And why the option of airdropping relief supplies to Burma’s disaster victims should not be dismissed
The numbers the Burmese junta killed while suppressing pro-democracy protests last year fade in comparison to the numbers they’ve killed in the last two weeks.
India’s state-run Meteorological Department said it had alerted Burma two days before the cyclone struck. The [...]
Reporters or imaginers?
“Tiger vs Dragon again, this time to help Myanmar” announces a headline in DNA. Seema Guha, who wrote that article, ‘reports’ that India and China are competing to send relief to cyclone-hit Burma.
It’s a very good example of very poor journalism.
First, it is undeniable that countries can use their participation in international [...]
The tricky business of delivering aid to victims of a natural disaster who are also victims of a repressive regime
A closed regime. Media controls. A category 4 cyclone. Damaged infrastructure. Broken communication links. Death toll first in the hundreds, rapidly upped to the tens of thousands.
It’s highly likely that the Burmese junta can’t cope with [...]
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