Win’s victory spent the last day blocked on social networks, trying to find out if his family in Mandalay, Myanmar, survived Friday’s strong earthquake while distracted at the Taiwan restaurant where he works.
“We spoke last night, but today nothing. I can’t contact. I am so afraid for them,” said Win, one of the approximately 50,000 bells estimated at Taiwan on Saturday in Reuters at the Little Myanmar restaurant in New Taipe, the neighbor of the capital, Taipei.
The second largest city in Myanmar, Mandalay, near the epicenter of the 7.7 magnitude earthquake, has a large Chinese ethnic population, many of which have ties with Taiwan, whose government has offered to send rescue teams.
Taiwan’s foreign ministry said he had not yet received a response to this offer.
Ye Yu Nai, sitting in a café of Little Myanmar, was looking for Mandalay’s latest news, where her sister lives.
“I know their house is fine because it was built recently, but the road is very damaged,” he said.
The Mianmar community of Taiwan has its history linked to the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when many of the defeated soldiers of the Republic of China fled from what was then called Burma before being transferred to Taiwan.
Others have come more recently, running away from repression and anti-cynin sensation.
Another resident of Taiwan’s “Little Myanmar”, who asked to be identified only by the surname Huang, said that the precarious situation of Myanmar, affected by civil conflicts, is his greatest concern.
“I think nobody will come to save them,” he said about his relatives who are still in Mandalay.
Source: Terra
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