ရွက္တတ္လို ့ ျမန္မာဆိုတဲ့ နံမည္ေတာင္..မျပရဲေအာင္ ျဖစ္ေနၾကျပီ။ ခပ္တည္တည္ နဲ့ အလွဴလက္ဖက္ ေၾကာင္ေတာင္ႏွိဳက္ရဲတဲ့ သံမဏိ မ်က္နွာ ပိူင္ရွင္ေတြ ကိုဘဲ ခ်ီးၾကဴးရမလား မေုကာတတ္ေပါင္ဗ်ာ. ဘယ္လို မိသားစုက မ်ား ဘယ္လိုသြန္သင္မွူေတြနဲ့မ်ား လူျဖစ္လာၾကတယ္မသိပါဘူး။။
ဒုကၡေရာက္ လို ့ တကမၻာလံုးက ၀ိုင္းလွဴၾကတဲ့အလွဴ၊ သာဓုေခၚပါဗ်ာ..ကိုယ္မလွဴနိူင္လည္းသူမ်ား လွဳတဲ့ ေစတနာ. မၾကင္နာေအာင္ လာရွဳပ္ေနတယ္။
ခုေတာ့ မလွဴတဲ့အျပင္..ခြက္ေစာင္းက လာခုတ္ေသး..နည္းနည္းေနာေနာလား.ေဒၚလာ $ 200 million မွာ.. $10 million ကို မရရေအာင္ တရား၀င္ FEC လဲလွယ္မွူနဲ့ ခိုးရဲတယ္ဆိုမွ..
မျမင္နိူင္တဲ့ က်ဴပ္တို ့ရဲ့ အခြန္ေငြ..သယံဇာတ..အားလံုး နအဖရဲ့ အိပ္ေထာင္ထဲဆီ..တိတ္တိတ္ကေလး ေခါင္းျမီးျခံဳထြက္သြားတာ အေသအခ်ာေပါ့။ ရွက္စရာပါဗ်ာ.ရွက္တတ္ၾကပါေစ။ ေပးတဲ့လူ ေစတနာ ေသေအာင္ မလုပ္ပါနဲ့ နအဖ..
မင္း ေသာက္သံုးမက်ရင္..ပါးစပ္ပိတ္ ေဘးထြက္ထိုင္ေန။
Millions In Aid For Myanmar Disappears
By: Sam Harari, The Bulletin , 07/30/2008
United Nations - On Monday, the U.N.'s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said about $10 million sent to aid cyclone victims in Myanmar has been absorbed via an inequitable exchange rate.
He did not rule out the possibility that the funds are being deliberately skimmed by the country's ruling military junta.
What ever the cause, there is room for error because currency given by relief agencies must first be traded for foreign exchange certificates (FEC) before they are converted by traders to Myanmar currency, the kyat.
When the certificates are exchanged for kyats, the U.N. reported it has ben losing up to 25 percent, although the average has been about 15 percent.
Mr. Holmes explained that roughly a third of approximately $200 million so far spent by U.N. agencies in Myanmar had been used to buy local products and services. He estimated $10 million had been lost on the trades.
"Clearly this is a significant problem in terms of the loss generated in terms of the dollar and that's why we've raised it with the government now," Mr. Holmes said, adding that the government had promised to work with the U.N. to find a practical solution.
"We are pressing them very hard to do that."
As for the impact on relief efforts, the exchange margin only affected money spent locally, not imported goods or international staff salaries. The United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had calculated that the exchange rate affected perhaps only about one-third of total aid expenditure.
"So the losses are significant, but not absolutely gigantic ... still, it's a significant problem that needs to be addressed," Mr. Holmes said.
The question remains as to who actually benefited from the exchange rates, and the ruling junta of Myanmar has yet to be ruled out as the beneficiary.
Since the junta's officials oversee the currency traders and banks, it is speculated that key personnel lined their pockets with money meant to help disaster victims.
When asked why OCHA had not mentioned the problem during the revised appeal for more aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, Mr. Holmes responded that when OCHA had presented the revised appeal, officials had not been aware of the extent of the loss.
"If we had known it at that time, maybe it would have been better to include it in the appeal," Mr. Holmes said.
"Perhaps we were a bit slow to recognize - because the spread suddenly widened in June - how big a problem this was going to become for us," Mr. Holmes said.
Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on May 2, with 84,000 confirmed dead, 20,000 injured and 53,000 still missing.
The cyclone caused an estimated $11 billion worth of damage, according to the government of Myanmar.
In its immediate aftermath, the military junta refused international aid.
Later, it agreed to foreign relief under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supervision.
The government of Myanmar is notorious for human rights abuses with its iron fist policies. Forced labor, land grabs, torture and rape are common military tactics, often targeting ordinary civilians going about their daily affairs.
