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UN resumes aid flights to Burma, following suspension

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The United Nations has announced it will resume aid flights to Burma, after they temporarily halted them due to a dispute over the ruling junta impounding everything it had received so far.

Paul Risley, spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme, was quoted as saying:
"The food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated."

A Burmese government spokesman denied the withholding of aid from those in affected areas, telling the Associated Press the UN claims had been "baseless accusations".

(This story has been updated since it was orginally posted, entitled "UN suspends aid to Burma")

Why do some people call it Burma, and others call it Myanmar?
http://current.com/items/88942692_why_do_some_people_ca...
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9 responses // UN resumes aid flights to Burma, following suspension

  • the hell with the burmese government

    obviously they are not the ones that are hungry, or homeless...
    jade_azul16
  • http://current.com/items/88941695_burma_embassy_takes_h...
    Check out Fostec's item that reports that the Myanmar embassy taking a holiday at this critical time:
    mattbrawn
  • This dictatorship is gonna cause itself to implode setting a precedent of chaos for the next 20yrs. It's really a shame there is nothing one can do in this situation but feel helpless. Hope is a terrible thing to lose; i can't even imagine.
    redryan
  • I can't even comprehend this. Can't this junta be formally condemned by the international community regarding crimes against humanity? They are killing their own people!
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    JanforGore
  • word Jan.

    my thoughts exactly...
    jade_azul16
  • Maybe/hopefully this incredibly callous behavior will be the eventual downfall of the Junta. They have literally got away with murder for years but this is on a completely different scale. How can these leaders do this to their own people? Are they so scared of losing power they will just watch them die?
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    Pardon
  • watch this comment being used here
    I find this completely baffling. You'd like think that the welfare of the population would be the number one priority no matter how questionable the government may be.
    Lionman
  • The options that the international community has for dealing with rogue states like this are limited - impose sanctions to hurt economically and hope all other countries join you (and even then you probably hurt the people more) or attack them (not always a good idea as we've seen).
    Merge9
  • Hmmm...I think that the Junta is using the tragedy as a way to weaken the population from rising up against it. Originally I thought that the aid situation would weaken the government, but now they are refusing to let aid groups help the areas that make up the majority of their opposition.
    dgold0101

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