Myanmar junta suspends aid access to a million people in state devastated by Cyclone Mocha

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The UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said the decision to stop aid access in the already-impoverished state has paralyzed the humanitarian response to Cyclone Mocha and crippled life-saving aid distributions to storm-hit communities. “Four weeks into this disaster response and with the monsoon season well underway, it is unfathomable that humanitarians are being denied access to support people in need,” UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Ramanathan Balakrishnan said in a statement Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced due to the protracted conflict, many of them members of the stateless Rohingya minority group, long persecuted in Myanmar

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