NOTHING summed up the Burmese military dictatorship’s neglect of its people as hauntingly as the scenes of desperation last week in Bogale, a southern town in the Irrawaddy delta.
Two weeks after Cyclone Nargis devastated much of the region, killing tens of thousands, people in dire need of food, drinking water and medicine were huddled in schools, temples and makeshift shelters barely clinging to survival amid heavy tropical downpours.
ing food supplies organised by The Sunday Times, hundreds of people crowded around, some with hands outstretched pleading for help, some hammering with their fists on the sides driven nearly mad by hunger and thirst.

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THE French envoy to the United Nations has said Burma risks committing "crimes against humanity" in its failure to let in foreign aid for cyclone victims.
Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert appealed for the UN "to finally react strongly, very strongly" to the Burma military regime's defiance, two weeks after Cyclone Nargis. He warned: "We are moving slowly from a situation of not helping people in danger to a real risk of crimes against humanity, and we cannot accept that.
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Burma monks remove a roof damaged by Cyclone Nargis on the outskirt of Rangoon, Burma.
Burma monks remove a roof damaged by Cyclone Nargis on the outskirt of Rangoon, Burma.
oreign land to her until Cyclone Nargis and its horrific aftermath. On Thursday, Chin Chin and her friends bought rice and water, loaded it on a truck, and drove deep into the delta. She was shocked by what she saw: roads lined with hundreds of cold and hungry villagers, disregarded by their own government, who had walked for an hour from their broken villages to beg from passing motorists.

AP The official death toll nearly doubled to 78000 from the killer cyclone as heavy rains Friday lashed much of the area stricken by the windstorm two weeks

France's ambassador to the UN has accused Burma's government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity by not accepting foreign aid.
Jean-Maurice Ripert made the comment during a General Assembly session, after Burma's UN ambassador accused France of sending a warship to region.
against humanity".