Post Tsunami Dispatch

Sri Lanka - tsunami aftermath - In Quotes

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

"The dead are the lucky ones."

"Unawatuna has been massacred," he said. "The dead are the lucky ones". Winton, an-Policeman from Unawatuna, getting angry; he could not understand why the helicopters were hovering but no one had come to help on the ground - and he did not know where to bury his mother.
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