကာင့္ WHO မွ သြားေရာက္ကာ ေဆးမ်ား လႉဒါန္းသည္ကို လက္မခံဘဲ ျငင္းလႊတ္ေၾကာင္း (WHO ႐ံုးက) ၾကားသိရပါသည္။ ေဆးရံုႀကီးသို႔ ဖုန္းဆက္ ေမးျမန္းေသာအခါ ျပန္လည္ ေျဖၾကားျခင္း မရွိ၊ ျငင္းဆိုျခင္း မရွိဘဲ ဖုန္းကို ခ်သြားပါသည္။ ေဆးရံုႀကီးဝင္းကို စစ္တပ္က ပိတ္ပစ္လိုက္သည္။

Source: MMedWatch

UN Office Number in Rangoon

2007-09-27T19:37:00.001-07:00

THE UN Designated Official in Rangoon has established a 24 hour hotline in case of emergency, especially during curfew hours. 01 554 597 or 01 554 625. Please pass this to all people inside Burma. This is a Rangoon hotline that should be reached immediately

A senior Burmese physician's show of solidarity

2007-09-27T17:57:00.000-07:00

The following letter by Prof. U Thein Htut, FRCP, FRACP to the Australian, a news paper here. This was published yesterday, the 27th.

Prof. U Thein Htut is a very senior gastroloenterolgist and is the son of the late Prof. U Min Sein FRCP, Professor of Medicine, and the late Prof. Daw Yin May, FRCS, FRCOG, FRCP, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, in the Medical College, University of Rangoon. Both saya's parents were two of the earliest pioneers of medicine in Burma. Prof. Daw Yin May was the first person ever to be elected as Fellow of the three different colleges of UK. She was also the person who diagnosed Amoebic vaginitis, which was originally called May's Disease.

Dear Mr Editor,

The monks in Burma (the Sangha) are called "phongyis" in the Burmese language, meaning "highly revered". Phongyis are treated with the greatest respect by Burmese of all religions. They have forsaken all worldly possessions. They play an essential role in the religious and indeed the social life in Burma. In Theravada Buddhism practiced in Burma, they are one of the Triple Gem: the Buddha, the Buddha's Teachings and the Sangha.

For the phongyis to demonstrate in their tens of thousands is unprecedented. They are unarmed, their aim is one of peace. They reflect the concern for the ongoing suffering of the Burmese people.

Burma has been under a continuing chain of military dictatorships since 1962. Many, many thousands have left the country. The military rulers are essentially thugs. They accept no criticism. These thugs wield absolute power. They are of the same race, culture and religion as the majority of the Burmese. However, because they wear the khaki uniform, they are a class apart. They have benefits in salaries, education and all amenities.

These thugs have continued in power with recognition and support from neighbouring countries, including members of ASEAN. These countries have exploited Burma's vast natural resources. Some may be afraid of Burma's large standing army.

We do not yet know the outcome of the Burmese Sanghas protest marches now supported by the public. It reflects the ongoing suffering of the people.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Thein Htut.

Advice to protesters

2007-09-27T15:50:00.000-07:00

Please do not provoke or attack soldiers and police.Do not throw stones or say abusive words to them.Just chant metta sutta and be disciplined all the time.

For public
1) Do not protest separately between monks and public. Make it togehter as monk is one row and public is one row. ie they will openfire to public definately.

2) standby video camera, camera, batteries for video, camera andhandphone, generators, UPS ie they will cut electricity during openfire

3) Open all the doors for temple, mosques, churches, pagodasprotesters can run and hide easily if they need. let army to openfire to temples

For NLD Candidates,

1) Do not wear obviously that you are NLD candidates, ie You are thefirst target to open fire.

2) Do not show signboard that you are selected candidates and mixwith public.

3) Send one group to the place near Aunty Su,'s house to monitor thestatus.

4) Contact to US and UK embassies and UN offcie to monitor the statusand report to their personnels immediately. ie Now UN assembly is inprogress.

For those non-buddhist protesters,

1) do not wear your religious dress during protest ie junta will openfire to non-buddhist first according to 8888 experiences.

2) Open your temple doors for public to run and hide in case,especially, one mosque and one church near city hall need to co-operate.

3) Listen to buddhist monks ie there is no differentiation betweenreligious all are burmese people and we stay at same land.

For foreigners and foreign journalists,

Try to wear burmese dress(trousers better than shorts) and blend in the crowd and conceal cameras and videos.

up date news

2007-09-27T07:12:00.001-07:00

hi!
how r u all?i am myanmar the one who protesting for my country.i wanna
tell u about today protesting new.yesterday i was accident when i run
away ,they shoot to the people.so my leg wound is really pain so i
decided not to go out for today but at 2:05pm i heard the news some
monks was killed by army at sulay pagoda so i put some medicine at my
wound after that i follow to sulay pagoda at theingyi zay and
lathar township when i arrived there some of novice and monks was got
shoot by army so some people take them away .so most of the people
were looking at to there bad way so there have most of young students
were start to protest along the way anawyathar street ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့
စစ္ပညာ >>>> ျပည္သူေတြကို သတ္ဖို႔မဟုတ္ဘူး ။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့ စစ္ပညာ
>>>> ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို သတ္ဖို႔မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုၿပီး ေအာ္ဟစ္ ဆႏၵျပေနၾကပါၿပီ
at the time most of the people singing our national sound .all the
people follow to our student group.when we arrive sanpya our protest
group when over 200,000 and most of the side people follow to us so
our group are bigger and bigger. when we are near thirimingalar market
we are over 400,000peoples and some seller are came and gave water
.when we are over market some of seller they leave there goods and
they follow us so the whole street with people.when we arrived at
sinmalike ,alone township when we try to brake our people the army
troop came some of student got in the nearest monestory and i am some
of my friend got in the side people i wait the seturation and first
troop stop in frond of monestory so there is so many student inside
so we were warry about some of student so we start to trow with stone
from back at the time they shooting back .but alot of people are
waiting and abusing to them .some people follow from back the other
side of the people are they don't go back .they are still protest so
they shoot the other not our side cos we group are so big like we
round to the thee troop.they are middle from out side people getting
near by near they still standing in frond of monestory shooting to the
other side not ours so i don't know right excite news.at 6 pm i went
back people are still there so i don't know later yet.
but we appoiment with some of our student for tomorrow .i have to go
back now.if there any news my friend will be send to u mail.
wish to get free democaracy country.
best regard
nat mauk ther
soe

