Comments on: This Is Criminal

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 14 May 2008 16:44:55 +0000

The “leadership” is closeted in their new capital, well away from the problems and couldn’t care less about the people who make their personal wealth possible. They buried the warnings about the approach of the storm in the back of official newspapers to avoid disrupting the vote on their pet referendum project, so people didn’t leave the low-lying areas that were hit, despite a solid 48-hour warning on the track and power of the approaching cyclone from forecasters.

The current tropical disturbance in the area appears to passing by and dumping rain, but will probably strengthen once it gets into the open water. No good guesses as to what it will do at that point, but it is passing South of Rangoon at moment and not over affected by the flooded landscape.

Amazing how they have personnel and vehicles for checkpoints, but can’t move supplies because of a lack of both. It looks like premeditated murder of thousands to me.

Even if they wanted to, because of the weather, they can’t make airdrops to those affected. It’s the same problem as China, except there are amphibious vehicles quite capable of reaching people sitting in US Navy ships off the coast of Burma right now.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:05:00 +0000

...a related story in the sidebar, "No access" to Burma cyclone zone, goes even a bit deeper in its description of how hard the Burmese government is making things on their own people by increasing roadblocks to keep foreign aid workers out and confiscating relief supplies that their own citizens are trying to distribute privately. The collective psychopathy of this military junta is breathtaking...

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:19:56 +0000

It gets better (by which I mean worse). According to Le Monde and NPR, there's a possibility that another cyclone may form within the next 24 hours and strike the Irrawaddy delta.

By: andante

andante — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:28:54 +0000

China appears to be making a superhuman effort to save their own citizens from natural disaster. The Burmese leadership is teetering on the edge of deliberate genocide.