Burmese junta 'created catastrophe'

Burma's military government faces growing international pressure to stop blocking foreign aid as Gordon Brown accused the regime of "inhuman" treatment of the survivors of Cyclone Nargis.

The Prime Minister said the natural disaster that struck the south-east Asian nation a fortnight ago was becoming a "man-made catastrophe" because of the ruling junta's failings.

Authorities in Burma put the death toll from the cyclone at 78,000 with a further 56,000 people missing.

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