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Natural Disaster Tue May 13, 2008 12:46 pm  Natural Disaster		  
There are two massive natural disasters happened this lately.

A serious cyclone hit Burma weeks ago, it was estimated 60000 person lost their life. According to media, the Burma's dictator restricted the visa to the aid workers. The UN suspected that only 20% of daily needed food is being distributed. I am just wondering that this is the reality? Are there any reasons the Burma's dictator risked 1.5 million lives? If that is right. that policy is really antithesis of altruism.

In china, it the death toll has reached 12000. I really feel sorry for that. But what else can we do, it all out of our control. I am just able to help through financial donation and pray.
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Natural Disaster Thu May 15, 2008 1:31 am  Natural Disaster		  
BelajarEnglish wrote:
I am just wondering that this is the reality? Are there any reasons the Burma's dictator risked 1.5 million lives? If that is right. that policy is really antithesis of altruism.

Sometimes dictators exploit natural disasters to make sure that people in supportive parts of the country get food and assistance, and that people who aren't likely to support them will die.

In the 1980s, a big charity event called Live Aid was staged to collect money around the world for famine relief in Ethiopia. The cash was collected, and food was bought and shipped, but it rotted on the docks in Ethiopia, because the government refused to allow it to be distributed. What hadn't occurred to most people in the West was that the famine was being used intentionally to depopulate areas where the opposition was strong.

Sometimes those famines are engineered deliberately by government policy, as when Stalin starved 10 million people in Ukraine for refusing to collectivize their farms.

I don't know what the generals in Burma have in mind, but there's obviously some method to their madness. It's very tragic, however. We're going to be reading a lot of horrifying memoirs when that regime falls.
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Natural Disaster Thu May 15, 2008 15:33 pm  Natural Disaster		  
Thank Jamie(K). It started to make sense now.
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