Yangon, Myanmar - Police barred foreign aid workers from reaching cyclone survivors in hard-hit areas Tuesday, while emergency food shipments backed up at the main airport for Myanmar’s biggest city. (more…)

Cyclone victims in Bogalay have been unable to access aid supplies sent in to the area as they have been taken by government supporters and are being sold to those in need.
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Survivors of Cyclone Nargis—especially children and the elderly—have undergone severe trauma and many will have long-term psychological problems because of the storm and their fight for survival during its aftermath, say aid workers.
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Burma’s military rulers imposed new restrictions on foreign and Burmese aid workers trying to enter the country’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta. They have also banned journalists and the use of cameras.
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State-owned media has continuously aired propaganda for the upcoming constitutional referendum in cyclone-hit regions of Burma.
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The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded an uprising last fall against Burma’s military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims.
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Celebrities from the Burmese film world are planning to give assistance to cyclone victims in the Irrawaddy delta and have appealed to the world community and the people of Burma help in any way they can.
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A human rights activist in Bogalay said disease and poor sanitation in the township in the aftermath of the recent cyclone have placed a heavy burden on healthcare provision.
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South-east Asian countries have offered to lead an international “mercy coalition” to help the estimated 1.5m survivors of Cyclone Nargis in an effort to address Burma’s mounting humanitarian crisis.
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Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej is to travel to Burma on Wednesday, at the request of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to persuade Burmese leaders to allow foreign relief workers into the country.
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The United Nations has called for an air or sea corridor to be opened to channel large amounts of aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis in Burma.
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A British Royal Navy frigate has been ordered to stand by off Burma with emergency aid for the survivors of cyclone Nargis. The 4,900-ton HMS Westminster will join US and French warships waiting in international waters off the Burmese coast, ready to rush relief supplies to the Irrawaddy delta if instructed by the UN or invited by the Burmese regime.
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The US intensified diplomatic efforts yesterday to persuade Burma’s ruling junta to accept international offers of help in tackling the country’s humanitarian crisis. Washington entered into some of the most high-level discussions that it has conducted with Burmese officials in decades.
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Everyone is running out of words to express their feelings about the Burmese generals. What the generals are doing is making the world furious. It’s time to call their actions a humanitarian crime.   (more…)

They are “cruel, power-hungry and dangerously irrational,” in the words of one British journalist. They are ” violent and irrational,” according to a journalist in neighboring Thailand. Our own State Department leadership has condemned their “xenophobic, ever more irrational policies.”
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Officials in Burma’s cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta area are appropriating emergency aid supplies and selling them in local markets, it was claimed on Monday.
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