Myanmar’s unstable leader Min Aung Halling will leave its disaster-tried country for a rare journey for a regional summit on Thursday, said the state TV, as the help groups asked the restrictions to reach out to the survivors of the devastating earthquake.
7.7 The magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest to hit Myanmar in a century, shocked one area, home of 28 million people, topping buildings, leveling communities and leaving many without food, water and shelter. Television from the state of China said that the death toll had passed 3,000 citing official figures.
The army has fought to run Myanmar since returning to power in the 2021 coup that ignored the elected civilian government of Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. The generals have been isolated internationally since the acquisition and Myanmar’s economy and basic services, including healthcare, have been reduced to the outbreak of civil war.
On the state-operated MRTV, the government on Wednesday announced a late 20-day unilateral ceasefire, which was immediately effective to support subsequent rehabilitation, but if the rebels started the attacks, it would “respond accordingly”.
Staged The confirmed Min Aung Halling will leave Myanmar to attend the summit of most South Asian countries in Bangkok – the subject of Paria and Western sanctions by many countries and an international criminal court investigation.
Junta Boss has also been barred from participating in the summit of the Southeast Asian Block ASEAN.
Nevertheless, some analysts say the earthquake and meeting of this week, which will include leaders from neighboring Thailand, India and Bangladesh, may promote the validity of Min Aung Holiing as he expects to end military rule widely to move forward with a multi-criticism.
Assistance agencies on Wednesday described large -scale destruction and a medical crisis in Central Myanmar, in which hospitals were overwhelmed, the risk of drugs and water -borne diseases in low supply.
Mohammad Rias, director of Myanmar of the International Rescue Committee, said that the humanist needs were “stunning”.
“This can be the week before understanding the entire range of destruction because of this earthquake, because the communication network lines are below and transport is interrupted.” Roots,
“People require immediate medical care, clean drinking water, tents, food and other basic requirements. It is important to provide life -saving health services.”
Mikhail de Suja, a field coordinator in Myanmar for Medical Ed Agency MSF, said that in the second largest city Mandle, about 500 buildings were completely collapsed and another 800 was partially destroyed.
“Many people are still living out under bad conditions,” he said. “Lack of water is creating an issue in terms of immediate survival.”
A war time
Juten has been accused by human rights groups to slow down human efforts to human rights groups by maintaining tight safety measures in some hard-hit earthquake areas.
Underlining the challenge of giving relief in the time of the civil war, Junta said that after failing to pull a Chinese red cross convoy, his soldiers hit a warning shot as it was to travel in a struggle area.
Junta spokesman Zau Min Tun said that the group had not informed the authorities about their visit.
China was one of the first countries to help Myanmar, deploying rescue teams a day after the disaster and pledged to supply 100 million yuan ($ 13.76 million).
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said that the aid team and supply were safe and called all parties in Myanmar to ensure the safety of the rescue team and keep the relief routes “open and uninterrupted”.
According to a rebel group and Amnesty International, despite Myanmar’s worst disaster, the army remains on war for war despite Myanmar’s worst disaster and carried out airstrikes and other attacks near the affected areas.
Min Aung Holing said on Tuesday that the army had stopped crimes, but the rebels were planning to take advantage of the disaster and prepare to attack. On Tuesday, a major rebel alliance declared a one -sided ceasefire to support human effort.
Prior to the announcement of an army of a temporary ceasefire, the United Nations special synergy in an X post on Tom Andrews, United Nations Myanmar said on Wednesday that the attacks by Juten after the earthquake were “derogatory” and “the strongest possible possible words by world leaders should be condemned.”
‘Soldiers are everywhere’
The information has long been difficult to obtain from areas such as saga in Central Myanmar as a jute internet and cellphone blackout has been deployed as part of the conflict, which has been raised by the activists after the earthquake.
The army has rejected requests from international journalists to cover the devastation of earthquake, citing water, electricity and lack of hotels.
“Sainiks are everywhere in the city,” a person who travels to the saga, near the Quake Epicator. Roots“They are for safety, not for rescue. They check every vehicle.”
New York -based Human Rights Watch urged Juten to allow unfit access to humanitarian aid and raise karbas affecting the aid agencies, donors should assist channels through independent groups instead of only join officials.
“Myanmar’s jute cannot be trusted to respond to the disaster of this scale,” HRW Deputy Asia Director Bryoni Lau said in a report.
A woman told in the mandala Roots Officials were constructing a platform for this month’s Thingen Water Festival, although many were homeless, in which the bodies were released under the collapsed buildings.
In the neighboring Thailand, the toll of death from the earthquake rose to 22 on Wednesday, as a discovery attempt in the debris of construction of a skyscraper in the capital, Bangkok entered its fifth day, as an attempt.
Heavy equipment was deployed to break 100 tonnes of concrete under a mountain of debris first, where 15 people were killed and 72 were missing.
Bangkok Governor Chadachar Sitipant said, “The search for the remaining people continues but we are changing the strategy.” “We are hollowing out a way to go inside the rescue team.”
