Thai prime minister cancels Myanmar appeal trip

Please help the people of Burma

When estimated 100,000 people were dead and more than 1-1.5 million people are in grave situations, many people in here are discussing in in-humane ways. People are dying here are they are all the victims of military dictators for many decades. If you cannot help, please take your foul thoughts elsewhere.

Help the people of Burma!!!

Thai prime minister cancels Myanmar appeal trip

I thought monks were normally peaceful......How did the 31 people end up dead?

Galijihad has spoken.

If the Thai Prime Minister said that the generals in Burma are 'good buddhists' then it clearly shows that he has no idea of what Buddhism is. Since he has no shame of exploiting on what the women in Patpon earned for him then how is he to know what is 'akusala' and what is 'kusala'?

Make no mistake that there is such a thing as 'guilt by association' and one of the advice provided in Mingala Suttra is that 'not to associate with fools and if you did then you only have to accept the consequences'.

A graphic reply to the US gOVERNMENT!

wHY OH WHYdoesn’t the Burmese Government Trust Our lying cheating bullying War Criminal Government?

So telling is the threat of invading the Sovereignty of Burma 'because we want to help'! So telling is the IDEA, 'we know best'!

These are patent excuses! For what mr. bush? Its not like you didn’t just murder a lot more people in Afghanistan and Iraq! Were you just 'saved again'? God talked to you again? You got it right? or did you talk to the killing god of the jews?

Why indeed

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wHY OH WHYdoesn’t the Burmese Government Trust Our lying cheating bullying War Criminal Government?

Bullying maybe but war criminal is a far stretch even for one as moronically false as you!




So telling is the threat of invading the Sovereignty of Burma 'because we want to help'! So telling is the IDEA, 'we know best'!

Invading?
You mean dropping air supplies into areas that people are now starving to death is a bad thing?
I bet the military and ruling class in Burma are well stocked on food and water while sitting on high ground!
So telling is the fact the US Government doesn’t care how the supplies get in hat in hand they are now beging another country to help!
So telling is the fact once again you appear to support a government killing it’s own people over right of power and worse pride!
Seems to me I remember you slamming the US for not accepting aid during Katrina and yet you support Burmas ruling Junta?
Again you provide proof of complete hypocracy!


These are patent excuses! For what mr. bush? Its not like you didn’t just murder a lot more people in Afghanistan and Iraq! Were you just 'saved again'? God talked to you again? You got it right? or did you talk to the killing god of the jews?

The rest of your post is so ridiculous it only merits one response a good solid belly laugh!

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A joint statement, issued by three leading anti-government groups based in Myanmar, said: 'To save thousands of lives before it’s too late, we would like to urge the United Nations and foreign governments to intervene in Burma immediately to provide humanitarian and relief assistance directly to the people of Myanmar without waiting for the permission of the military junta.'

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Galijihad has spoken.

Crapped all over this board and it’s readers.
All this idiot does is spew venom and falsehoods.

So! Our poor lil sods are too inept to be justly 'Angry'!

The questions asked escape your infantile brains!

You feel the heat but have no idea of the source!

Why would People tell you to go bag your ass when they need help!? Poor lil sods can’t figure it out! 'we just want to help'... whimper whimper!

Your almost as big embarassment as the lil pundit! Big difference he knows he’s a war criminal, and you don’t! He knows why the US HAS BEEN TOLD, 'WE DON’T TRUST YOU!', you don’t.

The US is PERSONA NON GRATA, thanks to Our War Mongering lil pundit! And your too stupid to figure it out!

Actually if you had any clue they have refused help from alot of countries!

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The questions asked escape your infantile brains!

You feel the heat but have no idea of the source!

Why would People tell you to go bag your ass when they need help!? Poor lil sods can’t figure it out! 'we just want to help'... whimper whimper!

Your almost as big embarassment as the lil pundit! Big difference he knows he’s a war criminal, and you don’t! He knows why the US HAS BEEN TOLD, 'WE DON’T TRUST YOU!', you don’t.

The US is PERSONA NON GRATA, thanks to Our War Mongering lil pundit! And your too stupid to figure it out!

