US Lawmaker Rejects Opposition[=NLD (r)

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Subject: Re: US Lawmaker Rejects Opposition[=NLD] Veto

> The following report excerpt here is an outrageous swipe at Daw Aung San
Suu Kyi, as though she had not good information, which is false, she gets
her information, this statement smacks of bad reporting or the sort of
thing the generals would say, a poor, ignorant, isolated helpless soul.
What a pathetic opportunism of Mr Hall to speak for her in her country, for
her people.  Ah, yes, the great 
humanitarians on the march, trampling over the struggles of the less
powerful. If Daw Aung San Suu Kyi says help the nation, send humanitarian
aid now, as she evidently did, and not into the pockets of the generals,
and the black market, so be it. Recently I had information of from a
Frenchman who does business with french medical drug companies, selling to
the generals, and they know the stuff go
es to the black market and not the people. And the Frenchman smiled,
cynically,and did nothing, spineless, corrupted, empty words of a lost
world. Its nice of Congressman Hall, but why did he!
 not
denouce and dump on the dictators, and their horrendous crimes. He's
doing the dirty work for them, cleaning up the human life that to them
is not even worth saving. Onward christian soldiers...its nice to have a
heart and reduce the suffering, but not when the dictators rip your
heart out and are bent on increasing suffering with terror, genocide and
implicating foreign investment in their crimes. sorry, this is not a
working number...in europe right now they are screaming about another
serbian massacre, while the systematic killing goes on, here and there,
the dictators should be all that much more delighted to have
the international community cooperate with their health aid programs,
one more way to legitimate their goodwill and friendly gesture and
behind the mask laughs the devil, i can see it now, first come the aid,
then the drug companies, bayer, lilly, and business and more business
building up the dictatorship, is this the way to give up diplomacy and
strategic influence, can not the mightest nations of europe, asia and
the west not do anything more than what amounts to
putting a band-aid on a poisoned victim dying of a heart attack?

ds


 
> Mr Hall said Ms Aung San Suu Kyi had been isolated by the regime and so
> "doesn't really get a chance" to see many of the problems faced by her
fellow
> citizens.




Julien Moe wrote:
> 
> US Lawmaker rejects opposition veto
> South China Morning Post - 18th Jan
> BKK
> Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi should not have a veto on aid to her
> country, a United States congressman said yesterday.
> 
> Tony Hall, a prominent aid advocate, said Burma's health, education and food
> problems were "too dire for the international community to ignore".
> 
> "I would not say that she should have veto powers at all," he said in
Bangkok
> after a visit to Burma.
> 
> The opposition's suspicions that the military regime would cream off or
manage
> aid money has effectively cut Burma off from all but a trickle of
humanitarian
> help.
> 
> The congressman, who has encouraged health and food programmes for North
Korea
> and Sudan, said the world should not be blinded by politics to the Burmese
> people's "tremendous" problems such as HIV, hunger, dirty water and
> illiteracy.
> 
> Mr Hall said Ms Aung San Suu Kyi had been isolated by the regime and so
> "doesn't really get a chance" to see many of the problems faced by her
fellow
> citizens.
> 
> He urged her to let reputable non-government organisations know she was not
> opposed to humanitarian work as long as they could give "a 100 per cent
> guarantee that it would not benefit the regime".
> 
> Ms Aung San Suu Kyi claimed some aid workers ended up as government
> "collaborators" and that more than 50 per cent of all assistance was
siphoned
> off, he said.
> 
> She also asked that anyone offering humanitarian assistance to Burma should
> consult the National League for Democracy - which won a 1990 election by an
> overwhelming majority only to be ignored by the military.
> 
> But Mr Hall said many aid organisations saw consultations with any political
> party as "going down a slippery slope" and had concentrated their efforts in
> other, less complicated countries.
> 
> Burma's military intelligence chief, Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, had
given
> Mr Hall the usual line that the regime "was working towards democracy while
> safeguarding law and order".
> 
> Nevertheless the general had "promised to be gentle and lenient with the
> opposition and would try to find agreement with them", said Mr Hall, who had
> asked the military junta to release political prisoners and stop persecuting
> ethnic minorities.


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