Narinjara news
1) ARAKAN STATE AFTER RECENT POWER
STRUGGLE IN RANGOON
2)
Sittwe, 12th March 02: Since 8th March when General Kyaw Win declared the arrest of old
dictator Ne Win's son-in-law and three grandsons, there has been a lot of
speculations among the intelligentsia and general populace of Arakan (Rakhine State) in the western part of Burma (Myanmar).
The life in the capital of the state, Sittwe (Akyab), is normal and many of the residents
who can afford to hoard essential items of food like rice, are going on a
shopping spree, fearing an abnormal increase in the price.
A well-known lawyer in the area said that, the power struggle among the Burmese
dictators is nothing new because there have been dozens of such incidents of
purges in the Burmese army since the country went under military dictatorship
beginning with Bo Ne Win who introduced Burmese
socialism in 1962, taking the once-flourishing country down to the road of
whimsical rule and bankruptcy in just 26 years, institutionalising military
dictatorship. These purges prove that the Burmese dictators though
hollering day and night for the solidarity of the countrymen who are comprised
of various nationalities, are in fact deeply divided among themselves and the
power struggle among them has become a chronic disease from which there is no
outlet, and which has always taken the country to economic chaos and
administrative bigotry.
Besides, a businessman added that, the present State Peace and Development
Council junta is trying to befool the people and the international community by
resorting to this game of purges in the military command structure, trying to
eliminate the remnants of the Bo Ne Win dynasty, without taking up meaningful
steps to restore democracy and human rights the
dearest aspiration of the people of Burma.
Our correspondent added that the air in Sittwe is
ripe with rumours and various expectations, but none to be happy about, like
administrative shake-up and witch-hunting to prove the 'correctness' of the
moves taken up by the present Burmese junta. For now the road to
democracy and restoration of human rights has once taken a more complicated
twist. #
BANGLADESH TO WORK ON
TRANS-ASIAN HIGHWAY TO CONNECT BURMA
Chittagong, March 11th: Bangladeshi Foreign
Minister, M Morshed Khan has said in
The Foreign Minister while addressing a prize-distribution ceremony in a school
in the city as chief guest said that, the highway will connect