If you had a clue you would understand the best way to keep a people pliable is to deny them food and water!
If you had a clue you would understand this is more about control then about where and who food and supplies come from.
Once again you provide proof you don’t have a clue!
Why would I expect anything from you but insults hubris and stupidity it’s all you trade in.

Once again you provide proof your only aim is to bad mouth the current US government on any issue you can!
Exploit any news story for what ever agenda you may have I know your master tell you to do it but you could at least try and appear less controlled after all they gotta be paying you something.
Once again my only response to you is to laugh and tell you what a clueless bag of wet hair you are.

OOOOPs hey Galljerkoff

Myanmar accused of seizing U.N. aid deliveries
U.N. agency to resume shipments on Saturday; U.S. gets OK to send plane

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YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar’s military leaders allegedly seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they’re not ready to let in American aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.

Another 4 inches of rain was forecast to fall late next week as more than 1 million people waited for food, clean water, shelter and medicine to reach them. Diplomats and aid groups warned the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illnesses and said thousands of children may have been orphaned.

The U.N. World Food Program said two planeloads of supplies containing enough high-energy biscuits to feed 95,000 people were seized Friday, prompting the world body to say it was suspending food-aid flights.

Later, WFP chief spokeswoman Nancy Roman said flights would resume on Saturday while negotiations continued for the release of the supplies.

The WFP had sent some aid on a scheduled Thai Airways cargo flight on Thursday, which went through without a hitch. Another flight carrying Italian aid also came in Thursday.

Myanmar’s government acknowledged taking control of the shipments and said it plans to distribute the aid itself to the affected areas.

In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press, government spokesman Ye Htut said the junta had clearly stated what it would do and denied the action amounted to a seizure.

“I would like to know which person or organization (made these) these baseless accusations,” he said.

The WFP’s regional director, Tony Banbury, directly appealed to Myanmar’s military leaders in an interview with Associated Press Television News.

“Please, this food is going to people who need it very much. You and I, we have the same interests,” Banbury said. “Those victims — those 1 million or more people — who need this assistance are not part of a political dialogue. They need this humanitarian assistance. Please release it.”

Shari Villarosa, the U.S. charge d’affairs in Yangon, said she met with Myanmar Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu on Friday to discuss American relief operations.

The White House later announced that Myanmar will allow a C-130 transport plane with U.S. supplies to land on Monday.

Myanmar says it will accept aid from all countries, but prohibits the entry of foreign workers who would deliver and manage the operations. The junta is “not ready” to change that position, Villarosa said she was told.

'Stench is beyond words'
Meanwhile, the homeless waited for food, shelter and medicine. Many crammed into Buddhist monasteries or just camped out in the open.

Entire villages were submerged in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta, with bodies floating in salty water and children ripped from their parents' arms. More than 65,000 people are dead or missing, state media reported, and aid groups warned that thousands of children may have been orphaned and the area is on the verge of a medical disaster.

“Animal and human corpses (are) a big problem. Many are not buried and lie in water. They have started rotting and the stench is beyond words," said Anders Ladekart, of the Danish Red Cross, who arrived in Yangon on Friday.

He said about 20,000 body bags were being sent so volunteers can start collecting bodies.

'Astonishing' visa delays
The isolationist regime of this Southeast Asian nation has also refused to grant visas to foreign aid workers who could assess the extent of the disaster and manage the logistics.

“The frustration caused by what appears to be a paperwork delay is unprecedented in modern humanitarian relief efforts," said WFP spokesman Paul Risley from Bangkok, Thailand. “It’s astonishing."

He said the WFP submitted 10 visa applications around the world, including six in Bangkok, but none has been approved.

“We strongly urge the government of Myanmar to process these visa applications as quickly as possible, including work over the weekend," he said.

Despite the desperate needs of the survivors, the generals are adamant that only they will distribute the emergency aid that is going in after the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people were killed in Bangladesh.

Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej had to cancel a planned trip to Myanmar this weekend just hours after he said he would go.

“After they said today they would not welcome foreign staff, there is no point of me going there,” Samak said.

Embassy closed
In a statement in the official media after Myanmar turned back a team of Qatari rescue workers coming in on an aid flight this week, the foreign ministry said Myanmar would accept ”relief in cash and kind” but not foreign aid workers.

