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Cyclone Nargis; News from Inside
Emily Dalton / Kaowao; May 12th, 2008
The people’s requests are not major. Having lived under a military dictatorship for too long, these people are strong and resilient; prior to Nargis, 70% of the population of Burma survived on less than $US1 a day, below the international poverty line benchmark. Now tens of thousands are people are surviving on coconuts and filthy water. They need clean drinking water, shelter and basic medicine. They need their fundamental human rights adhered to.
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Bracing for Another Cyclone
The news of a second powerful storm headed toward Myanmar Wednesday was not broadcast by state-controlled media. But Yangon residents picked up the news on foreign broadcasts -- and braced for the worst. (
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Associated PressMyanmar children lined up to receive water from a local donor on the outskirts of Yangon.
Another powerful storm headed toward Myanmar's cyclone-devastated delta Wednesday, where so little aid has reached that the United Nations warned of a "second wave of deaths."
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The Red Cross says the death toll in Myanmar's cyclone may be between 68,833 and 127,990.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says it arrived at the figure by pooling and extrapolating assessments by other aid groups and organizations.
It says in a situation report on Myanmar that the total affected population is between 1.64 million and 2.51 million.
The report issued today noted that "official government casualty figures remain significantly lower."
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UN chief calls emergency aid meeeting for Myanmar snip
"Until now, regrettably, I think we have spent much of our time and energy and in facilitating aids get flow in and visas being issued," the UN chief said. "Even though the Myanmese government has shown some sense of flexibility, at this time it's a far, far too short.
"The magnitude of this situation requires much more mobilization of resources and aid workers. Now I'm going to really discuss this matter with some members of the key donors as well as ASEAN countries this afternoon and discuss what kind of concrete measures we can do now, from now on. Now I think we are entering into almost the second stage of our operation to help the Myanmese people," he added
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