YANGON Myanmar thousands found Dead :(

Please Everyone Say Prayers for those in YANGON Myanmar
4,000 are dead already from a Cyclone/Tropical storm that
tore up their whole area. They expect to find thousands more.
My God what a tragedy. :no: My heart goes out to all of them.
Please also see how you can give to help them?
Every little bit counts! God bless.

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Myanmar death toll could hit 10,000, foreign minister says

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Myanmar's foreign minister says the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 10,000.
Foreign diplomats said Nyan Win made the comment at a Monday briefing given to them and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies.
Earlier, state radio reported that the official death toll from Saturday's cyclone had risen to nearly 4,000 with 3,000 others missing.
The diplomats, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was held behind closed doors, said the foreign minister acknowledged 59 deaths in Yangon, the country's biggest city.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Almost 4,000 people were killed and nearly 3,000 others are unaccounted for after a devastating cyclone in Myanmar, a state radio station said Monday.
Tropical Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, early Saturday with winds of up to 120 mph. The cyclone blew roofs off hospitals and schools and cut electricity in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon.
The government had previously put the death toll countrywide at 351 before increasing it Monday to 3,939.
The radio station broadcasting from the country's capital, Naypyitaw, said that 2,879 more people are unaccounted for in a single town, Bogalay, in the country's low-lying Irrawaddy River delta area where the storm wreaked the most havoc.
The situation in the countryside remained unclear because of poor communications and roads left impassable by the storm.
"It's clear that we're dealing with a very serious situation. The full extent of the impact and needs will require an extensive on-the-ground assessment," said Richard Horsey, a spokesman in Bangkok, Thailand for United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"What is clear at this point is that there are several hundred thousands of people in dire need of shelter and clean drinking water," Horsey said.
At a meeting with foreign diplomats and representatives of U.N. and international aid agencies, Myanmar's foreign ministry officials said they welcomed international humanitarian assistance and urgently need roofing materials, plastic sheets and temporary tents, medicine, water purifying tablets, blankets and mosquito nets.
Neighboring Thailand announced that it would fly some aid in Tuesday.
Older citizens said they had never seen Yangon, a city of some 6.5 million, so devastated in their lifetimes.
With the city's already unstable electricity supply virtually nonfunctional, citizens lined up to buy candles, which doubled in price, and water since lack of electricity-driven pumps left most households dry. Some walked to the city's lakes to wash.
Hotels and richer families were using private generators but only sparingly, given the soaring price of fuel.
Many stayed away from their jobs, either because they could not find transportation or because they had to seek food and shelter for their families.
"Without my daily earning, just survival has become a big problem for us," said Tin Hla, who normally repairs umbrellas at a roadside stand.
With his home destroyed by the storm, Tin Hla said he has had to place his family of five into one of the monasteries that have offered temporary shelter to those left homeless.




So Tragic So sad.

this is a shocking number, and devastating tragedy. there will be a lot of need borne from this event. Poefiend thank you for sharing the redcross.org website address. This is a good place to go and show care for our fellow man. I pray that from the low views and responses in this thread that this tragedy is not going unnoticed by this community, a community that follows one of the greatest huminatarians, hopefully some of that has rubbed off on his fans, and people do care, and will give.

Yes I agree as well ty HUG
and Yw

This is so terrible. Prayers to all!

This is terrible and the saddest part is that their government/military regime is so paranoid about the rest of the world that they are only allowing limited aid from other countries.

This country has had its doors closed from the rest of the world for so long and now to allow forgieners in to assist with the emergency is a real challenge for them. Their death toll will only rise sadly because aid will be slow as they monitor who comes into the country and what do they bring etc.


My thoughts are with the people there as they deal with this disaster

that is aweful

Numbers are up....


it's predicted 50,000 people will be left homeless....


:no: this is tragic


They're allowing selected aid workers into the country to provide aid in the form of zinc sheets, tents, tarpaulins and medicine


"It's clear that we're dealing with a very serious situation. The full extent of the impact and needs will require an extensive on-the-ground assessment," said Richard Horsey, a spokesman in Bangkok, Thailand for United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"What is clear at this point is that there are several hundred thousands of people in dire need of shelter and clean drinking water," Horsey said.

