Thai PM Yingluk Shinawatre meets Aung San Suu Kyi

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/east-pacific/Thai-Prime-Minister-Meets-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-in-Burma-135993048.html

Lady Lady - new Aung San Suu Kyi song by Tiffany Wilson

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/

N Korea - only a little more totalitarian than Burma -

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c1#/video/bestoftv/2011/12/20/natpkg-vice-inside-north-korea.cnn

Aung San Suu Kyi's Facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/aungsansuukyihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

208 new species found in SE Asia

http://www.voanews.com/khmer-english/news/208-New-Species-Discovered-in-Southeast-Asia-135596428.html

As early as 2000, a National Geographic scientist/contributor, photographer told me that the most new species were being found in Vietnam, just before they became extinct.

Kyi May Kaung

Latest documentary on Burma - I met a man from Burma

http://www.divfacefilms.com/p/i-met-man-from-burma.html

In Burma - Monywa Powintaung Frescoes

http://www.firstpost.com/http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftopic/place/burma-burma-monywas-ancient-phowin-taung-caves-video-GkKfrNhODZ4-91646-1.html

Dejan Matic - Burma - song - in Serbian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP1IeAG-NUc&feature=relatedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

Burma- Moving art installation by Human Right Watch -at NY's Grand Central Station - 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioRh6IOABE&feature=relatedhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

The sound is a Buddhist monk reciting the traditional "sending of metta" or loving kindness prayer and the audience responding Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu or Thadu -- "well done"

kmk

Burmese performance artist Moe Satt

http://www.usatoday.com/news/whttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giforld/story/2011-12-13/Burma-Myanmar-Aung-San-Suu-Kyi-Clinton-democracy/51888088/1

Burmese and Lao opium production booming -

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/asia/southeast/UN-Burmese-Laotian-Opium-Cultivation-Surging-135657848.html

US Department of State - Where in the world is Mrs. Clinton?

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/pix/2011http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif/12/177900.htm

See interactive map - useful to teach world geography.

kmk

Independent scholar Kyi May Kaung and USCB's Thelma Young interviewed by Michelle Chen of Asia Pacific Forum -

http:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif//www.asiapacificforum.org/show-detail.php?show_id=250#696

Carnation Lily Lily Rose by John Singer Sargeant

http://www.artden.com/products/carnation-lily-lily-rose?gclid=CLS8z9LO_6wCFSVjTAodbjzTSg

One of my father's favorite paintings.

Kyi May Kaung

Kyi May Kaung interviewed on Asia-Pacific Forum about "change in Burma"

Michelle Chen of Asia Pacific Forum interviewed me about change in Burma, is it real. Dec 13th, 2011

http://www.asiapacificforum.org/show-detail.php?show_id=250

October 2011 Kyaw Aung Lwin of VOA interviewed me about poetry reading in front of Burmese embassy DC – 10,000 poets for change.

Karen National Union's Mahn Nyein Maung arrested in Yunnan in July and deported to Burma, where he is now on trial -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22641

This is a very famous man and great writer whose book I partially translated.

kmk

Burma's junta: Can a tiger change its stripes by Kyi May Kaung

http://epoch-archive.com/a1/en/sg/nnn/2011/11%20November%202011/%20Issue%20385_01_November_2011/385_A7.pdf

Originally in Foreign Policy in Focus.

Here in Epoch Times, I am re-posting as the photograph is so evocative.

Kyi May Kaung.

Hilary and Suu in Burma in pics --

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/dec/01/hillary-clinton-burma-in-pictures?intcmp=239#/?picture=382683546&index=3

Kyi May Kaung's cover feature article - Potemkin politics: Are Burma's reforms for real - fr Himal Southasian

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/4842-potemkin-politics.html

Chinese water calligraphy

http://www.danwei.com/tricycle-water-calligraphy/

Ai Wei Wei

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/ai-wei-wei/

Burma - Lady of the Lake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtYY6GllMNA&feature=related

Crocs and snakes displaced by Thai floods

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22545

Japanese-American artist Yuri Mason

http://myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=Yuri_Mason

The Daily Beast - Why Hilary Clinton is visiting Burma -

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/11/19/hillary-clinton-in-burma-why-she-s-visiting-the-oppressed-state.html

