At least two people killed in Yangon bus explosion

At least two people were killed by Yangon city bus explosion at helden near 5 miles far from downtown. Eyewitness said two passengers on that bus injured and the bus burnt by fire. One of the local reporter said police have kept his memory stick from the camera while he was taking the pictuers.45 Bus heading Insein from downtown exploded around 11:00 am today .We haven't got any official confirmation for that explosion.

Yangon local reporter arrested

Saw Myint Than , a chief reporter from The Flower news journal was arrested by special police force at his home 11 pm, 1st September.

The police accused him for sending information ( the news about Thingyankyun crime )to Ayeyawaddy magazine. They also filed him not to mention his source name for this news. He got the information about the crime from his police source before police officially announced the name of murders. Police asked who is his soucre from police force. But he did not mentioned his source name.

Special police force and censor ship office also called KO KO , chief editor of Flower News because of the problem. Now KO KO fired Saw Myint Than from his job as a chief reporter.

Saw Myint Than is a 30 years old Yakhine journalist. He is working as a local journalist for 3 years. He never involved in any political movement.

Authority force Myanmar Computer professional Assoction( MCPA) not to join Myanmar Blogger days

yangon august 26
Authority force Myanmar Computer professional Assoction( MCPA) not to join Myanmar Blogger days conference which will held on 31 st August .MPCA send invitaions letter which says they will sponsor world blogger days conference in Myanmar .They will held this conference together with local bloggers, They even told that U KHU OO, the chairman of MCPA and writer Kyaw Win will make address in this conference.
However, today MPCA make announcement which saying that They won´t sponsor Myanmar blogger day conference and they don´t have any concern with this conference. They won´t provide any help to bloggers. Now yangon blogger very conecern about this news.

