Children Starve as Aid Is Blocked

Children Starve as Aid Is Blocked


“We haven’t eaten rice for the past few days,” Dowla Shwe says, sitting forlornly by the roadside in southern Burma, begging for food from every passer-by.


Since Cyclone Nargis struck last week, her five children have had only bananas and coconut.

“We have nothing,” she says, nodding towards her starving children. “They are getting weak, and I fear they will fall sick and die.”

She has heard the reports of how her leaders - military generals who run one of the most controlled and isolated nations on the planet - will not let in foreign aid workers to help distribute food.

“I am angry with the Government,” Dowla Shwe says. “If they can’t help, why not allow foreigners to come and help us?”

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/11/8873/

Even though it makes me ill to read it.

Why are my taxes spent on ways to kill children instead of save them?

So very sad.

nominate the government of Burma.

I wish this story was not even there for you or anyone else to post, babylonsister, but the responsible thing to do was exactly what you did -- to post it and put it out there for the consideration of the world community.