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Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
In Burma, SNLD (Shan National League for Democracy) resists junta's plans to change names of states to "neutral names"
Diasporas, Identities, Nationalities - "Going Home to a Landscape"
Horse who paints beautiful abstracts -
While filing "asst labor minister" I found this again - Kim IL Sung walked at 3 weeks.
Partially in Burmese -- Is Assistant Burmese Labor Minister mad to say Burma's unemployment rate is (only) 4%
Maybe trying to figure out how the Burmese economy works - The Hirschorn Museum - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung. Mail ဒု အလုပ္သမား၀န္ၾကီး ဦးျမင့္သိန္း ရူးမ်ားေနလား? သတင္းစာေတြမွားျပီး ပံုႏွိပ္တာလား ၊ အလုပ္သမား၀န္ႀကီးဌာနဒုတိယ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးျမင့္သိန္း ရူးေနတာလား၊ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၂၄ ရက္ေန ့က ျပည္သူ ့လြတ္ေတာ္မွာ အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ အလုပ္သမား၀န္ႀကီးဌာနဒုတိယ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးျမင့္သိန္း က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ခန္ ့မွန္းအလုပ္ လက္မဲ့ ႏႈန္းက ၄% ပဲရိွတယ္လို ့ေျပာသြားတယ္ လို ့ သတင္းစာေတြက ေရးသားၾကပါတယ္၊ ၁၉၉၀ ခုႏွစ္က ေကာက္ထားခဲ့တဲ့ အလုပ္သမားအင္အားစစ္တမ္းကို အေျခခံျပီး တိုးႏႈန္းနဲ ့တြက္ခ်က္ ျပီး “ အလုပ္လက္ရိွ၊ အလုပ္လက္မဲ ့၊အလုပ္လက္ရိွႏႈန္း၊ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ႏႈန္း၊ လုပ္သားအင္ အားပါ၀င္မႈႏႈန္းေတြကို ခန္ ့မွန္းတြက္ခ်က္ရျခင္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္” လို ့ဦးျမင့္သိန္း ကဆိုပါတယ္၊ ၄င္းခန္ ့မွန္းတြက္ခ်က္မႈ မ်ားအရ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ ႏႈန္းမွာ ၄ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ျဖစ္ပါေၾကာင္း လို ့သူကေျပာပါတယ္၊ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက ၀န္ၾကီးေတြ ဒီေလာက္အထိ ျပည္သူေတြနဲ ့ထိေတြ ့မႈကင္းျပီး ေအာက္ေျခလြတ္ေန ၾကတာကို အမ်ားကစြပ္စြဲေျပာရင္ ယံုမွာမဟုတ္ေသာ္လည္း အခုက ဒု၀န္ၾကီးကိုယ္တိုင္ ကေျပာေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ကို စိတ္ကုန္ျပီးေဒါသထြက္မိပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံက စက္မႈထြန္းကားတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြထက္ အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ႏႈန္း ထက္၀က္ေလာက္နည္းေနတာ ကို အရွက္မရိွ ၾကြားလိုက္ပါေသးတယ္၊ တရုတ္ျပည္ေတာင္ ၆.၅%ရိွတယ္၊ ကူ၀ိတ္မွာ ကူ၀ိတ္လူမ်ဳိး က ၃.၆၁%၇ိွတယ္၊ ဘရူႏိုင္းကသူတို ့ရတဲ့စာရင္းထက္ပိုမယ္လို ့သူတို ့၀န္ၾကီးကိုယ္တိုင္ ၀န္ခံပါတယ္၊ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ၂၀၁၀တံုးက ၂.၂% ဆိုတာမွားေနတဲ့ ဂဏန္းသာျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ တစ္ႏိုင္ငံနဲ ့တစ္ႏိုင္ငံ ႏိွင္းယွဥ္ရင္ ၂၀၁၁ ခု ခ်င္းႏိုင္းယွဥ္ေဖၚျပသင့္ပါတယ္၊ ဒီလိုမွ မဟုတ္ရင္ လိေမၼာ္သီးနဲ ့ပန္းသီး ယွဥ္ျပသလိုပါပဲ၊ လမ္းေဘးမွာ ေဆးလိပ္ေရာင္းတဲ့ ေကာင္ေလးေတြ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မွာ စာပြဲထိုး လုပ္တဲ့ ေကာင္ေလးေတြ၊ အႏိွပ္ခန္းကအႏိွပ္သည္ ေကာင္မေလးေတြ၊ ျပည့္တန္ဆာခန္းက ကိုယ္ေရာင္းတဲ့ မိန္းခေလးေတြ၊ ကာရာအိုေက ဘားက မိန္းခေလးေတြ၊ အိမ္မွာ ထမင္းခ်က္အ ၀တ္ေလွ်ာ္တဲ့ မိခင္ေတြ၊ အိမ္မွာ အိမ္အလုပ္၀ိုင္းလုပ္တဲ့ ခေလးေတြ၊ လက္ဖက္ရည္ဆိုင္မွာ လက္ေၾကာ တင္း ေအာင္အလုပ္မ လုပ္ခ်င္ပဲ ပြဲစားလိုလို ဖခင္ေတြ၊ လမ္းေဘးပလက္ေဖါင္းေပၚ ၀မ္းစာအတြက္ ေနပူမိုးရြာမေရွာင္ ရရာကိုေရာင္းေနတဲ့ ဆင္းရဲသားေတြ၊ ညဖက္ဆိုက္ကားကို ခိုးေၾကာင္ခိုး၀ွက္ နင္းေနတဲ့ ဆိုက္ကား ဆရာေတြကို အလုပ္လက္ရိွတဲ့ စာရင္းမွာထည့္ ထားလို ့လား၊ (Maybe he included as "employed" the little boys selling cigarettes by the roadside, the boys waiting tables, the girls in the massage parlors, the young women in the karaoke bars, the wife and mother who cooks and washes clothes at home, the broker-fathers in the cafes, the poor who sell whatever they can find, rain or shine on city pavements, the pedicab drivers who pedal their cyclos furiously and secretly at night.) ၁၉၉၀ ခုႏွစ္က ျဖစ္သလို ေကာက္ယူထားတဲ့ ေပါက္ကရ စစ္တမ္းကို အတည္ေပါက္ယူျပီး ၀န္ၾကီးနား က သံုးမရတဲ့ ပညာရွင္အေခ်ာင္သမားေတြ တြက္ေပးတဲ့ ကိန္းဂဏန္းကို ကိုယ္ပိုင္ ဆင္ျခင္မႈ ကင္းတဲ့ ဦးေႏွာက္နဲ ့အဟုတ္မွတ္ျပီး တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ့ လြတ္ေတာ္မွာ ေျပာရဲတာကေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး အံ့ၾသမိပါတယ္။ လြတ္ေတာ္က ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတာ္ေတြကလည္း သူေျပာတာ ကို လက္ခံခဲ့ရင္ေတာ့ ေကာက္ခ်က္တစ္ခုပဲခ် စရာ ရိွပါတယ္၊ ျပည္သူေတြေရြးတင္လိုက္တာ အားလံုးအ ရူးေတြျဖစ္ေနတာအခုမွသိေတာ့တယ္။ ဦးျမင့္သိန္း တို ့ဘယ္လိုတြက္ခ်က္တယ္ဆိုတာ ကို အေမရိကန္သမၼတေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္သိခ်င္မွာပါ၊ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အဲဒီလို အဓိပါယ္မရိွတဲ့ ကိန္းဂဏန္းေတြကို လူၾကီးၾကိဳက္ ထုတ္ျပန္ေနတဲ့ ေခတ္ကုန္ သြားျပီဆိုတာ ဒု၀န္ၾကီးမသိေလေရာ့လား၊ ဦးျမင့္သိန္း… ခင္ဗ်ားေတာ္ေတာ္ကို ျပည္သူလူထုနဲ ့ကင္းကြာေနတယ္၊ ခင္ဗ်ား တစ္ေယာက္ေၾကာင့္ ခင္ဗ်ားရဲ့ပါတီ နဲ ့ႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ လြတ္ေတာ္တစ္ခုလံုး ပုတ္ေစာ္နံကုန္တာမို ့ခင္ဗ်ား ႏႈတ္ထြက္သင့္ပါျပီ၊ တကယ္ပါ၊ ခင္ဗ်ားထြက္သင့္ပါတယ္၊ မထြက္ခင္ ခင္ဗ်ားကို ဒီလို မ်က္ႏွာပ်က္ေအာင္လုပ္တဲ ့ ခင္ဗ်ား နားက ပညာရွင္ေတြကို လည္း အလုပ္ထုတ္ ပါ၊ အဲဒီအတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ့ ၂၀၁၂ ခု အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ ႏႈန္းက သိပ္ျပီးေျပာင္းလဲသြားဖို ့အေၾကာင္းမရိွပါဘူး၊ "Really, you should resign. Before you resign, please also fire the tech consultants and academics near you who cause you to lose face like this. That won't affect the unemployment rate of Burma for the year 2012 that much." zato ichi ( antidictator@gmail.com ) Partial informal poetic translation, kmk.
