Posted AT 9:23 AM EDT on 08/05/08
Should the UN invoke the 'responsibility to protect'?
RAMESH THAKUR
From Thursday's Globe and Mail
The United Nations warns that Myanmar's death toll from this week's deadly cyclone could reach 60,000. CNN quotes Shari Villarosa, the top U.S. diplomat there, as saying over 100,000 may have died in the country's delta region alone. Aid is desperately needed on a war footing.
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