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じゃっくどんどんさん、マドオンナさん、デラシネさん、今日は。
こういうことは、考えっれませんか?と、Re: 津波の場合、海上の方が意外と安全という情報も。と、ジャック・どんどんさん、ズバリでした。へのレスです。
タイ領にあるスリン諸島のモーケン族は無事だったようで、ホッとしました。
以下は、メルギー諸島をはじめミャンマー領に住んでいた「海の民」の消息です。
★ 今回、ミャンマー(=ビルマ)政府は、ミャンマー最南部のコータウンとイラワジデルタの河口に位置する村について被害を発表している。コータウンの北にはメルギー諸島があるが、こちらの被害は全然報告されていない。
ビルマ人の反政府組織によれば、「旅行者の報告では、ビルマの漁村が破壊され、400人以上の死者が出ている」という。
ノルウェーを本拠とする”ビルマ民主の声”によれば、「”海の漂白民”、南ビルマのサロン族(=モーケン族)の200人が、他の漁民とともに、海で犠牲になった」という。
ところで、Image:2004 Indian Ocean earthquake - animation.gifを見ると、今回の津波は、メルギー諸島にかなりの影響を与えたことが分かるが、その割には被害が軽微だったとも言われている。
マスコミではなく個人的な知人によると、メルギー諸島のうち、ドーメル島で南洋真珠の養殖をしている日本の業者の直近の情報として、「ドーメル島民は全員無事で、養殖場にも被害が無い。ドーメル島の岩礁の形状と方向が、津波の勢いを減衰させるのに役立った」という。
島ごとに岩礁の形状と方向が異なるように、被害状況はすべて異なり、調査はまだ余り進んでいない模様。
Last Update: Wednesday, January 5, 2005. 1:14pm (AEDT)
Burma remains quiet on tsunami effects
Burma's assertion that it largely escaped the devastation of the Indian Ocean tsunami has failed to allay concerns about the disaster's impact on one if the world's poorest and most secretive countries, experts and aid workers have said.
Military-ruled Burma has said only 59 of its people perished in the December 26 tsunami that claimed about 150,000 lives, many on Thai and Indian islands very close to the South-East Asian country.
Burmese exile groups who oppose the military junta in Rangoon have cited reports of destroyed fishing villages from travellers in the region suggesting at least 400 are dead.
Aid agencies have estimated a toll of 90 dead.
"Definitely the death toll should be higher than what the military junta are saying, but as far as exact figures, it's almost impossible to know," Soe Pyne of the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, said.
"There are some Burmese in Thailand, but they are afraid of getting sent home, so it's up to people like us," he said, adding that people inside Burma also fear the consequences of divulging tsunami details to outsiders.
United Nations officials have speculated that some 30,000 people in Burma need urgent aid.
But a World Food Program spokeswoman in Washington said the UN agency would get its first close tour of Burma's disaster zone on Wednesday.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters in Phuket, Thailand, satellite photographs suggest Burma escaped the worst ravages of the tsunami.
But he said he had no idea whether Burma's military rulers were telling the truth about the death toll.
The Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma has issued statements saying some 200 "Sea Gypsies", members from the Salon or Moken ethnic groups in southern Burma, were lost at sea, along with other fisherman.
The exile group also said the tsunami casualties could include Chinese soldiers at naval listening posts on the Cocos Islands.
China is a major supporter of the Burma junta.
David Steinberg, an expert on Burma at Georgetown University, said the Cocos Islands were "the site of a major jail ... sort of like Devil's Island".
"If the Andaman and Nicobars were badly hit, it seems likely that the Cocos islands were, too," he said, referring to Indian-ruled islands just north of the earthquake's epicentre where some 900 bodies have been found and about 5,700 people are still missing.
-Reuters
Burma remains quiet on tsunami effects