SECOND LIVES

A piece of worn out red cloth hang at the tip of a bamboo pole is flying with the blowing wind.
For donors and relief team volunteers, this is a sign that there are still people surviving Cyclone Nargis,
which . Along the course of a stream not far from that bamboo flat pole is a small village called “Kyun
Kone Pite Tan Su,” which was left devastated after the cyclone. Survivors from the nearby areas along
Yway River are now living in this “Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su” village where their huts in blue tarpaulin sheet
are located in a dispersed fashion. After the cyclone, these survivors came to this place to start over
their lives, second lives as named by the villagers, after Cyclone Nargis.
Cyclone Nargis came into the Irrawaddy Region and Rangoon division on May 2nd and 3rd, 2008.
It also brought a tremendous tragedy to this village, one of the hardest hit areas in the Irrawaddy region,
by killing almost everyone in the village and leaving approximately ten people alive. “My wife and five
children were washed away with the cyclone. Only 3 daughters and I have survived,” said U Tun, a 50
year‐ old fisherman.
These survivors have begun to make their moves for the reconstruction of their lives 3 weeks
after relief teams have come to the area. These survivors have been living in this village by building
temporary huts since after the cyclone. U Tun, who had lost everything in the cyclone except a small
vase, is now beginning to rebuild his life. He said he is not able to get back to his career for the moment
since he had lost his fishing tools in the cyclone. “Although farmers start preparing to go back to their
farms, I, as a fisherman, can’t do anything right now without any fishing tools and any money to buy
new ones. At present, I can only make my own living just to feed myself,” said U Tun.
Besides in Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su village, survivors in other hardly hit areas of the Irrawaddy
region including Laputta area begin to start their second lives that their karma have brought out of the
killer storm.
Painful Transition (or) Farming
U Tin Yein, wearing a white shirt and a cotton sarong, doesn’t look like an owner of a 40‐acre
farmland; he rather looks like a daily paid farmer. U Tin Yein said his farm can produce 3000 baskets of
rice annually. It is likely that tilling on his 40 acre‐land can begin in the first week of June. “I have to
collect tillers from the local Farm and Industrial department today. 3 other farmers and I have to share
a 160 acre land that the government has rationed to each group of 3 or 4 farmers,” said U Tin Yein.
U Tin Yein has lost his wife and his properties ‐ house, rice barn, boat, 9 buffaloes and 6 pigs – in
the cyclone. From the population of 60 in his village, 32 people had died from the cyclone and 13 were
his relatives. This has still been a nightmare for U Tin Yein and he has been seeing this deadly event
every morning he wakes up. While his life was half dead and half awake because of this nightmare, he
heard rumors about the plans/situations for rice plantation. “Farming and Industrial department has
rationed tillers, seeds and grains to those who have a large number of lands. If that rumor is true and if
we can get diesel, we can begin our plantation,” said U Tin Yein.
Upon hearing the same news, farmers staying at refugee camps in Laputta are also leaving to
the respective villages with the hope of picking up their lives from any situation. The number of
survivors has gradually decreased since after people have heard about this opportunity for their lives,
said Jeff Harvey from Laputta MSF’s branch.
Burma is one of the top countries in exporting rice just before the cyclone; however, Cyclone
Nargis caused a severe devastation in the Irrawaddy region, the area known as Burma’s rice bowl, on
May 2nd and 3rd. Thus, it is very important for the reconstruction of the Irrawaddy region as soon as
possible, said an FAO official.
According to the census of government’s Agriculture Department, the cyclone affected 0.13
million families in the Irrawaddy region and 0.11 million families. The total value of buffaloes and cows
lost is over 0.15 million kyats. The loss of farming animals has left the farmers with the only one option
– using tillers ‐ in order to start plowing for this Monsoon season. U Tin Yein, an owner of 40 acres
farmlands, said, “We have to start our farming as soon as tillers are distributed.”
The truth is that Nargis has given a painful transition of the lives of farmers who have to begin
their second lives out of nothing and to replace unfamiliar technology for their careers.
Painful Evening
Although most people begin preparing to rebuild their lives, there are still many people who
have suffered post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the nightmares of Cyclone Nargis in the
Irrawaddy regions. They have lost their family members as well as every single property. Now, they are
left with nothing, but the repeatedly occurring nightmares.
U Pyinnyar Wontha, a monk from Too Myaung Village in Pya Pone Township, delivered Buddha’s
sermons to 12 PTSD patients. Comparing the current situation with Buddha’s sayings, he preached,
“You need to accept the reality.”
There is a Buddha’s story about a woman. Her husband died from snake bite, her youngest son
was taken by an eagle, her eldest son drowned, and her parents died in the fire. All these tragic
sequence of events finally led her to be a madwoman who couldn’t even put on her own clothes. After
she met with Buddha who opened her eyes to see the reality and gave her a sermon, she got well and
finally became a “Beikuni” (female Arahatta). U Pyinnyar delivered this story to those suffering patients
who, although, they can’t be Arahhta, might be able to get back to normal and see the reality.
A telecommunication officer, Jeff Harvey, told that they have started providing special
emotional support programs such as consulting with PTSD patients and hearing whatever they wanted
to vent out in Laputta. However, programs like these are still in need compared to the number of PTSD
patients caused by the cyclone. U Saing Phay Thein, a consultant supervisor from MRCS, has warned
that their lives are at stake with the lack of effective emotional support programs.
A 7 Day News Journal editor, Daw Aye Mya Kyaw, who went to Phukket just after Tsunami, said,
“I had seen a lot of PTSD patients in Thailand after the Tsunami even though Thailand has a stronger
infrastructure and more efficient health care access than Burma. Since the death toll caused by Nargis is
much greater, I expect there would be even more PTSD cases.”
In the middle of Something
The government state TV announced that there are over 0.13 million people dead and lost in
Cyclone Nargis. 22 villages had sunk under the cyclone even in Laputta Township alone. Government’s
announcements such as providing relief and rebuilding the lives of survivors together with the help of
International communities have been spreading around the country.
The government declared that it has already spent 70 billion dollars for reconstruction projects.
The reconstruction of fishery projects under the Fishery and Livestock Ministry is now in the process.
