Post Nargis -- More bad news from Burma -- by Kyi May Kaung

In Helsinki I spoke to a Europe based dissident whose family had lived in the Irrawaddy Delta for generations. About salinity, he said farmers told him it is old lands where salt comes in a few minutes and then leaches out, that can recover.

The lands now flooded are new sedimentary lands and salt water has been lying there for weeks.

After my E-W Center talk, I also heard that SPDC is trying to take over the private lands -- whose owners are all either dead, lost or relocated.

That means starvation for years to come, given that state-owned farms have never succeeded in any country.