{"id":2283,"date":"2008-05-09T09:15:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/05\/09\/no-more-un-aid-to-burma\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T09:15:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T09:15:14","slug":"no-more-un-aid-to-burma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/no-more-un-aid-to-burma\/","title":{"rendered":"No More UN Aid to Burma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first deliver of aid from the UN World Food Programme was stolen by officials from the Burma military Junta. As a result, the shipment of aid into the country by the UN has stopped.This is as earlier reports indicating that the death toll would surpass 100,000 are starting to look realistic, if not optimistic.  Yesterday, a BBC reporter, under cover, was taken on a tour of the peninsula, where he and his crew filmed rice fields with a thin scatter of corpses.  Tradition in this region dictates that the dead are cremated, but local monks claim that there is not enough firewood to cremate even a small percentage of the dead.<!--more-->From the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7392331.stm\">BBC:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The UN body says the Burmese government seized tonnes of aid material flown in to help victims of Cyclone Nargis, which has killed tens of thousands.The WFP said it had no choice but to halt aid until the matter was resolved.Burma&#8217;s ruling generals have faced mounting criticism over their handling of the crisis.The UN fears more than 1.5 million people have been affected by the cyclone, with tens of thousands made homeless and vulnerable to disease.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/24518216#24518216\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first deliver of aid from the UN World Food Programme was stolen by officials from the Burma military Junta. As a result, the shipment of aid into the country by the UN has stopped.This is as earlier reports indicating that the death toll would surpass 100,000 are starting to look realistic, if not optimistic. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/09\/no-more-un-aid-to-burma\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No More UN Aid to Burma<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[161,97,33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-AP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}