Word: tsunamis
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...world is not overreacting to the tsunami, but is underreacting to misery in other places." DAVID BECKMANN, president of Bread for the World, a Christian charity, on the comparative lack of international interest in many of the world's humanitarian crises...
...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...
...have to give them more ... they built Kuwait, and they raised our children." WALEED AL-NUSIF, editor in chief of the Kuwaiti newspaper Al Qabas, on the need for Gulf states to donate more to tsunami relief efforts in South and Southeast Asia...
...Burma spared? The closeted nation's military rulers have a history of covering up natural disasters, including a 1984 fire that all but destroyed the city of Mandalay. So when the junta announced in the wake of December's tsunami that fewer than 100 people died in the disaster, international aid groups were highly suspicious. Last Monday, the U.N.'s World Food Programme speculated that hundreds of Burmese fishermen had probably been killed by the waves, and that 30,000 people had likely been left homeless. Yet as the week wore on and the official death toll held, a startling...
...There is no major drama here," says Stephan Jooris of M?decins Sans Fronti?res in Rangoon, who estimates that about 90 Burmese were killed by the tsunami, in contrast to more than 5,000 dead in neighboring Thailand. "People think we're lying. I can't explain it, but it's the truth...