It is now 11 days since the cyclone hit and nations are still talking and waiting for the Burmese regime to allow aid into the country and reach the most vulnerable population. While the waiting happens, 220,000 people are still missing and aid agencies report that 1.5 to 2 million people are likely to die from disease and starvation if aid does not get in immediately.
The Burmese regime is cutting off the Irrawaddy Delta and not allowing aid agencies to distribute supplies. It is extremely troubling that, according to a World Food Program spokesperson, the trickle of international aid allowed to enter the country and reach the most vulnerable population amounts to less than 20% of the aid needed to stave off death from starvation and disease for more than 1.5 million people.
Reliable reports also confirm regime officials have been both selling international aid supplies in local markets and keeping the high-quality international food aid for themselves while dolling out low quality and, in certain cases, ROTTEN FOOD to survivors of the cyclone. International aid agencies operating in Burma warn that only 10% of the logistical staff needed to cope with the millions struggling to survive had arrived in the country 10 days after Cyclone Nargis struck.
Food, shelter, water, and aid workers to help distribute aid are BLOCKED from getting into Burma. The Burmese people are literally being MURDERED - KILLED OFF of the face of this earth by the Milatary Dictatorship Regime that has already OPPRESSED them for decades! The time for waiting is OVER.
WE ARE THE LIGHT that MUST DISPEL THIS HORRIFIC DARKNESS!
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