Memento tsunami

Ainsi le tsunami du 26 décembre 2004 n'aurait-il pas fait tant de victimes s'il ... La zone de violence maximale du tsunami est précisément située sur le ... Sans doute le tsunami est-il un formidable rappel au principe de réalité...

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Construction Project Manager, Indonesia (Aceh Province)

Construction Project Manager, Indonesia (Aceh Province):
British Red Cross ...programme the brcs is implementing a programme in conjunction with pmi to assist the survivors of the december 2004 tsunami and subsequent earthquake in aceh province, indonesia to recover their livelihoods. the programme intends to distribute cash grants to... Closing Date: Friday, 02 February 2007 (16 days from now)

Construction Project Manager, Indonesia (Aceh Province)

Construction Project Manager, Indonesia (Aceh Province):
British Red Cross ...programme the brcs is implementing a programme in conjunction with pmi to assist the survivors of the december 2004 tsunami and subsequent earthquake in aceh province, indonesia to recover their livelihoods. the programme intends to distribute cash grants to... Closing Date: Friday, 02 February 2007 (16 days from now)

Project Officer

Project Officer - Programmes in Tsunami Affected Countries, Australia (Canberra, ACT):
CARE Australia ... | contact this section entire site advanced search print e-mail save project officer - programmes in tsunami affected countries care australia international aid and development organisation location: australia (canberra, act) closing date: 31 jan 2007 job... Closing Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2007 (14 days from now)

Thailand buries last unidentified tsunami victims

Thailand buries last unidentified tsunami victims:

Thailand buries last unidentified tsunami victims

By Richard Balmforth
BANG MARUAN, Thailand (Reuters) - Thailand began burying the last 110 of its unidentified victims of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami in an inter-religious ceremony on Wednesday not far from the beaches on which they were killed.

Muslim and Roman Catholic priests joined Buddhist monks in presiding over the burials in big concrete chambers from which well protected bodies could be retrieved easily if DNA samples and other evidence kept by researchers produced an identity.

Eleven aluminium coffins were interred in each concrete chamber cut into the sandy soil of a cemetery 3 km (2 miles) from the Khao Lak beaches swept clean of tourists, workers and fishermen at the height of the tourist season two years ago.

Thais bury an unclaimed body, one of the unidentified victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, at Bang Muang Cemetery in Phang Nga, 788 km (490 miles) south of Bangkok, December 6, 2006. (REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang)
Most of the unidentified victims were believed to be Thai or migrant workers from Myanmar who were among the 5,395 people, half of them foreign holidaymakers, killed by the tsumani in Thailand, where it left almost 3,000 people missing.

DNA samples and other evidence from each body would allow investigators to continue searching for identities, officials of the Thai Tsunami Victim Identification (TTVI) said.

The aluminium coffins and concrete chambers capped by 500 kg (1,100 lb) lids would preserve the bodies from the hot, humid climate, they said.

"If relatives wanted to pick up the bodies in the future, then we could dig them out easily," TTVI official Police Lieutenant Wiwat Sidhisorudej said.

The burial of all 110 bodies was expected to be finished early next week in the cemetery where 300 unidentified bodies were buried over the past two months, officials said.

Still in cold storage at the nearby TTVI centre, which took over in January after most international experts ended their role in what has been called the world's biggest forensics investigation, are more than 100 bodies.

They have been identified but not yet claimed by relatives -- among them one Turk, one Nepali, 73 from Myanmar and 27 Thais killed by a tsunami in which more than 230,000 people died or disappeared in a dozen countries.

About 30 identified bodies of migrant workers from military-ruled Myanmar would be collected next week by one of their representative, said Colonel Khemmarin Hassiri, the TTVI chief.

During the burial ceremony, Sangkeep Kulmee came to pick up the body of her aunt, killed by the giant waves while working at a Khao Lak resort and identified nearly two years later.

"The feeling of happiness or sadness now is equal as I have been waiting for my aunt's body for almost two years," she said.

Copyright © 2006 Reuters

Provost off on tsunami visit

Provost off on tsunami visit:
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Les grands parents de Don Quichotte

Les grands parents de Don Quichotte:
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Tsunami, les queues de budget des ONG

Tsunami, les queues de budget des ONG:
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Church Group Helps Banda Aceh Heal From Tsunami

Church Group Helps Banda Aceh Heal From Tsunami:
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Failures and Successes in Relief Effort

Failures and Successes in Relief Effort:
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