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...CARE CARE volunteers in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand are providing survivors with water purification tablets and oral rehydration salts to combat water-borne diseases...
...overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...
...Some observers have expressed the hope that the impact of the disaster on both sides of the conflicts in places such as Aceh and Sri Lanka might help bring the warring factions closer together. History certainly offers examples in which the human solidarity across lines of political conflict prompted by a natural disaster have eased the climate between hostile nations - most recently in the help sent by Greece to Turkey in the wake of killer earthquakes. But there are also historical examples, such as the social upheavals that followed massive earthquakes in Nicaragua in 1973, in which natural disasters have...
...Discussion of preventative action for the future has come to focus on implementing a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean of the type that exists in the Pacific. Tens of thousands of lives might have been spared had the danger been communicated to Sri Lanka and India immediately after the undersea earthquake, which would have given two hours to warn coastal residents to move to higher ground. On Sunday, there were no such communication channels - and no evacuation protocols in place. Still, the technology exists to provide early warnings, but not to stave off the forces of nature...
...Photos From Sri Lanka...