Posted on 13/05/08
Aid agencies plead for Myanmar entry visas
BANGKOK -- Veteran relief worker Paul Heymans struggles to remain calm as he talks about the bureaucratic stonewalling that prevents him from helping the victims of Myanmar's devastating cyclone.After 12 years of working in war zones and disasters across Africa and Asia, he has the expertise that is desperately needed by the 1.5 million homeless cyclone survivors. And he is the emergency co-ordinator for one of the world's biggest relief agencies, Médecins sans frontières (Doctors Without Borders).
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