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...prominent coverage by the press. Chandy John Bangalore, India Islamic radicals-especially those in Indonesia-who think it's cool to attack Western interests and die for their beliefs should seriously rethink their priorities. The people who are providing much of the aid to Indonesia's devastated Banda Aceh are not the Arabs with their petrodollars or Osama bin Laden with his inherited millions but the Australians, Germans, Japanese and Americans. To terrorist sympathizers and hard-line radicals in South Asia, I pose this question: Where are your terrorist friends when you need them most? Tim F. Peters Kuala Lumpur...
...mothers, our wives, our children are victims from this tragedy. We would never ambush any convoy with aid for them." TENGKU MUCKSALMINA, rebel leader in Banda Aceh, dismissing claims by the Indonesian government that insurgents might try to steal relief supplies...
...spread geometrically, making it one of the great killers of disaster survivors. In the 1994 Rwanda refugee crisis, cholera took some 45,000 lives in less than three weeks. "Water sanitation is and remains priority number one," says Dr. Dana Van Alphen, the WHO's team leader in Banda Aceh. In Aceh, much of which remained partially flooded after the tsunami, teams built raised latrines to prevent waste from contaminating the water used by refugee camps. Medical workers were also quick to spray camps for mosquitoes, which transmit malaria and dengue fever. These diseases are endemic to the region, especially...
...epidemic. "You have a heightened need for information," says Dr. Ronald Waldman, an emergency public-health expert at Columbia University who helped set up the WHO's disease surveillance program in Indonesia. Waldman and his team quickly passed out detailed surveillance forms to all health agencies working in Aceh, asking them to report any cases they found of diseases that could turn into epidemics. The morning after the early warning system was set up, Waldman received a report of measles in a refugee camp near Banda Aceh. A highly contagious disease that can spread rapidly, measles was responsible for more...
...cease relief operations. In response, the Pentagon called off plans to base Marines inside the country. The Indonesians also lashed out at Virginia-based WorldHelp, a missionary group founded by a Baptist disciple of Jerry Falwell's, which said it had received permission to move 300 orphans from Aceh to a Christian children's home in the capital city of Jakarta. After the government denied making such a deal, WorldHelp canceled its orphan mission...