So it’s another year of remembrance, 59th Martyrs day. Do you remember about it?

Azarni day or Martyr’s Day is held on 19th July annually in Burma/Myanmar. It is held to mark the assassination of its founding father and independence leader along with his cabinet on this day in 1947 at 10:37 AM. This
year marks the 59th anniversary of this martyrs’ day. Assassinated cabinet members were General Aung San, Mai Pun Saw-Bwar Gyi Sao San Tun, Mann Ba Khaing,Takhin Mya, U Razak, U Ba Win (Elder brother of Aung San), and Dedoke U Ba Cho, Ministry secretary U Ohn Maung and body guard of U Razak, Ye Baw Ko Twe also died at this incident.
Shwe Ba

Last night after updating Burma Digest articles, I was trying to recall this “Aung San ZarNi” poem that we learn in primary days. I can only remember a few verses and was very disappointed with myself that I forgot this nice poem. Luckily I got full poem from artixlin today while I’m reading feeds. Thank you so much for that and I’m passing along so whoever forgot about it can remember again.

(၅၉) ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ အာဇာနည္ေန႕

ေအာင္ဆန္းဇာနည္

ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ ဆယ့္သံုး မွာ
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေမြးေန႕ပါ၊
တစ္ေထာင့္ကိုးရာတစ္ဆယ့္ငါး
ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဖာသား၊
ဇာတိ နတ္ေမာက္ မေကြးခရိုင္
သိၾကမ်ား ခုတိုင္၊
ႀကံ့ႀကံ့ခိုင္လို႕ ဇာနည္ဘြား
မိခင္ေဒၚစုသား၊
တစ္ေထာင့္ကိုးရာေလးဆယ့္ခြန္
ေျပာင္းၾကြ တမလြန္၊
မ်က္ရည္သြန္လို႕ ဘ၀င္ညိႈး
ဇူလိုင္ တစ္ဆယ့္ကိုး။
ျပည္ေထာင္စုရဲ႕ ေက်းဇူးရွင္
ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ တို႕ဖခင္၊
ေကာင္းေစခ်င္တဲ့ မွာစကား
ငါတို႕ မေမ့အား။

There is a great article about marythar day by Shwe Ba on this week Burma Digest posts and also have a read through Aunty Suu’s vision of her father.

My father made it abundantly clear that the army was meant to serve the people, that it should abide by principles of justice and honor, and that unless it could win and keep the trust and respect of the people, its purpose would be vitiated. He never intended the army to meddle in government. A liberal and a democrat, he saw from the fascist Japanese army the dangers of military absolutism. When he decided to work for freedom after the war, the beloved, respected general transferred command to a capable Sandhurst-trained Karen officer.

Also have a look at this featured article by Martyrs and Martyrdom by Dr. Sein Myint.

A martyr is a person who dies for their convictions or religious faith, such as during the persecution of early Christians in the Roman Empire. Sometimes the term is applied to those who use violence, such as dying for a nation’s glory during wartime (usually known under other names such as “fallen warriors”). The death of a martyr is called martyrdom.

I also remember the song – “Bo Shu Ta Bin”. I’m not sure it’s related to RZarNay or TatMaTawNay but I like that song. Wish I could listen to that again if I have a chance but I can’t find mp3 anywhere on net. If you have that song, please share with me.

There is another song it goes like …rzarni nay ko taw ma may khal par pyi or something, it’s really nice. Well I forgot that one too… there’s too many things I forgot. Shame on me.

With respects and remembarance,
May

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