Asian Tsunami Disaster

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Children reach for aid supplies - 18.01.2005 06:41:48


Children who survived the Indian Ocean tsunami reach for aid supplies dropped by helicopter over the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Indian fishermen steer their raft towards boats wrecked by the tsunami that struck in late December.

Monday, 17 January, 2005, 14:00 GMT
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U.N. Stresses Tsunami Lessons - 18.01.2005 06:56:33
U.N. Stresses Tsunami Lessons; Aid Drive WidenTue Jan 18, 2005 9:36 AM ET


By Jerry Norton and Dean Yates
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - U.S. helicopters stepped up aid flights in tsunami-hit Indonesia Tuesday as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.

Aid workers said supplies were making it to isolated areas of Indonesia's northern Aceh province, where some 115,000 people died in the Dec. 26 tsunami that ravaged Indian Ocean nations as far away as Africa.

"People know we can, on a somewhat regular basis, provide food and water. That was one of our goals. But there still are certain areas where desperation is just as high," said Capt. Matt Klunder, a helicopter pilot from Washington, D.C.

Annan, in a video address to an international conference in the Japanese city of Kobe where a killer earthquake struck 10 years ago, said the world should prepare now for future catastrophes.

"It's not enough to pick up the pieces," Annan said after a minute of silence for the tsunami's victims. "We must draw on every lesson we can to avoid such catastrophes in the future."

U.N. officials suggested rich nations spend 10 percent of their emergency aid budget on cutting disaster risk through measures such as tsunami early warning systems -- which experts say might have saved some of the more than 175,000 lives taken by last month's giant waves.

International pledges of emergency relief for tsunami victims now stand at more than $7 billion

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Acehnese children help unload aid supplies near a refugee camp in Lamno, south of the tsunami-hit city of Banda Aceh on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, January 18, 2005. U.S. aid helicopters stepped up missions on Tuesday to Indonesia' s tsunami-hit Aceh province, expanding help to millions affected by the giant wave that killed 175,000 around the Indian Ocean.



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No Deadline for Foreign Troops Helping Tsunami Victims - 18.01.2005 07:01:33

US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, front right, walks with Indonesian Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono after their meeting in Jakarta

Indonesia: No Deadline for Foreign Troops Helping Tsunami Victims to Leave

By Tim Johnston
Jakarta

Indonesia's defense minister says there is no hard deadline for foreign troops helping tsunami victims to leave the country. Juwono Sudarsono says Indonesia only suggested March 26 as a target date.

This past week, senior Indonesian officials said they would like all foreign troops out of the northern province of Aceh by March 26, sparking concern and allegations that the government was putting politics ahead of getting aid to tsunami victims.

Aceh has been the scene of a separatist conflict for some 30 years and has been under martial law and off limits to outsiders for years. That is until the Tsunami hit three weeks ago.

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RE: No Deadline for Foreign Troops Helping Tsunami Victims - 18.01.2005 07:07:35

Japanese military is getting the aid supplies in Banda, Aceh.


Sunday, 16/1/2005, 21:37 GMT+7
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Why India does not receive aid? - 18.01.2005 07:33:04
Why India does not receive aid?

During the nations are continuing to increase the amount money to help the tsunami victims. Some nations in the affected area said: “No. Thank you”. Why not?

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Monday 10/1/2005, 07:00 GMT+7
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Tsunami Toll Tops 175,000 - 18.01.2005 07:43:00





Tsunami Toll Tops 175,000
By Simon Gardner

GALLE, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Asia's tsunami death toll soared past 175,000 Monday as Sri Lanka confirmed thousands more dead, while fears re-emerged over the safety of aid workers in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province.

Denmark said it had information "imminent" terror attacks were planned against aid workers in Aceh, where U.S. and other foreign troops have joined relief teams clearing rubble from the Dec. 26 disaster which killed 115,000 in that province alone.

"We have received information from sources abroad that somebody would be planning an attack today," Danish Foreign Ministry official Niels Erik Andersen told Danish radio.

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Mon Jan 17, 2005, 10:03 AM ET
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050117/wl_nm/quake_dc

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Senses * Sand Dunes - 18.01.2005 11:12:16
Senses, Sand Dunes Helped Tsunami Animals Escape
Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:27 AM ET

By Dayan Candappa
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Wildlife in Sri Lanka's biggest national park survived last month's tsunami, but it was probably keen senses and the lay of the land rather than any mysterious instinct for danger that enabled animals to scamper to safety.

Scores of human corpses were pulled from hotels and bungalows in and around the Yala National Park in the island's ravaged southeast, and the fact that wardens found no dead animals prompted theories that a "sixth sense" alerted elephants, leopards and deer to the impending disaster.

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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=M1ZRUWIPDPPG2CRBAELCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=7335701

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Smith Thammasaroj prophesied - 18.01.2005 11:35:28
1/13/2005
Smith Thammasaroj: US Bears Some Blame For Casualties

Filed under: General— Tim @ 2:42 pm
Smith Thammasaroj, newly appointed vice minister in Thailand, has said the United States bears some responsibility for the grevious number of casulties in Southern Asia. He believes the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii did not act fast enough:

Yahoo! News (AP)— The 68-year-old forecaster — who earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the University of Vermont in 1962 — said he believes that if the Hawaii-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center had acted quickly enough, many lives could have been saved.

From Media reports, I believe the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center acted responsibly. But, it’s also apparent from the Center’s difficulty in disseminating tsunami warnings to Southern Asia, that its communication protocols should undergo an immediate modernization.

http://www.opinionbug.com/index.php?p=164

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U.S. steps up tsunami aid flights - 19.01.2005 13:57:54
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 4:41 p.m. ET Jan. 18, 2005

U.S. steps up tsunami aid flights

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - U.S. helicopters stepped up tsunami aid flights Tuesday in Indonesia as U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan urged rich nations to spend more on preventing natural disasters before the next one hits.