From Rgn

2007-09-27T06:05:00.001-07:00

Don't afraid them ever alive of we're life-ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့ စစ္ပညာ >>>> ျပည္သူေတြကို သတ္ဖို႔မဟုတ္ဘူး ။ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေပးတဲ့ စစ္ပညာ >>>> ဘုန္းႀကီးေတြကို သတ္ဖို႔မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုၿပီး ေအာ္ဟစ္ ဆႏၵျပေနၾကပါၿပီ ။ 8:45 AM

From Rangoon

2007-09-27T05:42:00.001-07:00

yes! today at taingyi monk army shoot to some novice and monks !

so most of the people are angry so we bame a big group and we go down along the way to anawyather at the time side of the way most of young people join with us

at sanpya our group are more than 200,000people

From Rangoon

2007-09-27T05:28:00.000-07:00

we demostrate over 500,000people along the way to kan nar lan near thirimingalar zay

Let's be wise, don't fall into the same page from the old playbook

2007-09-26T20:12:00.001-07:00

Next the junta will declare martial law. Citing lawlessness by the
demostrators though in reality their thugs are the ones causing the
disurbance, Tat Ma Daw will have to rescue the country from chaos and
looters by shooting them. People should be thankful to Tat Ma Daw for
restoring law and order.

Many hot blooded youth will go underground or run to border areas to
form a students' army or a people's army. Rumors said that truck load
of M-16s supplied by CIA is waiting for them in Thai-Burma border. In
reality, the only thing waiting is malaria and the well equipped enemy
Tat Ma Daw.

At the other side of the ocean, many concerned countries are trying
UN security council to intervene. But all motions are vetoed by the
two permanent members of the UN security council. You know who they
are, the ones that are sucking up all the natural resources of Myamnar
by ganging up with the junta. After a month or two, fatigue sets in
and all disparse.

Sounds depressingly familier? But I think this time we may have a
special window of opportunity if we act wisely and in time. Despite
the public facade, the big brother Pauk Phaw Gyi China must be quite
nervous about the smooth celebration of 2008 Olympic on its soil.
After all it is their coming out party. Let's start drumming up the
campaign to pursuade other countries to boycott it unless China pull
it strings and tell the junta to sit down for a dialogue and
reconciliation. And let China know that this campaign is coming.

I think that's our only chance. The other methods, we have tried. And
we all now the outcomes. Anybody colleting signatures or petition to
be sent to Chinese government? I want to know and participate. It will
be more effective to demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy than
Burmese embassy in my opinion. Just my humble two cents.

Than N Oo
Michigan

Urgent Release -CMPP demands junta stop barbaric response

2007-09-26T10:06:00.000-07:00

Urgent Release

We, the Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals are saddened and outraged by the Burmese junta's brutal response to peaceful demonstrators.

We demand the Burmese military junta to immediately stop this barbaric response and release all political prisoners. The whole world is watching and the junta will be held accountable for spilling the bloodof innocent citizens.

We are proud of our fellow Burmese physicians, nurses and health careworkersinside Burma and commend them for their bravery and professionalism. We encourage all Burmese medical professionals to join us in helpingthose injured.

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals

September 26, 2007

Message from a fellow medical professional

2007-09-26T09:55:00.000-07:00

This is the message from one of our fellow medical professionals working in Yangon General Hospital. The message is provided as-is. No editing is made.

today.... 26/9/07 my duty time part is working on Emergency YGH... at about 2:00 pm 5 patients was coming to our Emergency ... for Gun Shot from Government militaries... 1 patients died on d spot on arriving Hospital... ( shot on Bladder ) 4 r still bad in Diagnosis... The patient's attendant said " the patient r not in d line of protest... they ( victims ) are just chatting and watching d protest line and sitting on Cafe Bar near Shawe Dagon Pagoda , some r pedestrians" when they watching.... Government military Car was crossing to d protest line and randomly shot all of them ... what the insanity and inhumanity of their mind don't they have self-mind.. that can desire to do or shouldn't do? don't they have Family? don't they have Brain? i was very sorry for victims ( pateints ) and victims' relatives really insanity , really inhumanity, really selfish to get holding their stupid military Government... really unintelligence .. how to manage the country like in this situation ... i always ready to support Protest Monks and People... and wanna treat whenever they get injuries ... and all my friends ... u also wanna see like that or not .... This PROTEST is our chance to get improving our country among neighbours ...

Source: Ko Htike

2007-09-26T07:13:00.000-07:00

When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Gandhi
Dear Medical and Health Professional Colleagues,
My late father was made me read books about Mahatma Gandhi as well as the complete set of speeches given by Gandhi during his life time. My father also taught me to understand and follow the two Gandhiian Principles of “Ahimsa” and “Satyagraha”- of non-violent resistance. What is happening now in our country is very much in accordance of the Gandhian Principles.
We would like to assure you that you have the empathy and support of all of us who are not with you physically.
I am sharing with you the above wise words of Mahatma Gandhi’s of how he had been able to encourage himself at times when he despaired of not achieving his goals in life.
With ananda metta
Min Din (Min Hla)

Red Cross Attending An Injured Monk

2007-09-26T03:28:00.000-07:00

ဒဏ္ရာရ သံဃာတပါးအား ၾကက္ေျခနီ လက္ပတ္ျဖင့္ လူတဦးက ျပဳစုေနစဥ္
မိုးမခ မွ ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္

Attributes of a Good Activist

2007-09-25T20:26:00.000-07:00

Attributes of a Good Activist

Have a cool head

Don’t let events carry you away

Keep emotions checked

Follow the set programme of the day.

Don’t talk unless absolutely necessary

Never give your identity freely

Keep your profile low

Just let your leader glow!

Be discreet in communication

Provide truths in information

Keep secret of the donation

Send necessary assistance to destination.

Don’t make heroic acts

That will make enemy react

Check your contacts keep secret

Work according to set format.

Every one has only one life

We have to sacrifice

Let it be useful for the people

It’s to establish a democratic rule.

Government may come and government may go

Some may be good and some may be sore

But the country will go on for ever

People will be there for ever

They are our father and mother

Serving the parent is a blessing

It is according to the Buddha’s teachings.

