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Journeys in Time 2010-08-18 The Chinese Expeditionary Force (4)- Recuperating in Ramgarh

http://english.cntv.cn/program/journeysintime/20100818/103702.shtml

The soldiers in Ramgarh were relatively well provisioned, with uniforms, food and medicine. Along with the American supplies there also arrived a large contingent of American army officers. Stilwell had arranged for them to take command of the Chinese army from the battalion level up. But would the plan work?  Read more... (210 words, 9 images, estimated 50 secs reading time)

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AGAIN, THE BRITISH BEAT A HASTY RETREAT WITHOUT INFORMING THEIR ALLIES. THEY SLYLY USED THE CHINESE AS A COVER TO SAVE THEIR OWN SKINS.

NOTHING BRAVE AND HONORABLE IN THIS COWARDLY ACT. THIS LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DISASTROUS CHINESE RETREAT BACK TO CHINA.

LOOKING AT THE OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE, YOU WON’T KNOW THAT HE IS A BATTLE HARDENED VETERAN WHO LITERALLY HAD BEEN “TO HELL AND BACK!”

Journeys in Time 2010-08-17 The Chinese Expeditionary Force (3)- Ordeal on Savage Mountain

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Soldiers practicing “Myit Tha” and tolerance? Chivalry, anyone? What a surprise!

Why did his majesty, the British monach and US President Roosevelt confer the highest honors on a Chinese general?

After many decades, why did British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on behalf of the British Government, personally thank a wheelchair bound old Chinese in Los Angeles?

In Yenangyaung, why did British soldiers kneel down to their Chinese allies?

Find out why!

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Removing home grown warlords like Than Shwe is hard enough. Superstitious people believe Burma is now suffering a calamity (Kart Sike), as if gripped by a devil.They won’t go away on their own.

Same with the Japanese fascist warlords! Only a thousand times harder.

Imagine Burma as it was, a virtual Japanese colony to be yet brutalized for many more centuries to come, speaking Japanese, and ruled by a succession of puppets like Dr Ba Maw.

How horrible!

ေခါင္းစဥ္ၾကည့္ျပီးလန့္မသြားပါနဲ့။ ဒါေတြက အခ်က္အလက္ေတြကိုမွီျငမ္းေရးတာပါ။

သိၾကတယ္ေနာ..။ အဲဒီ ၂ႏိုင္ငံလံုးက ေထာင္ခ်ီသက္တန္းရွိတဲ့ သမိုင္းယဥ္ေက်းမႈေတြနဲ့ ဆိုတာ..။
တိဘက္နဲ့နီေပါ ပါခင္ဗ်ား။ တိဘက္ဆိုတာက ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ၀ိပသနာမ်ိဳးေစ့ သယ္လာေပးတဲ့ ဘုန္းၾကီးတို႔ရဲ့ႏိုင္ငံ။ နီေပါက..ေဂါတမဗုဒၶပြင့္ေတာ္မူရာ ..ေဒသ..။
အေတြးေတြေပၚလာေအာင္ ေအာက္က ဓါတ္ပံုသတင္းေလး၂ခု ဒီအတိုင္းပဲတင္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဆက္စပ္စဥ္းစားရင္း သမိုင္းေျခရာခံၾကည့္၊ အတိတ္စိမ္းေကာက္ၾကည့္ေပါေနာ..။

LIVING GODDESS:

ဧရာ၀တီေဆာင္းပါးမွ ေကာက္ႏႈတ္သည္။ http://www.irrawaddymedia.com/bur/index.php/articles/2-articles/1931-2009-10-05-11-29-41

THE GOLDEN CHILD: The sixth living Buddha, Dezhub, sat at Zagor Monastery in Shannan Prefecture, of southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, Monday. The young Buddha, whose secular name is Losang Doje, was recently chosen by senior monks after years of searching. (Xinhua/ZUMA Press)

အထက္ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ မြန္တို႔ အေရးနိမ့္ၿပီးေနာက္ အေလာင္းဘုရားသည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေတာင္ပိုင္းသို႔

