Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean
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It's not just those people. Yes, they are evil opportunistic bastards, but disasters seem to bring out that kind of behavior in some people.
The Excellent Prismatic Spray. For when you absolutely, positively must kill a motherfucker. Accept no substitutions. Contact a magician of the later Aeons for details. Some conditions may apply.
Sometime s scum doesn't even wait for the disaster to be over
AP: Sri Lankan Teenager Raped by Rescuer
By SHIMALI SENANAYAKE
GALLE, Sri Lanka (AP) - She survived the tsunami, only to suffer the brutality of her rescuer.
On a pilgrimage to a temple, the 18-year-old and her family stopped for a picnic by the beach. That's when the tsunami struck.
Flailing in the water, the teenager heard a voice. ``He told me to grab his hand, that he will save me,'' she said.
She and the stranger were swept into a muddy river. When they reached a bank, he pushed her into a bed of brambles and raped her.
``I screamed and told him not to hurt me,'' the shy teenager told The Associated Press. ``He put his hands around my neck and told me that even if he kills me right there, no one will know.''
Since the Dec. 26 tsunami, authorities have received many reports of sexual abuse - including attacks on children - at refugee camps and elsewhere. But there was no one to help the 18-year-old - the waves killed her father, mother and seven other relatives.
Earlier that day, the family and neighbors had left for the Kataragama temple, venerated by Buddhists and Hindus, to celebrate her father's 65th birthday.
Their bus, which carried 32 passengers, stopped at a beach. The girl was wading at the shore with two nieces when the waves crashed around them. Fourteen of the travelers died.
At the teenager's home in a village near the southern town of Galle, her only surviving sister displayed photographs of their parents, brothers, sisters and their families at weddings and birthday celebrations.
She allowed the AP to interview her younger sister on condition the teenager and the family would not be named and no photographs would be taken. They fear being ostracized by the village because of the attack.
After the rape, the teenager said, ``I felt lifeless.'' Soaked with mud, her body itched all over from the thorns.
Dazed, she saw two figures approaching.
``He told me not to breath a word,'' she said. ``He spoke to the men and left me with them. I didn't say anything and was terrified because they, too, were men.''
The teenager was loaded into a truck with corpses and the injured. She recognized her brother's body and fainted.
At Karapitiya hospital, doctors and nurses were kind, she said. Dr. D. Wasantha said the teenager didn't mention the rape until a day after being admitted, and was initially treated for respiratory problems from inhaling water.
``She was very reluctant to talk and we didn't want to probe too much as she was already very upset and kept saying not to tell anyone,'' Wasantha said.
After learning of the rape, the doctor gave the young woman pills to prevent pregnancy.
``I don't want to talk to the police. They ask a lot of questions I don't understand and don't know how to respond,'' the teenager said, toying with the corner of her brown T-shirt.
The teenager lived a sheltered life before the tsunami, but she did go to college for a time, studying the Sinhalese language, political science and economics. She dropped out a year ago to take care of the family household.
``I want to be a journalist,'' she said when asked about the future. Her eyes lit up and she smiled faintly, but that faded when her aunt said they hoped some man would marry the teenager.
Her sister soon dampened any idea of a quick marriage: She said gossip already was swirling around the village, where rape brings stigma and shame to the victim rather than the rapist.
Dumping them would only increase the problem of disease. Instead of killing them, force them to help with the body clean up and the digging of mass graves. Then just before the graves are filled up, kill them and dump them in with those who died due to the tsunamis.Chris OFarrell wrote:If they find people involved in child sex slave rings, simply take them out, shoot them and dump them in the raveged areas. No-one will take note or care about one more decomposing body in a shallow grave in those areas.
Kill two birds with one stone, so to speak....
Earth still vibrating after Asia quake
Sun Jan 9, 2005 07:11 AM GMT
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two weeks on, the Earth is still vibrating from the massive undersea earthquake off Indonesia that triggered the tsunami, Australian researchers say.
The Australian National University (ANU) said the reverberations were similar in form to the ringing of a bell, though without the sound, and were picked up by gravity monitoring instruments.
"These are not things that are going to throw you off your chair, but they are things that the kinds of instruments that are in place around the world can now routinely measure," said ANU Earth Sciences researcher Herb McQueen on Sunday.
"It is certainly above the background level of vibrations that the earth is normally accustomed to experiencing."
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the strongest for 40 years, struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on December 26. The tsunami it generated claimed more than 156,000 lives.
McQueen said the oscillation was fading and at current levels equated to about a millimetre of vertical motion of the earth.
Immediately after the quake the oscillation was probably in the 20 to 30 cm motion range that is typically generated in the earth by the movements of the sun and moon.
"This particular earthquake because it was 10 times larger than most of the recent large earthquakes is continuing to reverberate," McQueen said.
"We can still see a steady signal of the earth vibrating as a result of that earthquake two weeks later. From what it looks like, it appears it will probably continue to oscillate for several more weeks."
The ANU's gravity meter is housed in a fireproof basement at the Mount Stromlo Observatory near the capital Canberra and is part of a global geodynamics project established after major earthquakes in the 1960s.
U.S. scientists said just after the quake that it may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorised that a shift of mass towards the Earth's centre during the quake caused the planet to spin three millionths of a second faster and tilt about 2.5 cm on its axis.
Sun Jan 9, 2005 07:11 AM GMT
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Two weeks on, the Earth is still vibrating from the massive undersea earthquake off Indonesia that triggered the tsunami, Australian researchers say.
The Australian National University (ANU) said the reverberations were similar in form to the ringing of a bell, though without the sound, and were picked up by gravity monitoring instruments.
"These are not things that are going to throw you off your chair, but they are things that the kinds of instruments that are in place around the world can now routinely measure," said ANU Earth Sciences researcher Herb McQueen on Sunday.
"It is certainly above the background level of vibrations that the earth is normally accustomed to experiencing."
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake, the strongest for 40 years, struck off the coast of Indonesia's Sumatra island on December 26. The tsunami it generated claimed more than 156,000 lives.
McQueen said the oscillation was fading and at current levels equated to about a millimetre of vertical motion of the earth.
Immediately after the quake the oscillation was probably in the 20 to 30 cm motion range that is typically generated in the earth by the movements of the sun and moon.
"This particular earthquake because it was 10 times larger than most of the recent large earthquakes is continuing to reverberate," McQueen said.
"We can still see a steady signal of the earth vibrating as a result of that earthquake two weeks later. From what it looks like, it appears it will probably continue to oscillate for several more weeks."
The ANU's gravity meter is housed in a fireproof basement at the Mount Stromlo Observatory near the capital Canberra and is part of a global geodynamics project established after major earthquakes in the 1960s.
U.S. scientists said just after the quake that it may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation -- shortening days by a fraction of a second -- and caused the planet to wobble on its axis.
Richard Gross, a geophysicist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, theorised that a shift of mass towards the Earth's centre during the quake caused the planet to spin three millionths of a second faster and tilt about 2.5 cm on its axis.