The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after two plane-loads of food were impounded on arrival by the military authorities.
How incredible is this.
Here's something to know about the country-Several human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science have reported on human rights abuses by the military government. They have claimed that there is no independent judiciary in Burma. The military government restricts Internet access through software-based censorship that limits the material citizens can access on-line. Forced labor, human trafficking, and child labor are common.
Basically the country is run by a rogue military regime. So corrupt as to not allow their citizens some of the most fundamental of human rights. All the food that has been sent as of 5/9/2008 is sitting in a warehouse rotting as the Burmese (Myanmar) people starve and freeze to death. The military is hesitant to allow anyone in their backyard, hence the resistance to allow any foreigners in.
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