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2008-05-14 Southeast Asia

Myanmar police block aid workers, food piles up

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Posted by Steve White 2008-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Ima guessing Myanmar will do an even worse job of distributing AID than Sri Lanka and Indonesia put together.

Posted by RD">RD 2008-05-14 02:34|| 2008-05-14 02:34|| Front Page Top

#2 That depends on what you consider the purpose of the exercise to be, RD.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-14 04:57|| 2008-05-14 04:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Well to be honest the aid workers are their own worst enemy, they use these disasters to further their own little ends. They would certainly take advantage of the chaos to make contacts to cause problems for Burma in the future. The depressing calculus says that the Burmese government is doing the right thing, at least as far as their own survival is concerned.

Posted by gromky 2008-05-14 05:10|| 2008-05-14 05:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm not aware of any significant problems in Sri Lanka distributing tsunmai aid.

Posted by phil_b 2008-05-14 08:21|| 2008-05-14 08:21|| Front Page Top

#5 I read a lot of the expensive items (generators, construction equipment) ended up in the hands of Sri Lankan gov bigwigs.

Posted by ed 2008-05-14 08:38|| 2008-05-14 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 no good deed...

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-05-14 08:44|| 2008-05-14 08:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I vote to send Jimma' Crater (mis-spelling intended) there to coordinate the project. Maybe they'll keep him!

Posted by Omavimble Poodle2382 2008-05-14 09:24|| 2008-05-14 09:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Just because the aid organizations and their sycophant media friends cry doom and gloom does not necessarily make it so. The Burmese generals are taking as much heat as the Bush Administration did during Katrina, whether they deserve(d) it or not.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-05-14 11:35|| 2008-05-14 11:35|| Front Page Top

#9 I see no evidence yet that the aid workers are wrong here. That the govt of Burma is insisting so hard on keeping outsiders away speaks volumes.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-05-14 12:04|| 2008-05-14 12:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Burma is a lost cause : it is a satrapy of Red China and will not budge on its restrictions. Because of that, there is no effective way to deal with it - since there is no way the West will engage in a land war in Asia over refusal to distribute aid.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2008-05-14 22:00|| 2008-05-14 22:00|| Front Page Top

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