These photos tell the real story of Karens in Burma. Compare with Rambo Movie !

These following graphics were copied from Karen Human Rights group home page. Were the scenes from Rambo Movie merely a fiction with exaggeration? After seeing the photos decide by yourself.

Homeless Karen Villagers

Forced Relocation

Open air class for homeless refugees

Burnt and destroyed village

Killing Machines

Beware of Land Mines!

During 2007 the SPDC has deployed Type-69 anti-personal bounding fragmentation landmines as part of its operations in Karen State. While Myanmar Defence Products Industries, a State company, produces the MM1 and MM2 – copies of the Chinese Type-59 and Type-58 respectively – as well as a Claymore-type directional fragmentation mine, there is so far no evidence that it is producing a Type-69 mine. The Type-69 anti-personal landmines which the SPDC is deploying in Karen State, such as the example shown in this photo which was retrieved from Toungoo District, are therefore likely constructed within China and delivered to the SPDC as part of the larger package of military aid.

The base and remaining fins of two separate 120mm mortar shells which SPDC forces fired on villages in Lu Thaw township, Papun District.

Land Mines Victims

The Following Graphics need viewer discretion

The Killings

Since late 2005 – early 2006 the SPDC has led an intensified assault on the civilian communities in the three northernmost districts of Karen State. Through this offensive the Army has sought to finally bring these regions and their indigenous populations under military control. To this end, the Army has applied a widespread shoot-on-sight policy in non-SPDC controlled areas, where civilians are targeted as enemies and killed as such.

Twenty-year-old Naw H— of Saw Thay Der village along the Yaw Loh river in Tantabin township, southern Toungoo District shown here on March 21st 2007 severely injured by SPDC mortar fire. Naw H— had been about to return home from Wa Doh Koh village which lies just under four kilometres to the north. While waiting at Wa Doh Koh village, SPDC soldiers from Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #501 began shelling the village with high powered mortars. The exploding shells flung shrapnel into Naw H—‘s legs, shoulders and head. Despite the severity of her injuries she survived the attack

The corpse of forty-year-old Saw T’Roh Htaw of Dtay Thoo Der village murdered by soldiers from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #501 as he was travelling along a dirt road at Bpla Day in Lu Thaw township. In 2006, SPDC forces operating in the area had destroyed the houses and fields of Saw T’Roh Htaw as well as villagers Saw Yeh Gay Baw and Saw Htah Loo. The SPDC’s strategy of crop destruction aims to eliminate the civilian presence in non-SPDC-controlled areas of Lu Thaw township by creating severe food shortages.

Myanmar Army

A Myanmar Soldier in action

A soldier from a patrol of Light Infantry Battalion #4; Light Infantry Division #44 shown here loiters at Hs— village, Papun District on August 4th 2007.

These photos show the SPDC Army camp at Ker Weh, Than Daung township, northern Toungoo District as seen in February 2007. At the time these photos were taken the camp was occupied by troops from SPDC Light Infantry Battalion #373, Tactical Operations Command #663 of Military Operations Command #5 under the command of Kyaw Soe. Notice the double row of split bamboo fencing encircling the camp. Villagers are regularly forced to build such fences at SPDC camps and bases throughout Karen State.

A Group of fleeing Karens

These photos are real authentic photos copied from Karen Human Rights Group homepage

http://www.khrg.org/index.php.

After seeing all these real photos Are you still thinking that Rambo Movie is Just a Fiction without real content and message ?

