Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Why is this happening? I believe Westerners barking up wrong tree--Dr Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to be stripped of Oxford honor--

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/04/europe/aung-san-suu-kyi-oxford/index.html Above, report by CNN's Ivan Watson. She has no official post and no real power. Why is she being blamed? At least, I didn't stand by and do nothing. In 2012 I helped Columbia Univ convene a panel on the Rohingya, and they invited about 50% of the 12 member panel through my recommendations, but even they were scared to call it a Rohingya Conference, and called it, transition, something or the other. Now the well planned, state sponsored genocide has blown up in everyone's face. For the record, at the time I also suggested to Columbia U, that they wait a few days so Daw Suu herself, could attend the same panel. As it turned out, she was interviewed by a well known correspondent in the very same hall at Lowe Library that we were in, but apparently, the convenors wished to spare her embarrassment, and so she did not attend. I am also told this happened also at LSE. I have also heard many things such as her staff did not know who Bishop Tutu was,did not know what NPR National Public radio was. When she was released in 2010, I offered to comb the news daily and brief her every morning, if secure communications could be set up, but I am not even sure she received my message. It would have been so easy to do, as throughout her decades as an activist, her communications were through Western Embassies. Now this blame game of "let's let Daw Suu take all the blame" is just too easy, when the woman is a soft target with no army, and no intelligence service and no thugs of her very own. It plays right into the hands of the well entrenched junta, which wants to undermine her and the NLD anyway. For her own almamata Oxford to buy into this is disgraceful. Please look at who really planned the attacks on the Rohingya and other refugees. It has been systematically planned for years,just like the junta built a fake capital Naypyidaw, and set up a fake parliament with fake constitution, through a fake referendum in 2008,just days after Burma was reeling from Cyclone Nargis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Nargis It is too easy to blame a woman they are probably jealous of. You should also look at former Amnesty International head, Jack Healey's article in The Huffington Post. kmk 10-4-2017
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Burmese riddle verses from The Atlantic 1958

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/02/some-burmese-riddle-verses/640460/