Indian Air Force personnel load relief supply, destined for cyclone affected Myanmar, on board an Indian Air Force AN 32 aircraft in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. International aid began to trickle into Myanmar, but the stricken Irrawaddy delta, the nation's rice bowl where 22,000 people perished and twice as many are missing, remained cut off from the world.
Sailors from the Myanmar Navy (in dark blue) stand in line as Indian sailors from the ship I.N.S. Rana unload releif supplies in Yangon on May 7, 2008. Myanmar's junta came under rare pressure from its Asian neighbours to unlock its borders to international aid as estimates of the death toll from Cyclone Nargis topped 100,000. Echoing calls from the United Nations and Washington, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chief Surin Pitsuwan said Myanmar's regime needed to work with the international aid community "before it's too late."