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This blog will tell mostly about Karen people and history....and my experieces
Monday, March 30, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Karen People
Karen people believe in three reilgion. They are Buddhism, Christianity and Animism. The population is 7,400,ooo people. 7,000,000 people live in Karen state. 400,ooo live in Thailand.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Vegetables
Vegetables are very good food for people, they are very healthy food. Lots of people in many places growing vegetables in their gardens or farm. Vegetables need plenty of water to grow. When I was young every houses in my villages in their garden they grow many vegetables like eggplants, green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and the others. My mom usually grow corn in her garden every year when she lived in karen state. Vegetables are very expensive food to buy.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
The Moon poetry
Moon is very beautiful when is night
It is symbol of the light
You can see it everywhere
I wish I live in there
Every children like the moon
You can`t see it at the noon
The moon is very amazing
You can see it everywhere
I wish I live in there
Every children like the moon
You can`t see it at the noon
The moon is very amazing
When the night is dark
You can`t walk in the park
Moon comes with many different shapes
It rounds like the tapes
Moon is very far
It is bigger than star
The moon is very amazing
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Putting your head to growing cabbage
The articles said the cabbage is a good source of vitamin c and other nutrients. When you cook cabbage to long it smell so stench. Cabbage leaves are good to eat too. They also said the Chinese cabbage are very popular and it can be like species to cook.
In my village all people like to eat cabbage and it taste very good for them. When I moved to Thailand the most vegetables people sell are cabbage. Even at my house my mom buy cabbage every week.
Friday, February 27, 2009
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Not All Carrots Are Orange
In the article it said the carrot are very good food, they are easy to raise, they taste very good and they also good for our body. It also said when people think of carrot they think it has many different size, different shape and very long vegetable with green leaves. Carrots are can only grow on sandy soil but it can not grow soil with rocks it also need good weather to grow. The article also said the carrots are one of the most very famous vegetable around the world. They also can grow in winter time. For information read here.
For other country carrots are not good for them may be, because it dose not taste good for them. Like Karen people, they don`t like carrot much but most Americans like carrots. Can the carrots grow in desert place? I think every country grow the carrots.
Friday, February 13, 2009
. The massacre in Doo Pla Ya District, April 2002. 12 people, mostly children, were massacred by Burmese troops while they tried to escape Burmese troops. They were in an area outside a forced relocation site that was controlled by resistance groups. The Burmese troops brand these areas as 'Black Zone' or free-fire-zone. People who escape from forced relocations sites and hide in the jungle are recognized by Burma Army as 'enemy' or rebel supporters. These people are systematically hunt down by Burmese Army who shoot and killed them. The army burns everything to ash, such as rice fields, in order to leave the people without any choice for survival. These operation also know as 'scorch earth' operation.
What is in a name?
Tikki Tikki Tembo
Names are important because if you don`t have a name it`s going to be hard for you. People don`t know you and people can call you a bad name. Another thing is important because when people hear your name people might think about who are you belong to and what country you belong to. Even if your are not a perfect person but if you have a good name people don`t usally bother you.Sometimes parents choose their children`s name, because they like the sound, they like the meaning, or they name their children after someone else.
In the story Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel there was a boy who has a long name because his mom likes the meaning of his name and his name means the most wonderful in the world.
Once when Tikki fell into the well his brother hurried and tried to tell his mom. Because of his long name his brother coldn`t say clearly, so his mom couldn`t understand. His brother had to say it again again so that his mom could understand clearly. And because of his name it took him very long to get out of the well and it took him a long time to get well.
Names are important because if you don`t have a name it`s going to be hard for you. People don`t know you and people can call you a bad name. Another thing is important because when people hear your name people might think about who are you belong to and what country you belong to. Even if your are not a perfect person but if you have a good name people don`t usally bother you.Sometimes parents choose their children`s name, because they like the sound, they like the meaning, or they name their children after someone else.
In the story Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel there was a boy who has a long name because his mom likes the meaning of his name and his name means the most wonderful in the world.
Once when Tikki fell into the well his brother hurried and tried to tell his mom. Because of his long name his brother coldn`t say clearly, so his mom couldn`t understand. His brother had to say it again again so that his mom could understand clearly. And because of his name it took him very long to get out of the well and it took him a long time to get well.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Monday, February 9, 2009
Ba Thein Sein, Saw
Maw Reh, Saw
Ba U Gyi, Saw
Padoh Mahn Sha
Ba Zan, Mahn
Sankey, Saw
Benson, Naw Louisa
Sgaw Ler Taw
Bo Mya, Saw
Tamla Baw, Saw
Hla Pe, U
Than Aung, Saw
Hunter Thamwe, Saw
U Thuzana
Kyadoe, Saw Henson
Lin Tin, Saw
Loo Nee, Saw Sydney
Ba Thein Sein, Saw
Born in 1927 in Henzada where he studied at the American Baptist Mission High School worked as a clerk at the war office in Rangoon until 1946. Became involved in the Insein uprising and shortly after joined 2nd Division commander Thackerbaw in the Taungoo-Kawkereik-Hlaingbwe area. 1n 1963 became a member of the KNU central committee and was appointed as education minister during the seventies and eighties, became a KNU General Secretary and Prime minister of Kawthoolei in 1984 and his now President of the KNU.
