On May 12, 3:21 am, "ltl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/06/AR200...
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> But exiled Burmese political analyst Aung Naing Oo, who fled Burma in
> 1988 and is now based in Thailand, labeled Laura Bush's attack as
> "totally and utterly inappropriate."
You know, I was thinking the same thing when I saw Dubya offering aid
in one hand and slapping the junta with another thinking that why
can't they be like the Australia and just concentrate on talking about
humanitarian aid but after reading this at
ALeqM5i3gfvUILk2qQOpL8gDFwUtd5U3FgD90K8OEO0, I realized that I was
wrong. What Laura Bush and Dubya did was exactly right. They *knew*
very well what the thugs would do; they were sure that at the end,
they would not be criticized because th thugs would prove themselves
how despicable they are. Here are some high lights of what i am
talking about:
"Such diversion of manpower at a time when some 1.5 million people are
at risk from disease and starvation reflects the regime's fear ..."
"The government is very controlling," said U P..., the abbot at the
KBK monastery. "Those who want to give directly to the victims get
into trouble. They have to give to the government or do it secretly.
(The military) follows international aid trucks everywhere. They don't
want others to take credit."
"It appears unlikely that foreign aid organizations seeking to enter
Myanmar will be allowed to use monks as conduits for relief supplies
as many had hoped."
"One of the best networks already in place in the country are the
monks," said Gary Walker of PLAN, a British-based international
children's group, speaking from Bangkok. "So we'll be exploring ways
in which we can see whether the monks can start distributing supplies
throughout the country."
The thugs are proving again and again what low life imbeciles they
are. Their brain is filled with chee that all they can see is how
someone else will get credit rather than the suffering of the people
they claim to give a damn always claiming as the propagandist Sando,
the slave thug advertised that they care about the people of Burma.
Here is more evidence how much they care:
Editorial: A deeply despicable regime
New Zealand Herald - 10 hours ago
at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=171&objectid=10509646
Until recently, all that was popularly known of the mute military
regime that has ruled Myanmar for 56 years was its aversion to civil
rights and outside scrutiny, evidenced by the long confinement of the
popularly elected Aung San Suu Kyi, the fate of Buddhist monks who
occasionally demonstrate in the streets, and its abiding reluctance to
allow foreign observers into the country.
All of that is par for the dictatorial course. A distaste for
opposition and criticism can be understood, if not excused. But even
repressive regimes can behave responsibly in the face of natural
disaster. Myanmar's junta has revealed itself in the wake of Cyclone
Nargis to be more deeply despicable than outsiders imagined.
With upwards of a million people left homeless, hungry and sick by the
May 3 cyclone, the generals have acted as though their country is
under siege. International aid efforts have been seized or rebuffed,
and the Government's own offering of any sort of relief to the people
appears to be listless, miserable and corrupt.
Re****ts at the weekend of the country's Prime Minister proudly handing
out new TV sets and DVDs to households without electricity attest to
Myanmar's political state.
If the generals were fearful of exposing their misrule to the world in
this crisis, their resistance to outside help has made their misrule
starkly evident. The international community now knows that Myanmar is
controlled by people who are willing to see mass suffering rather than
run the slightest risk to their retention of power.
And the risk would be slight. If the regime had readily opened its
doors to aid agencies and did what it could to assist the distribution
of food, clean water, sanitation, medicines and shelter, political
questions would be the last subject on most people's minds.
Instead, the junta's self-serving, INCOMPETENT response to the
disaster has underlined its WORTHLESSNESS to its own people and made
its insecurity apparent to the world. The generals are, as our
correspondent Graeme Jenkins put it yesterday, cruel, power hungry and
dangerously irrational.
He re****ts that this is a regime that lays waste to hundreds of
villages every year in the course of a quiet civil war. Half a million
people had been displaced even before the cyclone sent a tidal surge
through the Irrawaddy delta.
The generals allowed in some relief flights last week but insisted on
doing the internal distribution themselves. United Nations ****pments
were suspended at the weekend after all food and equipment flown to
the country had been impounded by the regime.
The scale of the catastrophe - perhaps 100,000 dead, 1.5 million
homeless, no power or sanitation, effluent in the water supplies, rice
paddies ruined by salt water, corpses rotting, disease threatening -
would be beyond the means of any but the richest of nations to
alleviate unaided. Myanmar cannot recover alone, and any rational
government of such a country would recognise that.
The cyclone devastated the country just a week before a national vote
was due - the first permitted by the junta in 18 years - for a
constitution weighted in favour of military rule. The UN urged the
junta to postpone the referendum and concentrate on disaster relief.
The best the generals would do was postpone voting in the devastated
regions for two weeks.
If the disaster overwhelms what is seen as a cosmetic exercise for
continued military rule, it might bring some ultimate benefit to this
misgoverned place. There must be a limit to the cruelty and
incompetence a desperate people will bear. Myanmar's patience should
be at breaking point.
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> "She is trying to score political points out of people's disaster," he
> said. "That will clearly not go down well with anyone in Burma. This
> is about humanitarian issues -- people are dying. This is a time for
> the U.S. government to say, 'We are giving you money.' They don't need
> to score political points here."
>
> Ye Htut, a Burmese government spokesman, also accused the first lady
> of politicizing the tragedy. "I would like to say that what we are
> doing is better than the Bush administration response to the Katrina
> storm in 2005, if you compare the resources of the two countries," he
> told re****ters.
>
> He said the government issued a cyclone warning two days before the
> storm struck.
>
> In this environment of hostility, the prospect for effective and
> timely cooperation between the junta and Western governments -- let
> alone U.S. military personnel deploying on the ground -- remains
> uncertain.
>
> "At one level, the regime worries that events could move out of their
> control if they let in Western aid groups, and lose that really tight
> control that they have had," Turnell said. "But they must also be
> extraordinarily mindful of the potential that this could cause unrest
> in the country," he said. "People are already jumping onto the fact
> that the army was out on the streets so quickly in September and
> asking, 'Where are they now?' "
>
> Thant Myint-U, a Burmese historian and former U.N. official, said that
> "the problem is that everything, including aid, has been politicized,
> with suspicions on all sides." But he noted that "if in response to
> this tragedy, the aid community and the Burmese authorities can work
> well together, keep politics entirely away and show that effective and
> impartial aid delivery is possible, I think that would be a great step
> forward."
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