U.S. Navy Ships Return from Myanmar Coast, Still Full
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Four United States Navy ships have been ordered to stop patrolling the waters off the coast of Myanmar. The boats had been intended for use in delivering food and medical supplies to the millions of Burmese left homeless by the cyclone. It has been three frustrating weeks of denials of entry by Myanmar's ruling junta.
The head of U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Timothy J. Keating, said, "I am both saddened and frustrated to know that we have been in a position to help ease the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people and help mitigate further loss of life, but have been unable to do so because of the unrelenting position of the Burma military junta."
According to Keating, the U.S. made "at least 15 attempts" to negotiate a dispersal of supplies with the junta, who promised U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to allow all foreign aid into the country.
There were 78,000 people killed in the cylone, 56,000 additional people remain unaccounted for.
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