Religious discrimination in Burmese Blogosphere?
San Oo Aung has sent the following comments to this blogger. Initially It was under my old post which I was explaining how to go back to home in Journalist theme. However, I have given up journalist theme forever and decided to be with Rubic theme at least for the time being.!
San Oo Aung has highlighted and even reminded those Burmese bloggers who are pathetically stick to the religious animosity against Muslims, even though they are living in the partially free world.
After reading his comments this blogger felt sorry for the following famous and unknown Muslims who sacrificed their lives and freedom for the country they Love.
1. Sayagyi U Razak – assassinated together with General Aung San
2. U Rashid if you don’t know him read the Burmese History
3. Bo Mhu Ba Shin - same as above
4. Bo Mhu Ba Thaw ( Maung Thaw Ka)- one of the founders of NLD, died in jail, while serving never ending prison terms.
5. Kyar Ba Nyein – everybody should know him
6.Ko Mya Aye 8888 leader currently in one of the Burmese Jails.
7. Daw Win Mya Mya NLD in Obo Prison, Mandalay
8. Several Muslim youths who were sentenced to jail term in hard labour camp for serving food and water to monks during the 2007 Saffron Revolution.
There may be many more Muslims not in the list. If a person believes in Democracy, that person can not be a hypocrite by praising all other religions and discriminating the only religion, that he thinks that is the religion of Kalars. It is against the Universal Declaration of Human’s rights.
Sit Mone
Open letter to the Racist Burmese bloggers
Posted on October 5, 2008 by sanooaung
Racist Burmese bloggers who said that if Daw Aung San Suu Kyi were their sister, they would agree and give blessing to any one, except a Muslim.
Do you remember the famous wise answer that Daw Suu given to a villager, if she were in that place she may end up marrying him. She cleverly averted the attack that she had married an English man.
It is lucky that Ne Win never transfers and appoints her mother to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Arab or African country. She may end up marrying a Muslim or an African. Clear off your Apartheid minds. Daw Suu had married an English man. Don’t try to spread anti-Muslim massage with your hypothetical assumptions.
Even Bo Gyoke’s father, U Phar, was rumoured to be a Shan and Daw Suu’s mother was previously a Christian. I may be wrong.
Just look at your OFFICIAL ROYAL PRINCESSESS’ fate of marrying KALAS and became KALA MAS.
Thibaw Min (Burmese: သီပေါမင်း; born Maung Pu January 1, 1859 – December 19, 1916; or simply Thibaw, Theebaw, or Theobaw (referred to as Thibau by George Orwell in Burmese Days) was the last king of Burma, Konbaung Dynasty (now Myanmar). His reign ended when Burma was defeated by the forces of the British Empire on 29 November, 1885, prior to its official annexation on 1 January 1886.
Thibaw was born in Mandalay and studied briefly in a Buddhist monastery. His father Mindon Min made him prince of the northern State of Thibaw (now Hsipaw), from which he took his name, and he succeeded as king on 1 October 1878 with the help of a powerful widow of his late father and other senior officials. He was married to two of his half sisters the younger of which was known to have a substantial influence on him.
Exile and the fate of the Royal Family
Thibaw had eight children of whom six were born in Burma and two were born in exile in India.
His first four children (two sons and two daughters) perished from small pox at the Royal Palace when very young.
His eldest surviving child Princess Myat Phaya (Mibura) Gyi was born in 1882 followed by her younger sister Myat Paya Lat born in 1884. Following the arrest of the royal family in 1885 they and a few retainers were first sent to Ceylon and then Madras on what was certainly an extremely stressful journey for the young family.
At Madras in March 1886 the pregnant Queen Supayalat gave birth to their third surviving daughter, Princess Myat Phaya. In early 1887 the family arrived at their place of exile in Ratnagiri close to Bombay and the birth of the fourth daughter Princess Mayat Phaya Galay followed in April that year.
Life was certainly not easy for the family in Ratnagiri. By all accounts their money soon ran out and they were forced to live off a meagre pension.
The eldest daughter, Phaya, fell in love with one of the servants; the gatekeeper Shrimant Gopal Bhaurao Savant; by whom she had a child out of wedlock in 1906.
The king died of a heart attack at the age of 58 in 1916 and was buried in a mausoleum on the estate.
Supayalat returned to Rangoon in 1919. She died six years later in 1925 shortly before her 66th birthday.
The fate of the children was a chequered one.
The eldest daughter eventually married her father’s former servant and by him she had two further children.
She and returned to Rangoon in 1947 following the independence of India.
However she was unwelcome because of her marriage to a commoner and an Indian Hindu at that and was compelled to return to the only home she knew in Ratnagiri.
Tragically she died shortly after she returned.
The collector’s records say that when Phaya died, she was such a destitute that the locals of the village around collected money under the leadership of the collectorate for her funeral.
Phaya left behind the daughter she had home to Gopal, who had died earlier.
This daughter, named Tu Tu, was brought up in poverty and not being educated, forgot all about her royal heritage except having one sorry looking poster painting of her mother in her home for veneration among the many household gods…
Without money or education, Tu Tu married a local mechanic and had at least six or seven children, all of whom became more and more Indian in religion and culture as well as appearance.
Tu Tu, for whom Burmese is a forgotten language, still lives in Ratnagiri as an old woman and speaks fluent Marathi with a rural Maharashtrian accent.
She used to sell paper flowers to make a little money for her family in the days gone by.
REFERENCE SOURCES
#The Hindustan Times, 16 September 1995,
#Wikipedia
#HVK Archives:Pauper Princess
Warning to anti-Muslim opposition bloggers and activists
Dear Comrades,
Enough is enough! Please wake up from the anti-Muslim rhetoric and dreams you are in, after getting the repeated ultra-nationalistic apartheid propaganda bombardments into your minds by the successive activists, nationalist governments and radicals.
Do not use lame excuses such as that you are aiming for secular democratic revolution. And our Religious grouses should be voiced only after we regained our second independence.
We all Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Animists and ethnic minorities should just stay away from the risks and dangers of the revolution and concentrate on our economy and education.
We could easily declare that who ever is in power is our government and we will support with all our means to the government of the day.
Don’t worry dears, once you, the opposition, revolutionists, could form the new government, we will whole heartedly support you.
Now? Sorry, we could not or should not risk ourselves, as you are not better than SPDC on the matters pertaining to the anti-Muslim attitude.
According to the worldwide survey, more than 90% of politicians around the world are corrupted. Not only all of the SPDC leaders but even Senior General Than Shwe could be bought over if we could pay enough ‘presents, commissions, or shares’. Even the ex-MI Chief, ex-PM Khin Nyunt who had orchestrated numerous anti-Muslim riots was shamelessly seen courting the Rohingya donor (he is the second richest man in Bangladesh). Khin Nyunt meet him at the Mingladon airport and escorted or accompanied him with his helicopter to see the Rakhine cyclone disaster area.
I decided to stop contributing to Burma Digest because of their secular stance ( may be by the new doners from anti-Muslim US) although they offered me even higher responsibility as a very ‘senior’ editor. If we have no chance to even voice our sufferings now, it is no use to fight for the new apartheid government.
DR SAN OO AUNG