1 hour, 40 minutes ago YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's ruling junta lashed out Thursday at aid donors who promised millions of dollars for cyclone relief, saying survivors didn't need "bars of chocolate." State-run media criticized donors for only pledging up to $150 million — a far cry from the $11 billion the junta said it needed to rebuild. The Myanma Ahlin newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said cyclone victims from the hardest-hit areas could get by without foreign handouts. "People from the Irrawaddy delta can survive on their own, even without bars of chocolate donated by the international community," it said, adding they can live on "fresh vegetables that grow wild in the fields and on protein-rich fish from the rivers." The reference to chocolate bars appeared to be metaphorical. No aid agency is known to be distributing them, and they would not be practical in the country's tropical heat. Paul Risley of the U.N.'s World Food Program, which is directing the effort for emergency food supplies, said his agency provides rice, ready-to-eat meals of rice and beans and high-energy biscuits. The newspaper commentary also slammed an unnamed monetary institution, saying its refusal to help cyclone survivors was "an act of inhumanity." World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub said last week that the bank will not extend any financial aid or loans to Myanmar because it has not paid its debts for a decade. The article said the same countries that criticized Myanmar for not opening its door to aid workers were being stingy with relief aid. It appeared to single out the United States without naming it. "There is one big nation that extended economic sanctions on Myanmar even before it was known that a powerful cyclone was going to strike Myanmar," it said. The United Nations, World Health Organization, and Red Cross provided these nimrodski's (Myanmar's Junta or military dictatorship) with foreign aid. Food, water, medical supplies, shelter you name it. The Junta didn't want foreign aid workers on their soil because of some propaganda BS. Mean while, hundreds to thousands of people are dying because the Junta is playing politics with the rest of the world. At first they refused outside help. Then when it was almost too late, they welcomed foreign aid help. Now they're trying to shift blame to the United States and other countries in saying that "The foreign countries aren't doing enough." Idiots! Myanmar's Junta should be tried for Crimes Against Humanity period!
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How much did Myanmar donate to Katrina victims ?
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They should be grateful for anything we give. We owe them nothing. We owe other countries big time because we have to borrow everything we do give. We are over budgeted big time. I would wish that we would pay our bills before we give one US cent to anyone.
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They are right to mistrust the US because the US has very recently in fact been manipulating their internal politics. Actually, the neocons are the ones who are slanting the media against them. Since the US never gives money without strings attached, Burma is probably correct not to accept it. They need money for rebuilding, not food donations. There might also be another reason for the neocon hostitility to Burma, an oil deal without US involvement: China's state media says the country has approved the construction of an oil pipeline to Burma. http://www.voanews.com/burmese/archive/2006-04/2006-04-17-voa5.cfm
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They are a stupid country who deserve nothing. It's their own fault for forcing their people to live under harsh conditions. They isolate themselves, but when they need help they diss other countries. Myanmar aka Burma citizens need to over thrown the Juncta and liberate their country from the military dictators that run it.. I feel bad for the people, but theri Government can go to Hell.. It's sad that all the donations are only benfiting their satanic Government, I wish their citizens were getting more help. My condolences to all the Burmease people who have lost everything in the flood
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Apparantly their Junta is keeping up with the trend of hating the playaz - it's so Sex and The City of them.
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To mount the kind of large-scale aid project that would have addressed the exact needs of so many people and their ruined infrastructure would be impossible on the kind of short-term notice of a disaster like this. There is nothing that anyone anywhere could have done to provide adequate assistance. When Western countries and NGO's tried to help, the military prevented them, and now they want to pass the blame on to someone else, when in fact it's a combination of the fault of the government and nobody at all. I think they're worried about insurrection. With the infrastructure destroyed like that, it will be impossible for them to maintain control of the country if the population decides to rebel.
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