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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
The Associated Press ^ | October 7, 2025 | BY KRISTEN GELINEAU (D-AP)

Posted on 10/08/2025 4:27:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family’s food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.

On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher’s little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: “No one has died” because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: “No children are dying on my watch.”

That, Taher says, “is a lie.”

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

Taher’s grief is echoed in families across conflict-ravaged Myanmar, where the United Nations estimates 40% of the population needs humanitarian assistance and which once counted the U.S. as its largest humanitarian donor. Now, in Asia, it has become the epicenter of the suffering unleashed upon the world’s most vulnerable by President Donald Trump’s dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

And like Taher’s son, Mohammed Hashim, it is Myanmar’s children who have borne the brunt of the fallout. A study published in The Lancet journal in June said the U.S. funding cuts could result in more than 14 million deaths, including more than 4.5 million children under age 5, by 2030.

After their food rations evaporated, Taher’s family meals shrank from three a day to one. Taher, his wife and his five children grew so weak, there were days they could not walk.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 10/08/2025 4:27:28 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Democrats and deep state shouldn’t have grifted off US AID then. it’s their fault.


2 posted on 10/08/2025 4:28:11 AM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts WORLD APATHY unleash[es] devastation and death across Myanmar /Fixed


AP=TDS
3 posted on 10/08/2025 4:29:59 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If it is so critical democrats should start a go fund me and use their money instead of deciding to waste taxpayers money.


4 posted on 10/08/2025 4:31:42 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s always the USs fault when people in a country are starving. In this case, India, China, Thailand, or Indonesia have no fault in this.


5 posted on 10/08/2025 4:31:56 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: All

Gad Saad
@GadSaad
Imagine an entire civilization that is taken over by an emotional parasite called suicidal empathy that trumps every other instinct that is within your adaptive repertoire. You are willing to sacrifice everything at the Altar of Suicidal Empathy. Nothing is more important than appearing kind, compassionate, and empathetic especially to those hellbent on eradicating you.

https://x.com/GadSaad/status/1874613617162629423

Guilt trip disinformation intended to manipulate our politics - all funded by U.S. TAXPAYERS.


6 posted on 10/08/2025 4:33:10 AM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

More on the author from an interesting source...

https://pulitzercenter.org/education/meet-journalist-kristen-gelineau

Note this bit at the top of the web page, BTW...

“Programs for K-12 Teachers and Students”

Okaaaaay...

Paging Dept of Ed Sec. Linda McMahon...


7 posted on 10/08/2025 4:33:27 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

When do other countries problems become our problem? They’ve been getting handouts for years and they have not improved their condition. What happened to “God helps those who help themselves”?.


8 posted on 10/08/2025 4:33:40 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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Sam Kinison Solves World Hunger
9 posted on 10/08/2025 4:34:53 AM PDT by OldHarbor ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The gist of the article is that Trump is killing the helpless children. It is all thr US fault. Thanks for posting more propaganda. We need a few more lies to get the day going.


10 posted on 10/08/2025 4:34:58 AM PDT by Eli Kopter (ביחד ננצח הלב שלנו שבוי בעזה Together we will win, our heart is captive in Gaza.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The governments of those countries can stop with the mass starvation campaigns, too.

Third world government corruption is a major driver of *famines*.


11 posted on 10/08/2025 4:36:45 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So Myanmar has a civil war going on, and they have families being held as prisoners of war. Somehow, nobody has been helping to care for these folks except for the USA? Where’s the UN? Busy focusing their efforts in Gaza? Where’s the flotilla of aid to Myanmar, Greta?


12 posted on 10/08/2025 4:37:04 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

why is the USA the worlds piggy bank/savior? Who started this nonsense and please let it stop.


13 posted on 10/08/2025 4:37:39 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( so is it okay that I said that??? GO TRUMP GO!!!!)
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To: TigerClaws

You are willing to sacrifice everything at the Altar of Suicidal Empathy.

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There are a lot of good people who are full of empathy, but who are guarded about who and how they help. That is because most people who have spent any time in this world at all know that there are also predators (sociopaths with no empathy at all) who are more than willing to exploit people with empathy, and particularly those with what you call “suicidal empathy”.

I am not actually taking this topic off on a psycho/social tangent.
Almost everyone who reads this article knows that it’s not about the US, nor even about Myanmar, (even kind people with empathy but who have a little bark on them) but it’s about the AP attacking Trump, because the sociopaths are mad that they can’t exploit other people’s money.


14 posted on 10/08/2025 4:40:04 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh, bring out the “starving children” who only seem to be starving when a Republican does something fiscally sensible.


15 posted on 10/08/2025 4:40:44 AM PDT by anton
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey Europe, you can have this one.


16 posted on 10/08/2025 4:41:38 AM PDT by Professional ( )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So it’s our fault despite the fact that they’re in an ‘internment’ camp in a third world hell hole? Yeah, no.

-SB


17 posted on 10/08/2025 4:44:01 AM PDT by Snowybear (Do or do not, there is no try.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If we didn’t feed them in the first place - they wouldn’t be starving now. /s


18 posted on 10/08/2025 4:44:05 AM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Darwin taught us that species survive if they are fit.

The Myanmar children said to be starving are part of an unfit culture.

It boils down to biology at the root level


19 posted on 10/08/2025 4:45:15 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: ronniesgal
The international left. The purpose is to bankrupt and destroy Western Civ.

It has worked so well that Chuck Schumer personally shoveled $36 trillion to clothe, feed and house every non American he could find. And then give them dancing queers to entertain them.

20 posted on 10/08/2025 4:45:25 AM PDT by Kudsman (48)
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