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Originally Posted by Wit Tanker
How can you blame UN when its all to do with Burma rulers. The aid shipment are not even being distributed, and the foreign workers are not even let in without a visa. The UN has no influence over the internal affairs of Burma.
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I wouldn't say that i was blaming them, though the value of their groveling seems to be little enough. There was a high ranking UN official on the BBC World Service earlier on [i forget his exact position] and if only you could have heard the horror in his voice when the correspondent suggested states acted unilaterally. At the very top level these people are more cautious politicians and bureaucrats than aid workers.
In no time at all we will have been a fortnight since the cyclone did its worst and 100,000s will still have received no outside help, not official help anyway. Word still reaches us of cases where fellow Burmese attempting to do all they can with the little that they yet possess.