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Likewise Gamage, best of luck in the new job!! Don't make the same mistakes twice eh!!

 

Attention Stephen Ditmore,

Maybe this will substantiate the reason I was reluctant to consider involvement...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/10/2240762.htm?section=justin

The UN World Food Program (WFP) said overnight it would resume aid flights to cyclone-struck Burma, despite the military government's seizure of deliveries at Rangoon airport.

"The World Food Program has decided to send in two relief flights as planned tomorrow, while discussions continue with the government of Myanmar [Burma] on the distribution of the food that was flown in today, and not released to WFP," Nancy Roman said, WFP communications and public policy director.

The UN food agency had previously said it would suspend aid flights over the seizure on Friday.

The shipments of 38 tonnes of high-energy biscuits, enough to feed 95,000 people, were intended to be loaded on trucks and sent to the inundated Irrawaddy delta where most of the estimated 1.5 million victims of Cyclone Nargis need food, water and shelter.

Governments around the world have been pressing Burma's ruling generals to open the country's borders to desperately needed assistance, but the military government has stated its preference through the state-run media to accept "relief in cash and kind" but not foreign aid workers.

The WFP said nearly all of the aid previously airlifted into the country on Thursday had already been delivered to the hardest hit areas.

The shipment was enough to feed 21,000 people.

The United Nations launched a $200 million appeal to help the victims of the cyclone.

UN humanitarian chief John Holmes says the priority is to help those in need as quickly as possible.

"We must help the government help the people in need as rapidly as possible," he said.

"So the flash appeal we are launching today offers a coordinated preliminary plan by the humanitarian community to complement and supplement the relief efforts of the Myanmar [Burma] government in providing assistance to the survivors."

Desperate situation

International aid workers in Burma say people outside the capital are in a desperate situation.

Seven International Red Cross aid workers including two Australians were allowed to enter the country yesterday.

A member of the group Joe Lowry says shops and roads are starting to reopen in the capital Rangoon.

But he says there is a serious lack of accommodation and clean water.

"They're living in really deplorable conditions, I saw it with my own eyes today," he said.

"People living in schools and hospitals with no electricity, no sanitation, very little shelter because the roofs are off buildings.

"Some of these large buildings with tin roofs you can see ripped open like sardine cans."

Another Rome-based UN agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), called for $10 million on Friday to assist poor farming and fishing communities hit by the cyclone.

"The hardest hit villages lost all their farming assets, as well as the food stored for the rest of the year," Anne Bauer said, director of FAO's Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division.

 

Brian,

I think Stephen clarified his request pretty well.

On the other hand, you're absolutely right about the government. Stupid, selfish, ********!! More concerned with preserving their positions and raking off their take than helping people who are dying. Not to worry about losing one's boat to them; they have no interest in hiring any, unless it were 50 -70 mtr long, with gold faucets in the Jacuzzi!

 

Yeah and maybe a gun or two on the front! Keep the peasants down - I don't think it's quite got home to them that they either don't have nor will not have very soon, any peasants!! It just is not registering!! The government of Burma is so far removed from the average peasant that they could be on a different planet!!

 

Hello Gamage,
Hope all is well with you. Good to see your interest in helping - even though I seriously doubt the capacity of anyone to do so, as the junta is still commandeering goods flown in for their own needs and they have reserves of around 5 BILLION US$ according to reports based on their sales of natural gas... and NOT putting it in treasury! How can such ******** live with themselves...