တိုင္ေအာင္ ဆက္လက္ခ်ီတက္ တိုက္ခိုက္ကာ ၁၇၅၅ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလတြင္ ျပည္ၿမိဳ႕သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိခဲ့သည္။ ထိုနွစ္ ေမလတြင္ မြန္ တံငါရြာငယ္ တစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာ ဒဂံုသို႔ ဝင္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည္။ မြန္တို႔သည္ ဒဂံုကို ကာကြယ္ရန္ မႀကိဳးပမ္းေသာေၾကာင့္ တိုက္ပဲြတစ္စံုတရာ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ျခင္း မရွိ၍  ဒဂံုသည္ စစ္ေဘးဒါဏ္မွ ကင္းလြတ္ခဲ့သည္။ သုိ႔ေသာ္ မြန္တို႔ အေနျဖင့္ ျမစ္ဝကၽြန္းေပၚ ေဒသတြင္ အေရးပါေသာ ရံႈးနိမ့္မႈ တစ္ခုမဟုတ္ခဲ့ေပ။ ထိုေနာက္ပိုင္းတြင္ ဒဂံုသည္ စစ္ဆင္ေရးအတြက္ အေကာင္းဆံုးေသာ ေဒသ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့သည္။ ပဲခူးနွင့္ သန္လ်င္တို႔တြင္ မြန္တို႔ အေျခတက် ေနရာယူထားသည့္အတြက္ အေလာင္းဘုရားသည္ ဒဂံုကို စစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္အျဖစ္
ျပဳလုပ္ကာ တစ္ဘက္ကမ္းမွ သန္လ်င္ကို တိုက္ခိုက္နိုင္ရန္ အတြက္ စီစဥ္ေလသည္။

သို႔ေသာ္ ထိုအခ်ိန္တြင္ သန္လ်င္သည္ ဒဂံုကို တိုက္ခိုက္ရန္ ပိုမိုလိုလားသည္။ မြန္တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာတို႔ထက္ လက္နက္ခဲယမ္းအင္အား ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္သည့္ အျပင္ Sieur de Bruno ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ျပင္သစ္အဖဲြ႕အေျခစိုက္ထားသည့္အတြက္ စစ္ေရးအရ တပန္းသာသည္။ အေလာင္းဘုရား၏ သိသာေသာ နည္းလမ္းမွာ ျပင္သစ္တို႔၏ ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ျဖစ္ေသာ ပုသိမ္ျမစ္ဝ၌ အေျခစိုက္လ်က္ရွိသည့္ အဂၤလိပ္တို႔၏ အကူအညီကို ရယူရန္ ျဖစ္၏။ ထို႔ေနာက္ မတ္လ အစတြင္ အေလာင္းဘုရားသည္ Negrais မွေခါင္းေဆာင္ပိုင္းကို ခ်ဥ္းကပ္ခဲ့ေလသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္  အေရွ႕အိႏၵိယ ကုမၸဏီ၏ ၾကားေနေရး မူဝါဒေၾကာင့္ ၄င္း၏ အဆိုျပဳခ်က္မွာ အရာမထင္ခဲ့ေပ။  Read more... (1431 words, 1 image, estimated 5:43 mins reading time)

THE JAPANESE FASCISTS’ DECLARATION CLEARLY UNMASKED THEIR HIGH AMBITIONS TO CONQUER THE WORLD. FROM BURMA, THEY PLANNED TO CONQUER INDIA AND TO LINK UP IN IRAN WITH THE GERMAN FASCISTS.

TALK ABOUT JAPANESE FASCISTS FREEING THE BRITISH COLONIES! JUST LIES! THEY WERE WORSE THAN BRITISH IMPERIALISTS!

ALL LOCAL PEOPLE HATED THE JAPANESE FASCISTS. THEY RAPED, LOOTED, AND TERRORIZED THE LOCAL PEOPLE, WHEREVER THEY WENT.

WITH THEIR PROPAGANDA MACHINE, THE BRITISH CLAIMED THEY DROVE AWAY THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS. THEY COVERED UP THEIR DEFEATS AND CLAIMED MORE THAN THEIR SHARE OF THE CREDIT.

