Myanmar cyclone: Burma aid frustrations grow
- added May 16, 2008
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- Purdey
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Burma's prime minister said the emergency relief phase was finished, and rebuilding was beginning.
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Nobody can force Burmas Junta to accept help. As a species our society still has so many basic failings. The United Nations and Aid agencies are powerless which is a rubbish situation.
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Indeed this is a horrible situation that is so heartbreaking and frustrating to watch from the sidelines. I was shocked when I heard that some of the relief supplies being sent to Burma have allegedly turned up in the shops, being SOLD to victims of the disaster. -
John McCain's choice to manage the GOP convention this summer is lobbyist Doug Goodyear, whose firm once represented Burma's repressive regime...
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- AlxanderRaven
- 4 months ago
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Maybe if the majority of our preparations and money and education were directed towards health, healing, the possibility even inevitability of peace breaking out we could effectively respond to these types of disasters.
We've armed these people and enabled them to kill each other effectively. Are there any success stories about turning around a dictatorship like this?
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- AlxanderRaven
- 4 months ago
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In an interview with the BBC World Service UK PM Gordon Brown has accused the Junta of 'inhuman action' and described the situation as rapidly becoming a 'man made catastrophe' because of the Junta's refusal to accept aid.
Here is a recording of the interview:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7406061.stm -
A BBC reporter has managed to reach the worst hit areas to find that no aid has arrived for the survivors of the cyclone. All this as the Junta declares the period of aid over and claims it is now starting to 'rebuild'. -
Death toll at 78,000, so many people becoming victims of their regimes inactions.
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