KyiMayKaungBurmese: August 2021

Monday, 30 August 2021

Market crash causes farmers in Nn Shan State to abandon produce by roadside--pl RT

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/08/30/245601.html

Market crash causes farmers to abandon produce by roadside in Nn Shan State--pl RT on your social media pages.

I hope someone can go get them for those starving in jungle, Mindat, Sagaing region.

At least sun dry the eggplant and try and cook tomatoes into sauce with salt. You can sun dry tomatoes, mustard (monyin) leaves etc too.

8-30-2021

@DrSasa22222 @cnnbrk @washingtonpost @zinmaraung1976

at August 30, 2021

Friday, 27 August 2021

Sagaing, junta retreats sick w Covid, 12 civilians killed in 1 week, vacs for NUG coming in via Rangoon Aiport

https://www.irrawaddy.com/authors/the-irrawaddy

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/at-least-12-civilians-killed-by-myanmar-junta-in-week.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-shadow-government-plans-covid-19-vaccine-rollout.html

who wants to bet army won't take all??

8-27-2021

Border crossings with Afghanistan--13 with Pakistan alone-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Border_crossings_of_Afghanistan

It could be that Afghan refugees have exhausted their strength and resources getting to Kabul International Airport, or they can't back track and go to a land border,

but pl retweet or share this.

It might save someone's life.

8-27-2021

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/dalan-was-killed-yuzana-city-08272021042256.html

I don't know hpw this city became "taw" (royal) in Burmese--Must be where military and top brass live.

The humongous gate is "mil taste."

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/knu-military-council-camp-being-seized-08272021023433.html

Note, PDF is flying US flag. :)

http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/484054

small contingent surprise by PDF while they were resting in forest, 3 huts burned, casualities unknown.

sigh

စစ်ကောင်စီလက်ထဲတွင် သေဆုံးသည့် မောင်စန်းဝင်းအောင် သတင်းမှားအလွှင့်ခံခဲ့ရ

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/authors/%e1%80%a7%e1%80%9b%e1%80%ac%e1%81%80%e1%80%90%e1%80%ae

Not true SACgave him chance to talk to family before he died.

Instead, he was killed and family asked to come “ransom” his remains with cash, 1,000,000 kyat. Since his family was not rich and because community pressured them, they did not do so.

He was in a charitable association helping with Covid.

It’s all a racket.

8-27-2021

8-27-2021

Wednesday, 25 August 2021

junta seizes 150 in 10 days + SAC killed--RFA 41 already tortured & killed etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-seizes-around-150-civilians-in-10-days.html

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en

https://www.rfa.org/burmese

http://burmese.dvb.no/ Wife and daughter of arrested NLD seized when they came to deliver items for htaung win sar (food etc)

Bc of lack of time and "abundance of news" I won't be posting individual items any more. If you read Burmese, also check last 2 sites daily.

at August 25, 2021

Monday, 23 August 2021

Burma--arrested columnist faces life in prison, Tamu battle 17 SAC dead (total 79) + poor seek to sell kidneys

https://www.irrawaddy.com/

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/two-military-council-train-informants-killed-in-aungpan-08232021055511.html

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/program_2/some-poor-people-try-to-sell-their-kidneys-08232021052439.html

8-23-2021

Sunday, 22 August 2021

Vietnamese Americans sponsor Afghans

https://katu.com/news/local/local-vietnamese-americans-host-sponsor-afghan-refugee-families

6 months after coup, 2000 junta troops have joined CDM

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/08/20/245359.html

Civil Disobedience Movement.

5 soldiers incld 1 officer defect from Magway junta arms factory.

http://burmese.dvb.no/archives/482963

Of 15 defectors fr Magway, Burma junta arms factory, one shot and killed. 15 inlcd one officer armed with pistol.

@POTUS @PentagonPresSec @cnnbrk @washingtonpost

Saturday, 21 August 2021

RSF has strongly condemned --

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/rsf-reporters-coup-military-08212021125612.html

RSF has strongly condemned

Sole contributor Frontier Myanmar & VOA U Sithu Aung Myint and BBC presenter Htet Htet Khaing arrested while they were in hiding in Rangoon, whereabouts not known.

