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
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.
And even if you do call it Myanmar... What do you call people from that country? Myanmarese? Myanmarians? Myanmarites?
a before and after
an after and before
really it just is.