Reporter's notebook - Banda Aceh, Indonesia

Reporter's notebook - Seattle Times

They have accustomed themselves to the new rules of the post-tsunami world, reminding me to hold my nose and close a car window as we pass the muddy morass that is the mass burial site and still receives new loads of bodies each day. The local newspaper reports that within the Banda Aceh province more than 79,000 people have died or are missing.