There are thousands of Myanmaris (Burmese) who have fled the military oppression and have come into my country illegally in recent years. Many of them end up begging in the streets and the luckier ones end up in construction jobs. For a country that was once the pride of Asia (the first Asian UN Sec-General was from Burma remember)with its vast natural resources, it is now in shambles.
The recent natural disaster has only made the situation worse. Perhaps the positive thing that has come out of all these is that the world now sees how reclusive and oppressive the military junta actually is ie from the time it started crackdowns against free democratic elections against Aung San Suu Kyi's party and the recent high-handed manner it handled the mass protests led by the Buddhist clergy.
The fact that thousand of its people have died in the tragedy and thousands more are without food, water and shelter seems to be ignored by the junta. What a shame.
There are thousands of Myanmaris (Burmese) who have fled the military oppression and have come into my country illegally in recent years. Many of them end up begging in the streets and the luckier ones end up in construction jobs. For a country that was once the pride of Asia (the first Asian UN Sec-General was from Burma remember)with its vast natural resources, it is now in shambles.
The recent natural disaster has only made the situation worse. Perhaps the positive thing that has come out of all these is that the world now sees how reclusive and oppressive the military junta actually is ie from the time it started crackdowns against free democratic elections against Aung San Suu Kyi's party and the recent high-handed manner it handled the mass protests led by the Buddhist clergy.
The fact that thousand of its people have died in the tragedy and thousands more are without food, water and shelter seems to be ignored by the junta. What a shame.