甚堪咀嚼的軼事，令人低首。摘自 Matt Frei - Bush on Burma:
On my last visit to Burma in 1999, I was walking through the once beautiful streets of Rangoon when an elderly woman in rags sidled up to me. Her face was smeared with dirt. Her ragged clothes were disintegrating on her crippled body.
I assumed she had come to beg. But instead of an outstretched hand, she offered a greeting in perfect English.
"Forgive me for asking," she said in a whisper. "But are you from England? I apologise for my appearance. It has become so difficult to be normal and dignified in this country. Thank you for visiting. Don't forget us. Please don't."
I wanted to ask her where she had learnt her English, why she had fallen on such hard times, where she lived, what she intended to do in the future?
But the old woman, who was probably not that old at all, sidled off into the shadows.
The Burmese have borne their suffering with plenty of dignity - few more so than Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who won the general election in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
意大利羅馬市長韋爾特羅尼展開昂山素姬的肖像海報，紀念她 61 歲生日
By rights she should be Burma's leader. Instead, she is the best-known dissident alive in the world today.
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There is some true sad stories about Burmese women which read the report this summer in UK.
Have to put my brain back to write it down, it's too heavy. Will put it up in few days.
Posted the story this morning, didn't show up. Let me know if it's lost, then will rewrite.
Women in Burma
Dusk in everyday outside glistening golden pagodas, women are wondering.
Yes, they are prostitutes, look older than actual age, were sold very young to pimps or whorehouses by their own poor families, or orphans from civil wars.
Burma used to be paedophillias heaven, believe it still is but goes underground activity due to foreign pressure.
Children sex slave is controlled by local police and arm force. These women and children will be severely bitten and starved if they refuse to take the jobs, the situation is so similar like comfort women during World War II.
One of these women escaped, married to a foreigner, born his children. Her family still stays in Burma because she wants to help others as much as she can.
By rescueing others women, her organisation offers them simple training, food, shelter, so they can start new life again.
One day her daughter was kidnapped and she was threatened. Her daughter would be raped and killed if she didn't stop rescueing. Her husband and her didn't back down. They did save her daughter, but the whole family now lose the freedom due to safety reason.
From the pictures of these victims, women can hardly survived more than 20 years old. Serious sickness, VD, aids, most of them lost many teeth, bruises all over body; eyes glazed without spirits.
Everytime read the story of "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde still touches and makes me cry. Do believe there are few kind people like the swallow and the prince.
Unfortunately same, similar sad stories are ahppening every corner in the world.
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