While I started writing the memo on the morning of 27 May ’06, I heard the horrifying news of the earthquake in Indonesia. The number of people killed were 3,500 and injured were more than 1,000. Unimaginable natural calamity! Such disasters are frequently occurring nowadays. Scientists give their explanation, United Nation does its work, aid workers dig out debris to pull out live and dead bodies and try to treat or bury them. Among the affected there must be young and old, women and men and children. What a pity! Innocent human beings died like insects.
The magnitude of the quake was 6.2 in the Richter scale; epicentered in Yogyakarta of Java island. Early morning at 05.54 the quake woke up the people and killed / injured them. What a terrible thing! All the shelters – home, hotel, hospital, schools and colleges, shops, office buildings – of the people were shattered and brought down by the cruel quake. Those injured need medical assistance and those who are homeless have to be sheltered. What a human suffering! It becomes the responsibility of the Indonesian Government to coordinate such a huge rescue operations with the help of international community. Even people who live in peace are not safe. I am sad as you are.
