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Myanmar military occupies hospitals and universities ahead of mass strike In many districts of the biggest city, Yangon, on Saturday and Sunday, witnesses reported sounds of gunfire and stun grenades. Terrified residents watched and filmed as security forces raided residential areas in the city and made several nighttime arrests. Residents told Reuters police fired shots and did not give reasons for the arrests, which continued into the early hours of Sunday. “On the night of his arrest, Khin Maung Latt was tortured to death in his cell,” AAPP said in a news release Sunday. Reports of bruising to Khin Maung Latt’s head and body raised suspicions he had been abused, NLD lawmaker Ba Myo Thein told Reuters. CNN cannot independently verify this reporting and the details surrounding Khin Maung Latt’s death are not immediately clear. Khin Maung Latt had worked as a campaign manager for one of two Muslim lawmakers elected in 2020. Mourners gathered for his funeral on Sunday in Yangon. Hospital occupation fears Over the weekend, Myanmar troops were seen occupying hospitals and universities in Yangon and Mandalay, according to local media Myanmar Now. Activists fear their presence could hinder treatment for wounded protesters or enable arrests. An official at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that at least five hospitals were being occupied Monday. “We have received credible reports of hospitals being occupied in Myanmar today, including at least four hospitals in parts of Yangon and at least one other in Mandalay,” said James Rodehaver, chief of OHCHR’s Myanmar team. “Such activity is completely unacceptable. Hospitals are locations under the protection of international humanitarian law.” On Monday, international group Physicians for Human Rights condemned the “invasion and occupation of public hospitals and wanton excessive force against civilians.” “If it was not obvious before, it is absolutely clear now: the Myanmar military will not stop violating the rights of the people of Myanmar until the international community acts decisively to prevent and account for these outrageous acts,” the group said in a statement. Physicians for Human Rights said the military’s occupation of hospitals was “a violation of international law — which only serves to further undermine a health care system already embattled by the Covid-19 pandemic and by the military’s recent coup d’état.” “This widespread siege of hospitals follows several days of prominent civilian injuries and casualties, and can be interpreted as a direct attempt to impede access to care for civilians,” said a statement from Sandra Mon, of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It is also a threat to attending medics to warn them against further treating injured protestors. The Myanmar military has impunity despite their intentional acts of nighttime terror. We may be seeing a nationwide upsurge in military retaliation against peaceful protestors and medics in the days to come.” Since the coup, security forces have repeatedly targeted medical workers, many of whom were the first to lead the civil disobedience movement. Last week, police and military personnel were filmed forcing three medical charity workers from their ambulance before brutally beating them with their guns and batons. And there have been cases where hospital staff have gone into hiding after the military demanded wounded protesters be transferred to a military hospital. Myanmar’s police force said security forces are “maintaining” various universities and hospitals throughout the country “for the benefit of the people,” state-run newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar reported. Myanmar labor unions called for a nationwide strike Monday, as part of a civil disobedience campaign against the coup. Eighteen unions of major industries including agriculture, energy, mining, construction, food, and transportation have called for a “full-extended shutdown of Myanmar economy.” “The labor organizations of Myanmar stand united in support of an extended nationwide work stoppage against the military coup and for the future of Myanmar democracy,” a joint statement read. “No one can force any Myanmar citizen to work; we are not slaves to the military junta now and we never shall be.” Meanwhile, women’s groups have called for people to turn out Monday to mark International Women’s Day, and “fly” their Htamains (sarongs) as part of the anti-junta movement. Images showed women marching with their Htamains flying like flags behind them, or hung across streets in front of barricades. As protests continued Monday, at least two people died in the northern city of Myitkyina after police opened fire on protesters, according to Reuters who cited witnesses. Several others were injured in the violence. Weekend of violence The call to strike follows massive protests Sunday that were violently suppressed by the military, according to Myanmar Now. The reports said security forces fired live and rubber bullets in cities around the country, including Mandalay and Nyaung-U — close to the ancient city and UNESCO World Heritage site of Bagan. Myanmar military personnel were filmed beating a man on the streets of Mandalay, and in Nyaung-U, footage obtained by Reuters showed security forces in riot gear with shields marching down the streets firing live and rubber bullets as protesters took cover. Images sourced from local media show the bullets in the hands of protesters that were used against them. Eyewitnesses told CNN that police were also holding small daggers, forcing protesters to disperse. At least 1,790 people have been detained, arrested, charged or sentenced by the military junta since it seized power, according to watchdog group AAPP. AAPP said the junta were “intentionally terrorizing residents with live ammunition in Yangon.” “After brutal crackdowns on peaceful protests yesterday (Saturday) by the police and military, brutal acts continued into the night, raids into residential areas and homes, gunfire, and unlawful search and detentions,” AAPP said. The deadly violence against protesters has drawn hundreds of thousands of people to join demonstrations and civil disobedience campaigns in towns and cities across the country. A handful of those have been police personnel, who have broken ranks to join the protesters. Last week, an official in western Chin state — which borders India and Bangladesh — requested the detention and return of eight police personnel who sought refuge in the Indian state of Mizoram. In the letter to his Indian state counterpart, the deputy commissioner in Myanmar’s Falam District said they should be handed back “in order to uphold friendly relations.” According to a letter obtained by CNN, of the eight officials, four are aged in their twenties. Speaking at a news conference, Indian Ministry of External Affairs spokesman Anurag Srivastava said: “As of now, we are ascertaining the facts. We will revert once we have more details.” Srivastava said India is keeping a close eye on the situation in Myanmar. “We are in talks with our partner countries on this. We have said earlier that the issue must be resolved peacefully” he said. Meanwhile, Australia on Monday said it had suspended a bilateral defense cooperation program with the Myanmar military following the coup and the “escalating violence and rising death toll,” Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne said. The program was restricted to non-combat areas such as English language training but was criticized by rights groups for engaging with the military despite documented abuses and conflict in ethnic states. Critics also cited the 2017 military offensive against Rohingya civilians in Rakhine state, which forced 740,000 people to flee to neighboring Bangladesh and prompted a genocide case at the International Court of Justice. Payne said in a statement that Australia’s aid program will be re-directed to “the immediate humanitarian needs of the most vulnerable and poor including the Rohingyas and other ethnic minorities.” CNN’s Philip Wang, Zahid Mahmood, Vedika Sud, and Sarah Faidell contributed reporting. Source link Orbem News #Ahead #hospitals #mass #military #Myanmar #occupies #Strike #Universities

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krystalmtk · 3 years

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Including Yangon University of Foreign Languages & other 44 universities across the country are illegally & forcefully encircled by military terrorists until today

R2P FOR MYANMAR

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

#Mar7Coup

#whatshappeninginmyanmar

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wai-yan-maung-maung · 3 years

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ရုပ်သံတင်ဆက်ခြင်း အွန်လိုင်းသင်တန်း(၃)

Television Presentation Course, Batch 3

(MC သင်တန်းသားဟောင်းများအထူးသက်သာခွင့်)

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◾တက်သင့်သူများ◾

► ရုပ်သံတင်ဆက်ခြင်းပညာ ဝါသနာထုံသူများ

► ရုပ်သံလောက ၀င်ရောက်လိုသူ၊ ၀င်ရောက်မည့်သူများ

► ကဏ္ဍစုံတင်ဆက်သူအဖြစ် လုပ်ကိုင်မည့်သူများ

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◾သင်ရိုးများ◾

၁၊ နိုင်ငံတကာရုပ်သံဌာနများဖွဲ့စည်းပုံ

Structure of Television Channels

၂၊ ရုပ်သံတင်ဆက်သူဆိုသည်မှာ

Television Presenter

၃၊ လုပ်ငန်းဆောင်တာနှင့် ဝတ္တရားများ

Tasks and Responsibilities

၄၊ ရုပ်သံတင်ဆက်သူအရည်အချင်းများ

Skills

၅၊ ရုပ်သံတင်ဆက်သူလျှောက်ထားရန်ပြင်ဆင်ခြင်း

Preparation to apply the Post

၆၊ ရုပ်သံဆိုင်ရာဝေါဟာရများ

Television Vocabularies

၇၊ အစီအစဉ်ဇာတ်ညွှန်းအခြေခံ

Fundemental of Script Writing

၈၊ ရှောင်ရန်၊ ၀တ်ရန် ဖက်ရှင်နှင့်အရောင်များ

Fashion and Dress

၉၊ ကိုယ်နေဟန်ထားနှင့် ခန္ဓာကိုယ်ဘာသာစကား

Body Posture and Language

၁၀၊ အသံပိုင်းဆိုင်ရာ

Vocal

၁၁၊ စံနမူနာ မြန်မာစာ၊ မြန်မာစကား

Criterion of Myanmar Literature and Language

၁၂၊ အစီအစဉ်အမျိုးအစားများအလိုက် တင်ဆက်နည်းများ

Programme Types and Presentations

၁၃၊ မသိမဖြစ်ဗဟုသုတများနှင့် အထွေထွေ

Essential Knowledge and General

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◾သင်တန်းကာလ◾

(၂၀၂၀)ပြည့်နှစ်၊ ဒီဇင်ဘာလ(၂၀)ရက်မှ (၂၄)ရက်အထိ

သင်တန်းရက်(၅)ရက်

သင်ရိုးအမျိုးမျိုးကို နေ့အလိုက်ထည့်သွင်းသင်ကြားပါသဖြင့်

သင်တန်းရက်မပျက်၊ အချိန်မှန်တက်ပေးရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။

