MP Of The Helping Town Arrested By Junta

U Aung Kyin, Member of Parliament , Myaung Mya was arrested last night. He is the member of the opposition party National League for Democracy.

The town of Myaung Mya, provided shelter and food to tens of thousands of refugees from neighbouring towns and villages which were destroyed by the recent cyclone.

[The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) reported that thousands of cyclone victims who have lost homes and families in Cyclone Nargis have come to Myaung Mya township, Irrawaddy division, where locals have given them shelter. Ten emergency relief centres have been set up so far to accommodate those seeking refuge.

A Myaung Mya resident said Cyclone Nargis battered the town from around 5pm on 2 April until 3am on 3 April.

"About 20 to 30 percent of the town was destroyed and all the big trees uprooted. We thought what happened in our town was really bad," the resident said.

"But after we listened to our radios, we realised what happened to us was nothing at all compared to other places."
The town is struggling to cope with the influx of refugees, and food and medicine are desperately needed.

"Now we have over 10,000 refugees from Labutta in our town and there are more and more coming,” the resident said.

“Just a while ago, at around 5pm, another cargo boat arrived from Labutta carrying about 2000 more refugees," he said.

"Myaung Mya authorities are doing what they can but the amount of refugees arriving here is more than we can handle."

Locals are doing whatever they can to help people arriving in the town and the villages along the river.

Myaung Mya residents are also looking after the many children orphaned by the cyclone who have come to the township.]

No one knows why the military junta arrested U Aung Kyin but it is not so difficult to guess that the humanitarian supports and the help his town has been providing for the desperate refugees has clearly annoyed the junta.

Their success at helping fellow villagers without Army intervention has been punished by the Junta just like every other remotely successful activities in Burma.

The NLD representative responsible for organizing this humanitarian success has upset the Junta. Anybody who has upset the junta has to be prepared to spend the rest of their lives in prison, even if that was to help saving other people’s lives.

God helps those to help Burma.