Aesclepius B

Our Heros Inside Burma

2007-09-25T17:32:00.000-07:00

၂၅-၉-၀၇

ျပည္သူ႔ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား ႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ဘာေတြလုပ္ေနသလဲ

ယခုရက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ သတင္းဌာနမ်ား ႏွင့္ ဘေလာ့ဂ္မ်ားတြင္ ျမန္မာျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ သတင္းမ်ားက ဖံုးလႊမ္းသြားသည္။ CMPP အဖြဲ႔၀င္တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္သည့္အားေလ်ာ္စြာ ထိုသတင္းမ်ားထဲတြင္ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ ဆက္ဆိုင္သည့္သတင္းမ်ားကို စိတ္၀င္တစား ေလ့လာမိ၏။ ေနရာစံု ေထာင့္စံုမွ ပါ၀င္ေနသည္ကို အထူးသတိျပဳမိသည္။

တိုင္းသိ ျပည္သိ ဇာဂနာ (ကိုသူရ) သည္ အႏုပညာေလာကတြင္ က်င္လည္ေနေသာ္လည္း သြားဆရာ၀န္ တစ္ဦးအျဖစ္ ပညာသင္ခဲ့သူျဖစ္သည္။ သူက ယေန႔ျပည္သူ႔ လႈပ္ရွားမႈတြင္ ေရွ႔တန္းက ဦးေဆာင္ေနသည္။ ဆြမ္းကပ္လွဴပြဲတြင္ ပါ၀င္ကူညီေနေသာ စာေရးဆရာမ၊ Teen မဂၢဇင္းထုတ္ေ၀သူ မသီတာ (စမ္းေခ်ာင္း) သည္လည္း ဆရာ၀န္တစ္ဦးပင္။ လူငယ္ ေျခတက္မ်ားထဲမွ သီခ်င္းေရးဆရာ၊ အဆိုေတာ္ ေဆာင္းဦးလႈိင္သည္၄င္း၊ ဆရာ၀န္ ပူပူေႏြးေႏြး အဆိုေတာ္ ျဖဴျဖဴေက်ာ္သိန္းသည္ ၄င္း ျပည္သူမ်ား ႏွင့္ တသားတည္းရွိေၾကာင္း မီဒီယာကို ေျပာၾကားျခင္း၊ သံဃာမ်ားအား ဆြမ္းကပ္လွဴျခင္းမ်ားျဖင့္ ျပသၾကသည္။ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ေဆးေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားကလည္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား သြားရာလမ္းတေလ်ာက္ လိုက္ပါေစာင့္ေရွာက္ၾကသည္ဟု ၾကားသိရသည္။ ေတာင္တြင္းႀကီးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ဆရာ၀န္ သူနာျပဳမ်ားက ေဆးကုသေပးေၾကာင္း သတင္းနားေထာင္ရသည္။ သဃၤန္းကြ်န္း စံျပေဆးရံုႀကီးမွ သူနာျပဳ တစ္ဦးက စစ္တပ္ကေတာ့ ေဆးရံုေတြကို ရွင္းခိုင္းေနၿပီ ဟု တာ၀န္သိစြာျဖင့္ သတင္းေပးလာသည္။ ထိုသတင္းမ်ားကား ေရခဲတုံး၏ ေရေပၚတြင္ ေပၚေနေသာ အပိုင္းမွ်သာရွိမည္ကို ယံုမွားသံသယမရွိ။ အနယ္နယ္အရပ္ရပ္တြင္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသြာ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို အဖက္ဖက္မွ ကူညီေနေသာ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ေတာင္ပံုရာပံု ရွိေနမည္မွာ ေသခ်ာသေလာက္ပင္။ အမည္ေဖာ္ျပ ခ်ီးက်ဴးျခင္းငွာ မစြမ္းသာ၍ ထိုက်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္း အားလံုးကို ေလးစားဂုဏ္ယူမိေၾကာင္း ဤဘေလာ့ဂ္မွ ေန၍သာ ေရးသားလိုက္ရသည္။

ထို႔ျပင္ အျခား သတင္းေကာင္းမ်ားလည္း ရွိေသးသည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ၾကက္ေျခနီ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္တစ္ဦး၏ ဘေလာ့ဂ္က ဟင္နရီဒူးနန္႔စိတ္ဓါတ္၊ ေရွးဦးသူနာျပဳစုနည္းမ်ား စသည္တို႔ကို ေရးသားသည္။ ၾကက္ေျခနီ အမ်ားစုမွာ “စြမ္းအားရွင္” အမ်ိဳးအစားတြင္ ပါ၀င္ျခင္း မရွိေၾကာင္း ေထာက္ျပသည္။ အျခားတစ္ဦးကလည္း အေရးေပၚ အသက္ရႈအားကူနည္း မည္သို႔ေဆာင္ရြက္ရမည္ကို ေရးသားသည္။ လက္ရွိအစိုးရကလည္း ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို အၾကမ္းဖက္ျခင္း မရွိေသးေခ်။ (ဤအျပဳအမူကို ကြ်ႏု္ပ္တို႔ CMPP အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ အထူးေက်းဇူးတင္ရွိေၾကာင္း ေျပာလိုသည္။ ဆက္လက္ၿပီးလည္း အၾကမ္းမဖက္ပဲ ကိုင္တြယ္ေျဖရွင္းသြားပါရန္ လက္ရွိအစိုးရကို ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါသည္။)

အေကာင္း ႏွင့္ အဆိုးကား ဒြန္တြဲလ်က္ရွိ၏။ လက္ရွိ မဆိုးလွေသာအေနအထား ျဖင့္ပင္ ေက်နပ္ေနဖို႔ေတာ့ မသင့္ပါ။ သာသနာေရး၀န္ႀကီးက ဓါးႀကိမ္းႀကိမ္းေနသည္။ စစ္ကားမ်ားက ၿမိဳ႕တြင္းတြင္ ဟန္ေရးျပေနသည္။ ရုပ္ရွင္သရုပ္ေဆာင္ ေက်ာ္သူက အလွဴျပဳရင္း ေသြးတိုးသျဖင့္ အိမ္ျပန္နားရသည္။ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား မိုးထဲ ေနထဲ တေနကုန္ ပင္ပင္ပန္းပန္း ၾကြခ်ီၿပီး ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ျပန္ေရာက္လ်င္ ေဆးခန္းသြားခ်ိန္မရွိေတာ့။ ဤအေျခအေနတြင္ က်န္ရွိေနေသးေသာ က်န္းမာေရး၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား ႏွင့္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ားသည္လည္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ႏွင့္ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို က်န္းမာေရးကိစၥမ်ားတြင္ ပိုမို ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေပးၾကရန္ တိုက္တြန္းပါသည္။

Curious observer

CMPP

Curfews in Yangon and Mandalay

2007-09-25T16:14:00.000-07:00

Burmese Military Regime imposed curfew (9:00 pm - 5:30 am) in Yangon and Mandalay with effect from September 25, 2007. This is such an old trick to harass or arrest leaders of demonstrations.

