Metta for “Mus”?!! You must be kidding!: A New Myanmar and its “Buddhist” Tales
TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 1 Jul 2013
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service
In our Myanmar A-wee-zi (an abode of Buddhist Hell)
Brother, tell your beloved “Kalars”
‘Neither “Mus” roaches nor “Bangali” viruses
are welcome’ here.
In our Golden Land
You may no longer find Kipling’s ‘flying fishes’
But there are generals still lying
And monks frying the “roaches”
In the midst of these sitting ducks
Amidst “Kalar-haters” and ethnic cleansers
Waiting until the next terror has struck
Let me tell ya
We are a nation of nationalist “Buddhists”.
Don’t ever forget
Gotama and Asoka were greatest Buddhist “nationalists”.
We now have our Hpone Hpon (the Ven.) “bin Laden”
With his shaven head and serene looks
He is our national hero in place of your ‘fallen (liberal) idol’
Mighty is he, commanding 3,000-strong Buddhist monastery
amongst the Order of 500,000.
Hear our Osama out:
“Honestly, I felt I wanted to fight weapons with weapons. I am a Burmese bin Laden“.
Metta for “Mus”??? You must be kidding!
“Yes, Wirathu is our learned Brother”, so I have been told by a ‘socially engaged monk’.
Our Myanmar’s Osama,
Foremost bin Laden, a son of “Buddhist” Laden
A peaceful son of Gotama the Enlightened
The Reverend ain’t “the Face of Buddhist Terror”.
How dare that Hannah ‘Bitch’ calls him ‘terrorist’
He ain’t scared of you “lying journalists”!
Serene is his looks, soft-spoken is he, and mild are his manners
Preaching “Buddhist” peace
the peace of the wolf guarding the faith against the “Mus”!
“Brother, No peace for ‘Mus’!”
The kind our Our patron-generals
With the Kachins, the Karens, the Shan, the Mon and all the rest.
Wolves’ peace with the sheep
We are indeed a peace-loving nation
We even named our old capital “End of Strife”, or Yangon
Making peace-deals
Committing pogroms of ‘mad dogs’, the ‘Mus’
left, right and center.
Make no mistake. We are under attack, Brother.
Even our Right Honorable Dissident Brother Win Tin agrees:
“… international community is siding with the Muslims (in Myanmar)”.
Our business-friendly version of peace, the peace industry seeks.
And smart Oslo sees the price of Myanmar peace.
Yes, peace be with Telenor, Statoil, Coke and Unilever.
Brothers from Oslo and London, stand up and identify your bids!
Don’t forget the oil – and Interfaith, as the Rt Honourable Blair might have told our leaders.
Peace be upon you too, Brother Tony.
But, Mr Tutu, you are wasting your time – and our meditation hours!
Preaching peace to us on the apartheid, and the pogroms of the “Mus” and the Bangali “roaches”.
Ah, “Mus”, what do they know about peace?
Peace is for Pacification!
We have another 500,000 of our patron-brothers
In our patriotic Armed Forces who shout:
No Buddhist Metta for the ‘Mus’!”
And Naypyidaw says, “2-child Eugenic” for the “Bangali” roaches!
Even our human rights defenders would shout,
“National Security” First, “Human Rights” last!
“No ‘Mus’ No pogroms”, we all say in unison.
Our reverend monks say, Sadu/Thadu, sadu/Thadu, Sadu/Thadu
(or a good-deed has been done. ‘Well-done! Well-done! Well-done!)
You see, there we are with our un-broken bond
Our Myanmar “Buddhist” bond of shared
ignorance, bigotry, and national “Buddhist” delusions
We are racists! And proud of it!
United we are
In the Bama “Buddhist” delusions
In defense of our “Buddhist” nation
Protecting forever our ‘not-so-intelligent’ women.
Sisters, we have an additional Sixth Precept:
Thou shall not fuck any Muslim males.
Not legally.
Certainly not while we are alive.
Yes, our “Buddhist” nation, right or wrong.
Our pro-peace President, right or wrong
Our Rakhine brothers, Nazi or not.
No matter that we are a nation
On the verge of Slavic-like self-destruction
And a Rohingya semi-starvation
A “Buddhist” ‘frontier market’
Where our grassroots hopeis being arrested
by civil society pimps and the likes
We say, in our “frontier Ah-wee-zi”
“Hell with universal “Human Rights””
No Compassion for (Muslim) “dogs”
You may rejoice, or not
Gotama Buddha is always on our side!
Yes, Lord is always on our side!
We sure can count on the members
of our bigoted-enough intelligentsia
Yes, the “silence of our Myanmar Lambs”
Where art thou –
Bama artists, painters, cartoonists, writers, journalists, poets, inside and in diaspora ??
Our society of racist Buddhists
Cookie-cutter pimpish presidential pragmatists
In the shadow of iconic Peace’Nobelist’
Working with President “Nobel Peace short-list”
With her mantra of Rule, Rule, (racist) “Rule of Law”
“Buddhist” Racism?
No such thing here, Sister.
Only peaceful Buddhists, defending our faith
We ain’t scared of ICC, We ain’t concerned about your TIME.
Minds
poisoned by 50 years of the murderous Ar-nar-yoo mya (the crazed power-mongers)
mis-led by the noble dissidents
screwed by outside corporate interests
ill-served by the Orwellian media hype:
Hollywood’s Lady is the nation’s Mummy,
Regime trickery is reforms,
National Destruction is Sequential Democratization.
Despair is Hope.
Business Deal is peace.
Pogroms are good for development!
We call it ‘discipline flourishing democracy’
They project it as Myanmar’s “Half-baked” Democracy
But who cares, really?
We are Buddhists.
All things pass.
Nothing is permanent
That is,except your corporate interests!
So Madam Albright, give me your Coke, or give me Death!
We are a Buddhist people ‘who have never had a sip’.
It would really be a bliss!
Yes, we want Coke, lots and lots of it.
Ah, Mr Solheim, don’t forget Oslo’s Statoil.
Why wait for the elusive peace!
Come, Come, come to our A-wee-zi.
Sell your Coke and drill our oil.
Till the end of our genocidal coast line.
This is our A-awee-zi
Our Myanmar is a state in A-wee-zi
Our country is a state of A-wee-zi
We are following our Myanmar way to A-wee-zi
Ah, but “there ain’t no space in A-wee-zi”.
Not for the sane
Not for the truthful
Not for the compassionate
Certainly nor for the “Mus” nor for the Bangali “roaches”
This is our Golden “Buddhist” Land
And ours and ours only
Of Crooks, Cons, Cronies and Criminals
Camouflaged as philanthropists, pragmatists, peace-makers, patriotic pimps.
Peace be upon you, Brother.
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Dr. Maung Zarni is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), and a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, Department of International Development, London School of Economics. His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press. He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website www.maungzarni.com.
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