Since farmers always start plowing grains just before the Monsoon comes, this is a critical situation for
them to start farming after the cyclone had destroyed everything.
Since after the cyclone had destroyed a number of lives, everyone including Burmese citizens as
well as expatriate Burmese actively involved in delivering aids and helping in the reconstruction projects
in any ways they can. A permanent journalist of Voice Weekly Journal wrote about their kindness for
fellow citizens in the Emergency Management article: Experts had concerned about Burmese’s “social
Capital”; however, they have shocked to see their immediate responses for their fellow Burmese
survivor.
On the other hand, recovering from this kind of disaster aftermath is impossible with one man
or one nation’s work. Since “Scopes of work” is enormous along the reconstruction process, any
individuals, organizations or countries that put their hearts in a long‐term, systematic process to recover
from this disaster are indispensable for those survivors’ lives. An increasingly large number of young
volunteers involving in different kinds of activities, once after they had seen this tragedy, are proof for
every individual’s invaluable effort.
“Recovering process for Fisheries alone needs years to get back to normal,” said U Hla Mg Shwe,
a vice president of Myanmar Fisheries Association. He said that he has seen young people inside Burma
as well as expatriates who all left their good‐earning jobs to come back to Burma in order to help
survivors. On the other hand, there are still some critics who have not even offered a penny worth of
food or water to survivors.
Regardless of any situation, the most important fact is the rehabilitation of the lives of 1.5
million people who have nothing left after the cyclone. Thus, according to an anthropologist’s opinion,
everyone including the government as well as government’s opponents should altogether unite for
different reconstruction projects in different affected areas.
Figures have been floating around both in hands and in appeals: 2.1 billion dollars promised to
be funded by the United Nations, 5.6 million dollars currently received from international communities,
and 11 billion dollars Myanmar’s government has asked for. However, the question is that how these
figures will be effectively used in long‐term recovery projects. A volunteer in local NGO said, “when the
short‐term relief efforts are getting lesser and weaker, it needs to be assured to lessen the
consequences .
Noodle Row or Painful Hell
Along the streets near the main Strand Road of Laputta, there is a row of food stalls selling
cheap liquors and food beside the double Decker ships docked on the river bank. This row of food stalls
is known locally as “Noodle Row,” each of the stall having only 10 feet square, and they sell liquors and
Chinese food.
A man who is looking for daily paid field workers to work for his farm said, “I came here to look
for people to work for my farm, but now the working pattern has shifted. It’s more like a partnership
rather than hiring someone and paying them daily. With today’s situation, I have to give the person 1/3
commission on the profit since it’s not easier to find paid workers like the old days.”
Laputta Township used to have a population of 0.2 million before the cyclone had struck, but
thousands had died in the cyclone in this area. Some farmers and fishermen lost their lives; some
survived but lost all their families and properties. U Tin Yein, whose eyes filling with tears, recounted
how he lost his wife and relatives in the cyclone, “It started raining with a strong wind at about 2 in the
afternoon. Our house fell down at about 5 p.m. Then, my relatives and I had made our families and
children get in the boat, and we, seven men, pulled it with a rope to the palm trees nearby our house.
But, the storm was too strong and the boat sank to the bottom 5 hours later we left our house. I
couldn’t see anything at all. I only realized everyone had disappeared right before I tied up the rope to
the tree. At the end of his words, he kept his head down and wiped his tear. People like U Tin Yein have
something in common: they are now earning a living by opening small food stalls in this “Noodle Row”
and they all had lost their loved ones.
“I couldn’t even walk after the cyclone was over because I was clinging onto a tree trunk the
whole night in the cyclone,” said Ko Aung Thurein, a 20 year‐old boy from Kyar Chuang Village. “Every
survivor living here had lost their family members,” also said a villager living in a shop in Noodle Row.
Noodle Row gets more and more crowded at the sunset; however, the fact that this place is not
as noisy as food stalls in other big cities is slightly strange. Residents of Laputta Township mentioned
that these villagers are putting new strength to start their second lives by adding up different kinds of
hardship in Noodle Row to their unforgettable life experiences.
A Ray of Light from the Dark Cyclone
“Right now, the whole Laputta Township has enough food supply and shelter. Since this is Monsoon
season, people don’t need to worry about water. The most important thing left for the moment is
cleaning pounds for water storage and growing rice for this season,” said Jeff Harvey, a
telecommunication officer from Doctors without Boundary Association.
The amount of relief works were getting lesser one month after the cyclone and it seems to be a
sign for survivors that they have to start over their lives on their own. Farmers prepared to start
cultivating rice before June 18. According to the statistical data, loss of rice in Irrawaddy and Rangoon
was 0.7 million metric tons, including harvested stored‐rice and rice that was going to be harvested
before the cyclone hit.
Endless questions of how to face an uncertain future have been hanging around in every
survivor’s thought after one month of the cyclone. The intelligence and living standard of those
answering the questions will have enormous impact on their second lives. “Forget everything
happened. If I say so, it would mean that I have no sympathy. But, it’s true that we have to try to forget
this nightmare and must start our second lives,” said a 50 year old farmer from Kyun Kone Pite Tan Su
village. Only after they decide to start their second lives, their futures will be full of hopes. Lingering on
the tragedy would not bring any hopes or promises for their futures.
U Tun, a fisherman, said he found himself alive because he had been clinging to a plastic bucket
floating in the water. Now, he has to earn his living just as a daily paid worker. He said that he is
determined to go back to his place where he lost his wife and daughters.
U Tin Yein, a fisherman mentioned in the beginning, is now preparing to build a hut with all the
money he has. Then, he will start preparing for tilling on the farm that he got from the authorities.
The red worn out cloth is a signal of second lives of the survivors in Tae Tan Su Village. In other
words, that red flag represents the fact that they are still being alive for their second lives out of the
tragic nightmare. The villagers said, “Even though we have nothing left, the flag representing our lives
won’t be falling down.”

