In Sri Lanka, aid workers combat wild rumors and lingering fear
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An estimated 1.5 million displaced Sri Lankans are heading inland, creating new logistical problems.
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Sri Lanka's reclusive Tamil Tiger rebel leader made a rare personal appeal Wednesday to international aid donors and U. N. organizations to help ethnic Tamils affected by the disastrous tsunami waves that hit the island.
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Experts travel to Sri Lanka to join the aid efforts after giant waves triggered by an earthquake hit the region.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- As relief officials struggle to reach homeless tsunami survivors, another concern is quietly making the rounds of donor meetings: the threat of corruption.
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Aid workers in eastern DR Congo struggle to cope with a surge of people fleeing recent fighting.
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Vacationers trickling into the Sri Lanka&#39;s capital say local towns are struggling to cope with the devastation. By Robert Marquand | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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PERALIYA, Sri Lanka  - In a small room up a   rickety staircase in a tsunami-damaged building on Sri Lanka's   south coast, Roshan Waduthantri sits glued to an earthquake   warning Web site and monitors cable TV channels.
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GALLE, Sri Lanka -- Kegalle Panangarama, a Buddhist monk and community leader, expressed frustration as he outlined the obstacles plaguing local recovery efforts in his tsunami-wrecked region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- Masked workers with mosquito-killing spray guns began moving through refugee camps yesterday in tsunami-battered Aceh Province, trying to prevent an outbreak of malaria. Indonesia, meanwhile, said it is pursuing a permanent truce with rebels in the area, the worst-hit by the disaster.
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The year 2004, already full of turmoil, instability and uncertainty for Sri Lanka, is ending on a tragic note. A year of man-made political quakes is winding up with a nature-made disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia sought to  reassure Western relief workers after a gunfire incident on  Sunday in a major tsunami aid base, but some organizations said  they were being vigilant in what they termed a zone of  conflict.
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Survivors of the Java  coast's tsunami were trying to pick up the pieces of their  lives on Thursday, despite repeated aftershocks that have been  shaking pasts of the island and spreading fresh fear.
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Wildlife in Sri Lanka's biggest national park survived last month's tsunami, but it was probably keen senses and the lay of the land rather than any mysterious instinct for danger that enabled animals to scamper to safety.
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Shouting names of the missing relatives, looking around to identify the loved ones and moving bodies for burials -- all are the scene in a Sri Lankan coastal town a day after the sudden tsunamis.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Accusations flying  between the Indonesian military and rebels in tsunami-ravaged  Aceh province clouded prospects for recovery as aid workers on  Saturday began to switch their focus from relief to rebuilding.
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Individual officials, with abundant if not always well-coordinated international aid, are in many cases improvising effective local responses to the tsunami and helping to avert outbreaks of disease and hunger.
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At least one of 17 Sri Lankan aid workers massacred last year was shot with a type of weapon mainly used by the military, but evidence has been tampered with and the bullet has disappeared, a rights group said.