“The UN food agency on Friday suspended all aid flights into Myanmar over ‘unacceptable’ restrictions by the junta, which has refused to allow foreign relief workers to help desperate cyclone survivors. The World Food Programme’s decision cast new doubt on the regime’s claim to be doing all it can to save the 1.5 million people at risk of starvation and disease after last week’s devastating storm. The situation on the ground is one of horror almost beyond imagining — with starving survivors picking for food in waterways littered with the bodies of the dead — and aid groups agree time is running out. But the military, deeply suspicious of any outside influence that could dilute the tight control it has kept on the nation for 46 years, insists that it will welcome supplies from abroad, but must distribute them itself.” (05/08/08)