In May of 2008, the world watched in horror as evidence mounted from Burma that Cyclone Nargis had been an enormous storm resulting in great loss of life. Offers for emergency assistance poured in from around the world as the numbers of the lost and the missing rose into the tens of thousands. Yet the ruling Burmese junta, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), proved reluctant to accept aid or allow skilled relief workers into the flooded Irrawaddy Delta. Some ten months later, reconstruction of the Delta continues and the survivors of the storm and their communities continue to face huge challenges. Their voices, their experiences, and their eye-witness accounts of the response to Cyclone Nargis have been missing from the international debate around the relief effort. This report, After The Storm: Voices from the Delta, by the Emergency Assistance Team and its partners, is the first independent assessment of the response to bring forth the uncensored voices of survivors and independent relief workers. Their accounts are stunning. Relief workers witnessed systematic obstruction of relief aid, willful acts of theft and sale of relief supplies, forced relocation, and the use of forced labor for reconstruction projects, including forced child labor. When the junta allowed aid to reach survivors, it was often preferentially provided to members of the Burman ethnic group. Survivors experienced SPDC controls on basic rights and freedoms, and they were compelled to vote in the junta’s anti-democratic constitutional referendum just weeks after the storm—before many had access to the most basic of services. While other reports have detailed the relief effort, the human rights dimensions of the complex humanitarian emergency have been missing. This report demonstrates that the SPDC continues to violate the rights of relief workers and survivors, just as it continues to hold relief workers in its prisons for having dared to help their own people. The needs of the people of Burma, especially the people of the Delta, are many. Among them is the need for truth, for transparency, accountability, and respect for their human rights. The crimes against the people of the Delta must stop, and those who have committed them must be held accountable. After the Storm is a critical step toward that accountability. These are findings which call for immediate action. The people of Burma deserve no less.