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Cyclone Giri: Two Years On 350 The Shwe Gas Project involves the exploitation, by a a consortium of Indian and Korean corporations in conjunction with Burma’s Government, of underwater natural gas deposits off the coast of western Burma’s Arakan State. Dual oil and gas pipelines are being constructed through Arakan State, Shan State, and Central Burma, see http:// www.shwe.org/ accessed on 1 Jan. 2012. 351 Zwe Khant, “Worse flooding in more than 30 years hits Pegu”, Mizzima,10 Aug. 2011, http://www.mizzima.com/ news/inside-burma/5755-worse-flooding-in-more-than-30-years-hits-pegu.html accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 352 See, for instance, “Flood Bulletin”, 11 Aug. 2011, NLM, http://myanmargeneva.org/NLM2011/eng/8Aug/n110811.pdf accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 353 There are 25 hydrology stations under the DMH, Ministry of Transport, monitoring the following rivers: Ayeyarwaddy, Chindwin, Dokahwaddy, Sittoung, Shwegin, Bago, Thanlwin, and Nagwun. Tin Maung Shwe and Thida Chaw Hlaing, Scoping Study on Food Security and Nutrition Information in Myanmar, 2011, http://www.foodsec.org/ fileadmin/user_upload/eufao-fsi4dm/docs/Shwe%20TM%20and%20TC%20Hlaing%20%28 May%202011%29%20Myanmar%20Food%20Security%20and%20Nutrition%20Information%20S coping%20Study.pdf accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 354 “Torrential rain cause floods in some Regions and States”, NLM, 11 Aug. 2011, http://myanmargeneva.org/ NLM2011/eng/8Aug/n110811.pdf accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 355 Naw Noreen, “Thousands of flood victims lacking aid”, DVB, 25 Oct. 2011, http://www.dvb.no/news/thousandsof-flood-victims-lacking-aid/18383 accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 356 “State will help flood victims, victims are to work even harder than before - President tours Pakokku District”, NLM, 27 Oct. 2011, http://www.myanmararchives.com/newspapers/The-New-Light-of-Myanmar/2011/10_Oct/27- 10-2011.pdf accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 357 Cyclone Giri Six Months On – Situation, Achievements and Challenges, UNIC, Rangoon, Apr. 2011, http://unic.un.org/imucms/userfiles/yangon/file/GIRI%206%20M%20On%20v3.pdf accessed on 10 Nov. 2011. 358 “Nypa fruticans, the Nipa palm, has a horizontal trunk that grows beneath the ground and only the leaves and flower stalk grow upwards above the surface. Thus, it is an unusual tree, and the leaves can extend up to 9 m (30 ft) in height. It grows in soft mud and slow moving tidal and river waters that bring in nutrients.” In Burma it is known as “dani”. “Nypa fruticans”, Wikipedia, http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nypa_fruticans accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 359 “Thousands of Giri Victims Still Homeless”, Narinjara, 10 Dec. 2010, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/ narinjara/9910-thousands-of-giri-victims-still-homeless.html accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 36015,000 kyat ($15) per month for public employees; 500 kyat ($ 0.5) per day for labourers, supplemented by subsidies and allowances. List of minimum wages by country, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_minimum_wages_by_country accessed on 24 Oct. 2011; Average monthly salary: about $27,32. “Internet Enemies 2011- Burma”, Reporters Without Borders, 11, http://12mars.rsf.org/i/Internet_Enemies.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 361 “Thousands of Giri Victims Still Homeless”, Narinjara, 10 Dec. 2010, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/ narinjara/9910-thousands-of-giri-victims-still-homeless.html accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 362 http://www.mm.undp.org/ihlca/01_Poverty_Profile/index.html accessed on 7 Nov. 2011. 363 “Thousands of Giri Victims Still Homeless”, Narinjara, 10 Dec. 2010, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/ narinjara/9910-thousands-of-giri-victims-still-homeless.html accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 364 Min Lwin, “Burma flood relief teams ‘threatened’”, DVB, 2 Nov. 2011, http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-floodrelief-teams-%E2%80%98threatened%E2%80%99/18490 accessed on 7 Nov. 2011. 365 Than Win Htut, “Burma flooding deaths top 200”, DVB, 24 Oct. 2011, http://www.dvb.no/news/burma-floodingdeaths-top-200/18344 accessed on 10 Nov. 2011. 366 Ibid. 367 Naw Noreen, “Thousands of flood victims lacking aid”, DVB, 25 Oct. 2011, http://www.dvb.no/news/thousandsof-flood-victims-lacking-aid/18383 accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 368 Kyaw Kha, “NLD stretched thin: relying on local offices to aid flood victims”, Mizzima, 11 Oct 2011, http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6047-nld-stretched-thin-relying-on-local-offices-to-aid-floodvictims.html accessed on 28 Oct. 2011. 369 Cyclone Giri Six Months On – Situation, Achievements and Challenges, UNIC, Rangoon, Apr. 2011, http://unic.un.org/imucms/userfiles/yangon/file/GIRI%206%20M%20On%20v3.pdf accessed on 10 Nov. 2011. 370 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 371 Cyclone Giri Six Months On – Situation, Achievements and Challenges, UNIC, Rangoon, Apr. 2011, http://unic.un.org/imucms/userfiles/yangon/file/GIRI%206%20M%20On%20v3.pdf accessed on 10 Nov. 2011. 372 “Dykes in Arakan State must be repaired before monsoon”, Mizzima, 30 Apr. 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/mizzima/10660-dykes-in-arakan-state-must-be-repaired-beforemonsoon.html accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 121
