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)
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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
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Support Myanmar with Love ,愛のサポートミャンマー (ENGLISH AND JAPANESE)
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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