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Sailing Club

December 13, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We found a curio earlier. A keyring fob that’s been hiding in a suitcase since 1992. I know how long we’ve had it because it comes from my time in Burma, from the Yangon Sailing Club at 132 Inya Road. It was a great place to socialise just a short distance from the university and uncomfortably close to the nearby site of a student slaughter in 1988.

Friends sailing on Inya Lake October, 1991.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: 8888, aung san suu kyi, burma, genocide, inya lake, rangoon, rohingya, tatmadaw, yangon sailing club

Ghost Stories

May 17, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Please join me in a story of ghosts. If you come with me, you will start by travelling back 30 years to a computer room in a leafy tropical suburb near where two Burmese leaders Aung San Suu Kyi and General Ne Win lived in their different confinements. She was at home on Inya Lake, held there because of an internationally decried house arrest. He was also in his lakeside home, confined allegedly because of ill health but really because his puppets were slowly side-lining him before they erased him from history.

  • SLORC billboards lest you forget.
  • Monk, candle and computer.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: aung san suu kyi, burma, computing, ne win, rangoon, slorc, tatmadaw, travel

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