Myanmar Quick Death Tol Top 2000 because the help of the war torn is slow

Three days after the worst earthquake in Myanmar in more than a century, the outstanding city of the War Malab, destroyed monasteries and residential buildings, still began to be calm.

The city’s 300,000 residents were left in the city to a large extent for themselves Earthquake 7.7-Magnitud Harmful roads and pushing the authorities to close a bridge due to safety fears. The area was already isolated, as it was cut off from the Internet by the Myanmar army, who was fighting the rebels in a civil war.

By late Monday, some international relief groups began to reach the epic. But local volunteers who seek to help with search and rescue efforts said they were banned by the army.

“We are not allowed to enter freely and provide assistance,” said Yu Tin Shui, a resident of Saging, who was standing outside a military checkpoint in Deir Atah, with monks still besieged under the debris. “Rescue operations can only be carried out with its permission.”

The military government said on Monday that the losses of the earthquake, which erupted across large areas of Myanmar, including the epic, and the cities of Mandalay and Nepidowo, rose to 2,056, an increase of about 1700 on Saturday. An additional 3900 was wounded. The initial modeling by the American Geological Survey indicates that the number of deaths can be more than 10,000.

Search and rescue teams flocked to the cities of Mandalay and Nepidowo, the homeland of the country. But many people in Myanmar have moved to social media to take advantage of foreign governments to redirect aid to the epic, which was close to the earthquake center and where residents say more than 80 percent of the city has been destroyed.

On Sagahing on Monday, the soldiers were watching at checkpoints but they did not see help in searching for survivors. With no space in the city’s main hospital, people wrapped their dead with a white cloth and put it on the concrete outside. They were cut off hundreds of residents in the streets, sleeping under the fabric of plastic hemp without strength, food and water that ran away.

The disaster was so bad that it prompted Junta to make a rare invitation to obtain international assistance. But it is clear that such aid will only be allowed on the terms of special junta. Since the earthquake, endless trucks have been stuck with help overnight at the city’s military checkpoints, according to the AH NYAR Studies Center, which is not profitable in central Myanmar. Then on Monday, a shock response team entered 50 members of Malaysia, Sagaing, the first foreign rescue team to do so, according to the local media.

Myanmar military regime, headed Senior General Min Ong HellingHe was fighting the rebel forces to control the epic since he seized power in a coup four years ago. Groups of ordinary citizens who took weapons against the military council have made a rational resistance, and the Military Council responded with a sustainable campaign of air strikes, beheading and intentional burning. Last year, rebel fighters, who received training from some ethnic armies in Myanmar, have made great gains against the army.

Doctors who belong to the civil disobedience movement, who consist of government workers who left their jobs after the coup, were prevented from entering the epic, according to Dr. Wi -Zan, who works at the Sagaing General Hospital.

“The army is conducting security checks everywhere, making it impossible for them to enter,” said Dr. Way Zhan.

The broader epic area, in central Myanmar, with about five million people, including in the sound city, is the home of the Buddhist majority in the country. It is located between the two rivers – Irrawaddy to the East and the Chendoine to the West – which acts as vital ways to transport the army to goods, people and military supplies.

Even before the earthquake, Sagaing was in the center of the many suffering.

The area endured the country’s military air strikes. The largest number of internally displaced persons in Myanmar, where he gets more than a million, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Even before the earthquake, at least 27 towns in the Sagaing area were already lacking access to clean water and energy, according to the Institute of Strategy and Policy, an independent research group. More than half of the houses and buildings in Myanmar destroyed by the civil war were in this region.

“Severe violence has been implemented really: cutting the head, cutting prices and various types of violent offers aimed at intimidating the population,” said Morgan Michaels, a research colleague at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The traces of the earthquake provided reminders of the city isolation.

Wayne Mar said that when the earthquake hit, she was sitting outside her home, “she collapsed completely, as the brick fell one by one.” Her husband and 16 -year -old daughter were trapped at home and Tofio, but the volunteers from Mandalai were unable to pull their bodies until Sunday.

She said, “I lost everything, my family, and my home.”

Since the Internet has been cut because the coup signals and phone signals are weak, the residents of joy were unable to tell the outside world what was happening. The city was crossed by the soldiers and militias who are closely monitoring people from people and assistance.

“Nothing really gets there,” said Joe Freeman, Myanmar researcher at Amnesty International. “We are essentially concerned about the prohibition of aid by the army because it is their history and style.”

“Efforts are ineffective because we are working with naked hands, without the necessary equipment,” said Thant Zain, a volunteer who said, “Effects are ineffective because we work with naked hands, without the necessary equipment,”

“Many people trapped under the collapsed houses have already died,” he said. “Now, what we need more is the restoration of the dead bodies.”

It was difficult to obtain help in the city because the army closed the main bridge that connects Mandalay and the epic, motivated by safety concerns, after another bridge, the British colonial era, after the earthquake. The authorities reopened the main bridge on Sunday, but removed the rescue vehicles that enter the epic to a checkpoint.

Cars and trucks were unable to pass along the damaged roads. The World Food program, which was expected to start distributing food to 17,000 people in Sagaing starting from the two, was on the passage of the phrase.

The agency plans to help a million people in conflict areas throughout the country in the coming weeks, according to Melissa Hain, head of communications in the World Food Program in Myanmar.

Monday afternoon, a team from UNICEFThe United Nations Children’s Agency arrived at the epic after 13 hours by drive from Yangon to Mandalay, according to Litervor Clark, the agency’s regional emergency advisor. He said that he has not yet faced agency workers any problem with checkpoints.