Aid ‘lottery’ for Burma survivors
3/6/08
More than a million survivors of the deadly cyclone in Myanmar have yet to receive any aid a month on, with reports from refugees fleeing the disaster zone speaking of military-run lotteries to determine who receives food and who will go hungry. Aid groups say more than half of the 2.4 million survivors needing help have yet to be reached. One man told Al Jazeera of how soldiers distributing the little relief reaching his village ran a lottery to determine who would receive aid. “A member from each family was given a number and the soldiers held a lottery,” said the man sheltering in Mae Sot, a Thai town bordering Myanmar where hundreds of survivors are holed up after crossing over in search of help.
See: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2B0CC091-BFCD-44B5-807C-59C3992443C7.htm
Tags: Burma, Environment, Human Rights