Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Plague of rats devastates villages - They just keep coming


Burma - It is an impressive arsenal - more than 100 weapons, each with a sensitive trigger - but it is a feeble defence against the enemy threatening Mgun Ling and his village in Chin state, deep in the jungles of western Burma. Theirs is an unconventional war: their weapons are traps, their enemy rats. "We can catch hundreds of rats a night, but it makes no difference," said Mgun Ling. "They just keep coming. They've destroyed all our crops, and now we have nothing left to eat."
Four months after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma, another natural disaster has struck the country. This time the ruling military regime has had 50 years to prepare for it, yet it has still proved unable and unwilling to respond. More... Video - Magazine Lane - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Bliss World