yangon dec 22
AUTHORITY has totally shut down Myanmar Pulses, Beans and Seassame Seeds Merchants Association after 5 big wholesale traders are under investigation by 'Bureau of Special Investigation' (BSI) for non-payment to sellers, according to high ranking official from Ministry of commerece.
Myanmar Pulses, Beans and Seassame Seeds Merchants Association is an umbreella association of UMFCCI, Myanmar Chamber of commerce.U Tun Aung is a chairman of its asscociation.
Now goverenment has founded 9 members of a new task force including high ranking officials , members of Union of Myanmar chamber and commerce to solve all cheating in Pules and beans trades in Myanmar. Authority seized all properties including houses and luxury cars of big whole sale traders.
These five wholesale traders including U Khin Myint who is closet friend of Genearl Mg Aye owed hundreds of millions of Kyats to the sellers and their sub-contractors who in turn bought these commodities from the producers who they owe Kyat five to 20 million. These persons lodged complaints to the concerned trading houses.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Yangon octane Factory warehouse explode
Yangon, December 19
An explosion at Yangon octane factory warehouse left two injured and no one dead today afternoon eyewitness said.
Witness said the gas break out form the container and then fired station roof while they were filling. In the meanwhile nearly 30 of gas containers have been burnt.
According to the YGN fire rescue official confirmed that explosion lately 2 Pm and it seems to be lost near 400000 kyats (400 dollars).
Linzadaung, where the explosion happened, is located near Yangon down town area and it is not too far from Yangon navy base
That factory had been closed after explosion and it owned by government, One of the local reporter said it has happened in octane producing factory which is under ministry of industry 1 near navy base.
An explosion at Yangon octane factory warehouse left two injured and no one dead today afternoon eyewitness said.
Witness said the gas break out form the container and then fired station roof while they were filling. In the meanwhile nearly 30 of gas containers have been burnt.
According to the YGN fire rescue official confirmed that explosion lately 2 Pm and it seems to be lost near 400000 kyats (400 dollars).
Linzadaung, where the explosion happened, is located near Yangon down town area and it is not too far from Yangon navy base
That factory had been closed after explosion and it owned by government, One of the local reporter said it has happened in octane producing factory which is under ministry of industry 1 near navy base.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Myanmar: Interview with a prostitute
As a person with HIV I won't live long
Thursday, December 11, 2008
By IRIN See all articles by this author
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After learning she was HIV-positive, 20-year-old Anyo (not her real name) returned to her village in the Ayeyarwady Delta, only to see it devastated by Cyclone Nargis - a disaster that left close to 140,000 people dead or missing.
In an effort to help her family, Anyo, one of an estimated 76,000 people living with HIV today in Myanmar, returned to Yangon and is a prostitute.
"This year I faced two disasters. First, I learned I had HIV. Then I lost my father and home to the cyclone.
"I don't really know when I became infected, but guess I got it from my former boyfriend. We had lived together for about a year in Yangon when I was a student and he was a seaman.
"After our relationship ended in early 2007, I met a new boy, an engineer, and we decided to marry.
"But after visiting a health clinic to receive our blood test results, I learned I was HIV-positive and my boyfriend left me.
"My life has been on a downward spiral ever since. Even my closest friends wouldn't speak to me.
"I decided to return to my village in Pyapon Township to be with my family, but never told them about my condition. Where I live, people have little awareness of HIV. They would never accept me and I was afraid of the stigma I would face.
"In Myanmar, learning you are HIV-positive is like receiving a death sentence, but at least with my parents and younger brothers I found solace.
"That all changed when Nargis struck, however. My father died trying to save us. I so wish I had died instead. My mother has yet to recover from this loss, and like my brothers, is heavily traumatised.
"I returned to Yangon to find a job – any job. I hoped I could help my brothers return to school. I so wished that they would finish their education.
"But finding a job proved impossible and I found myself working in a massage parlour. The pay wasn't very good so after two months, I quit and joined a brothel downtown.
"Of course I don't want to do this job. Who would? Burmese people are honorable people, but this is the only way I can earn some decent money.
"Now I receive about 300,000 kyat [US$240] per month. When I worked as a sales-girl, I could barely earn 50,000 kyat [$40] per month. What a difference!
"At this point, I just need to help my family. I don't care about myself. As a person with HIV I won't live long. Before I die, I want to send my family enough money so that they can start some kind of business to support themselves, perhaps a small grocery store.
"Already with the money I'm receiving, my mother doesn't need to worry about the household expenditures and my brothers can return to school.
"Yet these days, I'm feeling weak and often get sick. My pimp seems dissatisfied with my service. A couple of weeks ago I went to Waibargi Hospital, which treats HIV/AIDS patients. A doctor measured my CD4 count, which was much lower than before.
"The doctor told me I should be taking ART [anti-retroviral therapy], but there were hundreds of people lining up for it.
"I was shocked to hear that many HIV patients actually die because they can't receive ART in time.
"At this point, I don't know whether I will live or die."
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=17105
As a person with HIV I won't live long
Thursday, December 11, 2008
By IRIN See all articles by this author
Article Tools
After learning she was HIV-positive, 20-year-old Anyo (not her real name) returned to her village in the Ayeyarwady Delta, only to see it devastated by Cyclone Nargis - a disaster that left close to 140,000 people dead or missing.
In an effort to help her family, Anyo, one of an estimated 76,000 people living with HIV today in Myanmar, returned to Yangon and is a prostitute.
"This year I faced two disasters. First, I learned I had HIV. Then I lost my father and home to the cyclone.
"I don't really know when I became infected, but guess I got it from my former boyfriend. We had lived together for about a year in Yangon when I was a student and he was a seaman.
"After our relationship ended in early 2007, I met a new boy, an engineer, and we decided to marry.
"But after visiting a health clinic to receive our blood test results, I learned I was HIV-positive and my boyfriend left me.
"My life has been on a downward spiral ever since. Even my closest friends wouldn't speak to me.
"I decided to return to my village in Pyapon Township to be with my family, but never told them about my condition. Where I live, people have little awareness of HIV. They would never accept me and I was afraid of the stigma I would face.
"In Myanmar, learning you are HIV-positive is like receiving a death sentence, but at least with my parents and younger brothers I found solace.
"That all changed when Nargis struck, however. My father died trying to save us. I so wish I had died instead. My mother has yet to recover from this loss, and like my brothers, is heavily traumatised.
"I returned to Yangon to find a job – any job. I hoped I could help my brothers return to school. I so wished that they would finish their education.
"But finding a job proved impossible and I found myself working in a massage parlour. The pay wasn't very good so after two months, I quit and joined a brothel downtown.
"Of course I don't want to do this job. Who would? Burmese people are honorable people, but this is the only way I can earn some decent money.
"Now I receive about 300,000 kyat [US$240] per month. When I worked as a sales-girl, I could barely earn 50,000 kyat [$40] per month. What a difference!
"At this point, I just need to help my family. I don't care about myself. As a person with HIV I won't live long. Before I die, I want to send my family enough money so that they can start some kind of business to support themselves, perhaps a small grocery store.
"Already with the money I'm receiving, my mother doesn't need to worry about the household expenditures and my brothers can return to school.
"Yet these days, I'm feeling weak and often get sick. My pimp seems dissatisfied with my service. A couple of weeks ago I went to Waibargi Hospital, which treats HIV/AIDS patients. A doctor measured my CD4 count, which was much lower than before.
"The doctor told me I should be taking ART [anti-retroviral therapy], but there were hundreds of people lining up for it.
"I was shocked to hear that many HIV patients actually die because they can't receive ART in time.
"At this point, I don't know whether I will live or die."
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=17105
Malikha lodge taken by Htoo
Malikha lodge luxury hotel that are located in Putao townships in Kachin State is being taken over by the company owned by the 'Htoo' family.
The business empire controlled by Tay Za, believed to have a close rapport with the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) top brass, is taking over a lot business in Myanmar and the Malikha lodge is the lattest said the MD of the local tour company.
'Htoo' Company is owned by Tay Za who is believed to be close to the Burmese military junta and his family. The US has imposed economic sanctions against the company.
"I don't know what will happen to this Resort. But the hotel has stopped operation since last year after saffron revolution" said former manager who doesn't want to use his name.
The change in the management of the hotel has not been communicated and advised to tour operators and travel agencies. They come to know about it only from that hotel staffs.
Malikha lodge is situated high above the Nam Lang River with glorious views of mountains and rice terraces; it has been designed by world famous architect Jean Michel Gathy of Aman Resorts fame to create a feeling of luxury and seclusion in this wilderness setting.
Northern Kachin State, Myanmar’s greenest and most remote state. that lodge is a fifteen-minute drive from the small frontier town of Putao. Formally known as Fort Hertz, Putao was one of the British Empire's most remote outposts.
The business empire controlled by Tay Za, believed to have a close rapport with the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) top brass, is taking over a lot business in Myanmar and the Malikha lodge is the lattest said the MD of the local tour company.
'Htoo' Company is owned by Tay Za who is believed to be close to the Burmese military junta and his family. The US has imposed economic sanctions against the company.
"I don't know what will happen to this Resort. But the hotel has stopped operation since last year after saffron revolution" said former manager who doesn't want to use his name.
The change in the management of the hotel has not been communicated and advised to tour operators and travel agencies. They come to know about it only from that hotel staffs.
Malikha lodge is situated high above the Nam Lang River with glorious views of mountains and rice terraces; it has been designed by world famous architect Jean Michel Gathy of Aman Resorts fame to create a feeling of luxury and seclusion in this wilderness setting.
Northern Kachin State, Myanmar’s greenest and most remote state. that lodge is a fifteen-minute drive from the small frontier town of Putao. Formally known as Fort Hertz, Putao was one of the British Empire's most remote outposts.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Four publications got licence to issue first daily private newspapers
Four publications got licence to issue first daily private newspapers under Myanmar military regime. Four media tycoons who got this chance are Dr Tin Tun OO from Myanmar Times, Ko KO from Yangon media group and Dr Than Tun Aung from Eleven Media groups and Daw Hay Mar, eldest daughter of old General Khin Mg Than.
All of those people are now working together with Yangon juntas. Yangon press society is wondering how sensitive press censor board checks the news of daily news paper before overnight printing.
According to unknown source from censor office they will send their staffs to respective
News papers office to check the draft before publish.
Censorship in Burma (or Myanmar) refers to government policies in controlling and regulating certain information, particularly on religious, ethnic, political, and moral grounds. Freedom of speech and the press are not guaranteed by law, and every publication (including newspaper articles, cartoons, advertisements, and illustrations) are censored by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division of the Ministry of Information. In 2006, Burma ranked 164th of 168 nations in the 2006 Reporters Without Borders worldwide press freedom index.Many colonial-era laws regulating the press and information continue to be used.
All of those people are now working together with Yangon juntas. Yangon press society is wondering how sensitive press censor board checks the news of daily news paper before overnight printing.
According to unknown source from censor office they will send their staffs to respective
News papers office to check the draft before publish.
Censorship in Burma (or Myanmar) refers to government policies in controlling and regulating certain information, particularly on religious, ethnic, political, and moral grounds. Freedom of speech and the press are not guaranteed by law, and every publication (including newspaper articles, cartoons, advertisements, and illustrations) are censored by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division of the Ministry of Information. In 2006, Burma ranked 164th of 168 nations in the 2006 Reporters Without Borders worldwide press freedom index.Many colonial-era laws regulating the press and information continue to be used.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Myanmar state bank sets ultimatum for deposit reclaim from closed private bank
The state-run Myanmar Economic Bank(MEB) has set March 31, 2009 as a deadline date for the public to claim for the refund of deposits in the former Myanmar Universal Bank (MUB), one of the three major private banks closed by the government more than three years ago.
The unclaimed deposits will be confiscated as the state fund after the deadline date, an announcement of the MEB warned.
The MEB has taken over the administration of the MUB since Oct.1 this year, the statement said.
The MUB was sealed by the government in August 2005 and its owner, U Tin Sein, was charged under the country's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law and the Control of Money Laundering law.
The MUB started operation in January 1995.
Meanwhile, two other private banks -- Myanmar Mayflower Bank (MMB) and Asia Wealth Bank (AWB) were also closed earlier in March 2005 for allegedly linking with narcotics and money laundering and the banks' administration was then handed over to the MEB under the Finance and Revenue Ministry.
The MMB and the AWB, established in 1994 and 1995 respectively, was first investigated by an eight-member government-formed investigation body in December 2003. Despite 15 months' probe into the matters, no firm evidence was found to prove the offense, according to earlier reports.
In June 2002, Myanmar promulgated a law to control money laundering, and financial institutions such as banks were set to report to the Central Control Board (CCB) their clients' fiscal activities and report any cashes exceeding 100 million kyats (100,000 U.S. dollars) and any other suspicious account activities.
Meanwhile, the state-run Myanmar Economic Bank has rejected to offer bank services to deposits suspected as money laundering.
Private banks were nationalized in Myanmar in 1963 during the previous government but after the country started to adopt the market-oriented economic system in late 1988, private banks were allowed to operate again since 1992, and since then there had been20 such banks across Myanmar with a total of 350 branches.
With the take-over of the three banks by the government and the merger of three other cooperative banks to become a public-listed bank in recent years, there remained 15 of such banks in operation so far.
The unclaimed deposits will be confiscated as the state fund after the deadline date, an announcement of the MEB warned.
The MEB has taken over the administration of the MUB since Oct.1 this year, the statement said.
The MUB was sealed by the government in August 2005 and its owner, U Tin Sein, was charged under the country's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law and the Control of Money Laundering law.
The MUB started operation in January 1995.
Meanwhile, two other private banks -- Myanmar Mayflower Bank (MMB) and Asia Wealth Bank (AWB) were also closed earlier in March 2005 for allegedly linking with narcotics and money laundering and the banks' administration was then handed over to the MEB under the Finance and Revenue Ministry.
The MMB and the AWB, established in 1994 and 1995 respectively, was first investigated by an eight-member government-formed investigation body in December 2003. Despite 15 months' probe into the matters, no firm evidence was found to prove the offense, according to earlier reports.
In June 2002, Myanmar promulgated a law to control money laundering, and financial institutions such as banks were set to report to the Central Control Board (CCB) their clients' fiscal activities and report any cashes exceeding 100 million kyats (100,000 U.S. dollars) and any other suspicious account activities.
Meanwhile, the state-run Myanmar Economic Bank has rejected to offer bank services to deposits suspected as money laundering.
Private banks were nationalized in Myanmar in 1963 during the previous government but after the country started to adopt the market-oriented economic system in late 1988, private banks were allowed to operate again since 1992, and since then there had been20 such banks across Myanmar with a total of 350 branches.
With the take-over of the three banks by the government and the merger of three other cooperative banks to become a public-listed bank in recent years, there remained 15 of such banks in operation so far.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Lower high way bus fares, starting October 18
Yangon, October 23
The government’s Transport Committee endorsed the plan to lower the public bus fare by 25 kyats per mile both non air-conditioned and air-conditioned public bus fares, starting October 18.
U yan naing , CEC member of the Aung minglar high way compound Committee, said the fare reduction took the current fuel price at 4000 kyats per gallon (nearly 5 litters) into consideration for government.
After the enforcement, fares of air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned public high way buses will be reduced from 26 kyats per mile to 25 kyats .
As for the Transport affiliated and non-affiliated public high way buses, their fares will be decreased as per schedules.
