Yayway Cemetery Explained

Yayway Cemetery
Country:Myanmar
Location:North Okkalapa Township, Yangon
Type:Public
Findagraveid:2238589

Yayway Cemetery (Burmese: ရေဝေးသုသာန်, also spelt Yeway Cemetery) is a cemetery located in North Okkalapa Township, Yangon, Myanmar.[1] The cemetery is the final resting place of many prominent Burmese. The cemetery is maintained by the Yangon City Development Committee's environmental maintenance department.[2] Yayway Cemetery also consists of various ethnic and religious cemeteries, including those of the Burmese Indians, Sino-Burmese (Hakka, Cantonese, Hokkien, and Yunnanese), Karen, Japanese, Baháʼís, Hindus, Christians, Muslims, Parsis, and Jews.[2]

History

In the mid-1990s, the State Law and Order Restoration Council, the ruling junta, forcibly closed down and relocated historic cemeteries lying near the city center of Yangon.[3] One of the biggest was Kyandaw Cemetery (in Kamayut Township), which was relocated to suburbs in 1996 to 1997, and redeveloped as the Yangon Drugs Elimination Museum.[3] Descendants of the interred were given one month's notice to move the remains for reburial.[4] Similarly, that year, the Nine Mile Cemetery, an ethnic Chinese cemetery was demolished and remains were relocated to Yayway Cemetery.[5] The interred remains from these cemetery relocation projects were reburied at Yayway Cemetery, located on the outskirts of the city.[6]

Today, Yayway Cemetery is the busiest in the Yangon area, handling the highest volume of cremations (70 to 100 per day).[7]

Notable burials and cremations

Notes and References

  1. News: Writer Ni Ko Ye dies of heart attack. Nyein Ei Ei Htwe. 2 November 2009. Myanmar Times. 8 April 2012.
  2. News: ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ကြီးကို သာယာလှပအောင် ကြိုးစား ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ဝန်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း. 23 July 2013. Newsweek. my. 19 July 2015. 21 July 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150721204248/http://myanmarnewsweeks.com/?p=5863. dead.
  3. Seekins. Donald M.. Summer 2005. The State and the City: 1988 and the Transformation of Rangoon. Pacific Affairs. University of British Columbia. 78. 2. 267. 40023916. 10.5509/2005782257.
  4. News: RIP: Rest In Pieces. January 1997. The Irrawaddy. 14 April 2012. 9 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110809094837/http://www.irrawaddy.org/print_article.php?art_id=188. dead.
  5. 3 January 2007. Displacement of Population in Rangoon Division. Displacement and Causes of Displacement in Rangoon Division. 7.
  6. July 1997. Forced Relocation and Internally Displaced Persons. Human Rights Yearbook 1996: Burma. National Coalition Government of Union of Burma. 202.
  7. News: Cremation fees to be hiked sevenfold. Min Thet. Phanida . 4 February 2010. Mizzima. 14 April 2012.
  8. News: Lin Lin Khaing . 24 June 2017 . လူချွန်လူကောင်း၊ ယဉ်တစ်ကိုယ်မယ် အပါအဝင် ထင်ရှားသည့် တေးသီချင်းများစွာ သီဆိုခဲ့သူ မြန်မာဂီတပညာရှင် တေးသံရှင် ဦးအံ့ကြီး ဇွန်လ ၂၃ ရက် ညပိုင်းတွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့ ပါရမီအထွေထွေရောဂါကုဆေးရုံကြီးတွင် ကွယ်လွန် . my . Eleven News . 27 June 2017.
  9. Book: Ma Ma Lay. A Man Like Him. SEAP Publications. 2008. 186–187. 9780877277774.
  10. Web site: 2007-07-13 . Morning Funeral for Famous Burmese Actor . 2023-02-26 . The Irrawaddy.
  11. Gita Lulin U Ko Ko (1928–2007) "ျမန္မာ့ဂီတ သမိုုင္းစာမ်က္ႏွာမ်ားတြင္ ေအာင္ျမင္ေက်ာ္ၾကားခဲ့ေသာ ဂီတလုုလင္ ဦးကိုုကိုု၏ ဘဝတစ္ေကြ့မွ ပံုုရပ္မမ်ား" New Light of Myanmar, http://www.burmalibrary.org/docsMA2008/MA2008-01-26.pdf retrieved 26 January, 2008
  12. Web site: 2017-01-31 . Enormous crowd gathers to say farewells to beloved NLD lawyer . 2021-02-08 . The Myanmar Times.
  13. Web site: ရွှေအောင် . 2014-01-25 . အဆိုတော် ရုပ်ရှင်မင်းသမီး ခင်ယုမေ ကွယ်လွန် . 2023-02-26 . DVB . my.
  14. News: 16 October 2008 . Dr. Marn Thet San, patron of Mon culture, passes away at 79 . Independent Mon News Agency . 8 April 2012.
  15. News: Khine Thazin Aung . 11 August 2008 . Astrologer's funeral draws thousands of mourners . Myanmar Times . 8 April 2012.
  16. News: Actor Min Thway Passes Away At Age 33 . en . The Myanmar Times . 2018-10-12.
  17. Web site: 2011-05-11 . စာရေးဆရာ နတ်နွယ် ကွယ်လွန် . 2023-02-26 . BBC News မြန်မာ . my.
  18. News: Sanda Lwin . 16 May 2011 . Founder of 'Nwe Ni' magazine passes away, aged 78 . Myanmar Times . 8 April 2012.
  19. News: Aung . Peter . 1 January 2012 . Nay Win Maung dies of heart attack . Democratic Voice of Burma . dead . 25 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120109003716/http://www.dvb.no/news/nay-win-maung-dies-of-heart-attack/19436 . 9 January 2012.
  20. News: Myint Maung . 20 September 2010 . Spectrum of colleagues pay last respects to Ohn Myint . Mizzima . 8 April 2012.
  21. News: 12 April 2011 . Prominent Burmese writer Paragu has died at age 91. Funeral services were held at the Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon on Monday. . Mizzima . 8 April 2012.
  22. News: 22 August 2010 . Shan politician Shwe Ohn (89) passed away . Mizzima . 9 April 2012.
  23. News: Ko Wild . 7 December 2011 . U Lwin, former NLD secretary, dies of natural causes . Mizzima . 8 April 2012.
  24. News: The last day of a giant among men . en . The Myanmar Times . 2018-10-12.
  25. News: Paing Soe . 10 July 2018 . ဦးရဲလွင် (မဇ္ဈိမလှိုင်း) ကွယ်လွန် . my . . 12 July 2018.

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