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Comment (A DEEPLY shaken Tim Costello, World Vision Australia's boss, has arrived back from cyclone-ravaged Burma convinced it is "tottering on a precipice".
Cyclone Nargis, which hit two weeks ago, has left nearly 78,000 people dead and another 56,000 are still missing.
After a week and a half in the capital Rangoon, which was virtually unscathed by the hurricane, Mr Costello said there are tens of thousands of people who have yet to receive even the most basic aid.
"It (the cyclone) is going to knock the rice belt of Burma around for years," Mr Costello said.
The ruling Burmese military junta, insisting it can manage the catastrophe alone, is ignoring international pleas to open up their doors to avert a second wave of death among desperate victims without food, water, shelter and medical care.
While Burma's generals have accepted hundreds of tonnes of relief supplies - ranging from high-tech famine foodstuff to basic needs like f...
