The ruling junta in Myanmar should burn in hell.

[elbales]

And I don't even believe in hell. Yesterday's news on this issue had me screaming at the radio, and now it's worse.

UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies

Friday, May 9, 2008

(05-09) 07:28 PDT YANGON, Myanmar (AP) --
Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments headed for hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, prompting the world body to suspend further help on Friday.

The U.N. said the aid included 38 tons of high-energy biscuits and arrived in Myanmar on Friday on two flights from Bangladesh and the United Arab Emirates.

"All of the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated," U.N. World Food Program spokesman Paul Risley said. "For the time being, we have no choice but to end further efforts to bring critical needed food aid into Myanmar at this time."

. . . More than 60,000 people are dead or missing and entire villages are submerged in the Irrawaddy delta after Saturday's cyclone. Many of the survivors waiting for food, clean water and medicine were crammed into Buddhist monasteries or camped outdoors.

Aid groups warned the area is on the verge of a medical disaster and that thousands of children may have been orphaned. The U.N. estimates 1.5 million people have been severely affected and has voiced concern about the disposal of dead bodies.

WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!

*seethes*

Yeah. That's it. That's about all I can do: speak up, and seethe.
 

Comments

[roshismomma.livejournal.com]

It is truly despicable. I know what you mean about hell. But then, we've known the Myanmar Junta were a nightmare for a long time, they;re just displaying it so clearly on the backs of some of the most severely suffering people on earth.

One of my friends had a link to a way to try to get aid directly to monasteries in Burma... I'll look it up... but I fear that too could be stopped by the monsters...

[kiri-l.livejournal.com]

see my lj in a few minutes.. but this plays to their needs in the end. it is sad but their aims do not truly involve the welfare of all the people in that nation. As you know this scenario has played out in different cultural contexts for millennia. What is awfulk is the monks would see to the welfare. I'm wondering if people coudl just start in with boats.. the junta couldn't be that on top of things with all this.. the worst hit could be helped. But that involves violating soverignty - something most nations won't do.. even with this humanitarian crisis.

I'm as upset as you.. but short of deposing the junta.. see how it gets all tangled? Then again I'm for helping the people and let the rest sort itself later..