Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Myitsone Dam and other Dams in N Burma - International Rivers Report
http://www.internationalrivers.org/node/6876
Important conversation between Aung San Suu Kyi and Veteran Kachin Leader
Daw Inhpangyar-yar (spelled phonetically) met ASSK for dinner, and in response to ASSK's 2 Qs
1. on origins of KIO
2. why there is no reconciliation
- related how Aung San came to Kachin first for historic Panglong Treaty and how other major ethnic groups signed because they signed - with guarantee given by AS that they could secede in 10 years.
- however AS was assassinated and U Nu sold off Kachin territory to China (in 50s)
- as for 17 year ceasefire, which is not "peace" yet, it was violated by SPDC.
This is an informal summary - if you need more ask your (other) Burmese speakers to translate -
to read the Burmese you need Zawgyi or other Burmese font.
Daw Inhpangyaryar said they spoke for two hours, and ASSK listened so intently -
as if it was all new to her, that "her neck seemed to be bent to one side."
Daw Inhpangyaryar said she told Daw Suu, "Well, you were very young then and so you didn't know all this, and then you went overseas with your mother --"
--- Those of you in the Burmese language media etc should have this translated and should follow up on this some more.
As Stiglitz said, "National Reconciliation" has to come first.
Kyi May Kaung
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YPI – ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကို ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာ ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့စကားေတြ
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကို ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာ ေျပာခဲ့တဲ့စကားေတြ
by Yangon Press International on Saturday, 25 February 2012 at 08:25 ·
ျမစ္ႀကီးနား၊ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ ၂၅၊ ၂၀၁၂ (YPI) (ဆိုင္းဆြတ္)
ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႔ ည ၈နာရီ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ မေနာကြင္း မဂ်ြယ္ခန္းမမွာ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္သို႔ စည္းရုံးေရး ခရီးစဥ္အျဖစ္ ေရာက္ရွိေနတဲ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္နဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္သား ေခါင္းေဆာင္းမ်ား၊ ဘာသာေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားနဲ႔ ညစာအတူစားခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ထိုစဥ္က ကခ်င္အတုိင္ပင္ခံအဖဲြ႔ နာယက
ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာ နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္တို႔ ေျပာဆိုၾကတဲ့အေၾကာင္းကို YPI သတင္းေထာက္က ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာကို ေမးျမန္းထားပါတယ္။
ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာ။ ။ ည ၈နာရီ ကေန စျပီး ၁၀ နာရီ ေလာက္အထိ စကားေျပာျဖစ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္ သူက အဖြားကို ေမးခြန္း ႏွစ္ခုပဲေမးပါတယ္။
အဲဒါေတြက
၁- KIA က ဘာလို႔ျဖစ္လာတာလဲ
