The people of Myanmar (Burma) have suffered for centuries as one rouge state after another invaded them. Britain, the US and China have all killed tens of thousands of Burmese citizens while forcing hundreds of thousands into slavery.

The United States and European Union currently have trade embargoes against Burma but both the US and the EU are allowing oil companies loopholes. In 2006 Uniocal was sued in US courts for the murder, rape, torture and enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Burmese citizens. Today, with the aid of the Chinese Army and the Army of Myanmar, Chevron continues the ethnic cleansing that has been going on in Burma since before anyone reading this was born.

Aid organizations are attempting to send aid the Burma but Burmese officials-- with the full support of the Chinese Military-- are restricting aid in an effort to keep foreign aid workers and western media out of the country.

When Uniocal was sued in US courts, President George Bush lobbied Congress to protect Uniocal and other US and International corporations from litigation but was unsuccessful.

The Myanmar Times hasn't published the news since November 26, 2006. The Burmese Government banned the Internet in 2006.

I'm not saying the cyclone and the Burmese death toll is a good thing but it could turn out to be a better thing than the Burmese people have had at the hands of their own government, the US, EU, Britain and China.

My best to the suffering masses of Myanmar.