Public high way bus owners also said they were ready to drop their fares without any condition.
The government’s Transport Committee endorsed the plan to lower the public bus fare by 25 kyats per mile both non air-conditioned and air-conditioned public bus fares, starting October 18.
U yan naing , CEC member of the Aung minglar high way compound Committee, said the fare reduction took the current fuel price at 4000 kyats per gallon (nearly 5 litters) into consideration for government.
After the enforcement, fares of air-conditioned and non-air-conditioned public high way buses will be reduced from 26 kyats per mile to 25 kyats .
As for the Transport affiliated and non-affiliated public high way buses, their fares will be decreased as per schedules.
Public high way bus owners also said they were ready to drop their fares without any condition.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Authority to move old big cemetery of Pyinmanar to a new place
Yangon october 22
Authority to move old big cemetery of Pyinmanar to a new place where 20 miles far away from old cemetry.They made announcement on 15 October and saying that local residences must move their relatives graves from old cemetry as soos as possible because now Pyinmana become the capital of Myanmar.
As the character of capital of Myanmar , the cemetery is not supposed to be here, said an officail from Pyin Ma Nar city development commitee.
Local people are very disappointed with the move of cemetery .They said the new cemetery is very far from thier houses and it will costs more money when they have funerals. They added, now if they have funera l from now on, the funeral car service to new cemetry will cost
20 000 kyats.
Pyinmana population: 100,000 (2006 estimate)) is a logging town and sugar cane refinery center in Mandalay Division of Myanmar. The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarised greenfield site two miles west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005. Pyinma is approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of Yangon.
Authority to move old big cemetery of Pyinmanar to a new place where 20 miles far away from old cemetry.They made announcement on 15 October and saying that local residences must move their relatives graves from old cemetry as soos as possible because now Pyinmana become the capital of Myanmar.
As the character of capital of Myanmar , the cemetery is not supposed to be here, said an officail from Pyin Ma Nar city development commitee.
Local people are very disappointed with the move of cemetery .They said the new cemetery is very far from thier houses and it will costs more money when they have funerals. They added, now if they have funera l from now on, the funeral car service to new cemetry will cost
20 000 kyats.
Pyinmana population: 100,000 (2006 estimate)) is a logging town and sugar cane refinery center in Mandalay Division of Myanmar. The administrative capital of Myanmar was officially moved to a militarised greenfield site two miles west of Pyinmana on November 6, 2005. Pyinma is approximately 200 miles (320 km) north of Yangon.
Monday, October 20, 2008
Myanmar authority changes CNG gas filling systems
Myanmar authority changes CNG gas filling systems in CNG stations after 7 killed CNG car blasts. They put the announcement of new gas filling system on the wall of all 21 CNG staions in Yangon today. Minister of Energy also insepects all CNG staions in Yangon whether to follow new CNG filling system.
The CNG car blast occurred at 2:30 am early Monday morning as the bus headed north through the city and the explosion had been caused by CNG gas boxer according to eye witness.
However, Myanmar authority made a report from Yeasterday newspaper which saying that the blast is occured because of car accident and denied that it was not CNG explosion.
But, they also supspected their poor quality CNG cars and later they change CNG gas filling system which is better and more safter than old CNG filling system.
According to government figure, the number of CNG-powered cars in Myanmar are around 14000.
The CNG car blast occurred at 2:30 am early Monday morning as the bus headed north through the city and the explosion had been caused by CNG gas boxer according to eye witness.
However, Myanmar authority made a report from Yeasterday newspaper which saying that the blast is occured because of car accident and denied that it was not CNG explosion.
But, they also supspected their poor quality CNG cars and later they change CNG gas filling system which is better and more safter than old CNG filling system.
According to government figure, the number of CNG-powered cars in Myanmar are around 14000.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
At least two people killed in Yangon bus explosion
At least two people were killed by Yangon city bus explosion at helden near 5 miles far from downtown. Eyewitness said two passengers on that bus injured and the bus burnt by fire. One of the local reporter said police have kept his memory stick from the camera while he was taking the pictuers.45 Bus heading Insein from downtown exploded around 11:00 am today .We haven't got any official confirmation for that explosion.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Yangon local reporter arrested
Saw Myint Than , a chief reporter from The Flower news journal was arrested by special police force at his home 11 pm, 1st September.
The police accused him for sending information ( the news about Thingyankyun crime )to Ayeyawaddy magazine. They also filed him not to mention his source name for this news. He got the information about the crime from his police source before police officially announced the name of murders. Police asked who is his soucre from police force. But he did not mentioned his source name.
Special police force and censor ship office also called KO KO , chief editor of Flower News because of the problem. Now KO KO fired Saw Myint Than from his job as a chief reporter.
Saw Myint Than is a 30 years old Yakhine journalist. He is working as a local journalist for 3 years. He never involved in any political movement.
The police accused him for sending information ( the news about Thingyankyun crime )to Ayeyawaddy magazine. They also filed him not to mention his source name for this news. He got the information about the crime from his police source before police officially announced the name of murders. Police asked who is his soucre from police force. But he did not mentioned his source name.
Special police force and censor ship office also called KO KO , chief editor of Flower News because of the problem. Now KO KO fired Saw Myint Than from his job as a chief reporter.
Saw Myint Than is a 30 years old Yakhine journalist. He is working as a local journalist for 3 years. He never involved in any political movement.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Authority force Myanmar Computer professional Assoction( MCPA) not to join Myanmar Blogger days
yangon august 26
Authority force Myanmar Computer professional Assoction( MCPA) not to join Myanmar Blogger days conference which will held on 31 st August .MPCA send invitaions letter which says they will sponsor world blogger days conference in Myanmar .They will held this conference together with local bloggers, They even told that U KHU OO, the chairman of MCPA and writer Kyaw Win will make address in this conference.
However, today MPCA make announcement which saying that They won´t sponsor Myanmar blogger day conference and they don´t have any concern with this conference. They won´t provide any help to bloggers. Now yangon blogger very conecern about this news.
Authority force Myanmar Computer professional Assoction( MCPA) not to join Myanmar Blogger days conference which will held on 31 st August .MPCA send invitaions letter which says they will sponsor world blogger days conference in Myanmar .They will held this conference together with local bloggers, They even told that U KHU OO, the chairman of MCPA and writer Kyaw Win will make address in this conference.
However, today MPCA make announcement which saying that They won´t sponsor Myanmar blogger day conference and they don´t have any concern with this conference. They won´t provide any help to bloggers. Now yangon blogger very conecern about this news.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
SECOND LIVES
A piece of worn out red cloth hang at the tip of a bamboo pole is flying with the blowing wind.
For donors and relief team volunteers, this is a sign that there are still people surviving Cyclone Nargis,
which . Along the course of a stream not far from that bamboo flat pole is a small village called “Kyun
Kone Pite Tan Su,” which was left devastated after the cyclone. Survivors from the nearby areas along
Yway River are now living in this “Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su” village where their huts in blue tarpaulin sheet
are located in a dispersed fashion. After the cyclone, these survivors came to this place to start over
their lives, second lives as named by the villagers, after Cyclone Nargis.
Cyclone Nargis came into the Irrawaddy Region and Rangoon division on May 2nd and 3rd, 2008.
It also brought a tremendous tragedy to this village, one of the hardest hit areas in the Irrawaddy region,
by killing almost everyone in the village and leaving approximately ten people alive. “My wife and five
children were washed away with the cyclone. Only 3 daughters and I have survived,” said U Tun, a 50
year‐ old fisherman.
These survivors have begun to make their moves for the reconstruction of their lives 3 weeks
after relief teams have come to the area. These survivors have been living in this village by building
temporary huts since after the cyclone. U Tun, who had lost everything in the cyclone except a small
vase, is now beginning to rebuild his life. He said he is not able to get back to his career for the moment
since he had lost his fishing tools in the cyclone. “Although farmers start preparing to go back to their
farms, I, as a fisherman, can’t do anything right now without any fishing tools and any money to buy
new ones. At present, I can only make my own living just to feed myself,” said U Tun.
Besides in Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su village, survivors in other hardly hit areas of the Irrawaddy
region including Laputta area begin to start their second lives that their karma have brought out of the
killer storm.
Painful Transition (or) Farming
U Tin Yein, wearing a white shirt and a cotton sarong, doesn’t look like an owner of a 40‐acre
farmland; he rather looks like a daily paid farmer. U Tin Yein said his farm can produce 3000 baskets of
rice annually. It is likely that tilling on his 40 acre‐land can begin in the first week of June. “I have to
collect tillers from the local Farm and Industrial department today. 3 other farmers and I have to share
a 160 acre land that the government has rationed to each group of 3 or 4 farmers,” said U Tin Yein.
U Tin Yein has lost his wife and his properties ‐ house, rice barn, boat, 9 buffaloes and 6 pigs – in
the cyclone. From the population of 60 in his village, 32 people had died from the cyclone and 13 were
his relatives. This has still been a nightmare for U Tin Yein and he has been seeing this deadly event
every morning he wakes up. While his life was half dead and half awake because of this nightmare, he
heard rumors about the plans/situations for rice plantation. “Farming and Industrial department has
rationed tillers, seeds and grains to those who have a large number of lands. If that rumor is true and if
we can get diesel, we can begin our plantation,” said U Tin Yein.
Upon hearing the same news, farmers staying at refugee camps in Laputta are also leaving to
the respective villages with the hope of picking up their lives from any situation. The number of
survivors has gradually decreased since after people have heard about this opportunity for their lives,
said Jeff Harvey from Laputta MSF’s branch.
Burma is one of the top countries in exporting rice just before the cyclone; however, Cyclone
Nargis caused a severe devastation in the Irrawaddy region, the area known as Burma’s rice bowl, on
May 2nd and 3rd. Thus, it is very important for the reconstruction of the Irrawaddy region as soon as
possible, said an FAO official.
According to the census of government’s Agriculture Department, the cyclone affected 0.13
million families in the Irrawaddy region and 0.11 million families. The total value of buffaloes and cows
lost is over 0.15 million kyats. The loss of farming animals has left the farmers with the only one option
– using tillers ‐ in order to start plowing for this Monsoon season. U Tin Yein, an owner of 40 acres
farmlands, said, “We have to start our farming as soon as tillers are distributed.”
The truth is that Nargis has given a painful transition of the lives of farmers who have to begin
their second lives out of nothing and to replace unfamiliar technology for their careers.
Painful Evening
Although most people begin preparing to rebuild their lives, there are still many people who
have suffered post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the nightmares of Cyclone Nargis in the
Irrawaddy regions. They have lost their family members as well as every single property. Now, they are
left with nothing, but the repeatedly occurring nightmares.
U Pyinnyar Wontha, a monk from Too Myaung Village in Pya Pone Township, delivered Buddha’s
sermons to 12 PTSD patients. Comparing the current situation with Buddha’s sayings, he preached,
“You need to accept the reality.”
There is a Buddha’s story about a woman. Her husband died from snake bite, her youngest son
was taken by an eagle, her eldest son drowned, and her parents died in the fire. All these tragic
sequence of events finally led her to be a madwoman who couldn’t even put on her own clothes. After
she met with Buddha who opened her eyes to see the reality and gave her a sermon, she got well and
finally became a “Beikuni” (female Arahatta). U Pyinnyar delivered this story to those suffering patients
who, although, they can’t be Arahhta, might be able to get back to normal and see the reality.
A telecommunication officer, Jeff Harvey, told that they have started providing special
emotional support programs such as consulting with PTSD patients and hearing whatever they wanted
to vent out in Laputta. However, programs like these are still in need compared to the number of PTSD
patients caused by the cyclone. U Saing Phay Thein, a consultant supervisor from MRCS, has warned
that their lives are at stake with the lack of effective emotional support programs.
A 7 Day News Journal editor, Daw Aye Mya Kyaw, who went to Phukket just after Tsunami, said,
“I had seen a lot of PTSD patients in Thailand after the Tsunami even though Thailand has a stronger
infrastructure and more efficient health care access than Burma. Since the death toll caused by Nargis is
much greater, I expect there would be even more PTSD cases.”
In the middle of Something
The government state TV announced that there are over 0.13 million people dead and lost in
Cyclone Nargis. 22 villages had sunk under the cyclone even in Laputta Township alone. Government’s
announcements such as providing relief and rebuilding the lives of survivors together with the help of
International communities have been spreading around the country.
The government declared that it has already spent 70 billion dollars for reconstruction projects.
The reconstruction of fishery projects under the Fishery and Livestock Ministry is now in the process.
Since farmers always start plowing grains just before the Monsoon comes, this is a critical situation for
them to start farming after the cyclone had destroyed everything.
Since after the cyclone had destroyed a number of lives, everyone including Burmese citizens as
well as expatriate Burmese actively involved in delivering aids and helping in the reconstruction projects
in any ways they can. A permanent journalist of Voice Weekly Journal wrote about their kindness for
fellow citizens in the Emergency Management article: Experts had concerned about Burmese’s “social
Capital”; however, they have shocked to see their immediate responses for their fellow Burmese
survivor.
On the other hand, recovering from this kind of disaster aftermath is impossible with one man
or one nation’s work. Since “Scopes of work” is enormous along the reconstruction process, any
individuals, organizations or countries that put their hearts in a long‐term, systematic process to recover
from this disaster are indispensable for those survivors’ lives. An increasingly large number of young
volunteers involving in different kinds of activities, once after they had seen this tragedy, are proof for
every individual’s invaluable effort.
“Recovering process for Fisheries alone needs years to get back to normal,” said U Hla Mg Shwe,
a vice president of Myanmar Fisheries Association. He said that he has seen young people inside Burma
as well as expatriates who all left their good‐earning jobs to come back to Burma in order to help
survivors. On the other hand, there are still some critics who have not even offered a penny worth of
food or water to survivors.
Regardless of any situation, the most important fact is the rehabilitation of the lives of 1.5
million people who have nothing left after the cyclone. Thus, according to an anthropologist’s opinion,
everyone including the government as well as government’s opponents should altogether unite for
different reconstruction projects in different affected areas.
Figures have been floating around both in hands and in appeals: 2.1 billion dollars promised to
be funded by the United Nations, 5.6 million dollars currently received from international communities,
and 11 billion dollars Myanmar’s government has asked for. However, the question is that how these
figures will be effectively used in long‐term recovery projects. A volunteer in local NGO said, “when the
short‐term relief efforts are getting lesser and weaker, it needs to be assured to lessen the
consequences .
Noodle Row or Painful Hell
Along the streets near the main Strand Road of Laputta, there is a row of food stalls selling
cheap liquors and food beside the double Decker ships docked on the river bank. This row of food stalls
is known locally as “Noodle Row,” each of the stall having only 10 feet square, and they sell liquors and
Chinese food.
A man who is looking for daily paid field workers to work for his farm said, “I came here to look
for people to work for my farm, but now the working pattern has shifted. It’s more like a partnership
rather than hiring someone and paying them daily. With today’s situation, I have to give the person 1/3
commission on the profit since it’s not easier to find paid workers like the old days.”
Laputta Township used to have a population of 0.2 million before the cyclone had struck, but
thousands had died in the cyclone in this area. Some farmers and fishermen lost their lives; some
survived but lost all their families and properties. U Tin Yein, whose eyes filling with tears, recounted
how he lost his wife and relatives in the cyclone, “It started raining with a strong wind at about 2 in the
afternoon. Our house fell down at about 5 p.m. Then, my relatives and I had made our families and
children get in the boat, and we, seven men, pulled it with a rope to the palm trees nearby our house.
