After days of stonewalling, the Myanmar government is ready to accept aid from around the world for victims of Saturday's deadly cyclone, the country's U.N. ambassador said Friday.
Aid Shipments to Myanmar to Resume, With More Rain
foxnews.comFound 6 days, 17 hours, 31 minutes, and 18 seconds agoThe military junta agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the storm-ravaged country, and the U.N. agreed to resume flights
Global Voices Online
globalvoicesonline.orgFound 6 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes, and 20 seconds agoMyanmar: Slow relief work
UN to resume Burma food flights
news.bbc.co.ukFound 6 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes, and 49 seconds agoThe UN World Food Programme suspends aid shipments to Burma after its first delivery is impounded.
Grim fight for survival after Myanmar cyclone
afp.google.comFound 6 days, 19 hours, 42 minutes, and 18 seconds agoYANGON (AFP) - More than one million homeless in Myanmar were battling to stave off disease and hunger Thursday, but the military government maintained tight limits on foreign assistance six days after a massive cyclone. The United Nations Security Council was divided on how to respond to the emergency, ...
Burma shuns foreign aid workers
news.bbc.co.ukFound 7 days, 45 minutes, and 39 seconds agoBurma wants aid but is "not ready" for foreign experts, its foreign ministry says, as fears grow for cyclone survivors.
More aid, and rain, heads to Myanmar
msnbc.msn.comFound 6 days, 9 hours, 26 minutes, and 4 seconds agoMore aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, but so is rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis killed whole families, the military finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food. ...
UN to resume Burma aid flights
guardian.co.ukFound 6 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 36 seconds agoThe UN today said it would resume food aid flights to Burma after earlier suspending them, while the Burmese government said it would allow one US cargo plane to land. UN officials said food aid flights to Burma would restart tomorrow after they were suspended when the organisation learned that the military ...
UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
breitbart.comFound 6 days, 15 hours, 45 minutes, and 29 seconds agoWFP spokesman Paul Risley said Friday that all "the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated. He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved. YANGON, Myanmar (AP)-The United Nations blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying ...
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The UN World Food Programme suspends aid shipments to Burma after its first delivery is impounded.
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abcnews.go.com
Despite more than 1 million homeless, Myanmar allows just one U.S. shipment.
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news.bbc.co.uk
The UN urges Burma to reconsider allowing in aid teams, as a referendum goes ahead despite the emergency.
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independent.co.uk
"Nobody has been to help," said a villager, U San They, as he led the way through the ruins of homes smashed by the storm that swept the Irrawaddy delta last Saturday, killing at least 23,000 people and leaving 1. Many people have wounds that are not being attended. What is required is water, food, medicine ...
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boston.com
YANGON, Myanmar-More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar -- but so is the heavy rain. Diplomats and aid groups warned that the number of dead could eventually exceed 100,000 because of illness and said thousands of children may have been orphaned. The government, which wants full control of ...
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cnn.com
The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday.
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news.bbc.co.uk
The BBC's Paul Danahar reports on misery and the fear of disease deep in Burma's southern delta.
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washingtonpost.com
BANGKOK, May 8 -- Some U.N. aid shipments began making their way into storm-ravaged Burma on Thursday amid growing international concern about a humanitarian crisis that already has claimed upward of 100,000 lives.
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themoderatevoice.com
Look at these faces . While the rest of the world wrings its hands and waits helplessly on the sidelines , Burma's government says it will accept aid, but that it doesn't want the help of foreigners in getting it to the people. ( BBC News ) The UN is pretty sure the government's own unaided efforts won't be enough.
The UN says that up to 1.5 million people may have been affected by Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the Irrawaddy Delta region on Saturday . Burmese state media say 22,980 people were killed, but there are fears the figure could rise to 100,000.
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blog.brendanloy.com
By Brendan Loy
Will Cyclone Nargis, the catastrophic storm that ravaged Burma/Myanmar, ultimately be worse than the 2004 tsunami ? Christ almighty.
That fearful prediction comes from the Sun , so you may want to take it with a grain of salt. But it's based on an estimate of what could happen "through disease and hunger if the nation's hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta."
And blocking aid is exactly what these evil rulers are doing.