၂ – ဒီေန႔အထိ ဘာေႀကာင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဆြးေႏြးလို႔ မရေသးတာလဲ ဆိုတာကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုႀကည္က ေမးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အရမ္းအေရးႀကီးတဲ့ ေမးခြန္ေတြကို သူေမးခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ကြ်န္မ ျပန္ေျပာျပလိုက္ပါတယ္၊ အရင္ကတည္းက ကခ်င္ႏိုင္ငံဆိုျပီးရွိခဲ့တာပါ ဘယ္ဘုရင္ကမွ ဒီေနရာက ကခ်င္ေတြအတြက္ဆိုျပီး ေပးထားတာမဟုတ္ပါဘူး၊ ကခ်င္ေတြက ကိုယ္ေနရာ ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံ ကိုယ့္ေဒသနဲ႔ ကိုယ္ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ႀကတဲ့သူေတြျဖစ္တယ္၊ ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံ ကိုယ့္ေနရာနဲ႔ကိုယ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ျပီး ျငိမ္ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းခ်မ္း ေနထိုင္ခဲ့ ႀကတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ကြ်န္မတို႔ ကခ်င္လူမ်ိဴးေတြဟ ျမန္မာျပည္ဘက္ကိုလည္း မသြားဘူး ျမန္မာလူမ်ိဳးေတြကလည္း ကခ်င္လူမ်ိဴးေတြကို ေတာသား လူရုိင္းေတြဆို ျပီး အရမ္းေႀကာက္ခဲ့တာ။
ျဗိတိသွ် အုပ္ခ်ဴပ္တုန္းက ကြ်န္မတို႔ ကခ်င္လူမ်ိဴးေတြဟာ စစ္ေရးစစ္ရာ တိုက္ခိုက္တဲ့ေနရာမွာ ကြ်မ္းက်င္တဲ့ လူမ်ိဴးေတြျဖစ္တယ္၊ ပထမ ကမၻာစစ္နဲ႔ ဒုတိယ ကမၻာစစ္ ဂ်ပန္ေခတ္ ေတြမွာ ကခ်င္လူမ်ိဴးေတြ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ပါ၀င္ တိုက္ခိုက္ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ႀကတယ္၊
ဒီလိုနဲ႔ ၁၉၄၇ ခုႏွစ္မွာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဴပ္ေအာင္ဆန္း ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ကိုတက္လာတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ကြ်န္မ က အဲဒီအခ်ိန္ ၁၅ ၊ ၁၆ ႏွစ္ဘဲရွိေသးတယ္၊ အဲဒီတုန္းက ကြ်န္မ ႀကိဳဆိုဧည့္ခံေရး အဖဲြ႔မွာပါ၀င္ခဲ့တယ္၊ အခုက်ြန္မ အသက္ ၈၀ ေက်ာ္ျပီေလ၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဴပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းက ျဗိတိသွ် ေတြဆီက လြတ္လပ္ေရးရေအာင္ဆိုျပီး တျခားလူမ်ိဳးေတြဆီ မသြားပဲ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ကို အရင္လာတာျဖစ္တယ္။
ကခ်င္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ႀကတယ္၊ အစကေတာ့ လြတ္လပ္ေရးမွာ
မပါ၀င္ခ်င္ဘူး၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ ေအာင္ဆန္းက ကခ်င္တစ္က်ပ္ ဆို ျမန္မာတစ္က်ပ္ဆိုတဲ့ အခြင့္အေရးေပးမယ္ဆိုျပီး ျပည္ေထာင္စုမူ အရ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို႔ယူႀကမွပါ ခင္ဗ်ားတို႔ မႀကိဳက္ရင္လည္း ေနာက္ ၁၀ႏွစ္ေလာက္ဆို ျပန္ခဲြထြက္လို႔ ရတယ္ဆိုလို႕ ကခ်င္ေတြ ပင္လံုစာခ်ဳပ္မွာ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ႀကတာပါ။
ကခ်င္ေတြ ပင္လံုစာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဖို႔ သေဘာတူလို႔ ရွမ္းျပည္ကိုေရာက္တယ္ ရွမ္းေတြလည္း လြတ္လပ္ေရးကို မလိုခ်င္ႀကဘူး ဒါေပမဲ့ ကခ်င္ေနာင္ေတာ္ႀကီးေတြေတာင္ သေဘာတူတယ္ဆိုေတာ့ ဆိုျပီး ရွမ္းေတြလည္းသေဘာတူ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ႀကတယ္။ ျပီးေတာ့ ခ်င္းေတြ ျပန္ေရာက္လာတယ္ ခ်င္းေတြေရာ ဒီအတိုင္းဘဲ သေဘာမတူဘူး လြတ္လပ္ေရးကို မလိုခ်င္ႀကဘူး၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကခ်င္နဲ႔ ရွမ္းေတာင္ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးတယ္ဆိုျပီးသူလည္း သေဘာတူခဲ့တယ္၊
