Posted on 05/19/2008 11:58:25 PM PDT by HAL9000
SINGAPORE, May 20 (Reuters) - The World Bank is not in a position to provide any financial aid to cyclone-stricken Myanmar because the country has not been servicing its World Bank debt since 1998, a bank official said on Tuesday."The World Bank is not in a position to assist Myanmar at this time," World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub told reporters, adding that it was the bank's policy not to provide funds to countries that have fallen behind on debt repayments.
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Life is short and miserable when your government is commie.
What are you talking about? The Burmese junta isn’t communist — it’s an oligarchy, rule by a committee from the Army
I was there twice in the last 4 years. They don’t even go through the motions of communism anymore. Government signs are “anti-colonialism” which is their justification for every depravity inflicted on the people.
Even the World Bank gets something right. Will the wonders never cease?
Is this like the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia?
Not sure how to describe it. The leadership isn’t idealogically driven as the Khmer Rouge was. They mostly just care about staying in power and living well on the labor of others. Their military is mostly teenage conscripts led by politically reliable thieves. They military pays the conscripts with plunder from the rural areas.
Thanks.
There, I helped you fix that. Commie is where they started, the results are always the same.
its an oligarchy
Made up of former select commies that used communism to do exactly what it has always been used to do, make themselves rich and powerful at the expense of the proletariat.
You are correct, and so am I, see post #9.
ah, well, we’re arguing over semantics. I guess we both agree that they are evil.
I guess you are right again.
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