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Bloated corpses floating in putrid water, wastelands of ruined houses, fist fights over dwindling survival supplies.
As the full tragedy of secretive Burma's damage from Cyclone Nargis filters through to the West - with death estimates as high as 100,000, and some 1.5 million suffering the effects of the storm - anger and anxiety are rising among governments and international agencies that the military regime has blocked from delivering desperately needed aid.
"We are outraged," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters at the United Nations yesterday. "It should be a no-brainer to accept the offers made by the international community." …
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