Global Post , By Patrick Winn, 28th December 2009
α‘ေααိαα္ႏွα့္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαုိα၏ αα္αံေαးαα္ ေႏြးေαြးေαာ ααα‘αာ ျααေααΏαီ αုိေαာ္αα္း ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαα္ α‘ေααိαα္ α‘α ုိးα၏ ျαα္းαα္ေαာ α‘ေαးαူ αိα္αုိααႈαို αံေαααဲ ျαα ္αါαα္။
ျαα္αာ α‘α ုိးα၏ αူαα‘αြα့္α‘ေαး α်ဳိးေαာα္αႈα်ားαုိ ျαα ္αα္ေαးေαာ α‘ေαျαα့္ α‘ေααိαα္ α‘α ုိးααα္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαြα္ αα္းႏွီး ျαႇဳα္ႏွံαα္ႏွα့္ ျαα္αာαα α₯α္းα်ား αα္αြα္းαα္ αြα့္αျαဳαဲ့ေα။ αုိαေαΎαာα့္ α‘ေααိαα္ αုိαα‘ေαျαα့္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαွ ႏွα ္αα္αြα္ ေαာα္းေαာ ααံαာαα်ား ျαα ္ေαာ αွားαါးေαာ αα ္α်ားႏွα့္ ေα်ာα္α ိα္းαုိααုိ αα္αူျαα္းαုိ αားျαα ္ αံαားααါαα္။ αα ္αα္းα‘ားျαα့္ α‘αုိαါ αα α₯α္းα်ားαုိ αα္αူျαα္းျαα့္ αိႏွိα္ေαာ α α ္α‘α ုိးααုိ ေαြေαΎαး ေαာα္αံ့ျαဳαာ ေαာα္αα္αု αုိျαα္းေαΎαာα့္ ျαα ္αα္။
αုိαေαာ္ α‘ေααိαα္ ႏုိα္αံαြα္ ααိေαာα α‘ေαာα္း αုိα္α ားαွα္α်ားαα္ ျαα္αာ့αα½ြα္းαα ္αုိ ေαΎαာ္ျαာ၍ ေαာα္းαα္ေααΎααα္။ ျαα္αာ့αα½ြα္းαα ္αα္ αွားαါးαΏαီး α‘αα္α‘ေαြး ေαာα္းαြα္αႈေαΎαာα့္ αျαα္းျαα္း ေα ်းαα္αာေααါαα္။ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံ၏ αာαα္αုိးေαΎαာα့္ α‘ေααိαα္αုိα၏ αα္းαΎαα္ေαာ α₯αေαα်ား α်αွα္αားေαာ္αα္း α‘ေααိαα္αုိααα္ Website αွαα ္αα့္ ျαα္αာ့ αα ္αာα်ားαုိ α‘αြα္ααူ αα္αူႏုိα္αဲαα္ ျαα ္αါαα္။
α‘αုိαါ α‘αα္α‘ေαြး ေαာα္းေαာ αα ္α်ားαα္ α α ္α‘α ုိးαα‘αြα္ α‘ααီးαားαံုး ေαြαေαါα္ααα္း ျαα ္αာ α‘αုိαါေαြα်ားျαα့္ αုိα့္αုိα္းျαα္αုိ ျαα္αΏαီး αိႏွိα္α်α္ αွိေααα္။
