On May 8, 1:03=A0pm, "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
allowe=
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> relief aid to come.
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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.
Not surprised. Other country's suffering is nothing but op****tunties
for more political grand posturing. Too bad the same senate has no gut
to demand the cessation of all killings in Iraq where a million had
perished as the result of Amrican invasion. Anyway, it turns out that
Myanmar is not refusing foreign emergency supplies but refusing
foreigners.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/world/asia/10myanmar.html?
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BANGKOK =97 Myanmar is willing to receive disaster relief from the
outside world but not relief workers, the country=92s military
government said Friday, as supplies into the country were still being
delayed nearly one week after a devastating cyclone and aid experts
were being turned back as they arrived. In a statement, Myanmar=92s
military junta said it would distribute international relief supplies
itself.
Myanmar said it had turned back one relief flight because, in addition
to disaster relief supplies, it carried disaster *****sment experts
and an unauthorized media group.
"Myanmar is not in a position to receive rescue and information teams
from foreign countries at the moment," the statement, from the Foreign
Ministry, said. "But at present Myanmar is giving priority to
receiving relief aid and distributing them to the storm-hit regions
with its own resources."
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> 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
additiona=
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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
was=
> 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=
s
> 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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