Time magazing seems to think so.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739053,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics
It is astonishing. They hold elections in the aftermath the worst disaster to strike the country in decades. Meanwhile, the locals are dying.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/10/myanmar.vote/index.html