သင်တန်းပြီးသော်လည်း အမြဲတိုင်ပင်မေးမြန်းနိုင်ပါသည်။

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◾သင်တန်းချိန်◾

ညစဥ် (၇)နာရီ မှ (၉)နာရီထိ

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◾သင်တန်းကြေး◾

► (၅)သောင်းကျပ်

► Talents & Models တင်ဆက်ခြင်းသင်တန်းတက်ခဲ့သူများ

ယခုပို့စ်ကို Publicဖြင့် Shareထားသည့် Screenshotနှင့်

သင်တန်းဆင်းလက်မှတ်ပြပြီးအပ်လျှင် (၁)သောင်းလျှော့မည်။

(၄)သောင်းသာ ကျသင့်ပါမည်။

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◾သင်ကြားမည့်ဆရာ◾

ဆရာ ဦးဝေယံမောင်မောင်

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◾ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သောတာ၀န်များ◾

► MNTV ရုပ်သံ၌ ရုပ်သံထုတ်လုပ်ရေးမှူးနှင့် တင်ဆက်သူအဖြစ် ပြည်တွင်းပြည်ပ အစီအစဉ်များစွာ ထုတ်လုပ်၊ တင်ဆက်ခဲ့သည်။

► တရုတ်ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံ ရုပ်သံနှင့် အသံလွှင့်ဌာနများဖြစ်သော

China International Broadcasting Network (CIBN)

Yunnan Television

China Radio International (CRI)

တို့နှင့်ပူးပေါင်း၍ ရုပ်သံနှင့် အသံလွှင့်အစီအစဉ်များ

ရိုက်ကူးထုတ်လုပ်ခဲ့သည်။

► (၂၀၁၄)ခုနှစ်၊ ကမ္ဘာ့ရုပ်သံဆု (World TV Award)၌

ကိုယ်ပိုင်အစီအစဉ် ပါ၀င်ခဲ့သည်။

► ဒိန်းမတ်နိုင်ငံမှ Documentary အစီအစဥ်များရိုက်ကူးသည့်

ဒိုတီဗစ်အဖွဲ့နှင့်အတူ မှတ်တမ်းတင်အစီအစဥ်လက်တွဲခဲ့သည်။

► (၂၀၁၀)ပြည့်နှစ်မှ ယနေ့ထိ နိုင်ငံတကာ၊ နိုင်ငံတော်အဆင့်နှင့်

အခမ်းအနားအမျိုးအမျိုး တင်ဆက်လျက်ရှိသည်။

► (၂၀၀၀)ပြည့်နှစ်မှ ယနေ့ထိ ဂျာနယ်၊ မဂ္ဂဇင်း၊ စာအုပ်နှင့်

အွန်လိုင်းတို့တွင် ဆောင်းပါးပေါင်း ရာဂဏန်းအပါအဝင်

စာပေအမျိုးအစားများစွာ ဖန်တီးရေးသားလျက်ရှိသည်။

► Talents & Models နှင့် (၁၄)နှစ်ကျော်လက်တွဲနေပြီး

တစ်ဦးတည်းသော သင်တန်းနည်းပြအဖြစ် သင်တန်းများစွာ

ပို့ချလျက်ရှိသည်။

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◾ပညာအရည်အချင်း◾

► B.A (Creative Writing)

► Diploma in English (M.U.F.L)

► Superior Diploma in Abhidhamma

(University of Abhidhamma)

► Diploma in Myanmar History and Culture

(Yangon University)

► Diploma in Human Resource Management

(IQN,UK, Attenting)

► Certified First Personal Grooming Sayar

(Talents & Models School)

► Certified First Presentation Sayar

(Talents & Models School)

► Certified Peace Trainer

(American Centre)

► Certificate in Diplomatic Skills

(Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

► Certificate in GMP

(Y.U.D.E)

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◾သင်ကြားမည့်ပုံစံ နှင့် သင်တန်းဆင်းလက်မှတ်◾

ZOOM ဖြင့်သင်ကြားပါမည်။ သုံးရလွယ်ကူပါသည်။

အသုံးပြုပုံကိုကြိုတင်လေ့လာထားရန် လိုအပ်ပါသည်။

သင်တန်းသားများသို့ ပေးပို့ရန်လိုသည့်အချက်များနှင့်

အိမ်စာများအတွက် Viber Group ကိုအသုံးပြုပါမည်။

Digital Certificate ကို အွန်လိုင်းမှပေးပို့ပါမည်။

ပြင်ပသင်တန်းများ ပြန်ဖွင့်သည့်အခါ လက်တွေ့သင်ရိုးများ အခမဲ့

ပြန်လာတက်နိုင်ပြီး Paper Certificate ယူနိုင်ပါသည်။

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◾သင်တန်းအပ်ရန်◾

ဝ၉ ၇၉၇ ၂၀ ၃၇၅၇ ၏ Viber သို့ ရုံးဖွင့်ချိန်(နေ့ဘက်)၌

စာပို့ ဆက်သွယ်စာရင်းပေးအပ်နှံရပါမည်။ သင်တန်းကြေးကို

K Pay သို့မဟုတ် KBZ အကောင့်ဖြင့်သာ ပေးသွင်းရပါမည်။

သင်တန်းကြေးသွင်းပြီးလျှင် ZOOM ချိတ်ဆက်ရမည့်

အမှတ်စဥ်နှင့် လျှို့ဝှက်ဂဏန်းများ ပေးပို့ပါမည်။

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minpsone · 4 years

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Where are the curators in Myanmar’s art scene?

[featured in Frontier Myanmar ]

By Min Pyae Sone , Photos by Thuya Zaw - February 9, 2020

The development of contemporary art in Myanmar has been hampered by a paucity of curators, with most galleries asking artists to arrange, fund and promote their own exhibitions.

Arts reporters in Yangon have plenty of artists and gallery owners to interview, but one art world actor seems to always be missing.

Myanmar has been short on curators since the arts scene began a revival of sorts about 20 years ago. The word “curator” lacks a direct Burmese translation, and the role itself is little understood in Myanmar. Though attitudes are changing, the government and much of the public tends to view contemporary art as a novelty, with little precedent in Myanmar culture, and as an amateur passion where professional curatorship isn’t required.

Those wishing to become curators – or to work with galleries exercising a degree of curatorship – have few options. The national universities of art and culture in Yangon and Mandalay offer a degree in “Painting” that asks students to memorise only a few select details of global art history while focusing on painting techniques.

Ko Aung Khant Kyaw, 23, who graduated from NUAC Yangon three years ago with a bachelor’s degree in Painting and teaches Visual Arts at SKT (formerly Horizon) International School, participated in a group discussion at a workshop on curating hosted by the Japan Foundation last November in Yangon, which I attended. “I’ve been in many group exhibitions, but I have yet to participate in something I’m proud of,” he said, attracting agreement from the assembled artists and gallery managers..

After the event, Aung Khant told me about the exhibitions held at NUAC for graduating students. “There were no curators there, just students, parents, and other relatives,” he said. “Exhibitions in Myanmar are just for socialising; people come to drink, talk and enjoy themselves. Nobody even looks at the art anymore.”

