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Asia Times: Blowback on Myanmar's cyclone disaster

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Created 05/13/2009 - 00:00

By Brian McCartan

The tragic human cost of last year's Cyclone Nargis has never been in question: the killer storm in Myanmar took the lives of an estimated 146,000 people and left millions more homeless. One year later, however, there are few answers to how the disaster's political legacy will shape the future of military run Myanmar. While some hope the junta's cooperation with foreign aid agencies might signal a move towards openness, others doubt the regime has any intention of changing fundamentally its isolationist and authoritarian ways.

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[1] http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/KE13Ae02.html