Myanmar - Inglese

No nets, no rice, no hope. And now Burma's cyclone survivors face a life of debt

[Times - World]

When a cyclone kills 130,000 people in a few hours, the world recognises a catastrophe, but in the history of a woman such as Daw Aye it was just one low point in a lifetime of misfortune. There was the disaster of her fisherman son, drowned at sea in a storm that was never noticed outside Burma. There was the disaster of widowhood: her husband died six years ago of an illness to which Daw Aye cannot even put a name.