(This blogger has intentionally omitted more violent real life photos from the original source as it may become more violent than scenes from latest Rambo movie)

This blogger would like to share the part of a poem by Ma Thadar with Burmese Readers,

ရမ္ဘို မၾကည့္ရ။
DVD ေတြ လိုက္ဖမ္း။
လူေတြ ၾကား၊ လိုက္ေထာက္လွမ္း
စေလာင္းေတြ. ၾကည့္မရစတမ္း
နိုင္ငံေရးဘေလာ့ေတြ ဘမ္း
အင္တာနက္စပိ ေတြ လိပ္ေျခလွမ္း လွမ္း

ခင္ဗ်ားတို ့ ပိတ္လည္း..က်မတို ့မေၾကာက္။
လူဆိုတာ..ပိတ္ေလေလ.ပိုေဖါက္္ခ်င္ေလ။
ဘမ္းေလေလ..ဖရီးဒမ္းနဲ ့တံခါးေခါက္။
အေရာက္ လာဖတ္ဆဲ။
ေသြးမနည္းတဲ့ ခေလးေတြ
မီဒီယာဟာ ေရစီးေၾကာင္း။
ေျမာင္းပိတ္ေလ.ပိုပိုလွ်ံ
အရွိန္ျပင္းတဲ့ ေရစီးမာန္
ေရကာတာနဲ ့ပိတ္ေတာင္..မခံ။
မတရားတာဆို..ဘယ္သူမွလက္မခံ.ေတာ္လွန္။

To read the full text

http://thadar.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post_04.html

Sit Mone

The Truth Will Prevail, the Rot Will Surface: Rambo and Burma

Famous Burmese proverb “The Truth Will Prevail. The Rot will surface” struck this blogger’s mind after watching the movie “Rambo” in which Sylvester Stallone went into Burma with his motto: “Live for nothing, or die for something”

Sorry for Myanmar Tat Ma Daw (Burmese Armed Forces), once famous as one of the regions toughest armies have been downgraded into a merciless immoral army that tortured and killed the innocents rather than preventing and protecting it’s people in the eyes of movie goers all over the world. Most of the scenes in this movie in-fact, reflected the actual conducts of current Burmese Army against it’s people.

However, to be fair to Burmese Army, there are some groups of patriotic soldiers who really cherished the country and its people are still within the army staying low profile.

This blogger feels that these groups may be even more than the evil forces. Perhaps, for them, this is the bad time, as their superior Generals over the Throne will be actively doing the surveillance for any signs of possible rebellion within the Army.

This blogger could understand the feeling of these good soldiers as they are blamed for the conducts of a handful of Generals whose ambition is just to stay in the power.

I feel sorry for the Burmese Army, founded by General Aung San ( Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s father), that was born together with the Burmese Independence, seems to be sinking together with the Evil Generals into the abyss of the Sea Of Sin.

Sit Mone

Stallone explained, why he chose Burma for his latest Movie

Friday, 18 January , 2008, 14:45

Action star Sylvester Stallone did not want to use Afghanistan or Iraq as a backdrop for the latest in the Rambo series, which he also directs, because he did not want to offend troops stationed there right now.

Thesun.co.uk quoted him as saying: “I thought it would be an insult to the men who are fighting, to think that a fictional character could come and change everything. I thought Burma would be more real.”

The movie is titled Rambo and it finds the protagonist leading a solitary life in the mountains and jungles of northern Thailand. But he has to return to action when a group of human rights activists find him and plead with him to guide them to Burma to deliver medical supplies. Rambo has to rescue them when the Burmese army captures them.

“You have one small area with peasants being overwhelmed by this brutal military force. They are picked out because they are Christians and Rambo is an atheist at this time and he had lost most of his humanity. I wanted to do something more spiritual and visually interesting,” he said.

Source

http://sify.com/movies/hollywood/fullstory.php?id=14591098

Zarganar will be the director of the Movie, “Biography of General Aung San”

Famous comedian and well respected activist Zarganar has started writing the scripts of the Movie, ” Biography of General Aung San”.

According to Irawaddy on-line news, Zaragnar said the Movie, Biography of General Aung San was overdue for the successive generation of the artist to make into reality.

