Sunday, July 10, 2016

Burmese Brutality Gallery--

Milan Kundera quote--

Quote of the day--


From Good Reads--
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Milan Kundera
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”


― Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting



1.  Depayin Massacre site--May 30 2003.
2.  Depayin demonstration 2015
3. -5Death of Japanese journalist Kenju Nagaii, shot point blank in Rangoon, the photographer (not Burmese) later won a prize.  2007 Sept.
6.  Ko Par Gyi remains exhumed--his wife had to fight for it.
7.  Ko Par Gyi, journalist, died under extreme torture--11-2014
8  Ma Thandar, Ko Par Gyi's widow--

All images from Internet.

Many people, thousands, have died for freedom in Burma--

The least we can do is not to forget.

k

7-10-2016







Burmese riddle verses from The Atlantic 1958

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/02/some-burmese-riddle-verses/640460/