🇲🇲 7 MUST-SEES in MANDALAY, Myanmar

[@Dakn01]

My wife and I love your videos! You've inspired us to plan a vacation to SE Asia next year

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Dakn01 Thank you so much for your kind message. Your support also inspires me to keep on creating the videos from Southeast Asia. Wish you a great trip here!

[@roygertel]

South East Asia sooooo hot... always hot. Preper yourself to sweat all time...

[@assadacharin7683]

Myanmar is a gorgeous country without a doubt.

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Thank you for watching, ASSADA. Myanmar has a lot of gorgeous places that we should visit. Hope you enjoyed all videos from Myanmar here :)

[@Pranjan1277]

Buddhist art and architecture is so fascinating an miraculous.

[@jerawadeesrikalasin9930]

My daughter and I just finished watching this video. We love it and will watch your other episodes as well. Thanks so much for doing this!

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Jerawadee Srikalasin Khob khun krub, p Noon! Glad you and Nong Pleng enjoyed the video. Will upload more videos here :)

[@jerawadeesrikalasin9930]

Will certainly watch ka! I think Krabi will be my next project. 555

[@KattieMetChris]

Liked and subscribed- we are headed to Mandalay tomorrow and thanks to your video I cant wait to learn about the palace and how they replicated it. Great video.

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Great to hear you're going there. There are more videos from MANDALAY here >> bit.ly/2zsVFhw Hope they are helpful. Wish you a GREAT trip!

[@CKology]

love the video, so well done! Bravo, await more vid from u!

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Hello there! Thanks a lot for watching. Glad you like the videos. Hope to create a new video every Sat. Cheers :)

[@santiagocachon8089]

I love your videos, next week I will travel 3 weeks to Myanmar.

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

SANTIAGO CACHON CELADOR Wow!! Thanks for watching. Hope all videos about Myanmar in this channel will be useful for your trip. Wish you a GREAT time in Myanmar!

[@Pranjan1277]

It's wonderful

[@pushpanathannn]

Good job done methodically...nice videography..

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

NathaPushpa de Silva Thank you so much. Hope you enjoy other videos from Myanmar here :)

[@maruwaanmoses]

Love your videos Art!

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Maruwaan Moses Thanks so much for always following this channel. Will keep creating more videos :)

[@linlinsoe5732]

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[@BoomBoom-yf8qz]

After every crisis come and visit south of Shan state.

[@sawlinkhant2107]

Can I know the songs that he used?

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

Saw Lin Khant Thanks a lot. At which part of the video?

[@georgewin1415]

