Cyclone’s Winds May Change Burma’s Political Landscape as Well
Lord David Alton
May 12th 2008
Member, British House of Lords
Lord David Alton
Throughout the 18 years since Aung San Suu Kyi has been under house arrest, the Burmese military regime have repeatedly promised and failed to deliver democratic change. These are the same secretive leaders who gave orders for Buddhist monks to be mown down in the streets and who are now impeding rescue efforts as hundreds of thousands of their countrymen die following the decimation of their homes and land by Cyclone Nargis. They are the same men who have ignored 28 United Nations General assembly and Human Rights Commission resolutions.
What is sometimes less well known and reported on is the way in which they have accelerated their cruel campaign of attrition against the country's ethnic minorities. In the case of the brave Karen people it is nothing short of genocide.
Take, for instance, the story of a nine-year-old Karen girl who was shot at point blank range, having watched her father and grandmother being killed. There are also shocking reports of beheadings and mutilations of Karen villagers - 18,000 of whom have been displaced in the past few weeks. Some will doubtless join the 120,000 who have lived for years in make shift camps along the Thai border - which, as I have seen for myself - barely allow people to do more than cling on to life.
So far, the approach to the Burmese regime by the international community and its failure to implement strong sanctions against Burma has been a complete and utter failure. The Burmese military's systematic atrocities against ethnic groups such as the Karen, Karenni and Shan are still very grave and as the recent Burmese military offensive in Karen state demonstrates, are even escalating (over 16,000 Karen were displaced by the last offensive and many were killed.) Despite posturing and maneuvering and attempting to use a smoke and mirrors referendum to pretend to the world that change is on the way, Burma is also now no closer to democracy than it was back in 1990 and Aung San Suu Kyi remains under house arrest. The shooting of Buddhist monks last year and the disregard for the victims of the cyclone this year underline the nature of this perfidious and ruthless regime.
After more than 10 years, there has been no improvement in the situation of the Karen, Karenni and Shan or that of Burma's pro-democracy movement. More of the same weak and ineffectual policy towards the Burmese regime will simply maintain the current, horrendous status quo for decades to come. Dictators like these survive when they believe that the world is willing to overlook, or has forgotten, their cruelties and barbarism. They survive longest - think of Franco's fascist dictatorship in Spain - when the rest of the world becomes overly fearful of the alternatives: "hold on to nurse for fear of something worse," as the Victorians memorably put it.
What dictators fear most is the penetrating searchlight that forensically exposes their depredations. That's why they impose reporting restrictions, suppress free speech, impose rigid travel restrictions, and turn their countries into what they imagine to be impregnable fortresses. Unfortunately for them, truth usually finds a way through; and often the pen proves mightier than the sword.
I was recently deeply moved to read two books that expose the contemptible junta that tyrannizes Burma. "The Lizard Cage", a novel by Karen Connelly (Harvill Secker, 2007), is set inside a Burmese prison, while the autobiographical "From The Land of The Green Ghosts" by Pascal Khoo Thwe (Flamingo, 2003) brought tears to my eyes, and recalled memories of my own visits to the Karen State. It's the story of a young man who comes from the Padaung tribe, a sub group of the Karen tribe’s people. Their women are often called the "giraffe-necked" women because of the rings they wear around their necks.
After testing a priestly vocation at a Burmese seminary, Pascal went to study English literature at Mandalay University where he has a chance encounter - and conversation about James Joyce - with a visiting English academic. In 1988 he becomes caught up in the student uprising, fights his way through the jungle to a refugee camp in Thailand, and ends up reading English Literature at Cambridge. Pascal weaves together a rich tapestry that brings to life the traditions and culture of one of Burma's diverse ethnic minorities. His grandfather was one of the Padaung's leaders and was converted to Catholicism by Italian missionaries. The book draws deeply on Pascal's rich Faith that is deeply influenced by traditional spirituality. It is also a testament of personal courage ingrained with a sense of destiny and Divine Providence.
Despite losing his family, his university lover - who is arrested, raped and murdered by the armed forces - and being forced to abandon his studies to join the subterranean world of guerrilla freedom fighters, Pascal never despairs. Pascal never gives up hope.
His greatest fear is that he is "letting down" his compatriots by traveling to the West; but, by using his remarkable gifts in telling their story, he has delivered a body blow against the dictators. Karen Connelly's novel, "The Lizard Cage" also celebrates the ability of the human spirit to endure when assaulted by seemingly impossible trials of injustice and brutality.
Like Pascal, this book's central figure, Teza, also takes part in mass protests - and has become a celebrated dissident through his music. He is seven years into a twenty-year prison sentence in solitary confinement.
The book traces the relationship that develops between Teza and Little Brother, an orphan boy growing up inside the prison. Like Pascal Khoo Thwe, Connelly cleverly intersperses the history of Burma, the captivity of Aung San Suu Kyi, with vivid accounts of life in jails such as Rangoon's Insein prison. We are reminded of the heroic role of the National League for Democracy and dissident groups, especially the All Burma Students Democratic Front, and the different facets of Burmese politics, Buddhism and the rich but oppressed ethnic groups.
Books like these remind us of the million people displaced in Burma's jungles, the 1,500 political prisoners languishing behind bars, the use of forced labor, the use of villagers as human mine sweepers, the rape of women, the burning down of villages, the killing of thousands, and of a regime which stands accused of genocide. A regime that has been cruelly indifferent to the plight of its devastated people.
As European countries stand accused of breaking arms embargos by selling weapons to the Burmese military via third countries such as India, it's as well to be reminded how easily we can become collaborators.
But, like the literature from the gulags, these books also stand as a rebuke to the dictators, from Ne Win onwards - who have exploited and terrorized their people. They also help break down the regime's walls of secrecy.
Winston Churchill once said, "Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry".
The Burmese military dictatorship have been riding on the backs of their suffering people - crushing and terrorizing them. They too dare not dismount; but they should beware, the world can see very clearly the nature of their regime. A day of reckoning will come. The cyclone may prove to be the catalyst for a popular uprising: the tigers are getting hungry.
Although the world should not hold back in providing much needed humanitarian assistance to the cyclone victims we also need long-term concerted international action to significantly weaken the economic and military strength of the Burmese regime. If we do not do this it will be practically impossible to get that regime to take any of our concerns about human rights in Burma seriously. Burma's military regime will only continue to string all of us along, making an occasional superficial concession, followed by even more harsh and repressive measures.
A much stronger policy on Burma that will involve tough sanctions and thereby put real pressure on the Burmese regime to change its ways will be needed.
Such a new policy should include the following characteristics:· Treating the Burmese regime's systematic atrocities against the Karen, Karenni and Shan people as being of at least equal importance as the situation of the pro-democracy movement and political prisoners in Burma and giving EQUAL coverage to both issues. · Keeping both these issues on the agenda of the U.N Security Council - and demanding a binding resolution of the Security Council. This should impose a global arms and investment embargo on Burma as well as strongly condemning the systematic atrocities by the Burmese military against the Karen, Karenni and Shan people. · Very seriously considering the case that has been made by Parliamentarians and human rights groups, such as the Jubilee Campaign, that the systematic atrocities by the Burmese military against the Karen, Karenni and Shan people amount to Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes. So far too many Governments have ignored these claims as a reflex action, without giving any deep consideration to them or attempting to seriously research the subject, and failing to give detailed reasons for their position. At the very least, the repeated and deliberate attacks against Karen, Karenni and Shan civilians by the Burmese military must surely be a flagrant violation of Common article 3 of the Geneva Conventions which prohibits the targeting of non-combatants during conflict. It should be clear to anybody with even a basic knowledge of the laws of war that War Crimes are being committed against the Karen, Karenni and Shan by the Burmese military. Unfortunately, the Foreign Office has previously denied that even War Crimes are being committed.
I have no doubt that such charges add up.Four years ago I traveled to the Burmese refugee camps and with Congressman Joseph Pitts took first hand evidence.
We collected truly shocking accounts of the latest violations of human rights. The story of one small child we met at a refugee camp near Mae Sot illustrates how the brutality and violence of this perfidious regime continues.
Saw Naing Gae is just eight years old. He saw the Burmese military shoot dead his mother and his father. He was then trafficked across the border and sold to a Thai family. Desperately unhappy he managed to escape and made his way to the camp, where he is staying with a group of thirty other orphans. Even as these children sang and welcomed their visitors Saw Naing Gae seemed unable to join in or even to smile. Every trace of joy and innocence had been stamped out of him; and all of this by the age of 8.
Saw Naing Gae squatted alongside four other children, brothers and sisters, whose parents had also been brutally murdered. The oldest girl, aged about 12, and now head of their family, dissolved into tears as she recounted their story.
Naw Pi Lay, whose photograph illustrates this article, did not survive. Aged 45, the mother old five children and pregnant with her sixth, Naw Pi Lay was murdered in June of last year by the Burmese militia. During a massacre in the Dooplaya district of the Karen State, twelve other people were killed, including children aged 12,7,5, and 2 years old. Elsewhere in the same district, at Htee Tha Blu village, further violations of human rights were carried out by Light Infantry Battalions 301 and 78. They beat and tortured villagers, stole their belongings and burnt down their church and their homes.
The previous time I visited this region I illegally crossed the border and entered the Karen State. I heard and saw evidence of the internally displaced people - estimated now at 600,000; of the scorched earth policy that has depopulated and destroyed countless villages; and of brutality unequalled anywhere I have traveled. One of the people I met is part of the Free Burma Rangers. He had just come out of the Karen State. He had been with a little girl of eight who still had a bullet lodged in her stomach. To help people like hr he had taken in some nurses and medics. Why was he, an American, so committed to the Karen? "I love these people, and I simply don't want to see them suffering like this. We've got to do something, even if we're just like a small barking dog," he told me.