Tun Khin - Burmese Rohingya Organisation UK - "People are dying. They need help now."
The world must act to protect Burma's Rohingya
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's updated Wiki
Kyi May Kaung - updated Arts cv - apologies for format run on - have not figured it out
Labels: arts cv, awards., education, Kaung, presentations
Excerpt - The Golden Time from Kyi May Kaung's She Monkey goes West - 1995
Demonstrations in Bagan (Pagan) - Pansodan Art Gallery Rangoon etc -
From June - latest extinction campaign against Rohingya + photo of Daw Suu comforting Muslims in Rangoon
Some good photos of Myitsone (confluence of Mai Kha and Mali Kha to form the Irrawaddy River) - before dam
Some names removed from Burmese junta blacklist -
New York Times interview of Burmese artist Khin Zaw Latt -
PBS series - the Life of the Buddha
The Indo-Greek king from the first century and the Milinda Panha
Chelis Yin on Sophocle's 2,500 year old play and war veterans -
Asian Human Rights Appeal - Burmese air force officer arrested, tortured for Internet use -
Massive shutdown NE Corridor USA due to Hurricane Sandy
500 NLD members to quit in Pathein
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will start her visit to India on Nov 13
RFA Burmese staff firings confirmed - total of five
including 2 contract workers. I don't think we have heard the last of this yet.
Storm supplies flying off shelves -
Sandy suspensions in city that never sleeps -
UN says 22,000 displaced in W Burma
RFA Burmese dirt - in Burmese - not independently verified yet, though 2-3 of 4-5 mentioned, told me on Sept 20th they were about to be fired
Rohingya advocates say authorities failed to protect them, gave them deadline to leave -
Burmese leader admits scale of anti-Muslim violence after satellite images released.
Photo essay - Sol LeWitt wall paintings from the Hirschorn Museum -
Paintings were designed by LeWitt and painted by assistants. All photos copyright Kyi May Kaung
Hurricane Sandy could become Superstorm Sandy and hit NE USA
Kyi May Kaung's Identity: Mostly Burmese Monks - exhibition details from 2009 - Image of Burmese monks has changed.
Kyi May Kaung quoted in Burma: Learning Curve -
Reckless optimism, Burma's "reforms" - a comment by Kyi May Kaung
USA - NE Corridor - should prep for superstorm - Hurricane Sandy
Washington Post Blog - on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Rohingya
Funnies - S. Korean hip hop artist Psy - gangnam style :)
Beautiful market photos from Burma
Fatal stabbings in NY - from NY Times
Condolences for the unconsolable -- flowers from NY
For little children who died, all innocent.
Florist at night in a well-heeled neighborhood.
A flower bends for a toddler.
Orchids in Aster Court - Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY All photos copyright Kyi May Kaung.
Nanny suspected of stabbing 2 children to death - on Upper West Side, NY
Sunday farmers' market near Museum of Natural History, NY. Upper West Side. Photo - copyright Kyi May Kaung
Burmese military opens fire on civilians in Arakan State-
UN's Ban Ki-moon calls for end to anti-Rohingya violence and official rhetoric in Burma -
Nine Rohingya Groups call for end to sectarian violence and UN Peacekeeping Forces
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Highly recommended - an unbiased blog on the true situation in Burma
http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/ International Campaign for Freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma. Yes, you got the name right, they are not yet free. --
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Burma - Arakan Violence - Analysis by Anonymous -
Analysis from Anonymous: Date: Thursday, October 25 and Oct 26, 2012. Here are some of the crucial factors that are at work behind a misleadingly oversimplified media and regime's narrative of "sectarian violence": 1). Kyauk Hpyu, the designated location for the multi-billion dollar economic projects including the Special Economic Zone, a deep-sea port where China's Mid-East oil will be destined for re-transportation overland to the Southern Chinese Providence of Yunnan. (The two Burmese off-shore gas pipeline and the Mid-East oil pipelines projects will be located here. This is what connects the war in Kachin State, which the pipelines will run through, before they reach Yunnan, and the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya in Western Burma. The pipeline will run almost due west to east. The economic motivation behind the violence, probably state sanctioned, has to date only been picked up by a few analysts, and not by Myanmar Government and the international media. 2). From the Burmese regime's perspective they “see the fingerprints of the Taliban” in the violence in Western Burma, involving Rohingyas - and now ALL Muslims - and the Rakhine. So, the generals want to make sure they preemptively purge Kyauk-hpyu of any Muslims - not just Rohingya - to protect against, preemptively, their Chinese-joint venture economic assets/projects. These are areas where Muslims, Rohingya or otherwise, have lived side by side and mingled for generations. So, even some Rakhine (Arakanese) veterans of the Burmese Military were upset by the fact that the troops there were allegedly ordered by Naypyidaw to let the Muslims and Rohingya (or Bangali in their lingo) run for their lives - despite the fact that these targeted victims have nowhere safe to run to. There have been consistent reports from the ground that the government firefighters were not putting out the fires, but spraying petrol on the burning houses to accelerate the burning. 3). The Bangladeshi-born and/or connected "Bangali Rakhines" who are active with the Arakanese Liberation Party/Army - an armed organization whose mission is to purge the Arakan of all Muslims - is heavily involved. The Bangladesh-born Rakhines (Arakanese) are known to be far more rabidly racist towards the Muslims and the ALP-supporting Rakhines are, essentially, threatening the more moderate "Bama Rakhines" (Burman Arakanese) to partake in the final wave of ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya and the Muslims. Some of the armed ALP elements are said to be coming from Bangladesh. (An ALP leader, a woman, recently returned from Bangladesh with official permission from Naypyitaw, and has set up an office in Arakan State) 4). Recent attacks on Buddhist temples and monasteries in Bangladesh are a sign of things to come and can trigger full-scale Buddhist-Muslim hate-killings in both countries. 5). Not all Rakhines are racist and neo-Fascist. Many in fact have lived peacefully with various Muslim communities for generations in integrated villages and towns. Emphatically, Rakhine Ethno-Nationalists such as Bangladesh-born national-level MP Aye Maung and local/provincial level Than Htut Aung (MP for the local Rakhine State Parliament) are said to be directly involved in mobilizing anti-Muslim, anti-Rohingya protests and the latest wave of violent attacks. Several more factors that help explain the recent spate of violent attacks against the Rohingya. 6. Naypyidaw itself - that is, President Thein Sein and his office -- is aggressively dodging any inquiry being carried out by the 27-member Presidential Riot Inquiry Commission. 7. The key, most crucial members of the Commission - the two-Cornell trained members: the historian Dr Myo Myint, retired Director-General of the Religious Affairs Ministry and the political scientist from Singapore Dr Kyaw Yin Hlaing - are no longer showing any interest in the Inquiry. Myo Myint was a Fulbright scholar in the USA. Kyaw Yin Hlaing was pushing for engagement as early as 2002, and a regular visitor to Burma. He accompanied President Thein Sein to the USA recently, and acts as adviser and interpreter. He is probably the one who told the BBC Hardtalk journalist that if he “did not like the question, he might ask Thein Sein not to answer it.” 8. The Commission's strategic role, in retrospective, has served Naypyidaw's purpose of preempting any push for a truly independent, external inquiry about the ethnic violence in June in Western Burma. Thein Sein’s “commission” is there just to placate western critics and to put democracy advocates such as Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the comedian Zarganar and U Nu’s daughter Daw Than Than Nu in a spot. 9 The Border Affairs Minister - Lt-General Thein Htay, a Danu from Shan State and informal regime contact between Aung San Suu Kyi and the senior generals - is one of the most trusted pets of the 'retired' Senior General Than Shwe (Thein Htay, an engineer by training from Rangoon Institute of Technology) serves or served as a key member of the Myanmar Economic Holdings, the military's umbrella corporation overseeing its institutional assets. (It’s former name was BEDC – Burma Economic Development Corporation – headed by Brig Gen Aung Gyi who died a few days ago. UMEH – Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings, Ltd., is widely regarded as the economic front of "Burmese Military Incorporated". 10. There is every reason to believe that these men are carrying out their strategic plans/goals - including purging Western Burma of Muslims, not just Rohingya - as blessed by Than Shwe himself. Glossary and who’s who. Thein Sein – nominal “reformist, moderate” President. Than Shwe, hard liner, former President – said to be “retired” Arakan (now called Rakhine) – coastal strip state in Western Burma. Burma, now called Myanmar by junta. Arakanese (Rakhine) – an ethnic group. Rohingya, a subset of all Burmese Muslims, living in Western Burma since 9th century. Burman, mainstream majority, subset of Burmese. Naypyidaw or Naypyitaw - purpose-built capital city -- started 2005 in Central Burma - site of Than Shwe's home - use Google Earth to look for it - and the Hluttaw or "parliament". Aung San Suu Kyi was under her latest stint of house arrest, May 30, 2003 to Nov 13, 2010, when it was built. ***
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Official death toll in Arakan, Burma, rises to 112.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/17401 Guns are controlled in the Burmese military state. How come then victims of "sectarian violence" have gunshot wounds?