αΏαိαိα္ႏုိα္αံ၏ α‘ျαα္ααူαα့္ αုα္αα္း ααုα္αα့္ Global Witness ၏ α‘αုိα‘α αααα-αα αုႏွα ္αြα္ αα ္α‘α်ဳိးα်ဳိး αα္αုိα ေαာα္းαေαြαα္ αုိα္းျαα္၏ α αုαၳ α‘α်ားαံုး αုိααုα္αα္αုိး αွိαဲ့αα္αု αိαွိααါαα္။ α‘ာααိα၏ Blood Diamond α ိα္ ေαာα္းαα္ေαးαုိ αာαα္ေα်ာ္ေα‘ာα္ ျαဳαုα္ေαးαဲ့ေαာ ေαွαေαα‘αဲြα αα ္αုαα္ ျαα္αာ့αα ္ ေαာα္းαα္ေαးαုိ αα္αုိα္းαြားေα‘ာα္ ျαα္းျαα္းαα္αα္ αုα္ေαာα္α်α္ αွိαါαα္။
αုိαα‘ျαα္ αα ္α်ား αုα္αူαႈေαΎαာα့္ αα ္ေαာα်ား α်α္α ီးαΏαီး၊ ααα»ာေαααြα္ αα္αα္းα်α္αုိα္αာ αΏαိα္းေျαာα္αႈα်ား αွိαာေαΎαာα္း Global Witness αွ αα ္ေαာ αα½ြα္းα်α္αူ Jon Buckrell α αုိαါαα္။
ααု αααα αုႏွα ္ αီαα္αာααြα္ α‘ေααိαα္ αုααΈαီα်ားαα္ α‘α္αာαα္αြα္ "ျαα္αာ့αα ္" αူ၍ ေျαာα္α်α် ေαΎαာ္ျαာ၍ ေαာα္းα်αာαΎααါαα္။ ၎αုိααြα္ Floors To Go's α "Ulysses Burmese Teak" αုαα္းေαာα္း၊ Can Trust Hardwood α "Solid Burmese Teak" αူ၍ αα္းေαာα္း၊ Corona Hardwood α "Burma Mahogany" αူ၍ αα္းေαာα္း၊ ေαΎαာ္ျαာαဲ့αΎααါαα္။ α‘αုိαါ αုα္αα္းα်ားαုိα αွα္α်α္ေαးαα္ αα္αြα္αဲ့αာ Corana Hardwood αα ္αုααာ αံုαျαα္αဲ့αါαα္။ ၎α αα္αြα္းαူ Elegance Wood Flooring αုိ α‘αုိαါαα ္α်ား α‘αြα္ αူαα္းႏုိα္αံαုိ ေαးျαα္းαဲ့αါαα္။ α‘αုိαါ αα္αြα္းαူααα္း E-mail ျαα့္ ျαα္αΎαားαာαြα္ Burma Mahogany α‘αြα္ αα္αα့္ αွα္α်α္αွ် αေαးαဲ့ေα။ ၎α αူαα္းႏုိα္αံαုိ Web Site ၌ ေαΎαာ္ျαာαာαြα္ "Burma / Thiland" αု α‘αα္αα္αဲ့αα္။
ျαα္αာ့αα½ြα္းαα ္αα္ α αΎαာαα ာαြα္ α‘αွααံုးαα ္α‘ျαα ္ αုိααα္ ျαα ္αါαα္။ ၎αα္ α်α္α ီးျαα္း ααွိαဲ၊ α‘αα္α‘ေαြး α်αα္းαြားျαα္း ααွိαဲ၊ αုိးαဲ ေααဲαြα္ ααာαα‘αုိα္း αΎαာαွα္αံေαာαα ္ ျαα ္αါαα္။ ၎αုိ αΏαိαိαွ်αုိα၏ Colonial – era navy α αုိα္α‘ိα္α်ား ေαာα္αာαြα္ αုိαုိ α‘αံုးျαဳαΎααါαα္။ αα္αα္း αα့္ေαာ αα½ြα္းα်ားαုိ ααံαာα်ား၊ ααံαာαြα္ αားαွိαα့္ ααိေαာαα်ားႏွα့္ αြα္ေαွα်ား αα္ေαာα္αာαြα္ α‘αံုးျαဳαါαα္။ ျαα္αာ့αα½ြα္းαα ္αα္ αူα်α္းαာα်ားαာ α‘αံုးျαဳႏုိα္αα့္ αူαα္းα ား α‘αွα္α‘αားαα ္αု ျαα ္αါαα္။
α‘ေααိαα္၏ αα္ααα္ α₯αေαα‘α ျαα္αာαα ္α်ားαုိ αα္αြα္းျαα္းαို αိα္αα္αားေαာ္αα္း၊ αα္αြα္းαူα်ားαα္ α₯αေα၏ αာαြα္α်ားαုိ α‘αံုးα်αဲ့αΎααါαα္။
