05.09.08
Burma blog
Burma: Dispatches From a Nightmare
In the wake of the devastation left by Cyclone Nargis in Burma, “huge sections of the Irrawaddy Delta lie cut off from the outside world,” writes Paul Danahar for the BBC in Southern Burma. “Monks are leading the cleaning-up process in the residential areas,” says one blogger in Rangoon. “No electricity means no water; a real crisis, and people don’t know whether to pray for rain (no roofs) or not for water.”