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As crony capitalist brides in Burma wear white western gowns (strapless) - western celebs opt for color.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/25/living/color-wedding-dresses/index.html?hpt=hp_bn11 Of course we in S and SE Asia always knew color is best. In Thailand and some parts of SE Asia, white is color of (royal) mourning - see recent funeral of King Sihanouk in Pnom Penh, Cambodia, with royal ladies in white lace tops. Queen Monique wore a whitish suit to match her white hair. She is French or part-French. Thai nuns and Buddhist novices wear white robes. It's all in the head.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Aljazeera interview of 4 experts, on anti-Rohingya violence in Burma
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2012/07/201272383656931979.html
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Sydney Morning Herald - ethnic violence in Burma leaves dozens dead -
http://www.smh.com.au/world/ethnic-violence-in-burma-leaves-dozens-dead-20121026-28a9j.html
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Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book has passed into the public domain -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book
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Special post for Children - Jungle Book - The Bear (Bare) Necessities of Life -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ogQ0uge06o With adult supervision only. For Peter - the child he once was. *
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Special post for children - with adult supervision only -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_6KuYtc0Z8 Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round. * This site, as stated up front in our mission statement, is primarily for adults over 18 years of age - and is a political and arts blog. You should supervise your child closely at all times when they are on the Internet. This is posted as a special courtesy to Children of Burmese Dissidents who might not have other resources such as enough books or toys, and need songs and nursery rhymes. Kyi May Kaung
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Children's Art Center at Georgetown U Hospital DC
VOA 10-19-2012 broadcast /watch?v=VZZeg8FvxAk&list=UUv-YbGueeYCp8_CdjgXQD3A&index=6&feature=plcp abt 18 to 18.30 minutes into broadcast - --
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Canadian Friends of Burma notices Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Mg Lwin's low profile visit to Canada --
--- On Thu, 10/25/12, CFOB wrote: From: CFOB Subject: Postmedia: Quiet welcome for Burmese foreign minister gets noticed To: cfob@cfob.org Date: Thursday, October 25, 2012, 5:18 PM Quiet welcome for Burmese foreign minister gets noticed Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia - OCTOBER 24, 2012 OTTAWA — The Conservative government has been accused of trying to hide the visit earlier this month of Burma ’s foreign affairs minister. The Conservative government has made a big deal of highlighting Canada ’s re-engagement with Burma after years of frozen relations caused by the Southeast Asian nation’s poor record on human rights and democracy. The government has pledged to open a new embassy in Burma , which is also known as Myanmar , while Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and International Trade Minister Ed Fast have made separate visits. Not by coincidence, Canadian companies in the oil, gas and mining sectors have made noises they are very interested in breaking into the market, which is already rife with similar firms from the U.S. , Europe and Asia .] This has prompted concerns business interests will supercede human rights and democratic progress, which are still in a tenuous situation despite recent improvements. From Oct. 2-4, Burmese Foreign Minister Wunna Maung’s visited Ottawa — the first by a Burmese foreign minister since 1969 — as part of what appears to be a round-the-world tour to reach out to partners and put a nail in his country’s international isolation. But neither Foreign Affairs nor the government went out of their way to call attention to the visit — prompting a strong reaction from one pro-democracy Burmese group in Canada . The Canadian Friends of Burma, which has been the most outspoken voice on democracy in Burma over the years, said it only learned of Maung’s visit through the Asian nation’s state-run media. In a statement, the group said “it is unnecessary — possibly unprecedented — for the Government of Canada to keep such a ministerial visit secret.” “Therefore, we urge the Government of Canada, especially foreign affairs officials, to be more transparent on policymaking in Burma .” A Conservative official dismissed the concerns, noting a photo of Maung and Baird was posted to the Foreign Affairs website, the official noted, while the Burmese foreign minister was recognized in the House of Commons gallery after Question Period. “Anyone who follows Burma ’s political development would have known the foreign minister was visiting,” the official said. “So it was hardly secret.” http://o.canada.com/2012/10/24/feds-quiet-welcome-for-burmese-foreign-minister-gets-noticed/
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Early Burmese junta and Ne Win crony - Brig Gen Aung Gyi dies at 94
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/17331 I distinctly remember the time he came to RFA in 1998. The goats' balls there led by "lady big bust" wanted to give a lot of air time to Aung Gyi saying "the military is the last hope of Burma." The entire interview in 2 parts was about 15 minutes long. There was an inquiry, then Big Bust, now with BBC Burmese, wanted to use my good name to whitewash her own involvement. She brought me a tape recorder and asked me to translate it for her. I was pissed off. I gave the Marantz back to her, saying, Miss BB, you know English and Burmese too, why don't you translate it yourself. Then I walked to the RFA Presdt and the VP and exec officer's offices and reported the matter - but then Alex came and prevailed on me to finish the translation. The Burmese dept head was on a short visit to ASEAN at the time. I translated it as it was - at one point Aung Gyi said to a question about who funded his trip "I sold my wife's diamond ear rings to come." I ask you, which Burmese wife would allow that. So BB was not happy with the translation, and assigned the little non-Burmese,non-Burmese speaker, Amish girl secretary to "edit" my English. This time I took the matter to RFA's Public Relations official, then Pat Lutz. Pat came to my desk, asked where the Word file was and "click" sent it to the US Embassy in Rangoon. That is how the RFA Burmese dept head, BB etc all had it out to push me out. That, and for saying "Nobel Peace Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi" on air every time I mentioned her on air, when the goats balls department head had said it was "repetitious" and saying "Burmese democracy leader" would be enough. This Saw Yan Naing article is the Truth. Aung Gyi initially lost his number two status with Ne Win about 1964 because he made a trip to Japan, in which he gave an interview and was touted as the new bright young man for Burma. This was the same way Dr Nyi Nyi was pushed out. Because of a profile in Time Magazine. Ne Win was not about to allow that and got rid of him/them immediately. I am glad all these stories are now coming out. They are after all true. Kyi May Kaung
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Interview with Argo scriptwriter - Chris Terrio
http://www.silive.com/entertainment/tvfilm/index.ssf/2012/10/staten_island_native_chris_ter.html
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Best, most intelligent interview so far of Argo team
http://collider.com/ben-affleck-argo-interview/199708/
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Interview of Argo scriptwriter Chris Terrio
http://www.screenwritingu.com/blog/2012/screenwriting-interviews/interview-argo-screenwriter-chris-terrio
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Argo's real life hero -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZVflvTHxa0
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Canadian Caper - documentary from 1980 - now in movie Argo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmVEdeRZL3w
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Iran hostage crisis during the Carter Administration -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis I was in Burma at the time, and only thing I had to read was Time Magazine, weeks late.
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Roubini Global Economics
http://www.roubini.com/citation/574191/4/790/0
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My Kyi May Kaung blog achieved triple peaks today, all due to one item.
Total page views have achieved a new peak of over 106,000 hits. Per day page views hit new daily peak of 382. Previous peak was 375. Per item (post) peak was 43 today for just one item - Junta police seen handing out gasoline . . . from U Tun Khin of BROUK. Thank you U Tun Khin and BROUK brothers and sisters for collecting info on the ground. This shows that independent activists are delivering what mainstream news media is not able to do yet. kmk http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com
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UNBIASED Channel 4 news on latest outbreak of anti-Rohingya violence in Arakan State, western Burma -
http://www.channel4.com/news/burmas-rohingya-face-new-wave-of-violence Thank you to the activist who sent this.
