Great Reality Show of Than Shwe's family

Great Reality Show of Than Shwe's family

Note: Translated from Ko Moe Thee's original article

The following story shows how Burma was ruled by a crazy family. It is unbelievable but this is inevitable happening in Burma.

Recently, Kyaing Kyaing's leg was broken after having accident in her residential home; poor old woman. The news was in Mizzima.org. The whole point here is she could not attend army official graduation ceremony this year. "I felt much relieved", said one army officer who just graduated.

Actually, the entire Myanmar army is just slaves of General Than Shwe's family. To bring all stories of Than Shwe and his infamous daughters would never end. Do they have good ethics and morals? The best thieves and mafias will have to praise them as their mentors.
And they all seem to be quite brilliant; the brightest daughter passed her high school when she turned thirty. Then she went to China and had her PHD ......!! And their mother Kyaing Kyaing is not a dump either. When she went to visit China, she introduced herself to a Chinese minister, " Kyaing Kyaing is my name". The interpreter kept herself very hard not to laugh in front of people. After the meeting, she went to the washroom to have a big laugh.

There are more about Kyaing Kyaing: in era of former prime minister Khin Nyunt, a daily duty of a colonel from Military Intelligence Department was to help Kyaing Kyaing operate a Karaoke machine !!

About their infamous daughters: A while ago, they went to Ngwe Saung beach (famous beach closest to Yangon). Young army officers had to ride bicycles on the beach in order to let these women sit behind.

Than Shwe and Kyaing Kyaing usually select young army officers in annual army official graduation ceremony. The army community says it is the time they make selection of potential army officers for their daughters. However, there was a young army officer who did not accept any approach for such reason. He was transfered to a rural area and later put in custody.

Once, Than Shwe and the family went to a Buddhist school opening ceremony in Hinthada, Irrawaddy division. While divisional army commanders kept busy accommodating Than Shwe and his wife Kyaing Kyaing, the duty of the wife of divisional commender and wives of majors was to take care of the first daughters. Thus, the wife of D.C had to make an urgent meeting. In that meeting, she decided to give three days hands on training how to take care of the first daughters.

Some guidelines in that training included following...........
1- Go only when one is summoned
2- Stand up at a place not far, neither too closed
3- When passing near by put one's head must down.
4. Do not have to keep hands still on chest, nor bow.
5- Clean hands before serving water or juice.
6- use tissue paper whenever holding a glass or opening a bottle.
7- use both hands to give or take something.
8- Never touch the bodies of first daughters
9- Do not shake hands with them

Additional to remember in that training was to make best effort to take care of them during their stay, and if they ask army official number of their spouses, then this is a sign of a trouble coming. Furthermore, the trainees were provided some more informations such as this specific daughter is horny, the other one is a big eater, the another one has bad temper and etc.
Among several first daughters, the one named "Ma Pauk" is apparently unbearable; she is the one who threw an ash tray to the Burmese ambassador to China. Wives of divisional army commanders cannot stand her, the army community reported. Apparently, she loves to hear if anyone makes compliment of being resemble to a famous western actress, Cate Winslet.

Duties of these ladies are also varied according to the positions of their spouses.

1- Duty of wives of divisional army commanders: to greet Kyaing Kyaing and holding an umbrella when she comes out from her car.
2- Duty of wives of colonels is to do similar thing to the first daughters.
3- Duty of the wives of captains is to carry the luggages of the daughters, and to be always ready nearby to help them
4- Duty of wives of lower officials is to do dishes and folding their clothes.

Anyway, in that trip one of the daughters bullied a wife of young army staff. On the way back from the trip, they stopped over at a small hotel. One trouble maker thought the hotel was not decent enough and was complaining lack of facilities. All her angers dropped on the young lady who came to take care of her: she asked the young lady to clean her feed, the young lady brought a bowl with water and cleaned her feed, then she asked her to make them dry. The problem was there was no such towel to dry feed ( Burmese are too superstitious to mix up towels, especially for face towel to use for other part of body). So the young lady was using a tissue paper to dry up the feed of the first daughter. She was fuming for such incident. In the entire situation, the young lady testified, the vicious woman did not use any single word, instead communicated with the body language. The result of that incident: she asked the army official no of the spouse of the young lady.

Another similar story: The first daughters accompanied their father to Pago, which is fifty miles far from Yangon. They decided to stay over night, unfortunately all forgot the spare underwear. Wives of senior army officials understood the situation quickly and sent someone to buy some underwear. After the person came back with a bunch of underwear, the daughters were angry, complaining that the person did not buy excellent quality products.

The most vicious one may have been "Dae Wa Shwe". If she sees any army officer she doesn't like, she usually throw boiled water from her balcony. Once, she told her driver she wanted to see Yangon city and eat at the same time. The driver took her with entire lunch preparation on the car by driving the care slowly to let her see the capital.

Their another vicious scam was in the Inle Lake. In the middle of the night, they wanted to eat "Mon Kwye Thae", which is a traditional snack only sold for breakfast and afternoon. Wives of divisional army officers did not know what to do. So what did they do? They had to make "Mon Kwye Thae" in the middle of the night.

One of their famous businesses is to go and look around best Jewelery shops in Yangon after misguiding themselves in order not to be recognized by local people. If they find something they like, they keep in a list and usually ask wives of different ministers to buy. So these jewelery are considered to be some kind of levy asking by a mafia group because they know that wives the ministers are corrupted by using their husband's power. One day, they asked Daw Khin Khin, wife of Yangon mayor U Ko Lay, to go and get a specific pearl necklace from FMI shopping centre. It must have been quite expensive, Daw Khin Khin borrowed some money from someone to buy that necklace. There were many similar stories like this among high officials, but they do not know how to get out of the situation. Reportedly, they love diamonds and pearls. There is a remark among wives of minister level,"if first daughters ever summon you by letter, make sure to bring money with you".

Everyone knows about a little monkey, a grandson of Than Shwe. There may be something that nobody knows yet. To be added more about him, once he lost his watch in a lake of Mawlamyaing. In the middle of the night, the monkey forced a divisional army commander to buy him a watch. The commander took him downtown Mawlamyaing, forced an owner who owned a watch shop. The little monkey was following his auntie's tradition, took a dozen of watches without paying. Neither
the army commander paid for those watches.

Once, they all went to a city called "Pyae". Many cars in big line traveling together on a highway. One of ladies, wife of a lt.colonel, wasn't very obedient like other ladies; she was very neutral among others. On the way between Yangon and Pyae, they stopped over somewhere, the vicious family left the wife of colonel on the highway.

To be concluded, there are much more incredible stories.....