Myanmar disaster: Isn't this better late than never?

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NAYPYITAW Myanmar - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to open Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors.

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Ban's comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting Friday with the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, the country's most powerful figure. Myanmar's junta has until now refused to allow an influx of foreign aid and experts to reach survivors of the May 2-3 Cyclone Nargis.

The United Nations chief did not say whether Than Shwe had acceded to the most urgent request by international aid agencies — to allow their foreign experts into the hardest-hit region, the Irrawaddy delta.

However, when asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Ban told reporters: "I think so."

Myanmar's military regime has been eager to show it has the relief effort under control despite spurning the help of foreign disaster experts and has trotted out officials to give statistics-laden lectures to make the point.

At least 78,000 people were killed and another 56,000 are missing while some 2.5 million survivors are at risk from disease, starvation and exposure to monsoon rains.

"I had a very good meeting with Senior General Than Shwe and particularly on the aid workers. He has agreed to allow all the aid workers, regardless of nationality" into the country, Ban said.
 
he has finished playing his mind games with the people of Burma on this matter. You do know he has studies physiologically warfare in some military college in Britain.

Glad to see he has changed his mind but I think he would have been faster if we offered to give his wife and mistress some gift vouchers for Gucci shops in Paris.
 
better late than never? you know it's weird, shortly after the tsunami that killed I dunno, a hundred thousand or so where ever it was a couple of years ago there was a huge earthquake somewhere else that left just as many homeless right before winter was approaching, the news highly publicized the tsunami and the relief efforts of the UN, the earthquake was swept under the carpet and never really heard about again, it's the same thing all over again with this Myanmar Cyclone and the earthquake in China, imagine if a natural disaster comes along and you have the means and the resources to aid and make yourself look good, publicize it right? and then another one comes along and not only do you not have the means or the resources, you do not have the desire either, and nor does the country/nation have the want or the desire for your help either, in the end, in a disaster like this it's to little to late, immediate disaster relief is required, within less than 24 hours hundreds of thousands should be helping to save hundreds of thousand, but the truth is is if hundreds of thousands die off, it's hundreds of thousands less that you have to kill off later for their resources, anyways that's just the way I see it as policy of super power nations anyways
 
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