〈挽缅甸诗人肯西〉
忠肝义胆尽可摘，
玲珑光耀破邪逆。
秦弓不穿汝诗稿，
万里长城终有隙。
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“他回来的只有遗体，连内脏都被挖空”缅甸诗人遭军方逮捕后一夜身亡
更新2021/05/10 16:06
发布2021/05/10 15:39
作者／ 黄梅茹
缅甸军方自 2 月政变以来持续把持政府，对此，许多缅甸人民誓死抵抗。反军政府诗人克
席（Khet Thi）的妻子表示，克席遭军方拘留一夜后过世，且遗体的器官被掏空。
缅甸诗人曾誓言：不想支持不公正，只有一分钟也想保有良心
克席是在反军政府示威中，第三位过世的缅甸诗人。其妻 9 日对《路透》痛诉，自己与克
席 8 日都接受军警讯问，但当她被释放返家后，发现丈夫没有回家，而她没料到后续再见
到丈夫，重逢的是他的遗体。
一早，克席妻子接到电话，被通知前往医院，她当时以为丈夫只是患了手骨折的小伤，结
果她在抵达时在太平间看见克席，并发现“他的脏器被取走了”。院方告诉她克席有心脏
问题，但她一点也不想阅读死亡证明，因为她深信这不是克席的真正死因。
她尚未说明自己如何得知丈夫器官遭摘除，《路透》联络不上医院以取得院方说法，军政
府发言人也未对克席之死的置评要求做出回应，军方原本还打算将克席下葬，克席妻子只
好苦苦哀求军方归还遗体。
克席的脸书页面显示他为 45 岁，他还曾写下“他们朝头部射击，却不知革命其实在心中
”的名言。
克席在 2012 年辞职前是名工程师，辞职后，他专注于诗歌创作，并以贩售冰淇淋和蛋糕
来维生。
他在政变两周后写下：
“我不想成为英雄，我不想成为烈士，我不想成为弱者，我不想成为傻瓜。”
“我不想支持不公正，如果我只有一分钟的生活，我希望我的良心在那刻保持清洁。”
他曾描述自己是吉他手、面包师傅和诗人，并非会拿起枪枝的人，但近来他在创作中，透
露自己的态度逐渐改变：“我的人民正在被枪击，我只能扔掉诗歌。”、“但当你确定自
己的声音不够用时，就需要谨慎选择枪枝。我会选择开火。”
缅甸援助政治犯协会（Assistance Association for Political Prisoners） 9 日公告：
“克席在讯问中心遭严刑对待后，于医院里断气。”根据协会统计，军政府 2 月政变迄今
已杀害 780 位平民、3,826 人仍遭军方拘留。
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Source:
《Reuters》:Myanmar poet dies after being detained, his family says
Myanmar poet Khet Thi, whose works declare resistance to the ruling junta, died
in detention overnight and his body was returned with the organs removed, his
family said on Sunday.
A spokesman for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death
of Khet Thi, who had penned the line "They shoot in the head, but they don't
know the revolution is in the heart." His Facebook page said he was 45.
Khet Thi's wife said both of them were taken for interrogation on Saturday by
armed soldiers and police in the central town of Shwebo, in the Sagaing region
- a centre of resistance to the coup in which elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi
was ousted.
"I was interrogated. So was he. They said he was at the interrogation centre.
But he didn't come back, only his body," his wife Chaw Su told BBC Burmese
language news in tears from Monywa, around 100 km (60 miles) away by road.
"They called me in the morning and told me to meet him at the hospital in
Monywa. I thought it was just for a broken arm or something ... But when I
arrived here, he was at the morgue and his internal organs were taken out," she
said.
She had been told at the hospital he had a heart problem, but had not bothered
to read the death certificate because she was sure it would not be true, Chaw
Su said. Reuters was unable to reach the hospital for comment.
Chaw Su said the army had planned to bury him but that she pleaded with them
for the body. She did not say how she knew her husband's organs had been
removed.
"He died at the hospital after being tortured in the interrogation centre," the
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners activist group said in a
bulletin that put the toll of civilians killed since the coup at 780.
The group, which monitors details of killings, did not identify the source of
its information.
OTHER POETS DIED
Khet Thi was at least the third poet to die during protests since the Feb. 1
coup.
Khet Thi had been a friend of K Za Win, 39, a poet who was shot dead during a
protest in Monywa in early March.
Cultural figures and celebrities have been prominent supporters of opposition
to the coup with protests daily in different parts of the Southeast Asian
country in spite of the killings and thousands of arrests.
Khet Thi had been an engineer before quitting his job in 2012 to focus on his
poetry and to support himself by making and selling ice cream and cakes.
"I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to be a martyr, I don't want to be a
weakling, I don't want to be a fool," he wrote two weeks after the coup. "I don
't want to support injustice. If I have only a minute to live, I want my
conscience to be clean for that minute."
More recently, he wrote that he was a guitar player, a cake baker and a poet -
not someone who could fire a gun. But he implied his attitude was changing.
"My people are being shot and I can only throw back poems," he wrote. "But when
you are sure your voice is not enough, then you need to choose a gun carefully
. I will shoot."