The number of victims increasing from the devastating earthquake that hit the Myanmar On March 28, with the dead reaching 3,354, while 4,850 people have been injured and 220 are missing, state media reported, while a UN official who visits the country has praised humanitarian organizations that provide assistance to the affected.
The leader of the military junta ruled in Myanmar, Mini Aung Hlating, returned to the capital Naipidao after a rare visit abroad, in Bangkok where he took part in a regional summit of his southern and southern and southern leaders.
On the sidelines of the meeting he met with the leaders of Thailand, Nepal of Bhutan, Sri Lanka and India.
Mini Aung Hlating reiterated to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Monti that the junta is planning to hold a “free and fair election” in December.
For his part, Modi demanded that the ceasefire declared the junta after the earthquake in its attacks on rebels and dissidents to become permanent. He also added that the elections should be “inclusive and reliable”, as a Indian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday.
Junta critics complain that the planned elections are a trick for the generals to remain in power through the election of closed officials.
The Army has difficulty ruled by Myanmar after his coup in February 2021. After all, the civil war that has erupted in the country – where dozens of armed groups of ethnic minorities and political opponents of the junta have been active in On the brink of collapse.
More than 3 million people have been displaced from the civil war, and food insecurity is extensive, with more than one -third of the Myanmar population needing humanitarian aid, according to the UN.
Meanwhile, Tom Fletcher, head of the UN Humanitarian Office (OCHA), spent last night in Mandaley, the second largest city of Myanmar near the focus of the 7.7 -magnitude earthquake.
Fletcher welcomed through his posting on X “the courage, ability and determination” of workers in humanitarian aid and relief organizations that provide assistance to the earthquake.
“Many of them have lost everything themselves and still continue to support the survivors,” he said.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights accused the junta yesterday of restricting access to an earthquake affected areas, whose inhabitants do not support it.
As he explained, he is investigating complaints of 53 attacks launched by the junta against her opponents, including air raids, of which 16 took place after the truce announcement on Wednesday.