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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... and there are problems to get the aid out to the delta area,” the Danish Red Cross director, Anders Ladekarl, told Danish broadcaster DR. “We are simply lacking transportation. There are almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run.” As foreign aid groups scurried to deliver relief, the generals who run Myanmar continued to focus on a separate...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... and there are problems to get the aid out to the delta area," the Danish Red Cross director, Anders Ladekarl, told Danish broadcaster DR. "We are simply lacking transportation. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run."As foreign aid groups scurried to deliver relief, the generals who run Myanmar continued to focus on a separate priority: a constitutional referendum scheduled...
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STLtoday.com Top News Headlines (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... and there are problems to get the aid out to the delta area," the Danish Red Cross director, Anders Ladekarl, told Danish broadcaster DR. "We are simply lacking transportation. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run."As foreign aid groups scurried to deliver relief, the generals who run Myanmar continued to focus on a separate priority: a constitutional referendum scheduled...
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Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
... pride and entrenched suspicion of foreigners before the lives of their people.Red Cross official Anders Ladekarl reports that there are almost no boats and no helicopters. He said he was shocked at the small scale of the operation that greeted him when he arrived in Burma.Entire villages have been submerged in the worst-hit Irrawaddy delta, with bodies floating in salty water and...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... people who need aid have received some kind of relief in the six days since the cyclone hit, said Anders Ladekarl, secretary-general of the Danish Red Cross. “We are simply lacking transportation. There are almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run,” Ladekarl said in a satellite telephone interview from Myanmar to Danish broadcaster...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run," said Anders Ladekarl, secretary-general of the Danish Red Cross, in a satellite telephone interview from Myanmar to Danish broadcaster DR.Myanmar has only a few dozen helicopters and most are small and old, according to "The Military Balance 2008," a widely recognized assessment on armaments...
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Myanmar (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... are not buried and lie in the water. They have started rotting and the stench is beyond words," Anders Ladekarl, head of the Danish Red Cross.About 20,000 body bags were being sent so volunteers from the Myanmar chapter of the Red Cross can start collecting bodies, he said.The U.N. was putting together an urgent appeal to fund aid efforts over the next six months. Spokeswoman Elisabeth...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... people who need aid have received some kind of relief in the six days since the cyclone hit, said Anders Ladekarl, secretary-general of the Danish Red Cross. “We are simply lacking transportation. There are almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run,” Ladekarl said in a satellite telephone interview from Myanmar to Danish broadcaster...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... only one out of 10 have received some kind of aid in the six days since the cyclone hit, said Anders Ladekarl, secretary-general of the Danish Red Cross.
"We are simply lacking transportation. There are almost no boats and no helicopters. This is really a nightmare to make this operation run," Ladekarl said in a satellite telephone interview from Myanmar to Danish broadcaster...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
... are not buried and lie in the water. They have started rotting and the stench is beyond words,” Anders Ladekarl, head of the Danish Red Cross. About 20,000 body bags were being sent so volunteers from the Myanmar chapter of the Red Cross can start collecting bodies, he said. The U.N. was putting together an urgent appeal to fund aid efforts over the next six months. Spokeswoman Elisabeth...
