{"id":18073,"date":"2025-04-08T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-earthquake-relief-is-slow-to-reach-myanmar\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T02:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:00:32","slug":"why-earthquake-relief-is-slow-to-reach-myanmar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/why-earthquake-relief-is-slow-to-reach-myanmar\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Earthquake Relief Is Slow to Reach Myanmar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seven days after an earthquake <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2023\/02\/09\/world\/turkey-syria-earthquake\" title=\"\">devastated Turkey<\/a> in 2023, French volunteers used a suitcase-size radar to locate a survivor under the rubble. It was one of many lives the device helped save in the aftermath of the disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The group also rushed volunteers to Myanmar after a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/28\/world\/asia\/earthquake-myanmar-thailand-death-toll.html\" title=\"\">powerful earthquake<\/a> last month leveled buildings, bridge and centuries-old temples. But the volunteers were stuck at immigration control at the airport in Yangon for more than a day. They finally entered the country last Wednesday, only to have the authorities declare search and rescue operations ending the next day. The volunteers returned home without finding a single survivor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Myanmar\u2019s military government surprised many observers when it called for international assistance in response to the March 28 earthquake. It also <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/02\/world\/asia\/myanmar-quake-aid.html\" title=\"\">declared a cease-fire<\/a> against rebels in a civil war that has consumed the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But less than two weeks after the calamity hit, aid groups and volunteers said, international relief is not reaching Myanmar\u2019s beleaguered public as fast as it could. They blame the junta for delays and restrictions on distributing aid. Others cite a climate of fear \u2014 the military has <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/30\/world\/asia\/myanmar-earthquake-aftershocks-airstrikes.html\" title=\"\">resumed airstrikes<\/a> on rebel areas despite the cease-fire and on at least one occasion fired on aid workers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNothing was reasonable on the ground,\u201d said Sezer Ozgan, a volunteer with the French nonprofit L\u2019Espoir du peuple A.R.S.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Already <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/08\/briefing\/myanmar-civil-war.html\" title=\"\">ravaged by war<\/a>, Myanmar continues to reel from the earthquake, which people have been calling \u201cearth\u2019s anger.\u201d The official death toll has surpassed 3,500 and many more have been injured. But the full extent of the devastation remains hard to assess because of damaged roads and toppled phone towers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Many rendered homeless and those too scared to return to their damaged houses are sleeping in the open. They are being rattled by regular aftershocks in the suffocating pre-monsoon heat, and have to line up for daily rations provided by local aid groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One reason for the delay in bringing in aid is that the government itself is in disarray, with many buildings in the capital, Naypyidaw, damaged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But the military\u2019s announcement that all assistance would be coordinated by it has left aid groups jittery. Relief organizations have long been subject to a fickle process of obtaining travel authorizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A year after seizing power in 2021, the junta almost entirely drained a disaster management fund by redirecting it for agriculture initiatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Cyclone Nargis killed more than 130,000 people in 2008, an earlier coterie of ruling generals blocked emergency aid and infamously told aid groups that the survivors did not need their \u201cchocolate bars\u201d and could instead survive on \u201cfrogs and fish from ditches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ruled by one brutal military regime after another for decades, the people of Myanmar are quick to support one another. But for local volunteers, fear hangs in the air as much as grief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Phoe Thar, a volunteer rescue worker in Mandalay, said he was working less at night after hearing that an acquaintance had been forcibly drafted by the military. \u201cWe want to help more,\u201d he said, \u201cbut fear is holding us back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Equality Myanmar, a human rights organization, said it had tracked almost 100 cases of forced conscription since the earthquake, calling the disaster an opportunity for the military to recruit troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Kiran Verma, a volunteer from India, said he was delayed for hours with local volunteers at a military checkpoint the day after the earthquake. He said he left after three days in the quake zone, feeling \u201cscared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI thought they would be welcoming anyone coming to rescue their people,\u201d Mr. Verma, 40, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To some critics, the military itself could be doing more to help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ko Min Htet, a volunteer in Mandalay, said he had seen only few soldiers clearing bricks from public buildings. They should focus instead on helping people, he said: \u201cSome soldiers and police sit at damaged sites, scrolling on their phones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some would-be volunteers are afraid to return to cities like Mandalay and Yangon, which suffered the worst of the earthquake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe\u2019re longing to be on the ground, to offer whatever help we can,\u201d said Min Han, a physician who fled to rebel held territory after the coup, refusing to work as a civil servant under the junta. \u201cBut returning now would be like walking straight into a trap \u2014 we could be arrested or killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The junta\u2019s motives are clear, said Richard Horsey, an analyst with the International Crisis Group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTheir first priority is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/29\/world\/asia\/myanmar-quake-junta.html\" title=\"\">regime survival<\/a>,\u201d he said, \u201cnot the well-being of the country and its people.\u201d At the same time, he said, the junta\u2019s response to the earthquake is marked by \u201cchaos rather than malice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Lynn Maung was sheltering in a tent with his three children near the moat of the historic Mandalay Palace. On Saturday, he was taken by surprise when torrential rains and winds swept the tent away. There had been no weather warning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe can\u2019t predict earthquakes, but we can predict rainfall,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way the military junta is handling things is like trying to treat a cancer patient with castor oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/07\/world\/asia\/myanmar-earthquake-aid.html\">Source 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