“The dog days are not over; they are ruling us.”
64th Anniversary of Burmese Martyr’s Day – Cartoon Saw Ngo
“If all the Generals unite, Burma will be damned.”
Former Spy Chief – Cartoon Saw Ngo
“No criminal court for past dictators; it’s the law.“
“Is he out of touch from reality?”
Question for U Win Tin from MoeMaKa
July 25th, 2011
It has been a while we could not get interview with U Win Tin due to the poor phone line and also due to his health condition. As he was spending time in hospital, it was hard for us to get the phone connection with him too. Some has concerns for missing our weekly interview with U Win Tin but a few told us to give up doing interview pieces with U Win Tin because he became old, fragile and sick so that he had misses and out of touch with NLD and the current situation in Burma. However, we MoeMaKa as soon as we had chance to talk to him, we made interview with him again.
No – Cartoon Saw Ngo
“What are you talking about? There are no civil war, political prisoners, or refugees.”
Sanctions – Cartoon Saw Ngo
“Stop the sanction for the sake of my daughter!”
Free Political Prisoners = Free Burma
This postcard displays three women politcal prisoners and more in the background, all jailed for working towards a democratic Burma.
Moemaka Charity for July 2011 Reported
The Burmese people donated 580,000 kyat towards the benefit of 54 political prisoners, 4 of which are new beneficiaries that are female. These donations were collected through Moemaka and then handed over to the Political Prisoner Support network, a branch…
Suu goes to Martyrs’ Mausoleum to pay her respects
Attention Seekers – Cartoon Beruma
“Why always her? Why not us?” (July 13th, 2011)
Maung Yit – Internet Activism in Burma and Challenges
Introduction
These notes were prepared when invited to attend the Al Jazeer Forum on May 17th 2011. I was invited and introduced on the forum page at (http://forum.aljazeera.net/us/node/425) as follows; ” Maung Yit is Founder and Editor of MoeMaKa News Group for Burmese Community founded in 2003. He works as an IT consultant at day and works as news blogger and editor at night for MoeMaKa News Group and with anonymous citizen journalists and writers/ artists from Burma. His mission is to promote and raise awareness of the struggle for democracy and freedom under the current repressive Burmese regime. He has published interviews with Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, U Win Tin and other Burmese activists from Burma on his website, blog and online publication.”
Even though attending the forum was a great experience for me and my participation in the “Stream” had some time limitation to express all my notes at the show, I have to take the liberty at our own website to post my notes for further reference to readers and interested audience.
The Death of a student – Ko Phone Maw – March 13th 1988 in Rangoon, Burma
Interview with the family members of dead student by fellow students for their student union newsletter – (from “Sethmu Ahman” newsletters, issue (4), 17.9.1988)
A Secret Early Morning Funeral Without Ceremonies but Full of Grief and Grievances
March 14, 2011
We, the editor team of ‘Sethmu Ahman’ newsletter, were able to have an exclusive interview with a family member and close friends of Ko Phone Maw, a fifth year chemical engineering student. His life was takne in March students’ demonstration, which occurred in the compound of Rangoon Institute of Technology (RIT). The interviewees include Mar Mar Win, elder sister of Phone Maw, and Khin Maung Htun (BSc.History), Win Win Myint (BSc.Physics), and Min Htut, a third year zoology student, who all are friends of Phone Maw. The following are their original words and feelings.
Firstly, we inquired about his family’s private affairs. Mar Mar Win answered that his parents are U Aubar and Daw Amar (both deceased), and Phone Maw is the fourth son among the five of his siblings. She added that the eldest brother Kyaw Win, the other elder sister Mar Mar Ei, and herself opened a sale shop in Mingalar market to make a living for their family. The parents took care of Phone Maw and the youngest sister Ni Ni Aung, a 2nd year chemistry student in the then Rangoon University( Hlaing Campus).
About Phone Maw’s death, Mar Mar Win explained that her family did not learn of his death immediately on 13.3.88, the very day that tragedy happened. They only heard the news over the radio at 1:00 in the afternoon of 14.3.88, while they were in the market. His younger sister got the news from the university where she was studying.