“Myanmar is not in a position to receive rescue and information teams from foreign countries at the moment,” the statement said. “But at present Myanmar is giving priority to receiving relief aid and distributing them to the storm-hit regions with its own resources.”

The Qatar plane was one of 12 international relief flights that landed in the former capital on Thursday, it said, the first to arrive since Saturday’s cyclone.

Western aid experts in Bangkok will have to wait at least four more days to get into Myanmar to help cyclone victims because the Myanmar embassy in the Thai capital took a local holiday on Friday.

“This is a four-day wait which just should not happen,” said Risley. “This is too long to wait for people whose lives are at such a precarious balance.”

The official death toll remains at nearly 23,000, with 42,119 people missing. Experts fear it could be as high as 100,000.

With saltwater ruining wells, grain stores and rice fields, the relief task ahead will be enormous. The United Nations estimates at least 1.5 million people out of a population of 53 million are “severely affected” — needing food and shelter.

Survivors have been mostly fending for themselves in the swampy delta after Cyclone Nargis, packing winds of up to 120 mph, whipped up a massive wall of sea-water that hurtled through the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta.

A Norway-based opposition news network, the Democratic Voice of Burma, provided graphic details of misery.

'Please come help us'
In the village of Kongyangon, someone had written in Burmese, “We are all in trouble. Please come help us” on black asphalt, a video from the opposition group showed. A few feet away was another plea: “We’re hungry," the words too small to be seen by air rescuers.

Bloated corpses bobbing in canals or spread-eagled on riverbanks littered the delta. Reuters witnesses saw seven along a three-mile stretch from the delta town of Labutta, which is 75 miles southwest of Myanmar’s biggest city of Yangon.

Farmer Tei Lin said he had seen hundreds of bodies in the past week. “It’s so difficult. Many of them are badly decomposed,” he said through an interpreter. He was looking for his missing wife and three daughters.

No soldiers or government agencies have turned up to help.

“There are no NGO’s here. No U.N. Only me,” he said.

Children were the most vulnerable when the storm struck the delta, known as “Asia’s rice bowl” in British colonial times.

“They are gone. They are gone,” U Thein, who lost her 8-year-old son and 3-month-old daughter, whispered in her village near hard-hit Labutta town in the delta.

Besides the cawing of crows and gentle weeping of the destitute, the only sound was the hammering of nails as villagers tried to rebuild their homes in the malaria-infested swamplands.

Patriotic referendum
The junta urged citizens on Friday to do their patriotic duty and vote for an army-drafted constitution in a televised message that made no mention of the millions living in cyclone-affected areas where the balloting had been postponed.

Its opponents have suggested the reason for the delays in letting aid workers come in could be that the generals did not want an influx of foreigners before Saturday’s referendum.

The vote in the devastated south would be held in two weeks. The last time Myanmar had an election, in 1990, the generals lost in a landslide to Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.

In the storm-ravaged former capital of Yangon, a city of 5 million, people were stunned that the referendum was going ahead.

“It shows how unreasonable and crazy they can be. They just want to celebrate victory even though the people are suffering,” one shop owner told Reuters.

Sometimes putting politics aside is the right thing to do!

Trust is the key

Burma has been watching the news just like all of us, 99% of the plant does not trust the USA or any Country that deals with them. If I was the ruler of Burma I also would not let aid workers in enmass, but I would accept the Aid if offered! But of course the spin might be/truth that the aid was going to the junta first(in western armies soldiers go without food until the victims are all looked after-Why Katrina soldiers waited 3 or 4 weeks to eat???) OK so now we have a reason not to supply aid. What is the number one objective of all western Countries- INTELLIGENCE-How to gather it, need to be in the Country. Hey I hate being so conspiracy fearful but I read, research-try to be objective but still were all limited by our natural bias. I like Americians heck I like most people-Where I fail is that I dislike/Hate/am disgusted with governments-(Democratic/Socialist/Communist...) all look out for the rich and themselves. The middle and lower classes are thier mules or play things, something to suck dry while we swat them around. Sorry if you do not see this-more sorry that I do! Wish I knew we were there only to help but sadly with our record trust is lacking. Burma and her people suffer for this-sorry!