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US Navy aid ship is still waiting off the coast for the green light form the Burmese government, Photo:AP

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The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, has condemned the military government in Burma as inhuman for not allowing international aid to reach the victims of Cyclone Nargis.

Speaking to the BBC World Service, Mr Brown said a natural disaster had been turned into a man-made catastrophe because of the negligence of the Burmese generals.

The Burmese authorities now say nearly seventy-eight-thousand people were killed by the cyclone - but the British prime minister said the figure could be as high as one-hundred-and-twenty-thousand.


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Aid is still not reaching to hundreds of thousands of cyclone victims, Photo: AFP

The French ambassador to the United Nations, Jean-Maurice Ripert, has accused the Burmese military government of being on the verge of committing a crime against humanity.

France and the United States both have ships carrying large consignments of aid waiting off the Burmese coast, but so far the authorities have refused to allow relief aid arriving by sea directly to the worst affected parts of the Irrawaddy delta

BBC News