Myanmar Death Toll Worse Than Tsunami
The news out of Myanmar keeps getting worse:
Sources said 200,000 people were already dead or dying.
But the figure could rise to half a million through disease and hunger if the nation’s hardline army rulers continue to block aid for the devastated lowlands of the Irrawaddy Delta. That would dwarf the 230,000 deaths across South East Asia in the 2004 catastrophe.
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“The bodies need to be collected and burnt as soon as possible or disease will claim many more lives. But the government has organised nothing and its 400,000 soldiers are doing nothing while undistributed aid piles up.
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