We are already old

၁၉၈၉ တိန္႕ရင္မင္ရင္ျပင္ ဆႏၵျပပြဲႀကီး တေျဖးေျဖး ႀကီးထြားလာတာကို ေၾကာက္လန္႕ေနတဲ့ တရုတ္အစိုးရက မာရွယ္ေလာထုတ္ဖို႕အတြက္ ၁၉၈၉ ေမလ ၁၈ ရက္ေန႕မွာ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ မဲခြဲၾကပါတယ္။ မဲခြဲတဲ့ေနရာက တိန္႕ေရွာင္ဖိန္ရဲ႕ အိမ္မွာပါ။ အဲဒီအခါမွာ သေဘာထားေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းတဲ့ တရုတ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္ တစ္ေယာက္တည္း ကန္႕ကြက္တဲ့ဘက္ကေန ရပ္တည္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္က အၾကမ္းမဖက္တဲ့ ေတြ႕ဆံုညိွႏိွဳင္းတဲ့ နည္းလမ္းေတြကိုပဲ သံုးေစခ်င္ခဲ့တယ္။ သူ႕ေအာက္ ရာထူးငယ္တဲ့ တရုတ္၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ လီဖုန္းကေတာ့ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ၿဖိဳခြဲခ်င္ေနတယ္။

၁၉၈၉ ေမလ ၁၉ ရက္ေန႕ မနက္ ၅ နာရီမွာ ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္က တိန္႕ရင္မင္ရင္ျပင္မွာ အစာငတ္ခံဆႏၵျပေနတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြဆီကို ကိုယ္တုိင္သြားေရာက္ၿပီး အစာငတ္ခံ ဆႏၵျပတာ ရပ္ေပးဖို႕ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲဒါကို တရုတ္ရုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားကေန တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုးကို လႊင့္ထုတ္ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တိန္႕ရင္မင္မွာ သူေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ စကားေတြက အခုခ်ိန္မွာေတာ့ ထင္ရွားတဲ့ သမိုင္း၀င္စကားေတြ ျဖစ္သြားပါတယ္။

"Students, we came too late. We are sorry. You talk about us, criticize us, it is all necessary. The reason that I came here is not to ask you to forgive us. All I want to say is that students are getting very weak, it is the 7th day since you went on hunger strike, you can't continue like this. As the time goes on, it will damage your body in an unrepairable way, it could be very dangerous to your life. Now the most important thing is to end this strike. I know, your hunger strike is to hope that the Party and the government will give you a satisfying answer. I feel that our communication is open. Some of the problem can only be solved by certain procedures. For example, you have mentioned about the nature of the incident, the question of responsibility, I feel that those problems can be resolved eventually, we can reach a mutual agreement in the end. However, you should also know that the situation is very complicated, it is going to be a long process. You can't continue the hunger strike for the 7th day, and still insist for a satisfying answer before ending the hunger strike.

You are still young, there are still many days yet to come, you must live healthy, and see the day when China accomplishes the four modernizations. You are not like us, we are already old, it doesn't matter to us any more. It is not easy that this nation and your parents support you to study in colleges. Now you are all about early 20's, and want to sacrifice lives so easily, students, can't you think logically? Now the situation is very serious, you all know, the Party and the nation is very antsy, the whole society is very worried. Besides, Beijing is the capital, the situation is getting worse and worse from everywhere, this can not be continued. Students all have good will, and are for the good of our nation, but if this situation continues, loses control, it will cause serious consequences at many places.

In conclusion, I have only one wish. If you stop hunger strike, the government won't close the door for dialogue, never! The questions that you have raised, we can continue to discuss. Although it is a little slow, but we are reaching some agreement on some problems. Today I just want to see the students, and express our feelings. Hopefully students will think about this question calmly. This thing can not be sorted out clearly under illogical situations. You all have that strength, you are young after all. We were also young before, we protested, lied our bodies on the rail tracks, we never thought about what will happen in the future at that time. Finally, I beg the students once again, think about the future calmly. There are many things that can be solved. I hope that you will all end the hunger strike soon, thank you."

အဲဒါလိုစကားမ်ိဳး လူျမင္ကြင္းမွာ ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္ ေျပာခဲ့ရမယ္ဆိုတာ ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္ ကိုယ္တုိင္ သိပါမလားပဲ။ တိန္ရင္မင္ရင္ျပင္ကို ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္ လာသြားၿပီးတဲ့ေနာက္ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္လီဖုန္းက မာရွယ္ေလာ ထုတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၁၉၈၉ ဇြန္လ ၄ ရက္ေန႕ တိန္႕ရင္မင္ရင္ျပင္မွာ ေသြးခ်င္းခ်င္းနီခဲ့ရတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းသား အေရးေတာ္ပံုႀကီးကို ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ၿဖိဳခြဲခဲ့တယ္။ တင့္ကားေတြနဲ႕ တက္က်ိတ္ခဲ့တယ္။ ေသဆံုးသူေပါင္း ၂၆၀၀ ရိွတယ္လို႕ တရုတ္ၾကက္ေျခနီက တရား၀င္ ေျပာခဲ့ေပမယ့္ ေနာက္ပိုင္းမွာေတာ့ အဲဒီေျပာၾကားခ်က္ကို ရုပ္သိမ္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဘာေမးေမး မသိဘူး မရိွဘူးပဲ လုပ္ေနခဲ့ပါေတာ့တယ္။ နီးရာဓါးကို ေၾကာက္ၾကရတာ ထံုးစံပါပဲ။

အဲဒီအေရးအခင္းႀကီးအၿပီးမွာ တရုတ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီအတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္ ေက်ာက္က်ိယန္ကို ရာထူးကေန အနားေပးၿပီး ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ခ်လိုက္ပါတယ္။ သူ႕ေနရာမွာ က်န္ဇီမင္းကို ခန္႕အပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူေနတဲ့ အိမ္ၿခံ၀င္းထဲကေန အျပင္ကို ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးေတြရဲ႕ ခြင့္ျပဳမိန္႕မရပဲ ထြက္ခြင့္မရတာ၊ ဧည္႕သည္ေတြကို လက္ခံေတြ႕ဆံုခြင့္မရတာ ေသသြားတဲ့ ၂၀၀၄ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလအထိပါပဲ။ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီရဲ႕ ခုနစ္ေယာက္ေျမာက္ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္၊ တတိယေျမာက္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ သူ႕ရဲ စ်ာပနအခမ္းအနားလည္း လူမသိ သူမသိ က်င္းပလိုက္ပါတယ္။

We are already old, it doesn't matter to us any more... ဆိုတာ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားတဲ့ စကားတစ္ခြန္းအျဖစ္ ေမာ္ကြန္းတင္ က်န္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ သူ႕ရဲ႕ေစတနာေတြကို သူေျပာတဲ့ စကားေတြထဲမွာ ျမင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ေၾသာ္... တိုင္းျပည္နဲ႕လူထုအေပၚမွာ ေစတနာထားၾကတဲ့ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ကံမေကာင္းတာ ထံုးစံတစ္ခုလို ျဖစ္ေနသလားဆိုတာ စဥ္းစားစရာပါပဲဗ်ာ။