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19 July, Martyr’s Day

Bamarlay — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:23:26 +0000

Arzarni Day Today is the 62nd years after General Aung San and the cabinet ministers were assassinated. On the morning of 19 July 1947, a group of gun men stormed into the cabinet meeting room at the Secretariat Office in Rangoon. Together with General Aung San, six other cabinet members were assassinated. Killed together with them were the secretary of the cabinet and his body guard. In honour of the Burma’s martyrs, Myanmar Today has presented a video from youtube with the famous song about General Aung San. 19 July, Martyr’s Day is an article from Myanmar Today, a site about Myanmar news, culture, custom, information and travel advice. If you like our articles, why don't you link to us in your website? It is simple. Just copy and paste the following code somewhere into your webpage. We really appreciate your link to us. <a href="http://www.myanmar2day.com/">Myanmar Today</a> Related Posts No related posts.

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Myanmar Thrones

Bamarlay — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:22:00 +0000

An account of various thrones used by Myanmar kings King Badon (Bodawphaya, 1782-1819) moved to the new palace on 17 May 1783 and Amarapura (the City of No Death) on 1 June 1783. One of his ministers called Jeyasankhaya (Zayyathinkhaya) compiled An Account on Golden Palace (Shwebon Nidan) and he completed the work on 21 February 1784. This work was used a handbook on the paraphernalia of almost everything used in the palace. It also explained how a particular thing in the palace (for instance a throne) was made, why is was made and for what purpose it was made. Most of the information given below is from this book. A king uses eight kinds of throne. The name is Pallan (Palin) and it is derived from a Pali word pallanka meaning a seat. As the king uses it, this seat is generally known by the name of Rajapallanka (Yazapalin, the king’s seat). When it has a span of twenty four feet (5.53 meters) it is Mahapallanka, twelve feet (2.76 meters) Majjimapalanka and six feet (1.88 meters ) Culapallanka. Each throne is usually decorated with eight pieces, viz, (1) Lion, (2) Elephant in the Air, (3) Guardian God (Lokhanatha), (4) [...]

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Stilwell Road: Burma’s Stilwell Road Revive

Thet Naing — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:04:37 +0000

“It was a road some said couldn’t be built. Most of the men ordered to make it happen were African American soldiers sorted into Army units by the color of their skin. As World War II raged, they labored day and night in the jungles of Burma, sometimes halfway up 10,000-foot mountains, drenched by 140 inches of rain in the five-month monsoon season. They spanned raging rivers and pushed through swamps thick with bloodsucking leeches and swarms of biting mites and mosquitoes that spread typhus and malaria. Some died from disease or fell to their deaths when construction equipment slid along soupy mud tracks and dropped off cliffs. Others drowned, or were killed pulling double duty in combat against the Japanese.” These are the excerpt from the Stilwell Road: Burma’s Stilwell Road Revive, an article recently published in Los Angeles Times. The article describe briefly the history of famous Stilwell Road and how India and China are trying to restore, revive and reopen this important land link between the two Asian powers. Morefamously known as Ledo Road, it is built during the World War II by allied to supply China which was underseige by Japanese Imperial Army. However, the Ledo [...]

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Adorable Mother’s Admirable Journey By Tin Moe

Bamarlay — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:42:01 +0000

Gee up “HE!” promts the bulls to go forward with bell jingling, A few who could tarry in rest house hear it and tally beads. And so the British period passed. Bombs booming and aeroplanes wheezing; Seek shelter in a religious dwelling The one ventures in up and down riverine trading While the freedom fight is commencing And so the World War II passed. Loud noises acclaim with pride the national independence Flags flying, banners streaming in craziness Like a tidal wave it climbs And shake the earth with violence. There is however a sadness as if the sky fell And so the Aung San epoh passed. The bell tolls, the whistle blows; The Victory Drum booms! A glow We are free, we are happy – but ephemeral. Blood everywhere; it’s real. Old sheds razed to ground; hills blazed to crumble, Mothers with babies fled and trembled. Everybody was in haste everywhere These were tragedies with no finish And so the Independence episode passed. So the ears come and go Sunset eventually leads to dawn So we toil along an endless journey. Here is a prompt that could be used But it has been misplaced: the journey continues Heart was [...]

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