Ma Thaw's story

We are happy to share about a recent episode release on our Burmese podcast language platform, Myanmar Revolutionary Tales.

Her friends call her ‘Ma Thaw’. Her life before the coup was simple, working as a translator and English teacher. Working as a professional, she was a person who often gave time to her children in between her busy schedule. A good woman and a good mother who lived a modern life.

When the coup happened her life got turned upside down. She was well aware of the complications that would follow the military taking power. So, while she actively joined the protests, she gathered anything she could as she could find to aid the Spring Revolution.

Even now Sayama Thaw is active in the Spring Revolution and in addition to being a person most worthy of respect, her strong convictions and experiences that carried her along her revolutionary journey while navigating all kinds of difficulties unimaginable for an ordinary woman made even our jaws drop.

Sayama Thaw is a person who feels that the lives of young people today are the result of her generation’s failed responsibility. She is a woman who will do her best for the revolution for as long as she lives

She was afraid that giving time to her son suffering from cancer would be straying away from the revolution and so in the end she chose the revolution.

You can listen to her story on the Myanmar Revolutionary Tales Podcast talking about not only her admiration for Daw Aung Suu Kyi but her decision to sacrifice her child just like Daw Suu. She says through her tears we should do what we can before achieving the end of the revolution and shoulder the responsibility of victory