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by Bo Kyaw Nyein
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Press Release
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Secretary-General and spokesperson of the Karen National Union
Assassinated by two gun men in his residence in Mae Sod on February 14, 2008.
He was born on July 5, 1943, in Taw Gyaung village, Pan Tanaw Township, Maaubin District, Delta division, Burma.
He was a Buddhist. Poe Karen leaves behind two sons and two daughters.
Padoh Mahn Sha graduated from Rangoon University in 1966 with a degree in History. He then joined the Karen Revolution led by KNU in 1966. Before joining KNU, he was one of the KNU's – UG from 1963 to 1966.
From 1966 to 1974, he led the ethnic revolution in Kareni, Shan and Kachin states several times. During this period, he traveled to China twice to talk to the BCP and CPC.
From 1975 to 1984, he became a Joint Secretary of the KNU, Nyaung Lay Bin District. In November 1984, he became a member of the KNU central committee and moved to the KNU Headquarters.
After joining the Karen Revolution in 1966, he later became the personal secretary of General Saw Bo Mya in 1988 when Saw Bo Mya was the president of the KNU, DAB and NCUB.
In 1995 at the KNU's 11th congress, he was elected a Joint General Secretary, and in 2000 at the KNU's 12th congress, he was elected General Secretary of KNU. Simultaneously he became a member of the National Council of the Union of Burma (NCUB) secretariat.
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The Speaking Flower
A flower grew on tropical soil
its petals waxen white,
its centre crimson;
the people knelt
and smelt her
intoxicating fragrance
and then felt
mysteriously – free.
Soon the flower
was transplanted
onto yonder shores,
it blossomed,
sprouted limbs,
swaying in the wind,
it breathed the breeze
of liberty.
One day,
the flower returned;
striking her original soil
her colours ignited;
from her petals
crimson rose enflamed:
‘even the searing heat
can not erase
the blood
on the street.’
White simply said:
‘I am truth;
how long will they use
brute force
to besmirch me?’
The people in
the tropical garden
hailed the
speaking flower,
but the dour vines
choked and encompassed it,
till it was no longer free.
It plucked the flower
and placed it
in a throttled
bottle-neck vase
and here the flower remained,
for eleven years
seven months
and
twenty-seven days.
It did not wilt,
it did not stint
its words.
Its green stalk spoke:
‘stem the politics of hate
we will forever commemorate
the martyrs of
eight, eight, eighty eight*.’
No one could silence
the speaking flower!
The vines called her ‘foreign’
certain her luminosity
would irradiate
the soil;
they did everything to foil
her speech.
But to the people
in the tropical garden
by Inya lake,
she was simply,
Aung San Suu Kyi
- the daughter of democracy.
Sagari Chhabra
(celebrating Aung San Suu Kyi’s 62nd birthday while still in captivity.)
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