Aid is waiting but the Generals won’t let it in to Burma.
May 9th 2008 12:05
Aid is waiting but the Generals won’t let it in to Burma.
Date: 9-5-2008
AID PLEDGES SO FAR
UK $10m
UN $10m
Japan $10m
US $3m
France $3m
Australia $2.8m
Aid is ready to pour into Burma to help with the largest crisis that the nation has ever faced. Aid workers, medical specialists, search and rescue people are all focused upon the task. However there is one major problem: The Burmese rulers are not letting them in.
A few aircraft with aide supplies have been given permission to land. A USA aid flight that was reported as having permission to land in Burma was turned back on Thursday. As part of their excuse the Burmese generals have said that they are ‘not ready’ to receive aid. Meanwhile a US Navy ship is anchored of the coast of Thailand waiting for permission to land.
Some aid has started to arrive from China, India and Bangladesh but other nations are being held back in what appears to be a result of xenophobic distrust.
Meanwhile 100,000 is the expected number of deaths from this tragedy and the number may increase if clean water, food and shelter become a more serious problem. Bodies that have been dumped into water ways and there are reports of scuffles over what little food is left. Foreign Aid Workers have on the ground in the Burma have said that they have barely reached 10 per cent of those affected. Rotting bodies and animals are said to be piled up in many places and the stench is overwhelming.
More than one million people are in the servely affected areas.
The Burmese Foreign said that is was willing to accept Aid, which it would distribute itself. Aid workers with the expertise to help are not so welcome. Nor does it seem that aid from unfavoured nations.
Date: 9-5-2008
Before and After shots of the affected area.
AID PLEDGES SO FAR
UK $10m
UN $10m
Japan $10m
US $3m
France $3m
Australia $2.8m
Aid is ready to pour into Burma to help with the largest crisis that the nation has ever faced. Aid workers, medical specialists, search and rescue people are all focused upon the task. However there is one major problem: The Burmese rulers are not letting them in.
A few aircraft with aide supplies have been given permission to land. A USA aid flight that was reported as having permission to land in Burma was turned back on Thursday. As part of their excuse the Burmese generals have said that they are ‘not ready’ to receive aid. Meanwhile a US Navy ship is anchored of the coast of Thailand waiting for permission to land.
Some aid has started to arrive from China, India and Bangladesh but other nations are being held back in what appears to be a result of xenophobic distrust.
Meanwhile 100,000 is the expected number of deaths from this tragedy and the number may increase if clean water, food and shelter become a more serious problem. Bodies that have been dumped into water ways and there are reports of scuffles over what little food is left. Foreign Aid Workers have on the ground in the Burma have said that they have barely reached 10 per cent of those affected. Rotting bodies and animals are said to be piled up in many places and the stench is overwhelming.
More than one million people are in the servely affected areas.
The Burmese Foreign said that is was willing to accept Aid, which it would distribute itself. Aid workers with the expertise to help are not so welcome. Nor does it seem that aid from unfavoured nations.
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