PRESS RELEASE
Outraged by Myanmar military junta’s cold-blooded murder of the 4-pro-democracy activists in the country a week ago, an international group of activists, concerned scholars, musicians and singers have teamed up with Myanmar dissidents to host a 2-hour YouTube LIVE event this coming Saturday, 30 July. The event will commence at 7 pm Yangon and ends at 9 pm.
The event’s Burmese organizer Dr Maung Zarni of the Forces of Renewal for South East Asia, a network of concerned scholars and rights activists, said, “the (Myanmar) regime that only 6 years ago violated all grave crimes in international law – including genocide against a national minority Rohingyas – has once proven capable of such cold-blooded murder of our fellow activists in the name of law.”
He added, “this Saturday’s event is not a memorial service to mourn the murdered activists, but to both honour their lives and exemplary sacrifices and more broadly to celebrate Myanmar’s spirit, strength and stamina of resistance against successive murderous military leaderships.”
ကျဆုံးသူရဲကောင်း လေးဦးကို ဂုဏ်ပြုခြင်း တော်လှန်ရဲသူများရဲ့ မြန်မာပြည်၊
တော်လှန်ရေး စိတ်ဓါတ်၊ခွန်အားနှင့် ဇွဲကို
ထုတ်ဖော် ဂုန်ပြု နိုင်ငံပေါင်းစုံ ပွဲကြီး။
Organizer & Host: Forces of Renewal for Southeast Asia (FORSEA)
Date: 30 July 2022 (SATURDAY)
TIME:
8:30 (New York) | 1:30 pm (London) | 2:30 pm (Central Europe) | 7 pm (Yangon) | 7: 30 pm (Bangkok) | 7:30 pm Phnom Penh | 8:30 pm (Kuala Lumpur)
Resistance Never Dies!
တော်လှန်ရေးဟာ ဘယ်တော့မှမသေ
The event has now taken place. Watch the full event here:
Nine different performing artists and/or bands including hip hop and classical musicians, from New York, Sarajevo, Phnom Penh, Kuala Lumpur and Northern Myanmar will perform as an act of solidarity to Myanmar resisters.
The event will be opened by String Quartet Sinfonietta SA, led by Professor Belma Alic of the Music Academy of Sarajevo. The quartet will play ‘Stone sleeper’, by the Bosnian composer Vladimir Milosevic. The acclaimed Burmese dissident vocalist and musician Mun Awng will perform LIVE from his native highlands of Kachin, Northern Myanmar.
Among the international speakers are: Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah, Yale’s renowned scholar of everyday resistance Professor Emeritus James C. Scott, and veteran Malaysian dissident Hishamuddin Rais.
They will be joined the fellow Myanmar resisters: Moethee Zun, former head of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front; Moe Thway, a founding member of Generation Wave; Nay San Lwin, co-founder of the Free Rohingya Coalition; and Ma Khaing Zar Aung, President of the Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar.
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Performing Artists
- String Quartet Sinfonietta SA, led by Prof. Belma Alic from the Music Academy of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Mun Awang, Acclaimed Dissident Musician, Liberated Area, Myanmar
- Pich Chakrya, Renowned classical Khmer singer, Documentation Centre of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- George Mathew, Conductor and Director of the Music For Life International, New York City
- Kultur Shock, Seattle-based gypsy punk with root in Bosnian Federal Republic of former Yugoslavia
- HIPHOPDECONTROL, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- YaRobin, underground hip hop group, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Mulham Abordan, Syrian refugee and musician, Austria
Solidarity Speakers
- Moethee Zun, Veteran Leader of All Burma Students Democratic Front and founder of Students for A New Society in Burma (1988)
- Moe Thway, A Founder, Generation Wave, Myanmar
- Khaing Zar Aung, President of Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)
- Laura Watson, Global Women’s Strike, UK
- Hishamuddin Rais, Veteran dissident, educator & performing artist, Malaysia
- James C. Scott, renowned scholar of everyday resistance, Yale University and author of The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, New Haven, CT, USA
- Saifuddin Abdullah, Foreign Minister, Malaysia
- Jay Kerr, Labour Rights Campaigner with No Sweat and Punk Ethics, UK
- Nay San Lwin, Free Rohingya Coalition, Frankfurt, Germany
The event has now taken place. Watch the full event here:
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