တရားခြင္၌ အမ်ားျပည္သူ ၾကားနာခြင့္ျပဳရန္ ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသား ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ေတာင္းဆို

88 Gen students on trial inside prison

-ေဒါင္းမာန္ဟုန္-

ကိုျမေအး၊ ကိုၿပံဳးခ်ဳိ၊ ကိုဂ်င္မီ၊ ကိုကိုႀကီး၊ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ ကိုေဌးႂကြယ္၊ ကိုအံ့ဘြယ္ေက်ာ္
၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက ႐ံုးထုတ္ရာတြင္ လက္ထိပ္မခတ္ရန္၊ တရားခြင္၌ မိသားစုအပါအ၀င္ အမ်ား ျပည္သူႏွင့္ သတင္းမီဒီယာမ်ားၾကားနာခြင့္ကို ေတာင္းဆိုရန္ရွိသည္ဟု ၎တို႔၏အမႈမ်ားကို လိုက္ပါေဆာင္႐ြက္ေနသည့္ ေရွ႕ေနႀကီး ဦးေအာင္သိန္းက ဧရာ၀တီကို ေျပာသည္။“သူတို႔မွာ (၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား) နဂိုကတည္းက အဲဒီအစီအစဥ္ရွိတယ္ဆိုတဲ့အေၾကာင္း မိသားစုေတြ ေထာင္ ၀င္စာသြားေတြ႔စဥ္ကတည္းက တခ်ိဳ႕ျပန္ေျပာျပတာေတြရွိတယ္၊ အခုေတာ့ တရား႐ံုးတင္ရင္ တရား၀င္ေတာင္းေပးဖို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကို တိုက္တြန္းမယ္ေပါ့။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကလည္း သူတို႔ရဲ႕ ညႊန္ၾကားခ်က္အရ တရား႐ံုးကို တင္ျပေပးမွာပါ” ဟု ဦးေအာင္သိန္းက ရွင္းျပသည္။

ယခုလ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔က ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားအဖြဲ႔၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအပါအ၀င္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္ ၃၀ ေက်ာ္ကို တႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ ၾကာေအာင္ ဖမ္းဆီးထားခဲ့ၿပီးမွ ပထမအႀကိမ္ ႐ံုးထုတ္ခဲ့သည္။ ထိုသို႔ ႐ံုးထုတ္ျခင္းကို ကာယကံရွင္မ်ား ႀကိဳတင္မသိထား သကဲ့သို႔ မိသားစု၀င္မ်ားကိုလည္း အာဏာပိုင္တို႔က အေၾကာင္းၾကားျခင္း မရွိေပ။

ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ ကိုကိုႀကီး၏ ညီျဖစ္သူ ကိုေအာင္ထြန္းက “က်ေနာ္တို႔မိသားစုကို အေၾကာင္းၾကားတာ မရွိဘူး … အဲဒီေန႔က ပံုမွန္ေထာင္၀င္စာေတြ႔တဲ့ေန႔ေပါ့၊ မနက္ပိုင္း သြားေတြ႔ခဲ့တယ္။ ႐ံုးထုတ္သြားတယ္ဆိုတာကို ေနာက္မွသိရတာ။ အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ေရွ႕ေနေတြကိုလည္း ေပးမေတြ႔ဘူးလို႔ ၾကားတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

ေရွ႕ေနႀကီး ဦးေအာင္သိန္းကလည္း “႐ံုးထုတ္တဲ့လူေတြအကုန္ေတာ့ အတိအက်မသိဘူး။ ေဟာခန္းထဲမွာ စုထားၿပီးေတာ့ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အလိုက္ အမႈဖိုင္ေတြ လုပ္တာထင္တယ္။ လာမယ့္ ၂ ရက္၊ ၅ ရက္နဲ႔ ၈ ရက္ေတြမွာ ႐ံုးခ်ိန္းရွိတယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။

