Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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Residents of the Myanmar town say hundreds may have died needlessly due to a slow and inadequate response to last week’s earthquake, while centuries-old mosques and monasteries lie in ruins and the stench of dead bodies fills the streets.
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Volunteers are rescuing survivors of Friday’s devastating earthquake in Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw with few tools and little help from the Myanmar military.
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The Cobra Column resistance group is integrating defectors from the Myanmar military into its ranks, while prisoners of war are put to work at a camp in Kayin State.
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