A Deadly Earthquake Rocks a Pillar of a Buddhist Nation: Its Monks

The people of Myanmar have often turned to the clergy for aid during natural disasters. But last month’s earthquake was also devastating for monks, many of whom died under the rubble of collapsed monasteries.

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Why Earthquake Relief Is Slow to Reach Myanmar

Critics say the country’s often-incompetent military government has delayed and restricted the arrival and distribution of crucial aid.

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They Fought to Save Lives in Myanmar. The Earthquake Claimed Theirs.

Five friends defied the junta to care for people injured in the military coup. One returned from the battlefield to find his four friends among the dead in the March 28 earthquake.

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Military Fires on Chinese Red Cross Aid Convoy in Myanmar, Rebels Say

The army has also launched airstrikes against rebel groups as aid organizations struggle to reach parts of the country devastated by the earthquake.

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A Symbol of Mandalay’s Rapid Growth Comes Crashing Down in Earthquake

The collapse of the Sky Villa complex in the Myanmar city of Mandalay buried an unknown number of people amid the earthquake on Friday that killed more than 2,700.

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In Myanmar, Earthquake Aftershocks and Airstrikes Terrorize Residents

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its bombing campaign elsewhere in the country.

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Myanmar Earthquake Toll Surpasses 1,600 Dead Amid Search for Survivors

Aid workers delivered the first shipments of help to Myanmar, but will have to cross a country buckled by the disaster and divided by civil war, arms dealers and drug syndicates.

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Volunteer Rescuers in Mandalay Sift Through Earthquake Rubble

Volunteers gathered to help, some coming in from other cities, to do whatever they could in the city near the epicenter of the powerful quake.

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In Myanmar’s Earthquake, Some See Political Omens

In a censored nation that runs on rumor and omens, people in Myanmar wonder whether the latest disaster might be a portent of regime change.

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High Toll Is Feared After Earthquake Batters Myanmar and Thailand

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake near Mandalay, in a country already torn by war, was felt across Southeast Asia, and experts warned there could be tens of thousands dead.

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