Aceh orphans' long wait
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The BBC's Andrew Harding reports on the thousands of children orphaned by the tsunami in the Indonesian province of Aceh.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Four weeks after killer  waves destroyed communities around the Indian Ocean, a lone  tsunami survivor was rescued from a remote island, a rare  moment of hope among countless tales of grief and loss.
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STOCKHOLM -- The question rises from the rubble of the earthquake in Sumatra. It echoes on the Indian Ocean shores where bodies are still piled high and in homes halfway around the world where loved ones wait for news of the missing: How could God let this happen?
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Feared by their relatives  and locked away for hours every day, life was never easy for  patients at the only mental hospital in Indonesia's  tsunami-devastated Aceh province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - U.S. helicopters shuttled  injured refugees, many of them children, out of some of the  worst-hit parts of tsunami-devastated Aceh province, as reports  surfaced of trafficking in orphans from the disaster.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Frustration and anger  mounted in Indonesia's tsunami-devastated Aceh province on  Friday as residents formed long lines for fuel, but aid workers  said supplies were beginning to reach survivors.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesia's military and  rebels traded accusations in tsunami-ravaged Aceh province, as  the world promised to build an early-warning system that may  save lives in any repeat of the Indian Ocean disaster.
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LHOK NGA, Indonesia  - Nur Eni misses her home.  She hates the refugee camp where she lives with her husband and  three children who survived last month's massive tsunami in  Indonesia's Aceh province.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Rescuers struggled on  Thursday to reach remote towns and villages in Indonesia's Aceh  province, devastated by the biggest earthquake in 40 years and  the tsunami that followed it.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden  - Adoption hotlines around the  world have been jammed with callers since the Asian tsunami on  Dec. 26 orphaned thousands of children, but experts and aid  agencies are telling would-be parents they may be disappointed.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hungry and filthy,  Indonesians queued for water in their thousands on Tuesday as  aid deliveries to the tsunami-ravaged Aceh province hit new  snags.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Tsunami survivors in  Indonesia's Aceh province faced more uncertainty on Sunday as  talks between the government and separatist rebels ended with  no accord and officials planned to move thousands to new  refugee camps.
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Families in the United States are asking about adopting children from areas devastated by the tsunami, but adoption officials say it's too early to consider bringing orphaned children into the country.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Hunger and grief stalked  the streets of Indonesia's devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday as thousands of people searched for lost family and  friends three days after a massive tsunami swept the region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Indonesian school  children wept and prayed for thousands of missing classmates as  debris-littered schools reopened in devastated Aceh province on  Wednesday, a month after the Asian tsunami.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Desperate survivors  huddle in clearings without food or shelter above the water  line all along the tsunami-ravaged coast of Indonesia's Aceh  province, and corpses float as far as 20 miles out to sea.
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In tsunami-ravaged Banda Aceh, Indonesia, survivors have a gritty determination to start over.