New Death Toll: Indonesia 52,000 in that Country alone

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[edmond246]

Tsunami Death Toll Tops 52,000 --foxnews.com

[geopyg]

This will top that I fear once the disease hits these poor people. God be with them.

[Palladin]

There's a great old movie about Krakatoa. Scares me silly every time I watch it.

And to think that this really happened last weekend!

[fastattacksailor]

Here's a link to 3 videos---it ain't pretty......


http://jlgolson.blogspot.com/2004/12/tsunami-video.html

[injin]

if I may post this list of disaster aid links here on FR :

http://www.redcross.org/ (Red Cross United States)

http://www.icrc.org/eng (International Red Cross)

http://www.redcross.or.th/english/home/index.php4
(Thai Red Cross)

http://www.careusa.org/ (Care USA)

http://www.catholicrelief.org/
(CRS – very good one for India)

http://www.directrelief.org/sections/our_work/asia_earthquake.html
(Direct Relief International )

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/humanitarian_assistance/disaster_assistance/help/index.html
(USAID – United States State Dept )

http://www.unicef.org/ ( UNICEF)
For the Children specifically , very good



http://www.americares.org/ (AmeriCares)
This is a very good one!

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/press_releases/AsianFloods



Additional Relief Agencies now going into operation
in the affected areas :

Action Against Hunger
247 West 37th Street, Suite 1201
New York, NY 10018
212-967-7800
http://www.aah-usa.org
American Jewish World Service
45 West 36th Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10018
800-889-7146
http://www.ajws.org
ADRA International
9-11 Fund
12501 Old Columbus Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
800-424-2372
http://www.adra.org
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC Crisis Fund)
1501 Cherry Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-241-7000
http://www.afsc.org
Catholic Relief Services
PO Box 17090
Baltimore, MD 21203-7090
800-736-3467
http://www.catholicrelief.org
Direct Relief International
27 South La Patera Lane
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
805-964-4767
http://www.directrelief.org
Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres
PO Box 2247
New York, NY 10116-2247
888-392-0392
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org
International Medical Corps
1919 Santa Monica Boulevard Suite 300
Santa Monica CA 90404
800-481-4462
http://www.imcworldwide.org
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
PO Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland
41-22-730-4222
http://www.ifrc.org/
International Orthodox Christian Charities
Middle East Crisis Response
PO Box 630225
Baltimore, MD 21263-0225
877-803-4622
http://www.iocc.org
Lutheran World Relief
PO Box 17061
Baltimore MD 21298-9832
800-597-5972
http://www.lwr.org
MAP International
2200 Glynco Parkway
PO Box 215000
Brunswick, GA 3121-5000
800-225-8550
http://www.map.org
Mercy Corps
PO Box 2669
Portland, OR 97208
800-852-2100
http://www.mercycorps.org
Northwest Medical Teams
PO Box 10
Portland, OR 97207-0010
503-624-1000
http://www.nwmedicalteams.org
Operation USA
8320 Melrose Avenue, Ste. 200
Los Angles, CA 90069
800-678-7255
http://www.opusa.org
Relief International
11965 Venice Blvd. #405
Los Angeles, CA 90066
800-572-3332
http://www.ri.org
Save the Children
Asia Earthquake/Tidal Wave Relief Fund
54 Wilton Road
Westport, CT 06880
800-728-3843
www.savethechildren.org
US Fund for UNICEF
333 East 38th Street
New York, NY 10016
800-FOR-KIDS
http://www.unicefusa.or
World Concern
19303 Fremont Ave. N
Seattle, WA 98133
800-755-5022
http://www.worldconcern.org
World Relief
7 E. Baltimore St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
443-451-1900
http://www.wr.org
World Vision
PO Box 70288
Tacoma, Washington 98481-0288
888-56-CHILD
http://www.worldvision.org

[RedWhiteBlue]

There are a lot of Christians in that part of Indonesia as well. Pray for them, too.

[Tfran]

Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim country with 88% of its people being of that religion.

[Eaker]

Learn some manners newbie.

[stands2reason]

Sri Lanka is the main center for Theravada (Hinayana) Buddhism.

[SunkenCiv]

Well put.

[RayChuang88]

Didn't Bangladesh have some floods in the 80's where hundreds of thousands died?

There was a tropical cyclone (as hurricanes are known in that part of the world) that slammed into the Ganges River Delta region of what is now Bangladesh in 1970. It's been said the winds, heavy rain and storm surge from that storm may have killed one million people.

This is why I am concerned that Bangladesh may be seriously underreporting its casualty toll from this tsunami. There are quite a lot of Bangladeshis living in the Ganges River Delta area and that tsunami could have destroyed quite a lot of villages there, resulting in a death toll that could reach into the tens of thousands.

[rwfromkansas]

Look at this.....this is just STUNNING:

Here is an interesting selection of satellite photos of the tsunami as it hits Sri Lanka. Credit: Digital Globe.

Sea pulled outward: http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_beach2_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

Tsumami hits....look at this!!!!:http://www.digitalglobe.com/images/qb/srilanka_kalutara_flood_dec26_2004_dg.jpg

Just incredible...and very close up shots of what happened...look at the swirling!

[Tiemieshooz]

As a Marine stationed in Okinawa, and I can tell you humanitarian aid is already underway. It's still in the process of getting fully underway but it's happening.

[TomGuy]

Per FoxNews, official toll nearing 77,000. 45,000 in Indonesia alone.

[Tarpaulin]

Tsunami Deaths Could Top 100,000-Red Cross

GENEVA (Reuters) - Deaths in the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster could top 100,000 when the toll on India's Bay of Bengal islands is known, a senior international Red Cross official said on Wednesday.

"I would not be at all surprised that we will be on 100,000 (deaths) when we know what has happened on the Andaman and Nicobar islands," Peter Rees of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said.

He told a news conference IFRC estimates stood at 77,828 dead across the region, including in Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and the Seychelles thousands of miles from the epicenter of the earthquake off Indonesia on Sunday.

"But the figures are climbing all the time," said Rees, head of the Operations support department at the Geneva-based Federation which is coordinating relief operations together with the United Nations (news - web sites) OCHA humanitarian agency.

Rees said confirmed dead, according to information from the IFRC's member societies around the Pacific Ocean, was over 68,000 -- in line with figures compiled by Reuters with information from governments and aid agencies.

He said nearly 510,000 were confirmed injured and over a million had been forced to flee their homes. But he stressed that these figures were bound to be revised upwards as more information came in.

Florian Westphal of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said his organization's representatives on the ground in the Indonesian province of Aceh said bodies were everywhere in the capital, Banda Aceh.

"And we don't really know what has happened in the coastal regions," Westphal told the news conference. Earlier, a U.N. official in Banda Aceh said the death toll in the province might be between 50,000 and 80,000.

Indonesian officials say the province, where separatist rebels have been fighting the national army for years, suffered earthquake as well as tidal wave damage.

[pure_capitalist]

[Tfran]

I thought the predominate religion in Sri Lanka was Hindu? I didn't realize there were any real number of Buddists there. Can anyone here give the breakdown?

Buddist - 70%
Hindu - 15%
Christian - 8%
Islamic - 7%
Other - ?