Please visit Myanmar. Myanmar, in reality, is a very beautiful and peaceful country. People are very kind and friendly. It comes from their hearts. The United Nations has been unfairly treating Myanmar in a very heavy-handed way with regards to Rohingya issues. And the people in the world are getting the wrong impressions about Myanmar. And Daw Aung Su Kyi is put under pressure by the world bodies to solve these problems instantly, which have existed for centuries. To start with, the British were responsible for bringing these people into Myanmar as labour forces in those colonial days, and didn't care to send them back to where they came from after they had left Myanmar for good. That time, Myanmar was just starting as an independent nation, and had no resources and wealth to repatriate these people. The British occupied Myanmar from 1824 to 1948 for 125 years. During that time, there was no record of the existence of the so called Rohingya people. They were recorded as Bengali people from Bangladesh. If one look at the Rohingya people, even though they say they have lived in Myanmar for so long, 99.9% of the present day so called Rohingyas do not speak the Myanmar language. They enclave themselves and speak only Bengali language. On the other hand, the world wants Daw Aung San Su Kyi to do decisive actions while the military is still holding 25% of power and holding the strings. The worst scenario would be to bring back all the Rohingya people, and then see the military backed party won the next election. That will be the end of democracy in Myanmar. And Myanmar will go under the darkness again. No freedom and no Democracy. It is a very complex issue and Myanmar, as a nation, has to weigh its future and have to make decisions in the best interest of the country. For the Rohingya issue, the UN has relied mainly on the oral histories of the Rohingya people without concrete evidence, and labelled the event as “ethnic cleansing” and “genocide”. The former UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan had rejected the genocide claim, and through his report on The Advisory Commission on the Rakhine State, which he chaired, including three international experts and 6 locals. The Commission’s final report was endorsed by all fifteen members of the UN Security Council in October 2017. UN can’t deny their former UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan’s rejection on the genocide issue. The UN’s accusation was very strong and harsh and it is far from reality. While the UN has investigated the Rohingya issue vigorously, they have swept away the other issue that had happened on the 29 September 2012 in Bangladesh. On the 29 September 2012, hundreds of Myanmar people who were living in Bangladesh for centuries were raped, killed, including babies, their houses burnt down, Buddhist monasteries were torched and were driven out of Bangladesh. Many Rohingya people from Rakhine went to Bangladesh and helped to kill as many Myanmar people as they can. It was in the Bangladesh newspapers. The event was planned systematically and some witnesses say that they have seen the local politicians amongst the many truckloads of people that came to destroy and killed Myanmar people. It was a premeditated and well organised event. More Myanmar people may have died in that event than the Rohingyas who had fled Myanmar recently. After that horrendous death of many Myanmar people in Bangladesh in 2012, the Myanmar government had accepted over 300,000 Myanmar refugees officially. Unofficially, hundreds and thousands of Myanmar people fled and crossed into Myanmar. Up until now, there is no voice from the UN about the 2012 event, but just silence. There were no known proper investigations by the UN and doesn’t seem to be interested in doing one. Why is it so? Out of interest, Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussen was the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights until 2018. The UN has gone through the world-wide media campaigns against Myanmar and all sort of sanctions were imposed. Also, the world media and the UN are forcing Myanmar to accept the Rohingya people as an ethnic group of Myanmar. If you contemplate from the Myanmar side, it seems to be a very hard thing to accept them as one of their own ethnic group. The so called Rohingyas look the same as the people from Bangladesh. They speak the same Bengali language (maybe with a little bit of variation in some cases) and have the same culture and religion. It is hard to believe that just by crossing a little dry river into Myanmar, one could transformed into a Rohingya instantly from an original Bangladeshi. It is like a group of Myanmar people crossing into Bangladesh and calling themselves as “Mohinga” people, claimed to be one of the ethnic groups of Bangladesh, and demand an autonomous Buddhist region for all of the southern part of Bangladesh. The people of Bangladesh would never accept that. Similarly, the Myanmar people would not be able to accept the Rohingya as one of their own ethnicity. It is like calling a Ford a Mustang. Does that mean it is not a Ford anymore? If DNA testings were carried out, the DNA of Rohingyas would match perfectly with that of the Bangladeshis. The UN has been pursuing the Muslim minority issue vigorously, accusing Myanmar of ethnic cleansing. But in contrast, it is not the same treatment for Myanmar people who had suffered atrocities and ethnic cleansing in Bangladesh in 2012. As far as UN is involved, so far, there isn’t any mention on the event of 2012 where many Myanmar people have died, let alone any criticism on Bangladesh. UN has never interviewed the local people in Rakhine, on how they have lived in fear of these so called Rohingya people for centuries, who were cruel, unkind, beheading locals and have no compassion towards non- Muslims. The UN’s attitude has been very unkind to Myanmar and it looks like it is so easy to bully a very poor country like Myanmar and yet turn a blind eye on what Bangladesh had done to the Myanmar people in 2012. It is so unfair and unkind. UN should also investigate on what Bangladesh has done to Myanmar people in 2012 - genocide and ethnic cleansing. The recent event of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar started with the 5 Muslim men brutally raping a young Burmese girl and mutilated her body afterwards. The local people saw this and couldn't take it anymore. And then the Muslim ARSA terrorist group attacked the police outposts and hacked people brutally with machetes to behead them. Myanmar side couldn’t take the aggression anymore and that’s how all these things started. It is a grass root level clashes and a localised grass root response. The reality in Rakhine state in Myanmar was that, at the grass root level, the local Myanmar people are being raped, killed and had lived in fear of these people for centuries. The way these people kill the local people were always by beheading or slitting the throats. It reminds one of the similar tactics used by other terrorists groups. It also hints their sentimental links to extreme terrorists groups, although they wouldn’t admit it. However, setting aside all these things, in difficult times like these, we should be showing our love and kindness towards each other, instead of spreading hatred, as hatred will never cease through hatred, but only through love and understanding alone they will cease. Myanmar is ready to take back the Muslims who fled across, but they wouldn’t want to come back, as most of them are those who crossed into Myanmar border illegally (the border is a dry river about 15 meters wide in summer). Please visit Myanmar and find out about the truth on how beautiful the country is and how kind the people are. There you will find a lot of mosques close to churches and pagodas, existing in harmony. In times of crises, the Buddhist monasteries are the places where the Muslims go for protection and food. The monks feed them and protect them. You will also see a lot of Muslims and Indians walking about in the streets and doing businesses. You will recognise them by the way they dress. You can see them living together in harmony. If you boycott Myanmar, the only people who will suffer are the innocent people who rely on tourism. Please visit Myanmar and you’ll find a very beautiful country with kind and friendly people.

[@joeng3442]

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[@adamaatyen-ura1022]

Did the local guide mention that Mya Thein Dan is in Mingun? Why didn’t he explain a little the reason the pagoda is in white? Why pop music for palace and temple? You won’t do that with Thai Grand Palace and Thai sacred temple wouldn’t you? Give us a respect. They are not merely objects for tourism!

[@stevedelahunty3859]

Oppa is hot!

[@ArtThomyaJourney]

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