Myanmar Government Remains Intransigent

Everyday I keep hoping something will happen and we will be able to assist the Myanmar cyclone victims, and each day that hope is dashed when I read the news. When will we take a stand and work with the world to recitfy the situation there. The story this morning at Yahoo News is of another rebuff of United Nations assistance by the Myanmar thugs-in-power, with the slightest hint that they may relent with continued pressure.

A senior U.N. envoy went to Myanmar Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, as a British minister suggested the isolationist regime may be relenting.


John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu at the start of a three-day trip that will include a tour of the Irrawaddy delta, the area most severely hit by Cyclone Nargis on May 2-3.Holmes also will meet with high government leaders, said Daniel Baker, a senior U.N. official.

He did not elaborate but other officials have said Holmes' mission is to assess the needs of survivors and urge the isolationist junta to open its doors to more international aid before people begin dying from starvation and diseases.

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