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On day 9, on radio talk shows in Spain, was widely commented on the situation in Myanmar:

a) the military government did not authorize the entry of humanitarian aid, if they do not spread.

b) Statements by several nations and members of NGOs claimed that could not be trusted that the military government to distribute aid and not stay with it.

c) the prestigious professor Carrillo Salcedo has worked on the concept of international humanitarian intervention. According to him, we would be in Myanmar in a situation that could justify "international humanitarian intervention", under the authority of the UNO.

d) they raised the relationship between the "interference" in Iraq -first, eliminating the UNO, and then after the disaster, calling for the legal protection of the UNO- and the current situation in Myanmar.

e) they wondered if the UNO still had sufficient authority or the latest developments of international politics have eroded the UNO.

f) they wondered whether they should not pose a new situation of the UN: the times are far removed from the years after World War II. And also the question about the veto.

When Procrustes looks after you, you're sure to fit in.

by PerCLupi on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 02:22:07 AM EST
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Moon of Alabama points to a different take on the relief aid story.
by det on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 04:42:23 AM EST
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Interesting, but when other aid NGOs are all saying the same thing, I'm not sure how seriously I can take this.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 11:10:44 AM EST
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That's a more literal than ever expression of the concept of "destroying the country in order to save it".

Of course, very ironical after Katrina.

And do the Burmese people actually want intervention ? Nobody seems to talk about them. They are the poor peons that got hit by the hurricane, but they hardly seem to have a voice.

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 05:18:17 AM EST
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And have you noticed that Burma is the only country on the planet that isn't governed by people with names and faces, but by a monolithic spawn of evil called "junta"?

Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.
by generic on Sun May 11th, 2008 at 10:30:51 AM EST
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