[Strategerist]

Hopefully this weakens the junta somehow so some good can come of it.

[clee1]

There is only one cure for totalitarian rule: acute lead poisoning.

[Walmartian]

Fox is now reporting 10,000 dead.

[Sax]

I just read that the storm was forecasted to turn later and make landfall several hundred miles to the north through gradual eastward trending, but instead it made it’s easterly turn harder and earlier, bringing it ashore right around Burma’s most populated city, Yangon, and nearby the most populated region, the Ayeyarwady River Valley.

[goodnesswins]

Aren’t we all glad we live in the USA?

[janetjanet998]

Wow..this is getting worse by the hour

http://www.stormreports.org

[RightWhale]

http://www.terradaily.com/2007/080505143749.cvaiun7l.html

BANGKOK, May 5 (AFP) May 05, 2008

A Myanmar rights watchdog said Monday that 36 people died when security forces opened fire to quell a riot inside the nation’s most notorious prison as a cyclone hit at the weekend.

When Tropical Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, the winds ripped off many of the zinc roofs at the Insein prison outside Yangon, the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners said in a statement.

Guards forced about 1,000 prisoners to weather the storm inside a prison hall. When some inmates started a fire to keep warm, others panicked and a riot broke out, the group said.

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Sounds like the riot was quelled