THE BRITISH GENERAL WON’T TALK. HE WON’T EVEN SAY SOMETHING TO GENERAL STILWELL WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CHINESE ARMIES HELPING TO FIGHT THE JAPANESE FASCISTS.

ACTUALLY, THE BRITISH WANTED TO SACRIFICE BURMA AND JUST DEFEND INDIA.

HE WAS SLY AND DISHONEST TO THE AMERICAN AND CHINESE ALLIES. HE LEFT OPEN THE WESTERN FLANK IN THE DEFENSE OF TOUNGOO. HE BEAT A DISHONORABLE RETREAT LEAVING THE CHINESE IN THE LURCH.

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Yunnan-Burma Road in WW2 – Part 2: British betrayal of the Chinese Expeditionary Force

Yunnan-Burma Road in WW2 – Parts 1: British betrayal of the Chinese Expeditionary Force

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIaI3LBRXc

IN THE BEGINNING, THE ALLIES WERE BADLY  DEFEATED BY THE INVADING JAPANESE FORCES. THE JAPANESE HAD NO RESPECT FOR THE BRITISH WHO WON’T FIGHT BUT WOULD RATHER RUN. THE BRITISH PLAYED TRICKS ON THE ALLIES AND LET THE CHINESE BE ENCIRCLED IN TOUNGOO. THEY LEFT SECRETLY WITHOUT INFORMING THE CHINESE.

OTHER SOURCES SAID THE ALLIES’ MILITARY COURT CASHIERED THE BRITISH COMMANDER. HE ESCAPED THE SENTENCE OF DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD, THOUGH. THE BRITISH HAD TO PAY GENERALISSMO CHIANG KAI SHEK REPARATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF FRIGATES.

THIS VIDEO HAS THE BUILDING OF THE ROAD PLUS ALL THE ACCOMPANYING BATTLES .

Stilwell Road (1945)

YouTube – Stilwell Road (1945)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQdcAd-ERA&feature=search

Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road–originally called The Ledo Road–a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II. The road, which was built by 63,000 workers and cost $150 million, was used by the British, Chinese and Indian armies to transport supplies, troops and other essentials from India to Burma in order to keep the Japanese from overrunning the entire theater. Included is footage of the construction of the road itself and of Gen. Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell, the American general in charge of forces in the China-Burma-India area of operations and for whom the road was named.

ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္၏ ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ျဖစ္ေသာ ေတာင္ႀကီၤးၿမိဳ႕သည္ ပင္လယ္ေရမ်က္ႏွာျပင္
အထက္ (၄၇၁၂) ေပ ျမင့္ေသာ ရွမ္းျပည္ေတာင္ပိုင္း ရွမ္းရိုးမ ေတာင္ေပၚတြင္
တည္ရွိပါသည္။ျမန္မာ သဣရာဇ္ (၁၂၀၀)ခန္႔က ေနာင္တြင္ ေတာင္ႀကီးဟု သမုတ္မည့္
ေနရာ၌ ပအုိ၀့္ရြာေလး တစ္ရြာ ရွိခဲ့သည္။ ထုိရြာ၏ အမည္မွာ “ဒံုေတာင္တီ´´
ဟု အမည္ ရသည္။ ေတာင္တီကို ရွမ္းအမည္ျဖင့္ “တြမ္တီး´´ ဟုေခၚသည္။ တည္ပင္
(၀ါ) ကတည္ပင္ ေပါက္ရာရြာဟု ဆုိလိုသည္။ ထိုရြာႏွင့္ အနီးတ၀ိုက္တြင္
ပင္လံုရြာ၊ ရွမ္းရြာ၊ မိန္ၿမိန္ရြာႏွင့္ ၀ါးျပားရြာ မ်ားသာ ရွိေပသည္။
၎အျပင္ ေရကန္ ေလးကန္ႏွင့္ အင္းႀကီး တစ္အင္းလည္း ရွိေပသည္။ အဂၤလိပ္
အစုိးရသည္ ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ ကို (၁၂၅၃)ခုႏွစ္၊ (၁၈၉၀)ျပည့္ႏွစ္တြင္
တည္ေထာင္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း၊ ပါတ္၀န္းက်င္ရွိ အင္းႏွင့္ကန္မ်ားကို ျပဳျပင္
ဆည္ဖို႔ကာ ေတာင္ႀကီးကို ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ျဖစ္ရန္ ဖန္တီးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရွိ မွတ္သား
ရပါသည္။ သက္ႀကီး ရြယ္အုိ တစ္ဦး၏ ေျပာျပခ်က္ အရ (၁၂၅၁)ခုႏွစ္တြင္
ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ တည္ေၾကာင္း မွတ္သား ရပါ သည္။ ဤ အဆို အမိန္႔မ်ားကို
အေျခခံ၍ သံုးသပ္ၾကည့္ရာ အဂၤလိပ္တို႔သည္ အထက္ ျမန္မာျပည္ကို (၁၂၄၇)
ႏွစ္တြင္ အေျခစိုက္ နိဳင္ခဲ့ၿပီး၊ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္သို႔ တက္လာကာ ပထမဦးစြာ
ေညာင္ေရႊၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မိုင္းေသာက္ ေက်းရြာ ေအသတြင္ စတင္ ရံုးစိုက္ခဲ့ ေပသည္။
ထိုေဒသမွ တစ္ဖန္ ယခုေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ တည္ရာ ေဒသ တ၀ိုက္သို႕ (၁၂၅၁)
ခုႏွစ္ခန္႔၌ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္နိဳင္ ပါသည္။ ထိုအခ်ိန္က
ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕ အေရွ႕ဘက္ ေတာင္တန္းမ်ား ေပၚ၌ မိရဲ၊ သထံု၊ ၀ိနယ အစရွိေသာ
ပအို၀့္ရြာမ်ား ရွိသည္။ “၀ိနယ´´ဟူေသာ အဓိပၸါယ္မွာ “ၿမိဳ႕ေဟာင္း´´ဟူ၍
ျဖစ္သည္။ ၎၌ ရံုးစိုက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ (၁၈၉၄) ခုႏွစ္တြင္မွ ယခု
ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕သို႔ ေျပာင္းေရြ႕ တည္ျခင္း ျဖစ္နိဳင္ ပါသည္။ ဤသို႔ဆိုလ်င္
ေတာင္ႀကီးၿမိဳ႕၏ သက္တမ္းကား အႏွစ္ (၁၀၀) ေက်ာ္ၿပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း မွတ္တမ္း
တင္ရမည္ ျဖစ္ပါသည္။  Read more... (391 words, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

စကားလိမ္ေတြနဲ႕ ေၿပာတဲ႕ စကားသံ မၾကားရတာ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ တစ္စုေက်ာ္ၿပီး ႏွစ္ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ေလာက္ေလာက္ရွိသြားၿပီ။ ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက မႏၱေလးဖိနပ္ေတြ ေရာင္းတဲ႕ ဖိနပ္အေရာင္းသမားဘဝတုန္းကဆို ဒီစကားလိမ္က လိႈင္ေနေအာင္ သံုးရ ေၿပာရတာကိုး။ အဲဒီတုန္းကလို ကိုယ္နဲ႕ အၿပိဳင္ စကားလိမ္ေတြကို လြတ္ၿပီးေၿပာႏိုင္တဲ႕ အသိမိတ္ေဆြ သူငယ္ခ်င္ေတြလည္း အခုမရွိေတာ႕ဘူး။ သတိရမိပါရဲ႕။

တကယ္ေတာ႕ ဟုိအရင္ မႏၱေလးက လူငယ္ေတြရဲ႕ ေၿပာဟန္ဆိုဟန္ ဝတ္ပံုစားပံုေတြက တစ္ၿခားေဒသ၊ ေနရာေတြနဲ႕ မတူ တစ္မူကြဲၿပားတယ္လို႕ ထင္တယ္။ ၿမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ ေနာက္ဆံုး ဘုရင္ထီးနန္းတည္ခဲ႕ ေနခဲ႕တဲ႕ ၿမိဳ႕ဆိုေတာ႕ စကားအသံုးအႏႈန္းကလည္း တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ နန္းမူနန္းဟန္ပါတယ္လို႕ ထင္တယ္။ ဥပမာ ရႈး(shoe) စီးတယ္ဆိုတာကို ေၿခနင္းစီးတယ္ေပါ႕။ ညဥ္႕နက္သန္းေခါင္ တစ္နာရီကို နာၿပန္တစ္ခ်က္ထိုး သည္ အစရွိသၿဖင္႕ေပါ႕။

