Emergency food shipments are backing up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city. Relief work

Описание: (13 May 2008) HEADLINE: Myanmar police block aid workers, food piles up
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CAPTION: Emergency food shipments are backing up at the main airport for Myanmar's biggest city. Relief workers reported some storm survivors were being given spoiled food, adding to fears that the ruling military junta in the Southeast Asian country could be misappropriating assistance. (May 13)
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It's the second U-S plane to arrive in Myanmar .... carrying supplies after a deadly cyclone struck the Asian nation.
[Notes:SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Mark Hamilton, US Marines pilot: "I'm glad that we're able to help, it's going to be hard for them for a long time over there. I just wish that we could do more faster. I would fly over there as many times as they let me a day, as fast as I could load up and take it over there."]
Officials are reporting 62 thousand dead or missing ... But the United Nations puts that number at more than 100 thousand.
Now 10 days later ... the government has agreed to accept more aid from America for the estimated two million people severely affected.
But that may not be enough for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .... Who stopped short of supporting forced intervention into the country.
[Notes:SOT Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State: "We are doing everything we can because this is a humanitarian issue, not a political issue, and we want to make very clear that our only desire is to help the people of Burma."]
Even so ... Myanmar authorities say basic needs of the storm victims were being fulfilled.
That's after the country's military junta took control of most foreign aid.
But the U-N is telling a different story.
They say only a tiny portion of international aid was reaching the cyclone victims.
New reports say the country's military regime is hoarding higher-quality foreign aid for itself .... and giving the victims rotten food.
[Notes:SOUNDBITE: (English) Corporal Bryan Hampson, US military aircraft crew member: "I really wish that their government (Myanmar) would accept our aid more than what they have already. I wish that they would allow us to come and do like what we did in past disasters like the tsunami in Indonesia, when we come in and give them the aid they need."]
The U-S military has said it's prepared to send 200-thousand pounds of supplies a day.
And .. it says .. it could also ferry aid workers to the hardest-hit regions ...which remain tough to reach.
[Notes:SOT Marcus Prior, World Food Programme Spokesman: " "Well, right from the very beginning we planned an initial response to 750,000 people for six months because people have lost everything: they have lost their homes, their fields have been inundated. .... Yes, there is an emergency response but there is also a duty to look slightly beyond that and say we will stay around until you are really back on your feet."]
Myanmar's largest city Yangon has been pounded by heavy rain the past few days.
And more downpours are expected throughout the week ... making aid deliveries *even* more difficult.
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STORY NUMBER: 564583
DATELINE: Various, 13 May 2008

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Yangon, Myanmar
1. US military plane with aid taxiing on runway
2. US serviceman handling aid in cargo hold
3. Close up of bottled water
4. US official showing passports to Myanmar official
5. Various of US and Myanmar workers unloading aid
Yangon, Myanmar

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