Monday, April 13, 2009

NUDE (2)




Title : Nude (2)

Size: 106 x 160 cm

Medium: acrylic on canvas

Year: 2008

The Semigwa Dance is a traditional Burmese dance in which a dancer performs intricate movements while holding candles or other materials in the palms of their hands. this dance has been perverted to become a form of torture. One man explains:

"At this time, prisoners were punished through a method called the Semigwa dance. During this torture, prisoners are made to crawl on gravel on their knees and elbows with their feet and hands up in the air, holding onto handfuls of gravel, while singing. If they do not sing smoothly or can not crawl, the authorities whip them with Bamboo batons. All the other prisoners are forced to watch this.

Torture report (Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma))

8 comments:

blueskyforest said...

သႀကၤန္တြင္း ေပ်ာ္ပါးျမဴးတူးဖို႔ သံခ်ပ္ထိုးမယ့္ မ႑ပ္ေထာင္ထားပါတယ္။ ႂကြခဲ့ပါ။ သံခ်ပ္၀င္ထိုးသြားပါ။

Anonymous said...

i 'm crying again.

Anonymous said...

i wish i can do something
but i can't even help myself
when will it be end?
how long our people will suffer?

Anonymous said...

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my address is
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zaw win maung said...

i visit your blog . i wish you may be happy from beginning " Myanmar New Year". i always remember you. i miss you.

my address is
BLK 16, 204 Jln Nuri 7 / C, Kotadamasara, Pataling Jaya, Selongor , Malaysia .
017-2794300

tune said...

This is the link I mentioned last night Ma Chaw Ei.
http://burglish.googlepages.com/testarea.htm
hope it will work for u.

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