Posted on 05/09/2008 11:26:53 AM PDT by chessplayer
The World Food Programme says it will resume aid flights to Burma on Saturday, despite a row over the local authorities impounding deliveries.
The government said it had taken control of the aid to distribute it.
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It has. To wherever best serves its ends.
Halt or resume. Which is it?
Both. It's been halted until Saturday.
Stand back and let it go. Urge them to accept aid on our terms or none, but do not give them a broken cookie until they crumble.
This may be the last chance anybody has to lance the boil that is Burma. Let us see how far they will go in decimating their population before the Generals crack.
The country's ruling generals have faced mounting criticism over their handling of the crisis, their reluctance to allow international aid teams into the country and their insistence on distributing aid themselves.The generals are scrambling to find enough space to store all this stuff so they can hand it out later "as they see fit."
Scumbags!
I don’t think the Generals will crack, to be honest, because they’re going to get food and necessities somehow, somewhere.
Some people are just too stupid to realize that whatever aid gets sent in there, isn’t going to trickle down to the less fortunate among them.
The U.N. obviously didn’t learn their lesson from the oil-for-food program. They were interested only in themselves.
There.
Fixed it for them.
Been Myanmar since 1989; that's 19 years now.
Stupid losers must be called by whatever name they choose for themselves. No matter how many times they change it.
Just saying...
From the CIA Word Fact Book (under "Burma" - there is no Myanmar listed):
conventional short form: Burma
local long form: Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar)
local short form: Myanma Naingngandaw
former: Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma
note: since 1989 the military authorities in Burma have promoted the name Myanmar as a conventional name for their state; this decision was not approved by any sitting legislature in Burma, and the US Government did not adopt the name, which is a derivative of the Burmese short-form name Myanma Naingngandaw
Measured in terms of human suffering, by the final reckoning the situation will be a hundred-thousand times worse than Katrina (no hyperbole).
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