Over 3,700 Burmese Fishermen Still Missing, Presumed Dead

[stockholmer]

http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=21012

"Of the 7,000 fishermen that were swept into the Andaman Sea during a tropical storm on March 14-16, a total of 3,374 have now been rescued, according to a source close to the Myanmar Marine Fishing Association (MMFA).

The remaining 3,700 are still missing. Nearly two weeks since 400 fishing vessels were overturned or destroyed in 70mph winds, little hope remains of anyone else surviving.

“There are currently about 400 fishing vessels at sea trying to rescue survivors of the storm,” said the source. “So far, more than 3,700 fishermen have been rescued and brought to Rangoon.”................................................."


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this tragedy has hardly made a ripple on the global media pool due to the events in Japan

:(

[dipsydoodle]

1. How sad.

That's awful and as you said hardly ripple in the media. :(

[aquart]

2. It would be huge on a different day, a different week.

And people might be hesitant of doing anything with Burma.

[malaise]

3. How sad

the warning system must be a disaster in and of itself

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Very small craft...very poor warning systen...

...or very poor sailors. 70 mph is a category 1 hurricane, bad enough that you belong in harbor. But if you're at sea, in anything big enough to safely be in blue water, you should be able to survive.

[MineralMan]

5. There's so much news we don't see from around the world.

That's especially true when there's a huge story dominating the news. Thank you for posting this.

[Auntie Bush]

6. So much news never reported...yet we see the same news stories repeated over

and over and over again on every single channel 24/7. I can't see why they can't versify the news. I guess that takes more writers and more money. Cheap skates!

[MineralMan]

7. Very true.