At Mae Sot we took evidence from the Committee for Internally Displaced Karen People. They provided me with over 100 pages of carefully documented examples of human rights violations committed by Burmese military over the past twelve months alone. One day I hope that this evidence will be placed before an international court and as at Nuremberg the perpetrators will be brought to justice. The report lists three mass killings by the SPDC (Burma's singularly ill-named State Peace and Development Council). It is a carefully chronicled account of looting, burning, torture, rape and murder. The SPDC routinely plant landmines indiscriminately and in areas where landmines have been laid by their opponents the SPDC use people as human landmine sweepers.
I saw some of the victims - people whose limbs have been severed from their bodies, whose skin has been peppered with shrapnel, and others who have been left blind. I also talked to the families of people whose loved ones - men and women - had been seized and used as porters and construction workers, and who have never returned. The SPDC kill many of the porters in frontline areas, especially when they are unable to any longer work because of exhaustion or sickness. The international focus on Burma has long been on the heroic struggle of Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD). A settlement with the NLD will, however, represent a solution to only half of the conflict. The seven ethnic groups who have been fighting for self determination or autonomy since the end of World War Two - the Karen, Karenni, Mon, Arakam, Kachin, Chin and Shan - will still need to have their grievances addressed. In Chiang Mai I met with the authors of a carefully meticulous 120 page report on the Burmese military regime's use of sexual violence in the Shan State over the past six years. The report of the Shan Human Rights Foundation and Shan Women's Action Network, "License To Rape", details how rape has been used as a weapon of war. Sexual violence - especially widespread gang rape - has terrorized and humiliated communities, flaunts the power of the regime, "rewards" troops, and demoralizes resistance forces.
Women who have been raped have frequently been abandoned or rejected by their husbands. One woman described how she was gang-raped when she was 7-months pregnant and then gave birth prematurely to her child. Another was told by her husband to leave: "You didn't control yourself. You are no longer my wife. Leave our home."
The Burmese Junta have turned their country into one vast concentration camp. They are Nazi thugs who deploy Nazi methods. Like their Nazi predecessors they fail to appreciate the strength of the human spirit and the capacity to endure and survive.
Typical are the joint secretaries of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Bo Kyi, a student leader who spent seven years in Burmese jails, told me that "torture is designed to break down your identity, to turn you into a non-entity with no connection to the world outside of the torture chamber."
Naing Kyaw served 8 years in Insein and Thayet prisons and still manages to joke that "insane" would be a better spelling. Regularly beaten with a chain and ball on his back, and often kept in solitary confinement, he was offered the chance to become an informer.
Instead, he learnt English from the professor who was housed in the adjacent cell - so that he would be able to tell the world about Burma's suffering. He has put the language to good use in his essay in "Spirit For Survival" which he dedicates to a despairing young woman who took her own life: "All the suffering you felt we will change into strength. This grief, this feeling of deep hurt and bitterness will become a volcano, which is going to explode."
I was struck that even as the suffering deepens no-one is giving in. Democracy activists continue their struggle and the beleaguered ethnic minorities refuse to capitulate.
There is an old saying that the darkest moment is always just before the dawn. As the people of Burma deal with the terrible consequences of Cyclone Nargis, let's pray that this is the darkest moment and that the dawn will not be too far behind. Lord David Alton of Liverpool is a member of the British House of Lords.
メンバー、イギリスの上院 デイヴィッドAlton主 18年中Aung San Suu Kyiが自宅軟禁の下にあったので、ビルマの軍の政体は繰り返し約束し、民主的な変更を提供しなかった。 これらは数十万人の彼らの舎田者がCyclone Nargisによって彼らの家および土地の殺害に続くことを死ぬと同時に通りで刈られるべき僧侶のための順序を与えた今救助努力を妨害している同じ秘密主義のリーダーであり。 彼らは28国際連合の総会および人権の任務の決断を無視した同じ人である。 時々より少なく有名、報告される何がcountry'に対して摩擦の残酷なキャンペーンを加速した方法である; sの少数民族。 カレンの勇敢な人々の場合にはそれは集団虐殺の急に何もではない。 例えば取得殺されている彼女の父および祖母を見る直接弾道距離で撃たれたカレンの9歳の女の子の物語。 そこにまたbeheadingsのレポートおよびカレンの村民-ここ数週間に転置されてしまった誰が18,000の切断にの衝撃を与えている。 一部は多分私が自分自身については見たと同時にだれが幾年もの間する生命に-やっと人々がよりしがみつく多くをすることを可能にするタイのボーダーに沿う転位のキャンプ住んでいたか120,000を結合する。 これまでは、国際地域社会によるビルマの政体へのアプローチおよび失敗はビルマに対して強い認可を実行するずっと完全で、完全な失敗である。 ビルマmilitary' カレン、Karenniおよびシャン族のような民族グループに対するsの組織的残虐行為は今でも非常に墓、カレンの国家の最近のビルマの軍の抗勢が示すので、増えている(16,000にカレンは最後の攻撃的のによって転置され、多数は殺された。) ポーズをとらせ、操縦し、そして巧妙なトリックの国民投票を使用するように試みにもかかわらず、ビルマはまた変更が方法にである世界にふりをするのに1990年にもどって来、Aung San Suu Kyiが自宅軟禁の下に残るより今民主主義に近い方のNOではない。 去年僧侶の射撃および今年サイクロンの下線の犠牲者のための無視このperfidiousおよび無慈悲な政体の性質。 10年以上後で、Burma'のカレンの状態に改善が、Karenniおよびシャン族またはそれずっとない; sの民主化運動。 ビルマの政体の方の同じ弱く、効果がない方針の多くは現在、物凄い現状を単にこの先数十年間維持する。 これらのような独裁者は世界は見落として喜んでである信じたりまたは、彼らの残酷および未開状態忘れていたことをと存続する。 彼らは最も長く存続する- Franco'について考えなさい; -その他の国々が代わりの過度に恐ろしくなる場合のスペインのsのファシスト党の独裁制: " より悪い何か"の恐れのための看護婦にしがみつきなさい; ビクトリア時代の人が顕著にそれを置いたように。 どんな独裁者が恐れているかほとんどは法廷で彼らの略奪行為を露出する鋭いサーチライトである。 That' 強固な要塞であるために想像するものに彼らがなぜ報告の制限を課し、言論の自由を抑制し、堅い旅行制限を課し、そして彼らの国を回すかs。 残念ながらそれらのために、真実は通常方法を見つける; そして頻繁にペンは剣より強大証明する。 私は最近深くビルマを圧制する卑しい会議を露出する2冊の本を読むために動いた。 " トカゲCage" 、カレンConnelly (Harvill Secker 2007年)による小説はビルマの刑務所の中で、が自叙伝的な"置かれる; 緑のGhosts"の土地から; 私の目へのパスカルKhoo Thwe (フラミンゴ2003年)の持って来られた破損、およびカレンの州への私の自身の訪問のリコールされた記憶によって。 It' s Padaungの種族から来る若者、カレンの種族の人々の補助的なグループの物語。 彼女達の女性は頻繁に"と電話される; キリンnecked" 彼らが首に身に着けているリングのために女性。 ビルマの神学校の聖職者にふさわしい職業をテストした後、パスカルは彼が-訪問の英国の学者との…チャンスの遭遇-およびジェームスジョイスについての会話を有するマンダレイ大学で英文学を調査することを行った。 1988年に彼によっては学生の反乱で追いつかれるようになり、ジャングルを通してタイの難民キャンプに彼の方法が戦い、そしてケンブリッジで英文学を読むことを終える。 パスカルは生命にBurma'の1の伝統そして文化を持って来る豊富なタペストリーを一緒に編む; sの多様な少数民族。 彼の祖父はPadaung'の1才だった; sのリーダーはイタリアの宣教師によってカトリック教義に変えられ。 本はPascal'で深く引く; 従来の精神性によって深く影響を及ぼされるsの豊富な信頼。 それはまた運命および神プロヴィデンスの感覚と深くしみ込む個人的な勇気の遺言である。 彼の家族の損失にもかかわらず-だれが武力によって阻止され、強姦され、そして殺害されるか、彼の大学恋人は-ゲリラの自由の戦闘機の地下の世界、パスカルを結合するために彼の調査を断念させる決して絶望しないし。 パスカルは決して希望をあきらめない。 彼の最も大きい恐れは彼が"であることである; down"の許可; 西への走行による彼の同国人; しかし、物語を言うことで彼の驚くべきギフトを使用することによって、彼は独裁者に対して大打撃を渡した。 カレンConnelly' s小説、" トカゲCage" 不公平不公平および残忍の表面上は不可能な試験によって攻撃されたときまた耐える人間の精神の機能を祝う。 