LET ME LIVE MUMMY, PLEASE

Early in the morning 5 am, Daw Aye was preparing for morning offering to Lord Buddha and she heard baby crying sound with dogs barking from the back yard. At first she thought it was just misled. But the baby crying sound piercing through her heart and unable to focus morning praying. So, she went out to the backyard and examined. There was a new born baby still attach with placenta wrapped with a Longi (ladies wear in Myanmar). The baby was crying till her eye out because of red ants biting. She quickly picked up the baby and waked her husband up for helps. And the couple quickly brought the baby to hospital because the baby face and hands were cover with red dots due to red ants bite.

At the foot of the pagoda, under the shade of a big banyan tree, there is a couple sitting and chatting. From far away view, together with the back ground of pagoda and banyan tree, it is a lovely and romantic view. But when you listen their chatting….

lady…. How are we going to do with this? (Showing her belly)
man….I have no idea, why don’t you take the pill?
lady… I don’t know where to buy it and it is a shameful for lady to buy such pill without married. If my parent knows about it, they will kill me.
man…Then, how..? We can’t married yet because we still studying. We haven't graduate yet.
lady…why are you done that to me, I allowed you because of you love me and now I am in trouble. (Start crying)
man… Stop crying. I really don’t know what to do. Why not you ask some of your friends for help?
lady…. You such a coward.( and they start quarreling)
Finally the lady cried alone and she decided something. With final look of the pagoda and she walked away from the pagoda compound.

Mr. Aye Ko was a municipal worker at the nearby wet market. He had to clean a big pile of rubbish every early in the morning which dumped by market. As a market's dump the rubbish were with rotten veggies, rotten fishes and meats, plastic bags with carton boxes sometime even animal carcass like dogs and cats. For today, he finished the job quite early because of fewer dumps and he was waiting for last garbage truck. After that he will clean up the area and job done for the day. When the last garbage truck arrived, he picked a rubbish bin and opened it to attach the bin picker. With surprised, he found a new born baby with motionless in the rubbish bin. He looked at the baby with heavy sigh. It was the third baby that he found in rubbish bin within a month.

Dr.San Aung who opened his clinic at suburban area was facing with lot of unwanted pregnancies. Most of the patient (ladies) came to his clinic were asking for illegal abortion. Most of them are university students and prostitutes. Recently, a lady came in to clinic and asking for abortion. When Dr.San Aung inquiry about her pregnancy, she blames to her boyfriend that she fall in love in Facebook. After a couple of months they hang out together, suddenly she lost contact with her boyfriend. She was trying herself to reach the address that her boyfriend gave to her. But there was no such address. Dr. San Aung advised her to contact to local authority and NGO which helping to single mum instead of abortion. She nodded her head and left the clinic but Dr.San Aung know that she will look for another clinic instead of local authority.

Previously in Myanmar holding a hand phone was everyone dreams. After the 2012 election, Myanmar started with parliament democracy. After releasing of a few economic sanctions form global the biggest changing in Myanmar was telecommunication. Hand phone became affordable for every layer of citizens. At first it showed a good sign till the cheap smart phone introduced to Myanmar people. Chatting App like Viber, What app, which able to make video call are new and awesome for the people of Myanmar. Such chatting apps introduce the strangers who use the same app surrounding area. That was the movement where the crimes start. A married man or a mother with two Childs also became single and available.

When the internet accompanied with those social medias came in, their life became fragile especially for the youths. In those old days, a boy who dares to bring a playboy magazine to school was a hero. And also it was not easy to get. But nowadays you only need a smart phone to access the entire 18+ website. And most of the Myanmar people are very conservative and I had never learned sex educations not only in high school but also in university.

https://www.aseantoday.com/2016/12/rising-child-rape-cases-in-myanmar-show-desperate-need-for-action/

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/nay-pyi-taw/24218-deputy-minister-notes-worrisome-rise-in-child-rape-cases.html

http://www.mmtimes.com/index.php/national-news/yangon/20707-abandoned-babies-reveal-lack-of-sex-education-support-for-single-mothers.html

And those people who wanted to have new experience like what they saw in social media, then the underage children and their girlfriends became their target. A new technology handed over to those low educations or lack of knowledge person without proper law enforcement, the result were “ new born baby abandon on street” , “ child rape”, “cyber bullies” etc……..

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Henry Aung ( Kachin )