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Intelligence News - Burmese junta thwarts aid efforts, pushes ahead with referendum - San...
globalgeopolitics.net May 11, 2008
Burmese junta thwarts aid efforts, pushes ahead with referendum - San Francisco Gate(05-11) 04:00 PDT Rangoon, Burma -- The military junta forged ahead Saturday with a constitutional referendum intended to cement its power after a campaign of arm-twisting and intimidation, even as it continued to...
Wrong-way traffic reflects Burma's woe
thestar.com May 13, 2008
The Asian Highway should be jammed with a convoy of trucks carrying aid supplies from the Thai border to the devastated Burmese city of Rangoon, 400 kilometres away. ... The military junta – criticized for blocking foreign aid – is also preventing Burmese doctors and...
Thai premier to press Burmese junta on cyclone aid
dw-world.de May 13, 2008
Thailand's foreign ministry says the prime minister will travel to Burma this week to press the ruling junta to allow in foreign aid workers who are struggling to get visas after cyclone Nargis. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon was among the foreign power-brokers who had...
Students support Burma solidarity vigil
scoop.co.nz May 13, 2008
Auckland students will hold a candle light vigil tomorrow evening to commemorate the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. ... The Burma Support Group, an AUSA-affiliated club, will hold a candle light vigil to commemorate the dead, and to pray for the victims of the...
BBC Burmese Service: Burma aid increasing as casualties rise
burmanet.org May 13, 2008
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, has said he is immensely frustrated at what he called the unacceptably slow delivery of aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. Mr Ban also warned that an outbreak of infectious diseases could dwarf the current crisis, unless more aid got...
Anne Applebaum: Is it time to “intervene” in Burma?
hotair.com May 13, 2008
Tick tock. ... posted at 10:22 pm on May 12, 2008 by Allahpundit Send to a Friend | printer-friendly I have no answers, I just wanted to relay the question for discussion. “[T]he death toll is thought to have reached 100,000,” she writes, “a further 1.5 million Burmese...
We Must Do More to Help the Burmese
chosun.com May 13, 2008
Heartrending news from Burma, ravaged by cyclone Nargys on May 2, is that the number of the missing and dead now exceeds 100,000, and as many as two million people have been displaced. Coastal towns in southern Burma have been completely swept away by the waters and only...
Mary Wald: Who Will Save the Dying Burmese? Best Answer: The Chinese
huffingtonpost.com May 13, 2008
Apparently the Burmese people just have not been made to suffer enough, because Time.com is recommending this morning that we "give war a chance" and... ... Apparently the Burmese people just have not been made to suffer enough, because Time.com is recommending this...
Burma Cyclone: Burmese Officials Selling Emergency Aid Supplies In Local Markets
freerepublic.com May 13, 2008
Burma cyclone: Burmese officials selling emergency aid supplies in local markets By Alan Brown in Yangonpauk Last Updated: 7:24PM BST 12/05/2008 Officials in Burma's cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta area are appropriating emergency aid supplies and selling them in local markets, it was claimed on...
US delegation gets cool reception over offer of help for Burma
guardian.co.uk May 13, 2008
Military team leaves empty-handed after regime refuses to give firm commitment about aid ... Cyclone survivors reach out for food aid in Rangoon. The UN said it was delivering only a fraction of the emergency rations needed. Photograph: AFP/Getty The most senior US aid...
Burma greets US aid offer coolly
guardian.co.uk May 13, 2008
American delegation leaves empty-handed after regime refuses to give firm commitment about aid ... Cyclone survivors reach out for food aid in Rangoon. The UN said it was delivering only a fraction of the emergency rations needed. Photograph: AFP/Getty The most senior US...