パスカルのように、このbook' sの中心人物、Tezaはまた多くの抗議に、-加わり、彼の音楽によって祝われた反対者に似合った。 彼は独房監禁の20年の懲役に7年である。 本はTezaと弟の間で成長する関係、刑務所の中で育っている孤児の男の子をたどる。 パスカルKhoo Thwe、Connellyのように賢くビルマの歴史、Rangoon'のような刑務所の生命の鮮やかな記述のAung San Suu Kyiの捕われの身を、散在させる; s Inseinの刑務所。 私達は民主主義のための国民リーグの英雄的な役割をおよび反主流派、ビルマの政治の特にすべてのビルマ学生の民主党の前部および異なった面、仏教および金持ち圧迫された民族グループ思い出す。 これらのような本はBurma'で転置される百万人を私達に思い出させる; sのジャングル、人間の地雷清掃ローラとして棒の後ろで、強制労働の使用、村民の使用、女性の強姦、村、たくさんと立つ政体の殺害の焼却は憂鬱な生活を送っている1,500人の政治犯集団虐殺の訴えた。 ずっと打撃を受けた人々の状態に残酷に無関心である政体。 欧州諸国がインド、it'のような後進国によってビルマの軍隊に武器の販売によって破損の訴えられて武装させるembargosを立つように; 容易に私達が共作者にいかになってもいいか思い出すべきsまた。 しかし、矯正労働収容所からの文献のように、これらの本はまたNeの勝利からの独裁者に譴責としてだれが人々を開発し、恐怖に陥れたか、前にか立つ-。 それらはまたregime'の破壊を助ける; 秘密のsの壁。 Winston Churchillは一度、"言った; 独裁者は降ろさないことを敢えてしないトラにあちらこちらに乗る。 そしてトラはhungry"を得ている;。 ビルマの軍の独裁制は苦しむ人々の背部で乗り-それらを押しつぶし、恐怖に陥れる。 彼らは降りないには余りに敢えてする; しかし彼らは世界彼らの政体の性質を非常にはっきり見ることができる用心するべきである。 審判の時は来る。 サイクロンは普及した反乱のための触媒であると証明するかもしれない: トラは空腹になっている。 世界がサイクロンの犠牲者へ大いに必要な人道的支援を提供することで躊躇するべきではないが私達はまた長期協調された国際的な行為がかなりビルマの政体の経済的で、軍事力を弱めることを必要とする。 私達がこれをしなければのビルマの人権についての私達の心配真剣に取るためにその政体を得ることはほとんど不可能である。 Burma' sの軍の政体はただ私達皆を続け、さらにもっと粗く、鎮圧対策に先行している臨時の表面的な譲歩をひもでつなぎする。 方法を変える堅い認可を含み、それによりビルマの政体に実質圧力を置くビルマの大いにより強い方針は必要である。 非常に新しい方針は次の特徴を含むべきである: · ビルマregime'の処理; ビルマの民主化運動そして政治犯の状態として少なくとも等しい重要性をもちそして等しい適用範囲を両方の問題に与えるカレン、Karenniおよびシャン族の人々に対するsの組織的残虐行為。 · U.Nの安全保障理事会の議題の両方のこれらの問題を保つ-および安全保障理事会の結合の決断を要求すること。 これはビルマにカレン、Karenniおよびシャン族の人々に対してビルマの軍隊によって強く組織的残虐行為を非難することと同様、全体的な腕および投資輸出禁止を課すべきである。 · 非常に真剣にParliamentariansによってなされ、人権擁護団体、人間性に対して集団虐殺、罪および戦争犯罪にカレン、Karenniおよびシャン族の人々に対するビルマの軍隊による組織的残虐行為によってがなる、記念祭のキャンペーンのような場合を考えると。 これまでは余りにも多くの政府は反射運動として深い考察をそれらに与えか、または真剣に主題を研究するように試みそして無視してしまったこれらの要求を、彼らの位置の詳しい理由を与えないことを。 少なくとも、繰り返されてカレン、Karenniに対して攻撃を熟慮し、ビルマの軍隊によるシャン族の一般市民は確かに対立の間に非戦闘員の目標とすることを禁止するジュネーブ協定の共通の記事3の甚だしい違反でなければならない。 それは戦争犯罪がビルマの軍隊によってカレン、Karenniおよびシャン族に対して託されている戦争の法律の基本的な知識との誰でもに明確なはずである。 Unf
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Support Myanmar with Love ,愛のサポートミャンマー (ENGLISH AND JAPANESE)
Strong tropical cyclone “Nargis” made landfall in Myanmar on May 3rd. Over a short weekend, roughly 20,000 lives perished, making this the worst disaster in Myanmar in the past 17 years. Tzu Chi Foundation volunteers from Yangon, and the neighboring countries, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan, were dispatched to provide aid. Stocked with 30,000 blankets made from recycled plastic bottles, over 1,000 tents, instant noodle, medical supplies, and body bags, Tzu Chi is prepared to carry out its first wave of relief distributions. In support of the relief efforts, the “Support Myanmar with Love” fundraising campaign in the United States will launch beginning on May 11th.
The effect of natural disasters on Earth can be catastrophic. In 1991, 130,000 lives were lost in the Bangladesh flood; in 1998, Hurricane Mitchell brought havoc to South America; in December 2004, Tsunami in Southeast Asia wiped out countless villages and lives; in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and neighboring cities; and in October 2003 and 2007, Southern California wildfires affected over a million lives. Even to this day people are still recovering from these terrible tragedies. These seemingly incessant waves of disasters around the world all suggest that the Earth is in peril.
Fortunately, there is Great Love everywhere. In response to the natural disasters, Tzu Chi initiated numerous fundraising campaigns around the world to provide the survivors with aid. The money and supplies raised from the campaigns symbolized the love and compassion from people around the world.
Fortune and misfortune are two sides of a coin. Master Cheng Yen, the founder of Tzu Chi Foundation, constantly urges everyone to awaken to the lessons learned from these disasters. Upon witnessing the suffering of others, people should unite together and reach out to help, and at the same time be content of own good fortune.
TO DONATE:
1. Check： Payable to：Tzu Chi Address：Tzu Chi Foundation, U.S.A. 1100 S. Valley Center Ave., San Dimas, CA 91773 Memo: Charity
2. Credit Card Donation Hotline（9 am – 6 pm PST）： 1.888.989.8244（1.888.9TZUCHI）
For more information, please call Tzu Chi Foundation at (909) 447-7799 or go on-line at www.us.tzuchi.org.
Da Ai Headlines (English News)
2008-05-19 Tzu Chi's second distribution
2008-05-19 Tzu Chi youth gathering
2008-05-19 Fundraising for disaster victims
2008-05-19 Press conference on disaster aid
2008-05-19 International fundraising efforts
2008-05-19 Donations and blessings for quake victims
2008-05-16 Cyclone assistance and aid
2008-05-15 Cyclone victims continue to receive help
2008-05-14 Aid relief teams on the move
2008-05-13 Tzu Chi disaster team in cyclone hit area
2008-05-09 International aid mission ready to go
2008-05-08 The aftermath of cyclone-ravaged Myanmar
強い熱帯サイクロン「Nargis」は5月3日にミャンマーの陸地初認を作った。 短い週末に、大体20,000生命は死に、これに過去の17年のミャンマーの最も悪い災害をする。 Tzuのキーの基礎はヤンゴンから自ら申し出、援助を提供するために近隣諸国、マレーシア、タイおよび台湾は、急派された。 リサイクルされたプラスチックびんから、1,000のテント上の、即席めん類なされるによって貯蔵されて、30,000枚の毛布医薬品および遺体袋、Tzuのキーは救助の配分の最初波を遂行するために準備される。 救助活動を助けて、米国の「愛」は資金集めをするキャンペーンのサポートミャンマー5月11日の始めを進水させる。 地球に対する自然災害の効果は破局的である場合もある。 1991年に、130,000生命はバングラデシュの洪水で失われた; 1998年に、ハリケーンMitchellは南アメリカに破壊を持って来た; 2004年12月では、東南アジアの津波は無数の村および生命を一掃した; 2005年8月では、ハリケーンカトリナはニュー・オーリンズおよび近隣都市を荒廃させた; そして2007年10月で2003年および、百万生命に影響されるカリフォルニア南山火事。 今でも人々はまだこれらのひどい悲劇から回復している。 世界中の災害のこれらの表面上は絶え間ない波はすべて地球が危険にあることを提案する。 幸いにも、どこでも大きい愛がある。 自然災害に応じて、Tzuのキーは世界中で援助を生存者に与えるために多数の資金集めをするキャンペーンを始めた。 お金および供給はキャンペーンから象徴した世界中の人々からの愛そして同情を上がった。 幸運および不幸は硬貨の双方である。 チェンマスターの円、Tzuのキーの基礎の創設者はこれらの災害から教訓に覚醒するように、絶えず皆をせき立てる。 他の苦労を目撃した上で、人々は一緒に結合し、助けるために手を差し伸べるべきで同時に自身の幸運の内容である。 寄付するため: 1. 点検: に支払うべき: Tzuのキー 住所: Tzuのキーの基礎、米国 1100年のS.の谷の中心Ave。、San Dimas、カリフォルニア91773 メモ: 慈善 2. クレジットカードの寄付のホットラインの（9 AM - 6 pm PSTの）: 1.888.989.8244 （1.888.9TZUCHIの） より多くの情報のために、Tzuのキーの基礎を(909) 447-7799で呼びなさいまたはwww.us.tzuchi.orgでオンラインで行きなさい。 Da Aiの見出し(英国のニュース) 2008-05-19 Tzu Chi' s第2配分 2008-05-19 Tzuのキーの青年収集 2008-05-19被災者のために資金集めをする 2008-05-19災害の援助の記者会見 2008-05-19国際的な資金集めをする努力 2008-05-19震動の犠牲者のための寄付そして天恵 2008-05-16サイクロンの援助および援助 2008-05-15サイクロンの犠牲者は助けを受け取り続ける 2008-05-14絶えず動いている援助の救助チーム 2008-05-13サイクロンのTzuのキーの災害のチームは区域に当った 2008-05-09行くこと準備ができた国際的な援助の代表団 2008-05-08サイクロン破壊されたミャンマーの余波
Cyclone Nagris Has Never Been ‘Natural’ ,サイクロンNagrisはいままで決して`Naturalではなかった(ENGLISH AND JAPANESE)
CONTRIBUTOR Cyclone Nagris Has Never Been ‘Natural’
By SAI SOE WIN LATT
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the BBC last week that Cyclone Nagris had been turned into a "man-made catastrophe" from a natural disaster because of the negligence of the ruling generals.