The Diplomat: Slow down with Burma -

http://the-diplomat.com/asean-beat/2011/11/26/slow-down-with-burma/

Cambodia - brother #2

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22517

Karen music of the refugee camps

http://www.himalmag.com/component/content/article/3609-burmese-songs-of-exile.html

US millionaires ask to be taxed more

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/tax_millionaires/index.htm?hpt=hp_c1

Musician occupies Apec dinner -

http://www.cnn.com/video/standard.html?hpt=hp_t2#/video/bestoftv/2011/11/14/exp-occupy-musician.cnn

Special school for teen girls from wartorn areas, including Burma -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/12/us/atlanta-refugee-school/

re-posting - Deusche Welle interview of Dr. Zarni, LSE, Burma political prisoners as bargaining chips

http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_single_mediaplayer/0,,5250650_type_audio_struct_12758_contentId_5250683,00.html

The junta's politics as war.

Note:

To the gutless person, sure it's a man, who keeps writing "hack, again!" whenever I re-post something -

I deleted all your comments.

The correct usage is "Heck. No!"

From "What the heck"

I am not a hack writer, I re-post for a reason, and if you don't even have the guts to post your real name, at least get your usage, grammar and spelling correct. "Go to hack" which is probably where you are already.

Kyi May Kaung

Photograph of Japanese journalist shot to death on streets in Rangoon, Burma during Saffron Revolution wins Pulitzer Prize

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ0P8XuWJg8

The report is in Burmese but the images are in international sign language.

Kyi May Kaung

Imprisoned Burmese monk U Gambira in urgent need of medical care -

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ASA16/006/2011/en/9e0d7be5-4abe-45f7-8011-6d293017b61a/asa160062011en.pdf

Movie The Lady - LA Times interview of actress Michelle Yeoh -

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/11/the-lady-michelle-yeoh-luc-besson.html

she looks very like Daw Suu but the Burmese voices are all wrong, and "the speech" is incomprehensible to a Burmese speaker -

Besson should have used real Burmese for the voices, even the crowd scenes.

At least Beyond Rangoon had Burmese actors.

kmk

Occupy movement uses Guy Fawkes masks

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/04/world/europe/guy-fawkes-mask/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

National Public Radio - signs of change in Burma -

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141908775/signs-of-change-in-myanmar

Kyi May Kaung's comment on actress Emma Thompson's trip to Burma -

during which she claimed to see "change in Burma".

Left on website - 10-29-2011

"I admire Emma Thompson tremendously as an actor and activist etc.

But in this case she is MISTAKEN -

she has fallen into the trap of speaking for a non-profit which needs to be on the right side of the junta to continue in-country operations.

The so-called change is only a media whitewash so the junta can get western sanctions lifted.

Ms. Thompson needs to look at things deeper than one "fact-finding" trip sponsored by one non-profit organisation.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)"

Kenneth Lieberthal on doing business in China -

http://www.brookings.edu/press/Books/2011/managingthechinachallenge.aspx

NASA image of storm over Burma - Oct 21 -

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=38805

How much difference does one poem make? by Kyi May Kaung in PeacexPeace

Dupont Circle Metro - Washington DC with lines by poet Walt Whitman - who went alone during American Civil War to comfort wounded and dying soldiers.

Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung



http://www.peacexpeace.org/2011/10/how-much-difference-does-one-poem-make/

International scholarships, Univ. of Sydney, Australia

http://sydney.edu.au/international/international_students.shtml

Students from Burma should try.

kmk

Prize winning documentary on Khmer Rouge - Brother Number 2

Dried banana leaves - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung


http://enemiesofthepeoplemovie.com/


Chilling documentary which complements work by Nate Thayer, Ben Kiernan etc.

-- to be used in International Criminal Court.

-- he never educated his own children, who deeply resented it.

* This was sent to me by Jane Khin Zaw, daughter of U Khin Zaw or "K" - who is now a Carmelite nun. She is related to the co-director of the film.

Contact #s for interview on film website.

