UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies
ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 139,000, with millions homeless, a major international aid effort swung into action. Seven thousand US troops, diverted on their way home from the Gulf, boosted the relief effort. The US amphibious taskforce lifted 300 tonnes of relief materials in one day, matching the entire effort in the first two weeks of the Bangladesh government and its allies. After the devastating tsunami that swept Southeast...
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