On May 8, 7:59=A0pm, CharlesLiu <chliu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 8, 10:03=A0am, "Zomi" <z...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > Zomi says:
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> > Almost one week now, and the paranoid, middle school educated Maung
Than=
> > Shwe (who graduated with Anglo-Vernacular 8th standard) has not yet
allo=
wed
> > relief aid to come.
>
> You mean US relief refuse? After its government and quasai-government
> NGO instigated the "Saffron Revolution"?
>
> AFAIK some Asian countries (Thailand, Japan, China) are already in
> Burma with aid.
>
> I seem to remember US turning down aid during Katrina... Doesn't Burma
> have the same sovereign rights?
>
> http://www.google.com/search?q=3DUS+refuse+Katrina+aid
>
> Yet another double standard...
>
Certainly double standard. Another thing is U.S. has economic
sanctions imposed on Myanmar. This probably diminshes the country
ability to respond to natural disasters.
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> > US Senate demands Myanmar junta allow foreign aid
> > May 8, 2008 | 315 words , 1 image
> > WA****NGTON (AFP) - The US Senate has passed a resolution demanding
that
> > cyclone-devastated Myanmar's military rulers lift restrictions on
delive=
ry
> > of foreign relief aid, congressional aides said Thursday.
> > The resolution, adopted unanimously late Wednesday, urged the
Southeast
> > Asian state's military generals to "immediately lift restrictions" on
> > delivery of humanitarian assistance and allow "free and unfettered
acces=
s"
> > to US and other disaster aid response teams.
> > The resolution proposed by, among others, Democratic Senator John
Kerry =
and
> > Republican Senator Dick Lugar said Congress was ready to approve
additio=
nal
> > funds, beyond existing emergency international disaster aid resources,
t=
o
> > help the people of Myanmar.
> > As the death toll estimates near 100,000, more than one million
homeless=
in
> > Myanmar were battling to stave off disease and hunger, with the
military=
> > government still limiting foreign assistance six days after a massive
> > cyclone.
> > The United States, one of the junta's most vocal critics, announced it
w=
as
> > not sending an aid flight after earlier saying it was, adding to the
sen=
se
> > of confusion and frustration over the international relief effort.
> > An official from the US government aid arm USAID said that some US
suppl=
ies
> > have already been sent to Myanmar through the United Nations.
> > The White House announced Tuesday that it was offering three million
dol=
lars
> > more in aid to the secretive and impoverished country, on top of an
init=
ial
> > emergency allocation of 250,000 dollars.
> > It also said that it was prepared to send four US Navy ****ps, laden
with=
> > emergency relief supplies like blankets and water purification
tablets, =
to
> > Myanmar. The vessels were off Thailand's coast in a disaster-response
> > exercise.
> > Aid groups said Myanmar needs hundreds of planes to cope with Cyclone
> > Nargis, which barrelled into the impoverished state last week,
unlea****n=
g
> > one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory.
>
> >http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AFP/2008/05/08/6413658?&pbl=3D7
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