"In the Spring of 2009, a partnership of the Emergency Assistance Team (EAT) and John Hopkins University published a report on the human rights abuses that continue in the Irrawaddy Delta a year after Cyclone Nargis. The report is entitled After the Storm: Voices from the Delta and it principally contends that the military government of Burma has continued to use Cyclone Nargis as an excuse for the perpetuation of human rights abuses. After the Storm was swiftly responded to with a virulent dismissal by a union of numerous aid organizations working in the Delta region. A group of 21 aid organizations working in the Irrawaddy region publicly issued "Joint Response to After the Storm: Voices from the Delta "on April 8th , 2009. While the different groups disagreed over several issues, one point of contention falls on an important and rarely-discussed question of international law, which merits fur- ther examination..."