YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - U.N. officials say Myanmar’s military
government has confiscated all cyclone relief supplies, including
food, that the U.N. has sent to the country.
A U.N. spokesman says the seizure includes 38 tons of
high-energy biscuits. The U.N. has suspended the delivery of aid to
Myanmar until the aid is released.
The regime has also refused to grant visas to foreign aid
workers to coordinate the relief effort. Myanmar turned back a
relief plane yesterday because a search-and-rescue team and
unauthorized media were aboard.
Meanwhile, more than a million people who have been made
homeless from last weekend’s cyclone are awaiting food, shelter and
medicine.
State media report at least 62,000 people are dead or missing.
And aid groups warn that thousands of children may have been
orphaned and the area is on the verge of a medical disaster.
Filed under: World News
