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“I’ll lay down my life for you all”: Poetry and Activism on the Streets of Myanmar

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When I last visited Myanmar in 2013, it was to participate in the Irrawaddy Festival to launch Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets . Soon after arriving, I realised the festival was somewhat dubious. They put me up in a colonial relic called the British Club, and the festival itself was organised by the then–British ambassador’s wife, who often kept separate the international from the local writers. Aung San Suu Kyi was the festival patron and has since fallen far, in effect having denied the Rohingya genocide. Since the February 1 military coup, she has been in captivity, her location unknown. At the festival, Aung San Suu Kyi talked about Wordsworth and Oxford over Myanmar literature to a crammed ballroom of over a thousand people. As she did so, taking advantage of the attention diverted elsewhere—it was the country’s first ever international literature festival—the military (also known as the Tatmadaw) decided to stage their own conference, albeit in secret, where its then-various factions could try to agree on how democratic-seeming they wanted to appear to the West. Tragically, years later, we are now seeing the results of this hidden ballot.

On my last night in Myanmar, a leading poet and friend prophesised: “If Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD party doesn’t work out, the country will slip back fifty years.” Given the worsening and escalating situation, this appears to be what is happening. The people of Myanmar, who have survived decades of militaristic, state-sponsored brutality, are now being killed on streets up and down the country. And yet they continue to protest defiantly and peacefully; indeed, the protest itself gathers strength. The demands of the protesters are unequivocal and repeated each day; they are simply asking for a reversal of the coup and a reacknowledgement of NLD’s landslide victory last November. The protests dovetail as a national strike, and, interestingly, some placards scrutinise the unofficial backers of the coup, China and Russia. Their involvement is one of the reasons the West is sitting back, watching the bloodshed whilst publicly condemning it, feebly sanctioning the Tatmadaw who are clearly picking up paycheques from elsewhere.

Writers as well as journalists, artists, and, of course, everyday citizens (including children) are frequently targeted by the Tatmadaw. PEN International (Myanmar) is running an active campaign, and there will be an event on May 22 as part of their Writers in Prison Committee events. Currently, I know of several writers who have either been killed or are in hiding and others who are in prison. This latter group includes Maung Yu Py, whom ko ko thett and I published in Bones Will Crow . He was arrested on March 9, and it is believed he, like other residents in his hometown of Myeik in the south, have been severely tortured. Straight after his arrest, the Tatmadaw rounded up Nayi Myeik who, as well as being a poet, is Maung Yu Py’s lawyer. Across Myanmar since February, there have been night raids on villages and towns, a constant terrorising of the people. The Tatmadaw is, once again, trying to crush the spirit of the people, employing familiar tactics that go back to General Ne Win’s brutal rule over fifty years ago. Maung Yu Py’s “trial” is scheduled in two days, and he is expected to get a minimum of two years in prison. His most famous poem opens: “Under the great ice sheet / A great country has been buried alive.” [i]

On March 3 two young poets, Myint Myint Zin and K Za Win, were killed. Both were also teachers, beloved by their students. Myint Myint Zin divulged her blood type on social media just before she died should anyone injured in the protests need a transfusion. K Za Win was said to be shielding others, including children, who were being fired upon just before he died. In one of his final social media posts , K Za Win poignantly stated: “I’ll lay down my life for you all.” The street where these poets were murdered has been renamed “Martyrs Street.” Worryingly, the current protest parallels the 1988 massacre in Myanmar, which also included a nationwide strike and protesters renaming roads. The “Martyrs Street” back then was a main thoroughfare to Shwedagon Pagoda. It was said to be so drenched in blood it could not be scrubbed clean for months afterwards. Over a thousand people, including many students, were killed. Inaction by the West encourages the death toll to keep rising amid the current protests.

Myint Myint Zin divulged her blood type on social media just before she died should anyone injured in the protests need a transfusion.

Almost three hundred people have been killed so far and more than two thousand detained or arrested. The coup terrorises entire villages and townships each day as well as shooting at unarmed protesters. And it’s not just the Burmese who are being killed. Last week the first Rohingya victim was acknowledged, a twenty-two-year-old young woman in Yangon named Ma Aye Aye Khine. Other Bama Muslims have been brutally murdered too. Earlier this month U Khin Maung Latt, a National League for Democracy (NLD) ward chairman in Pabedan Township, Yangon, was tortured to death. Awful as these deaths are, the fear is the Tatmadaw are now becoming emboldened. This week, I read of a woman who was likely pushed to her death from a high-rise building and a fifteen-year-old student shot in the head. “We won’t leave until the people are dead,” said the Tatmadaw before they killed the young boy. Yesterday the violence claimed its youngest victim, seven-year-old Khin Myo Chit , who died in her father’s arms after being shot by the military in her house. How many have to die before these protests are finally heard in a meaningful way that enacts change?

