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| Imagine you’ve been stranded at sea in a rather large lifeboat for weeks with a hundred survivors of a shipwreck, including two ex-convicts, who have taken over through intimidation and force. Supplies are running out and a few people are already nearly dead of dehydration.
Luckily, a naval vessel happens to pass by, and the crew lowers rescue boats to bring you and the other survivors aboard. But your “leaders” refuse to allow anyone to leave, proclaiming that nobody on the lifeboat needs help from these devious interlopers, who are clearly up to no good.
Realizing you will all die if these two have their way, the captain and the ship’s marines board the lifeboat and kill your “leaders” when they attempt to resist and save the other passengers.
Is the behavior of these hypothetical mini-tyrants far-fetched? Hardly. The SPDC, short for the Orwellian-sounding State Peace and Development Council, the self-appointed military dictatorship of Burma, is behaving exactly the same way by choking the flow of international aid in the wake of Cyclone Nargis.
The deaths occurring during the cyclone were the result of nature. However, blame for the casualties occurring in the wake of the disaster from inadequate supply and disease epidemics rests squarely on the SPDC and its obstructionism. Thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of people will die needlessly between the time I send this column to my editor and the time it goes to ... |
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