UN food seized by Junta.

[no1_vern]

It seems the criminals in charge couldnt wait to get larger amounts. They seized the very first one.

The junta seized a shipment of UN food aid yesterday, declaring that they would accept donations of food and medicine but not the foreign aid workers international groups say are in equally short supply there.

The UN decided to accept this and send more aid without UN help to distribute the food/supplies . Of course, maybe Im being too cynical, and all the people will actually get the help they need.

[Chuckiechan]

and all the people will actually get the help they need.

Same thing that happened in Somalia.

Muslim countries do not give a split nickel for their people. The are just fertilizer for Allah's fields.

[xelnanga]

I thought this was a common knowledge? That military juntas almost always grab the humanitarian aids??

[MegalosSkylaki]

Originally Posted by No1_vern

Of course, maybe Im being too cynical, and all the people will actually get the help they need.

Not too cynical. It is a 100% certain that any valuable and salable item sent to Burma will be sold by Junta to dearest markett...maybe japan, malasia or hong Kong..

Even if marked UN RELIEF, just dumped into container cars and sold for guns or put into unnumbered foerighn bank accounts..
right now they are probably seizing and diviing up the lands of dead.

MegalosSkylaki

One has to be stupid to send relief to burma under these circumstances. Probably somebody in UN is getting a piece of the action.

[voogru]

Maybe we should fly in guns for the citizens to use and then they can overthrow the junta.

[Chuckiechan]

Maybe we should fly in guns for the citizens to use and then they can overthrow the junta.

Allah wouldn't like that.

[Theophylact]

Originally Posted by Chuckiechan

Allah wouldn't like that.

Burma is a Buddhist country, not a Muslim one. Allah wouldn't give a damn.

[Theophylact]

By the way, the Burmese junta isn't even allowing Burmese philanthropists to help:

MA NGAY GYI, Myanmar — When one of Myanmar’s best-known movie stars, Kyaw Dhyu, traveled through the Irrawaddy Delta in recent days to deliver aid to the victims of the May 3 cyclone, a military patrol stopped him as he was handing out bags of rice.

“The officer told him, ‘You cannot give directly to the people,” said Tin Win, the village headman of the stricken city of Dedaye, who had been counting on the rice to feed 260 refugees who sleep in a large Buddhist prayer hall.
The politics of food aid — deciding who gets to deliver assistance to those homeless and hungry after the cyclone — is not just confined to the dispute between Myanmar’s military junta and Western governments and outside relief agencies.

Even Myanmar citizens who want to donate rice or other items have in several cases been told that all assistance must be channeled through the military. That restriction has angered local government officials like Tin Win who are trying to help rebuild the lives of villagers. He twitched with rage as he described the rice the military gave him.

“They gave us four bags,” he said. “The rice is rotten — even the pigs and dogs wouldn’t eat it.”

He said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had delivered good rice to the local military leaders last week but they kept it for themselves and distributed the waterlogged, musty rice. “I’m very angry,” he said, adding an expletive to describe the military.

Read the whole thing (if you can bear to).

[voogru]

Originally Posted by Theophylact

By the way, the Burmese junta isn't even allowing Burmese philanthropists to help:Read the whole thing (if you can bear to).

Time to overthrow the government, but who's gonna do it?

[no1_vern]

Thats one of the things that makes me angry with the UN, and many relief organizations. They want us to give aid when they know much of the support will be seized by those in power hoping that the criminals will allow some of the help to reach the victims. In fact many of the dictatorships rely on that aid to keep the people satisfied while the rape/pillage their own countries.