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eBay Forums: UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta ...
All that stuff and none of the people who need it are getting it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone
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So sad, those people are desperate and the government is preventing aid!
A man is measured by the size of the things that anger him - Geof Greenleaf
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Makes no sense to me, gracie.
What does the government gain by keeping necessary supplies from its people.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
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The governments position is that they do not want any outside influences reaching their people.
Plain and simple.
This country is run by a military dictatorship
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Shyne, what screamingmonkey said is the same thing that I heard, it is a control thing.
These people are starving and injured.
A man is measured by the size of the things that anger him - Geof Greenleaf
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Gracie,
That is the case.
According to what I have heard that the government has come out and said that any visa for relief efforts will not be looked at or granted until Monday or Tuesday at the latest, while the country is thrown into turmoil.
What bothers me is where is the outcry from all these human rights groups.
They certainly can critisize the US but on other countries they remain silent.
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Screaming: Currently, there are a lot of world-wide aid groups trying to get into Myanmar.
Australia has 3 billion dollars worth waiting to go.
The problem is that Thailand has thousands of Burmese refugees in camps along it's border with Myanmar and the US is helping the Thai's with some food support.
The Junta in Burma has made it vary plain that they don't want any support from any real or perceived ally of the United States.
It's a control issue and one designed to prevent it's population from getting arms.
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I just heard on the news that US cargo planes will be allowed to land on Monday with aid supplies.
Shouldn't this be a "crime against humanity", the UN isn't even allowed to enter yet.
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These decisions by the Junta change by the hour.
It is a crime against humanity.
Maybe with this "natural disaster", the world will get tired of dealing with a small group of thugs raping a country.
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Slipnround ...I think it's acually US cargo plane - singular.
“Liberals are always at their best chuckling at the ways of those they regard as hicks.
That’s because liberals place far more importance on sophistication than on character, decency and values.” —Burt Prelutsky
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What bothers me is where is the outcry from all these human rights groups.
They certainly can critisize the US but on other countries they remain silent.
I don't think we've been able to depend on our domestic press for an accurate world picture for a long time.
"Silent" could well equate to "no coverage".
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Sensor: The US press has been fairly docile on this issue, but the world press is going bonkers.
Maybe something is happening here.
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Slipnround ...I think it's acually US cargo plane - singular.
I heard that, too.
Supplies but no relief workers.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
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YANGON, Myanmar - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain.
A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S.
Cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country.
Myanmar gave the green light after confiscating other shipments, prompting the U.N.
To order a temporary freeze in shipments.
The U.N.
Agreed to resume flights but relief workers, including Americans, were still being barred entry.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_re_as/myanmar_cyclone
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The US press is probably at it's lowest point in history.
I get press release's from all over the world, and the US press has nothing to say about this.
Shame.
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The shame is their dictatorship not caring enough for their people to either help them or allow help.
The U.S has helped in international relief efforts of all kinds for decades.
It would be fitting if, IF, somewhere down the line, Burma asked for our aid, and we denied it.
NOT that I'm suggesting that we don't do all we can now for this country and all the victims.
That's what makes us so great a country.
But maybe in the future, just like you and I do in our everyday lives, we don't go "where we're not wanted".
Please read what I've said and don't flame me!
I couldn't take it!
I guess I'm just simply asking, how many times have you offered help to a family member or friend who refused it?
Just where does one draw the line?
Personally and/or politically?
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~James~
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Blue: Neither I or anyone else is going to flame you.
Your basically saying the same thing everyone here is saying.
The whole world is trying, at this moment, to get relief into Burma.
The Junta simply won't let that happen and I'm sure there are a lot of agenda's going on with regards to this.
Keep on top of it.
I'm just upset that some of our stars get more coverage than this.
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