But, the storm was too strong and the boat sank to the bottom 5 hours later we left our house. I
couldn’t see anything at all. I only realized everyone had disappeared right before I tied up the rope to
the tree. At the end of his words, he kept his head down and wiped his tear. People like U Tin Yein have
something in common: they are now earning a living by opening small food stalls in this “Noodle Row”
and they all had lost their loved ones.
“I couldn’t even walk after the cyclone was over because I was clinging onto a tree trunk the
whole night in the cyclone,” said Ko Aung Thurein, a 20 year‐old boy from Kyar Chuang Village. “Every
survivor living here had lost their family members,” also said a villager living in a shop in Noodle Row.
Noodle Row gets more and more crowded at the sunset; however, the fact that this place is not
as noisy as food stalls in other big cities is slightly strange. Residents of Laputta Township mentioned
that these villagers are putting new strength to start their second lives by adding up different kinds of
hardship in Noodle Row to their unforgettable life experiences.
A Ray of Light from the Dark Cyclone
“Right now, the whole Laputta Township has enough food supply and shelter. Since this is Monsoon
season, people don’t need to worry about water. The most important thing left for the moment is
cleaning pounds for water storage and growing rice for this season,” said Jeff Harvey, a
telecommunication officer from Doctors without Boundary Association.
The amount of relief works were getting lesser one month after the cyclone and it seems to be a
sign for survivors that they have to start over their lives on their own. Farmers prepared to start
cultivating rice before June 18. According to the statistical data, loss of rice in Irrawaddy and Rangoon
was 0.7 million metric tons, including harvested stored‐rice and rice that was going to be harvested
before the cyclone hit.
Endless questions of how to face an uncertain future have been hanging around in every
survivor’s thought after one month of the cyclone. The intelligence and living standard of those
answering the questions will have enormous impact on their second lives. “Forget everything
happened. If I say so, it would mean that I have no sympathy. But, it’s true that we have to try to forget
this nightmare and must start our second lives,” said a 50 year old farmer from Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su
village. Only after they decide to start their second lives, their futures will be full of hopes. Lingering on
the tragedy would not bring any hopes or promises for their futures.
U Tun, a fisherman, said he found himself alive because he had been clinging to a plastic bucket
floating in the water. Now, he has to earn his living just as a daily paid worker. He said that he is
determined to go back to his place where he lost his wife and daughters.
U Tin Yein, a fisherman mentioned in the beginning, is now preparing to build a hut with all the
money he has. Then, he will start preparing for tilling on the farm that he got from the authorities.
The red worn out cloth is a signal of second lives of the survivors in Tae Tan Su Village. In other
words, that red flag represents the fact that they are still being alive for their second lives out of the
tragic nightmare. The villagers said, “Even though we have nothing left, the flag representing our lives
won’t be falling down.”
For donors and relief team volunteers, this is a sign that there are still people surviving Cyclone Nargis,
which . Along the course of a stream not far from that bamboo flat pole is a small village called “Kyun
Kone Pite Tan Su,” which was left devastated after the cyclone. Survivors from the nearby areas along
Yway River are now living in this “Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su” village where their huts in blue tarpaulin sheet
are located in a dispersed fashion. After the cyclone, these survivors came to this place to start over
their lives, second lives as named by the villagers, after Cyclone Nargis.
Cyclone Nargis came into the Irrawaddy Region and Rangoon division on May 2nd and 3rd, 2008.
It also brought a tremendous tragedy to this village, one of the hardest hit areas in the Irrawaddy region,
by killing almost everyone in the village and leaving approximately ten people alive. “My wife and five
children were washed away with the cyclone. Only 3 daughters and I have survived,” said U Tun, a 50
year‐ old fisherman.
These survivors have begun to make their moves for the reconstruction of their lives 3 weeks
after relief teams have come to the area. These survivors have been living in this village by building
temporary huts since after the cyclone. U Tun, who had lost everything in the cyclone except a small
vase, is now beginning to rebuild his life. He said he is not able to get back to his career for the moment
since he had lost his fishing tools in the cyclone. “Although farmers start preparing to go back to their
farms, I, as a fisherman, can’t do anything right now without any fishing tools and any money to buy
new ones. At present, I can only make my own living just to feed myself,” said U Tun.
Besides in Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su village, survivors in other hardly hit areas of the Irrawaddy
region including Laputta area begin to start their second lives that their karma have brought out of the
killer storm.
Painful Transition (or) Farming
U Tin Yein, wearing a white shirt and a cotton sarong, doesn’t look like an owner of a 40‐acre
farmland; he rather looks like a daily paid farmer. U Tin Yein said his farm can produce 3000 baskets of
rice annually. It is likely that tilling on his 40 acre‐land can begin in the first week of June. “I have to
collect tillers from the local Farm and Industrial department today. 3 other farmers and I have to share
a 160 acre land that the government has rationed to each group of 3 or 4 farmers,” said U Tin Yein.
U Tin Yein has lost his wife and his properties ‐ house, rice barn, boat, 9 buffaloes and 6 pigs – in
the cyclone. From the population of 60 in his village, 32 people had died from the cyclone and 13 were
his relatives. This has still been a nightmare for U Tin Yein and he has been seeing this deadly event
every morning he wakes up. While his life was half dead and half awake because of this nightmare, he
heard rumors about the plans/situations for rice plantation. “Farming and Industrial department has
rationed tillers, seeds and grains to those who have a large number of lands. If that rumor is true and if
we can get diesel, we can begin our plantation,” said U Tin Yein.
Upon hearing the same news, farmers staying at refugee camps in Laputta are also leaving to
the respective villages with the hope of picking up their lives from any situation. The number of
survivors has gradually decreased since after people have heard about this opportunity for their lives,
said Jeff Harvey from Laputta MSF’s branch.
Burma is one of the top countries in exporting rice just before the cyclone; however, Cyclone
Nargis caused a severe devastation in the Irrawaddy region, the area known as Burma’s rice bowl, on
May 2nd and 3rd. Thus, it is very important for the reconstruction of the Irrawaddy region as soon as
possible, said an FAO official.
According to the census of government’s Agriculture Department, the cyclone affected 0.13
million families in the Irrawaddy region and 0.11 million families. The total value of buffaloes and cows
lost is over 0.15 million kyats. The loss of farming animals has left the farmers with the only one option
– using tillers ‐ in order to start plowing for this Monsoon season. U Tin Yein, an owner of 40 acres
farmlands, said, “We have to start our farming as soon as tillers are distributed.”
The truth is that Nargis has given a painful transition of the lives of farmers who have to begin
their second lives out of nothing and to replace unfamiliar technology for their careers.
Painful Evening
Although most people begin preparing to rebuild their lives, there are still many people who
have suffered post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the nightmares of Cyclone Nargis in the
Irrawaddy regions. They have lost their family members as well as every single property. Now, they are
left with nothing, but the repeatedly occurring nightmares.
U Pyinnyar Wontha, a monk from Too Myaung Village in Pya Pone Township, delivered Buddha’s
sermons to 12 PTSD patients. Comparing the current situation with Buddha’s sayings, he preached,
“You need to accept the reality.”
There is a Buddha’s story about a woman. Her husband died from snake bite, her youngest son
was taken by an eagle, her eldest son drowned, and her parents died in the fire. All these tragic
sequence of events finally led her to be a madwoman who couldn’t even put on her own clothes. After
she met with Buddha who opened her eyes to see the reality and gave her a sermon, she got well and
finally became a “Beikuni” (female Arahatta). U Pyinnyar delivered this story to those suffering patients
who, although, they can’t be Arahhta, might be able to get back to normal and see the reality.
A telecommunication officer, Jeff Harvey, told that they have started providing special
emotional support programs such as consulting with PTSD patients and hearing whatever they wanted
to vent out in Laputta. However, programs like these are still in need compared to the number of PTSD
patients caused by the cyclone. U Saing Phay Thein, a consultant supervisor from MRCS, has warned
that their lives are at stake with the lack of effective emotional support programs.
A 7 Day News Journal editor, Daw Aye Mya Kyaw, who went to Phukket just after Tsunami, said,
“I had seen a lot of PTSD patients in Thailand after the Tsunami even though Thailand has a stronger
infrastructure and more efficient health care access than Burma. Since the death toll caused by Nargis is
much greater, I expect there would be even more PTSD cases.”
In the middle of Something
The government state TV announced that there are over 0.13 million people dead and lost in
Cyclone Nargis. 22 villages had sunk under the cyclone even in Laputta Township alone. Government’s
announcements such as providing relief and rebuilding the lives of survivors together with the help of
International communities have been spreading around the country.
The government declared that it has already spent 70 billion dollars for reconstruction projects.
The reconstruction of fishery projects under the Fishery and Livestock Ministry is now in the process.
Since farmers always start plowing grains just before the Monsoon comes, this is a critical situation for
them to start farming after the cyclone had destroyed everything.
Since after the cyclone had destroyed a number of lives, everyone including Burmese citizens as
well as expatriate Burmese actively involved in delivering aids and helping in the reconstruction projects
in any ways they can. A permanent journalist of Voice Weekly Journal wrote about their kindness for
fellow citizens in the Emergency Management article: Experts had concerned about Burmese’s “social
Capital”; however, they have shocked to see their immediate responses for their fellow Burmese
survivor.
On the other hand, recovering from this kind of disaster aftermath is impossible with one man
or one nation’s work. Since “Scopes of work” is enormous along the reconstruction process, any
individuals, organizations or countries that put their hearts in a long‐term, systematic process to recover
from this disaster are indispensable for those survivors’ lives. An increasingly large number of young
volunteers involving in different kinds of activities, once after they had seen this tragedy, are proof for
every individual’s invaluable effort.
“Recovering process for Fisheries alone needs years to get back to normal,” said U Hla Mg Shwe,
a vice president of Myanmar Fisheries Association. He said that he has seen young people inside Burma
as well as expatriates who all left their good‐earning jobs to come back to Burma in order to help
survivors. On the other hand, there are still some critics who have not even offered a penny worth of
food or water to survivors.
Regardless of any situation, the most important fact is the rehabilitation of the lives of 1.5
million people who have nothing left after the cyclone. Thus, according to an anthropologist’s opinion,
everyone including the government as well as government’s opponents should altogether unite for
different reconstruction projects in different affected areas.
Figures have been floating around both in hands and in appeals: 2.1 billion dollars promised to
be funded by the United Nations, 5.6 million dollars currently received from international communities,
and 11 billion dollars Myanmar’s government has asked for. However, the question is that how these
figures will be effectively used in long‐term recovery projects. A volunteer in local NGO said, “when the
short‐term relief efforts are getting lesser and weaker, it needs to be assured to lessen the
consequences .
Noodle Row or Painful Hell
Along the streets near the main Strand Road of Laputta, there is a row of food stalls selling
cheap liquors and food beside the double Decker ships docked on the river bank. This row of food stalls
is known locally as “Noodle Row,” each of the stall having only 10 feet square, and they sell liquors and
Chinese food.
A man who is looking for daily paid field workers to work for his farm said, “I came here to look
for people to work for my farm, but now the working pattern has shifted. It’s more like a partnership
rather than hiring someone and paying them daily. With today’s situation, I have to give the person 1/3
commission on the profit since it’s not easier to find paid workers like the old days.”
Laputta Township used to have a population of 0.2 million before the cyclone had struck, but
thousands had died in the cyclone in this area. Some farmers and fishermen lost their lives; some
survived but lost all their families and properties. U Tin Yein, whose eyes filling with tears, recounted
how he lost his wife and relatives in the cyclone, “It started raining with a strong wind at about 2 in the
afternoon. Our house fell down at about 5 p.m. Then, my relatives and I had made our families and
children get in the boat, and we, seven men, pulled it with a rope to the palm trees nearby our house.
But, the storm was too strong and the boat sank to the bottom 5 hours later we left our house. I
couldn’t see anything at all. I only realized everyone had disappeared right before I tied up the rope to
the tree. At the end of his words, he kept his head down and wiped his tear. People like U Tin Yein have
something in common: they are now earning a living by opening small food stalls in this “Noodle Row”
and they all had lost their loved ones.
“I couldn’t even walk after the cyclone was over because I was clinging onto a tree trunk the
whole night in the cyclone,” said Ko Aung Thurein, a 20 year‐old boy from Kyar Chuang Village. “Every
survivor living here had lost their family members,” also said a villager living in a shop in Noodle Row.
Noodle Row gets more and more crowded at the sunset; however, the fact that this place is not
as noisy as food stalls in other big cities is slightly strange. Residents of Laputta Township mentioned
that these villagers are putting new strength to start their second lives by adding up different kinds of
hardship in Noodle Row to their unforgettable life experiences.
A Ray of Light from the Dark Cyclone
“Right now, the whole Laputta Township has enough food supply and shelter. Since this is Monsoon
season, people don’t need to worry about water. The most important thing left for the moment is
cleaning pounds for water storage and growing rice for this season,” said Jeff Harvey, a
telecommunication officer from Doctors without Boundary Association.
The amount of relief works were getting lesser one month after the cyclone and it seems to be a
sign for survivors that they have to start over their lives on their own. Farmers prepared to start
cultivating rice before June 18. According to the statistical data, loss of rice in Irrawaddy and Rangoon
was 0.7 million metric tons, including harvested stored‐rice and rice that was going to be harvested
before the cyclone hit.
Endless questions of how to face an uncertain future have been hanging around in every
survivor’s thought after one month of the cyclone. The intelligence and living standard of those
answering the questions will have enormous impact on their second lives. “Forget everything
happened. If I say so, it would mean that I have no sympathy. But, it’s true that we have to try to forget
this nightmare and must start our second lives,” said a 50 year old farmer from Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su
village. Only after they decide to start their second lives, their futures will be full of hopes. Lingering on
the tragedy would not bring any hopes or promises for their futures.
U Tun, a fisherman, said he found himself alive because he had been clinging to a plastic bucket
floating in the water. Now, he has to earn his living just as a daily paid worker. He said that he is
determined to go back to his place where he lost his wife and daughters.
U Tin Yein, a fisherman mentioned in the beginning, is now preparing to build a hut with all the
money he has. Then, he will start preparing for tilling on the farm that he got from the authorities.
The red worn out cloth is a signal of second lives of the survivors in Tae Tan Su Village. In other
words, that red flag represents the fact that they are still being alive for their second lives out of the
tragic nightmare. The villagers said, “Even though we have nothing left, the flag representing our lives
won’t be falling down.”
Sunday, July 27, 2008
With contentment, it is easy to face the death
IT was in a day two years back. It was an unforgettable day and Nyi Nyi thought his life and hope were ended right away. He was hearing repetitions of a result from his HIV checkup report as if someone had been reading it out loud in his ear several times. Nyi Nyi found no words to speak out in that moment. Just lying awake on the bed and starring aimlessly he had been waiting the call of death for more than 60 days.
“It was a very clear message. It was the kind of message assuring me ‘You must die’,” Nyi Nyi said.
Nyi Nyi was not the only one in his family found infected with HIV that could proceed to AIDS. His dear wife, daughter and son were also found with HIV Positive. It was a dead blow and saddest moment in his life.
“Within a short time, my wife died and then my son. My daughter and I were alive but still with HIV. Our lives at that time were hopeless and full of despairs,” said Nyi Nyi, 33, who wears white T-shirt and deep blue trousers neatly.
