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MYANMAR JUST ANOTHER KATRINA EXAMPLE

By Schuyler Thorpe
Author and Political Activist

Almost 3 years to the day, New Orleans was devastated by a Category 5 storm.

Almost 3 years to that fateful day, the Bush administration did everything in its power to forget the people of New Orleans.

Forget the French quarter. Forget the people of the 9th Ward.

Nearly three years later, New Orleans is nowhere near its former glory–but the people there are still struggling to rebuild: Without the help of the federal government.

Because our government had essentially abandoned them to their fate.

But it doesn’t mean we (the people) have forgotten how the Bush administration has neglected and forgotten a major US city–destroyed by a natural disaster aggravated by the effects of increasing climate change and/or global warming.

Even if Bush has.

Three years later, a powerful cyclone named Nargis made landfall along the coast of Myanmar–formally known as Burma–going from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm seemingly overnight; then slamming into the coast with unrelenting ferocity.

Death toll? Some estimates are placing the overall tragedy at 100,000+.

With over two million displaced, the Myranmarese government controlled by an unforgiving military junta has essentially left its own people to a fate worse than death.

Much like the Bush administration, the military junta controlling Burma’s democratically elected government has turned indifferent to the people’s needs; rather instead focusing on ways to entrench its power and position at the expense of the people it is supposed to serve.

While the people of New Orleans was warned of Katrina’s approach, the military junta did not warn its people and thus far have been inclined to help their people or accept foreign aid from outside sources–especially the US.

And that has become not only a crime of gross negligence, but a crime against humanity itself.

It must not continue. Either here at home or abroad.

Schuyler Thorpe is an author, a political activist, and a frequent letter writer to The Everett Herald of Snohomish County. He can be reached at: starchildalpha1 at yahoo.com

Labels: Bush administration, Katrina, military junta, Myranmar

posted by Schuyler Thorpe @ 8:31 PM