ပင္လံုမွာလက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးတာက ဗမာ ကိုယ္စား ေအာင္ဆန္း (ဖဆပလ) ေခါင္းေဆာင္ လက္မွတ္ထိုးတယ္ ကခ်င္၊ ရွမ္း၊ ခ်င္း ေလးဦး သေဘာတူျပီး ပင္လံုမွာ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ုဳပ္ခဲ့တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္၊ ၁၉၄၈ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၄ မွာ လြတ္လပ္ေရး ရတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ ရွင့္အေဖ ေပးထားတဲ့ ကတိစကားကို ကြ်န္မတို႔ အရမ္းအားကိုးနားေထာင္ျပီး လက္ခံထားတာကို ေအာင္ဆန္းမရွိေတာ့လို႔ ကၽြန္မတို႔ အရမ္း၀မ္းနည္းျပီး စိတ္ပ်က္သြားတယ္၊
အဲဒီအခ်ိန္က စျပီး ကြ်န္မတို႔ ကခ်င္ေတြက ဘာ အခြင့္အေရးမွ မရေတာ့တာပါ၊ ဦးႏုက ဖဆပလ (ဥကၠ႒) တက္လာေတာ့ ကခ်င္ေတြကို ဘာမွ မဟုတ္သလို ဆက္ဆံခဲ့တာပါ၊ ဒီလိုနဲ ့ကြ်န္မတို႔ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ တရုတ္ျပည္နယ္စပ္က ဖီေမာ္၊ လံကိုင္ နယ္ေျမကို ဘယ္သူ႕ကိုမွ မတိုင္ပင္ဘဲ တရုတ္ေတြကို ေရာင္းစားလိုက္တာဟုတ္တယ္။ ဒါေႀကာင့္ အရမ္း၀မ္းနည္းတယ္ အခုထိလည္း ၀မ္းနည္းေနတုန္းပါဘဲ။
၁၉၆၂ မွာ ကၽြန္မတို႕ ကခ်င္ေတြ သူပုန္ထလာတာျဖစ္တယ္၊ ဒါဘာျဖစ္လို႕လဲဆိုေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဘာသာ ဆိုတာကို ဘယ္သူ႕ကိုမွ တိုင္ပင္တာမရွိပဲ ဦးႏု သူ႕ဟာသူ စီစဥ္လုပ္ခဲ့တယ္ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ဘာသာမွာ ဆိုရင္ (တစ္ႏိုင္ငံလံုး ဗုဒၶဘာသာ ျဖစ္ရမယ္ဆိုတဲ့ ဦးတည္ခ်က္နဲ႔သြားရမယ္) က်န္တဲ့ ခရစ္ယာန္ ၊နတ္စား ၊ စတဲ့ ဘာသာေတြကို ႏိွမ္သလိုျဖစ္လာျပီး ဒါေႀကာင့္ KIO ေတာ္လွန္ေရးစလာတာပါ၊ ကခ်င္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးကိုစခဲ့တာ ေနာ္ဆိုင္းဟုတ္ပါတယ္ ေနာ္ဆိုင္းက ရွမ္းျပည္ကေန ကခ်င္ဖက္ကိုတက္လာေတာ့ သူ႕ကို ဘယ္သူမွ ႀကိဳဆိုေထာက္ခံမဲ့သူ မရွိလို႔ ေနာ္ဆိုင္းက တရုတ္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ေတြနဲ႔ ေပါင္းသြားတာျဖစ္တယ္။
ကၽြန္မတို႕ ကခ်င္ေတြက ျမန္မာေတြကို သတ္မယ္ျဖတ္မယ္ဆိုတဲ့ စိတ္ဓာတ္လံုး၀ မရွိပါဘူး ဗမာကို မုန္းရေအာင္ေနာ္ဆိုတဲ့ စိတ္လည္းမရွိပါဘူး၊ ဒါေပမယ့္ ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံကိုယ့္ျပည္ကို ကိုယ္ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္ အရင္က ပိုင္ဆိုင္သလို ပိုင္ဆိုင္ခြင့္ ကိုယ့္ႏိုင္ငံႀကီးပြားတိုးတက္ဖို႔ ကိုယ့္ေျခေထာက္ကိုယ္ ရပ္တည္သြားမယ္ ဆုိျပီး ေျပာႀကည့္ရင္လည္း မျဖစ္လို႔ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး KIO ဆိုတာ ျဖစ္လာတာဟုတ္တယ္၊
ဒီေန႔ အထိလည္း ဒါပါပဲ တျခားေတာ့ ဘာမွမဟုတ္ဘူး အပစ္ေခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးကို ၁၇ ႏွစ္ႀကာေအာင္ ျပန္လုပ္ခဲ့ျပီးျပီး က်ြန္မတို႔ အရမ္းေပ်ာ္ရြင္ခဲ့ပါတယ္၊ ဒီအပစ္ခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး လုပ္ျပီး ေတာ့ ေနာက္တစ္ဆင့္အေနနဲ႔ ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုပ္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္လာတယ္၊
အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးက ျငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးမဟုတ္ဘူး..ျငိမ္းခ်မး္ေရး ဆိုတာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအရ စားပဲြေပၚမွာ ျပဳလုပ္ဖို႔ျဖစ္တာ ဒါကို လုပ္ခြင့္မေပးဘူး KIO အေနနဲ႔ ခဏခဏေတာင္းဆိုတယ္ မလုပ္ေပးခဲ့ဘူး “ျပည္သူ႕အစိုးရေပၚလာေတာ့မယ္ မင္းတို႔ သိပ္မေလာႀကနဲ႔ ဆိုျပီးျပန္ေျပာတယ္” ျပည္သူ႕အစိုးရ ေပၚလာျပီး အစည္းအေ၀းေတာင္ မလုပ္ေသးဘူး သူတို႔ အရင္ပစ္တယ္ ၂၀၁၂ ဇြန္ ၉ မွာ စစ္စျဖစ္တယ္။
အခု ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္မွ ျမန္မာစစ္သား ၁သိန္းေက်ာ္ျပီး သိလား.. ဒံုးက်ည္ ၂ေသာင္း ေရာက္ေနတယ္.. အေျမာက္ေတြလည္း အမ်ားႀကီးေရာက္ေနတယ္ ကခ်င္နဲ႔ခရစ္ယာန္ေတြကို အျမစ္ျပတ္သြားေအာင္ လုပ္သြားမွာျဖစ္တယ္။
