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05/07/08

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Categories: Natural Disasters Past & Present

Reports Of 100,000 Dead In Burma

Aid is now getting through to some parts of the Irawaddy Delta region - but still not to the most remote areas.

I was just listening to a radio news report on the situation in Myanmar also known as Burma. The report claimed that the death toll would reach 100,000 since the Cyclone Nargis hit the southern delta region on May 2nd.

Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed, and about a million left homeless by last week's storm.

The time to put all politics aside is now. We in the West must try to help these people.

Reports from the devastated town of Labutta speak of many hungry refugees gathering there, amid the stench of dead bodies.

I know it looks overwhelming, and people really get frustrated sitting in their offices, or at their home computers not knowing how they can help.

I would like to suggest to anyone that can spare even a few dollars please make a donation to the Red Cross just click on the link to read about their efforts in Burma. Why I decided to post up the Red Cross website is because they can and do help. My mother was a DP or Displaced Person, and grew up in a refugee camp. She would not be alive today if people in the West had not opened their hearts, and wallets, and helped organizations like the Red Cross, which she has never forgotten in her 73 years.

I plan to donate to the Red Cross in the memory of my Grandmother who was also a refugee, and I hope other will consider making a donation no matter what the amount as well.

Photos Courtesy BBC

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