DOE A YAE! (Independent Monument Mahar Bandula Park)

08/08/2019 is the 31th anniversary of the students protestation in Rangoon.

DOE A YAE was the slogan of students.

Let’s type on an old writing machine until a white page is full of DOE A YAE.

Let’s imagine people to rise up and shout all together DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!

OUR RIGHTS! OUR RIGHTS! OUR RIGHTS!

Let’s imagine the arrest of Aye Ko in 1990, the arrest of Htein Lin in 1998 and all others…

Let’s imagine their desire of democracy and freedom and peace and how they struggled in jail...

“What is peace?” said Aye Ko during his performances

What is peace? What human being needs to bring himself and society to peace?….

Let’s write DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!

Let’s write, let’s try to remember…

On the writing machine, no more ink….

On the white paper, DOE A YAE! disappears slowly. Only the trace of typing.

DOE A YAE disappears slowly… Like our power, our abilities to fight for our rights and for democracy?

Today it’s 08/08.

Today it’s the anniversary of revolution which was called 8888.

Let’s wear 8 red candles. One candle between each foot finger.

Red like the color of blood when the army est intervened to restore the notion of “law and order” on 18/09/88.

“ When army shoots, it shoots to kill “ Ne Win had warned.

“ The army is not the problem. Army is protect the country. The problem today is the leader of army “ said Zaw Linn Thant “ Never give up! “ he said also.

Let’ continue to write DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!

Let’s continue to say NO!, to fight for human rights and democracy, even if it disappears.

What does the human being needs today?

What Burma needs today?

“Today, we need to change the constitution” said V Shine

What Myanmar needs today? What the human world needs today?

Zun Thu, Aye Ko's daughter says that she felt more free in USA when she was studying there.

Human being needs democracy and freedom.

In USA, today, people needs to fight also for democracy and freedom.

Everywhere people feels democracy is disappearing.

DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE!

OUR RIGHTS! OUR RIGHTS! OUR RIGHTS!

The white paper is completed with DOE A YAE! Even if it’s not visible.

On the stairs of the Independent Monument in Mahar Bandula Park, let’s write with a chalk, like at school, the end of the poem Liberty which was written by Paul Eluard in 1942 :

“ I was born to know you

To name you

Liberty “

Let’s write to remember.

We need to remember to repair.

Let’s light a candle near the word Liberty.

Let’s protect the candle from the wind. Let’s protect the candle from violence and dictatorship. Let’s hope.

Let’s protect the humanity.

“Suffering can’t disappear, said V Shine. We need humanity and thinking. We need to take care of each other.”

Let’s remember, let’s repair, let’s hope.

Let’s pass the candle of hope to the young burmese boy who is sitting near the writing machine.

He’ll take care of hope.

He’ll take care of the word “Liberty”.

It’s time for the next generation to “never give up” as Zaw Linn Thant said.

Never give up….

                                                                         DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! DOE A YAE! 

  

Photos © Béatrice Didier & Chaw Chaw

This performance was created by Béatrice Didier in the context of the project Performance Art y Resiliencia, conceived by Elvira Santamaria, hosted by New Zero Art Space

With the support of Walllonie Bruxelles International