Myanmar FINALLY Agrees To Assistance

Well, Finally the Myanmar military junta is going to allow aid workers in to assist the survivors, but it should be noted that thousands may have died because of their refusal to allow aid workers in right away. So while this is a positive step, "they" deserve nothing but disdain for their attitudes and behaviors over the last two weeks.

The story at Yahoo News reads:

Myanmar's junta agreed on Friday to admit cyclone aid workers "regardless of nationalities" to the hardest-hit Irrawaddy Delta, a breakthrough for delivering help to survivors, U.N. officials said.

Western disaster experts, largely kept out of the delta and restricted to the former capital Yangon, welcomed the news but wanted more details on the deal struck by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and junta supremo Than Shwe.

"The general said he saw no reason why that should not happen ... as long as they were genuine humanitarian workers and it was clear what they were going to be doing," a U.N. official with Ban said. The U.N. chief and his aides, on a mission to help 2.4 million left destitute by the storm that struck three weeks ago, met Senior General Than Shwe for more than two hours in the remote new capital of Naypyidaw.

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