Comments on: Myanmar: Slow relief work

By: Global Voices Online » Southeast Asia: Newsmakers of 2008

Global Voices Online » Southeast Asia: Newsmakers of 2008 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:38:26 +0000

[...] Myanmar is still suffering as cyclone refugees continue to suffer from hunger and illnesses. The junta’s incompetence was another disaster which worsened the situation. The government relief work too slow and [...]

By: Global Voices Online » Myanmar: Aid still needed

Global Voices Online » Myanmar: Aid still needed — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:56:52 +0000

[...] ruling junta of Myanmar was initially criticized for the slow relief work and for refusing the entry of international relief groups. Thanks to international pressure, the [...]

By: Jonathan Bruce Muwanguzi

Jonathan Bruce Muwanguzi — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:50:56 +0000

HULLO

Life in developing world is totally different from that in developed
world mostly in addressing afflicting points in one of the nations

community.
The 10 years experience in caring for the orphans in a developing
world, I have gone through a lot of tests /struggles without a funding
person except the only 30 acres of land that has been the main and only
funding source sustaining these kids who are beyond 150 in number.
We use to plant maize, cassava, rice, sweet potato, yams, beans and
groundnuts.
We sell part and survive on the balance as the sold part is for books,
simple clothing and beddings for the kids,(that’s the life of Ugandan
child).
Many disasters have befallen on us while the government has done very
little to address them to the maximum which among others include, wars,
floods, and the
total poverty on the increasing number of community
orphan child caused by different disasters.
Orphans in the villages of the developing world can make everyone to
shed tears including the administration that’s why in Africa many fathers
do a lot evil accts to the people they take care of (i.e. sacrificing

e.t.c)
GEnerally it needs to develop everything GOD blessed us with like land,garden and others to make us tsand for the future and be helpfull to the whole world and ensure that the big and free land which developing world have in plenty, fully provides both funds and
foods for survival.
And as my topic is, the developing world orphans are internationally
forgotten with no one caring and for the few who cares they want to put
us together at the same level
with this who is in developed world. The
center reached to 210 children/ orphaned people who have joined this
year and we have to maneuver to ensure that they’re not kicked out to
street life. Due to the problems and difficulty in caring for the orphan
child that includes a lot emphasis in many areas OF LIVING. For us we think the
only investment in our OWN
firm which may yield a lot in both food for survival and funds for other necessities but still.
We are
looking for solution / advise to enable us achieve our laid strategies of
caring for orphans since the situation at the center
needs attention and as Uganda position in development needs total
effort to sustain such centers.
Can you advise Banunule orphanage administrati“1`on oh the way of taking
the orphans a step further? And what is your advice?
Thanks
Jonathan Bruce Muwanguzi
Center Administrator

By: Darwin

Darwin — Sun, 18 May 2008 04:46:49 +0000

Cho, unfortunitly, you are probably like me, as in all we can do is feel sad about that situation and donate to relief organizations. The country is rich in natural resources, but, is exploited by its ruling generals. Its no wonder that it is considered the most corrupt nation on the world.

By: Cho

Cho — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:45:19 +0000

Topple the inhumane, brutal barbaric regime of Thanshwe from Burmese soil. Why the world body does not use it’s power to smash this disgust regime?? who are committing and genocide to 55 million peoples ?? Worser than Polpot, Rwanda, Liberia, Iran and Saddam.
Millions are dying of Nagris aftermath diseases, starvation, lack of shelters, lack of medical cares, all the negligence of evil barbaric junta.

thanshwe go to hell>>>>>>>>>>>>>

By: Darwin

Darwin — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:38:04 +0000

I can care less of the US vrs Myanmar spin, but, there is very little news of anything else coming out the country.
(Within a day of the events, the chinese earthquake already has detailed wikipedia article, whereas its 11days after the cyclone)

Did the government ignore the advance warning of the strength 3/4 cyclone heading to the coast?

What about aid from neighboring countries?

By: Chris Eliopoulos

Chris Eliopoulos — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:15:31 +0000

Throw the bustards out.
All these “generals” are CRIMINALS short sided mentally ill people that oppress the lives of some many.
They belong in a mental hospital not in running a country.

