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Been watching this since early this morning......the original death toll had it at just shy of a 1,000. Then it jumped to 3,900. And now 10,000.
Poor sods.
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Burmese storm toll 'tops 10,000'
Been watching this since early this morning......the original death toll had it at just shy of a 1,000. Then it jumped to 3,900. And now 10,000.
Poor sods.
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.... how the hell have i missed this :S
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TAKTAK.co.ukOriginally Posted by razer121
Last I heard it was roughly 4,000.
This is getting worse by the second
Thats what I was thinking.
Not seen or heard any news this weekend.
What IBM said sums it up well though, poor sods.
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22,000 now.
Holy crap. I wish those guys were better at counting, these incremental jumps in the total number of people dead make this even more sickening that it would ordinarily be. How could they have ever believed that there were less than a thousand dead, for it to rise as high as this?
edit ... then you read the article, and they're saying there's 41,000 people reported missing three days after the storm.
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Aid workers are also having problems getting visas to enter the country to help.
Makes you glad to live in a country that doesn't have this sort of weather and has an infrastructure to cope with most things. Poor Burmese have a military junta as a government. Even Gordon Brown isn't that bad! This satellite picture of before and after sums it up.
"Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be." Frank Zappa. ----------- "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." Huang Po.----------- "A drowsy line of wasted time bathes my open mind", - Ride.
and it's still getting worse......
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And the Burmese are so scared of the world that they refuse to let us in...
Did you hear that the Burmese leader paid $2,500,000 for the disaster zone?
He also paid $25,000,000 for his daughter's wedding.
Kids are getting smarter, eventually no amount of parental controls will be able to stop themI guess we're expected to do quite well
The Burmese Military Junta are disgusting at their attitude towards this disaster. Instead of opening up the border to relief workers, they decide to carry on with the elections. How caring can you get
+ their putting more money into the election than the relief effort.....The Burmese Military Junta are disgusting at their attitude towards this disaster. Instead of opening up the border to relief workers, they decide to carry on with the elections. How caring can you get
how can you possibly help a country that doesn't help it's self
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I feel the same way, how do we know that the aid getting into the country is getting to the right people, the Junta has been taking control of the aid, saying they will distribute it. I don't trust them to do this.how can you possibly help a country that doesn't help it's self
yes.. distributed fairly.
Like in animal farm. Everyone's equal. Just some people are more equal than others.
What's the betting that this aid is taken and sold and the fees are then used to finance the building of a new palace or something?
Kids are getting smarter, eventually no amount of parental controls will be able to stop them
Sad to see that despite such a horrific loss of life that the junta still thinks of politics...
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Vote trumps storm for Burma leaders
colleagues husband is Bermese, his immediate family live in the UK but he has cousins etc who were smack in the middle of it... they've had some email correspondance with some pretty graphic detail of what the storm was like.
I'll have a word with her, and if she agrees I may be able post some here... no promises of course.
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