Volunteers send aid through Burma's (Myanmar's) back door
They are channeling supplies across the Thai-Burmese border to existing underground networks spread across the disaster zone.

Bangkok, Thailand - When the call came, Samantha Finke was in South Dakota. Like other staffers for Sen. Hillary Clinton, she wondered what the future held as primary season finished up.

Five minutes later, she had an answer. Switch to Sen. Barack Obama? No, Ms. Finke elected to fly here June 11 to join a grassroots effort for cyclone relief and civil empowerment for Burma (Myanmar), run by the father of her friend who was calling to urge her to come. Click to read entire article >

Chicago Tribune
May 30, 2008

A Sinister Sweep
Myanmar Uses Cyclone to Push Out Ethnic Minorities

The Myanmar regime is frustrating international efforts to help victims of Cyclone Nargis because it has a much more sinister intent: the eviction or eradication of the non-Myanmar ethnic population from the Irrawaddy River delta region. The government sees its people as its enemy.

There is a long record to back this up. In the mountainous region of Eastern Myanmar, more than 3,000 villages have been burned or mined and tens of thousands of internally displaced persons are on the run on any given day, according to www.tbbc.org, a consortium of 11 international non-governmental organizations that provides humanitarian aid and conducts refugee research.This is a calculated strategy of eviction and relocation of non-Burman ethnic groups from ancestral lands they've held for more than 2,000 years. Click to read entire article >