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ဒီစာေရးေနတဲ့ အခ်ိန္ဆိုရင္ သမီးေလးနဲ႔ အပါးတို႔ ေဝးေနရတာ ၁ႏွစ္ ေက်ာ္ၿပီေနာ္။ အပါးတို႔ သမီးေလးကိုေနတိုင္း သတိရေနခဲ့ရတယ္ သမိီးေလးရယ္။ ၃ႏွစ္မၿပည့္ခင္မွာ မိဘနဲ႔ေဝးေနရတဲ့ အပါးရဲ႕ သမီးေလး အခုဆိုရင္ ၄ႏွစ္ ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ၿပီေနာ္။ သမီးေလးငယ္စဥ္ ကအေၾကာင္းေတြကို အပါးအခုထိ သတိရေနတုန္းဘဲ။
သမီးေလးေမြးကင္းစ ၁၄ရက္ ေတာင္မၿပည့္ေသးခင္မွာ သမီးေလးရဲ႕ ဗိုက္ခ်က္နားမွာေရာင္ေနလို႕ အပါးကိုယ္တိုင္ ၁၀ရက္တိတိ မနက္၁ၾကိမ္ ည၁ၾကိမ္ ေဆးခန္းမွာ ေဆးသြားထိုးေပးခဲ့ရတယ္ေလ။ အဲ့ဒီ့အခ်ိန္ကဆိုရင္ အပါးရင္ထဲမွာ မ်က္ရည္ေတြ စီးက်ခဲ့ရတယ္။
သမီးေလး၃လေက်ာ္ ၄လအရြယ္က်ေတာ့ အပါးတို႔ ညညဆိုရင္ ၄နာရီ ၅နာရီမွအိပ္ရတယ္။ ဘာလိုလဲဆိုေတာ့ သမီးေလးက ညညဆိုရင္လံုးဝကို မအိပ္တာ။ အပါးက သမီးေလးကိုခ်ီ အမီးက မတ္တပ္ရပ္လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ၿပီး ညညဆိုႏို႔တိုက္ခဲ့ရတာ။
သမီးေလး ၁ႏွစ္လည္းေက်ာ္ေရာ လည္ပင္းမွာအက်ိတ္ေပါက္ၿပီး ညေနညေနဆိုရင္ကိုယ္ေတြပူၿပီး ဖ်ားဖ်ား လာလို႔ေဆးခန္းၿပေတာ့ တီဘီ စဆပိုက္ဆိုၿပီးေတာ့ ၆လေလာက္တီဘီေဆးေတြ ေသာက္ခဲ့ရတယ္။

(ဆက္လက္ေရးသားပါမည္)

Oct 6, 2008 (DV–An eye specialist spent about an hour visiting detained National League for Democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday, according to an NLD spokesperson.

NLD spokesperson Nyan Win said the specialist had accompanied Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s regular doctor to her house.

“We learned that Dr Tin Myo Win, his assistant and Dr Kan Nyunt visited the home of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday evening to perform a medical checkup,” Nyan Win said.

“Dr Kan Nyunt is an eye specialist. We did not hear anything unusual about her health. Nor do we know the results of the medical examination yesterday.”

Dr Tin Myo Win spent about three hours at Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence, according to eyewitnesses, while the eye examination lasted about an hour.

The Burmese authorities have agreed to allow Dr Tin Myo Win to visit Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the first Thursday of every month, Nyan Win said.

His last visit was on 14 September.

Nyan Win also said that preparations were completed on Thursday for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal, which will be submitted to regime leaders in Naypyidaw this week.

Oct 3, 2008 (DV–Former student Myo Lwin Oo, who was arrested last September for allegedly helping distribute a statement, was sentenced to nine years in prison on Tuesday, his lawyer Than Zaw Aung said.

29-year old Myo Lwin Oo (also known as Thar Gyi) was sentenced to seven years under the Printing Act and two years under Act 505(b) for damaging public order.

The sentence was passed by judge Daw Mya Mya Swe of North Dagon township court in Rangoon.

Than Zaw Aung insisted that his client was sentenced without being found guilty.

