'Like the Apocalypse': A Burmese Tragedy - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 May 08
  

  manolitovaldes pizzini

  The worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami has hit Burma, home to a despotic military regime. Despite a storm that locals claimed was "like the apocalypse," the junta sought to complicate the arrival of any foreign aid out of mistrust of the West.

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  • The disaster was unstoppable, and it was a more powerful natural disaster than crisis-shaken Burma had ever experienced.

     

    From last Saturday until the middle of this week, the number of victims grew relentlessly, hour after hour, day after day. At first there was talk of a few hundred dead, then of the fear that the initial death toll could possibly double.

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  manolitovaldes pizzini on 2008-05-11
  La revista alemana Die Spiegel nos trae un reportaje digital extenso sobre la tragedia en Birmania. Una dimensión de la exposición al riesgo y la vulnerabilidad de esas comunidades, lo es lo cerrado de su sistema político dirigidos por una dictadura militar que ante la tragedia se vuelve indolente e indecente. El reportaje incluye imágenes y mapas interactivos que permiten ver la geografía del evento.

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