Time to Review U.S Policy in Burma
ခ်စ္စြာေသာစာဖတ္ပရိသတ္အေပါင္းတို႔ ့ခင္ဗ်ာ..
စာဖတ္သူတုိ႔အေနၿဖင္႔ၿမန္မာၿပည္အေပၚထားရွိမည္႔အေမရိကန္အစုိးရသစ္၏ေပၚလစီႏွင္႔အသစ္ခန္႔အပ္မည္႔ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဆုိင္ရာအေမရိကန္
အထူးကုိယ္စလွယ္အေပၚထားရွိသည္႔သေဘာထားမ်ားအၾကံၿပဳခ်က္မ်ားေပးပုိ႔လုိပါလွ်င္ကြ်န္ေနာ္တုိ႔အီးေမးကုိၿဖစ္ေစ၊ဘေလာက္ဂ္မွာၿဖစ္ေစ
ေရးသားထားခဲ႔ႏုိင္ပါသည္။ထုိ႔အတူအဖြဲ႔အစည္းတခုခ်င္းစီ၏ထင္ၿမင္ခ်က္သေဘာထားမ်ား၊အၾကံၿပဳခ်က္မ်ားကုိလည္းကြ်န္ေနာ္တုိ႔ကုိ
အီးေမးကေနတဆင္႔ေပးပုိ႔ထားႏုိင္ပါသည္။
ကြ်န္ေနာ္တုိ႔အေနၿဖင္႔သီးသန္႔အၾကံၿပဳခ်က္အစီရင္ခံစာကုိအေမရိကန္အစုိးရသစ္ႏွင္႔သက္ဆုိင္ရာေနရာမ်ားသုိ႔တင္ၿပ
ေပးပုိ႔သြားပါမည္။ခ်စ္စြာေသာစာဖတ္ပရိသတ္အေပါင္းတို႔၏အၾကံၿပဳခ်က္မ်ားကုိလည္းတပါတည္းထည္႔သြင္းေပးပုိ႔တင္ၿပသြားပါမည္။
သေဘာထားေတြကုိအၿပဳသေဘာဆန္ဆန္ၿဖင္႔လြတ္လပ္ပြင္႔လင္းစြာေရးသားႏုိင္ပါသည္။
ေလးစားခ်စ္ခင္စြာၿဖင္႔
Dear friends of Burma,
We are going to write an independent report on Burma, which will be offering new strategic thinking for U.S Policy makers. The report will be submitted in January, 2009. Here is a chance for you to share your opinions with us. Please send your opinions to our e.mail account.
Best Regards,
We Fight We Win
Strategic Team
E-mail: wefightwewin@gmail.com
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Opinion Continues Over U.S Special Envoy Michael Green
The nomination of Michael Green as Special Envoy and Policy Chief for Burma by outgoing President Bush will be confirmed swiftly without hindrance by the congress, the long over due action that should had taken years ago after the bloody Deparyin incident and also after last year 2007 Saffron Revolution.
Instead, many Burma campaigners and lobbyists based in DC supported by NCGUB lobbied/pushed US State Department to include Burma in UNSC agendas and failed to get resolutions as predicted by many UN experts, being vetoed by China and Russia. After his misguided invasion on Iraq without seeking proper backing of International community, President Bush seemed quite adamant to get international consensus on Burma 's case, even on political front. While US's initiatives have backing from EU and other democratic countries, they were opposed by China , Russia , India and many Asean countries.
So, what could Dr. Green could achieved on Burma before his boss leave office on Jan 20, 2009, and what will happen of his role or particularly his position after this deadline. President Obama is likely to maintain this position with firm advise taken from former Secretary Sate and his senior foreign policy adviser, Madeline Albright, who happens to be a strong supporter of democratic Burma and admirer of Aung San Suu Kyi.
At least, in order to map alternative policies and strategies on Burma , it may be prudence for Dr. Green to seek wide opinions and views of leaders, individuals and representatives of many diverse exile Burmese and ethnic communities and groups residing in the US and other countries, not just only from those lobbyists who are located at his doorsteps.
And it would also be necessary for him to make direct meeting with Burmese military leaders, Aung San Suu Kyi and NLD, and ethnic leaders, having opportunities to make personnel assessments on the situations inside the country, and making recommendations to the new US President and the congress if any alternatives policy would bring positive results in Burma .
(Dr. Sein Myint serves as the director of Policy Development of Justice for Human Rights in Burma, Maryland, USA. He is a Honorary Member of Amnesty International Chapter 22, in Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., USA.)
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Dear Dr. Sein Myint:
A scenario of "old wine in a new bottle", as stressed, is likely to be the order of the day.
Obama's plate is full and Burma issue would be at the end of his long list of priority-
setting. As usual, realpolitik will prevail and he won't mind doling out a few million to
keep the exile movement alive, for this is just peanut for his administration. Besides, he
could occasionally ride a moral high horse and make use of the exiled activists or
politicians when it is needed.
All of us has hoped that there would be some kind of physical intervention inside the
country, but so far we are only getting some capacity-building in form of upgrading civil
society, which was quite good but not enough to change the balance of power.
My take is that even Bush, with his shoot-first- ask-later stance was not ready to go in
during cyclone Nargis. Obama seems even more considerate than Bush. But we will
never know. So let's wait and see, when he takes office in January.
Best,
Sai Wansai
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