More than 3000 victims of the earthquake in Myanmar while trying to silence weapons

Giada Aquilaino – Vatican City

The dead number of the Myanmar earthquake is still increasing, as it does not calm down, while people continue to dig between the wreckage of the earthquake, which reached 7.7 degrees that shook a country in Southeast Asia, along with Thailand, last Friday. The Military Council, in power in Naypyidaw since 2021, confirmed in a coup, so far 3,085 people, 4,715 wounded and more than 300 missing people, while a high time fire was announced in the war that the army faced for years and ethnic militias.

The truce announced by the council

Temporary suspension in war operations will be respected until April 22, according to the army, to accelerate relief and reconstruction tasks, despite the fact that in the last hours of the council directed by Min Ong Hulang, he refused to stop the fighting of the three -year -old fraternity coalition, whose groups are three arms movements. One of them, the Tyang Liberation Army (TNLA), yesterday condemned that the army had opened fire on a convoy of humanitarian aid to the Chinese Red Cross for the city of Mandalaay, one of the most affected by the earthquake.

The violence that collides with the destruction on the ground, since the Min Chlaing itself began towards Bangkok, Thailand, on an unprecedented mission abroad on the occasion of the Bimstec summit, the multi -sectors initiative for technical and economic cooperation in the Bay of Bengal.

The commitment of NGOs associated with PIME

The total domain of the catastrophe has not yet been identified: the earthquake destroyed the buildings not only in Mandalay and the epic, but in all Myanmar. In the midst of the difficulties of the communications that work on Trombiconons, Levio Maggie, director of NGOs, was a new “new humanitarian institution”, which was an expression of Milan’s social commitment in Myanmar for years, and they are mainly concerned with integration, anti -addiction, and the accompaniment of disabilities. “It is an emergency that affects everyone, including we are in Yangon, where we do not have electricity more than eight hours a day and use generators and other services that guarantee some energy. But this position cannot stay steadily: everything is missing, “I saw Maggie. He says that this morning,” a team of NGOs has arrived in Mandalay, who left yesterday with a truck loaded with medicines, medical materials and food for no less than 2000 people. We also send “basic nutrition”, because unfortunately in a similar context, it is falling in the first calmness. The other half to Mandalay Hospital “Almost completely collapsed.”

The risk of diseases such as cholera also continues, “with such a dramatic situation in water shortage and hygiene, where everything collapsed. In Mandalay, people sleep on the street, shocked, afraid, there are still earthquakes, symmetrical copies. People have a great reaction capacity, but water, food, shelter, and even a simple umbrella, because the sun strikes hard – about 40 degrees – as well as fans working with solar energy. After that, in one month, monsoons will start. ”

Sewing relationships

Given the news of a great fire that was announced at this time specifically to facilitate rescue operations, the reflection of the director of “New Humanity International Foundation” remembers “the importance of cooperation and cooperation between all parties.” On the other hand, the experience of the NGO, for more than 20 years, is specifically “sewing relationships and relationships between different worlds.”

“We are trying to have a mixed team”: For example, there are Buddhists, like a doctor who works in Mandalay, but also Catholics, Baptists, Muslims and Hindus, because “religion cannot and should not become an opportunity for division.” In short, it is important to be and survive, even and above all now.