Government patronage of the arts, such that it exists, has done little to raise standards or increase public appreciation of contemporary art. In the 2018-2019 fiscal year, the government allocated more than K35 billion (US$24 million) to the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture.

Though most of this was spent on religious monuments and ceremonies throughout the country, the ministry is also responsible for funding the national universities of arts and culture and the National Museum in Yangon. However, the museum asks artists to donate works to its staid permanent display of contemporary art and curates just a handful of events each year, mostly about history and traditional culture.

With little help from the government, the contemporary arts milieu relies almost entirely on commercial galleries. Many of the owners of these galleries, who struggle to even pay the rent, see a curator as a luxury they cannot afford. Instead, they hand their spaces over to artists, or artist groups, to supply and display the artwork as they see fit, charging them rent and taking a cut of sales, and often leaving artists to do most of the promotion.

“We let the artists do what they want and do not interfere in any way; they are the ones who pay for our space,” said one downtown Yangon gallery owner, who asked me to leave when asked if I could interview him and record his name. “No hard feelings, but you really should be asking bigger galleries, not me,” he said as I reached the door.

However, a small number of talented curators in Myanmar have been behind a number of high-concept exhibitions in Yangon in recent years, which have taken place in large public venues like the Secretariat building rather than conventional art galleries. This rise in curatorial practice has been encouraged, directly and indirectly, by grants and funding from foreign cultural organisations in Myanmar.

Sai Htin Linn Htet, 28, is a Yangon-based curator, multimedia artist and human rights activist whose work addresses the themes of empathy, pollution, gender equality, identity and discrimination. He is also programme manager of the biennial My Yangon My Home: Yangon Art & Heritage Festival and co-curated the July 2019 edition, called “Building Bridges Yangon”, with Indian curator Ms Ushmita Sahu at the newly renovated, colonial era Tourist Burma Building opposite the Sule Pagoda.

Helped by a team of volunteers, Htin Linn Htet was responsible for curating many of the Myanmar artworks featured in the international exhibition. In an email interview, he described the challenge of developing an exhibition design “that is suitable to the venue” while also providing room for “the voice of the artists”.

Htin Linn Htet, who has now worked with several foreign curators, sees it as his role to advise them on the tastes, values and sensitivities of the Myanmar public, making space for stimulating foreign subjects and styles while making sure local culture is represented.

However, despite frequently conservative and dismissive attitudes from the public towards contemporary art, he insists that “things are rapidly changing here”.

“We are going no way but up,” he said. “I’ll continue to promote emerging artists, stepping between their artworks and the public, as a mediator, curator, and a friend, as long as there is a need for one to materialise their unrealised projects.”

Yet, Htin Linn Htet says the dividing line between professionalism and amateurism in Myanmar art remains thin. Artists, who have to depend largely on self-promotion, have little recourse to feedback or guidance from galleries and other institutions. However, River Gallery, which opened in downtown Yangon in 2006, bucks this norm.

“Rather than telling the artists what to do, we focus on helping the artists articulate the 'story' behind the artwork if they need assistance on that,” said River Gallery owner Ms Gill Pattison, a New Zealander who has been living in Yangon since 2002. “The language of art does not always readily translate into regular language, and sometimes we can help the artists find a way of conveying more of their thoughts and feelings about their works.”

Pattison and River Gallery work with some of the most internationally recognised Myanmar artists – most of whom have experience working with overseas curators and sometimes curate their own shows. Pattison said that when she was planning to open River Gallery in 2005 as a professionally curated gallery in the international mould, “I really didn't have much idea of whether it would be successful, whether anyone would visit, or whether anyone would buy.”

However, it helped that she knew many talented artists. In 2004, Pattison had organised the now defunct Myanmar Contemporary Art Awards in cooperation with Myanmar Times. “The artists entrusted me with their works at the outset, and then I think we repaid this trust through professional, transparent business practices and we did our best to promote their careers,” Pattison said.

An artist often featured at River Gallery is U Htein Lin, 53, a star in Myanmar’s contemporary scene, who has a satirical and sometimes controversial approach to social and political issues. His “Skirting the Issue” exhibition at River Gallery last year tackled misogynist taboos by featuring canvases made from htamein (a women’s longyi), which are traditionally seen as polluting for men and are handled only by women.

When I interviewed Htein Lin at a Yangon teashop late one evening in early January, he began on the subject of curatorship by talking about his six-and-a-half years as a political prisoner.

“In prison, I painted and even organised a solo show there for the prisoners. I suppose you can call it my first time curating,” he said. It was a risky venture because organising such an event in prison was prohibited.

“Dealing with the guards and prisoners for space and logistics was very hard,” he said. “First of all, it isn’t an art gallery, it’s a prison. Second, there’s the problem with the timeframe and finding the opportunity. Third, how we would invite people to my show.”

Htein Lin hand-drew the invitations on used snack packets and distributed them around the prison, a task made easier by the fact that inmates in each block of 15 cells had to change cells every day. “We asked a single-cell inmate to let us use his cell when everyone was getting ready to switch cells. The cell was nine feet by nine feet,” he said.

Htein Lin and some fellow inmates had to negotiate with the guards and arrange times when occupants of the 15 cells could view the works, which were displayed on torn plastic bags attached to the walls with toothpaste. When the day finally came, inmates showered, dressed up and visited the cell to view Htein Lin’s works.

Soon after Htein Lin’s release in 2005, one of his close friends, fellow artist Daw Chaw Ei Thein, curated and displayed a selection of the hundreds of works he created in prison. The exhibition at her house in northern Yangon, near the airport, ran for only one day because it attracted the attention of plainclothes intelligence officers.

When he returned to Yangon in 2013 after living in Britain for seven years, he started to curate exhibitions using ideas and curatorial principles gleaned from galleries in London, Paris and elsewhere. “A proper exhibition should make you feel and think differently about the things you saw after you leave,” he said. “That’s the curator doing their job.”

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2017.09.20

Crisis in Burma

“Tommy talks with New York Times columnist Nick Kristof and Nexus Fund Executive Director Sally Smith about the ongoing ethnic cleansing happening right now in Burma.”

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TV: Welcome back to Pod Save the World. Today’s episode is about the ongoing ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. Some people call it Burma, the names are gonna be used interchangeably throughout the interview. The Rohingya are a Muslim minority group that practices Islam in the Rakhine State, which is one of Myanmar’s poorer states. They have their own languages, they have their own cultural practices, and unfortunately are the victims of some of the worst discrimination you can imagine. This discrimination comes in a number of ways. The Rohingya are attacked and oppressed by the Buddhist majority for being Muslim, based on their religion. They’re also being falsely accused of not being from Myanmar. It is a truly vicious version of the familiar nationalism that’s turned deadly in so many different countries. Samantha Power, who was Obama’s ambassador to the United Nations and wrote a Pulitzer prize winning book about mass atrocities and genocide, told me that this was a degree of prejudice that she had rarely seen in all of her travels. In recent weeks, this situation has exploded. And to be honest, I didn’t have any idea how bad it had gotten until I started researching for this episode. My experience working on Myanmar had been very different. I visited the country with President Obama back in 2012. He was the first sitting U.S. President ever to visit the country. I was there when he met with Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, who was considered by many to be the Nelson Mandela of Myanmar. We were at her lakeside villa where she had been kept under house arrest for many years. The day he met with activists, organizers, dissidents, he gave a speech at the University of Yangon, it felt like the opening of a new era for the country and the people of Myanmar and it truly felt historic. It still may turn out to be a historic opening and visit. But the situation today is far from hopeful. It is in fact horrific. The military is driving hundreds of thousands of innocent Rohingya men, women, and children from their homes. They’re burning down their villages, they’re indiscriminately slaughtering them along the way. It is undoubtedly ethnic cleansing and some are calling this a modern genocide. So today’s episode is based on interviews with two experts who helped me understand the situation on the ground. We recorded the interviews separately, but edited them together to give you multiple perspectives on the situation. You’ll hear from Sally Smith, the executive director of the Nexus Fund which is a non-profit organization Sally founded to prevent mass atrocities, and Nick Kristoff, a Pulitzer prize winning for the New York Times who has spent his career documenting human rights abuses and injustices around the world. It’s not easy to read or hear about some of the things that are happening. It’s not easy to hear this episode. But the violence is happening right now. And there’s still time and there’s still a chance for the international community to put pressure on the government of Myanmar and force them to stop. And there’s time to raise money to get aid to people who are suffering and who desperately need our help. For more information about the situation and how to help, go to the Pod Save The World Facebook page or go to the Nexus Fund website at www.nexus-fund.org to donate. Thanks for listening, we start with Nick Kristoff.

