UN halts aid shipments to Burma, accuses government of seizing supplies
Last Updated: Friday, May 9, 2008 | 8:36 AM ET Comments17Recommend29
CBC News
The United Nations is suspending aid shipments to Burma, where authorities have begun seizing supplies intended for some 1.5 million cyclone survivors, a UN spokesman said Friday.
All food aid and other supplies delivered by the UN World Food Program, whose four planes touched down in Burma for the first time Thursday, have been confiscated by the ruling military junta, said Paul Risley.
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