“Things went the same for two more months and I still didn’t know what to do. With little knowledge on facing death I was just prepared to die. Days and nights went on and I thought staying just like that should not be the right way. There must be a solution if there is a problem. So I began going out again and started reading HIV related books. I learnt intensively on that subject and tried to understand as nearly as a doctor does,” he explained.
Since Nyi Nyi’s consciousness accepted the fact that he had to live with the virus he thought more on what could be done best before he dies. Thereafter his life was restarted with a new strength like the legendary phoenix that is reborn after descending into fire.
“The most valuable thing I got was my family’s warm understanding. So I stopped thinking about the past and began my life for the second time,” said Nyi Nyi who is volunteering at International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Myanmar), an international Non Government Organisation that is supporting people living with AIDS.
Untimely call of death
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Since it is unpractical to conduct HIV blood test country-wide there is not specific figure of how many people are infected with HIV. Many people living with HIV died untimely due to ignorance of their communities.
Lonely people with HIV positive reach AIDS stage much quicker and die earlier than patients who receive encouragement and caring of their families and friends, said Dr Aung San, a (---consultant -----) from Wai Bar Gi Hospital in North Okkalapa Township that especially treats HIV/AIDS patients.
“There still are cases where people with AIDS are being left at the hospital and their families never come back,” said a local staff from CARE (Myanmar), an INGO that is helping people living with AIDS.
According to the Ministry of Health’s figure HIV was first found in Myanmar in 1988 and treatments were being given to those patients since 1991.
“AIDS becomes the major challenge among contagious diseases in Myanmar,” Mr Guy Stall Worthy, country director of Population Services International (Myanmar), said in 2004.
“The actual number of people suffering the disease might exceed the official figure as some people are not hospitalised though they are suffering from AIDS or some fail to report to medical authority since they don’t know what they are suffering from,” a doctor who got a master degree specilisation on HIV/AIDS.
According to the statistic of (--Myanmar -National AIDS Program --), there were 338,921 people living with HIV/AIDS in Myanmar by 30 July 2004.
A tale told by Grace
In fact, Grace alias Swe Zin Htike is a former actress who could perform any character roles. Devoting most of her time for work and study she is now one of most active persons in combating HIV/AIDS in Myanmar.
Grace still has so many story-alike experiences of other peoples though she has already produced total of 90 HIV/AIDS educational movies and advertisements that reach to grass root level.
Looking over the computer and pile of documents on the desk Grace began telling this tale in her small office where its whole wall is covered with training and workshop accomplishment certificates.
“It was about a friend of mine. He used to work as a beautician around 1980s and by now he will be about 42 years old. I haven’t seen him for ages since the time I devoted to humanitarian works. I received a call one day from him asking me to come over to him. He greeted me from his bed and the whole body was covered with boils. So I referred him a doctor to ask whether he was still in a stage to take drug. I knew there was a medicine that could make him better and was available locally. But my friend couldn’t afford for the cost. So I called the company that was distributing the drug informing my friend was collecting the drug and I would be giving money for that.
His CD4 count was 180 when he first took the drug. (CD4 count is the number of white blood cell and normal person has between 800 and 1050/ML. If CD4 is below 500 then it is the sign of weakening immune system). So he enables taking the drug continuously since 2004 and I am giving the company end of every month when I draw my salary. He now becomes stronger and like a normal person. He re-opens his beauty parlor at Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay and can stand on his feet now.
Helping a person only is fine and it is within my reach. Would be great if more people like my friend can have such medicine. U Win Nyein (A-linn-dan) has also helped a patient in my request. These drugs cost around K29,000 when I first bought for my friend and the price shot up well over K50,000 once. Patients are to take the drug as long as they live. I think it is the right time to educate public about the treatment related issues in addition to the use of condoms.”
At this point Grace turned her swivel chair towards her computer indicating the end of her story.
Phoenix that revives from fire
Nyi Nyi now has certain knowledge on HIV/AIDS as he is learning many educational books. One day, Nyi Nyi happened to reach the AZG Clinic in Thakayta Township that is treating the HIV/AIDS patients.
Nyi Nyi said it was the place where he gained his strength not to give up the life and to start renewing his life.
“I met at that clinic with one person with HIV positive who is leading educational activities for PLHA (people living with HIV/AIDS). I really envied him. He is working as much as he can without surrendering his life. I was shared with his knowledge and became mentally strong again. So I help people as much as I can do including sharing knowledge and educating on health and drugs treatment,” Nyi Nyi explained.
Though finding HIV infection in his blood two years ago had made him felt like a person being sentenced to death Nyi Nyi looks healthy and strong as a normal person now.
The reason he can still live like a normal person is because of his deep knowledge on personal health care and positive approach towards the life.
Nyi Nyi said such positive approach to life, sympathy, positive thinking and loving kindness were the best medicine to encounter AIDS he is suffering.
“I have never thought that we people with AIDS were a step lower than others in our environment. Infected with the virus doesn’t mean we were in a status lower. Also, I didn’t respond to people who discriminate and treat us differently. My life becomes more meaningful after deciding to show those people in practical that we are not a lower class people,” he said while his eyes shining with self-confidence.
Nyi Nyi is involving in such activities as caring assistance at the hospitals for AIDS patients, burial services for deceased ones, finding jobs for those who are jobless and assisting for those who find difficult for accommodation by contacting INGOs based in the country.
Feeling of Insecurities
Chair of the Myanmar National Health Committee Lt-Gen Thein Sein (currently Prime Minister) said last year that HIV prevalence in Myanmar had dropped 0.2 per cent in 2006 due to the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction activities by local and international health and social organisations.
According to the surveys done in 2000 about 1.5 per cent (more than 200,000) of total adult population in Myanmar was being infected with HIV virus annually. Lt-Gen Thein Sein said as part of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction initiatives a five-year national strategy for 2006-2010 was drafted by the authorities in collaboration with local and international social and health organisations and the UN agencies.
“HIV infection is spread especially via unsafe sex. However most people think that only sex workers. people are infected with such virus and because of that people who are infected dare not to come to the clinics or hospitals. Some give up hope and their lives ended unpleasantly. Our society should be aware of that more and needs to help those people.”
“I just wanted to ask those so-called normal people whether they can be abstinence. I want them to understand that we were infected because we didn’t have safe sex.”
These are the voices of people infected with HIV positive.
“Now the situation has improved a lot. Educational campaigns are also being done more frequently. Being a Myanmar Buddhist and an actress it was really hard to raise awareness on sex education, and I did it in public till 2002 while enduring various criticisms,” said Grace, a famous celebrity in Myanmar who attended the media leadership training programme in California University.
In Myanmar society, however, it is still difficult for people living with AIDS to get chances for employment.
Saturn of developed era
No one has expected two decades ago when AIDS was first found that the virus could shock the world and its people that much. Now virus prevalence is three times more than estimated figure. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated more than 42 million population are infected with HIV/AIDS of which 80 per cent is the working age group of between 15 and 49 years.
Businesses throughout the world have to embrace the hard time since this age group is the backbone of workforce in every country.
Thus, it became critical to get a solution as quickly as possible to prevent HIV/AIDS infection. Similar to other countries, same age group was also most vulnerable in Myanmar, according to the document released by (---Myanmar National AIDS - Programme.---Experts expressed their concerns that such workplace problems as discrimination, mismanagement and rebukes on people living with the virus are likely to come into light due to the lack of awareness on HIV/AIDS.
The worst thing was the decline of world economy that accounted for 1.4 per cent of Global Gross Product annually, they said.
Since a survey conducted in 2003 showed commercial sex workers (CSW) accounted for 32.32 per cent of total HIV infected population in Myanmar it is critical to provide social and financial supports throughout the country.
“If a CSW infected with the virus continues sex business then it will become worse for her. Thus financial assistance should be provided so that she could start safe and normal small business like selling vegetables or snacks,” an INGO staff suggested.
However, a source close to INGOs thought the assistances provided by those orgsnisations sometimes were misguided as these assistances were made available with many restrictions.
“For instance, ARV is provided to a person with HIV. But with the clause that the patient must be living in Thakata, Hlaingthaya townships etc. Such restrictions should not be included anymore.”
With contentment, it is easy to face the death
“I think it is time to educate widely for treatment related issue in addition to prevention and awareness campaigns, which we have been doing since the beginning. For instance, there are many children and women left behind with HIV infection when their parents or husbands died of that virus. More care and treatment are really needed for them,” said Grace who involves in combating HIV/AIDS activities for many years.
“Our children care centre, Thu Kha Yeik Myoin, accepts and take care HIV infected children age between 2 and 12. So far we can accommodate 14 kids only,” said Daw Aye Aye Myint, head of (HHHP?????) Thu Kha Yeik Myoin.
Children from the centre are very few lucky ones though there still are many children throughout the country who are not lucky enough like them and are living in Feelings of insecurities since their parents passed away with HIV/AIDS.
It is important for those children to continue living without any emotional and physical damages in their remaining period since their lives are already numbered with the virus, and it is the gap still remains to be filled by the future society.
“Critical thing is to trust oneself. Keep in mind the fact that one day everyone will have to face the death. One’s life will be more difficult if he or she is to live in a community that doesn’t understand nor care with sympathy. Personally I think it is good if people treat us in sympathy,” said Nyi Nyi who looks like a normal person though HIV is still in his vein.
“I want people with HIV/AIDS to remember their peers as role model who died or alive but fought back the virus bravely. I also want to end my life while supporting and assisting people who are living with the virus like me,” Nyi Nyi explained his future plan for his remaining time.
People like Nyi Nyi who are volunteering their peers want others infected with HIV to contact to the relevant clinics and hospitals.
“Then they will know that it is not them suffering alone in the whole world. We can help and share information each other. We can tell each other where we can get ARV. One can get information on what is available where. For instance we can tell them to line up at Wai Bar Gi Hospital for ARV and etc,” a HIV positive patient explained.
Nyi Nyi now thinks that living with HIV/AIDS no longer makes him to be hopeless for the life. It gave him strength and thoughts to make changes in his life.
Nyi Nyi said he did not want others to get infected like him. Let the bad HIV virus be in his vein only and not others. For the moment, what he thinks always is what best things can be done at present.
Though he didn’t want to think about his past it visited to his mind sometimes. In the past, there were times Nyi Nyi behaved recklessly and that cost his dear life. However he is content with the current life with the fact that he now can do the social activities.
“I don’t think I would be doing those social activities if I was not infected with HIV,” Nyi Nyi said.
“It was a very clear message. It was the kind of message assuring me ‘You must die’,” Nyi Nyi said.
Nyi Nyi was not the only one in his family found infected with HIV that could proceed to AIDS. His dear wife, daughter and son were also found with HIV Positive. It was a dead blow and saddest moment in his life.
“Within a short time, my wife died and then my son. My daughter and I were alive but still with HIV. Our lives at that time were hopeless and full of despairs,” said Nyi Nyi, 33, who wears white T-shirt and deep blue trousers neatly.
“Things went the same for two more months and I still didn’t know what to do. With little knowledge on facing death I was just prepared to die. Days and nights went on and I thought staying just like that should not be the right way. There must be a solution if there is a problem. So I began going out again and started reading HIV related books. I learnt intensively on that subject and tried to understand as nearly as a doctor does,” he explained.
Since Nyi Nyi’s consciousness accepted the fact that he had to live with the virus he thought more on what could be done best before he dies. Thereafter his life was restarted with a new strength like the legendary phoenix that is reborn after descending into fire.
“The most valuable thing I got was my family’s warm understanding. So I stopped thinking about the past and began my life for the second time,” said Nyi Nyi who is volunteering at International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Myanmar), an international Non Government Organisation that is supporting people living with AIDS.
Untimely call of death
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Since it is unpractical to conduct HIV blood test country-wide there is not specific figure of how many people are infected with HIV. Many people living with HIV died untimely due to ignorance of their communities.
Lonely people with HIV positive reach AIDS stage much quicker and die earlier than patients who receive encouragement and caring of their families and friends, said Dr Aung San, a (---consultant -----) from Wai Bar Gi Hospital in North Okkalapa Township that especially treats HIV/AIDS patients.
“There still are cases where people with AIDS are being left at the hospital and their families never come back,” said a local staff from CARE (Myanmar), an INGO that is helping people living with AIDS.
According to the Ministry of Health’s figure HIV was first found in Myanmar in 1988 and treatments were being given to those patients since 1991.
“AIDS becomes the major challenge among contagious diseases in Myanmar,” Mr Guy Stall Worthy, country director of Population Services International (Myanmar), said in 2004.
“The actual number of people suffering the disease might exceed the official figure as some people are not hospitalised though they are suffering from AIDS or some fail to report to medical authority since they don’t know what they are suffering from,” a doctor who got a master degree specilisation on HIV/AIDS.
According to the statistic of (--Myanmar -National AIDS Program --), there were 338,921 people living with HIV/AIDS in Myanmar by 30 July 2004.
A tale told by Grace
In fact, Grace alias Swe Zin Htike is a former actress who could perform any character roles. Devoting most of her time for work and study she is now one of most active persons in combating HIV/AIDS in Myanmar.
Grace still has so many story-alike experiences of other peoples though she has already produced total of 90 HIV/AIDS educational movies and advertisements that reach to grass root level.
Looking over the computer and pile of documents on the desk Grace began telling this tale in her small office where its whole wall is covered with training and workshop accomplishment certificates.
“It was about a friend of mine. He used to work as a beautician around 1980s and by now he will be about 42 years old. I haven’t seen him for ages since the time I devoted to humanitarian works. I received a call one day from him asking me to come over to him. He greeted me from his bed and the whole body was covered with boils. So I referred him a doctor to ask whether he was still in a stage to take drug. I knew there was a medicine that could make him better and was available locally. But my friend couldn’t afford for the cost. So I called the company that was distributing the drug informing my friend was collecting the drug and I would be giving money for that.
His CD4 count was 180 when he first took the drug. (CD4 count is the number of white blood cell and normal person has between 800 and 1050/ML. If CD4 is below 500 then it is the sign of weakening immune system). So he enables taking the drug continuously since 2004 and I am giving the company end of every month when I draw my salary. He now becomes stronger and like a normal person. He re-opens his beauty parlor at Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay and can stand on his feet now.
Helping a person only is fine and it is within my reach. Would be great if more people like my friend can have such medicine. U Win Nyein (A-linn-dan) has also helped a patient in my request. These drugs cost around K29,000 when I first bought for my friend and the price shot up well over K50,000 once. Patients are to take the drug as long as they live. I think it is the right time to educate public about the treatment related issues in addition to the use of condoms.”
At this point Grace turned her swivel chair towards her computer indicating the end of her story.
Phoenix that revives from fire
Nyi Nyi now has certain knowledge on HIV/AIDS as he is learning many educational books. One day, Nyi Nyi happened to reach the AZG Clinic in Thakayta Township that is treating the HIV/AIDS patients.
Nyi Nyi said it was the place where he gained his strength not to give up the life and to start renewing his life.
“I met at that clinic with one person with HIV positive who is leading educational activities for PLHA (people living with HIV/AIDS). I really envied him. He is working as much as he can without surrendering his life. I was shared with his knowledge and became mentally strong again. So I help people as much as I can do including sharing knowledge and educating on health and drugs treatment,” Nyi Nyi explained.
