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January 9, 2005

Mother faces despair in wasteland

Topics: Southeast Asia Earthquake and Tsunami

HE lost his parents and until yesterday every other member of his family was believed dead. She lost her four children, the youngest a baby ripped from her arms by the killer wave.

They come from the same village outside Banda Aceh.

The village had a name - Kajhu - but it no longer exists.

Save for a few trees, the foundations and frames of a few of the larger houses, and the skeleton of its mosque, there is nothing left of Kajhu. It is a wasteland.

(click image to enlarge - CHILDREN snatched away . . . Kamaliana is desperate to find some trace of her four children, the youngest of whom was ripped from her arms by the 'black and hot' waves. Picture: Yusnsirsyah Sirin.)

Before the killer tsunami, it was a lovely seaside village, only metres from the ocean.

It was here that a grief-stricken Kamaliana came, hoping that somewhere she might find the bodies of her four small children.

Any hope of finding them alive in the refugee camps has all but gone.  Read more...

Posted by Hyscience at January 9, 2005 10:34 PM

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