Re: US Senate demands Myanmar junta allow foreign aid

On May 8, 4:59=A0pm, CharlesLiu <chliu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On May 8, 10:03=A0am, "Zomi" <z...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> > Zomi says:
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> > Almost one week now, and the paranoid, middle school educated Maung
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> > Shwe (who graduated with Anglo-Vernacular 8th standard) has not yet
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wed
> > relief aid to come.
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> 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.

The junta has also made it very hard for the UN and other groups to
get aid to Burma.

> I seem to remember US turning down aid during Katrina... Doesn't Burma
> have the same sovereign rights?

Sure. And as a result many will die.

> http://www.google.com/search?q=3DUS+refuse+Katrina+aid
>
> Yet another double standard...

You constantly bash the US but you won't say a word about the
nastiness of the junta. Yet another double standard. You don't tell
the whole truth. That's as bad as lying.