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Writing Process - # 1
Frustrated by the snail-like slowness of Burmese exile media, who can't keep up with the activists, I decided to try journal-style blogging like my friend now in Bacalod, Kanlaon. So the process on the windows outside is coming along - the sounds now of hammering to fix what we called in Burma - kyauk pone yaik te - i.e. making the wood molds to hold the cement in. The sucking sounds were either cement being pumped into the molds or the window sills outside being vacuumed with a giant vacuum - sshlock, schlump. I've written to the magazine and university that owe me some money for honorariums. I've re-applied to display ads on this blog. Since September when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's DC visit caused me to go out, and see old friends again, I've gone around seeing said old friends - gone to a Baptist church, gotten armloads of dahlias and shasta daisies from N's garden, plumbed the depths of Ai Weiwei's philosophical, political and activist mind at the Hirschorn and seen Lincoln ads. and quotes for the upcoming film with Daniel Day Lewis on the DC metro - and wow, does he look like Lincoln. No doubt will sound like Abe and walk like Abe too. Daniel Day Lewis is of course the son of the Narnia author, British theologian C.S. Lewis, a contemporary of Tolkien. DDL is a brilliant actor, scary in his brilliance. If you don't believe me, go see There Will Be Blood. Like Silence of the Lambs, it scared me just to read the script. I have seen the movie, There will be blood. Not going to see Silence ever though. Well, the dental work and drilling on the building facade starteth, and so I am decamping for the movie theater to see Argo. How fortunate to live within walking distance of a movie theater. Ciao for now.
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on living "never free from fear"
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/blog/?p=16185
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Daniel Nadler - Burma photos
http://nadlerphotography.com/archives/category/travel-photography/burma
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Ian Holliday's Burma Redux
http://www4.hku.hk/pubunit/Bulletin/2011_Dec_Vol.13_No.1/books/books_page3.html I am still reading it, so not ready to review it yet.
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Wild padauk flowers in Malaysia
http://www.flickr.com/photos/adaduitokla/6937046514/
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Burmese women - always with flowers in their hair -
http://www.lachongtravel.com/travel-news/elegance-first-myanmar-womens-hair-flowers
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How King Sihanouk shaped Cambodia - WSJ interview of Patrick Barta
http://live.wsj.com/video/how-king-sihanouk-shaped-cambodia/E41F565E-A600-4370-8E9D-7F71FF60B86B.html#!E41F565E-A600-4370-8E9D-7F71FF60B86B
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US Department of Justice sueing Bank of America for $1 b for faulty mortgages
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/24/news/companies/bank-of-america-lawsuit/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
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Junta police seen handing out gasoline in latest torchings of Rohingya homes in Arakan State, Burma -
Dear All, Please share our Press Release with your contact groups. Best, Tun Khin Date: 24.10.2012 Hundreds Killed and Thousands of Homes Destroyed in Arakan State During the last 24 hours, BROUK has received the following information from the ground; 1. A Rakhine mob set fire to Yin Thae Village and Parin village of Mrauk Oo where Rohingya are living. Police forces were seen giving containers of petrol to the mob to burn down Rohingya houses. More than 600 houses burnt down in both villages. Eyewitnesses say that more than 100 Rohingya were killed by the mob while setting the fires. 2. According to an escaped victim, many Rohingya had run away to hide. Police had called them out of their hiding places saying that they (the police) had come to control the situation and would make a truce between them and the Rakhine. Believing what police had said, killed them and the police did not stop them. Around 350 Rohingya women and children were hiding near the cemetery of Parin Village. The Rakhine mob and security forces killed almost all of them according to escaped victims who witnessed the attack. Many of the Rohingya who escaped the attacks are now in paddy fields, with nowhere to go. 3. A Rakhine mob set fire to Nagara Pauktaw village, Min Bya Township.100 Rohingya houses burnt down. More than 200 Rohingya were slaughtered by the mob according to eyewitnesses. 4. A Rakhine Mob set fire to Paikthae Village Kyauk Phyu Township. While Paikthay village was on fire, the fire fighters came to the spot with tank load of petrol in the guise of putting out the fire. More than 600 Muslim houses were burned down. We can’t confirm exact number of the deaths of Rohingya at the moment. Many Muslims fled into to the sea and others are in hiding. 5. 10:30am UK time two villages were set fire in Pauktaw Township. According to latest information many people are jumping to the river to escape. At the moment, it is very difficult to get any news out of these regions as the authority is confiscating all the cellular phones that Rohingya have to stop news reaching the outside world. Tun Khin President of BROUK said “Ethnic cleansing is happening under the noses of the international community and they are doing nothing. These are not communal clashes; this is not equal sides fighting. This is state organized and state sanctioned ethnic cleansing where the vast majority of those killed and displaced are Rohingyas. The international Community has staked so much on Thein Sein‘s reform process that even when he proposed ethnic cleansing they stayed silent, and even when ethnic cleansing takes place they stay silent. There is no way this violence would continue if the government genuinely wanted to stop it”. BROUK President Tun Khin also said “Whenever there is ethnic cleansing the international community says never let it happen again. Well it is happening again right now in Burma and once again the international community is failing to act. There needs to be UN observers on the ground immediately.” For more information, please contact Tun Khin +44 (0) 788714866
