Original sentence: According to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, "A natural disaster is turning into a humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions in significant part because of the malign neglect of the regime,"
Edited sentence: According to British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, "A natural disaster is turning into a humanitarian catastrophe of genuinely epic proportions in significant part because of the malign neglect of the regime,"  By this, he reflected the views of many, that the Burmese régime is essentially selfish and evil in the extreme and holds its own people in contempt.Indeed the Burmese junta initially did not seem to care if millions died, as long as they clung to power.This is one of the worst examples of lack of  respect by a government for its people that the world has ever seen