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]
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| Country | Myanmar |
| Coordinates | 16°55′56″N 96°09′57″E / 16.93233°N 96.16585°E |
| Type | Public |
| Find a Grave | Yayway Cemetery |
History
editIn 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 (‹See Tfd›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- 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
edit- ^ a b Nyein Ei Ei Htwe (2 November 2009). "Writer Ni Ko Ye dies of heart attack". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ a b "ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ကြီးကို သာယာလှပအောင် ကြိုးစား ဆောင်ရွက်နေသော ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ဝန်နှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Newsweek (in Burmese). 23 July 2013. Archived from the original on 21 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
- ^ a b Seekins, Donald M. (Summer 2005). "The State and the City: 1988 and the Transformation of Rangoon". Pacific Affairs. 78 (2). University of British Columbia: 267. doi:10.5509/2005782257. JSTOR 40023916.
- ^ "RIP: Rest In Pieces". The Irrawaddy. January 1997. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ "Displacement of Population in Rangoon Division" (PDF). Displacement and Causes of Displacement in Rangoon Division: 7. 3 January 2007.
- ^ "Forced Relocation and Internally Displaced Persons" (PDF). Human Rights Yearbook 1996: Burma. National Coalition Government of Union of Burma: 202. July 1997.
- ^ Min Thet; Phanida (4 February 2010). "Cremation fees to be hiked sevenfold". Mizzima. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
- ^ Lin Lin Khaing (24 June 2017). "လူချွန်လူကောင်း၊ ယဉ်တစ်ကိုယ်မယ် အပါအဝင် ထင်ရှားသည့် တေးသီချင်းများစွာ သီဆိုခဲ့သူ မြန်မာဂီတပညာရှင် တေးသံရှင် ဦးအံ့ကြီး ဇွန်လ ၂၃ ရက် ညပိုင်းတွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့ ပါရမီအထွေထွေရောဂါကုဆေးရုံကြီးတွင် ကွယ်လွန်". Eleven News (in Burmese). Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ a b Ma Ma Lay (2008). A Man Like Him. SEAP Publications. pp. 186–187. ISBN 9780877277774.
- ^ "Morning Funeral for Famous Burmese Actor". The Irrawaddy. 2007-07-13. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Enormous crowd gathers to say farewells to beloved NLD lawyer". The Myanmar Times. 2017-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
- ^ ရွှေအောင် (2014-01-25). "အဆိုတော် ရုပ်ရှင်မင်းသမီး ခင်ယုမေ ကွယ်လွန်". DVB (in Burmese). Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ "Dr. Marn Thet San, patron of Mon culture, passes away at 79". Independent Mon News Agency. 16 October 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ Khine Thazin Aung (11 August 2008). "Astrologer's funeral draws thousands of mourners". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "Actor Min Thway Passes Away At Age 33". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ "စာရေးဆရာ နတ်နွယ် ကွယ်လွန်". BBC News မြန်မာ (in Burmese). 2011-05-11. Retrieved 2023-02-26.
- ^ Sanda Lwin (16 May 2011). "Founder of 'Nwe Ni' magazine passes away, aged 78". Myanmar Times. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ Aung, Peter (1 January 2012). "Nay Win Maung dies of heart attack". Democratic Voice of Burma. Archived from the original on 9 January 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2012.
- ^ Myint Maung (20 September 2010). "Spectrum of colleagues pay last respects to Ohn Myint". Mizzima. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "Prominent Burmese writer Paragu has died at age 91. Funeral services were held at the Yayway Cemetery in Rangoon on Monday". Mizzima. 12 April 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "Shan politician Shwe Ohn (89) passed away". Mizzima. 22 August 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2012.
- ^ Ko Wild (7 December 2011). "U Lwin, former NLD secretary, dies of natural causes". Mizzima. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
- ^ "The last day of a giant among men". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 2018-10-12.
- ^ Paing Soe (10 July 2018). "ဦးရဲလွင် (မဇ္ဈိမလှိုင်း) ကွယ်လွန်" (in Burmese). Democratic Voice of Burma. Retrieved 12 July 2018.