Ba U Gyi, Saw
Born in Bassin in 1905 to a wealthy landlord, after completing University in Rangoon, in 1925, he became a lawyer and was called to the English Bar two years later. Joined the Burmese Government in 1937 as Minster of revenue. After the war he formed the Karen Nation Union, in 1946, to represent Karen interests in post independence Burma and to call on the British to allow the Karens their own state. He accepted the post of Minister of Information from 1946 to February 1947 and then Minister of Transport before resigning in April 1947. In January 1949 led the Karen uprising in Insein. Was killed in an ambush on the 12th August 1950, near a small village 170 miles away from Moulmein.
The journalist U Thaung, who wasone of the reporters called to the scene recounts the following in his book 'A journalist, A General and an Army in Burma.'
'The military officers continued the press conference on the plane. Saw Ba U Gyi was captured dead, along with a high ranking Karen rebel leader (Saw Sankey) and an English Major who had been imprisoned for supplying arms (believed to be Captain Vivien who provided the arms in the Aung san assassination) they claimed. The journalist succeeded in getting the true story after cross examining them.
The rebel chieftain were captured alive and killed even though they had surrendered. 'They tried to run away when we arranged to take them to our nearest military camp. We couldn't help it. There was no way we could save them in such a situation. They said we could not print the truth so we used the official version 'Captured dead'.'
In order to avoid making a shrine to the fallen Karen hero Saw Ba U Gyi's body was thrown into the sea. To this day the 12th August is respected as Martyr's Day and ceremonies marking Saw Ba U Gyi's death are conducted by Karens throughout the world.
Maw Reh, Saw
Ba U Gyi, Saw
Padoh Mahn Sha
Ba Zan, Mahn
Sankey, Saw
Benson, Naw Louisa
Sgaw Ler Taw
Bo Mya, Saw
Tamla Baw, Saw
Hla Pe, U
Than Aung, Saw
Hunter Thamwe, Saw
U Thuzana
Kyadoe, Saw Henson
Lin Tin, Saw
Loo Nee, Saw Sydney
Ba Thein Sein, Saw
Born in 1927 in Henzada where he studied at the American Baptist Mission High School worked as a clerk at the war office in Rangoon until 1946. Became involved in the Insein uprising and shortly after joined 2nd Division commander Thackerbaw in the Taungoo-Kawkereik-Hlaingbwe area. 1n 1963 became a member of the KNU central committee and was appointed as education minister during the seventies and eighties, became a KNU General Secretary and Prime minister of Kawthoolei in 1984 and his now President of the KNU.
Ba U Gyi, Saw
Born in Bassin in 1905 to a wealthy landlord, after completing University in Rangoon, in 1925, he became a lawyer and was called to the English Bar two years later. Joined the Burmese Government in 1937 as Minster of revenue. After the war he formed the Karen Nation Union, in 1946, to represent Karen interests in post independence Burma and to call on the British to allow the Karens their own state. He accepted the post of Minister of Information from 1946 to February 1947 and then Minister of Transport before resigning in April 1947. In January 1949 led the Karen uprising in Insein. Was killed in an ambush on the 12th August 1950, near a small village 170 miles away from Moulmein.
The journalist U Thaung, who wasone of the reporters called to the scene recounts the following in his book 'A journalist, A General and an Army in Burma.'
'The military officers continued the press conference on the plane. Saw Ba U Gyi was captured dead, along with a high ranking Karen rebel leader (Saw Sankey) and an English Major who had been imprisoned for supplying arms (believed to be Captain Vivien who provided the arms in the Aung san assassination) they claimed. The journalist succeeded in getting the true story after cross examining them.
The rebel chieftain were captured alive and killed even though they had surrendered. 'They tried to run away when we arranged to take them to our nearest military camp. We couldn't help it. There was no way we could save them in such a situation. They said we could not print the truth so we used the official version 'Captured dead'.'
In order to avoid making a shrine to the fallen Karen hero Saw Ba U Gyi's body was thrown into the sea. To this day the 12th August is respected as Martyr's Day and ceremonies marking Saw Ba U Gyi's death are conducted by Karens throughout the world.
Friday, February 6, 2009
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