UTAPAO, Thailand - The United States has launched its first relief airlift to Myanmar for last week's cyclone victims. A military C-130 cargo plane packed with supplies left a Thai air force base Monday for Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon. Two more air shi
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday when a boat laden with relief supplies — one of the first international shipments — sank on its way to the disaster zone.
A CNN reporter who left Myanmar Friday was chased by authorities as he reported on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis but escaped primarily because of the incompetence of the people after him.
A trickle of aid shipments arrived in Myanmar on Sunday, more than a week after a powerful cyclone smashed the country, but the ruling military junta continued to bar major shipments to more than a million of the storm’s hard-hit survivors.
But the wilful delays by the Burmese military in allowing in both disaster management experts and supplies of emergency food, blankets and tents is unforgivable.
For Burma’s generals it was a weekend to celebrate as they counted the votes in a constitutional referendum, but for the Burmese seeking shelter in the aftermath of the cyclone, without clean water or sanitation, it was another meaningless charade.
For the people living along Burma's Payapon river the slow-moving waters have always been a sustainer of life, providing irrigation, fish and clean water; but now the same river is delivering the corpses of hundreds of people killed by Cyclone Nargis.
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