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UN halts aid to Myanmar after junta seizes supplies(AP)
Friday, 05.09.2008, 06:00am (GMT-7)

In this image from television released by the Democratic Voice of Burma, an elderly Myanmar woman lays waiting for help in a hut following last weekend's devastating cyclone, in Kun Chan Gone township, near Yangon, Myanmar Thursday, May 8, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the cyclone was'unprecedented'in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo/Democratic Voice of Burma)AP - Myanmar's junta seized U.N. aid shipments Friday meant for a multitude of hungry and homeless survivors of last week's devastating cyclone, forcing the world body to suspend further help.




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