Yes, the country is now pierced with PEACE.
\nPeace is bleeding everywhere.
\nThe Nobel Peace Celebrity wants peace.
\nMyanmar President Nobel-short-listee calls out for peace.
\nAnd Presidential Abagyi-mya (military’s step-fathers) now say OK to peace, but, but… “our offshore retirement US$ billions, we really must keep”.
\nUnion Minister Wungyi Aung Min wants peace.
\nSweet-talking Myanmar Peace Center’s clowns whore for peace.
\nNorway’s Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI) and Telenor desperately want peace.
\nInternational peace industry says peace.
\nCarter and other Elders traveled to Myanmar for PEACE.
\nBill and Hilary are said to be coming together for Myanmar’s ritual signing Nation-wide PEACE.
\nTony B-Liar is on the frontline of PEACE – for the City, for the BAE.
\nMyanmar’s cronies would pay for peace,
\nAlas, only in exchange for 600,000 acres of war zones.
\n“Donors” would fund anything peace: peace condoms, peace census, peace concerts.
\nUN’s Ban-ki Mon urges peace, every now and then.
\nSingaporean real estate developers need peace.
\nAmerican mountaineers need peace.
\nEU tourists will be pleased if Myanmar is in peace.
\nInvestors look for signs of peace.
\nInternational Crisis Group is tired of spinning for pro-regime peace.<\/p>\n
PEACE, PEACE, PEACE.
\nEverybody wants Peace.
\nMyanmar’s Constitution Defenders endorse peace.
\nThe opposing Constitution Changers wish for peace.
\n“88 Generation” dissidents crave peace.
\nKaren National Union leaders would trade peace.
\nKachin Independence Army is pressured to ‘peace’.
\nWirathu calls for peace.
\n969 is spreading message of peace.
\nInterfaith groups foster peace.
\nSlaughtered Rohingyas would have loved peace.
\nRakhine’s Kaman Muslims are crying out for peace.
\nAll Myanmar’s Muslims need peace.
\nPro-peace Burmese musicians sing peace.
\nOur Multiculturalists say they promote “Peace”!<\/p>\n
But where is that F-U-C-K-ing \u00a0P-E-A-C-E?
\nYes, that peace everyone says the country – and the international community – wants
\nCan’t anyone deliver even the crappy Myanmar-version of PEACE
\nwith the topping of Ngapi, please.
\n(Ngapi is a traditional Burmese fish paste Kipling called ‘stink fish pickle that ought to have been buried’).
\nIndeed P-E-A-C-E makes you wait
\nUntil the next Buddha’s anticipated coming
\nDamn it, Myanmarese Peace is a seasonal kind of peace,
\nIn-between Naypyidaw’s ceasefire cheats.
\nThey the “Buddhists” prays, “May we enter Nirvana”!
\nMe the heathen says, “Don’t come here, not enough toilet, or beer and cheese to share with neo-Nazi killers!
\nBut, nobody really knows how the hell Nirvana looks,
\nwhich direction it is, how to attain it.
\nStill it takes a long cycle of life to get ‘there’.
\nJust like Rohingya slow-cooking Genocide of 35 years, Myanmar Peace-building indeed is a process, a process of 60-plus years.
\nBrother, don’t give up. \u00a0Sister, keep negotiating for it.<\/p>\n
It will all be well worth it,
\nwith or without your trees, mountains, rivers, gold, jade, ….
\nPeace is indeed more important than PEOPLE.
\nWithout P-E-A-C-E, Myanmar can’t generate PROFITS!
\n__________________________<\/p>\n
Maung Zarni<\/i>, Associate Fellow, the University of Malaya. Dr. Maung Zarni is a <\/em>member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment,<\/i> 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.<\/em> He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years. Visit his website www.maungzarni.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes, the country is now pierced with PEACE.
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