Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sat, 05/10/2008 - 5:13am

Demonstrators carry a mock ballot box during an anti Myanmar government rally Saturday, May 10, 2008, outside the Myanmar embassy in Bangkok, Thailand.<br /><br />Protesters gathered to call attention to the vote on a controversial referendum in Myanmar which is taking place a week after Cyclone Nargis ravaged the impoverished southeast Asia nation.<br /><br />(AP photo/David Longstreath)AP - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.



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