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The people of Myanmar are till waiting to receive humanitarian assist.

Another week has passed. More opportunities are lost in providing immediate assistance to the people of Myanmar. While in the clear people try to piece their lives secretly together after the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar authorities on to prohibit aid. The lives and health of thousands are at risk.

offer press on Myanmar authorities to hand out humanitarian aid to victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Myanmar may put one's trust in that it does not extremity to be responsive to its own people; however it does have to declaration to the fellow colleague states of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). underneath the ASEAN Charter, colleague states, including Myanmar, are committed to:

• Respecting elementary freedoms
• Promoting and protecting hominid rights and social incarceration
• Upholding the collective Nations document and universal law

Myanmar's actions to stand in the way of aid from reaching people desperately in scarcity are in degradation of the spirit of ASEAN's work. It is spell for the ASEAN associate states to inconsistent with up and show management in assisting the people of Myanmar. Call on ASEAN to urge the superintendence of Myanmar to accord humanitarian aid to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Irene Khan, Amnesty International's Secretary General, recently wrote an moot message to ASEAN(PDF). In it, she warns that "without immediate vitality by ASEAN leaders, the humanitarian d‚bƒcle created by Cyclone Nargis and the slow obstruction to by the Myanmar authorities will be produced end in promote towering human rights violations, putting at gamble the lives and health of hundreds of thousands of people."

A natural disaster destroyed the lives of varied innocent people. A humanitarian disaster shouldn't be the insight they persist to suffer. Call on ASEAN to impel Myanmar authorities to ensure that cyclone victims inherit back.

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