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...week the government has sent buses to take survivors to larger towns further inland. But many refugees were unwilling to leave their locality for camps where disease can spread quickly. Late at night, deep in the delta, a convoy of 13 buses headed back empty to the town of Maubin. No one had taken the military's offer of shelter. But in the town of Kyaiklat, 12 camps were full, each teeming with around 2,000 refugees. Ma Sein and her four children were holed up in a monastery. The widowed mother lost everything, save the clothes on her family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Death on the Irrawaddy | 5/9/2008 | See Source »

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