Burma aid situation 'improving'

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

A UK minister, who is in Rangoon to press Burma's leaders to do more for Cyclone Nargis victims, says the aid operation "is now starting to move".

Lord Malloch-Brown says that although only about 25% of victims have received the help they need, he saw UK and US aid being unloaded at Rangoon airport.

The foreign office minister's comments come as a UK charity warns thousands of children face death by starvation.

Save the Children says 30,000 acutely malnourished children are threatened.


Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7406801.stm

[uppityperson]

1. Cynical thought here

If they wait long enough without doing anything, there will be plenty of aid for those who survive.


Myanmar Regime Refuses Cyclone Aid

As cyclone refugees wait, Myanmar refuses aid
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/05/as_cyclone_refugees_wait_myanm.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3305256&mesg_id=3305256

[dipsydoodle]

2. What you say

is sad but true.

[cambie]

3. They are accepting aid from all over.

What they are rejecting is an American military occupation.
Does anyone recall that French hospital ship denied permission to help after Katrina? I doubt the the French were going to build military bases around New Orleans.