Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Burmese riddle verses from The Atlantic 1958

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1958/02/some-burmese-riddle-verses/640460/

Khin Myo Chit book--I am looking for it--

Still life with skull--from Internet.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-unconditional-release-of-all-myanmar-political-prisoners-is-non-negotiable.html
March 27, hell day for Burma.
Originally Resistance Day from Japanese Occupation-WWII
which junta took for "their day."
March 27, 2021--when m a h said: I have no trouble killing 100 ppl a day. Pegu Massacre.
I met U Bo Kyi/AAPP in 2008 in Helsinki.
All these organizations, Irrawaddy, AAPP, NUG, etc. need Support for what they do.
Pl start fund-raising wherever you are--food sales, cookies (that you eat), other forms of support.
Be aware that your existing support--e.g. for a non-profit inside Burma is not the same as changing the system--many good-hearted ppl do not realise this--
Irrawaddy, Myanmar Now, AAPP are about changing the system.
I'm getting tired of pointing this out.
It's like children as soon as they grow up, need to leave an abusive family.
If you stay, don't ever think you can "work the system."
You can't. The system will exploit you, bleed you dry and kill you.
km

Medieval philospher --Peter (Piere) Abelard--hymns--life story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG4_sCh3PrM
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Dinesh+desouza+Aberlard+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:912eae2a,vid:wPWTa1riHFA,st:0
The Amazing Story of God's Grace in the Life of Medieval Philosopher Peter Abelard

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Poetry post--And we love life by Marwood Darwish

A
nd We Love Life by Marmood Darwish.
And we love life if we find a way to it.
W
e dance in between martyrs and raise a minaret for violet and palm trees.
We love life if we find a way to it.
And we steal from the silkworm a thread to build a sky and fence in this departure.
We open the garden gate for the jasmine to step out on the streets as a beautiful day.
We love life if we find a way to it.
And we plant, where we settle, some fast growing plants, and harvest the dead.
We play the flute like the color of the faraway, sketch over the first corridor a neigh.
We write our names one stone at a time, O lightning brighten the night. We love life if we find a way to it. . .
(translated from the Arabic by Fady Joudah)
Copyright 2008 The Nation.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Mistake in previous post

It was late Col Chit Myaing who lived in MD whom Mrs Inge Sargent thought arrested and caused the death of her 1st husband--Hsipaw Sawbwa Sao Kya Seng in 1962 (through torture.)
My mistake--not Col Kyi Maung who was with NLD.
Thanks to Dr Maung Zarni for pointing it out.
Apologies.
km

How Palm Sunday is celebrated all over the world--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_Sunday

Palm Sunday in Jerusalem--

https://www.aol.com/thousands-attend-palm-sunday-celebrations-155338369.html

From Wikipedia--

Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya (née Mazepa;[a] 30 August 1958 – 7 October 2006) was an American-Russian journalist and human rights activist, who reported on political and social events in Russia, in particular, the Second Chechen War (1999–2005).[2]
It was her reporting from Chechnya that made Politkovskaya's national and international reputation.[3] For seven years, she refused to give up reporting on the war despite numerous acts of intimidation and violence. Politkovskaya was arrested by Russian military forces in Chechnya and subjected to a mock execution. She was poisoned while flying from Moscow via Rostov-on-Don to help resolve the 2004 Beslan school hostage crisis, and had to turn back, requiring careful medical treatment in Moscow to restore her health.
Her post-1999 articles about conditions in Chechnya were turned into books several times;[4] Russian readers' main access to her investigations and publications was through Novaya Gazeta, a Russian newspaper that featured critical investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. From 2000 onwards, she received numerous international awards for her work. In 2004, she published Putin's Russia, a personal account of Russia for a Western readership.[5] On 7 October 2006 (notably, on the 54th birthday of the then President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin), she was murdered in the elevator of her block of apartments, an assassination that attracted international attention.[6][7][8] In June 2014, five men were sentenced to prison for the murder, but it is still unclear who ordered or paid for the contract killing.[9]

Crocus Hall Moscow--Putin says--Ukraine angrily denies--

https://apnews.com/article/russia-moscow-krasnogorsk-gunmen-concert-hall-fire-97e321c3c477ece36d4fb32f50fa0e8a
Putin has done this sort of thing before--when he blew up apartment building and blamed on Chechens, when he first came topower. See Anna Politkovskaya book--Anna Politikovskaya was killed in lobby of her apartment building.
Becoming old trick.

Friday, March 22, 2024

Letpadaung --Burma--2021--charred bodies villagers burned alive--from Irrawaddy Magazine--I am making a papier mache relief 24 x 36" of this--

Western Gorilla--from Wikipedia

Junta's so-called NPT "mayor" actually head honcho lord of land grabs dies--

Thein Nyunt was responsible for land grabs for the sprawling city and behind the planning of a row of six mansions in Naypyitaw for Than Shwe, who took the largest plot with 6.4 hectares (16 acres). His deputy, Maung Aye, future speaker Shwe Mann, future president Thein Sein and future Union Election Commission chair Tin Aye took the remaining plots on the row.
Thein Nyunt, then chairman of Naypyitaw Council, sold plots to ministers and slightly smaller areas to deputy ministers for a few thousand US dollars each. Top civil servants were also allocated land.
Private companies had to construct the homes and military cronies won the contracts.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/obituaries/naypyitaws-first-mayor-thein-nyunt-dies.html
3-22-2024

Perseus--wiki

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perseus