Tragedy In Myanmar

Starvation and diseases could end up killing as many people as the storm and subsequent flooding has in Myanmar over a week ago. The International Red Cross estimated that aid has reached less that a quarter of the up to 1.9 million people left homeless, injured, or hungry. The biggest obstacle preventing aid from reaching cyclone victims is Myanmar's military government. The military government has been slow to accept aid, blocked foreign aid workers from entering the country, and has gone as far as to steal the foreign aid, hording it for themselves. We have begun lobbying for a United Nations resolution condemning the nation’s generals for human rights violations. I wonder how the members of Myanmar's government stand by and watch the suffering of their fellow countrymen. All of the donations and aid does not amount to much if we can not get it into the hands of those who need it so desperately.