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India: Two years and still waiting
Shivani Chaudhry Hundreds of families are still living in decaying tar sheet sheds, worn out with severe monsoons, strong summers and perennial humidity... Déjà vu. Not a word or sentiment or...
India: Island snapshots
By Pankaj Sekhsaria Two years down the line Andaman and Nicobar islands have once again gone back to being a blip on the radar that they always were It's a question that is in many minds, a question...
Indonesia: Manipulating misery
Hari Mohammad The success of the reconstruction goes beyond economic recovery and it is important for consolidating the peace agreement of August 2005 between the Indonesian government and Acehnese...
India: Temporary shelter, permanent pain
By Max Martin CHENNAI, (indiadisasters.org): During the last rainy season when her temporary shelter was flooded Elanji had to spend the night standing up, holding her baby, in ankle-deep water. This...
Sri Lanka slipping into a humanitarian crisis
By Our Correspondent Bangalore: If Sri Lankan Tigers are saying patience is running out, Tuesday's bomb attack followed by military air strikes only means time is running out for those affected by...
Peace move suffers a major setback in Sri Lanka
By Paul Newman With inputs from Jaffna, Trincomallee and Mannar Sri Lanka is again on the brink of war with violence mounting. On the 25th of April at about 13.00 hrs (Sri Lankan time) a woman...
The Sri Lankan quagmire, a backgrounder
By Paul Newman The eighteen year civil war in Sri Lanka between the LTTE and the government came to an end in December 2001 with the LTTE declaring a unilateral ceasefire. A formal ceasefire...
Sri Lanka: Bombing resumes, thousands flee
By Paul Newman (With reports from Mannar, Vavuniya and Trincomallee ) The all-out attack by the armed forces on Tuesday (25/04/06) has displaced 3,000 families from Koonitheevu, Samboor, Illakandai,...
Sri Lanka's sad tropics: Help, self-help and soft-colonialism after tsunami
By Thomas Seibert An international 'Fact Finding Mission', initiated by Bread for the World, Medico International and the Heinrich Böll Foundation traveled through Sri Lanka recently. The objective...
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Sri Lanka: The Palk Straits passage to safety
By L Ajith RAMESHWARAM: The two-hour speedboat journey across the shallow but pretty waters of the Palk Straits that divides India and Sri Lanka could very well pass off as a joy ride. Twenty five...
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Sri Lanka: Parleys progress, still more refugees arrive
By L Ajith RAMESHWARAM: Even as Tamil rebels and the Sri Lankan government finally agreed to resume peace talks in Switzerland next month another large group of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees has landed...
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More Sri Lankan Tamils find refuge in India
By L Ajith RAMESHWARAM: As peace talks continue in Sri Lanka, fresh violence and fear of repression after three years of ceasefire drive new groups of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees to the shores of Tamil...
Indonesia: A tsunami of mud and water
By Andre Vltchek JAKARTA: Only those who made the effort to wake up early and go to pray at the local mosque survived. For dozens of other men and women in the Central Javan town of Cijeruk it was a...
India: Too much too soon
By Christoph Fleischmann A splash of aid means diffused focus, misplaced priorities and wastage "There was a hurry to spend money," says Venkatesh Salagrama, director of the Andhra Pradesh consulting...
India: Homeless blues
By Nipin Gangadharan It may require huge concerted efforts to tide over the habitat problems post tsunami G. Radha, 44-year-old fisherwoman, sits outside herbattered home in Nagapattinam, hoping in...
India: Safe fishing
By John Swamy Fishing is very hazardous and rehabilitation should address safety issues Every monsoon carries the potential of a disaster out at sea -- usually nobody bothers about it. Now the...
India: Net impact
By L Ajith India: NGOs compete to give boats and fisherfolk struggle to find balanced ways of fishing Nagapattinam town is abuzz with trucks carrying building material and cranes meant to help...
India: 'False claims delay rehabilitation' - Kerala Chief Minister
By Ajith Lawrence THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: False claims and non-cooperation by the local people affected by the December tsunami in the Alappat and Azhickal areas of Kerala were the main reasons behind...