How many have to die before these protests are finally heard in a meaningful way that enacts change?

Amid the terrible violence, powerful stories of literary activism are emerging, and the protest is holding firm. Earlier this week, I watched a video of some thirty Yangon poets collaborating on a film poem whilst being out on the street. [ii] The cumulative effect of the video is very powerful, reemphasising how Myanmar poets have operated an activist poetics, as survivors, from generation to generation, massacre to coup. The following lines particularly struck me:

We have no weapons. We only have pots and pans. We have no power. We only have pots and pans. Beat the pots. Bang the pans. This is our revolution. – Wai Yan Aung Than

The flowers of winter will rage at you. The waters of the monsoon will drown you. For a just cause, we vow to sacrifice our blood. We won’t let anyone take away our Spring. – Shwe Poe Eain

Particles of a million minds join, As a trembling yet resolute thread. – Zeyar Lynn

Sadly, my own recent editorial work with Rohingya poets has prevented me from being able to reach out to many Myanmar-based poets I previously worked with (the Tatmadaw check phones and emails when they arrest people, faking it up as “evidence” – this is how they identified Maung Yu Py). In Myanmar, any writer mentioning the word “Rohingya” would be severely scrutinised or arrested, hearkening back to the strictness of the censorship era. Perhaps Rohingya poets themselves could have been forgiven for not acting in solidarity with the poets who did not speak up for them during the recent Rohingya genocide. And yet several poems from Rohingya poets in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camps and elsewhere show solidarity with those protesting in Myanmar. [iii] After all, it’s very much their homeland too, their families who have also been killed, imprisoned, and tortured by the Tatmadaw. [iv]

As things are, there remains a chance in Myanmar that the spirit of this revolution will prevail, given its collective strength. The Tatmadaw have unwittingly united a powerful force of unity in the country. As Rakhine poet Won Roe wrote last year: “in the air / screams echo.” [v]

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Author note: I would like to acknowledge and thank ko ko thett and Ro Mehrooz for their helpful suggestions that contributed to this piece.

[i] “Under the Great Ice Sheet,” by Maung Yu Py, published in Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets (Arc Publications/Northern Illinois Press, 2012/2013).

[ii] “ (Yangon-based) Poets Against Dictatorship ”

[iii] Several poems are to be found on the Art Garden Rohingya website. Also, recent poems by Yar Tin are of note. Interestingly, one written this week echoes the Yangon collaborative film, as mentioned. It ends: “In our country / Dictatorship and unlawfulness must end” (translation by Ro Mehrooz).

[iv] On the day I write this, large fires have swept through the Balukhali section of Cox’s Bazar, killing at least fifteen people and displacing forty-five thousand—a tragic reminder of how the Rohingya, exiled from their homeland of Arakan, continue to suffer. (Despite it being reported as one fire, I write “fires” because sources inside the camp sent me footage of two fires started at different points. This is not, in general, how it has been reported by the media.)

[v] Translation by Ro Mehrooz.

James Byrne is a poet, editor, visual artist and translator living in the northwest of England. He co-edited Bones Will Crow: 15 Contemporary Burmese Poets (Arc Publications / Northern Illinois Press, 2012) and I Am a Rohingya: Poems from the Camps and Beyond in 2019 (Arc). His conversation with Mayyu Ali appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of WLT , along with selected Rohingya poetry .

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Despite its poverty and dispiriting censorship, Myanmar is a highly literate country. Last spring freelance writer Stephen Morison Jr. traveled to Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, to visit its many bookstores and interview some of the local authors. He was there for only three days before Cyclone Nargis swept across the country, killing nearly 85,000 people.

Stacks of books rise to the ceiling of Kyaw Thein Literature, one of the many open-air stalls along the sidewalks of downtown Yangon.

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Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring was born from a desire to preserve online expressions of outrage, grief and dissent, say editors

The first literary work to emerge from Myanmar since the military seized control of the country a year ago reveals the altruism and courage of a new generation of writers, its editor has said.

