Bangkok - In nordwestburmesischen Chin state endangers a rat plague the already precarious food security. The rats feed on increase of fruit and seed of flowering bamboo every 50 years, at a dizzying pace and infested fields and warehouses, once they run out of bamboo. According to estimates by experts, is to stop the plague two to three years.
are particularly affected places Tonzang, Tiddim, Htantlang, Madupi, Paletwa and Chin-Capital Hakha. The World Food Programme (WFP) has responded in January with the program 'food plus cash for work' on the emergency. The project will run until June and will help about 6,000 households.
suffer a report by the Canadian-based Chin Human Rights Organisation last July in the state on the Myanmar border of India and Bangladesh, 100,000 people or 20 percent of the population from food shortage. Earlier rat infestations in the region have led to great hunger problems.
The international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns of the current situation. In a report by the end of January, it notes that in the Chin state 70 percent of the population of 500,000 people living below the poverty line.
One of the big problems is the isolation of the state. Only 1700 km road is passable and parts of the South from the North not available. In addition, the almost 14,000-square-kilometer area is not practical to the power supply or a reliable communication system be closed. - IPS Europe (05/02/2009)
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