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poliblogger.com
One of the tried and true (and tragic) behaviors of hardline dictatorships is to react to internal disasters as if either they didn't happen (something that is increasingly difficult to do these days) or to downplay the need for help from the outside (if not to reject it outright). It has to do with control (of information as well as what the population might learn) as well, I suspect, with embarrassment over the state of the country. No doubt there is a healthy dose of xenophobia thrown in for good measure.
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scrambies.blogspot.com
Undescribably Horrible
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blogforbooks.com
As of the time of this post some estimates are saying that there may be at least 100,000 dead and over a million homeless. . Meanwhile the Myanmar government continues to thumb their nose at aid from the United States.
Operation Blessing, part of the ministry of The Christian Broadcasting Network, is currently having difficulty getting in to the country because of the Myanmar government.
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bloodthirstyliberal.com
Serious question: why would we expect the paranoid, cruel government of Burma to behave differently just because of a thunderstorm? A very big thunderstorm, I grant you, but still--you think a stiff gale might have changed Hitler's mind?
Pressure was mounting on cyclone-devastated Myanmar Friday to allow access to an army of foreign relief workers as the country's isolationist military regime rejected expert help in delivering aid to victims at risk of disease and starvation.
A U.N. spokesman described the bureaucratic delays as unprecedented, while Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the military junta in Myanmar has behaved "appallingly" by declining visas to relief workers.
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undispatch.com
Spencer Ackerman says it well, "The Burmese Junta does what juntas everywhere do...using the catastrophe that killed perhaps as many as 100,000 people -- a death toll too large to be comprehensible -- as a shakedown opportunity." Tragic, but true. Consider this : "Burma's ruling military junta today impounded United Nations food shipments bound for the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy Delta, and U.N. officials said they would suspend further aid to the country in response.
Two planes carrying about 76,000 pounds of high-energy biscuits landed in Rangoon today, but were forced to offload into a government-controlled warehouse, said Paul Risley, a spokesman for the U.
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belowthebeltway.com
For one thing, the military junta that controls Burma is refusing to allow foreign aid workers into the country:
BANGKOK - Myanmar is willing to receive disaster relief from the outside world but not relief workers, the country's military government said Friday, as supplies into the country were still being delayed nearly one week after a devastating cyclone and aid experts were being turned back as they arrived.
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reflectionsbykris.squarespace.com
Earier this week, the military junta of Myanmar refused American aid in the wake of the devastating cyclone to hit that country last weekend. We were ready to provide immediate assistance, as usual: The U.S. Navy has three ships as well as troops in the Gulf of Thailand, within an easy sail of Myanmar, as part of joint military exercises code-named Cobra Gold scheduled for May 8-21. Thailand, Japan, Indonesia and Singapore will also take part in the annual war games. It was shocking to me that they would do that to their populace.
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imustbedreaming.wordpress.com
The people in Burma are dying. So who will intervene?
We stood by while Saddaam Hussein used gas on his own people, then cried "horror" at the atrocities a decade later, with photospreads of mass graves in magazines as testament to "Big Bad Saddaam." No, we waited until it was again politically expedient to use that mass murder as an excuse in our reasoning for attacking Iraq after 9/11.
Not to Godwin the argument, but we waited until directly attacked to intervene in the atrocities by Nazi Germany in WWII.
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holycoast.blogspot.com
And while the world rallies to try and help the people of that devastated country, the oil-rich OPECkers who are rolling in dough thanks to $125 a barrel oil are keeping their money to themselves and won't even support world food aid programs : United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his top lieutenants on Monday are convening the first meeting of the U.N.'s Task Force on the Global Food Crisis. Ban says it will "study the root causes of the crisis," and propose solutions for "coordinated global action" at a summit of world leaders in June.
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mackers-world.com
which hit Burma a week or so ago may have killed a few hundred thousand people, which would dwarf the 2004 tsunami which hit Indonesia...comes this story that the Burmese junta has suspended and seized all foreign aid, and the UN has suspended aid to the country.
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ianwestbrook.blogspot.com
Paul Danahar for BBC News gives an eye witness account:
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whynow.dumka.us
The BBC reports that Burma 'wants aid not foreigners'
Burma wants supplies but not foreign aid workers, its foreign ministry says, hours after the UN chief urged military leaders to prioritise relief work.
Burma was "making strenuous efforts" to get aid to affected areas by itself and was not ready for foreign teams, a statement in a state daily said.
