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Burma's Neroes fiddle while the people die

Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University and Free Burma Coalition Maung Zarni on how, in the wake of Burma's cyclone, the country's dictators put their rotten referendum first and their citizens' lives second. He argues the world must intervene

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