10.06.2007
How people are remembered
For their life time work and good deeds
_ By JORDBUR
In Burma there are some so called leaders who are nearly 80 and never do any good thing for the community, for the country where they were born and raised up, for the people who are feeding them, for men he is leading; but just did raising his children as good for nothing spoiled brats and his old women a spend drift wasting the tax payers’ money during her shopping trips abroad. The best example, very unsurprisingly, is Senior General Than Shwe, the leader of the ruling military Junta, native of Kyauk Se` in central Burma.
But on the other hand, there are other people in Burma who are remembered for their life time work and good deeds even though they are just humble librarians retired about half a decade ago. The recently passed away British lady, Monica Mya Maung, who married to Burmese man seems to have served her adopted country better than a Burmese fatty General from Kyauk Se` who is messing up the country with his cunning tactics and brutally oppressing his own country men.
Monica Mya Maung
Obituary Monica Mya Maung
Ralph Isaacs
Monday June 4, 2007
The Guardian
Monica Mya Maung, who has died aged 91 in Rangoon, was the last English woman remaining in Burma from the colonial era, having lived also through wartime occupation by the Japanese and more recent dictatorships. In 1965, after General Ne Win (the last Burmese military dictator but three) closed down the British Council, Monica guarded the remnants of the library, stored in the British embassy, and kept it functioning in the bleak years until the council reopened in the 1980s - with herself as librarian.
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Comments:
Setkyar Heine said _
Thank you Monica Mya Maung for your contribution to our society, country,
devotion to your husband and specifically, for laying down your bones in Burma.
It is indeed a great honor for our country also. Even though you were born an
alien, you really deserved to be given your last resting place in our country,
given what you have done for our country and its people.
However, I don't like the idea that you have given English tuitions to the
children of the murdering military rascals. However, I understand your position
- accommodating or adapting to the reality - living in the country run by the
military devils.
Even Ne Win was deprived of a resting place in Burma and everybody knows why;
And believe me so also will Than Shwe and his brood, not to mention his
hirelings and fellow thugs who are ruining our country at their will today; when
the time comes for them to lay their bones down. If they are not smart enough
like Ne Win's brood, and get buried in Burma, their resting places and their
bones will be destroyed and dug out, when we get back our country, sooner rather
than later, if they don't know yet..
We will never let them rest in peace, alive or dead, PERIOD.
The longer they keep on killing, torturing and ruling the country like today,
the deeper our resolve to hit back, and render justice for their brutality and
lawlessness.
We will never leave them to REST IN PEACE also, as long as they are in place in
Burma or even if they run away to other lands. We will hound them and bring them
to justice like the JEWS did to the NAZIS in the wake of the last Great War
until today..
Well, my heartfelt sorrow for your demise and gratitude for a long and selfless
service to our country and people.
May you be born back, this time in Burma, and see yourself through to NIRVANA,
if you haven't attained that yet.
And in that case, I fervently pray that you will never be born into any of those
bullying, thieving, and killing ilk of Than Shwe and his thugs today or ever.
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