News Inside Burma After Nargis Cyclone
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Tissue boxes with Red Cross labels, believed to have been pilfered, on sale in Mingalar market in Rangoon on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Reports said some relief supplies donated by the international community have been stolen by persons assigned by the authorities and are being sold in the black market.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Tissue boxes with Red Cross labels, believed to have been pilfered, on sale in Mingalar market in Rangoon on Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Reports said some relief supplies donated by the international community have been stolen by persons assigned by the authorities and are being sold in the black market.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Refugees in Bogalay town. Tens of thousands of cyclone survivors are on the move in the Irrawaddy Delta, posing a challenge for international relief workers trying to reach them with aid.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Refugees in Bogalay town. Tens of thousands of cyclone survivors are on the move in the Irrawaddy Delta, posing a challenge for international relief workers trying to reach them with aid.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Refugees in Bogalay town. Tens of thousands of cyclone survivors are on the move in the Irrawaddy Delta, posing a challenge for international relief workers trying to reach them with aid.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Tired, a man sitting while rebuilding his house on higher land. He said quarter authority told him he will get wood and roof to build. But for now, he's collecting some woods from the streets.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Two boys visiting their collapsed-and-sunk bamboo house, under the condition of uncertainty to afford to rebuild a new house, in Aphyauk village, Kawmhu Township, 12 May, 2008.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA An old man, storm victim, begging by the Highway outside Yangon. In background, some vans covered by blue sheet and loaded with food are not allowed to go to Phyapon. Police say those cars are NGO.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Homeless people in Bogalay. Several thousand homeless still wait for relief  in Bogalay 11 days after Cyclone Nargis lashed the town.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Some cyclone victims in refugee camps are suffering from diarrhea which may assume epidemic proportions.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA About 80 percent of boats have been destroyed by the Cyclone Nargis in this small fishing Island on the Andaman sea.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA About 80 percent of boats have been destroyed by the Cyclone Nargis in this small fishing Island on the Andaman sea.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA The body of a man in Bogalay rots eight days after the cyclone.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Victims of Cyclone Nargis  ask for relief from a local Non-Governmental Organisation in Bogalay. Several hundred victims in the cyclone hit  town are yet to receive aid even after 11 days.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Scene from Hine Gyi Island: Hine Gyi Island, in the Irrawaddy delta, is the first town to be hit by Cyclone Nargis on <br /> May 2.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Local fishermen said, nearly 80 percent of the fishing boats in Hine Gyi Island, the first town to be hit by Cyclone Nargis, were destroyed.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Debris of a house in Hine Gyi island, a fishing town first hit by the Cyclone on May 2.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Self reconstruction: Survivors in Hine Gyi reconstruct their own houses.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Scenes of Hine Gyi Island after the Cyclone, Debris filled everywhere on the lanes and streets of the Island.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Scenes of Hine Gyi Island after the Cyclone, Debris filled everywhere on the lanes and streets of the Island.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Scenes of Hine Gyi Island after the Cyclone, Debris filled everywhere on the lanes and streets of the Island.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA The US will begin to airlift relief for the first time on Monday to Cyclone Nargis victims in Burma's Irrawaddy delta. The relief materials will be ferried in on a C -130 military aircraft which is ready to take off, a US Marine spokesperson said at a press conference in Thailand's air base in U-Tapao.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA The US will begin to airlift relief for the first time on Monday to Cyclone Nargis victims in Burma's Irrawaddy delta. The relief materials will be ferried in on a C -130 military aircraft which is ready to take off, a US Marine spokesperson said at a press conference in Thailand's air base in U-Tapao.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Desperate families outside of Kunchangone appeal for assistance from passers by - especially the international community. Authorities have since ordered them to remove the sign, as it presumably does not convey the image of the relief effort the government seeks to portray.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA A man in Kunchangone explains how he survived the storm by first knocking out the back wall of his home to allow the water to rush through and then lying on and clinging to his counter in the middle of the home. The water level peaked just below the top of the counter.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA A man carries a bag of rice donated by a Muslim organization to one of the delta's numerous monasteries in great need.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Children sprint toward a car that has stopped along the road between Kunchangone and dadeye to distribute much needed aid.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA One of the numerous private vehicles that have come to the aid of devastated communities in Burma's delta region.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA A private donor distributes aid to communities near Dadaeye. Many villagers now amass on the roadside to await private aid, with official assistance unable to sufficiently cover their needs.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA A man in Kunchangone carries home a precious bag of rice.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Burma Red Cross workers make their way to the Irrawaddy near the village of Kunchangone, where several rotting human and animal carcasses lie scattered in now abandoned fields.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA One of the countless bodies that now dot the banks of the Irrawaddy. With storm surges raising the water a reported 15-20 feet, thousands of people were simply swept away.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Carcasses of dead animals now litter the shores of the Irrawaddy.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Children in the delta village of Kunchangone, where some 57 persons lost their lives with dozens more still unaccounted for.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA Children come out to meet the first shipment of aid to be personally directed to the village of K. With official aid inadequate, many survivors in need are forced to rely on the generosity of private donors.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA A child walks past remnants of homes along a stretch of road between Kunchangone and Dadeye in Yangon Division.<br /> Photo: MIZZIMA
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"We are at a critical point. Unless more aid gets into the country very quickly, we face an outbreak of infectious diseases that could dwarf today's current crisis,"

Ban Ki-moon
UN Secretary General
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