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I wish that things would improve in Burma, so our words would go out of date, but they have not done so.

Copyright Kyi May Kaung

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