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expatteacher.blogspot.com
They decided to allow aid, but not foreign aid workers or specialists. In fact, they impounded the first flight of food that arrived today.
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smallcorner.typepad.com
There have been a few interesting things in the news today.
I have never wanted to get on a plane and take out a specific government more than I want to do so to the Myanmar government who seized the aid destined to the survivors of the cyclone, resulting in a halt to future assistance.
You better be careful when stealing someone's computer gear since apparently it can turn you in by itself .
Michelle Duggar is having child number 19 . There are so many comments I could have about that but she is just so darn sweet that all I'll say is better her than me.
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torydrroy.blogspot.com
There is great suffering in Burma after the cyclone. The world has tried to help. The government of Burma did something so despicable it turns my stomach. They seize the aid and say they will distribute it themselves. No one trusts these corrupt generals. It is certain most of the supllies will be stolen and sold on the black market. Aung San Suu Kyi should be released and allowed to take her rightful place as leader of this troubled land. She actually cares about the Burmese people. The contemptible generals should one day be tried for their crimes against their people.
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bangkokpundit.blogspot.com
The main reason for the Burmese government's concern is the upcoming referendum as the BBC notes :
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chinamatters.blogspot.com
And that leads to scenes like this :
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rezwanul.blogspot.com
"For the time being, we have no choice but to end further efforts to bring critical needed food aid into Myanmar at this time," he said. It seems they want to take the credit instead : Myanmar's government acknowledged taking control of the shipments and said it plans to distribute the aid itself to the affected areas.
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anonymousopinion.com
There is an organization out there that believes that world hunger would end if the U.S. would just give 1% of the budget to defeating it.
I wish it were so, but with nations like Burma/Myanmar where the government is more interested in staying in power and escaping the influence of "outsiders" than keeping their people alive, the outlook is grim. How can the U.S. singlehandedly feed the world if there is no accountability of the governments that might disperse the food and the largest umbrella organization has proven itself the most corrupt of all with the history of the oil for food scandal.
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survivalblog.com
UN
halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies .
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I found an insightful article by Devvy Kidd linked over at the Bull
(Not Bull) blog site: Do
You Have a Plan?
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A reader in Iraq mentioned that US Marine Corps soldiers in fairly significant
numbers are bending their field uniform regulations. They are wearing desert
tan Nomex flight
suits instead of their desert pattern utility uniforms. The reason? Worries
about flash burns from IED s.
There have been some reports of their standard utility uniforms burning and
causing some severe burns with complications.
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ultrabrown.com
Burma is disappearing, like Atlantis; sinking under the weight of bloated corpses and greedy governments. We can thank the inimitable junta and Cyclone Nargis (which macabre twit named a cyclone after a flower?) for giving the country the mystique of Greek myths and making sure it doesn't last into 2009. One million people are believed to be homeless in Rangoon. The death toll is feared to be more than 100, 000 in the Irawaddy delta alone. Hope does not float in south Burma but dead bodies do. Putrid water, disease, food shortage, homelessness - Dante might consider a rewrite of the Inferno if he read the news reports.
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bpbites.blogspot.com
The Burmese junta has confiscated the first batch of relief supplies flown in from abroad for the country's cyclone-devastated communities, so that they could "distribute it themselves". This sudden outpouring of charity from the West must have been a gross affront to the generals' nanoscopic view of a world that is supposed to be hostile to their rule. Those old fogeys really hate to be wrong.
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mongpalatino.motime.com
I have written three weblog posts on the cyclone disaster in Myanmar: The perfect storm , Unprecedented cyclone disaster , and Slow relief work . Reuters and the New York Times uploaded the articles in their websites. Oh by the way, join the discussion in the Yehey! Message Boards .
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benedictionblogson.com
Times London reporter - I stopped counting the bodies
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marklawrence.blogspot.com
I found Rule of Lords via web correspondent Mong Palatino , who is blogging on the disaster at
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drumsnwhistles.com
Despite the best efforts of the government of Burma to suppress the truth about the devastation, some news is getting out, and it's grim:
The Associated Press: Man loses 28 relatives in Myanmar village hit by cyclone
Initially, Myanmar authorities had feared that 10,000 people had perished in the Bogalay area, which Myanmar's meteorological department said was in the path of the cyclone's eye. In recent days, however, officials have given no breakdowns of the toll, saying only that at least 62,000 are dead or missing nationwide.
