Wednesday, April 29, 2009

"Same as it ever was" - Talking Heads

Myanmar villagers still struggle year after storm
The Associated Press Wednesday, April 29, 2009; 3:15 AM

OAK-KYIUT, Myanmar -- The boat's owner points to a palm-covered bend in the river where dozens of bamboo huts perched on spindly stilts _ until Cyclone Nargis devastated this remote region a year ago.
"There were many, many bodies," Tin Maung Thein, 57, says through an interpreter, gesturing toward a lush expanse of green where bloated corpses once gently nudged the high tide mark.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042900394.html

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