Posted on 05/09/2008 5:23:37 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
YANGON, Myanmar (CNN) -- Authorities in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar have seized United Nations aid intended for victims of the disaster, a move that "shuts down" future flights from the organization, according to a U.N. World Food Program official.
A child sleeps on the floor as cyclone-affected families shelter in a school in western Yangon.
1 of 3more photos » The organization, which insists on distributing its own relief supplies, said the seizure of two aircraft-loads of food, medcine and equipment, has already hit out at Myanmar's refusal to all access to foreign eis workers.
"This is another example of them actively getting in the way of relief getting to the victims," said Tony Banbury, Asia director of the World Food Program.
Asked whether, the move would jeopardize future U.N. aid flights, he said, "absolutely, from our perspective, it shuts them down."
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“How is this not genocide on the scale of Rwanda?”
Definitions of genocide vary, but they generally require that some group of people be targeted based on their ethnicity, religion, tribe etc...
They’re going to have a ring of hell all to themselves. This is ghastly.
Since we are fighting a war in two countries, can the other 200 worthless countries in the UN(other than our active allies)do someting?
Anything?
Bueller? Bueller?..........
Send in a few planeloads of food laced with a slow-acting lethal poison. Tell the “Myanmar” authorities that we’ve realized we’ll just have to trust them to distribute it to those citizens in greatest need, and then fly away, leaving the distribution unsupervised. End of “Myanmar” government. It’s doubtful that a single innocent citizen would get killed. Certainly nowhere near the number who are going to die as a result of this government being allowed to continue on its present course.
Devious. I like the way you think.
IN their minds it better for them to have 100K in dead form the storm...saves them on ammo.
It is too bad for the people of Myanmar, but I think it is good anytime the globalists are thwarted.
Simply. Unbelievable.
(CNN) — Hiding under a blanket in the back of a car at a police checkpoint. Hopping on boats instead of staying on a road. Constantly looking over your shoulder, knowing that at any moment you — and those with you — face the possibility of imprisonment, torture, even death.
It sounds like a spy movie. But CNN’s Dan Rivers, who sneaked into storm-ravaged Myanmar without the knowledge of the nation’s secretive ruling junta, says the reality is even more frightening than it appears on the silver screen.
Now out of Myanmar, Rivers said on Friday his experience raises the question: If the government is chasing down a journalist reporting on a natural disaster, what kinds of problems are aid workers facing?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/rivers.btsc/index.html
How about simple gross negligence on the part of the ruling junta?
I can hardly believe that the MSM is reporting this. Usually they only report that we didn’t send any or perhaps not enough. That the tyrannical/communistic regimes would withhold supplies from their own people is not something they want people to know.
The country formerly known as Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma is in sorry shape. the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) —that not a joke, that is what the junta calls itself.
Long a colony for China, we can see first-hand what Tibet will soon be. Olympics? NO, thank you.
Then there’s the idiot politicians and their bio-fuels, starving children all over the world.
Anybody seeing a pattern here?
Somehow, someway this is all going to be blamed on the USA and President Bush.
The usual crap about how uncaring and selfish we all are and if we wanted supplies to get through we would have found a way - and after all the cyclone was a result of global warming which is ALL our fault don’t ya know, etc.,etc
Maybe. But think for a moment people, before you fly off into a rage.
What's happening is that events like this are being used as an excuse for more and more loss of national sovereignty. Soon, no nation on earth will be able to resist any international intervention because we will have been conditioned to expect international control over nations.
Globalism. Coming to a country near you.
My thought as well.
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