Posted AT 1:46 AM EDT on 10/05/08
Junta obstructs relief effort
BANGKOK — Myanmar's military regime has seized two planeloads of relief supplies and ordered a third planeload to leave, throwing into chaos the international effort to help the 1.5 million homeless victims of cyclone Nargis.
The United Nations briefly suspended its aid shipments to Myanmar after the military confiscated the emergency food supplies from two UN planes that landed at Rangoon airport and turned back a third.
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