Cyclone Nargis Wiped Out an Entire Burmese Village

By Alex in Pictures, Travel on May 10, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Image: Geoeye/CRISP-Singapore, Caption by Holli Riebeek.

The two images, taken by the Ikonos satellite, showed how a village in Burma (Myanmar) was completely wiped out by the Cyclone Nargis:

This tiny village was located about 27 kilometers (16 miles) south of Yangon, the country’s largest city. In the lower image, taken on May 3, 2002, trees and buildings line a single street, which is surrounded by fields of crops, probably rice. After the disaster, the trees and buildings are completely gone, replaced by messy piles of rubble.

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Magicmike
May 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
The name of the country is Myanmar. If you want to be picky, the Union of Myanmar.

The language is Burmese.

I know Bush insists on calling it Burma to score a point off them, but if they call themselves Myanmar, the least we can do is respect that.

Why the President of the USA is trying to scope points off a small Southeast Asian country I will leave as an exercise to the reader.
L
May 10th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
According to Wikipedia, some Western governments don’t recognize the military government… and therefore continue to use “Burma”.

And even if you do call it Myanmar… What do you call people from that country? Myanmarese? Myanmarians? Myanmarites?
Diogenes doo doo
May 10th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
somewhere between birds and god is the satellite image
a before and after
an after and before
really it just is.
TT
May 10th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
At least it wasn’t destroyed by Nukes.
jesse
May 11th, 2008 at 2:08 am
The military junta that runs the place calls it Myanmar. The majority of the residents call it Burma.

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