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TV: I’m familiar with the Rohingya, they are a Muslim minority group who lives in Burma, or Myanmar. I was aware of the history of discrimination they faced and some of the awful treatment. But it wasn’t until I read a piece you wrote, a couple weeks ago now, about just how bad things have gotten, that I truly understood the degree to which they were suffering and being driven out of their country. Can you talk a little bit about what has happened recently that has gotten this crisis to such an acute level?

Nick Kristof: Sure. So the Rohingya have been persecuted for years and years and years. And disenfranchised and this gradually radicalized them. And so an armed group appeared among them with a somewhat crazy idea that they were going to find back against the Myanmar government. And so a year ago, half-heartedly, and then in August, more vigorously, they attacked Myanmar government institutions – police stations and an army base. And it wasn’t effective at all as an insurrection. But it did lead Myanmar to mount a brutal scorched-earth attack on ordinary Rohingya civilians. And the upshot is that 400 thousand of the Rohingya have been driven out of Myanmar across the border into Bangladesh. Countless homes have been burned and villages destroyed. The, I believe, that the Myanmar government itself said that 60% of the Rohingya villages have now been abandoned. And many, many, many people – we don’t have a good count – have been killed in the scorched-earth operation. And women raped, accounts of infants being flung into lakes to drown, this kind of thing. It is about as brutal as an ethnic cleansing can get.

TV: When you read about these atrocities, the military beheading 6-year-old children, it is -- I think for a lot of people -- incomprehensible. The idea that a military force, human beings, could do this to another. But, I mean, how do you think this happens? Like why do you think that they go to these extreme lengths to terrorize a group of children?

Sally Smith: Because they- there’s a few reasons. They don’t see them as human. You know, in every mass atrocity situation you have an escalating level of dehumanization by the perpetrators. And so they start using the words like, they’re cockroaches and rats. We’ve seen this in the holocaust, in Darfur, in Rwanda. And, when you start doing that and you start saying that and you start thinking about people that way, it means that it’s time to exterminate them and that, again, you’re doing a good thing by killing them. Now to kill a child, obviously, it is incomprehensible, but it does happen because they don’t want them to grow up into the Muslims that they fear today. So, you know, this is nothing new in human history. It’s not like, let’s be so shocked. It’s horrendous, but I think that what happens when you’re shocked or it seems incomprehensible is that you become paralyzed and then you don’t take action. And right now, what they need more than anything is for the rest of the world to take action.

TV: Do you think this was the Myanmar government or military waiting for an opportunity to take actions against a minority group they have long despised? Or was this actually in response to this insurgent activity?

NK: I think that, to some degree, it probably was in response to this insurgency which, of course, they had helped create with their earlier repression. There have been these periods of brutal repression of the Rohingya and then, then there tends to be an outcry, the government tends to back off a little bit, allow a little more outside humanitarian help. And then there is some other episode that sets them off. But, you know, one of the really troubling things, I think is the way democratic politics have affected this. And -- obviously, I’m in favor of democracy, obviously you are -- but one of the- the challenges in Myanmar has been that as it has become more democratic, one of the rallying cries to win votes has been, “How much do we hate Muslim minorities?” And, “How much do we want to drive out the Rohingya?” So, democracy in effect has created, not a break in this kind of repression, but rather perhaps a spur to it.

TV: Do you think it was a mistake by the Obama administration to restore relations with Burma too soon? And relatedly, do you think the world made a mistake by putting too much hope on one person, Aung San Suu Kyi?

NK: So, I think that engagement is almost always worth it, and so I think that the Obama administration was right to engage with Burma, to make those trips. I do think that the Obama administration then got into the position where it was regarding Myanmar as one of its great successes at a time when it was under a lot of criticism for problems in the Middle East and elsewhere. And that, perhaps that made it too reluctant to speak out about what was going on with the Rohingya. And in any case, I think it- I don’t fault the engagement with Myanmar. I do fault, I mean the administration, they did speak out but I think they could’ve spoke out more forcefully and made it clear to the government that if, if they did the kind of things they’re doing now, that there would be a real price to pay for that. And indeed, yeah, I think we were all a little bit too starry eyed about Aung San Suu Kyi. She was an amazing fighter against the military regime and we all celebrated when she won the Nobel Peace prize. We were inspired by her words. But, you know, it turned out that she meant to apply those words and those aspirations largely to the Buddhist ethnic majority in Myanmar and does not seem to think that those words apply equally to the Rohingya minority.

TV: Yeah. Nearly 400 thousand people, as you reported, have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh in just a few weeks. That’s like moving the city of Cleveland or the city of New Orleans to another country in a matter of days. Is there any sense that Bangladesh is ready to support that massive flow of refugees?

NK: So, historically Bangladesh has done a pretty poor job of accommodating the Rohingya and there, there have been huge flows of Rohingya in the past and Bangladesh has put them up in camps, offered them few education or job opportunities. In general, I’d say, has not handled them very well. One thing that is a little bit different is that today the expulsion of the Rohingya, the repression of the Rohingya, has attracted a huge amount of attention in the Muslim world all around the globe, including the Arab countries. And so, I think that there may be somewhat greater flows of money to help Rohingya refugees than there have been in the past. I think that Bangladesh, there may be more attention and publicity in ways that will lead Bangladesh to do a better job. But, unfortunately the other side of the coin is that there is also indication that there will be more foreign fighters, perhaps flowing into Burma, to join these rebel forces in fighting the Myanmar government. And, you know, this is just a prescription for disaster. If there is a civil war there, in Rakhine State, it won’t be good for the government. It also certainly won’t be good for those Rohingya who were left behind there.

TV: Sally, what can people listening do to help?

SS: People really need to get there, and get there now, to help Bangladesh. Because they don’t really have the resources and the infrastructure to handle this amount of people. I mean this is a biblical amount of people that are flooding into this country. And from the estimates of my- our partners, Fortify Rights, who are on the ground and at the border -- they say it could be upwards of a million within a week. They want them to leave, right. They’re doing this on purpose. And they’re shooting at men, women, and children – civilians. Civilians. Shooting at them as they flee into Bangladesh as well. So killing as many as they can, getting rid of the rest.

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TV: How concerned are counter-terrorism experts you talked to that the actions of the Myanmar government and military are gonna set the stage for ISIS to come in and really radicalize a generation of Rohingya who are being treated in the worst possible way by their government?

NK: So, I mean, what we don’t know about the Rohingya and Rakhine State could fill volumes. I mean, it’s really- this isn’t an area where we know a lot. It’s been very difficult to get in there and travel around. I managed to make two trips into Rakhine State, but I couldn’t get to large swaths of it, especially in the northern part. And you hear a lot about ISIS and Al Qaeda but I do think that in the past it’s mostly been talk. And in general, I’d say that people have responded to their desperation more by paying human smugglers and trying to leave to go to Thailand or Malaysia to try to start over, rather than to try to fight back. You have the sense that in the last year or so, that is changing and what will really change it is if you end up getting a pipeline of money and guns into Rakhine State. And there are some indications that is now happening. And people are just so outraged, you know, I mean they- they’ve seen family members raped, they’ve seen children drowned, they’ve seen these villages burned. And the refugees on the Bangladesh side, they can look across and they see smoke filling the skies as their- their villages -- and these huts all have thatch roofs so they burn very easily -- they see these fires from their own villages and of course they’re furious about it. And a lot of them wanna fight.

TV: It’s probably not great to speculate if ISIS might come in. What we do know is that the worst things imaginable happen to people in the most desperate situations and you see human trafficking and all sorts of assorted horrors come along with situations like this. Are there aid organizations that are providing relief or support to refugees that you think Americans listening should support today to try to do something?