Aid workers said supplies were making it to isolated areas of Indonesia's northern Aceh province, where about 115,000 people died in the Dec. 26 tsunami that ravaged Indian Ocean nations as far away as Africa.

“People know we can, on a somewhat regular basis, provide food and water. That was one of our goals. But there still are certain areas where desperation is just as high,” said Capt. Matt Klunder, a helicopter pilot from Washington, D.C.

Annan, in a video address to an international conference in the Japanese city of Kobe, where a killer earthquake struck 10 years ago, said the world should prepare now for future catastrophes.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6754820/

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Diego Garcia - 19.01.2005 19:18:31

The U.S. Navy base on Diego Garcia prior to the tsunami on Dec. 26. / U.S. Navy




Tsunami spares U.S. base in Diego Garcia

By Scott Foster and Robert Windrem

Updated: 7:20 p.m. ET Jan. 4, 2005A deep underwater trench, a 30-year-old military decision and a tsunami warning saved one of America’s most secret bases from any significant damage during last week’s tsunami, say U.S. officials.

Diego Garcia, a 10-square-mile British island leased to the U.S. Navy, sits in the middle of the Indian Ocean, just south of the hard-hit Maldives. From the tiny atoll, the United States monitors all manner of communications from around the Middle East, East Africa and southern Asia, whether Indian or Pakistani nuclear intentions or terrorist travels.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6786984

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia

Diego Garcia is a 44 square kilometre (17 square mile) atoll located in the heart of the Indian Ocean. It is the largest of fifty-two islands which form the Chagos Archipelago. It is a British overseas territory, part of the British Indian Ocean Territory. It is situated some 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) south of the southern India coast.

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http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/Index.aspx?ArticleID=64019&ChannelID=2

Is the US Diego Garcia base still there?



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RE: Diego Garcia - 20.01.2005 04:24:04


Diego Garcia: Island History


Diego Garcia was discovered by Portuguese explorers in the early 1500s. It is the largest of fifty-two islands which form the Chagos Archipelago, located in the heart of the Indian Ocean. The island's name is believed to have come from either the ship's captain or the navigator on that early voyage of discovery.

A tropical footprint-shaped island just 7 degrees south of the equator, Diego Garcia is heavily vegetated. The island covers 6,720 acres in area with a maximum height of 22 feet and an average elevation of four feet above sea level. The shoreline is about 40 miles long and the island encloses a lagoon 6.5 miles wide and 13 miles long.

In 1965, with the formation of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), Diego Garcia was under the administrative control of the British government of the Seychelles. In 1976, the Seychelles gained independence from England and the BIOT became a self-administering territory under the East African Desk of the British Foreign Office. The Crown's representative on island, the British Representative (BRITREP), acts as both Justice of the Peace and Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Party 1002.

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Global Tsunami System - 20.01.2005 04:33:46
Yahoo! News 7:12am Wed, Jan 19, 2005

U.N. Seeks Unified, Global Tsunami System

1 hour, 18 minutes ago Top Stories - AP

By JOSEPH COLEMAN, Associated Press Writer

KOBE, Japan - India plans a tsunami-warning system that its neighbors could join, while Indonesia envisions one run by southeast Asian countries. The Germans are pitching their own high-tech network, but the United Nations (news - web sites) says it should set up the system — and then extend it globally.

The Asian tsunami disaster demonstrated with terrifying power the need for an alert system in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the world, but the outpouring of support to build one has generated a plethora of overlapping proposals.

Amid the confusion, U.N. officials at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, called on Wednesday for coordination of efforts — and insisted on their own central role in marshaling the expertise and setting up the system.

"The event was of such magnitude that we have seen forthcoming some very interesting and very complete proposals," said Patricio Bernal, executive secretary of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, which coordinates a warning system in the Pacific.

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Global Tsunami Death Toll Tops 226,000 - 20.01.2005 04:42:38
Global Tsunami Death Toll Tops 226,000

Yahoo! News 7:12am Wed, Jan 19, 2005


A mass memorial service for the victims of deadly tsunami


31 minutes ago Top Stories - Reuters

By Jerry Norton and Dean Yates

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - The global death toll from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of thousands of people previously listed as missing.

The ministry raised the country's death toll to 166,320. It had previously given a figure of 95,450 while Indonesia's Ministry of Social Affairs had put the death toll at around 115,000 before it stopped counting.

Dodi Indrasanto, a director at the health ministry's department of health affairs, said the new death total reflected the latest reports from the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra, which were directly in the path of the killer tsunami spawned by a magnitude 9 earthquake the day after Christmas.

The new figure lifted the total global death toll from the tsunami disaster to 226,566, although the number continues to rise as more deaths are reported around the region.

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, speaking before the health ministry released its latest figures, told a donors conference in Jakarta that the true extent of the catastrophe defied description.

"Perhaps we will never know the exact scale of the human casualties," he said.

Indrasanto said the health ministry report, which had just 6,245 people still listed as missing, had been sent to Yudhoyono late Wednesday.

The ministry's figures said 617,159 people were still homeless in northern Sumatra more than three weeks after the killer wave struck

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RE: Global Tsunami Death Toll Tops 226,000 - 21.01.2005 00:16:00


Kimimasa Mayama / Reuters
Deasy Mayana, who lost her parents and three younger sisters, stands on the remains of her parents' house washed away by the Asian tsunami on Wednesday in Banda Aceh.
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 12:33 a.m. ET Jan. 20, 2005


Tsunami death toll rises above 225,000
Indonesia confirms 50,000 more deaths; U.N. stresses Aceh's needs

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Lone Survivor After 25 days - 23.01.2005 04:25:09
Lone Survivor Picked Off India Island After 25 Days


Yahoo! News 7:17am Sat, Jan 22, 2005

22 minutes ago World - Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A tribal man lived off coconuts for about 25 days on a tsunami devastated Indian island before he was rescued by a search boat, a military officer said on Saturday.

Michael Mangal was brought out of the tiny island of Pillow Panja earlier this week after the crew of a rescue dinghy saw him waving a flag made of his clothes, the officer said.

