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Burmese Buy Up Black-Market Cyclone Videos

Posted May 19, 08 8:45 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – Black-market videos of floating bodies, famished survivors, and cyclone-ravaged villages have become best-sellers in Burma, AP reports. The tapes are illegal because the nation's military junta wants to hide the extent of the devastation. "People buy them because they are interested in seeing what happened out there," said a street vendor who set up his video stall 2 days after the storm.

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A homeless Burmese child, with traditional makeup on, gathers at a monastery   (AP Photo)
A young victim of Cyclone Nargis holds an empty water bottle.   (AP Photo)
A Myanmar Buddhist monk makes his way past a fallen tree.   (AP Photo/Barry Broman)
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