Tsunami Update: Be Prepared for the Burma Numbers
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As mind-numbing as the ever-escalating casualty count has already been, people of good will are going to have to prepare themselves for the little-reported fact that the military dictatorship of Burma (aka Myanmar) is refusing to release accurate statistics and is stubbornly insisting that the death toll is only 90 -- not 90 thousand, but 90 people.
If we can ever get the real numbers, they will be likely horrific -- in a context where "horrific" is already an understatement.
UPDATE: Welcome Economics With a Face readers. The situation regarding Burma has not changed much -- Australia is leading the calls for greater openness from Burma while the U.N. says "no big deal." Go figure. Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation has ranked Burma the second least free nation, behind only North Korea. Reason also weighs in.
If we can ever get the real numbers, they will be likely horrific -- in a context where "horrific" is already an understatement.
UPDATE: Welcome Economics With a Face readers. The situation regarding Burma has not changed much -- Australia is leading the calls for greater openness from Burma while the U.N. says "no big deal." Go figure. Meanwhile, the Heritage Foundation has ranked Burma the second least free nation, behind only North Korea. Reason also weighs in.
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