News: Burma Cyclone

[stinglikeabee]

The Times estimates the death toll at 50,000 and millions made homeless. The Telegraph has disturbing news that the Junta executed prisoners after the cyclone hit. The Guardian reports Bush has pledged $3 million to Burma, and asks the Burmese authorities to allow foreign aid in. The LA Times reports on the desperate situation within the country and for the expats trying to reach loved ones back home. The BBC has footage of the aid finally trickling into Burma.

There are fears of starvation, disease, and lack of clean drinking water affecting the survivors. Please consider making donations at this Google page towards Unicef or Direct Relief International, or any of the large British charity and aid organisations through the Disasters Emergency Committee.

Comments

[parlance.livejournal.com]

The Telegraph has disturbing news that the Junta executed prisoners after the cyclone hit.

I'm speechless.

[stinglikeabee.livejournal.com]

I can completely believe it, too. My worry is that those executed include those involved in the previous uprising. Plenty of state leaders are saying 'let us in to help, we don't care about politics' but if word of the executions spread, it's going to be tough to keep up this pretense. The French foreign minister is the only one taking a harsh stand, basically trying to get the UN to forcibly enter Burma to help.