Picking Off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring is an anthology of poems and essays, many of which were written during the military crackdown after last February’s coup . Others date from 1988 to 2020.

Since the coup, “scores of poets have been persecuted, executed or killed in resistance”, said Ko Ko Thett, poet and co-editor of the anthology. The deaths of Myint Myint Zin and K Za Win in March 2021 sent shock waves through Myanmar, he said.

In the book’s introduction, Ko Ko Thett and co-editor Brian Haman wrote: “Many poets … have been jailed for taking part in the protests. We are honoured to include poems by a number of these poets, including some best-loved poems by Khet Thi who died at the hands of the junta’s inquisitors on 8 May.”

After the military seized control, hundreds of people, including children, were killed in street protests . Security forces used water cannon, rubber bullets and live ammunition to disperse protesters. The military imposed restrictions, including curfews and limits to gatherings.

“In the wake of the military’s overthrow of Myanmar’s democratically elected government in February 2021, we found the online literary outpouring of outrage, grief and dissent particularly generous, altruistic and courageous,” said the book’s editors.

The relatively recent introduction of the internet and social media in Myanmar became a powerful vehicle for the circulation of what Ko Ko Thett terms “witness writing”.

“The removal of so much of the censorship following the 2010 election in the so-called ‘transitional Myanmar’ coincided with the introduction of the internet and social media,” he told the Guardian.

“Many poets and writers became active online overnight. In the instantaneity and virality of social media, protest poets who posted their poems online got easily known, easily identified and easily tracked down.”

In the decade after, the internet became a “major vehicle for poetry and voices of protests,” he said.

Witness writing was distinct from protest writing, said Ko Ko Thett, who was a student activist in Yangon in the 1990s and now lives in the UK. “All protest writings may be witness writings, but not all witness writings are protest writings. Witness writing is more subjective and does not usually have an explicit political agenda – however politicised it might be or become.”

The book’s editors said there was an “urgently felt need to preserve these online writings in a more durable and enduring format. Not only does this corpus of writing demonstrate the power and possibilities of the written word when faced with the barrel of a gun, but it also reveals Burmese writing to be aesthetically accomplished and significant.”

Among the pieces in the anthology is Portrait of the Need for Oxygen by Zeyar Lynn, which compares the suffocating grip of the military on the country with that of Covid on an individual.

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In Whose Footfall is Loudest, Thawda Aye Lei described how “flip-flops had always been important witnesses to our revolutions”. In 2021, “every time a group of people were chased by guns and batons, dozens of ownerless flip-flops would be left abandoned on the street … When the security forces were gone, people picked them up and organised them in pairs for their owners to come and collect them.”

Last year was extraordinarily tragic for Myanmar, and there was “no sign of abating conflict in the year to come, if not years”, said Ko Ko Thett. “The stage is set for protracted conflicts, poverty beneath human dignity, human suffering and environmental degradation.”

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Burmese Writers of all time. This list of famous Burmese Writers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Saki ( 1870 - 1916 )

With an HPI of 56.18 , Saki is the most famous Burmese Writer .   His biography has been translated into 37 different languages on wikipedia.

Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), better known by the pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirize Edwardian society and culture. He is considered by English teachers and scholars a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, he himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse. Besides his short stories (which were first published in newspapers, as was customary at the time, and then collected into several volumes), he wrote a full-length play, The Watched Pot, in collaboration with Charles Maude; two one-act plays; a historical study, The Rise of the Russian Empire (the only book published under his own name); a short novel, The Unbearable Bassington; the episodic The Westminster Alice (a parliamentary parody of Alice in Wonderland); and When William Came, subtitled A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns, a fantasy about a future German invasion and occupation of Britain.

2 . S. N. Goenka ( 1924 - 2013 )

With an HPI of 54.88 , S. N. Goenka is the 2nd most famous Burmese Writer .   His biography has been translated into 26 different languages.

Satya Narayana Goenka (ISO 15919: Satyanārāyaṇ Goyankā; Burmese: ဦးဂိုအင်ကာ; MLCTS: u: gui ang ka; 30 January 1924 – 29 September 2013) was an Indian teacher of Vipassanā meditation. Born in Burma to an Indian business family, he moved to India in 1969 and started teaching meditation. His teaching emphasized that the Buddha's path to liberation was non-sectarian, universal, and scientific in character. He became an influential teacher and played an important role in establishing non-commercial Vipassana meditation centers globally. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2012, an award given for distinguished service of high order.

