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When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar 10 years ago, 140,000 lives were lost and 800,000 were displaced. The category 4 storm slammed into Myanmar’s low-lying Irrawaddy Delta, an area that usually escapes major typhoons. High winds and a 12-foot storm surge devastated the area, affecting millions. (...)
As the monsoon approaches a year after Burma’s cyclone catastrophe, the victims are still without support. Now, more suffering looms.
It has now been a bit over a year since Burma’s worst natural disaster on record, Cyclone Nargis, struck the Irrawaddy delta. Yet since that day, 2 May, the (...)
Among the many people in Rangoon’s central jail who shouldn’t be there are a couple of journalists. These two did not write or say anything against the government. They didn’t do anything that constituted a threat to the army or its hold on power. Yet they were imprisoned on a charge of inciting (...)
Among the many people in Rangoon’s central jail who shouldn’t be there are a couple of journalists. These two did not write or say anything against the government. They didn’t do anything that constituted a threat to the army or its hold on power. Yet they were imprisoned on a charge of inciting (...)
The victims of Cyclone Nargis continued to be whipsawed by a corrupt and uncaring government.
Six months after the devastating Cyclone Nargis smashed into Burma, more than a million people are still living in misery, wondering when things may return to normal. They are likely to be (...)
In early May 2008, the devastating cyclone Nargis hit Burma and her already vulnerable population. Many lives were taken and many more were forever changed by the loss of family members, friends, houses, and livelihoods. Despite heroic relief eff orts by fellow Burmese inside and outside the (...)
WHEN Cyclone Nargis struck Burma’s Irrawaddy delta—a heavily populated and largely agricultural area that feeds much of this impoverished country—it was immediately obvious that a massive response would be required to avert a major humanitarian crisis.
But a month later, and after some of the (...)
Cyclone Nargis affected everyone in the Irrawaddy delta, but it has placed HIV/AIDS patients under even greater physical and mental stress, according to social welfare groups in Rangoon.
A youth member of Burma’s main opposition party, the National League for Democracy, said many HIV/AIDS (...)
Media reports have neglected the most important source of aid to victims of cyclone Nargis - spontaneous donations from their fellow citizens.
With the Burmese regime continuing to deny the true extent of the catastrophe, and army factions vying to appropriate as much of the aid as possible, (...)
The Burmese military regime is reportedly giving companies run by its cronies lucrative contracts to reconstruct areas flattened by cyclone Nargis.
The 43 companies entrusted with the reconstruction work include such regime-friendly enterprises as the Asia World Company, Htoo Trading, the Eden (...)
As calls for humanitarian intervention in Burma widen and gain momentum, analysts are asking, what would the country’s armed forces do—fight or take off their uniforms?
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said in London on Thursday: "We will stop at nothing in trying to pressure the regime into (...)
“Ten days after Cyclone Nargis, Burma faces further crisis as its military regime refuses to acknowledge the plight of its people”, according to a statement released by seven pro-democracy groups in Burma on May 14.
“Aid has been so severely restricted that the Burmese people are now facing an (...)
China, hit by a massive earthquake, does what Burma doesn’t – go to the aid of its suffering people
Nothing underscores the criminal nature of the Burmese junta more than the contrast between its neglect of its people and China’s immediate reaction to the massive earthquake that devastated large (...)
In the eyes of Burma’s military rulers, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers.
As the international community waits to deliver desperately needed aid to Burma’s cyclone survivors, it is getting a lesson in the mind-set of the country’s military rulers: reclusive, xenophobic (...)
The humanitarian watchdog organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged the Burmese regime on Friday to postpone Saturday’s constitutional referendum and concentrate instead on allowing international aid to reach victims of Cyclone Nargis.
It was time to “pull the plug on the referendum and open (...)
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.
A convoy of vehicles carrying rice to cyclone victims in Rangoon’s Thanlyin Township was (...)
Marc Johnson was in Yangoon when cyclone Nargis hit. He is currently engaged in aid coordination efforts in neighbouring Thailand.
Yangoon/Bangkok
Response to the tropical cyclone Nargis, which hit Myanmar on 3 May 2008 has been hijacked by vested interests on all sides, leaving millions of (...)
Below is an abridged May 7 statement from the Burma Partnership Secretariat.
The extent of the devastation from the catastrophic Cyclone Nargis is slowly unfolding. In the state-run media it was reported on May 6 that 10,000 people were killed in Bogalay town alone in the Irrawaddy Delta (...)
Fears of outbreaks fueled by mosquitoes, dirty water and poor sanitation were among the World Health Organization’s biggest concerns after a devastating cyclone hit Burma, home to one of the world’s worst health systems.
WHO was waiting Tuesday for permission from the country’s ruling junta to (...)
Burma’s neighbors, including Thailand and India, have begun sending aid to the country in the wake of a devastating cyclone that struck on Saturday, but the United Nations has so far been unable to respond with the massive aid that it has vowed to provide.
One reason for the delay is that UN (...)
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