A Trickle of Aid Reaches Survivors |
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SAW YAN NAING |
More aid is arriving at Rangoon airport, but the amount reaching the two largest towns in the Irrawaddy delta is insufficient to help the massive number of survivors.
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INTERNET CHATBehind the Story in Laputta |
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THE IRRAWADDY |
The following is an Internet conversation between an Irrawaddy editor and a correspondent in Rangoon, who just returned from Laputta Township in the Irrawaddy delta.
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Cyclone Survivors Told to Return to Shattered Homes |
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WAI MOE |
Nearly 2,000 cyclone survivors still sheltering in monasteries, religious buildings and schools in one Rangoon township have been told by the authorities to return to what is left of their homes by May 20.
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| Dead (official) |
38,491 |
| Missing (official) |
27,838 |
| Dead (Red Cross estimate) |
Up to 127,990 |
| Affected (Red Cross estimate) |
Up to 2.51 million |
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 |  The biggest problem we have at the moment is that international humanitarian staff are not being allowed down into the affected area in the delta. 
— John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs |
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The international press comes knocking at the jungle camps of Burma’s student rebels.
