Myanmar local officials demanded cash bribes for permission to donate food

Myanmar local officials demanded cash bribes
for permission to donate food

Amid prayers for Myanmar’s cyclone dead,
complaints of corruption
YANGON (AFP) — Rajagopal, one of many volunteers in Myanmar bringing food to cyclone victims, said he was shocked by the desperation of the survivors in the Irrawaddy delta, where he saw corpses still hanging in trees.
But even [...]

UN: Cyclone ‘worse than 04 tsunami’

UN: Cyclone ‘worse than 04 tsunami’

 TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2008

The devastation in Myanmar from Cyclone Nargis could create a humanitarian crisis worse than that of the 2004 south Asian tsunami, the UN’s secretary-general has said.

He said at a press conference in New York: “This is a critical moment for Myanmar. 

China Shows the SPDC Generals How to Mourn

China Shows the SPDC Generals How to Mourn
By Wai Moe May 20, 2008
The Burmese military junta has belatedly called for three days of national mourning for those who died in Cyclone Nargis, beginning on Tuesday.
The announcement on Monday of the period of mourning and the visit made by the junta leader, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, to [...]

Photo proof of:Irresponsible United Nations is dragging its feet in applying “responsibility to protect” the Burmese people

Photo proof of:
 
Irresponsible United Nations’ dragging its feet
 
in applying “responsibility to protect”
 
the Burmese people

 

 
 

Are paramedics’ treating at student camps and detention centers causing unnecessary deaths?

Are paramedics’ treating at student camps
and detention centers
causing unnecessary deaths?
 
Dr T’s letter to Malaysiakini on May 19, 08′,”Toxic megacolon’ could have been diagnosed”
 
I refer to the letter, Impossible to have ‘zero death’ for NS.

I would like to highlight an important issue regarding the death of the poor student. First of all, I am [...]

Myanmar to Widen Neighbors’ Aid Role

A transport plane flew over a temple near Myanmar’s capital of Yangon on Saturday.
By SETH MYDANS and ALAN COWELL
 
Published: May 20, 2008
BANGKOK — Myanmar agreed Monday to let its Southeast Asian neighbors help coordinate foreign relief assistance for cyclone victims, bending somewhat to international pressure to allow more outside aid, Singapore’s foreign minister, George Yeo, [...]

The senseless junta

The senseless junta
Manjit Bhatia’s opinion in Malaysiakini | May 20, 08 12:59pm
Even after a week, when Cyclone Nargis hit the Irrawady delta regime and close to 100,000 people had perished or were missing, and tens of hundreds more utterly displaced, Burma’s military junta continued to sit on its hands. Why?
After initially asking for help from [...]

DEAD BODIES ALONG THE RIVER OF TEARS(photo album)

AAA

 

Source:NYILYNNSEK
more photos:here
 
 Myanmar survivors living with dead
By Los Angeles Times
WAT MYON, Myanmar — They are living with the dead.
More than two weeks after Cyclone Nargis wiped away all but one of this village’s houses, decomposing corpses still lie on muddy pathways or are trapped in eddies along the shore of the broad Pyamaia River nearby.
The stench [...]

Myanmar – reporting from base

 Myanmar – reporting from base
Posted by labisman in Malaysia Today
Monday, 19 May 2008
WE CANT WAIT!!
Friday, 17 May 2008 – Some 1,000 people including women and children got their first taste of a proper meal 15 days after the cyclone hit Myanmar.  United Sikhs with the support of individuals on ground in Yangon was able to mobilize [...]