ျမန္မာ့အေရး ႏွစ္ရွည္ေဆာင္ရြက္လာသူ ကေနဒါရဲ႕ အျမင့္ဆံုးႏိုင္ငံသားဆု ရရိွ
2011-09-17
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းသူ ကေနဒါႏိုင္ငံသားတဦးကို ကေနဒါအစိုးရက "The Order of Canada" ေခၚ အျမင့္ဆံုးႏိုင္ငံသားဆုကို မေန႔က ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ ေပးအပ္လိုက္ပါတယ္။၁၉၉၁ ခုႏွစ္မွာ Canadians Friends of Burma (CFOB) ေခၚ "ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ မိတ္ေဆြမ်ား ကေနဒါႏိုင္ငံ" အဖဲြ႔ကို စတင္ တည္ေထာင္သူတဦး ျဖစ္တဲဲ့ မစၥတာ Paul Copeland ကို ကေနဒါႏုိင္ငံ Ottawa ၿမိဳ႕မွာ မေန႔က မနက္က အခမ္းအနားနဲ႔ ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့တာပါ။
ဒီဆုကို နယ္ပယ္အသီးသီးမွာ ေစတနာနဲ႔ တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္ ေနၾကတဲ့ ဆရာဝန္ေတြ၊ ေရွ႕ေနေတြ၊ သိပၸံပညာရွင္ေတြ အပါအဝင္ စုစုေပါင္း ၄၅ ဦးကို ဂုဏ္ျပဳ ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ခဲ့တာပါ။ ဆုရရိွသူ မစၥတာ Paul Copeland က မိမိအေနနဲ႔ အလြန္ပဲ ဝမ္းသာဂုဏ္ယူမိပါတယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
သူဟာ ကေနဒါအစိုးရရဲ႕ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆိုင္ရာ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးမူဝါဒ ခ်မွတ္ရာမွာ အျမဲတမ္းလိုလို အၾကံ ေပးေလ့ရိွၿပီး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံက ဒီမုိကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကိစၥေတြကို တစိုက္မတ္မတ္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနသူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အာအက္ဖ္ေအ အဖြဲ႔သား ကိုဝင္းႏိုင္ရဲ႕ တင္ျပခ်က္ကို နားဆင္ႏိုင္ပါတယ္။
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Governor General of Canada bestowed the honour on Canadian Campaign for Free Burma (CC4FB) founding member Paul Copeland
September 18, 2011
Founding member of the Canadian Campaign for Free Burma; and Canada’s renowned human rights and criminal lawyers Paul Copeland received the Order of Canada on Friday, September 16, 2011 for his efforts in relation to social justice and human rights.
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, presided over an Order of Canada investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall, Ottawa. The Governor General, who is chancellor and Principal Companion of the Order bestowed the honour on Paul Copeland and 44 other recipients into the Order of Canada.
The Office of the Governor General mentioned Mr. Copeland brief bio as follow:
Paul D. Copeland, C.M.
Toronto, Ontario
Member of the Order of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
Member of the Order of Canada
Paul Copeland is a strong proponent of social justice and a defender of the disadvantaged. A lawyer specializing in criminal and national security defence, he played a key role in the creation of the Law Union of Ontario, which uses the law as an instrument of social change. A life bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, he has served as vice-chair of its Legal Aid Committee and as chair of its Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee. He has also been strongly involved with the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted. As well, he is an advocate for democracy in Myanmar, helping to lead such groups as the Canadian Campaign for Free Burma.
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