{"id":813,"date":"2008-05-09T13:44:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-05-09T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:44:37","slug":"burma-aid-getting-seized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/09\/burma-aid-getting-seized\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma: Aid Getting Seized"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is how extraordinarily foul the military junta ruling Burma is<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Asia head of the United Nations’ World Food Program said Friday that the government had seized the contents of two flights that arrived in the morning at Yangon which carried enough food for 95,000 people. They contained 38 tons of high-energy biscuits, medical kits and other items.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I suspect this will be temporary, as even a regime as repressive as this won’t be able to hold on long without some form of outside support.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And relief efforts, stymied as they are, continue:<\/p>\n

Agencies such as the Red Cross, World Vision and Doctors Without Borders already had staff inside Myanmar before the cyclone hit, but have been struggling to get permission to bring in more, AP said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And if the Bush Administration had ever had an ounce of sincerity behind its “promoting freedom and democracy” BS, the people of Burma wouldn’t be suffering like this today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is how extraordinarily foul the military junta ruling Burma is: The Asia head of the United Nations’ World Food Program said Friday that the government had seized the contents of two flights that arrived in the morning at Yangon which carried enough food for 95,000 people. They contained 38 tons of high-energy biscuits, medical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t