က်ေနာ္ေလးစားတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားၾကယ္ပြင့္မ်ား (မင္းေက်ာ္ခိုင္)

SOS (ပန္းခ်ီ သန္းေဌးေမာင္)

ျမန္မာ့လြတ္လပ္ေရးေန႔ (စိုးဝင္းၿငိမ္း)

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေန႔ အထိမ္းအမွတ္ (ပန္းခ်ီ - ေအာင္ထက္)

Why we must protect Our Ayeyarwady (ေအာ္ပီက်ယ္)

 ဇီဝမ်ဳိးကြဲေတြ စုံလင္ျခင္းနဲ႔ မ်ဳိးသုဥ္းေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ျခင္းကို ယွဥ္တြဲခံစားထားတာပါ။

ဟိမဝႏၲာက စီးဆင္လာတဲ့ ဧရာဝတီဟာ ဒီလိုသာ ျပဳမူေနၾကရင္ ေနာင္မွာ ေခ်ာင္းေလးတစ္ခုေလာက္ပဲ ျဖစ္သြားမယ္။ ေရေဝေရလဲေဒသေတြမွာ သစ္ေတြ အလြန္အကၽြံခုတ္တာ၊ ဆည္ေတြ တည္ေဆာက္ေနတာ၊ ျမစ္ထဲမွာ ေ႐ႊေတြ တူးေနတာေတြကို ျမစ္ပုံရိပ္မွာ ထည့္သြင္းထားပါတယ္။

 

ႏွစ္ေထာင္ခ်ီကတည္းက တည္ရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ဧရာဝတီကို အမွီျပဳၿပီး လူမ်ဳိးေတြ ဆင္းသက္ က်ယ္ျပန္႔လာမႈကို အလင္းသေဘာနဲ႔ ျပထားပါတယ္။

ပန္းခ်ီ မင္းေက်ာ္ခိုင္ရဲ႕ သူတို႔အတြက္ ဆုေတာင္း ...

ေလးစားဖို႔ေကာင္းတဲ့ ျပည္သူ႔ဘက္ေတာ္သား ၈၈ ေက်ာင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ သူရဲေကာင္းေတြပါ ...

ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား သူရဲေကာင္းမ်ားအားလံုး အျမန္လြတ္ေျမာက္ၾကပါေစ ...


 

မိခင္ႀကီးကို အႏုပညာနဲ႔ ကန္ေတာ့ခ်င္တဲ့ ကာတြန္း ေစာငို

ကာတြန္းေတြ ေရးဆြဲေနတဲ့ ကာတြန္း ေစာငိုက က်န္းမာေရး မေကာင္းတဲ့ သူ႔မိခင္ႀကီးကို သူရဲ႕ အႏုပညာနဲ႔ ကန္ေတာ့ဖို႔ ေဒၚစုရဲ႕ ပံုတူ ပန္းခ်ီကားတခ်ပ္ ေရးဆြဲထားပါတယ္။

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Please … a safe place

The rain is so heavy. It has not stopped since yesterday. The trees are like a roof, but they are not enough to protect us from heavy rain. The piece of plastic sheet we are using is too small. We are all getting so cold. All of our clothes are wet, but not our minds. Our minds are burning, empty but for feelings of insecurity. We know that we will be in our village, if we walk for a while. But nobody thinks about that, because it is very risky and government soldiers have arrived over there. Also we should not move forwards from these trees, as the place we are staying used to be a front-line. Landmines can be somewhere... maybe around us. We can not move any distance from here without a guide who knows this place. The sky is more and more becoming grey. The forest is more and more becoming dark. Where can we find a safe place? By MMT



 

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To smile

I am not young any more. When I was a child, I did not realise what was going on in my community. I could smile easily. But not right now. Fear, poverty and illness are always with me. They make me depressed and sad. To smile … I must forget my current situation for a while. By MMT The photo that inspired this portrait was taken by Partners.



 

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I really want that my baby sleeps between mom and dad in peaceful surroundings

There was singing my son enjoyed even though it was out of tune. There was a cradle my son enjoyed even though it was my husband’s dirty sarong. My son really likes to listen to my singing before he sleeps in the cloth of the sarong. But, he cannot sleep anymore as before. This place where we are is not my home. It is not safe to sing and there is nowhere to hang the sarong. We must all keep quiet as much as we can while running and hiding. There is no more singing because of war. There is no more cradle because of war. By MMT



 

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Away from home ... ... forever

