No Aid to Generals' PocketsCongress Must Do More for Victims of Burma's Two Tragedies
Dear Friends,
The people of Burma need your help again. Thanks to you, 43 Representatives sent a letter to President Bush on Friday urging him to consider humanitarian intervention to get aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma before more lives are lost because of the callousness of Burma's military regime. We can do more, Congress can do more for both the cyclone victims and the victims of Burma's other tragedy, the regime's war on Burma's ethnic minority civilians - by increasing aid to organizations who ARE working to help bring assistance to the people of Burma. Congress is right now considering an emergency funding bill - we need you to tell them not to forgot the victims of Burma's two tragedies, the cyclone and the regime's ethnic cleansing campaign. There are organizations working to help the victims of Burma's military regime, but the needs are great and with increasing food prices in the region, organizations are struggling to provide the most basic and necessary relief for refugees fleeing the cylone and the regime's attacks. This emergency spending bill can help ensure that the U.S. is doing its part to save the lives of the people of Burma. Please send an email now.
The current situation:
The Burmese Regime's Prime Minister Thien Sein said this week: "We have already finished our first phase of emergency relief. We are going on to the second phase, the rebuilding stage". This is beyond horrifying considering the UN and aid agencies inside Burma have all stated that 75% of the cyclone victims, more than 2 million people, have yet to receive ANY emergency aid. The emergency relief 'phase' is not over. More than 2 million people are in desperate need of food, clean water, shelter and medical care. If they do not receive emergency aid in the immediate future they are at severe risk of death from starvation and disease.
The Burmese junta continues to not only neglect, but brutally restrict aid from getting to those in need. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is going to Burma himself on Thursday, but the regime will try its usual tricks to make it seem that all is normal.An agreement at an ASEAN conference of ministers on Monday was overly limited and will not be able to faciliate and ensure the massive aid delivery that needs to happen. While some aid might get in because of this agreement, it is mostly a ploy to advert international pressure.Now on Sunday, Ban Ki-moon and ASEAN will lead a conference in Rangoon, to raise funds to go towards cyclone relief. These funds cannot go directly into the pockets of the Burmese generals, they have shown for decades, and even in this tragic situation that they care nothing for the people of Burma.This donor pledging conference for reconstruction will take place the day after the regime holds their sham constitutional referendum in cyclone affected areas and the same day it is expected they will extend Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
While the regime sits on more than $4 billion in foreign exchange reserves and earns more than $150 million a month in natural gas sales, they have pledged only $4.4 million to relief efforts. The regime is hoping to turn the international community's compassion and generosity for the survivors of Cyclone and regime's cruelty into their newest cash cow.
Global Food Crisis creates Emergency Food Crisis for those fleeing attacks by the Burmese militaryFor many years, the Burmese regime has been attacking ethnic minority civilians in its ethnic cleansing campaign. Those who have fled to avoid being killed, now face a second crisis: increasing rice prices. If the U.S. does not provide emergency funding for refugees from Burma, organizations that provide them food, shelter and medicine will have to cut food rations by 50 to 75%, creating a serious humanitarian disaster affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
Learn more about Burma's Ethnic Cleansing Here
Articles:
Burma's Next Wave of Dying (Boston Globe)
Aid Still Undelivered to Neediest in Burma (UPI Asia Online)
Burma Still Short on Food and Power (Newsweek)
Support 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma. Become a member of the United States Campaign for Burma today.
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Dear Friends,
The people of Burma need your help again. Thanks to you, 43 Representatives sent a letter to President Bush on Friday urging him to consider humanitarian intervention to get aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma before more lives are lost because of the callousness of Burma's military regime. We can do more, Congress can do more for both the cyclone victims and the victims of Burma's other tragedy, the regime's war on Burma's ethnic minority civilians - by increasing aid to organizations who ARE working to help bring assistance to the people of Burma. Congress is right now considering an emergency funding bill - we need you to tell them not to forgot the victims of Burma's two tragedies, the cyclone and the regime's ethnic cleansing campaign. There are organizations working to help the victims of Burma's military regime, but the needs are great and with increasing food prices in the region, organizations are struggling to provide the most basic and necessary relief for refugees fleeing the cylone and the regime's attacks. This emergency spending bill can help ensure that the U.S. is doing its part to save the lives of the people of Burma. Please send an email now.
The current situation:
The Burmese Regime's Prime Minister Thien Sein said this week: "We have already finished our first phase of emergency relief. We are going on to the second phase, the rebuilding stage". This is beyond horrifying considering the UN and aid agencies inside Burma have all stated that 75% of the cyclone victims, more than 2 million people, have yet to receive ANY emergency aid. The emergency relief 'phase' is not over. More than 2 million people are in desperate need of food, clean water, shelter and medical care. If they do not receive emergency aid in the immediate future they are at severe risk of death from starvation and disease.
The Burmese junta continues to not only neglect, but brutally restrict aid from getting to those in need. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is going to Burma himself on Thursday, but the regime will try its usual tricks to make it seem that all is normal.An agreement at an ASEAN conference of ministers on Monday was overly limited and will not be able to faciliate and ensure the massive aid delivery that needs to happen. While some aid might get in because of this agreement, it is mostly a ploy to advert international pressure.Now on Sunday, Ban Ki-moon and ASEAN will lead a conference in Rangoon, to raise funds to go towards cyclone relief. These funds cannot go directly into the pockets of the Burmese generals, they have shown for decades, and even in this tragic situation that they care nothing for the people of Burma.This donor pledging conference for reconstruction will take place the day after the regime holds their sham constitutional referendum in cyclone affected areas and the same day it is expected they will extend Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
While the regime sits on more than $4 billion in foreign exchange reserves and earns more than $150 million a month in natural gas sales, they have pledged only $4.4 million to relief efforts. The regime is hoping to turn the international community's compassion and generosity for the survivors of Cyclone and regime's cruelty into their newest cash cow.
