Killer Waves
When I last heard, the death toll from the massive tidal waves had reached a staggering 55,000. Imagine that amount of people dead…I just cannot grasp the enormity of it!What is even more upsetting is that according to seismology experts, the number of people dead could be lower if there was a proper warning system in place in the region. The countries in the northern parts, like India and Sri Lanka, even Malaysia could have lesser deaths, if only there’s a proper warning system..
Among all the countries that have been hit, only Indonesia has had the experience of earthquakes. Yet despite the fact that she is geographically located in a earthquake ‘hotspot’ and having gone through numerous earthquakes in their country in the past few decades, they have not even a proper system in place to detect and forewarn the occurrences of quakes.
How is that conceivable?
Are the leaders and politicians too busy lining their own pockets that they have failed to realize that such is needed to prevent further loss of lives? Or are the peoples’ lives too cheap for them to invest money into a proper research and warning centre?
How about the millions and billions of dollars that the ex-president Suharto had siphoned off?? Perhaps a fraction of that amount could have been put to good use, and thousands of innocent people would not have died in vain….
Jolll Meowed at 1:16 pm
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