Officials from Myanmar's military government met Monday with representatives of international aid agencies to discuss providing assistance.

Neighboring Thailand announced that it would fly some aid in Tuesday.

The private aid agency World Vision said Myanmar's government had invited it "to provide assistance in the form of zinc sheets, tents, tarpaulins and medicine."


Here's hoping their government starts working for their people, they really really need it.

Awful news i hope all the people affected get better soon and get on with there lives really horriable what happend

:no: so awful my heart aches for the loss

For some reason I hadn't really even realized how big this actually is..50,000 homeless people.. that's huge!

My prayers go for the homeless and injuried people, hopefully they'll get better soon.

The numbers have jumped.....

22,000 dead and a predicted near 1 million people to be left homeless.

YANGON, Myanmar - The cyclone death toll soared above 22,000 on Tuesday and more than 41,000 others were missing as foreign countries mobilized to rush in aid after the country's deadliest storm on record, state radio reported.

Up to 1 million people may be homeless after Cyclone Nargis hit the Southeast Asian nation, also known as Burma, early Saturday. Some villages have been almost totally eradicated and vast rice-growing areas are wiped out, the World Food Program said.

Images from state television showed large trees and electricity poles sprawled across roads and roofless houses ringed by large sheets of water in the Irrawaddy River delta region, which is regarded as Myanmar's rice bowl.

"From the reports we are getting, entire villages have been flattened and the final death toll may be huge," Mac Pieczowski, who heads the International Organization for Migration office in Yangon, said in a statement.

President Bush called on Myanmar's military junta to allow the United States to help with disaster assistance, saying the U.S. already has provided some assistance but wants to do more.

"We're prepared to move U.S. Navy assets to help find those who have lost their lives, to help find the missing, to help stabilize the situation. But in order to do so, the military junta must allow our disaster assessment teams into the country," he said.

Bush spoke at a ceremony where he signed legislation awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to Burmese democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi.

Myanmar's military regime has signaled it will welcome aid supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the U.N. said Tuesday, clearing the way for a major relief operation from international organizations.

But U.N. workers were still awaiting their visas to enter the country, said Elisabeth Byrs of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"The government has shown a certain openness so far," Byrs said. "We hope that we will get the visas as soon as possible, in the coming hours. I think the authorities have understood the seriousness of the situation and that they will act accordingly."

The appeal for outside assistance was unusual for Myanmar's ruling generals, who have long been suspicious of international organizations and closely controlled their activities. Several agencies, including the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, have limited their presence as a consequence.

Allowing any major influx of foreigners could carry risks for the military, injecting unwanted outside influence and giving the aid givers rather than the junta credit for a recovery.

However, keeping out international aid would focus blame squarely on the military should it fail to restore peoples' livelihoods.

Some aid agencies reported their assessment teams had reached some areas of the largely isolated region but said getting in supplies and large numbers of aid workers would be difficult.

Shari Villarosa, the top American diplomat in Yangon, told NBC's "Today" show that the cyclone had knocked huge trees in the country's largest city.

"And it blew down a significant portion of them, some of these are 6, 8, 10 stories tall — huge trees, 6 feet, 5 feet in diameter. So they came down on roofs," she said.

The cyclone came only a week ahead of a key referendum on a constitution that Myanmar's military leaders hoped would go smoothly in its favor, despite opposition from the country's feisty pro-democracy movement. However, the disaster could stir the already tense political situation.

State radio also said that Saturday's vote would be delayed until May 24 in 40 of 45 townships in the Yangon area and seven in the Irrawaddy delta, which took the brunt of the weekend storm. It indicated that the balloting would proceed in other areas as scheduled.

The decision drew swift criticism from dissidents and human rights groups who question the credibility of the vote and urged the junta to focus on disaster victims.

Myanmar's generals have hailed the referendum as an important step forward in their "roadmap to democracy." It offers the first chance for voters to cast ballots since 1990, and the probability is high they will approve the constitution — a legal framework the country has lacked for two decades.

But critics, including the United Nations, the United States and human rights groups, question whether it will lead to democracy.

