[yankeedame]

I had read where Myanmar was an exporter of rice (to India and somewhere else). I imagine what is now left will stay home.

No necessarily. At the height of the Soviet famine(s) the government regularly exported Russian grain for cash and/or weapons, leaving international relief agencies to feed the starving.

[21twelve]

Thanks. I think. Well - not really. Now I have to get rid of this pit in my stomach and the disgust in my mouth out. It really does piss me off as I think you are probably exactly right. And our aid will of course be distributed by the junta to “those most deemed in need”.