Why Yoichi Yamaguchi, the former Japanese ambassador made the nasty comment about the Saffron Uprising in Burma?

Why did the former Japanese ambassador Yoichi Yamaguchi,make the nasty comment regarding the recent Saffron Uprising in Burma?

Why was he allegedly scolded by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi?

Who is behind the Sasakawa and Nippon foundations ?

How does this foundation help Burmese Junta?

Read..
A Charity’s Checkered Past

By Bertil Lintner

Excerpts:

In more recent years, the Sasakawa and Nippon foundations have supported seminars organized in Rangoon by the Myanmar [Burma] Institute of Strategic and International Studies on “Research on International Economy in Myanmar” as well as various health projects. The Sasakawa Foundation has also in part financed the Myanmar Times, a weekly newspaper established in March 2000, which the Australian monthly The Diplomat in its November-December 2007 issue quoted critics as describing as “little more than a cheerleader for the junta.”

Yoichi Yamaguchi, the former Japanese ambassador to Burma who recently caused an outcry by openly supporting the regime’s brutal suppression of the monks’ anti-junta demonstrations in Rangoon and elsewhere, has also been linked to some of the activities of Sasakawa’s outfits. On December 14, 2003, the New Light of Myanmar reported that then intelligence chief Gen Khin Nyunt had received Yamaguchi together with Nippon Foundation president Yohei Sasakawa, Ryoichi’s youngest son who now heads the philanthropical empire, after his father-the accused war criminal-passed away 12 years ago

read the article in full text;

By Bertil Lintner at

http://www.asiapacificms.com/articles/sasakawa_foundation/

၁၉၉၆ မွာ အာဆီယံကို ျမန္မာက ၀င္မယ္ဆိုေတာ့ ေဒၚစု ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္ကန္႕ကြက္ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီအခ်ိန္မွာ ဂ်ပန္၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္က စကၤာပူ ေရာက္တံုး ျမန္မာကို လက္ခံမယ့္ အာဆီယံရဲ့သေဘာထားကို လက္ခံတဲ့အေၾကာင္း သတင္းေထာက္ေတြ ကို ေျပာလိုက္တယ္။ ဒီသတင္းကို ၾကားေတာ့ ေဒၚစုက ဂ်ပန္သံအမတ္ ယုိခ်ီယာမာဂူခ်ီကို ဖုန္းဆက္ေခၚ ပါတယ္။ ဂ်ပန္သံအမတ္ေရာက္လာေတာ့ အိမ္ထဲအ၀င္မခံဘဲ ၿခံထဲက အခမ္းအနားေတြလုပ္တဲ့ တဲထဲမွာ ထိုင္ခိုင္းၿပီး ေဒၚစုက ထိုင္လိုက္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္လိုက္နဲ႕ တစ္နာရီေလာက္ၾကိမ္းေမာင္းၿပီးျပန္လႊတ္လိုက္ တယ္။ ဂ်ပန္သံအမတ္က အဲဒီအျဖစ္အပ်က္နဲ႕ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ဂ်ပန္အစုိးရဆီကို အစီရင္ခံေတာ့ ေဒၚစုကို အလြန္ေမာက္မာတဲ့သူလို႕ သံုးသပ္ခဲ့တယ္လို႕ဆိုပါတယ္။

The above paragraph was copied from a pro junta blog. I do not think the meaning of this paragraph really reflects what took place on that day as Daw Suu is unable to defend herself .She is still under detention by Military Junta. However, Daw Suu was right to advise ASEAN to not accept Burma as now all the ASEAN leaders openly admit that they have made a major political blunder by accepting Burma as a member.

After reading Bertil Lintner’s article, this blogger is of the opinion that Yoichi Yamaguchi was lucky that Daw Suu merely scolded him, ( if it was true) by looking at his tarnished background, and insincere approach towards the Burmese people. Actually Daw Suu is not an arrogant leader; on the contrary she is gifted with Political Wisdom! And like her father General Aung San she has the courage to say what is not right for the Burmese People.

Now everybody understands that ASEAN does not do anything good for the Burmese People.

Salute again to Aunty Suu for her courage !

Sit Mone

Related article in Burmese from Irrawaddy online news

ကူညီေထာက္ပံ့မႈ၏ ေနာက္ကြယ္
ဘာေတးလ္ လင့္တနာ | ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၆၊ ၂၀၀၇

၁၉၄၅ ခုႏွစ္ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ၏ ေအးစက္လွေသာ ေန႔တစ္ေန႔တြင္ တုိက်ဳိၿမဳိ႕၊ ဆူဂါမုိ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ထဲသုိ႔ ထရပ္ကားတစီး ေမာင္း၀င္လာခဲ့သည္။ ကားေနာက္ခန္းထဲတြင္ အသက္ ၄၀ ခန္႔ လူလတ္ပုိင္းအရြယ္ လူတေယာက္သည္ ဂ်ပန္ ဘုရင့္ ေရတပ္မေတာ္၏ စစ္ခ်ီသီခ်င္းကို တီးမႈတ္လွ်က္လုိက္ပါလာေသာ စစ္တီး၀ုိင္းႏွင့္အတူ “ဘန္ဇုိင္း၊” “ဘန္ဇုိင္း” ဟု ေအာ္ဟစ္ လုိက္ပါလာပါသည္။

http://www.irrawaddy.org/bur/articles2007/December/16.html

 

 

Say Young Sone Comedians, start their international tour.

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

 

Legacy of the courageous heroes, Bhutto’s and Aung San’s

“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

To Say Young Sone Anyein, all of you are respected heroes of Burma( Video1nd Video2)

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disc2 part 6

disc2 part 7

disc2 part 8

You Tube Video source through Niknayman’s blog and DVB( All of us should say thanks to Ko Niknayman at

http://niknayman.blogspot.com/ and DVB

for the videos)

This blogger would like to praise the courage of the Comedians after watching the Jokes of the Anyein performance , which is usually combined with the traditional dance with the jokes.

However the Jokes made by the famous comedians, Godzilla, King Kong,and the others make all of us laughing at the same times feel deep sorrow as we all know that these comedians were crying in their heart while making the Jokes to express the feeling for the 50 millions Burmese, who’s mouths were sealed by the Military Junta.

For the non Burmese readers I am unable to translate their jokes as they smartly and bravely used the Myanmar Language, Culture and tradition with current situation of Burma in indirect words. Myanmar Language is difficult to translate in its true essence as meaning may change with different intonation.

Following is my favourite quote regarding humor and the fight for democracy which was originally from Irrawaddy On-line.

Sit Mone

Do it your self Democracy Burmese Style

“There has been, of course, the clever use of new technologies such as mobile phones and the Internet, but some of the methods used—like invocation of cultural symbols or spreading of subversive jokes about the junta—are difficult to understand as “political activity” by many outsiders. “

Excerpt from Irrawaddy,
The generals who run Burma don’t like it when the joke’s on them, but political satire and humor are alive in military-ruled Burma.

A popular VCD depicting a traditional anyein performance is now selling like hot cakes in Burma. An anyein is like a variety show with comedians, singing and dancing.

The performance took place at Myaw Zin Gyun near Rangoon’s lake Kan Daw Gyi on November 24.

Well-known comedians including Godzilla, King Kong and Kyaw Htoo and four comedians known as “Thee Lay Thee” performed live in spite of a warning from authorities.

Before going on stage, Godzilla was asked to sign a document saying he would not make political jokes.

The comedian troupe is known as “Say Young Sone” (The Colorful).

To read the full text in English

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9716