Myanmar has been under military rule since 1962. Its government has been widely criticized for suppression of pro-democracy parties such as the one led by Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been under house arrest for almost 12 of the past 18 years.

At least 31 people were killed and thousands more were detained when the military cracked down on peaceful protests in September led by Buddhist monks and democracy advocates.

Washington has long been one of the ruling junta's sharpest critics for its poor human rights record and failure to hand over power to a democratically elected government.

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Monks, not military, help clean up



From correspondents in Rangoon
May 07, 2008 02:41pm

IT is being left to Burma's monks to help residents clear roads of fallen trees and other debris caused by killer tropical cyclone Nargis.

The gathering of cinnamon-robed monks was one of the largest groups seen in Burma's main city since September when they led mass anti-government protests that were violently put down by security forces.
"We are now relying on monks to clear this road," said one middle-aged woman who lived in the neighbourhood of western Rangoon.
"Of course we were hoping the authorities would come, but they haven't shown up yet. These monks came after the storm to help the people to clear the streets and to remove the trees," she said.
The streets of Rangoon are still strewn with hulking trees that were uprooted by the storm and thrown into cars and buildings. Chunks of roofs ripped off homes lie on the pavements, draped by downed power lines.
Witnesses have reported seeing few soldiers or police joining the relief effort after the weekend cyclone, which killed 22,000 and left 41,000 missing.
"We didn't see any military at all, just police in armoured cars. On Saturday afternoon, we did see some vans, but most of the guys were standing around smoking," said 32-year-old Pip Paton, who was travelling in Rangoon with her family when the cyclone struck.
"Military came out with big chainsaws in one or two areas, but mainly the locals were out chopping up trees themselves."
After the crackdown in September, which the United Nations estimates left at least 31 dead, most monks in Rangoon fled the city.
An abbot leading the monks said monasteries in the city had also been damaged in the storm, but residents had ensured they still had enough to eat.
"People are in difficulty, but they are still making offerings to us. Although our monasteries were damaged, so far we have no difficulties for food yet because people are still offering," he said.
Buddhist monks in Burma rely on donations from the public for their meals, in an act of alms-giving that earns spiritual "merit" for devotees.






age old saying actions speak louder than words.

OMG that's huge numbers! :mello: Why does these things happend..

^ if you think that's a big number..... don't look now...



Burma Death Toll 'May Exceed 100,000'
Updated:19:11, Wednesday May 07, 2008

The death toll in the Burma cyclone disaster could be more than 100,000, a US diplomat has said.

Shari Villarosa, who is head of the US embassy in Rangoon, said that up to 95% of buildings in the worst affected areas had been demolished.

She said there was a serious risk of disease outbreaks as long as the crisis continues.

The new estimate represents a dramatic rise from the 22,000 people known to have died, although another 41,000 people were thought to be missing and the UN had warned that the death toll could rise "dramatically".

Aid agencies in the UK have made an appeal to help the thousands affected by Cyclone Nargis.

The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has started an appeal similar to the one begun in the aftermath of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.

It said the scale of the disaster meant the need for aid was "immediate and vast".

The committee, whose members include British Red Cross, Christian Aid, Oxfam and Save The Children, said the money would be spent on both immediate relief and long-term reconstruction.

DEC chief executive Brendan Gormley said: "Our members are there and need the UK public to show huge generosity to help them reach those thousands of people who have seen their lives and livelihoods uprooted by this disaster."

The UK Government has already announced a £5m package to be delivered through the UN and other charities.

The Government will also deploy an emergency field team to the country.

The DEC announcement comes as international aid groups voice frustration with Burma's military leaders, as dozens of relief workers wait for permission to enter the country to help with cyclone relief efforts.

An operation has also begun to supply food to over one million people left homeless by Cyclone Nargis, which devastated the country's south-west on Saturday.

The storm killed at least 22,000 people while 41,000 people are still missing - but the death toll could "dramatically" surge well beyond the current figure, according to a UN official.

Some aid has begun arriving at Rangoon's airport, but there are concerns that there are not enough workers on the ground to deliver the goods to those who need it.

Aid agency Save The Children said they felt they were in the dark regarding visas.

