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#956150 - 05/08/08 06:02 PM
Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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The next time anyone whines aboUt how bad they have it, (unless you too have suffered one of the many natural disasters to hit our nation recently) remember the Tsunami in Indonesia, and now this Cyclone that has devastated Burma: http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/myanmarI am willing to bet the Red cross, as well as our own religious orgs, are raising funds to help ease the terrible suffering.
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#956169 - 05/08/08 06:29 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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According to what I read today, U.S. aid is still being denied. They're considering the option of air-drops (without permission).
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#956213 - 05/08/08 07:08 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
Becka Marr
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Wow, cannot believe that many people were lost, tragic.
I heard they let 2 U.N. relief planes in this morning, but haven't heard an update since then.
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#956274 - 05/08/08 08:21 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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What I gathered was that the U.N. arrived, but the Myanmar government is stalling on visas for their teams to actually enter and deliver the supplies; and the U.N. won't just drop stuff at the airport and leave.
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#956282 - 05/08/08 08:29 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
Becka Marr
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Yes, now is the time for verifying Visa's just in case looters from the U.N. are coming in to steal....err...well, I guess at this point there really isn't anything there to steal.
Brilliant!
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#956308 - 05/08/08 08:53 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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Huh? Theft & looting are not the issue. The conflict is strictly political: Myanmar has an isolationist, military government that is very paranoid about foreign influence (i.e. other countries meddling in their affairs).
And on the other side, I think the U.N. won't just leave the supplies because it doesn't trust the Myanmar government to deliver them those in need. (I heard mention that some residents of the devastated area are known to be in opposition to their military government.)
So there appears to be the standoff.
However, the article did mention that some aid is being delivered through Thailand.
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#956588 - 05/09/08 01:55 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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The only problem with that line of thinking is that it is the handful of cowards in power who do not want the help of the aid, not the actual people themselves who do need it.
Actually, they want the aid, but they just want it left unattanded at their doorstep.
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#956593 - 05/09/08 01:56 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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so much for that global food shortage...
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#956789 - 05/09/08 04:07 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
Becka Marr
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No prob. This entire situation is just horrible, but add the idiocy of their government, and it borders on the absurd.
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#957328 - 05/10/08 04:45 PM
Re: Myanmar - 100,000 Dead
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I wish we could help the people who need it and starve out their idiot leaders!
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