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Myanmar junta still blocking most cyclone aid
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International Herald Tribune
- 5/11/2008
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YANGON, Myanmar: The junta is refusing to grant entry to foreign aid workers, who relief officials say are crucial to preventing more deaths from disease among an estimated 1.5 million victims of the May 3 storm. In another blow to aid efforts, a ship carrying aid sank on the way from Yangon, the fi
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Myanmar blocks food aid, rejects relief workers
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Taipei Times Online
- 5/10/2008
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It should be on trucks headed to the victims. Youve seen the conditions they are in. That food is now sitting on a tarmac doing no good. X Tony Banbury, World Food Programme regional director Myanmars junta impounded two UN food aid shipments at Yangon airport yesterday, officials said, triggering m
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Blocking humanitarian aid may bring junta's own demise
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China Post
- 5/10/2008
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UNITED NATIONS -- The incomprehensible incompetence and incredulity of Burma's military rulers has been tragically highlighted by the natural disaster which smashed into this Southeast Asian land's rice delta sweeping a swath of death and destruction. When Cyclone Nargis came ashore in with hurrican
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