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Zomi says:
SPDC wil not be able to pocket the relief money and material if relief
workers give help to the victims directly.
Everybody knows that the authorities profit from this kind of relief.
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Latest News
80,000 dead in single Myanmar district
Published: Thursday 08 May 2008 07:25 UTC
Last updated: Thursday 08 May 2008 10:00 UTC
Yangon - A military official in Myanmar says Cyclone Nargis killed around
80,000 people in one remote district alone. The official says dozens of
villages in the Labutta district were completely swept away by ferocious
winds and floodwaters. The Burmese authorities had so far put the
nationwide
death toll at 22,000 with tens of thousands missing.
Aircraft carrying foreign aid began arriving on Wednesday, four days after
the disaster struck. The planes came from India, Thailand, Indonesia and
China. The United Nations was also granted permission to fly in emergency
aid but UN relief supplies are not expected to reach the country until the
end of the week.
There has been international condemnation of Myanmar's military junta,
which
is willing to admit aid but not relief workers. Dozens of aid agencies are
standing by in neighbouring countries waiting for visas but Yangon has so
far only issued traveling documents to a few of them.
http://www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5772113/80000-dead-in-single-Myanmar-district
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