Burma tragedy:New York Times reports
More pictures of the Burma tragedy from the New York Times
An article on the situation is here, but this is only an extract, please read the entire piece:
The water has not receded fully, and few aid trucks have made it here. Only one helicopter, from the Myanmar military, was spotted all Friday, dropping off packages of instant noodles around a devastated delta that needs much more. Win Kyi, a mother looking for a lost son, was crying, her body shaking and her arms outstretched for food, money, water — anything.
“I have nothing,” she said, shuffling in a state of shock. “Everything is gone.
Six days after a cyclone churned through the coastal plain of Myanmar, it was clear that the damage was great and that little aid had made it to the thousands of Burmese villagers along the sea south of the largest city, Yangon. The smell of rot and death was in the air here, part of a single district where the military government says 10,000 people died.
The New York Times has 2 video pieces:
The Aid Crisis, and
these pieces clearly show how the junta have hi-jacked some of the limited aid received to date. The reports tell also of the junta’s persistence with a rigged referendum to legitimise their despotic regime.
Half the population of 53 million are affected.
A tragedy.
Good job