Quarter of a Million Mandalay IDPs Denied Myanmar Junta Quake Aid

Nearly quarter of a million people who fled war-torn Shan State and Sagaing Region for Mandalay city are now struggling for food and shelter, having been denied regime earthquake relief, according to locals and aid volunteers.

Local junta administrators reportedly excluded Mandalay’s huge population of internally displaced people (IDPs) when they registered quake victims for relief aid.

A displaced woman from Sagaing’s Kawlin Township told The Irrawaddy: “My house back in the village was burnt. [In Mandalay], I have now lost my shelter. I don’t know what to do. We are temporary rather than permanent residents, so we haven’t received any assistance except five packets of rice and curry that we got from donors recently.”