Burma crisis a 'tragedy'
Updated on 09 May 2008
A senior government official calls the humanitarian crisis in Burma a "tragedy", as the military regime continues to bar almost all international aid from the country.
'It's more than frustrating, it's a tragedy", he said.
Sixteen doctors were turned away at the Bangladeshi border yesterday, visas are not being issued and questions are being asked about when this natural disaster will be re-defined as genocide.
Diseases such as dysentery and cholera are set to spread with no hope of treatment getting in.
The crisis has entered its sixth day following cyclone Nargis on Saturday, which is estimated to have killed over a hundred thousand people.
