"Burma diverts ship carrying aid'; French vessel sent to Thailand
BANGKOK - As foreign aid groups waited yesterday for Burma to honor a promise of free access to millions of isolated cyclone survivors, France registered "shock" that one of its warships had been unable to unload a 1,000-ton cargo of aid.
The foreign and defense ministries said in a statement late Sunday that the French military vessel, the Mistral, had been diverted to Thailand to hand over its cargo to the World Food Program for distribution after the Burmese authorities refused permission to unload directly.
The French communique said that nothing "can justify the victims of a catastrophe finding themselves being denied the basic right to benefit from the necessary aid."
KATRINA!!!
.... The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, said that the Burma government was "moving fast in the right direction."Then which is it?
.... Burma's prime minister, Thein Sein, appeared to confirm the new policy on access. "We would warmly welcome any assistance and aid which are provided with genuine good will from any country or organization, provided that there are no strings attached nor politicization involved," he said.
But, as the incident involving the Mistral seemed to show, that invitation did not appear to include American, British, and French naval ships that had been cruising off the Burmese coast loaded with supplies, equipment, and small boats.
The official news media in Burma have said no naval vessels would be permitted to deliver supplies. Over the last week, under an agreement with the government, American military aircraft have made 60 landings with relief supplies in Rangoon, the country's main city, but Americans arriving with the deliveries have been confined to the airport...."
Notice how the MSM soft-sell that aspect?
They just want to drill it in your heads that Burma's government is lagging -- unlike the tremendous U.S. government response to Katrina.
I'm tired of the agenda-pushing shit-shoveling propaganda by the Zionist-controlled MSM, so I don't believe a damn word in their shit sheets anymore.
Readers, if you were a government the U.S hated and wanted to overthrow, would you be willing to let them in?