While Mr. Brown is right that Cyclone Nagris has been turned into a “man-made catastrophe,” it may also be the result of man-made economic, political and historical factors.
Cyclone Nagris should also be viewed in light of the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that clearly warned that as a result of global warming, tropical cyclones “will become more intense, with larger peak wind speeds and more heavy precipitation associated with ongoing increases of tropical sea surface temperatures.”
Global warming is largely caused by emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Roughly 75 to 80 percent of carbon dioxide emission results from burning fossil fuel such as diesel, petrol and gas as well as emissions released into the air by various industries and factories. The United States, the world’s largest consumer of energy, is the biggest polluter, emitting about 6,000 million tones in 2005, according to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The US’s rate of emission was about 25 percent of global carbon dioxide emissions.
The US is followed by China, western European countries, Russia, Japan and India, respectively.
Failing to take more effective actions against global warming, these countries have even increased their rates of emission in the past five years.
Cyclone Nagris is a political problem because of the isolationist, xenophobic views of Burma’s military government.
The junta misinformed the people about the cyclone, and also failed to take appropriate action before and after the storm. According to M. Maharatra, the director of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), regular advisories were issued, starting on April 26, to the Burmese authorities that a strong cyclone would strike Burma.
Ignoring the IMD warnings, Burma’s Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) issued inaccurate and inadequate information, failing to inform residents in the storm’s path.
Cyclone Nagris, however, was not only about winds and tides. It’s also about history. Burma’s military governments have never had a disaster relief plan for just such an event as Cyclone Nargis. The area is home to hundreds of rivers and tributaries and only about 3 meters above sea level. The 2004 tsunami should have been taken as a warning.
When the winds and tides of the cyclone were over, the politics of aid began to unfold. Regardless of the dead and homeless, the junta refused to allow international communities to help the victims. The New Era, a Bangkok-based Burmese language newspaper, reported on May 8 that the Burmese Ministry of Foreign Affairs instructed the embassies around the world not to issue visas to international aid workers and experts, saying Burma would only accept money and aid supplies and it already had its own experts. Shamelessly, the junta seized the World Food Program’s aid supplies and deported some aid workers.
Moreover, there were reports that the army and the junta’s Union Solidarity and Development Association hijacked aid packages.
China, India and the Asian countries have also contributed to the present problem by their hands-off policies which have in effect reinforced the regime’s hubris, leading up to the current international stand off.
These are some of the man-made problems at the local, regional and global levels. Unfortunately, the cost of this “unnatural” disaster is being paid by the people of Burma.
Sai Soe Win Latt is a graduate student in geography at York University in Canada.
貢献者 サイクロンNagrisはいままで決して`Naturalではなかった -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAI SOEの勝利LATT 2008年5月21日水曜日によって -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 電子メール 印刷物 テキストのサイズ Gordon Brown総理大臣はサイクロンNagrisが"に回るようにBBCに先週言った; 人造のcatastrophe" 支配する大将の怠慢のために自然災害から。 サイクロンNagrisは「人造の大災害に回ったこと氏が正しい間、ブラウン」、それはまた人造の経済的なの結果、政治および歴史的であるかもしれない 要因。 サイクロンNagrisはまた(IPCC)地球温暖化の結果として、熱帯サイクロンは「より強くなることをはっきり警告した気候変動、の政府間のパネルによって2007レポートに照し合わせて熱帯海の表面温度の進行中の増加と関連付けられるより大きいピーク風速およびより重い沈殿物と見られるべきである」。 地球温暖化は二酸化炭素および他の温室効果ガスの放出によって主として引き起こされる。 二酸化炭素の放出の大体75%から80%さまざまな企業および工場によって空気に解放される放出、またディーゼル、ガソリンおよびガスのような化石燃料の燃焼に起因する。 米国の世界でエネルギーの最も大きい消費者は、気候変動の国際連合の枠組み条約に従って2005年に約6,000,000,000の調子を、出している最も大きい汚染者である。 米国の放出の率は全体的な二酸化炭素の放出の約25%だった。 米国は中国の西ヨーロッパの国、ロシア、日本およびインドに、それぞれ先行している。 地球温暖化に対して有効な手段を取らないことをこれらの国は高めた過去５年間の放出の率を。 サイクロンNagrisは独立主義者のために政治問題、ビルマの軍事政権の他人恐怖性の意見である。 会議はサイクロンについての人々を誤って伝え、また嵐の前後に適切な行動を取り損った。 M. Maharatraに従って、ビルマの権限への4月26日に、始めているインドの強いサイクロンがビルマを打つこと気象部門(IMD)のディレクターは、規則的な状況報告出された。 IMDの警告を無視して、ビルマの気象学の部および水文学(DMH)は出した不正確で、不十分な情報を嵐の道の居住者を知らせないことを。 しかしサイクロンNagrisは風および潮についてだけあった。 それは歴史についてまたある。 ビルマの軍事政権にサイクロンNargisのような決してちょうどでき事のための災害救助の計画があったあらないことは。 区域は何百もの川および支流に家および約3つの海抜メートルだけである。 2004年の津波は警告として取られるべきである。 サイクロンの風そして潮が終わったときに、援助の政治は開き始めた。 死んだのにもかかわらずおよびホームレス、会議は国際地域社会が犠牲者を助けることを許可することを断った。 国際的な援助の労働者および専門家に査証を出さないようにビルマの外務省が世界中で大使館に指示したこと新しい時代、5月8日に報告されたバンコク基づかせていたビルマの言語新聞言ビルマはお金だけを受け入れ、援助の供給におよび既に自身の専門家があった。 恥も外聞もなく、会議は世界食糧計画の援助の供給を握り、何人かの援助の労働者を追放した。 さらに、軍隊および会議の連合団結および開発連合が援助のパッケージを乗っ取ったというレポートがあった。 中国、インドおよびアジアの国はまた事実上政体の不遜を補強した現在の国際的なスタンドオフまで導く自由放任政策によって現在の問題に貢献した。 これらはローカルの、地方および全体的なレベルに人造問題のいくつかである。 残念ながら、この「不自然な」災害の費用はビルマの人々によって支払われている。 Sai Soeの勝利Lattはカナダのヨーク大学に地理学の大学院生である。
Myanmar to allow WFP helicopters: UN chief,WFPのヘリコプターを許可するミャンマー: 国連責任者
Myanmar to allow WFP helicopters: UN chief
WFPのヘリコプターを許可するミャンマー: 国連責任者
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said on Tuesday that Myanmar's junta had granted permission for the World Food Programme to use helicopters to distribute aid to cyclone-hit areas of the country. The military government in the former Burma has allowed relief flights to deliver supplies to Yangon, the largest city, but had balked at aerial access to the southwestern Irrawaddy delta, where an estimated 2.4 million people were left destitute. "We have received government permission to operate nine WFP helicopters which will allow us to reach areas that have so far been largely inaccessible," Ban told reporters before departing for a visit to Myanmar. The top UN humanitarian envoy, John Holmes, said in Myanmar on Tuesday he had discussed the use of helicopters with government officials, who "took note" of his suggestion. The junta's delays in allowing access to international aid workers has drawn criticism and warnings that many more people could die in the aftermath of the cyclone that roared across parts of the Southeast Asian country at the start of May. Ban said he welcomed the government's "recent flexibility" but added that aid workers had so far been able to reach only around 25 percent of those in need. He said he hoped Myanmar's reclusive leader Than Shwe would be among senior government officials he meets during his visit. Ban was due to arrive in the Thai capital Bangkok on Wednesday and go to Myanmar on Thursday. Ban said a May 25 donors' pledging conference in Yangon would be crucial for the longer term rebuilding of the country, where he said the government had estimated the cost of the disaster at some $10 billion in economic losses.
