KyiMayKaung

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.

Sunday, July 30, 2023

My problem with religion is

it makes people complacent

passive

though the Buddha as he lay dying said

"work out your own salvation."

Baptists don't believe in Catholic saints

When I was baptized

a Christian said

what kind ofchurch is that.

A church built of stone and cement

a church near a university

a church which called itself

open and affirming

and yet

when I was elected to the church council

a woman said, to the other white people

"You talk to me thisway

because I am fat and a lesbian."

since then,I go to all churches friends invite me to

but not to witches and wicca

I don't like the donation basket on a long stick, pointed at me even before the preacher preached

I don't like the paster with his own movie company and 11 children

I don't like racist monks

I don't like monks with militias or monks who model robes on a catwalk.

I'm sick and tired. Kyi May Kaung

It's not enough to believe you are Impermanent--while you are alive, make the world better. Kyi May Kaung

Acquarium parking lot, Houston,TX.

If you don't know how to Google and stay stuck in your shell, you will learn nothing, no matter what your religion is. Kyi May Kaung

Ralph Nader--activist-at oil spill hearing. I think I saw him once at airport--with a bag full of paper notes

Dr. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi--Nobel Peace Prize winner

Saturday, July 29, 2023

It never stops--

back to Irrawaddy--3 Sagaing PDF killed, 2 junta pilots, g-d-ed"White"elephant is dark grey https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/three-sagaing-student-activists-killed-in-myanmar-junta-raid.html

the emperor is naked--

"vacation" for soldiers/amputees.

It never stops.

I'm only the messenger.

so is Irrawaddy

Niger Coup

Financial Times not letting link in--Google on yr own.

Friday, July 28, 2023

Rest in Protest--U Nyi PuLay--youngest son of Ludu Daw Ahmar and Ludu U Hla by Dr Maung Zarni

He was youngest son of Ludu Daw Ahmar and Ludu U Hla.

Rest in Protest.

kmk

7-28-2023 ----- Forwarded Message -----

Subject: Nyi Pu Lay (1952-2023): Resting in the Revolution - FORSEA, 28 July 2023 Nyi Pu Lay (1952-2023): Resting in the Revolution

Nyi Pu Lay, the man, treated anyone who met him with respect. He was courteous, thoughtful, kind and generous with his time, talents and publications. He was modest above all, and brimming with curiosity and eagerness to learn not just about things that immediately concerned the Burmese mind, but racism, international law, democratization, transitional justice, genocide and other atrocity crimes. Maung Zarni on July 28, 2023

Myanmar’s Pre-eminent Family of Dissidents with Progressive Politics

Biographers of Lenin have generally recognized the profound impact on Lenin of the radical politics of his older brother who was executed by the Tsar Nicholas II.

Well, multiply such defining experience in life of a dissident by five, and see how such profound experience would shape a person’s life, world view, and choices.

Imagine your father, a well-known writer and journalist, was imprisoned five times by various states in Burma, including the World War II-era colonial British, the post-colonial parliamentary democracy government and the post-1962 coup military dictatorship of General Ne Win, for doing what he considered “the right thing”, that is, using his pen to shed light on the political repression, racial and class exploitation and abuses of state power. Your mother – also a well-known writer – survived the British colonial police’s bloody crackdown of anti-imperialist student protests and processions in colonial Burma of the 1930s.

Your oldest brother, a card-carrying revolutionary, was executed in the late 1960’s by his own party – the Communist Party of Burma – in the Burmese equivalent of Mao’s Cultural Revolution when you were a teenager.

Your middle brother was locked up in solitary confinement in the prison in your native town of Mandalay for two years, subsequently shipped to the penal colony off the country’s southern coast for a total of six years, and freed only after the dictator General Ne Win decided to intervene and ordered his release.

And your mother, your father and you were hauled into military intelligence’s Kafkaesque detention in 1970’s for helping a fellow progressive on the run to successfully evade the dictatorship’s man hunt and finally escape across the borders into Southern China.

READ THE FULL TEXT OF MY LONG READ here: https://forsea.co/nyi-pu-lay-1952-2023-resting-in-the-revolution/