Unlikely resistance in Burma's Mandalay (BBC)

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Irene Cristalis
Mandalay, Burma

Lu Maw waves a small black sign with white letters in front of the audience, in his cluttered front room that doubles as a theatre in Burma's second city of Mandalay.

"Par Par Lay, 25 September, taken away, in the nick, jailbird! His wife has been searching for him everywhere, we don't know where he is!"

Satisfied he has been able to make it clear that his elder brother, known as Par Par Lay, has been arrested, he continues his usual show.

The manic 58-year-old Lu Maw is one of the Moustache Brothers, a family of artists who follow a Burmese tradition known as A-Nyeint - a vaudeville mixture of slapstick, classical dance, sketches and stand-up comedy performed by travelling troupes.

The family is one of the few in Burma who dare to try to talk openly about what happened to their loved ones after the crackdown on anti-government protesters in September.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7060424.stm

[Warpy]

1. In any totalitarian country, only comedians

are allowed to tell the truth.