The death toll there is estimated to be about 130,000 - now.

Left alone to fend for themselves without food or clean water, people have to face the coming monsoon season without shelter. Reports from the most afflicted Delta region say that nearly all houses have been swept away. Corpses of humans and animals alike are rotting away out in the open, poisoning water and fields. First cases of diarrhoea have been reported. Health care experts fear that the number of victims might double from the lack of help.

As a reminder: The horrible tsunami of 2004 killed approximately 260,000 people around the world. The combination of cyclone and neglect might kill the same number of people in Myanmar alone.