ေနာက္ပိုင္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရးေတြ သိပ္ေကာင္းလာတဲ႕ ေခတ္ၾကေတာ႕ ေဒသသံုးစကားေတြ ကူးသန္းဖလွယ္္ၾက၊ ေနာက္ၿပီး အဝတ္အစား ဒီဇိုင္းေတြကလည္း ေနရာအႏွံ အလြယ္တကူေရာက္ႏိုင္ေတာ႕ တစ္ေက်ာင္း တစ္ဂါဋာ၊ တစ္ရြာ တစ္ပုဒ္ဆန္းဆိုတဲ႕ စကားက ေမွးမွိန္လုနီးပါးရွိေရာ႕မယ္။

စကားလိမ္က ဘယ္ကဘယ္လို စတင္ေပၚေပါက္လာသလဲဆိုတာေတာ႕ ကိုယ္ကိုယ္တိုင္လည္း သုေတသန မလုပ္အားေတာ႕ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ၿမန္မာစကားေတြကို သုေတသနလုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ႕ ပညာရွင္ေတြ အမ်ားၾကီးထြက္လာရင္ေတာ႕ သိပ္ေကာင္းမွာပဲ။

မွတ္မိသေလာက္ ငယ္ငယ္ ေလးတန္း ငါးတန္းအရြယ္ေလာက္က စၿပီး “တစ္” ကို အေၿခခံထားတဲ႕ စကားလိမ္ကို စတင္နားလည္ၿပီး ေၿပာၿဖစ္ခဲ႕သည္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက ကိုယ္႕ကို “တစ္” စကားသင္ေပးတဲ႕ သူငယ္ခ်င္းက ဒါဟာ ေၿမေအာက္ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမားေတြ၊ သူပုန္ေတြ သံုးတဲ႕ စကားဆိုၿပီးေၿပာထားေတာ႕ အဲဒါပဲ စြဲေနတာ။  Read more... (542 words, estimated 2:10 mins reading time)

Chinese Army in India-Burma Campaign – China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

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After the victorious conclusion of the Burma campaign, the New First Army was assembled at Myitkyina to await orders for its triumphant return.

Towards the end of June, 1945, our Allied Air Force placed more than 30 air transports of the C-46 and C-47 models for the transportation of the New First Army back to China. The general counter-offensive in the China Theatre was to be launched, and the New First Army was to take up the task of the offensive against the enemy on the Liuchow Peninsula, to coordinate with the operations of our Allies in the Pacific.  Read more... (396 words, 5 images, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

Chinese Army in India-Burma Campaign – China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

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RAID ON MYITKYINA

STORMING ON BHAMO

BATTLE AT KAIBTIK

CROSSING THE SHWELI

THE CAPTURE OF NAMHKHAN

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The New First Army rested at Myitkyina for nearly two months. By October, the rainy season in Northern Burma was over, the C.A.I. launched its second major offensive. The New First Army was to launch a frontal attack on Bhamo, while the New 6th Army was to head towards Shwegu from the left. The last named post was captured on October 29, after which the New 6th Army was recalled to China Theater and the Burma Campaign thenceforth was solely undertaken by the New First Army.  Read more... (1034 words, 2 images, estimated 4:08 mins reading time)

Chinese Army in India-Burma Campaign – China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

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The Fight for Mogaung City

While the 113th Regiment was still attacking Zigyun, the 114th Regiment had proceeded rapidly towards Mogaung City. By June 15, many points to the north of the city had been placed under control. At the same time, the 77th British Brigade which paratrooped into Katha two months previously was being encircled by the enemy and the Chinese came to their rescue in time. The city itself was captured after two days of hard fighting.  Read more... (399 words, 5 images, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)