国際連合: Ban Ki-moon国連事務総長はMyanmar'火曜日に言った; sの会議は使用ヘリコプターに世界食糧計画のための許可を援助を配るサイクロン当った国の区域に許可した。 前のビルマの軍事政権は援助物資輸送がヤンゴンの大都市に供給を提供するようにしたが推定2.4百万人が貧困残っていたIrrawaddyの南西デルタへの空気のアクセスで妨げた。 " 私達は私達がずっと今のところ主として得難い区域、"に達することを可能にする9つのWFPのヘリコプターを作動させる政府の許可を受け取った; 禁止はミャンマーへ訪問のために出発する前にレポーターを告げた。 上国連人道主義の公使、ジョンHolmesは彼が"、国家公務員とヘリコプターの使用を論議した火曜日のミャンマーで、言った; note"を取った; 彼の提案の。 junta' 国際的な援助の労働者へのアクセスの許可のsの遅れはもっとたくさんの人々が5月のはじめに東南アジアの国の部分を渡ってとどろいたサイクロンの影響で死ぬことができること批評および警告を引いた。 禁止は彼がgovernment'を歓迎したことを言った; sの" 最近のflexibility" しかし援助の労働者が今のところ必要性のそれらのおよそ25%ただ達できたことを加えられる。 彼は彼がMyanmar'を望んだことを言った; Shweよりsの孤立したリーダーは彼が彼の訪問の間に会う年長の国家公務員間にある。 あった水曜日のタイの首都のバンコクで着き、木曜日のミャンマーに行くこと当然が禁止しなさい。 禁止は5月25日donors'を言った; ヤンゴンの誓約の会議は政府は経済的な損失の約$10十億で災害の費用を推定したことを彼が言った国のより長期的な再建のために重大である。 e
Emergency News Release by NLD(LA), NLD (LA)による緊急の新聞発表
trsKd;om;'Drdkua&pDtzGJ@csKyf (vGwfajrmufe,fajr) NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY (Liberated Area) Emergency News Release Date: May 20, 2008 It is reported that villagers in the following villages in Kungyangon Township are greatly in need of assistance and no donor including S.P.D.C authorities has reached so far due to difficulties of transportation as they are located near the sea and far from roads or high ways. 1. Mankalate village 2. Mephalee 3. Hteepa 4. Thangyo 5. Innkwat 6. Kyaikpee 7. Mayan 8. Kitekyi 9. Kawatchaungkyi 10. Tamartakaw 11. Yaydane 12. Kyauksayit 13. Kyonekadone 14. Kyonelatar 15. Kyonechaung Information Department National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) Contact person: U Myint Soe (Secretary) Phone: (+66) (0) 8620 46023 Email: myintsoe001@gmail.com Contact person: U Nyo Ohn Myint Phone: (+66) (0) 897003432 Email: nyomyint@hotmail.com
trsKd; om; ' Drdkua& 民主主義(解放された区域)の緊急の新聞発表の日付のpDtzGJ@csKyf (vGwfajrmufe、fajr)の国民リーグ: 海近くにそして道か高い方法から遠くにあると同時にKungyangonの町区の次の村の村民が援助を必要として非常にあるS.P.D.Cの権限を含む提供者が交通機関の難しさが今のところ原因で達しなかったことが2008年5月20日報告され。 1. Mankalateの村2. Mephalee 3. Hteepa 4. Thangyo 5. Innkwat 6. Kyaikpee 7.マヤの8. Kitekyi 9. Kawatchaungkyi 10. Tamartakaw 11. Yaydane 12。 Kyauksayit 13。 Kyonekadone 14。 Kyonelatar 15。 民主主義(解放された区域)の連絡窓口のためのKyonechaungのインフォメーション部の国民リーグ: U Myint Soe (秘書)の電話: (+66) (0の) 8620 46023電子メール: myintsoe001@gmail.comの連絡窓口: U Nyo Ohn Myintの電話: (+66) (0の) 897003432電子メール: nyomyint@hotmail.com
ビルマの独裁者はだれであるか。彼を知り、彼の停止を助けなさい ,Who Is the Dictator of Burma?
Who Is the Dictator of Burma?Know Him And Help Stop Him
Dear friends,
Today's piece, starring Ellen Page, exposes to the general public -- for the first time -- who is the military dictator in Burma. For far too long, Than Shwe has terrorized the people of Burma with his brutal rule and countless crimes against humanity.
While much of the world knows about the crimes of dictators Slobodan Milosevic in former Yugoslavia, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Omar Al-Bashir in Sudan, and Adolf Hitler in Germany, practically no one knows about Than Shwe.
No two dictators are exactly alike, and Than Shwe is his own kind of monster.
We want the world to know who he is -- so that he can no longer terrorize the people of Burma behind closed doors (his most recent crime -- denying aid to desperate victims of the Burma cyclone).
Please spread this video as far and wide as you can. It (and the 19 previous videos) can be seen at http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kkK80nIQ%2Fv6SddyXR38lRHDMvzpmcOS8 and http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t5luhpjhiqd9jbc2pCo%2FR3DMvzpmcOS8 and also http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=K%2F9AJDGvQAJxeMjltWONgnDMvzpmcOS8
After you watch the video, please sign up to help stop Than Shwe at http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HqOf8f0zh32SCjYfh7mA0HDMvzpmcOS8 We are organizing a campaign of one million people to join together for human rights in Burma and to stop Than Shwe. Tell your friends, family, and colleagues to sign up today.
Sincerely,
Aung Din, Jeremy Woodrum, Jennifer Quigley, Thelma Young
Support 1991 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Aung San Suu Kyi and the struggle for freedom and democracy in Burma. Become a member of the United States Campaign for Burma today.
NHK(CHANNEL-3) WILL INTERVIEW PFB ON MAY 20-10:50PM
In English
The Burmese citizen forum mail magazine 2008/5/20 People' s Forum ON Burma ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ tonight, NHK education television with “point of view point”, basic Satoshi of the PFB management member we take charge of explanation and comment with the below-mentioned theme concerning the cyclone damage referendum Burmese. Everyone please view by all means. ■NHK education television “point of view point” “Myanmar: Referendum under suffering new constitution” Explanation and comment: Basic Satoshi (Sophia University extramural national language department professor) * Televising day: This day May 20th (fire) night 10:50 at the time of ~11 PFB executive office (pfb@ xsj.biglobe.ne.jp) http://www1.jca.apc.org/pfb/index.htm
Burmanet » Wall Street Journal Asia: Orwell lives in Burma today - Emma Larkin
Wall Street Journal Asia: Orwell lives in Burma today - Emma Larkin Mon 19 May 2008 Filed under: News, Opinion, Other
The ruling military junta here is trying hard to pretend it has the country under control in the wake of Cyclone Nargis. On Saturday, the regime flew foreign diplomats to neatly-configured aid camps. State-run radio is optimistic. The regime’s state newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar, ran articles last week claiming the national relief operation is officially over. Photographs showed soldiers loading or unloading neatly-packed trucks filled with sacks of rice. Generals are seen handing blankets to grateful survivors who kneel at their feet.
Welcome to the Orwellian world of life in Burma today, where the media portrays a reality unknown to most residents. The real story is far more horrifying.
On the ground here in an Irrawaddy Delta village called Kungyangon, near Rangoon, aid workers report that the muddy, washed-out road is lined with thousands of desperate people who have no place to live and no food to feed themselves. A businessman who just returned from the worst-hit south-western reaches of the Delta showed me film footage recorded in one village over ten days after the cyclone hit. Blank-faced survivors said they had not yet received aid of any kind. The camera captured bloated bodies floating in ponds and flooded paddy fields.
Meanwhile, the few international aid agencies already on the ground here, such as Save the Children and the World Food Programme, have been prevented by the authorities from accessing affected areas. Most foreign aid workers are confined to their offices in Rangoon, supported by small teams of local Burmese staff who have been granted travel permission to affected areas. Unable to travel down to the Delta — the road is now blocked by military checkpoints and foreigners who are caught are turned back — international disaster relief experts are holding secret meetings to train local Burmese volunteers in the basic of emergency response management. It’s hardly enough when the junta itself admitted Friday that 78,000 have died from the Cyclone. This number is likely to increase as disease and hunger kicks in.
The disconnect between what’s happening here and what the state media reports is nothing new. After the nationwide uprising of 1988, when an estimated 3,000 people were killed by government soldiers, the regime began a massive cover-up campaign, arresting dissidents and relocating neighborhoods that had been considered hotbeds of political opposition. After the demonstrations led by Buddhist monks in September last year, when soldiers killed a still unconfirmed number of peaceful protestors, the Burmese regime shut down Internet connections and limited the amount of outside assistance allowed into the country.
The generals are well-practiced in hiding the truth of events, distorting the news, and rewriting history in their own favor. When the international community erupts in protest, they hunker down and wait for the international attention to fade away.
Most Burmese seem resigned to this fate. This is the way the generals have always acted and always will act, they say — no matter what happens. They are occupied with rebuilding damaged homes, coping with rising food and fuel prices, and mobilizing whatever aid they can acquire to help people in the Delta.
Barring a split in the regime, it is difficult to think that any kind of immediate change or opening up can come from this. The generals are, after all, using tried and tested methods of self-protection and displaying a determination to hold on to power against all odds, and at any cost. The epic proportion of this disaster only makes their actions more unbelievable, and reprehensible.
Ms. Larkin is the pen name of an American writer based in Bangkok, Thailand. She is the author of “Finding George Orwell in Burma” (Penguin, 2005).