The U.N. requested a total of $481 million to assist the survivors of the most devastating cyclone in Myanmar's recorded history. So far donor governments have provided slightly less than $200 million.
"We're against any waste of resources that taxpayers around the world and member states provide to meet the needs of people around the world," U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad, said. "We also do not want any diversion of it to unintended goals, and that applies 0to this case."
The Bush administration has spent $47.2 million so far on assistance to Myanmar.
ဒုကၡေရာက္ လို ့ တကမၻာလံုးက ၀ိုင္းလွဴၾကတဲ့အလွဴ၊ သာဓုေခၚပါဗ်ာ..ကိုယ္မလွဴနိူင္လည္းသူမ်ား လွဳတဲ့ ေစတနာ. မၾကင္နာေအာင္ လာရွဳပ္ေနတယ္။
ခုေတာ့ မလွဴတဲ့အျပင္..ခြက္ေစာင္းက လာခုတ္ေသး..နည္းနည္းေနာေနာလား.ေဒၚလာ $ 200 million မွာ.. $10 million ကို မရရေအာင္ တရား၀င္ FEC လဲလွယ္မွူနဲ့ ခိုးရဲတယ္ဆိုမွ..
မျမင္နိူင္တဲ့ က်ဴပ္တို ့ရဲ့ အခြန္ေငြ..သယံဇာတ..အားလံုး နအဖရဲ့ အိပ္ေထာင္ထဲဆီ..တိတ္တိတ္ကေလး ေခါင္းျမီးျခံဳထြက္သြားတာ အေသအခ်ာေပါ့။ ရွက္စရာပါဗ်ာ.ရွက္တတ္ၾကပါေစ။ ေပးတဲ့လူ ေစတနာ ေသေအာင္ မလုပ္ပါနဲ့ နအဖ..
မင္း ေသာက္သံုးမက်ရင္..ပါးစပ္ပိတ္ ေဘးထြက္ထိုင္ေန။
Millions In Aid For Myanmar Disappears
By: Sam Harari, The Bulletin , 07/30/2008
United Nations - On Monday, the U.N.'s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes said about $10 million sent to aid cyclone victims in Myanmar has been absorbed via an inequitable exchange rate.
He did not rule out the possibility that the funds are being deliberately skimmed by the country's ruling military junta.
What ever the cause, there is room for error because currency given by relief agencies must first be traded for foreign exchange certificates (FEC) before they are converted by traders to Myanmar currency, the kyat.
When the certificates are exchanged for kyats, the U.N. reported it has ben losing up to 25 percent, although the average has been about 15 percent.
Mr. Holmes explained that roughly a third of approximately $200 million so far spent by U.N. agencies in Myanmar had been used to buy local products and services. He estimated $10 million had been lost on the trades.
"Clearly this is a significant problem in terms of the loss generated in terms of the dollar and that's why we've raised it with the government now," Mr. Holmes said, adding that the government had promised to work with the U.N. to find a practical solution.
"We are pressing them very hard to do that."
As for the impact on relief efforts, the exchange margin only affected money spent locally, not imported goods or international staff salaries. The United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had calculated that the exchange rate affected perhaps only about one-third of total aid expenditure.
"So the losses are significant, but not absolutely gigantic ... still, it's a significant problem that needs to be addressed," Mr. Holmes said.
The question remains as to who actually benefited from the exchange rates, and the ruling junta of Myanmar has yet to be ruled out as the beneficiary.
Since the junta's officials oversee the currency traders and banks, it is speculated that key personnel lined their pockets with money meant to help disaster victims.
When asked why OCHA had not mentioned the problem during the revised appeal for more aid to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, Mr. Holmes responded that when OCHA had presented the revised appeal, officials had not been aware of the extent of the loss.
"If we had known it at that time, maybe it would have been better to include it in the appeal," Mr. Holmes said.
"Perhaps we were a bit slow to recognize - because the spread suddenly widened in June - how big a problem this was going to become for us," Mr. Holmes said.
Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar on May 2, with 84,000 confirmed dead, 20,000 injured and 53,000 still missing.
The cyclone caused an estimated $11 billion worth of damage, according to the government of Myanmar.
In its immediate aftermath, the military junta refused international aid.
Later, it agreed to foreign relief under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supervision.
The government of Myanmar is notorious for human rights abuses with its iron fist policies. Forced labor, land grabs, torture and rape are common military tactics, often targeting ordinary civilians going about their daily affairs.
The U.N. requested a total of $481 million to assist the survivors of the most devastating cyclone in Myanmar's recorded history. So far donor governments have provided slightly less than $200 million.
"We're against any waste of resources that taxpayers around the world and member states provide to meet the needs of people around the world," U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Zalmay Khalilzad, said. "We also do not want any diversion of it to unintended goals, and that applies 0to this case."
The Bush administration has spent $47.2 million so far on assistance to Myanmar.
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