(Latest roundup of some Burmese language news reports on Cyclone Nargis)
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International groups in Burma are reportedly acknowledging that the army is “diverting” or “pilfering” aid (euphemisms for thieving) to Cyclone Nargis victims but are declining to give details for fear that they will be locked out completely.
Much of the concern is rightly with the [...]
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Corpse robbers and angry villagers
May 14, 2008 · 4 Comments
(Latest roundup of some news on Cyclone Nargis in Burmese language media)
There have been a few reports about corpses of cyclone victims found with ears and fingers cut off, apparently to take the jewelry. Now the Yoma 3 News Service has alleged that soldiers of Infantry Division 66 are among those responsible. According to an [...]
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Kindness of fellow citizens saves cyclone victims
May 9, 2008 · 6 Comments
(Update of some Burmese language reports of Cyclone Nargis’ aftermath)
In some seriously cyclone-damaged areas of the Irrawaddy Division, authorities have begun moving homeless survivors a few at a time to towns that escaped the eye of the storm, but have not prepared properly for them once they get there (while simultaneously blocking a massive waiting [...]
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Where are Burma’s neighbours?
May 8, 2008 · 16 Comments
In the days since Cyclone Nargis passed through Burma on May 2 and 3, bringing a tidal surge with it to the delta region that has literally swept away hundreds of villages, it has become painfully obvious that the country’s government is completely unable to deal with what has happened.
In the immediate aftermath of the [...]
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Hospitals turning away patients
May 8, 2008 · 4 Comments
(Update of some Burmese language reports on Cyclone Nargis’ aftermath)
Hospitals in Rangoon are being forced to turn away patients because of a lack of electricity and water. According to an employee at the general hospital (pictured above, in happier times), who spoke to Thailand-based Yoma 3 News by phone,
“There are only two power lines. The [...]
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“Only three in ten are alive”
May 7, 2008 · 1 Comment
(Latest update of Burmese language reports on Cyclone Nargis)
One of the areas worst affected by the cyclone was Laputta, in the Irrawaddy Delta. A resident of the township speaking to Yoma 3 News (Thailand) said that,
“The township has 16 village tracts. There are at least five villages per tract, and over 200 villages in total. [...]
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Nargis
May 7, 2008 · 6 Comments
Links to useful material (in English) on the May 2-3, 2008 cyclone in Burma
MAY 14: TWO PETITIONS FOR UN INTERVENTION
MAY 13: How to help Cyclone Nargis victims (Mizzima)
LATEST slideshow: “Death & destruction in the Delta” by Delta Tears (on the Burma Library) (NOTE: Contains images of drowned persons, including children and babies. May also require [...]
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47 townships, 22,000 dead?!
May 6, 2008 · 1 Comment
According to DVB and other sources, the latest state-run media reports put the revised death toll from Cyclone Nargis at least 22,000. DVB says that this figure was given on the radio today. To date the state-run news has not been updated on the government website.
State media has also announced that the May 10 referendum [...]
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Eyewitness account of cyclone and after
May 6, 2008 · 7 Comments
There are many news reports on the scale of damage and deaths left in Cyclone Nargis’ wake now available in English, and persons interested to get detailed information on the response should especially follow the updates on Relief Web.
According to a government broadcast that Reuters monitored from Bangkok, the official figures as of Tuesday, May [...]
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