Epitaph on a Tyrant

by W. H. Auden, English Poet (1907-1973)

Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after,
And the poetry he invented was easy to understand;
He knew human folly like the back of his hand,
And was greatly interested in armies and fleets;
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter,
And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
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Notable Remarks

"The impotence of force to establish anything. There are only two powers in the world: the sword and the mind. In the end, the sword is always conquered by the mind." (Napoléon Bonaparte - 1769-1821)

"We are fighting for fine distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer distinction between the true and the false. At the end, the power of truth wins out over falsehood." (Albert Camus, a French author, political activist and philosopher - 1913-1960)





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ေလးစားတယ္ပါတယ္ ရဲေဘာ္

ဘုရားသားေတာ္ ရဟန္ေတာ္မ်ားကုိ
ပစ္ရဲသတ္ရဲ သတၱိကုိ ေလးစားတယ္။

လက္နက္မဲ့ ျပည္သူမ်ားကုိ
ပစ္ရဲသတ္ရဲ စြမ္းပကာကုိ ေလးစားတယ္။

ငရဲထက္ သခင္ေၾကာက္တဲ့
သင္တုိ ့စိတ္ဓါတ္ကုိ ေလးစားတယ္။

ဘုရားတရားထက္
ျပည္ဖ်က္မ်ဳိးယုတ္ကုိ သစၥာခံေနတဲ့
သင္တုိ ့ယုံၾကည္ခ်က္ကုိ ေလးစားတယ္။

ရဲေဘာ္
လက္နက္မဲ့ အျပစ္မဲ့
ဘုန္းႀကီးအစ ခေလးအဆုံး
ဓမၼေတးသီ ေမတၱာသံခ်ီ
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသူေတြကုိ
ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ပစ္ခတ္ရဲတဲ့ သင္တုိ ့ကုိ
တသက္လုံး ေလးစားေနမယ္။

ရဟန္းသတ္ သူရဲေကာင္းစစ္သည္
အမ်ဳိးယုတ္ သခင္စုတ္ ေနာက္လုိက္စစ္သည္
သင္တုိ ့ လုပ္ရပ္မ်ားကုိ ဂုဏ္ယူေနလုိက္ပါ။ ။

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O Soldiers
You should be proud for your action
You are brave soldiers
You could shoot and kill holy monks and innocent people
You should proudly tell your friends, families for killing those peaceful and armless protesters

O Soldiers – loyalists of the unimaginable ruthless masters
Truly surprising for your bravery to kill monks! For your senseless action, you and your families would surely be rewarded with miseries in this life and next life either as human beings, in the hell and in any form.


They are not actually peoples' soldiers, but private mercenaries of tyrants.
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တရားေသာစစ္ ေအာင္ျမင္ရမည္

ဖမ္းစမ္းပါ သူတုိ ့ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ခ်ဳပ္ေႏွာင္ထားႏုိင္သလဲ
သတ္စမ္းပါ သူတုိ ့ဘယ္ႏွစ္ေယာက္ သတ္ခ်င္(ႏုိင္)သလဲ
ငါတုိ ့ဘ၀ ဒီ ဘုရားမသိ၊ တရားမရွိ မုိက္မဲတဲ့ မိစၥာေတြေအာက္မွာ
ေနရာတာထက္ တုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ရင္ ေသရတာက ပုိျမတ္တယ္။

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ယေန ့ျပည္တြင္းဓါတ္ပုံမ်ား (Photos)

From niknayman.blogspot.com (http://picasaweb.google.com/niknayman/Burma)

From gmhembree's photos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/naingankyatha/
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Walk on with Caution

The curfew is now being imposed on the Burmese households across the nation. It hints to the world that the regime, again, is going to harshly handle the demonstration and show no will to settle this situation in a peaceful way. Clinging firmly onto his power, Gen. Than Shwe seems to believe the ongoing demonstration should be crushed before it escalates into the out-of-control stage. It is a shame that this vicious bloodthirsty monster cannot see that his days are being numbered. The consequences of his reckless actions in trying to tackle the situation violently will not turn out in his favor.

