On a road near Pyapon, in an area of Myanmar ravaged by a cyclone, people waited on Sunday for aid from Burmese civilians.


Few of those who wait say they haven't received anything from the government, other than threats.
“They said if we don’t break our huts and disappear, they will shoot us,” one man in the village of Thee Kone said over the weekend before a police jeep approached. “But as you can see, it’s raining now. We are pleading to the police to give us one more day and we will be gone far, far from the road, as they wish.”
A red sign on a stake along one road read: “Don’t throw food on the roads. It ruins the people’s good habits.”
the burmese government is seriously crazy.
this is insane la.

The government, which insists that the emergency phase of the disaster is over, showed a video suggesting the country had enough rice, and that what it needed instead was billions of dollars for long-term reconstruction. Some analysts fear that the focus on rebuilding is a ploy.
“I believe they just want to use it for their ordinary activity, put it into their accounts and use it to buy weapons or houses or whatever they would like to do,” Josef Silverstein, an expert on Myanmar said in a recent interview.

so much for providing aid and relief to your countrymen.. the police are actually threatening to shoot the farmers if they don't leave the roadsides in the hope of getting scraps of food from drivers.
TO THE POLICE AND THE MYANMAR GOVERNMENT:
HELLO??!? these pple don't have any food or homes. and your smartass government doesn't even wanna let in pple to help, needless to say provide food and shelter for these victims themselves.

ARE YOU LIKE RETARDED OR WHAT