"The right people, The wrong people are attending.”


"Where, Where"


"at the forefront"


It's a joke from comedians on stage that I used to hear when I was young. We laughed under the two comedians. Actually, this joke is not funny. It's sad. It is not only on the front line that the right people fall and the wrong people rise. It is the same in all of our daily lives. Fighting for the truth When our heroes who bravely participated in the Spring Revolution are falling, sitting on the fence and accepting the military-style election. or dialogue with the military, As before, under the 2008 constitution, those who are educating and campaigning for the sharing of power between the military and the civilian government. He didn't dare to criticize the military in the slightest, but only those who were fighting for the Spring Revolution, with taste and taste. Former political prisoners who are bravely criticizing People who are hypocrites, activists for democracy, Those who said that they do not believe in terrorism, who wrote in support of the military's promulgation of the conscription law and forcibly conscripting young people into the terrorist apparatus, were right, with a large audience. Foreigners are being celebrated as great visionary scholars.


Now our comrade, Our hero Nobel Aye has fallen again.


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His real name is Snow May Aung. His mother, Daw Aye Myint Than, was an active participant in the 1988 democracy uprising and was arrested and imprisoned by the military group several times. He served as joint secretary of the National League for Democracy in Thing Gyun Township. He is the one in 1991. When Daw Aung San Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize, she renamed her daughter Shw May Aung as Nobel Aye. During the years when he majored in physics at Dagon University, Nobel Aye took part in the anti-military underground movement of the Bakhtas League. He was one of the organizers of the Dagon University student strike. That's why he was killed by the army in 1998. He was arrested on September 21 and sentenced to 42 years of hard labor by a parole court. At that time, the military was using force to crush the activities of the National League for Democracy. Before him, his mother, Daw Aye Myint Than, died in 1998. He was arrested on September 6 and sentenced to 21 years in prison. Later, the military group took both their mother and son to Surrey Prison in Irrawaddy. On July 6, 2005, Nobel Aye was released from Surrey Prison. He spent more than 7 years in prison.


In 2007, I participated in the saffron revolution with the students of the 88th generation. He was arrested again in August and sentenced to a long prison term. This time, the horse farm, He was imprisoned in Hmong village prisons for more than 4 years. He was released from prison on January 12. When I get free, I do politics again. This time, to protect the public's human rights in the new political landscape that has changed. As a peaceful demand activist.

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2005 He was released from prison for the first time and while participating in a Yangon-based magazine, he met Ko Tin Aye, a former political prisoner like him. Ko Tin Aye, a leader of Yangon District Student Union in 1988. And with me in 1989 He was responsible as a member of the central executive in the Bakhtas Federation. In 1989, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison after the military accused him of having ties to the Communist Party of Burma. He spent more than 16 years in prison and was released from prison in 2005. And I participate in the same magazine where Nobel Aye works. In this way, I spent my fresh and energetic youth in prison. Beliefs A love story begins between two former political prisoners who have similar positions.


But that love story didn't last long. 2007 In August, Nobel Aye was arrested again and Ko Tin Aye also had to flee to the Thai-Myanmar border area. From that border, Ko Tin Aye waited for her lover. He was worth the wait. After being released from prison for the second time in January 2012, in June, one Nobel Aye arrived at his lover Ko Tin Aye, who was waiting at the Thai-Myanmar border. Nobel Aye and Ko Tin Aye's wedding, which was held incompletely and in a closed office, was a rare joy for us.


Now, after 12 years of marriage, Nobel Aye has left Tin Aye again. This time they won't be able to meet again.


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After 2012, During the new political landscape based on the 2008 constitution, activists from the border region and abroad are reentering the country. Ko Tin Aye and Noble Aye also re-entered the country and continued their democracy and human rights activities. In 2016, I returned to the country after getting a job at an American organization that implements the US government's aid in Myanmar. In 2017, an honorary person (Fellowship) program was implemented to support former political prisoners from the organization I participated in. The program selected 50 former political prisoners and asked them what they were interested in. To participate in an organization that accepts them for 6 months. For those 6 months, our team provided a salary and a laptop computer. In that program, Nobel Aye was also selected and became one of our group's honorary members. At that time, the organization that Nobel Aye participated in was (XXX).

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Those who advocated for dialogue, the democratic forces said, "Blood debt, They are accused of closing the door to dialogue by using the slogan "no discussion". In my opinion, the leading organizations of the revolution do not consider that the doors of dialogue are closed. At some point, Especially when you have the upper hand. When the enemy will accept the surrender, The leading organizations of the revolution will understand and prepare for the possibility of dialogue.


"Blood debt, "There is nothing to discuss" will be more relevant to those of us who are participating in the Spring Revolution individually as much as possible. The Spring Revolution has revealed the true colors of the people. We can see those who were trustworthy, dependable, comrades, and comrades in arms now proudly shaking hands with the dictatorial military leader. They hate the military, but they hate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the Federation even more. wrong Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the League are also wrong, so both sides are treasonous, reconciled, and under the 2008 constitution, we also see "non-violent activists" who are agitating for the military as before. All these people can no longer be our friends. There is no sadness in losing a friend. But like Nobel Aye, like Jimmy Phyo Zoya Thaw, who stood together with us from the beginning of the journey to the end of the journey. To lose the heroes who stand under the violence of the army. I will be saddened by the loss. It is with these sorrows that I write this letter and bow to Nobel Aye.

sister water


In the history of the Spring Revolution


You will never die...


Aung Din


(February 18, 2024)


[Some information; Some of the pictures are taken from the article "Their Love Story" written by Moekha Media and Kyaw Ma Moe (Ayyarwaddy).]


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