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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by ScuL
U may call me a rude bitch but to be honest I wouldn't even bother to send aid to a country that doesn't want it :rolleyes:
Darn this remembers me how much I hate dictatorships.. :whip: |
yeah, i'm sure the helpless civilians don't want aid. |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
ϋ_}bitches!!! |
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| Whip_lash |
| Why isnt the Myanmar government allowing food to be brought in is what I dont understand? India allowed relief in right away when the tsunami hit them in 2005.... |
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| enydo |
| That is a really frustrating and depressing situation. |
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| tubularbills |
those poor people. i can't imagine living in an area that 3rd world. at least new orleans and the ms gulf coast can rebuild. those people are just ed for the rest of their lives. or at least, for the next 10 years of it. then again, if all you lived in was a straw hut, i guess it won't take too long to rebuild that. then again, i'm sure there's no such thing as insurance over there either.
i'm glad i don't live there. sounds like a bastardly thing to say, but when mother nature decides to be the bitch that she is, i'm glad i live in a place that can survive it (relatively speaking) |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by Whip_lash
Why isnt the Myanmar government allowing food to be brought in is what I dont understand? India allowed relief in right away when the tsunami hit them in 2005.... |
Read up on Myanmar sonny. |
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| ScuL |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
me. :stongue: :stongue: |
ya sorry I slept 5 hrs average this week. bit numb in my head
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
yeah, i'm sure the helpless civilians don't want aid. |
that's not it but if they don't get help u'll get an angry mob that wants to get rid of the junta (thinking strategy) :D |
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| Clovis |
| quote: | Originally posted by ScuL
that's not it but if they don't get help u'll get an angry mob that wants to get rid of the junta (thinking strategy) :D |
Thats brilliant man. I wonder why no one has thought of that yet. |
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| Allied Nations |
i visited burma back when i was little and lived in thailand...
saw that crazy bridge between thailand and burma |
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| smakmagik |
Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone.
The death toll jumped to nearly 29,000 amid warnings that "malign neglect" by the military rulers, who have ruled the isolated nation with an iron fist for more than five decades, was creating a "humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions."
The junta has been sharply criticized for its handling of the May 3 disaster, from failing to provide adequate warnings about the pending storm to responding slowly to offers of help.
Though international assistance has started trickling in, the few foreign relief workers who have been allowed entry into Myanmar have been restricted to the largest city of Yangon. Only a handful have succeeded in getting past checkpoints into the worst-affected areas.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satell...icle%2FShowFull |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by smakmagik
Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies - one of the first international shipments - sank on its way to the disaster zone.
The death toll jumped to nearly 29,000 amid warnings that "malign neglect" by the military rulers, who have ruled the isolated nation with an iron fist for more than five decades, was creating a "humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions."
The junta has been sharply criticized for its handling of the May 3 disaster, from failing to provide adequate warnings about the pending storm to responding slowly to offers of help.
Though international assistance has started trickling in, the few foreign relief workers who have been allowed entry into Myanmar have been restricted to the largest city of Yangon. Only a handful have succeeded in getting past checkpoints into the worst-affected areas.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satell...icle%2FShowFull |
I was watching a thing on CNN last night about a reporter, Dan River, who was banned from Myanmar...because he was trying to report on the disaster...he was considered a wanted man in their country. :wtf:
those poor people probably had no warning of what was about to hit them :( |
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| Orbital32 |
| quote: | | John Holmes, the U.N. coordinator for humanitarian affairs, told the delegates that the death toll from Cyclone Nargis ranges from 63,000 to 100,000, well above the Myanmar government's announced toll of 22,000. |
Minus all the other bad part of the paragraph the John Holmes part is pretty funny :D
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