BURMA's ruling junta fired back at aid donors who promised millions just days earlier, saying cyclone survivors did not need their "bars of chocolate."
BURMA's ruling junta fired back at aid donors who promised millions just days earlier, saying cyclone survivors did not need their "bars of chocolate."
A day after countries worldwide expressed outrage over the government's decision to extend pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest for a sixth straight year, state-run media lashed out at donors for only pledging about £76m, far short of the £5.6bn the junta said it needed to rebuild. The Myanma Ahlin newspaper, a government mouthpiece, said cyclone victims from the hardest-hit areas could get by without foreign handouts.
"People from the Irrawaddy delta can survive on their own, even without bars of chocolate donated by the international community," it said, adding they can live on "fresh vegetables that grow wild in the fields and on protein-rich fish from the rivers".-AP
