Pictures (2): Burma's cyclone disaster

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A statue of Buddha stands among the rubbles in Bogalay

Myanmar monks clean up debris outside the damaged Aung Zey Yong Pagoda and monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. (AP Photo)

People left homeless following last weekend’s devastating cyclone take shelter in a monastery in Kaw Hmu village, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The U.N.’s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has landed in Myanmar after the military regime gave clearance to send relief material for cyclone victims. (AP Photo)

A small temple is seen submerged in a flooded rice field near a house destroyed by last weekend’s devastating cyclone near Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. The U.N.’s World Food Program says its first flight carrying aid has landed in Myanmar after the military regime gave clearance to send relief material to cyclone victims. (AP Photo)

In this Burma News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, May 8, 2008, relief supplies for Cyclone survivors are unloaded from a helicopter in a village in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar. International relief aid from Japan, Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand, India and Singapore has been poured in Myanmar till Wednesday for the country’s storm victims, said Myanmar’s state radio according to Xinhua. (AP Photo/Burma News Agency via Xinhua News Agency)

In this Burma News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, May 8, 2008, Cyclone survivors wave to a helicopter carrying relief goods in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta, Myanmar. International relief aid from Japan, Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand, India and Singapore has been poured in Myanmar till Wednesday for the country’s storm victims, said Myanmar’s state radio according to Xinhua. (AP Photo/Burma News Agency via Xinhua News Agency)

In this Burma News Agency photo taken on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 and released by China’s Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, May 8, 2008, relief supplies from Bangladesh are unloaded at an airport in Yangon, Myanmar. More international relief aid from Japan, Bangladesh, Laos, China, Thailand, India and Singapore poured in Myanmar Wednesday for the country’s storm victims, Myanmar’s state radio said according to Xinhua. (AP Photo/Burma News Agency via Xinhua News Agency)

A mangrove forest in the Sunderbans in India, that is under threat from rising sea levels. The destruction of mangrove forests that served as a buffer from the sea is partly to blame for the massive death toll from a cyclone in Myanmar, the head of the ASEAN regional bloc has said.
Photograph by : AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury

Source: http://gbcghana.com/news/20053detail.html

An activist dressed as a “vulture” to liken military junta in Myanmar allegedly preying on dying population, stage a picket at Myanmar Embassy at the financial district of Makati city, east of Manila, Friday May 9, 2008 to urge Myanmar’s military junta to postpone the May 10 National Referendum following Saturday’s devastating cyclone. The protesters also urge the junta to allow urgently needed humanitarian aid for the victims of the devastating cyclone that also killed tens of thousands of people. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

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Flooded villages are seen in this aerial view near an airport in Yangon

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Cyclone Nargis uprooted trees and downed power lines in Yangon

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Thousands were killed when cyclone Nargis tore through Burma

Aid agencies are scrambling to mount a massive relief effort after military rulers in Burma said 22,464 people had been killed and a further 41,000 were missing feared dead after the weekend cyclone

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With the number of dead or missing growing by the hour a huge humanitarian crisis is looming with hundreds of thousands left homeless and without drinking water (Picture: REUTERS)

The normally isolationist dictatorship issued a rare appeal for international assistance (Picture: REUTERS)

The foreign minister asked Western diplomats for tents, medicine and water purification equipment. “We will welcome help … from other countries, because our people are in difficulty,” he said

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Satellite images from US space agency NASA showed virtually the entire coastal plain of the country, one of the poorest nations on the planet, under water

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Gordon Brown pledged that Britain would do everything it could to ease the suffering in the disaster-hit state (Picture: AP)

The cyclone, which flattened thousands of buildings, ripped power lines, uprooted trees on key roads and disrupted water supplies, came days ahead of Saturday’s controversial referendum on a constitution which critics say will entrench military rule. (Picture: AP)

The junta has insisted that it would press ahead with the vote, but many in Rangoon said that they had other priorities (Picture: AP)

Burmese state television said five regions with a combined population of 24 million people had been declared disaster zones (Picture: AP)

Aid sent by the Thai government has begun arriving in the worst affected areas (Picture: AP)

While the Red Cross has managed to distribute water purification tablets and mosquito nets, Save the Children estimated yesterday that more than 50,000 are without shelter in three towns in the Rangoon region alone – Picture: REUTERS

The devastation represents Asia’s worst natural disaster since the earthquake that killed more than 70,000 in Pakistan in 2005 (Picture: REUTERS)

26. Myanmar residents walk past houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday May 9, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar’s military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was “unprecedented” in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo)

A Myanmar resident examines houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday May 9, 2008. The U.N. blasted Myanmar’s military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was “unprecedented” in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo)

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