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Myanmar children in danger from abusers
Brunei News.Net
Tuesday 13th May, 2008
Aid groups in Myanmar say children are now being targeted by child traffickers.
In the hardest-hit regions of the Irrawaddy delta, hungry and barefoot children dressed in rags have been left begging on roadsides.
Traffickers are especially looking out for children who have lost their parents or who are resident in crowded camps.
UNICEF says with people desperately in need after Cyclone Nargis, children are now at risk of abuse and trafficking.
Two suspected traffickers have been arrested fro trying to recruit children at a camp site.
UNICEF says 3,000 schools were wiped out by the cyclone, leaving 500,000 children without classrooms.
The agency said it was working to create makeshift schools in relief camps, in the hope of giving children a chance to resume their education.
Nearly half of those killed in the Myanmar cyclone were children.
Meanwhile, France, Great Britain and Germany have convinced that the international community must help the victims of cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, even if they have to do so without the permission of the country's ruling military government.
But although the three biggest EU countries want to submit this proposal to the United Nations Security Council, they have failed to receive unanimous support from the 27 European Union member states.
The EU has, however, called on the military junta in Myanmar to open its borders immediately to foreign aid.
Most foreign aid is only getting into the country in small quantities.
In the Irrawaddy Delta, the area is now being soaked again with heavy rainfall.
At least 30,000 people are still missing.
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