ဝီကီ…. ဝီကီ….

ေျမာက္ဝန္ရိုးစြန္းမွာ ေအးလိုက္တာ မေျပာပါနဲ႕ေတာ့.. မေဗဒါတို႕ ၿမိဳ႕ကေလးက မိုးလင္းတာနဲ႕ အႏုတ္ … ၂၃ နဲ႕ ဆီးႀကိဳေနပါတယ္.. အလုပ္ကို သြားခ်င္သည္ျဖစ္ေစ မသြားခ်င္သည္ျဖစ္ေစ.. သြားရသလို ကေလးမ်ားကိုလည္း အတင္းမ်က္လံုးျပဴးေအာင္ ႏိုးရပါတယ္..။ အျပင္ၾကည့္လိုက္ရင္ ေမွာင္မဲေနသလို.. ေရခဲအမွတ္ေအာက္ ကိုေရာက္ေနေတာ့ စိတ္က ဘယ္လိုမ်ိဳးရြင္လန္းႏိုင္ပါ့မလဲ.. ဒီၾကားထဲ ဘဝရဲ႕ အျခားေသာ ကိစၥမ်ားကလည္း ရွိေသးသမို႕ ရူးသြပ္သြပ္ျဖစ္ခ်င္ေနတဲ့ စိတ္ကို ထိမ္းခ်ဳပ္ေနရပါတယ္..။ အခုတေလာ ေခတ္စားေနတဲ့ သတင္းေလးေတာ့ ၾကည့္ျဖစ္တာမို႕… ဒီကိစၥမွာ အဖမ္းခံရတဲ့ (အာဆန္း )နဲ႕ သူ႕လို လုပ္ေနသူေတြ အတြက္ တခုခု လုပ္ေပးႏိုင္ရင္ ေကာင္းမယ္လို႕ ေတြးရင္းေတာတုန္း… ဝင္လာတဲ့ အီးေမးေလးကို ျပန္လည္ျဖန္႕ေဝပါတယ္… ။

တိုင္းျပည္မ်ားရဲ႕ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ သတင္းမ်ားကို ျဖန္႕ေဝတယ္ တနည္း ေပါက္ၾကားေစတဲ့ လူမ်ားကို အၾကမ္းဖက္တဲ့ အဖဲြ႕မ်ားရယ္လို႕ အမည္တပ္ၿပီး မတရားလိုက္လံဖမ္းဆီးေနတာေတြ စတင္ေနပါၿပီ...။ ျဖစ္သင့္တာကေတာ့… ေအာက္လမ္းနည္း မပါပဲနဲ႕ သက္ဆိုင္ရာ တရားဥပေဒအရ အေရးယူရမွာလို႕ ယံုၾကည္ပါတယ္ ..။ ပါဝင္ပတ္သက္ေနသူမ်ားကို ႏွိမ္ႏွင္းဖို႕ အေမရိကန္ ဆရာႀကီးမ်ားက ေျပာေနတယ္လို႕ သတင္းမ်ားအရ နားလည္ထားပါတယ္..။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ မူရင္း တာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားကို မေဖာ္ထုတ္ပဲ.. ဝီကီမွာ ဝါသနာအရ လုပ္ေနသူေတြကို အခုလို လက္လြတ္စလြယ္ ဖမ္းၿပီး တခုခုလုပ္မွာကို မလိုလားတာေတာ့ အမွန္ပါ..။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အာဏာရွိသူမ်ား မတရားဖမ္းဆီးခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္မွာကို လက္မခံဘူးဆိုသူမ်ား ေအာက္မွာ ပါတဲ့ စာသားေလးကို ဖတ္ၿပီးလို႕ သေဘာတူခဲ့ရင္ … ေထာက္ခံေၾကာင္း… အားေပးေစခ်င္ပါတယ္..။ မေဗဒါ ကေတာ့ သေဘာတူတဲ့အတြက္ ဆိုင္းထိုးလိုက္ပါၿပီ… ။ အဂၤလိပ္လို အဆင္မေျပသူမ်ားကို အဓိကေရးထားတာ ေျပာျပခ်င္ပါတယ္..။ အခုလို မတရားအတင္းအဓမၼ ဖမ္းဆီးၿပီး သတ္ျဖတ္ဖို႕ အထိ လုပ္မွာကို မလိုလားသလို ထိုက္သင့္သလို ဥပေဒေၾကာင္း အရ အေရးယူသင့္တဲ့ ကိစၥအျဖစ္ ရူျမင္တာ ရယ္… ဒီမိုကေရစီမွာ ဒီလို သတင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ ကိစၥဟာ အေရးႀကီးတယ္ အကာအကြယ္ေပးသင့္တယ္လို႕ ဆိုလိုပါတယ္..။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အာဏာပိုင္ေတြရဲ႕ အတင္းအဓမၼ မတရားလုပ္ရပ္မ်ားကို ရပ္တန္႕ဖို႕ လူအမ်ားရဲ႕ ေထာက္ခံမႈကို ဖိတ္ေခၚျခင္းပါ..။ အေပၚစာပိုဒ္ ဘက္မွာ ေတြ႕ရတဲ့ အစိမ္းေရာင္ စာတန္းေလးကို ႏွိပ္ၿပီး Avaaz မွာ အဖဲြ႕ဝင္မဟုတ္တဲ့ သူေတြအတြက္ ပထမအႀကိမ္ေအာက္မွာ… အမည္…. အီးေမး… စာတိုက္ပံုးနဲ႕ ႏိုင္ငံေလးထည့္ၿပီး .. …( send) ကို ႏွိပ္လိုက္ရုံပါပဲ.. ။ အားေပးၾကပါအံုး… ဝီကီေလးကို…။