ျမန္မာ အာဏာသိမ္း စစ္အစိုးရက ရန္ကုန္ ႏွင့္ မႏၱေလးတြင္ ညမထြက္ရ (ည ၉ နာရီမွ နံနက္ ၅ နာရီခြဲ) အမိန္႔ထုတ္ျပန္ထားေၾကာင္း ၾကားသိရသည္္။ လက္ရွိစစ္အစိုးရ အေနျဖင့္ ထုိသို႔ ညမထြက္ရ အမိန္႔မ်ား ထုတ္ျပန္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပအဖြဲ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားကို လိုက္လံဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းမွာ လုပ္ရိုးလုပ္စဥ္ အကြက္ႀကီးပင္ျဖစ္လို႔ေနသည္။

World leaders urge military to show calm

2007-09-25T15:45:00.000-07:00

In a show of solidarity with protesters, UN, Britain warn regime it will be held accountable for actions

Sep 25, 2007 04:30 AM

UNITED NATIONS–Support poured in from around the world for protesters in Burma yesterday as the country's military rulers threatened to "take action" against Buddhist monks who have led the country's largest demonstration in nearly 20 years.

World leaders urged the Rangoon junta to show restraint and warned the regime would be held accountable for any violent crackdown on the march, which numbered 100,000 people yesterday in a major challenge to the military regime.

Among those praising the peaceful nature of the demonstrations but urging against retaliatory action was UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

Ban "commends the peaceful approach the demonstrators are using to press their interests and he calls upon the (Burmese) authorities to continue to exercise restraint," he said in a statement.

Washington said it was keeping a close eye on the protests and expressed hope that dialogue would emerge.

But the White House announced yesterday that U.S. President George W. Bush would unveil new punitive sanctions against members of the ruling junta during a speech today at the United Nations.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown offered his support to protesters in Burma.

"There is a golden thread of common humanity that across nations and faiths binds us together, and it can light the darkest corners of the world," Brown said.

"A message should go out to anyone facing persecution, anywhere from Burma and Zimbabwe: human rights are universal and no injustice can last forever."

The latest show of dissent follows weeks of protests sparked by a massive fuel price hike, leaving observers concerned about a potential repeat of the violence seen in a 1988 crackdown on protesters that left hundreds if not thousands dead.

In the first Burmese official reaction to the protests, state media reported the religion minister, Brig.-Gen. Thura Myint Maung, had met senior clergy yesterday to deliver a warning. "If the monks go against the rules and regulations in the authority of the Buddhist teachings, we will take action under the existing law," state television quoted the minister as saying.

In a message released in Paris, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama urged the military government not to react with violence.

"I extend my support and solidarity with the recent peaceful movement for democracy in Burma," he said in a message datelined Dharamsala, seat of the Tibetan government in exile in northern India.

French foreign ministry spokesperson Frédéric Desagneaux said the junta "will be held accountable before the international community for the security of the protesters" and urged authorities to "open the real process of reform and of national reconciliation that the country needs."

Germany expressed its "sympathy" with the demonstrations and demanded the release of protesters arrested during the marches.

German foreign ministry spokesperson Martin Jaeger also renewed calls for the liberation of pro-democracy leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest.

In Oslo, Geir Lundestad, the head of the Nobel Institute, hailed the "spirit" of the opposition in Burma and said he hoped the swelling protests would culminate in Suu Kyi's house arrest being lifted.

Agence France-Presse

http://www.thestar.com/News/article/260147

US President's speech in UN general assembly

2007-09-25T07:27:00.000-07:00

September 25, 2007

Mr. George W. Bush, President of the United States, gave a speech in UN general assembly today. Click on the following link to listen.

အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ဘုရွ္ ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြညီလာခံတြင္ ၂၅-၉-၀၇ ၌ ေျပာၾကားေသာ မိန္႔ခြန္း။ (ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေၾကာင္းပါ၀င္ေသာ အပိုင္း) နားေထာင္ရန္ ေအာက္ပါ ပံုကိုႏွိပ္ပါ။

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Good Deeds of Burmese Doctors

2007-09-25T04:26:00.000-07:00

Good Deeds of Burmese Doctors

Aesclepius B

(An old Burmese doctor)

I say “Sadu, Sadu, Sadu” to the Burmese doctors and other health professionals providing first aids and health care to the Burmese people demonstrating peacefully in Burma from 22^nd to 24^th September. These health professionals are following the footsteps of their fathers, brothers and colleagues who have contributed similar services to the people in times of need in Burma. They have contributed their services in the independence struggles against the British colonialists, Fascist Japanese and the White Chinese (Kuo Ming Tan) invasion of Burma. They also took part in the forefront of the struggles against the self proclaimed crippling BSPP regime of U Ne Win.

Hail to the patriotic Burmese doctors, nurses, health assistants and other health workers of the country.

During the British colonial days, Dr Hla Shwe, younger brother of Bo Let Yar and father of Dr Thar Hla Shwe, the past rector of Institute of Medicine 2, demonstrated against the British in the forefront of students’ column in the “ Htaunt Thone Yar Pyeyh Ah Ye Day Bon ( Burmese Era 1300th Revolutionary Event)”. He was the president of the All Burma Federation of Student Unions (Ba Ka Tha) and Rangoon University Student Union (Ta Ka Tha). His anti-British words were fiery, his demand for independence was daunting, his patriotism was overwhelming. And during the Japanese occupation, he looked after the Burmese patients at the Rangoon General Hospital. He admitted all the Burmese patriots to the RGH who were being looked for by the Japanese Fascists to escape Japanese arrest. Even U Ne Win acknowledged his role in a mass rally in the 1980s.