ဘာျဖစ္လို႕လဲဆိုေတာ့ အျပင္က ေလာဘ စိတ္ေႀကာင့္ဟုတ္တယ္ ကြ်န္မတို႔ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္မွာ သံယဇာတေပါမ်ားတယ္ ဒါေႀကာင့္နယ္ေျမကို လုယူပိုင္ဆိုင္ခ်င္လို႔ျဖစ္တယ္ လို႕ ကြ်န္မတို႕ ကေတာ့ ဒီလိုပဲ ထင္ႀကပါတယ္။
ကခ်င္လြတ္လပ္ေရးအဖဲြ႔ ကေတာင္းဆိုထားတာကက (၁) ပင္လံုစာခ်ဳပ္ ပင္လံုစိတ္ဓာတ္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးကို ႏုိင္ငံေရးလို စားပဲြေပၚမွာ ပင္လံု အေျခခံျပီး ေဆြးေႏြးမယ္ (၂ ) ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သားေတြ ကို ကိုယ့္ေနရာကိုယ္ျပန္ဆုတ္ခိုင္း ဒါဆိုရင္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္မယ္ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္မယ္ဆိုရင္ႏိုင္ငံတကာက လူေတြကိုေခၚျပီး စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္မယ္ဆိုျပီးေတာင္းဆိုထားတာ အခုထိေတာ့ဘာမွ အေႀကာင္းျပန္လာတာ မရွိေသးဘူး၊
ေဒၚစုက အံႀသစြာနဲ႔ လည္ပင္းေတာင္ ေစာင္းတယ္ ကၽြန္မေျပာတာကို နားေထာင္ေနတာ သူက ဘာမွမသိတဲ့ပံုပဲ မင္းကအဲဒီတုန္းက ငယ္ေသးတယ္ေလ ျပီးေတာ့ မင္းအေမေနာက္လိုက္သြားရေတာ့ ငါတို႕ဒီက သမိုင္းေႀကာင္းကို ဘာမွ မသိလိုက္ဘူးေပါ့ လို႕ကၽြန္မေျပာခဲ့တယ္။
အထက္က ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္မ်ားမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာက ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည့္ စကားမ်ားကို ၎ကိုယ္တိုင္ ျပန္လည္ေျပာျပတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ထိုေန႔ညက ရွင္းျပအၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား သူေျပာခ်င္တဲ့ စကားတစ္ခြန္းျဖစ္သည့္ “ျမန္မာ့နည္းျမန္မာ့ဟန္ ဆိုရွယ္လစ္ အခုလည္း ျမန္မာ့နည္းျမန္မာ့ဟန္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ မလုပ္ရင္ေကာင္းတယ္” ဆိုတာကို မီးပ်က္သြားတာေၾကာင့္ မေျပာလိုက္ရဘူးလို႔ ေဒၚအင္ဖန္ဂ်ာရာ က YPI ကိုျပန္ေျပာျပပါတယ္။
အဲဒီ့ေနာက္ YPI သတင္းေထာက္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ဘာေၾကာင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္သို႔ လာသည္ထင္သလဲ ဟုေမးရာ
“ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ပါတီစည္းရံုးေရး ထြက္လာတယ္ ထင္တာပဲ” လို႔ေျဖဆိုပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ လာတဲ့အေပၚ ဘာေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားလဲ ဆိုတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းကိုေတာ့
“ ဘာမွ ထူးထူးျခားျခား မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ပါဘူး၊ ပါတီစည္းရံုးေရး သက္သက္ပဲ ထြက္လာတယ္၊ တကယ္လို႔ သူေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ ႏိုင္လို႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ ၀င္ထိုင္ျဖစ္ရင္ေတာ့ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္အတြက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ခ်က္ အေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ရွိတယ္ ” လို႔ေျဖသြားပါတယ္။
Monday, February 27, 2012
Martin Klimas - paint sculptures made from sound waves
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/21/martin-klimas-paints-with-sound_n_1290756.html?ref=arts
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Scammed for $17m etc -New York Times Arts and Design page
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/design/index.html
pl read - especially on
fake Pollocks etc - I don't see how people got scammed - they are obviously fakes to me.
