The Real Tragedy in Myanmar

(There is a need for more doctors to attend to the wounded)

This idiot Myanmar government is doing a great disservice to its people by continually blocking and slowing down the flow of aid. Those shenanigan military junta officials have put first their own interest rather than attending to the needs of millions of its citizens already  distressed due to lack of food and worsening illnesses. Now is day 11 after Cyclone Nargist afflicted millions of people at the Irrawaddy delta.

 Burma’s sufferings inflicted by the corrupt military is further compounded after cyclone Nargist hit the country claiming about tens and thousands of lives and rendering thousands of families homeless;  a great number of people were injured and suffering from various illnesses as an aftermath of the cyclone.

As of this writing, another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar’s cyclone-devastated delta, where victims received so little aid. The U.N. warned on Wednesday of a “second wave of deaths” among an estimated 2 million survivors.

The Hawaii-based Joint Typhoon Warning Center warned that there is a good chance that “a significant tropical cyclone” will form within the next 24 hours heading across the Irrawaddy delta area, one of Myanmar’s key rice-producing areas.

On May 3, Cyclone Nargis inundated the region that was already isolated and underdeveloped. Reports of the scale of Nargis’ destruction after a week listed some 60,000 people either killed or missing. Some fear the death toll may reach to 100,000. “Disaster experts know that the key to cutting the casualty count is a quick response:

At the rate those heartless generals in the ruling military junta are ignoring UN call, and holding up international relief efforts, about 1.5 million people of Myanmar shall be overwhelmed by shortages of food, shelter, medicines and drinkable water. This may lead to an outbreak of diseases and without immediate medical attention millions are at risk of in what they call “second wave of disaster.”

“The military junta is xenophobic and deeply paranoid.” It is afraid that entry of international relief will lessen their grip to the affected citizens. The government would rather limit the distribution of aid and limiting the numbers of foreign workers than ensuring that most victims are helped. The military junta is a disaster to the people itself.

What is even more disturbing are reports from volunteers of Irrawaddy delta that Burmese officials were appropriating emergency aid supplies and selling them in local markets. “Burmese volunteers likewise, who are operating their own aid missions, are hiding from “local apparatchiks” to avoid commandeering their supplies.”

“But we know that for every 10 sacks of rice we give them, only four will reach the people. The other six will end up being sold by that official on a market in some local town. Rice prices are very high right now and that official will then make a good profit.”

People are hungry and dying, yet these merciless Burmese officials still have the nerve to sell and make profit from foreign aids. 

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