20,000+ Dead in Burma

[Pain]

More than 10,000 people were killed in a devastating cyclone that hit western Burma on Saturday, Foreign Minister Nyan Win has said on state TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7384041.stm

update - http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/myanmar.cyclone/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

 

[Braaq]

Wow, that is awful
It is clear that General Than Shwe does not give proper warning to his people. The guy doesn't even seem to care enough to grant access by teams of rescue workers from the US. It is definitely a tragedy.

 

[Tech]

The United States offered to increase aid offered if Burma agreed to allow a US team access to assess the situation.

"assess the situation"

Thousands of survivors of Cyclone Nargis are lacking shelter, drinking water, power and communications.

Cyclone Nargis sounds like the name of a rapper.

 

[Fatality]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24478247

Toll is now 22,000+, over 41,000 missing and over a fucking million homeless. God bless them!

 

[Hypocrisy86]

This is a tragic blow to our world.

 

[Zigurd]

That`s no fucking cyclone.

 

[Braaq]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24478247

Toll is now 22,000+, over 41,000 missing and over a fucking million homeless. God bless them!

If there is a God, would that not have been "God's blessing"