In looking at the regime's tactical move, we can predict that the troops and thugs operating under their tyrant's order will initially provoke people to engage in perilous confrontations. The demonstration leaders must therefore coordinate and control the crowd with caution so they will not fall into the regime's trap. Despite the rigid curfew, the protesters should carry on their daily protests peacefully under the well-coordinated guidance of the noble monks and leaders. The protesters should not trigger any further conflicts by offensively responding to the soldiers with improper remarks or inflammatory and provocative rhetoric. Perhaps, the monks and leaders must also constantly keep the oversea media and broadcasters informed about their daily demonstration time-frame as well as the venues of their matching and other political activities.

Undoubtedly, the regime will begin its vicious plan to incite people to commit premeditated violence. Meantime, the troops and thugs will also infiltrate the crowds of the demonstrators by disguising themselves as ones of the holy monks with the malicious aim to spark violence and justify a crackdown. Those who participated or witnessed the uprising in 1988 can never forget how we ended up flatly defeated by the regime's organized crackdown and nasty tactics.

Here are some cautionary guidelines to which our peace activists should pay attention:

• Do not engage in any type of violence
• Refrain from breaking public properties
• Do not offend soldiers with the inflammatory rhetoric or curses
• Peacefully carry on with organized marches
• Urge the Sangha Association head(s) to become mediators
• Respond to soldiers with smiles and warm greetings (let the soldiers feel the demonstration is not opposing them but the tyrannical doctrine)
• Prepare and let the soldiers/police arrest you without defending or running away
• Organize mass arrests (let them find out how many they can detain and how long they can keep us. At this point, we all know everyone in Burma is virtual prisoners and victims).

Retreat from this stage is not acceptable. We cannot lose this opportunity and we shall be victorious.

If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart. ~Buddha~
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Power of Peace

Swarm across the land
Match of a sea of peace army
Compassion in their hearts
Love is their arms
Walk in hands
for Peace and Freedom
Standing up for suffering ones

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ဓမၼ အဓမၼ တုိက္ပြဲ

နားေထာင္လုိက္စမ္း
တုိ ့ျမန္ျပည္တလႊာ
ဓမၼေတးမ်ား ျပန္ ့လႊင့္ေနတာ၊

ၾကည့္လုိက္စမ္း
တုိ ့ျမန္ျပည္ေျမတလႊာ
ဘုရားသားေတာ္ေတြ
တရားတုိက္ပြဲဆင္ႏႊဲေနတာ၊

ျမင္လုိက္စမ္း
တုိ ့ျမန္ျပည္ေကာင္ကင္ထက္
ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးငွက္ေတြ ၀ဲျပန္ေနတာ၊

အေမွာင္တုိက္ထဲ
ျပားျပား၀ပ္ ေၾကာက္လန္ ့ေနတဲ့
တုိ ့ျပည္သူေတြ
ေၾကာက္တာေတြေဖ်ာက္
ဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားမ်ားေနာက္
တေကာက္ေကာက္လုိက္ၿပီး
အဓမၼ၀ါဒီမ်ားအား တုိက္ဖ်က္ၾကေတာ့။

ဓမၼစစ္သည္မ်ားသုိ ့

အေမွာင္တုိက္ အခ်ဳပ္အေႏွာင္းေအာက္
တုိ ့တေတြဘ၀ေတြအမ်ားႀကီးပ်က္ခဲ့ေပမယ့္
ဒီတပြဲက ေအာင္ပြဲျဖစ္တာမုိ ့
တုိ ့တေတြ ေက်ာခ်ငး္ကပ္
ဘာမဟုတ္တဲ့ လက္တဆုတ္စာ
မိစၥာ၀ါဒီ ဗုိလ္ယုတ္တစုကုိ
ရဟန္းျမတ္မ်ား၏ တရား
တုိ ့ျပည္သူမ်ား၏အားႏွင့္ ညီညီညာညာ တုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ၾကေလာ့။

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