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.
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14826
a before and after
an after and before
really it just is.
And even if you do call it Myanmar... What do you call people from that country? Myanmarese? Myanmarians? Myanmarites?
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.