Day to Remember & Honor

People around the world admire your strength and courage. They are always honoring you and with you.

Watch a music video by Morley, in honor of Suu Kyi and other Women of Hope
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Help the Cyclone Nargis Victims

The world is totally shocked when the Cyclone Nargis destroyed one of the poorest regions of the world and slaughtered hundreds of thousands of lives. Unaccountable number of victims are today waiting for help! This massive forceful nature was ruthless. In reality, it is not the Cyclone killed people – nature does its usual way, but the lethargic and superstitious military leaders are the real culprits for this destruction. They have failed all - failure to prevent, recover, relief effort, collaborate with the world etc. After all, we have to find ways to help those victims as much as we can. With a penny to thousands, we collect and work together to help them. Go to the international relief organizations or your community to drive relief aid/fund and work with local grassroots or based NGO groups in Burma.

The Burmese community in greater Washington DC area is launching a relief fund drive at Mingalarama monastery.

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The Dictators

By Pablo Neruda (Chilean Poet, 1904–1973)
Neruda’s death linked him with the unrest in Chile and elevated his status even further. General Pinochet denied permission to conduct a public funeral for Neruda. In protest, thousands of shocked and saddened Chileans disobeyed the curfew and mourned in public. Neruda’s funeral became the first public protest against the military dictator.

An odor has remained among the sugarcane:
a mixture of blood and body, a penetrating
petal that brings nausea.
Between the coconut palms the graves are full
of ruined bones, of speechless death-rattles.
The delicate dictator is talking
with top hats, gold braid, and collars.
The tiny palace gleams like a watch
and the rapid laughs with gloves on
cross the corridors at times
and join the dead voices
and the blue mouths freshly buried.
The weeping cannot be seen, like a plant
whose seeds fall endlessly on the earth,
whose large blind leaves grow even without light.
Hatred has grown scale on scale,
blow on blow, in the ghastly water of the swamp,
with a snout full of ooze and silence

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အာဏာရွင္၏ 'ဒီ' ေ၀ါဟာရ (Dictator’s D Words)

တရားမဲ့၊ သစၥာမဲ့၊ ေမတၱာမဲ့ အေတာမသတ္ ေလာဘ ေဒါသ ေမာဟ မာန္မာနေတြ ဖုံးလြမ္းေနတဲ့ ဗုိလ္သန္းေရႊ ၏ လက္စြဲ 'ဒီ' စကားလုံးမ်ား

ျမန္မာျပည္ destiny အတြက္
က်ဳပ္
diplomacy ဂရုမစုိက္
dialogue မႀကိဳက္
democracy မခုိက္
development မေတြး။

က်ဳပ္အဖုိ ့
democracy အေရး
destructive elements ေတြ
demonstrate လုပ္ရင္ေတာ့
ဘယ္သူေတြ ဘယ္ေလာက္
denounce လုပ္လုပ္
de facto အာဏာသုံးၿပီ
demonstrators ေတြကုိ
လက္မေႏွး destroy လုပ္ျပစ္မယ္။

deaths နဲ ့ detainees အေၾကာင္း
မေမးနဲ ့
ေျဗာင္ deny လုပ္ၿပီး
က်ဳပ္လုိေကာင္က
decry လုပ္ေနတဲ့ ကမၻာ့ႀကီးကုိ
အာဏာရွင္ အလုပ္ အာဏာရွင္လုပ္ေနေၾကာင္း
(dictator does/dedicates dictator’s work)
declare လုပ္

က်ဳပ္ အာဏာဆက္ေရး အတြက္
အမ်ား disapproval အေရးမလုပ္
က်ဳပ္လက္စြဲ destructive policy ျဖင့္
Let me devastate this nation all the way.

