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.....

Ludu Sein Win "2008 Constitution & 2010 Election" = "Another Cheating"

Ludu Sein Win is a well-respected lifelong teacher, educator, writer and journalist in Burma.

Burma's SPDC Needs A Real Stick

A comment to The Irrawaddy magazine's "Obama Warns Dictators of 'Consequences' in Nobel Acceptance Speech" http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=17383

Contradictory approaches between the US/Western and Asian have failed Burmese citizens suffering from ongoing human right violation over the past decades.

The West's efforts are limited when they also look for national interests (American security and oil) rather than what Burmese citizens need which is toppling the military dictatorship and restoring the federal democracy.

As conservative Asians, China, India and ASEAN have not really cared what is happening in neighboring Burma. Human rights and universal values are too far away from the brains of Asian leaders. What Asian leaders prioritize is solely business and national interest.

Racist and notorious regimes like Burmese SPDC require a realistic stick (real engagement with pressure both diplomacy and military means) to make them to have a wish to release political prisoners including Suu Kyi and to return the power to the citizen which they have robbed since 1988.

Burma need a real stick, not only verbal pressure.

Bama military leaders force Kachin to have an independence country, I think

SPDC Commander Ordered to remove Bhamo Kachin cultural symbols after festival
Kachin News, http://www.kachinnews.com/News/Orders-to-remove-Bhamo-Kachin-cultural-symbols-after-festival.html

Such SPDC's discrimination policies again remind all Kachin people to keep
in mind that Kachins do not benefit anything from joining the Union of Burma.
Instead, Kachin suffered their rights throughout the history of the central
Bama-dominated government since 1948. Panglong Agreement, the spirit of the Union of Burma was ignored and destroyed. The entire country was overruled and dominated by the SPDC for more than a half century while downplaying/oppressing ethnic's political, social and economic rights.

In fact, Bama military leaders and politicians do not want racial harmony and political equality. Moreover SPDC is inciting ethnic nationalities to revolt against the central government by insulting basic human rights of ethnic people such as destroying Kachin Manau post. This means Bama-dominated SPDC want Kachin to separate from the Union and to have an independent Kachin Country.

I want to ask SPDC whether you prefer either "Federal Democratic Union" or "Independence Kachin Country." All Kachin hearts tell either one. Otherwise Burma will never find a peace and this armed struggle will last until the end of this earth.

Or maybe one day, if all Burmese politicians still believe in out-of-date politics of one nationality dominate over others (practice in feudal era), one Ethnic group of Burma will overturn the situation and dominate the whole Burma just as what the Bama-dominated SPDC does. Like Mon Empire and Yakhaine Empore before Bama Kungbong Khit! Do Bama want this or federal democracy?

Jahten A-grawp kau hkrum ai Manmaw Manau Wang

Tsawra ai,
Nu Wa, Hpu Nau, Kana Kajan Wunpawng Jinghpaw Amyu sha yawng hpang de lawu na laka hpe aja awa myit sa wa lu na matu ka tang dat ga ai.

Manmaw Buga Wunpawng Jinghpaw Amyu Sha ni a Manau Shadung hte Manau Wang hpe Manmaw Hk Y K Ningbaw Hpyendu Kaba nan woi awn nna jahten, htu, a-grawp kau ya ai lam gaw, Manmaw Buga WP Jinghpaw ni hpe sha nrai Mungkan ting sak-hkrung chyam bra nga ai Wunpawng Jinghpaw yawng hpe sawng dik ai hku nna roi ai, ga law saw ai, jahte tam ai nan rai nga sai. Dai hta jan nna Amyu shada da a lapran hta roi rip hkat ai lam kaga nnga na sai.Bai dai Manmaw Manau Wang hpe jahtyen a-grawp kau ngut ai hpang, Manmaw, BMO HK Y K ningbaw wa gaw NANHTE JINGHPAW NI MUNGDAN A MATU HPA BAW AKYU RAWNG A TA?. ngu araw jaw ai sha n-ga MANAU HPE NUM HPU PRANG KAW MI RAI RAI, TSING-DU PA KAW RAI RAI GALAW MU ngu nna mung shawa a man kaw nan tsun ai da.

Manau Shadung hte Manau Wang ngu ai gaw, WP Jinghpaw Amyu sha ni a matu tsawdik ai htunghking rai sai, dai hta tsaw ai kaga htunghking nnga ai, moi gaw hkristan nbyin shi ai ten, tsawhtum Madai Nat hpe jaw jau nna galaw ai htunghking kaba re, Manau wang kata nse nsa tsep-kawp nmai galaw ai sha n-ga shana e gadai pyi nmai lai ai, dai sha n-ga Manau nau ai shaning dai mare e masha si ai raitim aga de makoi mayang kadai n-galaw ai, ngu mayu ai gaw dai ginra lamu ga hta kadai nhtu kajam sai, manau dum na jaba wawt yu nhtawm jaba pru ai hte dai manau wang hpe kadai sa kajam nmai sai, sa jahten/sa kajam ai wa, ni gaw dai amyu sha ni a hpyen rai sai, dai sa jahten ai wa hpe sat kau lu ai shani shing nrai dai wa kaw na hpyi-nyem tawngban wa ai lam sha nnga yang nsim nsa gasat gala mat wa na lam sha nga sai, ndai amu gaw W/P Jinghpaw Mungkan ting (India, China, Burma) na WP Jinghpaw Amyu sha hkum ting dek shagu hpe lukdik lukga e baw bye ya ai hta grau sawng mat sai lam re.

