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The disparity between government promises and the delivery of emergency and rehabilitation aid can be extreme. Iranian government officials working to rebuild Bam, destroyed by an earthquake exactly a year before the Asian tsunami, last week said that of $1.1bn aid promised by foreign countries and organizations only $17.5m had been sent.
Here's a flash animation on the subject.
This site contains before and after satellite images of the tsunami affected areas - from it you can really see just how badly Aceh has been affected - well, not so much affected as completely wiped out. Very, very bad.
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