Website review: Burmese junta ignored cyclone warni...
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avmoor discovered 4 months ago- Can someone provide some sane reasons for ignoring an approaching cyclone? Even one would help. From the page: "Burma's horror could have been avoided if the country's paranoid military rulers had listened to the warnings they had been given well before the approach of Cyclone Nargis. The Thailand-based Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), set up after the 2004 tsunami, issued warnings of the storm's approach more than a week ago and India's Meteorological Department, which had been monitoring the storm since the end of April, also warned the generals their country was in danger. A full 48 hours before the storm crashed ashore, Burmese officials were provided with computer-generated plots of the storm's likely route that accurately predicted its landfall, trajectory and strength. Yet nothing was done to warn or to evacuate people from the path of a cyclone packing winds of 200 kilometres an hour with a three-metre-high storm surge. Even as traumatized Burmese began counting thousands of dead Sunday morning, the state-controlled television aired its regular lineup of soap operas. . . . Burmese radio and television carried vague warnings, with little information about the approaching storm, and offered no instructions on how people should cope when it struck. But Indian officials say they had been monitoring the cyclone since it was first detected as a tropical depression in the Bay of Bengal by the U.S. Navy's Joint Typhoon Warning Center on April 26."
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