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That's not to say Acenese have truly healed, or that they ever will. Syamsiah, 47, runs a food stall in Calang, a tsunami-annihilated town about 90 miles from Banda Aceh that was rebuilt by the Red Cross. She seemed unfazed by the prospect of another tsunami ("That's God's business. Why should I be afraid?") but is tormented by the loss of many of her relatives, including her parents, when the wave swept over their coastal village. Syamsiah had found only their bones. "It broke my heart," she sobbed. (See pictures of what was lost...
...difficult to talk about conservation when people are still trying to find a place to live," Nando says. "It was easier to speak about the environment when people were not so traumatized." After all, she and a handful of colleagues at FFI work in Calang, a district of Aceh where most of the homes and businesses were flattened by the tsunami, where half of all residents were killed, where survivors are still struggling to make enough money to put rice and fish on the table...
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