Saturday, February 14, 2026

You truly can't make up this Sh*t--it reminds me of Stephen King saying recently that things are much more horrifying than anything he ever wrote.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-juntas-anti-scam-czar-purged-in-bribery-scandal.html
Partial copy and paste follows:
Lieutenant General Tun Tun Naung, ousted as Minister of Home Affairs in late January, has now been reportedly expelled from the military for allegedly taking protection payments from scam syndicates, according to The Irrawaddy’s sources in Naypyitaw.
Tun Tun Naung had led the junta’s crackdown on the scam industry as chair of the Central Supervisory Committee on Combating Telecom Fraud and Online Gambling, formed in early December 2025.
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He has now been formally censured and dismissed from the military, according to sources.
“He was dismissed from the army after a probe by the Military Security Affairs unit, sparked by a tip-off from China, found that he had taken bribes. He won’t even receive a pension,” a Naypyitaw-based source told The Irrawaddy.

From 2007-3 Burmese poems translated and introduced by Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

https://poeticinvention.blogspot.com/2007/03/3-burmese-poems-introduced-and.html