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...serious is the threat? Supervisors in at least one refugee center in Sri Lanka report that people have turned up asking if they can buy children. But government officials say they have found no credible evidence of organized trafficking in the country. Indonesian volunteers helping displaced kids in Aceh--where 35,000 or more children have been orphaned or separated from their parents--tell TIME they are approached daily by people falsely claiming to be relatives of the orphans. UNICEF director Carol Bellamy warned of the danger after agency employees in Indonesia received text messages from a group purporting...
...first there were some friends with me ... after a few days they were gone." RIZAL SYAHPUTRA, Indonesian police trainee, who survived for eight days adrift at sea after the tsunami swept him away from a mosque in Aceh...
...before retreating to the hills where she can keep an eye on the ocean, keep it in its place, from her tent made of blue plastic sheets and Styrofoam fished out of the swamps. Neither she nor the 150 others camping with her near Banda Aceh, capital of the Indonesian province that suffered the worst destruction, are ready to come down. The relief workers haven't yet discovered them, like untold numbers of others. "The water took away everything," she says. "We're afraid the waves may come back and try to take the rest...
Among the first international aid workers to reach ground zero on the Indonesian island of Sumatra were the doctors and nurses of MSF. When they arrived at the one functioning hospital in Sigli, on the east coast, there was only a single, volunteer surgeon on hand. "Our hospital was crippled," says Dr. Taufik Mahdi, director of the 35-bed unit. "Most of our doctors and nurses were too traumatized to work or left to look for loved ones missing after the tsunami." That first day the MSF team performed six operations, and it hasn't stopped since. "The minute...
...ubiquity of personal technology distorted the early news of the disaster. Because the first indications of its scale came from Sri Lanka and Thailand, it was easy to forget that the real devastation was not in well-heeled tourist enclaves but in dirt-poor Indonesian fishing villages. In any event, the earthquake reminded us--had we been foolish enough to forget it--that there are primal forces of nature that no amount of our wizard technology is able to confine. Yet technology can help. For decades, a sophisticated early-warning system has helped limit catastrophic damage from tsunamis...