Burma Death Toll Set to Reach 100000
May 7th 2008 23:48
Burma Death Toll Set to Reach 100000
Date: 8/5/2008
A US diplomat living in Burma has estimated that the death toll from the cyclone that hit Burma just a few days ago could reach over 100,000. In what seems to be echoes of the 2004 Tsunami figure for the dead are doubling each day with no sign of stopping. Conservative estimates put the figure at 60,000 so far from an area where over 90,000 people lived in low lying villages. With the lack of water and food the death count may escalate if not multiply from disease and hunger. One foreign News Report showed video of people dumping dozens of bodies into rivers.
The disaster is being made worse by the inability to get enough foreign aid into the nation. Tim Costello head of World Vision was interviewed on ABC Radio Nation this morning. He revealed that they have container loads of relief goods ready to fly in from a warehouse in the Middle East but there is a hold up in getting permission to enter Burma. Other NGO and relief agencies are in a similar boat where the Burmese Military Regime appears to be delaying many for what looks like political reasons. In the meantime thousands are dying.
The referendum for a new constitution for Burma is still scheduled to go ahead despite the scale of this disaster and the fact that much of the nation is at a standstill.
This movie clip gives an idea of the double disaster that may be looming for Burma as the secretive Junta in Burma treats NGO's and Aid with suspicion.
Date: 8/5/2008
People looking for help.
A US diplomat living in Burma has estimated that the death toll from the cyclone that hit Burma just a few days ago could reach over 100,000. In what seems to be echoes of the 2004 Tsunami figure for the dead are doubling each day with no sign of stopping. Conservative estimates put the figure at 60,000 so far from an area where over 90,000 people lived in low lying villages. With the lack of water and food the death count may escalate if not multiply from disease and hunger. One foreign News Report showed video of people dumping dozens of bodies into rivers.
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The disaster is being made worse by the inability to get enough foreign aid into the nation. Tim Costello head of World Vision was interviewed on ABC Radio Nation this morning. He revealed that they have container loads of relief goods ready to fly in from a warehouse in the Middle East but there is a hold up in getting permission to enter Burma. Other NGO and relief agencies are in a similar boat where the Burmese Military Regime appears to be delaying many for what looks like political reasons. In the meantime thousands are dying.
The referendum for a new constitution for Burma is still scheduled to go ahead despite the scale of this disaster and the fact that much of the nation is at a standstill.
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This movie clip gives an idea of the double disaster that may be looming for Burma as the secretive Junta in Burma treats NGO's and Aid with suspicion.
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Comment by Harry
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You can see why invading a country to get rid of a bad government is so tempting.
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Echoes of Ache with one difference. No indication that the government gives a stuff.
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Temptation may be there, but as long as we resist this disaster won't become an absolute bloodbath. I don't think that we really need another Iraq invasion, particularly into a nation that borders with China.
But I am hoping that those paranoid generals open the borders before it is too late.
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Oh how the fire rages within for those soulless ghouls.
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I have to confess to temptation of doing the same my self.
Latest information is that the the generals are using the army to run a referendum rather than distribute aid.
There are also reports that the news is being edited to ensure that Buddhist monks helping people are not being shown on television.
The sad thing is that it reminds me of the Tsunami of 2004 where 30,000 were lost on Sri Lanka and 150,000 in Ache in Indonesia. In both cases people put war differences aside to deal with a much greater problem of survival. Here it seems to be little more that a PR problem for the generals.
Does the term 'a special place in hell' sound adequate.
I do hope to read more about what you know of the place in future posts.