A Happy and Sad Return to My Hometown

I recently had a chance to return my hometown. As I traveled lots of place in Kachin State, I feel extraordinarily deep in my heart in all aspects.

As I came closer to Burmese border from Kumming and Ruili, Chinese border towns in Yunnan Province of China, first thing that come into my mind is “Vow! I gonna be home very soon, I gonna meet my family and friends. I gonna be able to speak Burmese and Kachin to anyone I meet in town." I was so happy thinking of those things. But suddenly as I crossed the Chinese border into Burmese side, my feeling changed. I almost lost control and my eyes almost dropped tears. The reason is because my country is so much different from the rest of the world. The roads are different. The buildings are different. Foods are different. People wear differently. Children play differently. Shops and stores are different. Police and soldiers act differently.

I know the world has full of differences and diverse of people. But What I mean by difference here is not in term of Goodness. Everything is so dim, Moy-Te-Ne-De in Burmese. People are so poor. Life is so hard, even to strike barely enough food for daily survival. When road, building and school and living standard have developed and changed rapidly in Thailand, China and Hong Kong everyday, my hometown has changed nothing. My hometown remained unchanged exactly the same as 10 years ago. A famous electronic store in downtown stay alive but building are getting old with dirty ruining color on the wall. The most famous noodle shop in downtown has only 5 or 6 tables in the same bamboo and wooden building that was built 15 years ago. No expansion but getting poorer.

People in my hometown and my country work as hard as those Chineses, Thais and Hong Kongers, but Why our people’s lives are so hard, so poor and so misfortune. Do Burmese people have a bad luck? Why our country is so miserable? What are the reason that made our country to become the world’s poorest country?

My answer is "Yes", Burmese people have "Bad Luck" to have such evil, stupid and foolish military dictatorship government called the SPDC who is oppressing and abusing their own citizens everyday and trying to prolong their repressive rule and self-interests of a handful of military leaders and their cronies. To be continued.....