Burma - the crisis goes on

The crisis in Burma has slipped off the front pages of our media, five weeks after Cyclone Nargis - and now the ships anchored off the coast, ready with aid, have sailed away. Yet the suffering continues, as I have described most recently in The Cutting Edge News. Cyclone victims are now being forcibly evicted from shelters and forced to return home, even though they have no homes to go to. Some have been executed on Senior General Than Shwe's orders. Now, Burma's extraordinary regime has announced that the imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi deserves to be flogged! The case for humanitarian intervention is overwhelming, especially as it had French backing, and it is one I have advocated multiple times, most recently in The Weekly Standard. I have also made the case in The Guardian's Commentisfree site, The Cutting Edge News and on this site. But the tragedy is, once again it slips from the headlines, falls off the agenda, and the world moves on - and the unfolding disaster continues.