During the Japanese occupation, many doctors and nurses joined the Burma Army led by General Aung San who was fighting for independence. Dr Maung Maung Gyi, a graduate of the London University, joined the Burma Army Medical Corps (BAMC) as the most senior Burmese doctor. He later became the first Director of the BAMC. Colonel Hla Han, Colonel B.K. Chang, Colonel Yoke Htyang etc were his junior colleagues. They fought against the cruel Japanese fascists and they treated the people who fought against the Fascists. Some Burmese doctors joined the ant-Fascists resistance movement as ordinary fighters like Dr Tun Maung of CPB. General San Yu and Brigadier Maung Maung left the medical school to join General Aung San.

The late Dr Ba Than, the Dean of Rangoon Medical College several times before 1964 and the first Rector of Institute of Medicine 1 and Institute of Medicine Mandalay did not follow the British administration to Simla in India during the Japanese occupation. Instead, he remained in Burma operating the unfortunate Burmese patients at the Rangoon General Hospital. He treated both famous and ordinary people like Gneral Aung San, Thakhin Than Tun, Bo Ne Win and so on. Eventually Bo Ne Win married his daughter, Daw KhinMay Than.

During the time after independence in 1948, Burmese doctors gave their services either as government physicians or private practitioners to serve the people in need. I still remember our Burmese medical doctor working day and night to cope with the huge demands of health care by the rising casualties and increasing population both during the hectic civil war days and in peace intervals.

In the protest demonstrations during the BSPP era from 1962 to 1988, the Burmese physicians and health workers provided emergency services to the protesting populace and students. They provided with essential care during U That’s funeral event, Thakhin Kodaw Hmaing’s centenary demonstration and workers’ strikes in the 1970s. During the 1988 mass demonstrations the Burmese health professionals were in the fore front of the movement both as health care delivers and as leaders of the demonstrations.

Yes, the Burmese medical doctors form a well-respected social stratum in Burma next to the Buddhist monks. They provide not only health care, but education and general knowledge to the public. Therefore they are well respected. They must use this respect correctly by serving the people’s needs. What they need now is democracy, prosperity and freedom. Doctors must give priority to these needs.

It’s heartening to know that people from many strata of life in Burma are coming out in support of the Burmese monks who are demonstrating peacefully for peace and democracy in Burma since the past few days. Writers, artistes, journalists, film stars, comedians and all sorts of professionals are in league with the demonstrating Burmese monks. We see the Burmese doctors, nurses and other health professionals in the vanguard too. Carry on our esteemed health professionals working in tandem with the Buddhist monks. You will gain merits in this life and beyond for these services. They are indeed your good deeds. I say, “Sadu, Sadu, Sadu” to you all. Carry on, move on!

Aesclepius B

(An old Burmese doctor)

25.9.2007

Message for Medical Personnel in Burma ( Prepare for the worst)

2007-09-24T21:12:00.000-07:00

This is an article from The Irrawaddy.

Medical Personnel Should Prepare for the Worst in Burma [Commentary]
By Saw Lwin
September 24, 2007

Shivers went down my spine Sunday night when I heard the news that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi met and greeted demonstrating monks in Rangoon at the front gate of her house where she has been under house arrest for most of the last 19 years. The barricades to the front of her compound were opened for the monks to pass through.

The news mentioned that Daw Suu was in tears when she saw the monks. They must have been tears of hope, joy, pain and respect. The same tears well in our eyes whenever we hear about her brave struggles and those of the people inside Burma.

I feel optimistic when I see that there has been no intervention by the military dictators and their thugs as of the evening of September 23 However, sobering memories of 1988 still surface.

We were excited and optimistic when Gen Sein Lwin, who gave the order to shoot demonstrators in August 1988, was replaced by Dr. Maung Maung, who refrained from giving such orders. Peaceful demonstrations grew even larger throughout the country.

But we were crushed brutally after the military coup by Gen Saw Maung. The shooting started again on September 19, 1988. An estimated 3,000 people were killed in August and September of 1988 by military and special police forces.

As health workers, we faced challenging circumstances in our efforts to treat wounded demonstrators in the streets and hospitals. Shots were fired as we tried to bring the wounded to safety. We could not use ambulances. Hospitals and clinics were short of medical and surgical supplies and filled with wounded people. Sadly, many wounded didn’t make it to hospitals and their whereabouts were not known.

After the massacre, a network of 37 free clinics was established in Rangoon by health workers and communities with support from individuals and monks. Many monasteries granted permission to open free clinics at their compounds and doctors, nurses, paramedics and others volunteered their services. However, it covered only a small response to a greater need.

In retrospect, we realized that we were not well prepared to respond to the medical challenge. We did our best, but we believed that we could have done more if we had anticipated and prepared for the brutal suppression.

Despite our deepest hopes for a peaceful resolution to the current situation, now is the time to prepare in the event the military leadership orders another unspeakable action against the protesting monks and nuns, or against civilians:

• First, while there's still a chance, efforts should be taken to prevent a brutal suppression against the monks and people: Urge China, India, Asean, the European Union and the UN to send strong messages to the military junta to refrain from violent suppression of the protesting monks and nuns in Burma and to expect serious international actions if such suppression is carried out.

• Train people along the protest paths on first aid. People need to become familiar with first aid responses to muscle cramps, exhaustion, gunshot wounds, internal injuries, eye injuries, tear-gas injuries, fractures, injuries from high-pressure water cannons, dog bites (in case canine units are used), and other consequences of violence. Equip them with adequate first aid kits (international agencies should make kits available) and establish necessary support from health professionals.

• Prepare for triage services. Shelters for triaging the wounded should be identified early. Prepare for timely referral to appropriate health facilities for the seriously wounded—including plans for transportation, health workers and security in treatment areas.

• Prepare how to prevent monks and nuns from suffocation in case they are put into crowded vans.

• Stock appropriate medical and surgical supplies at local, township and district hospitals and clinics in the event of mass casualties. Authorize clinic/hospital staff to provide necessary care for wounded people without having to fear punitive actions by the military (this should be assured by the Ministry of Health and UN agencies).

