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The state of human rights in Burma - 2008: A double disaster in the 2007 protests' aftermath
Perhaps the two most significant features of the human rights landscape in Burma during 2008 were the morally bankrupt and blatantly repressive response of the country's military regime to the Cyclone Nargis disaster in May, and the continued detaining, charging and sentencing of persons involved in last September's nationwide protests far beyond the standards of not only international but also domestic law.
World worst response to a natural disaster: The world was stunned when in the weeks after Cyclone Nargis swept through lower Burma on 2 and 3 May 2008, bringing in its wake a tidal wave that submerged vast areas of the delta region and took with it what will ultimately be an untold number of lives, the country's military regime responded in the only way that it knows fit, with further gross repression and violence. The effect of this response was to duplicate the massive tragedy: in the first instance came the natural disaster, which could have been mitigated had the people of Burma been better
The state of human rights in Burma 
