The UN announced on Friday that it has suspended all aid shipments to Burma, following the junta’s seizure of all food and equipment of the World Food Program (WFP). (more…)

Myanmar’s junta impounded two U.N. food aid shipments at Yangon airport on Friday, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government’s refusal to accept a major international relief operation. (more…)

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…)

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…)

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had requested talks
with senior Myanmar general Than Shwe over a humanitarian crisis in the
country but nothing had been scheduled.
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The Secretary-General, deeply concerned about the welfare of the people of Myanmar at this time of national tragedy, has taken note of the Government’s decision to proceed with the constitutional referendum on 10 May, while postponing it in some of the areas most affected by the cyclone. (more…)

(An Irrawaddy correspondent has returned from the delta area after interviewing military officers, government officials, medical personnel and survivors of Cyclone Nargis.)

An army major with the Irrawaddy Division military headquarters who asked not to be identified said on Wednesday more than 600 villages are submerged in the Irrawaddy delta along Cyclone Nargis’ deadly path. (more…)

The roof of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s house was blown off in the cyclone over the weekend, and she is living without electricity, a neighbor said on Thursday.
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YANGON, Myanmar — Five days after the powerful cyclone struck, this city, Myanmar’s commercial capital and until Saturday a verdant oasis of wide avenues, is far from back to normal.
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Nearly half of the number of dead and missing in Burma following cyclone Nargis are likely to be children, according to Save the Children officials in Burma.
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As Burma deals with the pain of one of the greatest humanitarian disasters in recent history, one face is conspicuous by its absence— that of commander in chief of the Burmese armed forces and chairman of the ruling SPDC, Snr-Gen Than Shwe.
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BURMA’S tyrant leader is spending just £ 2.5million to help save his people from cyclone hell - after lavishing TEN times that on his daughter’s wedding.
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After the devastation of Cyclone Nargis, communication with people inside Burma has been sporadic and extremely difficult.
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