Help, if you can!

Myanmar, the former Birma, is one of the most difficult places for journalists to work in. The country is totally closed up from the rest of the world and strictly controlled by a military regime. After the desastrous cyclon, which seems to have killed nearly 100, 000 people, many countries and  NGO´s offered their help. But they are not allowed to bring in food and medicine, are hindered by burocracy. Some charges have even be repacked to declare them as coming from the own goverment. Read more about the situation:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,552244,00.html

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Patricia Volonakis Davis
This is a horrible and unfathonable situation. My father-in-law who is a rice farmer once told me than more than enough food (grains, rice,etc,) is produced to feed everyone in the world but it's goverments like these that prevent the food from being distributed. So imagine- chidlren are starving ecause a mean man with a big gun is preventing them from getting help. And that's what's happening in this instance, too. WhenI lived in Greece, neighbouring Turkey had an earthquake. Politically, Turkey and Greece have always been at odds. But the first on scene to help Turkish citizens pull their loved ones out from the rubble were Greek doctors, firemean, policeman, soldiers and students. When Greece had an earthquake only one month later, the Turks returned the favour. Why can't the world behave like that always?
Snowwhite
[das ist gut]
How right you are!

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