Humanitarian Crises

Yesterday the United Nations had to suspended relief flights to Burma because the military regime is refusing to allow foreign aid workers into the country to help with the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis.

The suspension, which followed the impounding of UN World Food Programme aid shipments, came as the organisation expressed “exasperation” at the intransigence of the isolationist junta in the face of a vast humanitarian crisis.

The UN expressed astonishment at the junta’s resistance to foreign help, which it said was “unprecedented” in the history of humanitarian relief. All of the food aid and equipment that the UN already managed to get in to Myanmar has been confiscated by the Military Junta and the aid workers have been send home. And what is the Junta doing with the aid? They don't give it to the people who need it, they probably use it for them self or sell it! At least nobody has seen it. No wonder, they only have a few helicopters, and they where used for showing journalist's how the „generous“ General Than Shwe giving 10 DVD-Players and TV's as relief to hungry people which don't have energy, not even clean water to drink.

It's a disaster there, and more and more people are dieing. You can't even count the corpses in the water, you see rats gnawing at them, and the chances of upcoming epidemics are high. Malaria, Cholera, and, perhaps, even the plague.

If the Burmese government’s still refuses to give the necessary permissions to foreign aid workers(and really let 'em in), than the US and France should go in by FORCE! In my eyes it is the only chance for the Burmese people to survive.

Update: Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, told, that the french government has decided to deliver the food aid directly to the people who need it, and that there will be no way that the Military junta get's it. And that they will do it by force if it is necessary.