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Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Tsunami survivors face uncertain future
Two weeks after the tsunami struck countries around the Indian Ocean, thousands of survivors are now slowly returning to their homes without knowing what the future holds for them and whether their friends and relatives are alive. Staggered by the scale of the disaster, aid officials said they might have to feed as many as two million survivors a day for six months.

At least five million are now homeless in the tsunami-hit countries.

While victims of the tsunami in Malaysia and Thailand are fast getting back to their normal life with government assistance, the survivors in other places like Aceh and Sri Lanka will probably take as long as 10 years before they see full reconstruction of their districts and provinces.

Read the full article here.

Source: The STAR.

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