Meet the Cyclone Nargis Orphans

This blogger has decided to stop the posts related to Cyclone Nargis of Burma as most of the mainstream media as well as the alternate media has successfully highlighted the plight of the cyclone victims from the different perspectives from political,socio-economical aspects, to  disaster management.

However when this blogger has accidentally bumped into the AP news photos of children, who became  orphans after cyclone Nargis, this blogger feels like sharing  the pain, sorrow and  suffering of these innocent children victims of Cyclone Nargis with blog readers.

Su Myat Swe Yu, 12, controls her tears as she tells that she misses her parents who were both killed during the cyclone that hit the country, Sunday, July 6, 2008 in a village in Myanmar. With thousands of casualties from the cyclone, a great number of children were orphaned and are now living with their relatives or neighbors who care for them.

Su Myat Swe Yu, 12, bites her fingers as she controls her tears narrating how she survived the last cyclone that killed her parents, Sunday, July 6, 2008 in a village in Myanmar. With thousands of casualties from the cyclone, a great number of children were orphaned and are now living with their relatives or neighbors who care for them.

Burmese Muslims need help too,ျမန္မာမူစလင္မ်ားဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျခင္း

ျမန္မာမူစလင္မ်ားဒုကၡေရာက္ေနျခင္း

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၂၀၀၇ခုနစ္စက္တင္ဘာသံဃာလႈပ္ရွားမႈၾကီးမွာမူစလင္ဘာသာ၀င္မ်ားကတက္ၾကြစြာပါ၀င္ကူညီခဲ့ၾကေသာ္ျငားလည္း နာဂစ္မုန္တိုင္းေၾကာင့္ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနတဲ ့မူစလင္ေတြကို ျမန္မာဗုဒဘာသာ အလ်ဴရွင္ေတြက သိပ္ျပီးမလႈတန္းလိုၾကဘူးလို ့သိရပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မူစလင္ေတြ က ကြမ္းျခံကုန္း ၊ခရမ္းေလးနဲ ့အျခားရြာေတြျဖစ္ၾကတယ္။ သူတို ့ကားလမ္းေဘးကိုထြက္ျပီး ေတာင္းေနေပမဲ ့ အလူရွင္ေတြက သူတို ့ေနရာေတြကိုေက်ာ္သြားတယ္လို ့သိရပါတယ္။ ကိုဇာဂနာကိုအဖမ္းခံရျပီးေနာက္ မွာဒီလို အေျခအေနေတြကို စတင္ၾကားလာရတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာ လူမႈေရးအသင္းေတြအေနနဲ ့ ဘာသာမခြဲျခားပဲ ကူညီၾကပါလို ့တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။

က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းလွတဲ့ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသားေရးနဲ ့ျမန္မာ့ဘာသာေရးအယူအဆမ်ားေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို ့ဒုကၡပင္လယ္ေ၀ခဲ့ျပီးပါျပီ။ ဒါေတြကိုသင္ခန္းစာယူသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဗုဒျမတ္စြာဘုရားရဲ စစ္မွန္တဲ့တရားအတိုင္းက်င့္သံုးၾကပါ။ ဒီလိုက်င့္သံုးရင္ေဘးဒုကၡျဖစ္စရာအေၾကာင္းမရိွဘူး။ ဒုကၡေရာက္သူတိုင္းကိုလူမိ်ဳး၊ဘာသာမခြဲျခားပဲကူညီၾကပါလို ့တိုက္တြန္းလိုပါတယ္။

Source Golden Color Revolution

Logjam, Political Emergency of Burma and SOP

This blogger has found out that significant numbers of blog readers click the following old post, which was posted on 18th of March, 2008.

That was few months before Cyclone Nargis struck Burma. Now It is obvious to all of us that Burmese Generals have failed to follow the Standard Operating Procedure in post Disaster management. The results of failure was the death of more than 130,000 people ( Burmese Government Source). Million were homeless. Human suffering due to diseases,lost of loved ones and properties of the people at ground zero would be impossible to convert into words. That is why…

This blogger would like to re post the ” Logjam, Political Emergency of Burma”again. SOP is short form of Standard Operating Procedure.

March 18, 2008

Logjam, Political Emergency of Burma

Filed under: Blogger’s Thought, Burma, Myanmar, Military Junta,, Thailand, burma politics — Sit Mone @ 11:05 am

Blogger’s thought

(This post was written after reading the news of
new Thai PM defending Military Junta of Burma after his successful
visit to Nay Pyi Taw)

Logjam,

That is the situation, which Burmese people are
facing right now. Burmese blogosphere has been quiet for last few days
without any breaking news and events.

Logjam is deadlock, or impasse, or blockage, in simple English.

It is political deadlock, and political emergency for Burma.

This blogger has a friend who is a Captain of
Boeing 747. This blogger asked him what is the most exciting period for
him in every flight? He said “during take off”.

“Because SOP can not be applied successfully after
exceeding certain speed limit”. The pilot could neither abort nor fly
the plane if the plane malfunctions after exceeding certain speed limit
while taking off from a runway.

Brave Pilots of this Concorde Aircraft followed the SOP even though they new that no chance for them to survive! However avoided crash into populated area.