NK: Yeah, so there are a lot of aid groups that are on the Bangladesh side of the border -- International Rescue Committee, the- you know the whole lot of them are there. And they- and because the issue is getting a lot of attention so they’re active there. The real problem is for the 600 thousand or so Rohingya who are left on the Myanmar side. And they’re not getting help. There are a little more than 100 thousand who are in effectively in a concentration camp in the city of Sittwe. They’re locked up there. They’re not allowed to go to schools, they’re not allowed to get easy medical care. On my- on one of my visits there was a woman who was in obstructed labor, she desperately needed a C-section to save her life and the life of her baby and, you know, she could not get it. The only medical support she had was from a pharmacist and, so those folks- they get a little bit of help from- those folks who are in this concentration camp, they do get some visits by some aid groups, including International Rescue Committee. But outside of Sittwe, and especially in the northern part of Rakhine State, aid groups just are not allowed to move. There is no humanitarian access whatsoever. And I think that has to be one of, you know, one of the first things we have to do -- to pressure the Myanmar government to provide that access. And so- and I’d say that in general when people ask me today, what they can do to help. I would put less emphasis on the need for provision of services and more for advocacy because- there are groups like Fortify Rights that are focused on advocacy for the Rohingya because what we need is to get that access by aid groups to get into rural parts of Rakhine State so they can begin to provide services.

TV: Sally, what is your nonprofit, the Nexus Fund, do?

SS: So the Nexus Fund is dedicated to preventing mass atrocities around the world, which includes genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity. And our model is actually based on, you know I came out of the Obama campaign ’07, ‘08 and I really believe in empowering locals. And I think what we’ve been doing in aid is going into other countries and telling them- basically putting a project on top of their lives and saying, you know “here’s a bunch of money for this project that we’ve decided because I went to Brown and I got my masters, you know, and I’ve read about you.” And you know what I figured out over the last 10 years or so is that, that doesn’t work, right? And I think the aid community is actually coming to that conclusion as well. So our model is really about going in, finding the locals, talking to them about who is addressing the risk factors for genocide and mass atrocities in their communities. And then supporting them. So whatever that means. Whether that’s through, you know, funding resources or training or connecting them with other people in the world who have already been through what they’re going through, so they don’t have to reinvent the wheel. For anything that I care about, I have four words that I always keep in mind: knowledge, social, time, and money. So knowledge is, you’ve done it. Pat yourself on the back. You’re listening to this podcast. You’re learning about the Rohingya. Social is share with people, you know like, in person when you see people, bring it up on your Facebook and Twitter. Like, please talk about it. The more it actually gets talked about, that is important. And then time and money is, you know I would say normally it’s like volunteer time but we’re not gonna fly everybody over to Burma. What we really need is your donations. And I know Save the Children could use your donations, so I’m not just here to pitch my own organization. But this is- what’s crazy to me, Tommy, is this is an orphan cause. There are zero donors working on this cause. At a full time. There are donors that give a little bit here and there. The pie isn’t big enough. You know there’s not enough money to go around. People’s resources are stretch really thin. And I’m not saying that to say that, you know, everybody’s just swimming in a pool of their money. There’s a desperate need and we really need the pie to get bigger, so one of the things I’m really trying to do is bring more funders into this field and into this issue in particular. Cause I think there’s an assumption that people are funding efforts that need to be done and helping, and they’re not.

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TV: So, the UN general assembly is this week. Aung San Suu Kyi was supposed to come to New York but now is not gonna come. Do you have any sense that there will be efforts to take some sort of meaningful collective action to either highlight the treatment of the Rohingya or put pressure on the government to, you know, allow access like you said or stop with this horrific ethnic cleansing?

NK: So, there certainly will be more attention on it, and the Muslim world is very concerned about this. It’s getting a lot of attention in the Arab press and Indonesia and so on. I don’t think that there is likely to be effective UN action. Partly because in the Security Council, China is going to protect Burma. I think China to some degree sees this and an opportunity to peel Burma away from U.S. orbit and into its own orbit. And there’s been some competition over the last 20 years between China and the U.S. over who will be Burma’s protector down the road. In the past the U.S. had been winning that and this may be an opportunity for China to make strides, in the most cynical way. So I don’t think the Security Council has a very tool box given China’s resistance. And the UN agencies haven’t been terribly effective. Partly because they tend to work in a fairly collegial way and they’re…not good -- except for the High Commissioner on Human Rights-- about standing up and using the bully pulpit.

TV: You know you sort of have a choice, you can look away say there’s nothing we can do and throw your hands up. Or you can decide to raise awareness, to call members of Congress, to support aid groups doing great work, and support journalists who are covering these stories. So, thank you for what you’re doing to bring the world’s attention here.

NK: Yeah, let me mention a couple of things that are- you know- you mentioned Congress, so there is a Senate resolution that is in the works, sponsored by Senator Durbin and Senator McCain that indeed does call on Aung San Suu Kyi to try to live up to her values on the Rohingya. It’s a way of applying a little bit more pressure. Similar pressure led Senator McCain to take a measure out of a bill and thus make it more difficult for weapons to flow to the Myanmar military, which I think is a useful signal to them. And I’m glad you mentioned journalists because, you know, this- this to me is just a- a great example of why we need people out in the field including, maybe above all, photographers and video journalists documenting this kind of thing because once it’s projected into our living rooms and on to our laptops, it’s really hard to turn away. And I think it’s those images that are gonna galvanize us and, I hope, lead to some kind of improvement in the situation.

TV: Sally, how can people encourage the United States government to put pressure on Myanmar to stop this ethnic cleansing?

SS: International political pressure is…so paramount right now. So please do pick up the phone and call your member of Congress and tell them- just say, “I care about the issue of the Rohingya, what are you gonna do about it?”

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TV: Thank you for listening to Pod Save the World and for caring about this issue. Again, if you want more information, go to the Pod Save the World Facebook page. We’ll have links for all the places you can donate and all the groups that are helping. You can also go to the Nexus Fund website at www.nexus-fund.org to donate and to sign up to help out Sally’s cause. So, thank you again.

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It has to be clear. In the ICJ, which accused Gambia of inciting Burma against the ICJ, the Rohingya were accused of genocide by the Rohingya. Collaborative planning; Create hate Engagement, engagement Injustice, injustice, and injustice. The provisions of the UN Genocide Convention, such as Article I, III, IV, V, VI, have been made in violation of the UN Genocide Convention. Some ethnic groups in Burma have also come forward with support for Gambia's claim.

Author's blog Slavery The SPDC era; He studied at Yangon University. Continuing education abroad; An overview of the experience of Burma, and how it has come into contact with Myanmar, has come to the fore. Lessons from the Yugoslavia and Rwanda Dynastics in history; Myanmar education system that instills fear and authoritarian spirit; Under the tutelage of the neo-Nazi mental warfare Decades of human rights abuses and international pressure; The NLD and the Genocide crisis; This article focuses on the protection of the genocide.

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First, we need to first look at the circumstances of Rwanda and the Yugoslavia where Genoa was involved in the pages of World History. Yugoslavia instigates Serbian nationalism; Serbia - Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic hatred among people in Croatia The Yugoslavia's military authorities supported the majority of the people in Serbia; The riots led to the killing of the Bolsheviks.

In the meantime, there has been a spate of hate crimes, Managing hunger Killing young people; Torture Discrimination; Forced evictions and displacement; Rape Demolished housing In 2002, a total of 161 Yugoslavia leaders and authorities in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), which was launched by the UN Security Council for acts of human rights abuses, were convicted of the Crimes Against Humaity and War Crimes.

International pressures have responded to the decision by the ICTY that the Yugoslavia cannot follow. The hearing was held at the ICJ office, where Yugoslavia authorities failed to prevent genocide; According to the Genocide Convention Article-III (e), the Genocide Convention was imposed because of the failure to punish the perpetrators.

Learn more plant genome case Rwanda Rwanda which is a minority in the country's colonial period is important, while 85% said output had been suppressed grudge radical nationalistic activists in late 1990 to create the bright hate accidentally occur Holocaust Memorial Museum . People, including the Hutu army, committed genocide against Tutsi and killed some 800,000. In 1998, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) issued an order denouncing Rwanda's genocide and committing three crimes against the regime.

Yugoslavia Genetica Same Pattern Plant for Rwanda

- Develop an ultra-nationalist spirit;

- incite racial hatred;

Conflict is accelerating to the level of Genoa

- Military involvement in rape

Similarities are found. Here, from the perspective of those countries that used the "spirit" weapon as a basis for hate crimes, and the international perspective viewed from "human rights", the international community must be aware of it. One way is ironic. In the case of Gambia, the Rohingya are accused of genocide in Myanmar. It looks exactly like the Rwandan Genoa plant.

