The BBC's Paul Danahar on his efforts to stay out of the clutches of Burma's Special Branch police and keep reporting from the disaster-ridden country.

From the BBC:

I woke up early, flushed my contacts and fake business cards down the toilet, sat on my bed and waited for the Special Branch.

They and the Burmese military intelligence had been after me for almost a week. I had become, briefly, the most wanted man in Burma.

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My photo had apparently been circulated to every military checkpoint. My name was being scoured for among all the records of foreigners travelling around the country.

My crime, as they saw it, was to report on the cyclone that devastated the Irrawaddy Delta claiming thousands of lives.

There were a handful of other journalists who had also sneaked into Burma as tourists but they were all working anonymously.

I had done something foreign correspondents do not normally do in Burma. I had put my name and face on the TV while I was still in the country.

The government was obviously furious. And so I had seemed to become state enemy number one.