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Website to track tsunami dead (Send weblink to your friends so they can look for loved ones)
News.com (Australia) ^ | January 1, 2005

Posted on 01/01/2005 1:20:05 AM PST by Stoat

Website to track tsunami dead
From correspondents in Phuket, Thailand
January 1, 2005

THAILAND has set up a website, wwWcsiphuket.com, for those searching for relatives and friends killed or injured in the tsunami that swamped tourist-packed beaches along its southwest coast.

Set up today in a police squad room by volunteers, including programmers and website developers, it aims to put all data available on the dead and missing in one place instead of forcing people to surf over 80 sites set up to track the tragedy.

In a round-the-clock operation, volunteers in the island resort of Phuket enter data from forms filled out by those looking for people at hospitals and Buddhist temples being used as temporary morgues.

They have data on about 4900 people listed as dead, missing and injured.

Photos of unidentified bodies, bloated and decomposing, are posted on the site, in the hope clothing or jewellery or other personal items pictured with the bodies can be used to identify them. People can also submit missing-persons forms online.

"Once the body is identified, we take the picture out. We want to respect the families," said the Chitcharen Vesespadthaya, a businessman who is managing the website.

The site supports seven languages, with more to be added, he said.
 



TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asia; disaster; missing; quake; sumatraquake; thailand; tsunami
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May God Bless them all.

1 posted on 01/01/2005 1:20:05 AM PST by Stoat
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To: Stoat
Crosslinked:

 
 
 
Master source of links here, updated frequently:
The Great Wave- Sumatra Quake and tsunami of 2004

2 posted on 01/01/2005 1:32:33 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: bd476

Ping! and finally! - the website frames on the site suck though!


3 posted on 01/01/2005 1:49:26 AM PST by stlnative
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To: Stoat
Duplicate of an updating thread with many links.
Asian Tsunami: Trace the Missing
4 posted on 01/01/2005 1:52:48 AM PST by bd476
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