ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အေမရိကန္စစ္သား ရွာေဖြေရး

၁၉၄၂ ခုႏွစ္က ျမန္မာျပည္ ေတာတြင္းတေနရာမွာ ေတြ႔ရတ့ဲ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္စတီး၀ဲလ္ နဲ႔ တပ္ဖဲြ႔၀င္မ်ား (ဓာတ္ပုံ - Getty Images)

ဒုတိယကမၻာစစ္အတြင္း ျမန္မာျပည္အတြင္း ေပ်ာက္ဆုံးခ့ဲတ့ဲ အေမရိကန္စစ္သားတုိ႔ရဲ႕ ရုပ္အေလာင္းေတြ ရွာေဖြေရး လုပ္ငန္းေတြ ျပန္အစျပဳဖုိ႔ အေမရိကန္က ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနပါတယ္။

ရွာေဖြေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြ လြန္ခ့ဲတ့ဲ ၈ ႏွစ္က ရပ္ထားခ့ဲတာပါ။

ဒီတပတ္မွာေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ ထိပ္တန္း စစ္အရာရိွတေယာက္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ေရာက္လာျပီး လုပ္ငန္းျပန္စေရး စကားေျပာခ့ဲပါတယ္။ အေမရိကန္ ျမန္မာ နွစ္နုိင္ငံ ဆက္ဆံေရး တုိးတက္လာလုိ႔ ဒီလုိ ေျပာနုိင္တာလည္း ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွာ ေသာၾကာေန႔က သြားေရာက္ ေဆြးေႏြးတ့ဲ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္အဖဲြ႔ကုိ ဦးေဆာင္သူကေတာ့ ကာကြယ္ေရးဌာန ဒုတိယ လက္ေထာက္ ၀န္ႀကီး (Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) Bob Newberry ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ရွာမေတြ႔ေသးတ့ဲ အေမရိကန္ အေရအတြက္က ၇၃၀ ၀န္းက်င္ ရိွမယ္၊ အမ်ားစုက ေလတပ္က ျဖစ္တယ္၊ ကမၻာစစ္အတြင္း ေတာထူထပ္ ေတာင္ထူထပ္တ့ဲ ေဒသေတြမွာ ေပ်ာက္သြားတာလုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။

ရွာေဖြေရးလုပ္ငန္းေတြအေရး သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ရဖို႔က ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြအျပီး ျဖစ္ေပၚလာဖြယ္ ရိွပါတယ္ တ့ဲ။

၂၀၀၃/၂၀၀၄ ရွာေဖြေရးလုပ္ငန္း ကာလေတြတုန္းကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္စစ္သား ရုပ္အေလာင္း ၇ ခုကုိ မည္သူမည္၀ါျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အတည္ျပဳနုိင္ခ့ဲပါတယ္။

တေန႔တုန္းက ကာကြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီးနဲ႔ ေဆြးေနြးတ့ဲအေၾကာင္း အစုိးရသတင္းထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္။
ဒီသတင္းမ်ဳိးကေတာ့ ထုံးစံအတုိင္း လူနာမည္ေတြပဲ ပါပါတယ္။ ေဆြးေႏြးတ့ဲအေၾကာင္းအရာ အေသးစိတ္ မပါပါ။

နယ္စပ္ေရးရာ ဒု၀န္ႀကီးနဲ႔ ညိွေနတ့ဲ Bob Newberry နဲ႔ အဖဲြ႔။
Bob Newberry ဟာ ကမၻာတလႊား ပဋိပကၡမ်ားမွာ ေပ်ာက္ဆုံးေနတ့ဲ အေမရိကန္မ်ားအေရး ေဆာင္ရြက္တ့ဲ ကာကြယ္ေရးဌာနရဲ႕လုပ္ငန္းေတြကုိ ဦးေဆာင္ရသူပါ တ့ဲ၊ အေမရိကန္အစုိးရ ကာကြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၀က္ဆုိက္မွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။

ညႊန္း - ေအပီသတင္း - US holds talks in Myanmar on recovery of soldiers
February 24, 2012|Matthew Pennington, Associated Press

The United States has taken the first step toward resuming the search for the remains of U.S. soldiers lost in Myanmar during World War II.

The search was suspended eight years ago, but improved U.S.-Myanmar relations have resulted in a senior military official holding talks on the issue in Myanmar this week.

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Bob Newberry led an interagency delegation to begin negotiations, a spokeswoman, Navy Cmdr. Leslie Hull-Ryde, said Friday.

Approximately 730 Americans remain unaccounted for in Myanmar, mostly U.S. air crews that went down in the rugged mountains and deep jungles of country’s north while flying supplies from India to China. The conflict ended in 1945.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged resumption of remains recovery when she made a landmark visit to Myanmar, also known as Burma, in December.

Washington is stepping up its engagement with the government in response to political changes after decades of military rule.

That process is likely to gain momentum if Myanmar conducts free and fair special elections in April in which democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is a candidate. The U.S. and other Western nations may then take steps to ease tough sanctions.

Newberry leads the Pentagon’s department on Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Affairs. Hull-Ryde had no details on this week’s discussions and who participated on the Myanmar side.

Seven soldiers’ remains were identified after U.S. recovery operations in 2003 and 2004, during what was a rare instance of cooperation with Myanmar’s military, which has a poor human rights record. Additional remains were recovered but have not yet been identified.

If recovery operations resume, it is unlikely to happen before next January, during the dry season in northern Kachin State, where most of the service members went missing.