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World turns up heat on Myanmar junta

US extends sanctions as lawmakers call for intervention; Yangon blamed for crimes against humanity

Al P, Yangon
Frustrated world leaders tightened the screws on Myanmar yesterday, alleging negligence and possible crimes against humanity by refusing a massive foreign relief effort for thecyclone tragedy.
US President George W Bush extended sanctions on the military regime while British Prime Minister Gordon Brown denounced the generals' "inhuman" treatment of up to 2.5 million survivors battling to stay alive two weeks after the storm hit.
With the toll of dead and missing now 134.000. the criticisms appeared to mark a shift in tactics in the face of the junta s resistance, even though a second wave of deaths could lie ahead due to starvation and disease.
"We have an intolerable situation created by a natural disaster," Brown, whose country was the colonial power when Myanmar was known as Burma, told the BBC
"It is being made into a manmade catastrophe by the negligence. the neglect and the inhuman treatment of the Burmese people by a regime that is failing to act and to allow the international community to do what it wants to do."
Deeply suspicious of any for eign influence that could weaken its 46 years of iron rule in Myanmar, the junta has insisted on managing the relief operation itself and kept most international disaster experts
But aid groups say the government cannot possibly handle the tragedy by itself, with hundreds of tonnes of supplies and high-tech
equipment piling up in warehouses, bottle-necked by logistics andothei problems
The groups say even their own operations are short of fuel and the proper trucks to manoeuvre In a disaster zone where bridges are out. flooding has been heavy and new seasonal rains are deepening the difficulties.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond TUtu wrote to Brown, Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, calling on the UN Security Council to authorise aid drops over the objections of the generals.
Jean-Maurice Ribert, France's UN ambassador, told a meeting of all members of the United Nations that the situation was turning "slowly from a situation of not helping people in danger to a real riskof crimes against humanity."
Bush announced that sanctions on the junta would be extended for a year because of its "large-scale repression of the democratic opposition.” Hie statement stressed it would not affected humanitarian cyclone aid.
US lawmakers on Friday asked President George W. Bush to consider "humanitarian intervention" in cyclone-hit Myanmar alter its military rulers refused to allow foreign experts to direct rebel efforts despite rising deaths.
Forty-three members of the House of Representatives wrote to Bush asking him to "strongly con sider" backing efforts by France, Britain. Germany, Denmark and other nations to gain entry into the devastated Irrawaddy Delta region "to provide urgent life-saving humanitarian aid.”