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January 03, 2005 | Headline
The confirmed death toll from the Indian Ocean earthquake continues to rise more than a week after the disaster first hit. According to the United Nations, nearly 140,000 people have died and …
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December 30, 2004 | Headline
The United Nations warned on Wednesday that as many as 80,000 people may have died in just the Indonesian province of Aceh alone. In many Aceh villages, not a single building remains. The Los Angeles …
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December 29, 2004 | Story
The disaster is killing thousands in Aceh but the Indonesian military has been doing that for years. Now activists fear the Indonesian military will use the disaster as a cover to further the killing …
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December 29, 2004 | Headline
The Indonesian province of Aceh may have been most devastated. Some 10,000 people died in the town of Meulaboh alone.
One British tourist, Al Howard, who was staying on an island near Aceh saw the …
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December 29, 2004 | Headline
An official from Unicef in Jakarta Indonesia described the situation in Aceh like this: "There is not anyone to bury the bodies. They should be buried in mass graves, but there is no one to dig graves. …
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December 28, 2004 | Story
We go to Indonesia, India and the Maldive Islands for on-the-ground reports on the world's deadliest tsunami in 120 years. Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador …
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December 28, 2004 | Headline
The death toll from Sunday's devastating tsunamis in the Indian Ocean has now topped 40,000 and expected to grow higher. As many as a third of the dead are believed to be children. Sri Lanka has put …
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November 04, 2003 | Headline
The Indonesian government decided yesterday to extend martial law in Aceh, where 40,000 members of the Indonesian army have been waging an attack since May on members of an independence group. …
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August 04, 2003 | Headline
And this news from Indonesia: U.S. freelance journalist William Nessen has been freed from an Indonesian jail after spending a month imprisoned. The journalist who wrote regularly for the _San …
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July 16, 2003 | Story
We speak with filmmaker David Martinez who traveled with Billy Nessen through Aceh, former U.S. embassy official Edward McWilliams and Lesley McCulloch who was jailed in Aceh.