Myanmar Death Toll May Top 100,000 - Democratic Underground

Dover

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Wed May-07-08 11:00 PM
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Myanmar Death Toll May Top 100,000

Source: CNN

The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday...cont'd

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LABUTTA, Myanmar (AFP) -- An estimated 80,000 people have died in the remote Myanmar district of Labutta since a powerful cyclone struck last weekend, a local military official told AFP on Thursday...cont'd

http://www.axilltv.com/at/news.php?id=4932
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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/news/myanmar.crisis/

Wow...this is HUGE!!!

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Doctor Cynic

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Wed May-07-08 11:14 PM
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1. This is so very depressing.

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uppityperson

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Wed May-07-08 11:44 PM
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2. Like the tsunami, the numbers will grow as info gets in, places get visited.

k&r for the Burmese people.

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Thu May-08-08 12:35 AM
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3. kick

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mopinko

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Thu May-08-08 07:37 AM
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4. the poor will bear the brunt of climate change

like they bear the brunt of everything else.

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Sabriel

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Thu May-08-08 10:05 AM
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5. This is affecting kids more than any other group.

Babies, toddlers, young children...unable to swim or hold on or find food and water.

Kick for its importance.

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Thu May-08-08 12:06 PM
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6. 5,000 sq km of Myanmar still underwater--UN

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20080508-135368/5000-sq-km-of-Myanmar-still-underwater--UN
Agence France-Presse
First Posted 14:08:00 05/08/2008

BANGKOK -- About 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles) of Myanmar's cyclone-hit regions remain underwater, with more than a million people in need of emergency relief, a UN spokesman said Thursday.

"We're talking about 5,000 square kilometers under water," said Richard Horsey, a Bangkok-based spokesman with the United Nation's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

"The bottle neck is getting it out in the delta. That needs boats, helicopters, trucks .... there are upward of one million people in need of help," he added.

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