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Looking up with hope: Transgressing all bounds of ethnic, religious divisions surving victims of tsunami waves took refuge in relief camps that dot the island. Here a young girl gratefully helps herself to food in a camp in a Buddhist temple in Batticaloa.  AFP Photo/Jean Philippe Ksaizer.

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka

The Government has launched a massive reconstruction drive to rebuild the Tsunami devastated areas with international support. Twenty countries have pledged their support to rebuild the nation, Government sources said.
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Join hands for national revival - President

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga addressing the moving "Adhishthana Pooja" ceremony held at the Henry Pedris Park Friday to commemorate all who lost their lives due to the tsunami disaster appealed to all to join hands to rise like the legendary phoenix from the ashes of destruction.
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US Marines here to help tsunami victims

by Deepal Warnakulasuriya

US Ambassador Jeffrey J. Lunstead pledged wider humanitarian assistance from the United States with the full assistance of the US military operations in addition to emergency grants of US$ 2.6 million.
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Other Stories

• Seismic monitors disabled

• UN special envoy in Colombo

• President appoints DDMA for affected districts

• PM visits Jaffna to assess damage caused by tidal wave

• SLT restores services in some areas

• Cabinet sub-committee set up to manage disaster relief

• Probation and Childcare Services collect data about child victims

• India provides relief assistance

• Former Chinese envoy expresses sympathies to those affected

• UNDP assists government's emergency relief efforts

• SAARC Summit postponed

• Over 50 schools destroyed

• Fisheries Ministry set up Disaster Management Committee

• HSTUA calls for proper system

• USA provides massive aid

• NARA loses research data

• Korean government, business community generous with aid

• Appeal to international community

• Coastal negligence of guidelines enhanced damage

• One thousand milk farmer villages launched

• Futuristic revelations

• Heavy rain in Batticaloa

• GMOA warns of child 'snatchers'

• Help find them

• North and East Scenes of destruction

• Pothupitiya: When the waves came crashing in

• To the rescue

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