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Hopes for a better 2005 as rain cleanses sunami-hit Indonesia BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Saturday (AFP) A heavy cleansing rain hit the death-stained streets of Indonesia's devastated city of Banda Aceh Saturday as tsunami and quake survivors expressed hope for a better 2005. In an area where days earlier corpses of many of the estimated 100,000 killed on Sumatra island had been piled up, a small, bustling market has reopened, where those who could afford it bought food and discussed the future. "This is a cleansing the soil of Aceh from everything that is unclean," said Lukman bin Sulaiman, 50, a pedicab driver, looking up at the persistent drizzle. "I hope that Aceh can now return to the good times." Banda Aceh, the capital of the deeply-Islamic province of Aceh, suffered massive damage as tidal waves thrown up by the magnitude 9.0 quake less than 150 kilometres (93 miles) away, tore threw the city. Hideous scenes of mangled corpses mixed with the rubble of destroyed buildings have cast a pall of despair over what remains of the once bustling port as survivors continue to hunt for their lost loved ones. But as New Year dawned, some were trying to look ahead with optimism. |
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