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Myanmar moving cyclone survivors into camps

Referendum ratifies new constitution

AFP, IANS, Langen
Myanmar has moved tens of thousands of homeless cyclone survivors into government-run shelters, pushing them out of monasteries and schools, Buddhist monks from the disaster zone said yesterday
They said people in the hardest-hit parts of die Irrawaddy Delta were relocated by boats and trucks to camps, where it was unclear if they had enough food and water after the storm that left 66,000 dead or missing.
.Around the main city ofYangon, people seeking shelter at Buddhist monasteries said they had been ordered to leave but given no other accommodation.
Myanmar’s military government has kept a tight lid on monasteries since Buddhist monks spear-
headed anti-government protests last year, posing the biggest challenge to military rule in nearly two decades.
Security forces fired on and beat the protesters, leaving at least 31 dead and prompting most of Yangon's monks to flee the country's main city.
Many monasteries in Yangon have since been empty, but in the wake of Cyclone Nargis, monks have taken the lead in providing shelter for people left homeless by the storm.
About 80,000 people had sought sanctuary in schools and temples in the Irrawaddy Delta town of Labutta. which was left in ruins after the cyclone struck nearly two weeksago, they said.
Now, only about 20,000 remain in their care at 50 monasteries in
Labutta. after the military moved them to camps set up in the towns of Myaungmya and Pathein, which escaped the storm with little damage. the monks said.
"People were moved in boats and trucks to nearby towns," one of them told AFP in the main city of Yangon, where monks have come to seek donations for the disaster relief effort.
"We don't know whether they can get enough food and water there."
The United Nations estimates that 550,000 people are now living in temporary settlements, where accounts from evacuees say there is not enough food, water or shelter for everyone.
The drive to move people to emergency shelters could be part of efforts to improve sanitation for
survivors, which state media have said was a priority for the secretive military government.
Myanmar has in the past been accused by human rights groups of forcibly relocating villages to make way for military operations or construction projects.
Earlier official media, controlled by the military which has ruled the country for nearly half a century, said Myanmar's people were coping with the tragedy alone -- and had turned out en masse to support the junta in last weekend's referendum.
It said 99 percent of eligible voters had cast their ballots in Saturday's much-criticised refer endum, and that 92.4 percent had approved a new constitution that dissidents said was intended to legitimise military rule.