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Why is Myanmar's junta afraid of letting foreign aid workers help cyclone victims?

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U.N. official: Junta seized aid flown to Burma

usatoday.com
May 9, 2008
        

A United Nations official says Burma's junta has seized all the food and equipment that the World Food Program (WFP) had flown into the country for cyclone victims. ... He says the WFP "has no choice" but to suspend further aid shipments until the matter is resolved. WFP...

                   

Myanmar blocks foreign aid workers

baynews9.com
May 9, 2008
        

The U.S. is considering air drops. ... Children try to retrieve useable articles from the debris of washed away houses south of Yangon. Pressure was mounting on cyclone-devastated Myanmar Friday to allow access to an army of foreign relief workers as the country's...

                   
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UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies

thenewstribune.com
May 9, 2008
        

A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. ... YANGON, Myanmar -- WFP spokesman Paul Risley said Friday that all "the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has...

                   

Myanmar turns back foreign aid workers

iht.com
May 9, 2008
        

Myanmar is willing to receive disaster relief from the outside world but not relief workers, the country's military government said. ... Myanmar is willing to receive disaster relief from the outside world but not relief workers, the country's military government said...

                   

UN halts aid shipments as Burma seizes supplies

cbc.ca
May 9, 2008
        

The United Nations has announced it is suspending aid shipments to Burma after authorities there began seizing supplies. ... The first UN flights landed in Burma, also known as Myanmar, on Thursday, but a U.S. offer to help the cyclone-ravaged country was rejected. A...

                   

Burma impounds aid

news.com.au
May 9, 2008
        

BURMA'S junta has impounded two UN food aid shipments at Rangoon airport, triggering more outrage at the military government's refusal to accept a major international relief operation. ... "We're going to have to shut down our very small airlift operation until we get...

                   
voanews.com: Cyclone-affected people wash their belongings in Kungyangon in the outskirts of Rangoon, 08 May 2008 voanews.com

Burma Junta Welcomes Foreign Aid, Turns Back Relief Workers

voanews.com
May 9, 2008
        

official death toll remains at nearly 23,000 but is expected to rise as UN agencies say as many as 1.5 million people were severely affected by Cyclone Nargis ... Burma's military government is turning away relief workers as an estimated hundreds of thousands of victims...

                   

UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies

sacbee.com
May 9, 2008
        

A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. In this image from television released by the Democratic Voice of Burma, an elderly Myanmar woman lays waiting for help in a hut following last weekend's...

                   
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UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies

ibtimes.com
May 9, 2008
        

A U.N. official says the World Food Program is suspending cyclone aid to Myanmar because its government seized supplies flown into the country. He says the WFP has no choice but to suspend the shipments until the matter is resolved. ... YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A U.N....

                   

Myanmar seizes U.N. food deliveries

alertnet.org
May 9, 2008
        

Source: Reuters * Myanmar impounds U.N. food at airport * Qatari rescue team turned back * Thai PM cancels talks on aid with junta * U.N. says 1.5 million people "severely affected" * U.S. outraged ... ... Myanmar impounds U.N. food at airport * Qatari rescue team turned...