History of Burma and General Aung San was homogeneous, he said. He has invited, suggestion and advice to his blog at the following link in Burmese.

http://www.zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/

Zargnar will be looking for the International Producer , for the Movie, as General Aung San, the father of Daw Aung Suu Kyi is a well known International Figure, by saying ” If you talk about Burma and General Aung San is not included, delete the Map of Burma from the World Atlas”

He has intention of directing the movies of ” Ex Dictator Ne Win” and other villains of Burma in the near future.

Source Irrawaddy

Bravo Ko Thura! We all love to watch the Movie of General Aung San. Also don’t foreget to make the movies of the GREAT VILLAINS OF BURMA.

Sit Mone

Listen to the songs, dedicated to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Friends,

Listen to the songs, and reflect….What should we all do ?

“SHE SAID.. Please use your liberty to promote ours! “

Sit Mone

Rambo 2008, The Movie for Burmese Generals

Watch the trailers of Rambo 2008 at the following links.

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Rambo (2008)

Cast

• Sylvester Stallone – John Rambo (Former Vietnam Vet. Lives in Thailand as a Snake Catcher.)
• Julie Benz – Sarah Miller (Recently Married)
• Paul Schulze – Michael Burnett
• Matthew Marsden – Schoolboy (Youngest of the Mercs. Amazing Sniper)
• Graham McTavish – Lewis (British Mercenary. Creates a lot of tension with Rambo)
• Reynaldo Gallegos – Diaz (Mercenary)
• Tim Kang – En-Joo (Mercenary)
• Jake La Botz – Reese (Mercenary)
• Maung Maung Khin – Major Pa Tee Tint
• Ken Howard – Reverend Arthur Marsh
• Cameron Pearson – Medic Missionary (Jeff)
• James With – Preacher Missionary

Plot

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)

Official website

http://movies.break.com/rambo/

Kyaw Thu, Aur Pi Kyae (Cartoon) among banned artists of Burma

Military junta bans 19 writers and performers; poet questioned by authorities

The Burmese regime has banned the work of 19 artists and writers, and some writers and poets are hiding from authorities because they are being pursued for taking part in the September 2007 uprising.

Among those whose works have been banned is the renowned cartoonist Awpikye, whose three-decade-long career was brought to a halt by the ban. He was accused of supporting monks in the September 2007 uprising.

“I cannot draw cartoons now; I am upset about it. My fans cannot see my cartoons anymore,” he said. “I knew about it after the advertisement industry told me about the ban. They told to me that my work had been banned from being published and telecast. Moreover, even my colleagues cannot mention my name in their work. Their work will be censored, too, if they mention my name,” he added.

Award-winning actor and film director Kyaw Thu met the same fate. The regime banned about 20 films and videos in which he has acted, even though they were cleared by the censorship board. “The ban on screening my movies and videos means banning everyone involved in their production, too. It means killing the artistes,” Kyaw Thu said.

Both Awpikye and Kyaw Thu have found alternative means of earning an income and doing meaningful work, but both are frustrated and disheartened at being shut out of their real professions.

“Yes, I’m facing some difficulties now. But I’m doing graphic designing and drawing logos as well for commercial establishments. The ban doesn’t affect my commercial work”, said Awpikye.

“I can bear the burden of being banned from performing as I have my charity work of providing free funeral service for the poor. We are getting more donations now as I’m leading this charity organization. Many people encouraged us to continue our job”, said Kyaw Thu.
Others affected by the ban are: Than Myint Aung (female writer); Soe Win Nyein (artist); Oo Swe; Zaw Htet Htwe (sports journalist); Poe Phyu (film actor); Zarganar (comedian); Aung Way; Nyein Thit; Ludu Daw Amar (female writer); Dagon Tayar (writer); and Ko Moe Thu (writer).

In response to the ban, some writers have changed their pseudonyms. However, the censorship board – the “literary secret service” of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) – requires that the biographical information of writers accompany their work so changing pseudonyms does not work as a strategy to avoid the ban.

