Spotlight Analysis

Tragedies brought about by natural disasters sometimes become powerful forces for change in countries marked by political strife. The massive cyclone that hit Burma on May 3 could bring down the repressive military regime that has brutalized and misgoverned one of the world’s poorest countries for almost two decades.
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