May 2008

31 May 2008 - - CTV - Cyclone refugees being forced out of camps: groups In Singapore on Saturday, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates spoke out against the junta's handling of the crisis, saying its obstruction of international aid efforts had led to "tens of thousands" of needless deaths. U.S. warships loaded with aid have been poised off the coast of Burma since shortly after Cyclone Nargis struck
31 May 2008 - - Radio Australia - US Defence Secretary criticises Burma's junta over cyclone relief America's Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the delay by Burma's junta in allowing international aid into the cyclone-hit country cost tens of thousands of lives. Speaking at a top-level security conference in Singapore he says US Navy ships could have quickly delivered much needed aid in the aftermath of the storm that left 133,000 people dead or missing.
31 May 2008 - - Radio Australia - Criticism of Burma's junta continues Four weeks after Cyclone Nargis the U-N says aid has reached less than half the estimated two-point-four million survivors. Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has called Burma's response 'regrettable' and the White House again expressed frustration at the slow pace aid is getting in. The unease felt by the rest of the world clearly isn't shared by Burma's junta. One state run paper said cyclone victims didn't need supplies and could survive by eating...
31 May 2008 - - New York Times - Gates Warns China Not to Bully Region on Energy Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a set of thinly veiled warnings to China on Saturday, cautioning that it could risk its share of further gains in Asias economic prosperity if it bullied its neighbors over natural resources in contested areas like the South China Sea. Three years ago at the same lectern here, Mr. Gatess predecessor, Donald H. Rumsfeld, bluntly criticized Chinas swift military buildup. Last year Mr. Gates struck a more conciliatory tone, saying Beijing and...
31 May 2008 - - Guardian - Burma's rejection of aid has led to death of thousands, says US Tens of thousands of people have died because the Burmese regime has been "deaf and dumb" to offers of foreign aid for cyclone victims, the US defence secretary said today. Robert Gates's criticism came as the US-based campaigners Human Rights Watch called on the junta to stop forcing cyclone survivors to return to their homes, where it warned they face more misery and even death.
31 May 2008 - - Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Pentagon chief assures US enduring role in Asia US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates assured high-ranking security officials Saturday that the US has an enduring role in Asia which will continue regardless of who occupies the White House next year - and he hit out at Myanmar for ignoring offers of cyclone help. "Any speculation in the region about the United States losing interest in Asia strikes me as either preposterous, or disingenuous, or both," Gates told the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual forum bringing together 300...

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