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Perhaps it's not unsurprising that when cyclone Nargis struck southern Burma, my thoughts went first to a community of internal refugees close to the Thai border in the north who would have been physically unaffected. These were the people of Wan Bai Pay* who had been graceful in their hospitality to me earlier this year and who had entrusted me with their traumatic stories (of slave labour extracted by Burma's military, of beatings, murder and rape) with the simple request: ‘Tell the world about us.' (For more information you can read my report on Wan Bai Pay).