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News from local media about Yangon Bomb Blast

Bamarlay — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:56:13 +0000

A number of local news journals have published the accounts of the bomb blast in Yangon during Thingyan New Year Water Festival. Excerpts from Eleven News local media are translated here for our visitors. “My father is a hundred-household chief (local administrative council member). On that day, he was working as a security at the Myanmar Medical Association Pandal around Kandawgyi Lake. He went there since 7 AM, came back home at 12 for lunch and went back again at 2 PM. Around 3, I heard two loud explosions. A few seconds later, I heard another explosion. One of our friends told us that my father was hit in the bomb explosion. He fell down when the bomb exploded. He was still breathing at that time, but was not conscious anymore. His niece brought him to the nearby Worker’s Hospital immediately, but was dead by the time he arrived there. “ Recount from daughter of bomb victim U Khin Maung Lay “My mother was sleeping in the morning. My niece wanted to go so at around 2 PM, my mother, my sister and my niece went out there. They were standing and watching at the end of 125th street opposite [...]

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Bomb Blast in Yangon Thingyan Killed Eight

Bamarlay — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:07:18 +0000

Photo: Nyi Lynn Seck reproduced with permission Three bomb blasts rocked former capital Yangon (Rangoon) during the Thingyan Myanmar New Year celebration this afternoon. According to official MRTV (Myanmar Radio and Television) announcement this evening, three bombs blasted in front of X20 water pandal near Kandawgyi Lake in downtown Yangon (Rangoon) at around 3.15 PM. Because of the bomb, 8 people (5 male and 3 female) died and injured 75 people(59 male and 16 female) were injured. According to unofficial rumours, the number of death is as high as 30, but this cannot be individually confirmed. The photos of the bomb boast were posted on this blog post of Nyi Lynn Seck. Face book’s Burmese pages were immediately filled with news of the bomb blast as well as people’s voices showing anger at the bombers. Myanmar Today also got this news a few hours before the official announcement from Face book and Twitter. According to one witness account from a Myanmar blog, people were not aware of the bomb blast at first, thinking it was base sound from the loudspeaker. However, after a while, some people started to realize the truth and ran away, creating chaos and confusion. Some people were [...]

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Myanmar Thingyan 2010

Bamarlay — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:19:43 +0000

People all over Myanmar (Burma) will be celebrating New Year Thingyan water festival next week. The traditional Myanmar Thingyan water festival is a similar event to a much well known Thai Songkran. However, it is more widely and fiercely participated by all class of Myanmar (Burmese) society all over the country. This year’s 2010 Myanmar New Year Thingyan water festival will take place from 14 April to 16 April all over the country. Myanmar (Burmese) people all over the world will also participate Thingyan water festival within Myanmar communities. Officially, Myanmar Thingyan will starts from 14 April, but many people, especially younger people and children will start throwing water at each other since 13 April, which is Pre-Thingyan Day. Every year, Thingyan water festival is the biggest event of the year in Myanmar. Tens of thousands of people from all classes in Myanmar (Burma) come out onto the street and joyfully participate in the festival. However, due to various reasons, this year’s Thingyan water festival is expected to be not as much crowded as previous years. If you want to know more about Myanmar Thingyan New Year Water Festival, here is an article in Myanmar Today about Myanmar Thingyan Water [...]

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Myanmar Thingyan

Bamarlay — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 12:07:28 +0000

Thingyan is probably the most celebrated, most joyous event in the culture and custom of Myanmar people. From the poorest to the richest in Myanmar, this is the greatest event for the year. Every body, poor, rich, uneducated, educated, young and old all participate and enjoy in this once a year event. For every Burmese, this is the event not to be missed. Even for those Burmese people in foreign countries, this is the time for a celebration in the memory of their homeland and their culture. Thingyan is indeed the event for every Burmese, in Myanmar or outside. Thingyan is actually not a true traditional Burmese custom. It is an imported cultural event, incorporated and extensively modified over several hundred years to become essentially a true Burmese cultural event. The origin of Thingyan can be traced back to India where it is one of the events of Hindi culture. The culture of Thingyan was brought into Burma by many Indian Brahmins who came to Burma to serve in the courts of Burmese kingdoms. As these Indian Brahmins held important positions in the court of Burmese kings, their culture, tradition and believes had great influence on the culture and tradition [...]

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