Has anyone noticed the curious death toll reported from Burma (now Myanmar?)? Closer to the epicenter than Thailand with a longer exposed coastline it only reports 34 casualties. A military regime governs there. It reminds me of the death toll reports from behind the Iron Curtain before 1989. Somehow countries with no free press always seem to be exempt from natural and human made catastrophes.

The number of German deaths by the tsunami will be in the hundreds.

Wolfgang