Mangal, who is from the Nicobarese tribe, told his rescuers the first giant wave which hit the Andaman and Nicobar chain of islands on Dec. 26 first sucked him into sea before subsequents waves threw him back to land.

"After that, once the waters receded he went to his village, but didn't find anybody," the officer told Reuters over telephone from Port Blair, the capital of the remote archipelago which are 1,200 km (750 miles) from the Indian mainland.

"It seems he just survived on coconuts."

Around 7,500 people, a majority of them Nicobarese tribals who normally live on the coast, have died in the island chain which had a population of more than 356,000.

Rescue and relief have been slow in coming to the islands mainly because all the harbor jetties were destroyed. Most of the 36 inhabitated islands in a chain of hundreds of islands can only be reached by sea.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=3&u=/nm/20050122/wl_nm/quake_india_survivor_dc

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Death toll tops 280,000 - 26.01.2005 19:11:04
Wednesday January 26, 3:39 AM
Indonesia readies peace talks team as presumed death toll tops 280,000


Indonesia was readying a team of senior officials to head to Finland for talks with rebels aimed at bringing peace to tsunami-stricken Aceh province, as the Asian-wide toll of presumed dead from the disaster exceeded 280,000.

Security minister Widodo Ado Sucipto and Foreign Minister Hasan Wirayuda were, according to sources, expected to meet rebel leaders fighting for the independence of Aceh, where most of Indonesia's disaster casualties died.

The talks in Helsinki are aimed at securing peace after a decades-long struggle in the province, where a huge aid operation is continuing.

The extent of the devastation in Indonesia, the worst-hit of the 11 Indian Ocean countries affected by the December 26 catastrophe, was underscored Tuesday as officials revised their death toll to 228,429 dead or missing.

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RE: Death toll tops 280,000 - 27.01.2005 03:57:57
Yahoo! News 6:45am Wed, Jan 26, 2005


Schools Open, Sorrows Remain a Month Later

2 hours, 48 minutes ago World - Reuters

By Tomi Soetjipto and Dean Yates

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesian school children wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.


Hundreds of Sri Lankan mourners dressed in traditional white gathered in Colombo's Independence Square for a silent vigil at the moment the tsunami struck on Dec. 26, leaving nearly 300,000 dead or missing around the Indian Ocean from Somalia to Thailand.


Indian police used loudspeakers to dispel rumors that another tsunami would strike a month to the day after the first giant waves were triggered by a magnitude 9 earthquake off Indonesia's Sumatra island.


In the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, hundreds of people rallied to demand that foreign troops helping with tsunami relief be allowed to stay longer in Aceh, battered by a 30-year rebellion that has killed more than 12,000 people.


Teachers and students hugged and cried together as damaged schools in Aceh province, at the northern tip of Sumatra island, opened their doors. Books and desks dried in the open air.


"I'm glad to be back, but I'm also sad because many of my friends are not here. I don't know where they are," said Aceh schoolgirl Eva Wahyuni, fighting back tears.


At the SMR8 secondary school in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, students sat on a cleared basketball court where they prayed and recited from the Koran. Some girls cried and held their heads in their hands and others stared blankly.


Only 300 of nearly 900 enrolled students turned up for class. Authorities in Aceh say the tsunami killed 45,000 school children and more than 2,300 teachers and administrators.


"For us teachers, it's hard because so many lost families and homes. But we have to put this aside and think of our students," school principal Syarifuddin Ibrahim, 50, told Reuters.


Cries of anguish rose from the crowd as he read out the names of nine teachers killed by the tsunami.


FEARS OF ANOTHER WAVE


In India's ravaged southern state of Tamil Nadu, coastal villages appeared to have overcome fears of another tsunami. Children played on beaches and relief workers helped fishermen move hundreds of damaged boats.


"I think the tsunami won't come again but I always keep an eye on the sea to ensure that it is normal," said Thankaraj, who sat with a group of fishermen in the shadow of a badly damaged boat at a harbor in Nagapattinam.


Authorities used public address systems, radio and television to ease fears another tsunami would lash the area on Wednesday.


In one of the few formal commemorations for the dead, Sri Lankans gathered in Colombo at 9:36 a.m., the moment the tsunami struck the island.


"It's good that they've organized something like this because those who died, and the others who lost everything, are a part of our Sri Lankan family," said schoolboy Jayathna Weerasena, 17.


But displaced families in the worst-hit areas of Sri Lanka knew nothing of the moment of silence and some people said they were too busy feeding and caring for survivors to pause.





"A minute's silence? No, we are not observing it. There is so much to do," said Buddhist monk Pittugala Sumana, chief priest of the Telwatta temple in southern Sri Lanka.

Thousands across the region still nurse wounds from being tossed in the raging waves. Australian Graham Robert Pattison, recovering from a broken hip and pelvis in a Bangkok hospital, counts his blessings after being flung through a brick wall.

"You see it on TV. You see the thousands that have died. You wonder why you didn't die," said Pattison. "You got away with injuries but you still survived, so yes, it has sunk in. You really don't know how lucky you can be."

PEACE TALKS REVIVED

The tsunami's destruction opened a historic opportunity to bring peace to Aceh, the oil-rich province troubled for three decades by clashes between the Indonesian military and the separatist Free Aceh Movement.

A high-level Indonesian government team left Jakarta on Wednesday for Helsinki, where mediated talks were scheduled with rebel leaders this weekend.

Hundreds of Acehnese marched in the streets of Jakarta on Wednesday to protest a government timetable for U.S. and other foreign troops to leave the sensitive province by the end of March.

"U.S. army, my family, not out. We love peace," a banner read.

"We demand that the U.N. and other countries that sent military to Aceh stay there until Aceh has completely recovered," protester Faisal Ridha said.

While rebuilding was under way across the Indian Ocean region, hundreds of thousands remain homeless, many living in tent camps where they still face the risk of disease.

