Junta claims constitution victory; aid diverted from cyclone victims
In what critics dismiss as a farcical attempt to legitimise its tyrannical rule, Burma's military junta today claimed its draft constitution won the approval of more than 90 per cent of the votes
cast in last weekend's referendum, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post.… [continued]
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Sex trade traffickers get busy among cyclone orphans
Sex trade traffickers are preying on child survivors of Burma's devastating Cyclone Nargis, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. At least two suspected traffickers have been arrested in Rangoon since the cyclone hit, according to UNICEF's child protection officer in Burma, Anne-Claire Dufay. "A broker came to… [continued]
Western navies wait off Burma
Britain dispatched a Royal Navy frigate to join American warships and a French landing craft in international waters off Burma today, as the three Western powers prepared to push the UN Security
Council into approving direct humanitarian intervention in the cyclone-devastated Irrawaddy delta. Prime Minister Gordon Brown said his… [continued]
Junta compound horror of the cyclone
In pictures: Burma cyclone crisis
Junta claims aid is a ‘direct gift’ from Gen Than Shwe
Heavy rain added to the misery of hundreds of thousands of cyclone survivors in Burma's Irrawaddy delta as a storm front swept in from the Bay of Bengal today and drenched the devastated region,
writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Starving families sought shelter where they could find it,… [continued]
Junta compound the horror of the cyclone
In pictures: Burma cyclone disaster
Pro-junta group hijacks rice lorries as UN suspends airlift of aid
The United Nations suspended its airlift of emergency supplies to Burma today after Burmese authorities at Rangoon airport impounded 38 tonnes of food flown in for survivors of the cyclone that
devastated large areas of the country last Saturday, writes Edward Loxton for The First Post.… [continued]
In pictures: Burma cyclone devastation
Pros & Cons of a 'relief invasion'
Junta compound the horror of the cyclone
US & France discuss ‘relief invasion’ as junta keeps outsiders at bay
Burma's Foreign Ministry has confirmed that it does not want foreign relief workers to distribute the aid that has begun to flow into the cyclone-hit country, writes Edward Loxton for The First
Post. As further proof of its determination to keep outsiders from viewing the full extent of the devastation… [continued]
Left for dead: how the junta abandoned its people
Cholera hits flood-stricken towns
Cholera has broken out in two areas of Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, where hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims are living rough, with no fresh water, or food writes Edward Loxton for The First
Post. Doctors in the region's two major towns, Bogalay and… [continued]
Junta compound the horror of the cyclone
In pictures: Rangoon and the Irrawaddy delta
Burma generals compound horror of the cyclone
Burma's military leadership had a week's warning from their Thai neighbours of the oncoming Cyclone Nargis, reports Edward Loxton in The First Post today. "Burmese anger is
fuelled by assurances from Thailand that its Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre, established after the 2004 tsunami, gave Burma a week's warning… [continued]
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In pictures: Burma cyclone chaos
Christian Aid partner gives eyewitness account of delta devastation
A Christian Aid partner in Burma has described the devastation left after Cyclone Nargis swept through Burma’s Irrawaddy delta. She cannot be named for security reasons. “Pyinsalu Island was
hit by a high tide of 15 to 28 feet,” she reports. “Of 40,000 people it was… [continued]
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Cyclone aid waits in Thailand as death toll soars
Delays in granting visas to international relief organisations wanting to enter Burma are likely to push the huge death toll from Cyclone Nargis to new heights, according to UN officials in Bangkok,
writes Edward Loxton for The First Post. Burma’s official death toll stands at 22,500, while more than… [continued]
In pictures: Burma devastated by cyclone
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