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
1972 Time magazine book review of Richard Bach's Jonathan Livingston Seagull
http://footenotes.net/Pages/Bach.htm
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Neil Diamond - Lonely Looking Sky -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls6n1TWeEQ4&feature=related
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Neil Diamond "Be" from Jonathan Livingston Seagull
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4eOIS9DFm4
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When I met Aung San Suu Kyi by Eliane Karp
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliane-karptoledo/i-met-aung-san_b_1990092.html
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Aung San Suu Kyi on "reforms" - transcript of VOA interview from 19th Sept
http://www.mizzima.com/edop/interview/8050-transcript-of-suu-kyis-voa-interview.html
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BBC chief has to testify in sex scandal
http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/uk-savile-bbc-scandal/index.html?hpt=hp_t3
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US Government - BBG (Broadcasting Board of Governors) Watch
http://www.usgbroadcasts.com/bbgwatch/2012/09/16/broadcasting-board-of-governors-cant-do-its-job-in-an-hour-and-15-minutes/#comment-3839
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In Burmese - Hell hound on loose (in Burmese exile media) found on Facebook by a friend -
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art - dwarf acrobat - ancient Indian art - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung Editor's note - if you don't read Burmese ask for help from a Burmese speaker. I worked at RFA up to Feb 2001, and I know most of this is true. It outlines the current sex scandal combined with political slanting - it's too foul for me to translate. However, the Broadcasting Board of Governors should start a formal inquiry that is open and transparent, as befits an entity supposedly working for democracy and freedom of speech. kmk ငရဲေခြးၾကီး လြတ္ေနျပီ ၁၉၉၇ ခုႏွစ္ေလာက္တုံးကထင္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚစုေျပာခဲ့တယ္။ ျပည္ပမီဒီယာေတြကုိ သတိထားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖုိ ့။ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးအတြက္ႏုိင္ငံတကာကပန္႔ပုိးထားတဲ့ မီဒီယာေတြမွာ စစ္အစုိးရ ၾသဇာခံေတြထုိးေဖာက္၀င္ေနတယ္။ အတုိက္အခံအဖြဲ႕ေတြထဲကုိထုိးေဖာက္ျပီး သူတုိ ့လူေတြ သြင္းဖုိ႕အျမဲၾကိဳးစားေနတယ္ဆုိတာလူတုိင္းသိတဲ့ကိစၥပါ။ အတုိက္အခံအဖြဲ႔ေတြမွာက ၀င္လာရင္ မိတာမ်ားပါတယ္။ ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိေတာ့လူေတြ ေျပာဆုိရဲေသးတယ္။ ေ၀ဖန္ရဲေသးတယ္။ ဒါေတာင္ေနရာေပ်ာက္မွာေၾကာက္ျပီး ပါးစပ္ပိတ္ေနတဲ့သူေတြ၊လူၾကီးေတြကုိ ျပန္မေျပာနဲ႔ဆုိတဲ့ လူ႕ညြန္႔တုံးေစမဲ့သင္ၾကားမႈေအာက္ကမထြက္ႏုိင္တဲ့လူေတြရွိေနေသးတာပါ။ ျပည္ပမီဒီယာဆုိတာက ႏုိင္ငံျခားသားေတြ၊ ျမန္မာမဟုတ္တဲ့၊ ျမန္မာေတြရဲ႕ ကလိန္ကက်စ္ပညာေတြကုိ မသိတဲ့သူေတြက ေထာင္ေပးတဲ့ အဖြဲ႔အစည္း။ ဒီေတာ့ ၾကိဳးေပါင္းမ်ားစြာနဲ႔ မဆလလူထြက္ေတြ၊ နအဖလူထြက္ေတြ ေနရာ၀င္ယူႏုိင္ၾကပါတယ္။ လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ႏုိင္ငံေတြက အခြင့္အေရး (Rights) ဆုိတာကုိ အျပည့္ယူ။ ျပီးေတာ့ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္တခ်ိန္က ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့ မေကာင္းတဲ့ေသာက္က်င့္ေတြနဲ႔ လုပ္စားေနၾကတာ။ ေကာင္းတဲ့လူေတြလည္းအမ်ားၾကီးပါ။ သတင္းေကာင္းသတင္းမွန္ေပးႏုိင္ဖုိ ့ အေသအလဲလုပ္ေနၾကတဲ့သူေတြအမ်ားၾကီးပါ။ ေစတနာထားလုပ္ေနတဲ့သူေတြ အမ်ားၾကီးပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ဒီလုိလူေတြကုိထုံးစံအတုိင္းဘဲလူလယ္ၾကီးေတြက အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပါတယ္။အခြင့္အေရးသမားေတြက ေနရာယူပါတယ္။ အထက္ဖားေအာက္ဖိဆုိတဲ့ မဆလ၊ နအဖအက်င့္ေတြနဲ့မေကာင္းတဲ့စနစ္ဆုိးကုိ ေတာက္ေရွာက္ဆက္ျပီးသယ္ယူလာတဲ့အက်င့္ေတြနဲ့ ခ်ဳပ္ကုိင္ထားပါတယ္။ သတင္းသမားဆုိတာအမွန္တရားကုိရွာရပါတယ္။ အမွန္တရားအတြက္ဆုိရင္ ဘာကုိမဆုိရင္ဆုိင္ရဲရပါတယ္။ အမွန္တရားအတြက္ရပ္တည္ခဲ့လုိ့ ေအာင္ဗလဦးေသာင္းလုိ၊ လူထုတုိက္က ဦးလွနဲ႕ေဒၚအမာလုိ၊ လူထုဦးစိန္၀င္းလုိ၊ ဟံသာ၀တီဦး၀င္းတင္လုိလူေတြဟာ ျပည္သူေလးစားခံရတဲ့သတင္းသမားေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔ျပည္ပမီဒီယာဟာ အင္မတန္အေရးၾကီးပါတယ္။ သတင္းေမွာင္ခ်ခံထားရတဲ့ ျပည္သူေတြကုိ အျဖစ္မွန္သတင္းမွန္ကုိေပးဖုိ့အတြက္၊ ျပည္သူအခ်င္းခ်င္းသတင္းကတဆင့္ဆက္ႏြယ္ျပီး ကုိယ့္လုိဘ၀တူျပည္သူေတြရွိေနတယ္ဆုိတာသိလာၾကဖုိ႔၊ လူထုအား၊လူထုအသံေတြျဖစ္လာဖုိ့ ဒါေတြလုိပါတယ္။ ဒီလုိအေရးၾကီးလွတဲ့ေနရာမွာစိတ္ဓါတ္ပ်က္ဆီးေနတဲ့သူေတြ၊ အမွန္တရားကုိ ဂရုမစုိက္တဲ့၊ အေလးမထားတဲ့သူေတြေနရာယူလာျပီဆုိရင္ေတာ့ ဒီလုိဌာနေတြကုိ ထူေထာင္ေပးတဲ့သူေတြအတြက္ေရာ၊ ျမန္မာလူထုရဲ႕ယုံၾကည္ကုိးစားခံရတဲ့သတင္းေလာကတခုလုံးအတြက္ပါ အေတာ့္ကုိ အႏၱာရယ္မ်ားပါတယ္။ ဒီအတြက္ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးကုိလိုလားတဲ့ ျပည္သူတုိင္းေလ့လာဖုိ့ လုိလာပါျပီ။ ျပည္တြင္းကအခြင့္အေရးသမားေတြ၊ စားဖားေတြက မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးစြပ္လုိ ့မရပါဘူး။ သူတုိ့အေၾကာင္းလူတုိင္းကသိေနပါတယ္။ ျပည္ပမွာကေတာ့ ဒီလုိမ်က္ႏွာဖုံးစြပ္ေနလုိ႔ရၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႔အာအက္ေအ၊ဗီအုိေအ၊ဒီဗီဘီ၊ဘီဘီစီထဲကဘယ္သူေတြကဘာလဲဆုိတာ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ားက သိၾကပါတယ္။ သိရက္နဲ့ႏွာေစးေနတာေတာ့မသင့္ေတာ္ဘူးလုိ ့ေျပာခ်င္ပါတယ္။ ဒီကေန႕ေတာ့အာအက္ေအအေၾကာင္းစေျပာပါမယ္။ အာအက္ေအစေထာင္ေတာ့ဌာနမွဴးက အရင္မဆလသံတမန္ဦးစုိးသင္း၊ ၈၈ျဖစ္ေတာ့အခြင့္ေကာင္းယူျပီးႏုိင္ငံေ၇းခုိလုံခြင့္ယူလုိက္တယ္။ အလိမ္ေကာင္းေတာ့အေနာက္ႏုိင္ငံကလည္း ခြင့္ျပဳလုိက္တယ္။ ဗီအုိေအမွာဘာသာျပန္၀င္လုပ္ေနေပမဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္စာနဲ့စကားဘဲတတ္ျပီး ဗမာစာဗမာစကားအင္မတန္ ညံ့ေတာ့ခရီးမတြင္ပါဘူး။ ဗမာစကားကုိ အုိင္ နဲ႕ ယူ နဲ႔ေရာေႏွာေျပာေနတဲ့အသံေတြ မွတ္မိၾကမွာပါ။ မဆလေခတ္မွာ ေနဖူးတဲ့လူေတြသိပါတယ္။ အာအက္ေအေထာင္ေတာ့လူရွာမေတြ႔တာနဲ့ ဘာသာျပန္အလုပ္လာေလွ်ာက္တဲ့ ဦးစုိးသင္းကုိ ဘုိလုိအမုတ္ေကာင္းလို့ ျမန္မာဌာနမွဴးခန့္ခဲ့တာပါ။ သူ့လက္ထက္ ၁၀ႏွစ္ေလာက္မွာ သူ့လုိမဆလေဟာင္းေတြကုိရွာစုပါတယ္။ အခုလက္ရွိဌာနမွဴးျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊတုိ႔၊ အရင္ ျမန္မာ့အသံက ဦးခင္ေမာင္ျငိ္မ္းတုိ႔၊ ေနာက္ ဗီအုိေအက အဆက္ႏြယ္ေတြရဲ ့ ေဆြမ်ဳိးေတြ၊ ဘာမွမတတ္လဲအတင္းကုိပြဲထုတ္ျပီး စင္တင္ေတာ့တာပါဘဲ။ ေဒၚစုကုိ မဆလကသိကၡာခ်ဖုိ့ၾကိဳးစားေတာ့ အာအက္ေအလက္နက္ကုိ ထုတ္သုံးခဲ့တာမွတ္မိၾကမွာပါ။ ေဒၚစုနဲ့အစုိးရကခန္႔ထားတဲ့အေစာင့္အရာရွိနဲ႔ ျဖစ္ေနၾကျပီဆုိတဲ့သတင္းကုိ အာအက္ေအဌာမႈးဦးစုိးသင္းက လႊင့္ဖုိ့မီးစိမ္းျပ၊ အခုဌာနမွဳးျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊကကုိယ္တုိင္ေရးျပီး အခုအယ္ဒီတာလုပ္ေနတဲ့ ဦးခင္ေမာင္စုိးက တႏုိင္ငံလုံးကုိေၾကျငာခဲ့တာပါ။ ဒါကုိၾကည့္ရင္ဒီလူေတြဘာလဲဆုိတာ ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္းသိႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ အခုမွတပတ္ရုိက္ျပီး ေဒၚစုအေမးအေျဖ၊ ဦးတင္ဦး၊ ဦး၀င္းတင္အေမးအေျဖေတြလုပ္ျပျပီး ျပည္သူ႕ဖက္ေတာ္သားလုပ္ျပေနတာပါ။ အင္အယ္ဒီနဲ႔ျပည္သူေတြကုိ တပတ္ရုိက္ဖုိ႔ၾကိဳးစားေနတာပါ။ ဒီလုိမွမလုပ္ရင္လည္း မဟုတ္တာလုပ္ထားတာေတြကမိေတာ့မွာဆုိေတာ့ေဆးမီးတုိသုံးတာေပါ့။ ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊဆုိတာက မဆလအႏြယ္၊ဦးေန၀င္းသစၥာခံ အရင္ မဆလပညာေရး၀န္ၾကီး၊ ျမန္မာႏို္င္ငံရဲ့ပညာေရးစနစ္ကုိဖ်က္ဆီးခဲ့တ့ဲ ေဒါက္တာညီညီဓါတ္ပုံကုိ ေန့စဥ္ ဘုရားစင္ေပၚတင္ျပီး ဘုရားရွစ္ခုိးသလုိရွစ္ခုိးေနတဲ့သူ၊မဆလေက်းဇူးနဲ ့ယဥ္ေက်းမွုဖလွယ္ေရးဆုိတဲ့အစီအစဥ္နဲ့ ဗီအုိေအကုိ ေရာက္လာတာ၊ ဒီေက်းဇူးေတြကုိလည္းအခုခ်ိန္ထိသစၥာရွိစြာ ေပးဆပ္ေနဆဲပါဘဲ။ ဘယ္လိုနည္းနဲ့ေပးဆပ္သလဲ။ ဒီမဆလအဖြဲ႕ကလူေတြအေၾကာင္း အာအက္ေအကမလႊင့္ေအာင္ပိတ္တယ္။ တျခားမီဒီယာေတြမွာပါလာလုိ့ဘယ္လုိမွေရွာင္မရရင္ ေလသံေဖ်ာ့ျပီးလူေတြသိပ္နားမေထာင္တဲ့ ေနာက္ပုိင္းက်က်မွာေက်ျငာေပးတယ္။ အာဘတ္လြတ္ရုံေလး။ သူ႔ကုိအလုပ္ေပးခဲ့တဲ့မဆလေဟာင္းဦးစုိးသင္းကုိေငြ၀င္လမ္းထြင္ျပီး တန္ဖုိးရွိတဲ့ေလလွဳိင္းအသံေတြကုိ ေျပာခ်င္တာေျပာဆုိျပီးတပတ္နာရီ၀က္နီးပါးေပးထားတယ္။ ေငြေတြကုိေသာင္းနဲ့ခ်ီျပီးေပးထားတယ္။ သာမန္ေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ဆုိရင္အမ်ားဆုံးရတႏွစ္ကုိေထာင္ဂဏန္းေပါ့။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ဦးစုိးသင္းေတြ႔ကရာရွစ္ေသာင္းေျပာေနတာကုိအခ်ိန္နဲ့တြက္ေပးေတာ့လည္းရေတာ့မွာေပါ့။ ေဒါက္တာညီညီဆုိရင္နာမယ္မခံဘဲမဆလနဲ့ဦးေန၀င္းခ်ီးမြန္းခန္းဖြင့္ေနတာအပတ္စဥ္ေဟာေျပာေနတာ အခုဆုိ၇င္၁၀ႏွစ္ရွိသြားျပီ။ ေရႊဥၾသတဲ့။ ဦးဘေအာင္အသံနဲ့လႊင့္ေနတာ။ ဒါ ဘာအတြက္လဲ။ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ ့အသံတဲ့လား။ ေနာက္တခုကဂ်မ္းဘုံေရးေနတဲ့တကၠသုိလ္တခုမွာျမန္မာစာျပတဲ့ဦးေစာထြန္းနဲ့ သူ့မိန္းမ၊ ႏွစ္ေယာက္စလုံးက ဗမာျပည္၀င္ထြက္ေနတဲ့လူေတြ၊ ၂ေယာက္စလုံးကုိ အာအက္ေအကေဆာင္းပါးရွင္ေတြအျဖစ္ ေငြေပးထားတယ္။ ေဒါက္တာညီညီတုိ့ဦးေစာထြန္းတုိ့ဆုိတာ ျမန္မာျပည္အ၀င္အထြက္အင္မတန္တင္းၾကပ္ထားတဲ့ မဆလေခတ္ကထဲကဒီကေန႔အထိ ဥဒဟုိ၀င္ထြက္သြားလာေနတာဘဲ။ စစ္ေထာက္လွမ္းေရးကမသိဘူးလား။ သိတာေပါ့။ ဘာေၾကာင့္သူတုိ့ကုိ မထိတာလဲ။ ရွင္းရွင္းေလးဘဲ။သူ့လူကုိယ့္ဖက္သားလုပ္ထားတာဘဲ။ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ျငိမ္းဆုိတာကေနာက္မဆလ၊ နအဖလက္ပါးေစတေယာက္။ စင္ကာပူကမိန္းမနဲ့၇ေတာ့ စင္ကာပူမွာအလုပ္လုပ္ေနရင္း ဦးစုိးသင္းေခၚလာတာ။ သူက အရင္ျမန္မာ့ရုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားမွာသတင္းဖတ္တာ။ သူ့အထက္စိစစ္ေရးကေရးတဲ့စာကုိ တလုံးမလြဲေအာင္ဖတ္ႏုိင္ရင္အဆင္ေျပေနတဲ့အလုပ္မ်ဳိး။ အဲဒါကုိ ၈၈ အေရးအခင္းျဖစ္ေတာ့၀န္ထမ္းေတြဆႏၵျပေနတဲ့အထဲ၀င္ပါရမွာေၾကာက္ျပီးဘုန္းၾကီးသြား၀တ္တာ။ ေသခ်င္တဲ့က်ားေတာေျပာင္းေပါ့။ကံဆုိးခ်င္ေတာ့ဘုန္းၾကီးေတြပါအေရးအခင္းထဲပါလာေတာ့ မဆလ က သူ႔ကုိပါအေရးအခင္းထဲပါတယ္ထင္ျပီးအလုပ္ကထုတ္ပစ္လုိက္တာ။ မဟုတ္ပါဘူးဆိုျပီး လုိက္ေျဖရွင္းေတာင္းပန္ေသးတယ္။ မရလုိ့အခုေတာ့ရာဇ၀င္ေျပာင္းျပီးလူထုဖက္ေတာ္သား၊ လူထုဖက္ကရပ္တည္ခဲ့လုိ႔ အလုပ္ျပဳတ္ခဲ့တာလုိ ့သူ႕အေၾကာင္းမသိတဲ့အေမရိကန္ေတြကုိ ေလွ်ာက္ေျပာေနတာ။ ဗမာခ်င္းေတာ့မေျပာရဲပါဘူး။ ေျပာရင္ခ်က္ခ်င္းေပၚသြားမွာေပါ့။ ၈၈ အေရးအခင္းမွာ ေဒၚစုတုိ႔နဲ့ တြဲလုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာ့အသံဦးညီညီတေယာက္လုံး အာအက္ေအမွာသက္ရွိထင္ရွား၇ွိေနေသးတာဘဲ။ ျပည္တြင္းကေဆြမ်ဳိးေတြကုိထိခုိက္မွာစုိးလုိ့ဆုိျပီး နအဖကာကြယ္ေရးလုပ္ေနတာ လူတုိင္းအသိ။ ေနာက္တေယာက္က ဦးခင္ေမာင္စုိး။ သူကေတာ့ ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊရဲ ့လက္ကုိင္တုတ္။ သူ႕ဌာနကလူေတြကေတာ့ ဖုိးတုတ္လုိ႔ေခၚၾကတယ္။ မင္းတုန္းမင္းလက္ထက္က ေမာင္ေမာင္တုတ္လုိကာမပုိင္ရွိတဲ့မိန္းမေတြပါ မက်န္ေစာ္ကားလုိ႕လား။ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ဦးေန၀င္းလက္တက္က ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္စိန္လြင္လုိ၊ လမ္းမေတာ္ဖုိးတုတ္လုိ အဆင့္မ်ဳိးရွိလုိ ့လား မေျပာတတ္ပါဘူး။ သူကဦးစုိးသင္းလက္ထက္က ေနရာမရေတာ့ ဗီအုိေအက မဆလဌာနမွဴးဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဌးလက္ထက္မွာ ဗီအုိေအကုိ ေတာေျပာင္းသြားတယ္။ ဘူဒါးၾကီးေတြဘဲရွိတဲ့ဗီအုိေအမွာ သူကလက္သြက္ေနတာေပါ့။ ေနာက္ဗီအုိေအ ရွင္းလင္းေရးလုပ္ေတာ့ ဘူဒါးၾကီးလည္းျပဳတ္၊ သူလည္းေဘးေရာက္၊ အသစ္ေရာက္လာတဲ့ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ဳိးဆက္ကုိ လူလည္လုပ္လုိ႔လည္းမရေတာ့ဘူး။ ဟုိကသူ႕ထက္ပုိလည္ေနေတာ့ ေနာက္ဆုံးေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊကုိကပ္ျပန္တယ္။ ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊကလည္းလက္ကလြတ္သြားတဲ့ေမာင္ေလးျပန္လာခ်င္တယ္ဆုိေတာ့အတုိင္းထက္အလြန္ေပါ့။ အယ္ဒီတာေပးမယ္ဆုိျပီးျပန္ေခၚ၊ လူေတြအသံသိပ္ထြက္မလာေအာင္ခဏေစာင့္၊ ျပီးေတာ့အတင္းကုိရာထူးတင္ေပးေတာ့တာဘဲ။ သူတုိ႔ဆက္ဆံေရးကလည္း ျပည္တြင္းထဲအထိကုိသတင္းကေပါက္ေနတာဆုိေတာ့လူေတြသိၾကပါတယ္။ ဂီလာနျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ေယာက္်ားကုိဗမာအသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းနဲ့အဆက္ျဖတ္ထားတာၾကာပါျပီ။ အာအက္ေအရုံးမွာျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ ေမာင္ေလးမမဇာတ္လမ္းကလည္း ၾကာေနျပီဘဲ။ လူတုိင္းသိေနၾကေပမဲ့ ထုံးစံအတုိင္းႏွာေစးေနၾကျပန္တယ္။ ထားပါေတာ့။ သူတုိ့ကိစၥက အဲဒီမွာတင္မျပီးဘူး။ ဖုိးတုတ္တေယာက္ရမ္းခ်င္တုိင္းရမ္းေနတဲ့ဇာတ္က ဘယ္ေလာက္ထိေအာင္ဆုိးလာသလဲဆုိရင္ အာအက္ေအမွာ အခ်ိန္ပုိင္းလာလုပ္တဲ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတေယာက္ကုိ အိပ္ခန္းထဲ၀င္ျပီးေစာ္ကားဖုိ့အထိၾကိဳးစားခဲ့တာပါ။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးကအိမ္မျပန္ရဲလုိ႕ အျပင္မွာပုန္းရတဲ့အထိျဖစ္ခဲ့တာ။ ဒီကိစၥကုိနယူးေ၇ာက္က ၈၈ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ေကာင္းေကာင္းသိပါတယ္။ ဒီကိစၥအျပင္ကလဲသိေရာ ဦးခင္ေမာင္စုိးက သူမူးလုိ့ျဖစ္ရတာပါဆုိျပီးေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊကုိေျခသလုံးဖက္၊ ဒီကိစၥရုံးကသိရင္သူ႔တက္လမ္းပ်က္မွာသိေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသမီးကုိလည္းေျခသလုံးဖက္ေတာင္းပန္၊ သူလုပ္ေနတဲ့အခ်ိန္ပုိင္းအလုပ္ကုိ ဆက္ခန့္ေအာင္လုပ္ေပးပါမယ္၊ အဖြါးၾကီးကုိ ကုိယ္ပုိင္ပါတယ္ဆုိျပီးဂတိေတြေပးျပီးေတာ့ အမွုကုိပိတ္ခုိင္း။ ဦးခင္ေမာင္စုိးမိန္းမကလည္း ေယာက္်ားရုိက္မွာေၾကာက္ရ ေယာက္်ားအလုပ္ျပဳတ္မွာလည္းေၾကာက္ရဆုိေတာ့ အမႈကုိေၾကေအးဖုိ့ အေစာ္ကားခံရတဲ့အမ်ဳိးသမီးကုိေတာင္းပန္။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးကလည္း ကုိယ့္မွအပစ္မရွိဘဲ ဗမာေတြၾကားနာမယ္ပ်က္မွာစုိးျပီး အလုပ္ေလးဆက္ရႏုိးနုိးေမွ်ာ္ကုိးျပီး အမွုကုိေက်ေအးလုိက္တယ္။ ေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊကလည္း သူ႔လူကုိကယ္ဖုိ႕အတြက္ဌာနတြင္းမွာျဖစ္တဲ့ sexual harassment ဆုိတဲ့အမွုကေန misunderstanding ဆုိတဲ့ပုဒ္မေျပာင္းတပ္ျပီး အမွုကုိလက္စလက္နေဖ်ာက္လုိက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ ၃-၄ လေလာက္ေငြေပးထားျပီးေတာ့မွ ကန္ထရုိက္ကုန္တယ္အေၾကာင္းျပျပီး အဲဒီအမ်ဳိးသမီးကုိေခ်ာ့ျပီးအလုပ္ထုတ္လုိက္တာဘဲ။ ဒါေတြက ဗမာျပည္အေနအထားမ်ဳိးနဲ႕ဘာမ်ားျခားနားေနလုိ့လဲ။ ေငြမ်ားတရားႏုိင္၊ အာဏာသုံးျပီးရမ္းကားခြင့္၊ ေစာ္ကားခြင့္ျပဳထားတာမ်ဳိး၊ တရားဥပေဒစုိးမုိးမွဳရွိတဲ့ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ကုိယ့္အခြင့္အေရးကုိနားမလည္တဲ့သူကုိ လက္တလုံးျခားလွည့္ဖ်ားတာမ်ိဳးပါ။ ဒါကုိ အာအက္ေအက ၀ုိင္းေတာ္သားမ်ားက ဘာလုပ္ေနပါသလဲ။ ဘ၀တူလူသားေတြရဲ ့အခြင့္အေရးအတြက္တုိက္ပြဲမ၀င္ၾကေတာ့ဘူးဆုိရင္အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ဟာ လူ႔ဂုဏ္သိကၡာေပ်ာက္ဆုံးတဲ့ေန႕ပါဘဲလုိ့အေတြးအေခၚပညာရွင္ၾကီးတေယာက္ေျပာတာမွတ္မိပါတယ္။ မတရားမွုကုိ ျမင္ေနရက္သိေနရက္နဲ ့ မ်က္ႏွာလႊဲေနမယ္ဆုိရင္မီဒီယာရဲ႔တာ၀န္ပ်က္ကြက္ပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ကုိယ့္ဌာနကုိ္႔အနီးအနားမွာျဖစ္ေနတာကုိကုိယ္နဲ့မဆုိင္ဘူးလုိ႕ထင္ရင္ ဒီမတရားမႈဟာမၾကာခင္ ကုိယ့္ဆီေရာက္လာမွာပါ။ အခုလည္းေရာက္ေနျပီလုိ ့ၾကားေနရတာဘဲ။ အင္အယ္ဒီကုိ မသိမသာေဆာ္လုိက္တဲ့ကိစၥေတြ၊ အင္ဒီအက္ဖ္ကုိ မသိမသာေျမွာက္ေပးေနတာေတြ၊ အကြဲအျပဲသတင္းေတြကုိထပ္တလဲလဲလႊင့္ေနတာ။ႏုိင္ငံေ၇းအေျခအေနကုိလုံးလုံးမွမသိတဲ့ သတင္းဆုိတာဘာမွန္းမသိတဲ့အိမ္ရွင္မတေယာက္ကုိ ခန့္ျပီးအေရးၾကီးတဲ့အင္တာဗ်ဴးလုပ္ခုိင္း၊ နအဖကေမြးထားတဲ့အာအက္ေအသတင္းသမားကုိ ၾကံ႕ဖြံ႕နဲ့ အင္တာဗ်ဴးခုိင္းျပီး ၾကံ႕ဖြံ႕ရဲ ႔ေကာင္းျမတ္တဲ့ ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္နဲ့လုပ္ငန္္းစဥ္ေတြကုိေျပာျပပါအုန္း၊ ဒီလုိ ေကာင္းျမတ္တဲ့လုပ္ရပ္ေတြလုပ္ေနပါရက္နဲ့ ေ၀ဖန္သံေတြထြက္လာတာဘာေၾကာင့္ပါလဲဆုိျပီးေတာ့နပ္ေၾကာင္းေပးျပီး ၀ါဒျဖန့္ဖုိ႕လမ္းဖြင့္ေပးတာမ်ဳိး။ ဒါေတြကသမုိင္းမွာလိမ္လုိ ့မရတဲ့လုပ္ရပ္ေတြပါ။ ျပည္တြင္းကလွဳပ္မရတဲ့သူေတြကုိ မီဒီယာလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ဆုိတဲ့ေပတံၾကီးနဲ့ေခ်ာင္ပိတ္တဲ့ေမးခြန္းေတြေမး၊ လူထုကအထင္ေသးေအာင္လုပ္၊ သက္စြန္႔ဆံဖ်ားလုပ္ေနၾကတဲ့ ျပည္တြင္းကေက်ာင္းသားေတြကို မီဒီယာက်င့္၀တ္ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ျပီး သူတုိ႔ရဲ႔လွဳပ္ရွားမႈကုိမေျပာဖုိ့ေတာင္းပန္ထားတာေတြထဲ့ေျပာ ထဲ့ေၾကျငာလုပ္ေတာ့ေက်ာင္းသားေတြအဖမ္းခံရ။ ဒါေတြျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္။ မီဒီယာလက္မွာေသြးစြန္းေနျပီဆုိတာသတိမူေစခ်င္တယ္။ ေက်ာင္းသားဆက္ဆုိရင္ မလုိခ်င္ဘူး ဇာတ္ရွဳတ္တယ္။ ႏုိင္ငံေ၇းနဲ့လုံး၀ကင္းရွင္းတဲ့လူကုိဘဲ ေနရာေပးမယ္ဆုိတဲ့ အာအက္ေအရဲ႔ဒုတိယေျမာက္ျမန္မာဌာနမွဴးေဒၚျငိမ္းေရႊရဲ ့ေပၚလ စီက ဘာျဖစ္ေနသလဲဆုိရင္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးစိတ္ဓါတ္၊ႏုိင္ငံခ်စ္စိတ္လုံး၀ကင္းရွင္းတဲ့၊ကုိယ္က်ဳိးရွာလူ့ဗလနံတစုကုိ ေနရာေပးဖို႕လမ္းထြင္တာသက္သက္ပါဘဲ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ဒီေပၚလစီက ႏုိင္ငံေရး၊ႏုိင္ငံအေရး၊လူထုအေရးဆုိတဲ့ျမင့္ျမတ္တဲ့အဓိပၸါယ္ကုိ တန္ဖုိးမဲ့ေအာင္လုပ္လုိက္တာဘဲ။ ကုိယ္ကုိတုိင္က ျမန္မာအာဏာပုိင္ေတြရဲ့အာဏာစက္ကေနလြတ္ရာက်ြတ္ရာေရာက္ေန၊ ျမန္မာလူထုအတြက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာကေထာင္ေပးတဲ့ဌာနမွာေနရာ၀င္ယူ၊ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြအတြက္ေပးထားတဲ့ေငြကုိဖဲ့စား၊ ျပီးေတာ့ ဗမာျပည္ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးမေျပာနဲ႔ ကုိယ့္လက္လွမ္းမွီသေလာက္မွာရွိေနတဲ့ျမန္မာေတြကုိေတာင္မွ မတန္မရာလူေတြလုိ့သေဘာထားေနတဲ့ မီဒီယာအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူမ်ားကုိျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပကျပည္သူေတြသတိမူမိဖုိ ့လုိလာပါျပီ။ ငရဲေခြးၾကီးကုိလႊတ္မထားၾကပါနဲ့။ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ၾကပါ။ေထာက္ျပၾကပါ။ မတရားမွုေတြ ဆိတ္ကြယ္ရာမွာၾကာၾကာေရာက္ေနရင္ႏုိင္ငံနစ္နာပါတယ္။ ကုိယ္သိတာရွိရင္လည္းေ၀ငွၾကပါ။ ေဒၚစုေျပာသလုိပါဘဲ။ ကုိယ္လုပ္ႏုိင္တာေတြရွိပါတယ္။ ကူႏုိင္သေလာက္၀ုိင္းကူၾကပါ။ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ ့ဒုကၡကုိအရင္းျပဳျပီးကုိယ္က်ိဳးရွာေနသူေတြကုိဖယ္ရွားပစ္ၾကပါ။ ႏုိင္ငံတကာမွာျမန္မာသိကၡာခ်မဲ့လူေတြကုိ ငရဲေခြးလုိလႊတ္မထားၾကပါနဲ့လုိ့တုိက္တြန္းပါတယ္။
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Photo essay - Ai Weiwei's Lighted Cube at the Hirschorn - DC
All photos Copyright Kyi May Kaung
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The cultural life of Berlin c. 1933
http://anthropologist.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/the-cultural-life-of-berlin-circa-1933/ So like Burma and the bar depicted in the musical (play) Cabaret. kmk
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A new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi- according to this reviewer, the author has bitten off more than he can chew -
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/16964 This is not surprising, as most journalists are not well read on Burma.
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Ex-King Uthumphon and the Fall of Ayuthia to the Burmese - by Reinhold Holler
