With the Cyclone death toll now passing the 22,000 mark and another 41,000 reported missing, it seems that Burma’s suffering will only increase in the coming weeks. At least Burma’s Military leaders have agreed that the UN can start delivering aid, albeit only one plane for now.
However, I was appalled to hear on yesterdays Jeremy Vine BBC talk show at least two phone-in callers saying that we (the UK) should not be sending any aid to Burma and that charity should begin at home! I wonder how these sorts of people sleep at night, they clearly have no humanity and I would hate to end up depending on them for any kind assistance in an emergency.
Perhaps these sorts of people have never needed help themselves and from the smug comfort of their own surroundings have no idea what sort of suffering the Burmese people are going through at the moment.
Perhaps a catastrophe in their own back yard might wake them up!
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