Don’t expect the cyclone in Burma to have benign political side-effects

Rod Liddle says that there is a natural hope that the interventions of the UN and charities in the disaster-stricken country will open it up. But history does not support such optimism

From magazine issue: 10 May 2008

issue 10 May 2008

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Don’t expect the cyclone in Burma to have benign political side-effects
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In the dark early hours of 12 November 1970 a tropical cyclone swung in from the Indian Ocean and made its way, to devastating effect, up the course of the world’s largest delta — the confluence of two huge river courses, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra — in what was then East Pakistan.