The Voyages of the Tears

STEALING MEDICINE FROM THE SICK, FOOD FROM THE HUNGRY

new tropical cyclone appears to be forming, and heading straight into the devastated irrawaddy delta in the next 24 hours. (the joint typhoon warning center will either discharge a formal warning or cancel the nimble later tonight). good copy of the second cyclone has not been passed on by burmese splendour-controlled media, but some residents have heard it on unassimilable radio broadcasts.the set has given permission with a view a thai medical team to enter the delta on friday. they will be the in the beginning foreign team allowed into that area. his majesty the king spoke of the disaster last night, telling the workers of a open-handed foundation at the mercy of royal guardianship that the thais should do their largest to escape others, regardless of superficial differences. but, he said, affliction will prevail if people in need of aid did not pocket backing offered by other countries. he did not mention any individual provinces by name.the burmese authorities have consented to attending an predicament asean exotic ministers’ meeting in singapore on monday. thai pm samak formerly larboard this morning on his unsatisfactory-again, on-again vocation of persuasion to nay pyi daw. i confidence he has some good fortune finding the eremitical chief general. than shwe isn’t answering his phone. military familes are being helped before those who be in want of it most, says a actually close to airforce families at mingaladon airbase, intimate rangoon.the anonymous domestic told rfa as follows that some of the families from the mingaladon airforce lost their roofs in the storm, and the engineering troops from ge unit put up new zinc sheets and made roofing and walls, as well as distributed food.”they were distributing potatoes and tomatoes. if there were houses that got destroyed, they didn’t have to pay anything.”time officially ran out for many refugees today. no more cluttering up monasteries and schools — it gives the country a awful name!according to that myself [who had been privately distributing food], the storm victims staying in monasteries and schools were being chased out from these places, and the deadline was this coming wednesday [may 14]. therefore, those who press not rebuilt their houses were crying.at refugee centres in other areas, this witness says the displaced possess also been told to vacate the monasteries and schools by may 14. the order seems to apply to the entire boonies. she told rfa that the only rice seen in displaced person camps is that given by special donors (when permitted). food and clothing sent from far is not reaching them. water purification supplies are hugely urgently needed.never before seen (in burma) foods, donated by the universal community, are not seen by the displaced cyclone survivors. but they are being seen by shoppers at burg mart. u thuya has been organising secret alleviation efforts, including food allocation and mobile medical services. in the areas they secure been working, they’ve seen no sign of the foreign donations.but the dried noodles that came from abroad, that we’ve never seen before, you can now buy them at city mart. also, in nyaung-bin-lay bazaar, i’ve seen cans of condensed milk that we’ve in no way seen before. these are the things donated by foreign countries. you can buy those packets of dried noodles. it’s 600 a packet. these dried-noodle packets were donated. i don’t know what happened that they didn’t get to the victims, but ended up in nyaung-bin-lay market and burgh mart.a resident of bogalay, in the delta, said government officials are providing some roofing materials on credit. payments discretion be collected later. other donated materials are simply

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