Darr Sann Ye (Burmese: ဓားစန်းရီ; lit. 'Knife Sann Yee'; born Sann Ye; 1933) is a Burmese woman who captured Major Zin Bo (also known as Kim Jin-su), a North Korean military officer who was involved in the Rangoon bombing of 9 October 1983. The bombing was an assassination attempt on South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan.[1][2][3][4][5]
Life
editDarr Sann Ye was born in 1933 in Phaungdawthi village, Daik-U, Bago Division, Burma. Growing up during the colonial era, she was not educated. At age 14, she married Nyo Gyi, a train conductor. They couple divorced after having two daughters. She and her eldest daughter Thein Myint moved to Rangoon. She survived by selling smuggled cinema tickets there. She ran a tavern and liquor shop near Pazundaung Creek and often carried a knife for protection. She married Soe Tint, and they had a son. Three years before her husband's death, Sann Ye went to Taunggyi, Shan State in 2000, where her eldest daughter lived. She served as a nun for 16 years.[6][7]
On 10 October 1983, at 21:00, she saw a strange man diving in Nyaungtan harbour. She suspected the man was Zin Bo. She promptly jumped into the stream and captured him. She and four men, including Bo Gyi and Shwe Min Thar, propelling her to fame overnight for their heroic actions. She was honoured by the Burmese government for her hard work.[6] As she got older, she became homeless and survived by begging on the Hledan flyover.[8][9][10] Following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, she participated in anti-coup movements.[11]
Popular culture
editShe was portrayed by Moht Moht Myint Aung in 2009 film Darr Sann Ye.[12] She is the subject of a documentary film by Nyein Nyein Aung which depicted her life and the capture of Zin Bo.[1][13]
After learning about Darr Sann Ye's life on Facebook in 2017, Ma Nyein Nyein Aung went in search of the 90-year-old, who was living in a thatched hut in Shwe Pyi Thar.[14]
References
edit- ^ a b "Darr Sann Ye, the story of a badass". The Myanmar Times. 29 May 2020. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "ဓားစန်းရီ (သို့) အမေ့လျော့ခံ အညတြ သူရဲကောင်း- ဆွေမြင့်သူ (ကြေး။မြေ)". Tomorrow News Journal (in Burmese). 3 June 2010. Archived from the original on 30 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ Lu, Daung (17 July 2018). "အမေ့လျော့ခံ အညတရသူရဲကောင်းတစ်ဦးရဲ့ နေဝင်ချိန် (သို့မဟုတ်) ဓားစန်းရီ". Mizzima (in Burmese).
- ^ "မြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့ အထင်ကရ အမျိုးသမီး သူရဲကောင်းတစ်ဦးကို လမ်းဘေးမှာတွေ့ရတဲ့ စိတ်မကောင်းစရာ အဖြစ် ( ရုပ် / သံ )". Thadin Yatkwat (in Burmese). 20 July 2020.
- ^ "အမေ့လျော့ခံ အညတရ သူရဲကောင်း တစ်ဦး ဖြစ်တဲ့ဓားဆန်းရီ". WE Mediwa (in Burmese). 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
- ^ a b "ယောဂီ ဓားစန်းရီ". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 19 February 2017.
- ^ "A Part Of My Life". Milky Way Media. 7 March 2019.
- ^ "ဓားစန်းရီ ဘယ်ရောက်နေလဲ". The Voice Weekly (in Burmese). 23 July 2019.
- ^ "ထားထက်ထက် က ပရဟိတ အသင်းနှင့် ပူးပေါင်းပြီး ဓားစန်းရီ အား အလှူငွေများလှူဒါန်း". Myanmar Celebrity News (in Burmese). 2 October 2018.
- ^ "အမေဓားစန်းရီကို ထောက်ပံ့ကြေးသွားလှူမယ့် ခိုင်နှင်းဝေ". Duwun (in Burmese). 3 October 2018.
- ^ "အသက်(၈၀)ကျော်အရွယ်ဖြစ်ပေမယ့်လည်း ရဲစွမ်းသတ္တိတွေက မလျော့သွားဘဲ အခုချိန်အထိ နိုင်ငံအတွက်ကြိုးစားပေးနေတဲ့ သူရဲကောင်းဓားစန်းရီ". Myanmarload (in Burmese). 19 March 2021.
- ^ "ဓါးစန်းရီ (ပထမပိုင်း ) - မို့မို့မြင့်အောင်". City Movie Entertainment (in Burmese).
- ^ "ဓားစန်းရီအကြောင်းကို မှတ်တမ်းရုပ်ရှင်ရိုက်ကူး". The Myanmar Times (in Burmese). 16 July 2020.
- ^ Digest, Asean (2020-05-29). "Darr Sann Ye, the story of a Myanmar badass". ASEAN Digest. Retrieved 2024-02-07.