Kyi May Kaung's Zarganar or Pincers, Great Burmese Comic among few released.

http://asiancorrespondent.com/author/kyimaykaung/

Sarah Browning's article on Poetry Walk of Shame and Kyi May Kaung's poem, War on Roaches in Foreign Policy in Focus.

Walt Whitman's poetry carved in stone at Dupont Circle metro. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung




http://www.fpif.org/articles/poets_stand_up



http://www.fpif.org/articles/war_on_roaches

Burmese junta firm gets exploration bid in South Africa

http://mg.co.za/article/2011-10-07-burmese-firm-gets-sa-exploration-right/

Dog meat in Vietnam

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=22185

Weakness in traditional area studies approach and Burma Studies by Kyi May Kaung

I think the elephant must be a flower - two fake topiary men look at a decorated elephant - photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

from Burma Studies Conference, 2008,

paper abstract.

WEAKNESS IN THE TRADITIONAL AREA STUDIES APPROACH AND BURMA.
KYI MAY KAUNG
Burma Studies has been traditionally organized as a subject discipline as Area Studies. In this approach what happens within the national boundaries of a country (only) is implicitly treated as relevant to the study of the problems of that country. At least two decades to four decades of Burma Studies has shown that these parameters are too limited. It has resulted in scholars not talking or collaborating with each other as much as they should, and not paying enough attention to systemic and regional matters, not to mention the international setting in which Burma needs to operate and Burma studies needs to operate.

For instance academic articles and journalistic ones are event driven and have time only to speak about the most micro-economic of matters, whereas it is macro economics that we need to understand. The historians, some of whom hark back to an ultra-nationalistic model, have also failed us, as they are unable to handle the problems of the moment and apparently see nothing wrong with the SPDC's paradigm. Most of the Burma scholarship is focused on subject matter which is limited to Burma only without enough cross-system, cross-national, intra and inter-regional and international analysis. That this approach has failed is widely evident from how the junta has taken advantage of the misguided approach of Friends of Burma and the international community to "depoliticize" Burma strategy during Cyclone Nargis. As a result the aid has disappeared into the junta's pockets, Ban ki-Moon's visit did not succeed, nor did that of Mr. Gambari during the Saffron Revolution last year, nor have any of the UN Rapporteurs since 1988. At the same time Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest, NLD leadership and members and other dissidents have been under arrest or under severe oppression, and the junta is continuing with "business as usual" - in fact even has windfall profits from natural gas etc.

My 1994 dissertation and my article in Asian Survey that summarized this, mentioned that we need to look at systems which were then similar to Burma's such as the then Soviet Union and the PRC and economic and hopefully political reforms there. We also need to look at China and India now and their preferred position as economically strong neighbors of Burma, and China and India; the United States and the western world and China and India as strongly emerging powers in this world as we knew it. The dissident community is now highly conscious of this, but the academic is not.

I would like to propose that the Burma academic community reach out to other approaches, including the dissident community, and the artistic and writerly ones, which are now at the forefront. This would result in much more cogent advice, and much less waste of economic and human resources in the international responses to ongoing and recurrent major crises in Burma. That the crises will continue and also continue to escalate is beyond doubt.

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Americana - funny funny Burma Shave signs --

http://www.stormlakepilottribune.com/story/1769705.html

From Hindustan Times - Mizoram, India to Ruili, China

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Where-China-and-India-merge/Article1-752584.aspx

From Bangkok Post - Winds of Change or Smokescreen -

Crusty old tree - Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.



http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/259250/winds-of-change-or-just-a-smokescreen

As a poet I give you the answer,

it's a slight breeze, maybe getting a bit stronger, blowing the smoke around.

After all, smoke is not static.

Blog note Copyright Kyi May Kaung.

Richard Deacon - paper folding sculpture etc

http://www.youtube.com/user/STPIvideos

Singapore Tyler Print Institute

Global Justice Center criticizes ICG & Burma whitewash policies

http://www.globaljusticecenter.net/news-events/news/2011/ICGLetter.pdf

From Asian Correspondent - Kyi May Kaung - VOA inside Burma: In a white jumpsuit

http://asiancorrespondent.com/65838/voa-inside-burma-in-a-white-jumpsuit/

From Asian Correspondent - Kyi May Kaung - Poetry reading in front of the Burmese embassy : What difference does one poem make?

