Burma's reclusive military government began observing three days of official mourning Tuesday for victims of Cyclone Nargis, as international pressure mounted for the regime to allow more foreign aid and relief experts into the country. Flags flew at half-mast outside government buildings, schools and large hotels, news agency reports said, but most people in the worst affected areas of the country seemed unaware of the mourning period. CBC's Stephen Puddicombe, reporting from Mae Sot, Thailand, on the Burmese border, said the storm wrecked homes and whirled away peoples' possessions, including radios. "Very few of those inside the affected areas know the full extent of the devastation beyond their own community," Puddicombe said. "So they don't even know that they should be in mourning." Puddicombe, like all other foreign journalists covering the crisis, is not being allowed a visa by Burmese authorities, although he did cross into the...
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