With contentment, it is easy to face the death

IT was in a day two years back. It was an unforgettable day and Nyi Nyi thought his life and hope were ended right away. He was hearing repetitions of a result from his HIV checkup report as if someone had been reading it out loud in his ear several times. Nyi Nyi found no words to speak out in that moment. Just lying awake on the bed and starring aimlessly he had been waiting the call of death for more than 60 days.
“It was a very clear message. It was the kind of message assuring me ‘You must die’,” Nyi Nyi said.
Nyi Nyi was not the only one in his family found infected with HIV that could proceed to AIDS. His dear wife, daughter and son were also found with HIV Positive. It was a dead blow and saddest moment in his life.
“Within a short time, my wife died and then my son. My daughter and I were alive but still with HIV. Our lives at that time were hopeless and full of despairs,” said Nyi Nyi, 33, who wears white T-shirt and deep blue trousers neatly.
“Things went the same for two more months and I still didn’t know what to do. With little knowledge on facing death I was just prepared to die. Days and nights went on and I thought staying just like that should not be the right way. There must be a solution if there is a problem. So I began going out again and started reading HIV related books. I learnt intensively on that subject and tried to understand as nearly as a doctor does,” he explained.
Since Nyi Nyi’s consciousness accepted the fact that he had to live with the virus he thought more on what could be done best before he dies. Thereafter his life was restarted with a new strength like the legendary phoenix that is reborn after descending into fire.
“The most valuable thing I got was my family’s warm understanding. So I stopped thinking about the past and began my life for the second time,” said Nyi Nyi who is volunteering at International HIV/AIDS Alliance (Myanmar), an international Non Government Organisation that is supporting people living with AIDS.

Untimely call of death
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Since it is unpractical to conduct HIV blood test country-wide there is not specific figure of how many people are infected with HIV. Many people living with HIV died untimely due to ignorance of their communities.
Lonely people with HIV positive reach AIDS stage much quicker and die earlier than patients who receive encouragement and caring of their families and friends, said Dr Aung San, a (---consultant -----) from Wai Bar Gi Hospital in North Okkalapa Township that especially treats HIV/AIDS patients.
“There still are cases where people with AIDS are being left at the hospital and their families never come back,” said a local staff from CARE (Myanmar), an INGO that is helping people living with AIDS.
According to the Ministry of Health’s figure HIV was first found in Myanmar in 1988 and treatments were being given to those patients since 1991.
“AIDS becomes the major challenge among contagious diseases in Myanmar,” Mr Guy Stall Worthy, country director of Population Services International (Myanmar), said in 2004.
“The actual number of people suffering the disease might exceed the official figure as some people are not hospitalised though they are suffering from AIDS or some fail to report to medical authority since they don’t know what they are suffering from,” a doctor who got a master degree specilisation on HIV/AIDS.
According to the statistic of (--Myanmar -National AIDS Program --), there were 338,921 people living with HIV/AIDS in Myanmar by 30 July 2004.

