On May 8, 10:03=A0am, "Zomi" <z...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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> 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...
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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
delivery=
> 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
access"=
> to US and other disaster aid response teams.
> The resolution proposed by, among others, Democratic Senator John Kerry
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> Republican Senator Dick Lugar said Congress was ready to approve
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> funds, beyond existing emergency international disaster aid resources,
to
> help the people of Myanmar.
> As the death toll estimates near 100,000, more than one million homeless
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> 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
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> not sending an aid flight after earlier saying it was, adding to the
sense=
> of confusion and frustration over the international relief effort.
> An official from the US government aid arm USAID said that some US
supplie=
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> have already been sent to Myanmar through the United Nations.
> The White House announced Tuesday that it was offering three million
dolla=
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> more in aid to the secretive and impoverished country, on top of an
initia=
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> 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****ng
> 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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