Though finding HIV infection in his blood two years ago had made him felt like a person being sentenced to death Nyi Nyi looks healthy and strong as a normal person now.
The reason he can still live like a normal person is because of his deep knowledge on personal health care and positive approach towards the life.
Nyi Nyi said such positive approach to life, sympathy, positive thinking and loving kindness were the best medicine to encounter AIDS he is suffering.
“I have never thought that we people with AIDS were a step lower than others in our environment. Infected with the virus doesn’t mean we were in a status lower. Also, I didn’t respond to people who discriminate and treat us differently. My life becomes more meaningful after deciding to show those people in practical that we are not a lower class people,” he said while his eyes shining with self-confidence.
Nyi Nyi is involving in such activities as caring assistance at the hospitals for AIDS patients, burial services for deceased ones, finding jobs for those who are jobless and assisting for those who find difficult for accommodation by contacting INGOs based in the country.
Feeling of Insecurities
Chair of the Myanmar National Health Committee Lt-Gen Thein Sein (currently Prime Minister) said last year that HIV prevalence in Myanmar had dropped 0.2 per cent in 2006 due to the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction activities by local and international health and social organisations.
According to the surveys done in 2000 about 1.5 per cent (more than 200,000) of total adult population in Myanmar was being infected with HIV virus annually. Lt-Gen Thein Sein said as part of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction initiatives a five-year national strategy for 2006-2010 was drafted by the authorities in collaboration with local and international social and health organisations and the UN agencies.
“HIV infection is spread especially via unsafe sex. However most people think that only sex workers. people are infected with such virus and because of that people who are infected dare not to come to the clinics or hospitals. Some give up hope and their lives ended unpleasantly. Our society should be aware of that more and needs to help those people.”
“I just wanted to ask those so-called normal people whether they can be abstinence. I want them to understand that we were infected because we didn’t have safe sex.”
These are the voices of people infected with HIV positive.
“Now the situation has improved a lot. Educational campaigns are also being done more frequently. Being a Myanmar Buddhist and an actress it was really hard to raise awareness on sex education, and I did it in public till 2002 while enduring various criticisms,” said Grace, a famous celebrity in Myanmar who attended the media leadership training programme in California University.
In Myanmar society, however, it is still difficult for people living with AIDS to get chances for employment.
Saturn of developed era
No one has expected two decades ago when AIDS was first found that the virus could shock the world and its people that much. Now virus prevalence is three times more than estimated figure. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated more than 42 million population are infected with HIV/AIDS of which 80 per cent is the working age group of between 15 and 49 years.
Businesses throughout the world have to embrace the hard time since this age group is the backbone of workforce in every country.
Thus, it became critical to get a solution as quickly as possible to prevent HIV/AIDS infection. Similar to other countries, same age group was also most vulnerable in Myanmar, according to the document released by (---Myanmar National AIDS - Programme.---Experts expressed their concerns that such workplace problems as discrimination, mismanagement and rebukes on people living with the virus are likely to come into light due to the lack of awareness on HIV/AIDS.
The worst thing was the decline of world economy that accounted for 1.4 per cent of Global Gross Product annually, they said.
Since a survey conducted in 2003 showed commercial sex workers (CSW) accounted for 32.32 per cent of total HIV infected population in Myanmar it is critical to provide social and financial supports throughout the country.
“If a CSW infected with the virus continues sex business then it will become worse for her. Thus financial assistance should be provided so that she could start safe and normal small business like selling vegetables or snacks,” an INGO staff suggested.
However, a source close to INGOs thought the assistances provided by those orgsnisations sometimes were misguided as these assistances were made available with many restrictions.
“For instance, ARV is provided to a person with HIV. But with the clause that the patient must be living in Thakata, Hlaingthaya townships etc. Such restrictions should not be included anymore.”
With contentment, it is easy to face the death
“I think it is time to educate widely for treatment related issue in addition to prevention and awareness campaigns, which we have been doing since the beginning. For instance, there are many children and women left behind with HIV infection when their parents or husbands died of that virus. More care and treatment are really needed for them,” said Grace who involves in combating HIV/AIDS activities for many years.
“Our children care centre, Thu Kha Yeik Myoin, accepts and take care HIV infected children age between 2 and 12. So far we can accommodate 14 kids only,” said Daw Aye Aye Myint, head of (HHHP?????) Thu Kha Yeik Myoin.
Children from the centre are very few lucky ones though there still are many children throughout the country who are not lucky enough like them and are living in Feelings of insecurities since their parents passed away with HIV/AIDS.
It is important for those children to continue living without any emotional and physical damages in their remaining period since their lives are already numbered with the virus, and it is the gap still remains to be filled by the future society.
“Critical thing is to trust oneself. Keep in mind the fact that one day everyone will have to face the death. One’s life will be more difficult if he or she is to live in a community that doesn’t understand nor care with sympathy. Personally I think it is good if people treat us in sympathy,” said Nyi Nyi who looks like a normal person though HIV is still in his vein.
“I want people with HIV/AIDS to remember their peers as role model who died or alive but fought back the virus bravely. I also want to end my life while supporting and assisting people who are living with the virus like me,” Nyi Nyi explained his future plan for his remaining time.
People like Nyi Nyi who are volunteering their peers want others infected with HIV to contact to the relevant clinics and hospitals.
“Then they will know that it is not them suffering alone in the whole world. We can help and share information each other. We can tell each other where we can get ARV. One can get information on what is available where. For instance we can tell them to line up at Wai Bar Gi Hospital for ARV and etc,” a HIV positive patient explained.
Nyi Nyi now thinks that living with HIV/AIDS no longer makes him to be hopeless for the life. It gave him strength and thoughts to make changes in his life.
Nyi Nyi said he did not want others to get infected like him. Let the bad HIV virus be in his vein only and not others. For the moment, what he thinks always is what best things can be done at present.
Though he didn’t want to think about his past it visited to his mind sometimes. In the past, there were times Nyi Nyi behaved recklessly and that cost his dear life. However he is content with the current life with the fact that he now can do the social activities.
“I don’t think I would be doing those social activities if I was not infected with HIV,” Nyi Nyi said.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE FOR BURMA
At the road side of the kung chan kone -dadeye township road ,The villagers from near village have unusual small huts after one weeks storm nargis.In order to get food from donor cars that passed near the small huts .All They have to do is stand in front of the these hats and wave their hands while the aids relief cars pass through near by .
Acagyi village is very small village located near Dedaye Township right now no one supposed to lived that villages after nargis .Nearly round about 80 people who get alive after passing the destructive storm .These villagers moved from the village to the new hats beside the road to get food, clean water and, rice from the local donor.
After nargis, killed near 80 thousands of the people who lived in Myanmar delta region, many of the villagers died and missed till three weekend after nargis .Some of the villagers who left alive went to refugees camps in order to get food and shelter.
However, like the villagers who lived at roadside they have no chance to live at the refuges camps. The reason is that “We have nowhere to live except here "said the villagers ko ye lwin 39 years old who live at the roadside near deadeye township.
Ma khin san lwin 40 years old who worked for fishing for a long time but now waiting on the road for food she knows even refuges camp is better than his house but she has no chance to stay for long time.
“My children died by tidal wave during the strong while they were running with her father” nearly over 40 years old Ma khin san lwin who live in the village that near kyunchankone said.
Till after 3 weeks of storm she is still go to roadside to get the food from donors.
"My small house is being build by my relatives with beetle nuts stem that can get easily near by " but I didn't received any aids for house".
Some days I received some rice, potatoes and some cooking oil some days nothing, I do not think things will recover to me very soon.
She spent nearly two days at refugees' camps that she got there nearly naked at the morning of may 3.
"The two days at the refugee's camps I didn't have any meal" she added.
When she got back to the house, only remember the place.
"I lost everything my two daughters, mother in law, and the whole house." now my husband has suffered injured and he could not have any health care from government or either othe INGO.
Not only in that village, has the same story heard from deadeye water seller kyaw htoo lwin 45 years old , spent nearly two weeks at the refugees camps after storm.
"Last two days ago we were driven by force to go back, I have no home at that time so I live my friend's house and depend for a while".
He was given tarpaulin sheet, one basket of rice, and some used clothes and told to go home. He's now repairing his house. The monastery is 15 minutes walk from his house.
“You know we heard from other villages our government authority push to go back own village from camps after 15 th may .They gave some rice and plastics sheet to the refugees and bring with the green military trucks to near village.
It seems to them push to live at their old place from authority but it is not better than living roadside huts
"I am well aware that these huts are located illegal place .The place is not all hygienic but we spent most our time here. We cook here, eat here and sleep here in small hats with my family " added ko ye lwin .he has four children including four months baby.
The latest information from phyapon district disaster management committee, It said the committee reduce the number of the refugees camps and it said the no of refugees is going down after may 15 from 10 thousands and above to 6 thousands.
For Ko ye lwin ,living in new hat is the most effective way to survive their life, mot only him that is also for the reason of all villagers are living and fighting there against their survival.
Near Acagyi is not only the place that villagers with the new small hats, there are more than thousands of the hats moved from the old villages to that road side may be couple miles from dedeyae to kungchankone .
“While we are passing the road to phyapon we saw a lot of new small huts come out day by day” said the ko Ye who is working as a volunteer of the nargis respond team.
After 20 th may government announced emergency relief time is over and forced to moved the huts which situated at the roadside of delta.
"Authority give me a chance for a few days but It will over in very soon," added ko ye lwin
.In the past in this season they ploughed the paddy in their farm and prepared for the planting season right now their concern is the struggle for survival at the road side.
The same happened at the road side of the delta region villagers who didn’t received enough aids something like rice,food and sheleter .
After nargis,Some of the villagers abandoned their destroyed homes and moved to find better jobs in another place.
Living at the roadside in delta is “ineligible” ko ye lwin committed .Right now these villagers are facing the tremendous barriers that local authority takes action when they find these huts in the roadside area.
“If military find the villagers who are living at the roadside huts, they may have been driven by authority”.
One of the notice that released in Yangon based delta high way station that Mentioned
well wisher passengers distribute from the car to the people along the road it cause them these
people are watching the passing car and makes them loose interesting to carry their livelihood.
To prevent the national image of Myanmar do not make like these works .It advised to contacts local relief's committee directly.
“it is very cruel on the victims my options is that authority should permit limited period during the rehabilitation" said the donor who wish to give.
"At 28 th may we have got some improvement but we have to inform 48 hours advanced" well wisher added.
These tremendous obstacles prevent the accessing the basics need of they have nowhere to go.
“If I live in the old place it is impossible to access the food from donors, things are particularly bad ".said the refugees who does want to use his name.
Some of the area in delta, when authority found their guilty villagers should have been fined 3000 kyats per person (it cost two basket of rice).
After 22th may , UN chief visit, the huts which situated along the road of kuanchankone dadeye ,phyapon road are already removed by the military.
"Authority want to show only the good things to UN and INGO but some refugees no where to go still live under the phyapon bridge said ma nyein nyein who live near the phyapon bridge.
Despite these difficulties Villagers never give up and come to the road side and wait for donors, they believes the Myanmar people traditional custom.
Refugees called donors "guardians" or benefactor they sit on the feet and wait for everyday at the roadside.
Struggling three weeks after nargisat may 23 th , general than shwe agrees to let inside Myanmar for international aids workers.
he decision eases a three-week standoff since the cyclone tore into the country on May 2-3, leaving at least 133,000 people dead or missing and around 2.5 million more in dire need of immediate aid.
"He has agreed to allow all aid workers," UN chief Ban told reporters in the remote new capital Naypyidaw following closed-door talks with the 75-year-old general who heads one of the poorest and most isolated nations in the world.
International relief organizations have repeatedly insisted that more people will die unless they get immediate food, water, shelter and medical care.
Ban said on arriving 22 th may that he was coming with a "message of hope" for the beleaguered victims of the worst natural disaster in the nation's history, which devastated much of the southern Irrawaddy Delta.
But the delta people are not hopping so much form UN chiefs and other organization. It is nearly one months for their lost after storm nargis, including daughters ,sons ,fathers ,mothers, husbands and wives but aids are not getting through to them.
Prime Minister general Thein Sein told diplomats that the provision of food, clothing, shelter and medical care was "now almost complete at this stage."
Many villagers from deadeye said that they have not received any government aids yet . Local reporters saw people were getting the line to receive packages of noodles or some rice of cans at phyapon.
"All we have after three weeks from government is one egg,three mosiquito nets and three items of clothes" said the villagers thepyukone village that situated at the eastern part of the dadeye township.
In tu myang village ,just one hour drive from phyapon by motorboat nearly 160 houses are rebuilding without getting any aids said u photoe elder man of this village.
all villagers from that village said " All we need is tarpaulin that can use their house for shelter.
Last a few days ago, Mr Ban flew over flooded rice fields, destroyed villages, and visited a government relief camp in the Irrawaddy delta.
A UN official privately called it a "show camp".
But at tu myaung villagers are rebuilding their small huts by themselves. When the raindrops come down, they go back to monastery only the reliable place of their relief that has enough shelters for them.
All villagers from the delta realized that there are many obstacles apart from the local authorities, to ploughed the plough the farm and soil the paddy for next planting season. Lacks of the seeds and cattle pose other challengences for planting.
They accepted that many times they felt exhausted and hopeless But once they heard the aids workers let into the country ,it gives continue to fighting for the their survival.
The only thing they want in their life is help to their life to become good people
Without getting help these people who live at road side might becomes thieves, beggars and alchol addicts I think any vicitims without getting the aids like a man waiting for death.”
"we are not beggars" villagers from road side said .
Friday, March 21, 2008
Yangon weekly 7 day’s news journal is being sued
Yangon march 21
One of the popular journal among in the Yangon readers, 7 days news weekly journal is going to have sued by victims families executive editor from 7-day news journal confirmed to Yangontoday 7 day news journal is also being suspended for one week by scrutiny board, under the ministry of information, who control the journals and magazines .
“We have so many problems for that news because we put in last issue without having permission from scrutiny, even though they are trying to sue our journal we did ethically in this case, wrote what we have seen and what we have got from the funeral scenes said editor to Yangon today .
One of the new spread in Yangon is this journals is being sued by Yangon police chief who requested to bodies at funeral ceremony find the killers.
“What we have between us is we agree to apologize the police but still don’t know what they want to be’ editor explained.
“They attacked our dignity two times intentionally to us, so our police chief won’t forgive this time and we arrange to sue by passing the victim’s family’ said the police who don’t want to you his name.
In Yangon ,five people was killed by gun shot in sein lae kann thar avenue which is quite close to house of Daw su kyi reported by local journals.
The circumstance of this case may be different from other crime because killer use 9 mm pistol, which can use only military high-ranking officer remarked the local people who live near by.
Among them 7 days journal put alternative presentation about this criminal case and put the direct quote of police chief that requested to bodies at funeral ceremony on the last issue.
Those are their old habit and believe of police for two many years in our country instead of saying yes, it is police motto but they did when they could not follow the links of killer said retire police officer.
However, the criminals are still lucky and police cannot catch definitely, who killed the five people on the spot.
One of the popular journal among in the Yangon readers, 7 days news weekly journal is going to have sued by victims families executive editor from 7-day news journal confirmed to Yangontoday 7 day news journal is also being suspended for one week by scrutiny board, under the ministry of information, who control the journals and magazines .
“We have so many problems for that news because we put in last issue without having permission from scrutiny, even though they are trying to sue our journal we did ethically in this case, wrote what we have seen and what we have got from the funeral scenes said editor to Yangon today .
