{"id":15,"date":"2008-05-09T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kafraco.wordpress.com\/2008\/05\/09\/myanmar-update-592008\/"},"modified":"2009-03-24T22:28:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:28:48","slug":"myanmar-update-592008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/myanmar-update-592008\/","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar Update 5\/9\/2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As outrageous as I have found the behavior of the Myanmar generals who run the cyclone ravaged country (see amateur video below that was linked from the BBC&#8217;s news site), I found it even more reprehensible that the junta is finally accepting foreign aid, but not foreign aid workers.&#160; Here are links to stories from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSBKK1919620080509\">Reuters<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7391535.stm\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand (sort of) that the country is very isolationist and they don&#8217;t want foreigners running all over the country unescorted, but to take the food and not let the people giving know where it is going just screams of corruption to me.&#160; I could honestly see a situation where the junta leaders are keeping the food from the people who need it so that they can hold on to power a little tighter.&#160; I know that millions of people are going to want to help the Myanmar survivors, but I wonder how much of their donations will be going to help the Myanmar generals.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the video:&#160; <a title=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7389645.stm\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7389645.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/7389645.stm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As outrageous as I have found the behavior of the Myanmar generals who run the cyclone ravaged country (see amateur video below that was linked from the BBC&#8217;s news site), I found it even more reprehensible that the junta is finally accepting foreign aid, but not foreign aid workers.&#160; Here are links to stories from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-world-affairs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9C8-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kafraco.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}