In The Quiet Land - By Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
In the Quiet Land, no one can tell
if there's someone who's listening
for secrets they can sell.
The informers are paid in the blood of the land
and no one dares speak what the tyrants won't stand.
In the quiet land of Burma,
no one laughs and no one thinks out loud.
In the quiet land of Burma,
you can hear it in the silence of the crowd
In the Quiet Land, no one can say
when the soldiers are coming
to carry them away.
The Chinese want a road; the French want the oil;
the Thais take the timber; and SLORC takes the spoils...
In the Quiet Land....
In the Quiet Land, no one can hear
what is silenced by murder
and covered up with fear.
But, despite what is forced, freedom's a sound
that liars can't fake and no shouting can drown.
- Burma's silent symbol of hope
- Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
3 comments:
You made me cry.
The story and pictures made it out of Burma through mobil phone pics posted on flicker and blog sites and so we confirm the power of free information yet again.
I felt the need to respond - perhaps they google themselves too. ;)
"...The daughter of Burmese independence hero General Aung San, Aung San Suu Kyi became involved in the country's politics during the 1988 pro-democracy uprising that was brutally suppressed by the junta.
She led the National League for Democracy Party (NLD) in elections in 1990.
Although her party won by a landslide, she was by that point under arrest and the election result was never recognised by the military.
She has spent large parts of her detention in solitary confinement, and has been forced to make huge personal sacrifices.
She even decided against visiting her dying husband in the UK for fear she would be prevented from returning to Burma..."
The SPDC military has posted it's own version of what's happening here
http://www.myanmar.com/newspaper/nlm/index.html
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