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Limited Options in Burma

by Austin Bay

How many people have died in Burma (Myanmar) since Cyclone Zargis struck the South Asian nation on May 3? Last Tuesday, Burma's dictatorship officially put the death toll at 34,000, with another 30,000 missing. The United Nations estimated 60,000 dead. Western governments and media argued 100,000 dead might be a better figure, once the statisticians account for casualties caused by disease and displacement.

Add "delay" to the disease and displacement — in the case of Bu ...

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Posted by: Jack Pflug
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Mon May 19, 2008 9:20 PM

The typhoon tragedy in Burma is just another example of how the United Nation has failed the world. Add it to the tragedy in Darfur and the fiasco of Iraq after Desert Storm. If the United Nations had forced Saddam Hussein to adhere to the resolutions imposed on him, there would have been no need for an invasion. And the holocaust in Darfur under military thugs is quite obvious a U.N. failure as you hinted at in your column of May 19, 2008, which appeared in our local daily. The miitary thugs in Burma deserve to be tried for crimes against humanity, against their own people. I just hope that columnists such as you will push that issue. I have little faith that the U.N. will do so.

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