Cyclone: Telegraph from hell

This laconically desperate communication came from a correspondent inside Burma. It says more than many more polished reports.

(1) Military Government has sealed off the disaster area (delta region)
(2) No one goes in and out.
(3) Soldiers and check points are every where.
(4) They stop all the cars, trucks, buses
(5) If they find relief supplies, the confiscate the supplies.
(6) They arrest anyone whose ID card does not belong to that region.
(7) There are individuals risking their lives to go in there through
jungles, swamp lands, etc. with whatever relife supply they can carry in their hands.
(8) Massive relief efforts are outlawed.
(9) No one dares to go help.
(10) Donation to shelters requre permission from the thugs.
(11) Any violators will be beaten by thugs.
(12) Thugs are searching for people who carrying cameras, camcorders, etc.
and arrest them.
(13) It is a big geographic area but only handful of roads going in and out
and they sieze control of the roads and the area.
(14) Army, police, are everywhere supported by plain-clothed spies and thugs
armed with merchetes, guns, bamboo/wooden sticks, and walkie talkies.
(15) Law enforcement there is NOT to serve people. They are to suppress the
people. The law enforcement is controlled by the miliraty. Basically, law
enforcement is not our friend.
(16) The situation there is not good and military governement does not want
you to see.


Good luck.

Ko Pyi