The Myanmar junta's distress call met with brief responses

The leader of Myanmar's brutal military junta is appealing for help after a storm that has forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes. International aid organizations do not want to comment on the request from the junta leader.

» Updated: October 04 2024

» Published: September 14 2024

The Myanmar junta's distress call met with brief responses
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Severe weather, with the unusually powerful hurricane Yagis' passage last weekend, has forced over 235,000 people to leave their homes, according to the military junta.

Over 300 people have died in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand in connection with the storm.

Now, the military junta leader Min Aung Hlaing in Myanmar is turning to the international community for help in an unusual distress call.

Our government officials must contact other countries in order to receive emergency aid that can benefit the affected, said the junta leader on Friday to the state newspaper Global New Light of Myanmar.

But the responses from the UN's humanitarian organization Ocha and the International Red Cross Committee were brief, reports the news agency AFP. Both organizations said they did not want to comment on the request.

The military junta has been persecuting opposition members since the coup against the democratic government in the spring of 2021. Civil wars are also ongoing in several areas of Myanmar, with severe humanitarian suffering and mass flight as a result. Ethnic conflicts have also worsened the situation.

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