“Burma is still exporting rice even as it tries to curb the influx of international donations of food bound for the starving survivors of the cyclone that killed up to 116,000 people … The continuing rice sales looked like just another facet of the Burmese regime’s insensitivity to the suffering of its own people as it continues to block international relief to cyclone victims and pressed ahead with the constitutional referendum yesterday.”

The humanitarian crisis in Burma is desperate. However much they may need the help of the outside world, the regime continue to reject aid, condemning tens of thousands of their population to death. Observer article is here.

Posted Sunday, May 11th, 2008 @ 5:24 am
Filed in human rights, politics

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