http://www.shanland.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5014:ex-king-uthumphon-and-the-falling-of-ayutthaya-to-the-burmese&catid=115:opinions&Itemid=308 from The Shan Herald
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Quote of the day - excerpt from poem by Saideh Pakravan
. . . The world has kept on turning. A quarter-century later, the Burmese military can join hands with God to swat a million people who drift with swollen bellies on the Irrawaddy Delta, ungainly water lilies floating among the debris washed here and there on the sluggish waves then, as an afterthought, decorating the carcasses on the bank where sharp-eyed carrions cannot believe their luck. Meanwhile, in a distant palace, a general undoes his armored vest to allow his full belly to expand. He burps and through his empty mind passes no thought of those drifting bodies nor of the tens of thousands crushed by hunger, sorrow, and pelting rain. Instead, sated after his meal, he vaguely surveys mentally the accumulated riches sent by a grieving world, signals for his plate to be removed, unwary of the waiter who approaches, thick kitchen chopper in hand and who splits open his skull, the waiter who has lost eleven family members in the Delta, who will avenge them so their souls can float away in peace, who no longer minds paying the price. Saïdeh Pakravan
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Native American activist Russell Means is dead - and others who died this year
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/10/22/native-american-activist-russell-means-dies/?hpt=hp_t3
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$3,500 for a Burmese "wife" and surrogate mother for a Chinese man
http://www.mizzima.com/edop/features/8258-big-money-for-burmese-women-who-marry-chinese-men.html
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Myanmar copper mine protests threaten to derail reforms, by Patrick Barta
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444083304578016000561897778.html
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Violence reignites in Arakan State, Burma
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/17092
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Burma as ASEAN's Bosnia - by Dr. Maung Zarni -
Maung Zarni SPREAD THE WORD. SHARE THIS AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE. "MYANMAR AS ASEAN's BOSNIA" The Pentagon and CIA are welcome. OIC's relief office is NOT. This is the essence of "reforms" in Burma, yes, those reforms Aung San Suu Kyi has endorsed. Why did Naypyidaw renege on its official agreement to let OIC open a humanitarian affairs office in Burma? Simple: OIC presence would have been rather inconvenient for the reforming Burma in times like these when the Rohingya properties and houses are burned down, families driven out like stray dogs, OIC would be bearing witness to the continuing on-again off-again periodic ethnic cleansing of these people on their own birthplace. Buddha (sic? Burma) forbids that OIC takes videos and pictures of Rohingya villages burning, children and women slaughtered and neo-fascist state and racist society act in collaboration towards their shared mission of ridding the country of Muslim Rohingyas. This is BOSNIA - except that ASEAN is no NATO. ASEAN has neither the collective spine, nor the social conscience nor humanistic heart. Editor's note - I sometimes post notes from other writers expressing their own views. I may or may not agree with them - kmk
Head of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy - Columbia University Campus. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung In India she was worshiped as a man. In Burma she is called pa kyaw medaw. kmk
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Never Sorry - a documentary about Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei.
http://aiweiweineversorry.com/
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Movie Argo with Ben Affleck, based on true event, gets good Rotten Tomatoes review -
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/argo_2012/ I'm going tomorrow and will report back again. kmk
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Kyi May Kaung: What Aunty Dora never talked about --
I just re-posted my 2007 obit of Daw Than E Fend (Aunty Dora). Here are some of the things I found out when her friend or factotum posted me her memorial service. These are details of her life that are written in the memorial program sheet, which must have been released with her express consent, as she was such a very private woman, in spite of her glamor and the interest of many people - which would naturally have included many men. Aunty Dora married Werner Fend. They divorced, but Aunty Dora continued to be friends with her ex-husband, even after he remarried and had children. As fate would have it, he died before she did, even though he was some 20 years younger. She continued to stay on in Austria until a few years after his death, to "look after" her "in laws" - i.e. Werner's second family. They weren't really technically her in-laws. I think it was right of her not to talk about any of this while she was alive. I do not expect any "Burmese" would understand this - they are so quick to condemn and vilify, especially to trash the reputation of women, while the men can only be called "small d-" If I left this as a comment in one of the Burmese magazines, I am sure I would get a lot of small d comments, but by now Aunty Dora is past caring, and so am I. Kyi May Kaung
Burmese steamed cakes - yay monn, being prepared at Wat Gate in Chiangmai, Thailand. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
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