Another towering lady of Burma: Ludu Daw Amar.

This post is the Birthday present for the another towering Lady of Burma,Ludu Daw Amar. She has celebrated her 92nd birthday on 29.11.2007 in Mandalay, Burma.

Most of the Burmese of our generation knows Amay Daw Amar very well. Following is the excerpt from Wikepedia of her brief Biography and Achievements in the Nation building for those who are not familiar with her.

Ludu (People) was famous trademark for both U Hla and Daw Amar

Ludu Daw Amar (born 29 November 1915), whose name is also spelt Ludu Daw Ah Mar, is a well known and respected leading dissident writer and journalist in Mandalay, Myanmar (formerly Burma). She was married to fellow writer and journalist Ludu U Hla (1910 – 1982) and is the mother of another popular writer Nyi Pu Lay. She is best known for her outspoken anti-government views and radical left wing journalism besides her outstanding work on traditional Burmese arts, theatre, dance and music, and several works of translation from English, both fiction and non-fiction.

Born into an old established Mandalay family that traded in tobacco and manufactured cheroots, Amar was the fourth in a family of twelve, out of which only six survived to adulthood. She was educated at the American Baptist Mission School and subsequently the National High School under the headmaster Abdul Razak who later became the Education Minister in Aung San’s cabinet and was assassinated with him and others in July 1947. She read science at the Mandalay Intermediate College and went on to Rangoon University for a Bachelor’s degree. Her first notable work was a translation of Trials in Burma by Maurice Collis in 1938, and by that time she was already published in the university’s Owei (Peacock’s Call) magazine, and also Kyipwa Yay (Progress) magazine, run by her future husband U Hla, under her own name as well as the pen names Mya Myitzu and Khin La Win.^[1][2]

When the second university students strike in history broke out in 1936, Amar and her friend from Mandalay M.A. Ma Ohn became famous as women student leaders among the strikers camped out on the terraces of the Shwedagon Pagoda. U Hla was a staunch supporter of the strike and started courting Amar; in 1939 they got married and U Hla moved his magazine to Mandalay.^[3]

Postwar Ludu

At the end of the war in 1945 U Hla launched a fortnightly paper called the Ludu Journal – Ludu is Burmese for ‘the people/masses’ – with Amar as his assistant editor. The Ludu Daily was successfully launched the following year and the couple subsequently came to be known as Ludu U Hla and Ludu Daw Amar. Their incisive political commentaries and analyses made a significant contribution to the country’s yearning for independence and unified struggle against colonial rule. Their publications had never carried advertisements for alcohol, drugs to enhance sexual performance or gambling, nor racing tips, salacious affairs and gossip. U Hla had to be persuaded to make an exception of film advertisements for the survival of the paper.^[2]

One morning in 1948, soon after Burma gained her independence from the British, however, the Kyipwa Yay Press in Mandalay was dynamited to rubble by government troops who were angry that the Ludu couple appeared to be sympathetic to the Communists.

This was a time when regime change happened quite often with the city falling into the hands, in turn, of the Karen rebels, Communists and the new nationalist government under U Nu. The entire family, including two pregnant women, was thrown out into the street, lined up and was about to be gunned down when a number of monks and locals successfully intervened to save their lives.^[3]

Wikepedia

Daw Amar means in Burmese , very tough and hard. Her name reflects her life long struggle for the oppressed. I wish all of us to celebrate her 100th year birthday in the Independent Burma, as usual place at Taung Tha Man, Mandalay together with the people she loves.

Sit Mone

To read the full text at Wikepedia

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

Burmese Junta closed down a Monastery, chased out the Monks and HIV patients

Chief Abbot U Nandriya 80 years old (Photo Ko Htike’s Blog)

Source DVB

According to the local news, Maggin Monastery in Rangoon was sealed and closed by the Burmese Junta authorities .

The Monastery was raided five times since August -September uprising for suspected hide out of pro democracy activist.

