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Just a few hours after a devastating earthquake of Magnitude 7.7 hit the central Mjanmar last Friday, the head of the Military Hunte control of the land, Min Aung Hlaing, prayed for any and all international assistance that will quickly be sent to an isolated country.
Hlaing claimed that “he opened all the ways to help aid,” as he asked the countries and organizations to “come and help” with the desperate efforts needed to rescue after the earthquake scored the roads and demolished thousands of buildings, capturing a innumerable number of people.
Almost a week after the earthquake, the number of deaths was at 3,145 people, with more than 4,500 people injured, and still still stuck under debris. Real numbers are expected to be much higher.
The Apel Hlaing was an extremely rare move for a military leader, which seized power in a national hit that deposited a democratically elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi in early 2021 and immediately sealed the land from the rest of the world.
Power followed after bloody decays on disagreement throughout the country and a civil war that is ongoing.
The invitation to help was provided by the tiny flash of hope among the experts in the political situation from Mjanmar that this disaster could be different from the previous ones to hit the country, such as 2023.
The rescuers released four people from demolished buildings early on Monday in Mjanmar, Chinese media reported, while the search engine ran to find more survivors in Mjanmar and Thailand.
But that hope quickly scattered.
Numerous Human Rights Assistant Organizations have confirmed that fast assistance is intended for those in Mjanmar, which needed it mostly blocked, because it is a “golden” rescue window of 72 hours after a huge earthquake – in which you will most likely find survivors trapped under the ruins – closed.
“It just turned out to be a disaster,” said Tom Andrews, a special reporter of the United Nations about human rights in Mjanmar, CBC News said during an interview in Bangkok in Thailand, who also suffered damage more than a thousand kilometers from the Earth’s epicenter. (A skyscraper under construction crashed, capturing more than 80 workers. More than a dozen were confirmed dead.)
“We know that help (in Mjanmar) is disturbed. We know there were arrests and blockages at checkpoints in areas where they do not want help,” Andrews said.
“There is a weapon of this help.”
‘I have already seen this movie’
In the days after the earthquake-the worst region saw in the century-the air attacks and bombing on the territories that were rebels continued. Hunt currently controls less than a third of the country, with its power concentrated in big cities.
But on Wednesday, the Mjanmar leaders declared a temporary three -week truce to support efforts to help, after the military government conveyed a widespread condemnation for shooting at the Chinese Red Cross convoy trying to deliver food and survivors.
A spokesman Hunt confirmed that the soldiers had shot the vehicles because, as he said, they were not informed that the convoy would arrive.
The rescue teams of the Hunte Allies – including China and Russia – were the first to enter the country that gave help, together with crews from countries like India, which held cordial relations with the Mijarnam Army leaders.
The ruling hunt most Western countries have avoided and sanctioned.
According to Andrews, Hunta follows a well -known booklet of interfering with key assistance, especially in the regions in which the armed resistance of a state strike is strong. It is a tactic that has been used in the past to consolidate the power of the army in Mjanmar.
“I watched this movie before and there is no happy ending,” Andrews said.
Pressure on the hunt
He added that continuous air attacks also created “the whole level of fear and terror” throughout the country’s country, where about 20 million burmes had already been deprived of proper access to food and shelter before the earthquake hit.
“We need all the hands on the deck in Mjanmar. But instead they are diverted and instead of saving lives, they are taken,” Andrews said.
The catastrophe asked the questions of whether the Hunt would be able to retain in force because the resistance is deepening.
The earthquake caused great damage to the new capital Naypyidaw, a strongly established city created by the previous military general to overwhelm the military holding on Mjanmar and isolated its leaders from the popular disagreement. The city’s air traffic control tower collapsed and several wings of the State Ministry collapsed.
One retired school principal said the New York Times This mjanmar has “a saying that a massive earthquake is like this way of punishing a cruel and corrupt ruler.”
“After killing so many people, Min Aung Hlaing now faces the judgment of nature,” she added.
In November, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, regarding the persecution and deportations of his Rohingya Muslim community.
Despair is growing
Six days after the disaster, there were chaos in the middle of hundreds of demolished buildings near the epicenter. Many residents at night goose parks and other open areas, too terrified to enter their partially cracked houses, while others cannot return to the demolished houses.
“In Mandalay, most of us do this on its own,” said Khin Thazin Aung, 31, could not fight tears as she described local efforts in rescue.
“We need everything – things like food and shelters. But (our government) cannot help us,” she told CBC News, adding that she hopes the world knows how urgently myanmar needs help.
Many residents struggle with Trauma, said Aung, who said she saw that some survivors were shaking uncontrollably because the smell of body trapped under the ruins pulled through the air.
In the shadow of the main bridge that collapsed in the earthquake, Tin, who only gave his name to Reuters Wire, combed the river for his daughter’s body.
“I am looking for her, because there is no saving operations here,” he said. “No one is here to help me.”
The Mijar military leaders refused to allow foreign reporters to the ground to cover the destruction.
Some help organizations are difficult to get into Mjanmar, said Mikhael de Souza, director of the project for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in the former capital Yangon.
But he still hopes that the extent of devastation, in addition to international at the spotlight, will be scored by Hunt to let more help.
“We have teams and a lot of materials just waiting to get into the ground, and I have good hopes that this will happen very quickly,” De Souza told CBC News on Thursday.
Still, he admitted that Mjanmar was “a heavy, complex country” whose military government was challenging in the past.
The damaged infrastructure also interferes with the rate of effort to rescue and recovery, with a ride from Yangon, the largest city, to Mandalay near the epicenter, which now takes twice the usual eight hours.
De Souza said that care for primary health is a lack of electricity and clean water in the disaster zone, with fear that the lack of control of infection in damaged hospitals could cause the cholera epidemic.
The monsoon season is also around the corner, which will be assembled in the central part of the country by catastrophic conditions.
