Cyclone batters Myanmar's main city Yangon - 04 May 2008

Al Jazeera's Lucy Keating reports on the powerful cyclone that has slammed into Myanmar, killing several people and causing widespread damage.

Winds of up to 190-kilometres per hour have flattened buildings and power lines.

State media have confirmed four deaths so far in the country's biggest city, Yangon.

However the worst hit area has been the Irrawady Delta - reports from the villages there say half of the buildings have been damaged or destroyed.

The Government has named five regions as disaster zones - including Yangon and the Irrawady Delta.

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[edudelvi]

Why are you going to beg for help??? you just invade and destroy other countries to take the oil, wasting money and killing your own people without mercy, we may be a third world country to you but USA won't last too long. Go buy some dope, stupid fuck, and take a look at yourself, and you can kiss Bush ass too, you forgot about the twin towers already, and all the supports the rest of the world gave you, it's not about money, you spoiled brat, it's about caring, and you can't offer love.

[neolithic9]

as a bangladeshi living close to myanmar border i have great love and respect for its people.

in these time of need, all country shud help

the good people of myanmar.

may allah blesss them

[TheGothiclism]

Than Shwe comment in youtube ROFL. come on guys...stop acting like a kids spammin around. dun let their mistakes became ours. we r searching for peace, not war. the more we dun act violent, their true faces will revealed.

[seniorthanshwe]

Tomorrow I will jail Aung San Suu Kyi for the sake of my family. Because if I release her , she will be threatening my family peace & quiet life and throne.

I don't want to do this but I have to listen my beloved wife Daw Kyaing Kyaing and my daughters.

Actually I am saving her life otherwise my family will kill her.

Therefore please understand the situation and forgive me.

Senior General Than Shwe

Military Chief

Nay Pyi Daw

[tayza007]

How Than Shwe family and his family should be punished?

Than Shwe grandsons should be killed by hanging them or cut their throat in front of their family.

Then Daw Kyaing Kyaing should be thrown from the top of Traders Hotels.

Then the rest of the family should be killed one by one by cutting their head.

Lastly, Than Shwe should be chopped every single part of him and let them give to dogs in front of him. He must be watched dogs are eating his body and balls.

Pls discuss!

[loveuyone]

To ZaoLuYang,

[loveuyone]

u r 26 years old (Packet of shit) brainless guy...is this the way how u talk to innocent people??? shame on u man!! just know how to say like stupid words.. never think about how's other feel..

[yalna0404]

lol...none of you dumb-shits can spell.

[hlwanmoe1981]

Look at the fucking thugs faces of the green uniforms, dick faces! Discussing how they gonna steal Aids from UN and other countries. Sure, they'll not gonna aid the people of Burma. They're saying each other, "I don't know either!". or trying to discuss how to kill the survivors, by bullets or bayonets. 'Cause they don't want to help/aid. Fuck Faces of fucking thugs with fucking green uniforms.

[MINRAZA]

Now there is considerable chinese( mainlanders) population in central Burma like Mandalay.

When they helping bandits,

1. They can prove that they are not only country to kill Buddhist monks, but bandit Than Shwe and associates.

2. Such a prolong political catastrophe, no one will notice their mainlandpigs influencing not only politically, but also by population. Then these fucking generals concede Burma to China, by support of south east asia associates.