Burma junta hiding real death toll from aid agencies, says UN

BURMA’S military leaders were accused yesterday of deliberately keeping the full plight of suffering cyclone survivors from aid agencies.

The United Nations said that severe restrictions by the junta meant the agencies lacked the most basic information, from the number of orphans to the extent of diseases and the number of refugee camps.

They could also not say whether all survivors were in camps, on the move or still living in destroyed villages in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, an area the size of Austria.