KyiMayKaung
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.
Friday, March 29, 2024
Long ago event with Washington Musica Viva--
October 23, 2005
Location: Atlas Performing Arts Center
Performers: Kyi May Kaung, poet, Betty Hauck, viola, Ben Redwine, clarinet, June Huang, violin, Gary Poster, bass, Scott Kenison, baritone, Jodi Beder, cello, Carl Banner, piano. Music of Scott Wheeler, Maurice Saylor, Michael Strand, John Philip Sousa, Robert Schumann, George Walker, Thomas Kerr. This concert was supported in part by a grant from The Sprenger-Lang Foundation. Thank you!
Maurice Saylor, Michael Strand, and Scott Wheeler were present at this performance. This event was reviewed by Andrew Lindemann Malone in the Washington Post.
Program:
Märchenerzählungen Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
1. Lebhaft, nicht zu schnell; 2. Lebhaft, und sehr markirt;
3. Ruhiges Tempo, mit zartem Ausdruck; 4. Lebhaft, sehr markirt
Benjamin Redwine, clarinet, Betty Hauck, viola, Carl Banner, piano Riding to Town Thomas Kerr (1915-1988) Lament George Walker (b. 1922)
Gary Poster, bass, Carl Banner, piano Dragon Mountain Scott Wheeler (b. 1952) 1. Dragon Song 2. Dragon Flight 3. The Dragon and the Mirror June Huang, violin, Betty Hauck, viola, Jodi Beder, cello, Carl Banner, piano Kyi May Kaung, poet "Tongues Don't Have Bones" video by Lisa DiLillo
"When some serious affliction..." John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) Scott Kenison, baritone, Carl Banner, piano My Soul is Dark(Tango Song; 2004) Michael Strand Alta Quies (1994) Maurice Saylor (b. 1957)
The Mill-stream; Pleiads I; Alta Quies; Pleiads II; For My Funeral Gary Poster, bass, Carl Banner, piano
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-unconditional-release-of-all-myanmar-political-prisoners-is-non-negotiable.html
March 27, hell day for Burma.
Originally Resistance Day from Japanese Occupation-WWII
which junta took for "their day."
March 27, 2021--when m a h said: I have no trouble killing 100 ppl a day.
Pegu Massacre.
I met U Bo Kyi/AAPP in 2008 in Helsinki.
All these organizations, Irrawaddy, AAPP, NUG, etc. need Support for what they do.
Pl start fund-raising wherever you are--food sales, cookies (that you eat), other forms of support.
Be aware that your existing support--e.g. for a non-profit inside Burma is not the same as changing the system--many good-hearted ppl do not realise this--
Irrawaddy, Myanmar Now, AAPP are about changing the system.
I'm getting tired of pointing this out.
It's like children as soon as they grow up, need to leave an abusive family.
If you stay, don't ever think you can "work the system."
You can't. The system will exploit you, bleed you dry and kill you.
km
Medieval philospher --Peter (Piere) Abelard--hymns--life story
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Poetry post--And we love life by Marwood Darwish
And We Love Life by Marmood Darwish. And we love life if we find a way to it.
We dance in between martyrs and raise a minaret for violet and palm trees. We love life if we find a way to it. And we steal from the silkworm a thread to build a sky and fence in this departure. We open the garden gate for the jasmine to step out on the streets as a beautiful day. We love life if we find a way to it. And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead. We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the first corridor a neigh. We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night. We love life if we find a way to it. . . (translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah) Copyright 2008 The Nation.
Monday, March 25, 2024
good wrap in Irrawaddy + Dr Tayzar San
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/a-chronicle-of-collapse-how-the-tide-turned-against-myanmars-once-mighty-military.html
https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/spring-revolution-may-be-last-chance-for-myanmar-democracy.html
sounds like a medical doctor--however
Irrawaddy etc shld not be publishing his likeness too much.
Nor shld he give more interviews.
War is war.
km
3-25-2024
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Mistake in previous post
It was late Col Chit Myaing who lived in MD whom Mrs Inge Sargent thought arrested and caused the death of her 1st husband--Hsipaw Sawbwa Sao Kya Seng in 1962 (through torture.)
My mistake--not Col Kyi Maung who was with NLD.
Thanks to Dr Maung Zarni for pointing it out.
Apologies.
km
From Wikipedia--
Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (nĂ©e Mazepa;[a] 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was an American-Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).[2]
It was her reporting from Chechnya that made Politkovskaya's national and international reputation.[3] For seven years, she refused to give up reporting on the war despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. Politkovskaya was arrested by Russian military forces in Chechnya and subjected to a mock execution. She was poisoned while flying from Moscow via Rostov-on-Don to help resolve the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, and had to turn back, requiring careful medical treatment in Moscow to restore her health.
Her post-1999 articles about conditions in Chechnya were turned into books several times;[4] Russian readers' main access to her investigations and publications was through Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper that featured critical investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. From 2000 onwards, she received numerous international awards for her work. In 2004, she published Putin's Russia, a personal account of Russia for a Western readership.[5]
On 7 October 2006 (notably, on the 54th birthday of the then President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin), she was murdered in the elevator of her block of apartments, an assassination that attracted international attention.[6][7][8] In June 2014, five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing.[9]
Crocus Hall Moscow--Putin says--Ukraine angrily denies--
https://apnews.com/article/russia-moscow-krasnogorsk-gunmen-concert-hall-fire-97e321c3c477ece36d4fb32f50fa0e8a
Putin has done this sort of thing before--when he blew up apartment building and blamed on Chechens, when he first came topower.
See Anna Politkovskaya book--Anna Politikovskaya was killed in lobby of her apartment building.
Becoming old trick.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Junta's so-called NPT "mayor" actually head honcho lord of land grabs dies--
Thein Nyunt was responsible for land grabs for the sprawling city and behind the planning of a row of six mansions in Naypyitaw for Than Shwe, who took the largest plot with 6.4 hectares (16 acres). His deputy, Maung Aye, future speaker Shwe Mann, future president Thein Sein and future Union Election Commission chair Tin Aye took the remaining plots on the row. Thein Nyunt, then chairman of Naypyitaw Council, sold plots to ministers and slightly smaller areas to deputy ministers for a few thousand US dollars each. Top civil servants were also allocated land.Private companies had to construct the homes and military cronies won the contracts. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/obituaries/naypyitaws-first-mayor-thein-nyunt-dies.html 3-22-2024
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Gorgon/Gorgons--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgons
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https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/best-post-apocalyptic-books
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The maker of this replica seems to have assumed, anomalously, that the corner towers were in the Banteay Srei style -- visually, as you can ...
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