ウォールストリート・ジャーナルアジア: Orwellはビルマ-エマLarkinに今日住んでいる 月曜日2008年5月19日 ファイルされる: ニュース、意見、他ここの支配する軍の会議はサイクロンNargisの結果として制御の下で持っている国をそれのふりをすることを懸命に試みている。 土曜日で、政体は端正形成された援助のキャンプに外国の外交官を飛ばした。 国営ラジオは楽観的である。 政体の州新聞、ミャンマーの新しいライトは、先週国民の救援活動を要求する記事を公式にある動かした。 写真は荷を積むか、または荷を下している兵士が米の袋で満ちていたトラックを端正詰めたことを示した。 大将は彼らのフィートでひざまずく感謝した生存者への毛布を渡すことを見られる。 媒体がほとんどの居住者に現実の未知数を描写するところ、今日ビルマの生命のOrwellianの世界への歓迎。 実質の物語ははるかに恐ろしい。 Irrawaddyのデルタの村の地面でここに、ラングーンの近くで、Kungyangonを泥の、洗浄された道が住む場所および彼ら自身に与える食糧を食べないたくさんの絶望的な人々と並ぶという援助の労働者のレポート呼んだ。 デルタの最も被害が最も大きい南西範囲からちょうど戻ったビジネスマンは10日にわたる1つの村で私に記録された場面を後サイクロン衝突示した。 空白直面された生存者は言ったまだ種類の援助を受け取らなかったことを。 捕獲されたカメラは池で浮かぶボディを膨れさせ、水田にあふれた。 その間、ここの地面の少数の国際的な援助機関は既に、子供を除けばおよび世界食糧計画のような、影響された区域のアクセスから権限によって防がれた。 ほとんどの対外援助の労働者は影響を受けた区域への旅行許可を許可されたローカルビルマのスタッフの小さいチームが支えるラングーンの彼らのオフィスに制限される。 デルタに移動することない-道は軍チェックポイントによって今妨げられ、つかまえられる外国人は回されたバックの国際的な災害救助の専門家である緊急状態応答管理の基本のローカルビルマのボランティアを訓練する保有物の秘密の会合である。 それは78,000はサイクロンがもとで死んだこと十分にほとんど会議自体が金曜日を是認したときではない。 この数は病気として増加するためにが本当らしく、空腹は作動する。 ここに、何が起こるか州媒体のレポートが何も新しいことはではないもの間の接続解除。 1988年の全国的な反乱の後で、推定3,000人が政府の兵士によって殺されたときに、政体は大きい隠蔽のキャンペーン、人目を引く反対者を政治反対の温床として考慮された移転の近隣始め。 9月の僧侶が去年導いたデモンストレーションの後で兵士が平和な抗議者の静かな未確認数を殺したときに、ビルマの政体はインターネット接続を締め、国に割り当てられた外の援助の量が限った。 大将はでき事の真実を隠し、ニュースを歪め、そして彼らの自身の好意で歴史を書直すことでよ練習される。 国際地域社会が抗議で噴火するとき、うずくまり、衰退するために国際的な注意に待っている。 最もビルマ語はこの運命に辞職されてようである。 これは大将が常に常に行動し、行動する方法である、-起こる言う。 彼らは損なわれた家を再建すること、上昇の食糧および燃料価格に対処し、どんな援助を得てもデルタの人々を助けるためにいい動員することと占められる。 政体の割れ目を除いて、どの開発種類の即時の変更または開発でもでもこれから来ることができると考えることは困難である。 大将は自己防衛および決定を表示する試験済み方法を使用して、結局、すべての確率に対して、そしてあらゆる費用で力にしがみつくある。 この災害の叙事詩の割合は行為だけをより信じ難く、非難されるべきにする。 Larkin氏はバンコク、タイで基づいてアメリカの作家のペンネームである。 彼女は「ビルマのジョージOrwellを」見つけることの著者である(ペンギン2005年)。
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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ၽတရုတ္နိုင္ငံမွာေတာ့ငလ်င္ဒဏ္ေႀကာင့္ေသဆုံးသူေတြအတြက္၀မ္းနည္းျခင္းအထိမ္းအမွတ္-၃-ရက္သတ္မွတ္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာေတာ့??????????????
သဘာ၀ဓါတ္ေငြ ့ေရာင္းရတဲ့ေငြေတြဘယ္ေရာက္သြားလဲ
Burma: Billion dollar con New Internationalist Interactive: "Burma: Billion dollar con"
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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ဘာျဖစ္လို ့စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကဆိုင္ကလုံးအကူအညီေတြကိုခိုးယူေနရတာလဲ -Why Myanmar's junta steals foreign aid(Detail in english)
စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကေတာ့ ႀကိုတင္စီစဥ္ထားတဲ့အတိုင္းဘဲ အနိုင္မဲကိုေႀကျငာလိုက္ျပန္ပါျပီ -Myanmar says constitution approved by 92.4 percent (Detail in english
ျမန္မာစစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြကကုလသမဂၢရဲ့ဖိအားေပးမွဳကျငင္းဆန္ေနတုံးဘဲ- - Myanmar refuses to bow to pressure as UN calls meeting (Detail in english)
Thursday, May 15, 2008
No More Waiting For Permission
No More Waiting For PermissionUK, US, and France Must Deliver Aid NowDear Friends, We are writing with an emergency appeal. It is now clear that China and its allies at the United Nations will block the UN Security Council from authorizing aid to Burma over the objections of the military regime. Please send a message now to the UK, French, and US governments to send aid in now, even without approval of the Burmese junta. The Burmese regime's denial of aid to its own people is a crime against humanity. Yet, because of China's objections, the UN remains virtually powerless. The major opposition groups inside Burma released a statement on the 9th saying "To save thousands of lives before it's too late, we would like to urge the United Nations and foreign governments to intervene in Burma immediately to provide humanitarian and relief assistance directly to the people of Burma, without waiting for the permission of the military junta, with a decision made by the UN Security Council or individual country."The world sat by, hiding behind diplomatic and legal protocols, when 800,000 were slaughtered in Rwanda. Now, millions are at risk in Burma and the world is similarly paralyzed. There are estimates that 1.5 million Burmese are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe." The world knew what was happening in Rwanda and did nothing, and the world is aware of what could happen in Burma. This is a regime that has already destroyed 3200 ethnic minority villages, recruited more child soldiers than any other country, and now is blocking aid to millions of people.News reports indicate that at a meeting in Rangoon yesterday a Burmese cabinet minister told aid agenices that foreign aid workers are prohibited from entering the disaster zones and that all aid must be delivered through the government. This comes with reports that local Burmese officials are stealing supplies, and that only 30% of aid is reaching people. The United States, France, and the UK have rightly deployed ships, helicopters, cargo planes, and other life-saving equipment and supplies to the seas and countries neighboring Burma. Yet, those materials sit by almost completely unused as the Burmese people perish from thirst, hunger, and disease. These countries have stated that they are waiting for "permission" from the Burmese regime as China blocks UN Security Council action. The UK, US, and France have done the right thing, trying to work through the UN. They cannot be blamed for the intransigence of Burma's regime and China. But, now is the time to act. Please send a message to UK Prime Minister Brown, US President Bush, and French President Sarkozy calling on them to stop waiting for the Chinese and Burmese regimes' approval and send in relief immediately. After Rwanda, the world pledged 'never again'. Yet again the world stands by as an impending catastrophe can claim hundreds of thousands of lives. **Please send this message as far and wide as you possibly can.** Aung Din, Jeremy Woodrum, Jennifer Quigley, and Thelma YoungP.S We have set up a section of our webpage dedicated to the cyclone so you can get all the latest news. Also, we are still accepting donations for cyclone victims.
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China Digs for Quake Survivors as 25,000 People Remain Trapped
China Digs for Quake Survivors as 25,000 People Remain Trapped
By William Bi and Aaron Sheldrick
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Chinese disaster workers, battling bad weather and rubble-strewn roads, tried to reach an estimated 25,000 people trapped under debris after the strongest earthquake in more than half a century.
Ambulances and double-decker buses packed with rescue workers streamed along the main highway from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, to Dujiangyan, the center of relief operations. The 7.9-magnitude quake two days ago killed at least 14,866 people, according to state-run China Central Television.
About 100,000 relief workers, including soldiers, police and medical teams, are working in the affected areas, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said on state television. More troops arrived in Wenchuan, a city of 118,000 about 42 kilometers (26 miles) from the epicenter and along the highway from Dujiangyan.
``Our top task now is to save lives, as many as possible,'' Wang Zhenyao, director of the disaster relief department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, said at a news conference in Beijing yesterday broadcast on state television. ``It is not the time to talk about giving up.''
The quake has left an estimated 64,746 people injured in Sichuan Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Some 2,000 troops have been sent to work on the Zipingku Dam, upriver from Dujiangyan in Sichuan province, the Associated Press said, where cracks have been detected, the agency said, citing state media.
Tents were pitched in soccer fields and vehicles waved through toll booths without charge on the highway into Dujiangyan. On the outskirts of the town, local residents provided food and water from makeshift stands. Some complained about delays in helping survivors.
Local Government
``The local government is nowhere in sight,'' Pu Juan, a resident, said on Jincheng Road in Dujiangyan. ``We are very disappointed that there's been no action. The only help we've received has come from the initiatives of our neighbors.''
Rescue workers are searching for 30 missing patients and employees at Dujiangyan Hospital. Eighty bodies have been recovered and 20 survivors pulled from the rubble of the hospital, which collapsed after the quake.
In Beichuan county, in southwestern Sichuan, rescue workers pulled a three-year-old girl out of the rubble from under the bodies of her dead parents. The girl had survived, with serious leg injuries, after being buried for more than forty hours, Xinhua reported. Eighty-four survivors have been found in Sichuan Province so far.
In the province's Quinchuan County, 178 students were killed when a school building collapsed during the quake, Xinhua reported, while a further 139 pupils escaped.
Yingxiu Town
Three-quarters of the 10,000 residents of Yingxiu town in Wenchuan County died in the quake, Xinhua said. It didn't say whether they were included in its official toll. In Mianyang, a city of more than 5 million west of Wenchuan, more than 18,000 people are estimated to be buried.
The candor about the quake and access to Chinese leaders contrasts with the media lockdown during Tibetan riots two months ago, when the leadership stayed at home and sealed off the region. Wen's rapid response also signals a determination to avoid missteps that followed January's deadly snow storms and the 2003 SARS outbreak and shore up support for the ruling Communist Party.
``There's very little effort to control information,'' said Huang Jing, a visiting senior fellow at the National University of Singapore East Asian Institute. ``Compared with the Tibet crisis, it looks almost like two governments.''
Aftershocks Continue
Aftershocks continued to rattle the region, disrupting search and rescue efforts and keeping survivors huddled in the rain outside shattered buildings. A 5.4-magnitude quake that was 10 kilometers deep hit today at 10:54 a.m. local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site.
