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NY Times on Myanmar Cyclone Crisis

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Full Article – Myanmar Seizes UN Food for Cyclone Victims and Blocks Foreign Experts

Myanmar Seizes UN Food for Cyclone Victims and Blocks Foreign Experts
By SETH MYDANS

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.

Continued on nytimes.com