Yayway Cemetery
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| Type | Public |
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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
[edit | edit source]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 (ကိုးမိုင်သင်္ချိုင်း), 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
[edit | edit source]- Ant Gyi[8]
- Chit Maung[9]
- Dwe[10]
- Gita Lulin U Ko Ko[11]
- Journal Kyaw Ma Ma Lay
- Ko Ni[12]
- Khin Yu May[13]
- Khun Sa
- Ma Ma Lay[9]
- Mahn Thet San[14]
- Min Theinkha[15]
- Min Thway[16]
- Nat Nwe[17][18]
- Nay Win Maung[19]
- Ni Ko Ye[1]
- Nwam Jar Thaing
- Ohn Myint[20]
- Paragu[21]
- Sai Htee Saing
- Shwe Ohn[22]
- Soe Win
- U Lwin[23]
- Win Tin[24]
- Ye Lwin[25]
References
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- ^ 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
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