Like any gracious winner, Aung San Suu Kyi shared her victory at the polls last Sunday with all of her supporters. In a speech on Thursday she paid tribute to the scores of trishaw drivers who decked their vehicles out with National League for Democracy flags and held mass rallies.
A photo shared widely on social media over the weekend appears to show a written response from one, a driver named Than Ngwe, from Monywa in Sagaing Region.
“You don’t need to thank us,”it reads. “We are oak ta chat thel ta pwint [brick and sand] for the country.”
Translation: they are the building blocks of the country; they did what needed to be done.
The letter has been shared thousands of times on Facebook.
Photo/ Aung Naing Soe/ Coconuts Yangon