But a month on, Banda Aceh school headmaster Amirudin, 52, urged his students to have hope.

"We don't have bags, books and pencils, but that's OK. Everything will come," he said. "Do you see those helicopters flying above, they belong to the Americans and other countries. So you know what it means? Everyone is helping us. And Allah will help us."

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Athletes Help Raise Millions for Tsunami Victims - 27.01.2005 14:30:44
Athletes Help Raise Millions for Tsunami Victims
By David Byrd
Washington
26 January 2005

Athletes from several sports have been working to help raise money for victims of December's Indian Ocean tsunami. Athletes are using their sports popularity to generate millions of dollars in aid.

Since the tsunami devastated the Indian Ocean December 26, several high-profile sports figures have joined the effort to help victims of the tragedy.

The U.S. National Football League has been running commercials featuring Most Valuable Player Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts and Philadelphia Eagles' quarterback Donovan McNabb asking for donations to a special fund.


Peyton Manning
Manning: "Southeast Asia and East Africa have been devastated by tsunamis that claimed more than 150,000 lives.”
McNabb: “But for those who survived the real struggle has just begun.”
Manning: “By donating to the World Food Program and other organizations providing aid, you can make a difference that will save lives and help tsunami victims rebuild.”
McNabb: “Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines. Millions of people need your help. Join the team and donate."

McNabb and Manning are among several professional American football players and teams that donated to help the tsunami relief efforts. The NFL donated more than four million dollars and the league has accepted contributions from fans during the playoffs.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisburger donated his entire check from his first playoff game, $18,000, to the tsunami relief effort.

"I am going to donate my game check this week to the tsunami relief and hopefully to challenge other people to do that too,” he said. “So, I just wanted to make that announcement."

http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-01-26-voa53.cfm

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RE: Athletes Help Raise Millions for Tsunami Victims - 28.01.2005 15:02:20
Aftershocks rattle India's tsunami-ravaged Andaman islands

Thu Jan 27, 1:32 PM ET Science - AFP

PORT BLAIR, India (AFP) - Six earthquakes of moderate intensity rattled India's tsunami-ravaged Andaman and Nicobar archipelago, meteorological officials said, but no casualties were reported.

The tremors, in the range of 5.0-5.8 on the Richter scale, occurred between 03:55 am (1025 GMT Wednesday) and 16:28 pm (1058 GMT Thursday), meteorological officials from the Andamanese capital of Port Blair said.

Most of the tremors struck off Nicobar Island, part of the Indian Ocean chain which before the tsunamis hit was known as a tropical vacation paradise for its then pristine beaches and emerald seas.

"A majority of the quakes were epicentered near the (south Andamans') Kamorta island, while some of them also originated from the east coast of Car Nicobar and (the northern Indonesian island of) Sumatra," the official said.

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RE: Is a Tsunami Warning System Feasable? - 29.01.2005 14:35:24
Posted on Fri, Jan. 28, 2005

AP: Tsunami-Hit Island Had One Survivor
NEELESH MISRA

CAMPBELL BAY, India - For 25 days after the tsunami killed everyone else on his island, Michael Mangal roamed the expanse in just his underwear, waiting for death and praying for life, thinking of the spirits that terrified him and the woman who never loved him.

Finally one day, he heard the chugging of a distant motor boat. He took off his underwear and began waving to the men who would rescue him - dazed, dehydrated and naked.

Now, he wants to return.

The 40-year-old widower was rescued Jan. 19 from Pillowpanja island, at the southern end of India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelago. All of the other 100 or so islanders were washed away by the Dec. 26 tsunami.

"I thought I would die, and worse than that, I would die all alone," the coconut farmer told The Associated Press this week in his first interview.

"All I came back to each evening was a Bible that I found in the rubble, and I read it every evening and prayed," said Mangal, speaking Nicobarese through a translator.

Mangal, a Christian like many other Nicobarese tribesmen, spoke haltingly as he sprawled on his hospital bed, where he's being treated for stomach ailments and a leg injured by a falling tree. He spoke softly with long pauses, often forgetting facts or staring vacantly.

His story began on Christmas Day, with a big village party, common among the closely knit Nicobarese, the archipelago's largest tribe.

"We had cooked pigs and chicken, and there was lots of alcohol, it was fun," he said. "Everyone was singing."

The next morning, he awoke early for church.

"I was having tea and suddenly the house shook, 'pook!' I fell down," he said. "Then I got out and saw the sea - the sea was coming at me like a monster. I started running for my life."

Furious waves swept ashore. People tried to flee, but the sea was faster. Everyone was washed away, including Mangal.

"The water scooped me up," he said. "Then the water picked me again and threw me back to Pillowpanja."

But that miracle had touched no one else.

"When I came back, there was no one. No one at all. I looked everywhere," he said. "I couldn't see any living man. But strangely I couldn't see any dead man either."

All he had on was his underwear and a gold-colored ring on his right hand, a cheap copper imitation with a gemlike piece of glass.

It was hard to even recognize his island, which is so small it doesn't appear on most maps. The tiny outpost of forest and coconuts, off the northwest coast of Little Nicobar island, has no electricity or running water.

The tsunami had sheared away miles of forest like a giant lawn mower. Thousands of coconut trees lay toppled. Dozens of straw huts, pyramid-like and mounted on wooden stilts, had simply disappeared.

He looked for his house, which had been about 200 yards from the sea.

"But there was no house," he said. "Suddenly, I realized that I was all alone on the whole island. All were dead."

That included his family.

Mangal's wife had died years before, and he lived in an extended family, like most Nicobarese, with his cousin, uncle and sister. He had no children.

Nearby lived a woman whom he'd loved his whole life. Even with her gone, he won't give away her name.

"I thought of her," he said of his days alone on the island. "I had wanted to marry her. But she would never say anything. I think she didn't want to marry me."

The nights frightened him.

"I was scared of the spirits," he said. "I thought they would kill me."

