Boxlicker101
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and just goes to show what these people think of their citizens.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Myanmar;_ylt=AujoyWfWugmBmKzLcyNldrNxy14A
The only thing I've seen like it was Ethiopia, about 25 years ago. There was a famine in the country, and the world tried to give them food, distributed through international relief organizations. At the time, they were a Soviet client, and they refused to accept it. The USSR had problems enough feeding their own people, and had nothing to spare, but the capitalist nations, who could feed themselves, with plenty left over offered help. Ethiopia would have accepted it, but they insisted on parceling it out themselves. Everybody knew it would just go to the military and to the Communist Party members, and to Hell with everrybody else, so they refused to be suckers.
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/World/Myanmar;_ylt=AujoyWfWugmBmKzLcyNldrNxy14A
The only thing I've seen like it was Ethiopia, about 25 years ago. There was a famine in the country, and the world tried to give them food, distributed through international relief organizations. At the time, they were a Soviet client, and they refused to accept it. The USSR had problems enough feeding their own people, and had nothing to spare, but the capitalist nations, who could feed themselves, with plenty left over offered help. Ethiopia would have accepted it, but they insisted on parceling it out themselves. Everybody knew it would just go to the military and to the Communist Party members, and to Hell with everrybody else, so they refused to be suckers.