One of the key differences between the education system and the genetic basis of the genus is the term "spirit" in Burma's education system, which has been accused of genocide. Western education is based on "Rights, Respect, Responsibility", which is based on "rights, responsibilities, critical thinking, dialogue, dialogue and exchange". Rules and regulations The "education" is the basis for the education-based education.

In fact, the struggle for independence in Burma was a wake-up call. We need to focus on honoring and honoring our national language and honoring our national spirit. To be disciplined; This motto was used to make the pageant more fun. But for decades, education has been cultivated and held firmly in place.

The spirit of fear; Develop an Authoritarian Spirit

It is worth noting that in Myanmar education model, there are teachers and teachers. Seer Between the teacher and the student, he was “scared. love, Respect Respect ”spirit. "Yeah. Between hurt, take, There is a lot of potential for a 'double' spirit, such as an authoritarian spirit that wants to show up to the dictates.

Those who have gone through the Moulmein-era SPDC education system will know. Apply on the award system It is the sin of the one who exalts himself; The activity started in the classroom. The 'spirit' of the two senses is to be governed by the second-person society. Social Business Justice; Government administration; Legislative Housework; Do they continue to be involved in the process of carrying out community-based mechanisms? This gap in fear of the underdog has come to be in line with authoritarianism.

He was very angry. Discipline Shaping education

It doesn't require a lot of people to grow Genoa. There were 161 people from the Yugoslavia Genoa wanted, some of them dictatorial. Three people from the Rwandan Genino plant are historical witnesses. In Burma, when some people become the ruling class, they try to perpetuate their power by misrepresenting the motto of education and saying: Discipline He was playing the role of "education minus".

People in the diaspora:

On the one hand, there is a great deal of animosity and hatred among the people. Conflicts; In carrying out a peer-led campaign for divisive divisions, each person is given an opportunity to tell each other: Citizenship Ethnicity Foreigner Bloody Clean blood Religion Other languages Intruder Label groups were created to be of the same class as Label.

Then the ethnic groups are reduced (144 previously recognized, 135 now recognized, in the spirit of patriotic spirit, love for their own people, love for their religion, love for their ethnicity, self-balancing and love of their own). There is a great deal of divisiveness between the religious and the religious, and even human rights and even political activists have been divided under the spirit of equilibrium.

Disciplined

On the other hand, there are actions aimed at undermining the country.

Low education

Instead of an education that is based on critical thinking, it is the practice of memorization. University Shutdown Education in Burma, which has been dubbed the "Asian Pearl," has been as low as "Asian Pearl" since the uprising of the dictatorship was aimed at the dictatorship.

The disadvantages

Spirituality Rules and regulations When education becomes a sensitive issue, it is likely that the conflict between the ruling class and the divisive hatred of the people will be subdued by the dictatorial spirit of the dictatorship. What are the consequences?

"Do not cook with a roaring fire. As the smog blows over and over, it becomes like boiling pot ”. For some decades, the Rohingya issue has been boiling over for some time. On the other hand, the people of the ethnic nationalities who suffered the civil war. Human rights losses have also taken place across Myanmar. Burmese refugees have been trapped along the border. Still stuck. Overall, Myanmar has consistently complied with the UN Genocide Convention. The reader may continue to wonder if he did not.

The UN Security Council has repeatedly warned

China has repeatedly warned the Burmese authorities that some of these negative effects have been reported, and China and Russia have vetoed UN Security Council action. This gives perpetrators the opportunity to continue to breathe life-long breaths. The alleged genocide of Rohingya today; The support of the ethnic Burmans in support of the genocide has been the consequence of the dictatorship of education that the dictators have played.

Genetic crisis with Geneva government

The unrest in the 2012 by-elections and the ongoing unrest in Arakan State has led to a renewed uprising in all of Burma. International Respect Aung San Suu Kyi, who has become a human rights standard, has been granted a number of mandates since April 2016. But when the NLD government took over, there was a sense of fear and awe in Myanmar. Authoritarian spirit. He was very angry. Discipline Designed for lower education; People from different parts of the psychological warfare UN Security Council repeatedly warned over human rights abuses The status of the 2008 government, which is severely restricted and does not benefit the people, is welcome.

The government's three-and-a-half-year term will have to deal with the Rohingya genocide. Burma is a country of "spirituality." Rules and regulations It needs to be understood that the platform is a platform of education and that the international community will only look at the "Rights, Respects, and Responsibility" platform.

In dealing with the genocide, the NLD government seeks to restore the national reconciliation of 50 million people. Promoting genuine federal democracy; Domestic peace; In addition to the establishment of international norms, it is a time of great difficulty for the internationally anticipated Smooth transaction to Democracy. Take a stand for the truth, Explain the true situation of the Burmese government and the NLD. You must accept a neutral judgment and write a new chapter on history.

F 3 - R 3 education system should be developed instead of 3 education

The underlying cause of the instability that has been plagued by the genocide is due to the current system of education, the "spirit," and the "spirit". Rules and regulations

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megadarkbouquettidalwavethings · 6 years

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Arrested Myanmar reporters: Two book lovers dedicated to their craft

YANGON/BANGKOK (Reuters) – In many ways Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar, symbolize their country’s emergence after decades of isolation – both from modest, provincial backgrounds, they worked hard to pursue careers that would have been impossible in the junta era into which they were born.

Following are profiles of the two journalists, who were arrested on Dec. 12 and have been held since then without contact with their families or a lawyer, accused of breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act:

WA LONE

Wa Lone, 31, grew up in Kin Pyit, a village of some 100 households in the Shwe Bo district north of Mandalay, on Myanmar’s dry central plain between the mighty Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers.

One of five children, his parents were rice farmers and there was little money. His mother died from cancer when he was young.

But he was a good student, according to friends and family, and took a keen interest in news from an early age. One of his brothers, Thura Aung, remembers Wa Lone, aged around 10, watching bulletins on a shared TV in their village.

“Sometimes he would play at being an anchor,” said Thura Aung, 26. “He always said he wanted to be a reporter in the future.”

After finishing school at 16 he enrolled as a student at a government technical university, but left after a couple of semesters because his family could not afford the tuition.

Around 2004 he went to Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s fourth biggest city, living in a Buddhist monastery where his uncle was a monk. In exchange for a place to stay, he would get up at 5 a.m. to clean and prepare food for the monks before going to work at a photo services business. Wa Lone showed a talent for design and photography, and soon set up a small photo services shop of his own, which he ran with Thura Aung.

In December 2010, having saved a little money, the brothers moved back to Yangon, where Wa Lone could pursue his boyhood dream. Living in North Okklapa township, near the city’s airport, they re-established their photo services business, while Wa Lone also enrolled in a media training school and later began taking English classes.

Mindy Walker, an American teacher who met him in 2012, recalls a “skinny kid from the village who had little interaction with foreigners”.

He was so nervous he fled her English class the first time he was called on to answer a question.

“We still joke about that moment and he tells every new student in our class that story so that they feel more confident,” said Walker in an email. “His heart is huge and he is always encouraging others to succeed.”

CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

Within five or six months Wa Lone had landed his first job in journalism on the weekly People’s Age in Yangon, where his editor was Pe Myint – now Myanmar’s Minister of Information.

In 2014, he joined the English-language daily, Myanmar Times, covering the historic 2015 general election that swept Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to power.

“As soon as I met Wa Lone, I knew we had to hire him,” said the paper’s former editor, Thomas Kean. “He was thoughtful, articulate and clearly cared deeply about journalism.”

As well as providing a platform for him to excel as a journalist, the two years he spent at the Myanmar Times was a significant period in Wa Lone’s life – it was there that he met his wife Pan Ei Mon who works in the paper’s sales and marketing department. The couple married in April last year.

Despite the long hours chasing stories and studying, Wa Lone has still found time to write a children’s book, The Gardener, a story in Burmese and English with an environmental message that draws on his own rural roots.

He co-founded the Third Story Project, a charitable foundation that produces and distributes stories that aim to promote tolerance between Myanmar’s different ethnic groups, and is involved in projects working with orphans.

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, who was arrested in Myanmar, is seen at Reuters office in Yangon, Myanmar March 14, 2017. REUTERS/Antoni Slodkowski

Many of his weekends off have been spent visiting poor rural villages – much like the one where he grew up.

