Embassy Talking Points

Published January 19, 2005

Burmese Donations

The Canadian Friends of Burma is collecting donations to distribute food and other supplies to close to 30,000 tsunami victims. The country, also known as Myanmar, had at first refused aid but later permitted the UN's World Food Programme into parts of the region to assess the damage. The secretive regime reported about 60 deaths from the Boxing Day wave, but some suggest that number to be up to...