Burma Communist Party's Conspiracy to Take Over State Power (1989). Crap book. No front cover except for title. No publishing matter. Paper quality awful. A print of the statement made by Gen Khin Nyunt at a press conference on how communist elements infiltrated NLD and caused the 88 revolution.

If We Really Desire Peaceful Transition and National Reconsolidation and other Articles (2004) are fawning articles from Kyemon and GNLM on how the Tatmadaw rebuilt the nation after 1988 into a peaceful and prosperous country. Again, needs updating!

Whither KNU (1995) is a collected series of 33 articles published in the government dailies. Pro-junta overview of the KNU, its origins and decline in the mid 1990's with the usual lies and half truths. Given KNU gains over the last couple of years, they might need to rethink that title.

Demands for Dialogue not Solution to Myanmar Democracy Dispute (2006) is a companion book to the one above, this time with articles hailing the great progress Myanmar has made under the USDP and how the nation shouldn't listen to the 'trickster neo-colonialists'

Will Tell All That is True, Barring None … (2002) is a collection of chest-thumping articles from Gov. owned dailies NLOM and Kyemon, mostly dealing with the 'craftiness' and 'tricky ways' of Thailand.

Here's what the 2013 English version looks like.

In Than Shwe's time, anthologies of english-language pro-regime articles were particularly popular, mostly directed at the US, Thailand, EAG's and communists.

Poetry reading tomorrow in support of those impacted by the earthquake in Myanmar

March 27 is Armed Forces Day in Myanmar. Going back to at least the 90’s the regimes have celebrated it with a propaganda literary competition and anthology of pro-military poetry, short stories and essays. The submissions are rancid. Here’s one for 2025 published by the GNLM as a taster:

Myanmar Writers Association are once again ‘deeply honoured and thrilled’ to show how far they can bury their collective heads up Min Aung Hlaing’s arse

Another rotten nugget of MAL wisdom in today's GNLM

In Jan 2022, the Villain-in-Chief himself, MAH, ached for the good ol’ pre-2012 days when novels, stories, and poems in Myanmar were censored before publication.

On a side note, his wife, Kyu Kyu Hla, apparently writes poetry under the pen name Thiri Pyay Sone May

The ‘outrage’ events are random though. Some targeting unnamed PDFs. Others naming and shaming specific EROs. Even the international community doesn’t escape the manufactured wrath of MWA’s anger. Here’s one from June 2024 on the UNHCR ...

There have been at least over a dozen since. The wording is clearly prepped by the MOI. Multiple statements from multiple orgs are almost identical. MWA agency limited to selecting which ones to use and in which order ...

Starting in 2022, the MWA, and other cultural/religious groups began pubbing ‘outrage’ statements in the GNLM ‘strongly condemning’ (sounds familiar!) terrorist acts of PDF/EROs. This was the first one AFAIK from March 2022 ...

Let’s start with the villains: the Myanmar Writers Association. Once a powerful cog in previous regimes’ control of the national narrative. Bragged of its independence during the fake transition. Post-coup very quickly shuffled back to gaslight the nation over the regime’s atrocities ...

Not forgetting 'Picking off new shoots won't stop the Spring;, Ed. Ko Ko Thett and Brian Haman, out with Ethos Press in Singapore in alliance with Balestier in the UK

And also Ma Thida's 'A-Maze'. Trns into English by Maung Zaw. Out with Balestier Press in the UK.

New book coming soon on poets under conflict in Myanmar. Not many lit books on this revolution. No pub date but out with River Books, Thailand.