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After the demonstrations by Buddhist monks against Burma's military dictatorship in September and October 2007, the West is turning its attention back to Burma, in the wake of an appalling natural disaster. In early May 2008, Cyclone Nargis may have claimed more than 60,000 lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
The official provisional death toll from Cyclone Nargis, which hit Burma on May 2, 2008, is over 22,000, with 42,000 missing. Millions more have been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have visited many countries in Southeast Asia, but I have never been to Burma, renamed Myanmar by the ruling military. The country borders Thailand, but you can only enter by air, landing in Rangoon, the capital. The regime has closed the borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n About twelve years ago, I was an intern at Stock. I worked on a book of interviews, conducted by an American Buddhist, Alan Clements<\/a>, with Aung San Suu Kyi<\/a>. The book was published in 1996 (it has been reissued under the title My Burma<\/em> last March, published by Hachette, in the Pluriel collection). The Burmese opponent had received the Nobel Peace Prize five years earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At that time, I discovered the struggle of this courageous woman and the tragedy of the Burmese people. Unfortunately, the situation has not changed much since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Below, some interesting links, to better understand what is happening in Burma: After the demonstrations by Buddhist monks against Burma's military dictatorship in September and October 2007, the West is turning its attention back to Burma, in the wake of an appalling natural disaster. In early May 2008, Cyclone Nargis may have claimed more than 60,000 lives.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[25,59,98],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entre-deux-voyages","tag-ici","tag-birmanie","tag-actu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02.jpg?wsr",450,327,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02-390x283.jpg?wsr",390,283,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02.jpg?wsr",450,327,false],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/birmanie02.jpg?wsr",450,327,false],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"8 May 2008","get_modified_date":"1 September 2025","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":8,"name":"Entre deux voyages","slug":"entre-deux-voyages","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":8,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Eh oui ! On peut aussi s'\u00e9vader de chez soi, avant et apr\u00e8s un voyage...","parent":0,"count":83,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1"}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":25,"name":"Ici","slug":"ici","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":25,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":72,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":59,"name":"Birmanie","slug":"birmanie","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":59,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"},{"term_id":98,"name":"Actu","slug":"actu","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":103,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":13,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0"}]},"author_name":"Corinne Bourbeillon","author_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/author\/cbourbeillon\/","author_email":"corinne.pbda@gmail.com","author_website":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/corinne-bourbeillon\/","author_description":"Journaliste, plongeuse et\u00a0photographe sous-marine, Corinne adore faire des bulles avec les\u00a0poissons\u00a0! La beaut\u00e9 du monde et\u00a0de\u00a0l'oc\u00e9an lui ont inspir\u00e9 ce blog. \r\n\r\nEn savoir plus<\/a>","author_facebook":"","author_twitter":"","author_instagram":"","author_role":["administrator"],"author_firstname":"Corinne","author_lastname":"Bourbeillon","user_login":"cbourbeillon","author_avatar":"
<\/a>Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
" The Irrawaddy<\/a> - the Burmese magazine in exile
" Burma, my heart bleeds<\/a> - a blog rich in links and infos
" Burma, dreams under surveillance<\/a> - a project and a book published by Autrement
" Info-Burma<\/a> - French association
" Actions Burma<\/a> - Belgian association<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","author_avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7542464a0f3c6a1baf2af7786ad5764b10f9d60908fb1278a969310cf533aedd?s=96&d=identicon&r=g","comment_count":4,"post_likes":0,"post_views":0},"tpgb_post_category":{"category":"Entre deux voyages<\/a> ","post_tag":"Ici<\/a> Birmanie<\/a> Actu<\/a> "},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51728,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/51728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}