@RSF_inter @POTUS @PentagonPresSec

KNU vs SAC

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/knu-military-battle-08212021062510.html

8-21-2021

4 days of clashes

30 SAC killed.

Afghan Resistance Appears

https://nypost.com/2021/08/20/afghan-resistance-fighters-take-back-territory-from-taliban/

Friday, 20 August 2021

Sanjay Gupta--co-existing with Covid

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/health/coronavirus-steps-to-coexist-gupta-wellness/index.html

The #Taliban have begun rounding up #Afghans on a blacklist of people they believe have worked in key roles with the previous Afghan administration or with U.S.-led forces that supported it, according to a report by a Norwegian intelligence group.

Taliban are rounding up Afghans on blacklist - private intel report

The Taliban have begun rounding up Afghans on a blacklist of people they believe have worked in key roles with the previous Afghan administration or with U.S.-led forces that supported it, according...

reuters.com

Hking family found dead with dog may have died due to toxic algae blooms.

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/20/1029582815/california-family-dies-under-mysterious-circumstances-toxic-algae-may-be-to-blam

Shld take care in areas with no cell phone service.

Tell someone your destination and date you shld be back.

8-20-2021

Thursday, 19 August 2021

Kayah and Shan villagers taken as human shields by junta

https://burma.irrawaddy.com/news/2021/08/19/245317.html

USA--Covid vaccine booster etc

https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiECDmgzzOf3MluTm0BleBupgqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowyNj6CjDyiPICMJyFxQU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen

get the boosters and the flu shots at the correct time, 8 months after.

So far only Moderna and Pfizer boosters available starting Sept 20. (USA)

Annual flu shot available, appts + walk in at CVS now.

8-19-2021

Wednesday, 18 August 2021

Burma--Lawpita power line, sole survivor of 44th st reaches safety, banking crisis + "Apple" + drunk soldiers taunt--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-resistance-landmines-kill-junta-troops-after-attack-on-power-line.html

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/sole-escapee-describes-downtown-yangon-raid-that-led-to-the-deaths-of-at-least-two-activists

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/expert-economists-militarys-management-of-myanmars-banking-system-is-catastrophic-and

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-apple-that-fell-in-44th-street

Drunk soldiers taunt, kill civilian at Sagaing Region ferry port

ppl killed has passed 1000 mark AAPP.

5 links

Ill effects of betel nut chewing--

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-31921207

pl post on yr FB pages

It can cause stimulant effects similar to caffeine and tobacco use. It can also cause more severe effects including vomiting, diarrhea, gum problems, increased saliva, kidney disease, chest pain, abnormal heart beat, low blood pressure, shortness of breath and rapid breathing, heart attack, coma, and death.

the quicklime can cause calcification of lungs.

My cousin died of it.

8-18-2021

BETEL NUT: Overview, Uses, Side Effects, Precautions

Tuesday, 17 August 2021

My poetry collection, Pelted with Petals: The Burmese Poems

Abe Books is selling first editions of my poetry for $51--but you are better off buying them from me. barnebys.com/auctions/lot/p I'm working on a 27th anniv edition--you can pre-order now. km\

How to help Afghan refugees--

I know everyone is having a hard time, but to be a refugee is worse, whether you be Burmese or Afghan or Syrian or anything else.

You won't feel $20 but it may go a long way. Better than to slather gold on a pagoda.

At least this is a list vetted by CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/17/world/iyw-how-to-help-afghan-refugees/index.html

8-17-2021

Burma News

Another SAC sympathizer shot in middle of his forehead in his compound, Kamayut, Rangoon, Burma

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/kamayut-gun-shot-08172021070114.html

NUG will soon announce long awaited D Day.

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/pdf-d-day-08172021092716.html

Burma, Kamayut, Rangoon--Another SAC sympathizer shot in middle of his forehead, in his compound.

Burma--Kamayut, Rangoon

another SAC sympathizer shot in middle of forehead,

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/kamayut-gun-shot-08172021070114.html

So far over 200 have been killed,

at August 17, 2021

Please share widely--there are going to be 2.6 m Afghan refugees soon--Taliban already killed one woman

Special

13 border crossings w Pakistan alone!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Border_crossings_of_Afghanistan

Pakistan has only reopened 2 so far

#GetAMoveJoe

@PentagonPresSec @ChiefPentSpox45 @DepPentPressSec

Monday, 16 August 2021

NPR--Kabul Airport chaotic

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/16/1028027315/u-s-embassy-staff-in-afghanistan-are-evacuated-to-kabuls-airport

There is such a thing as leaving too late, or being unable to leave.

