Military rulers in Burma still reluctant to receive aid for cyclone victims.
Burma’s ruling generals continue to refuse to grant visas to international aid agency workers. Only a trickle of aid has reached the commercial capital Rangoon close to the worst-hit areas and the junta is insisting that government officials distribute the relief supplies.
The violence stems from unresolved tensions following Hezbollah’s 32-day war with Israel in southern Lebanon in 2006. In Burma, news about Burmese National league for democracy leader Aung San Suu.
Myanmar aid cease as UN food deliveries impounded by regime “We’re going to have to shut down our very small airlift operation until we get guarantees from the authorities,” reported a furious World Food Programme regional director Tony Banbury.
International relief agencies and governments rush to get aid to southern Burma only to face a Military regime, mistrustful of all foreign activity in its country.|It has taken 14 years to come up with a proposed constitution that only serves to entrench military control.|It is unlikely that any meaningful referendum vote can be held on Saturday.
“The basic message was that they believe the provisional death toll was about 10,000 with 3,000 missing,” a Yangon-based diplomat told Reuters in Bangkok, summarising a briefing from Foreign Minister Nyan Win. “It’s a very serious toll.”
