by Deb Cupples | It was just over a month ago that some 14,000 people lost their homes, jobs and families to cyclones in Burma. Things aren't getting better for those people, and the junta seems to be at fault. Yesterday's New York Times reported:
"A week ago, Myanmar's state-run media were comparing the visits of the junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, to government-run refugee camps, like the neat rows of blue tents outside Labutta, to "parents' loving kindness and good will toward their offspring." The junta promised the United Nations that tight restrictions on aid workers - which were worsening the effects of a storm that left 134,000 dead or missing - would be eased....
"Even as the junta publicly praised its own largess, it more quietly began evicting destitute families from monasteries and sending them back to their villages for "reconstruction" and a life of isolation. It then began shutting down its own refugee camps."
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