Kyaw Hla Maung, 64, looks more like a rock star than a historian.
His other sons, Khant, Thaung, and Tin Maung went on to become politicians and scholars.
Kyaw Hla Maung is sad to see his state mired in such a brutal conflict.
As it happened, Maung Po Thet did not have to eat
the rice debris for long.
Kyaw Hla Maung wants to revive the teaching of the state's history
and study of the Rakhine language.
The young Maung Tet Khaung was very bright and eager to learn,
so he readily agreed to this suggestion.
Maung Po Thet, now called U Po Thet or U
Thet(Mr. Thet), also prospered in the buying and selling of rice.
It proved to be an appropriate name, since young Maung Tet Khaung, indeed, climbed to the summit in all his endeavors.
Thein Sein's father Maung Phyo became a Buddhist monk 10
years after his wife's death, spent his remaining years as a monk.
It was only when his nephew Maung Nyunt became a novice at 12 years
of age that U Thet himself became a novice.
When he was 14 years old, Maung Po Thet started working as a bullock
cart driver transporting rice, giving his daily wages to his mother.
Kyaw Hla Maung said he was taught Rakhine language
and history by his father, grandfather and local historian, Oo Tha Htun, whom he proudly calls his'grand master'.
So, Kyaw Hla Maung chose not to record his teachings on paper
but instead tattooed the consonants and vowels of one of the ancient Brahmi script on his skin.
The village where the army chief said the bodies were found, Ye Baw
Kya, is near a cluster of Hindu and Muslim communities in northern Rakhine called Kha Maung Seik.