Nah Alice

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• Aceh on their minds

  26 January 2005
  The eyes of the world now focus on Aceh. What we see in media pictures everyday is a broken, torn, devastated land; ravaged by earthquakes and tsunamis that came without warning. We see piles of bruised, blackened bodies, dehydrated survivors, lost children, smashed lives; people barely clinging on for survival. The pain of Aceh’s destruction is felt keenly by the Acehnese refugees in Malaysia, most of whom have come here only in the past two years, in order to escape the rigors of Martial Law declared in May 2003.