Posted in Articles in English on Feb 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Rangoon University Students Union
RUSU
…
The political movement and the struggle for national liberation have a unique character in Burma as the students were always seen as the mobilizing force at the forefront of the struggle for freedom of Burma. The student movement is inseparable from the historic struggle for Burma’s independence from both colonial power […]
Posted in Articles in English on Feb 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Pyit Taing Htaung Burmese opposition
Yoke Thae Puppets SPDC’s ‘civilian’ government
…
The Burmese traditional toy, Pyit Taing Htaung, which means “that which always rights itself when thrown down.” It is called Tumbling Kelly or billycan.
In Burma, a person who rises up again and again in the face of all vicissitudes of life is likened to a “pyit-taing-htaung.”
This is […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Asean embraces a rogue regime
while inking a Charter for Big Business
By_Anilnetto
So the Asean leaders have signed a Charter in the “wonderfully democratic nation of Singapore” in the company of leaders from Burma’s rogue regime. (Check out this excellent documentary “Burma’s Secret War”.)
Each member nation now has to take the Charter back to their home countries […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Burmese Chinese
The Burmese Chinese or Chinese Burmese are a group of overseas Chinese born or raised in Burma (Myanmar).
Although the Chinese officially make up three percent of the population, this figure may be underestimated because of _
intermarriage between them and the ethnic Bamar,
and because of widespread discrimination against minorities (which compels many to declare […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Mon Empire I
References
Wikipedia
Cambodia History
Thailand History
Mon Web pages
Hariphunchai, Wikipedia
Bo Aung Din, Nan letters, Burma Digest
Mon state Flag
The Mon are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They live in Mon State, historic lower Burma and the area around the southern Burmese-Thailand border.
New Mon State Party Flag
There are believed to be around 8 […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire VII
(I hope BD readers won’t mind the changing of my BLUE HEADINGS into black, as this is the darkest chapter of Myanmar and Myanmar Tatmadaw History)
Detention of Ethnic Shan
and other opposition Leaders
Read detail in Irrawaddy,
“Detained Ethnic Leaders Denied Outside Medical Aid”
By Shah Paung on January 8, 2008
Detained […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire VI
Country Profile
Size:
Lies between 19 and 24 degrees latitude North, and Stretches from 96 to 101 degrees longitude East, covering approximately 64,000 square miles; shares boundaries with Burma, China, Laos, Thailand and the Karenni.
Topography and Drainage:
Bisected north to south by the Salween River, one of the longest rivers in […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire V
Shans around the world (Tai peoples)
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from_
Hainan to eastern India
and from southern Sichuan to Laos,
Thailand, and parts of Vietnam,
which speak languages in the Tai-Kadai family and share […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire IV
The date 7th February 1947 is a defining moment in the record of the Shan history as a modern nation.
On that day, Shan princes and the people’s representatives of the Shan States demonstrated their newfound unity to declare it a “national day” which were followed by the resolutions […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire III
To make it easy for the busy readers who could not give much time to read, I have prepared another version in notes form below_
Shan (also known as Tai) lived independently up north round about 650 B.C. in China at the lower part of the Yangtze River.
Shan’s (also known as Tai) […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire II
Migration and Settlement of Tai Ethnic Groups
Ethic Dong Shan in China
Like many other ethnic peoples of Burma, the Shans or Tai once had their homeland in China.
Shan Home land
Some historians believe that the Tai people originally were from the north of the Yellow River (Huang Ho), occupying the […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire I
Please may you kindly allow me to acknowledge the references first, as I wish to write this in a series of a few short articles.
REFERENCES
Wikipedia encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of World History.
“Story of Myanmar told in pictures” by Dr Than Tun and translated by Maung Win War.
The Shan Herald […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Dr Mahathir Mohamad
offering a few pointers
for Myanmar Junta
Aspiring leaders who resort to unethical ways and even violence should be rejected outright, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Unethical ways = Illegal second coup after the election.
Violence = violent suppression and killing of the peaceful demonstrators and monks.
The former Prime Minister said anyone wanting to be a leader […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Non recognition of UNHCR
Burmese and other refugees
Note: I had compiled these data and written this article since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of closing their […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
How are we different from Pauline Hanson?
Note: I had compiled these data and written these articles since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of closing […]
Posted in Articles in English, Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
HISTORY REVISITED
RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
AND ASEAN ON MYANMAR
Note: I had compiled these data and written this article since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of […]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Dec 18th, 2007 No Comments »
The Burmese translation of English article,
“The Role of Muslims in Burma’s Democracy Movement”
By Shah Paung in Irrawaddy magazine,
November 12, 2007
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Ko Mya Aye
Burmese Muslim
(88 Students Group Leader)
Junta pins democracy activists to the wall
Ko Dee
Mizzima News
April 6, 2007 - Pro democracy activists in Burma are slowly and steadily being pushed to the wall by the military junta which has stepped up restrictions and suppression both in economic and social terms, political dissidents in Rangoon […]