The Chief Abbot of the Monastery is currently under detention. Acting Chief Abbot U Nandriya 80 years old was ordered to leave the Monastery with eight other monks, two normal person and six HIV/AIDS patients at 4 pm yesterday.

The Monks from Maggin Monetary were active in the recent uprising against the Junta.Pro Democracy activists and followers supported the monks of Maggin Monastery .

It is also a safe heaven for HIV/AIDS patient to get a shelter and treatment and medication from the activists.

According to the latest news from DVB the Chief Abbot U Nandriya, was still sitting over the middle of the street nearby the Monastery at8:00 pm Rangoon Time, and probably he may be sleeping over the street as an act of protest.

Source DVB/ Photos Ko Htike’s Blog

Myat Kine reappeared, and some artists, hibernating in Burma during the Political Storm!

( Famous actor Kyaw Hein , used to say his ultimate purpose was to serve the people of Burma)

The blogger found the interesting post ” Those who are having runny nose” at Ko Htike’s blog. Burmese people has used their hard earn money to turn the Artists into Super Stars.

I have posted ” Tribute to Zaganar ” in this blog. Also posted about Kyaw Thu and U Par Par Lay as in my point of view they are heroes and deserve their place in the blood stained history of Burma.

However some of the famous artists has been hibernating during the time people really need them. Pro junta journalist, like Myat Khine stepped beyond the ethics and tried to assassinate the character of Zarganar and Kyaw Thu in his Snap Shot Journal .

The blogger was aware of the pro junta journalist, Myat Khine’s Snap Shot Journals was banned for whatever reasons given by him or Junta’s media head Kyaw San.

This blogger was pretty sure that Myat Khine who has no ethics as a journalist and a traitor to its fellow journalists as well as to the Country, just tried to hibernate while the media storm against him was strong out there in the free press.

Now, he came out even early, unscratched, and whatever reason given by him, all Burmese should boycott his Snap Shot Journal.

ျမတ္ခိုင္အေျကာင္း စစ္မုန္းေ၇းလိုစိတ္ မရွိပါ။ သို ့ေသာ္ အႏုပညာရွ င္ ေတြ ၇ဲ ့လူထုအေပၚ influenceလုပ္ႏူီင္ မႈ နဲ ့ဟန္ေဆာင္တာ အျမင္ကတ္တဲ ့ေန၇ာမွာ ကို ထိုက္နဲ ့အျမင္ တူပါတယ္။ကို ထိုက္ ၇ဲ ့ ႏွာေစးေပ်ာက္ေဆး ေ၇ာင္းရန္ ရွိ သည္ post ကိုဖတ္ျကည္ ့ပါ။

http://ko-htike.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_1674.html

Please read my previous post in this blog ” Tribute to Win Oo, A Talented star. and hero…” at

http://burmasitmone.wordpress.com/2007/11/08/tribute-to-win-oo-a-talented-artist-who-writes-his-own-history/

Sit Mone

 

Free Burma! Drive the Car Campaign

Somebody is going to drive this car in North America for the Free Burma Campaign!

Source Ninnayman’s Blog

Read the full text at

http://drivingforburma.blogspot.com/

Metamorphosis: Professionals turned to Junta’s Robots in Burma.

Once well respected physician Minister Kyaw Myint

Good Example is the Ministry of Health of Myanmar. The Blogger tried to find the once, SLORC Health and Education Minister Colonel Pe Thein’s photo in ths web.It was just a decade ago that he was a Minister. Now no more and nowhere to find his name. Burmese called “Thinkhaya.”

He was a Director General of Health before the SLORC’s coup in 1988. Ne Win formed the State Law and Order Restoration Council. To give the good impression to the International Community after the violently killing thousands of innocent lives, he placed few civilians in the newly formed SLORC.

Pe Thein became a dual Minister for the Health and Education. By profession Pe Thein was a Physiologist. Pe Thein ’s wife Professor Kyu Kyu Swe was very close to Dr Sandar Win, Ne Win’s daughter, who had failed to pass UK’s MRCOG examination.

