A cyclone approaches Burma. Now. Currently gathering strength in the northern Indian Ocean it approaches the Bay of Bengal heading for Bangladesh and northwestern Burma, where hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya, displaced by recent ethnic violence, are living in makeshift tents in low-lying areas. This time, the government and the UN relief agencies are making an attempt to move people out of the way, no easy task, perhaps an impossible task. Five years ago, another cyclone, another time, it was a different story entirely. Continue reading →