Earthquake deepens crisis in Myanmar as aid effort steps up

International efforts to get assistance in Myanmar on Sunday, a few days after a devastating earthquake earthquake that deepened the crisis deepened.

Rescue and treatment teams from China, Russia, India, Thailand and Singapore came to isolated southeast Asian countries. Other regional partners, including Vietnam and Malaysia, have promised to send support.

Myanmar’s military government has said that according to state media, 5 more people were killed and 5 were injured, according to state media, though the statistics are expected to grow.

The earthquake died at least 5 deaths in the Thai capital bank 600 miles away, and 78 78 disappeared after the upper-house building collapsed.

On Sunday, Mandle and the capital Nipidou hit the capital, with a magnitude 6.5 earthquake continued on the weekend.

Responding to the earthquake is about to be a huge challenge MyanmarTied by conflicts for decades and its suppressed military rulers. According to a UN Development Program report in January, the country of 1 million is tolerating a “polyricis”, whose economy was in distress and the GDP Covid -1 epidemic was less than ever.

Amnesty International Myanmar researcher Joe Freman said the earthquake “could not have come to a bad time for Myanmar.” He noted that the disaster was after the Trump administration’s foreign aid to the frost and USAID scale, though the US President said Washington would provide assistance in the earthquake.

Amnesty assumed that more than one-third of the population would require humanitarian assistance this year.

Myanmar’s military has overthrew the elected government of Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup in 2021. Since then, the democratic parties have grown up with the armed ethnic uprising against the junta and have deepened across the country.

Several strategic border zones are in the rebellious hand, though the control of the governing system in the central region including Yangon, commercial center and Mandale is more secure, second city, the second city is the second city near the center of its center. Friday earthquakeThe

India has said that its military has sent a team to set up a field hospital near the mandal and the aircraft with some relief supply. Its Navy is also sending four ships with humanitarian assistance.

“Disaster relief materials, humanitarian assistance, exploration and rescue parties are being sent to the victims,” ​​Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote to Xin Aung Hlai, the chief of the military junta of Myanmar.

State media has said that Beijing has sent two emergency rescue groups and has sent China’s Red Cross emergency supply, state media reported. Myanmar’s border has sent some supplies to the southwestern Yunnan province.

In the past, military governments have rejected or restricted access to assistance, especially in territories governed by rebel groups.

In the 21st, Cyclone Nargis rejected a military dictatorship with the United States after killing more than 1.5 people. During the recent disaster like Cyclone Mocha and flash floods last year, local relief workers accused the government of assisting and granting the government to the rebel regions.

Tom Andrews, a UN Special Raporeur for Myanmar’s human rights, says “cyclone mocha and typhoon yagi reaction to Yagi.” A strong international reaction is essential to help many in the crash of this horrible earthquake. “

The human rights group, who focused on Central Myanmar, said on Sunday that international assistance was “not reaching the victims”, the residents of the mandale “are operating their own rescue.”

The group has added that some international relief teams were allowed to operate in Mondal and Naipida from Monday. However, it has been added that Sagaying, a rural northern region on the mandley, which saw the onset of war, remained “blocked”.

International agencies say the earthquake has destroyed hospitals and damaged the main highway between the country’s commercial center in Mandley and Yangon. The Air Traffic Control Tower collapsed at Nipidore Airport.

“We may not have a clear image about the loss and damage for some time,” Amnesty said. It also added that Central Myanmar was “military airstrikes and clashes between resistance groups and military forces”.

Local media reported that just hours after the earthquake, the military launched airstrikes in the northern Shan state.

A shadow government, comprising former members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, said Saturday that it would implement a “two-week break” in the aggressive military activity in the earthquake-infected region.

It is added that it will cooperate with the UN agencies and international aid groups “if” junta-controlled zones “to provide immediate emergency assistance and treatment assistance” if protected guarantee is provided “.

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