On May 30, 5:52=A0am, Kyle Schwitters <slipuva...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "In MYANMAR, "Little China," The JUNTA Urges Cyclone Victims To "EAT
> FROGS!"
>
> As Myanmar's survivors of the cyclone mourn 100,000 or so victims and
> pathetically seach for virtually ANYTHING TO EAT, the criminal
> Generals deny their negligent criminality and insist the starving
> people can "go out with lamps at night and catch plump frogs."
You ****ing racist, frog is a traditional staple of Burmese cuisine:
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=3Dfrogs+traditional+Myanmar+cuisine
WTF, when the French eat frog it=92s culture, but when Burmese do it
it=92s crime against humanity?
>
> I don't know about you, but this attitude toward Myanmar's
> impoverished and tempest-tossed population seems like something from a
> Chinese do***entary, describing events that might well happen in
> Sinoland if the world wasn't watching China as the Olympics near.
>
> In Myamnar -- aka "Little China" -- life is as terrible as it was in
> China during one of its relatively recent purges or "cultural
> revolutions." =A0 And maybe as things STILL ARE in China. =A0But are now
> better hidden.
>
> And how nice to see how Hu and Wen are confronting the junta on
> Myanmar's atrocious lack of humanitarian concern.
> ------------------------------------
> "Let Them Eat Frogs"
>
> "Burma's junta is willing to let its people starve while relief waits
> just offshore."
> Editorial
> Friday, May 30, 2008; A12
>
> "THE SEARCH for food begins just after dawn," the Los Angeles Times
> re****ted Tuesday from a small, devastated village in Burma. "Each day,
> men, women and children fan out into paddies flooded by seawater,
> littered with corpses. Like prospectors working claims, they scoop up
> the muck in their bare hands and finger through it for grains of
> unmilled rice swept away by the cyclone. When their luck is good, they
> discover red chile peppers or small onions in mud reeking of the dead.
> Then, they can have condiments with their next meal of rotten rice and
> coconut meat."
>
> If only those villagers had read the New Light of Myanmar! The
> official newspaper for the military junta in charge (Myanmar being the
> generals' name for the country) this week assured its readers that
> everything was returning to normal in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta. And,
> the junta also assured its readers, hunger could not be a problem,
> since farmers can gather water clover or "go out with lamps at night
> and catch plump frogs."
>
> This might be funny were it not obscene. In fact, according to editor
> and columnist Aung Zaw of the exile magazine Irrawaddy, more than half
> of the 2.4 million people affected by the cyclone have yet to receive
> aid. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval task force consisting of the USS Es***
> and three other vessels has been steaming in circles offshore since
> Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma on May 2 and 3. According to Adm.
> Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, the task force
> could deliver 250,000 pounds of relief material per day, by plane,
> helicopter and amphibious landing craft. "And the kids out there, the
> young sailors and Marines, are desperate to provide help," Adm.
> Keating said Wednesday. "Some of them have experience with the tsunami
> at Aceh. Some of them have experience with Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh
> last Thanksgiving. So these guys, they know what they're doing and
> they know how much help they can provide just that quick. . . . And
> there would be significant materiel going ashore within an hour, I'd
> say."
>
> So why are those villagers still scrounging? "As yet," Adm. Keating
> explained, "we don't have permission from Burma to conduct those
> operations."
>
> That's right. Since the cyclone that left more than 100,000 people
> dead or missing, Burma's generals have found time to conduct a phony
> referendum to make military rule permanent; issue a decree extending
> the house arrest of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi; detain many
> other democracy activists and ordinary civilians and monks trying to
> deliver aid to cyclone victims; harry and repulse foreign
> correspondents (the Los Angeles Times re****ter quoted above had to
> file anonymously); and complain that foreign governments are being
> stingy with "reconstruction" aid. But the junta continues to prevent
> the kind of large-scale relief operation that the country needs,
> allowing in just enough private aid workers to defuse international
> pressure.
>
> U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was right to visit Burma and press
> the junta to admit more aid. But he was wrong, in explaining why he
> didn't say much there about Aung San Suu Kyi, to urge a "focus on
> people, not politics." It is politics -- the generals' politics --
> that is killing uncounted numbers of children in Burma's delta. It is
> the generals' politics to rebuff emergency relief while demanding
> reconstruction loans that could make the junta richer. And it is the
> generals' politics that is forcing villagers to strain the mud for
> rotten rice while tons of clean food float unused not many miles away.
>
> http://www.wa****ngtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR200...
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