Who Is Daw Cherry ? ေဒၚ ခ်ယ္ ရီ ကို သိ ႀက ပါ သ လား ?

Do you know anyone called Daw Cherry ?

Contrary to her unusually short and simple name for a Burmese, she is quite far from being an ordinary housewife. She is married to one of the elite members of the military top officials.

According to the DVB news, her husband is the newly appointed Commander Brigadier General Aung Than Htut of Northeast Command. And she will not be staying home and unpacking her household items from boxes like most wives would be doing after moving houses. Instead, she will be blessing the local Maternal and Child Healthcare Association with her appearance.

My guess is that she is some kind of medical profession. She must be either a Pediatrician or a Gynaecologist as she felt the importance of her contribution to the local association with her skills and talents, so soon after the arrival at the new place.

Or she might be just a genuine born-to-serve kind of person, who would just like to see if there is any little help that she can contribute, for example collecting some donations from other Generals wives, who have better income so that she can make some improvement to the collapsed healthcare system of Burma , which has a record of 400 children dying a day.

Whatever her intentions are, it is generally positive news that some wife of a Commander General is showing enough interest to inspect the local healthcare association and we should all be grateful for her effort.

However, there appeared to be a slight problem with her visit. The SPDC’s local government officials U Nyunt Han and
U Kyi Win plainly told the locals that there is no state funding for the important visit of Daw Cherry. And despite lacking in funding, the local PDC officials are still determined to welcome the honourable Daw Cherry’s important visit with the stately greetings, which include 100 flying military flags, cutting the lawn and redecorating of the halls, all have to be provided by the local residents.

And what more ? U Nyunt Han and U Kyi Win want each family to contribute K 1,500 so that the spouse of their new Commander will be offered suitable luxury such as flowers and refreshments during her blessed visit.

Obviously, the residents where Daw Cherry is visiting are struggling farm labourers, who are already involved in the scheme to provide weekly voluntary labour on castor oil plantations by the local PDC.

Does Daw Cherry realise that her visit will be a huge burden to the local people and the wives and children of the families will have to go without dinner, in order to greet her so grandly ?

Will her high profile husband Commander Aung Than Htut decide to offer his own or some military funding to pay the expenses of his beloved wife’s ‘goodwill’ visit? (should he knows how the locals suffer? - he should as he is the local commander)

Would U Nyunt Han and U Kyi Win pluck up the courage and decide to just greet the socially-minded local first lady in an ordinary friendly way, and save the families’ money for their starving mothers and babies ?

This is where your part comes in. Perhaps you know this Daw Cherry or even her husband,the Commander. There aren’t many names like Daw Cherry. Just simple , plain ‘Daw Cherry’. Someone must have gone to school with her or worked with her. Her family friend, her driver, her teacher, her colleague. Someone must know her.

Or did you attend the military university, at the same time as Aung Than Htut ? Are you his friend, his neighbour, his soldiers, his relation, who can pass on information about him ?

Please do send any information you have about Daw Cheery and Commander Aung Than Htut, as it is important that the poor babies and mothers don’t go starving. Just send some messages in the comment box. As you know, you do not have to use your real name. Just soe, aung, nwe, aye will do.

Thank you for your contribution.

Goldie Shwe