Yemem Embassy front steps - photo Kyi May Kaung

http://asiancorrespondent.com/66064/poetry-reading-in-front-of-the-burmese-embassy-what-difference-does-one-poem-make/

Painted poem, or poetic painting? My friends held this up for me in front of Burmese embassy

as part of my poetry reading "Poems in a plastic bag" with Split this Rock on Saturday, Sept, 24, 2011




Artwork, collage of found materials, "How could we love you?" Copyright Kyi May Kaung.

Nobel Laureate Dr. Wangari Maathai dies of ovarian cancer -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/world/africa/wangari-maathai-tribute/index.html

Today - Burmese poet Kyi May Kaung reads in front of Burmese embassy - 100,000 Poets for Change

Setting Sun - digitally enhanced photograph, Copyright Kyi May Kaung

Biggest poetry reading tomorrow - also in front of Burmese embassy
Friday, September 23, 2011 1:50 PM
From:
"Kyi May Kaung"
To:
"kyi may kaung"
Cc:
"kyi may kaung"

I will be reading in front of Burmese Embassy, including "Eskimo Paradise" which features Aung San Suu Kyi in the poem. This poem was in the Norton anthology.


100 Thousand Poets for Change DC: Poetry Walk of Shame

Saturday, September 24, 2011

11 am



Meet at the Embassy of Yemen

2319 Wyoming Avenue, NW

Washington, DC

Walking distance to Woodley Park & Dupont Circle Metro Stations on the Red Line

For more info: 202-787-5210, info@splitthisrock.org



Even while poets in 450 cities in 95 countries are organizing the largest poetry reading in history September 24, poets in too many countries around the world will be silent, out of fear for their safety.



Join Split This Rock and Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies, as we give voice to some of those poets for one day.



We’ll take a short walk to the embassies of three countries -- Yemen, Burma, and Turkmenistan -- where citizens’ rights of free speech have been suppressed, where poets, writers, and other freedom lovers have been threatened, arrested, and murdered for their words and their activism. And we'll stand with the poets and writers of those few places where a few hints of openings are lighting the darkness.



As we stand in witness outside the embassies, we’ll read poems by poets from those nations so that they, too, may participate in 100 Thousand Poets for Change.



Gather at 11 am at the Yemeni Embassy, 2319 Wyoming Avenue, NW. It’s walking distance from the red line Metro, halfway between the Woodley Park and Dupont Circle stops.



100 Thousand Poets for Change is the brainchild of Bay Area poet and publisher Michael Rothenberg. Events planned for September 24 range from poetry and peace gatherings in strife-torn Kabul and Jalalabad to 20 collective poetic actions in Mexico City where poets, painters, filmmakers and musicians will spread the word of peace and non-violence throughout the city with day long readings and workshops.



There are over 270 events in the United States, 29 in India, 7 in Nigeria, 17 in Canada, 19 in Great Britain, 5 in China, with more being added each day.



All those involved are hoping, through their actions and events, to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue of the day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace and sustainability.



100 Thousand Poets for Change

www.100TPC.org

walterblue@bigbridge.org







**

Sarah Browning

Director

Split This Rock

a hundred thousand poets for change - Kyi May Kaung & other poets will read in front of Yemen Embassy, Burmese Embassy etc with DC Poets Against War -

Burmese democracy leader sees her son, whom she had not seen for a very long time, at Rangoon Airport, Burma.

Photo from Internet - Suu Kyi and the other over 2000 political prisoners and their families and the people of Burma have been denied freedom of expression, and often, freedom of association.




http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/2011/09/100-thousand-poets-for-change-dc-poetry.html

Sept 24, 2011

11 AM meet in front of Yemen Embassy, 2319 Wyoming Av, NW DC

close to Woodley Park and Dupont Circle metros

--

Alladin and the magic lamp - new lamps for old -

http:http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin

well, well, old cars for new in Burma -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-14976784

Not very accurate account of Burma Studies Conference 2002 in Gottenberg, Sweden -

http://www.paclii.org/journals/fJSPL/vol07no1/1.shtml

Aung San Suu Kyi speaks about violence against women and the Burma (Myanmar) army -

http://www.wikio.com/video/aung-san-suu-kyi-addresses-women-5363553

Burmese comedian Zarganar and English PEN -

http://www.englishpen.org/writersinprison/

Kyi May Kaung - Theories, paradigms and models in Burma studies - from Asian Survey, 1995

http://www.jstor.org/pss/2645726

New Ph.D. thesis about Burmese authoritarianism and resistence - from GWU

Only other dissertation besides mine which attempts theory building on a macro-scale and addresses authoritarianism in Burma.

