Ma Thein Shin - Chapter (1)

(Direct translation of late Naing Win Swe’s novel “Ma Thein Shin Si Pote Pay Bar”.)

(On 6 January 1966 General Ne Win’s Revolutionary Socialist Government in Burma foolishly prohibited the civilian populace from transporting, storing, distributing, and trading of 460 basic commodities including the staples such as rice, peanut-oil, and salt. Farmers and producers were forced to sell their produce only to the government which rationed everything to people through so-called people shops. Commerce died suddenly and black markets thrived and widespread starvation started killing people. Hta-nyet (jaggery) was one of those restricted commodities and a large scale smuggling trade of Hta-nyet had developed overnight in Middle Burma where most of it is produced.)

Year 1969

It was a foggy winter morning. The big train standing in thick mist seemed to be afraid of leaving the safety of the warm Station. But it had to go. It blew a lot of smoke and reluctantly began the journey. It turned on the front spotlights but the pale beams shorn just a short distance ahead in the fog.

Gradually gaining speed the train appeared to slowly overcome its fears as if its blood were now boiling. Once the dim lights of Taung-dwin-gyi station were well behind it the train squeezed out a long blow of single horn as if it was cheering up itself to travel deep into the foggy darkness ahead.

Immediately the train appeared to think that the sound of its own horn was the cheers from the surrounds and it became excited and now it was madly rushing into total darkness.

South America Has Had Enough Of Evil Socialism

 (Jan Walter’s article from The DW NEWS on 31 August 2016.)

Crazy Latinos Love Socialists.

Leftist politicians had their heyday in South America in the 2000s. Now, their election promises have gone down the drain along with global commodity prices. Brazil's former President Dilma Rousseff is now the latest of many successful socialist leaders in South America to fall from power.

The deceptive charm of socialism that had South America in its hold in the 2000s is not just vanishing in Brazil. At the turn of this century, leftist parties throughout the continent achieved majorities in parliamentary and presidential elections: Lula da Silva in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Nestor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina.

They had much in common right from the beginning: the promise of socially just policies through redistribution, the mutual triple enemy of capitalism-USA-oligarchy, a dose of nationalism and the cultivation of personality cults in familiar South American caudillo fashion.

Venezuela To US: Socialism Surging Among Democrats

(AP article from The NEW YORK POST on 21 July 2018.)

PORTLAND, Maine — Last Friday, Maine Democrat Zak Ringelstein wasn’t ready to consider himself a formal member of the Democratic Socialists of America, even if he appreciated the organization’s values and endorsement in his bid to become a United States senator.

Three days later, he told The Associated Press that was ready to become the only major-party Senate candidate in the nation to be a dues-paying democratic socialist. The swift evolution is latest evidence of a nationwide surge in the strength and popularity of an organization that, until recently, operated on the fringes of the liberal movement’s farthest left flank.

But as Donald Trump’s presidency stretches into its second year, democratic socialism has become a significant force in Democratic politics. Its rise comes as Democrats debate whether moving too far left will turn off voters. “I stand with the democratic socialists, and I have decided to become a dues-paying member,” Ringelstein told the AP. “It’s time to do what’s right, even if it’s not easy.”

London Muslim Mayor Khan Bans Pro-Trump Rally

 (Isable Infantes’s article from The BRIEBART NEWS on 14 July 2018.)

Anti-Trump London Muslim Mayor Sadiq Khan.

LONDON: Khan’s London BAN Pro-Trump Rally at U.S. Embassy. Police in Sadiq Khan’s London have used the Public Order Act to prevent a rally in support of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the American embassy, despite permitting a large, ill-tempered anti-Trump rally on Friday.

Protestors attending the ‘Welcome Trump’ event had planned to gather outside the embassy and march from there to Whitehall, where they would have joined in with a separate ‘Free Tommy Robinson’ event in support of the activist and independent journalist who was recently imprisoned for contempt of court after reporting on a grooming gang trial.

But the pro-Muslim Metropolitan (Sharia) Police Force, which answers to a large extent to Muslim Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, used the Public Order Act to impose a raft of restrictions on both groups of protesters which made this impossible —  despite allowing far larger anti-Trump protests at which at least six people were arrested to go ahead on Saturday, with demonstrators carrying signs emblazoned with harsh profanity and messages such as “Die Trump Die”.

Min Aung Hlaing Capturing UWSA’s Opium-King

(Translation of Police Lieutenant Soe Nyunt’s article from the OPPOSITE EYES Blog.)

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing in 2008.

Since newly-elected so-called Democracy Government released so many imprisoned drug lords and their criminals the drug-related crimes in particular and all crimes in general are occurring all over our Burma. Even for me an experienced police officer the crimes committed recently in downtown Rangoon like the scenes straight out of action movies had shocked me to the bones.

I also read in the police reports that many crimes such as armed-robberies and murders in Mandalay City and Mogoke Town were committed by the members of heavily-armed insurgent gangs involving in drugs and now supposed to be under ceased-fire peace treaty with the State. Them reports on drug-related crimes make me to recall one particular case of notorious drug insurgent lord captured by us in the Shan State many years back.

In 2005 I was a junior police officer serving at the Kyaing-Ton (Kengteng) Town the capital city of the Triangle sub-Division of Burma well known as the Burmese part of that notorious Golden Triangle.