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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...picked up kindling scraps, he barely glanced at a pair of bloated bodies splayed on the riverbank. Death is so pervasive in the delta now, what are two more corpses? Like hundreds of villages across the delta, almost all the bamboo shacks in Mya Hen's hamlet of Phya Chaung, near the town of Bogalay, collapsed under the force of a massive tidal surge triggered by the storm. No one is sure of the death toll, but if other nearby villages are any indication, at least half of the residents perished. "I was lucky to have survived," Mya Hen says...

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

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