၎တို႔အားစြဲဆိုထားသည့္ ဥပေဒပုဒ္မမ်ားကိုမသိရေသးေသာ္လည္း တဦးခ်င္းစီကို ပုဒ္မအမ်ားအျပား တပ္ထားၿပီး အီလက္ ထ႐ြန္းနစ္ပစၥည္းမ်ား ပါ၀င္သည့္အမႈမ်ားကို ၾကမ္းခင္းအားျဖင့္ ၁၅ ႏွစ္အထိ အမိန္႔ခ်ႏိုင္သည္ဟုလည္း ဦးေအာင္သိန္းက ေျပာသည္။ ၎အျပင္ ယခုရင္ဆိုင္ေနရသည့္ တရား႐ံုးသည္ အမိန္႔ခ်မွတ္ရာတြင္ အျပစ္ဒဏ္ကို တေပါင္းတည္းခ်မွတ္မည္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ သီးျခားခ်မွတ္ေလ့ရွိသည္ဟုလည္း ဆက္ေျပာသည္။
၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား၏ အမႈမ်ားကို အတိုက္အခံေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ ေရွ႕ေန မ်ားျဖစ္ၾကသည့္ ဦးၾကည္၀င္း၊ ဦးေအာင္သိန္းႏွင့္ ဦးဉာဏ္၀င္းတို႔က လိုက္ပါေဆာင္႐ြက္လ်က္ ရွိသည္။

ဧရာဝတီ

88 Gen students on trial inside prison

Phanida
ၾMizzima News
Friday, 29 August 2008 22:54

Chiang Mai – A total of 35 student leaders of the 88 Generation Students were produced for trial inside Rangoon's notorious Insein prison for the first time on Wednesday.

The student leaders, who were arrested and detained since August last year, have been continuously remanded on different charges under various sections.

"The hearing has not yet started. The accused have been brought to court. This is the time they are being produced in court," lawyer Aung Thein, who has been following the case closely, said.

Aung Thein said, the student leaders have demanded for a free and open trial, according to international standards, allowing media to be present at the court, and requested not to handcuff them during the court proceedings.

"On Wednesday, I visited the prison and came back at about noon. Then I heard that over 30 accused were brought to court at about 3 p.m. the same day. Their judicial remand is due on that day," a family member of Ko Ko Gyi, one of the student leaders, said.

Reportedly, lawyers Kyi Win, Nyan Win and Aung Thein will act as the defence counsels for most of these student leaders.

Besides, a few other lawyers will also defend Saw Myo Min Hlaing a.k.a. James, Nyan Lin and Min Han from among the 88 Gen students, another lawyer Pho Phyu said.

The 35 accused that were produce before the court today were student leaders Min Ko Naing, Ko Ko Gyi, Pyone Cho, Jimmy, Mya Aye, Min Zeya, Aunt Phwe Kyaw, Kyaw Kyaw Htwe, Panneik Tun, Thet Zaw, Nyan Lin Tun and Zaw Zaw Min. All them were arrested in August 2007, after marching in protest against the sudden hike in fuel and commodity prices.

"I learnt that there are even women and 28 men among the 35 accused brought to court on Wednesday. We will know in detail on Monday," a man who visited the prison said.

The 88 Gen students were remanded with a new case under section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act last July. The student leaders were remanded under section 17/20 of the Printers and Publishers Act and later they were remanded with new cases under Law No. 5/96 (Endangering National Convention), section 33(a) of the Electronic Act.

If convicted, the student leaders will face up to three years in prison under section 17(1) of the Unlawful Associations Act, five to 15 years in prison under 'Endangering the National Convention Law' (Law No. 5/96) and five to 15 years under section 33(a) of the Electronic Law, another advocate Khin Maung Shein, who also follow on the case, said.

Min Ko Naing and 13 other student leaders had spent at least 10 years in prison in their previous prison terms.

Meanwhile, Burma's prominent comedian Thura a.k.a. Zarganar and Reverend abbot Ashin Gambira were also produced before the court on Thursday inside the Insein prison but the trial was fixed for September 4, as the judges fail to turn up, Khin Maung Shein said.

"The judges had a meeting yesterday and could not hear the case. So comedian Zarganar cracked jokes in court all day and they were taken back in the evening," a friend of Zarganar, who was present at the court, said.

Nyan Win, spokesperson of Burma's main opposition party – National League for Democracy – said, "This is a continuous crackdown on political activists and the NLD. It is clear that they are continuing with their repression."