Global Food Crisis creates Emergency Food Crisis for those fleeing attacks by the Burmese militaryFor many years, the Burmese regime has been attacking ethnic minority civilians in its ethnic cleansing campaign. Those who have fled to avoid being killed, now face a second crisis: increasing rice prices. If the U.S. does not provide emergency funding for refugees from Burma, organizations that provide them food, shelter and medicine will have to cut food rations by 50 to 75%, creating a serious humanitarian disaster affecting hundreds of thousands of people.
Learn more about Burma's Ethnic Cleansing Here
Articles:
Burma's Next Wave of Dying (Boston Globe)
Aid Still Undelivered to Neediest in Burma (UPI Asia Online)
Burma Still Short on Food and Power (Newsweek)
Support 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma. Become a member of the United States Campaign for Burma today.
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Generals'への援助無し; ポケット
議会はBurma'の犠牲者のための多くをしなければならない;
s 2の悲劇 親愛なる友人、 ビルマの人々はあなたの助けを再度必要とする。 あなたのおかげではビルマのサイクロンNargisの犠牲者に援助を得ると人道主義の介在が考慮するように彼をせき立てる金曜日のにブッシュ大統領、43の代表より多くの生命がBurma'の冷淡さのために失われる前に手紙を送った; sの軍隊の政体。 私達は多くをしてもいい議会はBurma'のサイクロンの犠牲者そして犠牲者両方のための多くをすることができる; s他の悲劇、regime' Burma'のs戦争; sの少数民族の一般市民-ビルマの人々に援助を持って来るのを助けるために働いている組織へ援助を高めることによる…。 議会は今緊急の資金手形を考慮している-ないBurma'の犠牲者を忘れていたことを私達はそれらに言うことを必要とする; s 2の悲劇、サイクロンおよびregime' sの民族浄化のキャンペーン。 Burma'の犠牲者を助けるために働く組織がある; sの軍の政体、しかし必要性は大きく、地域の増加する食品価格とcyloneおよびregime'を逃げている避難者に基本的で、最も必要な救助を提供するために、組織は努力している; sの攻撃。 この緊急出費手形はビルマの人々の生命を救うために米国が部分をしていることの保障を助けることができる。 電子メールを今送りなさい。 現状: ビルマRegime' Thien Sein sの総理大臣はこの週を言った: " 私達は既に緊急救援の私達の序盤を終えた。 私達は第2段階、再建のstage"に続いている;。 これはこわがることを越えてあり、国連を考慮する以上2百万人、まだ緊急援助を受け取るために持ちなさいビルマの中の援助機関はすべてその75%のサイクロンの犠牲者、示した。 緊急救援' phase' 終わらなかった。 以上2百万人は食糧、クリーンウォーター、避難所および医療の絶望的な必要性にある。 即時の将来緊急援助を受け取らなければ飢餓および病気からの死の厳しい危険にある。 ビルマの会議は無視しただ続けるがから必要性のそれらへ残酷に援助を得ること制限する。 Ban Ki-moon国連事務総長は木曜日のビルマ彼自身に行っているが、政体はそれをすべてが正常であることにようである作るように通常のトリックを試みる。 月曜日の大臣のASEAN会議の一致は起こる必要がある大きい援助配達を促進し、保障限られ、できない。 援助がで一致このような理由で得るかもしれない間、それは言及する大抵遠征国際的な圧力である。 今度は日曜日に、Ban Ki-moonおよびASEANはサイクロンの救助の方に行くために資金を上げるようにラングーンの会議を、導く。 これらの資金はビルマ大将のポケットに直接入ることができない長年に渡って、そしてビルマの人々のための何も気遣わないこの悲劇的な状況で示した。 復元のためのこの供給の誓約の会議は日それらはAung San Suu Kyi 'を伸ばすことを政体がサイクロンによって影響される区域の偽りの体質性の国民投票を行った、同日期待される後行われる; sの自宅軟禁。 政体が外貨の予備の以上$4,000,000,000で置かれ、天燃ガスの販売の$150以上,000,000を得る月間、救助活動に$4.4百万だけ誓約した。 政体は国際的なcommunity'を回すことを望んでいる; サイクロンおよびregime'の生存者のためのsの同情そして寛大さ; 最も新しい安定した利益源へのsの残酷。 全体的な食糧危機はビルマの軍隊によってそれらの逃げる攻撃のための緊急の食糧危機を作成する 多くの年のために、ビルマの政体はずっと民族浄化のキャンペーンの少数民族の一般市民を攻撃している。 殺されることを避けるために逃げた人は今第2危機に直面する: 増加する米価格。 米国がビルマからの避難者に緊急の資金を提供しなければ、それらに食糧、避難所および薬を提供する組織は50から75%で食糧配給量を切らなければなり数十万人の人々に影響を与える深刻な人道主義の災害を作成する。 Burma'についての詳細を学びなさい; ここにsの民族浄化 記事: Burma' 死ぬことのsの次の波(Boston Globe) ビルマ(オンラインでUPIアジア)の最も貧乏に未配達まだ援助 ビルマはまだ食糧および力(Newsweek)でショートする サポート1991年のノーベル平和賞感受性があるAung San Suu Kyiおよび自由のための苦闘およびビルマの民主主義。 ビルマのための米国のキャンペーンのメンバーは今日なる。
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