We should not forget the Heroes of Burma, who have sacrificed their lives, their freedom,and their loved ones, for the Freedom of Burma.
Wishing that may all Burmese enjoy the ,
Freedom from Fear…
Freedom of our beloved Mother Land,..
and Freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and all those who are under detention..
in the year 2008.
Sit Mone
Youtube video source DVB
This blogger has seen “the drones” in Discovery Channel. Initially this blogger thought of the drones a little more than radio controlled toys. However, this blogger was impressed by the Drone’s multi functional ability as a lethal force of the War.The drones are the new, state of the art, invention of the US Armed Forces. Lets read about the drone names Predator, as follows..
The Predator is the U.S. military’s most sophisticated killing machine in the war on terror.”This is the way of the future,” Songer said. “Just the ability from the other side of the world to locate and destroy enemy targets is incredible, unbelievable — to be able to do this from Vegas and destroy high value targets .”
It was an eerie feeling on that airstrip at Kandahar Air Field in southern Afghanistan. The plane was a long way off and out of eyesight, as it typically is on such missions. In essence, it’s a silent killer.
If it’s below 15,000 feet, you might hear the drone of the engine. But it’s virtually impossible to see at that altitude. It’s also difficult to detect by radar and very difficult for an enemy plane to shoot down. In Afghanistan, there are no enemy planes to worry about, so the Predator’s spying goes unchallenged.
CNN was given rare access to the highly classified planes, which are operated by the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as the CIA. Each plane is worth about $4 million and armed with two powerful Hellfire missiles.
read the full story at
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/06/09/sadler.predator.btsc/index.html
read more about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_drone
Than Shwe Sein Lwin
This blogger turned to be a digger of the history as the new concept of “Responsibility, Justice and accountability” has been floated in this blogosphere.
This blogger does not want to say bad about dead people. However some of the dead people such as Adolf Hitler,to Ceausescu of Romania were still alive in the history. There are so many active discussions and academic papers produced by the various academicians about these despots.
So, this bolgger feels that Shu Maung @ Ne Win, should be alive in Burmese history as he is the main culprit to bring Burma under the Military boot. ( according to accountability and responsibility, and naming the names concept).
The next despot that we should not forget is the Butcher of Burma @ Sein Lwin. He was the President of Union Of Burma for only 17 days from July 27th 1988 to August 12th 1988.
Inya Lake
Not Far from this place, Tadar Phyu, or White Bridge was turned into Tadar Nee or Red Bridge, by blood of the 1988 students .
Several Students were suffocated to death , due to overloading of more than 100 students in the small jail Van like this!
He was responsible for giving the order to shoot and kill the University Students and innocent lives during his reign as a most trusted General of Ne Win.
So this blogger expect the like minded bloggers to start “Naming the name” (phrase borrowed from Irrawaddy) who are the main culprits of the Modern Day Slavery of Burma.
Sit Mone
Those who want to know about “Naming the name” concept should read these articles,
http://burmasitmone.wordpress.com/2007/12/30/time-for-naming-the-name-in-burmese-politics/
Following is the his brief biography from Wikepedia,
U Sein Lwin (1923 – April 11, 2004), was a former President of Myanmar (July 27, – August 12, 1988). His death was reported in a state-run newspaper, Myanma Ahlin, which did not give a cause of death.
He joined the Army in 1943, and in 1944 joined Ne Win’s 4th Burma Rifles. He is believed to have personally killed Karen rebel leader Saw Ba Oo Gyi. General Sein Lwin had a reputation as being a henchman for General Ne Win. He was one of those responsible for the Rangoon Student Union massacre on July 7, 1962 when 130 university students protesting against General Ne Win’s coup d’etat were killed when the Student Union building was dynamited. Aung Gyi and Tin Pe were the senior officers, and Sein Lwin was the field commanding officer in the University region. No one exactly knows who gave the order.
Sein Lwin, as commander of the security force riot police (Lon Htein) was responsible for dealing with student protests during the 1988 pro-democracy demonstrations. On 16 March, following the killing of two students, students marching on Prome Road were confronted near Inya Lake by the riot police and many beaten to death or drowned. On 17 March, soldiers and riot police entered Rangoon University and arrested hundreds of students, 41 dying in custody. As public unrest grew, a general strike was called for 8 August 1988. Sein Lwin, succeeded Ne Win as Burma Socialist Programme PartyChairman on 26 July and San Yu as President on 27 July 1988.
Sein Lwin, implementing the threat in Ne Win’s “sword with sword, spear with spear” resignation speech, directed troops to fire on groups of unarmed demonstrators in Yangon during the August 8, 1988 demonstrations (referred to as the 8888 Uprising), killing and wounding hundreds. Protests, more shootings and arrests continued until Sein Lwin resigned on 12 August.
The State Law and Order Restoration Council was established shortly after, on September 18, 1988. Following the military takeover, the junta provided assistance to Sein Lwin, including guards, a pension, several four-wheel drive vehicles and monthly food rations. However, after the junta put Ne Win under arrest in March 2002, his assistance was removed.