The censorship board tightens its rules on some artists, imposes restrictions, and sometimes blacklists writers who criticize the regime. Sources close to literary workers said that the censorship board always favours publishers close to the top brass, and who also publish pro-junta articles and news.

In a related incident, in a 4 December 2007 press conference held by SPDC in their new capital Naypyidaw on 4 December 2007, Information Minister Brigadier General Kyaw Hsan discredited Kyaw Thu, comedian and actor Zarganar, and writer Than Myint Aung as being “unpatriotic” for offering alms to monks during the uprising, and further claimed that “unscrupulous elements” had incited and misled them.

Meanwhile, Poet Nwe Sein Wai was taken from his home for questioning the day after he attended the 92nd birthday celebration of renowned writer Ludu Daw Ahmar on 29 November. At the event, poets recited their poems and distributed collections of their works.

“They took away my husband for questioning. He was released later on the same day. I don’t know what (the authorities) asked my husband. Only he can answer this,” his wife said.

Sources

http://bourgeoisnievete.blogspot.com/
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0712/S00668.htm

The Blogger is aware of this information has already been spreading in the free Burmese Media. I have posted this due to the

1. Respect to those who show defiance against the “Unjust Laws, and the Oppression”

2. Their “Honor and Legacy” for the Burmese History under the Military Junta.

I can’t believe how they have(the Junta) decided to ban Ludu Daw Amar. She is 92 years old lady. However she has always said the truth, that is the reason why the Junta of Burma is afraid of the 92 years old lady and decided not to allow her to write.

Saya Gyi Dagon Taryar is also a National Lurette for the Burmese Literature. No surprise for this useless ban upon these Great Burmese artists as the Burmese Generals are the “deaf, dumb and blind” people .

Sit Mone

Rambo recieved death threat while filming near Myanmar Border

Sylvester Stallone “feared for his life” while filming the new ‘Rambo’ movie.

The Hollywood Star has revealed cast and crew on the blockbuster action film received a series of “formidable death threats” while filming on the conflict-ridden border between Thailand and Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.

He told US TV show ‘Access Hollywood’: “There were a lot of you might say ‘people’ trying to dissuade us from filming there.

“There were a lot of threats to myself, to the crew. There were some formidable death threats and it definitely had us fearing for our lives at times.

“The day we landed was when Thailand had their military coup. I’m seeing all these planes leaving, and here comes one arriving and that is us. It was certainly daunting.”

Source

 

burma.newsladder.net/submissions/hot/…
http://www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_212119113.shtml

Movie Recommendation “The Great Raid”

The Blogger has watched the movie, “The Great Raid”recently.
This Movie was based on the true story of WW II Americans POWs who were left behind in the Philippines during the Japanese invasion. The daring rescue raid was launched to save those who were under the Japanese brutality in the Military camp at the end of Second WW , is good inspiration for the Freedom of Burma . I would like to recommend this movie if you are the person who love to see the Justice prevails.

My favourite quote after the successful rescue mission was ” Even though you were left behind, you were never forgotten” said by the Young Captain who led the mission.

Official Movie website

http://www.miramax.com/thegreatraid/

Sit Mone

 

From director John Dahl comes the stirring true story of one of the most spectacular rescue missions ever to take place in American history: “the great raid on Cabanatuan,” the daring exploit that would liberate more than 500 U.S. Prisoners of War in the face of overwhelming odds. A gripping depiction of human resilience, the film vividly brings to life the personal courage and audacious heroism that allowed a small but stoic band of World War II soldiers to attempt the impossible in the hopes of freeing their captured brothers.

Once a tale shared across the United States, the long-lost story of THE GREAT RAID has been recreated with meticulous authenticity to pay testimony to the many different people, from U.S. commanders to Filipino soldiers to women aid workers to the POWs themselves, who played a part in turning this time of intense hardship and unrelenting danger into a moment of inspiration.