Voices
This is an unprecedented global catastrophe and it requires an unprecedented global response.
Kofi Annan
U.N. Secretary General
As the waves died down, mothers came to me holding their children who were frothing at the mouth, asking me to save them. `This is your baby, you assisted in the delivery, save her!' a mother told me. It was too late. The children were dead. The children I helped bring into this world were lying dead and I could do nothing. It was a mother's sorrow that wrenched me then.
S. Ranjani
Village Health Nurse
Nagapattinam
This sort of human solidarity, along with the grace of God, gives hope for better days to come in the year that begins today.
The late Pope John Paul II
The Vatican
The NGOs insisted that even those who previously owned catamarans switch over to fibre-reinforced plastic (FRP) boats. The reason they gave was that they could paint their names boldly only on the FRPs.
Vadivelu
Village leader
Sothikuppam
(Addressed to soldiers) Do your duties as well as possible, day and night. We have the obligation to save each and everyone.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
President
Indonesia
My beautiful sister Lisa died when the tsunami hit the tiny Koh Phra Thong island in Thailand. She was a conservationist, and had dedicated her short life to helping wildlife and the environment... We miss her terribly already, the world was a better place with her in it.
Chris Jones
British national
Thailand
TSUNAMI A YEAR AFTER