Most of the medical professionals were highly respected in then, Burma, and Pe Thein was initially seen as a hope of the civilians to regain the power.

However, Pe Thein allegedly requested to give him a Military Title as he felt that he should be the similar colour with the SLORC Generals. His request was granted. Dr Pe Thein became Colonel Pe Thien .

Burmese people ridiculed Pe Thein in so many ways. All of-us remember his bald head. When the famous actor Pye Nyein died of accident in Burma, people said Pe Thein should go not.. Pye Nyein ( These two names are perfect rhymes in Burmese language). Eventually respect to him from the Generals as well as from the people dropped and finally retired.( Now even very hard to get his photo in Internet, Than Wai Ga!)

The current Health Minister Kyaw Myint was a famous physician and a Proffessor of Medicine in Burma. He was a handsome and friendly physician to his friends.

Now, he is famous among his friends for his rudeness, ruthless nature and neglecting his profession as a physician to the Burmese Health care System which is in chaotic state. Anybody with the right mind frame will denounce the Junta Government and resign from his job, for what Junta has done to its people recently.

How could he continue as Health Minister while the rate of infant mortality, and maternal mortality and HIV/ AIDS cases which are the bench mark indicators for the well-being of Burmese are unbelievably high.

Where is his Hippocrates’s Oath as a medical professional he has sworn for the rest of his life. He declared proudly to the fellow Burmese Doctors as”I am no more a physician, I am a politician” . What kind of politics he is is doing under the Military Junta. Just read the speech written by the Junta and go around the Burmese hospitals which are merely the hollow buildings with the overcrowded patients, and without medicines and instruments.

How about the decline in the quality of the new generation, Burmese medical professionals?

Su Su Nwe an activist under arrest, who is not well educated, however she was well aware of HIV problem in Burma. But our professional Health Minister ignore the cries of sick Burmese people in the world’s Biggest Jail, Burma! Then, I remember the famous Russian writer Franz Kafka’s metamorphosis novel.

Instead of becoming a Caterpillar, these intelligent people turned into robots. This is the true story of modern day Burma , Metamorphosis in Junta Style, Human transformed to Robot.

Sit Mone

Generation Wave’s Statement ( Support Burmese golden Colour Revolution)

To Read the full text

http://bp0.blogger.com/_9m_TrYIZhaU/R0vZGFynk_I/AAAAAAAAAVE/_R5QXGagufc/s1600-h/statement-03.jpg

China succesfully blasted of Moon rocket , and good advice for the Burmese Generals.

Recently the blogger read the headline news of Chinese rocket blasted of to the Moon. Chinese top officials are proud of their achievement. They want to send the Astronauts to the Moon in near future to get a colony up there. Who knows? They may find gas and petrol in moon more than what they have found in Burma.

There may be Alien protesters asking for democracy on the Moon. There may be some protest against the future Chinese mission to get the resources from the Moon by the Aliens of Moon. Since these Alien might have been staying over the Moon for centuries, they may revolve and retaliate the future Chinese expansion on the Moon .

Let me suggest a good idea which is good for both China and Burma.

On the next mission to the moon, China should assign Burmese Military Junta as Junta Astronauts and blast them of to the Moon.

The mission is to effectively control the Alien rebellion against Chinese expansion to the Moon. I am very sure Burmese Military Junta will effectively suppress the Moon rebellion in very short period as they have enormous experience of how to take care of the Opposition.

That is a win win situation for both China and Burma.By doing so Burma will be free from the Evil and China also will be more prosperous with the resources from new special administrative territory ‘ Moon”. Chinese government should not worry for at least a Century about the security of the new territory as the Junta know their job very well.

