The military junta of Myanmar has once again proven it has no place in the modern world, this time by seizing food and medical aid shipments destined for tropical cyclone victims.
Authorities in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar have seized United Nations aid intended for victims of the disaster, a move that "shuts down" future flights from the organization, according to a U.N. World Food Program official.
The organization, which insists on distributing its own relief supplies, said the seizure of two aircraft-loads of food, medcine and equipment, has already hit out at Myanmar's refusal to all access to foreign eis workers.
"This is another example of them actively getting in the way of relief getting to the victims," said Tony Banbury, Asia director of the World Food Program.
Unfortunately, the world community is doing very little about the situation. Government's are willing to send money, food, and medicine, but so far not one single government has said they are willing to make sure it reaches the people who need it. While the Burmese people are dying, leaders are asking China to put pressure on the military leadership. As we know from past experience, this will accomplish absolutely nothing.
In my own opinion, this puts the deaths of tens of thousands of people not just on the shoulders of the military junta, but of the rest of the world's political leaders who refuse to do anything more than talk about it.