A tale told by Grace
In fact, Grace alias Swe Zin Htike is a former actress who could perform any character roles. Devoting most of her time for work and study she is now one of most active persons in combating HIV/AIDS in Myanmar.
Grace still has so many story-alike experiences of other peoples though she has already produced total of 90 HIV/AIDS educational movies and advertisements that reach to grass root level.
Looking over the computer and pile of documents on the desk Grace began telling this tale in her small office where its whole wall is covered with training and workshop accomplishment certificates.
“It was about a friend of mine. He used to work as a beautician around 1980s and by now he will be about 42 years old. I haven’t seen him for ages since the time I devoted to humanitarian works. I received a call one day from him asking me to come over to him. He greeted me from his bed and the whole body was covered with boils. So I referred him a doctor to ask whether he was still in a stage to take drug. I knew there was a medicine that could make him better and was available locally. But my friend couldn’t afford for the cost. So I called the company that was distributing the drug informing my friend was collecting the drug and I would be giving money for that.
His CD4 count was 180 when he first took the drug. (CD4 count is the number of white blood cell and normal person has between 800 and 1050/ML. If CD4 is below 500 then it is the sign of weakening immune system). So he enables taking the drug continuously since 2004 and I am giving the company end of every month when I draw my salary. He now becomes stronger and like a normal person. He re-opens his beauty parlor at Pyin Oo Lwin in Mandalay and can stand on his feet now.
Helping a person only is fine and it is within my reach. Would be great if more people like my friend can have such medicine. U Win Nyein (A-linn-dan) has also helped a patient in my request. These drugs cost around K29,000 when I first bought for my friend and the price shot up well over K50,000 once. Patients are to take the drug as long as they live. I think it is the right time to educate public about the treatment related issues in addition to the use of condoms.”
At this point Grace turned her swivel chair towards her computer indicating the end of her story.

Phoenix that revives from fire

Nyi Nyi now has certain knowledge on HIV/AIDS as he is learning many educational books. One day, Nyi Nyi happened to reach the AZG Clinic in Thakayta Township that is treating the HIV/AIDS patients.
Nyi Nyi said it was the place where he gained his strength not to give up the life and to start renewing his life.
“I met at that clinic with one person with HIV positive who is leading educational activities for PLHA (people living with HIV/AIDS). I really envied him. He is working as much as he can without surrendering his life. I was shared with his knowledge and became mentally strong again. So I help people as much as I can do including sharing knowledge and educating on health and drugs treatment,” Nyi Nyi explained.
Though finding HIV infection in his blood two years ago had made him felt like a person being sentenced to death Nyi Nyi looks healthy and strong as a normal person now.
The reason he can still live like a normal person is because of his deep knowledge on personal health care and positive approach towards the life.
Nyi Nyi said such positive approach to life, sympathy, positive thinking and loving kindness were the best medicine to encounter AIDS he is suffering.
“I have never thought that we people with AIDS were a step lower than others in our environment. Infected with the virus doesn’t mean we were in a status lower. Also, I didn’t respond to people who discriminate and treat us differently. My life becomes more meaningful after deciding to show those people in practical that we are not a lower class people,” he said while his eyes shining with self-confidence.
Nyi Nyi is involving in such activities as caring assistance at the hospitals for AIDS patients, burial services for deceased ones, finding jobs for those who are jobless and assisting for those who find difficult for accommodation by contacting INGOs based in the country.


Feeling of Insecurities
Chair of the Myanmar National Health Committee Lt-Gen Thein Sein (currently Prime Minister) said last year that HIV prevalence in Myanmar had dropped 0.2 per cent in 2006 due to the implementation of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction activities by local and international health and social organisations.
According to the surveys done in 2000 about 1.5 per cent (more than 200,000) of total adult population in Myanmar was being infected with HIV virus annually. Lt-Gen Thein Sein said as part of HIV/AIDS prevention and reduction initiatives a five-year national strategy for 2006-2010 was drafted by the authorities in collaboration with local and international social and health organisations and the UN agencies.
“HIV infection is spread especially via unsafe sex. However most people think that only sex workers. people are infected with such virus and because of that people who are infected dare not to come to the clinics or hospitals. Some give up hope and their lives ended unpleasantly. Our society should be aware of that more and needs to help those people.”
“I just wanted to ask those so-called normal people whether they can be abstinence. I want them to understand that we were infected because we didn’t have safe sex.”
These are the voices of people infected with HIV positive.
“Now the situation has improved a lot. Educational campaigns are also being done more frequently. Being a Myanmar Buddhist and an actress it was really hard to raise awareness on sex education, and I did it in public till 2002 while enduring various criticisms,” said Grace, a famous celebrity in Myanmar who attended the media leadership training programme in California University.
In Myanmar society, however, it is still difficult for people living with AIDS to get chances for employment.

