The Burmese military government is facing growing international frustration over its slowness in accepting foreign assistance — days after a cyclone devastated the south of the country. (more…)

Democratic Voice of Burma: Photos and Video clips from Cyclone disaster

DVB’s journalists in Burma are covering the cyclone disaster from the start and capturing the events day by day. They are sending out pictures and video images under very difficult sitation. Clip more to see these images.

Photos: Struggling to survive
http://www.dvb.no/english/nargis

Video Clips:

The first survival account(Dadeya, Irrwaddy Division)
http://dvb.cachefly.net/nargis/interview5may_dedaya.wmv

After Cyclone, 5th May, Rangoon
http://dvb.cachefly.net/nargis/Nargis5may_rangoon.wmv

After Cyclone, 4 May, Rangoon
http://dvb.cachefly.net/nargis/Nargis4may_rangoon.wmv

Deadly Cyclone, May 3, Rangoon
http://dvb.cachefly.net/Nargis5may_Bur.wmv

Millions of people in Myanmar have been left homeless by the devastating Cyclone Nargis and piles of bodies have begun rotting in the disaster zone.
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International aid agencies began distributing food in the Burmese commercial capital of Yangon on Tuesday, amid uncertainty that assistance would reach people stranded without shelter in the remote reaches of the country’s vast Irrawaddy Delta.
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Over 20 countries have pledge aid of more than USD 40 million for victims of the tropical cyclone Nargis in Burma, but most of these countries are still waiting for a  response from the junta.
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Survivors of the cyclone and tidal wave that hit Laputta Township are still waiting for aid some five days later. They have no food or water, no electricity or telephone lines and many have reportedly died from injuries and lack of water in the aftermath of the storm.
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The survivors of tropical cyclone Nargis are trying to recover their lives and livelihoods almost without any help from the military government. However, Buddhist monks have emerged to come to the aid of many victims.
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Burma’s rice-growing heartland has been devastated by Cyclone Nargis, experts said on Wednesday, posing worries of long-term food shortages for the secretive, impoverished country.
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Four Insein prison inmates reportedly died during questioning as authorities investigated a riot in the prison, while another 98 have been held in punishment cells.
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Rangoon-based weekly journals closed down after Cyclone Nargis swept through the city and caused widespread power outages. Only a few news journals with generators continued to operate.
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Residents of the former Burmese capital Rangoon said the government is selling food to victims of Cyclone Nargis, but the prices remain too expensive for destitute survivors to afford.
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Burmese visa formalities are holding up UN efforts to rush emergency aid to victims of Saturday’s disastrous cyclone, a UN official said in New York.
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The US House of Representatives passed a resolution on Tuesday urging the UN Security Council not to accept the constitution which has been written by the Burmese military junta to retain its hold on power.
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France’s foreign minister said Wednesday the UN Security Council should force Myanmar’s military junta to allow aid supplies into the cyclone-hit country.
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Four days after cyclone Nargis, large areas of southern Burma remain paralyzed, including the country’s largest city, Rangoon, and international aid agencies fear that unless large-scale relief rapidly reaches the survivors the death toll could soar yet again.
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For Burma’s normally reclusive military rulers, resented by their own citizens and mistrustful of the outside world’s intentions, the devastation wrought by tropical cyclone Nargis has posed an uncomfortable dilemma at a sensitive political moment.
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The devastating cyclone that killed at least 22,000 people in Myanmar is driving up the cost of basic commodities and could stir fresh protests against the country’s military rulers, who violently put down a pro-democracy uprising last year. (more…)

Despite the challenging political environment, 10 independent Burmese media organizations have completed face-to-face opinion surveys with more than 2,000 Burmese voters in the upcoming Constitutional Referendum.
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In statement No. 4/2008, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) declared a State of Emergency in Irrawaddy, Yangon, and Pegu Divisions and Karen and Mon States as a result of Cyclone Nargis’s devastating destruction on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2008.
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On May 3rd, 2008 Cyclone Nargis hit Rangoon, Irrawaddy, and Pegu divisions, and Karen and Mon State in Burma. It is estimated that 50,000 people have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands of people are now homeless.
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