Please read this post

This bolgger would like to recommend Burmese readers to read this post.

ကမၻာမီးေလာင္သားေတာင္ခ်နင္းby Soe Zeya Tun

Sit Mone

Time line Satellite Update for Cyclone Volunteers in Burma

Unosat is currently helping volunteers helping cyclone Nargis disaster with compehensive satellite images. This blogger has checked at UNOSAT MAP and found very detailed and impressive time line satellites images of Cylone Nargis destruction in delta area of Burma.

UNOSAT is the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Operational Satellite Applications Programme, implemented in co-operation with the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the European Organisation of High Energy Physics (CERN).

UNOSAT is a people-centred programme delivering satellite solutions to relief and development organisations within and outside the UN system to help make a difference in the life of communities exposed to poverty, hazards and risk, or affected by humanitarian and other crises.

UNOSAT goal is to make satellite solutions and geographic information easily accessible to the UN family and to experts worldwide who work at reducing the impact of crises and disasters and plan sustainable development.

UNOSAT.

Another news is from RFA news saying that an Engineering University in Arizona, US is also preparing a time line Satellite Update for Cyclone Volunteers in Burma.

Interview with an eleven years old Cyclone Nargis survivor of Burma

This blogger found the following interview from MM Thinker Blog. MM Thinker put a note that he was crying while posting the following interview. This blogger shared his feeling and decided to translate into English for the international readers.This blogger would like to apologize the original source, the Voice Weekly for unable to get permission due to the situation that we all should understand.

“I heard that there was distribution of Rice, but I did not go there as I have no means (utensils) to cook. However, if there is donation of porridge, we would get it and shared among us.” Aye Aye Soe,11 yrs, Cyclone Nargis Survivor

An interview with a Nargis Cyclone survivor, an eleven years old girl from Pan Nyein Village, of Labutta.

by Mya Hnin Aye

The Voice Weekly, Vol.4/No.31

Following is an excerpt from an interview with Ma Aye Aye Soe, 11 years, who has survived the Cyclone Nargis, together with her younger brother and sister. The rest of her family members and relatives have perished with Cyclone Nargis, which caused hundred thousands death and million homeless in Irrawaddy Delta of Burma.

Original post in Burmese at MM Thinker Blog

Now we are surviving with donation, for food and clothing, I will try my best to protect my brother and sister by all means

Failed State Alert, Burma!

Failed states can no longer perform basic functions such as education, security, or governance, usually due to fractious violence or extreme poverty. Within this power vacuum, people fall victim to competing factions and crime, and sometimes the United Nations or neighboring states intervene to prevent a humanitarian disaster. However, states fail not only because of internal factors. Foreign governments can also knowingly destabilize a state by fueling ethnic warfare or supporting rebel forces, causing it to collapse.

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Burma was in position of 18 among 20 failed counties according to failed state index in 2006. Further drop to position 14 was noted in 2007. Failed State Alert was issued on Burma after Cyclone Nargis by The Fund For Peace.

(The Fund for Peace, a research and educational organization that works to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war. The FfP specializes on the diagnosis and resolution of conflicts associated with weak and failing states and on foreign policy responses.)

Failed State Alert on Burma after Cyclone Nargis

Who is Zarganar?

Video copied from Arzarni Blog/original m4 news

This post is meant for non Burmese readers who wish to know more about Burmese activist, comedian, and a dental surgeon.Initially most of the Burmese people have known him only as a popular comedian in early 80s. By mid 80s, he became a very popular figure among Burmese for stinging and daring jokes relating Burmese Socialist Government . After 1988 uprising, his life has totally changed into pro democracy activist. Due to that reason he was in an out of Burmese jails during last 20 years.

He was arrested again on 5th of June 2008, for unknown reason, by Military Junta of Burma. Before the latest arrest, he was actively involved in helping Cyclone Nagis victims. He did not fail to criticize Military Junta for failure to save the thousand of lives aftermath of Cyclone.

This blogger has several posts about Zarganar in this weblog. Check at catagory drawdown menu at left column and look for ZARGANAR. You will find who he is.

Sit Mone

Tribute to unsung heroes of Burma after cyclone Nargis

Blogger’s thought

This blogger could not think properly aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. The news…kept on flowing from day1 after Cyclone until today, and non of them were good .

Zaganar, a famous Comedian and activist was arrested today. What crime has he committed ? He was just an outspoken public figure with the guts to criticize the Military Junta. For that reason he was in and out of the jails during last twenty years.

Donation links for Cyclone Nargis Victims of Burma

This blogger has received the following comment from Burmese Rose

“How can be donations sent to your Handy Youths group. I heard you have successfully started pilot budget housing in some villages. Please provide us with some info and tell us how we can donate.”

This blogger has translated a post written by Nyi Lynn Seck with his permission to let non Burmese readers know the good deeds of Handy Youth.

However, this blogger is not directly involve with the Group’s work.

Following links will help you to assist your donation reach to Handy Youth Group

http://cyclone-aid.blogspot.com/2008/05/real-scenerio-point-of-view-of.html

http://blog.moegyo.org/

or you can visit Nyi Lynn Seck Blog

Thank you for your kind interest for the plight of the Nargis Cyclone victims.

regards,

Sit Mone