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Neighbourly Love?
Jack Taylor
“BANDA ACEH: A 10-metre wave of unimaginable force tore through much of South-East Asia on Boxing Day 2004, devastating the region. Zainal Abidin was a poor fisherman who tended ponds off the coast of his small village, Kampung Pande, just five minutes from Banda Aceh. Of his village of 1000, Abidin was the only person to survive. Abidin was left homeless with only the clothes on his back …”