{"id":69685,"date":"2016-02-15T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=69685"},"modified":"2016-02-09T17:11:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T17:11:30","slug":"the-lady-and-the-boat-rides-in-burmamyanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/the-lady-and-the-boat-rides-in-burmamyanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lady and the Boat Rides [in Burma\/Myanmar]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brother, be kind, she is in a bind.<\/p>\n<p>Nazi Aye Maung has gagged her from ever mentioning &#8220;the word Rohingya from your mouth&#8221; unless she is prepared to lose Rakhine support in Arakan.<\/p>\n<p>Against her presidential ambitions,<br \/>\nMyanmar generals have unleashed Ma Ba Tha, i.e., Association for the Protection of Myanmar Race and Buddhist Religion.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the Silence of the Lady is owing to the election maths<br \/>\nHer soul isn&#8217;t really dead, yet.<\/p>\n<p>You need to learn that in politics, pragmatism is the name of the game.<br \/>\nIdealism and principles are bad for your ambitions.<br \/>\nSo, it&#8217;s not fair you accuse her of being morally lame.<\/p>\n<p>Be kind, brother.<br \/>\nYou are right.<br \/>\nShe is no longer in an electoral bind<br \/>\nYes, her party won the landslide.<br \/>\nBut the time is not ripe for her to get the Rohingya genocide right.<\/p>\n<p>Let her repeat Myanmar&#8217;s Sovereign Lie on BBC or CNN:<br \/>\n&#8220;We want the world to know there is no ethnic cleansing in our country of Myanmar.&#8221;<br \/>\nJust as the old Germans feared the Jews &#8211; 0.76 percent of the Third Reich &#8211;<br \/>\nWe the Myanmar Buddhists too fear the Muslims today.<\/p>\n<p>That makes it alright, right?<\/p>\n<p>But, but &#8211; don&#8217;t you worry.<\/p>\n<p>She is the Mother of the Nation.<\/p>\n<p>She IS going to make everything alright.<br \/>\nYes, President Suu Kyi will get everything right.<br \/>\nEven the genocide.<\/p>\n<p>Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh \u00a0&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t you dare exaggerating the Rohingya&#8217;s plight.<\/p>\n<p>Brother, you need to be patient.<br \/>\nMother is engaged in horse-trading.<\/p>\n<p>All you do is BLAME, BLAME and BLAME!<\/p>\n<p>Patience is virtue. \u00a0 It&#8217;s only a genocide.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Rohingya, sit tight. \u00a0 Stay alive during your boat rides.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr. Maung Zarni <\/em><em>is a Burmese activist blogger<\/em><em>, Associate Fellow at the University of Malaya,<\/em><em> a <\/em><em>member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>,<\/em> <em>founder and director of the Free Burma Coalition (1995-2004), a visiting fellow (2011-13) at the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics, and<\/em> <em>a nonresident scholar with the Sleuk Rith Institute in Cambodia. <\/em><em>His forthcoming book on Burma will be published by Yale University Press.<\/em> <em>He was educated in the US where he lived and worked for 17 years.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brother, be kind, she is in a bind\u2026<br \/>\nExperts say the Silence of the Lady is owing to the election maths<br \/>\nHer soul isn&#8217;t really dead, yet. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}