The Day the Earth Shook and Split
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
The earth shook in sudden fury. Houses collapsed. The earthquake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, claimed 6,234 lives. Life came to a standstill; the economy ruined. Yogyakarta needs help to rise again.
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THE girl was 7-year-old Cesi Nurbandini. Her mother is a grass cutter, her father a construction-site laborer. They lived in Dawuran, a fertile village in Plered, Bantul, in the southern part of Yogyakarta. Despite the fathers meager income, the mother and child were happy. Cesi even owned a large stuffed panda doll.
Saturday morning, May 27, the little girl joined her mother to help sweep the yard. Her father was still asleep, tired from workin
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