One of the new spread in Yangon is this journals is being sued by Yangon police chief who requested to bodies at funeral ceremony find the killers.
“What we have between us is we agree to apologize the police but still don’t know what they want to be’ editor explained.
“They attacked our dignity two times intentionally to us, so our police chief won’t forgive this time and we arrange to sue by passing the victim’s family’ said the police who don’t want to you his name.
In Yangon ,five people was killed by gun shot in sein lae kann thar avenue which is quite close to house of Daw su kyi reported by local journals.
The circumstance of this case may be different from other crime because killer use 9 mm pistol, which can use only military high-ranking officer remarked the local people who live near by.
Among them 7 days journal put alternative presentation about this criminal case and put the direct quote of police chief that requested to bodies at funeral ceremony on the last issue.
Those are their old habit and believe of police for two many years in our country instead of saying yes, it is police motto but they did when they could not follow the links of killer said retire police officer.
However, the criminals are still lucky and police cannot catch definitely, who killed the five people on the spot.
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Rambo wanted in Yangon
Yangon ,feb 7
The people who live in Yangon wanted to see the Rambo film that was directed by Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone ,could not find nowhere in Yangon street.
"If I have chance to see this film I will pay money that more than ten times" said the officer from ministry of commerce.
The news that comes out from vendors who sell pirated cd copies said we have known how authority will take action to us if we sell the Rambo 2008 cd.
Some vendors said Police in Yangon have given market sellers strict orders not to sell pirated copies of the flick.
"I asked for nearly two weeks about Rambo cd whenever I found the pirated cd vendors but they said no in ever times"
Just two weeks into its commercial release (panned by most US critics, highly rated by audiences in the US), the movie is available in black-market editions under the counter in markets in Rangoon and towns along the Thai border Bangkok post mentioned at Feb. 5.
In the movie, ageing war veteran John Rambo, played by Stallone, ventures into Burma to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
some people talk each other if someone get Rambo copy for sharing .
Stallone's movie Rambo 5 focuses on the Karen near the Thai border
The people who live in Yangon wanted to see the Rambo film that was directed by Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone ,could not find nowhere in Yangon street.
"If I have chance to see this film I will pay money that more than ten times" said the officer from ministry of commerce.
The news that comes out from vendors who sell pirated cd copies said we have known how authority will take action to us if we sell the Rambo 2008 cd.
Some vendors said Police in Yangon have given market sellers strict orders not to sell pirated copies of the flick.
"I asked for nearly two weeks about Rambo cd whenever I found the pirated cd vendors but they said no in ever times"
Just two weeks into its commercial release (panned by most US critics, highly rated by audiences in the US), the movie is available in black-market editions under the counter in markets in Rangoon and towns along the Thai border Bangkok post mentioned at Feb. 5.
In the movie, ageing war veteran John Rambo, played by Stallone, ventures into Burma to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit.
some people talk each other if someone get Rambo copy for sharing .
Stallone's movie Rambo 5 focuses on the Karen near the Thai border
Friday, February 1, 2008
Burmese bloggers fear goverment's watching
yangon,feb 2
In Yangon, one of the place of blogger based, got fever after famous blogger nay phone latt arrested said some the popular bloggers said to Yangon today .
Some of them are getting nervous for government is watching at internet cafe, from server and wherever they couldn't know.
"If they could have caught me or not we will write our free opinions and thought in our blog so it will go on." said blogger maung who request to use only her first name.
Most of the blogs in Myanmar has banned since September strike but readers have known how to pass the banned website including Burmese blogs.
unpredictable government after took over the action to free blogger nay phone latt,some of the bloggers are still silent.
In Myanmar, one of the lowest development countries, only one percentage of country population, nearly 500000, is using internet, out of the whole country.
There are nearly 3000 bloggers in Myanmar, recorded last year blogger conference; it held at the Myanmar info tech compound.
In Yangon, one of the place of blogger based, got fever after famous blogger nay phone latt arrested said some the popular bloggers said to Yangon today .
Some of them are getting nervous for government is watching at internet cafe, from server and wherever they couldn't know.
"If they could have caught me or not we will write our free opinions and thought in our blog so it will go on." said blogger maung who request to use only her first name.
Most of the blogs in Myanmar has banned since September strike but readers have known how to pass the banned website including Burmese blogs.
unpredictable government after took over the action to free blogger nay phone latt,some of the bloggers are still silent.
In Myanmar, one of the lowest development countries, only one percentage of country population, nearly 500000, is using internet, out of the whole country.
There are nearly 3000 bloggers in Myanmar, recorded last year blogger conference; it held at the Myanmar info tech compound.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
myanmar blogger nay phone lat arrested
Yangon , jan 29
Famous myanmar blogger nay phone lat was arrested this aftrenoon said mynamar bloggers society who based in yangon .Eventhough they knew he was arrested but still haven't known the reason of why .
One of the friends of nay phone lat said he live in thingangyun township and polices cirlced before sezieing.Blogger mg said that news she got from his aunt whose house is situated near nay phone latt office.
It was happened after visiting the famous joker zaganar he is also famous bloger otherwise blogger was accused by illegal bloggging online.
" when I heard the news about him,that news make me stun and shock" said myanmar bloggger.
however , we still haven't got any contact from nay phone lat or either his faimly.
Famous myanmar blogger nay phone lat was arrested this aftrenoon said mynamar bloggers society who based in yangon .Eventhough they knew he was arrested but still haven't known the reason of why .
One of the friends of nay phone lat said he live in thingangyun township and polices cirlced before sezieing.Blogger mg said that news she got from his aunt whose house is situated near nay phone latt office.
It was happened after visiting the famous joker zaganar he is also famous bloger otherwise blogger was accused by illegal bloggging online.
" when I heard the news about him,that news make me stun and shock" said myanmar bloggger.
however , we still haven't got any contact from nay phone lat or either his faimly.
Yangon passport office has banned for handbags carriers
Yangon passport office has banned for handbags carriers
Yangon, Jan 28
Yangon passport office officially started recently banning the handbags carriers who want to come inside of their office.
Handbags have not allowed carrying Yangon passport office inside, since jan16 because of the security‘s reason said the man who quoted the passport office official announcement.
“The person only documents and files have been passed from the office entrance gate that links to people who bring the handbags and consequently, crowded at the entrance.” He added.
“So many people are waiting outside with their handbags.”
Even though the office released announcement only at the entrance, there is no official announcement to the public by media.
Passport office situated at the Yangon downtown and from Monday to Friday always crowded with people who want to go to abroad by so many reason.
Before the serial bomb blasting, people could enter the office with handbags, which bring documents and file for to apply fro the passport.
“We usually took crowded bus to arrive here so it is not impossible to carry only files and documents without handbag on the Bus”.
Passport office is only one of the office in Myanmar that issue passport to citizen .it was took nearly two months to get a passport which are too many complicated steps before apply otherwise only nearly 800 passport can issue among 3000 application in daily.
Yangon, Jan 28
Yangon passport office officially started recently banning the handbags carriers who want to come inside of their office.
Handbags have not allowed carrying Yangon passport office inside, since jan16 because of the security‘s reason said the man who quoted the passport office official announcement.
“The person only documents and files have been passed from the office entrance gate that links to people who bring the handbags and consequently, crowded at the entrance.” He added.
“So many people are waiting outside with their handbags.”
Even though the office released announcement only at the entrance, there is no official announcement to the public by media.
Passport office situated at the Yangon downtown and from Monday to Friday always crowded with people who want to go to abroad by so many reason.
Before the serial bomb blasting, people could enter the office with handbags, which bring documents and file for to apply fro the passport.
“We usually took crowded bus to arrive here so it is not impossible to carry only files and documents without handbag on the Bus”.
Passport office is only one of the office in Myanmar that issue passport to citizen .it was took nearly two months to get a passport which are too many complicated steps before apply otherwise only nearly 800 passport can issue among 3000 application in daily.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Victims family will get compensation from government
Yangon, Jan 25
Yangon Authorities arrange to give nearly 1200s dollars for each of the family of 28 victims who were killed by bus crash approved the spoke man from aung mingalar high way bus station, Yangon.
Manager from government Insurance Corporation confirmed one for 11 lakh kyats; equivalent nearly 1000 dollars, per person who died in that bus crash.
"we really sorry for two kids ,under five years aged who didn't bought the ticket, we can't do anything for the kids". said to yangontoday.
The travel insurance, paid 100 kyats and whoever bought the bus ticket ii is already included .In Myanmar, most of the passengers are very superstitious for travel insurance .a According to the lack of insurance knowledge no one willingly buys the insurance ticket.
A bus plunged over the side of a road and flipped over, killing 27 passengers and injuring 10 others, state media said Monday.
The bus skidded off the road near the town of Kyaik Hto on Sunday as it traveled from Yangon to the southern state of Mon, about a seven-hour journey along bad roads, the New Light of Myanmar reported.
Yangon Authorities arrange to give nearly 1200s dollars for each of the family of 28 victims who were killed by bus crash approved the spoke man from aung mingalar high way bus station, Yangon.
Manager from government Insurance Corporation confirmed one for 11 lakh kyats; equivalent nearly 1000 dollars, per person who died in that bus crash.
"we really sorry for two kids ,under five years aged who didn't bought the ticket, we can't do anything for the kids". said to yangontoday.
The travel insurance, paid 100 kyats and whoever bought the bus ticket ii is already included .In Myanmar, most of the passengers are very superstitious for travel insurance .a According to the lack of insurance knowledge no one willingly buys the insurance ticket.
A bus plunged over the side of a road and flipped over, killing 27 passengers and injuring 10 others, state media said Monday.
The bus skidded off the road near the town of Kyaik Hto on Sunday as it traveled from Yangon to the southern state of Mon, about a seven-hour journey along bad roads, the New Light of Myanmar reported.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Yangon Polices inspects editors from 7 days new journal
Yangon Jan 20
Yangon special polices inspects and asked to the editors from 7 days new weekly journal on the evening of January 19 about the source who told the story about secret curfew in Yangon.
“ It took nearly 4 hours for the questions at our office sitting room, they said they are police officers from Latha Township, one of the downtown townships in Yangon” ,said the editor from 7 days new journal.
“What they asked to me is about the source who told about secret curfew but ethically journalist has to protect the source so that we couldn’t give then either by name or anything. That related to the source.
The story has not published but it will come out in January 22.That was written by junior reporter from this journal and getting the facts by phone from Kyauktada Township.
Last two days ago reporter send the fax to chief of police force who live at naypyidaw; 400 miles away from Yangon; but he did not know about the curfew in Yangon.
“The problem is who said these facts because police chief not permitted to answer the reporter question,” said the editor.
Instead of saying who said the facts, polices get the facts which is about when reporter get the secret curfew from 7 days new editor .
“We don’t know what sort of negative impacts fell on our source, we really worry about him”. The government press scrutiny board ordered the Myanmar language edition of the Myanmar Times not to publish this week and forced to resign the chief reporter and editors for having run a story earlier than that was not approved.
Yangon special polices inspects and asked to the editors from 7 days new weekly journal on the evening of January 19 about the source who told the story about secret curfew in Yangon.
“ It took nearly 4 hours for the questions at our office sitting room, they said they are police officers from Latha Township, one of the downtown townships in Yangon” ,said the editor from 7 days new journal.
“What they asked to me is about the source who told about secret curfew but ethically journalist has to protect the source so that we couldn’t give then either by name or anything. That related to the source.
The story has not published but it will come out in January 22.That was written by junior reporter from this journal and getting the facts by phone from Kyauktada Township.
Last two days ago reporter send the fax to chief of police force who live at naypyidaw; 400 miles away from Yangon; but he did not know about the curfew in Yangon.
“The problem is who said these facts because police chief not permitted to answer the reporter question,” said the editor.
Instead of saying who said the facts, polices get the facts which is about when reporter get the secret curfew from 7 days new editor .
“We don’t know what sort of negative impacts fell on our source, we really worry about him”. The government press scrutiny board ordered the Myanmar language edition of the Myanmar Times not to publish this week and forced to resign the chief reporter and editors for having run a story earlier than that was not approved.
Myanmar military government plans to move Yangon again
Yangon, Jan 20
Myanmar military government has plan to move back 5 ministries offices from Naypyidaw to Yangon ,former capital city far nearly 400 miles away , according to the source which is doing the IT projects for government.
The source who requests not to use his name, ministry of foreign affairs is including in the list and, the next one is ministry of commerce said to Yangontoday.
“Actually, It was not too long ago ,only 2 years from now ,government moved quietly to Naypyidaw anyone didn’t know the reason of moving” said the local businessmen who live in Yangon.
2005 November 6 ,all of the ministries from Yangon moved to Naypyidaw and after two months latter nearly 32 ministries office operated there.
Most of the business in Yangon, which are dealing like bargain with high ranking military officers ,couldn’t doing themselves so that they had to go Naypyidaw when they want to get privilege from government.
“Officers bribe and give permits or licenses to the businessmen despite they are doing so called clean government project. What we called this place is negotiating field for business.”
“Interesting thing is why they plan to move back Yangon”
A state –within-a-state as well as a privileged class, the military provides good schools, health facilities, housing and jobs at Naypyidaw, while the public copes with a shattered infrastructure less
than US 1 dollar a day.
Myanmar military government has plan to move back 5 ministries offices from Naypyidaw to Yangon ,former capital city far nearly 400 miles away , according to the source which is doing the IT projects for government.
The source who requests not to use his name, ministry of foreign affairs is including in the list and, the next one is ministry of commerce said to Yangontoday.
“Actually, It was not too long ago ,only 2 years from now ,government moved quietly to Naypyidaw anyone didn’t know the reason of moving” said the local businessmen who live in Yangon.
2005 November 6 ,all of the ministries from Yangon moved to Naypyidaw and after two months latter nearly 32 ministries office operated there.
Most of the business in Yangon, which are dealing like bargain with high ranking military officers ,couldn’t doing themselves so that they had to go Naypyidaw when they want to get privilege from government.
“Officers bribe and give permits or licenses to the businessmen despite they are doing so called clean government project. What we called this place is negotiating field for business.”
“Interesting thing is why they plan to move back Yangon”
A state –within-a-state as well as a privileged class, the military provides good schools, health facilities, housing and jobs at Naypyidaw, while the public copes with a shattered infrastructure less
than US 1 dollar a day.
Saturday, January 19, 2008
diesel import resumes again in private sector
After nearly 2 year banned, Myanmar government allowed diesel import license to private sector to undertake the business in a bid to increase said the local businessperson who closed to the trade council.
Only fishery, gems and timber business sector get that sort of diesel import licenses, like 2 years ago, But we haven’t know how many diesel tons can import together he added by quoting the export and import supervising committee .
“One of the problem to import disel is export earning, officially earning exchanged is going down till 1270 kyats for 1 fec” he said.
He didn’t mentioned about the quantity of diesel tons but he said the price per diesel gallon is quite reasonable that lat time ,it is equivalent 3-3 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Last time they cashed to government 3-53 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Myanmar mainly imports diesel from Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore and figures from the official shoe that Myanmar produces about 80 millions of gallons of diesel annually for domestic demand.
Only fishery, gems and timber business sector get that sort of diesel import licenses, like 2 years ago, But we haven’t know how many diesel tons can import together he added by quoting the export and import supervising committee .