Kyi May Kaung

--- On Sat, 9/17/11,


From:
Subject: "Challenge and Survival: Political Resistance in Authoritarian Burma": A freshly archived PhD thesis
To:
Date: Saturday, September 17, 2011, 5:31 AM

Author: Linnea M. Beatty,
Title: "Challenge and Survival: Political Resistance in Authoritarian Burma"
Place: George Washington University
Date: August 31, 2011
Supervisor: Professor Henry Hale

Link: http://gradworks.umi.com/3466745.pdf

Dissertation Abstract:

"Burma‘s dictatorial government maintains its power by coupling
political repression and social control methods to cultivate a
compliant citizenry. Yet non-violent and violent opposition to
military rule continues. Armed resistance groups began fighting for
independence and autonomy from the state prior to Burma‘s
independence. Large-scale protests occurred in every decade since
military takeover in 1962, the most recent were the monks’ protests in
September 2007.
How do oppositions maintain their ability to challenge an
authoritarian state over long periods? Authoritarian conditions
necessitate that opposition movements resist by utilizing two
imperatives: challenging the regime and ensuring their own survival.
Resistance in Burma encompasses the offensive position of the
challenge imperative and the defensive position of the survival
imperative.

Challenge activities confront the authority of the governing regime;
the authoritarian government and its entities are the primary
audience, although it is beneficial if other segments of society
witness the action. Oppositional activities do more than just
challenge the state. Oppositions conduct activities that also ensure
their survival in the face of repression. Political activities serve
to signal in-group solidarity, transfer information to other facets of
the political movement and encourage long-term participation. For an
opposition to survive repression, member retention is critical and
activist family networks help individuals overcome regime-constraints
to participation.

The challenge and survival imperatives demonstrate that protest does
not erupt ‘from out of nowhere.’ Over-relying on protest as a proxy
measure of the existence of opposition overlooks the wide range of
resistance options available to discontented citizens, especially
those living under authoritarian rule. Using a protest events dataset
and interviews with activists, soldiers and citizens of Burma, this
dissertation examines the range of political resistance used in Burma
to challenge the dictatorial regime."

Quote of the day - Dictators in Gold Braids - from Pablo Neruda

The delicate dictator is talking
with top hats, gold braid, and collars.

Pablo Neruda - who spent some time in Rangoon, Burma before World War II

Now the Burmese dictators are in civilian clothes.

David Bowie's hit song Change - sound track for so-called change in Burmese capital Naypyitaw or King's Royal City -

quite brilliant, esp the stuttering :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl3vxEudif8http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif


Google map of Naypyitaw -

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/map/google_map_Naypyidaw.htm

NPT on wiki-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naypyidaw

More photos of NPT while under construction

http://www.sequential-one.com/blog/?p=895&cpage=2#comment-141437


kg

--- On Thu, 9/15/11, wrote:


From:
Subject: To wet your appetite (if at all!) - from my next essay - Change, change, change, changes...
To:
Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 10:01 AM

For the Burma and Burmese sceptics, David Bowie’s “Changes”
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/davihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifd bowie/changes.html


both the
lyrics and the music, may be more meaningful to ponder and pleasant to
our ears than the Brahminic verses about the supposedly fast-paced
changes in Naypyidaw .

Here is my favourite stanza:

“I watch the ripples change their size
But never leave the stream
Of warm impermanence and
So the days float through my eyes
But still the days seem the same
And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They're quite aware of what they're going through”

The Wiki entry says, Bowies’ 40-year-old lyrics may be read as “a
manifesto for his chameleonic personality, sexual ambiguity, and
frequent reinventions of his musical style throughout the 1970s”.