"He was accused of abetting 88 generation student Ko Hla Myo Naung in issuing a statement and was arrested,” Than Zaw Aung said.

“It wasn’t proven that he printed documents and as far as section 505(b) is concerned, he wasn't involved in causing public alarm or damaging public order either."

The case was brought against Myo Lwin Oo by township police chief Han Sein, Than Zaw Aung said.

Detained Shan leader hospitalised
Oct 3, 2008 (DV–Shan New Generation member Sai Myo Win Tun has been in hospital for more than a month due to deteriorating health conditions, according to the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy.

Sai Myo Win Tun, 47, is currently serving a 79-year prison sentence at Myingyan prison in Mandalay division.

SNLD spokesperson Sai Leik said a family member who went to visit Sai Myo Win Tun on 10 September said he was suffering from heart disease, hemorrhoids and a mental disorder.

His family wants him to be transferred to Rangoon for treatment and is planning to submit a request to the authorities.

Sai Myo Win Tun is one of eight Shan leaders given long-term prison sentences for discrediting the military government.

The family of Shan State Army-North leader general Hso Ten, who is serving a 106-year sentence in Khamtee prison in Sagaing division, has been requesting eye treatment for him for three months without success.

Of the remaining six, SNLD chair Khun Tun Oo is serving a 94-year sentence in Pu-ta-o jail while Sai Nyunt Lwin was sentenced to an 85-year prison term and is currently being held in Kalay prison in Sagaing division.

Sai Hla Aung is serving 75 years in Kyaukphyu prison in Arakan state, while Sai Htun Nyo is being held at Butheetaung prison, also in Arakan state, and Sai Nyi Moe is serving his 75-year sentence in Pakokku prison.

Sai Myint Than from the Shan New Generation group died in 2006 in Sandoway prison where he was serving a 75-year sentence.

Ailing political detainee forced to stand trial
Oct 3, 2008 (DV–Political prisoner Aung Zaw Oo was forced to stand trial at Kyauktada township court despite his pleas to be tried at a later date, according to a friend of the detainee.

Aung Zaw Oo’s friend said he was handcuffed and forced into a prison van by police private Saw Htay Oo and when he arrived in court he refused to come out of the van for an hour in protest at his treatment.

"He was trembling and sweating and the handcuffs made deep marks on his skin," his friend said.

Tate Naing of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners denounced the incident and accused the authorities of human rights abuses and illegal treatment of political prisoners.

Aung Zaw Oo was locked up in a dog kennel on 13 September as a punishment for staging a hunger strike calling for the immediate release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and genuine dialogue.

He stopped the hunger strike when he began vomiting blood and was admitted to hospital on 18 September.

Aung Zaw Oo, from the Shan State capital Taunggyi was arrested under article 13/1 of the Immigration Act for illegally crossing the border and article 6 of the Unlawful Associations Act.

He has previously been reported to be in poor health with a weak heart, and fainted twice while at Kyauktada township court for a hearing in March.

Oct 3, 2008 (DV–Mya Than Htike, a National League for Democracy youth member who was hit by a bullet when government troops opened fire on protestors last year, has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Kyauktada township court handed down the sentence of four years’ imprisonment with hard labour yesterday for gathering in a group of more than five people and not obeying orders to disperse, lawyer Aung Thein said.

"When the security forces opened fire to disperse the crowds, Mya Than Htike fell down and was left behind,” Aung Thein said.

“He insisted that he was hit while he was trying cross the street with three friends but was blocked by the crowd.”

Mya Than Htike was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment each for two charges – offences against the state or public tranquility under section 505(b) of the penal code and joining an unlawful assembly under section 145.

Mya Than Htike, from Thingangyun township, Rangoon, was shot in the thigh when troops fired into the crowds to disperse demonstrators in September last year.

He had been caught up in the crowd at the junction of Anawrahta road and 33rd street outside Shwe Loonpyan store.

The prosecution claimed he had been at the front of the crowd of protestors, but Mya Than Htike argued that he had been walking away from the scene with his back to the soldiers when he was shot.

He was arrested by the police while receiving treatment in hospital and sent to Insein prison.

U Aung Thein also said it was unfair to try Mya Than Htike on two different charges for the same offence.