“One of the problem to import disel is export earning, officially earning exchanged is going down till 1270 kyats for 1 fec” he said.
He didn’t mentioned about the quantity of diesel tons but he said the price per diesel gallon is quite reasonable that lat time ,it is equivalent 3-3 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Last time they cashed to government 3-53 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Myanmar mainly imports diesel from Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore and figures from the official shoe that Myanmar produces about 80 millions of gallons of diesel annually for domestic demand.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
vietnam compete chinese in yangon
yangon ,jan 17
vietnam tyres ,named CASUMANI now compete and enter in yangon tyre market said by the sale agent of the byaintnaung market which is the biggest car spare market in myanmar.
before it enter ,chinese tyres are very popular in market they headed for nearly decade.
" quality is not quite different but the vietnamese tyre are cheaper than chinese" said the sale agent.
In upper burma, madalay ,most of the car owners rather prefer vietnamese tyre.For truck one of the vietnam tyre is nearly 300000 kyat .
vietnam tyres ,named CASUMANI now compete and enter in yangon tyre market said by the sale agent of the byaintnaung market which is the biggest car spare market in myanmar.
before it enter ,chinese tyres are very popular in market they headed for nearly decade.
" quality is not quite different but the vietnamese tyre are cheaper than chinese" said the sale agent.
In upper burma, madalay ,most of the car owners rather prefer vietnamese tyre.For truck one of the vietnam tyre is nearly 300000 kyat .
Sunday, January 13, 2008
another bomb blasts in myanmar today
yangon jan 11
Another bomb blasts in Yangon today afternoon 2- 10 pm at the downtown railway station toilet, After 46 hours of explosion in naypyidaw .
“I heard the sound of big explosion and loud bang, it is very clear from here,” said the woman who is sitting the PCO public communication service quite close to the station.
Vendors and passer by told Yangon today that hey heard what sound like an explosion at about 2 pm.
Polices and soldiers cordoned off the area and blocking the access to the site of the incident until evening.
A woman wounded a little bit and no one killed by a bomb. A woman killed by a bomb Friday at the railway station near the new capital district, which killed a woman, and four people wounded.
Another bomb blasts in Yangon today afternoon 2- 10 pm at the downtown railway station toilet, After 46 hours of explosion in naypyidaw .
“I heard the sound of big explosion and loud bang, it is very clear from here,” said the woman who is sitting the PCO public communication service quite close to the station.
Vendors and passer by told Yangon today that hey heard what sound like an explosion at about 2 pm.
Polices and soldiers cordoned off the area and blocking the access to the site of the incident until evening.
A woman wounded a little bit and no one killed by a bomb. A woman killed by a bomb Friday at the railway station near the new capital district, which killed a woman, and four people wounded.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Government imported immediately 5000 tons of diesel from Singapore
Yangon Jan 9
Myanmar military government, has been facing with targeted American sanction after last September ,imported nearly 5000 tons of diesel from Singapore immediately to move the military troops said the business man who is closely related with the juntas.
“These diesels were imported by local business for military use only. He also confirmed, it was general myint swe who gave that sort of special chance to business man, means that did not have to apply import license or either letter of credit from official."
it was imported by ship tanker from Singapore, one of the Aseain country which is standing like a moderator between Myanmar and US or either EU.
Since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September, in which at least 31 people were killed, the US and Europe have pushed for tighter international sanctions against Myanmar's ruling military junta.
Besides tightening their own trade embargoes, analysts suspect Washington in particular is also bringing quiet pressure to bear on other smaller countries, such as Singapore, that do business with Myanmar.
Most Asian countries remain officially opposed to sanctions against the junta, arguing that pushing the generals even further into isolation would be counterproductive.
The price of the diesel is going up a little than last week in Yangon illegal market.
Myanmar military government, has been facing with targeted American sanction after last September ,imported nearly 5000 tons of diesel from Singapore immediately to move the military troops said the business man who is closely related with the juntas.
“These diesels were imported by local business for military use only. He also confirmed, it was general myint swe who gave that sort of special chance to business man, means that did not have to apply import license or either letter of credit from official."
it was imported by ship tanker from Singapore, one of the Aseain country which is standing like a moderator between Myanmar and US or either EU.
Since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September, in which at least 31 people were killed, the US and Europe have pushed for tighter international sanctions against Myanmar's ruling military junta.
Besides tightening their own trade embargoes, analysts suspect Washington in particular is also bringing quiet pressure to bear on other smaller countries, such as Singapore, that do business with Myanmar.
Most Asian countries remain officially opposed to sanctions against the junta, arguing that pushing the generals even further into isolation would be counterproductive.
The price of the diesel is going up a little than last week in Yangon illegal market.
Behind the red brown cigarettes packs
A young seller, Sann KO stepped up to the upper deck of boat with a pleasant smile. He had sold a number of his cigarettes to the passengers on the Yangon- Dala (a small town opposite side of Yangon) ferryboat.
‘It is great! Three London (popular cigarettes brand in Myanmar) cigarette packs and one pack of tissue paper are sold before afternoon,’ San Ko whispered himself with joy. Some peppermint candies, chewing gums, colored tissue packs were in the plastic baskets orderly. It also could be seen Thai made inhalants and the lemon flake bottles.
Among them, his No. 1 selling items are London and Vailant cigarettes. San Ko had to earn his daily income from selling these cigarettes. He estimated that he could get net income 400 kyat (nearly 40 cent) if he had sold one cigarette pack. He had to earn his living 1500 kyat by selling two valiant cigarettes packs and one London cigarette pack.
Not only Sann KO, other boys on the ferryboats are earning their daily income by selling the cigarettes.
In Myanmar, it has started last month may, the government enacted the tobacco control law said one of the officer of non-smoking project, ministry of health. According to this law, youth whose age not over 18 years prohibited selling cigarettes .As a child who breaking law may be imposed a fine amount to 10,000 kyat that fine may be imposed on him or his guardian.
However, the cigarettes are available every places of Yangon city area.
“My mom told me sell cigarettes carefully. If someone tries to arrest me, throw the packs,’ said a young seller.
Though police do not arrest him until now, the crews from ferryboat often drive them away from boat. Yangon- Dali ferryboat carries 59000 passengers per day and the ferry fare is just only 20 kyat.
2.5millions of world population died every year because of smoking. World Health Organization warned that the number of people who was died because of smoking could reach 10 millions in coming 2020.
Though we made education of smoking is dangerous for our health, the number of smoking is still growing .The market does not depend on the retail seller like Sann Ko, its market depend on the production of industries. The profit of trading makes more incentives to the producers.
The statistics showed 1.6% of world population is smokers and 800 millions people are from the Developing countries. Myanmar Ministry of health announced 31% of Myanmar citizens are smoking among 56.5millions of Myanmar population
The advertising of cigarettes are limited in Myanmar Radio and Television since 1997and non- smoking areas are extended to education centre, health centre and stadiums. At the beginning of 2003, the government ordered the advertising of cigarettes not to put in printed media.
Among the 129menber countries, Myanmar is eleventh country, which enacted the controlling of smoking law .Last month Myanmar news papers urged to enable more effective and speedy investigation to expose and take action against the law.
Sann KO, who is wearing pale white shirt and grey green short pink, told that he could earn the net income between 500 kyat and 1000 kyat by selling cigarettes.
“The selling of Valiant brand cigarettes is better than London cigarette. A valiant brand cigarette per tube costs 40 kyat in retail and it is cheaper than London brand”, said the cigarettes seller.
Even he got net income 1000 kyat per day from selling cigarettes, San Ko admitted that he felt guilty because that sort of earning, it is not good for health.
.But it is an easy earning for him to support his family for 13cyears old street children. Some observers analyzed the comparison of the push factor and the pull factor, the pull factor is stronger because of profits. They said if government could expand the non- smoking zone to the ferryboats, which several hundred people every day take due to Tobacco law, the exact result, might come out.
If San Ko could not earn income by cigarettes selling, it might be problem for his family living.
However, he could not be cigarettes seller for the whole life. Push factor force him to earn income for family by using different ways.
An NGO officer who works for reducing of smoking in Myanmar advised the broadcasting of radio and television shows and the micro finance programs to the poor families would enhance both the knowledge and support their basic needs.
The educators need to educate more cigarette seller as San KO about smoking can short our life expectancy rate. They have to count the conflicts between health and poverty of poor family like San Ko.
San Ko told that he dose not sell the cigarettes to a child at same age with him. He added that knows the smoking is very dangerous to health.” Young beggars from boat try to buy cigarettes from me. However, I will not sell cigarettes to them because it is not good for their health,’’ he said.
It is after noon. The sky become very cloudy .The wind from the south-west is blazing. San KO decided to go home if he sells cigarettes worth 1000 kyat. At the time Yangon –Dala ferryboat is going to approach the jetty of Dala town ship.
“If authorities try to arrest me while I am selling, I will throw the packs, but I won’t give it up,” said young cigarette seller.
‘It is great! Three London (popular cigarettes brand in Myanmar) cigarette packs and one pack of tissue paper are sold before afternoon,’ San Ko whispered himself with joy. Some peppermint candies, chewing gums, colored tissue packs were in the plastic baskets orderly. It also could be seen Thai made inhalants and the lemon flake bottles.
Among them, his No. 1 selling items are London and Vailant cigarettes. San Ko had to earn his daily income from selling these cigarettes. He estimated that he could get net income 400 kyat (nearly 40 cent) if he had sold one cigarette pack. He had to earn his living 1500 kyat by selling two valiant cigarettes packs and one London cigarette pack.
Not only Sann KO, other boys on the ferryboats are earning their daily income by selling the cigarettes.
In Myanmar, it has started last month may, the government enacted the tobacco control law said one of the officer of non-smoking project, ministry of health. According to this law, youth whose age not over 18 years prohibited selling cigarettes .As a child who breaking law may be imposed a fine amount to 10,000 kyat that fine may be imposed on him or his guardian.
However, the cigarettes are available every places of Yangon city area.
“My mom told me sell cigarettes carefully. If someone tries to arrest me, throw the packs,’ said a young seller.
Though police do not arrest him until now, the crews from ferryboat often drive them away from boat. Yangon- Dali ferryboat carries 59000 passengers per day and the ferry fare is just only 20 kyat.
2.5millions of world population died every year because of smoking. World Health Organization warned that the number of people who was died because of smoking could reach 10 millions in coming 2020.
Though we made education of smoking is dangerous for our health, the number of smoking is still growing .The market does not depend on the retail seller like Sann Ko, its market depend on the production of industries. The profit of trading makes more incentives to the producers.
The statistics showed 1.6% of world population is smokers and 800 millions people are from the Developing countries. Myanmar Ministry of health announced 31% of Myanmar citizens are smoking among 56.5millions of Myanmar population
The advertising of cigarettes are limited in Myanmar Radio and Television since 1997and non- smoking areas are extended to education centre, health centre and stadiums. At the beginning of 2003, the government ordered the advertising of cigarettes not to put in printed media.
Among the 129menber countries, Myanmar is eleventh country, which enacted the controlling of smoking law .Last month Myanmar news papers urged to enable more effective and speedy investigation to expose and take action against the law.
Sann KO, who is wearing pale white shirt and grey green short pink, told that he could earn the net income between 500 kyat and 1000 kyat by selling cigarettes.
“The selling of Valiant brand cigarettes is better than London cigarette. A valiant brand cigarette per tube costs 40 kyat in retail and it is cheaper than London brand”, said the cigarettes seller.
Even he got net income 1000 kyat per day from selling cigarettes, San Ko admitted that he felt guilty because that sort of earning, it is not good for health.
.But it is an easy earning for him to support his family for 13cyears old street children. Some observers analyzed the comparison of the push factor and the pull factor, the pull factor is stronger because of profits. They said if government could expand the non- smoking zone to the ferryboats, which several hundred people every day take due to Tobacco law, the exact result, might come out.
If San Ko could not earn income by cigarettes selling, it might be problem for his family living.
However, he could not be cigarettes seller for the whole life. Push factor force him to earn income for family by using different ways.
An NGO officer who works for reducing of smoking in Myanmar advised the broadcasting of radio and television shows and the micro finance programs to the poor families would enhance both the knowledge and support their basic needs.
The educators need to educate more cigarette seller as San KO about smoking can short our life expectancy rate. They have to count the conflicts between health and poverty of poor family like San Ko.
San Ko told that he dose not sell the cigarettes to a child at same age with him. He added that knows the smoking is very dangerous to health.” Young beggars from boat try to buy cigarettes from me. However, I will not sell cigarettes to them because it is not good for their health,’’ he said.
It is after noon. The sky become very cloudy .The wind from the south-west is blazing. San KO decided to go home if he sells cigarettes worth 1000 kyat. At the time Yangon –Dala ferryboat is going to approach the jetty of Dala town ship.
“If authorities try to arrest me while I am selling, I will throw the packs, but I won’t give it up,” said young cigarette seller.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Detainee kyaw tells how he caught him
Detainee kyaw tells how he caught him
Yangon October 6
Kyaw, who requested to use only his first name, had idea to go and watch at the shwedagon pagoda’s east gate, which was meeting point of the peaceful protestor monks at September 26. Even Myanmar government announced the curfew in Yangon last night; he had brave enough to go there.
Great shwedagon pagoda seemed to be holding its breaths that day before afternoon. Armed riot police units lined the streets to pagoda’s east .All roadside shops and restaurants were closed .Barbed wire was laid down across the approach of shwedagon pagoda and that police units kept watch on cars and passers –by.
When he came down from the pagoda’s hill to the Buddhist monks meeting point, the time was nearly noon. There were many people at the pagoda since morning some were sitting under the tree, some were at the teashops near pagoda. All of them want to watch and participate with peaceful demonstration . when he arrive there and he saw a lot of his friends , reporters, who are working in local news journal.
He really did not know he would have caught when he was watching the monks blessing the from Bahan market, near the meeting point. He thought himself he was safe because he saw many young reporters and crowded people were watching like him. After that hundred of Buddhist monks started blessing .In Buddhism, Buddhist monks are the son of Buddha, so that Burmese people traditionally believed in their mind that they are making preservation and missionary for Buddhism.
Then he was standing near that place, he said it was only a few minutes, suddenly the soldiers and polices came down burst into the group and “hands up”
Witness said security forces aggressively broke up a rally about 5000 people in front of the pagoda including the monks .Some said it was more than that and much higher. several people were seen being beaten and taken away in a truck.
“It was round about 70 people including me, who had been caught by this police team.
Around the same time Su one of kyaw’s friend who is working at 7 days news journal, woman reporter noticed that his friend kyaw was missing. Then Su run away there, because of police fired with tear gas to the watching group.
Gradually, Police and soldiers were crashing down the peaceful monks, people around there could not stand and then they protected the monks.
Armed riot police who had trained for that sort of crisis hit both monks, people by iron bar, and shoot tear gas very often; they seem to be aliens came down from other planet. Nevertheless, people and monks are still blessing to them.
Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like kyaw could not cover the news, as he wanted.
It was the first misery in Yangon after 1988 strike, the biggest one. Latter they sealed the shwedagon pagoda, blocked the roads with barbed wire.
Kyaw”s, other friends, who was with their group got hits on his backbone, most escaped from that massacre.
At that, time kyaw did not know where they were taking to them. He saw aged people over 60 and also women on the trucks, nearly one hour drive, they arrived armed riot police troop no 7 compound that situated at pyinmapin,, mingalardon, township ,15 miles away from shwedagon pagoda
He and other men had to live in that police barrack; it is 15 feet width and 70 feet long, he said there were no clothes, no mosquito net, and no pillow. Police guarded thickly around that bar.