Although they are largely Christians, most Nicobarese still follow centuries-old practices of spirit worship, animal sacrifice and identifying nature as a living being.

He slept under a tree on a plastic mat, terrified by aftershocks.

"I tried to sleep, I closed my eyes, but the earth would suddenly start shaking so much and I just could not sleep," said Mangal. "How could the earth keep shaking like this forever?"

Slowly, he adapted to his new life. He found a large knife to cut coconuts and chop wood. He made a makeshift bed from planks hacked from a betel tree.

He roamed and slept, then sat by the beach in the evenings and prayed.

"Whenever I was hungry, I got a coconut and cut it. I drank the water, and ate the flesh. When it rained, I put my palms together and collected the water, and then drank it all."

By this time, India had launched its biggest ever relief effort. But the archipelago is huge, the islands covered with dense forests.

"I saw planes flying overhead, but they didn't see me," he said.

Days passed, then weeks. No rescuers came. There was only silence.

"It seemed as if all life had been sucked into the sea," he said. "I was sad all the time. I missed my family. And I used to constantly tell myself: `No one will come to rescue me, and I will die right here.'"

He was wrong.

One day, four Nicobarese men from nearby Pillowbha island passed by, heading for another island in search of bananas.

Mangal heard their motorboat. "I raced to the shore, took off my underwear and started waving," he said. When they saw him, he slumped to the beach, stunned.

"He didn't say anything, he just kept looking at me," said Michael Solomon, one of his rescuers. "He didn't utter a word. He had no emotion on his face."

The men took him to Campbell Bay, the closest thing to a town in the southern Andamans, and Mangal hobbled into the hospital, severely dehydrated. Doctors marveled at his endurance and mental strength.

Mangal now walks through the hospital and sometimes goes to a nearby Nicobarese relief camp. He's made friends. But his heart isn't here.

He still longs to return to his island - even if he has no idea how he'd survive.

"I want to go home. I want to go back to Pillowpanja," he said.


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RE: Is a Tsunami Warning System Feasable? - 01.02.2005 20:21:42
Last Updated: Friday, 28 January, 2005, 18:32 GMT

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An Aceh man's search for his family
By Steven Shukor
BBC News


More than a month after the tsunami devastated the Indonesian province of Aceh, a survivor who has joined the relief effort tells the BBC News website of his desperate search for his wife and daughter.

Mr Basri spent days going from camp to camp

When the tidal waves hit Hasan Basri's village, he not only had to face the ordeal of losing his home, but also of searching for his family.

On the day the waves struck his village of Peukan Banda, near Banda Aceh, he was in Takengon, 200km inland, giving a accountancy lecture to university graduates.

When he arrived in his village the next morning, and saw what was left of his house, he could only fear the worst for his wife Qunuti and 10-year-old daughter Intan. Peukan Banda had been devastated, and there was no-one left to go to for information about his wife and daughter.

"There was nothing left," said Mr Basri, 43. "My house, my car, all gone. I couldn't find any people in my village.

We cried. I thought I had lost them

Hasan Basri
In a neighbouring village, his parents, uncles, aunts and cousins had been swallowed up by the waves. Out of 600 villagers, an estimated 50 survived.

Mr Basri returned to his village and met a local who said he believed his 39-year-old wife and daughter had survived.

For four days he searched, combing the streets, poring over list after list of missing people, visiting camp after camp.

He collected relatives along the way who had lost their homes and immediate relatives - members of his extended family who were so traumatised they followed him, seeking his protection.

On the fourth day, his brother, who had lost his children and wife in the disaster, called him to say he had found Qunuti and Intan in a police camp in Banda Aceh.


Much of his village was destroyed

"When he brought them to me, the feelings were so strong. We cried. I thought I had lost them," said Mr Basri.

Instead of trying to run to escape the waves, Qunuti and Intan had taken refuge in the upper floor of a neighbour's house.

"Those who tried to run, were swept away," said Mr Basri.

The couple decided to send Intan to relatives in Medan, southern Sumatra, where she has since re-started school.

Trauma

"She is traumatised," said Mr Basri. "There are regular earthquakes in Aceh, the majority are small ones.

"But after the tsunami, Intan would get scared every time she felt a tremor. It is better for her to be away from the disaster area."

After several days at the survivors camps, waiting for food hand-outs, Mr Basri decided to find work helping the relief effort.

He has been enlisted by the UN's World Food Programme, doing odd jobs, carrying out assessments in afflicted zones and putting his accounting expertise to good use.

He has been clearing debris from his office in Banda Aceh, to accommodate relatives and orphans.

"Accommodation is a big problem," he said. "Food is getting through, but there is not enough shelter."

But he said he had no immediate plans to return to Peukan Banda.

"I don't think we are brave enough to go back for the moment."

He said he wanted to focus on helping with the relief effort and restart his accounting business in the short-term.

"Our lives are too caught up by the day-to-day," he said. "We are taking each day as it comes. People have lost so much. I'm just happy to have my family."


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RE: Is a Tsunami Warning System Feasable? - 02.02.2005 14:41:01
Tuesday, 1 February, 2005, 22:40 GMT
Clinton made UN's tsunami envoy

Bill Clinton has already taken a lead in appealing for tsunami aid


Former US President Bill Clinton has been chosen to be the UN's special envoy for tsunami relief in South Asia.
Secretary General Kofi Annan selected him because of the "energy, dynamism and focus" he would bring to the job, a UN spokesman said.

Mr Annan wanted someone who could address conflicts in the tsunami zone, as well as the aid effort, he added.

Mr Clinton has already been asked by US President Bush to lead efforts to raise relief donations from Americans.

He and Mr Bush's father, former President George Bush senior, have been travelling the US to raise private funds.

Mr Clinton said he would continue his work with Mr Bush "to urge people to contribute to this cause, and the two of us hope to visit the region together later this month".

'Sustaining interest'

After that trip, the secretary general and Mr Clinton are expected to make a formal announcement about his new appointment as special envoy.