• Provide ways and means to continue care for the wounded whether they are discharged from the health facilities or put into jails.

• Neighboring countries should be prepared to provide necessary health and social assistance to displaced populations who might seek refuge in the border areas.

While not a complete list of recommendations by any means, this covers basic areas that if addressed early can allow a more effective medical response to catastrophic events.

I reiterate my deepest hope that this list will never have to be used in Burma. But we must hope for the best and prepare for the worst. If given a chance, I believe that the people of Burma from different ethic, religious and political backgrounds will be united to work together for the betterment of everyone in the country.

Saw Lwin, a pseudonym, is a Burmese medical doctor

VOA interviewed Chin doctor - Dr. Huat Z. Mang

2007-09-24T15:02:00.000-07:00

Voice of America (VOA) - Burmese Program interviewed Dr. Huat Z. Mang - a Chin national. He worked as a consultant surgeon / assistant lecturer in Rangoon General Hospital during 1988 and witnessed the brutality of current military government in its early days in power. Dr. Huat Z. Mang is now actively participating in CMPP during the possible last days of the same military government.

In the news, a nurse from Thingangyun Sanpya Hospital reported that hospital is discharging most patients except critically ill ones. A proactive move by the military regime to suppress the peaceful demonstrations in Rangoon.

Click the following link to listen to the news.

အေမရိကန္အသံ ျမန္မာပိုင္း အစီအစဥ္က အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရာက္ ခ်င္းတိုင္းရင္းသား ေဒါက္တာ ၀ပ္ဇ္မန္း ကို ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာ ၀ပ္ဇ္မန္းဟာ ၁၉၈၈ ခုႏွစ္ တုန္းက ရန္ကုန္ျပည္သူ႔ေဆးရံုႀကီးမွာ ခြဲစိတ္အထူးကု ဆရာ၀န္၊ လက္ေထာက္ကထိကအေနျဖင့္ တာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့ဖူးသူျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ လက္ရွိ စစ္အစိုးရရဲ႕ သူနာျပဳမ်ားကိုပင္ မေရွာင္ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ သတ္ျဖတ္မႈမ်ားကို ကိုယ္ေတြ႔ႀကံဳခဲ့ရသူျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာဟာ လက္ရွိဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား ႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား အဖြဲ႔မွာ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြ ပါ၀င္ လႈပ္ရွားေနသူ တစ္ဦးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အဆိုပါ သတင္းႏွင့္ တဆက္တည္းမွာပင္ သဃၤန္းကြ်န္းစံျပေဆးရံုႀကီးမွ တာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားက လူနာ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားကို ေဆးရံုဆင္းခိုင္းၿပီး ေဆးရံုကို ရွင္းလင္းေနေၾကာင္း လက္ရွိတာ၀န္ထမ္းေဆာင္ေနသည့္ သူနာျပဳ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားပါတယ္။ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ဆႏၵျပ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူမ်ားကို စစ္အစိုးရက အၾကမ္းဖက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းမည့္ ေရွ႔ေျပးလကၡဏာ ေပေလာ။

သတင္းနားေထာင္ရန္ ေအာက္ပါ ပံုကို ႏွိပ္ပါ။

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RFA interviewed Dr. Oo

2007-09-24T14:02:00.000-07:00

Radio Free Asia (RFA) interviewed a member of CMPP - Dr. Oo about the second statement released by CMPP yesterday. Please click the player to listen to the interview.

လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ အာရွအသံ ျမန္မာပိုင္းအစီအစဥ္က ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား ႏွင့္ က်န္မာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား အဖြဲ႔၀င္ တစ္ဦး ျဖစ္သူ ေဒါက္တာ သိန္္ဦးကို ေတြ႔ဆံုေမးျမန္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ နားဆင္ရန္ ေအာက္ပါ အသံဖြင့္စက္ရွိ ခလုတ္ကို ႏွိပ္ပါ။

Welcome to CMPP blog

2007-09-24T07:30:00.000-07:00

Welcome to CMPP blog.

CMPP Statement 2 (Burmese)

2007-09-24T07:18:00.000-07:00

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္းရွိ ဆရာ၀န္၊ သူနာျပဳ၊ က်န္းမာေရးမွဴး၊ သားဖြားဆရာမ၊ က်န္းမာေရးလုပ္သား၊ ၾကက္ေျခနီ မ်ား သို႔ ပန္ၾကားခ်က္

၂၃ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၂၀၀၇

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္းရွိ အေထြေထြ အက်ပ္အတည္းမ်ားကို ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ ခါးစည္းခံခဲ့ၾကရေသာ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား ႏွင့္ ၄င္းတို႔ ကိုယ္စား ရဟန္းသံဃာမ်ားက မိမိတို႔၏ ဆႏၵမ်ားကို ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ေဖာ္ထုတ္ျပသလ်က္ရွိသည္။ ထိုအခ်ိန္တြင္ ဖိႏွိပ္ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူ လူတန္းစားက အၾကမ္းဖက္ ႏွိမ္ႏွင္းရန္ ၀ါးရင္းတုတ္ကိုင္ လူမိုက္မ်ား၊ တပ္ရင္းတပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ား ကို တဆင့္ျခင္း အသံုးျပဳရန္ ႀကံစည္ေနသည္။ ထိုသို႔ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ႏွိမ္နင္းမႈမ်ား ျဖစ္ပြားလာပါက ေဆးရံုမ်ား အဆင္သင့္ရွိေနရန္ တပ္လွန္႔ထားေၾကာင္းကိုလည္း အားလံုး သိရွိၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။

ရဟန္းသံဃာ ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူလူထု အေနျဖင့္ ဆရာ၀န္၊ သူနာျပဳ၊ က်န္းမာေရးမွဴး၊ ကုန္ကုန္ေျပာရလ်င္ ေဆးေက်ာင္းသူ၊ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားကိုပင္ က်န္းမာေရး ေစာင့္ေရွာက္မႈေပးေနသူမ်ားအျဖစ္ ေလးစားအားကိုးၿပီးသားပင္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ မိမိတို႔၏ ၾသဇာကို အသံုးျပဳ၍ သံဃာႏွင့္ လူထု ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ားတြင္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမ်ား မျဖစ္ေအာင္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္း မတားဆီးသင့္ပါသေလာ။ ဒဏ္ရာရ ေသဆံုးသူမ်ား မိမိတို႔ တာ၀န္က်ရာ ေဆးရံုေဆးခန္းမ်ားသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာခ်ိန္အထိ ထိုင္ေစာင့္ေနၾကမည္ေလာ။ မိမိ တတ္ႏိုင္သည့္နည္းလမ္းမ်ားျဖင့္ ေရွ႔တန္းမွ ပါ၀င္ မကုသေပးလိုၿပီေလာ။ ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကို ၀န္းရံ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ မေပးသင့္ၿပီေလာ။