“He brings story books from Third Story and gives them to children,” said Pan Ei Mon. “He reads to them and does painting competitions and sings with the children.”

Wa Lone joined Reuters in July 2016 and quickly made his mark with in-depth stories on sensitive subjects including land grabs by the powerful military and the murder of prominent politician Ko Ni, as well as uncovering evidence of killings by soldiers in the northeast.

His reporting on the crisis that erupted in northwestern Rakhine state in October 2016 won him a joint honorable mention from the Society of Publishers in Asia in its annual awards.

He returned to Rakhine this year, after attacks by Rohingya Muslim militants on security forces in August triggered a crackdown by the army.

Covering such subjects is not easy in a country where the transition from decades of junta rule is proving painful.

“His bravery over the past year, and particularly since Aug. 25, has been incredible. It’s hard to describe the tide of ill-feeling towards journalists who question the military-government narrative on Rakhine,” said Kean, his former editor.

FILE PHOTO: Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, who is based in Myanmar, poses for a picture at the Reuters office in Yangon, Myanmar December 11, 2017. REUTERS/Antoni Slodkowski/File Photo

“As soon as one of my colleagues said, ‘Have you heard about Wa Lone?’, I knew he’d been arrested. His reporting has undoubtedly made him a target. It’s heartbreaking, infuriating and completely unsurprising.”

KYAW SOE OO

Family and friends of Kyaw Soe Oo say he has always had a love of writing, and composed poetry before becoming a journalist.

Min Min, the founder of the Root Investigative Agency, where Kyaw Soe Oo worked after starting his reporting career with the online Rakhine Development News, described the 27-year-old as “a joyful person” who had many friends.

“When I first met him in 2013, he was a poet not a journalist and not interested in journalism yet,” said Min Min.

An ethnic Rakhine Buddhist, Kyaw Soe Oe grew up in the state capital Sittwe, and was one of five siblings.

“He is a good elder brother,” said his sister, Nyo Nyo Aye, adding that her brother always stood out from the crowd.

“He was always with books. He went to the book store or second-hand booksellers. He spent all his money buying books. .”

Childhood friend Zaw Myo Thu said he avoided becoming caught up in the communal tensions between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims that have seethed in the city since the upheavals in 2012.

“He wrote poems. He loved to read,” he said. “He never fought with anyone.”

But it was that conflict which drew him into journalism, covering Rakhine issues. He had been with Reuters since September, reporting on the army’s crackdown in the aftermath of militant attacks on security forces on Aug. 25.

“As a journalist, he will cover news, but I think he will do it fairly because he does not discriminate between races,” said his sister Nyo Nyo Aye. “He just realises all are human.”

For Reuters, Kyaw Soe Oo worked on an investigative story about Myanmar’s plan to harvest the crops of Rohingya farmers who fled to Bangladesh, and reported on how some Buddhists were enforcing local-level segregation in central Rakhine.

“He didn’t tell me about the work and I never asked,” said his wife, Chit Thu Win, with whom he has a three-year-old daughter. “I believed in him that he is doing the right thing and he’s just following his passion. He wanted to be a writer.”

Reporting by Thuy Thuy Aung, Shoon Naing, Antoni Slodkowski, Simon Lewis, Andrew R.C. Marshall and Yimou Lee; Writing by Alex Richardson; Edited by Martin Howell

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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Myanmar’s Garment Sector Could be Vastly Improved in Three Years by Arthur Friedman Posted on December 14, 2017 in News, Trade Photo credit: Google Images A consortium of government organization, labor groups and academia has launched a three-year project in Myanmar with the purpose of improving the work environment in the country’s garment sector, including job creation, more sustainable and efficient productivity and greater community relations. The project will take place in 12 factories supplying Western brands, including Danish fashion retailer Bestseller, according to the Danish Ethical Trading Initiative (DETI), which is coordinating the project in collaboration with the British Ethical Trading Initiative, Danish trade union 3F, and Aalborg University in Denmark, with the backing of the Danish Market Development Partnerships Fund. DETI said the project, which will run to the end of 2020, supports the democratic transformation in Myanmar, including a long-term effort to increase competitiveness and strengthen respect for human and labor rights in the country’s textile and garment sector. While Myanmar’s move to democracy after years of military rule resulted in the country holding its first nationwide election late last year, won in a landslide by Suu Kyi, problems persist as it seeks to lure foreign economic investment. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya, considered one of the most persecuted minorities in the world, have fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine state to Bangladesh since August. The government of Myanmar, a predominately Buddhist country, claims the Rohingya people are illegal immigrants from neighboring Bangladesh and has denied them citizenship, leaving them stateless. The Rohingya—who have their own language and culture—say they are descendants of Muslim traders who have lived in the region for generations. [Read more about Myanmar’s growth: Myanmar Signs Trade Agreement with EU Chamber of Commerce] In November 2016, the U.S. re-designated the country, formerly known as Burma, as eligible for the General System of Preference program. While U.S. trade with Burma remains small, since the initial lifting of sanctions, it has grown significantly. In 2016, two-way goods trade was $438 million, with U.S exports totaling $194 million, having almost quadrupled since 2012, according to the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office. “The purpose of the effort is to improve the efficiency, quality and working environment of textile production, and increase knowledge of human and labor rights and social dialogue for the benefit of both social and economically sustainable development of the industry,” DETI said. “The project’s results will be used to develop a defined business case that can be used to spread experience to companies and employees throughout the textile industry in Myanmar. At the same time, the project contributes to the UN’s World Social, Economic and Environmental Sustainable Development Strategy.” The domestic stakeholders in the project are SMART Myanmar, Yangon Technological University and local trade unions, Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar and UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey project.

Myanmar Project Aims to Improve Status of Garment Industry

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Interview of the month September 2017– Interview with Kristen Palana

While supporting expats to settle in smoothly, I publish these interviews, revealing personal stories, tips, and ideas. Arriving in a new country is such a change, so how can you make it feel ‘’Home’’ easily? This month, answers are revealed by Kristen, an expert in moving abroad.

Original country: USA

Expat countries: Ireland, Scotland, Italy, Myanmar (With short-term working stints also in India, Liberia, Ethiopia, and Tanzania

Current country: Myanmar

Your story in a nutshell:

I am an American/Portuguese multimedia artist recently based in Rome, Italy where I served as Associate Professor of Digital Media and the Director of the Film and Digital Media Program at The American University of Rome since 2006. In July of 2016, I moved to Yangon, Myanmar where I am now currently an Associate Professor of Digital Media at American University of Myanmar. I work on animation, video, graphic design, illustration, web and interactive projects independently, as well as for clients and non-profit organizations (www.kpalana.com) The vast majority of the work that I do is to promote positive social change.

I have taught undergraduate and graduate college students since 2000, as well as offered art and multimedia courses in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Besides teaching tens of thousands of online students at Udemy and other platforms, I’m also a Course Facilitator for the UN-mandated University for Peace (Costa Rica) through their Centre For Executive Education.

We came to Myanmar mainly for my husband’s job at the UN’s World Food Programme. We liked life in Rome, but conditions were not right for us to put down roots and we wanted to explore another part of the world. So here we are.

Biggest challenges:

-Helping my two sons, ages 5 and 7 feel settled. And also trying to find ways that they don’t lose their Italian language! -Dealing with the weird sensation of leaving full-time employment to being an entrepreneur and someone looking to teach in-person in my new home.

Did you integrate and adjust smoothly? What went well and what was hard:

It has been nearly a year now in Myanmar. Initially, I wondered if I would hate, like, or even love my new home. It’s one of the few places in my life that I moved to without having had the opportunity to visit first. (The other two were Edinburgh, Scotland and Los Angeles, CA. respectively.)

I can now say with profound certainty that it is indeed, love. Yangon, Myanmar is the most happening city in all of Myanmar and yet it doesn’t suffer (yet) from choking smog or that boxed-in feeling you might get from larger cities from an over-abundance of giant skyscrapers blocking out the sun.

You certainly can find too much traffic and crowded, teeming streets full of humanity. And while you might pass several beautiful towering golden pagodas or temples, you will also most certainly see moldy-looking buildings that are downright run-down with trash piling up in their back alleyways and spilling into the streets. For this reason, I have (I believe) invented a new word to help me describe my Yangon: Shabbical. (That’s part shabby, part magical.) The magic lies in the small details. Here you are more likely to get a heartfelt smile and a wave from a gang of teenagers on the street as opposed to the finger like in other parts of the world.

