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ThomasC
09 May 2008, 05:37 PM
This shit is so sad.

Escaping cyclone-ravaged Myanmar (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/09/rivers.btsc/index.html)
frizgolf
09 May 2008, 06:21 PM
Those before and after pictures are shocking.
laurenmarie
09 May 2008, 07:01 PM
My heart aches every time they mention this on the news. (radio) With no government infrastructure to deal with this, the disaster is just growing larger day by day.The xenophobic leaders don't help. :(
Artpunchehorse
13 May 2008, 12:10 PM
Is it bad I have NEVER heard of that place before. Is it a country?
dannyboy
13 May 2008, 12:14 PM
Is it bad I have NEVER heard of that place before. Is it a country?

It's the nation formerly known as Burma.
DaHood
13 May 2008, 12:22 PM
It's been Myanmar for nearly 20 years yet it seems like most people on this side of the ocean never knew that.
Breeze
13 May 2008, 12:56 PM
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9710/21/stars.series/ink.ohurley.jpg
"You may know it as Myanmar... but it will always be Burma to me."
velouria
13 May 2008, 12:56 PM
It seems to still be known as Burma by anyone who doesn't recognize the current military goverment. I have a friend who was traveling there for a month a few years back, and to him and the people he met along the way, it's always Burma.
Duemellon
13 May 2008, 01:05 PM
Now it makes sense when I went to get a burmese python at the petstore but they said they were all out & weren't expecting any soon.
ahart2001
13 May 2008, 01:22 PM
Now it makes sense when I went to get a burmese python at the petstore but they said they were all out & weren't expecting any soon.

What were u planning to do with that python? It wouldn't be anything diabolical now, would it?
epeolatry
13 May 2008, 03:22 PM
It seems to still be known as Burma by anyone who doesn't recognize the current military goverment.

that's what i was gonna say.

this is very sad. i feel very fortunate to live in a part of the world where we get tons of snow and not tons of cyclones/tsunamis/etc...
velouria
13 May 2008, 03:41 PM
this is very sad. i feel very fortunate to live in a part of the world where we get tons of snow and not tons of cyclones/tsunamis/etc...

I hope my friend doesn't mind me posting this here, but these photos he took of Burma in 2004 are breathtaking and make the whole situation even sadder to me:

Burma (http://look.autonia.com/burma/index.html)