Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods

My heart breaks for the country that once was known as Burma, however, no assistance should be given because it will not go to the people in need it will only go into the hands of the junta and their families.

maybe, but when people are starving, reaching out??? on a national basis, how much aid provided to UKR is finding its' way to the population?? or feeding the pollies and ordnance manufacturers, if we give one face to al???

I dunno

iron manToday 02:15 pm JST

Ukraine is under heinous assault. Totally inappropriate comparison.

nonsense response, my comment was referenced to the preceding one regarding assistance to the suffering general population instead of financing an encouraging further destruction, all finance support originates from the general public, they should have a greater involvement in how their monies are utilised. Q.Are the western govs exasperating the mortal toll? F16s take them back please. they do not encourage life saving efforts, apologies moderator, I was addressing saving innocent lifes.

iron manToday 03:05 pm JST

Your country needs to donate land so you can speak about a land for peace deal.

The result of several typhoons over the last ten days alone, and continues

"Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods."

There is no shame asking for help for the people, regardless whether it's Junta or any other type, or form of government.

CephusToday 04:47 pm JST

There is shame in being a murderous junta that should have been kicked to the curb long ago, though.

My heart breaks for the country that once was known as Burma, however, no assistance should be given because it will not go to the people in need it will only go into the hands of the junta and their families.

Are they asking only for money, or practical, physical aid in terms of medics, vehicles, SAR, etc?

Money? No. Boots on the ground? By all means, if countries want to provide them, of course. I could understand their hesitation.

The US military has their own weather service,separate from our civilian weather service,they are their to keep US military safe from storm and plan military attacks on adversaries, imagine you are at war with someone and they know when you will get rain on, Amami must be an unfortunate place to live,beside the Typhoon today,two more will hit the island next week

My heart breaks for the country that once was known as Burma, however, no assistance should be given because it will not go to the people in need it will only go into the hands of the junta and their families.

Well, we are right in the middle of the US Presidential elections and speaking of donations, money donated also will not eventually go to people in need. When you donate to a candidate, where do you think that money goes? It goes directly to business.

Donations don't do anything but increase the revenue streams of consultant agencies, ad agencies, analytics firms, PR firms, media companies, social media companies, digital marketing agencies events coordinators and on and on...maybe even covert operations and their hitmen if they survive.

no assistance should be given because it will not go to the people in need 

There are types of help (rescue teams, medicine, food, emergency shelters...) that goes to the people mostly, particularly if the NGOs insist of delivering the help and operate on their own terms.

If the victims get nothing, they will die massively and the junta will just be OK anyway.

quercetumSep. 14 11:29 pm JST

Yeah we should steer clear of that whole democracy thing because the candidates aren't out there running soup kitchens.