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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Maybe the AP should be telling the Democrats not to steal the money.
I stopped reading at “Mohammed”.
I'm sensing a theme.
The check was sent to Burma.
How much aid is “EU Aid” providing?
I hate their suffering but not our fault. We didn’t impose a dictatorship there, didn’t start that war. We didn’t convince that family to bring a child into that situation.
Yet the dems blame us for trying to get our house in order.
Really it’s based on your world view:
Do you want a free market system based on independent sovereign nation states. Or an internationalist socialistic system? It boils down to that.
It seems that Muslims in Myanmar are the victims of “ethnic cleansing”.
Could it be that the “religion of peace” is getting a taste of what they do to non-Muslim infidels?
Well, when AP writes something you just know it’s slanted toward the leftist narrative, and one can only wonder how much of it is just made up.
Not Burmese, Rohingya (Bangladeshi) muslim invaders. Not our problem.
Exactly. This propaganda article is manipulation to guilt the empathetic into continued exploitation.
https://singjupost.com/transcript-stop-being-kind-to-everyone-billy-graham/
Grow up Kristen Gelineau, there’s no more money to give away. The US is on the brink of economic collapse. Write about that story.
AP fake news.
Where is the outrage China isn’t sending them basic food?
Isn’t China literally next door to that area🙀
I stopped reading and caring when I got to Mohammed.
Maybe Soros and his ilk could send some money to Myanmar instead of funding Antifa so that Antifa can try to destroy the USA. Once they destroy the USA there will be no one left to help out any struggling country. Then what?
learn how to farm kids
Where are the world’s rock stars ?
Shouldn’t there be a concert and a movie ?
Bangladesh ~.
Why hasn’t Taylor Swift sent food ?
Can’t they order food from Amazon ?
It’s not our job to feed, clothe, and defend the world.
Just off the top of my head, where are all the wealthy moslem countries and why aren’t they taking care of their brethren? Answer... THEY...DON’T...GIVE...A...DAMN!
Burma bump
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