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...mercy, snuffed out over 150,000 human beings, ending their lives anonymously and with great pain. We can only imagine the dread those thousands experienced when the waters roared up, the terror so many mothers felt as waves swept their little children away or the anguish of nameless fishermen trapped under beached and broken vessels. Even today the death toll still continues to grow, grimly marching ever higher...
...been to a lot of the coastal areas that have been destroyed, and I can picture the faces of the fishermen and locals who gave us tours,” Raman wrote in an e-mail. “I know that many of them likely perished. That the tsunamis have caused such widespread suffering is of course tragic; that they mainly hit those who were least able to cope—the poor—makes it so much worse...
...research and information provided by sources ranging from local police to informers, the IMB believes that about five criminal syndicates?probably based in Indonesia and Malaysia?are responsible for most of the larger-scale hijackings like that of the Luen Fatt. And though there are still plenty of local fishermen armed with machetes who board ships, steal a few mobile phones and leave, more sophisticated operations run by the syndicates are becoming the norm. "Previously, attacks were isolated and mounted from one or two boats, but now they are much more coordinated, with pirates using five to six boats...
...Kidnappings like Teh's have spread fear in his fishing village of Kuala Sepetang, which is about 200 km north of Kuala Lumpur. "This is the first time one of our fishermen was taken," says local politician Chua Tiong San. "It's like having a baby snatched from the front room of your house." Chua surveys the scores of wooden boats bobbing on the murky green waters of the Sepetang River. "Now the whole town is too scared to go out to sea," he says sadly. "Look at all the boats tied up when they would normally be working...
Peter "Sid" Sidebottom's constituents, he says, don't much like being in the spotlight. Since 1998, the Labor M.P. has represented the federal seat of Braddon, a quiet, largely rural electorate in north-western Tasmania of around 62,000 voters, many of them farmers and fishermen. But one of the region's other industries, forestry, keeps bringing the residents of Braddon's towns and hamlets the kind of attention that makes Sidebottom furious. "Many hundreds" of his constituents depend on the state's forestry industry, he says, and if the campaign in this election to phase out logging...