The tsunami death toll continues to rise, with more than 200,000 people now thought to have died, the UN says.

"The secretary general is confident that President Clinton will bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of sustaining world interest in the vital recovery and reconstruction phase following the tsunami disaster," said a statement from UN spokesman Fred Eckhard.

"He believes that no one could possibly be better qualified for this task."

Mr Eckhard told the Associated Press that Mr Annan wants to appoint a special envoy not only to focus on the clean-up and reconstruction, but to try to push for the resolution of conflicts in the two worst-hit countries, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.

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DNA Test Ordered in Tsunami 'Baby 81' Case - 03.02.2005 05:01:16
DNA Test Ordered in Tsunami 'Baby 81' Case



Yahoo! News 7:53am Wed, Feb 02, 2005
59 minutes ago World - AP Asia

By DILIP GANGULY, Associated Press Writer

KALMUNAI, Sri Lanka - A judge's ruling Wednesday that a couple must undergo a DNA test to prove they are the parents of the tsunami survivor known as "Baby 81" sparked chaos in a hospital pediatric ward after a surging crowd and the would-be parents burst in and pleaded with doctors to release the infant.

The distraught couple was arrested for assault and criminal trespassing. Police said the pair assaulted hospital workers. A judge later released them on bail and ordered them to appear in court on Thursday.

Earlier, after Wednesday's court hearing, the man claiming to be the child's father cried out and threatened to kill himself, attempting to swallow an unknown white substance. The man and his wife, accompanied by friends and relatives, then walked to the hospital where Baby 81 is being kept and forced their way in.

"Here is my baby, look, look," shouted and cried Jenita Jeyarajah, 25, after forcibly entering the child's glass cubicle and picking him up. The father, Murugupillai Jeyarajah, 31, shielded his wife and the infant from the surging crowd.

"Please give us our baby," Jenita pleaded with the doctors on duty. She then fell on the feet of the head nurse and pleaded: "You are a mother. So am I. Give me my baby."

By then, between 70 and 100 people, most of them relatives and friends, started shouting at the doctors who had earlier testified in court that a DNA test was the best solution.

Baby 81 was the 81st admission to the hospital here on Dec. 26, the day of the Asian tsunami, and his plight has become emblematic of the disaster's effect on families. In Sri Lanka alone, the waves claimed the lives of some 12,000 children, about 40 percent of Sri Lanka's death toll of 31,000.

In the days immediately after the tsunami, nine women claimed the boy as their own, though only the Jeyarajahs lodged a formal custody claim. They said documents proving the boy was theirs were swept away.

The Jeyarajahs now face a wait of eight weeks or more for the tests to be completed. The judge ordered that the four-month-old baby stay in hospital care until the issue is settled. The couple will likely have to travel more than 125 miles to the capital of Colombo for the tests.

The couple had hoped to be granted custody of the baby during Wednesday's hearing, though they had previously said they would submit to whatever tests the court ordered to prove their parentage.

After the struggle at the hospital, Jeyarajah and Jenita were summoned to the police station and arrested. "They assaulted hospital staff. They committed criminal trespass and obstructed government officials on duty," said W.C. Vijayatilleke, a senior police officer.

When told in court that the child would be put back into hospital care until at least April 20, when the court will reconvene to hear the test results, Jenita Jeyarajah beat her chest and cried out.

"Let the doctor have the baby. I will commit suicide if I don't have the baby," said Murugupilla, who tried to swallow white powder held in his hand. He was prevented by two men close by.

The judge said the others who claim to be the child's parents should report to police and have DNA samples taken.

"Thousands of babies have died and maybe hundreds of them are missing," Judge M.P. Mohaideen said. "It's only after a DNA test that we can be sure that we are correct."

"Maybe the couple is not lying, but the only way to make sure 100 percent is to have a DNA test," said Dr. K. Muhunthan, an obstetrician at the hospital. "We cannot give away orphans first-come, first-served. We must be neutral."

After the crowd entered the hospital, authorities shut the hospital's gates and called police, fearing the group would try to take the child. Police came and told the crowd to leave, which they did peacefully.

"This baby has suffered terrible losses — loss of familiar faces, familiar sound and familiar smell," said Anula Nikapota, a child specialist, who lives in London and has come to Kalmunai to help children to recover from trauma.

"Maybe DNA test was the only way out, but this proves the level of trauma people are having even after a month of the tsunami," said Maleec Calyanaratne, the spokeswoman for Save the Children in Sri Lanka about the scene in Kalmunai.

Before Wednesday's hearing, doctors had allowed the Jeyarajahs to visit the boy twice a week on condition they not lift him from his crib. As a concession, the judge ordered that the Jeyarajahs can now visit the baby every day.

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US carrier begins Aceh pull-out - 04.02.2005 12:53:03
3 February, 2005, 14:23 GMT

US carrier begins Aceh pull-out


The USS Abraham Lincoln provided crucial support post-tsunami

The US aircraft carrier which despatched the first helicopters to deliver aid to Aceh after the tsunami is to leave the area.
"The mission has been accomplished," a spokesman for the US embassy in Jakarta said.

Australian troops will also be leaving Aceh in the next few weeks, said Prime Minister John Howard.

The Indonesian government has indicated it would like to be in control of the aid operation by the end of next month.

Indonesia has so far buried 111,171 people who died in the 26 December tsunami, while more than 127,000 others remain missing, the government said on Thursday. We're more than capable of providing the kind of help needed by these kind of communities, with or without Abraham Lincoln

The USS Abraham Lincoln will leave Aceh in the next 24-48 hours, the US embassy spokesman said.

The Indonesian authorities "believe they have the facilities between them and the UN and other NGOs to do the job", he said.

A local aid spokesman for the International Red Cross in Aceh, Greg Beals, was relaxed about the aircraft carrier's withdrawal.

"We're more than capable of providing the kind of help needed by these kind of communities, with or without Abraham Lincoln... at this point, we're pretty much all set," he said.

