- The injured toll increases to 4,850 with another 220 missing.
- The leader of the Board reaffirms Modi plans to celebrate “free and fair” elections.
- Modi asks the high fire to be permanent.
The number of deaths from the devastating earthquake of Myanmar rose to 3,354, with 4,850 injured and 220 missing, myanmar media said on Saturday, when the United Nations visiting head praised the humanitarian and community groups for leading the help response.
The leader of the military government, General Senior Min Aung Hlaing, returned to the capital Naypyitaw after a rare foreign trip to attend a summit in Bangkok of the South Nations and Southeast Asia, where he also met separately with the leaders of Thailand, Nepal, Bután, Sri Lanka and India.
Min Aung Hlaing reaffirmed the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi's plans to celebrate “free and fair” elections in December, said Myanmar Media.
Modi requested the fire after the fall in the Civil War of Myanmar to be permanent and said that the elections should be “inclusive and credible,” a spokesman for Foreign Affairs of India said on Friday.
Critics have ridiculed the planned elections as a farce to keep the generals in power through the proxies.
Since he overthrew the elected civil government of the laureate Nobel Saint Suu Kyi in 2021, the military has fought to direct Myanmar, leaving the economy and basic services, including medical care, in Jirones, a situation exacerbated by the earthquake of March 28.
The civil war that followed the coup has displaced more than 3 million people, with generalized food insecurity and more than a third of the population that needs humanitarian assistance, says the UN.
The head of the United Nations Help, Tom Fletcher, spent Friday night in the second largest city of Myanmar Mandalay, near the epicenter of the earthquake, publishing in X that the humanitarian and community groups had led the response to the earthquake with “courage, skill and determination.”
“Many lost everything and yet they continued to leave to support the survivors,” he said.
The UN Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights said Friday that the Board was restricting the supplies of help to the areas affected by the earthquake where the communities did not support their rule.
The UN Office said he was investigating 53 reported attacks from the Board against opponents, including air attacks, of which 16 were after the high fire was declared on Wednesday.
