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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

  • By KRISTEN GELINEAU Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said "no one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. But in Myanmar, families tell The Associated Press their loved ones have died as a direct result of the aid cuts. In one case, the father of a 2-year-old boy says his son died in May of malnutrition after the family's food rations stopped arriving as a result of the aid cuts. In more than 60 interviews, the AP documented widespread suffering across Myanmar because of the U.S. decision. Children are screaming and crying for food. Health care services have been hobbled. The sick and the starving have wasted away, and people must forage for hours in the jungle each day to find food.