{"id":612,"date":"2008-05-06T08:31:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T08:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2008\/05\/the-victims-of-nargis.html"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:31:45","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T08:31:45","slug":"the-victims-of-nargis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2008\/05\/the-victims-of-nargis.html","title":{"rendered":"The victims of Nargis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gashwin has a post with links to information on the deadly impact of Cyclone Nargis.<\/a>
\nFort Wayne has a substantial Burmese population, so the local paper gets reactions:<\/a>
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monday was a long day for Minerva Gyaw \u2013 the first of what will likely be a long week.
\n\u00a0
\nThe 86-year-old Fort Wayne resident, like many other Burmese in the area, spent most of her day waiting to learn whether her extended family had survived a devastating cyclone.
\nEvery few hours, calls went out.
\nBut the landline telephones, Internet, even cell phones couldn\u2019t connect Gyaw and many of her friends in northeast Indiana with their families in Southeast Asia.
\n\u201cWe\u2019re all concerned,\u201d Gyaw said.
\nGyaw said her relatives live in one of the hardest-hit parts of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Many live in Myanmar\u2019s delta area, the country\u2019s rice-producing region, where towns were reportedly flattened.
\nFort Wayne is home to an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 Burmese.
\nThe silence from Myanmar has been difficult for Gyaw to bear because of her mistrust of Myanmar\u2019s government and any information it provides on the cyclone\u2019s aftermath.
\nsnip<\/em>
\nOn the south end of town Monday, cars crowded a circular drive in front of a house. Dozens of shoes piled outside the screen door.
\nThe television in the Jetavan Vihara Buddist temple on Sylvia Street remained the main source of news for residents inside whose calls to Myanmar had been met with maddening silence.
\nAye Htwe heard his relatives in Yangon had their roof blown away, but that small bit of news is all he\u2019d heard by Monday afternoon. He plans to try to send them some money via his sister in Thailand.
\n\u201cThey have a lot of trouble right now,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A report from AsiaNews<\/a>
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