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TSUNAMI UPDATE

The tsunami death toll now stands at 280,000:

Hundreds of bodies are still being pulled daily from the rubble in Indonesia, while many more lie unidentified in mass graves in Thailand as tsunami-hit countries struggle to even count their dead, let alone identify and bury them.

With 11 Indian Ocean countries suffering deaths and more than 50 other nations reporting citizens killed, the disaster a month ago touched an unprecedented number of communities.

In Indonesia’s worst-hit Aceh province more than 1,000 bodies a day are still being recovered.

Every day.

Posted by Tim B. on 01/26/2005 at 08:22 AM

  1. As sad as it is, it’s still far below the deaths caused by Saddam Hussein or the genocide in Rwanda and its spillover into the Congo.

    Posted by AST on 2005 01 26 at 05:27 PM • permalink

  2. We’re not making comparisons here, AST.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 01 26 at 07:40 PM • permalink

  3. Tsunami may have wiped out Malacca Strait pirates

    Posted by benson swears a lot on 2005 01 27 at 01:33 AM • permalink

  4. Andrea,

    I’ve sent $400 for Tsunami relief. 

    My remark was prompted by the incongruity between the outpouring of aid after a natural catastrophe, and the fact that we do little or nothing to help people who are victims of atrocities like those in Darfur and Congo.  If the Tsunami victims had been killed by insurgents, would they be getting the same attention from the media?

    Posted by AST on 2005 01 28 at 05:35 PM • permalink

  5. Some numbers are simply to painful to consider.

    Posted by marknicodemo on 2005 01 28 at 11:43 PM • permalink

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