Posts Tagged ‘ disaster ’

More shame on the Burmese junta

May 23rd, 2008 | By atsil | Category: Read the World

(The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2008
No one wants a confrontation, but the world cannot sit by while more people die in Myanmar because the junta refuses to cooperate.



Send in the latrines

May 20th, 2008 | By atsil | Category: Read the World

By Rose George (The New York Times)
SUNDAY, MAY 18, 2008
Food, shelter and clean water are what aid agencies emphasize. But human waste remains a huge threat to Burmese survivors of the recent disaster.



The Burmese generals and crimes against humanity

May 16th, 2008 | By atsil | Category: Read the World

(The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
China must use all its influence to press Myanmar ’s generals to open up to relief efforts.



Aid at the point of a gun

May 16th, 2008 | By atsil | Category: Read the World

By Robert D. Kaplan (The New York Times)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
A humanitarian invasion of Myanmar is militarily doable.



Bowring: Disasters, natural and man-made

May 16th, 2008 | By atsil | Category: Read the World

By Philip Bowring (International Herald Tribune)
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 2008
What combination of nature, chance, human activity and government competence determines the death toll in natural disasters?