‘Walkabout’ Troops
Tempo
January 18, 2005
THE Zainoel Abidin Hospital looked like a mud pool. In that largest hospital in Aceh, 18 days after the earthquake and tsunami disaster, patients’ beds were spread in the yard outside. Computers too were lying in heaps there. In the inner garden Indonesian Military (TNI) personnel and volunteers wearing boots, were seen shovelling clean the black mud which came together with the tsunami floodwater into that hospital in Banda Aceh. In the ou
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