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.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

New posting: Burmese Regime and Poverty -- video by Lisa DiLillo with poetry by Kyi May Kaung

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMtDclAlGnQ

Looking at this slightly different cut, I realize how true the words of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and U Bo Hla Tint are,

even though this was recorded a decade ago.

I wish that things would improve in Burma, so our words would go out of date, but they have not done so.

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Thursday, January 17, 2008

New posting: Burmese Regime and Poverty -- video by Lisa DiLillo with poetry by Kyi May Kaung

The end of some billionaires--sobering--esp. the plastic surgeried face of one of the women.

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