the scene is straight out of 1992 Somalia.
a country torn by civil war and genocide decided to open its doors to the world to help. same kinda setting. eerie similarities.
the only difference is that Somalia got hit by famine whereas Myanmar got hit by the 2nd most powerful cyclone to make landfall.
even a country so devastated by such an incident has the balls to intentionally deny any forms of help from various humanitarian agencies. visas for foreign aid-workers were subjected to delays in processing and even rejections. the military junta states that they are not ready to accept help just yet cause they wanna rebuild the country by themselves to prove the junta's worth.
if all of us let our minds drift to the images of destruction and despair all over that country, all of us in the right frame of mind would question the junta's decision in rejecting help. i am sure that most of you revolutioknights have set your eyes upon dozens of pictures depicting death and homelessness everywhere in that part where the cyclone left its mark. and yet help is rejected.
the best is yet to come. news just broke in that the UN are freezing the food supply into Myanmar as there were reports of the fucking junta confiscating all the food supplies meant for the people. what is their motive? that i do not know. but if i were to draw a conclusion, let me take you back into memory lane:
1992 Somalia. after hundreds of thousands were struck with hunger due to an agricultural collapse from the civil wars, the world responded by sending food and medical supplies to that region (same here in Myanmar). food wasnt distributed to the starving people but instead taken away by the clan leaders (comparatively similar, substituted by junta). reason for clan leaders taking the food supply away from the people is to trade for more weapons to further aggravate the civil war. Myanmar has capabilities of this. though the reason for the junta's aggression is not known, that is the conclusion i can possibly draw out.
you can see the angle at which Myanmar is heading to, cross-referenced with Somalia back in the day. Somalia just overthrew their country's leader before plunging into an unforgiving civil war that would last several years after that. compare it to Myanmar, no doubt that they have been into militarism since 1962 and only recently where the world's attention were focused on them in their version of civil war by killing monks in the 2007 anti-government protests. they want to show eradication as a tool to scare the people, same as Mohamed Farrah Aidid did back in 1992.
if not for the ongoing --soon-to-be debacle-- nuclear feud between Iran and North Korea, the "mighty" US of A would've sent in a battalion of US Marines or Task Force Ranger/Delta to restore order and hope into the people. but smart enough for them to conserve strength in case of an armed conflict. or we would have another sad episode of Black Hawk Down or Bakara Market Boogie or Ma-alinti Rangers or Battle of Mogadishu 1993, any way you look at it, we dont want more blood on our hands, unless Zionist blood that is....we want plenty of that.
"Es gibt keine verzweifelten Lagen, es gibt nur verzweifelte Menschen. (There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.)"