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ေမတၱာသုတ္သစ္

လူအခ်င္းခ်င္း ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းမွ ကင္းေ၀းႏုိင္ၾကပါေစလုိ ့ ဘုရားသားေတာ္ ရဟန္းသံဃာမ်ား၊ က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြ က ေမတၱာတရား ပက္ျဖန္း ရႊတ္ဖတ္ေနေပမယ့္ စစ္အာဏာရွင္တုိ ့၏ ရက္စက္စြာတုန္္ ့ျပန္မူမွာ အံ့မခန္း ယုတ္မာရုိင္းစုိင္း လွေပသည္။


ဒီလုိ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေရွ ့ထား ရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားဦးေဆာင္ ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ားက ယဥ္ေက်းစြာ မိမိတုိ ့ ေသြးသားခ်င္း လူသားအခ်င္းခ်င္း အမုန္း၊ အဓမၼတရားမ်ားဖယ္ရွား၊ တဦးအေပၚတဦး ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းမ်ား မလုပ္ဖုိ ့ ေျပာဆုိေနတာကုိ ဘာေၾကာင့္္ ဒီငမုိက္သား စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား နားမ၀င္ပဲ မယုံေလာက္ေသာ ရက္စက္ အၾကမ္းဖက္မူမ်ားျဖင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးရဟန္းေတာ္မ်ားအား ကုိယ္ထိလက္ေရာက္ ေစာ္ကားတုန္ ့ျပန္ၾကတာလဲလုိ ့ ေလးေလးနက္နက္ ျပန္ေတြးၾကည့္ေတာ့ က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့ ရႊတ္ဖတ္ေနတဲ့ ေမတၱာသုတ္ အသုံးအႏူန္း မွားေနတာကုိ ေတြ ့ရသည္။

က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့ လူအခ်င္းခ်င္း ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းမွ ကင္းေ၀းႏုိင္ၾကပါေစလုိ ့ ရႊတ္ဖတ္ေနေပမယ့္ က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့ ယေန ့အခ်ိန္အခါထိ ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္း ခံရေနျခင္းမွာ ဒီ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ အာဏာရူး ငမုိက္သားမ်ားမွာ လူသားစိတ္ကင္းမဲ့ေနေသာ လူမဟုတ္ေတာ့ သည့္ မိစၦာသရဲသဘတ္မ်ား ျဖစ္ေနေသာေၾကာင့္ က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့ ေမတၲာသုတ္မွာ မထိေရာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ အခုအခ်ိန္မွစၿပီး က်ေနာ္တုိ ့ ေျပာင္းဆုိရႊတ္ဖတ္သင့္သည္မွာ က်ႏုပ္တုိ ့”ျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား လူစိတ္ေပ်ာက္ မိစၧာသရဲသဘတ္ အာဏာရူးမ်ား၏ ႏွိပ္စက္ျခင္းမွ ကင္းေ၀းႏုိင္ၾကပါေစ” လုိ ့ ေျပာင္းလဲ ရႊတ္ဖတ္သင့္ပါေၾကာင္း အႀကံျပဳလုိက္ပါတယ္။
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A picture is worth more than a thousand words

Today, the Burmese soldiers virtually rule the streets. Almost two weeks of the peaceful protests led by the Buddhist monks in thousands dramatically has evaporated after the regime's ruthless butchery. Despite an upsurge of international outrage, reports on continuous physical attacks on monks and innocent people continue to be broadcast to the world.

No one can precisely tell how many people were killed, injured and detained. Besides the official confession of killing thirteen people, no final report has confirmed the death toll and the number of the arrested and missing people in this atrocious onslaught. There are only rumors and unconfirmed news across the Internet world that hundreds died and thousands have been arrested. After all, it looks like the vicious military regime with decades of enslaving people is winning again!

It is painful to know that the powerless are terrified these days when they hear the police shouting from the military vehicles patrolling the streets, "We have photographs. We are going to make arrests!" Around the city, the soldiers and their paid-USDA gangsters are monitoring and intimidating people with harassments, threats and warnings.

Well, these heartless loyalists of tyrant Than Shwe do not seem to know that their vicious crimes against humanity are being recorded in thousands of photos and videos. This time, they can never escape from their perpetrated atrocities. Bo Than Shwe and his cronies must remember that, with ample evidence of their crimes, the world is waiting for their judgment day and it is coming soon. The thuggish generals must anticipate that their days are already being numbered.
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Quotable Words

Daw Suu's response to John Pilger, Australian journalist and documentary filmmaker

Background photo: naingankyatha's photos
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