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Cyclone Giri: Two Years On rain”, Mizzima, 7 Oct. 2011, http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6035-burmese-rice-production-to-falldue-to-untimely-rain.html accessed on 28 Oct. 2011; “Burmese government to buy rice at ‘fair price’”, Mizzima, 17 Nov. 2011, http://www.mizzima.com/business/6196-burmese-government-to-buy-rice-at-fair-price.html accessed on 12 Nov. 2011. 395 “Rice Prices Rising on Rumour of New Banknote”, The Irrawaddy, 25 Feb. 2011, http://www.irrawaddy.org/ article.phpart_id=20832 accessed on 20 Oct. 2011; “Burma Suspends Rice Exports After Rise in Local Price”, The Irrawaddy, 28 Feb. 2011, http://irrawaddy.org/article.phpart_id=20847 accessed on 20 Oct. 2011. 396 “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. In Magway Region in the last quarter of 2010 rice prices were high due to road damage caused by Cyclone Giri and the transportation cost increased due to government regulations regarding maximum tonnage per truck. “Monthly Food Basket Bulletin”, WFP, June 2011, http://www.themimu.info/docs/WFP_Monthly_Food_Basket_Bulletin_Jun_2011.pdf accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 397 “Damage Halt Traffic on Sittwe-Rangoon Highway”, Narinjara, 30 July 2011, http://www.narinjara.com/ details.aspid=3032 accessed on 11 Nov. 2011. 398 Primary research by GRC field workers. 399 “Residents of remote west Burma devastated by Cyclone Giri”, American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 5 Nov. 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s3058667.htm accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 400 See subsection “One Year on”. 401 See subsections “Socio-Economic Underdevelopment” and “Healthcare and Education” respectively. 402 Aye Sapay Phyu, “Giri-affected areas face shortage of clean water”, MMT, 21-27 Feb. 2011, http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/563/news56315.html accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 403 Robert Turner et al., Inter-Agency Real Time Evaluation of the Response to Cyclone Nargis, 17 Dec. 2008, http:/ /www.themimu.info/Coordination/IASC/Clusters/IA_RTE_Nargis_Response_Final_Report_Dec_2008.pdf accessed on 19 Nov. 2011. 404 Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Myebon and Pauktaw of Rakhine State, Myanmar Vulnerability, WFP, http://home.wfp.org/ stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp234782.pdf accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 405 Aye Sapay Phyu, “Giri-affected areas face shortage of clean water”, MMT, 21-27 Feb. 2011, http://www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/563/news56315.html accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 406 Myanmar Cyclone Giri, Save the Children, http://www.savethechildren.org.au/what-we-do/emergencies/myanmarcyclone-giri.html accessed on 5 Nov. 407 “Residents of remote west Burma devastated by Cyclone Giri”, American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), 5 Nov. 2010, http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2010/s3058667.htm accessed on 5 Nov. 2011; “Regime seeks UN agencies’ help with Giri medical aid”, Mizzima, 1 Nov. 2010, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/mizzima/9654-regimeseeks-un-agencies-help-with-giri-medical-aid.html accessed on 5 Nov. 2011. 408 “3.9 Million Kyat Donation from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Distributed in Cyclone-Affected Area”, Narinjara, 7 Dec. 2010, http://www.bnionline.net/index.php/news/narinjara/9893-39-million-kyat-donation-from-daw-aung-san-suukyi-distributed-in-cyclone-affected-area.html accessed on 5 Nov. 2011; “US donates further US$3m for Cyclone Giri victims”, Mizzima, 25 Nov. 2010, 409 See subsection “Healthcare and Education”. 410 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. 411 Ibid. 412 Cyclone GIRI 6 months on - Situation, achievements and challenges, UNIC, Rangoon, 26 Apr. 2011, http:// unic.un.org/imucms/userfiles/yangon/file/GIRI%206%20M%20On%20v3.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 413 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. 414 Cyclone GIRI 6 months on - Situation, achievements and challenges, UNIC, Rangoon, 26 Apr. 2011, http:// unic.un.org/imucms/userfiles/yangon/file/GIRI%206%20M%20On%20v3.pdf accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 415 Zin Linn, “Burma’s Health Minister’s dream seems to be unproductive”, Asian Correspondent, 27 Apr. 2011, http://siancorrespondent.com/53327/burma%E2%80%99s-health-minister%E2%80%99s-dream-seems-to-beunproductive/ accessed on 8 Oct. 2011. 416 Preceded by expenditure for food and health. 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. 417 Htet Aung, “UN Sets New Strategic Priorities in Burma”, The Irrawaddy, 17 Mar. 2011,http://www.irrawaddy.org/ print_article.phpart_id=20955 accessed on 1 Nov. 2011. 418 Humanitarian Action Update”, UNICEF, 11 Nov. 2010, http://www.unicef.org/UNICEF_Myanmar_- _Humanitarian_Action_Update-11_November_2010[1].pdf accessed on 15 Oct. 2011. 123
