As fighting between the military and pro-democracy forces intensifies in Myanmar, and the number of internally displaced persons increases, aid supplies were brought across the border from neighboring Thailand for the first time on the 25th.
On the 25th, in Mae Sot, a town in western Thailand that borders Myanmar, a truck carrying relief supplies departed for Myanmar.
The truck is loaded with food and medicine for 20,000 people and will be delivered through the Red Cross in both Thailand and Myanmar.
In Myanmar, pro-democracy forces and armed groups from ethnic minorities have stepped up their offensive against the military, and fighting is intensifying, and OCHA (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) estimates that more than 2.8 million people are internally displaced. I'm trying to climb up.
Negotiations for this assistance were led by neighboring Thailand, and an agreement was reached with the Myanmar military to establish a "humanitarian corridor."
However, there are concerns that relief supplies will not reach the displaced people who are under the control of forces hostile to Myanmar's military.
Sihasak, a senior official at Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said, ``This is the first cross-border aid requested by many parties, and we need to deliver supplies to all suffering people without discrimination.If this aid is successful, We would like to consider further support."