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Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names
freerepublic.com May 10, 2008
YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. The United Nations sent in three more planes...
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- Intergovernmental Organizations,
- Humanitarian Organizations,
- International Non-Governmental Organizations,
- Natural Disasters,
- Disasters, Accidents & Crises,
- International Development Co-Operation,
- Humanitarian Aid,
- International Relations,
- Government,
- Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar,
- Storms
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