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Originally Posted by Mai Chob
While no group or individual can be held responsible for a natural disaster, I find the Junta highly accountable for the magnitude of the disaster.
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A tad contradictory nes't pas?
This storm has done severe damage to the infrastructure - command and communications lines have been destroyed ... perhaps an ideal time for a grass roots revolution now the 'Junta' are battered and just perhaps this is leveling of the playing field needed to seed lasting change.
No shock that aid will get diverted - totally expect that to happen as it did here, Sri Lanka and Indonesia after the tsunami ... I'd been tracking the storm for a week as feared it would end up in Chiang Mai, but as it happens it ended up grinding down the coast to Phuket. The authorities should have evacuated the coastal areas where the storm surge most likely claims the majority of lives lost ... what it boils done to is incompetence, and who knows if a 'democratically' elected government would have done much better.
Elections this week - can but hope they spark an uprising and deal a mortal blow to these greedy self-serving ba$tards and create a better future for those that live on.