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Burma's military government has hit out at foreign aid donors, saying cyclone victims don't need "chocolate bars" and can survive by eating frogs and fish.
The state newspaper has condemned donors for demanding full access to the worst-hit areas as a precondition for distributing aid money.
The government has also started to evict destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centres.
The United Nations, Terje Skavdal, says the UN has asked Burma to keep the settlements open.
"We do not endorse premature return to areas where there are no services," he said.
"People need to be assisted in their settlements and satisfactory conditions need to be created before they return to their place of origin.
"Any forced or coerced movement of people is simply unacceptable."
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