17 November 2012, Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To:
Ko Ko Gyi was in “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To”, 30 minutes by boat from Yangon bank together with other members of 88 Generation Students group. They were warmly and happily welcome by “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To” villagers. Below are Ko Ko Gyi’s remarks in “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To”:
1. “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To” looks like a very remotely village which is very poor and totally cut off from urban cities but in fact only 30 minutes by boat just on the e other side of Yangon bank.
2. There are so many towns and villages like “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To” with similar economic and social standard situations all over our country.
3. To restore these poor towns/villages like “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To” from economic and social failures and to help them re-contact to the world, we need to work for “Nation Building”. But this Nation Building could be successful only when people participate in it and are mobilized for.
4. We need people power to rebuild our country.
3. To restore these poor towns/villages like “Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To” from economic and social failures and to help them re-contact to the world, we need to work for “Nation Building”. But this Nation Building could be successful only when people participate in it and are mobilized for.
4. We need people power to rebuild our country.
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The Powerful Powerless
“Forum 2000” Media and Democracy Prague 22 October 2012
Ko Ko Gyi
First, I would like to thank to the event organizers for giving me this wonder
ful opportunity. It is my great honor to be invited to talk about the notion of “The powerful powerless” in the context of Burma/Myanmar and its democratic struggle. Since our moral connection to President Havel is so profound, I would like to convey our deepest condolence to late President Havel, his family and people of Czech Republic.Actually, Mr. Havel has been familiar to our people since DASSK in her speeches repeatedly elaborated Mr. Havel’s teachings, the idea of the power of powerless. Also thank to a report entitled “Threat to the Peace: A Call for the UN Security Council to Act in Burma” jointly authored by Mr. Havel and Bishop Desmond Tutu which I believe he did it on moral ground. The report brought the highest international attention by putting Burma on the UNSC agenda, and also provided a powerful new direction in international effort to bring democracy in our country. President Havel’s contribution to Myanmar was not merely in the policy area but perhaps more importantly in moral and political inspiration. When I was in the prison, I had heard about Havel’s famous essay “the Power of the Powerless” through the new comers, much younger than me. Only when I was released first time in March 2005, I had a chance to read in Burmese. I had a strong wish to meet in person. And then I was arrested again in 2007 and sentenced to 65 years and 6 months. Unfortunately, only when I was going to be released, President Havel passed away quietly. At that same day, I lonely celebrated the golden anniversary of my birthday in a small sell by myself. It was a sad coincidence. He gave me a flashlight to look back the life of a “green grocer”. Continue reading “17 November 2012, Seik-Kyi-Kha-Naung-To: KO KO Gyi, 88 Generation Student Leader” We need people power to rebuild our country.””
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