Now Taliban is in Kabul, they can't be bombed.

It's terrible.

I don't know how US Army can get everyone out who is trapped in airport.

One Vietnamese artist I interviewed said she only had one shoe on when got on heli when Saigon fell.

Huong is now an artist who exhibits but never needs to sell a painting, her husband, a real estate developer built a big studio and museum/gallery just for her.

Sunday, 15 August 2021

Taliban have taken Kabul--

Taliban fighters have entered Afghanistan’s presidential palace hours after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country — in pictures aje.io/jhsyub

Burma, Waingmaw Kachin State-- SAC panics, wild shooting as attacked earlier by KIA-PDF. mizzimaburmese.com/article/84950

DVB Democratic Voice of Burma, interviewed retired US Army General, Dr. Mi Mi Win Byrd--in Burmese

http://burmese.dvb.no/

It's streaming.

I just happened on it bc I check the site at least 2 times a day -- I suggest you approach DVB for an official transcript and translation--

Said Burmese army has lost the trust of the people and no way can it be legitimate, and she ended with a plea to wear your cloth mask 3 layers, even at home among family members.

She also praised the heroes appearing among (PDF)

Her Burmese is quite fluent though the interviewer talks too fast.

DVB does not even provide running subtitles in Burmese, nor does RFA, and there are a lot of different accents, from American to Chin to Kachin--at least RFA has website with written articles or transcripts.

It depends how well these radio/TV stations are funded and how effectively they use their money.

We don't want things like Gen. Dostum's palace just over run by the Taliban, right??

8-15-2021

Taliban enters outskirts of Kabul --

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/15/asia/afghanistan-interpreters-us-visa-taliban-cmd-intl/index.html

Saturday, 14 August 2021

US Embassy staff rushed to Kabul airport as Taliban--

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/14/us-embassy-staff-rushed-to-kabul-airport-504538

It may fall in a matter of hours or even minutes.

8-14-2021

Books in Burmese for buyers outside Burma.

http://www.myanmarbookshop.com/Default/SendMail/1

I have not tried it yet and don't know who they are, but prices look reasonable. For people who still read in Burmese or are bringing up children whom they wish could read Burmese.

Burma--Loikaw --another dalan "cleared up" in their own words by probably PDF

https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/chair-of-pro-military-political-party-in-kayah-state-stabbed-to-death

large man with large vulnerable surface area.

Spy Museum poster on subway.

The attackers/death squads are becoming more sophisticated in getting close to their targets.

One of first was a timed bomb in a wedding gift package wh killed the bride and others as she was opening gifts.

A man in a Covid mask delivered the large box, sat for awhile, and left when his cell phone rang.

Those killed were all suspected dalan or junta snitches, well known in communities.

No one has counted them but there must be abt 2 dozen by now.

8-14-2021

Burma/Myanmar --SAC convoy mined, 30 killed

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-troops-killed-in-sagaing-and-kayah.html

Serious Covid USA situation --

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/14/us/full-icus-summer-covid-surge/index.html

https://www.npr.org/2021/08/14/1027663917/rsv-covid-children

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/14/health/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html

Don't send children back to school.

Facebook support NUG profile change campaign --2m

https://www.rfa.org/burmese/news/accept-nug-reject-military-campaign-08132021185158.html

Steinberg-surprising fr a career fence sitter

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmar-juntas-caretaker-government-on-course-to-fail.html

Friday, 13 August 2021

Dr Kyi May Kaung--from 2001, Interview of poet Tin Moe.

My interview of poet the late Tin Moe, from Burma Debate, 2001.

https://www.burmalibrary.org/sites/burmalibrary.org/files/obl/docs15/U_Tin_Moe-poems.pdf

@AmericanPenUSA

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thai-arms-manufacturer-denies-involvement-in-murder-plot-against-un-myanmar-envoy.html

Covid situation USA--

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/13/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

Eight states, many of which have lagged the national average for vaccinations, have Covid-19 patients that account for at least 15% of their overall hospitalizations: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Texas, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Florida governor deploying rapid-response team to fight Covid-19 surge

Of all Covid-19 hospitalizations, these eight states' combined totals make up approximately 51% of patients, though the states account for only around 24% of the nation's population, according to Census data.

https://news.yahoo.com/4-teachers-died-covid-within-072029730.html

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