The regime likes to call it Myanmar. But Burma is the country in question.
And with each passing day, the incredible death toll numbers after the big cyclone hit the country just keeps rising.
But who knows for sure? The generals in Myanmar have only one thing in mind: to stay in control of both information about the situation and all the relief efforts.
For the generals, a cyclone is bad P.R.
But It’s disgusting really when the regime is more concerned about its self-preservation than in the preservation of its people.
The death toll is somewhere around 80,000 now. But the sense is the real count could be well over 100,000.
With each day under the regime’s control, we take their numbers and extrapolate the truth.
Surely, the regime must be smart enough to know that if all its people die, there will be nothing left to rule.
But that’s the road the generals are hell-bent on following.
The natural disaster was bad enough. The man made disaster of the aftermath is turning out to be far more devastating.