Posted on 05/14/2008 12:15:04 PM PDT by JZelle
Burma's rogue ruling military junta's actions in preventing international humanitarian assistance in the wake of Cyclone Nargis is criminal. There are at least 100,000 dead in the Irrawaddy Delta. More than 1.5 million people are in desperate need of aid. With each day passing, denying international aid and rescue to their own people is nothing short of self-inflicted genocide.
There is only a short window to provide aid, else there are sure to be thousands of more deaths due to the break out of diseases such as cholera. The lack of food will cause many more deaths by starvation. With more than 2,000 square miles of the Delta under water, the only way to provide immediate assistance is by helicopter.
The U.S. Navy and other countries are standing by to provide the necessary assistance. Burma has only six operational helicopters. Food, water, medicine, field hospitals, rescue and assistance teams will have to be delivered by helicopters.
Along with the distribution of urgently needed supplies, search and rescue operations must be started immediately for those stranded civilians and collection of the corpses. Last week Qatar tried to send in a search-and-rescue team but was turned away. I have not seen any aid coming forth from other Arab countries, or for that matter, China.
Last Thursday, France attempted to bring the Burma situation before the United Nations Security Council but was opposed by none other than those great pillars of human rights and dignity, China and Russia. They were joined by South Africa and several other developing countries whose "principled" position on nonintervention, which is laughable, outweighs the need to save hundreds of thousands of helpless Burmese.
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I say we allow the UN to prosper without our help by withdrawing and moving the HQ from New York to Switzerland...today.
Agree?
Personally, I only intermittently watch the news (Burma? Is that near the Myamnomawar country I saw the story about on my yahoo home page?) and mostly I just believe whatever Bono tells me, so I suppose this IS somehow our fault.
Definitely it's Bush's fault.
Owl_Eagle
If what I just wrote made you sad or angry,
it was probably just a joke.
Worst. Military. Junta. Ever.
Absolutely! Better yet, just shut that corrupt bastion of greed down!!
My own opinion:
A perfect socialist world is self-sufficient and does not require outside help. That is what they are, in effect, trying to convey to the world.
By refusing aid form anyone it saves the communists ammunition. They don’t have to shoot them, nor run concentratino camps or killing fields or any of that other messy means of reducing their population
YANGON, May 7 (Xinhua) -- A special big aircraft carrying 500,000 U.S. dollars' worth of relief materials from China arrived at the Yangon International Airport Wednesday afternoon as part of China's one million dollars' emergency relief aid to cyclone-devastated Myanmar.
The 60-ton relief supplies, carried by a Boeing 747-400 aircraft, include compressed food, tents and blankets.
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I wonder if they rejected even China’s help? If so the junta might be in the running as most paranoid regime in world history.
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