> At 00:40 2005-09-07 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Did we have any similar natural disasters in the 1950s that come to mind? > I think this sort of wanton lawlessness didn't start until the summers > >>during the Vietnam War in the late 60s. > > After the tsunami disaster in Asia there was no plundering and looting on > this scale, although the destruction was maybe 100 times that of Katarinas > in terms of lives lost. Why is that, do you think? > > Regards, > Mats
Perhaps there was nothing left to steal! Seriously though, there were reports of widespread rape in Sri Lanka, of orphaned children being kidnapped and sold to sex traffickers, and of plundering and looting as well. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4145591.stm and http://www.spacedaily.com/news/tectonics-05d.html (scroll down) --Robert Book [EMAIL PROTECTED]