"We have absolutely no idea of what progress, if any, will be made on better visa management," agency spokesman Dan Collinson said.

"We're frustrated. At the moment we still have a reasonable amount of capacity in-country, but that's going to run out very quickly."

Spokesman for the UN's World Food Programme (WFP), Paul Risley, has told Sky News the visa delays are hurting the Burmese people who desperately need help.

"The real test comes tomorrow morning. We have four scheduled flights which will carry much needed ready-to-eat food," he said.

"We also have portable tents and supplies and equipment that the humanitarian teams will need in responding to this disaster.

"The test will be of the government's willingness to accept substantial international aid.

"We're still having difficulty getting visas for some of the technicians and disaster relief experts - some of the people that the UN relies on in times of emergency."

He said if the delays continue for much longer, the cyclone death toll would more than likely increase.

"The cyclone came on Saturday and we are four days into the crisis. So many have yet to receive safe drinking water and medical attention, as well as basic necessities such as food."

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1315187,00.html




This is truly a tragedy


Our school is going to do an emergency fund raiser for these people I'll let you all know how much we raise :kickass2:

This is horrible, and as said it gets even worse due to the regime in Burma.

Damn

http://http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/10/world/asia/10myanmar.html?_r=1&bl=&ei=5087&en=608460cc4e52557a&ex=1210478400&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

Burmese Junta Seizes Aid and Blocks Foreigners

By SETH MYDANS
Published: May 10, 2008
BANGKOK — The military leaders of Myanmar seized a shipment of United Nations food aid on Friday intended for victims of a devastating cyclone, declaring that they would accept donations of food and medicine but not the foreign aid workers international groups say are in equally short supply there.


The ruling junta continued to permit a small number of aid deliveries and promised to allow the first air shipment from the Pentagon on Monday, a significant concession because the United States has been Myanmar’s leading critic, imposing sanctions and lobbying for a United Nations resolution condemning the nation’s generals for human rights violations.

But the refusal of the country’s iron-fisted rulers to allow doctors and disaster relief experts to enter in large numbers contributed to the growing concern that starvation and epidemic diseases could end up killing people on the same scale as the winds, waves and flooding that destroyed villages across a wide swath of coastal Myanmar nearly a week ago.

The International Red Cross estimated Friday that the combined efforts of relief agencies and the Myanmar government have distributed aid to only 220,000 of up to 1.9 million people left homeless, injured or subject to disease and hunger after the storm.

“There are problems to get the aid inside, and there are problems to get the aid out to the delta area,” the Danish Red Cross director, Anders Ladekarl, told Danish broadcaster DR. “We are simply lacking transportation. There are almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run.”

As foreign aid groups scurried to deliver relief, the generals who run Myanmar continued to focus on a separate priority: a constitutional referendum scheduled for Saturday.

The junta’s plan to go ahead with the vote while restricting aid deliveries drew widespread criticism and concern that soldiers who could be rescuing survivors were likely to be sent to polling places instead.

“It is one of the best examples of the disregard for the people by the military,” said Josef Silverstein an expert on Myanmar at Rutgers University.

Fourteen years in the making, the Constitution is formulated to keep power in the hands of military officers, even if they change to civilian clothes. It would guarantee the military 25 percent of the seats in Parliament and control of crucial cabinet posts, along with the right to suspend democratic freedoms at any time.

But while the state-run newspaper urged people on Friday to approve the Constitution, little help was reaching them. To date, Myanmar has allowed 11 airborne deliveries of aid, which experts say is a fraction of the relief needed if the scale of the disaster is even close to what the Burmese government has claimed. Much of that has come from the United Nations World Food Program, which said Friday that the aid it had delivered — and intended to distribute to hard-hit regions along the coast — had been seized.

“All the food aid and equipment that we managed to get in has been confiscated,” said Paul Risley, a spokesman for the United Nations World Food Program in Bangkok.

After initially saying it would halt deliveries, the agency said later Friday that flights would continue Saturday while the issue is worked out. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged the Myanmar authorities to let aid into the country “without hindrance” and said the effect of further delay could be “truly catastrophic.”