Barnes Foundation
Cindy Sherman
Ramellzee
Rembrant and Degas etc
kmk
Kyi May Kaung - found collage - not a fake - art and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Mostly rose colored - but nice pics
http://www.theborneopost.com/2012/02/26/all-roads-lead-to-yangon/
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Upcoming Burma "by-election" already not "F and F"
Friday, February 24, 2012
Burma soldier and Burmese-born US Marine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EknTt3aCDKc&feature=relmfu
VOA interview by U Ronnie Nyein
summary:
The first interviewee compares what little he got from the Burmese government (about $6 lump sum payment and about $1 per month in pension, which was cut off when he joined the National League for Democracy, with the Disability pension he receives from the US Government in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where he lives.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Burmese Puppet - almost bent over backwards but still looking up
Found on Facebook - How to get away with murder - step by step guide from Burma junta
"How to get away with murder, a step by step guide book by Naypyidaw regime
1. First hire a PR firm from NY to give your SLORC a kinder softer name SPDC.
2. Be so mean and nasty that when you release a person, or allow UN
emergency aid to dying victims of the Cyclone, it is applauded.
3. Who cares about the rest. Because you are working on it.
4. Own a country with natural resources as if it were your
stepfather's whorehouse. 5. Sell them to highest bidder after meeting
in golden presidential palace.
6. Make sure you and your buddies make more money this way.
7. Use flattery and stroke bloated egos and delusional patriotism.
8. Bring along locals to run your show but not to have control over it.
9. Allow former enemies of your state, or whorehouse, to come back
and bring their foreign development funds to make them feel better and
make you look good.
10. Some of them might even pimp for you: They will repeat how open
your regime is, or there is nothing to complain, or there is ground
for "cautious optimism" while the minorities are slaughtered.
11. Allow some wealthy to give charity to humanitarian causes because
you do not have enough money to support the citizens of Burma, what
with all the private things you and your families need.
12. Make sure that all the past is forgotten and ensure that your
constitution makes this possible.
13. Just move on to a better place, and leave the population with
massive foreign debt by the tune of billions.
14. And hold by-elections, throw crumbs at the desperate opposition
and let the West have the bones."
Datura - a flower poisonous in all its parts - photo Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Some fantastic phtographs of a badly scarred earth
http://magazine.saatchionline.com/articles/artnews/jhenryfair
Time magazine email interview of Garielle Gifford
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2102334,00.html
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The atrocities of war - a brilliant short story from Guernica Magazine
http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/3279/breytenbach_12_1_11/
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Beautiful & brilliant Burmese comedian Zarganar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlTTD0kwCcg&feature=related
3 part interview from DVB.
I did not however like what he said about having campaigned 30 years ago so "Chinese" i.e. those holding FRCs or Foreigners' Registration Cards could not go to medical school.
I think that is racist.
Kyi May Kaung
Saturday, February 18, 2012
1940 Clare Booth (later Clare Booth Luce's) articles in Life Magazine about bombing of Mandalay and Maymyo -
http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater/mission/life-mission.html
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Performance "Tomorrow" in honor of Victms of Northern Massacre
http://www.8888peopletoday.net/
On 12th Feb 1992, in Pajau on Burma-China Border,
15 people were accused of being SLORC spies and tortured and executed by ABSDF (Northern Burma). ABSDF is an armed student group set up in 1988 by university students who fled Burma after the clampdown on 18th Sept.
Some alleged perpetrators and several survivors are still alive.
