Seven days after an earthquake devastated Turkey 2023. French volunteers used a suitcase size radar to find survivors under the ruins. It was one of many lives that helped save the device after the disaster.

The group also rushed volunteers to the Mjanmar after a A strong earthquake Last month, they leveled buildings, bridges and centuries -old temples. But volunteers were stuck in the control of immigration at the Yangon airport for more than a day. They finally entered the country last Wednesday, only to declare the authorities of searching and rescue operations that end the next day. Volunteers returned home without finding one survivor.

Mljanmar’s military government surprised many observers when she called for international assistance in response to an earthquake on March 28. Also proclaimed a dedication fire against the rebels in the civil war that swallowed the nation.

But less than two weeks after hitting the accident, groups for help and volunteers said, international relief does not reach the public’s public, which could quickly. They blame Hunta for delays and restrictions on the distribution of assistance. Other allegations of a climate of fear – the army has it Continued air attacks In the rebel areas, despite the interruption of the fire and fired at least one occasion for auxiliary workers.

“Nothing was reasonable on the field,” said Sezer Ozgan, a volunteer with a French non -profit organization L’Espoir du Peuple Arsi

Already warwornMjanmar still shakes from an earthquake, which people call “Earth’s anger.” The official number of deaths surpassed 3,500 and many others were injured. But the full range of destruction remains difficult to estimate due to damaged roads and demolished telephone towers.

Many were homeless, and they were too scared to return to their damaged houses sleep outdoors. They are sent by regular tightening in choking before the monsoon heat and must be laid for daily meals provided by local help for help.

One of the reasons for the delay in the arrived that the government itself is a mess, with many buildings in the capital, Naypyidaw, damaged.

But the announcement of the army that she will coordinate all help and she left groups for help. The help organizations have long been subjected to the overturned process of obtaining travel authorization.

One year after seizing power in 2021, Hunt almost completely drained the Disaster Management Fund by diverting the initiative for agriculture.

When Cyclone Nargis killed more than 130,000 people in 2008, earlier ruling generals blocked an ambulance and infamously told groups to help survivors do not need their “chocolate grids”, and instead survive on “frogs and fish fish”.

What has been ruled by a brutal military regime for decades, people from Mjanmar have quickly supported each other. But for local volunteers, fear hangs in the air as sad.

Phoe Thar, a volunteer rescue worker in Mandalay, said he was working less at night after hearing that the army was forcibly compiled by acquaintance. “We want more help,” he said, “but fear keeps us.”

Equality of Mjanmar, an organization for human rights, said that she had followed almost 100 cases of forced recruits from the earthquake, calling the catastrophe of opportunities that the army employs troops.

Kiran Verma, a volunteer from India, said he was postponed for hours with local volunteers on a military control day after the earthquake. He said that after three days he went to the earthquake zone, feeling “scared”.

“I thought they would welcome anyone who comes to save their people,” said Mr. Verma (40).

Some critics, the army itself could do more to help.

Who Min HTH, a volunteer in Mandalay, said he saw only a few soldiers cleaning bricks from public buildings. They should instead focus on helping people, he said, “Some soldiers and police sit in damaged places, moving on their phones.”

Some potential color volunteers return to cities like Mandalay and Yangon, who have suffered the worst in the earthquake.

“We long to be on the ground, to offer everything we can help,” said Min Han, a doctor who fled to the rebel held a territory after a coup, refusing to work as a civil servant under Hunt. “But the return would now be like walking straight into a trap – we could be arrested or killed.”

Hunte’s motives are clear, said Richard Horsey, analyst of an international crisis group.

“Their first priority is survival of the regime“He said,” not the benefit of the land and its people. “At the same time, he said, the answer to the earthquake was marked by” chaos, not evil. “

Lynn Maung took refuge in a tent with her three children near the ditch of Mandalay Historic Palace. On Saturday, he was surprised when torrents and winds chased the tent. There was no time warning.

“We can’t predict earthquakes, but we can predict rain,” he said. “The way military hunt treats things is like an attempt to treat a patient with ricinus cancer.”