His spokeswoman, Marie Okabe, said Mr. Ban had been trying for two days without success to get in touch by telephone with Than Shwe, the junta’s senior general. “We have been told that the phone lines are down,” she said.

Myanmar’s military junta said in a statement on Friday that it was willing to receive disaster relief from the outside world but would distribute supplies itself rather than allowing in relief workers. Aid agencies want to coordinate and control their own aid.

Already Myanmar has turned away one fully loaded flight because the supplies were accompanied by disaster experts and press.

“Myanmar is not in a position to receive rescue and information teams from foreign countries at the moment,” a Foreign Ministry statement said. “But at present Myanmar is giving priority to receiving relief aid and distributing them to the storm-hit regions with its own resources.”

Even so, some agencies and nations were delivering supplies successfully. India sent two ships loaded with relief supplies, and the United Nations Children’s Fund said it was not meeting problems with its deliveries of aid.

A spokesman for Unicef, Christopher de Bono, said in an e-mail message that millions of water purification tablets had been delivered Thursday, and that although customs clearance could take two days, “as far as we know there has been no indication of any problems so far.”

In a telephone call from Myanmar, an official of the International Red Cross, Michael Annear, said delivery work was proceeding normally in cooperation with other agencies and local businesses.

Doctors Without Borders, which had been running large H.I.V. and malaria programs in Myanmar, has about 80 staff members in the Delta region and is sending more in, said Frank Smithuis, the group’s head of mission. He said the group was distributing food and medicine from the stores it already had in place.

In the worst-affected areas, he said, 95 percent of the people had lost their homes and everything they owned, and were in desperate need of food, water and shelter.

Dr. Smithuis said his group was dispatching teams of six — a doctor, a nurse, a medical assistant, two water and sanitation workers and a food distributor who would hire local people to help distribute food.

The teams are seeing many people injured by the storm who have infected wounds that need to be drained and treated with antibiotics, he said.

“It sounds like we have everything under control, and that’s not true,” Mr. Smithuis said. “The area is wide, and there’s a lot of people. We don’t see other players, we don’t see other help.” Most relief workers on the ground are local people and would be less likely to encounter the suspicion with which authorities view foreigners.

Save the Children reported that its staff members in the Irrawaddy delta region had come across many rotting bodies where the waters had receded. In the Pyinkaya area southwest of there, they said, people were dying of hunger and thirst.

Mr. Risley of the World Food Program said he had never seen delays like those being encountered in Myanmar. In Indonesia after the tsunami in 2004, he said, an air bridge of daily flights was established within 48 hours.

“The frustration caused by what appears to be a paperwork delay is unprecedented in modern humanitarian relief efforts,” he said. “It’s astonishing.”

He said his agency alone had submitted 10 visa applications for relief workers but that none had been approved before consulates shut down for the weekend.

“We strongly urge the government of Myanmar to process these visa applications as quickly as possible, including working over the weekend,” he said.

John Holmes, the United Nations chief aid coordinator, appealed to countries for $187 million in emergency aid on Friday. But Bettina Luescher, a spokeswoman for the World Food Program, turned aside repeated questions about what had led her agency to make its original decision to suspend relief and then rapidly reverse it.

“All I can say is that at our headquarters in Rome, there were discussions going on and it was decided that we should send in those planes tomorrow,” she said.

She said that of the 16 visas for entry into Myanmar sought for international staff members, only one had been granted, and it had been requested prior to the storm.

The White House welcomed the news on Friday that Myanmar would allow some American aid on Monday. “We hope this is the beginning of major U.S. assistance to the Burmese people,” said Gordon D. Johndroe, a White House spokesman. He added, “We are very concerned about the people of Burma, and we’re going to keep on working with the government of Burma to do what we can to help the people there.”

Among the forces the United States could call on is the Essex Strike Group, which was in the region for Cobra Gold military exercises with Thailand. The group transferred a dozen transport helicopters to Thailand, where they could fly to Myanmar in a matter of hours with relief supplies. The ships are moving toward waters off Myanmar to be available with medical and other relief or reconstruction capabilities on board.

Aboard the ships are amphibious landing craft that can move onto battered shorelines and carry personnel and supplies to remote locations, inaccessible by road.

