One United Nations official said he had never seen delays like this before in delivering relief supplies and aid officials. In Indonesia after the tsunami in 2004, he said, an air bridge of daily flights was established within 48 hours.
“The frustration caused by what appears to be a paperwork delay is unprecedented in modern humanitarian relief efforts,” said Mr. Risley. “It’s astonishing.”
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I'm glad you guys got out of there before this mess started...
S. A.
The militarist in me says we should just go in there, ignoring the Junta. Their regime is lacks legitimacy and is probably illegal, anyway. It's not as though the Junta's denial of aid to their people should be accepted as if it arose through the consent of those same people.
James, I agree completely with your sentiments. In fact the opposition party of Aung San Sau Kyi (the National Democratic Party) won the national election 1190 election with 92 % of the vote, despite Aung San having been placed under house arrest the year before.
This situation seems the perfect case study for intervention based on the classic "Just and Unjust Wars," by political philosopher, Michael Walzer. In fact I hadn't thought much about his theories since college when I first studied his works. But the Burmese situation starkly called his arguments up out of the deep recesses of memory....
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