He also saw policital detainee s,u win nainig nearly over 80 years and 88 students ma Ohn mar ,Thandarmoe.
At September 30 morning the telephone was ringing at the 7 days new journal .It was calling from someone who didn’t mention his name to woman reporter Su . She is one of the kyaw’s closet friend , working at 7 days new journal. when she picked up the phone ”.Kyaw was dead in the prison ‘however she said to identified his name to messenger but she couldn’t reach it.
About half and hour latter, Su gave that message to chief editor of kyaw’s publication and then spread to throughout the country. However, getting accurately figure has been difficult.
It took him 6 days at that place .special branch of police asked questions to him 4 times .Basically; questions are concerned with national league for democracy {NLD) and 88 new generation bloods group.
“I have nothing to do with it, why I was watching that place is I am journalist, I have to know what happen, how it happened, however I couldn’t write that news”.
In October 2, the good new reached to kyaw’s mother ,60 years old widow, .His only son kyaw came back home safely .the government claims 10 people have been killed since violence began in this week. Yangon diplomats said the tool is likely to be much higher.
For hours, she had needed to stay near her son and touch his black hair and embrace him with tiny her arms tightly. Her deep joy clouded only by a wisp of guilt for celebrating among the dead in September misery, a son’s survival.
Yangon October 6
Kyaw, who requested to use only his first name, had idea to go and watch at the shwedagon pagoda’s east gate, which was meeting point of the peaceful protestor monks at September 26. Even Myanmar government announced the curfew in Yangon last night; he had brave enough to go there.
Great shwedagon pagoda seemed to be holding its breaths that day before afternoon. Armed riot police units lined the streets to pagoda’s east .All roadside shops and restaurants were closed .Barbed wire was laid down across the approach of shwedagon pagoda and that police units kept watch on cars and passers –by.
When he came down from the pagoda’s hill to the Buddhist monks meeting point, the time was nearly noon. There were many people at the pagoda since morning some were sitting under the tree, some were at the teashops near pagoda. All of them want to watch and participate with peaceful demonstration . when he arrive there and he saw a lot of his friends , reporters, who are working in local news journal.
He really did not know he would have caught when he was watching the monks blessing the from Bahan market, near the meeting point. He thought himself he was safe because he saw many young reporters and crowded people were watching like him. After that hundred of Buddhist monks started blessing .In Buddhism, Buddhist monks are the son of Buddha, so that Burmese people traditionally believed in their mind that they are making preservation and missionary for Buddhism.
Then he was standing near that place, he said it was only a few minutes, suddenly the soldiers and polices came down burst into the group and “hands up”
Witness said security forces aggressively broke up a rally about 5000 people in front of the pagoda including the monks .Some said it was more than that and much higher. several people were seen being beaten and taken away in a truck.
“It was round about 70 people including me, who had been caught by this police team.
Around the same time Su one of kyaw’s friend who is working at 7 days news journal, woman reporter noticed that his friend kyaw was missing. Then Su run away there, because of police fired with tear gas to the watching group.
Gradually, Police and soldiers were crashing down the peaceful monks, people around there could not stand and then they protected the monks.
Armed riot police who had trained for that sort of crisis hit both monks, people by iron bar, and shoot tear gas very often; they seem to be aliens came down from other planet. Nevertheless, people and monks are still blessing to them.
Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like kyaw could not cover the news, as he wanted.
It was the first misery in Yangon after 1988 strike, the biggest one. Latter they sealed the shwedagon pagoda, blocked the roads with barbed wire.
Kyaw”s, other friends, who was with their group got hits on his backbone, most escaped from that massacre.
At that, time kyaw did not know where they were taking to them. He saw aged people over 60 and also women on the trucks, nearly one hour drive, they arrived armed riot police troop no 7 compound that situated at pyinmapin,, mingalardon, township ,15 miles away from shwedagon pagoda
He and other men had to live in that police barrack; it is 15 feet width and 70 feet long, he said there were no clothes, no mosquito net, and no pillow. Police guarded thickly around that bar.
He also saw policital detainee s,u win nainig nearly over 80 years and 88 students ma Ohn mar ,Thandarmoe.
At September 30 morning the telephone was ringing at the 7 days new journal .It was calling from someone who didn’t mention his name to woman reporter Su . She is one of the kyaw’s closet friend , working at 7 days new journal. when she picked up the phone ”.Kyaw was dead in the prison ‘however she said to identified his name to messenger but she couldn’t reach it.
About half and hour latter, Su gave that message to chief editor of kyaw’s publication and then spread to throughout the country. However, getting accurately figure has been difficult.
It took him 6 days at that place .special branch of police asked questions to him 4 times .Basically; questions are concerned with national league for democracy {NLD) and 88 new generation bloods group.
“I have nothing to do with it, why I was watching that place is I am journalist, I have to know what happen, how it happened, however I couldn’t write that news”.
In October 2, the good new reached to kyaw’s mother ,60 years old widow, .His only son kyaw came back home safely .the government claims 10 people have been killed since violence began in this week. Yangon diplomats said the tool is likely to be much higher.
For hours, she had needed to stay near her son and touch his black hair and embrace him with tiny her arms tightly. Her deep joy clouded only by a wisp of guilt for celebrating among the dead in September misery, a son’s survival.
Remember the victims, also shooter
Yangon October 3
Young local journalist Ko Ko aung wants to tell his readers how soldier shoot to the Japanese reporter at suelay junction. He is also one of the eyewitnesses among thousands of people where it took place.
As a Myanmar journalist, he knows there is no way to release that sort of story in his country, which is under the government censorship board. He could not write and pass that story legally, nevertheless, he clearly remembered that scenes at September 27, the very loud gun shoots, huge smoke fire and fallen down the Japanese reporter orderly on and on.
“Now things are something like recover in Yangon, we can see the shooter soldiers everywhere in the streets. It seems to be controlled the situation but I want to say please remembers the victims in September Yangon misery.” said ko ko aung .
He asks vendors from the downtown to stay away from these soldiers, do not forget September victims and thousands of the monks who have arrested at the prison very recently.
Myanmar, famous Buddhist country, Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like ko ko aung could not cover the news, as he wanted.
Here is just one of the 10 promising lives cut short at yangon’s melancholy in September last week, including the Japanese reporter that confirmed by authorities .Government said from their state own newspaper they shoot only the terrorist marchers not to the innocent public.
However, the reality is the Japanese reporter and nine peaceful protestors died on the spot in Yangon.
“There is no doubt on Japanese reporter, obviously he is not terrorist like our government said’ remarked the eyewitness.
When you think of the massacre that befell this crowded downtown. When you pass this business street those are memories of the ko ko aung wants his readers to remember this irony.
The city centre was closed in these days every early afternoon .The big square in font of the city hall was empty, except for several fire engines and military trucks. Army soldiers kept watch passers-by. They also smashed the camera and cell phones and beat people who were carrying them.
“We, local journalists, want the world to know that misery in Myanmar, How they shoot and how it is unfair to the monks,”he added.
Several news networks all over the world already put front-page headline about the peaceful Buddhist protest monks and government crash down by soldiers in that time of being. Around the same time and in this place sulay junction, on September 26, these solider killed 3 protestors on the spot.
At the Anawyahtar and Sulay corner, that it could be gunfire struck on the peaceful protest group while they were blessing.
It was nearly 1 pm of September 27 afternoon, Mr kenji Nagai ,52oyears old journalist was in the blessing group before half and hour of that shoot ,protest group was sitting peacefully on the street. Mr. Naggai did not know that it was the last sitting for his life on the street.
It was his first visit to Myanmar; he entered the country with tourist visa according to the Myanmar’s state run television. He was experienced in covering war –stricken area such as Israel ,Iraq and Jordan asahishimbun reported.
The photographer, who was visiting Bangkok for a different assigement, had entered the country on Tuesday, volunteering to cover the country pro-democracy movement. According record ,Mr nagai is the first foreign victim of the crack down on the anti government protests.
He was on the bridge that built across the sulay pagoda street September 26, the day before he shoot said witness; it situated 100 meter behind the place that he had been shooting.
There Buddhist monks were sitting in front of the sitting protest group, beside them candlelight glinted poorly under the sun. In addition, a girl was wearing Muslim traditional dress inside this group.
At 13:18 pm there, military light trucks with fully equipments drove towards the protests group against other side. Immediately, something clicked. It was not everybody think. Then two minutes latter the shot boomed over the ko ko aung’s head.
.At that time ko ko aung was under the bridge only 50 meters away from Mr Nagai lay dead. After nearly six another gunshots, and shooter soldiers were gone a few minutes latter.
ko ko aung talked to the girl lying nearby ,trying to figure out who was hurt and how badly.
She was brave enough that he has ever met .The shot hit foreigner reporter and then another shot from a few feet away from solider and the he was gone.
“We just know one of the victim is foreigner we did not know he is either Japan or American”
Before Mr. Nagai fallen down and dropped his camera on the street ,the place he laid down is quite close corner billboard in front of the Public communication office (PCO)the time is 1;20 exactly.
“There were two laid on the street”, she pointed toward the Japanese reporter and ko ko aung believed these two lay on dead.
Suddenly other solider and special police who were holding guns, shields sand sticks burst the protestors group.. He thought, security forces also moved quickly to disperse of 200 to 300 in other areas, sealing off the Anawyahtar road.
While these solider were following to these groups ko ko aung took picture with his old digital camera. Unfortunately, he could not take good picture; which is only the one that he will never forget in his life.
Then he crawled back toward the public rest room near by and run through over into the traders hotel fence.
He was gazing a few minutes behind the fence; he realized that four men wearing ordinary clothes carried Mr Nagai body to the traffic control room.
At 1;40 pm two army trucks arrived and announced split up to the protestors .It was silent and no one not dare to go out from their hiding place.
.Around 4 pm, ko ko aung made ph call to his parent said his mom about his safe and was doing fine but he could not talk about his grief over past a few hours ago.
It is too painful, too personal; he could not believe his eye when he sees the photos about Mr. Nagai from the blogs.
On October 3, Mr. Nagai went back his country without survive. All he took is only video records from protest group in September 27 but he scarified his life for that.
“When we do for the readers but we never won’t be afraid for our life, we, local Myanmar journalists delighted and honored on Mr. Nagai’ ko ko aung said.
Yangon October 3
Young local journalist Ko Ko aung wants to tell his readers how soldier shoot to the Japanese reporter at suelay junction. He is also one of the eyewitnesses among thousands of people where it took place.
As a Myanmar journalist, he knows there is no way to release that sort of story in his country, which is under the government censorship board. He could not write and pass that story legally, nevertheless, he clearly remembered that scenes at September 27, the very loud gun shoots, huge smoke fire and fallen down the Japanese reporter orderly on and on.
“Now things are something like recover in Yangon, we can see the shooter soldiers everywhere in the streets. It seems to be controlled the situation but I want to say please remembers the victims in September Yangon misery.” said ko ko aung .
He asks vendors from the downtown to stay away from these soldiers, do not forget September victims and thousands of the monks who have arrested at the prison very recently.
Myanmar, famous Buddhist country, Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like ko ko aung could not cover the news, as he wanted.
Here is just one of the 10 promising lives cut short at yangon’s melancholy in September last week, including the Japanese reporter that confirmed by authorities .Government said from their state own newspaper they shoot only the terrorist marchers not to the innocent public.
However, the reality is the Japanese reporter and nine peaceful protestors died on the spot in Yangon.
“There is no doubt on Japanese reporter, obviously he is not terrorist like our government said’ remarked the eyewitness.
When you think of the massacre that befell this crowded downtown. When you pass this business street those are memories of the ko ko aung wants his readers to remember this irony.
The city centre was closed in these days every early afternoon .The big square in font of the city hall was empty, except for several fire engines and military trucks. Army soldiers kept watch passers-by. They also smashed the camera and cell phones and beat people who were carrying them.
“We, local journalists, want the world to know that misery in Myanmar, How they shoot and how it is unfair to the monks,”he added.
Several news networks all over the world already put front-page headline about the peaceful Buddhist protest monks and government crash down by soldiers in that time of being. Around the same time and in this place sulay junction, on September 26, these solider killed 3 protestors on the spot.
At the Anawyahtar and Sulay corner, that it could be gunfire struck on the peaceful protest group while they were blessing.
It was nearly 1 pm of September 27 afternoon, Mr kenji Nagai ,52oyears old journalist was in the blessing group before half and hour of that shoot ,protest group was sitting peacefully on the street. Mr. Naggai did not know that it was the last sitting for his life on the street.
It was his first visit to Myanmar; he entered the country with tourist visa according to the Myanmar’s state run television. He was experienced in covering war –stricken area such as Israel ,Iraq and Jordan asahishimbun reported.
The photographer, who was visiting Bangkok for a different assigement, had entered the country on Tuesday, volunteering to cover the country pro-democracy movement. According record ,Mr nagai is the first foreign victim of the crack down on the anti government protests.
He was on the bridge that built across the sulay pagoda street September 26, the day before he shoot said witness; it situated 100 meter behind the place that he had been shooting.
There Buddhist monks were sitting in front of the sitting protest group, beside them candlelight glinted poorly under the sun. In addition, a girl was wearing Muslim traditional dress inside this group.
At 13:18 pm there, military light trucks with fully equipments drove towards the protests group against other side. Immediately, something clicked. It was not everybody think. Then two minutes latter the shot boomed over the ko ko aung’s head.
.At that time ko ko aung was under the bridge only 50 meters away from Mr Nagai lay dead. After nearly six another gunshots, and shooter soldiers were gone a few minutes latter.
ko ko aung talked to the girl lying nearby ,trying to figure out who was hurt and how badly.
She was brave enough that he has ever met .The shot hit foreigner reporter and then another shot from a few feet away from solider and the he was gone.
“We just know one of the victim is foreigner we did not know he is either Japan or American”
Before Mr. Nagai fallen down and dropped his camera on the street ,the place he laid down is quite close corner billboard in front of the Public communication office (PCO)the time is 1;20 exactly.
“There were two laid on the street”, she pointed toward the Japanese reporter and ko ko aung believed these two lay on dead.
Suddenly other solider and special police who were holding guns, shields sand sticks burst the protestors group.. He thought, security forces also moved quickly to disperse of 200 to 300 in other areas, sealing off the Anawyahtar road.
While these solider were following to these groups ko ko aung took picture with his old digital camera. Unfortunately, he could not take good picture; which is only the one that he will never forget in his life.
Then he crawled back toward the public rest room near by and run through over into the traders hotel fence.
He was gazing a few minutes behind the fence; he realized that four men wearing ordinary clothes carried Mr Nagai body to the traffic control room.
At 1;40 pm two army trucks arrived and announced split up to the protestors .It was silent and no one not dare to go out from their hiding place.
.Around 4 pm, ko ko aung made ph call to his parent said his mom about his safe and was doing fine but he could not talk about his grief over past a few hours ago.
It is too painful, too personal; he could not believe his eye when he sees the photos about Mr. Nagai from the blogs.
On October 3, Mr. Nagai went back his country without survive. All he took is only video records from protest group in September 27 but he scarified his life for that.
“When we do for the readers but we never won’t be afraid for our life, we, local Myanmar journalists delighted and honored on Mr. Nagai’ ko ko aung said.
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