Members of the Telecoms Sans Frontieres (TSF), a charity agency that specializes in providing communication support in disaster struck areas around the world, left Myanmar on Wednesday after being blocked repeatedly from entering the worst affected areas, said officials.
The group said that it's requests for deploying its units in the two most seriously affected areas of Yangon and the Irrawaddy delta were blocked by the country's military regime, leaving it with no option but to return.
TSF arrived in Myanmar following a UNICEF request after Cyclone Nargis struck the south Asian country on 2 May. The charity group finally arrived in the country on 1 June, after a month-long wait to get visas.
However, the group members were help up in the capital city of Rangoon after Burma's military junta refused them permission to deploy in the worst affected areas, said agency officials.
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