Governor accused of race bias

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ မဟာခ်ဳိင္ ၿမိဳ ႕ စမူစာခြန္ခရိုင္တြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသား သိန္းႏွင့္ခ်ီေနထိုင္မႈ႕ေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာေရြ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ားႏွင့္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားအၾကာ ျပသနာမ်ားဟာ ေန႕စဥ္နဲ႕အမွ် ျဖစ္ေပၚေလ့ရွိသည္ အလုပ္ရွင္မ်ားရဲ႕ မတရားခိုင္ေစမႈ႕အျပင္ တစ္ခ်ဳိးထိုင္းလူမ်ဳိးမ်ားရဲ႕ လုယက္တိုက္ယူမႈ႕ကိုလည္း ခံေနခဲ့ရသည္ ။ သြားလာေနထိုင္ စားေသာက္လံုျခံဳမႈ႕တစ္ခ်က္မွ်မရွိ ရုန္းကန္ေနၾကရသည့္ဘ၀မွာ ရင္ေမာဖို႕ရာေကာင္းလွသည္။ ထိုကဲသို႕ေသာ ဘ၀မ်ားဟာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာထက္စာရင္ ပိုေကာင္းေသးတယ္ဟူ၍ပင္ ေျပာေသာသူမ်ားက ရွိေသး အေၾကာင္းမွာ ဖိနိပ္မႈ႕ အမ်ဳိးမ်ဳိး အဖံုဖံုကို ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား ေမြးကတည္းကခံစားလာၾကတယ္မဟုတ္လား ဒီေတာ့ အသားေသေနၿပီးျဖစ္တဲ့ ဖိႏွိပ္႕ခံဘ၀ေတြဟာ ဒီမွ်ေလာက္နဲ႕မေျပာပေလာက္ေတာ့ေခ် ။ ထိုကဲ့သိုေသာ ဘ၀မ်ားမွရသည္ ေခၽြးနည္းစာေငြေၾကမ်ားကိုပင္ အမိ့ဘာသာ သာသနာႏွင့္ လူသားကာကြယ္ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕သည္းမ်ားကိုတည္ေထာင္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္မွာ သာမန္လူမ်ားလုပ္ႏိုင္ မည္မဟုတ္ ထိုသို႕ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအခုလို စည္းစည္းလံုးလံုး ျဖစ္လာမွာကိုမလိုလား ေလေလာ ဒါမွမဟုတ္အျမင္က်ဥ္းေလေလာေတာ့မသိ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား စည္းစည္းလံုးလံုးနဲ႕ ဆင္ႏြဲေသာပြဲေတာ္မ်ားကို ခြင့္ျပဳမွာမဟုတ္ေၾကာင္းဆိုပီ စမူစာခြန္ ခရိုင္၀န္ႀကီးက အမိန္ထုတ္ျပန္လိုက္ျခင္းအေပၚ LPN (Labour Rights Promotion Network ) ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားလူေနမႈ႕အဆင့္ျမွင့္တင္ေရးအဖြဲ႕က ခုလိုတုန္႕ျပန္လိုက္တယ္ .......

Governor accused of race bias

Leading labour rights groups yesterday came down on the government for its policy of strictly controlling foreign workers after the Samut Sakhon governor sent a letter to all em-ployers in his province directing them to forbid migrants from holding cultural events.

Published on November 7, 2007

“The letter demonstrated the governor’s lack of cultural sensitivity, which when dealing with people from foreign countries,” said Sompong Sakaew, director of the Labour Rights Promotion Network.

Governor Verrayuth Yea-mampar- in his circular of October 26 to the Employment Office, employers and factory owners – said they should strictly manage and monitor their worker from Burma, Laos and Cambodia and not allow them to organize cultural ceremonies at any event at all.

“These activities should not be supported because it will make the community feel that these people are the owners of the community, and that could create security problems. It is against the government’s purpose for them to be just temporary workers,” he said.

Sompoang criticized the governor for his “racial prejudice”.

“There’s nothing wrong with foreign workers, just the government’s policy trying to control them. We’re pressing down on them by not allowing them to demonstrate their identity out of fear that they might dilute our culture. What’s diluting and what’s to be diluted?” he said.

Sompong wants the government to reconsider the policy. He said the government should thin positively, in that allowing migrant worker to celebrate their culture would strengthen Thai culture due to the similarity and relationship of their traditions and beliefs in the region.

“There are many Thai Mon residents who observe their Mon culture in Thailand. What’s the difference between cultural ceremonies put on by Thai Mon residents and those who are workers?” he asked.

Veerayuth was not immediately available for comment.

Manoon Punyakriyakorn, director – general of the Employment Department, distanced himself from the controversy, saying it was the mandate of the governor to regulate alien workers in his province.

Pennapa Hongthong

The Nation

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Unacceptable from all point of views such as labour right, racial right and human right

The letter from governor of Smaut Sarkhon (Mahachai) is unacceptable from all point of views such as labour right, racial right and human right. It is also unfair for the people from every single point of view. Governor should have wide vision for the long term. His order make relationship between Thai and other ethinic groups from south east asia region split seriously Moreover, his order destroyed

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ဘေလာ့မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားကိုလည္းမိမိတို႕ရဲ႕ လူ႕အခြင့္ေရးအျမင္ေပၚ ေရးသားေပပို႕ႏိုင္ပါတယ္ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္က အဂၤလိပ္လိုေရးပို႕ႏိုင္ရင္အေကာင္းဆံုး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္ ေရးပို႕သူရဲ႕ မူရင္ကိုအေလးထားစြာတင္ျပတားခ်င္လို႕ပါ ။