Tragedy in China

As China mourns its victims, so too I mourn those who lost their lives in this earthquake and its aftermath.....It is too much to speak of in words.....the pictures you have seen on the news, on the internet convey more than this blog post ever could. CNN 360's podcast had a clip of the search for survivors as they dug through the rubble of a school. I could scarcely breathe.... So this blog post ends here.....as I think of those children, those victims, those families, communities, and villages that have suffered in the wake of this disaster....

BBC's news on China's mourning....

Cyclone and Related Disasters in Myanmar

I hope that you have been watching the news and seeing what has happened, and is happening, in Myanmar even as I blog. A cyclone recently devastated the country, and as if that is not enough of a disaster in and of itself, the government has been restricting, if not refusing, international aid. While they have been allowing some sort of aid in slowly and little by little, it is not enough. To add insult to injury, there are also some aid that the government has confiscated and is handing out with attached propaganda. Not only that, but today, the military junta has pressed on with the voting for a constitutional referendum - even in the midst of this disaster recovery! It is terrible that in the midst of human suffering, politics are stopping a large part of this relief - and from within the country that suffers, rather than from without!

More stories about this situation can be found on BBC's Burma Cyclone news page here.

Call on the Burmese government to take action now in distributing humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis by visiting the Amnesty International Action Center here.