Wikepdia
စည္းလံုးၾကပါ …
2008 Jan 2 ရက္ေန႔တြင္ စကၤာပူႏိုင္ငံ ၿမန္မာသံရံုးမွ Mandarin Hotel, Orchard မွာၿပဳလုပ္မည့္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ ကပြဲ၌ Poly ေက်ာင္းသားေဟာင္း/သစ္မ်ား (မ်ိဳးခ်စ္ poly ေက်ာင္းသား ေဟာင္း/သစ္မ်ား မပါ) အပါအ၀င္ န အ ဖ ကပ္ဖား ရပ္ဖား ေအာက္ဆြဲမ်ား၊ မ်ိဳးခ်စ္စိတ္ ကင္းမဲ့သူမ်ား ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖကၿပ အသံုးေတာ္ခံရန္ ရွိပါသည္။
We strongly ask Burmese in Singapore and around the world to boycott the junta led ceremony and attend the ceremony organized by Burmese patriots.
Floating the new idea of ” Justice and Accountability”
Article: “Pointing the finger at ” Than Shwe”
To read the full text
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9760
Excerpts:
“Than Shwe deserves a name that is loathed in international politics and media, similar to that of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Kim Jong Il of North Korea and Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. We must put a name to the Burmese regime.”
In this regard, the US government seems to have taken the initiative. A closer reading of the US State Department’s latest press statement on Burma revealed a new trend of “naming the name.”
“The Burmese regime, led by Than Shwe, continues cracking down on democracy activists for peacefully expressing their political beliefs,” opened the statement dated December 21, 2007, regarding the regime’s arrest of six 88 Generation Students group activists. Instead of speaking about Burma’s dictatorship in vague and faceless terms, the statement pinpointed the villain: “We deplore the regime’s actions and call on Than Shwe to release all political prisoners.”
Pointing the Finger at Than Shwe
By Min Zin
December 28, 2007
Irrawaddy online edition
Burmese Comedians known in Burmese as “Thee Lay Thee ” are the latest among the artists who have demonstrated their courage by making jokes to the Military Junta’s brutal suppression of the recent uprising in Burma. Say Young Sone Anyein is the latest hits among the Burmese in Burma as well as overseas community.
Burma Today , recently interviewed these Comedians, Sein Thee, Kyae Thee, Pan Thee and Zee Thee. In Burmese Thee means fruits like apples and orange, rounded citrus in nature. However Thee, when used behind Kyae ( Star), KyaeThee become button of the shirts.
These comedians are famous among Burmese as two edible fruits, Pan thee ( Apple) and Zee Thee ( Plum). Another two comedians are the name of non edible things, Sain Thee means Diamond button, and Kyae Thee means Button of the Shirts. Burmese language has the same pronunciation with different meaning, like Thee when used behind Pan become Pan Thee which is apple, in case of Kyae which means Star followed by Thee become button of shirts.
Well respected activist comedian Zarganar, according to Sein Thee, passed the baton to the new Generation of the activist Comedians for Burma, who have guts to make jokes and satire against ruthless Military Generals.
So far they were not arrested, however their famous Say Young Sone Anyein VCD s were banned in Burma. Most of the Burmese people were able to see their jokes as the VCD were widely spread beyond the Junta’s control.
They are going to perform Anyein ( Burmese traditional dance combined with jokes) in KL, and Penang on 30th and of December and 6th of January respectively. Later they will perform in Singapore and Thailand.
For the Burmese readers following is the link of full text of interview with Burma Today
including their schedule performance and information to buy the tickets.
For KL and Penang shows, contact numbers are 6017 6509569, 6016 6592610, 6017 6509254 according to Burma Today.
http://burmatoday.net/article2005/071229_thee_lay_thee.swf
http://burmatoday.net/news2005/2007/200712/071229_bty_bur_theelaythee.swf
to read detail about Thee Lay Thee at Comediansclub bog (Burmese)
http://comediansclub.blogspot.com/
Sit Mone
This blogger has posted
Blood Rubies of Burma. Do You still want to buy?
several days ago at
http://burmasitmone.wordpress.com/category/burmese-gems/
Today Aljazeera news posted
Gem industry feeds Myanmar military
Excerpt;
An international corruption watchdog is calling for a complete ban on the purchase of gemstones from Myanmar.
Human Rights Watch says the gem industry is Myanmar’s third largest earner, but that revenue helps finance military abuses across the country.
Many buy ruby, a gemstone, in the belief that it will bring them good luck.
But in reality, rubies and other precious stones have brought nothing but misery to the vast majority of the country.
Read full text at Aljazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DB79E5F3-3F4A-45DD-BBEE-7720E3D3D471.htm
“Military rule is the cause of anarchism in Pakistan. Military rule is not the solution of the problems of Pakistan”
Benazir Bhutto
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday in a suicide attack that also killed at least 20 others at a campaign rally, aides said.
