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Article: VOA NEWS: BURMA HOLDS CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM DESPITE CYCLONE DISASTER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- May 10, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By Luis Ramirez
Burma's military government has gone ahead with a constitutional referendum as its people wait for assistance in the wake of a cyclone disaster a week ago that left at least 62,000 people dead or missing. Critics have labeled the referendum a sham. VOA's Luis Ramirez reports from our Southeast Asia Bureau in Bangkok.
The referendum got under way only in some parts of the country Saturday. Earlier this week, the government postponed the voting until May 24 in areas that were hardest hit by the cyclone.
With diplomats and aid agencies estimating more than one-million people severely affected by the storm and surge, analysts ...
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