Description

A seriously documented account of living inside Burma in the weeks following a devastating Cyclone Nargis and an evaluation of the raw totalitarian regime that sticks to strength within the ruined country. On May 2, 2008, a massive tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, causing unknown damage and making the official cost of 138,300 absent and dead. In the times that followed, the absolute size of the catastrophe became obvious as data started initially to leak out of the hard-hit delta region. However the Burmese regime, within an unfathomable choice of near-genocidal proportions, blocked global the help of entering the nation and offered little comfort to its suffering populace.