“We will come, provide assistance, and then leave — just like in Bangladesh, Indonesia, and other places where we have provided assistance,” said Maj. Stewart Upton of the Marine Corps, a Pentagon spokesman.


Warren Hoge contributed reporting from the United Nations, Thom Shanker from Washington and Denise Grady from New York.

Warren Hoge contributed reporting from the United Nations, Thom Shanker from Washington, and Denise Grady from New York

how can the people be helped if the aid is blocked? i fear these people will not distribute the supplies brought if the supplies are just dropped, but what else to do?

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how can the people be helped if the aid is blocked? i fear these people will not distribute the supplies brought if the supplies are just dropped, but what else to do?

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What do expect from people that bludgeon monks to death?

so now what? will the world stand by while tens of thousands if not more if it gets worse starve or dont' get care when it is available? more military action, oh i pray not, but i wonder what is going to happen, this is crazy

This is insane.....

THE death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 – more than TWICE the total killed by the Boxing Day Tsunami.

Last night’s warning came as it emerged that 17 Britons, including ex-pats and backpackers, were still missing.

Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying.

But the figure could rise to HALF A MILLION through disease and hunger if the nation’s hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta.

That would dwarf the 230,000 deaths across South East Asia in the 2004 catastrophe.


Nyo Ohn Myint, of exiled opposition party The National League for Democracy, told The Sun at a border crisis centre: “Much of this will be a man-made disaster, caused by the military regime.

“The bodies need to be collected and burnt as soon as possible or disease will claim many more lives. But the government has organised nothing and its 400,000 soldiers are doing nothing while undistributed aid piles up.

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“They are hoping bodies will be washed out to sea so the final count is smaller – but it could kill half a million people within a matter of weeks. The world must know what is going on.”

Disaster struck on Saturday when 120mph Cyclone Nargis forced ashore waves up to 20ft high. The Irrawaddy town of Labutta – population 80,000 – was wiped off the map.

Devastation ... map shows area

Devastation ... map shows area

Local doctor Aye Kyu told how families clung to trees as their homes were swept away.

He said: “I asked survivors how many there were left. They said about 200.”

A spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid said: “The entire lower delta region is under water.

Teams are talking about bodies floating around. This is a major, major disaster.”

The UN World Food Programme said up to a million may have been left homeless in the vital “rice bowl” farming region alone.

In the city of Bogalay, 95 per cent of homes are thought to have been destroyed.

In the township of Dedaye, south of the main city Rangoon, desperate kids scavenged among the debris of their homes for anything useful to survival.

On the outskirts of Rangoon forlorn families, including a mother cradling her screaming baby, queued for emergency handouts of rice.

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In Britain, International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander told MPs the situation was “grave”.

The UK has so far pledged more aid than anyone, announcing a £5million package to be channelled through the UN.

Charities Save the Children, Oxfam and the British Red Cross have also swung into action.

But most of the aid is yet to be distributed because of the secretive Burmese junta, led by ruthless General Than Shwe.

His isolationist regime is paranoid an influx of foreigners might have a political impact on a national referendum due tomorrow, set to strengthen the army’s grip still further.

Just four of the air force’s 80 helicopters have been used to move food, water and medical shipments.

In need ... baby cries

In need ... baby cries

Meanwhile, many desperately needed supplies remain in neighbouring countries awaiting clearance, along with aid workers denied visas.

Aid packages which have made it to Rangoon Airport were still on the tarmac.

There were fears that some could be stolen and sold on by corrupt officials.

Mark Farmaner, director of Burma Campaign UK, insisted: “We can’t wait for them any more.

“The Security Council must pass a resolution for aid delivery now.

“We need to see the British, French and US navies begin delivering assistance. Every extra day lost is causing the deaths of yet more innocent victims.”

The Burmese embassy in London claimed aid workers were not being allowed in because of fears for their safety.

An official said: “The Irrawaddy Delta region is hard to travel at the best of times. Once it is safe, we want more in the country as soon as possible.”

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This country's government needs to be cleaned out and started again :mello: how can you not allow aid in to save your own people? More and more will die from disease, starvation and loss of shelter.