Myanmar's General will not allow the aid with entry of foriegn people visiting their country as the nation is clad with iron curtain.General would not like the goverance grip to be loosen at any cost.They are on goverance rule-business from 1962 with their sets of rule and regulation and is famous as reclusive nation.
Myanmar looks for material aid to be handed over to them at borders and financial aid but will not allow the emissaries from other nation susceptible to their integrity and unity.
Her no to the US offer with free access to civilian or aide agencies for help is their long term strategy to remain reclusive nation.
On total contrast to those of Indonesia, a muslim majority country where a tsunami in 2004 left 168,000 people dead and 600,000 people homeless, and in Pakistan,too muslim nation which was devastated by a powerful earthquake killing 74,000 people and displacing 3.5 million in year 2005.
Two countries welcomed US military despite the battered American image in the two countries following the 2003 Iraq invasion.
Indonesia was shaken by the tragedy just two months after taking power, first fully elected president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono gave the green signal to the United States to send its military relief juggernaut to the archipelago.US aircraft carrier to dock in Indonesia's territorial water with US Marines to rub shoulders with troops from the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also allowed American relief workers on the ground within 48 hours after the earthquake struck northwestern Pakistan and Kashmir.
The giant US military twin-rotor Chinook helicopters that put survivors to safety were welcomed as "angels of mercy" in Pakistan, where some militants had previously termed America the "Great Satan."
Myanmar, where people are mostly pro-US, those in Indonesia and Pakistan were largely anti-American prior to the natural disasters that occurred, and the massive US aid helped partly restore Washington's image.
"In Burma (Myanmar), the vast majority of people are already pro-West and they would welcome US presence with open arms and that's why the military regime is suspicious about US military involvement in relief efforts," said Mohan Malik, an expert at the Hawaii-based Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies.
"Burmese, by and large if you conduct any opinion poll, are very, very pro-America, pro-West and, in fact, want the United States to intervene in Burma militarily," he said.
"That's why the Burmese regime will never allow the United States to come in -- they know the people are fed up with the regime," Malik said