This performance was staged by artist Soo Myint Thein (spelled phonetically) at the recent merit sharing ceremony in Rangoon, Burma.
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Ashes from burned paper - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai, died in Nov 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nien_Cheng
I met her at a friend's house and interviewed her in 1998.
Kyi May Kaung
Chinese diaspora writing - costs and benefits
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,409644,00.html
Multicultural Christmas still life - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
"Burmese waterboarding" Kyi May Kaung's translation of Naing Win Swe's
Moe Makha Plant
in
http://www.fpif.org/articles/moe_ma_kha_plant
This happened in jungle among rebels, I am unsure which.
Naing Win Swe died in battle, his comrades having no time to bury him, "just covered him with wild flowers".
It was the first poem I introduced and produced/broadcast on my Poems of Those who Love their Country, in 1997. Weekly program went on for 3 years.
It has also appeared on another international poetry website (not available now).
Kyi May Kaung
Tamarind pods soaking in water - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Friday, February 10, 2012
funnies - if you prefer to rent rather than buy - and your name is --
http://www.boston.com/realestate/luxuryliving/galleries/luxury_boston_condos_for_rent?pg=2
Kyi May Kaung - Burma - Economists, generals and culture vultures Part 1
http://asiancorrespondent.com/author/kyimaykaung/
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Nancy Hudson-Rodd in DVB - Trouble brews as Burma turns to world markets
http://www.dvb.no/analysis/trouble-brews-as-burma-turns-to-world-markets/20116#comment-48580
How to prep coffee beans - in Thai cafe - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Born a Criminal (in Burma) by Francis Wade
http://asiancorrespondent.com/54660/born-a-criminal-in-burma%E2%80%99s-prison-hospitals/
Memorial Poem for Astronaut Dr Janice Voss
Dear Linda
please feel free to use this on the Memorial Cards and to read at the Service.
So long as my name is on the bottom in small print it is fine.
I don't know why the email is typing like this. I did not change to Plain Text as formatting would be lost.
Sincere Condolences
Kyi May
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/voss-jan.html
A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Voss has logged over 49 days in space, traveling 18.8 million miles in 779 Earth orbits.
Dr. Voss first flew on STS-57 (June 21 to July 1, 1993). Mission highlights included retrieval of the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) with the Shuttle’s robotic arm, a spacewalk, and the first flight of the Spacehab module. She next flew on STS-63 (February 3-11, 1995). Mission highlights included the rendezvous with the Russian Space Station, Mir, the deployment and retrieval of Spartan 204, and the third flight of Spacehab. She also flew as payload commander on STS-83 (Apr 4-8, 1997).
Moon Flower and Blood Grass - photo - copyright Kyi May Kaung/
Janice, I wish I had met you/
before the cancer got you./
I only ever met two other/
Astronauts in my life. One man and one woman/
about five feet tall./
You loved science fiction and square dancing./
Look down on us from your last/
Circling of the Earth./
Know, we miss you./
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Dead whale shark in Karachi
http://videos.geo.tv/VideoGallery.aspx?ID=3438
I wonder what the did with it
did they stuff it?
Kyi May Kaung
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
A partial Burmese economic history through its banknotes
http://banknotesofburma.blogspot.com/
Banknotes of Burma Blog by Min Sun Min
U Kaung in the early banknotes was my father who was at one time Chairman of the Burma Currency Board.
In the early 50s.
Kyi May Kaung
Dickens vs lawyers from New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/opinion/dickens-v-lawyers.html?_r=1
Monday, February 06, 2012
Military rule mars hopes for democracy in Burma
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/military-backed-rule-blurs-hopes-for-democracy-in-burma-184814-page-2.html
US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs scratches his eyebrow
frame grab
Kyi May Kaung's article - Burma's Economy: Can World Class Advisors Make a Difference? -- in Asian Correspondent
http://asiancorrespondent.com/75403/burmas-economy-can-world-class-advisors-make-a-difference/
Badly split banana leaf - photo copyright Kyi May kaung
Sunday, February 05, 2012
Kolkata Massala slide show - India
http://telsawy.tripod.com/Kolkata_Masala/publish_to_web/index.html
Saturday, February 04, 2012
Wislawa Symborska's The Joy of Writing and other poems on her Nobel Prize page
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/szymborska-poems-5-e.html
Young bamboo that will become invasive
Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.