တကယ္ေတာ့လည္း… ဝီကီသတင္းက ေဟာလီးဝုဒ္က မယ္ေရြ ကိုေရြ သတင္းမ်ားေလာက္ စိတ္ဝင္စားတာေတာ့ မဟုတ္ၾကပါဘူး… ဒါေပမဲ့လည္းေပါ့ေလ…… အာဏာရွိသူမ်ား စိတ္ပူတဲ့ သတင္း ျဖစ္ေနတာေတာ့အမွန္ပါပဲ..။

မေဗဒါ
၀၈.၁၂.၂၀၁၀

Dear friends,

The chilling intimidation campaign by governments and corporations on WikiLeaks is an attack on freedom of the press and democracy. We urgently need a massive public outcry to stop the crackdown -- let's get 1 million voices this week!

Whatever we think of WikiLeaks, the massive campaign of intimidation against it is sending a chill through free speech and media advocates everywhere.
Top US politicians have called WikiLeaks a terrorist organization and suggested assassination of its staff, and the organization has come under massive government and corporate attack to shut it down. But WikiLeaks is only publishing information passed to them by a whistleblower. And they're partnered with the world's top newspapers (NYT, Guardian, Spiegel) to carefully remove information that is not in the public interest.

If WikiLeaks has broken laws there should be legal action against them. But the massive extra-judicial intimidation is an attack on democracy itself. Right now, dozens of governments and corporations are being pressured to join the crackdown -- we urgently need to take a stand for freedom of the press and expression. Sign the petition to stop the crackdown and forward this email to everyone -- let's get 1 million voices this week!

http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?vl

WikiLeaks isn't acting alone -- it's partnered with the top newspapers in the world (New York Times, Guardian, Der Spiegel etc) to carefully review 250,000 US diplomatic cables and remove any information that it is irresponsible to publish. Only 800 cables have been published so far. Past wikiLeaks publications have exposed government-backed torture, the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, and corporate corruption.

The US government is currently trying all legal avenues it has to stop wikiLeaks from publishing more cables, but the laws of democracies protect freedom of the press. The US and other governments may not like the laws that protect our freedom of expression, but that's exactly why it's so important that we have them, and why only a democratic process can change them.

Reasonable people can disagree on whether WikiLeaks is releasing more information than the public should see, whether it undermines diplomatic confidentiality and whether that's a good thing. Whether its founder Julian Assange has the personal character of a hero or a villain. But none of this justifies a vicious campaign of intimidation to silence a legal media outlet by governments and corporations. Click below to join the call to stop the crackdown:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/wikileaks_petition/?vl

The crackdown on Wikileaks has involved intimidation and threats to the staff, massive hacker attacks to shut down the website, multiple lawsuits, corporate decisions by Amazon, Visa, Mastercard, Paypal to cut services to the organization. The founder's assets have been seized in Switzerland and he is now one of Interpol's most wanted criminals in the world. These are more severe international measures than have been taken against some of the worst genocidal dictators and war criminals in our world today.

Ever wonder why the media so rarely gives the full story of what happens behind the scenes? This is why - because when they do, governments can be vicious in their response. And when that happens, it's up to the public to stand up for our democratic rights to a free press and freedom of expression. Never has there been a more vital time for us to do so.

With hope,
Ricken, Emma, Alex, Alice, Maria Paz and the rest of the Avaaz team.