Here is the BIG question
What is wrong with the people of Myanmar?
Why they don’t throw these criminals out?(I do not want to hear the we have no guns poem)

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 10 May 2008 14:57:42 +0000

This is a time for humanity to rise to the aid of fellow humans who have been ravaged by a natural disaster.
We need to flood Myanmar with relief and ignore the wishes of the ruling junta, which can be eliminated by this disaster – possibly the ‘real’ reason it occured. They need to be ignored and steam rolled over as the needy are cared for – not the fears of the incompetent rulers who have shown they cannot cope in the face of a real disaster.
They are actually placing general’s names on the care packages to get credit for providing these items – that is strong evidence of their fear and true motivation in their limited distribution while the real supplies await their blessing to be released to the true needy. This is a time to address the real issue of the disaster in human terms, a perspective the Myanmar rulers do not have. We will deal with them later after the crisis is over.

By: Rose Young

Rose Young — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:12:04 +0000

Myanmar Thu, your aunt has my prayers. God bless those poor people, they are truly at the hands of dictatorship.

By: Myanmar Thu

Myanmar Thu — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:33:40 +0000

I have family members living in various parts of Myanmar including the capital city Rangoon and Loi Kaw. I wasn’t able to contact my family members in Rangoon since the phone lines there are down but luckily I was able to contact the ones in Loi Kaw. My aunt told me the military is in Loi Kaw today and they are demanding people to vote. Only after the voting the military hands out food, water and other necessary supplies. Myanmar Junta is starving it’s own people in order to make the people vote in their favor. This is the reason Myanmar Military has been delaying to aid the victims of Cyclone Nagris. “Unless the victims of Cyclone Nagris vote for the juntas, they will not receive any aid from them.”

By: Rose Young

Rose Young — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:25:58 +0000

To David: we had aid going to Myanmar, but as has been stated, the military commanders there have seized any aid that we have managed to get in country.

By: Gabriella Kadar

Gabriella Kadar — Sat, 10 May 2008 00:26:41 +0000

This was not actually a ‘natural’ natural disaster. There’s information about how the ecosystems of the coastal region have been damaged such that absorption of impact from severe weather situations no longer occurs. It’s somewhat along the same lines as New Orleans and the Mississippi delta destruction.

As to the ‘junta’ not being receptive to foreign assistance, I suppose we need to bear in mind the recent protests by the Buddhist monks. The government is acutely aware of the dissatisfaction of the general populace. Given the usual paranoia of this type of government, it’s not beyond imagining that there is serious concern that ‘aid workers’ would actually be political subversives.

Even paranoids have enemies.

By: martin gregory

martin gregory — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:35:08 +0000

this wicked regime is not interested in helping its people.it is using this diasaster to further their stranglehold on its people.to them ,more dead people the better,less people power to worry about in future.someone should send a rocket to each of the generals.they must feel what it is like to live like the people they bully.it is time for Suu Kyi to take over and save lives.the longer we drag our feet on this the more dead Burmese there will be.and we are to be blamed for playing into the hands of this wicked regime.what was done to Milosovic and company should also be done to these tyrants.so what are we waiting for?more dead Burmese?

By: G

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:14:14 +0000

Please! This coverage is so one sided. Obviously the closed off micro-dictatorship in myanmar is terrified of being invaded! It is just the sort of thought that will pass through a paranoid dictators mind. They invaded Iraq, what will stop the mighty US military from invading our little country.
Ofcourse the US is not going to invade them. That’s not how it works. But they don’t believe that.

By: BW022

BW022 — Fri, 09 May 2008 16:45:07 +0000

David, there is a big difference between the US and Myanmar governments… the Myanmar governments wants it people to die. It is a military dictatorship. It is at odds with many of its rural folks which it can’t control militarily. It wasn’t them weakened. It wants to hold food over their heads in order to keep them in line. It is worried that if it has to put large numbers of troops out there, folks might over throw them.

This is the same in dozens of African, Asian, South/Central American, and Middle-Eastern nations throughout the past century. Food is a weapon to these people, as is clean drinking water, access to schools, medical care, etc. Such things are cheaper weapons than having to put troops in every village. Accept our rule or… you get none of these. Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, North Korea, etc. all used aid to either “punish” opposition groups – be it religious, ethnic, or cultural.

The US didn’t accept aid because it was confused. It certainly accepted aid once it had some idea what it needed. It didn’t refuse aid because it was figuring out say how to kill off as many its opponents, to surpress ethnic/religion/cultural groups, to use aid as a bribe to support the government, or to line their own pockets. Myanmar isn’t holding back aid because it is confused. It’s government knows exactly what it is doing.