The current Brahminic discourse of Naypyidaw’s changes with their
dizzying paces is neither as sexy nor as ambiguous.

Beneath the mirage of changes, the chameleonic seniors and juniors in
generals’ uniform are simply reinventing their grip on society,
economy and politics.

Notes by Zarni.

Bodies hang from bridge in Mexico as warning to bloggers -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/09/14/mexico.violence/index.html

Found poem - a traffick report concerning "Burma Road"

Poetry anthology Fire in the Soul which featured Tin Moe's poem Desert Years, translated by Kyi May Kaung.


Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Georgia
September 13, 2011
Injuries result from head-on collision


Associated Press

AMERICUS — An afternoon collision on Burma Road Thursday resulted injuries to one driver, according to Georgia State Patrol Post 10.

According to the accident report, Cheyenne D. Cromer, 17, of Ellaville was

driving a 1992 Chevrolet Cavalier in the south bound lane of Burma Road crossed into the opposite lane, failing to negotiate a curve. The Chevrolet struck a 1977 GMC C3500 pick-up driven by Eddie W. Rogers, 48, of Andersonville. After the impact both vehicles rotated off of the road way, each striking opposite embankments. The 17 year old driver of the Chevrolet was transported by Air -Evac to Macon Medical Center for treatment for non-incapacitating injuries. She was cited for driving on the wrong side of the road. Rogers was not transported, according to the report.

Borders flagship store closing -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/09/12/first.borders.bookstore.closing/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Amazing Documentary - Al Jazeera's Barnaby Philips' Burma Boy, about a Nigerian saved in Burma during World War II

http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2011/08/2011828135228487172.html

Have you been branded? Poem by S. V. Wolfland

http://www.pemmicanpress.com/CurrentIssue/Individual/Wolfland-branded-jan-2011.htm

Poem - My Father does not appear when Googled - by Jared Carter -

http://www.pemmicanpress.com/CurrentIssue/jared%20carter/jared%20carter%20father.htm

Kyi May Kaung's poem - War Against Roaches, published in Counterpunch -

Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/09/jared-carter-and-kyi-may-kaung/

In Burma, Four Cuts Campaigns have been carried out against the ethnic groups by the central government as a declared policy since at least the mid-70s.

regards,

kmk

Published excerpt from Kyi May Kaung's book length poem - She-Monkey goes West

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/volume1/issue2/word/kmkgol.html

Written in 1994.

Kyi May Kaung

:) Kaung is not a valid Scrabble word - poem

Memory Rolls - artwork and photo copyright Kyi May Kaung

:) My name is not a valid Scrabble word

http://www.wordnik.com/words/Kaung

It’s a valid Burmese word.

kaung = good

Copyright Kyi May Kaung
9-9-2011

re-posting - VOA coverage of Kyi May Kaung's art show - Mostly Burmese Monks - 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvlXLXpQP8E

Burma News Group post of correspondence ref pro-Burmese military regime conference in DC in April of 2011

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/burmanewsgroup/message/7537

It is as you see it.

Kyi May Kaung

Kyi May Kaung cited in Andrew Selth's 2007 survey of Burma Studies

http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/Data/FileUpload/289/WP96_07_ASelth.pdf

Kyi May Kaung quoted in Democratisation in South and Southeast Asia -

http://books.google.com/books?id=t09BvRA3VRYC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=kyi+may+kaung&source=bl&ots=3Qb7yjFgRR&sig=34qX3lez5q9vdgnuD7UorhkiqCA&hl=en&ei=oEVpTrrqGM3E0AG3wfjRCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBDha#v=onepage&q=kyi%20may%20kaung&f=false

George Washington Univ - School of Political Management -

http://pm.gspmonline.com/pm-online-lc/?gclid=CNiz4L_VjqsCFeF05QodnEhBwQ

Archives - Libya - including footage of show trial and execution in 1984, in front of masses of schoolchildren -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2011/jul/18/libya-muammar-gaddafi?intcmp=239

new -supposed self portrait of van Gogh -

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/08/is-this-portrait-a-long-lost-vincent-van-gogh-painting.html

It is a portrait of van Gogh, but not a self portrait,

The "hand" or touch is completely different as are the use of colors, which more resembles Renoir's soft touch.