He said the focus of the aid operation was beginning to switch to longer-term requirements such as housing.

The US is also deploying Mercy, a floating hospital, and USS Essex, a smaller aircraft carrier.

Australian withdrawal

In addition, Japan, Germany, and Australia all have a military presence in Aceh.

However, Australia, too, is expected to withdraw its military support from Aceh in the near future.

Mr Howard, speaking to reporters in Singapore following his tour of damage to Aceh on Wednesday, said: "I think you're looking at weeks rather than months [as a timeframe]."

"There's no point in them staying beyond the time when the work they are now doing could be carried out by civilians," he said.

Australia is one of the largest donors to tsunami-affected areas, having pledged A$1bn ($773m) to relief efforts in Indonesia.

Reconstruction plan

Indonesian Social Welfare Minister Alwi Shihab said on Wednesday that Jakarta hoped it could handle the welfare mission without foreign troops by the end of March.

"By March 26 we will be able to stand on our own feet," he told a news conference in Banda Aceh.

He said Indonesian boats would take the role played so far by foreign helicopters of reaching isolated communities to bring them goods and services.

He said the emergency stage of the aid operation was now over, and attention was turning to reconstruction and rehabilitation.

Barracks would be used to house the homeless - 374 of these would be built by 15 February and a similar amount by the end of the month, he said.

But one displaced person, Banta Gading, said he did not think this was a good policy.

"I want to get back to my own house soon, but it's badly damaged and impossible to live in. It would be better if the government just assisted us with building materials like cement, bricks and wood so we can rebuild our houses," the 52-year-old told The Jakarta Post.

Mr Shihab said the authorities would start cataloguing refugees' skills in order to allocate them reconstruction work.

The Indonesian military is particularly keen to see foreign troops leave Aceh. It has been involved in a long-running war against separatist rebels in the province, and does not want the international community to get involved.

Indonesian officials and the leadership of the Free Aceh Movement (Gam) held talks in Helsinki last week in an attempt to restart a peace process but the discussions ended only with an agreement to meet again, probably later this month.

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An estimate of more than 300,000 dead. - 13.02.2005 05:05:03
Tsunami elephants 'need help'
By Tim Johnston
BBC News, Jakarta
Thursday, 10 February, 2005, 12:17 GMT

Elephants are able to reach places that machinery cannot


Indonesia has asked Singaporean vets to airlift anti-tetanus vaccines for elephants helping in the massive post-tsunami clean-up.
Their sensitive trunks are being cut by nails, broken timber and jagged sheets of corrugated iron roofing as they push rubble and debris out of the way.

The animals, working in six-hour shifts since the day of the disaster, are playing a vital role in removing debris and need to be inoculated.

Their work is unlikely to end soon.

The elephants, normally used in Sumatra's logging industry, are frequently capable of more delicate work than the heavy machinery that is otherwise used.

They can also get into places where the machinery might be at risk.

But the work is taking its toll as large parts of Sumatra's north-western coastline remain covered with debris.

Heavy toll

Six weeks after the disaster, rescue teams are still recovering more than 1,000 bodies a day from the wreckage.

Indonesia now says it has found more than 115,000 bodies and estimates that another 130,000 are still missing, bringing the total number of deaths to about 245,000 in Indonesia alone.

But even that might not give the full picture.

Privately, the United Nations says that for the purposes of planning, they used an estimate of more than 300,000 dead.

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Tsunami woman found after 45 days - 13.02.2005 05:14:45


Friday, 11 February, 2005, 10:46 GMT

Tsunami woman found after 45 days

A teenager who survived December's tsunami has been rescued by police from a remote island on India's Andaman and Nicobar archipelago.
Eighteen-year-old Jessy is said to have lived on wild fruit for 45 days.

She was found on Wednesday close to the site where nine survivors of the tsunami were found last week.

More than 2,000 people are confirmed dead on the island chain with another 1,000 still missing, including Jessy's husband and child.

Scarred

Jessy is said to belong to the Nicobarese tribe and was rescued from the Pillowpanja islands in the south of the archipelago.

She told police she does not think her husband and one-year-old child are still alive.

"Jessy took to the forests when the waves came but by the time she came out after several days, the rest of the population had been either evacuated to Campbell Bay or swept away by the waves," Shaukat Aziz, Campbell Bay police chief, told AFP.

The teenager is now receiving medical attention.

"She has lost weight and her body is swollen and scarred by mosquito bites," Mr Aziz said.

Campbell Bay was one of the islands worst hit by the giant waves.

Fewer than 1,000 people lived on Pillowpanja.

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RE: Tsunami woman found after 45 days - 13.02.2005 06:07:29

Young tsunami survivors



UNICEF Survey Finds Malnutrition Among Tsunami-Affected Indonesian Children By Lisa Schlein Geneva
11 February 2005

UNICEF reports a survey conducted with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control shows high malnutrition and disease among children in Banda Aceh. The U.N. children's fund says one in eight children in tsunami-affected areas of Indonesia is suffering from acute malnutrition.

More than 600 children between six months and five-years-old and more than 300 women were surveyed in mid-January in and around Banda Aceh. UNICEF says this rapid nutrition assessment was conducted to get a clearer picture of urgent needs.

The survey finds nearly 13 percent of children are suffering from acute malnutrition. In addition, it says diarrhea and fever also are widespread among children and women in emergency relief camps across Aceh province.

UNICEF spokesman Damien Personnaz notes appeals for food assistance have received a tremendous response. He says the high levels of malnutrition among children have little to do with a lack of food, but rather with the quality of the food they are receiving.

"There [are] not enough vegetables. There [are] not enough fruits. There is not enough milk products, although they do not really eat too much milk product," he said. "And, there is also not fish and meat. So, the food has been mainly oil and soya beans and rice and instant noodles, which are O.K. for a week or two, but definitely not good for children below five years old and definitely not also good on a population that has been weakened."

