What an absolute tragedy this is!
From the article, it certainly sounds like Myanmar's govt is confiscating relief supplies for their own use and giving the refugees sub-standard food.
And the worse part is that Myanmar's leaders are so isolated and immune from intl opinion that they don't really care how many of their own people die or what other countries think of them. Thank God I don't live in a country like that!
Comments or opinions - anyone?
1 posted on
05/14/2008 7:49:22 AM PDT by
MplsSteve
To: MplsSteve
“Myanmar’s govt is confiscating relief supplies for their own use and giving the refugees sub-standard food.”
A dictatorship doing this to its own people?? No way!
2 posted on
05/14/2008 7:53:03 AM PDT by
Holicheese
(Hillary deserves the CMoH for her time in Tuzla!)
To: MplsSteve
I know from earlier news reports that the Red Cross, etc. don’t want to airdrop supplies for fear of fighting over them.
But considering the thugs that run Burma, I see that as a viable way to save people. The UN idiots have plenty of my tax money, let them purchase canned goods, freeze dried stuff, and water purification pills and let the US Air force and others drop massive amounts of supplies.
5 posted on
05/14/2008 7:57:56 AM PDT by
HankArcher
("When freedom expands to mean freedom of instinct and social destruction, then freedom is dead")
To: MplsSteve
I always thought that is what the UN was created for, to stand up for the weak, few and vulnerable...
Where is the lame, worthless, corrupt, brutal dictator- appeasing and anti-America biased UN NOW??????
If the sick, starving, homeless, injured and oppressed victims of this little country are not prime candidates for UN protection and largess, what the hell is the UN good for?
7 posted on
05/14/2008 8:00:44 AM PDT by
SMARTY
('At some point you get tired of swatting flies, and you have to go for the manure heap' Gen. LeMay)
To: MplsSteve
Always the upper echelon stays safe, protected and comfortable financially while the every day citizen suffers with little or nothing.
To: MplsSteve
Airdrop a few sniper rifles and trust the indigenous folks/victims to figure it out ?
10 posted on
05/14/2008 8:32:22 AM PDT by
tomkat
(click me for American craftsmanship)
To: MplsSteve
Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta... It's already over land and no further development is anticipated. Besides, it never even made it to Tropical Depression status - "powerful storm" - yeah right. 
TPIO10 PGTW 141217 A. TROPICAL DISTURBANCE 96B (WESTERN MYANMAR) B. 14/1130Z C. 17.9N D. 94.5E E. FIVE/FY2D F. N/A G. IR/EIR/VIS/MSI 63/PBO PRLY ORGNZD LLCC. A MID LEVEL CIRC REMAINS, BUT LLCC HAS DSIPTD AND THERE IS NO CNTRL CNVCTN. THIS WILL BE THE FINAL FIX BULLETIN ISSUED BY JTWC ON THIS AREA. THE AREA WILL CONTINUE TO BE MONITORED FOR POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT. BRANDON
11 posted on
05/14/2008 9:03:36 AM PDT by
bkwells
(Liberals=Hypocrites)
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