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Inside the whirlwind: in the wake of the tsunami, progressive Sri Lankans question the politics of aid.(feature)
The men and women of Sri Lanka's Eastern coast still walk the beaches. They say "it's like walking in a graveyard." But the 5% of the population that survived the tsunami continue walking there, says Suevndrini Lena, a doctor who helped found a Toronto-based relief committee. The men and women look out on the sea where most of them made their living, the sea that now holds the bodies of the children, grandmothers, sisters, lovers, fathers; their houses, boats and family photos.
The tsunami that struck on December 26, 2004 was so fierce in Sri Lanka that it sucked wells out of the earth and people out of their graves, says Lena. The human toll was devastating. ...
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