( This post is just a satire of an oppressed Burmese citizen, and the blogger does not mean to offend Chinese scientists and Chinese people with this post. As an Asian I am happy with the Chinese people’s success)

Sit Mone

Life in the world’s biggest Jail; Burma

Above you tube videos reveal the ruthless nature of Burmese Junta against it’s own people.

The blogger has a duty. That is to make people aware and not to forget what has happened few months ago in Burma. And also not to forget the suffering of various ethnics minorities.

To refresh your memory and just to pump in some adrenalin into your blood for the sake of the Freedom Of Burma. Watch these you tube videos!

Sit Mone

Burma has united people outside the world’s biggest Jail.

In my previous post the blogger highlighted about Burmese Generals, driving our country with reverse gear and depleting resources as well as depletion of Middle class.

In my posts I have used the word middle class several times. Do not get me wrong. I am neither a snobbish nor classic guy. Assuming that you guys visited my blog are able to read and write in English and at least you know how to use the Internet. That is the bench mark for the Burmese readers. I am very sure those who has visited my blog were much more intelligent and might have more knowledge and experience than me.

My point of mentioning the middle class was we have a reasonable hope of rebuilding our country and our society by various experts in their field.

We have lecturers and Professors out there for the future education of our country. We have other experts from the field like, medicine, engineering, law, economy and so many different expatriates who could help the Nation Building.

Now Generals are handicapped people as in Burma they only have soldiers, robots and people who were trapped in their biggest Jail.

I am just an ordinary blogger who posted what I think is right in not so good English in this Blogosphere. I have no editor and I usually write these posts during or after the hectic daily work.

So why I am doing this? Why other fellow bloggers are doing this? Why Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is doing this? (I do not mean to compare my status with my hero Daw Aung San Suu Kyi), Why Su Su Nwe is doing this ? Why Nor Ohn Hla is doing this?

I am sad to tell you that a friend of mine, telling me immediately after the August-September uprising “I do not have interest in politics”.

Among the Burmese middle class how many perecnt of us are in this category? 50%? 60% or 90%?

General Aung San was a University Graduate who led Burma to Independence. All the leaders of his generation are well educated middle class. These group of people could lead to bring the change of a nation’s future. I do not mean that those who are not educated are unable to bring the changes. Undeniable fact is those who are with the better education, with proper moral ethics and principals have more chance to bring the change of a country.( That is not me, but I will be more than happy to follow the leaders with mentioned attributes)

Fortunately Burma has biggest overseas expatriates population.Thanks to the Generals to make their place inhabitable for us. We have learned more and we have struggled in different and complicated environment for our own survival.

One research, five years ago showed that Burmese opposition groups were among the top ten in using Internet in this whole world. you can see brilliant bloggers even from Burma giving us information before they close the door of the Biggest Jail, Burma.

We have brothers, comrades every where. I have friends all over the world. I am sure you also will have friends even more then me all over the world.

Please ask yourself. Do you want Justice? Do you want to be a part of history in saving our motherland? If you don’t want what is the reason? Are you afraid?

You can contribute to the our nation rebuilding in so-many ways, at least by spreading words. At least positive proactive approach towards the our cause which is our National cause.

Please rise up Burmese friends all over the world.! This is the time all of us to be united to get rid of the Evil Regime of Burma.

I am confident that all of you can do it.

Sit Mone

All the ASEAN countries are on the right direction except Burma

The Blogger has watched the interesting talk show called 101 in Aljazeera news recently. The discussion was about the democracy and future of ASEAN countries.

The participants were a professor from National University of Singapore, Ex Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia Anawar Ibrahim, an official from Vietnam Foreign Affairs Ministry and an editor of the Thailand English newspaper Nation.

All of them agreed upon the importance of investment in knowledge and human resources which means very good education and health care are essential for the basic foundation of Democracy in the ASEAN countries. Importance and necessity to expand the middle class with economic and political stability were also discussed in lively form.No representative of the Burmese Junta was seen in that talk show.

And all of them agreed that ASEAN countries are going in the right direction except , Myanmar.

Sit Mone