It's a pastel and van Gogh hardly ever did pastels.

I think it's a portrait by Donnadieu (spelling?) as the signature on the back says it is.

Kyi May Kaung.

Denver Art Museum to present exclusive Van Gogh exhibit

http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_18798107?source=rss

Re-posting - Kyi May Kaung's article on AIDS activist Vineeta Gupta

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=71406cdce8befb1ce931768c956b6a26

In the Garden of Beasts - by Erik Larsen -

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HFRJM6/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb#reader_B004HFRJM6

US Ambassador and his daughter in Berlin as Hitler rose to power.

A must read.

Foodie P - Real Mexican Food!

http://foodiepornography.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/pan-de-cazon/

Burma & Echoes of Eritrea - reposting - Kyi May Kaung's profile of artist Elsa Gebreyesus -

http://www.wildriverreview.com/2/2-profiles_gebreyesus.html

Burmese President Thein Sein has again invited Burmese exiles to return home.

Few takers so far.

Battle for Libya - New York Times - slide show

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/world/africa/2011-libya-index.html

Libya - from Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8726797/Mutassim-Gaddafis-girlfriend-tells-of-the-final-days-of-Libyan-regime.html

Libya - from Telegraph

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Human-slaughterhouse-discovered-in-Tripoli.html">/africaandindianocean/libya/8727498/Human-slaughterhouse-discovered-in-Tripoli.html

"Dean of Burma Studies" Professor Josef Silverstein's bibliography

http://www.ibiblio.org/obl/docs/J.Silverstein-bibliography.htm

Dr. Silverstein has been my Pol. Sci. mentor since 1984 & came to my oral exam for my Ph.D. as external examiner.

Libya - $1.5 b in unfrozen moneys will start to flow soon -

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/08/25/libya.war/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Let's hope the USA does not "kill it with money".

Bones Crow - upcoming bilingual edition of Burmese dissident poetry -

Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, pays her respect to her assassinated father, and Burma's founding father, Aung San, on July 19th, Martyrs' Day. This was the first time the junta allowed her to participate in the official ceremony.


Bones Crow is edited by James Bryne and edited/translated by Ko Ko Thett.

http://www.sampsoniaway.org/literary-voices/2011/08/22/bones-will-crow-an-anthology-of-burmese-poetry/

Dr. Kyi May Kaung's comments on 10 papers on Economics, presented at Naypyitaw, Burma - much vaunted "economic reforms".

Aung San Suu Kyi and her son Kim Aris reunited after many years. Photo, screen grab from Internet.

Is Suu Kyi being used big time?


It looks to me from a cursory skim through that the papers are advocating

- more ties with ASEAN, AEC
- better/more taxation
- industrialization
- dealing with corruption
-how to deal with international financial crisis through IMF/about IMF (U Myint)

However, all this is under pretense that it is "a government elected by the people" - one of the papers (in Burmese) explicitly states this blatant untruth upfront as if it were true.

None of papers deal with structural/systemic issues -

so nothing can be done about nepotism for instance when surely Thein Sein's and Than Shwe's relatives and others among junta cliques, are all involved, just like Gaddafi sons, "who were given country to loot"

so ultimately it is all "Show Business" as we Burmese say, and an exercise in futility.

No wonder Daw Suu looks serious and not so happy.

There is also concern that Daw Suu is separated from her usual phalanx of (unarmed) "bodyguards" and NLD supporters/loyalists.

KMK

I am sending my comment to others.

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Paulo Sergio Pinheiro -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Pinheiro

Sergio Pinheiro's Report - Crimes in Burma - Harvard Law School

http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/hrp/documents/Crimes-in-Burma.pdf

Artist Shepard Fairey creates new poster for film The Lady, about Aung San Suu Kyi

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/08/shepard-fairey-explains-his-new-poster-for-aung-san-suu-kyi-movie.html

As Gaddafi falls, K St. rises -

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2011/08/qaddafi-falls-k-street-rises/41591/#.TlOcJAkB-Eg.reddit