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May 9th, 2008
Posted: 05:10 AM ET
(CNN) — Frustration deepened Friday as authorities in Myanmar continued to keep out a small army of relief workers six days after a killer cyclone smashed into the country, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving many more without food, shelter, or clean water. A United Nations spokesman on Friday called the bureaucratic delays unprecedented, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the military junta in Myanmar has behaved “appallingly” by declining to grant more visas to relief workers. Paul Risley, a spokesman for the U.N. World Food Program, told CNN the agency has never encountered such resistance to offers of help in such a mushrooming humanitarian crisis. “This has never happened before,” he told CNN on Friday. |
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