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Myanmar evicts cyclone victims from temporary housing
Vietnam News.Net
Friday 30th May, 2008
Destitute families are being pushed out of government-run cyclone relief centres, due to government concerns the tent cities might become more permanent.
Officials of the junta have been quoted as saying the people will be better off back in their homes 'where they are more stable.'
The New Light of Myanmar, a government newspaper, also warned that foreign relief workers could snoop around while pretending to give help.
The newspaper has condemned world donors for linking aid money to full access to the hardest-hit regions in the Irrawaddy Delta.
Locals and aid workers said there were 39 camps in the immediate vicinity of Kyauktan, 30 kilometres south of Rangoon, being cleared out as part of the wave of evictions.
The victims had only been given bamboo poles and some tarpaulins to the camps the Irrawaddy Delta, where 134,000 people were left dead or missing by Cyclone Nargis on May 2nd.
Four weeks after the disaster, the United Nations says fewer than one in two of the 2.4 million people affected by the cyclone have received any form of help from either the government, or international or local aid groups.
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tcb
05-30-08, 05:29 PM |
Nothing but hot air
That’s right. While dear, innocent Burmese people are left to languish and die, the EU and others have 'discussed' taking the Junta to the world court for committing crimes against humanity. That’s as far as it got. No action....more talkfests! For God’s sake world, DO SOMETHING ABOUT TYRANTS! Just barge in and help out fellow human beings. Stuff the Junta, MUGabe and others like them. We have a moral obligation to our sisters and brothers! AND, we will be held accountable for our inaction!
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Buddha
05-30-08, 01:19 PM |
Myanmar evicts cyclone victims from temporary housing
You invade Iraq over oil but allow this genocide to happen?!? You are failing the tests...
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Ko San
05-30-08, 02:26 PM |
Killing them softly
Myanmar military is killing it own people, worse than the cyclone. Why the world is watching this? Ban Ki Mon visit only banned international from acting against the junta.
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Lai pa
05-30-08, 02:41 PM |
Where is humanitarian intervention?
Was Baath party in Iraq worse than junta now in Myanmar to pull US troops down there? Can the world today not strong enough to stop another holocaust in Myanmar? Where is humanitarian intervention?
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Greg of Melbourne
05-30-08, 04:47 PM |
Junta
This is what happens when military juntas rule a country. They have all the necessary hardware to keep the people in line and wouldn’t hesitate to use bullets to maintain the status quo. Keeping Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest is the worst this control freak junta in Burma could do to this popular woman.
The people in the Philippines suffered nine coup attempts yet they keep electing military people to government positions over and over again. They want a junta to rule over the Philippines too.
What the junta does to the people of Burma is no different to what Saddam had done to the people of Iraq. So why do the West (US and Europe) haven’t done anything at least to threaten the sensitivity of these hoodlums in boots.
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Anonymous
05-30-08, 04:54 PM |
Which Companies and Governments support these people?
Companies and Governments that trade with the miltary should also be convicted of the murder of the people left here to die!
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Snowball
05-31-08, 02:18 AM |
U.S. can't do it all
Why do you automatically say that it is the responsibility of the U.S. to do something to oust the Myanmar dictators? We are already freely giving hundreds of billions of dollars yearly in aide to Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the horrible cost in U.S. lives.
If we were smart, the U.S. would simply take the oil from Iraq in compensation, but we are too noble, too fair, and, also, too foolish to do so. What other country in this world would do the same free of charge? Maybe Russia? China perhaps? Can you think of even one?
Throughout history, the U.S. has given it’s blood to free people we don’t even know, while the rest of the world laughs at us for being so stupid.
Yes, many Americans are tired of trying to be the policeman for the entire world, at horrible cost to us, but if we don’t do it, who will? You? I think not. You would rather criticize America for not doing enough in one country, and then criticize us for intervening in another. No matter what we do, we can’t win, can we?
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Snowball
05-31-08, 09:58 AM |
U.S. can't do it all
Why do you automatically say that it is the responsibility of the U.S. to do something to oust the Myanmar dictators? We are already freely giving hundreds of billions of dollars yearly in aide to Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention the horrible cost in U.S. lives.
If we were smart, the U.S. would simply take the oil from Iraq in compensation, but we are too noble, too fair, and, also, too foolish to do so. What other country in this world would do the same free of charge? Maybe Russia? China perhaps? Can you think of even one?
Throughout history, the U.S. has given it’s blood to free people we don’t even know, while the rest of the world laughs at us for being so stupid.
Yes, many Americans are tired of trying to be the policeman for the entire world, at horrible cost to us, but if we don’t do it, who will? You? I think not. You would rather criticize America for not doing enough in one country, and then criticize us for intervening in another. No matter what we do, we can’t win, can we?
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Victoria Hill
05-31-08, 11:24 AM |
Responsibility
Burma, fallen under British colony for a hundred years and gave out power to the wrong guy should not be ignored by Britain. When Tutsi and Hutu chopped each others, France went there to control knowing a bit of responsibility as his once colony. A hundred years enslaved Burmese under British should have a bit of responsibility when a country is out of humanitarian responsibility itself under lawless regime. Japan is paying back as much as it can to all the war crimes they committed as compensation. Where is the Bristish who colonized Burma for a century? We have no oil but we have you who colonized and enslaved us without our consent for a hundred years.
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