Myanmar believes 13,000 dead, missing from cyclone
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"Myanmar's military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah state in southeast Asia."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/wl_nm/myanmar_dcn
http://www.worldvision.org/news.nsf/news/myanmar-cyclone-20080505?open&lid=20225&lpos=emg_txt_LearnMore
Not sure yet what is the best way to help but here is the link for Oxfam: http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Donate through NGOs. They are already on the ground.
World Vision, Red Cross, Save the Children, World Food Program. Dedicate your funds to Myanmar Cyclone.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3879492.ece
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1143691.ece
Cyclone_Nargis on Wikipedia.
Burma: The river of death
As Burma's junta spurns the world's offers of aid, Andrew Buncombe finds a landscape flooded with corpses – and a people begging for help
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/the-river-of-death-825404.html?r=RSS
Aid trickles into Burma, but toll 'could reach 1 million if disease set in'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3911696.ece
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