BBC NEWS, Wednesday, 5 January, 2005
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In Indonesia, the relief effort is concentrating on
towns and villages along Aceh's western coast, which
have been devastated. Aceh has borne the brunt of
the earthquake and the sea surges it triggered, with
whole towns destroyed and tens of thousands of lives
lost. In Meulaboh, just 150 km from the
epicentre of the unsersea earthquake, UN officials
estimate that 40,000 of the town's 95,000
residents have been killed. The BBC's Andrew North,
who has visited the remote town, says
only a handful of relief teams are working there,
and with so much of the area destroyed, their
impact is inevitably limited. Thousans are living in
increasingly dire conditions in a makeshift
camp, with just two toilets. Rubbish is piled up
next to pools of water from recent rainfall which
people use to drink, wash and cook.The death toll in
Indonesia is currently more than 94,000,
and is expected to rise further.
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THREE-MINUTE SILENCE
Millions of people across the UK and Europe have
1........................ on Wednesday to remember
the 150,000 killed by the Asian tsunami. The silence
started in Britain at 1200 GMT, but was held
across Europe one hour earlier. The German stock
exchange, in Frankfurt, stopped trading,
while cars 2.................... in the streets of
Stockholm, Sweden, and mourners stood 3..................
in Paris. In the UK, flags 4.................... on
government buildings and at Buckinham Palace.
The three-minute silence 5...........................
by the Luxembourg EU presidency last week.
The tradition of collective silences had begun with
6....................., a year after the end of World War I.
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remained motionless, observed a three-minute
silence, Armistice Day, was suggested,
shoulder to shoulder,
flew at half mast
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