As misery grew for a sixth day for uncounted survivors of the devastating cyclone in Myanmar, the United Nations said Friday that the government had seized its relief supplies in Yangon, while a Pentagon official said that the junta had come to a breakthrough agreement to allow a single American aid plane to land on its territory.
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Daily Archive
New York Times: U.N. resuming aid to Myanmar after dispute with junta - Seth Mydans
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Irrawaddy: Pro-government thugs attack relief vehicles – Min Lwin
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Club-wielding members of a pro-regime citizens’ group attempted to hijack relief supplies in Rangoon, according to local charity groups and non-government organizations in the former Burmese capital. (more…)
Mizzima News: Junta expels Qatar aircraft carrying relief supplies
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
The obduracy of the Burmese military junta is inexplicable. On Thursday it sent back an aircraft from Qatar carrying relief material for cyclone hit victims. The aircraft was sent back from Rangoon’s Mingalardon airport. (more…)
Mizzima News: Voters feel referendum date inappropriate – Maung Dee & Jone Mann
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Several Burmese voters said they are not happy with the government’s plan to conduct a nationwide referendum on Saturday amidst the devastation and loss of the monster Cyclone Nargis. (more…)
Reuters: Corpses dot waterways of Myanmar’s stricken delta
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Bloated corpses bobbing in canals or spread eagled on riverbanks dot the Irrawaddy delta, the most somber symbol of devastating Cyclone Nargis and the military government’s struggle to respond. (more…)
Reuters: Burma authorities approve single US aid aircraft
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Authorities in Burma have given approval for a single US military aircraft carrying relief supplies to land in the country on Monday. (more…)
DVB: Funeral fund distributes rice to disaster victims – Naw Say Phaw
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Inside Burma
The Free Funeral Service Society is working to help victims of Cyclone Nargis in Rangoon, distributing rice and setting up relief camps, the group’s financial coordinator said yesterday. (more…)
Irrawaddy: Cyclone survivors now racked by disease – Saw Yan Naing
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Health
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Health
One in five children who survived in the areas hit by Cyclone Nargis is suffering from diarrhea, according to a UNICEF official in Rangoon. (more…)
Mizzima News: Urgent health-care and food needed for survivors – Nem Davies
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Health
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Health
One week after the deadly cyclone, survivors in the Irrawaddy Delta still urgently need health care and food, while many are suffering from trauma, residents and aid workers said. (more…)
SEVEN Red Cross aid workers, including four Australians, have received visas to enter cyclone-hit Burma. (more…)
AFP: Myanmar at risk from further cyclones: UN weather expert
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Regional
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Regional
Myanmar could suffer another major storm this season even as it braces for more bad weather after the devastating impact of Cyclone Nargis, a UN weather expert warned Friday. (more…)
The UN said Friday it would resume aid flights into Myanmar after a suspension triggered by a tussle with the military regime over two planeloads of goods meant for desperate cyclone survivors. (more…)
Mizzima News: 100,000 and still counting; dying on Burma junta’s clock – May Ng
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other
Long before the catastrophic cyclone smashed into Burma and brought down the already feeble nation to its knees, the core of the military organization suffered a serious blow last September. During the monks’ uprising, a Burmese diplomat privately expressed his sympathy for the monks uprising and his worries about the affect of western sanctions on his family. He did not approve of the killing of the monks and he was unhappy to be identified with the generals who had ordered the killing. (more…)
Irrawaddy: Wanted: Immediate US aid air drop – Kyaw Zwa Moe
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other
A US air drop of humanitarian aid to the desperate survivors in the Irrawaddy delta—with or without Burma’s permission—is the only way to save lives that hang in the balance with each passing hour. (more…)
The secretary-general of the United Nations and the leaders and foreign ministers of many nations including the United States, China, France and the UK have all urged the Burmese regime to allow international aid into the country to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis. (more…)
AP: Why is Burma junta afraid of letting foreign aid workers?
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Opinion
In the eyes of Burma’s military rulers, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers. (more…)
ABMA, 88 Generation, ABFSU: The military junta’s sham constitution rejected
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
International Humanitarian Intervention Requested
(1) It is obvious that the SPDC (State Peace and Development Council), official name of the military junta that has ruled the country of Burma illegally for many years with arms and threats, oppresses and kills the people of Burma who demand democracy and human rights peacefully, by using not only its military power, but also natural disaster. (more…)
Seven Alliances: Referendum must be called off & International aid allowed in
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
The Seven Alliances of the Burmese democracy movement - a united front of umbrella organizations representing the majority of Burma’s ethnic and democracy groups in exile - today calls on the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to suspend the referendum nationwide, and allow all international aid into the country immediately. (more…)
AHRC: This colossal humanitarian crisis demands a far more resolute response from the global community and the Burmese government
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
Fri 9 May 2008
Filed under: News, Statement
From the very scanty news that has reached the global media it is already clear that a human catastrophe of the highest category is taking place in Burma. Some figures indicate that the numbers of deaths known so far may be around 200,000. In one area alone around 80,000 people are dead. By all indications there is not only an absence of anything that may be called an adequate response but there is a visible inability to make a coordinated and well organised response to this tragedy. (more…)