Should Relief Workers enter Burma w/o Clear Permission?

[phoenixgw]

As relief workers slowly make their way through the bottlenecks and junta soldiers who stockpile emergency aid for leverage against pro-democracy opposition, approx. 2/3 of Burma's cyclone victims have yet to receive food or clean water and may die waiting.

If you were a relief worker arriving by boat on the coast of Burma and saw sick, starving people but no soldiers, would you go ashore with water purification equipment and sacks of grain or would you go to the designated checkpoint to gain permission to enter, knowing you could be refused b/c of your race or nationality?

You could be walking into this, as the Korean relief workers did in Afghanistan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtQ2TjfKo0

 

[stan1980]

Ooooh, the new Rambo film, any good? It looks like that trailer has pretty much given away the entire plot though.

I would chuck the grain and water purification equipment on the shore then sail back to where I came from. Easy.

 

[phoenixgw]

Not easy. That is why I chose to say purification equipment instead of purification tablets. The typical water purification station is designed to mass produce water like the soldiers do in the Middle East.

Relief workers would only have one of these on board and would basically have to risk their lives by camping out in unfamiliar territory to tend the sick, produce the water and see to it that they have enough food.

The choice remains: Do you risk your lives by going in or do you obey the govts.' rule, knowing that thousands could die of neglect? Make your choice.

 

[Ave Maria]

Personally, I'd go ashore and help the people out. But then again, I kind of have this thing for human rights.

 

[billwald]

Should the UN investigate broken treaties with the Indian People? Both questions have the same legal implications.