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UN Frustrated at Burma Response

World (tags: Burma/Myanmar, Cyclone victims, UN )

Ben
- 151 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is "immensely frustrated" at Burma's slow response to the cyclone that hit the country nine days ago. Mr Ban said the aid that has been trickling into Burma could be just a 10th of what was needed.

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Ben Oscarsito (249)

Monday May 12, 2008, 9:49 am
Mr Ban said on Monday that the reaction of the regime of Burma - also known as Myanmar - to the cyclone had been "unacceptably slow".

"We are at a critical point. Unless more aid gets into the country very quickly, we face an outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's current crisis," Mr Ban said.

"I therefore call in the most strenuous terms on the government of Myanmar to put its people's lives first."

In a Mirror Darkly (47)

Monday May 12, 2008, 10:45 am
It feels like they are doing it on purpose, if ppl dies (junta didn't worn the public) then their relatives dies (Junta is not letting aid workers in, no body knows if they are really distributed to the people in need) then nobody will remain to claim the land, Government gets them all, sells it to the corrupt ppl on authority, then become multi-billioners for 7 generations.