No Time for Myanmar!

Cross posted at Monkey in the Middle

From UN Watch:

The UN Human Rights Council (now that's an oxymoron) will convene on May 23, 2008 for an emergency “special session” to address rising food prices. Several EU states also added their names to the Cuban request.

And the current crises in food shortages and the rising price of food is a grave concern not just for Cuba, but all nations.

The world food crisis is certainly an urgent issue, but few expect this meeting to achieve anything other than provide a platform for attacks against the West and free markets.

Again Cuba will find an open forum to spew its hatred at the United States and the West. For in their eyes (and the eyes of many Third World nations) we are the enemy. The sole nation that keeps them repressed and underachieving. If only the US would give them a handout, a free pass, everything handed on a silver platter, then all would be right with their nations.

When the question to the United Nations (aka Tower of Babel) was asked to put Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) on the agenda this Tower of Babel replied:

Rupert Colville of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, responding to a question on the fact that it was strange that the Human Rights Council would be holding a Special Session on the global food crisis, but not on the current situation in Myanmar, said he did not speak for the Council, but the Special Session on the right to food was taking place because there had not been much in the way of thematic special sessions on big issues, and the right to food was a very big issue. There had been discussion to some extent on the possibility of talking about Myanmar, but the Council had a very full programme, including the Universal Periodic Review, so it was a pretty packed schedule at the moment and it would be difficult to fit it in.

To full to put in the possible deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. But the fact that food prices are rising and the Muslims are starting to riot about it, is on the agenda. Maybe if Cuba or Egypt had asked about Myanmar they might be on the agenda. Or if the people of Myanmar were Muslim they would be on the agenda. But the poor people of Myanmar are Buddhists and not likely to be on anyone's agenda in the near future.

But nice Jennifer Pagonis of the UN Refugee Agency said High Commissioner Antonio Guterres will leave for Yemen on Wednesday, 14 May for a five-day visit which will include a first-hand look at UNHCR’s efforts there on behalf of refugees and internally displaced people and the opening of a regional conference on refugee protection and migration in the Gulf of Aden which will be held on 19 and 20 May. Prior to the conference, Mr. Guterres is scheduled to visit UNCHR’s offices in Sana’a and Aden, as well as the Kharaz refugee camp.

But not to the refugees that are dying in Myanmar. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Myanmar this week and visit the areas hardest hit by Cyclone Nargis, a U.N. spokeswoman said Sunday. He will go and look at the dead and dying, shake his head and then condemn the US for not sending enough food and medicine. He has to appease his Muslim masters or they will vote him out of office.

How like this Tower of Babel to scream at Myanmar, but refuse to address the underlying problem there: The Military Junta. If they started to do that, then they would have to start addressing the abuses of other member nations:

• The lack of human rights to 1/2 of the citizens of Saudi Arabia.
• The Sudanese Government's continuing genocide in Darfur.
• The anti-Western riots in South Africa that killed 12.
• Hezbollah's attacks on Lebanon.
• Iran's pursuit of Nuclear Weapons.
• The continuing rocket attacks into Israel.

No they would have to address these and many more. Instead they will shake their heads at Myanmar, at South Africa, at Sudan, at Hezbollah, at Iran, at Hamas and cry "For Shame!".

The United Nations has become mockery of what its founder envisioned it to be. Instead of a place where the world could come together for the benefit of all the people of the world, it has become a place of hatred, corruption and bigotry. An idea whose time has come and gone.

It is time for the United Nations to start cleaning up their act and behave for the benefit of the world.
Because the time is rapidly coming for the world to dissolve the United Nations.

THIS TIME IS COMING SOON!

DISSOLVE THE UNITED NATIONS!

UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A senior U.N. envoy went to Myanmar Sunday to urge its military junta to accept more international aid for cyclone survivors, as a British minister suggested the isolationist regime may be relenting.

John Holmes, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was greeted by Deputy Foreign Minister Kyaw Thu at the start of a three-day trip that will include a tour of the Irrawaddy delta, the area most severely hit by Cyclone Nargis on May 2-3.

Holmes also will meet with high government leaders, said Daniel Baker, a senior U.N. official.

He did not elaborate but other officials have said Holmes' mission is to assess the needs of survivors and urge the isolationist junta to open its doors to more international aid before people begin dying from starvation and diseases.

Full Story Here:
UN sends top envoy to plead with Myanmar over aid

Burma has many people dying, and I mean right now dying and they already have tens of thousands dead because of the cyclone that hit them, and the U.N. is going to BEG the rulers of Burma to accept aid?? Beg them?? You would think it should be the other way around wouldn't you?? The leaders of Burma being the ones pleading for help for their people??

Sorry folks, my sympathies only extend so far, what's going on in Burma right now is wrong, I know it, you know it, most reasonable and sane people know it, but it's Burma, short of going in and taking over there's not too much we can do to change their lot in life, it's their leaders that are keeping massive aid from reaching the people, and yes, I know they seized leadership, but if the people of Burma can't re-take their nation, then they are going to have to suffer that which fate has in store for them...

Very similar to that which faces us here in the USA right now, a people can make a government do the right thing, they can hold their leaders feet to the fire, but 1st there has to be a willingness to do so, and an acceptance that you may die trying...

I would much prefer to die standing and fighting than lying on my back starving at the hands of a tyrannical dictatorship...

Cross Posted at: TexasFred's