Saturn of developed era
No one has expected two decades ago when AIDS was first found that the virus could shock the world and its people that much. Now virus prevalence is three times more than estimated figure. World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated more than 42 million population are infected with HIV/AIDS of which 80 per cent is the working age group of between 15 and 49 years.
Businesses throughout the world have to embrace the hard time since this age group is the backbone of workforce in every country.
Thus, it became critical to get a solution as quickly as possible to prevent HIV/AIDS infection. Similar to other countries, same age group was also most vulnerable in Myanmar, according to the document released by (---Myanmar National AIDS - Programme.---Experts expressed their concerns that such workplace problems as discrimination, mismanagement and rebukes on people living with the virus are likely to come into light due to the lack of awareness on HIV/AIDS.
The worst thing was the decline of world economy that accounted for 1.4 per cent of Global Gross Product annually, they said.
Since a survey conducted in 2003 showed commercial sex workers (CSW) accounted for 32.32 per cent of total HIV infected population in Myanmar it is critical to provide social and financial supports throughout the country.
“If a CSW infected with the virus continues sex business then it will become worse for her. Thus financial assistance should be provided so that she could start safe and normal small business like selling vegetables or snacks,” an INGO staff suggested.
However, a source close to INGOs thought the assistances provided by those orgsnisations sometimes were misguided as these assistances were made available with many restrictions.
“For instance, ARV is provided to a person with HIV. But with the clause that the patient must be living in Thakata, Hlaingthaya townships etc. Such restrictions should not be included anymore.”

With contentment, it is easy to face the death
“I think it is time to educate widely for treatment related issue in addition to prevention and awareness campaigns, which we have been doing since the beginning. For instance, there are many children and women left behind with HIV infection when their parents or husbands died of that virus. More care and treatment are really needed for them,” said Grace who involves in combating HIV/AIDS activities for many years.
“Our children care centre, Thu Kha Yeik Myoin, accepts and take care HIV infected children age between 2 and 12. So far we can accommodate 14 kids only,” said Daw Aye Aye Myint, head of (HHHP?????) Thu Kha Yeik Myoin.
Children from the centre are very few lucky ones though there still are many children throughout the country who are not lucky enough like them and are living in Feelings of insecurities since their parents passed away with HIV/AIDS.
It is important for those children to continue living without any emotional and physical damages in their remaining period since their lives are already numbered with the virus, and it is the gap still remains to be filled by the future society.
“Critical thing is to trust oneself. Keep in mind the fact that one day everyone will have to face the death. One’s life will be more difficult if he or she is to live in a community that doesn’t understand nor care with sympathy. Personally I think it is good if people treat us in sympathy,” said Nyi Nyi who looks like a normal person though HIV is still in his vein.
“I want people with HIV/AIDS to remember their peers as role model who died or alive but fought back the virus bravely. I also want to end my life while supporting and assisting people who are living with the virus like me,” Nyi Nyi explained his future plan for his remaining time.
People like Nyi Nyi who are volunteering their peers want others infected with HIV to contact to the relevant clinics and hospitals.
“Then they will know that it is not them suffering alone in the whole world. We can help and share information each other. We can tell each other where we can get ARV. One can get information on what is available where. For instance we can tell them to line up at Wai Bar Gi Hospital for ARV and etc,” a HIV positive patient explained.
Nyi Nyi now thinks that living with HIV/AIDS no longer makes him to be hopeless for the life. It gave him strength and thoughts to make changes in his life.
Nyi Nyi said he did not want others to get infected like him. Let the bad HIV virus be in his vein only and not others. For the moment, what he thinks always is what best things can be done at present.
Though he didn’t want to think about his past it visited to his mind sometimes. In the past, there were times Nyi Nyi behaved recklessly and that cost his dear life. However he is content with the current life with the fact that he now can do the social activities.
“I don’t think I would be doing those social activities if I was not infected with HIV,” Nyi Nyi said.

TOO LITTLE AND TOO LATE FOR BURMA

At the road side of the kung chan kone -dadeye township road ,The villagers from near village have unusual small huts after one weeks storm nargis.In order to get food from donor cars that passed near the small huts .All They have to do is stand in front of the these hats and wave their hands while the aids relief cars pass through near by .

Acagyi village is very small village located near Dedaye Township right now no one supposed to lived that villages after nargis .Nearly round about 80 people who get alive after passing the destructive storm .These villagers moved from the village to the new hats beside the road to get food, clean water and, rice from the local donor.