Arakan Human Rights and Development Organisation 373 “Giri Victims Suffer as Army Confiscates Their Common Creek”, Narinjara, 31 Aug. 2011, http://bnionline.net/ news/narinjara/11533-giri-victims-suffer-as-army-confiscates-their-common-creek.html accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 374 Financial Tracking Service, OCHA, http://fts.unocha.org/reports/daily/ocha_R10_E15896_asof___1112280204.pdf accessed on 6 Dec. 2011. 375 “Villagers Hit Hardest by Cyclone Giri Face Starvation”, Narinjara, 17 June 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/10978-villagers-hit-hardest-by-cyclone-giri-face-starvation.html accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 376 Cyclone Giri: An Unforgettable Experience for Victim, BNI, 6 Sept. 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/feature/narinjara/11576-cyclone-giri-an-unforgettable-experience-for-victim- .html accessed on 25 Oct. 2011; “Famine in Much of the Cyclone-Giri Affected Area of Arakan”, BNI, 12 Aug. 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/11375-famine-in-much-of-the-cyclone-giri-affected-areaof-arakan.html accessed on 23 Oct. 2011. 377 Primary research by GRC field workers. 378 See subsection “Torrential Rains and Flooding”. 379 Kyaw Kha, “Seven townships in Arakan State flooded by record heavy rain”, Mizzima, 22 July 2011, http:// www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/5650-seven-townships-in-arakan-state-flooded-by-record-heavy-rain.html accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 380 “Famine in Much of the Cyclone-Giri Affected Area of Arakan”, BNI, 12 Aug. 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/ index.php/news/narinjara/11375-famine-in-much-of-the-cyclone-giri-affected-area-of-arakan.html accessed on 23 Oct. 2011. 381 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 382 Kerren Hedlund, “Slow-onset disasters: drought and food and livelihoods insecurity - Learning from previous relief and recovery responses”, ALNAP, http://www.alnap.org/pool/files/ALNAP-ProVention_lessons_on_slowonset_disasters.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 383 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 384 Ibid. 385 “Rice Prices Increase Following Giri”, The Irrawaddy, 3 Nov. 2010, http://www.irrawaddy.org/ article.phpart_id=19936 accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 386 Ben Ramalingam and Sara Pavanello, “Cyclone Nargis: Lessons for Operational Agencies”, ALNAP, http:// www.alnap.org/pool/files/ALNAPLessonsCycloneNargis.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 387 Maung Aye, “Increasing Rice Prices in Cyclone-Affected Areas Hurt Victims’ Survival”, Narinjara, 5 Mar. 2011, http://www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=2944 accessed on 9 Nov. 2011; see also “Rice Prices Rising on Rumor of New Banknote”, The Irrawaddy, 25 Feb. 2011, http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.phpart_id=20832 accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 388 “Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability”, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/ documents/ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 389 The WFP Quarterly Market and Food Price Updates which monitor the food prices and wages http:// documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp241226.pdf; accessed on 9 Nov. 2011; http:// documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp241682.pdf; accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 390 Primarily at the end of January 2011 WFP stopped the food assistance when all clusters wound down at the end of the emergency phase. However, according to the WFP 6 month report (21 Apr. 2011), they still used food for work programmes for the rebuilding of embankments, ponds and roads etc. Per this report (see Subsection “One Year On: An Overview”) 18,450 beneficiaries directly participated in the Food For Work projects. They and their families, totaling 92,250 people, received food rations until May 2011. (WFP used the end of May 2011 as the end of the early recovery phase /start of the long term recovery/rehabilitation phase.) 391 Food Security Assessment in Four Townships affected by Cyclone Giri: Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, Feb. 2011, http://home.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 392 Ibid. 393 “Torrential Rains Ravage Arakan’s Gwa Township for the Third Time”, Narinjara, 10 Aug. 2011, http:// www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=3044 accessed on 24 Oct. 2011; “Villagers Hit Hardest by Cyclone Giri Face Starvation”, Narinjara, 17 June 2011, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/10978-villagers-hithardest-by-cyclone-giri-face-starvation.html accessed on 24 Oct. 2011. 394 The total rice acreage is 20.43 million acres (8,267,728 ha): 17.27 million acres (6,988,921 ha) of monsoon paddy and 3.16 million acres (1,278,806 ha) of summer paddy. “Burmese rice production to fall due to untimely 122
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