Tropical cyclone hit Myanmar more than 60,000 victims

Naches tropical cyclone hit Myanmar, the current number of deaths to determine the accumulated nearly 22,500 people, 41,000 people are missing and more than 100 million people have been displaced. Allowed to enter Myanmar to rescue the "Save the Children" organization estimated that the hurricane death toll will reach 50,000 people, or even more. 

 Although Myanmar's military junta to accept the outside world to provide food and other emergency relief supplies, but the provisions of a foreign government must be handed over to the Myanmar authorities to release materials, and foreign aid workers must apply for a visa to enter the United States and European Union criticized the trigger. U.S., EU and France have called on Myanmar to immediately open rescuers immigration, U.S. President George W. Bush and said that immediately dispatched three warships off the coast in Thailand, to assist disaster relief. 

 After the disaster is like an outsider it is difficult to enter Myanmar and lock the country most heavily hit Irrawaddy River delta. World Vision is one of the few allowed to send its staff to one of international agencies in Myanmar; World Expo consultants said that the paddy fields all over the body of the affected areas, many survivors homeless, and lack of food and drinking water. He said: "Volunteers in the air will be able to see many dead bodies, even if they flew by helicopter in the air View, still under shock." 

 Large areas of southwestern Myanmar devastated by cyclone, affecting as many as 24 million people, accounting for about half of the total population of Myanmar.Jimi to this natural disaster and in 2004 across the Indian Ocean and killed 220,000 precious lives in South Asia tsunami par. He said: "The impact of this natural disaster and may even be worse in the South Asia tsunami, the disaster areas because of traffic inconvenience, you can come in handy for limited supplies. Witnesses said that tens of thousands of victims of the lack of food and drinking water, in some areas victims can not be rehoused. in getting higher and higher temperatures, the victims are very desperate. " 

 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Secretary-General Surin said that the typhoon, so heavy, partly due to the destruction of mangroves. He said, mangroves could serve as a Marine and a buffer between land, but population growth lead to "like a whale of mangroves have been eroded, and the mangroves has been able to act as a residential area with the tides, strong waves and storm buffer zone between." 

 In addition, the India Meteorological Department said the cyclone 48 hours before landing, they will notify the Myanmar precautions. ‧ U.S. First Lady Laura Bush at the White House said, "although they know the threat, Burma's state-run media did not timely cyclone warning nationals", resulting in people not pre-disaster prevention and casualties. 

 Myanmar's public health system are extremely backward. The United Nations and the International Red Cross believes that without the resettlement and the lack of safe drinking water to victims of possibly up to hundreds of thousands of people, more than one million people homeless, disaster may occur dysentery, cholera and malaria and other infectious disease.