An Iranian Vote - from an Iranian dissident
MY VOTE! ای دشمن آزادگان، ای جمهوری اسلامی ایران ، ما بی شمارانیم
33 years of Torture, imprisonment, injustice, rape and stoning, taking out eyes from the socket, amputations, over 100.000 executions, oppression, suppression, 8 years of forced Iran-Iraq war with 1/2 millions death, drug addictions, poverty, lack of jobs and security... And more. After all these, is there anyone in favour of the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN?
Image provided by Iranian Dissident
posted with permission.
Note: It says in Persian: Islamic Republic of Iran, you are the enemy of freedom fighters but we are so many and in abundance.
Burmese-born poet Ko Ko Thett translates Symborska
Yahoo! Mail
true love: a tribute to Szymborska (1923-1212)
Saturday, February 4, 2012 4:03 PM
Just noticed Szymborska died on 1 Feb! I was oblivious to her passing when I gave her poem 'true love' in translation to kaungkin the other day, for Valentine's.
I am just passing through, it’s a five-minute stop.
I won’t catch what is distant: what’s too close, I’ll mix up.
While trying to plumb what the void's inner sense is,
I'm bound to pass by all these poppies and pansies.
What a loss when you think how much effort was spent
perfecting this petal, this pistil, this scent
for the one-time appearance, which is all they're allowed,
so aloofly precise and so fragilely proud.
from 'Birthday' translated from Polish by Stanislaw Baranczak
and Clare Cavanagh
She has passed through. Her one-time appearance is intransient.
--
KKt
ko ko thett
အခ်စ္စစ္
အခ်စ္စစ္တဲ့၊ ပံုမွန္မွဟုတ္ရဲ့လား
အေလးအနက္လား၊ လက္ေတြ႕ေရာက်ရဲ႕လား
ႏွစ္ေယာက္တည္းတစ္ကမၻာလုပ္ေနတဲ့ လူႏွစ္ေယာက္က
ဒီကမၻာႀကီးကို ဘာေပးႏိုင္မွာတဲ့တုန္း။
အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္ ေျခေျချမစ္ျမစ္ မရွိဘဲ
မ႑ပ္တိုင္ထူလိုက္ၾက
သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာထဲက တစ္ေယာတ္ကို စုံလုံးကန္း ေရြးလိုက္ၿပီးမွ
ဒါဟာ ဒီလိုပဲျဖစ္ရမယ္လို႕ ယံုၾကည္လိုက္ၾက
ဘာအတြက္လဲ - သဲထဲေရသြန္။
ရုတ္တရက္ သက္ဆင္း လာတဲ့ အလင္းတန္း။
ဘာေၾကာင့္ တျခားသူေတြေပၚ မက်ဘဲ ဒင္းတို႕ ႏွစ္ေယာက္ေပၚက်
ဒါဟာ တရားမွ်တမႈကို ပါးခ်တာမဟုတ္လား - ဟုတ္ပါ့။
ဒါဟာ က်ားကုတ္က်ားခဲ ထူေထာင္ခဲ့ရတဲ့ စည္းမ်ည္းေတြကို ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္တာ၊
အထြဋ္အထိပ္ ေရာက္ၿပီးသား က်င့္ဝတ္ေတြကို လႊင့္ပစ္တာ -
ဒါေတြအားလံုးဟုတ္။
အဲဒီစုံတြဲ သဲေနပံုကိုၾကည့္။
သိုသိုသိပ္သိပ္မေနႏိုင္ၾကဘူးလား
သူငယ္ခ်င္းေတြကို စာနာစိတ္နဲ႕ စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္ မေနသင့္ဘူးလား။
နားေထာင္ၾကည့္ ဒင္းတို႕ရယ္သံကိုက- ေစာ္ကားေမာ္ကား။
ဒင္းတို႕ေျပာတဲ့စကားေတြက ရိုးလြန္းလို႕ယံုႏိုင္စရာမရွိ။
ဒင္းတို႕ရဲ႕ အေသးအမႊားေပ်ာ္ပြဲေတြ၊ အပရိက ထံုးတမ္းစဥ္လာေတြ၊
အပိုဆာလား အျပန္အလွန္ နိစၥဓူဝေတြ -
ေသခ်ာတာက အခ်စ္စစ္ဆိုတာ လူသားမ်ိဳးႏြယ္ရဲ႕ ေနာက္ေၾကာက ကလိန္ျခဳံမႈ။
လူတုိင္းသာ သူတို႕လို အတုျမင္အတတ္သင္ျဖစ္ကုန္ရင္ ဒုကၡ
ေတြးေတာင္မေတြးရဲ။
ဘာသာတရားနဲ႕ ကဗ်ာကို ဘယ္ေပၚသြားထားမလဲ။
ဘာေတြကိုတသ၊ ဘာေတြကိုစြန္႕ပစ္ရမွာလဲ၊