Rain that hampered rescue efforts for the past two days eased and eight planes took off to drop supplies on Wenchuan and other areas, China Central Television said in its latest update. Wen arrived in Qushan County 2 kilometers from Wenchuan at about 10 a.m. local time today, Xinhua said. Later, he returned to Chengdu.
Two helicopters flew into Wenchuan earlier today, dropping medicine, food and tents, Xinhua said. More than 800 police officers and soldiers have arrived in the city, which was cut off until yesterday, and about 100 paratroopers landed in the area at 12:20 p.m. local time today, it said.
Relief Supplies
Nine trains carrying 14,000 troops were scheduled to arrive in the ``affected area'' today, Wang Yongping, a spokesman for the Ministry of Railways, said at a news conference in Beijing. They're part of a convoy of 50 trains containing goods for use by the military that are being sent to the area. By 6 a.m. tomorrow, 15 more trains will have arrived, Wang said. A further 619 train carriages loaded with tents, fuel and food are also being sent, Wang said.
State Grid Corp. of China, the nation's largest electricity distributor, has meanwhile restored power to almost 300,000 homes.
The weather forecast in the affected region is for cloudy conditions for the next two days, according to the China Meteorological Administration's Web site.
About 3.5 million homes were damaged or destroyed across Sichuan, Xinhua said, citing Vice Governor Li Chengyun. More than 2,000 students and teachers were buried in schools in Sichuan province, CCTV said.
Xinhua's death toll includes 206 in Gansu province north of Sichuan and 103 in Shaanxi to the northwest.
Flights to Sichuan are restricted to relief supplies and authorities called on passengers to avoid flying in central and southwestern China. The rail link between Baoji in Shaanxi and Chengdu is still closed, the Ministry of Railways said. Chinese shipments of steel, copper and other commodities have been disrupted by the quake.
Clearer Picture
It may be a week before a full assessment of casualties, damage and the needs of survivors is made, Nan Buzard, senior director of international disaster response at the American Red Cross, said on Bloomberg Television.
``Communications are very patchy,'' she said yesterday.
The government increased the allocation for disaster relief by more than four times to 860 million yuan ($123 million), the Ministry of Finance said in a statement yesterday.
China will ``welcome help and assistance from the international community,'' Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said at a regular news briefing in Beijing yesterday.
International relief officials said efforts to respond simultaneously to the China quake and the May 3 Myanmar cyclone, while difficult, aren't unprecedented. In 2004 and 2005, relief agencies raised money for victims of Hurricane Katrina in the U.S., the Indian Ocean tsunami and an earthquake in Pakistan.
Three Gorges Dam
No damage was reported at the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric dam, located about 760 kilometers from the quake's epicenter, Xinhua said.
The quake may fuel price increases in corn and soybeans after the disaster threatened to disrupt domestic supplies, analysts said.
Food prices in China already were expected to rise by an average of 10 percent or more this year as demand outpaces farm production and record global prices boost import costs, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in an April 29 report. The quake struck on May 12 at 2:28 p.m., about 75 kilometers from Chengdu, a metropolitan area that is home to 11 million people about 1,500 kilometers southwest of Beijing.
The quake was the world's strongest since an 8.5-magnitude temblor struck Indonesia in September, according to the USGS. It was the most powerful to hit China since a magnitude-8.6 quake struck Tibet in 1950, killing 1,526 people. A 7.5-magnitude quake killed 250,000 people in northeastern China's Tangshan in 1976, according to the USGS.
USGS defines an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more as ``major,'' and one above 8 as ``great.''
There are 17 quakes measuring 7 to 7.9 annually worldwide on average, USGS said on its Web site, with five occurring so far this year. On average, there is one temblor annually measuring 8 or more.
To contact the reporters on this story: William Bi near quake zone at wbi@bloomberg.net; Aaron Sheldrick in Tokyo at asheldrick@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: May 14, 2008 11:01 EDT
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UN Says Myanmar Should Open Corridor for Cyclone Aid.
Myanmar Should Open Corridor for Cyclone Aid, UN Says (Update2)
By Michael Heath
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Myanmar should open an air and sea corridor to allow aid in large quantities to reach the country quickly and prevent disease from causing a second catastrophe after Cyclone Nargis hit 11 days ago, the United Nations said.
The UN used an ``air or sea'' bridge after the 2004 tsunami devastated Indian Ocean countries, Elizabeth Byrs of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said yesterday. The UN's disaster-response agency warned that the coming monsoon rains will worsen the crisis, especially for people who lack shelter. A new storm was crossing southern Myanmar, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever may surge as soon as next week unless aid is rushed to survivors, the World Health Organization said.
The military junta must let international aid workers enter because ``hundreds of thousands of lives are in the balance,'' European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel said yesterday. The junta barred outsiders from distributing aid, and supplies have so far reached 270,000 people, only about a third of those at risk, the UN says.
The death toll has reached 31,000, and another 29,000 people are missing, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told reporters today in Bangkok after he returned from Myanmar, where he met with the military leaders. He said they told him Myanmar can handle the response to the emergency without help from foreign specialists, though some Thai doctors will be allowed in.
`Manmade Catastrophe'
``They said they welcome help from all nations,'' Samak said. ``But they don't want any experts or any team. They have a private sector there to help their people. They assure us there will be no outbreak or famine there.''
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Parliament in London today that ruling junta was creating a ``manmade catastrophe'' in Myanmar.
``I've asked Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, to hold an emergency summit'' involving Western and Asian nations, Brown said. He said the summit should be similar to the one the UN organized to get aid to the tsunami victims.
The UN estimates as many as 100,000 people died in Myanmar in the May 3 cyclone, the worst natural disaster in Southeast Asia since the 2004 tsunami killed more than 220,000 people. More than 1.5 million people need aid, the UN said.
Monsoon Season
The new storm, which was passing near the former capital, Yangon, may develop into a cyclone once it reaches the Bay of Bengal, the typhoon center said in a bulletin issued at 3 a.m. today Yangon time. The system was packing winds of 46 kilometers (29 miles) per hour and heading west-northwest across Myanmar at 11 kilometers an hour, it said.
The storm was already producing ``substantial amounts of rainfall,'' the UN's World Meteorological Organization said today in an e-mailed statement. ``With the monsoon season approaching, this type of weather will continue and periods of intensive rainfall will become more frequent,'' the agency said.
Tens of thousands of people throughout the southern Irrawaddy delta, the worst-hit region, are crammed into monasteries and informal camps and many are living by the roadside, Michel said. ``Disease is one of the biggest concerns as so many streams are contaminated by bodies, both human and animals.'' He arrived in Myanmar today, Agence France-Presse reported.
Malaria Reported
Some cases of malaria have been reported since the cyclone struck, though no disease outbreaks have been confirmed, said Maureen Birmingham, the WHO's acting representative in Thailand. Still, mosquito-borne diseases usually start spreading more rapidly in the ``third week or so'' after a flood, Birmingham said by phone from Bangkok today.
``It's already an endemic area and the high season is coming up, so we would not be surprised to see that surge,'' she said. ``We might have another week, but maybe we won't.''
There is still ``a considerable amount of surface area under water'' in Myanmar, she said.
Survivors, particularly children and the elderly, are suffering severe trauma, according to the Irrawaddy, a magazine published by Myanmar dissidents in neighboring Thailand.
They are surrounded by bodies and young children are particularly afraid of the water, the magazine reported, citing an unidentified resident of Yangon, who traveled to the delta town of Bogalay to help with relief work.
Children are most vulnerable to infectious diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, dengue fever and malaria. The WHO said diarrhea and dysentery have been reported, while there have been no confirmed cholera cases.
U.S. Aid
Before Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck, about one in three children in the country formerly known as Burma were malnourished, the UN said.
President George W. Bush told China's President Hu Jintao during a telephone conversation yesterday that the U.S. wants to send more aid to Myanmar, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in Washington. ``Hu offered to assist our efforts,'' she said. China is a key ally of Myanmar.
The first U.S. plane carrying relief supplies touched down two days ago in Yangon.
The U.S. has repeatedly criticized Myanmar's military, which has ruled the nation since 1962, over its corrupt and oppressive rule. Bush said two days ago the world ``ought to be angry'' at the way the junta has delayed the relief effort.
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet in Singapore May 19 to discuss how to assist Myanmar, the group said in a statement today. Myanmar is a member of Asean.
To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Heath in Sydney at mheath1@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: May 14, 2008 09:42 EDT
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UN Says Myanmar Should Open Corridor for Cyclone Aid.
Myanmar Should Open Corridor for Cyclone Aid, UN Says (Update2)
By Michael Heath
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Myanmar should open an air and sea corridor to allow aid in large quantities to reach the country quickly and prevent disease from causing a second catastrophe after Cyclone Nargis hit 11 days ago, the United Nations said.
The UN used an ``air or sea'' bridge after the 2004 tsunami devastated Indian Ocean countries, Elizabeth Byrs of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said yesterday. The UN's disaster-response agency warned that the coming monsoon rains will worsen the crisis, especially for people who lack shelter. A new storm was crossing southern Myanmar, according to the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
Mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever may surge as soon as next week unless aid is rushed to survivors, the World Health Organization said.
The military junta must let international aid workers enter because ``hundreds of thousands of lives are in the balance,'' European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel said yesterday. The junta barred outsiders from distributing aid, and supplies have so far reached 270,000 people, only about a third of those at risk, the UN says.