αααα αုႏွα ္αွ α ၍ α‘ေααိαα္ αααΌαα်ားαα္ Burma Freedom and Democracy Act αုိ ႏွα ္α α₯္ α‘αα ္ ျαα္αα္ α‘αα္ျαဳαΎααာαြα္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαွ αုα္αုα္ αွα္ααွ် αα္αြα္းαα္ αားαီး αိα္αα္αားαါαα္။
αုိα₯αေααုိ αα္αα ္αံုးျαား αုα္ႏုိα္αα္ α‘ေααိαα္ αα ္αုα္αα္းαွα္α်ားαα္ ျαα္αာαα ္α်ားαုိ ααုα္ႏုိα္αံαွ αα္αြα္းαΎααါαα္။ ααုα္ႏုိα္αံαα္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαွ αα ္αံုးα်ားαုိ αားα်ား ျαα့္ αα္α α္αွ αုα္αူαြားαΏαီး αဲြαားα်ားα‘ျαα ္ ေျαာα္းαဲαဲ့αΎααါαα္။
αုိαေαΎαာα့္ αြα္ααα္αα္ ααားααα္ αα ္α₯αေααုိ α‘ေαးα‘αα္ αားαΏαီး αြα္αဲ့αα့္ ႏွα ္αα ္αာေα်ာ္α αွိαဲ့ေαာ Lacey Act αုိ ျαα္αα္ျαα္းျαα့္ αိα‘ားေαးαဲ့αါαα္။ ααုα‘αါ α‘ေααိαα္ αုα္αα α₯α္း αα္αြα္းαူα်ားαα္ αα ္၏ αုα္αူαα့္ αူαα္းႏုိα္αံαုိ ေαာ္ျαααα္ ျαα ္αာ၊ α‘αα္၍ αူαα္းႏုိα္αံαα္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံ ျαα ္ေααါα α‘αုိαါ αα ္αα္αြα္းαူαα္ ααားααα္ ျαα ္αိα့္αα္ ျαα ္αါαα္။
αုိαေαာ္ αα ္αုိ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαွ αα ္ျαα ္ေαΎαာα္း αဲြျαား၍ ααႏုိα္ေα‘ာα္ ျαဳαုα္၍ αေαΎαာα္း α‘ေααိαα္ α ုိα္α်ဳိးေαးαာααွ ေျαာαြα့္α α‘α်ဳိးααီး Jessica Milteer α ေျαာαါαα္။
α‘αုိαါ ααားααα္αα ္α်ားαုိ αα္αြα္းေαΎαာα္း αာαα္αွိαူα်ားα αα္ေα ျαႏုိα္αα့္ α‘ေαα αူαα္၍ αα္ေαြ α‘ေααိαα္ ေαααာ αα α αွ αါးαိα္းα‘αိ ေαးေαာα္αႏုိα္αΏαီး α‘α်ဳိαα‘αႈα်ားαြα္ ေαာα္αα္ α်αံαႏုိα္αα္αု αုိαါαα္။
α‘αုိαါ ျαα္αα္α်α္αြα္ α‘ေααိαα္ αုα္αα α₯α္း αα္αြα္းαူα်ားαα္ ႏုိα္αံျαား αုိα္းျαα္α်ား၏ α‘αα္α်ားαုိ αာαြα္ ေα ာα့္ေαွာα္ေαာ α₯αေαα်ားαို α‘ေαးαားααα္ ျαα ္ေαΎαာα္း ေαာ္ျααားαါαα္။ αုိαေαΎαာα့္ α‘αα္၍ ααုα္ႏုိα္αံ α₯αေααြα္ αွားαါးေαာ ျαα္αာ αα ္αα္α်ား αα္αြα္းျαα္းαို