Myanmar, despite being one of the poorest countries in Asia also happens to be the world’s most generous country according to the CAF World Giving Index.

Where you find inspiration from:

Daily life and the kindness of most locals.

Do you feel you belong or rather feel a stranger?

I feel both depending on the day.

Please tell us your important TIP(s) when moving to a new country:

Do Your Homework OK. I know that sounds boring, but do read up on where you will be moving to; its history, customs, places of interest, challenges, etc… The more you arm yourself with knowledge about your new home, the less weird and foreign it will seem which will then lead to you having more confidence to walk around as a new citizen rather than as a timid tourist. It also helps to stock up on maps, books, videos, and other resources that you can go back to again and again as you are dipping your toe in the waters of your new home.

Smile, Make Nice and DO Learn at Least Some of the Local Language No joke but the day I found out we were moving to Myanmar, one of the first questions I had was, “What language do they even speak?” Ba-ma-za-ga would be the answer. (That’s Burmese in Burmese but using our Roman alphabet. Baby steps!)

I believe that the very first words you should learn, even if you are just making a day trip to a foreign country are at a minimum, “Hello” and “Thank You.” Particularly when you are traveling in parts of the world where the languages are mainly spoken only by locals, it’s worth it just to see the LOOK on people’s surprised and happy faces. Learning even just a few words of the local language says a lot about what kind of person you are. Being able to even just say “thank you,” even if you botch the whole thing up, also means that you are respectful, empathetic, and humble enough to at least try.

Upon Arrival, Sign Up for a Class…. Stat! It doesn’t have to be a language class, though for purely survival reasons I recommend starting there. (The downside for me is I now speak the most Burmese in our family so have to do all the taxi negotiations, restaurant ordering, and asking for directions…) When you move somewhere new, suddenly you are a stranger. All your family and friends are thousands of miles away. Even the people from your old grocery store and the coffee shop who said hi to you each day are nowhere to be found. The best way to start feeling normal again is to start putting yourself out there (sounds like dating!) and interacting both with locals as well as other expats.

Great options include language classes, meditation groups, religious study groups, sports clubs, continuing education classes and more. Look for classes and other meet-up events for expats through groups like Internations as well as local Facebook and Google groups for expats in the city you just moved to. Try to do this BEFORE your move so you can make a few online friends and get information before you even set foot in your new home.

Helping Others Also Helps You You may or may not know that moving to a new city or country is extremely taxing. Many people, despite brave faces and the best of intentions, end up depressed at first. It’s not easy starting a new life and you should give yourself the permission and space for both positive and negative emotions to pass through you. However, if you’re like me, you prefer to feel useful, happy, connected, and curious as opposed to down in the dumps. One great way to not only meet other locals and foreigners is to find ways to use your talents and skills to help the local community. There are many many non-profit centers, schools, clubs, and individuals to help. You just have to find them and make contact. Not every situation is the right fit, so the key is to just pick something, get started, and see how it goes. Rinse and repeat.

5. Now Go Get Lost So as long as you are safe (walking during the day in a generally safe area with other people around) then go get lost as well. It’s the best way to begin to orient yourself as well as clean out the cobwebs of your mind.

Thank you very much!

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Hello! I’m Nay Aung from Myanmar. I live in Yangon, one of the major cities of our country. I’m interested in various kinds of art, especially drawing and painting. I’m a doctor practicing at my own clinic every evening, running the small business and have one smart kid, but fortunately, I have my spare time for painting and I can still paint.

I’ve painted since I was in my primary school years. My father bought a box of 12 color watercolor pans and a small brush for me probably when I was 12 years old. I first met watercolor at that time. During summer holidays, my father sent me to his friend who was the professional artist in my home town, Taunggyi. I’ve studied the basic and advanced drawing lessons there.

In our country, at that time, most parents did not appreciate their children who had drawing and painting as a hobby. They thought that their child became an artist and lost interest in education. I am always thankful to my father who believed me that I could handle my hobby and also education. Usually our summer holidays lasted for three months and I always drew the whole day at our master’s studio every summer until my high school years. I got just enough drawing skills, but didn’t have enough time to get watercolor lessons from my master in my home town.

At medical university, Yangon, I met some friends who were also interested in art. My horizon of knowledge on art was wider than when I was in my home town, but I had very little chance to do painting there. I’ve made a few and they were all watercolors.

After graduating from medical university, almost a decade, I didn’t do a single painting. I didn’t know what was the main reason of not wanting to paint. Actually there were many influencing factors that stopped the inspiration to paint during these years. Although I didn’t paint, I frequently wandered to local galleries at Yangon to see others’ paintings. I’ve also collected some books on art, both paperbacks and e-books. I’ve already read and read again these books but I just couldn’t do any painting.

In 2012, I visited one of the famous galleries in Yangon accidentally and there I bought a DVD named “Watercolor On Location”. It was a demonstration DVD and the artist’s name was difficult to pronounce for me. I wasn’t serious about the DVD at the time of buying, but after seeing the demonstration, the artist called me to the extremely wonderful and magical world of watercolor. He woke my hobby up which fell asleep for almost a decade. I explored the web and I found the masters who influenced me until today. Yes, Joseph Zbukvic, Alvaro Castanet, Herman Pekel and David Taylor. “Mastering Atmosphere and Mood in Watercolor” became also one of my favorite instruction books.

This time I had a clearer vision for falling in love with watercolor again. To catch the light, to express the mood and to create the magical atmosphere. These are the desires that drive me again to paint with watercolor. I want to make the impressions with watercolor. For me, there is no other medium that gives the satisfying result like watercolor. Its spontaneity and freshness makes me an addict. It is fun when you lose and gain alternatively your control while painting with watercolor.

I’m painting for my pleasure because watercolor gives me the freedom to enter a wonderful world which is different from the real world. Clearly, I also understood that you can’t run from something that is part of you. Maybe you can hide for certain periods from it, but it’ll find you again someday. Currently, I have no formal education in watercolor and I’ve done what I feel best for the painting.

Regarding my painting materials, for the last two or three decades, we didn’t have quality art supplies in our country. Many professional artists got their art supplies from their foreign friends or they could buy when they visited other countries. During university years, I used the Winsor & Newton paints (from China). I used the brushes from local brush makers and they were not good for watercolor painting. Just one or two art supplies shops in Yangon, and we could buy some artist grade paints there, but the prices were not affordable for me at that time.

Today, more quality art supplies are available in Yangon. We have some online agents who can sell these supplies. We can buy any famous brand of watercolor in Yangon. But currently, I use the Camel artist’s watercolor which is very cheap and suitable for practicing. My palette contains Ultramarine, Cobalt, and Cerulean for BLUE, Crimson Lake, Scarlet Lake and Vermillion for RED, Yellow Ochre, Gamboge and Lemon Yellow for YELLOW. Sap green and viridian are used for GREEN. Burnt Sienna and Sepia are also used for increasing the tone.

I’ve already bought new sets of Van Gogh watercolor tubes and tried to paint. For paper, usually the Renaissance watercolor pad (200 gsm) is used because it is available at nearly every stationery store. But my favorite is Daler Rowney paper (300 gsm) although it is expensive for me. I used Monet and Mont Marte mop brushes and Van Gogh round brushes. Of course, a lot better than university years! I never use small brushes except for some details. Small paper and big brush is my approach to watercolor nowadays.

I love a loose and free painting style, and I think it is the best part of this medium. If you’re interested in “ISMs” of Art history, let’s say it is the impressionist’s watercolors.

And last, but not the least, I’m glad that I found the place where I can share my painting experiences and listen to others who have the same passion and dreams. Thanks Charlie for your creation and inviting me as a guest artist! Hope you guys get something fun and inspirational from this post!

Nay Aung My Blog (Sorry for Myanmar language, I’ll try to post in English more in the future) Art Station Instagram Facebook Doodlewash Gallery

#WorldWatercolorGroup - GUEST ARTIST: "Watercolor Obsession" by Nay Aung -#Doodlewash #Myanmar Hello! I’m Nay Aung from Myanmar. I live in Yangon, one of the major cities of our country.

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