The death toll has reached 31,000, and another 29,000 people are missing, Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej told reporters today in Bangkok after he returned from Myanmar, where he met with the military leaders. He said they told him Myanmar can handle the response to the emergency without help from foreign specialists, though some Thai doctors will be allowed in.
`Manmade Catastrophe'
``They said they welcome help from all nations,'' Samak said. ``But they don't want any experts or any team. They have a private sector there to help their people. They assure us there will be no outbreak or famine there.''
U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the Parliament in London today that ruling junta was creating a ``manmade catastrophe'' in Myanmar.
``I've asked Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, to hold an emergency summit'' involving Western and Asian nations, Brown said. He said the summit should be similar to the one the UN organized to get aid to the tsunami victims.
The UN estimates as many as 100,000 people died in Myanmar in the May 3 cyclone, the worst natural disaster in Southeast Asia since the 2004 tsunami killed more than 220,000 people. More than 1.5 million people need aid, the UN said.
Monsoon Season
The new storm, which was passing near the former capital, Yangon, may develop into a cyclone once it reaches the Bay of Bengal, the typhoon center said in a bulletin issued at 3 a.m. today Yangon time. The system was packing winds of 46 kilometers (29 miles) per hour and heading west-northwest across Myanmar at 11 kilometers an hour, it said.
The storm was already producing ``substantial amounts of rainfall,'' the UN's World Meteorological Organization said today in an e-mailed statement. ``With the monsoon season approaching, this type of weather will continue and periods of intensive rainfall will become more frequent,'' the agency said.
Tens of thousands of people throughout the southern Irrawaddy delta, the worst-hit region, are crammed into monasteries and informal camps and many are living by the roadside, Michel said. ``Disease is one of the biggest concerns as so many streams are contaminated by bodies, both human and animals.'' He arrived in Myanmar today, Agence France-Presse reported.
Malaria Reported
Some cases of malaria have been reported since the cyclone struck, though no disease outbreaks have been confirmed, said Maureen Birmingham, the WHO's acting representative in Thailand. Still, mosquito-borne diseases usually start spreading more rapidly in the ``third week or so'' after a flood, Birmingham said by phone from Bangkok today.
``It's already an endemic area and the high season is coming up, so we would not be surprised to see that surge,'' she said. ``We might have another week, but maybe we won't.''
There is still ``a considerable amount of surface area under water'' in Myanmar, she said.
Survivors, particularly children and the elderly, are suffering severe trauma, according to the Irrawaddy, a magazine published by Myanmar dissidents in neighboring Thailand.
They are surrounded by bodies and young children are particularly afraid of the water, the magazine reported, citing an unidentified resident of Yangon, who traveled to the delta town of Bogalay to help with relief work.
Children are most vulnerable to infectious diseases such as cholera, diarrhea, dysentery, dengue fever and malaria. The WHO said diarrhea and dysentery have been reported, while there have been no confirmed cholera cases.
U.S. Aid
Before Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck, about one in three children in the country formerly known as Burma were malnourished, the UN said.
President George W. Bush told China's President Hu Jintao during a telephone conversation yesterday that the U.S. wants to send more aid to Myanmar, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said in Washington. ``Hu offered to assist our efforts,'' she said. China is a key ally of Myanmar.
The first U.S. plane carrying relief supplies touched down two days ago in Yangon.
The U.S. has repeatedly criticized Myanmar's military, which has ruled the nation since 1962, over its corrupt and oppressive rule. Bush said two days ago the world ``ought to be angry'' at the way the junta has delayed the relief effort.
Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet in Singapore May 19 to discuss how to assist Myanmar, the group said in a statement today. Myanmar is a member of Asean.
To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Heath in Sydney at mheath1@bloomberg.net. Last Updated: May 14, 2008 09:42 EDT
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Some Myanmar aids stolen by military
May 15, 2008
Some Myanmar Aid Reportedly Stolen
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
YANGON, Myanmar — The directors of several relief organizations in Myanmar said Wednesday that some of the international aid arriving into the country for the victims of Cyclone Nargis was being stolen, diverted or warehoused by the country’s military.
The United States military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center said there was a good chance that “a significant tropical cyclone” — a second big storm — would form within the next 24 hours and head across the Irrawaddy Delta, the region that suffered most from the first storm that struck on May 3.
In Yangon, the main commercial city, winds were already beginning to whip up Wednesday evening, but it was unclear how strong the storm would become.
Thailand’s prime minister, Samak Sundaravej, flew to Yangon on Wednesday to persuade Myanmar’s leaders to allow more foreign aid workers into the country. The members of the military junta told him they were in control of the relief operations and had no need for foreign experts, he told reporters after returning to Bangkok, The Associated Press reported.
The government said there were no outbreaks of disease or starvation among the hundreds of thousands of people affected by the cyclone. In Yangon, Mr. Sundaravej met the prime minister, Lt. Gen. Thein Sein, The A.P. said.
The aid directors in Myanmar declined to be quoted directly on their concerns about the stolen relief supplies for fear of angering the ruling junta and jeopardizing their operations, although Marcel Wagner, country director of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency, confirmed that aid was being diverted by the army. He said the issue would become an increasing problem, although he declined to give further details because of the sensitivity of the situation.
International aid shipments continued to arrive Wednesday, including five new air deliveries of relief supplies from the United States. Western diplomats said their representatives at the airport were making sure the cargo was unloaded efficiently and then trucked to staging areas.
The fate of the supplies after that, however, remained unknown, because the junta has barred all foreigners, including credentialed diplomats and aid workers, from accompanying any donated aid, tracking its distribution or following up on its delivery. Myanmar state radio reported Wednesday that the death toll from the May 3 cyclone had risen again, to 38,491, Agence France-Presse reported, with 27,838 people still missing. The toll has been increasing daily as more of the missing are identified as dead. The United Nations has estimated that the toll could be more than 60,000.
The International Red Cross estimated Wednesday that the cyclone death toll was between 68,833 and 127,990, according to the A.P.
There were rumors in the capital on Wednesday that special high-energy biscuits donated for distribution in the disaster areas had been replaced by cheaper, off-the-shelf crackers. But Mr. Wagner and the others said they had not heard of high-quality foodstuffs being stolen and replaced by inferior products.
Although aid flights are now regularly seen arriving at the Yangon airport, international rescue teams and disaster-relief experts for the most part are being kept away from the country. A small French rescue team has arrived in Yangon, although it was unclear whether it had received official permission. Diplomats and representatives of aid missions said that visas for overseas experts were still being denied.
Mr. Wagner said he and his agency’s foreign staff members were now barred from the Irrawaddy Delta, even to areas where the group has ongoing projects dating from before the storm. Fortunately, he said, he has Burmese staff who are permitted come and go through an increasing number of military checkpoints.
The Adventist group specializes in rainwater collection, water filtration and sanitation — just the kinds of expertise most needed now — and Mr. Wagner said outside experts were needed to train local people in the proper use of filters, pumps and hygiene practices.
Reports have been mixed about how much aid was actually getting through to the delta. One longtime relief coordinator in Myanmar said Tuesday that 30 percent of the people in the damaged areas had been reached. But other agencies were encouraged about recent improvements in deliveries, especially those groups with projects and local staff already in place, and the agencies with established working relationships with the government.
The World Health Organization said that its medical supplies were arriving in the country normally, without being diverted, siphoned off or replaced with substandard items. Its deliveries were even being made to Labutta and Bogale, two badly damaged areas deep in the southern delta.
Mr. Wagner said that his agency had success in getting its trucks into Labutta, although daily rainstorms were beginning to make road travel more difficult. The upcoming monsoon season would make things worse, he said, and he and the World Health Organization experts said they expected to start getting reports from the field soon about malaria, dengue fever and water-borne diseases.
Mr. Wagner was careful to point out that these afflictions were not unusual in the delta region, saying, “They happen every year at this time, with or without a cyclone.”
His group also uses shallow-draft motorboats of the kind typically used in the delta, craft capable of carrying 15 to 20 people. Another veteran aid director said that availability of boats was one of the bottlenecks in aid distribution in the delta.
Shari Villarosa, the senior diplomat at the United States Embassy in Yangon, said she was encouraged by the military government’s acceptance of aid and said it was a remarkable development given what she called the xenophobia of the regime, but that aid itself would not be enough.
“The Burmese will see they’re going to need help getting this aid out, but they’re going to come around way too slow — and too late for many,” Ms. Villarosa said during an interview in her office.
A number of countries have offered to bring in aid and deliver it from the south, by ship, but the junta has adamantly refused. One of the generals’ most enduring fears is a seaborne invasion by Western powers it refers to as “foreign saboteurs.”
Fear of a southern invasion is one of the reasons, along with ominous astrological portents, that the junta moved the country’s capital to the hinterlands. The new capital, in the city of Naypyidaw, was carved out of the jungle about 180 miles north of Yangon, the former capital and still the country’s commercial capital.
“These guys really believe we are planning an invasion,” Ms. Villarosa said. The United States said this week that several of its military ships were in the area and ready to provide help in Myanmar. “It’s nuts! We’re not! But if they hear that a large U.S. ship is off the coast, they don’t receive the message that it’s a genuine humanitarian effort,” she said.
A medical officer from the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the most pressing public health issue facing the delta was not the presence of corpses in the region’s waters.
“I know this issue of dead bodies is a worldwide concern, but the dead bodies do not represent any specific additional public health risk,” said Pino Annunziata, a medical officer in the organization’s Department of Emergency Response and Operations.
“This is a very negligible risk from a public health standpoint. We have to focus on the survivors.”
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