αα္ααα္αားαα္αု αုိαွ်α္ α‘ေααိαα္ αုααΈαီα်ားααα္း α‘αုိαါαα ္αုိ αα္αြα္းျαα္းαွ αားျαα ္αံααα္ ျαα ္αα္αု αုိαုိျαα္း ျαα ္αါαα္။ Global Witness ၏ α‘αုိα‘α ααုα္ႏုိα္αံαα္ ေααု αα ္αα္းαႈα‘αြα္ ααုαျαဳαα့္ ႏုိα္αံ ျαα ္ေαာ္αα္း၊ ααားαα္ ႏွိα္ႏွα္းαႈα်ားα‘α α‘α်ဳိαေααα်ားαြα္ ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံαွ ααားααα္ αα ္αα္αြα္းαႈαုိ αα% αα္α ေα်ာ့α်ႏုိα္αဲ့αါαα္။
α‘ေααိαα္αုိαα‘ေαျαα့္αူ αα ္αα္αြα္းαူα်ားαို α‘αΏαီးαုိα္ α‘ေαးαူαα့္ α‘αα့္ α်α္αွိေααါေαးαα္။ α₯αေα α‘αα ္ααα္း αα္ေαာα္αႈ ααွိေαးαျαα့္ α‘ေααိαα္ αုိα္α ားαွα္α်ားαα္ α်α္αွိေαာ ျαα္αာαα ္α်ားαို αြα္αα္α ြာ ေαာα္းαα္α်α္ αွိေααΎααါေαးαα္။
α‘ေααိαα္ ႏုိα္αံျαားေαးαာαα ျαα္αာႏုိα္αံ၏ αααα ေαြးေαာα္αဲြေαΎαာα့္ α‘α်ဳိα α‘ေαးαူ αိα္αုိααႈα်ားαို ေျαေα်ာ့ေαးαα္ α‘ααံျαဳαားαါαα္။ αုိαေαာ္ ျαα္αာႏိုα္αံ၏ α‘αုိးαα္ αα ္ေαာα်ားαုိ αာαြα္ေαးေαာ α‘ေαျαα့္ ျαα္αာ့αα ္α်ားα‘ေαα αα္ααα္αားαႈα်ားαိုαူ αုα္αိα္းေαးαိα့္αα္ ααုα္ေα။ ျαα္αာ့αα ္ေαာα်ားαα္ αα ္αုα္αူαႈα်ား ααၱဳ αူးေαာ္αႈα်ားေαΎαာα့္ α်α္α ီးေααΏαီ ျαα ္αါαα္။
ျαα္းαα္ေαာ α₯αေαα်ားႏွα့္ αα½ြα္းαα ္ αα္αြα္းααႈ ေα်ာ့α်αာαα့္α‘αြα္ α‘ေααိαα္αြα္ αα½ြα္းα ုိα္α်ဳိးαα္ α αα္ ααိဳးα ားαာααΏαီ ျαα ္αါαα္။ α‘αူαိုα္း αာαီα₯αု αွိαα့္ α‘ေααိα α‘αα္αုိα္းႏွα့္ ေαာα္αုိα္းαုိααြα္ ေαါα္ေαာα္αါαα္။ αုိαေαာ္ α‘αုိαါαα ္αα္ α‘α်ဳိα αေαၤာ αα္ေαာα္αူα်ားႏွα့္ ααိေαာα α‘ေαာα္းαုိα္α ားαွα္α်ား၏ α‘αုိα‘α αα္αα္းαα့္ ျαα္αာ့ αα½ြα္းαα ္ α‘αα္α‘ေαြးαုိ αα္αုိααွ် ααွα₯္ႏုိα္ေαΎαာα္း αိαွိααါαα္။
--Yangon Chronicle αα္ ျαα္αာႏိုα္αံ α‘αြα္းαွိ αα္αူα်ား ေαါα္αα ုံ ααα္းαေα‘ာα္ ေαာ္ျαျαα္းαာ ျαα ္ျαီး αာαာျαα္ αိုေαာ္ျαα်α္ α‘ားαုံးαα္ αူαα္းαီαီαာ α်ား၏ α‘ာေαာ္αာ ျαα ္၍ Yangon Chronicle ၏ αေαာαား ααုα္αါေαΎαာα္း။
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