When Disaster Strikes

AFTER a tsunami killed more than 400 people and left another 130 still missing off the Mentawai Islands of West Sumatra, the impression one gets is that the government has not learned much from a previous catastrophe the 2004 earthquake and tsunami in Aceh. This natural disaster claimed the largest number of victims in history 230,000 people in eight countries. The lack of mitigation or efforts to reduce the risk in disaster prone areas as in the

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