Burma's junta has started evicting destitute families from government-run cyclone relief centres, apparently out of concern the 'tented villages' might become permanent.
Locals and aid workers said there were 39 camps in the immediate vicinity of Kyauktan, 30 kilometres south of Rangoon, being cleared out as part of the wave of evictions.
"It is better that they move to their homes where they are more stable," a government official said at one camp where people were told to clear out by 4:00pm (local time).
"Here, they are relying on donations and it is not stable."
Twenty-one-year-old trishaw driver Kyaw Moe Thu he trudged out of the camp with his five brothers and sisters.
"We knew we had to go at some point but we had hoped for more support," he said.
They had been given 20 bamboo poles and some tarpaulins to help rebuild their lives in the Irrawaddy Delta, where 134,000 people were left dead or missing by Cyclone Nargis on May 2.
Four weeks after the disaster, the United Nations says fewer than one in two of the 2.4 million people affected by the cyclone have received any form of help from either the Government, or international or local aid groups.
The junta has also lashed out at foreign aid donors, saying cyclone victims did not need supplies of "chocolate bars" and could instead survive by eating frogs and fish.
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