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daffodillane.com
Very sad .
Not surprising .
I hate to hear this .
Burma losing the protection of mangrove forests as they are cut down or destroyed.
Nano hot rods ?
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framed.typepad.com
Natural disasters are no one's fault (except insofar as they may be exacerbated by global climate change). Some governments don't do a very good job of preparing for them or providing relief afterwards. Hurricane Katrina, anyone? But even the Bush administration's incompetence and callousness pales in comparison with the out-and-out evil of the Burmese junta: The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to distribute aid that was flown in for cyclone disaster victims.
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palousitics.blogspot.com
These before and after photos show just how devastating was the hurricane that hit Myanmar.
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southpawjones.net
LINK
"Been a while since I used the word 'swallered'
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moviepastor.typepad.com
A blind guy bowls 300. I have 20/20 vision (with my glasses) and cant break 200!
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news.ippimail.com
Burma wants aid but is "not ready" for foreign experts, its foreign ministry says, as fears grow for cyclone survivors.
Read the full article (BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition)
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demandmore.org
I write this in a world where exploding gas prices, growing shortages in food, and rising casualties from natural disasters threaten to make conditions on this planet increasingly difficult and harsh. It is so easy to look at all these things taking place in the world today -- economic turmoil, political apathy, militarism, growing social unrest, climate change and resource depletion -- and conclude that nothing can be done.
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beyondwordsworth.com
When I heard about the cyclone that hit Myanmar (Burma) and killed multiple thousands of people, the news dealt a severe blow to my already shaky faith this week. My previous post about doubt as a spiritual discipline is the sanitized version of how hard it hit me. You see, I'm in the midst of some suffering in my extended family that makes no sense.
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neilwestbrook.wordpress.com
Will you join me in praying for. . .
1. My friend Margi Jones who had breast cancer surgery today.
2. The people and government of Mayanmar .
3. Pastors all around the world.
4. Children in your community.
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steeno.wordpress.com
Confounding the problem the ruling government in Burma has not only not allowed foreign relief agencies in to the country to help those affected by this natural disaster but now they have seized the international aid that has currently come in .
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jezebel.com
Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah ; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links and, frankly, I'm just a little sick of talking about the primaries. So the Windy's Attackerman and I, in all my morning Glamocratic splendor , take on things we probably should've ignored, like the primaries, Russian goosestepping, Spencer's favorite strip club in all of Canada and Arianna Huffington's secrets about John McCain.
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bohemianboos.wordpress.com
While the people plead for food, the junta is handing out TV sets.
Ok, as if they hadn't done enough by failing to warn their citizens in time about the approach of a killer cyclone, crazy enough to be reluctant to allow international relief, demanding and then delaying the approval of visas, now they decide its the best time to urge their people to vote for a army-drafted constitution. Oh yes death toll is rising, people are clinging to survival, everyone around the world is slamming us, let's just put that all aside, lets vote and celebrate first.
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fredtopeka.wordpress.com
it says that it will accept aid, but will not allow relief workers in to distribute the aid, even though it's obvious that they don't have the resources to do this quickly or efficiently
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timeinmoments.wordpress.com
The government of Myanmar said that they indeed take over the shipment but that it plans to distribute the aid to the affected areas itself but says that U.N.'s comments on the action are baseless.
In a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press, government spokesman Ye Htut said the junta had clearly stated what it would do and denied the action amounted to a seizure.
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cosmodaddy.wordpress.com
It's been a disaster to rival the scale domestically of the tsunami. There are up to 100,000 dead in Burma, following Cyclone Nargis, maybe more. Yet the Burmese junta has decided to impound UN food aid and ban foreign aid workers .
Despite the disaster, the junta said it was pressing ahead with a vote on a new constitution designed to maintain its grip on power. All but the worst affected regions will be balloted tomorrow.
In a television message, citizens were urged to do their patriotic duty and vote.
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terrapene.vox.com
I admit, I know next to nothing about the political situation in Myanmar. Or even why some people call it Burma. I couldn't point it out on a map. But clearly that all needs to change because I need to figure out why the government has been so difficult about getting aid to the hurricane victims, culminating in it seizing a shipment from the UN and effectively ending the UN assistance.
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