Myen ni dai daram roi wa nga tim, hpa hpe naw la nga ga ai ta?
myen hpe hkrit ai majaw anhte WP Jinghpaw ni a nga grin galu kaba sa wa ai lam hta akyu rawng wa nga a ni?, ndai bungli gaw amyu sha mying gun nna shamu shamawt nga ai uhpung yawng hta lit nga ai re, lit htawt ap taw na lam nnga ai.

Moi Laika Jaw Masat hta e kalang Manau Shadung baw katut sai, dai shaloi gaw Jinghpaw mung e nre majaw ngu myit la ai majaw ngu saka, ndai gaw Jinghpaw Mung e nan rai nga sai, ya mung Ma-Ah ni zawn mau shalai kau sa-yang gaw anhte daram shagri nkung ai amyu sha mungkan hta nau pyi nnga na sai.

hpa majaw anhte a htunghking hpe anhte a ginra hta jahten ai rai ta? daini na ten Wunpawng Mungdan kata shara magup she yu jin wa hkra Myen ngu ai pyi n-nga ai ginra hkan e Myen Budda Gawk-ngu ni shadun mat wa ai gaw kadai nmai hkra, nmai hpu shanhte kam ai hku galaw mai wa ai mungdaw/mungdan byin wa nga sai hpe nang hte nseng ai zawn sha naw nga nga na ga ai kun?

Myen nkau gaw anhte hpe labau nchye ai ni zawn mana shatai nhtawm, Bhamo ngu ai gaw moi kaw na Myen Sam ni a shara re nga tsun na ma ai.
Laika ka sara John Anderson(1867-68) ka tawn ai "A Report on The Expedition to Western Yunan Via Bhamo" ngu ai laika, laika man 216-9 lapran hta sanglang tawn ai gaw Moi na Manmaw Mare ngu ai gaw hka makau e de tawn ai rai nna nta 400 loi jan nga ai, galu de deng mi galu nhtawm malawng maga Sam amyu sha ni hte Lawu mung na Myen ni sa bu htawt nga ai re lam, dai Mare a deng 3 jan grup grup gra gra de gaw jinghpaw(Kahkyen) ni dam lada ai ginra ni hta mare de nhtawm nga shanu wa ai lam asan sha ka tawn ai.

Bai, Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry 1947 Report Part I laika buk laika man 3 hta mung Bhamo District e nga ai amyu sha ni a Yup-tung jahpan hpe lawu na hte maren ka tawn ai.
(ii) (a) Bhamo District

Area ............................................. 4,148 sq. miles
Total Population............................... 129,000
Part I Population 52,000
Part II Population .............................. 77,000

Population by Races.
Kachin ........................................... 49,794 or 38.6 %
Shan .................................................. 36,765 or 28.5%
Burmese Group ................................... 33,540 or 26.0%
Indian, Chinese and others .................. 8,901 or 6.9 %

moi na Manmaw Mare gaw Sam ni malawng ngu na nga lai wa ai Sam mare re hpe gaw labau hta ka tawn nga ai, raitim dai aten(1947ning) lahta Sam Mung e nga ai jinghpaw gaw 71,070 re majaw Sam hte Jinghpaw Amyu sha ni hku nna tinang a mungdaw masat daidaw la ai hpang rapra ai hku nga pra sa wa na ngu ai ga shaka nga tawn ai hte maren langai a htung hking hpe langai hkungga hkat na lam sha nga ai, Myen wa raitim Kachin State ngu nna dai daw tawn sai lamu ga hta shahte kam ai hku sa roi na lam tsep-kawp nnga ai, Anhte a Manau shadung hpe htu agrawp kau ya ai zawn shan hte a Gawkngu ni hpe dai hte maren anhte galaw yang hpabaw byin wa na ta?

ndai gaw Tinng Ying Hpung, Zawng Hra Hpung Lasang wa a Hpung KBC, Kahtawlik ...etc. ngu taw ai baw nre, yawng a htunghking re majaw yawng kaw na aja awa ninghkap ra ai bungli re lam hpe Wungpawng Amyu sha kaji kaba yawng hpang de shadum shana dat ai lam rai ga ai.


Maigan du Wunpawng Jinghpaw Amyusha Hpung(OKA)

ps. 3/4 ya laman Myen laika hte ndai lam hte la-kap nhtawm statement langai shapraw lu na matu bawng jahkrup nga ga ai.

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Kachin Manau Dance Site Bulldozed by SPDC

Burmese military authorities by using bulldozes destroyed a Kachin Manau festival site in Bhamo, Kachin State on November 12, just ahead of the traditional dance ceremony due on November 26. The Irrawaddy's news "Kachin Manau Dance Site Bulldozed"


These the evidence of the Burmese SPDC regime’s racist and discriminating policies and actions against ethnic people in Burma.

Current Burman military leaders have very little patience in culture biodiversity and mutual understanding. Ethnic's language, literature, culture and history are never allowed to teach in public school in Burma. Worse, such ethnic culture heritage sites were being destroyed.

These are the regime’s very serious racial and basic human rights violations against ethnic people. These are also the reasons prompting ethnic people to hold guns and fight!

The UN and International Community should speak up against such actions. Burman leaders and future Burma will have to pay for such discrimination and human rights violation.