After nargis, killed near 80 thousands of the people who lived in Myanmar delta region, many of the villagers died and missed till three weekend after nargis .Some of the villagers who left alive went to refugees camps in order to get food and shelter.

However, like the villagers who lived at roadside they have no chance to live at the refuges camps. The reason is that “We have nowhere to live except here "said the villagers ko ye lwin 39 years old who live at the roadside near deadeye township.

Ma khin san lwin 40 years old who worked for fishing for a long time but now waiting on the road for food she knows even refuges camp is better than his house but she has no chance to stay for long time.

“My children died by tidal wave during the strong while they were running with her father” nearly over 40 years old Ma khin san lwin who live in the village that near kyunchankone said.

Till after 3 weeks of storm she is still go to roadside to get the food from donors.

"My small house is being build by my relatives with beetle nuts stem that can get easily near by " but I didn't received any aids for house".

Some days I received some rice, potatoes and some cooking oil some days nothing, I do not think things will recover to me very soon.

She spent nearly two days at refugees' camps that she got there nearly naked at the morning of may 3.

"The two days at the refugee's camps I didn't have any meal" she added.

When she got back to the house, only remember the place.

"I lost everything my two daughters, mother in law, and the whole house." now my husband has suffered injured and he could not have any health care from government or either othe INGO.

Not only in that village, has the same story heard from deadeye water seller kyaw htoo lwin 45 years old , spent nearly two weeks at the refugees camps after storm.

"Last two days ago we were driven by force to go back, I have no home at that time so I live my friend's house and depend for a while".

He was given tarpaulin sheet, one basket of rice, and some used clothes and told to go home. He's now repairing his house. The monastery is 15 minutes walk from his house.

“You know we heard from other villages our government authority push to go back own village from camps after 15 th may .They gave some rice and plastics sheet to the refugees and bring with the green military trucks to near village.

It seems to them push to live at their old place from authority but it is not better than living roadside huts

"I am well aware that these huts are located illegal place .The place is not all hygienic but we spent most our time here. We cook here, eat here and sleep here in small hats with my family " added ko ye lwin .he has four children including four months baby.

The latest information from phyapon district disaster management committee, It said the committee reduce the number of the refugees camps and it said the no of refugees is going down after may 15 from 10 thousands and above to 6 thousands.

For Ko ye lwin ,living in new hat is the most effective way to survive their life, mot only him that is also for the reason of all villagers are living and fighting there against their survival.

Near Acagyi is not only the place that villagers with the new small hats, there are more than thousands of the hats moved from the old villages to that road side may be couple miles from dedeyae to kungchankone .

“While we are passing the road to phyapon we saw a lot of new small huts come out day by day” said the ko Ye who is working as a volunteer of the nargis respond team.

After 20 th may government announced emergency relief time is over and forced to moved the huts which situated at the roadside of delta.

"Authority give me a chance for a few days but It will over in very soon," added ko ye lwin

.In the past in this season they ploughed the paddy in their farm and prepared for the planting season right now their concern is the struggle for survival at the road side.

The same happened at the road side of the delta region villagers who didn’t received enough aids something like rice,food and sheleter .

After nargis,Some of the villagers abandoned their destroyed homes and moved to find better jobs in another place.

Living at the roadside in delta is “ineligible” ko ye lwin committed .Right now these villagers are facing the tremendous barriers that local authority takes action when they find these huts in the roadside area.

“If military find the villagers who are living at the roadside huts, they may have been driven by authority”.

One of the notice that released in Yangon based delta high way station that Mentioned

well wisher passengers distribute from the car to the people along the road it cause them these

people are watching the passing car and makes them loose interesting to carry their livelihood.

To prevent the national image of Myanmar do not make like these works .It advised to contacts local relief's committee directly.

“it is very cruel on the victims my options is that authority should permit limited period during the rehabilitation" said the donor who wish to give.

"At 28 th may we have got some improvement but we have to inform 48 hours advanced" well wisher added.

These tremendous obstacles prevent the accessing the basics need of they have nowhere to go.

“If I live in the old place it is impossible to access the food from donors, things are particularly bad ".said the refugees who does want to use his name.

Some of the area in delta, when authority found their guilty villagers should have been fined 3000 kyats per person (it cost two basket of rice).

After 22th may , UN chief visit, the huts which situated along the road of kuanchankone dadeye ,phyapon road are already removed by the military.

