Aid group forced to stop helping flood victims on Ma Ba Tha orders
Hardline monks have flexed their muscles amid the desolation of Sagaing Region’s floods, ordering a prominent aid group to leave the area and describing National League for Democracy and other volunteers as “troublemaking groups”.
Flooding has devastated large areas of northern Sagaing Region, with Kawlin the worst-affected area. A total of 48,532 people in Kawlin were affected by the flooding, the Relief and Resettlement Department reported on 23 July.