Arakan Human Rights and Development Organisation 419 Listening to Voices from Inside: Ethnic People Speak, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, June 2010, pp. 297-8, http://www.centrepeaceconflictstudies.org/fileadmin/downloads/pdfs/Ethnic_People_Speak.pdf accessed on 28 Nov. 2010. 420 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. 421 See subsection “Healthcare and Education”. 422 Nan Tin Htwe, “UNICEF provides funding for temporary schools in Rakhine”, MMT, 21-27 Feb. 2011, http:// www.mmtimes.com/2011/news/563/news56317.html accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. 423 (I)NGOs set up some 150 temporary learning spaces to resume schooling for more than 21,000 children in the four worst affected townships. After 6 months the Ministry of Education had reconstructed about 113 schools (32%). 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. 424 Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey in Myanmar: MDG-Relevant Information, UNDP, 2009-10, http:/ /www.mm.undp.org/ihlca/01_Poverty_Profile/index.html accessed on 6 Nov. 2011. 425 Listening to Voices from Inside: Ethnic People Speak, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, June 2010, p. 298, http://www.centrepeaceconflictstudies.org/fileadmin/downloads/pdfs/Ethnic_People_Speak.pdf accessed on 28 Nov. 2010. 426 Khin Oo Thar, “Entire Arakan Villages Hit by Giri Moving to Kachin State”, The Irrawaddy, 19 May 2011, http:/ /www.irrawaddy.org/article.phpart_id=21322 accessed on 6 Nov. 2011. 427 “Arakan the Second Poorest State in Burma”, Narinjara, 7 July 2011, http://www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=3012 accessed on 6 Nov. 2011. 428 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. 429 “Arakan the Second Poorest State in Burma”, Narinjara, 7 July 2011, http://www.narinjara.com/details.aspid=3012 accessed on 6 Nov. 2011. 430 Andrew Bosson, Forced Migration/Internal Displacement in Burma with an Emphasis on Government-controlled Areas, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, May 2007, http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ 7E1266EA1018ECB8C12572D80042FFE3-Full_Report.pdf accessed on 28 Nov. 2011. 431 “Interview with U Hla Saw, General Secretary of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party”, Narinjara, 30 May 2011, http:// www.bnionline.net/index.php/interview/100-narinjara/10835-interview-with-u-hla-sawgeneral-secretary-of-the-rakhine-nationalities-development-party.html accessed on 25 Oct. 2011. 432 In all some 2-4 million migrants from Burma are working in Thailand. Ko Htwe, “Burmese Migrants Fend for Themselves as Flooding Continues”, The Irrawaddy, 21 Oct 2011, http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.phpart_id=22308 accessed on 9 Nov. 2011. Another one million Burmese work in Malaysia, China, India, Bangladesh and Singapore. 433 Ibid. 434 On Cyclone Nargis pushing migrants to other states and abroad, see Listening to Voices from Inside: Ethnic People Speak, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, June 2010, p. 123, http://www.centrepeaceconflictstudies.org/ fileadmin/downloads/pdfs/Ethnic_People_Speak.pdf accessed on 28 Nov. 2010. 435 Andrew Bosson, Forced Migration/Internal Displacement in Burma with an Emphasis on Government-controlled Areas, Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, May 2007, http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/ 7E1266EA1018ECB8C12572D 80042FFE3-Full_Report.pdf accessed on 28 Nov. 2011. 436 “Cyclone Giri: An Unforgettable Experience for Victims”, 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. 437 On 4 May 2011 over one hundred families left by cars to Kachin State. 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