Jan Egeland Ages Quotations

I fear we are losing the race against the clock in the small villages ... I've never seen such devastation before.

Over the last few days, the world has finally woken up, but it took graphic images of dying children for this to happen,

The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.

probably be many billions of dollars. However, we cannot fathom the cost of these poor societies and the nameless fishermen and fishing villages that have just been wiped out.

We have received credible reports that show a clear and consistent pattern: entire villages are looted, burned down and sometimes bombed. Large numbers of civilians have been killed and scores of women and children have been abducted, raped and tortured.

The coast is low, it takes the full blast of the tsunami which was at its highest at that point, and now the villages are gone,

The world wakes up when we see images on the TV and when we see children dying,

People are dying as we speak because we're not there in all of these villages where there are wounded people.