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.
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Sunday, September 30, 2012
Quote of the week: An anonymous friend to me as I walked into Bender Arena for the Daw Suu event: We lost again, just like 1988.
Monks and Daw Suu - blurry - photo copyright Kaung.
It was so exciting to see Shwenyawar Sayadaw - whom I had previously seen only on TV.
