PrairiePundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Sunday Times: One April day in 1991 the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 139,000, with millions homeless, a huge aid effort swung into action. Seven thousand American troops, diverted on their way home from the Gulf, boosted the relief effort. The American amphibious...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/05/2008
One April day in 1991 the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 139,000, with millions homeless, a huge aid effort swung into action.
Don't trip up (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
The crisis in Burma looks likely to worsen as both Oxfam and the Foreign Office are revising their estimates of the potential death toll upwards. Public health concerns have led Oxfam to claim up to 1.5 million could die as a result of the cyclone, while David Miliband said he "would be amazed if there hadn't been about 100,000 who had died already" and claimed "hundreds of thousands more are at risk"....
