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...ability or willingness to deploy the kind of assets needed to deal with a calamity of this scale - and the longer Burma resists offers of help, the more likely it is that the disaster will devolve beyond anyone's control. "We're in 2008, not 1908," says Jan Egeland, the former U.N. emergency relief coordinator. "A lot is at stake here. If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent...
...paint the Indonesian flag on them," Nash says. "We have to get the stuff to people who can deliver it and who the Burmese government will accept, even if takes an extra day or two and even if it's not as efficient as the good old U.S. military." Egeland advocates that the U.N. Security Council take punitive steps short of war, such as freezing the regime's assets and issuing warrants for the arrest of individual junta members if they were to leave the country. Similar measures succeeded in getting the government of Ivory Coast to let in foreign...
...that fails? "It's important for the rulers to know the world has other options," Egeland says. "If there were, say, the threat of a cholera epidemic that could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and the government was incapable of preventing it, then maybe yes - you would intervene unilaterally." But by then, it could be too late. The cold truth is that states rarely undertake military action unless their national interests are at stake; and the world has yet to reach a consensus about when, and under what circumstances, coercive interventions in the name of averting humanitarian disasters...
...people, according to Human Rights Watch. The conflict is blamed for the abduction of children, an increase in sexual violence, and consequently the spread of AIDS. “The conflict in northern Uganda is the biggest forgotten, neglected humanitarian emergency in the world today,” Jan Egeland, the United Nation’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said in 2003. HHRA and the Harvard College Coalition for Ugandan Peace (HCCUP) held last night’s class to show students “what has been done, what can be done, and what students...
...cannot continue in this area unless people will be held accountable for the execution of 17 of our colleagues." JAN EGELAND,U.N. emergency-relief coordinator, threatening to suspend humanitarian operations in Sri Lanka following accusations that government troops slaughtered a group of aid workers in the Northeastern town of Muttur...