News-starved Burmese snap up grim cyclone videos
May 17, 2008
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News-starved Burmese snap up grim cyclone videos
Reuters UK - May 17, 2008
YANGON (Reuters) - With state TV only showing footage of generals handing out food at model tented villages, people in Myanmar are snapping up bootleg video discs of bloated corpses, desperate refugees and villages ravaged by Cyclone Nargis.
"Myanmar television is useless," said one Yangon businessman who bought the underground VCDs because he wanted to see the raw, uncensored version of the storm that killed his brother in Labutta, one of the hardest-hit towns in the Irrawaddy delta.
first phase of emergency relief. We are going into the second phase, the rebuilding stage," he said.
Myanmar death toll soars
International Herald Tribune - May 17, 2008
By Aung Hla Tun Reuters YANGON: Myanmar's junta took diplomats on a tour of the storm-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Saturday as its toll of dead and missing
Photos
Voices From the Heart of Myanmar
ABC News - May 15, 2008
Left: Burmese boys hold plastic tarpaulin given by the Seattle-based charity, World Concern. Right: A woman looks at a destroyed telephone booth in Yangon,
Sneaking Cyclone News Out of Myanmar to Facebook
ABC News - May 14, 2008
By KRISTINA WONG A half-clothed baby's body entangled in brush. Rows of lifeless children lying on the muddy ground, the face of one of them blue.
Videos
A Look At Myanmar's Misery (CBS)
"Only On The Web": A journalist--unidentified for his safety--recounts the horrors he witnessed in cyclone-stricken Myanmar, where the ruling junta has barred relief
Misery of Myanmar Storm Survivors
Survivors of Cyclone Nargis wait for aid a week after the massive storm that hit Myanmar.

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