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Update on the Burma-Cyclone Nargis Disaster |
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SAPA STATEMENT: May 21, 2008
SOLIDARITY FOR ASIAN PEOPLES ADVOCACIES (SAPA)
WORKING GROUP ON THE ASEAN
ASEAN MECHANISM MUST HELP JUNTA OVERCOME FEAROF BEING INVADED BY FOOD AND MEDICINE
On Monday, May 19, the ASEAN Foreign Ministers met in Singapore to discuss how best to assist Burma after the cyclone Nargis disaster. ASEAN established a coordinating mechanism to help facilitate the distribution and utilization of humanitarian aid into Burma, on the basis of which Burmese generals agreed to receive international assistance.
While SAPA welcomes the development, it wants the mechanism to involve the participation of aid agencies and civil society groups from ASEAN and its dialogue partners in aid efforts, particularly in rehabilitation programs.
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Call for Immediate Action to Ensure Cyclone Nargis Survivors Get Aid |
SAPA STATEMENT : May 18, 2008
SOLIDARITY FOR ASIAN PEOPLE'S ADVOCACIES (SAPA)
WORKING GROUP ON THE ASEAN
ASEAN ACTIONS MUST REFLECT URGENCY OF SITUATION IN BURMA
CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ENSURE CYCLONE NARGIS SURVIVORS GET AID
The members of SAPA demand that ASEAN immediately take a pro-active stand to ensure that the Burmese authorities stop blocking delivery of urgently needed international aid - both supplies and expertise – to the 2.5 million survivors of Cyclone Nargis who are hanging onto life by a thread. Otherwise, ASEAN risks being seen as callous, irrelevant and hypocritical.
It is time that our regional grouping proves that it is indeed "One ASEAN at the Heart of Dynamic Asia" in addressing the biggest humanitarian disaster to hit the region since the Aceh tsunami. Failure to do so will undermine the credibility ASEAN worked so hard to build at its 40th anniversary.
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Map of US Military Present in the Philippines Now Available for Download |
This map illustrates the different ways and forms by which the United
States has established its military basing in the Philippines. It shows
the locations of the increasing number of military exercises the US has
been holding year-round in venues throughout the country from Batanes
to Tawi-Tawi since 2001. It also charts the growing number of ports
that an increasing number of US warships have been visiting. It
highlights the under-reported presence of a unit of US Special
Operations Forces that has been stationed continuously and indefinitely
in various camps throughout Mindanao, with its headquarters inside the
Western Mindanao Command in Zamboanga City, since 2002.
With the US and Philippine governments attempting to downplay their
actions in the country, the map makes visible the true scale and extent
of US military presence in the country today.
The map accompanies Focus on the Global South's recent report, At the
Door of All the East: The Philippines in United States Military
Strategy, which explains how the US is transforming its presence in the
Philippines in a way that seeks to heighten its capacity for
intervention within the country and in the region.
The JPG file of the map is now available online for download here
The PDF file of the report, At the Door of All the East: The
Philippines in United States Military Strategy, may also be downloaded
from here
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