U.N. Pressuring Burma/Myanmar to Allow in Aid
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In today’s New York Times:
UNITED NATIONS — With up to 1.5 million people in Myanmar now believed to be facing the threat of starvation and disease and with relief efforts still largely stymied by the country’s isolationist military rulers, frustrated United Nations officials all but demanded Thursday that the government open its doors to supplies and aid workers.
“The situation is profoundly worrying,” said the United Nations official in charge of the relief effort, John Holmes, speaking in unusually candid language for a diplomat. “They have simply not facilitated access in the way we have a right to expect.”
Read the full article here.
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May 10, 2008 at 11:10 am
Some aid is getting through and one terrific way to help is to channel donations to Burma’s own powerful grassroots network of monasteries–the most trusted institutions in the country and currently the only source of housing and support in many devastated communities.
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/
May 10, 2008 at 11:06 pm
Will there be a upcoming petition from the ONE to the Junta as to allow aid into their country?
May 12, 2008 at 9:01 am
Sucks………..