There is a place among the forest and rocky mountains, quite isolated, where we have lived for most of our lives. It is a refugee camp. A fence is around the camp and it is like a strong barrier between the local and us. Food, shelter and health care are available to those inside, but they are not really complete. Still they are better than in our village in Burma. Whether we work here or not.... it doesn' t matter, the food will come to us. But we are made as human beings, not only to survive. we are made for other things; happiness, relationships, community pride. Here we often feel lonely and lost, but we must stay. If we go back to our native land we will face poverty, abuse, killing, again. If we leave for a third country we will face great challenges, strange people in a strange society in a strange land. We did not leave home to wait to resettle. We left home to wait for peace in our land. This place is already far from our home, please don't make us move further away. Everyone who is away from their home forever, knows how much pain this gives to the heart. By MMT


 

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Anything which has been in an unsafe situation, no longer exists

The photo which inspired this painting, was taken outside a small school for children of migrant workers. Most of the parents work in a nearby quarry. What is the future for these children? By MMT


 

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Help

Normally no one is allowed to commit murder. If they do, the person should be prosecuted. Right now in the world, there are evil people who create situations of violence and death. It is called war. There is a civil war in Burma. There has been for almost 60 years Many people are being killed and raped and tortured. Many people are dying and suffering. Many children are being left as orphans as their parents are disappearing. The blood and tears of the people will become a large river if they cannot be dried. There is fear and weakness in their minds. Their energy is almost gone. It is often difficult for them to speak or move their feet. They now need others to extend their hands to help them stand and voice their hopes for peace and security. Help Burma to become a peaceful country. Do whatever you can. Please ... By MMT


 

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Homesick

I painted this picture because I was homesick. I was remembering a time when I had my family near. I remember telling stories to my mother and the delight and sound of her laugh. I remember the smell of breakfast cooking on the charcoal in the kitchen of our small home, when the sound of my brothers and sisters surrounded me. I remember a time when I had a home. By MMT


 

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Rain ... please stop!

It has been raining so much since we left our village. We took very few personal possessions with us. To escape an attack by the government army is more important than material goods. I only have a piece of plastic to protect me and my child from the rain. The rain is heavy and it is not enough to cover us. We are soaked right through. My child’s lips are becoming blue and I am getting cold as well. I do not worry about myself freezing, but I do for my son. He is so young. Although the villagers know that we can keep warm with a fire, they are afraid to make one as then the army can see where we are. The large trees around us could shelter us from the rain, but there could be landmines there. So I depend on this small sheet of plastic. Normally rain is welcomed by us farmers, but right now I wish it would go away. It is threatening the life of my child. By MMT


 

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Speak alone, eat alone, and live alone

He needed to leave home because he wanted to escape a situation where there was no freedom to speak, to think or to believe. He met other people who had the same ideas for the future of Burma. He believed that using weapons to fight the government was one of the ways to save his people from many kinds of torture. He went to the frontline, often. Then, a terrible event occurred in his life and it has stayed with him permanently. He lost one of his eyes and one of his arms. At the beginning he tried to understand what had happened to him. But after a month, his mind became separate from his body, out of control. Now he smiles alone, he speaks alone, he is angry alone, and he complains alone. Will he still be alive when his country, Burma, is peaceful? Will he meet his family again? Will he recognise his family if he sees them? By MMT


 

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He has gone

I have lost my husband. He was essential for our family. He arranged almost everything for us. He found food, shelter and a regular income. I can not do that because I need to spend all my time with my three children. Last rainy season he died after Burmese government troops attacked our village. My oldest daughter was injured, but not as severely as her father. Now I feel so weak. I don’t know how to find a regular income and it will be difficult for my family without him. There is nothing to see in the future but tears. Do the people who create the war understand how many problems are left after one bullet is fired? By MMT


 

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He is in combat where there is always violence, instead of at home where it is always warm with family, or at school where there is hope for the future

Instead of being given books and sent to school, this boy was given a gun and sent to war. His childhood is lost. His dreams, if he is able to have any in his short youth, will become nightmares. What kind of man will he turn into. What kind of future can he expect ... By MMT


 

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Mother

One of the women really reminded me of my mother. She lived in a community in the countryside until she died after her 61st birthday. All her life she never wore any shoes and she did not know why shoes are important for health. She never went to school and she never had a chance to see other places outside her community. Poverty, sadness, low self-confidence and a limited view were her friends, always. How many women are like my mother in Burma? How long will they have to live like this? By MMT


 

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The leaves and shoots are being cut away ...

Many children drop out of primary school in Burma Many schools inside Burma do not work properly. Teachers are not paid enough. Children have to help their parents in the fields. Little education is offered to internally displaced people. Universities are often closed. If generations of children cannot get an education, opposition is silenced. By MMT