When I was serving in the advisory committee I told the Education Minister. "What sense of education for 5-years old student by teaching to support co-operatives (Tha-ma-wayama)?" Behind the idea of co-operative, there is a long story, starting by Robert Owen as a way of socialism and the idea trying to alleviate the suffering of the workers under capitalism. The 5-years old student may not know by reciting these bluffing. It was ruining our culture. Dr.Nyi Nyi was Deputy Education Minister at that time and he commented U Khin Maung Kyi, you are the only one who said different opinions. All the rest nod their heads.

Now, the education system is in the worst situation--no longer a system anymore and the students can't even read and write Burmese language properly. I see several students from Burma at Singapore's expensive United World Colleague. They are kids of the generals and the ones from the affordable families. They could be saying as elites of Burma. They came out from the present education system of Burma, however, they didn't attain high school standard of English, while they can't even passed good enough Burmese language--their mother tongue and linguistics. It is a question, "What kind of Burmese elites they are producing?" They completely wash-out "socialization". All are going to be finished both the country and people will be wipe out by the next century. 

May 2002

The Shan Human Rights Foundation and The Shan Women's Action Network

The License to Rape report details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, involving 625 girls and women, committed by Burmese army troops in Shan State, mostly between 1996 and 2001.

Published by OSI grantees the Shan Human Rights Foundation and the Shan Women's Action Network, the report reveals that the Burmese military regime has allowed its troops systematically and on a widespread scale to commit rape with impunity in order to terrorize and subjugate the ethnic peoples of Shan State.