ၾကက္ေျခနီအသင္းႀကီးသည္ စစ္ပြဲမ်ား အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈမ်ားမွ သေႏၶတည္ခဲ့ေသာ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းျဖစ္သည္။ ၾကက္ေျခနီ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ား၊ ေမာင္မယ္မ်ားသည္ နာမက်န္းသူမ်ားကို ေက်ာသား ရင္သား မခြဲျခားပဲ ေရွးဦးျပဳစုရန္ ၀န္ခံကတိျပဳထားၾကသူမ်ားျဖစ္သည္။ သို႔ရာတြင္ အာဏာရူးမ်ား၏ အသြင္ေျပာင္းမႈေၾကာင့္ အခ်ိဳ႕ေသာ အဖြဲ႔၀င္၊ အသင္း၀င္မ်ားသည္ “စြမ္းအားရွင္” အမည္ခံရကာ လူထုကို ရန္ရွာသူမ်ား အျဖစ္ေရာက္ေနရသည္ကား ရင္နာစရာပင္။ အမ်ားစုေသာ ၾကက္ေျခနီ စိတ္ဓါတ္အျပည့္ရွိသူမ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းႀကီး၏ အဓိက ခံယူခ်က္မ်ားထဲမွ တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ေသာ “ဘက္မလိုက္ျခင္း” ကို လက္ေတြ႔ က်င့္သံုးၾကမည္ဟု ယံုၾကည္သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ဆႏၵျပေနေသာ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား ႏွင့္ ျပည္သူလူထုအတြက္ က်န္းမာေရး ကိစၥမ်ားလိုအပ္လာပါက ၀ိုင္း၀န္း ပံ့ပိုးၾကရန္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းႀကီး ႏွင့္ အနယ္နယ္ အရပ္ရပ္ရွိ ၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းမ်ား၊ တပ္ဖြဲ႔၀င္၊ အသင္း၀င္ ေမာင္မယ္မ်ား ကို အထူး ပန္ၾကားလိုသည္။

CMPP ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား ႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား အဖြဲ႔ က

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား အသင္း
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သူနာျပဳမ်ား အသင္း
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ က်န္းမာေရးမွဴးမ်ား အသင္း
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ၾကက္ေျခနီအသင္း
ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေဆးခန္းဖြင့္ ပုဂၢလိက ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား၊ တိုင္းရင္းေဆး ပညာရွင္မ်ား
ေဆး တကၠသိုလ္ (၁)၊ (၂)၊ မႏ ၱေလး၊ မေကြး၊ တပ္မေတာ္ ေဆး တကၠသိုလ္ အသီးသီး တို႔မွ ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား
သူနာျပဳတကၠသိုလ္၊ ေဆးဘက္ပညာသင္ တကၠသိုလ္၊ ေဆး၀ါးေဗဒ တကၠသိုလ္မ်ား ရွိ ေက်ာင္းသူ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား

အပါအ၀င္ အားလံုးေသာ က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားကို ေအာက္ပါအတိုင္း ေမတၱာေရွ႔ထား ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ပန္ၾကားလိုက္သည္။

သံဃာ ႏွင့္ လူထု ဆႏၵေဖာ္ထုတ္ပြဲမ်ားအား အၾကမ္းဖက္ၿဖိဳခြဲရန္ ႀကံစီသူအုပ္စုတြင္ မပါ၀င္ပဲ လံုး၀ (လံုး၀) ေရွာင္ၾကဥ္ေရး။
မိမိတို႔၏ က်န္းမာေရး ဆိုင္ရာ အသင္းအဖြဲ႔အလိုက္ ျပည္သူလူထု က်န္းမာေရး အတြက္ ဘက္မလိုက္ပဲ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေၾကျငာျခင္း။ အမွန္တကယ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္း။
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းစြာ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ားတြင္ လိုက္ပါၿပီး မိမိသည္ က်န္းမာေရးဆိုင္ရာ အကူအညီေပးႏုိင္သူ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အသိေပးျခင္း (ဥပမာ - ၾကက္ေျခနီ လက္ပတ္ တပ္ဆင္ထားျခင္း ) ဆႏၵျပ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို မိမိသည္ ဆရာ၀န္၊ သူနာျပဳ၊ က်န္းမာေရးမွဴး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အသိေပးထားျခင္း။
လူထု ခ်ီတက္ပြဲမ်ားတြင္ လိုအပ္ႏိုင္သည့္ ေရွးဦးသူနာျပဳ ေဆး၀ါး ကိရိယာမ်ားကို စုေဆာင္း လွဴဒါန္းေပးျခင္း။
ရဟန္းသံဃာေတာ္မ်ား၏ က်န္းမာေရး ကို ယခင္ကထက္ ပိုမို ဂရုစိုက္ေပးျခင္း (ဥပမာ - ဘုန္းႀကီးေက်ာင္းမ်ားသို႔ က်န္းမာေရး ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ သြားေရာက္ သတင္းေမး ကုသေပးျခင္း )
ျပည္သူအခ်င္းခ်င္း အထင္အျမင္လြဲမွားမႈမ်ား၊ ရုန္းရင္းဆံခတ္ျဖစ္မႈမ်ား မျဖစ္ပြားေအာင္ ၀ိုင္း၀န္း ထိမ္းသိမ္းေပးျခင္း။
ေဆးရံုေဆးခန္းမ်ားတြင္ ေရာက္ရွိလာႏိုင္ေသာ ဒဏ္ရာရသူမ်ားအတြက္ ခြဲျခားဆက္ဆံမႈ မျပဳပဲ ကုသေပးႏိုင္ေရး ျပင္ဆင္ထားျခင္း။ ေဆး၀ါးျပည့္စံုမႈ ရွိရန္ စီစဥ္ထားရွိျခင္း။ ေထာက္လွမ္းေရး၊ ရဲ မ်ားမွ လူနာ ကုသေရးကို ေႏွာက္ယွက္မႈမ်ား ရွိလာပါက ကိုင္တြယ္ ေျဖရွင္းရန္ အသင့္ရွိေနျခင္း။ လူနာကို ဦးစားေပးျခင္း။ ဒဏ္ရာမ်ား၊ သက္ေသခံပစၥည္းမ်ားကို ဥပေဒေရးရာ ေဆးပညာ သေဘာတရားအတိုင္း စနစ္တက် ထိမ္းသိမ္းထားရွိျခင္း။ (ေနာင္တြင္ ဥပေဒေၾကာင္းအရ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈမ်ား အတြက္ အေထာက္အကူ ျဖစ္ေစရန္ျဖစ္သည္)

