Monday, May 12, 2008

Burma Death Toll Could Top 1 Million -- Aid Trickles In -- Junta Still Holding UP Aid

Aid trickles into Burma, but toll 'could reach 1 million if disease set in'
Times UK

A trickle of aid shipments arrived in Myanmar on Sunday, more than a week after a massive cyclone smashed the country, but officials continued to bar major shipments to the storm's hard-hit survivors.

The junta is refusing to grant entry to foreign aid workers, who relief officials say are crucial to preventing more deaths from disease among an estimated 1.5 million victims of the May 3 storm.

International Herald Tribune

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