Judgment Day: Should world let massive deaths by man-made disaster?

Nyo Ohn Myint
Tuesday, 13 May 2008 18:32

(Commentary)

One has to wake up from the nightmare of allowing Burma's brutal regime's final episode of ignoring its own people dying in post cyclone Nargis. Having an ineffective UN good office and international disagreement over Burma's latest political development, the world indeed witnesses with its own eyes the brutal generals' heartless decision over storm survivors. Now the World Theater shows "We don't care for Burmese people who are suffering and dying, our intention is to approve our sham referendum by all means."

On behalf of the Burmese people, the National League for Democracy has begged the International Community to intervene helplessly dying Burmese people that they do not deserve to die. On the contrary, regime generals had urged China to block along with other eight council members at the UN Security Council's any concrete initiatives by USA, UK and France's efforts of allowing UN and others to humanitarian action.

This is not a time to argue and reject who would get political advantage or lose influence over people and their brutal regime, the point here is how to save a human life. China and other pro-SPDC should not enjoy and recognize the regime's mouthpiece MRTV shamelessly showing generals donating storm victims UN relief goods. ASEAN, China and other pro-SPDC neighbours should drop their notion of Burma being balkanized in terms of accepting the regime in power. These countries' reaction over Burma would be very late if Burma reaches the level of Rwanda "wasting human lives because of an undecided nature" a Burmese scholar angrily said.

Eleven days after the destructive and deadly cyclone, the international community still needs to wait for the regime's top general who committed crime against humanity through Burma's neighbours' statesmen's mediation. Interestingly, none pro-SPDC in and out of the region has said the generals are right to have a referendum or congratulated the senior general. Than Shwe showed no feeling over the tens of thousands deaths and those millions waiting for help from anywhere.

If this is not the last episode for Than Shwe, Burmese people would be in hell in the next decade, said a Burmese in Rangoon. Sources close to the regime said no one in the regime dared to suggest to Than Shwe to call off the referendum. All the manpower has been used in his useless legacy of cheating in the referendum on 10th May no matter who is dying or already dead.

But one thing is for sure, there is not uniting to ignore the tragedy in the heart of Burma. This is not a collective anti Daw Aung san Suu Kyi's and NLD challenging their power or monks and students led uprising within the past twenty years. This is a national humanitarian crisis for the country. Many military personnel's loved ones and properties were also killed or destroyed by the deadly storm, and how long would they allow the senior general and his hardliners to ruin their own interests?

Now the time is ticking away and people are dying. The international community should not wait and play a political game and on a case by case basis by the regime until Burma's becomes a Rwanda like the manmade human disaster in world history put political differences aside, measured human rights value between US and China, and allow our Burmese to have one more day to survive.

Source:Mizzima News Online