Myanmar junta vows to pursue democracy road map

YANGON: Myanmar's junta chief Than Shwe has vowed in his first public speech since the regime's bloody crackdown on protests to go ahead with the country's "road map" to democracy, state media said on Saturday.

Senior General Than Shwe also said the military had "always safeguarded the country" against any danger to the national interest, the official New Light of Myanmar newspaper quoted him as saying in an address on Friday.

It was his first public speech, delivered to a pro-junta civil group, since the deadly crackdown on protests in Yangon in late September.

Monasteries pass junta offerings to poor people

Four monasteries in Pakokku, Magwe division, which received government food donations have passed the offerings on to the poor and refused to give blessings to the officials.Monks from four lecturing monasteries in Pakokku – east, west, central and Bawde Mandi – said they wanted to show that they were continuing with their religious boycott against the regime.

A group of government officials led by the Magwe division Peace and Development Council chairman and the minister of electrical energy (2) visited the monasteries earlier this month to give offerings of rice to the monks.

The monastery head monks accepted the donations but would not give blessings to the officials in return.

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စစ္အစိုးရအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ေန႔ ညေနပိုင္းတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ သကၤန္းကြ်န္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ရွိ မဂၢင္ေက်ာင္း သံဃာေတာ္မ်ားကို အဓမၼ ဖိအားေပး၍ ေက်ာင္းမွခ်က္ခ်င္းထြက္ခြာ ခိုင္းေသာေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးႏွင့္ သံဃာေတာ္မ်ား သီတင္းသုံးေနထိုင္စရာ အခက္အခဲျဖစ္ေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ေက်ာင္းထိုင္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးကို ညေန ၄နာရီ ေက်ာ္တြင္ အထုပ္အပိုးမ်ား၊ ကိုရင္ေလး သံုးပါးႏွင့္အတူ သကၤန္းကြ်န္း ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၁၄ ၊ ၁၅ လမ္းဆံုထိပ္တြင္ ငုတ္တုတ္ထိုင္ေနၾကသည္ကိုေတြ႕ျမင္ၾကရၿပီး ရပ္ၾကည့္ေနသူမ်ားအား ၾကံ႕ဖြံ႕မ်ားႏွင့္ အရပ္၀တ္ရဲမ်ားက မၾကည့္႐ႈရန္ႏွင္ထုတ္ေၾကာင္း မ်က္ျမင္တဦးက ေျပာျပသည္။

“ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး ၾကည့္ရတာ သြားစရာေနရာ ရွိပံုမေပၚဘူးဗ်၊ ကိုရင္ေလးေတြနဲ႔ ျမင္ရတာ စိတ္မေကာင္းစရာပဲ၊ လမ္းထိပ္မွာ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး ထိုင္ေနတာပဲ နာရီ၀က္ေက်ာ္ေလာက္ၾကာတယ္၊ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ျပန္သြားတဲ့အခ်ိန္ထိ ဆရာေတာ္ၾကီး ထိုင္ေနတုန္းပဲ” ဟု အထက္ပါ ျမင္ေတြ႕ခဲ့ရသူက ေျပာျပသည္။