Re: Myanmar (formerly Burma)

In article <3vve24d0qe5k7tv6srtb20ea7a68p3gtva@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 QueBarbara <que.barbara.lanc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Sun, 11 May 2008 15:21:30 -0600, Greg Goss <gossg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> >A radio re****t I heard today claimed that the lack of timely arrival
> >of emergency water and other supplies might push the death toll from
> >an expected 80K to well over a million.  
> 
> ::Boggle::  
> Did you add an extra zero there?  Not to imply that 100K is not a
> boggling number.

Oxfam and others are saying there is danger it will rise to 1.5 million 
because the fascists who run the country are refusing to let most of the 
available aid come in. There is no potable water in many places and the  
elderly, the very young and the ill are already dying. It's a matter of 
not very much time until things like dysentery and cholera accelerate 
the pace.

-- 
bill
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