U.N. chief, bringing 'message of hope,' tours Myanmar's cyclone-hit delta

Conclusion: one more banner saying 'Mission Accomplished" in Myanmar.

As Studs Terkel said, "Hope Dies Last", then the victims of Cyclone Nagris in Burma's delta region should at least have to hope that their long and agonising ordeal should be over soon. However, if the United Nations and Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon just bring 'message of hope' with no meaningful actions to follow, then the victims will have to contend with "a package of soap." It is obvious that the Burma issue has been unresolved because of, what Mark Baker once wrote, "the UN's amnesia". There may have been a succession of three UN Secretary-Genarals, Dr Boutros Ghali, Mr Kofi Annan and now Mr Ban Ki-Moon; let alone a number of special envoys, we have nothing to show as a 'tangible success'. The military regime had been telling the world and the United Nations that it has no intention of either bowing to the UN's demands, to hold dilogue with the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or to work towards democratising the country. What was the response to such defiance? The UN and its three successive Secretary-Genarals expressed their 'disappointment' at the lack of progress on political reform in Burma and 'regret' that the regime had not opened talks with Aung San Suu Kyi. Geoffrey Robertson QC criticised the UN agencies operations 'as being circumscribed by "diplomatic politesse" - which generally takes to mean uncritical and unspecific comments couched in weasel words. As the first step, Mr Ban has been given a 'run around' before he was given 'an audience' with 'the animal'. If there is no tangible outcome soon, the 'message of hope' he said he brings may turn out to be just 'packages of soap'. Don't they say, "Pray a lot and you'll have hope in your hearts; bathe a lot and you'll have soap in your arse." In the delta, there's lots of water to do the latter.

Rescue Mission is "just about to move" into Myanmar.But many with great causion as we are dealing with military leader who hardly kept it's promises in the past..... Myanmar's 2 million victims without any kind of help yet,need atleast 6 to 7 months of continuous relief works said UN Chief. THE RESCUE EFFORT IS FAR FROM BEING OVER, BUT JUST ABOUT TO BEGIN FOR 2 MILLION CYCLONE VICTIMS. ......Despite of the dreadful ordeal among the citizens, the junta went ahead with it's retifying process on referendum by forcing the victims to vote, today.... REMARKABLE!!!!