The death of the 54-year-old charismatic former prime minister threw the campaign for the Jan. 8 parliamentary elections into chaos and created fears of mass protests and violence across the nuclear-armed nation, an important U.S. ally in the war on terrorism.
We still do not know who was really behind her assassination.
Her father, Former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is seen in a Tuesday, February 6, 1979 file photo as he waits for the sentence of The Supreme Court of Pakistan on his conviction and death sentence on a charge of political murder. Later he was executed by then Military Government, led by General Zia.
Banazir, who was accused of having some short coming by her critics however died as a hero as she has escaped at least one assassination attempt after her home coming few months ago. Even though she was well aware of the risk for her life, she has courageously faced it. Now, she has sacrificed her life for the cause she believe for her country.
General Aung San was assassinated by his political enemies. There are still grey area of General Aung San’s assassination and involvement of late Dictator Ne Win of Burma.
His daughter Aung San Suu Kyi was under house arrest for more than a decade for being a leading icon of Democracy Movement in Burma. This blogger is very sure that Benizir’s assassination would be closely watched by the Burmese Generals in Nay Pyi Taw of Burma for their future strategy to deal with pro democracy movement in Burma.
All these leaders has demonstrated extraordinary courage and sacrifice for their country they love. That is their legacy.
Sit Mone
28.12.2007
A Burmese lady with beautiful long hair
According to Irrawaddy News more and more Burmese women are selling their hairs, which considered traditional value of beauty , for the survival of their families.
This is very interesting news as blogger also read the news of the Burmese Tycoon Tayza Air Bagan will be on air again to Korea very soon.
While Burmese Ladies are selling their own hairs for the survival of the poor families, the cronies of the Military Junta of Burma could evade the economic sanctions and still able to do the business which will eventually fill the pocket of the Generals of Burma.
According to Irrawaddy news, a hair trader said ” Normally about ten ladies come to my shop to sell their hairs. Now we are buying from about forty ladies a day”.
Burmese hairs are exported to China and it is multi million Dollar business in Burma as due to poverty more and more women in Burma are selling their hairs.
The same hair trader said ” I normally accumulate the hair until 20 to 30 viss, then only I will go to Muse( which is opposite to a border town of China) and sell to Chinese dealers. I will get 5 million kyats ( US 5000) for 20 viss ( 1 viss = 1.63 kg)of hair sold to a Chinese dealer.
First Chinese bought oil, gas, gems and timber from Burma.Now they are even buying the hairs.
In the near future the blogger can see these type of export may be thriving . Burmese may be selling their Kidneys, Livers or any viable organ to be transplanted to the rich Chinese. Of Course for the survival of their loved ones !
Sit Mone
Related article in Irrawaddy in Burmese
http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/news2007/December/Dec_25_07.html
ဆံပင္အရွည္ကိုလုိက္ျပီး ေစ်းျဖတ္ရတာပါ၊ ဥပမာ ၁၈ လက္မဆံပင္ရွည္ တက်ပ္သားကို ၁၇၀၀ ေပးတယ္၊ လက္မ ၂၀ ဆံပင္ဆိုရင္ ၂၂၀၀ ေပးတယ္၊ အရမ္းရွည္တဲ့ဆံပင္မ်ဴိးေတြ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ တက်ပ္သား ၃၀၀၀ ေလာက္ ေပးပါတယ္”ဟု အဆိုပါ လႈိင္သာယာမီးခြက္ေစ်းမွ ဆံပင္အ၀ယ္ဆိုင္ တဆိုင္က ရွင္းျပသည္။
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When a group of missionary aid workers in Myanmar disappear into the vast green inferno, vigilante Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) leaves his job as a Salween River boatman behind to accompany a group of mercenaries on a daring rescue mission.
One day, human rights missionaries Sarah (Julie Benz) and Michael Bennett (Paul Schulze) show up asking Rambo to guide them up the Salween so they can get some much needed food and medical supplies to the desperate Karen tribe. According to Sarah and Michael the Burmese military has planted landmines all along the roads leading into the tribe’s village, making it virtually impossible to reach the tribe via land. At first Rambo flatly refuses to cross into Burma, but these refugees will most certainly die without aid and he eventually relents.
Two weeks after Rambo drops the group off in dangerous territory, pastor Arthur Marsh (Ken Howard) arrives with a chilling message: the aid workers never returned from their mission into the jungle, and the embassies refuse to help Marsh and his fellow missionaries find their missing friends. Pastor Marsh knows that Sarah, Michael, and the rest of the missing missionaries are being held hostage by the Burmese army, and in order to hire the mercenaries needed for a rescue mission he has mortgaged his house and taken up a special collection from his congregation. Now, despite the fact that Rambo has long since sworn off all forms of violence, the knowledge that innocent missionaries are being used as pawns in a brutal war leaves him with no other choice than to venture behind enemy lines on his most dangerous mission to date.
Source
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rambo_(film)
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