Another problem, says Mr. Personnaz, is that many tsunami survivors have no access to safe water and adequate sanitation. He says contaminated water can lead to outbreaks of diarrhea and dysentery. He says children who are in a weakened state are especially prone to falling ill. He says a combination of poor nutritional food and illness can result in the child becoming malnourished.

Based on the survey results, Mr. Personnaz says UNICEF and other aid agencies are providing malnourished children daily rations of high protein food, together with some vegetables.

"They come in a small tent. They are being weighed. They are being fed and the next day they come or at least on a regular basis for at least two or three weeks,” he explained. “That is the only way for them to get rid of this acute malnutrition and to be able to recover. It is pretty easy when the children are between three and six-years-old because they recover usually extremely fast. It is more difficult when the children below two years old have been suffering from acute malnutrition for at least two weeks."

To fight disease, UNICEF and Indonesia's ministry of health are immunizing 1.3 million children against measles in 13 districts of Aceh province. It says tens of thousands of children already have been vaccinated and also have received Vitamin A supplements, which help prevent blindness.

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US to Raise Tsunami Aid to $950 Million - 13.02.2005 06:11:10
US to Raise Tsunami Aid to $950 Million
By Paula Wolfson
White House
09 February 2005


Muhammad Rizkl is held by his mother Barona in a tent in a refugee camp in Banda Aceh, Indonesia

The Bush administration will ask the U.S. Congress for $950 million to help nations hard hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Some of the money will be used to cover expenses already incurred by the Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Defense Department. The bulk will cover reconstruction efforts, such as rebuilding damaged infrastructure.

It more than doubles the original $350 million pledged by President Bush. U.S. officials say they always expected the aid total to rise significantly as the scope of the disaster became clear, and the relief effort moved from meeting emergency needs to long-term recovery.

The head of the Agency for International Development, Andrew Natsios, says more than six weeks after the tsunami, the survivors are leaving temporary shelters and returning home. He says a priority now is replacing roads destroyed by the Indian Ocean earthquake.

"And we are now talking with the ministries in Indonesia and the ministries in Sri Lanka to focus on projects that are their first priority,” said Mr. Natsios. “This is their reconstruction program, not ours."

The funding will be included in an emergency spending bill that already contains 81-billion dollars for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says American troops were proud to help in the initial phase of the tsunami relief, assisting with the distribution of fresh food, water, and other supplies. He says the magnitude of the recovery effort is huge.

"We in the Department of Defense, but also the American people more broadly, having achieved an enormous humanitarian success in the early days in preventing what could have been an even larger catastrophe, now have, I think, a very large stake in making sure that success doesn't go to waste because a subsequent recovery effort failed," said Mr. Wolfowitz.

Mr. Wolfowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, says the outpouring of U.S. assistance has had quite an impact on the Indonesian people. He notes Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, has a newly-elected democratic government and could serve as a model for others.

"This challenge comes to a country that stands to be in the forefront of that movement and I think it is therefore above and beyond the humanitarian considerations which would be compelling enough. We have enormous interests in seeing it succeed," he added.

American aid officials say overall, this is the most generous relief budget ever bankrolled by the U.S. government. Private donations are also reaching record levels, with estimates putting the total at more than $700 million.



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RE: DNA Test Ordered in Tsunami 'Baby 81' Case - 15.02.2005 05:33:51
14 February, 2005, 12:12 GMT


Baby 81 and his parents will be reunited on Wednesday * Snatch drama


Tests vindicate tsunami baby pair

A Sri Lankan couple who said that a baby boy found in the debris left by the tsunami was their son have had their claim confirmed by a DNA test.
"Baby 81" became a symbol of tsunami suffering after he survived the Indian Ocean disaster on 26 December. Eight other couples offered to care for him.

Murugupillai and Jenita Jeyarajah said the boy was their son, Abhilasha, born four months ago.

A judge said the baby and parents would be reunited on Wednesday.

The judge, MP Moahaidein, announced the DNA results in court in the eastern town of Kalmunai. The Jeyarajahs were not present.

Legal claim

"I am so happy, and I only have to thank God for giving my child back," the boy's father, Murugupillai, told Associated Press.

TUG OF LOVE
In pictures: Snatch drama

"We've got the results for all our hardships."

The family lost all their belongings to the tsunami and have been living in a camp close to Kalmunai.

Earlier this month, the couple were arrested and then released on bail after they were accused of trying to snatch the boy from hospital.

The Jeyarajahs, the only couple to file a legal claim, were angry at a court ruling ordering the DNA tests.

Before the ruling, they had said they were confident of being united with the baby, who they maintained was their son born on 19 October 2004.

The couple said he was separated from them when the tsunami struck. A neighbour rescued the boy from under a pile of rubbish.

Baby 81 was given his name because he was the 81st person admitted to the Kalmunai hospital on 26 December.

The tsunami killed more than 200,000 people around the Indian Ocean, nearly 31,000 of them in Sri Lanka, where children are believed to make up about 40% of the dead.

The tsunami left about 1,000 orphans in the country, according to data quoted by the UN's children's fund, Unicef.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4263127.stm

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/regionalnews/story/2005/02/050214_tsunamibabyclaimed.shtml

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RE: DNA Test Ordered in Tsunami 'Baby 81' Case - 15.02.2005 17:19:01
Tsunami 'Baby 81' Parents Positively Identified By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
14 February 2005

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In Sri Lanka, a baby boy separated from his family in the December tsunami is to be reunited with his parents after a court accepted their claim to the child. The high-profile custody battle for the infant - known as "Baby 81" - has become a symbol of the thousands of families torn apart by the killer waves.

With a few short sentences, the agony of one family in Sri Lanka was over Monday.

"DNA test is positive. DNA test is positive." Those brief words by court official Mohammed Nazir in Kalmunai town in eastern Sri Lanka ended a traumatizing wait by the parents of a four-month old baby found in the debris from the December 26 tsunami.


The infant was nicknamed "Baby 81" because he was the 81st to be admitted to the Kalmunai Hospital in the hours after the disaster struck.

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