The Junta Took The Fingers From Victor Jara’s Hands»

The Burmese Junta does what juntas everywhere do:

Myanmar’s junta impounded two U.N. food aid shipments at Yangon airport on Friday, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government’s refusal to accept a major international relief operation.

“We’re going to have to shut down our very small airlift operation until we get guarantees from the authorities,” a furious World Food Programme regional director Tony Banbury told CNN.

The two shipments, 38 tonnes of high-energy biscuits, were enough to feed 95,000 people — a tiny fraction of the estimated 1.5 million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which ripped into the southeast Asian nation six days ago.

“It should be on trucks headed to the victims. You’ve seen the conditions they are in. That food is now sitting on a tarmac doing no good,” Banbury said.

The junta is using the catastrophe that killed perhaps as many as 100,000 people — a death toll too large to be comprehensible — as a shakedown opportunity. Reuters additionally reports that a team of Qatari relief workers were turned away because the junta will only accept “relief in cash and kind,” according to an official statement.

I don’t know what can realistically be done about the SLORC murderers. Ideas cheerfully accepted. Preferably those involving Rambo.