ႏိုင္ငံတကာေရာက္ ဆရာ၀န္မ်ား ႏွင့္ က်န္းမာေရး ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ား အဖြဲ႔

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals (CMPP)
Contact Persons

Dr. Ko K Lay
GP Principal
Woodroyd Centre
Woodroyd Road, Bradford
West Yorkshire
WF179QF
UK
drkokolay@yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Huat Z.Mang
Family Practice Physician
South Texas Medical Clinic PA
2100 Regional Medical Dr
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532 1700 (O)
huatmang@sbcglobal.net

Dr. Zaw Myint
Attending Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Northwestern Human Services
11082 Knights Road
Philadelphia PA 19154
Ph: (215) 632 9040 (ext.652)
zmyint51@hotmail.com

Dr. Aye Min
DiagnosticRadiologist
Mary Washington Hospital
Fredericksburg, VA
Ph: (804) 512 4669
radiomin@gmail.com

Dr. Tun Kyaw Nyein
Dean of University College
North Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
Ph: (919) 530 5015
tnyein@nccu.edu

Dr. Oo
Attending Physician

CMPP Statement 2 (English)

2007-09-24T07:04:00.001-07:00

Urgent Appeal to Healthcare Professionals of Myanmar

September 23, 2007

At this time in Myanmar, the venerable Sanghas are protesting against the SPDC, expressing the will of the 50 million people who have languished under the yoke of oppression for many years. We have learned that the military regime have been preparing to violently suppress the protests by unleashing thugs wielding bamboo sticks backed up by battalions of armed soldiers on the innocent and unarmed people. It is widely known that hospitals have been alerted to prepare for the casualties.

As healthcare professionals, physicians, nurses, health assistants and even medical students have always been viewed with respect and trust by the Sanghas and people of Myanmar. Therefore as health professionals, should we not use our positions of trust to prevent and intervene in the violent suppression of protesting monks and people? Are we to wait and do nothing until the dead and wounded are brought to our hospitals and clinics? Should we not by every means possible take appropriate actions to protect and care for the protesters by accompanying them on their protest marches?

The answer is a resounding YES!

YES, WE SHOULD.

The Red Cross is a noble organization that emerged from violent conflicts of the past. Members of the Red Cross are young men and women who have pledged to care for the sick and wounded without discrimination or bias. It is a sad fact that in Myanmar, those who are in power have ignobly transformed some of the Red Cross members into enemies of the people as Swan Arshins. We, therefore call upon all members of the Myanmar Red Cross to help the Sanghas and the people by taking care of their health and to provide assistance in any way they can. At the very least, we caution all members of the Myanmar Red Cross to refrain from taking part in any act of suppression or violence against the protesting Sanghas and people. If you cannot assist, at least do no harm.

The Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals Group call upon: Myanmar Medical Association, Myanmar Nurses Association, Myanmar Health Assistant Association, Myanmar Red Cross, Proprietors of private clinics, Practitioners of Indigenous Medicine, student bodies of Universities of Medicine (1), (2), Mandalay, Magwe and Defense Services Institute of Medicine and Nursing, student bodies of various Universities of Nursing and Allied Health Professions, and all health professionals to:

refrain from taking part in any act of violent suppression against the protesting Sanghas and citizen people;
pledge to the public as members of each health profession to carry out their professional duties in the interest of public health without any discrimination or bias;
accompany the protesting marches by wearing identifiable badges or arm bands as health providers who can assist them with their medical and healthcare needs and apprising the leaders of protest marches as health professionals who can provide help when needed;
collect and donate first aid kits and materials to protesting Sanghas and citizens;
make visitations to monasteries and provide more-than-usual care and assistance;
actively assist Sangha and citizen protesters by intervening in potential scenarios of misunderstanding and altercations within and among protest marchers;
make preparations to take care of potential casualties in all (public and private)medical facilities without discrimination and be prepared to confront on behalf of patients should security and intelligence personnel attempt to interfere with care-giving; and,
assiduously preserve evidentiary materials and wounds in accordance with medico-legal principles and procedure in case of casualties and death with a view to future legal actions and procedures.

Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals

Contact Persons

Dr. Ko K Lay
GP Principal
Woodroyd Centre
Woodroyd Road, Bradford
West Yorkshire, WF17 9QF
UK
drkokolay@yahoo.co.uk

Dr. Huat Z.Mang
Family Practice Physician
South Texas Medical Clinic PA
2100 Regional Medical Dr
Wharton, TX 77488
Ph: (979) 532 1700 (O)
huatmang@sbcglobal.net

Dr. Zaw Myint
Attending Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Northwestern Human Services
11082 Knights Road
Philadelphia PA 19154
Ph: (215) 632 9040 (ext.652)
zmyint51@hotmail.com

Dr. Aye Min
Diagnostic
Radiologist
Mary Washington Hospital
Fredericksburg, VA
Ph: (804) 512 4669
radiomin@gmail.com

Dr. Tun Kyaw Nyein
Dean of University College
North Carolina Central University
Durham, North Carolina
Ph: (919) 530 5015
tnyein@nccu.edu

Dr.Oo
Attending Physician

VOA interviewed Dr. Tun Kyaw Nyein

2007-09-24T06:53:00.000-07:00

Voice of America (VOA) - Burmese program interviewed Dr. Tun Kyaw Nyein - a member of Concerned Myanmar Physicians and Professionals - on September 14, 2007. Click the following link to listen to the interview.