May 11, 2008
Stifled by regime, Myanmar cyclone victims suffer in silence
“But even those are running out.”
Apart from the sound of children crying, the town of Labutta is strangely silent.
Traumatized by the ordeal of surviving Cyclone Nargis, few people have anything to say. But it is also fear bred by 46 years of repression by military regimes that keeps them quiet.
Although overwhelmed by the worst disaster in Myanmar's recent history, the junta has turned down foreign help and insists on using its ragtag infrastructure and poorly equipped military to conduct a grossly mismanaged relief operation for some 2 million people in distress. Read more
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