“As in the well known Burmese nursery rhyme Jah-Eh, which runs in an unending vicious circle, the Burmese people are still crying.
“Although the addendum activism to the revolution is trying to pull us out of the darkness through the hole in the wall, we are still hanging there stuck, our legs half in, half out.
“The monkey on the shrine shelf is still running up and down.”
Hanthawadi U Win Tin, What’s That? A Living Hell! p. 38., AAPPB, Bangkok, March 2010
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.
Much to read from the Atlantic--incld--Friday Night Massacre.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/cq-brown-and-friday-night-massacre/681803/
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https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Famous+Chinese+tenors#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:12005ab7,vid:_d4ap5I_tmk,st:0
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https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/us-sanctions-myanmar-and-russia-firms-arming-junta.html