Tuesday, August 7, 2007

`We have nothing to eat'

url: (http://www.thestar.com/News/article/243784)

It's 2:30 am in the morning. What am I doing?!

It's a tragedy that northern India and Bangladesh are under crisis when they where hit by a monsoon drowning numerous villages and making 2 million people living outdoors, and so many flood victims are starved, the death toll climbed up to 360, and even villagers wanted more supplies such as emergency packets, sheets and matches, etc. I am surprised that the flood victims have been consuming snails in order to survive, but there was a force going on when hundred of angry villagers in the Darbhanga district kidnapped a senior official and police chief in demand for aid and shelter since these victims feel that they haven't received much help at all. It's awful that villagers who have lost their homes, their loved ones, and even their lands, and they suddenly became this revolutionary people who wanted and needed help from the authority immediately and threatened to kidnap an authority if they don't help out. Now Bihar, which is located in the northern India, the chief minister of Bihar admitted that Nepal is responsible for all the flooding because of its little dams they have to control the flows of waters south, but the Nepal's foreign minister argued that the country Nepal also was flooded from the Indian dams. There are a lot of arguments arising between Nepal and Northern India, stating whose fault was that, who started the flood to go further to the country, and so on. As a result, 14 million people in India and 5 million in Bangladesh were forced to move out of their homes, and Canada has pledged a million dollars in emergency aid for flood victims in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal yesterday according to Foreign Affairs Peter MacKay. It is generous of Canada to offer a large amount of money of aid to the flood victims, unfortunately I am pondering why, why is the U.S.A not doing anything about it? Is our country worrying about the military situation in Iraq and Afghanistan? What things have the U.S. done lately?

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