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With an HPI of 50.37 , Irawati Karve is the 3rd most famous Burmese Writer .   Her biography has been translated into 15 different languages.

Irawati Karve (15 December 1905 – 11 August 1970) was a pioneering Indian sociologist, anthropologist, educationist and writer from Maharashtra, India. She was one of the students of G.S. Ghurye, founder of Indian Sociology & Sociology in India. She has been claimed to be the first female Indian Sociologist.

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Introduction to myanmar.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country in the region by land area. It is bordered by India and Bangladesh to its west, Thailand and Laos to its east, and China to its north and northeast.

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Myanmar is a melting pot of different cultures. The country is home to over 100 ethnic groups, each with their own traditions and languages. The main language is Burmese. The people are known for their friendliness and hospitality.

Religion in Myanmar

Buddhism is the main religion in Myanmar. Most people follow Theravada Buddhism. You will find many beautiful pagodas and temples all over the country. These religious sites are important places for prayer and meditation.

Economy of Myanmar

Myanmar’s economy is based on agriculture. Rice is the main crop. The country also has rich natural resources like oil, gas, and precious stones. In recent years, tourism has also become an important part of the economy.

Political History

Myanmar has a complex political history. It was a British colony until 1948. After gaining independence, it faced many years of military rule. Today, the country is working towards democracy, but it still faces many challenges.

250 Words Essay on Myanmar

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country in mainland Southeast Asia and the 10th largest in Asia. It shares borders with India, Bangladesh, China, Laos, and Thailand.

Capital and Population

The capital city of Myanmar is Naypyidaw. It became the capital in 2005, replacing the city of Yangon. Myanmar has a population of about 54 million people. Many people from different ethnic groups live in Myanmar. The largest group is the Bamar people.

Language and Religion

The official language of Myanmar is Burmese. It is spoken by most people in the country. English is also taught in schools. The main religion in Myanmar is Buddhism. A large majority of the people in Myanmar follow this religion.

Natural Beauty

Myanmar is known for its natural beauty. It has many rivers, mountains, and forests. The Irrawaddy River is the longest river in the country. Myanmar also has beautiful beaches along its western and southern coasts.

The economy of Myanmar is based on agriculture. Rice is the main crop. Other important sectors of the economy are mining and manufacturing. Myanmar is rich in resources like oil, gas, and precious stones like jade and rubies.

In conclusion, Myanmar is a country with a rich history, diverse culture, and stunning natural beauty. Despite facing many challenges, it continues to grow and develop.

500 Words Essay on Myanmar

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. It is one of the largest and most diverse countries in its region. Myanmar is famous for its rich history, diverse culture, and beautiful landscapes.

Geography of Myanmar

Myanmar is located between India and Thailand. It shares borders with India, Bangladesh, China, Laos, and Thailand. The country has a diverse landscape. It has high mountains, wide rivers, and fertile plains. The largest river, the Ayeyarwady, is very important for farming and transportation. The country also has a long coastline along the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal.

People and Culture of Myanmar

The people of Myanmar are known as Burmese. They are very friendly and welcoming. There are more than 100 ethnic groups in Myanmar. Each group has its own language, traditions, and culture. The main religion is Buddhism. Many people visit Myanmar to see its beautiful Buddhist temples. The most famous one is the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, the largest city in the country.

History of Myanmar

Myanmar has a long and interesting history. It was home to many ancient kingdoms. The British ruled Myanmar from 1824 to 1948. After gaining independence, the country faced many challenges. In 1962, a military government took control. They ruled for almost 50 years. In 2015, Myanmar started a new chapter with its first democratic election in many years.

The economy of Myanmar is based on agriculture. Rice is the main crop. Other important products are beans, sesame, rubber, and teak. The country also has valuable resources like jade, pearls, and gems. Myanmar is trying to grow its economy by attracting foreign investors and tourists.

Challenges and Future of Myanmar

Myanmar faces many challenges. It has problems with poverty, health care, and education. The country also struggles with conflicts between different ethnic groups. Despite these problems, there is hope for the future. Many people in Myanmar are working hard to improve their country. They hope to build a peaceful and prosperous nation.

In conclusion, Myanmar is a fascinating country with a rich history and culture. It has many beautiful places to see and friendly people to meet. Despite its challenges, the country has a bright future. The people of Myanmar are hopeful and determined to make their country a better place.

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