"Authority want to show only the good things to UN and INGO but some refugees no where to go still live under the phyapon bridge said ma nyein nyein who live near the phyapon bridge.

Despite these difficulties Villagers never give up and come to the road side and wait for donors, they believes the Myanmar people traditional custom.

Refugees called donors "guardians" or benefactor they sit on the feet and wait for everyday at the roadside.

Struggling three weeks after nargisat may 23 th , general than shwe agrees to let inside Myanmar for international aids workers.

he decision eases a three-week standoff since the cyclone tore into the country on May 2-3, leaving at least 133,000 people dead or missing and around 2.5 million more in dire need of immediate aid.

"He has agreed to allow all aid workers," UN chief Ban told reporters in the remote new capital Naypyidaw following closed-door talks with the 75-year-old general who heads one of the poorest and most isolated nations in the world.

International relief organizations have repeatedly insisted that more people will die unless they get immediate food, water, shelter and medical care.

Ban said on arriving 22 th may that he was coming with a "message of hope" for the beleaguered victims of the worst natural disaster in the nation's history, which devastated much of the southern Irrawaddy Delta.

But the delta people are not hopping so much form UN chiefs and other organization. It is nearly one months for their lost after storm nargis, including daughters ,sons ,fathers ,mothers, husbands and wives but aids are not getting through to them.

Prime Minister general Thein Sein told diplomats that the provision of food, clothing, shelter and medical care was "now almost complete at this stage."

Many villagers from deadeye said that they have not received any government aids yet . Local reporters saw people were getting the line to receive packages of noodles or some rice of cans at phyapon.

"All we have after three weeks from government is one egg,three mosiquito nets and three items of clothes" said the villagers thepyukone village that situated at the eastern part of the dadeye township.

In tu myang village ,just one hour drive from phyapon by motorboat nearly 160 houses are rebuilding without getting any aids said u photoe elder man of this village.

all villagers from that village said " All we need is tarpaulin that can use their house for shelter.

Last a few days ago, Mr Ban flew over flooded rice fields, destroyed villages, and visited a government relief camp in the Irrawaddy delta.

A UN official privately called it a "show camp".

But at tu myaung villagers are rebuilding their small huts by themselves. When the raindrops come down, they go back to monastery only the reliable place of their relief that has enough shelters for them.

All villagers from the delta realized that there are many obstacles apart from the local authorities, to ploughed the plough the farm and soil the paddy for next planting season. Lacks of the seeds and cattle pose other challengences for planting.

They accepted that many times they felt exhausted and hopeless But once they heard the aids workers let into the country ,it gives continue to fighting for the their survival.

The only thing they want in their life is help to their life to become good people

Without getting help these people who live at road side might becomes thieves, beggars and alchol addicts I think any vicitims without getting the aids like a man waiting for death.”

"we are not beggars" villagers from road side said .

Yangon weekly 7 day’s news journal is being sued

Yangon march 21
One of the popular journal among in the Yangon readers, 7 days news weekly journal is going to have sued by victims families executive editor from 7-day news journal confirmed to Yangontoday 7 day news journal is also being suspended for one week by scrutiny board, under the ministry of information, who control the journals and magazines .
“We have so many problems for that news because we put in last issue without having permission from scrutiny, even though they are trying to sue our journal we did ethically in this case, wrote what we have seen and what we have got from the funeral scenes said editor to Yangon today .
One of the new spread in Yangon is this journals is being sued by Yangon police chief who requested to bodies at funeral ceremony find the killers.
“What we have between us is we agree to apologize the police but still don’t know what they want to be’ editor explained.
“They attacked our dignity two times intentionally to us, so our police chief won’t forgive this time and we arrange to sue by passing the victim’s family’ said the police who don’t want to you his name.
In Yangon ,five people was killed by gun shot in sein lae kann thar avenue which is quite close to house of Daw su kyi reported by local journals.
The circumstance of this case may be different from other crime because killer use 9 mm pistol, which can use only military high-ranking officer remarked the local people who live near by.
Among them 7 days journal put alternative presentation about this criminal case and put the direct quote of police chief that requested to bodies at funeral ceremony on the last issue.
Those are their old habit and believe of police for two many years in our country instead of saying yes, it is police motto but they did when they could not follow the links of killer said retire police officer.
However, the criminals are still lucky and police cannot catch definitely, who killed the five people on the spot.