ဘယ္သူေတြကမ်ား အေႏွာင္အဖြဲ႕ေတြၾကား ေနခ်င္ပါေတာ့မလဲ။
အခ်စ္စစ္တဲ့၊ တကယ္ လိုအပ္လို႕လား။
အရွက္ကြဲမႈတစ္ခု ဘဝရဲ႕အျမင့္ဆံုး အသိုင္းအဝိုင္းေတြထဲ
လူသူမသိ ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္သြားပံုမ်ိဳး
လိမၼာေရးျခားရွိမႈနဲ႕၊ လူပိန္းေတြးေတြးမႈက အခ်စ္စစ္ကို ျဖတ္ေက်ာ္ဖို႕
ငါတို႕ကို ေျပာတယ္။
ေျခာက္ျပစ္ကင္း သားသမီးရတနာေလးေတြေမြးဖို႕ အခ်စ္စစ္မလို။
အခ်စ္စစ္ ဆိုတာ ဒုလႅဘမို႕
သူ႕အားကိုးေနရင္ ေနာင္ႏွစ္တစ္သန္းလည္း ကမၻာ့လူဦးေရ တိုးတက္မွာမဟုတ္။
အခ်စ္စစ္ကို မႀကံဳဖူးတဲ့လူေတြ
အခ်စ္စစ္ဆိုတာ ေလာကမွာမရွိဘူးလို႕ ေျပာၾကပါေစ။
အဲဒီလိုယံုေတာ့ သူတို႕ေတြ အေနေျဖာင့္ အေသေျဖာင့္တာေပါ့။
ဗစ္စ္ဝါဘာ ရွင္ေဘာ္စကာ
ႏိုဘယ္လ္ဆုရ ပိုလန္ကဗ်ာဆရာမ Wislawa Szymborska (1923-1212) ၏ true love။ Stanislaw
Baranczak ႏွင့္ Clare Cavanagh က အဂၤလိပ္လိုျပန္ထားေသာမူကို ကိုကိုသက္
ျမန္မာမႈျပဳသည္။
Outsider artist in Texas with bottle cap art - photo Copyright Kyi May Kaung - with permission of the artist, 2011.
Race, parenting, the South, etc - Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is 50 years old
Harper Lee & Truman Capote were first cousins and both became bestselling novelists.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/03/showbiz/to-kill-a-mockingbird-50/index.html?hpt=hp_bn4
Kyi May Kaung
Quote of the Day - Dr Zarni in LA Times Oct 2011
"We're basically dealing with the same creature, with slightly more enlightened posturing," said Zarni, founder of the London-based Free Burma Coalition, an activist group, who uses one name. "We shouldn't fool ourselves that the regime is driven by reformers.
"
Chinese artist Ai Wei Wei -- frame grab
Friday, February 03, 2012
NPR - interview of Emma Larkin (pseu) Finding George Orwell in Burma
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=4761169&m=4761207
This is a very good book, as is her second "Everything is Broken"
Kyi May Kaung
My Amazon.com review of Mo Yan's Red Sorghum
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UGSVAK6M3TYV
Red Sorghum: A Novel of China (Mass Market Paperback)
I read Red Sorghum by Mo Yan and translated by Howard Goldblatt about five years ago.
It is unforgettable and beautifully translated, though not an easy read as Mo Yan writes about a grandmother in the voice of her grandson, so the time shifts are sometimes jarring. Most of the story is in flashback. I have not seen the film.
However, many scenes are unforgettable.
A great work of international literature.
Yes, I don't usually like to read "Chinese" or "Burmese" or whatever fiction written by writers who base it all on research, not on life.
Red Poppy by Alai, a Tibetan writer who writes in Mandarin, also translated by Goldblatt, is also excellent.
Kyi May Kaung
See your review on the site
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Michelle Yeoh plays Aung San Suu Kyi in The Lady
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/life/Burma-in-the-balance-30174980.html
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